Contributor onboarding
The fast start for everyone who joins Cogitave: apply the non-negotiable AGENTS floor, inherit a repository's complete ruleset through the project baseline, work the propose-only request lifecycle, and open your first signed, Conventional-Commit pull request. This is the Tier-0 entry point every role track builds on. Day 0: this path is scaffolded - the module bodies are authored in a later content phase.
Modules4
Duration92 min
Levelbeginner
Prerequisites
- Basic familiarity with Git and the command line.
- No prior Cogitave experience required.
Modules in this path
- Apply the AGENTS floor State the seven non-negotiable rules every Cogitave contributor and agent obeys, say what enforces each one - a hook, a CI gate, an org ruleset, or policy-as-code - and apply them to your own first change.
- Inherit the project baseline How a new repository is born on the paved road with its whole ruleset already inherited, how to tell always-on standards from the ones a product type pulls in, and how to find an existing pattern before writing anything new.
- Work the request lifecycle Move a change through the seven-stage request lifecycle, understand why the write tools only propose, and read the Definition of Done that decides when a request is actually done rather than merely worked on.
- Open your first pull request Apply the floor, the baseline, and the lifecycle in one hands-on contribution - a signed, Conventional-Commit, docs-complete pull request that passes the gates and stops for human review.