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 ## How we operate
 
 - **Self-hosted over SaaS.** Forgejo, Vaultwarden, Colibri, Tailscale — we own our infrastructure.
+- **Pull before work.** Always `git pull` before analyzing, coding, or reviewing. Stale context is waste. Other agents may have landed changes since your last session.
 - **Plan first, implement second.** We think through systemic risks before deploying. E2E testing with reproducible artifacts is non-negotiable.
 - **Tokenomics is the golden line.** Cost-per-intelligence > cost-per-token. Cache-hit arbitrage. Measure everything.
 - **Local-first.** Media processing, inference, builds — run locally when possible. Cloud is a fallback, not a default.