Prompt customization & business rules

Teach the review your conventions — acceptance-criteria focus, per-language style, and custom pattern rules.

Beyond generic best practices, codingassist.bot can enforce your conventions — set in .praxiom.yml.

Lead with acceptance criteria

prIntelligence:
  focusOnAcceptanceCriteria: true

The review checks the diff against the linked work item's acceptance criteria first — the ⭐ differentiator. Leave this on unless you have a reason not to.

Per-language conventions

languages:
  csharp:
    style: microsoft
    requireXmlDocs: public   # public members must be documented
  typescript:
    strictNullChecks: true

Custom rules

Encode a team rule as a pattern + message; it's applied like any other finding:

customRules:
  - id: require-error-handling
    pattern: "catch\\s*\\(\\s*\\)"
    severity: medium
    message: "Empty catch blocks should log the error."
  - id: no-direct-db-in-controllers
    pattern: "new SqlConnection"
    severity: high
    message: "Controllers must go through the repository layer."
    paths:
      - "src/Api/Controllers/**"

severity feeds the same gate as built-in findings (see failOnSeverity).
paths scopes a rule so it only fires where it should.

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