# Baseline Principles

> **NOTICE:**
> Adding baseline rules risks creating dual sources of truth, undermining the goal of distilling
> principles from a single source of truth.
> Treat them as temporary exceptions or an escape hatch, not as the primary way to add instructions to agents.

Hand-curated review rules that are not yet covered by docs.gitlab.com.
These were initially seeded from `.gitlab/duo/mr-review-instructions.yaml`
and capture team experience that predates or supplements the official docs.

Baselines are merged with SSOT content during distillation. As rules are
adopted into the official documentation, they should be removed from here.
