Card-Collection-Manager-3/docs/AGENTS.md

AGENTS.md

Long-form contributor documentation that lives outside the source tree.

Files

• adding-a-new-game.md — the canonical, end-to-end procedure for adding a brand-new game module to the project. Covers required external resources (sets API, optional card-preview API, icons), domain type with stable JSON, set source + tests, optional card preview source + tests, IGameModule glue, Game enum + dirNameForGame wiring, deriving the three UI panel templates (BaseCardListPanel<TCard, TSortColumn>, BaseCardEditDialog<TCard>, BaseSelectedCardPanel<TCard>), the IGameView adapter, composition-root wiring in app/main.cpp, CMake additions, AGENTS.md updates, and the test checklist.
• ci-cd-guide.md — user-facing CI/CD and release procedure: feature/master workflow split, orchestrator + reusable platform workflow structure, versioning conventions, PR title guard for master, artifact naming, and a concrete "create a new release" checklist.
• versioning.md — dedicated versioning reference: branch+sha scheme for feature builds, semantic version bump rules for master, tag format, and embedded app version behavior.
• windows-installer.md — how the NSIS-based Windows installer (scripts/installer.nsi) is built and configured: the APP_VERSION define, where the version is surfaced (window title, branding, Programs and Features), installed sections, registry layout, and CI vs. local invocation.
• dow-doc-build-locally.md — complete local build/setup reference for Windows and Linux, including dependency management and troubleshooting.
• intro-to-new-developers.md — onboarding map for new contributors: architecture, folder responsibilities, guardrails, anti-patterns, and links to deeper docs.
• testing-and-test-code-of-conduct.md — testing workflow plus expected standards for writing and maintaining deterministic, hermetic, behavior-focused tests.
• assets-and-info-apis.md — reference for the external info APIs (set metadata) and asset APIs (card preview images) used by the Magic, Pokémon (West + Asia backends), Yu-Gi-Oh!, and Digimon Digi-Battle modules, plus the runtime flow through SetService / CardPreviewService, shared HTTP defaults (CprHttpClient, Accept: */*), per-game card-back fallbacks (URLs + bundled ygo_card_back.png / digibattle99_card_back.png), the Japanese Pokémon EN catalog asset (Asia region), and error-surface conventions. The Yu-Gi-Oh! Info API section also documents the local set code lookup used by the edit dialog (YuGiOhSetLookup, no extra HTTP).
• caching.md — dedicated reference for preview-byte caching tiers (CardPreviewService LRU + LocalPreviewByteCache), cache keys and eviction, HTTP session reuse via CprHttpClient, and explicit non-goals (no error caching).
• README.md — index page that clusters docs by area and links to all documents in this directory.

Subdirectories

• assets/images/ — static screenshots and other binary assets referenced from the documentation (currently demo-mtg.png, demo-pkm.png, demo-ygo.png, demo-digibattle99.png). Keep filenames stable so cross-doc links don't break, and prefer compressed PNG/JPEG over uncompressed formats.

Conventions

• These docs are reference material for contributors, not user-facing release notes. Keep them precise and dated implicitly by the source state they describe.
• Code examples should be C++20 and quote real file paths from the repo.
• Do not introduce dependencies on a specific upcoming feature, hypothetical game, or unmerged branch. The procedure must always describe the current code as it is on main.

Required follow-ups

• After changing per-game seams in core/ (e.g. IGameModule, ISetSource, ICardPreviewSource, CollectionService, SetService, CardPreviewService, ImageService) you must update adding-a-new-game.md to keep the canonical procedure in sync. The same applies to the UI seams (IGameView, BaseCardListPanel, BaseCardEditDialog, BaseSelectedCardPanel) and the composition-root wiring in app/main.cpp.
• After changing any game's set/preview adapters (MagicSetSource, MagicCardPreviewSource, PokemonSetSource, PokemonCardPreviewSource, YuGiOhSetSource, YuGiOhCardPreviewSource, DigiBattle99SetSource, DigiBattle99CardPreviewSource) — endpoints, response parsing, name/number normalization, or the info-vs-asset split — you must update assets-and-info-apis.md so the API reference matches the live behavior.
• After bumping a key dependency (nlohmann/json, cpr, wxWidgets, doctest) in a way that changes a public API used in the guide's examples, update those examples.
• After adding a new file under docs/ (or a new entry under docs/assets/images/) you must add it to the file list above and to README.md so the index stays complete.
• Do not rename, move, or split this file without first updating every other AGENTS.md that points at it (root, core/, ui_wx/, app/, tests/).

Anti-patterns

• Don't sneak hypothetical or in-progress games into the doc as concrete examples; the guide is meant to be game-agnostic and must read as such.
• Don't link to the original Rust/Tauri repo as the source of truth — it is a historical reference, not the spec. The C++ code under core/, ui_wx/, and app/ is the spec.
• Don't duplicate the per-package AGENTS.md content here; cross-link instead.