AGENTS.md + Claude Skills + project hooks: making AI agents follow your architecture

Every TypeScript service I've started in the last three years opened with the same week: Wire up the ORM. Decide between Prisma, MikroORM, Drizzle. Write base classes for AggregateRoot , ValueObject , Entity . Make sure equality is by ID, not reference. Set up an event store. Decide same-transaction or outbox. Get the Unit of Work model right. Avoid the trap of leaking transactions into use cases. Wire GraphQL alongside REST. Write 200–400 tests just for the kernel. A week. Sometimes two. Before