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Title: Agent config to encourage the stepdown rule for hooks · Issue #1728 · usethis-python/usethis-python · GitHub

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Description: When implementing hooks, we should instruct the agents to follow the step-down rule: helper functions should be lower down in the module than the main() function. We should also refactor any hook scripts which violate this at present.

Open Graph Description: When implementing hooks, we should instruct the agents to follow the step-down rule: helper functions should be lower down in the module than the main() function. We should also refactor any hook s...

X Description: When implementing hooks, we should instruct the agents to follow the step-down rule: helper functions should be lower down in the module than the main() function. We should also refactor any hook s...

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