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+# AGENTS.md
+
+This file applies to the whole repository.
+
+## Project Scope
+
+`psych-encyclopaedia` is a clinical reference and educational knowledge base for practicing psychiatrists and narcologists. Treat clinical accuracy, source traceability, language consistency, and safety disclaimers as core product behavior.
+
+## Clinical Safety
+
+- Do not present repository content as a substitute for clinical judgment, formal guidelines, local law, or emergency care.
+- Preserve existing disclaimers and make new patient-facing or public-facing text equally conservative.
+- Avoid diagnostic certainty, treatment guarantees, or instructions for self-treatment.
+- When adding or changing clinical claims, keep them tied to explicit `sources[]` entries or repository source hierarchy.
+- Flag unclear, outdated, conflicting, or jurisdiction-sensitive medical content instead of silently normalizing it.
+
+## Source Of Truth
+
+- Edit `categories/*.json` for knowledge-base content.
+- Do not manually edit generated `docs/database.js` except when the task explicitly targets generated output inspection.
+- Run the build after content changes so generated files stay aligned.
+- Follow `LANGUAGE_POLICY.md` for RU/UA content and terminology.
+- Check `wiki/` for editorial rules, flowchart conventions, and source hierarchy before broad content edits.
+
+## Development Workflow
+
+- Before editing, inspect `README.md`, `LANGUAGE_POLICY.md`, relevant `wiki/` notes, and nearby category examples.
+- Keep changes small and content-focused. Do not combine clinical content changes with UI, build, or formatting churn unless required.
+- Preserve existing JSON structure, identifiers, field names, and ordering conventions unless the task is a schema migration.
+- For flowcharts, verify node references, decision paths, and terminal outcomes after edits.
+- Keep public GitHub Pages output functional and static; do not introduce server-side storage, tracking, or patient-data collection without explicit approval.
+
+## Validation
+
+For content or schema changes, run the narrowest relevant check available:
+
+```bash
+python3 build.py
+python3 build.py --strict
+```
+
+If Python is invoked as `python` on the current machine, use the local equivalent. Report any validation that could not be run.
+
+## Review Focus
+
+When reviewing changes, prioritize:
+
+- broken JSON or schema drift;
+- generated output out of sync with sources;
+- unsupported clinical claims;
+- missing or weak citations;
+- RU/UA terminology inconsistency;
+- unsafe public-facing wording;
+- broken flowchart edges or unreachable outcomes;
+- accidental edits to generated files.
+
+## Codex Behavior
+
+- Answer in the user's language unless repository text requires RU/UA/EN matching.
+- Be concise, but include enough evidence for clinical or source-sensitive changes.
+- Ask before adding new external dependencies, analytics, backend services, or anything that could collect identifiable patient data.