snow_trail/.pi/skills/self-gating-systems/SKILL.md

Intent-Based Architecture Skill

Read the architecture document at docs/self-gating-systems.md (resolve relative to the project root /home/jonas/projects/snow_trail_sdl/) and follow its patterns when:

• Adding cross-system communication (use intents, not direct function calls)
• Adding new systems to the main loop
• Changing how game modes work (editor, dialog, gameplay)
• Working with camera, input, or mode-switching logic

Key rule: systems communicate through typed intent data in shared queues — producers insert intents, consumers process and remove them. No system calls another system's functions directly.