Tutorial: Create a New Adapter

Audience: Platform / integration engineer
Time: ~60 minutes
Last updated: 2026-07-05

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Outcome

An adapter implementing a platform contract at product or IDE boundary.

Steps

1. Read ENGINEERING/adapter-rules.md
2. Implement contract in product Integration or AI module
3. Bind in module ServiceProvider
4. No cross-module Infrastructure leakage
5. Document in module page

For IDE adapters: follow ZEP materialization — do not hand-edit .cursor/ without manifest update.

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