Include content design guidance in workspace agent instructions

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Generated workspace AGENTS.md currently explains schemas and validation but gives agents little guidance on designing the editing experience. Add a compact content-design checklist covering field scope, shared layouts, block availability, and page-type reuse, including a fallback when MCP is unavailable.

Direct agents to recommended-defaults before structural changes and clarify that allowed_blocks should contain sections editors can insert again. This updates generated guidance only; existing workspace instructions are not overwritten.

Validation: npm run build; node --test tests/new-scaffold.test.mjs with Node 20.19.5; git diff --check.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Clarified the workflows available with and without the Primo MCP server, including a source-file and checklist fallback when get_docs is unavailable.
  • Added content design guidance for site-, page-, and block-level fields; shared layouts versus page sections; block picker behavior; static page types; and when to reuse page types.
  • Clarified that blocks should be enabled for additional body instances only when editors should be able to insert them.

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Walkthrough

The generated workflow guidance now describes Primo MCP availability and fallback behavior. It also adds a content-design checklist for fields, layouts, blocks, and page types.

Changes

Workspace guidance

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Generated content-design guidance src/commands/new.ts	The instructions explain MCP availability and fallback behavior. They cover field scope, shared layouts and page sections, block defaults and picker behavior, locked body structure, and page-type reuse. They clarify that allowed_blocks should include blocks editors can insert as additional body instances.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to e7750

No actionable issue was established in the generated workspace guidance. The change is mergeable after normal checks.

Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to d3716

The change affects 1 system.

Changed systems: src

Architecture concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Review details

Systems and components

• observed — src (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in src/commands/new.ts: The workflow guidance changes the recommended-defaults call and its scope, replaces the blanket instruction to add reusable blocks to allowed_blocks with guidance limited to blocks editors should be able to insert again, and adds defaults for field scope, shared layout, body seeds, block-picker behavior, and page-type reuse.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 1 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding content design guidance to generated workspace agent instructions.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/commands/new.ts`:
- Line 522: Make the get_docs directives at both affected points conditional on
MCP availability; when MCP is unavailable, direct the agent to use the local
files and checklist instead.
- Around line 538-539: Qualify the picker-exclusion guidance in the
`allowed_blocks` instructions to specify that excluding an individual block does
not, by itself, lock a section or enforce a one-instance limit. Preserve the
separate rule that an empty `allowed_blocks` list makes the page type static
with a locked body structure.

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