Odoo-Build/AGENTS.md

AGENTS.md

General agent guidance

This section outlines the universal rules and expectations for any LLM agent working within this repository.

Safety and Quality First: The highest priority is to produce secure, well-documented, and high-quality code. Do not introduce vulnerabilities, hardcoded secrets, or unreadable code.

Propose a Plan: For any new task, first provide a brief plan of action. This plan should clearly outline the intended changes and the rationale behind them.

Maintain Context: Before making any changes, an agent must read and understand the relevant files, including the project's main documentation and existing code structure.

Clear Contributions: All contributions must be submitted via a pull request with a clear, concise commit message and a brief description of the changes.

Project structure

• task: The main entry point. It manages the entire project.
• addons/:
• bin/: Contains helper scripts for the task file.
• enterprise/: Here is the Odoo enterprise source code.
• images/: This folder contains the build files for multiple Docker images.
  • odoo/: This is the main image.
• odoo/: Here is the Odoo enterprise source code.
• revisions/: Generated Odoo revision files.
• snippets/: Big folder with XML-edit files. Ignore.
• templates/: Templates for Odoo modules and git repos.
• themes/: Official Odoo website themes.

Environment & tooling

Taskfile

This project uses the https://taskfile.build/ standard.

The ./task file is a bash script that provides all functions necessary to work with this project.

Execute: Always try to run a command with the ./task file script.

Coding conventions

Bash

The following guideline is heavily based on the Bash Style Guide | ysap.sh, which should be considered the primary reference for style. Adhere to the following principles to ensure scripts are safe, predictable, and maintainable.

Shebang: Start scripts with #!/usr/bin/env bash for portability.

Quoting: This is critical.

• Use double quotes " for strings that require variable expansion.
• Use single quotes ' for all other strings.

Always quote variable expansions "$var" to prevent word-splitting and globbing issues.

Variables: Distinct between local and environment vars.

• Use local for all variables inside functions.
• Use lowercase names for local variables (e.g., buildx_output).
• Use uppercase names for environment variables (e.g. export BUILDX_PLATFORM)

Functions:

• Do not use the function keyword.
• Use my-func() { ... } syntax.
• Function names are in kebab case.

Conditionals:

• Always use [[ ... ]] for conditional testing, not [ ... ] or test.
• Use ((...)) for arithmetic comparisons (e.g., ((a > b))).
• When replacing [] with [[]] make sure to escape the brackets. The [] is a regex filter.

Command Substitution:

• Always use $(...) for command substitution, not backticks.

Arrays:

• Use Bash arrays to manage lists of items instead of space-separated strings.
• Iterate over arrays using for item in "${my_array[@]}"; do ... done.

Avoid External Commands:

• Use Bash's built-in parameter expansion for string manipulation (e.g., ${var/foo/bar}).
• Use globbing (*) to iterate over files, not ls.
• Avoid cat when a command can read a file directly (e.g., grep "pattern" file).

eval: Never use eval.