CCAR-F objective 3.3 · Domain 3 · 20% of the exam
Path-Specific Rules for Conditional Convention Loading
A path-scoped rule is present only while the agent is working on files the pattern matches, so a Terraform edit never sees the front-end conventions at all. Three consequences are examined. A rule with no path declaration is unconditional and loads at launch with the same weight as the project file, which is backwards from what most authors assume. Loading triggers on reading a matching file rather than at launch or on every tool call, so a session that stayed in one area may never have loaded a rule and nothing is broken. And brace expansion has a budget; a pattern that exceeds it is used literally and matches nothing.
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