rule-enforcement-vs-data-retrieval-complementary-architecture
Opinionated rule-based skills (frontend-taste, aesthetic archetypes) and searchable data-driven databases (frontend-data BM25) are architecturally complementary, not competing. Rule-based skills enforce quality floors and aesthetic consistency; data layers enrich decisions with structured options drawn from verified corpora. Merging them or treating one as a replacement for the other degrades both — keep them as separate layers with explicit precedence (enforcement > enrichment).