Add foundational AL developer knowledge

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@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Narrow the relevant files to the subset that applies to the changes under review
- The changed AL object names and types — especially `* Setup` singleton tables and Card pages, custom master tables, tableextensions that add master-data fields, and document or journal lines that reference a master.
- The changed fields, keys, triggers, and procedures, weighted toward `Primary Key`, `No.`, `No. Series`, `Blocked`, `Last Date Modified`, `OnInsert`, `OnModify`, `OnRename`, reference-field `OnValidate`, and posting validation.
- Tokens extracted from the diff that relate to data modeling (`setup`, `master`, `Primary Key`, `Code[10]`, `Code[20]`, `AutoIncrement`, `SystemId`, `No.`, `No. Series`, `NoSeriesManagement`, `Codeunit "No. Series"`, `GetNextNo`, `IsManual`, `TestManual`, `Blocked`, `TestField`, `Last Date Modified`, `Today`, `WorkDate`, `InsertAllowed`, `DeleteAllowed`, `PageType = Card`, `OnOpenPage`, `GetRecordOnce`, `OnInsert`, `OnModify`, `OnRename`, `TableRelation`, `tableextension`, `enumextension`, `Media`, `MediaSet`, `Item`, `Count`).
- Tokens extracted from the diff that relate to data modeling (`setup`, `master`, `Primary Key`, `Code[10]`, `Code[20]`, `AutoIncrement`, `SystemId`, `No.`, `No. Series`, `NoSeriesManagement`, `Codeunit "No. Series"`, `GetNextNo`, `IsManual`, `TestManual`, `Blocked`, `TestField`, `Last Date Modified`, `Today`, `WorkDate`, `InsertAllowed`, `DeleteAllowed`, `PageType = Card`, `OnOpenPage`, `GetRecordOnce`, `OnInsert`, `OnModify`, `OnRename`, `InitRecord`, `Round`, `Precision`, `Direction`, `TableRelation`, `tableextension`, `enumextension`, `Media`, `MediaSet`, `Item`, `Count`).
A file enters the candidate worklist when its `keywords` intersect the extracted tokens or its topic (derived from the index entry's `path`, `title`, and `description`) matches a changed object type. Read an article's full file — its `## Best Practice` / `## Anti Pattern` bodies — only after it makes the worklist; candidate selection uses the index alone. When the diff contains no data-modeling changes by any of the above signals, return `outcome: "not-applicable"` without evaluating files.
@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ The following targeted checks cover every current `data-modeling` article. Treat
- A master table adds or changes `Last Date Modified`, `OnModify`, or `OnRename`, but the non-editable field is not assigned `Today()` in both triggers — `set-last-date-modified-in-onmodify-and-onrename`.
- A `tableextension` appends a conditional `TableRelation` as if it overrides an earlier unconditional relation, or relation branches are otherwise designed without accounting for additive top-down evaluation — `table-relation-extensions-are-additive-and-top-down`.
- A `Media` or `MediaSet` field is assigned directly between different table types or different field IDs instead of registering each shared item with `MediaSet.Insert` — `share-mediaset-items-with-insert-not-field-assignment`.
- A custom document header assigns defaults outside an `InitRecord` boundary, calls `InitRecord` before assigning its number, or places UI-independent defaults only in a page trigger — `initialize-document-defaults-in-initrecord`.
- Directed `Round` calls use `'<'` as mathematical floor or `'>'` as mathematical ceiling, especially where negative amounts are possible — `round-direction-symbols-use-magnitude`.
Once the candidate worklist is known, resolve layer-precedence conflicts per READ. Drop lower-precedence files whose normative guidance (`## Best Practice` or `## Anti Pattern`) directly contradicts a higher-precedence candidate, and record each dropped file in `suppressed` with `reason: "layer-precedence"`. Files that would have been candidates but are hidden because their layer is disabled in consumer configuration are recorded with `reason: "configuration"`. Files that never became candidates are NOT recorded in `suppressed`.

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@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Narrow the relevant files to the subset that applies to the changes under review
- The changed AL object names and types — especially `interface` objects, codeunits and enums declared with the `implements` keyword, and consumers that declare or assign an `Interface` variable.
- The changed procedures and triggers, weighted toward factory or dispatch routines that resolve a variant to behaviour, setter-injection procedures that take an `Interface` parameter, and `case`-over-enum blocks that select between strategies.
- Tokens extracted from the diff that relate to interfaces and enum-backed implementation (`interface`, `extends`, `implements`, `Implementation`, `DefaultImplementation`, `UnknownValueImplementation`, `enum`, `Extensible`, `Interface`, `case`, and the `case <enum> of` anti-pattern signal — a `case` over an enum value whose branches choose between variant computations).
- Tokens extracted from the diff that relate to interfaces and enum-backed implementation (`interface`, `extends`, `implements`, `Implementation`, `DefaultImplementation`, `UnknownValueImplementation`, `enum`, `Extensible`, `Interface`, `Variant`, `is`, `as`, `case`, and the `case <enum> of` anti-pattern signal — a `case` over an enum value whose branches choose between variant computations).
A file enters the candidate worklist when its `keywords` intersect the extracted tokens or its topic (derived from the index entry's `path`, `title`, and `description`) matches a changed object type. Read an article's full file — its `## Best Practice` / `## Anti Pattern` bodies — only after it makes the worklist; candidate selection uses the index alone.
@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ The following targeted checks map diff signals to specific `interfaces` articles
- `DefaultImplementation` used as the only fallback where a persisted ordinal may no longer match any declared enum value, or a persisted enum lacks `UnknownValueImplementation` on BC18 or later — `handle-unknown-enum-ordinals-with-unknownvalueimplementation`.
- A method added directly to an interface that exists in the baseline, instead of adding a BC25+ interface that `extends` it or a versioned sibling for older targets — `extend-published-interfaces-dont-edit-them`.
- A declared enum value with no `Implementation` and no enum-level `DefaultImplementation` — `set-defaultimplementation-on-enum`.
- An `Interface` or `Variant` is cast with `as` to an optional extended interface without first establishing support with `is` — `guard-interface-casts-with-is`.
For `set-defaultimplementation-on-enum`, inspect the complete containing enum before emitting. An enum-level `DefaultImplementation = <Interface> = <Codeunit>;` conclusively covers every declared value that omits its own `Implementation`; do not flag such a value and do not replace the intentional fallback with a per-value mapping.

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- **UI-file filter.** UI review applies to files declaring `page`, `pageextension`, or `pagecustomization`, and to JavaScript/CSS/HTML that implements a control add-in's rendering or Business Central communication. When the diff contains no such files, return `outcome: "not-applicable"` without evaluating knowledge files.
- For each relevant knowledge file, compute overlap against changed page declarations and control add-in files, weighted toward `Caption`, `ToolTip`, `AboutTitle`, `AboutText`, `OptionCaption`, `ShowCaption`, `InstructionalText`, `GridLayout`, `Style`, `StyleExpr`, promoted action definitions, field importance, page background tasks, DOM creation, ARIA attributes, keyboard/focus handlers, packaged-resource AJAX, and calls from JavaScript into AL.
- Tokens extracted from the diff (`Caption`, `ToolTip`, `AboutTitle`, `AboutText`, `PageType`, `ShowCaption`, `InstructionalText`, `grid`, `fixed`, `GridLayout`, `Style`, `StyleExpr`, `Importance`, `Promoted`, `Additional`, `area(Promoted)`, `actionref`, `PromotedCategory`, `PromotedOnly`, `PromotedIsBig`, `ShowAs`, `SplitButton`, `EnqueueBackgroundTask`, `OnAfterGetCurrRecord`, `OnAfterGetRecord`, `OnPageBackgroundTaskCompleted`, `OnPageBackgroundTaskError`, `RunPageBackgroundTask`, `Favorable`, `Unfavorable`, `Ambiguous`, `cuegroup`, `controladdin`, `control-add-in`, `usercontrol`, `aria-`, `tabindex`, `keydown`, `focus`, `innerHTML`, `createElement`, `packaged-resource`, `ajax`, `$.get`, `$.ajax`, `XMLHttpRequest`, `xhrFields`, `withCredentials`, `withcredentials`, `InvokeExtensibilityMethod`, `invokeextensibilitymethod`, `skipIfBusy`, `successCallback`, `success-callback`, `errorCallback`, `setInterval`, `JSON.stringify`, `payload`, `throttling`, `reduced-functionality`, `ClientServicesMaxUploadSize`, `&`, `Specifies`, `Message(`, `Confirm(`, `Error(` in a page context, `Disabled`, `Invalid`, `Whitelist`, `Blacklist`, trailing punctuation patterns on captions).
- Tokens extracted from the diff (`Caption`, `ToolTip`, `AboutTitle`, `AboutText`, `PageType`, `ShowCaption`, `InstructionalText`, `grid`, `fixed`, `GridLayout`, `Style`, `StyleExpr`, `Importance`, `Promoted`, `Additional`, `area(Promoted)`, `actionref`, `PromotedCategory`, `PromotedOnly`, `PromotedIsBig`, `ShowAs`, `SplitButton`, `fieldgroups`, `DropDown`, `UpdatePropagation`, `EnqueueBackgroundTask`, `OnAfterGetCurrRecord`, `OnAfterGetRecord`, `OnPageBackgroundTaskCompleted`, `OnPageBackgroundTaskError`, `RunPageBackgroundTask`, `Favorable`, `Unfavorable`, `Ambiguous`, `cuegroup`, `controladdin`, `control-add-in`, `usercontrol`, `aria-`, `tabindex`, `keydown`, `focus`, `innerHTML`, `createElement`, `packaged-resource`, `ajax`, `$.get`, `$.ajax`, `XMLHttpRequest`, `xhrFields`, `withCredentials`, `withcredentials`, `InvokeExtensibilityMethod`, `invokeextensibilitymethod`, `skipIfBusy`, `successCallback`, `success-callback`, `errorCallback`, `setInterval`, `JSON.stringify`, `payload`, `throttling`, `reduced-functionality`, `ClientServicesMaxUploadSize`, `&`, `Specifies`, `Message(`, `Confirm(`, `Error(` in a page context, `Disabled`, `Invalid`, `Whitelist`, `Blacklist`, trailing punctuation patterns on captions).
A file enters the candidate worklist when its `keywords` intersect the extracted tokens or its topic (derived from the index entry's `path`, `title`, and `description`) matches a changed page element. Read an article's full file — its `## Best Practice` / `## Anti Pattern` bodies — only after it makes the worklist; candidate selection uses the index alone.
Apply these high-signal mappings before fuzzy topic ranking:
- A tableextension adds a field to `DropDown` while the corresponding lookup-page control remains `Visible = false` — `dropdown-fieldgroup-respects-lookup-page-visibility`.
- An editable page part affects a total, FlowField, or FactBox on the parent but does not set `UpdatePropagation = Both` — `updatepropagation-both-refreshes-main-page`.
Once the candidate worklist is known, resolve layer-precedence conflicts per READ and record suppressions.
When the post-conflict worklist is empty because no applicable UI knowledge exists, or because configuration suppressed every candidate, emit `outcome: "no-knowledge"`. When the worklist is empty because no applicable UI knowledge matched the page changes, emit `outcome: "completed"` with an empty `findings` array.

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- The changed AL object names and types — especially codeunits with `Subtype = Upgrade` or `Subtype = Install`, tables and tableextensions adding or changing fields, enums and enumextensions, and objects under `Hybrid*`/`Migration`/`Upgrade` namespaces.
- The changed triggers and procedures, weighted toward `OnCheckPreconditionsPerCompany`/`PerDatabase`, `OnUpgradePerCompany`/`PerDatabase`, `OnValidateUpgradePerCompany`/`PerDatabase`, `OnInstallAppPerCompany`/`PerDatabase`, the `OnGetPerCompanyUpgradeTags`/`OnGetPerDatabaseUpgradeTags` subscribers, and helper procedures transitively reachable from those entry points.
- Tokens extracted from the diff that relate to upgrade concerns (`Subtype = Upgrade`, `Subtype = Install`, `Upgrade Tag`, `HasUpgradeTag`, `SetUpgradeTag`, `OnCheckPreconditions`, `OnUpgrade`, `OnValidateUpgrade`, `OnInstallApp`, `DataTransfer`, `CopyFields`, `Insert`, `Modify`, `Delete`, `Rename`, `InitValue`, `ObsoleteState`, `ObsoleteReason`, `ObsoleteTag`, `DataVersion`, `ExecutionContext`, `PrimaryKey`, `key(`, `field(`, `value(`, `enum`, `enumextension`, `HybridSL`, `HybridGP`, `HybridBC`, `HybridBaseDeployment`).
- Tokens extracted from the diff that relate to upgrade concerns (`Subtype = Upgrade`, `Subtype = Install`, `Upgrade Tag`, `HasUpgradeTag`, `SetUpgradeTag`, `OnCheckPreconditions`, `OnUpgrade`, `OnValidateUpgrade`, `OnInstallApp`, `DataTransfer`, `CopyFields`, `Insert`, `Modify`, `Delete`, `Rename`, `InitValue`, `ObsoleteState`, `ObsoleteReason`, `ObsoleteTag`, `ModuleInfo`, `AppVersion`, `DataVersion`, `NavApp.GetCurrentModuleInfo`, `ExecutionContext`, `PrimaryKey`, `key(`, `field(`, `value(`, `enum`, `enumextension`, `HybridSL`, `HybridGP`, `HybridBC`, `HybridBaseDeployment`).
- For each `OnCheckPreconditions...` and `OnValidateUpgrade...` trigger, build the best available call graph from surrounding unchanged source as well as changed hunks, tracing resolved calls through reachable local or internal helpers. Worklist the check-only rule when a database write occurs either directly in the trigger or in any helper procedure reachable from it. Writes include `Insert`, `Modify`, `ModifyAll`, `Delete`, `DeleteAll`, `Rename`, and `DataTransfer`. Also perform the reverse check when a PR changes a writing helper body: worklist the rule when that helper is invoked directly or transitively by an unchanged check or validation trigger.
- Treat a direct write or a fully resolved call chain as high-confidence evidence. When cross-object dispatch, unavailable declarations, or an incomplete call graph prevents proving the complete chain, cap confidence at `medium`, name the unresolved edge in the finding, and do not claim a violation without a resolved path from a check or validation trigger to a write.
- Worklist the install-versus-upgrade rule when migration helpers are reachable only from an install codeunit.
- Worklist `install-and-upgrade-codeunits-have-no-order.md` when a change adds multiple install or upgrade codeunits whose same-phase triggers share state or depend on one another.
- Worklist `appversion-meaning-depends-on-execution-context.md` when install or upgrade code branches on `ModuleInfo.AppVersion()` or confuses it with `DataVersion()`.
A file enters the candidate worklist when its `keywords` intersect the extracted tokens or its topic (derived from the index entry's `path`, `title`, and `description`) matches a changed object type. Read an article's full file — its `## Best Practice` / `## Anti Pattern` bodies — only after it makes the worklist; candidate selection uses the index alone. When the diff contains no upgrade-related changes by any of the above signals, return `outcome: "not-applicable"` without evaluating files.