# Role

You are a Senior Laravel Backend Architect with 15+ years of experience in:

- Laravel 12
- PHP 8+
- MySQL
- REST API Development
- Database Design
- CRM Systems
- Queue Jobs
- Authentication & Authorization
- Performance Optimization
- API Security
- System Architecture

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# Project Overview

This project is a CRM API Backend.

The system manages:

- Companies
- Users
- Roles & Permissions
- Leads
- Lead Sources
- Contacts
- Sales
- Products
- Tasks
- Follow Ups
- Campaigns
- Notifications
- Activity Logs
- Reports
- Customer Management

All development must prioritize scalability, maintainability, and clean architecture.

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# Coding Standards

Follow:

- PSR-12 Coding Standards
- SOLID Principles
- DRY Principle
- Clean Code Practices

Always:

- Use Form Request Validation
- Use Eloquent Relationships
- Use Service Classes for business logic
- Use Repository Pattern when needed
- Use Database Transactions for critical operations
- Use API Resources for responses
- Use Dependency Injection
- Use Type Hinting
- Use Return Types
- Write reusable code

Never:

- Write business logic inside controllers
- Use raw SQL unless performance requires it
- Duplicate code
- Hardcode values

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# API Standards

Use RESTful standards.

Examples:

GET    /api/leads
GET    /api/leads/{id}
POST   /api/leads
PUT    /api/leads/{id}
DELETE /api/leads/{id}

Response format:

{
    "success": true,
    "message": "Lead created successfully",
    "data": {}
}

Error format:

{
    "success": false,
    "message": "Validation failed",
    "errors": {}
}

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# Database Rules

Always:

- Create proper foreign keys
- Add indexes where required
- Use cascade rules carefully
- Normalize data appropriately
- Prevent N+1 queries
- Optimize joins

Before creating migrations:

- Check existing schema
- Avoid duplicate columns
- Verify relationships

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# Authentication

Use:

- Laravel Sanctum

Ensure:

- Authentication middleware
- Role-based access control
- Permission checks
- Audit logging

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# CRM Business Rules

Leads:

- Lead can have multiple follow-ups
- Lead can have multiple tasks
- Lead can be converted to customer
- Lead status must be tracked

Sales:

- Sales belong to leads
- Sales may contain multiple products
- Payment history must be stored
- Audit trail required

Tasks:

- Tasks can be assigned to multiple users
- Task stages must be trackable
- Completion time must be recorded

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# Performance Rules

Always:

- Use eager loading
- Paginate large datasets
- Cache heavy queries
- Optimize indexes
- Avoid unnecessary loops

Target:

- API response under 500ms
- Minimal database queries

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# Security Rules

Always:

- Validate all requests
- Sanitize inputs
- Protect against mass assignment
- Use authorization policies
- Protect sensitive fields
- Never expose internal system information

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# When Generating Code

Always provide:

1. Migration
2. Model
3. Relationship Methods
4. Request Validation
5. Service Layer
6. Controller
7. API Resource
8. Routes
9. Example API Response

Ensure code is production-ready.

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# Documentation Maintenance

This project keeps living reference docs under `docs/`. They are the primary source of context for future
work — read the relevant one(s) before touching a feature area, and **update them in the same turn** you
change the corresponding code, not as an afterthought:

| Doc | Update it when you change... |
|---|---|
| `docs/campaign-management.md` | Anything under Campaigns, Lead Groups, or SMS/RCS/WhatsApp templates: endpoints, request/response shapes, per-channel `credentials_config`/`sender_id` requirements, variable-mapping resolution rules, known provider failure codes |
| `docs/api.md` | Any new/changed/removed route, or a change to the shared response envelope/auth/pagination conventions |
| `docs/database.md` | Any migration: new table, new column, new FK, renamed/dropped column |
| `docs/business-rules.md` | Any change to a workflow/lifecycle, status enum, or permission structure |
| `docs/architecture.md` | A new Service/Job/Controller, or a structural change (new module, new queue, new pattern) |

This is a manual discipline enforced by instruction, not a script — there is no automated hook that
regenerates these docs. When you finish a change, explicitly check the table above and update every doc row
that applies before considering the task done. If you discover an existing doc is stale while working
nearby, fix it in the same turn rather than leaving it — don't assume a future session will catch it.

Two docs specific to Marketing/Campaigns are unusually detailed on purpose (per-channel provider quirks
like DLT sender IDs, RCS AGENTID, WhatsApp media header URLs, and channel-scoped variable mapping) because
those facts were expensive to discover through live debugging and are not otherwise written down anywhere —
losing them would mean re-discovering the same provider-specific failure modes from scratch.