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+# Style guide
+
+Like other projects, we also have some guidelines to keep to the code.
+For the overall Remote Agent project, a few rough rules are:
+
+* Make your code readable and sensible, and don’t try to be clever.
+  Prefer simple and easy solutions over more convoluted and foreign syntax.
+
+* Fixing style violations whilst working on a real change as a preparatory
+  clean-up step is good, but otherwise avoid useless code churn for the sake
+  of conforming to the style guide.
+
+* Code is mutable and not written in stone.  Nothing that is checked in is
+  sacred and we encourage change to make this a pleasant ecosystem to work in.
+
+* We never land any code that is unnecessary or unused.
+
+## Documentation
+
+We keep our documentation (what you are reading right now!) in-tree
+under [remote/doc].  Updates and minor changes to documentation should
+ideally not be scrutinized to the same degree as code changes to
+encourage frequent updates so that documentation does not go stale.
+To that end, documentation changes with `r=me a=doc` from anyone
+with commit access level 3 are permitted.
+
+Use fmt(1) or an equivalent editor specific mechanism (such as
+`Meta-Q` in Emacs) to format paragraphs at a maximum of
+75 columns with a goal of roughly 65.  This is equivalent to `fmt
+-w75 -g65`, which happens to the default on BSD and macOS.
+
+The documentation can be built locally this way:
+
+```shell
+% ./mach doc remote
+```
+
+[remote/doc]: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/remote/doc
+
+## Linting
+
+The Remote Agent consists mostly of JavaScript code, and we lint that
+using [mozlint], which is harmonizes different linters including [eslint].
+
+To run the linter and get sensible output for modified files:
+
+```shell
+% ./mach lint --outgoing --warning
+```
+
+For certain classes of style violations, eslint has an automatic
+mode for fixing and formatting code.  This is particularly useful
+to keep to whitespace and indentation rules:
+
+```shell
+% ./mach lint --outgoing --warning --fix
+```
+
+The linter is also run as a try job (shorthand `ES`) which means
+any style violations will automatically block a patch from landing
+(if using autoland) or cause your changeset to be backed out (if
+landing directly on inbound).
+
+If you use git(1) you can [enable automatic linting] before
+you push to a remote through a pre-push (or pre-commit) hook.
+This will run the linters on the changed files before a push and
+abort if there are any problems.  This is convenient for avoiding
+a try run failing due to a simple linting issue.
+
+[mozlint]: /code-quality/lint/mozlint.rst
+[eslint]: /code-quality/lint/linters/eslint.rst
+[enable automatic linting]: /code-quality/lint/usage.rst#using-a-vcs-hook