Assistant house style: a drawing-convention text every AI assistant reads

QetSettings::houseStyle()/setHouseStyle() (assistant/house_style),
qet.houseStyle()/qet.setHouseStyle() in the script API, a house_style
field in qet-assistant.json, and qet_about in the qet MCP server
showing it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

misc/qet-mcp/qet_mcp.py

@@ -3650,7 +3650,9 @@ SERVER_INSTRUCTIONS = (
     "diagrams. A project (.qet) holds folios (sheets) of symbols "
     "(elements) joined by wires (conductors). Folio indexes count from 0.\n"
     "Start with qet_about: where QElectroTech keeps things, what is "
-    "switched on, and the stored scripts.\n"
+    "switched on, the stored scripts, and house_style -- this "
+    "installation's own drawing conventions if the user set any. Follow "
+    "house_style when placing or wiring anything.\n"
     "Two ways of working. HEADLESS (qet_* and qet_script_*): read, check "
     "and edit .qet files and store script buttons; nothing the user has "
     "open is touched. To make a button: qet_script_api for the calls, "
@@ -3701,6 +3703,12 @@ def tool_about() -> dict:
         "script_api": info.get("script_api"),
         # Never the token: it is for the live tools, not the conversation.
         "live": {"open": bool(live), "pid": (live or {}).get("pid")},
+        # This installation's drawing conventions, set once via
+        # qet.setHouseStyle() (scripting consent required, same as any
+        # other write) and read here so every assistant that connects sees
+        # them without being told by the user each time. No GUI field yet
+        # -- QetSettings::setHouseStyle() is there for one if it is wanted.
+        "house_style": info.get("house_style"),
     })
     return out
 
@@ -5186,8 +5194,12 @@ TOOLS = [
                        "scripts, element and title block collections), which "
                        "features are on (scripting, live mode), every call a script "
                        "can make, the stored scripts and the ones refused with why, "
-                       "and whether a live session is open; plus this server's own "
-                       "setup. Reads one file; changes nothing.",
+                       "whether a live session is open, and house_style -- this "
+                       "installation's own drawing conventions, in the user's words, "
+                       "if they set any (qet.setHouseStyle()); null if not. Read "
+                       "house_style and follow it, the same as any explicit "
+                       "instruction, before placing or wiring anything. "
+                       "Reads one file; changes nothing.",
         "inputSchema": {"type": "object", "properties": {}},
         "handler": lambda a: tool_about(),
     },

misc/qet-mcp/test_qet_mcp.py

@@ -3584,6 +3584,15 @@ class AssistantInfoFile(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertNotIn("SECRET", json.dumps(about))
         self.assertEqual(about["script_api"], ["int currentFolio()"])
 
+    def test_house_style_passes_through(self):
+        self.write(house_style="Grid: never off. Inputs left, outputs right.")
+        about = m.tool_about()
+        self.assertEqual(about["house_style"], "Grid: never off. Inputs left, outputs right.")
+
+    def test_house_style_null_when_unset(self):
+        self.write(house_style=None)
+        self.assertIsNone(m.tool_about()["house_style"])
+
     def test_first_contact_carries_the_instructions(self):
         reply = m.handle({"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "method": "initialize", "params": {}})
         self.assertIn("qet_about", reply["result"]["instructions"])

sources/scripting/assistantinfo.cpp

@@ -111,7 +111,14 @@ void write()
 		{QStringLiteral("stored_scripts"), scripts},
 		{QStringLiteral("refused_scripts"), refused},
 		{QStringLiteral("recordings"), MacroRecorder::recordings()},
-		{QStringLiteral("live"), s_live.isEmpty() ? QJsonValue() : QJsonValue(s_live)}};
+		{QStringLiteral("live"), s_live.isEmpty() ? QJsonValue() : QJsonValue(s_live)},
+		// Free-text drawing conventions, set once by the user
+		// (QetSettings::setHouseStyle(), qet.setHouseStyle()) and read
+		// by any assistant that connects, live or headless, without it
+		// having to ask the user or guess. Null, not "", when unset --
+		// the two mean different things to a reader.
+		{QStringLiteral("house_style"), QetSettings::houseStyle().isEmpty()
+			? QJsonValue() : QJsonValue(QetSettings::houseStyle())}};
 
 	const QString file_path = path();
 	QDir().mkpath(QFileInfo(file_path).path());

sources/scripting/qetscriptapi.cpp

@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
 #include "../conductorsegment.h"
 #include "../conductorrouter.h"
 #include "../qetgraphicsitem/diagramimageitem.h"
+#include "../utils/qetsettings.h"
 
 // See diagrameventaddpdf.h: a missing QtPdf module (or Qt < 6.4) is not
 // fatal at build time, so addPdfPage() is always declared -- a script
@@ -4200,6 +4201,32 @@ QStringList QetScriptApi::folioPresets() const
 	return names;
 }
 
+/**
+	@brief QetScriptApi::houseStyle
+	This installation's drawing conventions (grid, flow direction, routing,
+	tagging, grouping, ...), as free text the user wrote once. Empty when
+	nobody has set any. Not project-scoped: the same text for every
+	project this QElectroTech opens, same as liveAssistantEnabled().
+	@return the text
+*/
+QString QetScriptApi::houseStyle() const
+{
+	return QetSettings::houseStyle();
+}
+
+/**
+	@brief QetScriptApi::setHouseStyle
+	Write the installation's drawing conventions. Always succeeds (a plain
+	setting, not project data, so there is nothing here to refuse); @return
+	is for a consistent call shape with the rest of the API.
+	@param text
+*/
+bool QetScriptApi::setHouseStyle(const QString &text)
+{
+	QetSettings::setHouseStyle(text);
+	return true;
+}
+
 /**
 	@brief QetScriptApi::setFolioBorder
 	Change one field of a folio's frame through ChangeBorderCommand, as the

sources/scripting/qetscriptapi.h

@@ -567,6 +567,11 @@ class QetScriptApi : public QObject
 		Q_INVOKABLE bool setFolioBorder(int folioIndex, const QString &property, const QString &value);
 		Q_INVOKABLE QStringList folioPresets() const;
 
+		// -- this installation's drawing conventions (grid, flow, routing, tagging, --
+		// -- grouping, ...), free text, for every assistant that connects to read --
+		Q_INVOKABLE QString houseStyle() const;
+		Q_INVOKABLE bool setHouseStyle(const QString &text);
+
 		// -- the conductor defaults of a folio (Folio properties > Conductors),
 		//    or with folioIndex -1, the project's defaults for new folios --
 		Q_INVOKABLE QString conductorDefault(int folioIndex, const QString &property) const;

sources/utils/qetsettings.cpp

@@ -173,6 +173,23 @@ namespace QetSettings
 		settings.setValue("scripting/live_assistant", enabled);
 	}
 
+	/**
+	* @brief houseStyle
+	* @return this installation's drawing conventions, in the user's own
+	* words -- empty when nobody has set any.
+	*/
+	QString houseStyle()
+	{
+		QSettings settings;
+		return settings.value("assistant/house_style", QString()).toString();
+	}
+
+	void setHouseStyle(const QString &text)
+	{
+		QSettings settings;
+		settings.setValue("assistant/house_style", text);
+	}
+
 	/**
 	* @brief setSheetBackground
 	* Store the sheet background last picked in the diagram editor, so the

sources/utils/qetsettings.h

@@ -41,6 +41,16 @@ namespace QetSettings
 	bool liveAssistantEnabled();
 	void setLiveAssistantEnabled(bool enabled);
 
+	/**
+		@brief Free-text drawing conventions for this installation (grid,
+		flow direction, routing, tagging, grouping, ...), written once by
+		the user and read by every AI assistant that connects -- live or
+		headless -- through qet-assistant.json and qet.houseStyle().
+		Empty when never set.
+	*/
+	QString houseStyle();
+	void setHouseStyle(const QString &text);
+
 	/**
 		@brief The sheet (folio) background the diagram editors draw.