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 > For core framework rules see: `.github/copilot-instructions.md` (in AyCode.Core repo)
 > External repos in `own-dep-repos` are fully accessible — read their source code, docs, and `.github/copilot-instructions.md` freely when you need type definitions, base classes, or context. Do not limit yourself to the current workspace.
 
+## Deployment & Hosting
+
+This `FruitBank` product is the **nopCommerce server source** for a runtime instance deployed for the FruitBank company (fruit & vegetable wholesaler). The runtime instance hosts the **FruitBank plugin** (`Nop.Plugin.Misc.AIPlugin`, see Rule 17) compiled from the parallel plugin source folder. The plugin is the main vehicle for FruitBank-specific business logic; this repo is the broader server / domain layer it integrates with.
+
+Deployment configuration (appsettings.json, plugins.json, themes, uploaded assets, runtime state) is managed via deployment artifacts **external to this source repo** — not authored here. Edits in this repo are FruitBank-specific server-domain code (entities, services, controllers, hooks); deployment-time concerns belong outside.
+
+A separate placeholder folder (`Mango/FruitBank/`) historically tracked the deployment-host metadata as its own inherit-style instruction file (LLMP-DEC-16, LLMP-DEC-19). That folder was confirmed unused and removed (LLMP-DEC-51); the deployment-context information that was meaningful at the workspace level lives here, where the source code that actually gets deployed resides.
+
 ## Shared Agent Skills
 
 Skills defined in other repos. **Two reactive skills are pre-loaded at session start; three user-gated skills are lazy-loaded on demand** — see `## Session Setup` above for the load matrix: