Doctrine Relations (Symfony)

Use when

• Designing entity relations or schema evolution.

• Improving Doctrine correctness/performance.

Default workflow

• Model ownership/cardinality and transactional boundaries.

• Apply mapping/schema changes with migration safety.

• Tune fetch/query behavior for hot paths.

• Verify lifecycle behavior with targeted tests.

Guardrails

• Keep owning/inverse sides coherent.

• Avoid destructive migration jumps in one release.

• Eliminate accidental N+1 and over-fetching.

Progressive disclosure

• Use this file for execution posture and risk controls.

• Open references when deep implementation details are needed.

Output contract

• Entity/migration changes.

• Integrity and performance decisions.

• Validation outcomes and rollback notes.

References

• reference.md

• docs/complexity-tiers.md