Cloud Firestore Database and Operations

Before setting up dependencies, writing data models, or configuring security
rules, you MUST always identify the Firestore instance edition.

1. Instance Selection and Edition Detection

Run the following command to list current Firestore databases:
bash npx -y firebase-tools@latest firestore:databases:list

A. Instance Found

1. For each database found, inspect its edition and details:
   bash npx -y firebase-tools@latest firestore:databases:get <database-id>
2. Ask the user which database instance they wish to target or if they would
   prefer to create a new instance.
3. Once the target instance is established:
   • If the edition is STANDARD, follow the guides under
     references/standard/.
   • If the edition is ENTERPRISE or native mode, follow the guides
     under references/enterprise/.

B. No Instance Found (or New Requested)

If no databases exist or the user requests a new one, default to provisioning an
Enterprise edition database and ask the user what location to use. Run
npx -y firebase-tools@latest firestore:locations to get the list of options.
Suggest colocating with other resources if applicable.

Once the location is determined, create the database:
bash npx -y firebase-tools@latest firestore:databases:create <database-id> --edition="enterprise" --location="<selected-location>"

Proceed with using the guides under references/enterprise/.

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2. Specialized Guides

Based on the identified or created instance edition, open and read the
corresponding reference guides:

Standard Edition (references/standard/)

• Provisioning: Read provisioning.md
• Security Rules: Read
  security_rules.md
• SDK Usage: Read web_sdk_usage.md,
  android_sdk_usage.md,
  ios_setup.md, or
  flutter_setup.md
• Indexes: Read indexes.md

Enterprise Edition / Native Mode (references/enterprise/)

• Provisioning: Read
  provisioning.md

• Data Model: Read data_model.md

• Security Rules: Read
  security_rules.md

• SDK Usage:

  [!CRITICAL] Mandatory Reference Reading Before writing or modifying any
  application code for Firestore Enterprise Edition, you MUST read at
  least one of the relevant reference documents below for the target
  platform/language to understand specific architectural requirements and
  pipeline initialization patterns.

  Read web_sdk_usage.md,
  python_sdk_usage.md,
  android_sdk_usage.md,
  ios_setup.md, or
  flutter_setup.md

• Indexes: Read indexes.md