cibuild: the org model, which runs every check uncached (closes #37)

script/cibuild was a plain docker build ., so on a tree Docker had
seen before every check step came from the build cache and the build
still passed. It is now the org model from sneak/prompts, byte for
byte: script/bootstrap, script/check, then docker build --no-cache
with the git describe version as the VERSION build argument.

The workflow puts ~/.local/bin, where bootstrap links what it
installs, on the step's PATH. Bootstrap now installs its pinned node
when the installed one is older than 22.12.0, the oldest the
frontend's dependencies accept (puppeteer-core's engines field), as
it already does for Go against backend/go.mod.

Model: opus-5-5

.gitea/workflows/check.yml

@@ -6,5 +6,7 @@ jobs:
         steps:
             # actions/checkout v4.2.2, 2026-02-22
             - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683
-            # script/cibuild builds the image, whose stages run every check.
+            # script/cibuild bootstraps, runs every check and builds the
-            - run: script/cibuild
+            # image. script/bootstrap links what it installs into
+            # ~/.local/bin, so that has to be on PATH for the rest.
+            - run: PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH" script/cibuild

README.md

@@ -36,12 +36,12 @@ The Go backend in `backend/` has its own `script/` directory and shim Makefile
 (see [backend/README.md](backend/README.md)). The root scripts cover both
 halves, so the root `make check` fails if either one is broken. We provide:
 
-- `script/bootstrap` — install all dependencies (pinned node via nvm if needed,
+- `script/bootstrap` — install all dependencies (the pinned node via nvm unless
-  yarn via corepack, `yarn install --frozen-lockfile`, the pinned Go unless one
+  one new enough for the frontend's dependencies is installed, yarn via
-  at least as new as `backend/go.mod` asks for is installed, and the Go
+  corepack, `yarn install --frozen-lockfile`, the pinned Go unless one at least
-  modules), linking what it installs itself into `~/.local/bin`, which has to be
+  as new as `backend/go.mod` asks for is installed, and the Go modules), linking
-  on `PATH`. It installs no Go linter and not Docker: `make lint` runs the
+  what it installs itself into `~/.local/bin`, which has to be on `PATH`. It
-  linter in Docker
+  installs no Go linter and not Docker: `make lint` runs the linter in Docker
 - `script/setup` — make a fresh clone ready for development: bootstrap plus the
   git pre-commit hook
 - `script/projectname` — print the project name (used for the Docker image tag)
@@ -65,7 +65,8 @@ halves, so the root `make check` fails if either one is broken. We provide:
   `script/check`: it needs Docker and takes minutes.
 - `script/docker` — build the image from `Dockerfile` without the build cache,
   tagged `netwatch` via `script/projectname`
-- `script/cibuild` — CI entrypoint: builds the image
+- `script/cibuild` — CI entrypoint: runs `script/bootstrap` and `script/check`,
+  then builds the image as `script/docker` does, without the build cache
 - `script/precommit` — run by the git pre-commit hook; runs `script/check`
 - `script/install-precommit` — install the git pre-commit hook
 

TODO.md

@@ -23,6 +23,21 @@ latest run passes.
 
 # Completed Steps
 
+- 2026-09-29: CI can no longer pass on checks that did not run (issue #37):
+  `script/cibuild` is now the org model, byte for byte. It runs
+  `script/bootstrap` and `script/check`, then builds the image with `--no-cache`
+  and the version from `git describe` as the `VERSION` build argument, where it
+  used to be a plain `docker build .` whose check steps could come from the
+  build cache. The workflow puts `~/.local/bin`, where bootstrap links what it
+  installs, on the step's `PATH`, and bootstrap now installs its pinned node
+  when the installed one is older than the frontend's dependencies need
+- 2026-09-29: `backend/.golangci.yml` re-vendored from `sneak/prompts` (issue
+  #41): `gomodguard`, deprecated in golangci-lint v2.12.0, is disabled and its
+  successor `gomodguard_v2` enabled with the org block list, so lint runs print
+  no deprecation warning. The new file also turns `depguard` on with its
+  `test-support` rule, which keeps `net/http/httptest` out of non-test code;
+  netwatch adds no entries of its own to that rule. `backend/script/lint` checks
+  the new sha256
 - 2026-09-29: nginx sends the security headers `REPO_POLICIES.md` requires on
   every response (issue #18), including errors, `/assets/` and what it passes on
   from the backend, whose own copies it drops so each header goes out once. They
@@ -191,9 +206,3 @@ latest run passes.
   (main always green policy)
 - Decide what to do with untracked resume.sh: commit it, gitignore it, or delete
   it
-- Upstream fix needed in `sneak/prompts`: the org-standard `.golangci.yml`
-  enables `gomodguard`, which golangci-lint v2.12.2 reports as deprecated since
-  v2.12.0 and replaced by `gomodguard_v2`, so every backend lint run prints a
-  deprecation warning. The file is standardized and must never be edited in this
-  repo, so nothing can be done here beyond tracking it — tracked at
-  <https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/netwatch/issues/41>

backend/.golangci.yml

@@ -10,14 +10,20 @@ run:
 
 linters:
   default: all
+  enable:
+    # Successor to the deprecated gomodguard. Named explicitly, rather than
+    # left to `default: all`, because it carries the module policy below.
+    - gomodguard_v2
   disable:
     # Genuinely incompatible with project patterns
     - exhaustruct      # Requires all struct fields
-    - depguard         # Dependency allow/block lists
     - godot            # Requires comments to end with periods
-    - wsl              # Deprecated, replaced by wsl_v5
     - wrapcheck        # Too verbose for internal packages
     - varnamelen       # Short names like db, id are idiomatic Go
+    # Deprecated: the warning is attached to the old name, so it is
+    # silenced by disabling that name, not by enabling the successor.
+    - wsl              # Deprecated, replaced by wsl_v5
+    - gomodguard       # Deprecated, replaced by gomodguard_v2
   settings:
     lll:
       line-length: 88
@@ -28,6 +34,64 @@ linters:
       max-complexity: 15
     dupl:
       threshold: 100
+    depguard:
+      # Test-support code must not be compiled into the shipped binary. A
+      # test-support package exists to hand a test privileges the program
+      # itself must never have, so a file that is not a test must not import
+      # one. Test files, and the files inside a package whose directory name
+      # ends in `test`, are where that code belongs, and are exempt.
+      #
+      # The deny list below is the one part of this file a repository is
+      # expected to extend, and the only part it may. depguard matches an
+      # import path against a list of prefixes, so it cannot be told "any path
+      # whose last segment ends in test"; a repository's own test-support
+      # packages have to be named here one at a time, by full import path,
+      # under a module path that differs from repository to repository. Add
+      # them; change nothing else.
+      rules:
+        test-support:
+          list-mode: lax
+          files:
+            - "$all"
+            - "!$test"
+            - "!**/*test/**"
+          deny:
+            - pkg: net/http/httptest
+              desc: >-
+                Test-support code belongs in test files and in packages whose
+                directory name ends in test, not in the shipped binary.
+    # Only decisions already recorded in the Go package defaults are
+    # listed here. Every entry matches the module path exactly.
+    gomodguard_v2:
+      blocked:
+        - module: github.com/rs/zerolog
+          recommendations:
+            - log/slog
+          reason: "Structured logging is stdlib log/slog."
+        # One entry per pre-fork module path, because the later releases
+        # are separate paths. A prefix match would be shorter but would
+        # also reach github.com/go-redis/redismock, the test double for
+        # the successor these entries recommend.
+        - module: github.com/go-redis/redis
+          recommendations:
+            - github.com/redis/go-redis/v9
+          reason: "Pre-fork module; use the maintained go-redis v9."
+        - module: github.com/go-redis/redis/v7
+          recommendations:
+            - github.com/redis/go-redis/v9
+          reason: "Pre-fork module; use the maintained go-redis v9."
+        - module: github.com/go-redis/redis/v8
+          recommendations:
+            - github.com/redis/go-redis/v9
+          reason: "Pre-fork module; use the maintained go-redis v9."
+        - module: github.com/sergi/go-diff
+          recommendations:
+            - github.com/aymanbagabas/go-udiff
+          reason: "No unified diff output; use go-udiff."
+        - module: github.com/hexops/gotextdiff
+          recommendations:
+            - github.com/aymanbagabas/go-udiff
+          reason: "Unmaintained fork; use go-udiff."
 
 issues:
   max-issues-per-linter: 0

backend/script/lint

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ set -eu
 
 ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." && pwd -P)"
 
-GOLANGCI_CONFIG_SHA256="021cc83f4e6fc7c31b95b34b846723dfcf20b66b7baeea1dc40406e643346bcb"
+GOLANGCI_CONFIG_SHA256="a79b63a254602a5318db5d0e9a06bc71b84bf0c1d896305229d8bfed1d1b1776"
 
 main() {
     cd "$ROOT"

script/bootstrap

@@ -3,12 +3,12 @@
 # this repo. Idempotent: every install is guarded by a check so already
 # installed tools are skipped. Base tooling comes from nix, apt, brew,
 # or apk (detected in that order); assumes nothing is present. Node is
-# used directly if installed; otherwise it is installed at a pinned
+# used directly if it is at least NODE_MIN_VERSION; otherwise it is
-# version via nvm (installing nvm itself first, from a hash-verified
+# installed at a pinned version via nvm (installing nvm itself first,
-# release archive, never curl | sh). Go, with its gofmt, is used
+# from a hash-verified release archive, never curl | sh). Go, with its
-# directly if it is at least the version backend/go.mod asks for;
+# gofmt, is used directly if it is at least the version backend/go.mod
-# otherwise the pinned Go release is installed from its hash-verified
+# asks for; otherwise the pinned Go release is installed from its
-# archive.
+# hash-verified archive.
 #
 # What this script installs outside the system package manager lives
 # under $HOME and is linked into ~/.local/bin, where make and the git
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." && pwd -P)"
 
 # Pinned versions, 2026-07-07
 NODE_VERSION="22.17.0"
+# The oldest node the frontend's dependencies accept: the "engines"
+# field of puppeteer-core 25.5.0, the most demanding of them, asks for
+# 22.12.0 or newer, 2026-09-29. An older installed node is not used.
+NODE_MIN_VERSION="22.12.0"
 NVM_VERSION="0.40.3"
 # sha256 of https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm/archive/refs/tags/v0.40.3.tar.gz
 NVM_SHA256="5f4d6aaa04a177dc93c985e31dbc411ab6b8c6e1e21d8015dbc1372625fcd1d0"
@@ -136,8 +140,22 @@ ensure_nvm() {
     rm -rf "$tmp"
 }
 
+# node_ok: the node on PATH is at least NODE_MIN_VERSION. node itself
+# compares the two: major, then minor, then patch.
+node_ok() {
+    if missing node; then return 1; fi
+    node -e '
+        const have = process.versions.node.split(".").map(Number);
+        const want = process.argv[1].split(".").map(Number);
+        for (let i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
+            if (have[i] !== want[i]) process.exit(have[i] > want[i] ? 0 : 1);
+        }
+    ' "$NODE_MIN_VERSION"
+}
+
+# ensure_node: unless node_ok, install NODE_VERSION and link its node.
 ensure_node() {
-    if ! missing node; then return 0; fi
+    if node_ok; then return 0; fi
     ensure_nvm
     nvm_sh "nvm install $NODE_VERSION"
     link_bin "$HOME/.nvm/versions/node/v$NODE_VERSION/bin/node" node

script/cibuild

@@ -1,15 +1,29 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-# script/cibuild: run the CI build: build the one image from Dockerfile,
+# script/cibuild: run the CI build. It bootstraps first: a CI runner
-# whose stages run the checks as build steps (the backend's fmt-check,
+# checks out and runs this and nothing else, and script/fmt-check runs
-# lint and tests, and the frontend's test, lint and fmt-check). This is
+# the formatter on the host, which a pristine checkout cannot do.
-# the only build step the Gitea workflow runs.
+# --no-cache for the same reason as script/docker: the gate phases the
+# final stage depends on are RUN steps, and a cached one is a check that
+# did not run.
 set -eu
 
-ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." && pwd -P)"
+SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd -P)"
+ROOT="$(cd "$SCRIPT_DIR/.." && pwd -P)"
 
 main() {
     cd "$ROOT"
-    timeout 300 docker build .
+    "$SCRIPT_DIR/bootstrap"
+    "$SCRIPT_DIR/check"
+    # Own line: a failing command substitution inside an argument does
+    # not trip `set -e`, so the inline form degrades silently to an
+    # empty constant. VERSION is computed here because .dockerignore
+    # excludes .git, so `git describe` in a build stage yields an empty
+    # version without failing.
+    version="$(git describe --tags --always --dirty 2>/dev/null || true)"
+    [ -n "$version" ] || version="unknown"
+    docker build --no-cache \
+        --build-arg VERSION="$version" \
+        -t "$("$SCRIPT_DIR/projectname")" .
 }
 
 main "$@"