Add -count=1 to the canonical Go make test example (#45)
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Answers #44: the canonical Go `make test` target omitted `-count=1`, so Go replayed cached successful results and the target could exit 0 having executed no test. Every repository that copied it inherited that false green.

The change adds `-count=1` to both `go test` invocations in the example in `REPO_POLICIES.md`, with a short paragraph saying why, and records the step in `TODO.md`. It defeats only the test-result cache, not the build cache, so it costs the suite's runtime and no recompilation. It is independent of the Docker layer cache that #26 addresses.

Rebased onto current `main`; the check is green. Repositories pick it up the next time each vendors the canonical files.

Model: opus-5 (change); fable-5-1 (this description)
Co-authored-by: sneak <sneak@sneak.berlin>
Co-authored-by: clawbot <cai2025@acidhou.se>
Co-authored-by: Jeffrey Paul <sneak@noreply.example.org>
Reviewed-on: #45
Co-authored-by: clawbot <clawbot@noreply.example.org>
Co-committed-by: clawbot <clawbot@noreply.example.org>
This commit was merged in pull request #45.
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# Completed Steps
- 2026-09-03: Added `-count=1` to both `go test` invocations in the canonical Go
`make test` example in `REPO_POLICIES.md`, so the target cannot report a
cached pass it did not earn, and documented that Go's test-result cache is a
second, independent cache stacked below the Docker layer cache.
- 2026-08-07: Set the canonical `.golangci.yml` to the org-standard v2-schema
config already deployed byte-identical across the org's Go repos (settings
under `linters.settings` so thresholds like lll/funlen/cyclop/dupl actually

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---
title: Repository Policies
last_modified: 2026-08-19
last_modified: 2026-09-03
---
This document covers repository structure, tooling, and workflow standards. Code
@@ -214,11 +214,24 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
```makefile
test:
@go test -timeout 90s -race -cover ./... || \
@go test -count=1 -timeout 90s -race -cover ./... || \
{ echo "--- Rerunning with -v for details ---"; \
go test -timeout 90s -race -v ./...; exit 1; }
go test -count=1 -timeout 90s -race -v ./...; exit 1; }
```
`-count=1` is required on both invocations: it defeats Go's test _result_
cache, so the target cannot report a pass it did not earn, and the rerun
reproduces a failure instead of replaying it. It leaves the build cache
alone, so it costs the runtime of the suite and no recompilation.
Note that this is a second, independent cache, stacked below the Docker
layer cache that [issue #26](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/issues/26)
addresses. `CHECK_EPOCH` guarantees the `RUN make test` _step_ re-executes;
it does not guarantee `go test` inside that step does any work, because the
`GOCACHE` baked into earlier image layers survives into the re-executed
step. They are two separate defects requiring two separate fixes, and a fix
for one must not be recorded as covering the other.
Python example:
```makefile