policy: name script/check as the gate repo-type verifications belong in

The rule put repo-type-specific extras such as `go mod tidy`
verification in `script/precommit`. `script/precommit` is one caller of
`script/check`, not the gate: a check placed there alone runs only for
contributors who installed the hook, and never in CI. Naming
`script/check` instead puts the check on every path that already funnels
through it, including the Dockerfile build step and therefore CI, with
the pre-commit hook inheriting it.

Records the read-only constraint that placement implies, since
`make check` must not modify files.

.golangci.yml

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ linters:
   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
@@ -27,32 +28,6 @@ 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.
 
 issues:
   max-issues-per-linter: 0

prompts/CODE_STYLEGUIDE_GO.md

@@ -124,15 +124,10 @@ last_modified: 2026-03-18
 
 1.  Keep the `main()` function as small as possible.
 
-1.  Keep the `main` package as small as possible. Each `cmd/<name>/` directory
-    contains a single `main.go` whose body is one call into library code (for
-    example `os.Exit(cli.Main())` calling `internal/cli`). All CLI logic — flag
-    parsing, subcommand dispatch, argument handling, output formatting — lives
-    in `internal/` or `pkg/`, not in `cmd/`. `main` is just an entrypoint to
-    your code, not a place for implementations. Exception: single-file scripts.
-
-1.  No project logic outside `internal/` or `pkg/`. Anything in `cmd/` is a thin
-    entrypoint only.
+1.  Keep the `main` package as small as possible. Move as much code as is
+    feasible to a library package, even if it's an internal one. `main` is just
+    an entrypoint to your code, not a place for implementations. Exception:
+    single-file scripts.
 
 1.  HTTP HandleFuncs should be returned from methods or functions that need to
     handle HTTP requests. Don't use methods or your top level functions as

prompts/REPO_POLICIES.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 title: Repository Policies
-last_modified: 2026-08-19
+last_modified: 2026-08-20
 ---
 
 This document covers repository structure, tooling, and workflow standards. Code
@@ -69,8 +69,15 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
   outputs the project's name. Scripts that need the name call
   `script/projectname` — e.g. `script/docker` assembles its image tag from it —
   so those scripts stay byte-identical across all repos. Repo-type-specific
-  pre-commit extras (e.g. `go mod tidy` verification in Go repos) belong in
-  `script/precommit`, not in the hook itself. Model scripts are at
+  verifications (e.g. `go mod tidy` verification in Go repos) belong in
+  `script/check`, which is the gate the other entrypoints funnel through: it
+  runs in the Dockerfile build step and therefore in CI, and `script/precommit`
+  inherits it by calling `script/check`. In `script/precommit` alone such a
+  check binds only the contributors who installed the hook, and the hook file
+  itself stays a shim that carries no checks of its own. Anything added to
+  `script/check` must be read-only, since `make check` must not modify files, so
+  use a verify or diff mode (`go mod tidy -diff`) rather than a command that
+  rewrites the tree. Model scripts are at
   `https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/script/<name>`. The README
   must document the provided scripts in an **Entrypoints** section (see the
   README requirements below).
@@ -263,18 +270,11 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
 - Make all changes on a feature branch. You can do whatever you want on a
   feature branch.
 
-- `.golangci.yml` is standardized. The vendored copy in a consuming repo must
-  _NEVER_ be modified by an agent: fetch it from
-  `https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/.golangci.yml` and keep it
-  byte-identical, so that no repo can quietly loosen its own linting. Linter
-  configuration changes are made to the canonical copy in the `prompts` repo and
-  reach consuming repos by re-vendoring; an agent may open a PR against
-  canonical, which only the user merges. One list is exempt from byte-identity,
-  because it cannot be written once for every repo: the `deny` list of the
-  `test-support` depguard rule, where a repo names its own test-support packages
-  by full import path. A repo adds entries there and changes nothing else, and a
-  re-vendor carries its entries forward. The canonical golangci-lint version is
-  v2.12.2 (released 2026-05-06), installed commit-pinned via
+- `.golangci.yml` is standardized and must _NEVER_ be modified by an agent, only
+  manually by the user. Fetch from
+  `https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/.golangci.yml`. The
+  canonical golangci-lint version is v2.12.2 (released 2026-05-06), installed
+  commit-pinned via
   `go install github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/v2/cmd/golangci-lint@c0d3ddc9cf3faa61a4e378e879ece580256d76e5`.
 
 - When pinning images or packages by hash, add a comment above the reference
@@ -394,9 +394,7 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
   language-specific config). Everything else goes in a subdirectory. Canonical
   subdirectory names:
     - `bin/` — executable scripts and tools
-    - `cmd/` — Go command entrypoints; thin only: one `main.go` per binary whose
-      body is a single call into `internal/` or `pkg/`, no project logic in
-      `cmd/`
+    - `cmd/` — Go command entrypoints
     - `configs/` — configuration templates and examples
     - `deploy/` — deployment manifests (k8s, compose, terraform)
     - `docs/` — documentation and markdown (README.md stays in root)