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clawbot
d7fb86f0a0 Document the Go test-result cache as a second, independent cache
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Details 
Go's test-result cache sits below the Docker layer cache that issue #26
addresses. CHECK_EPOCH forces the RUN make test step to re-execute, but
GOCACHE baked into earlier image layers survives into the re-executed
step, so go test can still do no work. Record that these are two
separate defects so a fix for one is not recorded as covering the other.

Also correct the TODO.md Completed Steps date to the landing date, which
matches the REPO_POLICIES.md last_modified front matter.

Closes #44
 2026-09-03 21:06:42 +00:00
sneak
c937cd7a4c Add -count=1 to the canonical Go make test example (closes #44)
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Details 
The canonical Go `test` target in `REPO_POLICIES.md` omitted `-count=1`, so
Go replayed cached successful results and the target could exit 0 having
executed no test. Every repo that copied it inherited the false green.

Both invocations get the flag; the rerun needs it so a failure is
reproduced rather than replayed.
 2026-09-03 20:13:00 +00:00
clawbot
f77d785bed Scope the .golangci.yml agent prohibition to vendored copies (#49)
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Details 
SPECULATIVE and ahead of your ruling — nothing here is urgent and closing it costs nothing. One sentence of policy prose changed; no config file is touched.

## The contradiction

`REPO_POLICIES.md` line 266 currently reads:

> `.golangci.yml` is standardized and must _NEVER_ be modified by an agent, only manually by the user.

Stated unqualified, that forbids an agent from modifying `.golangci.yml` **anywhere** — including the canonical copy in this repo, which is the only place it can ever be fixed. An agent that wants to remediate a linter problem must either violate the rule or leave the problem standing. A rule that cannot be complied with and satisfied at the same time gets resolved ad hoc, differently by each reader, which is the worst of both outcomes it was trying to produce.

This is not hypothetical. It has already cost real time:

- The `gomodguard` deprecation (#25) has been open since 2026-08-07 and still prints on every lint run in every consuming Go repo.
- One agent read the rule as binding here and **declined to open even a speculative branch**, so the fix was not written at all on that pass.
- #47 exists only because a later request was explicit enough to override the reading, and its lead comment asks for exactly this ruling before the PR itself can be judged on its merits.
- The same warning is refiled downstream as sneak/homoicon#4, where it is correctly marked owner-only and correctly punted upstream.

Each new agent that meets the rule reruns this whole argument.

## The change

Scope the prohibition to the vendored copy, and name the one legitimate path by which the config can change:

```
- `.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.
```

The version pin sentence that followed is unchanged.

This keeps the property the rule exists for — no repo silently weakens its own linting, and divergence from canonical stays detectable — while removing the reading that freezes canonical itself. Your control is not reduced: an agent may open a PR here, and only you merge it.

## Scope of the wording sweep

I grepped every `.md` in the repo for the absolute phrasing. It appears in **exactly one place**, `prompts/REPO_POLICIES.md` lines 266-267.

`EXISTING_REPO_CHECKLIST.md` (line 39) and `NEW_REPO_CHECKLIST.md` (line 63) both mention `.golangci.yml`, but only as "fetch from `https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/.golangci.yml`" — an instruction to vendor canonical verbatim, which is exactly what the scoped rule says. Neither carries a prohibition, so neither needs changing and neither is left contradicting the other. `REPO_POLICIES.md` line 414 lists `.golangci.yml` as a required file, also unaffected.

Note that the repo-root `REPO_POLICIES.md` is a symlink to `prompts/REPO_POLICIES.md`, so the single edit covers both paths.

## Deliberately NOT included

This PR does **not** change `.golangci.yml`. The `gomodguard` fix stays in #47 so the two can be judged separately — the policy question is worth settling on its own terms regardless of what you decide about that config change, and merging them would collapse two decisions into one.

## Unrelated observation, for the record

While verifying #47 against a scratch `sneak/homoicon` clone, I found that homoicon's vendored `.golangci.yml` is sha256 `391ea68e637432980f1db0776076f51578fa58193bbd17f4b40ad725975e21f8`, while canonical `main` is `021cc83f4e6fc7c31b95b34b846723dfcf20b66b7baeea1dc40406e643346bcb`. The whole difference is a three-line comment recording a one-time agent edit you authorized on 2026-08-07; the config is functionally identical.

That matters only if you ever want a hash-based drift guard against canonical, which #25 floats as an offline alternative to `golangci-lint config verify`: such a guard would already report homoicon as drifted on day one. Worth knowing before building one. No change proposed here.

## Validation

`make check` passes (`prettier --check '**/*.md' --tab-width 4 --prose-wrap always`: all matched files clean). `make fmt` produced no further changes. `last_modified` in the front matter updated to 2026-08-19 per this file's own rule.

Co-authored-by: sneak <sneak@sneak.berlin>
Co-authored-by: Jeffrey Paul <sneak@noreply.example.org>
Reviewed-on: #49
Co-authored-by: clawbot <clawbot@noreply.example.org>
Co-committed-by: clawbot <clawbot@noreply.example.org>
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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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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
title: Repository Policies
last_modified: 2026-08-07
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
@@ -263,11 +276,14 @@ 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 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
- `.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. 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