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sneak d6fe2c32f2 Set the lint digest and .golangci.yml together; state the Go version rule
check / check (push) Successful in 22s
The canonical .golangci.yml now names exhaustruct_v5, which v2.12.2
rejects, so a repo that re-vendors the file on the old digest gets a
lint phase that fails before checking any code. REPO_POLICIES now says
a repo sets the lint phase digest and re-vendors .golangci.yml in one
commit, whichever prompted the change, and both repo checklists point
to that rule. It also replaces "a new Go version needs a golangci-lint
built with it" with the rule golangci-lint applies: the go directive
must not name a newer Go minor version than the one it was built with.

Model: opus-5-5
2026-10-03 14:59:30 +00:00
sneak 5c855f3eb8 Pin golangci-lint v2.14.0; disable exhaustruct_v5 (closes #65)
check / check (push) Successful in 28s
v2.12.2 is built with go1.26 and refuses to lint a module whose go
directive is 1.27 or later. v2.14.0 is built with go1.27. Releases
from v2.13.0 deprecate exhaustruct in favour of exhaustruct_v5, which
default: all switches on and which reports every partial struct
literal, so the canonical config disables it beside exhaustruct for
the same reason. REPO_POLICIES now names the new image digest and says
that a repo moving to a new version re-vendors .golangci.yml with it.

Model: opus-5-5
2026-10-03 13:38:23 +00:00
10 changed files with 140 additions and 331 deletions
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@@ -17,17 +17,7 @@
# stage that compiles runs `git describe --tags --always` on .git, which
# does not need .git/config; that file can hold a credential, such as a
# password in a remote URL or the token the CI checkout step stores there.
# Each submodule keeps a config with the same exposure in its git directory
# under .git/modules/, nested again for a submodule's own submodules, or in
# its own .git directory when it keeps one.
# KNOWN GAP: a submodule whose name has a `config` segment (`config`,
# `deploy/config`, `config/lib`) loses its whole git directory, because
# `**/.git/modules/**/config` also matches that segment's directory
# under .git/modules/. Go's version stamping then fails the build;
# nothing leaks. Name such a submodule without that segment:
# `git submodule add --name`.
**/.git/config
**/.git/modules/**/config
.git/config
# Agent scratch: one full checkout of the repo per in-flight agent.
# Anchored because it occurs once where agents run at the repo root.
@@ -51,9 +41,7 @@
**/[iI][dD]_[rR][sS][aA]
**/[iI][dD]_[dD][sS][aA]
**/[iI][dD]_[eE][cC][dD][sS][aA]
**/[iI][dD]_[eE][cC][dD][sS][aA]_[sS][kK]
**/[iI][dD]_[eE][dD]25519
**/[iI][dD]_[eE][dD]25519_[sS][kK]
# Dependencies: restored inside the image, never copied in.
**/node_modules
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@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
# Every PR adds an entry at the top of TODO.md's Completed Steps; union keeps
# both sides instead of conflicting. Git never reports a conflict here: read
# the merged entries after every merge or rebase.
TODO.md merge=union
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@@ -20,28 +20,8 @@ Thumbs.db
# Node
node_modules/
# Secrets. Unanchored like every entry above, so each matches at every
# depth. Matching is case-sensitive on Linux, so names use character
# ranges rather than a lowercase form that misses `Server.Key`.
# Environment files. `*.env` covers bare `.env` and the `prod.env`
# convention. Only the templates `example.env` and `sample.env` are
# re-included below. A repository that commits any other template adds
# its own negation after these lines, for example `!.env.example`.
*.[eE][nN][vV]
.[eE][nN][vV].*
.[eE][nN][vV][rR][cC]
!example.env
!sample.env
# Private keys and the bundles carrying them.
*.[pP][eE][mM]
*.[kK][eE][yY]
*.[pP]12
*.[pP][fF][xX]
[iI][dD]_[rR][sS][aA]
[iI][dD]_[dD][sS][aA]
[iI][dD]_[eE][cC][dD][sS][aA]
[iI][dD]_[eE][cC][dD][sS][aA]_[sS][kK]
[iI][dD]_[eE][dD]25519
[iI][dD]_[eE][dD]25519_[sS][kK]
# Environment / secrets
.env
.env.*
*.pem
*.key
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@@ -21,86 +21,6 @@ fmt-check, and commit.
# Completed Steps
- 2026-10-04: `REPO_POLICIES.md` now says which `Dockerfile` stages run
`script/bootstrap` (issue 90). The gate phases and the build stage start from
their pinned base images and install what those images lack either inline, as
the canonical Go `Dockerfile` does for `git`, or by running
`script/bootstrap`, as this repo's own `Dockerfile` does for its yarn
packages. The development environment stage, the final stage of a non-server
repo, runs `script/bootstrap`. The new repo checklist says the same.
- 2026-10-04: Added a root `.gitattributes` that merges `TODO.md` with git's
union merge (issue 98), so two branches that each add an entry at the top of
Completed Steps merge without a conflict. Git now never reports a conflict in
`TODO.md`: a real conflict elsewhere keeps both versions of the line, and when
two new entries share an identical line, one is inserted into the middle of
the other, which a rebase can do to an entry already on `next`. Read the
merged entries after every merge or rebase. This applies to this repository
only; no canonical file changed.
- 2026-10-04: The canonical `.dockerignore` now also keeps out the git `config`
of a submodule that keeps its own `.git` directory, which still reached the
image (issue 88): both git patterns now carry the `**/` prefix. A submodule
whose name has a `config` segment (`config`, `deploy/config`, `config/lib`)
still loses its whole git directory, so Go's version stamping fails the build;
the file records this as a `KNOWN GAP:` with the remedy,
`git submodule add --name`. Closing it would take a wildcard re-include, which
makes BuildKit walk every excluded directory, such as `node_modules`, on every
build. `REPO_POLICIES.md` and both checklists say so in the same words.
- 2026-10-04: The note under the canonical Go `Dockerfile` example in
`REPO_POLICIES.md` now installs lint-phase system libraries with `apt-get`
under their Debian package names (issue 83). The `golangci/golangci-lint`
image is Debian-based and has no `apk`, so the old `apk add` instruction
failed as written. Nothing is pinned or unpinned; that is still open on
issue 72.
- 2026-10-04: Fixed the server lifecycle example in
`prompts/GO_HTTP_SERVER_CONVENTIONS.md` (issue 86). Only fx handles SIGINT and
SIGTERM, and `Run()` in `main` exits with the shutdown's exit code. A listen
error asks fx to shut down with exit code 1 through `fx.Shutdowner`; a Sentry
start failure is returned from the server's start hook instead of calling
`os.Exit` from a goroutine, so the stop hooks of what had started still run.
The server's stop hook shuts the HTTP server down within 5 seconds and fails
when requests are still running. A new paragraph says who owns signals and the
exit code.
- 2026-10-04: `REPO_POLICIES.md` now says how a Go tool a repo needs on the host
is pinned (issue 37): installed with `go install` pinned to a commit hash,
never tracked as a `go.mod` tool dependency or through a `tools.go` file.
golangci-lint is unaffected, since no repo installs it on the host.
- 2026-10-04: The canonical `.gitignore` and `.dockerignore` now also keep out
`id_ecdsa_sk` and `id_ed25519_sk`, the private key files `ssh-keygen` writes
for keys backed by a hardware security key (issue 81). Their `.pub` halves
stay trackable.
- 2026-10-04: `package.json` now has `"license": "MIT"`, matching `LICENSE`, so
yarn no longer prints "No license field" when `script/bootstrap` runs it
inside the Docker phases (issue 76). That was the only yarn warning there.
- 2026-10-04: `REPO_POLICIES.md` now states that guidance for coding agents
lives in one `AGENTS.md` at the repository root, never under a file or
directory named after one agent tool and never in separate memory files (issue
31). This retires the rule, still present in older vendored copies, that kept
agent memory as committed files under `.claude/memory/`. `AGENTS.md` joins the
list of files allowed in the root, and both checklists say so.
- 2026-10-04: Rewrote the note under the canonical Go `make test` example in
`REPO_POLICIES.md` (issue 77), which still named the cache-busting build
argument that `--no-cache` replaced. It now says where Go's test result cache
can replay a pass: on a developer's machine, where the Makefile target runs,
and not in the `test` phase of the `Dockerfile`, whose base image and earlier
steps hold no result for the repo's tests.
- 2026-10-04: The Makefile examples in the Go styleguide and the HTTP server
conventions now fall back to `dev` when `git describe` prints nothing (outside
a git checkout, or where git is missing or refuses the checkout), instead of
stamping an empty version (issue 74). The canonical `Dockerfile` already fails
on a `dev` version when `.git` is in the build context.
- 2026-10-04: The canonical `.dockerignore` now also keeps out each submodule's
`config` (issue 75). A submodule's git directory lives under `.git/modules/`,
nested again for its own submodules, and its `config` can hold a credential
just like `.git/config`. The pattern `.git/modules/**/config` covers every
depth and leaves the top-level `.git` that `git describe` reads untouched.
`REPO_POLICIES.md` and both checklists say so in the same words.
- 2026-10-03: Fixed two defects in the canonical Go `Dockerfile` example (issue
73). The test phase now uses the Debian Go image, since `-race` needs cgo and
the alpine image has no C compiler, so the phase failed before running a test.
The stage that compiles runs `git config --system --add safe.directory /src`,
because a context sent as a tar stream keeps the sender's file owners and git
refuses that checkout, leaving the version empty. Both checklists state that
step in the same words.
- 2026-10-03: Moved the canonical golangci-lint to v2.14.0, built with go1.27,
because v2.12.2 refuses to lint a module whose `go` directive is 1.27 (issue
65). Releases from v2.13.0 deprecate `exhaustruct` in favour of
@@ -108,11 +28,6 @@ fmt-check, and commit.
`.golangci.yml` now disables `exhaustruct_v5` beside `exhaustruct`. v2.12.2
rejects that file, so `REPO_POLICIES.md` and both repo checklists now say a
repo sets the lint phase digest and re-vendors `.golangci.yml` in one commit.
- 2026-10-03: Brought the canonical `.gitignore` level with `.dockerignore` on
secrets (issue 38): it now also ignores `prod.env`-style `*.env` files,
`.envrc`, `*.p12`, `*.pfx` and the extensionless SSH private keys, written to
`.gitignore`'s own rules (no `**/` prefix) and case-folded with character
ranges. `example.env` and `sample.env` stay trackable through negations.
- 2026-10-02: The image version now comes from git inside the build (issues 69
and 71), superseding the 2026-09-08 entry that excluded `.git`. The canonical
`.dockerignore` sends `.git` but keeps out `.git/config`, which can hold a
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@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
{
"license": "MIT",
"devDependencies": {
"prettier": "3.8.1"
}
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
title: Code Styleguide — Go
last_modified: 2026-10-04
last_modified: 2026-10-02
---
1. Try to hard wrap long lines at 77 characters or less.
@@ -51,10 +51,8 @@ last_modified: 2026-10-04
# ?= rather than := so that a `VERSION` build argument takes precedence:
# where a build stage invokes make, `ARG VERSION` puts it in the
# environment and `?=` defers to it. Otherwise `git describe` runs, in a
# build stage on the `.git` the build context carries. When it prints
# nothing (outside a git checkout, or where git is missing or refuses the
# checkout), the version falls back to `dev`.
VERSION ?= $(or $(shell git describe --tags --always 2>/dev/null),dev)
# build stage on the `.git` the build context carries.
VERSION ?= $(shell git describe --tags --always)
GOLDFLAGS += -X main.Version=$(VERSION)
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
title: Existing Repo Checklist
last_modified: 2026-10-04
last_modified: 2026-10-03
---
Use this checklist when beginning work in a repo that may not yet conform to our
@@ -24,10 +24,6 @@ with your task.
- [ ] `LICENSE` file exists and matches the README
- [ ] `REPO_POLICIES.md` exists and version date is current — fetch from
`https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/prompts/REPO_POLICIES.md`
- [ ] Guidance for coding agents, if the repo has any, is one `AGENTS.md` at the
root — never a file or directory named after one agent tool, such as
`CLAUDE.md` or `.claude/`, and never separate memory files. Move what any
such committed file says into `AGENTS.md` and delete it.
- [ ] `.gitignore` is comprehensive (OS, editor, agent scratch, language
artifacts, secrets) — fetch from
`https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/.gitignore` if missing.
@@ -63,33 +59,22 @@ with your task.
here run anywhere other than the repo root, the anchored entry misses
`services/api/.claude/`: add anchored entries for those directories.
- [ ] If the repo embeds a version in a binary: `.dockerignore` lets `.git` into
the build context. It keeps out every git `config` at any depth
(`**/.git/config`, `**/.git/modules/**/config`): the repository's own,
each submodule's under `.git/modules/`, and that of a submodule keeping
its own `.git` directory. `git describe` does not need them, and each can
hold a credential: a password in a remote URL, or the token the CI
checkout step stores there. A submodule whose name has a `config` segment
(`config`, `deploy/config`, `config/lib`) loses its whole git directory to
`**/.git/modules/**/config`, and Go's version stamping then fails the
build: give it a name without that segment (`git submodule add --name`).
The stage that compiles has `git` (the Debian Go image has it; an alpine
one needs `apk add --no-cache git`) and takes the version from the
`VERSION` build argument when one is given, otherwise from
`git describe --tags --always`. That gives the tag on a tagged commit; on
a later commit, the tag, the number of commits since it and the short
commit (`v1.2.3-4-gabc1234`); and the short commit when no tag is
reachable. The stage that compiles also marks its working directory safe
for git (`git config --system --add safe.directory /src`): a context sent
as a tar stream keeps the sender's file owners, and git refuses a checkout
owned by another user, so the version would come out empty. `ARG VERSION`
has no default, and the build fails if the context carries `.git` and the
version still comes out empty, `dev` or `unknown`. A plain
`docker build .` with no build arguments must succeed; a Dockerfile that
refuses an empty build argument drops that refusal and keeps the argument.
`script/docker` and `script/cibuild` pass the version they compute on the
host; it takes precedence. A tag-derived version additionally needs
`fetch-depth: 0` on the CI checkout step, which clones shallow and fetches
no tags by default.
the build context. It keeps out `.git/config`, which `git describe` does
not need and which can hold a credential: a password in a remote URL, or
the token the CI checkout step stores there. The stage that compiles has
`git` (the Debian Go image has it; an alpine one needs
`apk add --no-cache git`) and takes the version from the `VERSION` build
argument when one is given, otherwise from `git describe --tags --always`.
That gives the tag on a tagged commit; on a later commit, the tag, the
number of commits since it and the short commit (`v1.2.3-4-gabc1234`); and
the short commit when no tag is reachable. `ARG VERSION` has no default,
and the build fails if the context carries `.git` and the version still
comes out empty, `dev` or `unknown`. A plain `docker build .` with no
build arguments must succeed; a Dockerfile that refuses an empty build
argument drops that refusal and keeps the argument. `script/docker` and
`script/cibuild` pass the version they compute on the host; it takes
precedence. A tag-derived version additionally needs `fetch-depth: 0` on
the CI checkout step, which clones shallow and fetches no tags by default.
- [ ] Gitea Actions workflow in `.gitea/workflows/` runs `script/cibuild` on
push — reference
`https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/.gitea/workflows/check.yml`
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
title: Go HTTP Server Conventions
last_modified: 2026-10-04
last_modified: 2026-10-02
---
This document defines the architectural patterns, design decisions, and
@@ -106,9 +106,6 @@ project-root/
package main
import (
"os/signal"
"syscall"
"yourproject/internal/config"
"yourproject/internal/database"
"yourproject/internal/globals"
@@ -129,9 +126,6 @@ func main() {
globals.Appname = Appname
globals.Version = Version
// A write to a closed stdout or stderr must not end the process.
signal.Ignore(syscall.SIGPIPE)
fx.New(
fx.Provide(
config.New,
@@ -204,8 +198,7 @@ Providers are resolved automatically by fx, but conceptually follow this order:
Database)
6. `middleware.New` - Middleware (depends on Logger, Globals, Config)
7. `handlers.New` - Handlers (depends on Logger, Globals, Database, Healthcheck)
8. `server.New` - Server (depends on all above, and on `fx.Shutdowner`, which fx
provides itself)
8. `server.New` - Server (depends on all above)
---
@@ -224,14 +217,16 @@ type ServerParams struct {
Config *config.Config
Middleware *middleware.Middleware
Handlers *handlers.Handlers
Shutdowner fx.Shutdowner
}
type Server struct {
startupTime time.Time
port int
exitCode int
sentryEnabled bool
log *slog.Logger
ctx context.Context
cancelFunc context.CancelFunc
httpServer *http.Server
router *chi.Mux
params ServerParams
@@ -253,15 +248,13 @@ func New(lc fx.Lifecycle, params ServerParams) (*Server, error) {
lc.Append(fx.Hook{
OnStart: func(ctx context.Context) error {
s.startupTime = time.Now()
if err := s.enableSentry(); err != nil {
return err
}
s.SetupRoutes()
s.httpServer = s.newHTTPServer()
go s.serveUntilShutdown()
go s.Run()
return nil
},
OnStop: func(ctx context.Context) error {
// Server shutdown logic
return nil
},
OnStop: s.cleanShutdown,
})
return s, nil
}
@@ -271,25 +264,23 @@ func New(lc fx.Lifecycle, params ServerParams) (*Server, error) {
```go
// internal/server/http.go
func (s *Server) newHTTPServer() *http.Server {
return &http.Server{
Addr: fmt.Sprintf(":%d", s.params.Config.Port),
func (s *Server) serveUntilShutdown() {
listenAddr := fmt.Sprintf(":%d", s.params.Config.Port)
s.httpServer = &http.Server{
Addr: listenAddr,
ReadTimeout: 10 * time.Second,
WriteTimeout: 10 * time.Second,
MaxHeaderBytes: 1 << 20,
Handler: s,
}
}
// serveUntilShutdown returns when the stop hook shuts the HTTP server down.
// If it stops for any other reason, such as its port being taken, it asks fx
// to shut down with exit code 1.
func (s *Server) serveUntilShutdown() {
s.log.Info("http begin listen", "listenaddr", s.httpServer.Addr)
s.SetupRoutes()
s.log.Info("http begin listen", "listenaddr", listenAddr)
if err := s.httpServer.ListenAndServe(); err != nil && err != http.ErrServerClosed {
s.log.Error("listen error", "error", err)
if err := s.params.Shutdowner.Shutdown(fx.ExitCode(1)); err != nil {
s.log.Error("shutdown request failed", "error", err)
if s.cancelFunc != nil {
s.cancelFunc()
}
}
}
@@ -301,30 +292,43 @@ func (s *Server) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
## Signal Handling and Graceful Shutdown
fx owns SIGINT, SIGTERM and the exit code. `Run()` in `main` waits for one of
those signals or for a call to `Shutdown()` on `fx.Shutdowner`, runs the stop
hooks, and exits 0 after a signal, or with the code the call gave in
`fx.ExitCode`. It exits 1 instead when a start hook or a stop hook returns an
error; when a start hook fails, fx first runs the stop hooks of everything
already started. No other code calls `signal.Notify` or `os.Exit`: the listen
error above asks fx to shut down with `fx.ExitCode(1)`, and a Sentry start
failure is returned from the start hook. Each component releases its own
resources in its own stop hook, which fx runs in the reverse order of start.
```go
// cleanShutdown is the server's stop hook. It fails when requests are still
// running after 5 seconds.
func (s *Server) cleanShutdown(ctx context.Context) error {
ctxShutdown, shutdownCancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, 5*time.Second)
defer shutdownCancel()
err := s.httpServer.Shutdown(ctxShutdown)
func (s *Server) serve() int {
s.ctx, s.cancelFunc = context.WithCancel(context.Background())
// Signal watcher
go func() {
c := make(chan os.Signal, 1)
signal.Ignore(syscall.SIGPIPE)
signal.Notify(c, os.Interrupt, syscall.SIGTERM)
sig := <-c
s.log.Info("signal received", "signal", sig)
if s.cancelFunc != nil {
s.cancelFunc()
}
}()
go s.serveUntilShutdown()
for range s.ctx.Done() {
}
s.cleanShutdown()
return s.exitCode
}
func (s *Server) cleanShutdown() {
s.exitCode = 0
ctxShutdown, shutdownCancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 5*time.Second)
if err := s.httpServer.Shutdown(ctxShutdown); err != nil {
s.log.Error("server clean shutdown failed", "error", err)
}
if shutdownCancel != nil {
shutdownCancel()
}
s.cleanupForExit()
if s.sentryEnabled {
sentry.Flush(2 * time.Second)
}
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("http server shutdown: %w", err)
}
return nil
}
```
@@ -983,10 +987,8 @@ Use ldflags to inject version information at build time:
# ?= rather than := so that a `VERSION` build argument takes precedence:
# where a build stage invokes make, `ARG VERSION` puts it in the
# environment and `?=` defers to it. Otherwise `git describe` runs, in a
# build stage on the `.git` the build context carries. When it prints
# nothing (outside a git checkout, or where git is missing or refuses the
# checkout), the version falls back to `dev`.
VERSION ?= $(or $(shell git describe --tags --always 2>/dev/null),dev)
# build stage on the `.git` the build context carries.
VERSION ?= $(shell git describe --tags --always)
build:
go build -ldflags "-X main.Version=$(VERSION)" ./cmd/httpd
@@ -1156,11 +1158,11 @@ s.router.Get("/.well-known/healthcheck", s.h.HandleHealthCheck())
Sentry is conditionally enabled based on `SENTRY_DSN` environment variable:
```go
func (s *Server) enableSentry() error {
func (s *Server) enableSentry() {
s.sentryEnabled = false
if s.params.Config.SentryDSN == "" {
return nil
return
}
err := sentry.Init(sentry.ClientOptions{
@@ -1168,17 +1170,15 @@ func (s *Server) enableSentry() error {
Release: fmt.Sprintf("%s-%s", s.params.Globals.Appname, s.params.Globals.Version),
})
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("sentry init failure: %w", err)
s.log.Error("sentry init failure", "error", err)
os.Exit(1)
return
}
s.log.Info("sentry error reporting activated")
s.sentryEnabled = true
return nil
}
```
The server's start hook calls `enableSentry()` and returns its error, so a DSN
Sentry rejects stops startup and fx exits 1.
Sentry middleware with repanic (bubbles panics to chi's Recoverer):
```go
@@ -1190,7 +1190,7 @@ if s.sentryEnabled {
}
```
Flush Sentry in the server's stop hook, `cleanShutdown()`:
Flush Sentry on shutdown:
```go
if s.sentryEnabled {
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
title: New Repo Checklist
last_modified: 2026-10-04
last_modified: 2026-10-03
---
Use this checklist when creating a new repository from scratch. Follow the steps
@@ -54,9 +54,6 @@ Template files can be fetched from:
- [ ] `LICENSE` file matching the chosen license
- [ ] `REPO_POLICIES.md` — fetch from
`https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/prompts/REPO_POLICIES.md`
- [ ] Guidance for coding agents, if the repo has any, is one `AGENTS.md` at the
root — never a file or directory named after one agent tool, such as
`CLAUDE.md` or `.claude/`, and never separate memory files
- [ ] `Dockerfile` and `.dockerignore` — fetch `.dockerignore` from
`https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/.dockerignore`
- Extend `.dockerignore` with the repo's own host-built artifacts, giving
@@ -71,29 +68,19 @@ Template files can be fetched from:
will run them in subdirectories, `services/api/.claude/` needs its own
anchored entry.
- If the image embeds a version in a binary: `.dockerignore` lets `.git`
into the build context. It keeps out every git `config` at any depth
(`**/.git/config`, `**/.git/modules/**/config`): the repository's own,
each submodule's under `.git/modules/`, and that of a submodule keeping
its own `.git` directory. `git describe` does not need them, and each can
hold a credential: a password in a remote URL, or the token the CI
checkout step stores there. A submodule whose name has a `config` segment
(`config`, `deploy/config`, `config/lib`) loses its whole git directory to
`**/.git/modules/**/config`, and Go's version stamping then fails the
build: give it a name without that segment (`git submodule add --name`).
The stage that compiles has `git` (the Debian Go image has it; an alpine
one needs `apk add --no-cache git`) and takes the version from the
`VERSION` build argument when one is given, otherwise from
`git describe --tags --always`. That gives the tag on a tagged commit; on
a later commit, the tag, the number of commits since it and the short
commit (`v1.2.3-4-gabc1234`); and the short commit when no tag is
reachable. The stage that compiles also marks its working directory safe
for git (`git config --system --add safe.directory /src`): a context sent
as a tar stream keeps the sender's file owners, and git refuses a checkout
owned by another user, so the version would come out empty. `ARG VERSION`
has no default, and the build fails if the context carries `.git` and the
version still comes out empty, `dev` or `unknown`. A plain
`docker build .` with no build arguments must succeed; a Dockerfile that
refuses an empty build argument drops that refusal and keeps the argument.
into the build context. It keeps out `.git/config`, which `git describe`
does not need and which can hold a credential: a password in a remote URL,
or the token the CI checkout step stores there. The stage that compiles
has `git` (the Debian Go image has it; an alpine one needs
`apk add --no-cache git`) and takes the version from the `VERSION` build
argument when one is given, otherwise from `git describe --tags --always`.
That gives the tag on a tagged commit; on a later commit, the tag, the
number of commits since it and the short commit (`v1.2.3-4-gabc1234`); and
the short commit when no tag is reachable. `ARG VERSION` has no default,
and the build fails if the context carries `.git` and the version still
comes out empty, `dev` or `unknown`. A plain `docker build .` with no
build arguments must succeed; a Dockerfile that refuses an empty build
argument drops that refusal and keeps the argument.
- The Dockerfile carries a `lint` phase and a `test` phase, each invoking
its tool directly rather than through `make` or `script/`, and the final
stage carries a `COPY --from=` of a harmless file from each so the image
@@ -124,10 +111,8 @@ are thin shims calling them. Model scripts:
- [ ] `script/bootstrap` / `make bootstrap` — installs all dependencies,
idempotently, assuming nothing (pkg manager detection nix/apt/brew/apk;
node used if present, else pinned version via nvm from a hash-verified
archive; pinned yarn via corepack); a non-server repo's development
environment stage runs it instead of inline installs; a gate phase or the
build stage installs what its base image lacks either inline or by running
it
archive; pinned yarn via corepack); Dockerfile runs it instead of inline
installs
- [ ] `script/setup` / `make setup` — readies a fresh clone: runs `bootstrap`,
then `install-precommit`, plus repo-specific init
- [ ] `script/test` / `make test` — `docker build --no-cache --target test .`,
+38 -75
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
title: Repository Policies
last_modified: 2026-10-04
last_modified: 2026-10-03
---
This document covers repository structure, tooling, and workflow standards. Code
@@ -104,14 +104,10 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
`lint` phase and a `test` phase, with the final stage depending on both so the
image cannot be built unless they pass. For non-server repos the final stage
brings up a development environment; for server repos it is the runtime image.
The gate phases and the build stage start from their pinned base images and
install what those images lack either inline, as the canonical Go `Dockerfile`
below does for `git`, or by running `script/bootstrap`, as the `prompts`
repo's own `Dockerfile` does for its yarn packages. The development
environment stage installs development prerequisites by running
`script/bootstrap` rather than duplicating its installs inline. A stage that
runs `script/bootstrap` COPYs `script/` and the dependency manifests
(`package.json` + `yarn.lock`, `go.mod` + `go.sum`, etc.) before running it.
Dockerfiles install development prerequisites by running `script/bootstrap`
rather than duplicating installs inline; COPY `script/` and the dependency
manifests (`package.json` + `yarn.lock`, `go.mod` + `go.sum`, etc.) before
running it.
- **Linting and testing run in Docker, as phases of the `Dockerfile`.** There is
no separate lint file. `script/lint` and `script/test` each build one phase
@@ -164,7 +160,7 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
- **The gate phases are separate stages, and the build stage depends on both.**
The lint phase is based on the `golangci/golangci-lint` image (pinned by
hash), so lint failures surface in seconds rather than after a full compile,
and the test phase is based on the Debian Go image. The canonical Go repo
and the test phase is based on the Go image. The canonical Go repo
`Dockerfile`:
```dockerfile
@@ -177,9 +173,8 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
COPY . .
RUN golangci-lint run --config .golangci.yml ./...
# Test phase. -race needs cgo and so a C compiler, which the Debian Go
# image ships and the alpine one does not.
# golang:1.x, YYYY-MM-DD
# Test phase
# golang:1.x-alpine, YYYY-MM-DD
FROM golang@sha256:... AS test
WORKDIR /src
COPY go.mod go.sum ./
@@ -197,8 +192,6 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
COPY --from=lint /src/go.sum /dev/null
COPY --from=test /src/go.sum /dev/null
RUN apk add --no-cache git
# A tar-stream context keeps the sender's file owners, which git refuses.
RUN git config --system --add safe.directory /src
WORKDIR /src
COPY go.mod go.sum ./
RUN go mod download
@@ -240,41 +233,22 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
(e.g. a web frontend compiled in a separate stage), the lint phase must
create placeholder files so the embed directives resolve. Example:
`RUN mkdir -p web/dist && touch web/dist/index.html web/dist/style.css`.
- If the project requires CGO or system libraries for linting, install them
in the lint phase. The `golangci/golangci-lint` image is Debian-based and
has no `apk`, so install with `apt-get` under the Debian package name
(`libvips-dev`, where alpine says `vips-dev`), and delete the package
lists in the same `RUN`, so the layer does not keep them:
```dockerfile
RUN apt-get update \
&& apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends libvips-dev \
&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
```
- `.dockerignore` lets `.git` into the build context. It keeps out every git
`config` at any depth (`**/.git/config`, `**/.git/modules/**/config`): the
repository's own, each submodule's under `.git/modules/`, and that of a
submodule keeping its own `.git` directory. `git describe` does not need
them, and each can hold a credential: a password in a remote URL, or the
token the CI checkout step stores there. A submodule whose name has a
`config` segment (`config`, `deploy/config`, `config/lib`) loses its whole
git directory to `**/.git/modules/**/config`, and Go's version stamping
then fails the build: give it a name without that segment
(`git submodule add --name`). The stage that compiles has `git` (the
Debian Go image has it; an alpine one needs `apk add --no-cache git`) and
takes the version from the `VERSION` build argument when one is given,
otherwise from `git describe --tags --always`. That gives the tag on a
tagged commit; on a later commit, the tag, the number of commits since it
and the short commit (`v1.2.3-4-gabc1234`); and the short commit when no
tag is reachable. The stage that compiles also marks its working directory
safe for git (`git config --system --add safe.directory /src`): a context
sent as a tar stream keeps the sender's file owners, and git refuses a
checkout owned by another user, so the version would come out empty.
`ARG VERSION` has no default, and the build fails if the context carries
`.git` and the version still comes out empty, `dev` or `unknown`. A plain
`docker build .` with no build arguments must succeed; a Dockerfile that
refuses an empty build argument drops that refusal and keeps the argument.
- If the project requires CGO or system libraries for linting (e.g.
`vips-dev`), install them in the lint phase with `apk add`.
- `.dockerignore` lets `.git` into the build context. It keeps out
`.git/config`, which `git describe` does not need and which can hold a
credential: a password in a remote URL, or the token the CI checkout step
stores there. The stage that compiles has `git` (the Debian Go image has
it; an alpine one needs `apk add --no-cache git`) and takes the version
from the `VERSION` build argument when one is given, otherwise from
`git describe --tags --always`. That gives the tag on a tagged commit; on
a later commit, the tag, the number of commits since it and the short
commit (`v1.2.3-4-gabc1234`); and the short commit when no tag is
reachable. `ARG VERSION` has no default, and the build fails if the
context carries `.git` and the version still comes out empty, `dev` or
`unknown`. A plain `docker build .` with no build arguments must succeed;
a Dockerfile that refuses an empty build argument drops that refusal and
keeps the argument.
- Every repo should have a Gitea Actions workflow (`.gitea/workflows/`) that
runs `script/cibuild` on push, and checks out the repo as its only other step.
@@ -336,19 +310,17 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
```
`-count=1` is required on both invocations: it defeats Go's test _result_
cache, so neither run can report a stored pass in place of running the
tests. It leaves the build cache alone, so it costs the runtime of the suite
and no recompilation.
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.
That cache is Go's own, separate from Docker's layer cache. Go stores a
passing result in its cache directory (`GOCACHE`), and when the same tests
run again on unchanged code it prints that result, marked `(cached)`,
without running them. That matters on a developer's machine, where this
target runs and the directory lasts from one run to the next. The `test`
phase of the `Dockerfile` needs no `-count=1`: its base image holds no
result for this repo's tests and nothing before its `go test` step runs a
test, so there is nothing to replay. `--no-cache` (above) is what makes that
step run on an unchanged tree.
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:
@@ -514,11 +486,6 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
Keep it POSIX sh: no arrays, no `[[`, no `grep -P`.
A Go tool a repo needs on the host is installed with `go install` pinned to
a commit hash (`go install <package>@<commit hash>`). It is never tracked as
a `go.mod` tool dependency or through a `tools.go` file, either of which
pulls the tool's own dependencies into the repo's `go.mod` and `go.sum`.
- When pinning images or packages by hash, add a comment above the reference
with the version and date (YYYY-MM-DD).
@@ -631,10 +598,10 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
settings.
- Avoid putting files in the repo root unless necessary. Root should contain
only project-level config files (`README.md`, `AGENTS.md`, `Makefile`,
`Dockerfile`, `LICENSE`, `.gitignore`, `.editorconfig`, `REPO_POLICIES.md`,
and language-specific config). Everything else goes in a subdirectory.
Canonical subdirectory names:
only project-level config files (`README.md`, `Makefile`, `Dockerfile`,
`LICENSE`, `.gitignore`, `.editorconfig`, `REPO_POLICIES.md`, and
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
@@ -665,7 +632,3 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
- Go: `go.mod`, `go.sum`, `.golangci.yml`
- JS: `package.json`, `yarn.lock`, `.prettierrc`, `.prettierignore`
- Python: `pyproject.toml`
- Guidance for coding agents lives in one `AGENTS.md` at the repository root. It
is never committed under a file or directory named after one agent tool, such
as `CLAUDE.md` or `.claude/`, and never split into separate memory files.