Fold the August fleet findings into the policies, or drop them (closes #62)

Two findings from 2026-08-09 were rules a repository must follow that
`prompts/REPO_POLICIES.md` did not yet state, and are now added where a
reader would look: a new or changed check is proven by planting a defect
it must catch; and a change to a separate workflow limited to `main` by
a `branches` list is first run from the feature branch, added to that
list and removed again before merging. The issue records why every
other finding was dropped. The warning against `golangci-lint config
verify` is dropped because sneak ruled on
#40 (2026-08-10) that there is
no config check step and the config is assumed valid; a vendored
`.golangci.yml` stays byte-identical to the canonical copy.

Model: opus-5-5

.editorconfig

@@ -10,9 +10,3 @@ insert_final_newline = true
 
 [Makefile]
 indent_style = tab
-
-[*.go]
-indent_style = tab
-
-# This repository's own sections, such as one for another language it
-# uses, go below this comment, and a re-vendor keeps them.

.gitea/workflows/check.yml

@@ -1,16 +1,9 @@
 name: check
 on: [push]
-# Free the shared runner: a new push cancels only the same branch's older run.
-concurrency:
-    group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
-    cancel-in-progress: true
 jobs:
     check:
         runs-on: ubuntu-latest
         steps:
             # actions/checkout v4.2.2, 2026-02-22
             - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683
-              # script/cibuild needs no token, so none is left in .git/config.
-              with:
-                  persist-credentials: false
             - run: script/cibuild

.gitignore

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ node_modules/
 # 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 at the end of this file, for example `!.env.example`.
+# its own negation after these lines, for example `!.env.example`.
 *.[eE][nN][vV]
 .[eE][nN][vV].*
 .[eE][nN][vV][rR][cC]
@@ -45,7 +45,3 @@ node_modules/
 [iI][dD]_[eE][cC][dD][sS][aA]_[sS][kK]
 [iI][dD]_[eE][dD]25519
 [iI][dD]_[eE][dD]25519_[sS][kK]
-
-# This repository's own entries, such as its build outputs, go below
-# this comment, and a re-vendor keeps them. Anchor a binary built at the
-# root: `/myapp`, never `myapp`, which also ignores `cmd/myapp/`.

.golangci.yml

@@ -25,8 +25,6 @@ linters:
     # silenced by disabling that name, not by enabling the successor.
     - wsl              # Deprecated, replaced by wsl_v5
     - gomodguard       # Deprecated, replaced by gomodguard_v2
-    # Misses findings at random in v2.14.0; back once a pinned release fixes it
-    - canonicalheader
   settings:
     lll:
       line-length: 88

TODO.md

@@ -21,47 +21,6 @@ fmt-check, and commit.
 
 # Completed Steps
 
-- 2026-10-06: The canonical `script/bootstrap` now runs `apt-get update` once,
-  before the first `apt-get install` of a run (issue 115). The Gitea runner
-  image starts with empty package lists, so installing anything it lacks, such
-  as Go, failed with `Unable to locate package`. A repository's own section no
-  longer needs a refresh of its own; `sneak/bsfirehose` and `sneak/dnswatcher`
-  drop theirs at their next re-vendor.
-- 2026-10-06: `REPO_POLICIES.md` and both checklists now say that a checkout
-  whose `.git` is a file, a linked worktree or a repository checked out as a
-  submodule, is the exception to a plain `docker build .` succeeding (issue
-  111): that file points to a git directory outside the build context, so the
-  build cannot read the version and the version check in the canonical
-  `Dockerfile` stops it. Such a build is given its version with
-  `--build-arg VERSION=...`, as `script/docker` and `script/cibuild` already do.
-  The check itself is unchanged.
-- 2026-10-06: The canonical `.gitea/workflows/check.yml` now has a `concurrency`
-  block, so a new push cancels the older run on the same branch and no other,
-  and its checkout step sets `persist-credentials: false`, so the job's token is
-  not left in `.git/config` (issue 107). `REPO_POLICIES.md` and both checklists
-  describe the workflow as it now is. Not yet tried on the shared runner, which
-  is out of disk space. Repositories pick this up on their next re-vendor.
-- 2026-10-06: The canonical `.golangci.yml` now disables `canonicalheader`
-  (issue 105). In golangci-lint v2.14.0 it misses findings at random in a
-  package that also calls `ResponseWriter.Header()`, so the same tree can fail
-  lint on one run and pass on the next. It comes back once a pinned
-  golangci-lint release fixes it.
-- 2026-10-06: The canonical `.gitignore` and `.editorconfig` now each end with a
-  comment saying the repository's own entries go below it and a re-vendor keeps
-  them (issue 103, which took in issue 104), as `.dockerignore`'s header already
-  does. `.editorconfig` gains a `[*.go]` section with tabs, since `gofmt`
-  decides Go indentation everywhere. `REPO_POLICIES.md` and both checklists say
-  that each of these two files is the canonical content followed by the
-  repository's own entries, which a re-vendor keeps, and the Go styleguide puts
-  `*.log`, `*.out`, `*.test` and binaries among those entries. Common outputs
-  stay out of the canonical `.gitignore`; each repository lists its own.
-- 2026-10-05: `script/cibuild`, `script/docker`, `script/lint` and `script/test`
-  now assign the image tag from `script/projectname` on its own line before the
-  `docker build` (issue 101), so `set -e` stops the script where
-  `script/projectname` fails instead of running `docker build` with a broken
-  tag. The comment above it in each script says why, and the snippets in
-  `REPO_POLICIES.md` show the same form. Repositories pick this up on their next
-  re-vendor.
 - 2026-10-04: Went through the fleet findings recorded on 2026-08-09 (issue 62)
   and added the two rules `REPO_POLICIES.md` did not yet state: a new or changed
   check is proven by planting a defect it must catch; and a change to a separate

prompts/CODE_STYLEGUIDE_GO.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 title: Code Styleguide — Go
-last_modified: 2026-10-06
+last_modified: 2026-10-04
 ---
 
 1.  Try to hard wrap long lines at 77 characters or less.
@@ -148,9 +148,8 @@ last_modified: 2026-10-06
     handle HTTP requests. Don't use methods or your top level functions as
     handlers.
 
-1.  The repository's own entries at the end of `.gitignore`, which a re-vendor
-    keeps, ignore at least `*.log`, `*.out`, and `*.test` files, as well as any
-    binaries.
+1.  Provide a .gitignore file that ignores at least `*.log`, `*.out`, and
+    `*.test` files, as well as any binaries.
 
 1.  Constructors **must** be called `New()`. `modulename.New()` works great if
     you name the packages properly. If the constructor creates an instance from

prompts/EXISTING_REPO_CHECKLIST.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 title: Existing Repo Checklist
-last_modified: 2026-10-06
+last_modified: 2026-10-04
 ---
 
 Use this checklist when beginning work in a repo that may not yet conform to our
@@ -28,18 +28,13 @@ with your task.
       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, secrets, the
-      repo's own build outputs) — fetch from
+- [ ] `.gitignore` is comprehensive (OS, editor, agent scratch, language
+      artifacts, secrets) — fetch from
       `https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/.gitignore` if missing.
       An existing repo usually has a hand-written one that is never re-fetched,
-      so check the entries rather than the file's presence. The file is the
-      canonical content followed by the repo's own entries, such as its
-      binaries; a re-vendor replaces the canonical part and keeps those entries.
+      so check the entries rather than the file's presence.
 - [ ] `.editorconfig` exists — fetch from
-      `https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/.editorconfig`. The
-      file is the canonical content followed by the repo's own sections, such as
-      one for another language it uses; a re-vendor replaces the canonical part
-      and keeps those sections.
+      `https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/.editorconfig`
 - [ ] `Dockerfile` and `.dockerignore` exist; the Dockerfile carries a `lint`
       phase and a `test` phase, and the final stage carries a `COPY --from=` of
       a harmless file from each — fetch `.dockerignore` from
@@ -91,18 +86,12 @@ with your task.
       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.
-      A checkout whose `.git` is a file (a linked worktree, or a repository
-      checked out as a submodule) is the exception: that file points to a git
-      directory outside the build context, so the build cannot read the version
-      and a plain `docker build .` fails; pass the version with
-      `--build-arg VERSION=...`. `script/docker` and `script/cibuild` already
-      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.
+      `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, checks out with `persist-credentials: false`, and carries the
-      `concurrency` block that lets a new push cancel only the same branch's
-      older run — reference
+      push — reference
       `https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/.gitea/workflows/check.yml`
 - [ ] Language-specific config:
     - [ ] Go: `go.mod`, `go.sum`, `.golangci.yml` (fetch from

prompts/NEW_REPO_CHECKLIST.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 title: New Repo Checklist
-last_modified: 2026-10-06
+last_modified: 2026-10-04
 ---
 
 Use this checklist when creating a new repository from scratch. Follow the steps
@@ -34,17 +34,14 @@ Template files can be fetched from:
 ## Fetch Template Files
 
 - [ ] `.gitignore` — fetch from
-      `https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/.gitignore`, then add
-      the repo's own build outputs, such as its binaries, at the end of the
-      file, where a re-vendor keeps them. Extensions are written to
-      `.gitignore`'s own semantics, where an unanchored pattern already matches
-      at every depth: never add a `**/` prefix here, which is a `.dockerignore`
-      form. The canonical file already carries `.claude/` so agent worktrees
-      cannot be committed by accident.
+      `https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/.gitignore`, extend for
+      language-specific artifacts. Extensions are written to `.gitignore`'s own
+      semantics, where an unanchored pattern already matches at every depth:
+      never add a `**/` prefix here, which is a `.dockerignore` form. The
+      canonical file already carries `.claude/` so agent worktrees cannot be
+      committed by accident.
 - [ ] `.editorconfig` — fetch from
-      `https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/.editorconfig`, then
-      add the repo's own sections, such as one for another language it uses, at
-      the end of the file, where a re-vendor keeps them.
+      `https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/.editorconfig`
 - [ ] `Makefile` — fetch from
       `https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/Makefile`, adapt
       targets for the project's language and tools
@@ -97,12 +94,6 @@ Template files can be fetched from:
       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.
-      A checkout whose `.git` is a file (a linked worktree, or a repository
-      checked out as a submodule) is the exception: that file points to a git
-      directory outside the build context, so the build cannot read the version
-      and a plain `docker build .` fails; pass the version with
-      `--build-arg VERSION=...`, as `script/docker` and `script/cibuild` already
-      do.
     - 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
@@ -112,9 +103,7 @@ Template files can be fetched from:
     - Non-server: the final stage brings up the dev environment
     - Image pinned by sha256 hash with version/date comment
 - [ ] Gitea Actions workflow at `.gitea/workflows/check.yml` that runs
-      `script/cibuild` on push, checks out with `persist-credentials: false`,
-      and carries the `concurrency` block that lets a new push cancel only the
-      same branch's older run — reference
+      `script/cibuild` on push — reference
       `https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/.gitea/workflows/check.yml`
 - [ ] Language-specific:
     - [ ] Go: `go mod init sneak.berlin/go/<name>`, `.golangci.yml` (fetch from

prompts/REPO_POLICIES.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 title: Repository Policies
-last_modified: 2026-10-06
+last_modified: 2026-10-04
 ---
 
 This document covers repository structure, tooling, and workflow standards. Code
@@ -118,9 +118,8 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
   and nothing else:
 
     ```sh
-    tag="$(script/projectname)"
-    docker build --no-cache --target lint -t "$tag-lint" .
-    docker build --no-cache --target test -t "$tag-test" .
+    docker build --no-cache --target lint -t "$(script/projectname)-lint" .
+    docker build --no-cache --target test -t "$(script/projectname)-test" .
     ```
 
     **A stage that is not the last one in the file is built only when the final
@@ -133,9 +132,7 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
     **Every `docker build` in `script/` is tagged**, here and in
     `script/cibuild` and `script/docker`. An untagged build leaves a dangling
     image behind on every invocation, on every developer host and every CI
-    runner; a tagged one replaces the previous image. Each script assigns the
-    tag on its own line before the build, so `set -e` stops it where
-    `script/projectname` fails.
+    runner; a tagged one replaces the previous image.
 
     Inside a phase the tool is invoked directly — `golangci-lint`, `go test`,
     `eslint`, `prettier` — never through `make lint` or `script/test`, which are
@@ -281,23 +278,11 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
       `.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.
-      A checkout whose `.git` is a file (a linked worktree, or a repository
-      checked out as a submodule) is the exception: that file points to a git
-      directory outside the build context, so the build cannot read the version
-      and a plain `docker build .` fails; pass the version with
-      `--build-arg VERSION=...`, as `script/docker` and `script/cibuild` already
-      do.
 
 - 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,
-  with `persist-credentials: false`: `script/cibuild` needs no token, and
-  without it the checkout leaves the job's token in `.git/config` for every
-  later step. Its `concurrency` block groups runs by workflow and branch
-  (`${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}`) with `cancel-in-progress: true`,
-  so a new push cancels the older run on the same branch, queued or running, and
-  no other: runs for replaced commits do not hold up the shared runner.
-  `script/cibuild` bootstraps, runs the gate phases, and then builds the image,
-  so a successful run means every check passed; a bare `docker build .` does not
+  runs `script/cibuild` on push, and checks out the repo as its only other step.
+  That script bootstraps, runs the gate phases, and then builds the image, so a
+  successful run means every check passed; a bare `docker build .` does not
   carry the same guarantee, because its gate phases may come from the cache. The
   image build is uncached and so runs the gate phases a second time. That is the
   price of the rule above, and it is worth paying: the image that ships is built
@@ -399,12 +384,9 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
 
 - `.gitignore` should be comprehensive from the start: OS files (`.DS_Store`),
   editor files (`.swp`, `*~`), in-repo agent scratch directories (`.claude/`),
-  `node_modules/`, and the repo's own build outputs. Fetch the standard
-  `.gitignore` from
-  `https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/.gitignore` when setting up
-  a new repo. A repo's `.gitignore` is the standard file followed by the repo's
-  own entries, such as its binaries; a re-vendor replaces the standard part and
-  keeps those entries. These patterns are written to `.gitignore`'s own
+  language build artifacts, and `node_modules/`. Fetch the standard `.gitignore`
+  from `https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/.gitignore` when
+  setting up a new repo. These patterns are written to `.gitignore`'s own
   semantics, in which an unanchored pattern already matches at every depth; they
   are not a `.dockerignore` and must not be transplanted into one unmodified.
 
@@ -452,15 +434,13 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
   byte-identically across repos:
 
     ```sh
-    # The version and the tag each get their own line: a failing command
-    # substitution inside an argument does not trip `set -e`, so the inline
-    # form degrades to an empty constant.
+    # Own line: a failing command substitution inside an argument does not
+    # trip `set -e`, so the inline form degrades to an empty constant.
     version="$(git describe --tags --always --dirty 2>/dev/null || true)"
     [ -n "$version" ] || version="unknown"
-    tag="$(script/projectname)"
     docker build --no-cache \
         --build-arg VERSION="$version" \
-        -t "$tag" .
+        -t "$(script/projectname)" .
     ```
 
     `--always` makes an untagged repo yield an abbreviated commit hash rather
@@ -656,11 +636,7 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
       Never edit existing migrations after release.
 
 - All repos should have an `.editorconfig` enforcing the project's indentation
-  settings: the standard file from
-  `https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/.editorconfig`, which sets
-  tabs for `Makefile` and Go files, followed by the repo's own sections, such as
-  one for another language it uses. A re-vendor replaces the standard part and
-  keeps those sections.
+  settings.
 
 - Avoid putting files in the repo root unless necessary. Root should contain
   only project-level config files (`README.md`, `AGENTS.md`, `Makefile`,

script/bootstrap

@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ YARN_VERSION="1.22.22"
 
 PKGMGR=""
 SUDO=""
-APT_UPDATED=""
 
 detect_pkgmgr() {
     [ -n "$PKGMGR" ] && return 0
@@ -48,14 +47,7 @@ pkg_install() {
     detect_pkgmgr
     case "$PKGMGR" in
         nix) nix-env -iA "nixpkgs.$1" ;;
-        apt)
-            # Package lists may be empty (fresh images); refresh once per run.
-            if [ -z "$APT_UPDATED" ]; then
-                $SUDO env DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get update
-                APT_UPDATED=1
-            fi
-            $SUDO env DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y "$2"
-            ;;
+        apt) $SUDO env DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y "$2" ;;
         brew) brew install "$3" ;;
         apk) apk add --no-cache "$4" ;;
     esac

script/cibuild

@@ -14,17 +14,15 @@ main() {
     cd "$ROOT"
     "$SCRIPT_DIR/bootstrap"
     "$SCRIPT_DIR/check"
-    # The version and the tag each get their own line: a failing
-    # command substitution inside an argument does not trip `set -e`,
-    # so the inline form degrades silently to an empty constant. The
-    # VERSION build argument takes precedence over the version a build
-    # stage derives from the .git in the context.
+    # Own line: a failing command substitution inside an argument does
+    # not trip `set -e`, so the inline form degrades silently to an
+    # empty constant. The VERSION build argument takes precedence over
+    # the version a build stage derives from the .git in the context.
     version="$(git describe --tags --always --dirty 2>/dev/null || true)"
     [ -n "$version" ] || version="unknown"
-    tag="$("$SCRIPT_DIR/projectname")"
     docker build --no-cache \
         --build-arg VERSION="$version" \
-        -t "$tag" .
+        -t "$("$SCRIPT_DIR/projectname")" .
 }
 
 main "$@"

script/docker

@@ -10,17 +10,15 @@ ROOT="$(cd "$SCRIPT_DIR/.." && pwd -P)"
 
 main() {
     cd "$ROOT"
-    # The version and the tag each get their own line: a failing
-    # command substitution inside an argument does not trip `set -e`,
-    # so the inline form degrades silently to an empty constant. The
-    # VERSION build argument takes precedence over the version a build
-    # stage derives from the .git in the context.
+    # Own line: a failing command substitution inside an argument does
+    # not trip `set -e`, so the inline form degrades silently to an
+    # empty constant. The VERSION build argument takes precedence over
+    # the version a build stage derives from the .git in the context.
     version="$(git describe --tags --always --dirty 2>/dev/null || true)"
     [ -n "$version" ] || version="unknown"
-    tag="$("$SCRIPT_DIR/projectname")"
     docker build --no-cache \
         --build-arg VERSION="$version" \
-        -t "$tag" .
+        -t "$("$SCRIPT_DIR/projectname")" .
 }
 
 main "$@"

script/lint

@@ -15,13 +15,9 @@ ROOT="$(cd "$SCRIPT_DIR/.." && pwd -P)"
 
 main() {
     cd "$ROOT"
-    # The tag gets its own line: a failing command substitution inside
-    # an argument does not trip `set -e`, so the inline form degrades
-    # silently to an empty constant.
-    tag="$("$SCRIPT_DIR/projectname")"
     docker build --no-cache \
         --target lint \
-        -t "$tag-lint" .
+        -t "$("$SCRIPT_DIR/projectname")-lint" .
 }
 
 main "$@"

script/test

@@ -11,13 +11,9 @@ ROOT="$(cd "$SCRIPT_DIR/.." && pwd -P)"
 
 main() {
     cd "$ROOT"
-    # The tag gets its own line: a failing command substitution inside
-    # an argument does not trip `set -e`, so the inline form degrades
-    # silently to an empty constant.
-    tag="$("$SCRIPT_DIR/projectname")"
     docker build --no-cache \
         --target test \
-        -t "$tag-test" .
+        -t "$("$SCRIPT_DIR/projectname")-test" .
 }
 
 main "$@"