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sneak de162e0059 Merge branch 'main' into go-test-count1
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2026-09-09 12:43:31 +02:00
clawbotandsneak fbec5a523b Enable depguard so a non-test file cannot import test support (#59)
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`depguard` was in the disable list. It is now enabled with one rule,
`test-support`: in files that are neither test files nor inside a package whose
directory name ends in `test`, the imports named under `deny` are refused.
Canonical denies `net/http/httptest`, which serves tests only and is the same
in every repository.

This replaces `internal/testimportgate` in sneak/homoicon, a package whose only
job was to refuse a non-test Go file importing an in-module package whose last
path segment ends in `test`. sneak ruled on
sneak/homoicon#1029 that the rule moves into linter
configuration here.

depguard cannot express that rule generically. Its package lists are prefix
lists -- its own README says so, and I confirmed it: `*test`, `**test` and
`$gomod/**test` each match nothing, while a full import path matches. "In
module" is not generic either, since the module path differs per repository.
And depguard refuses a rule with no allow or deny list, so this file cannot
ship the rule pre-armed and empty for each repository to fill in.

The closest expressible rule is the one here. The file half is generic and
exact; the package half is a deny list each repository extends with its own
test-support packages, by full import path. REPO_POLICIES.md now says that list
is the one part of a vendored copy a repository may add to.

Tested with golangci-lint v2.12.2 on a scratch module: a production file
importing a denied `*test` package fails, and the same import from a `_test.go`
file and from inside the `*test` package passes. `make check` here is green.

Model: opus-5
Co-authored-by: sneak <sneak@sneak.berlin>
Reviewed-on: #59
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2026-09-08 05:14:43 +02:00
clawbot d7fb86f0a0 Document the Go test-result cache as a second, independent cache
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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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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
clawbotandsneak f77d785bed Scope the .golangci.yml agent prohibition to vendored copies (#49)
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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:

&gt; `.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
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2026-08-30 06:26:19 +02:00
clawbotandsneak 3f8201d532 Require thin cmd/ entrypoints: all logic in internal/ or pkg/ (#54)
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Codifies your ruling (2026-08-30, filed as homoicon issue 555): no project logic outside `internal/` or `pkg/`; each `cmd/<name>/` is a single `main.go` whose body is one call into library code.

- `CODE_STYLEGUIDE_GO.md`: strengthens the "keep `main` small" rule to the single-call form and adds the no-logic-outside-`internal/`-or-`pkg/` rule.
- `REPO_POLICIES.md`: annotates `cmd/` in the canonical subdirectory list accordingly. (Root copy is a symlink; one edit covers both.)

Co-authored-by: sneak <sneak@sneak.berlin>
Reviewed-on: #54
Co-authored-by: clawbot <clawbot@noreply.example.org>
Co-committed-by: clawbot <clawbot@noreply.example.org>
2026-08-30 04:20:42 +02:00
4 changed files with 70 additions and 14 deletions
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@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ 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
@@ -28,6 +27,32 @@ 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
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@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ fmt-check, and commit.
# 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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@@ -124,10 +124,15 @@ last_modified: 2026-03-18
1. Keep the `main()` function as small as possible.
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. 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. 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
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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 +276,18 @@ 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. 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
`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
@@ -387,7 +407,9 @@ 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
- `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/`
- `configs/` — configuration templates and examples
- `deploy/` — deployment manifests (k8s, compose, terraform)
- `docs/` — documentation and markdown (README.md stays in root)