Linting now happens in one place only: a new root Dockerfile.lint copies
the repo into the digest-pinned node image already used by Dockerfile and
runs eslint and prettier as build steps, so a successful build is a clean
lint. script/lint is reduced to building it, which also works where the
docker daemon is remote and bind mounts are impossible. No host lint path
survives: the "lint" script is gone from package.json, so there is no
second, unpinned way to get a lint verdict.
Caching is waived for lint, because a lint build over an unchanged tree
returns success in well under a second having linted nothing. LINT_EPOCH
is the cache buster and it fails closed exactly as CHECK_EPOCH does: an
unset ARG is the empty string, which is a perfectly stable cache key, so
the guard rejects it and a bare `docker build -f Dockerfile.lint .` errors
out instead of serving a green it did not earn. Both linters sit below the
guard, so a fresh epoch forces them to execute while the bootstrap and
dependency layers above stay cached.
That makes script/lint a docker build, which nothing inside a container
may call. script/check calls script/lint, so the Dockerfile image can no
longer run make check: the lint stage and its COPY --from=lint ordering
hack are deleted, and the remaining stage runs make test and make build
under the existing CHECK_EPOCH guard. script/cibuild is now the composite
gate and builds the lint image first, so a lint failure is reported before
the slower suite runs.
The .dockerignore exclusions are unchanged and still apply to the lint
build, including the .claude/ exclusion (eslint's flat config does not
ignore dot-directories, so a nested worktree in the context would be
linted) and the deliberate exception that keeps .gitignore in the context
for prettier. A new test asserts no per-Dockerfile ignore file shadows the
root one for either image, and test/packaging/lint-docker.test.ts asserts
the whole shape: the docker-only lint path, the digest pin, manifests
copied before sources, the fail-closed guard with both linters below it,
the absence of a lint stage or make check in Dockerfile, and the build
order in script/cibuild.
