Walk the path CI runs in lint-once, and pin the branch the container installs (closes #33)

The header of test/packaging/lint-once.test.ts claimed a duplicate prettier
pass is caught wherever it is added. It was not: the walk started at
`make check`, which never reads `Dockerfile`, so appending
`RUN yarn run prettier --check .` to the image that `script/cibuild` builds
left the suite green — two prettier passes on the one path where it matters
most. The walk now also starts at `.gitea/workflows/check.yml` and follows
its `run:` steps into `script/cibuild` and from there into both images, so
the graph under test is the one CI executes rather than the one it was
assumed to execute. Reaching `script/cibuild` and `Dockerfile` is asserted,
and the test and build image is asserted to invoke prettier zero times.

The lockfile assertion was a substring check against the whole of
`script/bootstrap`. That script has two install sites, and the containers
take the second, because the pinned node image ships yarn; changing that
site to a bare `yarn install` kept the suite green while the container's
install stopped being pinned. `install_js_deps` is now resolved out of the
script and split at its `missing yarn` guard, and every `yarn install`
occurrence in each branch is required to carry `--frozen-lockfile`. That the
container runs `script/bootstrap` at all is asserted too, so the lockfile
assertions cannot end up describing a script the image never executes.

Prettier is counted per occurrence instead of per line:
`prettier --check . && prettier --check src` was one invocation by the old
count. The `continue` that followed a counted line also dropped every
script, make, yarn and docker edge sharing that line, so a subtree could be
hidden behind a single `&&`; edges are now extracted from every line.

Undercounting is what would make this file worthless, so every way of
reaching nothing is a thrown error rather than a quiet zero: an unknown
Makefile target, an unknown package.json script, a missing script file, a
node that resolves to no commands, and an unknown node kind. All five are
tested, as is a walk that legitimately counts zero, and the cycle guard.

Every assertion in the file was mutation-tested: changed to assert something
else, run, and confirmed to fail for its own named reason. The two mutations
above were reproduced and both now turn the suite red.

test/packaging/entrypoints.test.ts said `make check` runs test, lint and
fmt-check. Formatting has been part of the lint container since the
duplicate host pass was removed, so the comment now says what it does.

Dockerfile

@@ -1,36 +1,27 @@
-# Lint stage — fast feedback on formatting and lint issues
-# node 22.22.0 on Alpine 3.23.3 (node:22-alpine), 2026-08-09
-FROM node@sha256:e4bf2a82ad0a4037d28035ae71529873c069b13eb0455466ae0bc13363826e34 AS lint
-WORKDIR /app
-COPY script/ script/
-COPY package.json yarn.lock ./
-RUN script/bootstrap
-COPY . .
-RUN make fmt-check
-RUN make lint
-
-# Check stage — the full suite and the build
+# Test and build image: the suite, then the compile.
+#
+# Linting deliberately does not happen here. `script/lint` is a build of
+# Dockerfile.lint, and `script/check` calls `script/lint`, so running
+# `make check` in this image would mean running `docker build` inside a
+# container. Lint runs exactly once, in Dockerfile.lint; script/cibuild
+# builds that first and this second.
 # node 22.22.0 on Alpine 3.23.3 (node:22-alpine), 2026-08-09
 FROM node@sha256:e4bf2a82ad0a4037d28035ae71529873c069b13eb0455466ae0bc13363826e34 AS check
 WORKDIR /app
 
-# Force BuildKit to run the lint stage before proceeding. Without this the
-# two stages run in parallel and a lint failure can lose the race.
-COPY --from=lint /app/yarn.lock /dev/null
-
 COPY script/ script/
 COPY package.json yarn.lock ./
 RUN script/bootstrap
 COPY . .
 
-# CHECK_EPOCH is a cache buster: without it Docker serves `make check` from
+# CHECK_EPOCH is a cache buster: without it Docker serves the test layer from
 # cache on an unchanged tree, the suite never executes, and the build still
 # exits 0. The guard makes an absent argument a hard failure — an unset ARG
 # is the empty string, which is a perfectly stable cache key, so a plain
 # `docker build .` would otherwise still get the false green. Fail closed.
 ARG CHECK_EPOCH
 RUN [ -n "$CHECK_EPOCH" ] || exit 1
-RUN make check
+RUN make test
 
 ARG CHECK_EPOCH
 RUN [ -n "$CHECK_EPOCH" ] || exit 1

Dockerfile.lint

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+# Lint image: every lint run happens here, and nowhere else. The repo is
+# COPYed into a digest-pinned image and the linters run as build steps, so a
+# successful build IS a clean lint. `script/lint` does nothing but build this
+# file, which also works where the docker daemon is remote and bind mounts are
+# impossible. Nothing that runs inside a container may call `script/lint`:
+# that is why Dockerfile no longer runs `make check`.
+# node 22.22.0 on Alpine 3.23.3 (node:22-alpine), 2026-08-09
+FROM node@sha256:e4bf2a82ad0a4037d28035ae71529873c069b13eb0455466ae0bc13363826e34 AS lint
+WORKDIR /app
+
+# Manifests before sources, so the dependency install layer stays cached
+# until package.json or yarn.lock changes. script/bootstrap ends in
+# `yarn install --frozen-lockfile`; the lint steps below are deliberately
+# not cached.
+COPY script/ script/
+COPY package.json yarn.lock ./
+RUN script/bootstrap
+
+COPY . .
+
+# LINT_EPOCH is a cache buster, with the same fail-closed contract as
+# CHECK_EPOCH in Dockerfile. No lint cache is wanted: on an unchanged tree
+# Docker serves the linter layers in well under a second, having linted
+# nothing, and the build still exits 0. The guard makes an absent argument a
+# hard failure — an unset ARG is the empty string, which is a perfectly
+# stable cache key, so a plain `docker build -f Dockerfile.lint .` would
+# otherwise get exactly that false green. Every layer below this one is a
+# child of the guard, so a fresh epoch forces all of them to execute.
+ARG LINT_EPOCH
+RUN [ -n "$LINT_EPOCH" ] || exit 1
+
+# The linters are invoked directly rather than through `make lint`, because
+# `make lint` is the build of this file.
+RUN yarn run eslint .
+RUN yarn run prettier --check .

README.md

@@ -86,31 +86,70 @@ alpine. We provide:
   files the compiler wrote, and make the CLI executable (our own extension)
 - `script/test` — run the test suite (vitest, hard-capped at 30s where `timeout`
   is available, verbose rerun on failure)
-- `script/lint` — run eslint and a prettier check
+- `script/lint` — run eslint and a prettier check, by building
+  `Dockerfile.lint`; requires docker (see Linting below)
 - `script/fmt` — format all files with prettier (writes)
-- `script/fmt-check` — check formatting (read-only)
-- `script/check` — run all checks: `test`, `lint`, `fmt-check` (our own
-  extension)
-- `script/docker` — build the Docker image, tagged via `script/projectname`
-- `script/cibuild` — cd to the repo root and run the image build (what CI runs;
-  the build runs `make fmt-check` and `make lint` in a first stage, then
-  `make check` and `make build` in a second)
+- `script/fmt-check` — check formatting on the host (read-only); standalone, and
+  not called by `script/check` or `script/precommit`, because `script/lint`
+  already checks formatting in the container (see Linting below)
+- `script/check` — run all checks: `test`, `lint` (our own extension)
+- `script/docker` — build the test and build image, tagged via
+  `script/projectname`
+- `script/cibuild` — cd to the repo root and build both images (what CI runs):
+  `script/lint` first, then the `Dockerfile` image, which runs `make test` and
+  `make build`
 - `script/precommit` — run by the git pre-commit hook (our own extension); runs
-  `script/lint` and `script/fmt-check` but deliberately not the tests, so the
-  TDD red-phase commit can land
+  `script/lint`, which checks both lint and formatting, but deliberately not the
+  tests, so the TDD red-phase commit can land
 - `script/install-precommit` — installs the git pre-commit hook (our own
   extension); `make hooks` shims to it
 
 `make hooks` installs the pre-commit hook that runs `script/precommit`.
 
-Both `script/docker` and `script/cibuild` pass
-`--build-arg CHECK_EPOCH="$(date +%s)"`. The Dockerfile refuses to build without
-it. This is deliberate: on an unchanged tree Docker would otherwise serve the
-`make check` layer from cache, so the suite would never run and the build would
-still exit 0. A changing epoch invalidates the check and build layers on every
-invocation while leaving the dependency layers below them cached, and the
-missing-argument guard means a bare `docker build .` fails loudly instead of
-quietly reporting a green it did not earn.
+### Linting
+
+Linting runs in a container, one way, everywhere. `script/lint` builds
+`Dockerfile.lint`, which copies the repo into a digest-pinned node image and
+runs eslint and prettier as build steps, so a successful build is a clean lint.
+There is no host lint path: docker is required to lint, and that also works
+where the docker daemon is remote and bind mounts are impossible.
+
+The formatting check is part of that, not a step beside it. `script/check` and
+`script/precommit` therefore call `script/lint` and stop; neither calls
+`script/fmt-check` as well, which would run prettier a second time over the same
+tree for the same verdict — and the weaker of the two, since the host's prettier
+is whatever the working tree has installed. So `make check` and the pre-commit
+hook both still fail on a badly formatted tree, and prettier runs exactly once
+in each. `test/packaging/lint-once.test.ts` asserts that count by walking the
+invocation graph, so a second pass cannot creep back in unnoticed.
+
+`script/fmt-check` remains as a standalone entrypoint for asking the formatting
+question on its own, without docker and without the rest of lint. Its verdict
+cannot drift from the container's: prettier is pinned to an exact version,
+installed from `yarn.lock` under `--frozen-lockfile` in both places, and reads
+`.gitignore` as its default ignore file — which is why `.dockerignore`
+deliberately keeps `.gitignore` in the build context.
+
+Lint happens in exactly one place, which constrains the rest of the build.
+`script/check` calls `script/lint`, so `make check` cannot run inside a
+container without asking for docker inside docker. The image built from
+`Dockerfile` therefore runs `make test` and `make build` and does not lint;
+`script/cibuild` builds `Dockerfile.lint` first and that image second, so CI
+gets both verdicts.
+
+### Build epochs
+
+`script/lint` passes `--build-arg LINT_EPOCH="$(date +%s)"`, and `script/docker`
+and `script/cibuild` pass `--build-arg CHECK_EPOCH="$(date +%s)"`. Both
+Dockerfiles refuse to build without their argument. This is deliberate: on an
+unchanged tree Docker would otherwise serve the linter and test layers from
+cache, so nothing would run and the build would still exit 0 — a lint build over
+an untouched tree returns success in well under a second, having linted nothing.
+A changing epoch invalidates every layer below the guard on every invocation
+while leaving the dependency layers above them cached, and the missing-argument
+guard means a bare `docker build .` fails loudly instead of quietly reporting a
+green it did not earn: an unset build argument is the empty string, which is a
+perfectly stable cache key.
 
 ## Rationale
 
@@ -145,8 +184,10 @@ All work on quak is test-driven. No exceptions.
 3. Subsequent commits add the implementation and any refactors needed to make
    the tests pass.
 4. A feature branch can only be merged into `main` when `make check` is green.
-   `main` is always green. The Dockerfile runs `make check` and `make build`, so
-   neither a red branch nor one that does not compile can pass CI.
+   `main` is always green. CI runs `script/cibuild`, which lints via
+   `Dockerfile.lint` and then runs `make test` and `make build` in the
+   `Dockerfile` image, so neither a red branch nor one that does not compile can
+   pass CI.
 5. Tests are the canonical API documentation for this library. Every test file
    is commented thoroughly enough that a reader who has never seen quak can
    learn how to use it from the tests alone. Comments explain why a behavior
@@ -160,11 +201,11 @@ All work on quak is test-driven. No exceptions.
    history must still show tests landing before (or with) the matching
    implementation.
 8. The pre-commit hook installed by `make hooks` runs `script/precommit`, which
-   runs the lint and format checks but not the full `make check`. This is
-   deliberate so the TDD red-phase commit (failing tests, no implementation yet)
-   can land. The full `make check` runs as part of the image build, which is
-   what CI executes via `script/cibuild`, so a red branch still cannot reach
-   `main`.
+   runs `script/lint` — eslint and the prettier check, in the container — but
+   not the tests, and so not the full `make check`. This is deliberate so the
+   TDD red-phase commit (failing tests, no implementation yet) can land. The
+   suite runs as part of the image build, which is what CI executes via
+   `script/cibuild`, so a red branch still cannot reach `main`.
 
 ## Design
 
@@ -191,7 +232,8 @@ quak/
         quak.ts         CLI entrypoint (commander.js)
     test/               unit + integration tests (vitest)
     Makefile
-    Dockerfile
+    Dockerfile          test suite and compile
+    Dockerfile.lint     eslint and prettier, as build steps
     package.json
     tsconfig.json
 ```
@@ -478,9 +520,14 @@ documents:
   implementation. Tests are the canonical API documentation and must be
   commented thoroughly. `main` is always green.
 
-- **Required checks before every commit:** `make lint` (eslint + prettier check)
-  and `make fmt-check` must pass. The pre-commit hook enforces this.
-  `make check` (which also runs tests) must pass before merging to `main`.
+- **Required checks before every commit:** `make lint` must pass — that is
+  eslint plus the prettier check, and it builds `Dockerfile.lint`, so it needs
+  docker. The pre-commit hook enforces exactly that. `make check` (which also
+  runs the tests) must pass before merging to `main`. `make fmt-check` is
+  available for a host-side formatting check on its own, but it is not a
+  separate requirement: `make lint` already covers it, and running both would
+  check formatting twice. Never invoke eslint or prettier directly; linting runs
+  in the container only.
 
 - **Formatting:** prettier with 4-space indents and `proseWrap: always` for
   markdown. Use `make fmt` to format. Use `yarn` not `npm`.

TODO.md

@@ -18,6 +18,46 @@ Update the README API reference section to match the current implementation.
 
 # Completed Steps
 
+- 2026-08-10: Made `lint-once.test.ts` enforce what its header claims. It walked
+  `make check` only, so it never read `Dockerfile` — the image CI builds through
+  `script/cibuild` — and a second `prettier --check .` could be added there with
+  the suite staying green. The walk now also starts at
+  `.gitea/workflows/check.yml` and follows its `run:` steps, so the graph under
+  test is the one CI executes rather than the one someone assumed it executes.
+  The lockfile assertion was a substring check against the whole of
+  `script/bootstrap`, which has two install sites and so reported the branch the
+  containers never take; the two branches are now resolved separately and every
+  `yarn install` in each is required to be `--frozen-lockfile`. Prettier is
+  counted per occurrence instead of per line, so two invocations chained with
+  `&&` no longer read as one, and edges are followed on counted lines instead of
+  being skipped. Every way for the walk to reach nothing — an unknown target, an
+  unknown script, a missing file, a node with no commands, an unknown node kind
+  — is a thrown error rather than a quiet zero. Every assertion in the file was
+  mutation-tested individually.
+- 2026-08-10: Stopped `make check` running `prettier --check .` twice. Since
+  linting moved into Docker, the duplicate was one container pass and one host
+  pass of the same check: `script/lint` builds `Dockerfile.lint`, which runs
+  prettier as a build step, and `script/check` then called `script/fmt-check` as
+  well. The host call is gone from `script/check` and from `script/precommit`;
+  the container keeps checking formatting, because a successful
+  `Dockerfile.lint` build is what CI treats as proof of a clean tree, and it is
+  also what still fails the pre-commit hook on a badly formatted tree.
+  `script/fmt-check` survives as a standalone entrypoint, whose verdict cannot
+  drift from the container's. A test walks the invocation graph from each
+  entrypoint — through the Makefile shims, the `script/` calls and the
+  `docker build` — and asserts the prettier count, so the duplication cannot
+  come back unnoticed.
+- 2026-08-10: Moved all linting into Docker. `script/lint` builds a new root
+  `Dockerfile.lint`, which copies the repo into the digest-pinned node image and
+  runs eslint and prettier as build steps, so a successful build is a clean
+  lint; no host lint path remains and `yarn lint` is gone from `package.json`. A
+  fail-closed `LINT_EPOCH` guard stops Docker serving the linter layers from
+  cache, which is how a lint build returns success in under a second having
+  linted nothing. The lint stage inside `Dockerfile` and its `COPY --from=lint`
+  ordering hack are gone: that image now runs `make test` and `make build` only,
+  because `script/check` calls `script/lint` and running it in a container would
+  mean docker inside docker. `script/cibuild` builds the lint image first, then
+  the test and build image.
 - 2026-08-09: Made `make docker` green and policy-conformant. Multi-stage
   Dockerfile: a lint stage runs `make fmt-check` and `make lint`, and the check
   stage takes a `COPY --from=lint` dependency on it before running `make check`

package.json

@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
         "build": "script/build",
         "quak": "node ./dist/bin/quak.js",
         "test": "vitest run",
-        "lint": "eslint .",
         "fmt": "prettier --write .",
         "fmt-check": "prettier --check ."
     },

script/check

@@ -1,6 +1,19 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-# script/check: run all checks (test, lint, fmt-check). Our own
-# extension to scripts-to-rule-them-all. Must not modify any files.
+# script/check: run all checks (test, lint). Our own extension to
+# scripts-to-rule-them-all. Must not modify any files.
+#
+# The formatting check is part of lint, not a step of its own:
+# script/lint builds Dockerfile.lint, which runs eslint AND
+# `prettier --check .` as build steps. Calling script/fmt-check here as
+# well would run prettier a second time over the same tree for the same
+# verdict — the weaker of the two, since the host toolchain is whatever
+# the working tree happens to have installed while the container's is
+# digest-pinned. script/fmt-check remains a standalone entrypoint for
+# asking the formatting question by itself.
+#
+# script/lint builds Dockerfile.lint, so this script requires docker and
+# must never be run from inside a container: that is why the Dockerfile
+# image runs script/test and script/build rather than this.
 set -eu
 
 SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd -P)"
@@ -8,7 +21,6 @@ SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd -P)"
 main() {
     "$SCRIPT_DIR/test"
     "$SCRIPT_DIR/lint"
-    "$SCRIPT_DIR/fmt-check"
 }
 
 main "$@"

script/cibuild

@@ -1,16 +1,23 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-# script/cibuild: run the CI build. The Dockerfile runs script/check and
-# script/build, and CHECK_EPOCH differs on every invocation, so those two
-# layers cannot be served from Docker's cache: a green build here means
-# the checks ran now, not that a previous run was remembered. The layers
-# below the epoch (bootstrap, yarn install) are unaffected and stay
-# cached. A build that omits the argument fails by design.
+# script/cibuild: run the CI build, which is both images in a defined order.
+#
+# First script/lint, which builds Dockerfile.lint and is the one and only
+# place linting happens — it goes first so a lint failure is reported before
+# the slower suite runs. Then the Dockerfile image, which runs script/test
+# and script/build. CHECK_EPOCH and LINT_EPOCH differ on every invocation, so
+# neither the linters nor the suite can be served from Docker's cache: a
+# green build here means the checks ran now, not that a previous run was
+# remembered. The layers below the epochs (bootstrap, yarn install) are
+# unaffected and stay cached. A build that omits the arguments fails by
+# design.
 set -eu
 
-ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." && pwd -P)"
+SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd -P)"
+ROOT="$(cd "$SCRIPT_DIR/.." && pwd -P)"
 
 main() {
     cd "$ROOT"
+    "$SCRIPT_DIR/lint"
     docker build --build-arg CHECK_EPOCH="$(date +%s)" .
 }
 

script/docker

@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
 # Identical in all repos; the tag comes from script/projectname.
 # CHECK_EPOCH is passed for the same reason script/cibuild passes it: the
 # Dockerfile refuses to build without it, so that no path to an image can
-# quietly serve the check and build layers from cache.
+# quietly serve the test and build layers from cache. This builds the test
+# and build image only; linting is a separate image, built by script/lint.
 set -eu
 
 SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd -P)"

script/lint

@@ -1,13 +1,24 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-# script/lint: run the linter (eslint plus a prettier check).
+# script/lint: run the linters. eslint and prettier are never run against
+# the working tree from here: linting runs via docker only, one way,
+# everywhere — script/lint builds Dockerfile.lint, which COPYs the repo into
+# the pinned node image and runs the linters as build steps. That works even
+# when the docker daemon is remote and bind mounts are impossible.
+#
+# LINT_EPOCH is passed on every invocation because no lint cache is wanted:
+# on an unchanged tree Docker would otherwise serve the linter layers, having
+# linted nothing, and still exit 0. Dockerfile.lint refuses to build without
+# the argument, so no path to a lint result can quietly come from cache.
+#
+# Nothing that runs inside a container may call this script; see the header
+# of Dockerfile.
 set -eu
 
 ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." && pwd -P)"
 
 main() {
     cd "$ROOT"
-    yarn run eslint .
-    yarn run prettier --check .
+    docker build --build-arg LINT_EPOCH="$(date +%s)" -f Dockerfile.lint .
 }
 
 main "$@"

script/precommit

@@ -2,17 +2,25 @@
 # script/precommit: run by the git pre-commit hook; fails the commit if
 # checks fail. Our own extension to scripts-to-rule-them-all.
 #
-# Runs lint and fmt-check but deliberately NOT the tests, so the TDD
-# red-phase commit (failing tests, no implementation yet) can land. CI
-# runs make check via docker build, which catches any branch that
-# ships red.
+# Runs lint but deliberately NOT the tests, so the TDD red-phase commit
+# (failing tests, no implementation yet) can land. CI runs
+# script/cibuild, which builds both images and so catches any branch
+# that ships red.
+#
+# The formatting check is still enforced here, because script/lint is a
+# build of Dockerfile.lint and that runs `prettier --check .` as a build
+# step: a badly formatted tree fails this hook, and therefore the
+# commit. Calling script/fmt-check as well would only run prettier a
+# second time over the same tree for the same verdict.
+#
+# script/lint is a docker build (Dockerfile.lint); docker is required to
+# commit, which is the point of linting one way, everywhere.
 set -eu
 
 SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd -P)"
 
 main() {
     "$SCRIPT_DIR/lint"
-    "$SCRIPT_DIR/fmt-check"
 }
 
 main "$@"

test/packaging/build-context.test.ts

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 //
 // Neither shows up as a build failure, so they are asserted here.
 import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
-import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { existsSync, readFileSync } from "node:fs";
 import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
 import { join } from "node:path";
 
@@ -46,4 +46,19 @@ describe(".dockerignore", () => {
     it("leaves .gitignore in the build context for prettier", () => {
         expect(dockerignore).not.toContain(".gitignore");
     });
+
+    // Both images are built from this same context, and the lint image runs
+    // eslint and prettier across it. BuildKit lets a `<dockerfile>.dockerignore`
+    // shadow the root one for a single build; such a file would silently give
+    // the lint build a different, unreviewed context — and eslint's flat config
+    // does not ignore dot-directories, so a stray `.claude/` worktree would be
+    // linted.
+    it.each(["Dockerfile", "Dockerfile.lint"])(
+        "is not shadowed by a per-Dockerfile ignore file for %s",
+        (name) => {
+            expect(existsSync(join(repoRoot, `${name}.dockerignore`))).toBe(
+                false,
+            );
+        },
+    );
 });

test/packaging/entrypoints.test.ts

@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 // The package manifest promises three files that only exist after a build:
 // `main`, `types`, and the `quak` binary. Nothing in the test suite used to
-// look at them, and `make check` runs test, lint and fmt-check but never the
-// build, so `tsconfig.json` and `package.json` were free to drift apart. They
+// look at them, and `make check` runs the suite and the lint container but
+// never the build, so `tsconfig.json` and `package.json` were free to drift
+// apart. (The formatting check is part of the lint container, not a step of
+// its own; `test/packaging/lint-once.test.ts` is what holds that shape.) They
 // did: `rootDir` was `./src` while `include` also pulled in `bin/**/*`, which
 // is TS6059, and no build had succeeded for as long as that was true.
 //

test/packaging/lint-docker.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,184 @@
+// Linting runs in Docker, one way, everywhere: `script/lint` builds
+// `Dockerfile.lint`, which COPYs the repo into a digest-pinned image and runs
+// eslint and prettier as build steps, so a successful build IS a clean lint.
+//
+// Three things can quietly undo that, and none of them shows up as a build
+// failure, which is why they are asserted here:
+//
+// 1. Recursion. `script/check` calls `script/lint`, and `script/lint` is now a
+//    `docker build`. Anything that runs `make check` inside a container is
+//    therefore asking for Docker inside Docker, and CI breaks. The image built
+//    from `Dockerfile` runs the suite and the compile only; lint happens once,
+//    in `Dockerfile.lint`.
+// 2. Cache. A lint build over an unchanged tree returns success in well under a
+//    second having linted nothing. The `LINT_EPOCH` guard is what forces the
+//    linter layers to execute, and it has to fail closed: an unset build
+//    argument is the empty string, which is a perfectly stable cache key, so an
+//    invocation that omits it must be rejected rather than served a cached
+//    green.
+// 3. A host lint path surviving alongside the container one, which would let a
+//    lint result come from an unpinned local toolchain.
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+
+const repoRoot = fileURLToPath(new URL("../../", import.meta.url));
+
+const read = (name: string): string =>
+    readFileSync(join(repoRoot, name), "utf-8");
+
+// The executable lines of a shell script or Dockerfile: comments carry the
+// reasoning and frequently name the very commands these tests forbid, so they
+// would otherwise trigger every assertion below.
+const instructions = (name: string): string[] =>
+    read(name)
+        .split("\n")
+        .map((line) => line.trim())
+        .filter((line) => line !== "" && !line.startsWith("#"));
+
+const lintScript = instructions("script/lint");
+const dockerfileLint = instructions("Dockerfile.lint");
+const dockerfile = instructions("Dockerfile");
+const cibuild = instructions("script/cibuild");
+
+const has = (lines: string[], pattern: RegExp): boolean =>
+    lines.some((line) => pattern.test(line));
+
+describe("script/lint", () => {
+    it("lints by building Dockerfile.lint", () => {
+        expect(has(lintScript, /docker build .*-f Dockerfile\.lint/)).toBe(
+            true,
+        );
+    });
+
+    // The whole point of the ruling: no invocation of a linter against the
+    // working tree survives, so a lint verdict can only come from the pinned
+    // image.
+    it("runs no linter on the host", () => {
+        expect(has(lintScript, /eslint|prettier/)).toBe(false);
+    });
+
+    // Without a fresh epoch the build is served from cache in under a second,
+    // having linted nothing, and still exits 0.
+    it("passes a fresh LINT_EPOCH on every run", () => {
+        expect(
+            has(lintScript, /--build-arg LINT_EPOCH="\$\(date \+%s\)"/),
+        ).toBe(true);
+    });
+});
+
+describe("Dockerfile.lint", () => {
+    // Tag references are server-mutable, so they are remote code execution.
+    it("pins its base image by digest", () => {
+        expect(has(dockerfileLint, /^FROM \S+@sha256:[0-9a-f]{64}/)).toBe(true);
+    });
+
+    it("runs eslint as a build step", () => {
+        expect(has(dockerfileLint, /^RUN .*eslint \./)).toBe(true);
+    });
+
+    it("runs prettier as a build step", () => {
+        expect(has(dockerfileLint, /^RUN .*prettier --check \./)).toBe(true);
+    });
+
+    // An unset ARG is the empty string, and an empty string is a perfectly
+    // stable cache key. Rejecting it is what stops a bare
+    // `docker build -f Dockerfile.lint .` from reporting a green it did not
+    // earn.
+    it("refuses to build without LINT_EPOCH", () => {
+        expect(has(dockerfileLint, /^ARG LINT_EPOCH$/)).toBe(true);
+        expect(
+            has(dockerfileLint, /^RUN \[ -n "\$LINT_EPOCH" \] \|\| exit 1$/),
+        ).toBe(true);
+    });
+
+    // The guard only forces execution of the layers below it, so both linters
+    // have to sit after it. Layer order is the mechanism, not a style choice.
+    it("puts both linters below the epoch guard", () => {
+        const guard = dockerfileLint.findIndex((line) =>
+            /^RUN \[ -n "\$LINT_EPOCH" \]/.test(line),
+        );
+        const linters = dockerfileLint
+            .map((line, index) => ({ line, index }))
+            .filter(({ line }) => /^RUN .*(eslint|prettier)/.test(line));
+
+        expect(linters.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+        for (const { line, index } of linters) {
+            expect(
+                index,
+                `${line} must run below the LINT_EPOCH guard`,
+            ).toBeGreaterThan(guard);
+        }
+    });
+
+    // Dependency installation is the slow layer and has nothing to do with the
+    // sources, so it caches separately: manifests first, sources afterwards.
+    it("copies the manifests before the sources", () => {
+        const manifests = dockerfileLint.findIndex((line) =>
+            /^COPY package\.json yarn\.lock/.test(line),
+        );
+        const sources = dockerfileLint.findIndex((line) =>
+            /^COPY \. \.$/.test(line),
+        );
+
+        expect(manifests).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(0);
+        expect(sources).toBeGreaterThan(manifests);
+    });
+
+    // script/lint is a docker build; a lint step that shelled out to it would
+    // recurse.
+    it("does not call script/lint or make lint", () => {
+        expect(has(dockerfileLint, /make lint|script\/lint/)).toBe(false);
+    });
+});
+
+describe("Dockerfile", () => {
+    // `make check` runs script/lint, which is a docker build, so an image that
+    // ran it would need a Docker daemon inside the container.
+    it("does not run make check, make lint or script/lint", () => {
+        expect(
+            has(dockerfile, /make check|make lint|script\/(check|lint)/),
+        ).toBe(false);
+    });
+
+    // The replaced lint stage took a `COPY --from=lint` dependency to order
+    // itself before the check stage. Dockerfile.lint is that stage now, and
+    // two definitions of how to lint is one too many.
+    it("has no lint stage", () => {
+        expect(has(dockerfile, /AS lint\b|--from=lint\b/)).toBe(false);
+    });
+
+    it("still runs the suite and the build under the epoch guard", () => {
+        expect(has(dockerfile, /^RUN make test$/)).toBe(true);
+        expect(has(dockerfile, /^RUN make build$/)).toBe(true);
+        expect(
+            has(dockerfile, /^RUN \[ -n "\$CHECK_EPOCH" \] \|\| exit 1$/),
+        ).toBe(true);
+    });
+});
+
+describe("script/cibuild", () => {
+    // CI has to get both verdicts. Lint goes first so the fast failure is
+    // reported before the suite runs.
+    it("builds the lint image before the test and build image", () => {
+        const lint = cibuild.findIndex((line) => /\/lint"/.test(line));
+        const check = cibuild.findIndex((line) =>
+            /docker build .*CHECK_EPOCH/.test(line),
+        );
+
+        expect(lint).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(0);
+        expect(check).toBeGreaterThan(lint);
+    });
+});
+
+describe("package.json", () => {
+    // `yarn lint` was a second, unpinned way to get a lint verdict, from
+    // whatever eslint the working tree happened to have installed.
+    it("exposes no host lint script", () => {
+        const pkg = JSON.parse(read("package.json")) as {
+            scripts: Record<string, string>;
+        };
+        expect(pkg.scripts.lint).toBeUndefined();
+    });
+});

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+// `make check` used to run `prettier --check .` twice: once inside the lint
+// container (`script/lint` builds `Dockerfile.lint`, which runs eslint and
+// prettier as build steps) and once again on the host, because `script/check`
+// also called `script/fmt-check`. Two passes, one verdict, and the host one is
+// the weaker of the two — its prettier is whatever the working tree happens to
+// have installed, while the container's is digest-pinned and installed under
+// `--frozen-lockfile`.
+//
+// The fix was to delete the host call from `script/check` and `script/precommit`.
+// Nothing about that fix is self-enforcing: anyone can wire `script/fmt-check`
+// back in, or add a prettier step to a Dockerfile, and every build stays green
+// while quietly doing the work twice again. So the count is asserted here
+// rather than promised in a comment.
+//
+// The assertion is a static walk of the invocation graph, not a string match
+// against one file. Starting from an entrypoint, it follows every edge the repo
+// actually uses to reach another command — `run:` steps in the CI workflow,
+// `"$SCRIPT_DIR/<name>"` and `script/<name>` into other scripts, `make <target>`
+// through the Makefile shims, `yarn run <name>` through the `package.json`
+// scripts, and `docker build -f <file>` into that Dockerfile's `RUN` steps — and
+// counts the prettier invocations it finds. A prettier call added anywhere in
+// that graph is therefore caught, wherever it is added.
+//
+// Two entrypoints are walked, because they cover different graphs: `make check`
+// is what a developer runs, and `.gitea/workflows/check.yml` is what CI runs.
+// The CI walk starts at the workflow file rather than at a hand-picked script,
+// so "the path CI executes" is read out of the repo instead of assumed; it
+// reaches `script/cibuild`, and through it the `Dockerfile` image that `make
+// check` never touches. Walking only `make check` is how a duplicate prettier
+// pass in `Dockerfile` stayed invisible.
+//
+// Undercounting is the failure mode that would make this test worthless. Three
+// things guard against it: the walk is asserted to have reached the nodes that
+// matter, an unresolvable or empty node is a thrown error rather than a quiet
+// zero, and prettier is counted per occurrence rather than per line, so two
+// invocations chained with `&&` cannot read as one.
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+
+const repoRoot = fileURLToPath(new URL("../../", import.meta.url));
+
+const read = (name: string): string =>
+    readFileSync(join(repoRoot, name), "utf-8");
+
+// A backslash at end of line continues the command; the resolver has to see the
+// whole invocation, since the interesting flags (`-f Dockerfile.lint`) can sit
+// on the continuation.
+const joinContinuations = (text: string): string[] => {
+    const joined: string[] = [];
+    for (const raw of text.split("\n")) {
+        const line = raw.trim();
+        const previous = joined[joined.length - 1];
+        if (previous !== undefined && previous.endsWith("\\")) {
+            joined[joined.length - 1] =
+                `${previous.slice(0, -1).trim()} ${line}`;
+        } else {
+            joined.push(line);
+        }
+    }
+    return joined;
+};
+
+// Comments are stripped everywhere. The headers of these scripts explain the
+// duplication this test exists to prevent, and therefore name `prettier` and
+// `script/fmt-check` repeatedly; counting them would make the test assert the
+// prose instead of the behaviour.
+const executable = (text: string): string[] =>
+    joinContinuations(text).filter(
+        (line) => line !== "" && !line.startsWith("#"),
+    );
+
+// Every occurrence, not "does this line mention prettier": a line that reads
+// `yarn run prettier --check . && yarn run prettier --check src` is two passes
+// over the same tree, which is exactly the bug this file exists to catch, and
+// counting it as one would hide it. `.prettierrc` and `.prettierignore` are not
+// invocations and do not match, because `\b` requires a non-word character
+// after the name.
+const countPrettier = (line: string): number =>
+    (line.match(/\bprettier\b/g) ?? []).length;
+
+// Makefile targets are thin shims (`check:` / tab / `@script/check`), so a
+// `make <target>` edge has to resolve through them to keep "per `make check`"
+// meaning what it says. Recipe lines are the tab-indented ones.
+const makeRecipes = (): Map<string, string[]> => {
+    const recipes = new Map<string, string[]>();
+    let current: string | null = null;
+    for (const raw of read("Makefile").split("\n")) {
+        if (raw.startsWith("\t")) {
+            if (current !== null) {
+                recipes.get(current)?.push(raw.trim().replace(/^[@-]+/, ""));
+            }
+            continue;
+        }
+        const target = /^([a-z][a-z-]*)\s*:(?!=)/.exec(raw);
+        current = target === null ? null : target[1];
+        if (current !== null && !recipes.has(current)) {
+            recipes.set(current, []);
+        }
+    }
+    return recipes;
+};
+
+const recipes = makeRecipes();
+
+const packageScripts = (): Record<string, string> => {
+    const pkg = JSON.parse(read("package.json")) as {
+        scripts?: Record<string, string>;
+    };
+    return pkg.scripts ?? {};
+};
+
+const scripts = packageScripts();
+
+// Node keys: `script/<name>`, `docker:<Dockerfile>`, `make:<target>`,
+// `yarn:<package.json script>`, `workflow:<CI workflow file>`.
+const resolve = (node: string): string[] => {
+    if (node.startsWith("script/")) return executable(read(node));
+    if (node.startsWith("docker:")) {
+        return executable(read(node.slice("docker:".length)))
+            .filter((line) => line.startsWith("RUN "))
+            .map((line) => line.slice("RUN ".length));
+    }
+    // The `run:` steps of a workflow, in file order. `uses:` steps are actions,
+    // not commands, and have no edges into this repo's graph. A `run: |` block
+    // would resolve to the bare `|`, which reaches nothing and therefore fails
+    // the count rather than passing quietly.
+    if (node.startsWith("workflow:")) {
+        return executable(read(node.slice("workflow:".length)))
+            .filter((line) => /^-?\s*run:\s*\S/.test(line))
+            .map((line) => line.replace(/^-?\s*run:\s*/, ""));
+    }
+    if (node.startsWith("make:")) {
+        const target = node.slice("make:".length);
+        const recipe = recipes.get(target);
+        // A renamed or deleted target must be a loud failure: silently walking
+        // an empty recipe would report zero prettier invocations, which reads
+        // like the tidiest possible result.
+        if (recipe === undefined) {
+            throw new Error(`no such Makefile target: ${target}`);
+        }
+        return recipe;
+    }
+    if (node.startsWith("yarn:")) {
+        const name = node.slice("yarn:".length);
+        const script = scripts[name];
+        if (script === undefined) {
+            throw new Error(`no such package.json script: ${name}`);
+        }
+        return [script];
+    }
+    throw new Error(`unresolvable node: ${node}`);
+};
+
+// Same reasoning as the missing-target error, applied to every node kind: a
+// node that resolves to no commands contributes zero prettier invocations and
+// zero edges, which is indistinguishable from a clean result. Fail instead.
+const commandsOf = (node: string): string[] => {
+    const commands = resolve(node);
+    if (commands.length === 0) {
+        throw new Error(`node resolved to no commands: ${node}`);
+    }
+    return commands;
+};
+
+const edgesOf = (line: string): string[] => {
+    const edges: string[] = [];
+
+    // `"$SCRIPT_DIR/lint"`, `"$ROOT/script/lint"` and a bare `script/lint` are
+    // all the same edge.
+    for (const match of line.matchAll(
+        /(?:\$SCRIPT_DIR|\$\{SCRIPT_DIR\}|script)\/([a-z][a-z-]*)/g,
+    )) {
+        edges.push(`script/${match[1]}`);
+    }
+
+    // Only real targets: `pkg_install gnumake make make make` in
+    // script/bootstrap is a package name, not an invocation of this Makefile.
+    for (const match of line.matchAll(/\bmake\s+([a-z][a-z-]*)/g)) {
+        if (recipes.has(match[1] ?? "")) edges.push(`make:${match[1]}`);
+    }
+
+    // Same rule for yarn: `yarn run prettier` is the linter itself (counted,
+    // not followed), `yarn run fmt-check` would be a package.json script that
+    // runs it indirectly.
+    for (const match of line.matchAll(/\byarn(?:\s+run)?\s+([a-z][a-z-]*)/g)) {
+        if ((match[1] ?? "") in scripts) edges.push(`yarn:${match[1]}`);
+    }
+
+    // The container lint pass lives behind a `docker build`; without following
+    // it the count would miss the one invocation that is supposed to survive.
+    if (/\bdocker\s+build\b/.test(line)) {
+        const file = /\s-f\s+(\S+)/.exec(line);
+        edges.push(`docker:${file === null ? "Dockerfile" : file[1]}`);
+    }
+
+    return edges;
+};
+
+interface Walk {
+    prettier: number;
+    reached: Set<string>;
+}
+
+// Repeated invocations must count repeatedly — running the same script twice is
+// exactly the bug — so nodes are not deduplicated. The path stack is only there
+// to turn a cycle into a loud failure instead of a hang.
+//
+// Counting and edge-following both happen for every line: a line that invokes
+// prettier can also invoke something else, and skipping the edges of counted
+// lines silently truncated the graph.
+const walk = (node: string, path: string[] = [], into?: Walk): Walk => {
+    const result = into ?? { prettier: 0, reached: new Set<string>() };
+    if (path.includes(node)) {
+        throw new Error(`invocation cycle: ${[...path, node].join(" -> ")}`);
+    }
+    result.reached.add(node);
+
+    for (const line of commandsOf(node)) {
+        result.prettier += countPrettier(line);
+        for (const edge of edgesOf(line)) {
+            walk(edge, [...path, node], result);
+        }
+    }
+    return result;
+};
+
+describe("prettier runs exactly once per make check", () => {
+    const check = walk("make:check");
+
+    // The headline assertion, and the one the issue is about.
+    it("invokes prettier once for the whole of make check", () => {
+        expect(check.prettier).toBe(1);
+    });
+
+    // Guards against the count being 1 (or 0) because the walk never got
+    // anywhere. `make check` has to reach the suite, the lint script, and the
+    // Dockerfile whose build IS the lint verdict.
+    it.each(["script/check", "script/test", "script/lint", "Dockerfile.lint"])(
+        "reaches %s while counting",
+        (node) => {
+            const key = node.startsWith("script/") ? node : `docker:${node}`;
+            expect([...check.reached]).toContain(key);
+        },
+    );
+
+    // The one that survives is the container's, not the host's: that is the
+    // authoritative verdict, since a successful Dockerfile.lint build is what
+    // CI treats as proof of a clean tree.
+    it("keeps the surviving invocation inside the lint container", () => {
+        expect(walk("docker:Dockerfile.lint").prettier).toBe(1);
+    });
+
+    it("does not reach the host formatting check from make check", () => {
+        expect([...check.reached]).not.toContain("script/fmt-check");
+    });
+});
+
+describe("prettier runs exactly once per CI build", () => {
+    // Rooted at the workflow file, so this is the graph CI executes rather than
+    // the graph someone believed CI executes. `make check` cannot stand in for
+    // it: CI runs script/cibuild, which builds Dockerfile as well as
+    // Dockerfile.lint, and nothing under `make check` ever reads Dockerfile.
+    const ci = walk("workflow:.gitea/workflows/check.yml");
+
+    it("invokes prettier once for the whole CI build", () => {
+        expect(ci.prettier).toBe(1);
+    });
+
+    // script/cibuild is here because the workflow is asserted to run it;
+    // Dockerfile is here because it is the half of the CI graph that the
+    // `make check` walk cannot see.
+    it.each([
+        "script/cibuild",
+        "script/lint",
+        "docker:Dockerfile.lint",
+        "docker:Dockerfile",
+    ])("reaches %s while counting", (node) => {
+        expect([...ci.reached]).toContain(node);
+    });
+
+    // The test and build image must not lint: linting is Dockerfile.lint's job,
+    // and a prettier step added here would be a second pass over the same tree
+    // for the same verdict — on the one path where it matters most.
+    it("keeps prettier out of the test and build image", () => {
+        expect(walk("docker:Dockerfile").prettier).toBe(0);
+    });
+});
+
+describe("the standalone entrypoints still do what their names say", () => {
+    // REPO_POLICIES.md requires both `make lint` and `make fmt-check` to exist
+    // and mean something. Dropping fmt-check from script/check must not turn it
+    // into a target nobody can use, and must not leave `make check` passing
+    // because both halves became no-ops.
+    it("still checks formatting under make fmt-check", () => {
+        expect(walk("make:fmt-check").prettier).toBe(1);
+    });
+
+    it("still checks formatting under make lint", () => {
+        expect(walk("make:lint").prettier).toBe(1);
+    });
+});
+
+describe("script/precommit", () => {
+    // Same duplication as script/check, same fix. The hook still catches a
+    // badly formatted tree before the commit lands, because script/lint is the
+    // container prettier run — that is the whole reason the host call could go.
+    it("checks formatting exactly once", () => {
+        expect(walk("script/precommit").prettier).toBe(1);
+    });
+
+    it("gets that check from the lint container", () => {
+        expect([...walk("script/precommit").reached]).toContain(
+            "docker:Dockerfile.lint",
+        );
+    });
+});
+
+// script/bootstrap installs the dependencies, and it has two install sites: one
+// for the case where yarn has to be reached through nvm, and one for the case
+// where yarn is already on PATH. A substring check against the whole file
+// cannot tell them apart, so it reports the first and says nothing about the
+// second — which is the one the containers take, because the pinned node image
+// ships yarn. Both are resolved separately here.
+const installBranches = (): { withoutYarn: string[]; withYarn: string[] } => {
+    const lines = executable(read("script/bootstrap"));
+    const open = lines.findIndex((line) =>
+        /^install_js_deps\s*\(\)/.test(line),
+    );
+    if (open === -1) {
+        throw new Error("script/bootstrap: no install_js_deps function");
+    }
+    const close = lines.indexOf("}", open);
+    const body = lines.slice(open + 1, close === -1 ? undefined : close);
+    const guard = body.findIndex((line) =>
+        /^if\b.*\bmissing yarn\b/.test(line),
+    );
+    const otherwise = body.indexOf("else", guard);
+    const end = body.indexOf("fi", otherwise);
+    if (guard === -1 || otherwise === -1 || end === -1) {
+        throw new Error(
+            "script/bootstrap: install_js_deps is not the expected " +
+                "if missing yarn / else / fi shape",
+        );
+    }
+    return {
+        withoutYarn: body.slice(guard + 1, otherwise),
+        withYarn: body.slice(otherwise + 1, end),
+    };
+};
+
+// Every `yarn install` in the given lines, with its flags, so an unpinned
+// install cannot hide next to a pinned one.
+const yarnInstalls = (lines: string[]): string[] =>
+    lines.flatMap((line) =>
+        [...line.matchAll(/\byarn install\b[^"'&|;]*/g)].map((match) =>
+            match[0].trim(),
+        ),
+    );
+
+describe("host and container prettier cannot disagree", () => {
+    // With the host pass gone from `make check`, `make fmt-check` is the only
+    // host-side formatting check left, and the container is the gate. The two
+    // must keep producing the same verdict on the same tree, or a developer
+    // running `make fmt-check` gets a green that CI then rejects.
+    //
+    // Three things make them agree, and all three are load-bearing:
+    it("pins the same prettier for both", () => {
+        const pkg = JSON.parse(read("package.json")) as {
+            devDependencies: Record<string, string>;
+        };
+        // An exact version, not a range: `^3.8.1` would let the container and
+        // the host resolve different builds with different formatting.
+        expect(pkg.devDependencies.prettier).toMatch(/^\d+\.\d+\.\d+$/);
+    });
+
+    it("installs from the lockfile on the branch the container takes", () => {
+        // Both images are FROM a node image, which ships yarn, so `missing
+        // yarn` is false and this is the branch that runs in the container.
+        const installs = yarnInstalls(installBranches().withYarn);
+        expect(installs).not.toHaveLength(0);
+        for (const install of installs) {
+            expect(install).toContain("--frozen-lockfile");
+        }
+    });
+
+    it("installs from the lockfile on the nvm branch too", () => {
+        // Not the container's branch, but it is the one a developer without
+        // yarn on PATH gets, and their prettier has to match the container's.
+        const installs = yarnInstalls(installBranches().withoutYarn);
+        expect(installs).not.toHaveLength(0);
+        for (const install of installs) {
+            expect(install).toContain("--frozen-lockfile");
+        }
+    });
+
+    it("runs script/bootstrap inside the lint container", () => {
+        // Without this the lockfile assertions above would be about a script
+        // the container never executes.
+        expect([...walk("docker:Dockerfile.lint").reached]).toContain(
+            "script/bootstrap",
+        );
+    });
+
+    it("keeps .gitignore in the build context", () => {
+        // Prettier 3 reads .gitignore as a default ignore file, so excluding it
+        // from the context would change which files the container checks.
+        const dockerignore = read(".dockerignore")
+            .split("\n")
+            .map((line) => line.trim());
+        expect(dockerignore).not.toContain(".gitignore");
+    });
+});
+
+describe("the walk cannot pass vacuously", () => {
+    // An earlier draft of this file computed a Makefile target as
+    // `node.slice("make:")` — a string where a number belongs, which coerces to
+    // NaN and made every target resolve to nothing. The count went to zero and
+    // an assertion of "not twice" would have been satisfied by a walk that had
+    // read nothing at all. Every way of reaching nothing is therefore an
+    // error here, and the ways are tested rather than assumed.
+    it("reports zero for a subgraph that does not run prettier", () => {
+        expect(walk("make:clean").prettier).toBe(0);
+    });
+
+    it("refuses a Makefile target that does not exist", () => {
+        expect(() => walk("make:no-such-target")).toThrow(
+            /no such Makefile target/,
+        );
+    });
+
+    it("refuses a package.json script that does not exist", () => {
+        expect(() => walk("yarn:no-such-script")).toThrow(
+            /no such package.json script/,
+        );
+    });
+
+    it("refuses a script that does not exist", () => {
+        expect(() => walk("script/no-such-script")).toThrow(/ENOENT/);
+    });
+
+    it("refuses a node that resolves to no commands", () => {
+        // .dockerignore has no RUN steps, standing in for a Dockerfile whose
+        // steps a restructure moved somewhere the resolver cannot see.
+        expect(() => walk("docker:.dockerignore")).toThrow(
+            /resolved to no commands/,
+        );
+    });
+
+    it("refuses a node kind it does not understand", () => {
+        expect(() => walk("nonsense")).toThrow(/unresolvable node/);
+    });
+
+    it("refuses to walk in circles", () => {
+        expect(() => walk("make:check", ["script/check"])).toThrow(
+            /invocation cycle/,
+        );
+    });
+});
+
+describe("the resolver reads what the shell would run", () => {
+    // Counting per line is how `yarn run prettier --check . && yarn run
+    // prettier --check src` read as a single invocation.
+    it("counts every prettier invocation on a line", () => {
+        expect(
+            countPrettier(
+                "yarn run prettier --check . && yarn run prettier --check src",
+            ),
+        ).toBe(2);
+    });
+
+    it("does not count the config files as invocations", () => {
+        expect(countPrettier("COPY .prettierrc .prettierignore ./")).toBe(0);
+    });
+
+    // The counting `continue` also dropped every edge that shared a line with a
+    // prettier call, so a whole subtree could be hidden behind one `&&`.
+    it("still follows the edges of a line that invokes prettier", () => {
+        expect(
+            edgesOf('yarn run prettier --check . && "$SCRIPT_DIR/lint"'),
+        ).toContain("script/lint");
+    });
+
+    it("resolves every spelling of a script call to one node", () => {
+        expect(
+            edgesOf('"$SCRIPT_DIR/lint" "${SCRIPT_DIR}/test" script/fmt'),
+        ).toEqual(["script/lint", "script/test", "script/fmt"]);
+    });
+
+    it("follows a bare docker build to Dockerfile and -f to its file", () => {
+        expect(edgesOf("docker build .")).toContain("docker:Dockerfile");
+        expect(edgesOf("docker build -f Dockerfile.lint .")).toContain(
+            "docker:Dockerfile.lint",
+        );
+    });
+
+    it("reads the run steps of the CI workflow and not its uses steps", () => {
+        expect(commandsOf("workflow:.gitea/workflows/check.yml")).toEqual([
+            "script/cibuild",
+        ]);
+    });
+});