Stop vault creation when a vault's metadata cannot be read (closes #140)

GetNextDerivationIndex passed over a vault whose vault-metadata.json could
not be read or parsed, so the next vault made from the same mnemonic could
get that vault's derivation index and so the same long-term key. It now
returns an error naming the file, so vault create, vault import and init
stop with that error and leave the state directory as it was. A vault
directory with no metadata file is still skipped.

The regression test breaks one vault's metadata, once with content that
does not parse and once with a test filesystem that fails to open it, and
requires CreateVault with the same mnemonic to fail, naming the file, and
leave no new vault.

Model: opus-5-5

.editorconfig

@@ -13,6 +13,3 @@ 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

@@ -1,20 +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
-        # Free the shared runner from a hung build.
-        timeout-minutes: 20
         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
-                  # All history and tags, so git describe finds the version tag.
-                  fetch-depth: 0
             - 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]
@@ -46,10 +46,6 @@ node_modules/
 [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/`.
-
 # Go. /secret is the built binary, anchored so that it does not also match
 # the internal/secret/ package directory.
 *.log

.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

Dockerfile

@@ -1,40 +1,33 @@
-# Every stage declares ARG CACHEBUST first: script/ passes a new value
-# on every build, which reruns every RUN step after it. The steps that
-# compile mount Go's build cache, which survives from build to build.
-
 # Lint phase. The linter is invoked directly rather than through `make
 # lint` or `script/lint`, which are themselves a docker build.
 # golangci/golangci-lint:v2.14.0 (Debian-based), 2026-09-24
 FROM golangci/golangci-lint@sha256:ad862ba6b3798cbe0fd9fd7408d498fd74fbd2623a92406b2fd3898faf0bf98f AS lint
-ARG CACHEBUST
 WORKDIR /src
 COPY go.mod go.sum ./
 RUN go mod download
 COPY . .
-RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/go-build \
+RUN go vet ./...
-    go vet ./...
+RUN golangci-lint run --config .golangci.yml ./...
-RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/go-build \
-    golangci-lint run --config .golangci.yml ./...
 # The same checks on the code as a macOS build compiles it, which a Linux
 # build never compiles. Cgo is off, because compiling cgo code for macOS
 # needs Apple's SDK headers.
-RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/go-build \
+RUN GOOS=darwin CGO_ENABLED=0 go vet ./...
-    GOOS=darwin CGO_ENABLED=0 go vet ./...
+RUN GOOS=darwin CGO_ENABLED=0 golangci-lint run --config .golangci.yml ./...
-RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/go-build \
-    GOOS=darwin CGO_ENABLED=0 golangci-lint run --config .golangci.yml ./...
 
 # Test phase. -race needs cgo and so a C compiler, which the Debian Go
-# image ships and the alpine one does not. -count=1 because the mounted
+# image ships and the alpine one does not.
-# cache also holds test results, which go test would otherwise replay.
 # golang:1.24.13-trixie, 2026-02-04
 FROM golang@sha256:5835f052b784aa39f2fe9070def3568605c8bc3fcd810f10402066348b61e716 AS test
-ARG CACHEBUST
 ENV CGO_ENABLED=1
 WORKDIR /src
 COPY go.mod go.sum ./
 RUN go mod download
 COPY . .
-RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/go-build \
+# Go's build cache goes in a cache mount, not the image layer, which would
+# take seconds longer to export. --no-cache, on every build in script/,
+# starts the mount empty; -count=1 keeps a build without it from taking
+# test results from there.
+RUN --mount=type=cache,id=sneak/secret/go-build-test,target=/root/.cache/go-build \
     go test -count=1 -timeout 90s -race -cover ./... || \
     { echo "--- Rerunning with -v for details ---"; \
       go test -count=1 -timeout 90s -race -v ./...; exit 1; }
@@ -44,7 +37,6 @@ RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/go-build \
 # lint and test passed.
 # golang 1.24.13-alpine, 2026-03-10
 FROM golang@sha256:8bee1901f1e530bfb4a7850aa7a479d17ae3a18beb6e09064ed54cfd245b7191 AS builder
-ARG CACHEBUST
 COPY --from=lint /src/go.sum /dev/null
 COPY --from=test /src/go.sum /dev/null
 # script/build compiles with cgo, so it needs a C compiler too.
@@ -61,8 +53,7 @@ COPY . .
 # .git present, a version that is still empty, dev or unknown fails the
 # build: git is missing or could not read the checkout.
 ARG VERSION
-RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/go-build \
+RUN VERSION="${VERSION:-$(git describe --tags --always)}"; \
-    VERSION="${VERSION:-$(git describe --tags --always)}"; \
     if [ -e .git ]; then \
         case "$VERSION" in ""|dev|unknown) \
             echo "version is '$VERSION' although .git is present" >&2; \
@@ -74,7 +65,6 @@ RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/go-build \
 # Runtime stage, and the last one
 # alpine 3.23, 2026-03-10
 FROM alpine@sha256:25109184c71bdad752c8312a8623239686a9a2071e8825f20acb8f2198c3f659
-ARG CACHEBUST
 
 RUN apk add --no-cache ca-certificates gnupg
 

README.md

@@ -67,10 +67,6 @@ and unlocker set. This allows for complete isolation between different contexts
 
 ## Commands Reference
 
-Every time `secret` prints, in a table or in `--json` output, is in UTC,
-whatever `TZ` or the system's time zone is set to. The date in a version's name
-is the UTC date too.
-
 ### Confirmation Before Removal
 
 `secret rm`, `secret version rm`, `secret vault remove` and
@@ -118,11 +114,7 @@ are allowed, and a name must not be empty, `.` or `..`.
 
 #### `secret vault select <name>`
 
-Switches to the specified vault for subsequent operations. When `currentvault`
+Switches to the specified vault for subsequent operations.
-is empty or names a vault that does not exist, every command that uses the
-current vault fails with an error that names the file and says to run
-`secret vault select <name>`. `secret vault list` still lists the vaults, and
-`secret info` still runs; both show no vault as current.
 
 #### `secret vault remove <name> [--force]` / `secret vault rm` ⚠️ 🛑
 
@@ -150,11 +142,7 @@ value may be over 100 MiB, whatever the limit.
 
 #### `secret add <secret-name> [--force]`
 
-Adds a secret to the current vault. Reads the secret value from stdin. When the
+Adds a secret to the current vault. Reads the secret value from stdin.
-value ends in a newline, that one newline is dropped, so
-`echo value | secret add name` stores `value`; from `printf 'a\n\n'` it stores
-`a` and one newline. To keep a file's final newline, as in a PEM key, use
-`secret import`, which stores the file's bytes unchanged.
 
 - `--force, -f`: Overwrite existing secret
 
@@ -167,13 +155,13 @@ contain `//`, or have `..` as a path segment.
 
 #### `secret get <secret-name> [--version <version>]`
 
-Writes the secret's value to stdout exactly as stored, with no newline added
+Retrieves and outputs a secret value to stdout. A failed write of the value,
-after it. A failed write of the value, such as to a file on a full disk, prints
+such as to a file on a full disk, prints the error and exits 1, with two
-the error and exits 1, with two exceptions. If the program reading from a pipe
+exceptions. If the program reading from a pipe has already exited, as in
-has already exited, as in `secret get s | true`, the broken-pipe signal
+`secret get s | true`, the broken-pipe signal (SIGPIPE) ends `secret` with no
-(SIGPIPE) ends `secret` with no message and the shell reports exit status 141.
+message and the shell reports exit status 141. If the shell closed stdout before
-If the shell closed stdout before `secret` started (`secret get s >&-`), the
+`secret` started (`secret get s >&-`), the value is written to `/dev/null` and
-value is written to `/dev/null` and `secret get` exits 0.
+`secret get` exits 0.
 
 - `--version, -v`: Get a specific version (default: current)
 
@@ -216,12 +204,6 @@ Moves or renames a secret within the current vault.
 Lists all versions of a secret showing creation time, status, and validity
 period.
 
-`STATUS` is `current` for the secret's current version, `expired` for another
-version whose `NOT_AFTER` has passed, and `inactive` for any other version.
-Adding a version sets `NOT_AFTER` on the version that was current;
-`secret version promote` sets no times. A version that is not current therefore
-shows `inactive` when no version was added while it was current.
-
 #### `secret version promote <secret-name> <version>`
 
 Promotes a specific version to current by rewriting the secret's `current` file
@@ -279,12 +261,6 @@ Creates a new unlocker of the specified type:
 A vault has one passphrase unlocker: adding one replaces the one the vault has,
 which is removed only once the new one is the current unlocker.
 
-`secret unlocker add passphrase` asks on the terminal for the new passphrase
-even when `SB_UNLOCK_PASSPHRASE` is set, and uses the variable to unlock the
-vault. With no controlling terminal, as under cron or in a CI job, the new
-unlocker takes its passphrase from `SB_UNLOCK_PASSPHRASE`, and the command says
-so.
-
 #### `secret unlocker remove <unlocker-id> [--force]` / `secret unlocker rm` ⚠️ 🛑
 
 **DANGER**: Permanently removes an unlocker. It first asks for confirmation,
@@ -318,16 +294,10 @@ Selects an unlocker as the current default for operations.
 #### `secret import <secret-name> --source <filename>`
 
 Imports a secret from a file and stores it in the current vault under the given
-name. The file's bytes are stored unchanged, a final newline included.
+name.
 
 ### Encryption Operations
 
-With `--output`, `secret encrypt` and `secret decrypt` hold the result in memory
-and write it to `--output` only once encryption or decryption has succeeded, so
-a failure to encrypt or decrypt leaves `--output` untouched. A failure while
-writing `--output`, such as a full disk, can leave it empty or partly written.
-The command can need up to about four times as much memory as the result.
-
 #### `secret encrypt <secret-name> [--input=file] [--output=file]`
 
 Encrypts data using an Age key stored as a secret. If the secret doesn't exist,
@@ -438,14 +408,6 @@ asks when stdin is a pipe, as in `echo value | secret add name --force` or
 `cat file | secret encrypt key`. With no controlling terminal, as under cron or
 in a CI job, the command fails and names the variable to set.
 
-A command that changes anything locks the state directory, through its file
-`lock`, and another such command waits until the lock is released.
-`secret init`, `secret vault create`, `secret unlocker add`, `secret mv` from
-one vault to another, and `secret add`, `secret import` and
-`secret generate secret` with `--force`, ask for the mnemonic or passphrase
-before they take the lock, so a prompt of theirs left open in one terminal holds
-up no command in another.
-
 ## Security Features
 
 ### Encryption
@@ -582,11 +544,11 @@ secret decrypt encryption/mykey --input document.txt.age --output document.txt
 ### Vault Management
 
 - **Derivation Index**: Each vault uses a unique derivation index from the
-  mnemonic, and thus a unique key pair; creating a vault (`secret init` and
+  mnemonic, and thus a unique key pair; creating a vault or importing a mnemonic
-  `secret vault create`) fails, with an error naming the file, when any vault's
+  fails, with an error naming the file, when any vault's `vault-metadata.json`
-  `vault-metadata.json` exists but cannot be read or parsed; a vault directory
+  exists but cannot be read or parsed; a vault directory with no
-  with no `vault-metadata.json` is skipped, so the index it uses can be given to
+  `vault-metadata.json` is skipped, so the index it uses can be given to a new
-  a new vault
+  vault
 - **Public Key Hash**: Double SHA-256 hash of the vault's public key; the same
   hash of the index-0 public key identifies vaults from the same mnemonic
 - **Automatic Key Derivation**: When creating vaults with a mnemonic, keys are
@@ -675,10 +637,6 @@ provide:
 - `script/install-precommit` — install the git pre-commit hook that runs
   `script/precommit`
 
-Every stage of the `Dockerfile` declares `ARG CACHEBUST` as its first line after
-`FROM`. The `script/` builds pass a new `CACHEBUST` value on every build, which
-reruns every `RUN` step and keeps Go's build cache; `--no-cache` would empty it.
-
 ## Features
 
 - **Multiple Authentication Methods**: Supports passphrase and PGP unlockers

REPO_POLICIES.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 title: Repository Policies
-last_modified: 2026-10-15
+last_modified: 2026-10-04
 ---
 
 This document covers repository structure, tooling, and workflow standards. Code
@@ -54,39 +54,34 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
   `cibuild`. `script/bootstrap` installs all dependencies idempotently and
   assumes nothing is present: base tools come from nix, apt, brew, or apk
   (detected in that order; apt runs noninteractive). For node it uses the
-  installed node only when its major version is the pinned one; otherwise (node
+  installed node if present; otherwise it installs a PINNED node version via
-  missing, or another major, such as the node 24 the CI runner image ships) it
+  nvm, first installing nvm itself if missing — from a hash-verified GitHub
-  installs the PINNED node version via nvm and installs yarn and the packages
+  release archive (never `curl | sh`), with bash installed as an explicit
-  under it. nvm itself is installed first if missing, from a hash-verified
+  prerequisite since nvm requires bash. yarn is then pinned via
-  GitHub release archive (never `curl | sh`), with bash installed as an explicit
+  `corepack prepare yarn@<version> --activate`. Never install "latest" or "lts";
-  prerequisite since nvm requires bash. Only the major version is compared
+  always exact versions. `script/cibuild` runs the CI build: it changes to the
-  because the `Dockerfile` stages start from a node image whose exact version is
+  repo root, runs `script/bootstrap`, runs `script/check`, and builds the image
-  not the pin, and nvm cannot install a prebuilt node on alpine. yarn is pinned
+  with the version; the Gitea workflow calls it. **`script/cibuild` runs
-  via `corepack prepare yarn@<version> --activate`. Never install "latest" or
-  "lts"; always exact versions. `script/cibuild` runs the CI build: it changes
-  to the repo root, runs `script/bootstrap`, runs `script/check`, and builds the
-  image with the version; the Gitea workflow calls it. **`script/cibuild` runs
   `script/bootstrap` first**, because the workflow checks out the repo and runs
   nothing else, while `script/fmt-check` runs the formatter on the host: on a
   pristine checkout with nothing installed the run dies there, after the
-  containerised gates have passed. **The bootstrap alone is not enough**: when
+  containerised gates have passed. **The bootstrap alone is not enough**:
-  `script/bootstrap` installs node and yarn under nvm it leaves neither on the
+  `script/bootstrap` installs node and yarn under nvm and leaves neither on the
-  `PATH` of the shell that called it, so a bare `yarn` either exits 127 or runs
+  `PATH` of the shell that called it, so a bare `yarn` still exits 127. The host
-  under another node. The host entrypoints that need yarn — `script/fmt` and
+  entrypoints that need yarn — `script/fmt` and `script/fmt-check` — therefore
-  `script/fmt-check` — therefore use the same test as `script/bootstrap`: when
+  source nvm for the pinned node version before invoking it, exactly as
-  the node on `PATH` has the pinned major version they run the `yarn` on `PATH`,
+  `script/bootstrap`'s own install step does. A runner carrying nothing but
-  and otherwise they load nvm through `$HOME/.nvm/nvm.sh` and run yarn under the
+  docker and git then gets through `script/check`. Four further scripts are our
-  pinned node. A runner carrying nothing but docker and git then gets through
+  own extensions to the standard: `script/check` runs `script/test`,
-  `script/check`. Four further scripts are our own extensions to the standard:
+  `script/lint` and `script/fmt-check`; `script/precommit` is what the git
-  `script/check` runs `script/test`, `script/lint` and `script/fmt-check`;
+  pre-commit hook runs, and it calls `script/check`; `script/install-precommit`
-  `script/precommit` is what the git pre-commit hook runs, and it calls
+  installs the git pre-commit hook (the `make hooks` target shims to it); and
-  `script/check`; `script/install-precommit` installs the git pre-commit hook
+  `script/projectname` (literally that filename) simply outputs the project's
-  (the `make hooks` target shims to it); and `script/projectname` (literally
+  name. Scripts that need the name call `script/projectname` — e.g.
-  that filename) simply outputs the project's name. Scripts that need the name
+  `script/docker` assembles its image tag from it — so those scripts stay
-  call `script/projectname` — e.g. `script/docker` assembles its image tag from
+  byte-identical across all repos. Repo-type-specific pre-commit extras (e.g.
-  it — so those scripts stay byte-identical across all repos. Repo-type-specific
+  `go mod tidy` verification in Go repos) belong in `script/precommit`, not in
-  pre-commit extras (e.g. `go mod tidy` verification in Go repos) belong in
+  the hook itself. Model scripts are at
-  `script/precommit`, not in the hook itself. Model scripts are at
   `https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/script/<name>`. The README
   must document the provided scripts in an **Entrypoints** section (see the
   README requirements below).
@@ -123,10 +118,8 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
   and nothing else:
 
     ```sh
-    docker build --build-arg CACHEBUST="$(date +%s)-$$" \
+    docker build --no-cache --target lint -t "$(script/projectname)-lint" .
-        --target lint --output type=cacheonly .
+    docker build --no-cache --target test -t "$(script/projectname)-test" .
-    docker build --build-arg CACHEBUST="$(date +%s)-$$" \
-        --target test --output type=cacheonly .
     ```
 
     **A stage that is not the last one in the file is built only when the final
@@ -136,15 +129,10 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
     plain `docker build .` builds the last stage alone and exits 0 having linted
     and tested nothing.
 
-    **The gate builds write no image.** With `--output type=cacheonly` the phase
+    **Every `docker build` in `script/` is tagged**, here and in
-    runs and a failing step fails the build, but the result is not exported.
+    `script/cibuild` and `script/docker`. An untagged build leaves a dangling
-    Nothing uses those images, and writing one out is slow: a Go test phase's
+    image behind on every invocation, on every developer host and every CI
-    image holds the toolchain. A build given neither `--output` nor `-t` writes
+    runner; a tagged one replaces the previous image.
-    an untagged image and leaves it dangling, on every developer host and every
-    CI runner. `script/cibuild` and `script/docker` build the image that ships
-    and tag it, so each build replaces the previous image; each assigns the tag
-    on its own line before the build, so `set -e` stops it where
-    `script/projectname` fails.
 
     Inside a phase the tool is invoked directly — `golangci-lint`, `go test`,
     `eslint`, `prettier` — never through `make lint` or `script/test`, which are
@@ -159,33 +147,22 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
     one's findings, and a host-global lock in `$TMPDIR` makes concurrent runs
     exit non-zero with `parallel golangci-lint is running` — a status a caller
     cannot tell from real findings. Both have produced wrong verdicts in this
-    org, in both directions. A container has its own golangci-lint cache, its
+    org, in both directions. A container has its own cache, its own `TMPDIR` and
-    own `TMPDIR` and a digest-pinned binary, so neither is reachable.
+    a digest-pinned binary, so neither is reachable.
 
-- **Any build that runs checks is given a new `CACHEBUST` value.** Docker
+- **Any build that runs checks is built with `--no-cache`.** Docker invalidates
-  invalidates a `COPY` layer only when the copied content changes, so on an
+  a `COPY` layer only when the copied content changes, so on an unchanged tree
-  unchanged tree the check `RUN` is served from cache, nothing executes, and the
+  the check `RUN` is served from cache, nothing executes, and the build still
-  build still exits 0. Every `docker build` in `script/` therefore passes
+  exits 0. Every `docker build` in `script/` therefore passes `--no-cache`:
-  `--build-arg CACHEBUST="$(date +%s)-$$"`, the time and the script's process
+  `script/lint`, `script/test`, `script/cibuild` and `script/docker` are the
-  id, so no two builds share a value, not even the three in one
+  four, and there is no fifth — `script/check` runs the two gate phases and
-  `script/cibuild`. `script/lint`, `script/test`, `script/cibuild` and
+  `script/fmt-check`, and builds no image of its own. A bare `docker build .` is
-  `script/docker` are the four, and there is no fifth — `script/check` runs the
+  not evidence that anything ran: a sub-second build reporting success is a
-  two gate phases and `script/fmt-check`, and builds no image of its own. Every
+  cache hit, not a result. Never invalidate by pruning — `docker builder prune`
-  stage of the `Dockerfile` declares `ARG CACHEBUST` as its first line after
+  and friends destroy a build cache shared with every other build on the host.
-  `FROM`, and a new value reruns every `RUN` step after that line; `COPY` steps
+  When a check is added or changed, prove it works by planting a defect it must
-  are compared by content and need nothing. A stage without the `ARG` line is
+  catch and watching the run fail on it, then revert the defect. A green run
-  served from cache on an unchanged tree, so a repository re-vendors the scripts
+  alone shows neither that the check ran nor that it covers what it should.
-  and adds the `ARG` lines in one commit. The scripts do not pass `--no-cache`:
-  it reruns every step too, but it also empties every cache mount, and Go's
-  build cache, which the canonical Go `Dockerfile` below mounts so that compiled
-  packages survive between check builds, would start empty every time. A bare
-  `docker build .` is not evidence that anything ran: a sub-second build
-  reporting success is a cache hit, not a result. Never invalidate by pruning —
-  `docker builder prune` and friends destroy a build cache shared with every
-  other build on the host. When a check is added or changed, prove it works by
-  planting a defect it must catch and watching the run fail on it, then revert
-  the defect. A green run alone shows neither that the check ran nor that it
-  covers what it should.
 
 - **The gate phases are separate stages, and the build stage depends on both.**
   The lint phase is based on the `golangci/golangci-lint` image (pinned by
@@ -194,42 +171,32 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
   `Dockerfile`:
 
     ```dockerfile
-    # Every stage declares ARG CACHEBUST first: script/ passes a new value
-    # on every build, which reruns every RUN step after it. The steps that
-    # compile mount Go's build cache, which survives from build to build.
-
     # Lint phase
     # golangci/golangci-lint:v2.x.x, YYYY-MM-DD
     FROM golangci/golangci-lint@sha256:... AS lint
-    ARG CACHEBUST
     WORKDIR /src
     COPY go.mod go.sum ./
     RUN go mod download
     COPY . .
-    RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/go-build \
+    RUN golangci-lint run --config .golangci.yml ./...
-        golangci-lint run --config .golangci.yml ./...
 
     # Test phase. -race needs cgo and so a C compiler, which the Debian Go
-    # image ships and the alpine one does not. -count=1 because the mounted
+    # image ships and the alpine one does not.
-    # cache also holds test results, which go test would otherwise replay.
     # golang:1.x, YYYY-MM-DD
     FROM golang@sha256:... AS test
-    ARG CACHEBUST
     WORKDIR /src
     COPY go.mod go.sum ./
     RUN go mod download
     COPY . .
-    RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/go-build \
+    RUN go test -timeout 90s -race -cover ./... || \
-        go test -count=1 -timeout 90s -race -cover ./... || \
         { echo "--- Rerunning with -v for details ---"; \
-          go test -count=1 -timeout 90s -race -v ./...; exit 1; }
+          go test -timeout 90s -race -v ./...; exit 1; }
 
     # Build stage. Nothing is wanted from either phase above; the copies
     # are what make BuildKit build them first, so this stage cannot run
     # unless lint and test passed.
     # golang:1.x-alpine, YYYY-MM-DD
     FROM golang@sha256:... AS builder
-    ARG CACHEBUST
     COPY --from=lint /src/go.sum /dev/null
     COPY --from=test /src/go.sum /dev/null
     RUN apk add --no-cache git
@@ -245,8 +212,7 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
     # .git present, a version that is still empty, dev or unknown fails the
     # build: git is missing or could not read the checkout.
     ARG VERSION
-    RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/go-build \
+    RUN VERSION="${VERSION:-$(git describe --tags --always)}"; \
-        VERSION="${VERSION:-$(git describe --tags --always)}"; \
         if [ -e .git ]; then \
             case "$VERSION" in ""|dev|unknown) \
                 echo "version is '$VERSION' although .git is present" >&2; \
@@ -259,7 +225,6 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
 
     # Runtime stage, and the last one
     FROM alpine@sha256:...
-    ARG CACHEBUST
     COPY --from=builder /app /usr/local/bin/app
     ENTRYPOINT ["app"]
     ```
@@ -274,16 +239,6 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
     - Keep the runtime stage last, and if you add a stage after it, give it the
       same two copies. A plain `docker build .` builds the last stage's chain
       and nothing else.
-    - Only Go's build cache is mounted (`/root/.cache/go-build`, where Go keeps
-      it for root), and only on the steps that compile: `golangci-lint run`,
-      both `go test` runs and `go build`. It keeps compiled packages between
-      check builds, and Go reuses one only when all its inputs are unchanged, so
-      it saves the compile without skipping a check. Nothing else is kept:
-      golangci-lint's own cache would replay stored findings in place of a lint
-      run, and Go builds from whatever files a kept module cache holds without
-      checking them again (only `go mod verify` does), so a file changed there
-      would go unnoticed. Go's build cache also holds test results, which is why
-      both `go test` runs carry `-count=1`.
     - If the project uses `//go:embed` directives that reference build artifacts
       (e.g. a web frontend compiled in a separate stage), the lint phase must
       create placeholder files so the embed directives resolve. Example:
@@ -323,39 +278,20 @@ 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,
+  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
+  That script bootstraps, runs the gate phases, and then builds the image, so a
-  without it the checkout leaves the job's token in `.git/config` for every
+  successful run means every check passed; a bare `docker build .` does not
-  later step. The checkout step also sets `fetch-depth: 0`, which fetches the
-  tags `git describe` needs: by default it clones shallow with no tags, and a
-  tagged repository's CI build would stamp a bare short commit id. The
-  workflow's `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
   carry the same guarantee, because its gate phases may come from the cache. The
-  image build gets a `CACHEBUST` value of its own and so runs the gate phases a
+  image build is uncached and so runs the gate phases a second time. That is the
-  second time. That is the price of the rule above, and it is worth paying: the
+  price of the rule above, and it is worth paying: the image that ships is built
-  image that ships is built from a run of its own gates rather than from a cache
+  from a run of its own gates rather than from a cache entry. A separate
-  entry. The `check` job sets `timeout-minutes: 20`, so a hung build frees the
+  workflow limited to `main` by a `branches` list under `on: push` cannot be
-  shared runner after 20 minutes. That allows for the three Docker builds
+  checked by review: to try a change to it, add the feature branch to that list
-  described above (the test phase, the lint phase, then the image), each held to
+  and push, then remove the branch from the list again before merging. Keep any
-  the 5-minute Docker build limit below, plus the bootstrap. A separate workflow
+  job in it that publishes behind `if: github.ref_name == 'main'`, so the run
-  limited to `main` by a `branches` list under `on: push` cannot be checked by
+  from the feature branch publishes nothing.
-  review: to try a change to it, add the feature branch to that list and push,
-  then remove the branch from the list again before merging. Keep any job in it
-  that publishes behind `if: github.ref_name == 'main'`, so the run from the
-  feature branch publishes nothing.
 
 - Use platform-standard formatters: `black` for Python, `prettier` for
   JS/CSS/Markdown/HTML, `go fmt` for Go. Always use default configuration with
@@ -415,11 +351,12 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
     That cache is Go's own, separate from Docker's layer cache. Go stores a
     passing result in its cache directory (`GOCACHE`), and when the same tests
     run again on unchanged code it prints that result, marked `(cached)`,
-    without running them. The directory lasts from one run to the next on a
+    without running them. That matters on a developer's machine, where this
-    developer's machine, where this target runs, and in the `test` phase of the
+    target runs and the directory lasts from one run to the next. The `test`
-    `Dockerfile`, which mounts it to keep compiled packages between check
+    phase of the `Dockerfile` needs no `-count=1`: its base image holds no
-    builds, so the phase's `go test` runs carry `-count=1` too. A new
+    result for this repo's tests and nothing before its `go test` step runs a
-    `CACHEBUST` value (above) is what makes that step run on an unchanged tree.
+    test, so there is nothing to replay. `--no-cache` (above) is what makes that
+    step run on an unchanged tree.
 
     Python example:
 
@@ -447,12 +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
+  language build artifacts, and `node_modules/`. Fetch the standard `.gitignore`
-  `.gitignore` from
+  from `https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/.gitignore` when
-  `https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/.gitignore` when setting up
+  setting up a new repo. These patterns are written to `.gitignore`'s own
-  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
   semantics, in which an unanchored pattern already matches at every depth; they
   are not a `.dockerignore` and must not be transplanted into one unmodified.
 
@@ -500,15 +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
+    # Own line: a failing command substitution inside an argument does not
-    # substitution inside an argument does not trip `set -e`, so the inline
+    # trip `set -e`, so the inline form degrades to an empty constant.
-    # form degrades to an empty constant.
     version="$(git describe --tags --always --dirty 2>/dev/null || true)"
     [ -n "$version" ] || version="unknown"
-    tag="$(script/projectname)"
+    docker build --no-cache \
-    docker build --build-arg CACHEBUST="$(date +%s)-$$" \
         --build-arg VERSION="$version" \
-        -t "$tag" .
+        -t "$(script/projectname)" .
     ```
 
     `--always` makes an untagged repo yield an abbreviated commit hash rather
@@ -520,8 +452,8 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
     there because `ARG` is stage-scoped; passing `VERSION` to a repo whose
     Dockerfile declares no such `ARG` is ignored and costs nothing, which is why
     the scripts stay byte-identical. One consequence for CI: the standard
-    checkout action clones shallow and fetches no tags, so the canonical
+    checkout action clones shallow and fetches no tags, so a repo that embeds a
-    `.gitea/workflows/check.yml` sets `fetch-depth: 0` on its checkout step.
+    tag-derived version must set `fetch-depth: 0` on its checkout step.
 
 - **Verify `.dockerignore` by enumerating the image, not by reading the
   patterns.** Plant files at the root _and_ at least two directories deep, build
@@ -588,11 +520,6 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
       function defined and never invoked has the same exit status and the same
       empty output as one that worked.
 
-    Node is the exception to the whole-token comparison: the canonical
-    `script/bootstrap` compares only its major version, because the node 22
-    alpine image the `Dockerfile` stages start from is not the exact pin, and
-    nvm cannot install a prebuilt node on alpine.
-
     Keep it POSIX sh: no arrays, no `[[`, no `grep -P`.
 
     A Go tool a repo needs on the host is installed with `go install` pinned to
@@ -709,11 +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
+  settings.
-  `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.
 
 - Avoid putting files in the repo root unless necessary. Root should contain
   only project-level config files (`README.md`, `AGENTS.md`, `Makefile`,

TODO.md

@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@
 
 # Status
 
-pre-1.0. Open work is tracked on the issue tracker, which is authoritative.
+pre-1.0. No git tags. Open work is tracked on the issue tracker, which is
+authoritative.
 
 # Next Step
 
@@ -17,200 +18,6 @@ https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/milestone/12
 
 # Completed Steps
 
-- 2026-10-15: The comment on `commandWait` in `internal/cli/integration_test.go`
-  no longer says `script/test` gives the package 30 seconds
-  (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/195). `script/test` sets no time
-  limit; the test phase of the `Dockerfile` sets one with `go test -timeout`.
-  The comment now names that place instead of a number.
-- 2026-10-15: The canonical files are re-vendored from `sneak/prompts` commit
-  `e3f79c4` (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/129), so Go's build cache
-  survives between check builds and `make test` no longer compiles the standard
-  library and every dependency with `-race` on every run. `script/lint`,
-  `script/test`, `script/cibuild` and `script/docker` pass a new `CACHEBUST`
-  value instead of `--no-cache`, and every stage of the `Dockerfile` declares
-  `ARG CACHEBUST` first, so every `RUN` step still reruns on an unchanged tree.
-  The steps that compile mount Go's build cache, and both `go test` runs keep
-  `-count=1`, so no test result is reused. `script/lint` and `script/test` write
-  no image. The CI workflow cancels a branch's older run, stops after 20
-  minutes, fetches the tags and leaves no token behind. `script/bootstrap` uses
-  the installed node only when its major version is the pinned one.
-- 2026-10-15: `make test` no longer fails on some runs in `internal/cli`
-  (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/192). `cli.Entry()` set `time.Local`
-  to UTC and ended by wiping every memguard buffer, and a test ran it in the
-  same process as the other tests. A timer left by an earlier test could read
-  `time.Local` as it changed, which the race detector reported, and the wipe
-  could destroy a buffer still in use, the likeliest cause of a crash of the
-  test process on another run. `main()` in `cmd/secret` now sets `time.Local`
-  before it calls `cli.Entry()`, and that test runs `cli.Entry()` in a process
-  of its own.
-- 2026-10-15: `secret mv` from one vault to another unlocks both vaults before
-  it takes the state directory lock
-  (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/189). It unlocked them while holding
-  the lock, and unlocking can ask for a passphrase, so every other command that
-  changes anything waited at that prompt. `moveSecretCrossVault` now checks the
-  move, refusing an existing destination secret without `--force`, unlocks both
-  vaults, and only then takes the lock. Under the lock, it checks that the
-  destination vault still has the long-term key it unlocked, and
-  `copySecretAndRemoveSource` checks the move again before it copies. A move
-  within a vault takes the lock in `moveSecretWithinVault`, so `MoveSecret`
-  takes none itself. The error for a vault created again with another key, which
-  `secret unlocker add` shares, now ends "nothing was changed".
-- 2026-10-15: `secret init`, `secret vault create`, `secret unlocker add`, and
-  `secret add`, `secret import` and `secret generate secret` with `--force` ask
-  for the mnemonic or passphrase, or unlock the vault, before they take the
-  state directory lock (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/152). They did
-  so while holding the lock, so every other command that changes anything waited
-  at the prompt. Under the lock, `secret unlocker add` fails if the vault was
-  removed, or created again with another key, and refuses a GPG key added
-  meanwhile; a forced add of a secret created meanwhile lets go of the lock,
-  gets the key and takes the lock again. `secret.CreatePGPUnlocker` takes the
-  unlocked vault; `SetMnemonic` and `SetUnlockPassphrase` are gone.
-- 2026-10-15: A `secret mv` to another vault that copies the secret but cannot
-  remove the source fails (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/159). It
-  printed a warning and the usual "Moved" line and exited 0. If the source
-  secret's directory is still in place, the error says the copy holds all
-  versions and the source remains. If the source left its vault and only the
-  temporary directory it was moved into could not be deleted, the error says the
-  secret is moved and names that directory, which the error of `RemoveDirAtomic`
-  now does.
-- 2026-10-15: `secret encrypt` and `secret decrypt` with `--output` hold the
-  result in memory and open the output file only once encryption or decryption
-  has succeeded (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/143). They emptied that
-  file before reading any input, so a failed command left it empty, and
-  encrypting a file onto itself gave the encryption of nothing. A failure to
-  encrypt or decrypt now leaves `--output` untouched, and `--input` can name the
-  same file. A failure while writing `--output`, such as a full disk, can still
-  leave it empty or partly written; an error from closing it is reported.
-  Without `--output` the result still goes to stdout as it is produced.
-- 2026-10-15: A command that uses the current vault fails when `currentvault` is
-  empty or names no vault (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/156).
-  `secret list` reported an empty vault with exit status 0, and `secret add`
-  failed on a missing directory. `ResolveVaultSymlink` now refuses an empty or
-  invalid name, or one with no directory under `vaults.d`, with an error that
-  wraps `ErrVaultNotFound`, names the file and says to run
-  `secret vault select <name>`. `secret vault list` and `secret info` still run.
-- 2026-10-15: `secret` prints every time in UTC, whatever the machine's time
-  zone (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/169). `secret list`,
-  `secret version list`, `secret unlocker list` and `secret info` printed times
-  in the local time zone without naming it, so one vault showed different times
-  on two machines. `Entry()` now sets `time.Local` to UTC before anything else,
-  as policy 6 in `AGENTS.md` asks, so every time the program prints or writes is
-  in UTC. `--json` times end in `Z`, and a new version's name takes the UTC
-  date. The README says so.
-- 2026-10-15: `secret vault`, `secret unlocker`, `secret version` and
-  `secret generate` fail when given a subcommand they do not have
-  (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/183). They printed their help and
-  exited 0, so a mistyped command looked like one that worked. Each now exits 1
-  with `unknown command "<name>" for "secret <parent>"`, and with no arguments
-  still prints its help. Cobra checks a command's `Args` only when it has a
-  `RunE`, so each gets `Args: cobra.NoArgs` and a `RunE` that prints its help;
-  their help now shows a `secret <parent> [flags]` usage line.
-  `secret vault help` fails as an unknown subcommand, while `secret help vault`
-  and `secret vault --help` still work.
-- 2026-10-15: With `SB_UNLOCK_PASSPHRASE` set, `secret unlocker add passphrase`
-  asks on the terminal for the new unlocker's passphrase and uses the variable
-  to unlock the vault (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/154). It gave the
-  new unlocker the passphrase in the variable without asking. With no
-  controlling terminal, the new unlocker takes the variable's passphrase and the
-  output says so. `secret.ErrNoTerminal` is exported so that the command can
-  tell a missing terminal from other failures to read, such as nothing typed or
-  a confirmation that does not match, which still fail the command.
-- 2026-10-15: `secret init` and `secret vault create` stop with an error naming
-  the file when a vault's `vault-metadata.json` cannot be read or parsed, and
-  leave the state directory as it was
-  (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/140). `GetNextDerivationIndex` passed
-  over such a vault, so the next vault made from the same mnemonic could get its
-  derivation index and so the same long-term key. A vault directory with no
-  metadata file is still skipped.
-- 2026-10-15: The README says that `secret add` drops one trailing newline from
-  stdin, that `secret import` stores a file's bytes unchanged, and that
-  `secret get` writes the value with no newline added
-  (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/158). It said none of this, so a PEM
-  key piped into `secret add` came back one byte short with no hint why. A new
-  test stores `a\n\n` through `add` and through `import` and checks that `add`
-  kept two bytes and `import` three. No program code changes.
-- 2026-10-15: When gpg fails to decrypt, to encrypt or to look up a key's
-  fingerprint, the error ends with what gpg wrote to stderr, trimmed
-  (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/146). It gave only gpg's exit status,
-  so the user could not tell why. `cmd.Output` keeps gpg's stderr in the
-  `*exec.ExitError` it returns, and the three errors now use it. When gpg wrote
-  nothing to stderr the error is as before, and when gpg wrote several lines the
-  error has them all.
-- 2026-10-15: `secret version list` no longer shows a version without
-  `NOT_AFTER` as expired (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/150). STATUS
-  was `expired` for every version other than the current one, so after a promote
-  the newest version, which has no `NOT_AFTER`, read `expired`. STATUS is now
-  `current` for the current version, `expired` for another version whose
-  `NOT_AFTER` has passed, and `inactive` for any other version. The README
-  describes the three.
-- 2026-10-15: `secret unlocker list --json` for a vault with no unlockers, and
-  `secret vault list --json` when `vaults.d` holds no vaults, print the empty
-  list as `[]` instead of `null` (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/148).
-  Both lists were nil slices, which `encoding/json` writes as `null`; each is
-  now made as an empty slice before it is filled. `vault.ListVaults` therefore
-  returns an empty slice instead of nil for an empty `vaults.d`.
-- 2026-10-15: `secret add`, `secret import` and `secret generate secret` fail
-  with an error, not memguard's panic, when a secret is too large for the
-  locked-memory limit (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/145). The value
-  was held twice, so half the usual 8 MiB limit was enough to crash them.
-  `secret` now raises the limit to the hard limit at startup, and each of the
-  three commands refuses, before its first locked allocation, a limit that
-  leaves fewer than 8 pages for its keys and buffers. The value is read a page
-  at a time into a `memguard.Stream`, which keeps it encrypted, and copied once
-  into locked memory after its size is checked against 100 MiB and the limit. It
-  leaves the stream through `Next`, not `Read`, because `Read` re-encrypts a
-  leftover piece and memguard hangs if that runs out of locked memory.
-- 2026-10-15: Total Size in `secret info` counts every file of each version: the
-  value, the metadata and the version's two keys
-  (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/147). It added up each version's
-  `data.age` and `metadata.age`, but a version keeps its value in `value.age`,
-  so no secret's value was counted. A version directory that cannot be read adds
-  nothing and gets a warning naming it.
-- 2026-10-15: `secret vault import` is gone, with its tests and its README entry
-  (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/139). It took only a vault without a
-  long-term key, and `secret init` and `secret vault create` give every vault
-  one, so it always failed; a mnemonic enters through those two commands. The
-  help and the note of `secret generate mnemonic` named `secret import`, which
-  imports a file as a secret, and now name `secret init` and
-  `secret vault create`.
-- 2026-10-15: `secret version promote --help` says promote rewrites the
-  `current` file, not a "current symlink"
-  (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/153). `current` is a plain file
-  holding the version name, as the README already said, and the comment in
-  `PromoteVersion` now says so too.
-- 2026-10-14: `secret init` and `secret vault create` refuse a vault that
-  already exists before they ask for the mnemonic or the unlocker passphrase
-  (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/151). They asked first, and
-  `secret init` printed "Initialized secrets manager at" before refusing. The
-  check `vault.CreateVault` made before writing is now
-  `vault.CheckNewVaultName`, which both commands call before the first prompt
-  and `CreateVault` still calls. It validates the name too, so
-  `secret vault create` with an invalid name also fails before the prompts.
-  `secret init` prints the "Initialized" line only once the vault is created.
-- 2026-10-14: `secret get` fails when it cannot write the value
-  (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/155). `GetSecret` and
-  `GetSecretWithVersion` discarded the result of writing it to stdout, so a full
-  disk or a failing stdout left an empty or cut-short file and exit status 0.
-  The write error is now returned, so the command prints it and exits 1. A
-  stdout the shell closed before `secret` started still exits 0, because the Go
-  runtime opens `/dev/null` in its place and the write there succeeds.
-- 2026-10-14: `secret list` and `secret list --json` give each secret's own
-  creation and last-update times (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/142).
-  They gave the time of the listing for every secret, because
-  `Secret.LoadMetadata` set both to the current time. It now reads file
-  modification times, so listing still needs no passphrase. The last update is
-  when the secret's `current` file was written. The creation is when its oldest
-  version's `value.age` was written, not that version's directory, whose time
-  changes when the next add rewrites its `metadata.age`. A move to another vault
-  gives the copied files the times of the originals. `GetSecretObject` no longer
-  loads the times, so `secret get` keeps its error for a missing `current` file.
-- 2026-10-14: `secret unlocker add pgp` without `--keyid` uses the `default-key`
-  in `gpg.conf` (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/141).
-  `getDefaultGPGKey` took that value from `gpgconf --list-options gpg` as
-  printed, with a leading `"` and percent-escaped, so gpg rejected the key ID.
-  The new `parseDefaultGPGKey` drops the `"` and percent-decodes the rest with
-  `url.PathUnescape`, which leaves `+` alone. A value that does not decode is an
-  error, not a fallback to the first secret key.
 - 2026-10-14: A wrong passphrase, from `SB_UNLOCK_PASSPHRASE` or typed at the
   prompt, gives the error `wrong passphrase for unlocker <id>`
   (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/157). It used to be age's "no

cmd/secret/main.go

@@ -3,16 +3,10 @@ package main
 
 import (
 	"os"
-	"time"
 
 	"sneak.berlin/go/secret/internal/cli"
 )
 
 func main() {
-	// Every time secret prints or writes is in UTC, whatever TZ or the
-	// system's time zone is set to. It is set here, before cli.Entry starts
-	// any goroutine that could read time.Local while it changes.
-	time.Local = time.UTC //nolint:gosmopolitan // this makes local time UTC
-
 	os.Exit(cli.Entry())
 }

internal/cli/create_vault_test.go

@@ -144,20 +144,25 @@ func TestVaultCreationLeavesNoSecretInEnvironment(t *testing.T) {
 // TestNoVaultImportCommand is a regression test for
 // https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/139: `secret vault import`
 // refused every vault that `secret vault create` makes, because each has a
-// long-term key. The command is gone, so it fails as any subcommand of
+// long-term key. The command is gone, so cobra answers it with the help of
-// `secret vault` that does not exist does.
+// `secret vault`, as it does any subcommand of `secret vault` it does not
+// know.
 func TestNoVaultImportCommand(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Setenv(secret.EnvStateDir, t.TempDir())
-	t.Setenv(secret.EnvMnemonic, testMnemonic)
-	t.Setenv(secret.EnvUnlockPassphrase, testPassphrase)
 
-	_, err := cli.ExecuteCommandInProcess(
+	run := func(args ...string) string {
-		strings.Fields("vault create work"), "", nil)
+		t.Setenv(secret.EnvMnemonic, testMnemonic)
-	require.NoError(t, err)
+		t.Setenv(secret.EnvUnlockPassphrase, testPassphrase)
 
-	_, err = cli.ExecuteCommandInProcess(
+		output, err := cli.ExecuteCommandInProcess(args, "", nil)
-		strings.Fields("vault import work"), "", nil)
+		require.NoError(t, err, "%v", args)
-	require.EqualError(t, err, `unknown command "import" for "secret vault"`)
+
+		return output
+	}
+
+	run("vault", "create", "work")
+
+	require.Equal(t, run("vault"), run("vault", "import", "work"))
 }
 
 // TestStopAtPassphrasePromptLeavesNothing is a regression test for the

internal/cli/crypto.go

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 package cli
 
 import (
-	"bytes"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
@@ -108,8 +107,8 @@ func (cli *Instance) storeNewEncryptionKey(
 // does not exist. The caller must destroy the returned buffer. Only storing
 // a new key takes the state directory lock, so that reading an existing key
 // works on a read-only state directory and keeps no other command waiting
-// at the passphrase prompt, and Encrypt reads its input and writes its
+// at the passphrase prompt, and Encrypt streams its input and output
-// output without the lock.
+// unlocked.
 func (cli *Instance) resolveEncryptionKey(
 	vlt *vault.Vault, secretName string,
 ) (*memguard.LockedBuffer, error) {
@@ -189,17 +188,17 @@ func (cli *Instance) Encrypt(secretName, inputFile, outputFile string) error {
 		input = file
 	}
 
-	// Set up output writer. With --output the result is held in memory
+	// Set up output writer
-	// and written only once encryption has succeeded, so a failure to
-	// encrypt leaves --output untouched and --input can be the same file.
-	// A failure while writing --output, such as a full disk, can leave it
-	// empty or partly written.
 	output := cli.cmd.OutOrStdout()
 
-	var result bytes.Buffer
-
 	if outputFile != "" {
-		output = &result
+		file, err := cli.fs.Create(outputFile)
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("failed to create output file: %w", err)
+		}
+		defer func() { _ = file.Close() }()
+
+		output = file
 	}
 
 	// Encrypt the data
@@ -218,11 +217,7 @@ func (cli *Instance) Encrypt(secretName, inputFile, outputFile string) error {
 		return fmt.Errorf("failed to finalize encryption: %w", err)
 	}
 
-	if outputFile == "" {
+	return nil
-		return nil
-	}
-
-	return cli.writeOutputFile(outputFile, result.Bytes())
 }
 
 // Decrypt decrypts data using an age secret key stored in a secret
@@ -283,17 +278,17 @@ func (cli *Instance) Decrypt(secretName, inputFile, outputFile string) error {
 		input = file
 	}
 
-	// Set up output writer. With --output the result is held in memory
+	// Set up output writer
-	// and written only once decryption has succeeded, so a failure to
-	// decrypt leaves --output untouched and --input can be the same file.
-	// A failure while writing --output, such as a full disk, can leave it
-	// empty or partly written.
 	output := cli.cmd.OutOrStdout()
 
-	var result bytes.Buffer
-
 	if outputFile != "" {
-		output = &result
+		file, err := cli.fs.Create(outputFile)
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("failed to create output file: %w", err)
+		}
+		defer func() { _ = file.Close() }()
+
+		output = file
 	}
 
 	// Decrypt the data
@@ -307,32 +302,6 @@ func (cli *Instance) Decrypt(secretName, inputFile, outputFile string) error {
 		return fmt.Errorf("failed to decrypt data: %w", err)
 	}
 
-	if outputFile == "" {
-		return nil
-	}
-
-	return cli.writeOutputFile(outputFile, result.Bytes())
-}
-
-// writeOutputFile creates outputFile, or empties it if it exists, and
-// writes result into it.
-func (cli *Instance) writeOutputFile(outputFile string, result []byte) error {
-	file, err := cli.fs.Create(outputFile)
-	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("failed to create output file: %w", err)
-	}
-
-	_, err = file.Write(result)
-
-	closeErr := file.Close()
-	if err == nil {
-		err = closeErr
-	}
-
-	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("failed to write output file: %w", err)
-	}
-
 	return nil
 }
 

internal/cli/crypto_test.go

@@ -1,185 +0,0 @@
-//nolint:testpackage // sets the unexported fields of Instance
-package cli
-
-import (
-	"errors"
-	"fmt"
-	"io"
-	"os"
-	"path/filepath"
-	"testing"
-
-	"github.com/spf13/afero"
-	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
-	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
-	"sneak.berlin/go/secret/internal/vault"
-)
-
-// plainText is the content of plain.txt in the directory newCryptoTest makes.
-const plainText = "document"
-
-// newCryptoTest returns an Instance whose current vault, in a new state
-// directory on the real filesystem, holds the age key secret "key", and a
-// new directory holding only plain.txt and plain.txt.age, its encryption
-// with that key.
-func newCryptoTest(t *testing.T) (*Instance, string) {
-	t.Helper()
-
-	fs := afero.NewOsFs()
-	stateDir := t.TempDir()
-
-	_, err := vault.CreateVault(fs, stateDir, "default", testMnemonicBuffer(t), nil)
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-
-	cli := NewCLIInstanceWithStateDir(fs, stateDir)
-	cli.Mnemonic = testMnemonicBuffer(t)
-	cli.cmd = &cobra.Command{}
-
-	dir := t.TempDir()
-	plain := filepath.Join(dir, "plain.txt")
-	require.NoError(t, afero.WriteFile(fs, plain, []byte(plainText), 0o600))
-	require.NoError(t, cli.Encrypt("key", plain, plain+".age"))
-
-	return cli, dir
-}
-
-// TestFailedCryptoLeavesOutputUnchanged is a regression test for
-// https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/143, where secret encrypt and
-// secret decrypt emptied the file named by --output before they failed.
-// A failure to encrypt or decrypt must leave an existing file as it was and
-// create none, and give the same error as without --output.
-func TestFailedCryptoLeavesOutputUnchanged(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	tests := []struct {
-		name string
-		run  func(cli *Instance, dir, output string) error
-	}{
-		// Reading a directory fails once encryption has begun
-		{"encrypt", func(cli *Instance, dir, output string) error {
-			return cli.Encrypt("key", dir, output)
-		}},
-		// plain.txt is not an age file
-		{"decrypt", func(cli *Instance, dir, output string) error {
-			return cli.Decrypt("key", filepath.Join(dir, "plain.txt"), output)
-		}},
-	}
-
-	for _, tt := range tests {
-		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
-			t.Parallel()
-
-			cli, dir := newCryptoTest(t)
-			existing := filepath.Join(dir, "existing.txt")
-			require.NoError(t, afero.WriteFile(cli.fs, existing, []byte("precious"), 0o600))
-
-			cli.cmd.SetOut(io.Discard)
-			toStdout := tt.run(cli, dir, "")
-			require.Error(t, toStdout)
-
-			require.EqualError(t, tt.run(cli, dir, existing), toStdout.Error())
-			require.EqualError(t, tt.run(cli, dir, filepath.Join(dir, "new.txt")),
-				toStdout.Error())
-
-			content, err := afero.ReadFile(cli.fs, existing)
-			require.NoError(t, err)
-			require.Equal(t, "precious", string(content))
-
-			exists, err := afero.Exists(cli.fs, filepath.Join(dir, "new.txt"))
-			require.NoError(t, err)
-			require.False(t, exists, "a failed %s created --output", tt.name)
-		})
-	}
-}
-
-// TestCryptoInPlace checks that secret encrypt and secret decrypt given
-// one file as both --input and --output replace it with the right result.
-// Before https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/143 they emptied the file
-// before reading it.
-func TestCryptoInPlace(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	cli, dir := newCryptoTest(t)
-	file := filepath.Join(dir, "plain.txt")
-
-	require.NoError(t, cli.Encrypt("key", file, file))
-	require.NoError(t, cli.Decrypt("key", file, file))
-
-	content, err := afero.ReadFile(cli.fs, file)
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-	require.Equal(t, plainText, string(content))
-}
-
-// errCloseFailed is returned by the files closeFailFs creates in place of
-// a successful Close, as NFS reports a full disk only when the file is
-// closed.
-var errCloseFailed = errors.New("no space left on device")
-
-// closeFailFs creates files whose Close fails with errCloseFailed.
-type closeFailFs struct {
-	afero.Fs
-}
-
-// closeFailFile is a file created through closeFailFs.
-type closeFailFile struct {
-	afero.File
-}
-
-func (f closeFailFile) Close() error {
-	_ = f.File.Close()
-
-	return errCloseFailed
-}
-
-//nolint:ireturn // afero.File is the interface required by afero.Fs
-func (f closeFailFs) Create(name string) (afero.File, error) {
-	file, err := f.Fs.Create(name)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-
-	return closeFailFile{File: file}, nil
-}
-
-// TestDecryptFailsWhenClosingOutputFails checks that secret decrypt fails
-// when closing --output fails, since some filesystems report a failed
-// write only then.
-func TestDecryptFailsWhenClosingOutputFails(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	cli, dir := newCryptoTest(t)
-	cli.fs = closeFailFs{Fs: cli.fs}
-
-	err := cli.Decrypt("key", filepath.Join(dir, "plain.txt.age"),
-		filepath.Join(dir, "out.txt"))
-	require.ErrorIs(t, err, errCloseFailed)
-}
-
-// TestDecryptToDescriptorOfDeletedFile checks that secret decrypt given
-// /dev/fd/N as --output writes through that descriptor. A program may give
-// the command a temporary file it has already deleted as stdout, pass
-// /dev/stdout as --output and read the result back from that file.
-func TestDecryptToDescriptorOfDeletedFile(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	cli, dir := newCryptoTest(t)
-
-	file, err := os.CreateTemp(t.TempDir(), "out")
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-
-	defer func() { _ = file.Close() }()
-
-	require.NoError(t, os.Remove(file.Name()))
-
-	output := fmt.Sprintf("/dev/fd/%d", file.Fd())
-	require.NoError(t, cli.Decrypt("key", filepath.Join(dir, "plain.txt.age"), output))
-
-	// On macOS the command's open of /dev/fd/N shares this descriptor's
-	// position, which its write leaves at the end.
-	_, err = file.Seek(0, io.SeekStart)
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-
-	content, err := io.ReadAll(file)
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-	require.Equal(t, plainText, string(content))
-}

internal/cli/current_vault_test.go

@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
-package cli_test
-
-import (
-	"bytes"
-	"path/filepath"
-	"strconv"
-	"testing"
-
-	"github.com/spf13/afero"
-	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
-	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
-	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
-	"sneak.berlin/go/secret/internal/cli"
-	"sneak.berlin/go/secret/internal/secret"
-	"sneak.berlin/go/secret/internal/vault"
-)
-
-// TestListFailsWhenCurrentVaultDoesNotExist is a regression test for
-// https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/156, where a currentvault file
-// that was empty, held an invalid vault name, or named a vault that does
-// not exist, made `secret list` report an empty vault. Listing must fail
-// with an error that names the file and says to run `secret vault select`,
-// `secret vault list` must still list the vaults, and selecting a vault
-// must make listing work again. The name "." would make vaults.d itself the
-// vault, and "../vaults.d/work" would reach the vault work by a path.
-func TestListFailsWhenCurrentVaultDoesNotExist(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	for _, name := range []string{"", ".", "../vaults.d/work", "gone"} {
-		t.Run(strconv.Quote(name), func(t *testing.T) {
-			t.Parallel()
-
-			fs := newTwoVaultFs(t)
-			currentVaultPath := filepath.Join(testStateDir, "currentvault")
-			require.NoError(t, afero.WriteFile(fs, currentVaultPath,
-				[]byte(name), secret.FilePerms))
-
-			c := cli.NewCLIInstanceWithStateDir(fs, testStateDir)
-
-			var out bytes.Buffer
-
-			cmd := &cobra.Command{}
-			cmd.SetOut(&out)
-
-			err := c.ListSecrets(cmd, false, true, "")
-			require.ErrorIs(t, err, vault.ErrVaultNotFound)
-			require.ErrorContains(t, err, currentVaultPath)
-			require.ErrorContains(t, err, "secret vault select")
-			assert.Empty(t, out.String())
-
-			require.NoError(t, c.ListVaults(cmd, false))
-			assert.Equal(t, "Available vaults:\n  default\n  work\n", out.String())
-
-			require.NoError(t, c.SelectVault(cmd, "default"))
-			out.Reset()
-			require.NoError(t, c.ListSecrets(cmd, false, true, ""))
-			assert.Equal(t, "x\n", out.String())
-		})
-	}
-}

internal/cli/entry_test.go

@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ package cli_test
 import (
 	"bufio"
 	"context"
-	"fmt"
 	"os"
 	"os/exec"
 	"path/filepath"
@@ -17,67 +16,29 @@ import (
 	"sneak.berlin/go/secret/internal/secret"
 )
 
-const (
-	// envRunEntry, when set, makes this test binary run cli.Entry with its
-	// own arguments and exit, instead of running the tests.
-	envRunEntry = "SECRET_TEST_RUN_ENTRY"
-
-	// bufferWiped is what the test binary prints, run with envRunEntry set,
-	// when cli.Entry wiped the buffer made before it ran.
-	bufferWiped = "Entry wiped the buffer made before it ran"
-)
-
-// With envRunEntry set, the test binary makes a buffer, runs cli.Entry,
-// says whether the buffer is wiped, and exits with Entry's exit code. This
-// is done in init, not in a test, so that TestMain does not run in that
-// process: it would build the secret binary again, and remove it at the end,
-// while the other tests run it.
-//
-//nolint:gochecknoinits // must run before TestMain, as above
-func init() {
-	if os.Getenv(envRunEntry) == "" {
-		return
-	}
-
-	buf := memguard.NewBufferFromBytes([]byte("key material"))
-	code := cli.Entry()
-
-	if !buf.IsAlive() {
-		fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, bufferWiped)
-	}
-
-	os.Exit(code)
-}
-
 // Entry must return its exit code rather than exit, so that its deferred
-// memguard purge runs on the success and the error path alike. Entry wipes
+// memguard purge runs on the success and the error path alike.
-// every memguard buffer in the process, including those other tests are
+//
-// using, so it runs in a process of its own: this test binary, run again
+//nolint:paralleltest // sets os.Args, and Entry wipes every buffer in the process
-// with envRunEntry set.
 func TestEntryWipesBuffersAndReturnsExitCode(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
+	savedArgs := os.Args
+
+	t.Cleanup(func() { os.Args = savedArgs })
 
 	tests := []struct {
 		args     []string
 		exitCode int
 	}{
-		{args: []string{"--help"}, exitCode: 0},
+		{args: []string{"secret", "--help"}, exitCode: 0},
-		{args: []string{"no-such-command"}, exitCode: 1},
+		{args: []string{"secret", "no-such-command"}, exitCode: 1},
 	}
 
 	for _, tt := range tests {
-		//nolint:gosec // G204: test runs its own test binary
+		buf := memguard.NewBufferFromBytes([]byte("key material"))
-		cmd := exec.CommandContext(t.Context(), os.Args[0], tt.args...)
+		os.Args = tt.args
 
-		cmd.Env = append(os.Environ(), envRunEntry+"=1")
+		assert.Equal(t, tt.exitCode, cli.Entry(), "exit code for %v", tt.args)
-
+		assert.False(t, buf.IsAlive(), "Entry left a buffer unwiped for %v", tt.args)
-		output, err := cmd.CombinedOutput()
-		require.NotNil(t, cmd.ProcessState, "%v did not run: %v", tt.args, err)
-
-		assert.Equal(t, tt.exitCode, cmd.ProcessState.ExitCode(),
-			"exit code for %v: %s", tt.args, output)
-		assert.Contains(t, string(output), bufferWiped,
-			"Entry left a buffer unwiped for %v", tt.args)
 	}
 }
 

internal/cli/generate.go

@@ -29,12 +29,6 @@ func newGenerateCmd() *cobra.Command {
 		Use:   "generate",
 		Short: "Generate random data",
 		Long:  `Generate various types of random data including mnemonics and secrets.`,
-		// Cobra checks Args only on a command that has a RunE; without
-		// one, an unknown subcommand prints this help and exits 0.
-		Args: cobra.NoArgs,
-		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, _ []string) error {
-			return cmd.Help()
-		},
 	}
 
 	cmd.AddCommand(newGenerateMnemonicCmd())
@@ -175,6 +169,12 @@ func (cli *Instance) GenerateSecret(
 		return fmt.Errorf("failed to generate random secret: %w", err)
 	}
 
+	release, err := vault.LockStateDir(cli.fs, cli.stateDir)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	defer release()
+
 	// Store the secret in the vault
 	vlt, err := vault.GetCurrentVault(cli.fs, cli.stateDir)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ func (cli *Instance) GenerateSecret(
 	secretBuffer := memguard.NewBufferFromBytes([]byte(secretValue))
 	defer secretBuffer.Destroy()
 
-	err = cli.storeSecret(vlt, secretName, secretBuffer, force)
+	err = vlt.AddSecret(secretName, secretBuffer, force)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}

internal/cli/init.go

@@ -67,15 +67,36 @@ func (cli *Instance) promptMnemonic() (*memguard.LockedBuffer, func(), error) {
 	return mnemonicBuffer, mnemonicBuffer.Destroy, nil
 }
 
-// Init initializes the secret manager. It asks for the mnemonic and the
+// Init initializes the secret manager, holding the state directory lock
-// passphrase before it takes the state directory lock, so that no other
+// while initialize runs
-// command waits while the user answers, and holds the lock while
-// initialize runs.
 func (cli *Instance) Init(cmd *cobra.Command) error {
+	release, err := vault.LockStateDir(cli.fs, cli.stateDir)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	defer release()
+
+	return cli.initialize(cmd)
+}
+
+// initialize creates the state directory, the default vault and its first
+// unlocker
+func (cli *Instance) initialize(cmd *cobra.Command) error {
 	secret.Debug("Starting secret manager initialization")
 
+	// Create state directory
+	stateDir := cli.GetStateDir()
+	secret.DebugWith("Creating state directory", slog.String("path", stateDir))
+
+	err := cli.fs.MkdirAll(stateDir, secret.DirPerms)
+	if err != nil {
+		secret.Debug("Failed to create state directory", "error", err)
+
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to create state directory: %w", err)
+	}
+
 	// Refuse an existing default vault before asking for anything
-	err := vault.CheckNewVaultName(cli.fs, cli.stateDir, defaultVaultName)
+	err = vault.CheckNewVaultName(cli.fs, cli.stateDir, defaultVaultName)
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("failed to create default vault: %w", err)
 	}
@@ -114,38 +135,11 @@ func (cli *Instance) Init(cmd *cobra.Command) error {
 	}
 	defer cleanupPassphrase()
 
-	release, err := vault.LockStateDir(cli.fs, cli.stateDir)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	defer release()
-
-	return cli.initialize(cmd, mnemonic, passphraseBuffer)
-}
-
-// initialize creates the state directory, and the default vault from
-// mnemonic with a passphrase unlocker protected by passphrase. Another
-// command may have created the vault since Init checked: vault.CreateVault
-// checks again.
-func (cli *Instance) initialize(
-	cmd *cobra.Command, mnemonic, passphrase *memguard.LockedBuffer,
-) error {
-	// Create state directory
-	stateDir := cli.GetStateDir()
-	secret.DebugWith("Creating state directory", slog.String("path", stateDir))
-
-	err := cli.fs.MkdirAll(stateDir, secret.DirPerms)
-	if err != nil {
-		secret.Debug("Failed to create state directory", "error", err)
-
-		return fmt.Errorf("failed to create state directory: %w", err)
-	}
-
 	// Create the default vault with its passphrase unlocker
 	secret.Debug("Creating default vault")
 
 	vlt, err := vault.CreateVault(cli.fs, cli.stateDir, defaultVaultName,
-		mnemonic, passphrase)
+		mnemonic, passphraseBuffer)
 	if err != nil {
 		secret.Debug("Failed to create default vault", "error", err)
 

internal/cli/integration_test.go

@@ -34,10 +34,9 @@ const (
 	testMnemonic = "abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon about"
 
 	// commandWait is how long a test lets the secret binary run before it
-	// kills it and fails. It stays well under the time limit the test phase
+	// kills it and fails. It stays well under the 30 seconds script/test
-	// of the Dockerfile gives the whole package (go test -timeout), so a
+	// gives the whole package, so a command that hangs fails the test with
-	// command that hangs fails the test with the test's own message instead
+	// the test's own message instead of Go's timeout panic.
-	// of Go's timeout panic.
 	commandWait = 10 * time.Second
 )
 

internal/cli/list_times_test.go

@@ -3,9 +3,6 @@ package cli_test
 import (
 	"bytes"
 	"encoding/json"
-	"os"
-	"os/exec"
-	"path/filepath"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
@@ -128,57 +125,6 @@ func TestMovedSecretKeepsItsTimes(t *testing.T) {
 		"updated %s, then %s", beforeMove.UpdatedAt, afterMove.UpdatedAt)
 }
 
-// TestListedTimesAreUTC is a regression test for
-// https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/169, where times were printed
-// in the local time zone. It runs `secret list` on the built binary with
-// TZ set to New York, where the secret's last update, 03:04:05 UTC on 2
-// January, is 22:04:05 the day before.
-func TestListedTimesAreUTC(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	stateDir := t.TempDir()
-
-	vlt, err := vault.CreateVault(
-		afero.NewOsFs(), stateDir, "default", testMnemonicBuffer(t), nil)
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-
-	vlt.Mnemonic = testMnemonicBuffer(t)
-	err = vlt.AddSecret("x", memguard.NewBufferFromBytes([]byte("one")), false)
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-
-	updated := time.Date(2026, time.January, 2, 3, 4, 5, 0, time.UTC)
-	current := filepath.Join(stateDir, "vaults.d", "default", "secrets.d", "x",
-		"current")
-	require.NoError(t, os.Chtimes(current, updated, updated))
-
-	tests := []struct {
-		flags []string
-		want  string
-	}{
-		{flags: nil, want: "2026-01-02 03:04"},
-		{
-			flags: []string{"--json"},
-			want:  `"updated_at": "2026-01-02T03:04:05Z"`,
-		},
-	}
-
-	for _, tt := range tests {
-		args := append([]string{"list"}, tt.flags...)
-
-		//nolint:gosec // G204: test executes the freshly built secret binary
-		cmd := exec.CommandContext(t.Context(), secretBinaryPath(t), args...)
-		cmd.Env = []string{
-			secret.EnvStateDir + "=" + stateDir,
-			"TZ=America/New_York",
-			"PATH=" + os.Getenv("PATH"),
-		}
-
-		output, err := cmd.CombinedOutput()
-		require.NoError(t, err, "%v: %s", args, output)
-		assert.Contains(t, string(output), tt.want, "%v", args)
-	}
-}
-
 // listSecrets returns the output of `secret list`, or of
 // `secret list --json` when jsonOutput is set.
 func listSecrets(t *testing.T, c *cli.Instance, jsonOutput bool) string {

internal/cli/lock_test.go

@@ -280,9 +280,9 @@ func stateDirModTimes(t *testing.T, fs afero.Fs) map[string]int64 {
 	return modTimes
 }
 
-// setupEveryCommand makes what the commands that the lock tests below run
+// setupEveryCommand makes what each command in
-// need: the current vault "work" with two versions of "test/secret", the
+// TestChangingCommandsWaitForLock needs: the current vault "work" with two
-// vault "other", and the file testInput.
+// versions of "test/secret", the vault "other", and the file testInput.
 // There is no vault "default", which init creates. If withUnlocker is set,
 // it also gives "work" a passphrase unlocker, which is slow. It returns the
 // older version and the unlocker's ID.
@@ -346,25 +346,6 @@ func waitingForLock() bool {
 	return false
 }
 
-// requireWaitingForLock returns once a command waits for the state
-// directory lock. It fails the test if the command finishes first, sending
-// its error on done, or never waits.
-func requireWaitingForLock(t *testing.T, done <-chan error) {
-	t.Helper()
-
-	timeout := time.After(lockWait)
-
-	for !waitingForLock() {
-		select {
-		case err := <-done:
-			t.Fatalf("finished while the lock was held, with error %v", err)
-		case <-timeout:
-			t.Fatal("never waited for the lock")
-		case <-time.After(time.Millisecond):
-		}
-	}
-}
-
 // requireWaitsForLock runs a command, given what setupEveryCommand made,
 // while holding the state directory lock. The command must neither finish
 // nor change anything before it waits for the lock, and must succeed once
@@ -404,7 +385,17 @@ func requireWaitsForLock(
 
 	go func() { done <- run(cli, olderVersion, unlockerID) }()
 
-	requireWaitingForLock(t, done)
+	timeout := time.After(lockWait)
+
+	for !waitingForLock() {
+		select {
+		case err := <-done:
+			t.Fatalf("finished while the lock was held, with error %v", err)
+		case <-timeout:
+			t.Fatal("never waited for the lock")
+		case <-time.After(time.Millisecond):
+		}
+	}
 
 	assert.Equal(t, before, stateDirModTimes(t, fs),
 		"changed the state directory before waiting for the lock")
@@ -481,311 +472,6 @@ func TestChangingCommandsWaitForLock(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// TestCommandsAskBeforeLocking is a regression test for
-// https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/152: these commands took the
-// state directory lock before asking for the mnemonic or a passphrase, so
-// while one waited at its prompt, every other command that changes anything
-// waited for it. Each runs here while the test holds the lock, given what
-// takes it to the last step at which it can ask: the passphrase prompt of
-// init and vault create, and the unlock of the vault, which asks for the
-// passphrase of its passphrase unlocker, for the others. The tests have no
-// terminal, so a prompt fails at once. Each command must get there, and
-// fail, without waiting for the lock.
-//
-//nolint:paralleltest // waitingForLock sees any test's command waiting for the lock
-func TestCommandsAskBeforeLocking(t *testing.T) {
-	newTestGPGKey(t)
-
-	mnemonic := testMnemonicBuffer(t)
-
-	wrongPassphrase := memguard.NewBufferFromBytes([]byte("wrong-passphrase"))
-	t.Cleanup(wrongPassphrase.Destroy)
-
-	for _, tc := range []struct {
-		name string
-		run  func(cli *Instance) error
-		// want is wrapped in the error the command fails with
-		want error
-	}{
-		{"init", func(cli *Instance) error {
-			cli.Mnemonic = mnemonic
-
-			return cli.Init(cli.cmd)
-		}, secret.ErrNoTerminal},
-		{"vault create", func(cli *Instance) error {
-			cli.Mnemonic = mnemonic
-
-			return cli.CreateVault(cli.cmd, "created")
-		}, secret.ErrNoTerminal},
-		// With no terminal to ask for the new passphrase on, the new
-		// unlocker takes the one in SB_UNLOCK_PASSPHRASE, which then fails
-		// to unlock the vault
-		{"unlocker add passphrase", func(cli *Instance) error {
-			cli.UnlockPassphrase = wrongPassphrase
-
-			return cli.UnlockersAdd("passphrase", cli.cmd)
-		}, secret.ErrWrongPassphrase},
-		{"unlocker add pgp", func(cli *Instance) error {
-			cli.cmd.Flags().String("keyid", unreadableTestGPGUserID, "")
-
-			return cli.UnlockersAdd("pgp", cli.cmd)
-		}, secret.ErrNoTerminal},
-		{"add --force", func(cli *Instance) error {
-			return cli.AddSecret("test/secret", true)
-		}, secret.ErrNoTerminal},
-		{"import --force", func(cli *Instance) error {
-			return cli.ImportSecret(cli.cmd, "test/secret", testInput, true)
-		}, secret.ErrNoTerminal},
-		{"generate secret --force", func(cli *Instance) error {
-			return cli.GenerateSecret(cli.cmd, "test/secret", 16, "base58", true)
-		}, secret.ErrNoTerminal},
-	} {
-		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
-			requireAsksBeforeLocking(t, tc.run, tc.want)
-		})
-	}
-}
-
-// startWhileLocked makes what setupEveryCommand makes, with the passphrase
-// unlocker, on fs, an empty in-memory filesystem, takes the state directory
-// lock there, and starts run, given a CLI instance on fs with "value" on
-// stdin. It returns the function that releases the lock, which does so only
-// the first time it is called, and the channel that run's error comes on.
-// The lock is also released when the test ends, so that later tests can
-// take it.
-func startWhileLocked(
-	t *testing.T, fs afero.Fs, run func(cli *Instance) error,
-) (func(), <-chan error) {
-	t.Helper()
-
-	setupEveryCommand(t, fs, true)
-
-	release, err := vault.LockStateDir(fs, testStateDir)
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-
-	release = sync.OnceFunc(release)
-	t.Cleanup(release)
-
-	cli := NewCLIInstanceWithStateDir(fs, testStateDir)
-	cli.cmd = &cobra.Command{}
-	cli.cmd.SetIn(strings.NewReader("value"))
-	cli.cmd.SetOut(io.Discard)
-
-	done := make(chan error, 1)
-
-	go func() { done <- run(cli) }()
-
-	return release, done
-}
-
-// requireAsksBeforeLocking starts run while holding the state directory
-// lock, as startWhileLocked does. run must fail, with an error wrapping
-// want, without waiting for the lock.
-func requireAsksBeforeLocking(
-	t *testing.T, run func(cli *Instance) error, want error,
-) {
-	t.Helper()
-
-	release, done := startWhileLocked(t, afero.NewMemMapFs(), run)
-
-	timeout := time.After(lockWait)
-
-	for !waitingForLock() {
-		select {
-		case err := <-done:
-			require.ErrorIs(t, err, want)
-
-			return
-		case <-timeout:
-			t.Fatal("neither failed nor waited for the lock")
-		case <-time.After(time.Millisecond):
-		}
-	}
-
-	// Let the command go on, so that it releases the lock
-	release()
-
-	select {
-	case <-done:
-	case <-time.After(lockWait):
-	}
-
-	t.Fatal("waited for the lock before asking")
-}
-
-// TestCommandsCheckAgainOnceLocked checks that commands which check what
-// they change before they ask for anything, and so before they take the
-// state directory lock, check again once they hold it: another command may
-// have changed it in the meantime. Each runs while the test holds the lock,
-// given what it needs to ask for nothing. Once it waits for the lock, the
-// test makes the change another command could have made, then releases the
-// lock. The command must fail, and change nothing.
-//
-//nolint:paralleltest // waitingForLock sees any test's command waiting for the lock
-func TestCommandsCheckAgainOnceLocked(t *testing.T) {
-	fingerprint := newTestGPGKey(t)
-
-	mnemonic := testMnemonicBuffer(t)
-
-	otherMnemonic := memguard.NewBufferFromBytes([]byte("legal winner thank " +
-		"year wave sausage worth useful legal winner thank yellow"))
-	t.Cleanup(otherMnemonic.Destroy)
-
-	passphrase := memguard.NewBufferFromBytes([]byte(testPassphrase))
-	t.Cleanup(passphrase.Destroy)
-
-	// work returns the vault "work" on fs, opened with the mnemonic
-	work := func(fs afero.Fs) *vault.Vault {
-		vlt := vault.NewVault(fs, testStateDir, "work")
-		vlt.Mnemonic = mnemonic
-
-		return vlt
-	}
-
-	for _, tc := range []struct {
-		name string
-		run  func(cli *Instance) error
-		// change is what another command changes while run waits
-		change func(fs afero.Fs) error
-		// want is wrapped in the error the command fails with
-		want error
-	}{
-		{
-			"unlocker add, vault removed",
-			func(cli *Instance) error {
-				cli.Mnemonic, cli.UnlockPassphrase = mnemonic, passphrase
-
-				return cli.UnlockersAdd("passphrase", cli.cmd)
-			},
-			func(fs afero.Fs) error {
-				return fs.RemoveAll(testStateDir + "/vaults.d/work")
-			},
-			vault.ErrVaultNotFound,
-		},
-		{
-			"unlocker add, vault created again from another mnemonic",
-			func(cli *Instance) error {
-				cli.Mnemonic, cli.UnlockPassphrase = mnemonic, passphrase
-
-				return cli.UnlockersAdd("passphrase", cli.cmd)
-			},
-			func(fs afero.Fs) error {
-				err := fs.RemoveAll(testStateDir + "/vaults.d/work")
-				if err != nil {
-					return err
-				}
-
-				_, err = vault.CreateVault(fs, testStateDir, "work",
-					otherMnemonic, passphrase)
-
-				return err
-			},
-			errVaultCreatedAgain,
-		},
-		{
-			"unlocker add pgp, key added",
-			func(cli *Instance) error {
-				cli.Mnemonic = mnemonic
-				cli.cmd.Flags().String("keyid", unreadableTestGPGUserID, "")
-
-				return cli.UnlockersAdd("pgp", cli.cmd)
-			},
-			func(fs afero.Fs) error {
-				_, err := secret.CreatePGPUnlocker(work(fs),
-					unreadableTestGPGUserID, fingerprint)
-
-				return err
-			},
-			errGPGKeyAlreadyUnlocker,
-		},
-	} {
-		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
-			requireChecksAgainOnceLocked(t, tc.run, tc.change, tc.want)
-		})
-	}
-}
-
-// requireChecksAgainOnceLocked starts run while holding the state directory
-// lock, as startWhileLocked does. Once run waits for the lock, change makes
-// the change that another command could have made in the meantime, and the
-// lock is released. run must then fail, with an error wrapping want, and
-// change nothing.
-func requireChecksAgainOnceLocked(
-	t *testing.T, run func(cli *Instance) error,
-	change func(fs afero.Fs) error, want error,
-) {
-	t.Helper()
-
-	fs := afero.NewMemMapFs()
-	release, done := startWhileLocked(t, fs, run)
-
-	requireWaitingForLock(t, done)
-	require.NoError(t, change(fs))
-
-	// Left out: taking and releasing the lock writes the lock file
-	lockFile := testStateDir + "/lock"
-
-	before := stateDirModTimes(t, fs)
-	delete(before, lockFile)
-
-	release()
-
-	select {
-	case err := <-done:
-		require.ErrorIs(t, err, want)
-	case <-time.After(lockWait):
-		t.Fatal("did not finish once the lock was released")
-	}
-
-	after := stateDirModTimes(t, fs)
-	delete(after, lockFile)
-
-	assert.Equal(t, before, after, "changed the state directory")
-}
-
-// TestForcedAddReplacesSecretAddedMeanwhile runs a forced add of a secret
-// that does not exist yet while the test holds the state directory lock.
-// Once it waits for the lock, the test adds the secret, as another command
-// could have, and releases the lock. The forced add must replace that
-// secret, as if it had run after the other command.
-//
-//nolint:paralleltest // waitingForLock sees any test's command waiting for the lock
-func TestForcedAddReplacesSecretAddedMeanwhile(t *testing.T) {
-	mnemonic := testMnemonicBuffer(t)
-
-	fs := afero.NewMemMapFs()
-	release, done := startWhileLocked(t, fs, func(cli *Instance) error {
-		cli.Mnemonic = mnemonic
-
-		return cli.AddSecret("added", true)
-	})
-
-	requireWaitingForLock(t, done)
-
-	work := vault.NewVault(fs, testStateDir, "work")
-	work.Mnemonic = mnemonic
-
-	other := memguard.NewBufferFromBytes([]byte("other"))
-	t.Cleanup(other.Destroy)
-
-	require.NoError(t, work.AddSecret("added", other, false))
-
-	release()
-
-	select {
-	case err := <-done:
-		require.NoError(t, err)
-	case <-time.After(lockWait):
-		t.Fatal("did not finish once the lock was released")
-	}
-
-	value, err := work.GetSecret("added")
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-	t.Cleanup(value.Destroy)
-
-	assert.Equal(t, "value", string(value.Bytes()))
-}
-
 // TestEncryptWithExistingKeyTakesNoLock checks that secret encrypt with a
 // key that already exists, which only reads the state directory, finishes
 // while another command holds the state directory lock.

internal/cli/move_cross_vault_test.go

@@ -1,315 +0,0 @@
-//nolint:testpackage // white-box test of unexported internals
-package cli
-
-import (
-	"errors"
-	"path/filepath"
-	"testing"
-	"time"
-
-	"github.com/awnumar/memguard"
-	"github.com/spf13/afero"
-	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
-	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
-	"sneak.berlin/go/secret/internal/secret"
-	"sneak.berlin/go/secret/internal/vault"
-)
-
-// errPermissionDenied is returned by renameFailFs and removeAllFailFs in
-// place of a rename or removal that succeeds.
-var errPermissionDenied = errors.New("permission denied")
-
-// renameFailFs fails every Rename of one path, as a read-only parent
-// directory does.
-type renameFailFs struct {
-	afero.Fs
-
-	path string
-}
-
-func (f *renameFailFs) Rename(oldname, newname string) error {
-	if oldname == f.path {
-		return errPermissionDenied
-	}
-
-	return f.Fs.Rename(oldname, newname)
-}
-
-// removeAllFailFs fails every RemoveAll of an entry of the directory dir,
-// as a file in it that cannot be deleted does, and records that entry's
-// path in failed.
-type removeAllFailFs struct {
-	afero.Fs
-
-	dir    string
-	failed string
-}
-
-func (f *removeAllFailFs) RemoveAll(path string) error {
-	if filepath.Dir(path) == f.dir {
-		f.failed = path
-
-		return errPermissionDenied
-	}
-
-	return f.Fs.RemoveAll(path)
-}
-
-// createCrossVaults creates in fs the vaults "work" and "default", where
-// "default" holds the secret "x" with the value "value".
-func createCrossVaults(t *testing.T, fs afero.Fs) {
-	t.Helper()
-
-	_, err := vault.CreateVault(fs, testStateDir, "work",
-		testMnemonicBuffer(t), nil)
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-
-	source, err := vault.CreateVault(fs, testStateDir, "default",
-		testMnemonicBuffer(t), nil)
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-
-	err = source.AddSecret("x",
-		memguard.NewBufferFromBytes([]byte("value")), false)
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-}
-
-// requireValue requires that the vault vaultName in fs holds secretName
-// with the value createCrossVaults stored.
-func requireValue(t *testing.T, fs afero.Fs, vaultName, secretName string) {
-	t.Helper()
-
-	vlt := vault.NewVault(fs, testStateDir, vaultName)
-	vlt.Mnemonic = testMnemonicBuffer(t)
-
-	value, err := vlt.GetSecret(secretName)
-	require.NoError(t, err, vaultName+":"+secretName)
-
-	defer value.Destroy()
-
-	require.Equal(t, []byte("value"), value.Bytes())
-}
-
-// TestCrossVaultMoveFailsWhenSourceRemains is a regression test for
-// https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/159, where a move between two
-// vaults whose source could not be removed reported the secret moved and
-// succeeded. It must fail, and the copy and the source must both be there.
-// The state directory lock refuses the wrapped filesystem, so the test
-// calls copySecretAndRemoveSource, which a move between vaults runs once it
-// holds the lock.
-func TestCrossVaultMoveFailsWhenSourceRemains(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	base := afero.NewMemMapFs()
-	createCrossVaults(t, base)
-
-	instance := NewCLIInstanceWithStateDir(&renameFailFs{
-		Fs:   base,
-		path: testStateDir + "/vaults.d/default/secrets.d/x",
-	}, testStateDir)
-
-	source := vault.NewVault(instance.fs, testStateDir, "default")
-	source.Mnemonic = testMnemonicBuffer(t)
-
-	err := instance.copySecretAndRemoveSource(&cobra.Command{}, source, "x",
-		vault.NewVault(instance.fs, testStateDir, "work"), "y", false)
-	require.ErrorIs(t, err, errPermissionDenied)
-	require.ErrorContains(t, err, "secret 'default:x' is copied with all "+
-		"1 version(s) to 'work:y', but the source remains")
-
-	requireValue(t, base, "default", "x")
-	requireValue(t, base, "work", "y")
-}
-
-// TestCrossVaultMoveFailsWhenOldFilesRemain makes the removal of the source
-// fail after the source has been moved out of its vault, when only the
-// temporary directory it was moved into cannot be deleted. The move must
-// fail, say that the secret is moved, and name that directory.
-func TestCrossVaultMoveFailsWhenOldFilesRemain(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	base := afero.NewMemMapFs()
-	createCrossVaults(t, base)
-
-	sourceVaultDir := testStateDir + "/vaults.d/default"
-	fs := &removeAllFailFs{Fs: base, dir: sourceVaultDir}
-
-	instance := NewCLIInstanceWithStateDir(fs, testStateDir)
-
-	source := vault.NewVault(fs, testStateDir, "default")
-	source.Mnemonic = testMnemonicBuffer(t)
-
-	err := instance.copySecretAndRemoveSource(&cobra.Command{}, source, "x",
-		vault.NewVault(fs, testStateDir, "work"), "y", false)
-	require.ErrorIs(t, err, errPermissionDenied)
-	require.ErrorContains(t, err, "secret 'default:x' is moved with all "+
-		"1 version(s) to 'work:y', but its old files could not all be deleted")
-
-	// The error names the directory that holds the old files
-	require.NotEmpty(t, fs.failed)
-	require.ErrorContains(t, err, fs.failed)
-
-	oldFiles, err := afero.DirExists(base, filepath.Join(fs.failed, "x"))
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-	require.True(t, oldFiles)
-
-	// The source vault no longer holds the secret
-	remains, err := afero.DirExists(base, sourceVaultDir+"/secrets.d/x")
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-	require.False(t, remains)
-
-	requireValue(t, base, "work", "y")
-}
-
-// TestCrossVaultMoveUnlocksBeforeLocking is a regression test for
-// https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/189: a move between two vaults
-// unlocked them while holding the state directory lock, and unlocking a
-// vault can ask for its passphrase, so every other command that changes
-// anything waited while the user answered. Here each vault has a passphrase
-// unlocker whose passphrase is the vault's name, and the move is given the
-// passphrase of only one of them. Run while the test holds the lock, it
-// must fail to unlock the other vault without waiting for the lock.
-//
-//nolint:paralleltest // times commands against the in-memory lock all tests share
-func TestCrossVaultMoveUnlocksBeforeLocking(t *testing.T) {
-	fs := afero.NewMemMapFs()
-	createCrossVaults(t, fs)
-
-	vaults, err := vault.ListVaults(fs, testStateDir)
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-
-	for _, name := range vaults {
-		vlt := vault.NewVault(fs, testStateDir, name)
-		vlt.Mnemonic = testMnemonicBuffer(t)
-
-		passphrase := memguard.NewBufferFromBytes([]byte(name))
-		_, err = vlt.CreatePassphraseUnlocker(passphrase)
-		passphrase.Destroy()
-		require.NoError(t, err)
-	}
-
-	// The move is from "default" to "work"
-	for _, tc := range []struct {
-		// failing is the vault that the move cannot unlock, given the
-		// passphrase of the vault named given
-		failing, given string
-	}{
-		{"source", "work"},
-		{"destination", "default"},
-	} {
-		t.Run(tc.failing, func(t *testing.T) {
-			passphrase := memguard.NewBufferFromBytes([]byte(tc.given))
-			defer passphrase.Destroy()
-
-			instance := NewCLIInstanceWithStateDir(fs, testStateDir)
-			instance.UnlockPassphrase = passphrase
-
-			release, err := vault.LockStateDir(fs, testStateDir)
-			require.NoError(t, err)
-			// Also frees a waiting move if the test fails, so that it
-			// releases the lock the other tests use
-			defer release()
-
-			done := make(chan error, 1)
-
-			go func() {
-				done <- instance.MoveSecret(&cobra.Command{},
-					"default:x", "work:y", false)
-			}()
-
-			select {
-			case err := <-done:
-				require.ErrorIs(t, err, secret.ErrWrongPassphrase)
-				require.ErrorContains(t, err,
-					"failed to unlock "+tc.failing+" vault")
-			case <-time.After(lockWait):
-				t.Fatal("waited for the lock before unlocking the " +
-					tc.failing + " vault")
-			}
-		})
-	}
-}
-
-// TestCrossVaultMoveChecksAgainOnceLocked runs a move between vaults, given
-// the mnemonic, as TestCommandsCheckAgainOnceLocked runs the commands in its
-// table: once the move waits for the state directory lock, the test removes
-// the source secret or the destination vault, or creates the destination
-// vault again from another mnemonic, and the move must then fail and change
-// nothing.
-//
-//nolint:paralleltest // waitingForLock sees any test's command waiting for the lock
-func TestCrossVaultMoveChecksAgainOnceLocked(t *testing.T) {
-	mnemonic := testMnemonicBuffer(t)
-
-	otherMnemonic := memguard.NewBufferFromBytes([]byte("legal winner thank " +
-		"year wave sausage worth useful legal winner thank yellow"))
-	t.Cleanup(otherMnemonic.Destroy)
-
-	move := func(cli *Instance) error {
-		cli.Mnemonic = mnemonic
-
-		return cli.MoveSecret(cli.cmd, "work:test/secret", "other:moved", false)
-	}
-
-	t.Run("source removed", func(t *testing.T) {
-		requireChecksAgainOnceLocked(t, move, func(fs afero.Fs) error {
-			return fs.RemoveAll(testStateDir + "/vaults.d/work/secrets.d/test%secret")
-		}, vault.ErrSecretNotFound)
-	})
-
-	t.Run("destination vault removed", func(t *testing.T) {
-		requireChecksAgainOnceLocked(t, move, func(fs afero.Fs) error {
-			return fs.RemoveAll(testStateDir + "/vaults.d/other")
-		}, vault.ErrVaultNotFound)
-	})
-
-	t.Run("destination vault created again from another mnemonic", func(t *testing.T) {
-		// Set by the move, which has finished once
-		// requireChecksAgainOnceLocked returns
-		var moveErr error
-
-		requireChecksAgainOnceLocked(t, func(cli *Instance) error {
-			moveErr = move(cli)
-
-			return moveErr
-		}, func(fs afero.Fs) error {
-			err := fs.RemoveAll(testStateDir + "/vaults.d/other")
-			if err != nil {
-				return err
-			}
-
-			_, err = vault.CreateVault(fs, testStateDir, "other", otherMnemonic, nil)
-
-			return err
-		}, errVaultCreatedAgain)
-
-		// secret unlocker add fails with the same error, so its message
-		// must fit a move too
-		require.EqualError(t, moveErr, "vault 'other' was removed and "+
-			"created again with another key while it was being unlocked; "+
-			"nothing was changed")
-	})
-}
-
-// TestCrossVaultMoveRefusesExistingSecretBeforeUnlocking checks that a move
-// between vaults onto a secret that exists, without --force, is refused
-// before either vault is unlocked, since unlocking can ask for a
-// passphrase. The vaults have no unlockers and the move is given no
-// mnemonic, so unlocking either vault fails.
-func TestCrossVaultMoveRefusesExistingSecretBeforeUnlocking(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	fs := afero.NewMemMapFs()
-	createCrossVaults(t, fs)
-
-	work := vault.NewVault(fs, testStateDir, "work")
-	work.Mnemonic = testMnemonicBuffer(t)
-
-	err := work.AddSecret("y",
-		memguard.NewBufferFromBytes([]byte("other")), false)
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-
-	instance := NewCLIInstanceWithStateDir(fs, testStateDir)
-
-	err = instance.MoveSecret(&cobra.Command{}, "default:x", "work:y", false)
-	require.ErrorIs(t, err, vault.ErrSecretExists)
-}

internal/cli/passphrase_prompt_test.go

@@ -138,148 +138,6 @@ func TestInitWritesNoBlankLineAfterMnemonic(t *testing.T) {
 		"stderr: %q", stderr.String())
 }
 
-// TestUnlockerAddAsksForNewPassphrase is a regression test for
-// https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/154: with SB_UNLOCK_PASSPHRASE set,
-// `secret unlocker add passphrase` gave the new unlocker the passphrase in
-// the variable without asking. At a terminal it must ask for the new
-// passphrase there, twice, and unlock the vault with the variable, so that
-// `secret get` then opens the vault with the passphrase typed. pty.Open is
-// described above TestRemoveIgnoresTerminalOnStdout.
-func TestUnlockerAddAsksForNewPassphrase(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	const newPassphrase = "new-passphrase"
-
-	stateDir := t.TempDir()
-
-	passphrase := memguard.NewBufferFromBytes([]byte(testPassphrase))
-	defer passphrase.Destroy()
-
-	vlt, err := vault.CreateVault(afero.NewOsFs(), stateDir, "default",
-		testMnemonicBuffer(t), passphrase)
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-
-	value := memguard.NewBufferFromBytes([]byte("v1"))
-	defer value.Destroy()
-
-	require.NoError(t, vlt.AddSecret("s1", value, false))
-
-	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(t.Context(), commandWait)
-	defer cancel()
-
-	//nolint:gosec // G204: test executes the freshly built secret binary
-	cmd := exec.CommandContext(ctx, secretBinaryPath(t),
-		"unlocker", "add", "passphrase")
-	cmd.Env = []string{
-		secret.EnvStateDir + "=" + stateDir,
-		secret.EnvUnlockPassphrase + "=" + testPassphrase,
-		"PATH=" + os.Getenv("PATH"),
-		"HOME=" + os.Getenv("HOME"),
-	}
-
-	ptmx, tty, err := pty.Open()
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-
-	defer func() { _ = ptmx.Close() }()
-
-	deadline, _ := ctx.Deadline()
-	require.NoError(t, ptmx.SetReadDeadline(deadline))
-
-	cmd.Stderr = tty
-	// Ctty is a descriptor in the new process: 2, its stderr.
-	cmd.SysProcAttr = &syscall.SysProcAttr{Setsid: true, Setctty: true, Ctty: 2}
-
-	require.NoError(t, cmd.Start())
-
-	_ = tty.Close()
-
-	var (
-		shown []byte
-		char  byte
-	)
-
-	terminal := bufio.NewReader(ptmx)
-
-	for _, prompt := range []string{
-		"Enter passphrase for unlocker: ", "Confirm passphrase: ",
-	} {
-		for !bytes.HasSuffix(shown, []byte(prompt)) {
-			char, err = terminal.ReadByte()
-			require.NoError(t, err,
-				"secret unlocker add passphrase did not ask on the terminal: %s",
-				shown)
-
-			shown = append(shown, char)
-		}
-
-		_, err = ptmx.WriteString(newPassphrase + "\n")
-		require.NoError(t, err)
-	}
-
-	// The read ends once the command has exited and so closed the terminal.
-	rest, _ := io.ReadAll(terminal)
-
-	require.NoError(t, cmd.Wait(),
-		"secret unlocker add passphrase: %s%s", shown, rest)
-
-	// The binary, not this test process, opens the vault: the new unlocker
-	// has age's full scrypt work factor, which is slow under the race
-	// detector.
-	assert.Equal(t, "v1",
-		runWithoutTerminal(t, stateDir, newPassphrase, "get", "s1"))
-}
-
-// TestUnlockerAddWithoutTerminalSaysPassphraseIsVariable is a regression
-// test for https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/154: with no terminal to
-// ask on, `secret unlocker add passphrase` gives the new unlocker the
-// passphrase in SB_UNLOCK_PASSPHRASE, and its output must say so.
-func TestUnlockerAddWithoutTerminalSaysPassphraseIsVariable(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	stateDir := t.TempDir()
-
-	passphrase := memguard.NewBufferFromBytes([]byte(testPassphrase))
-	defer passphrase.Destroy()
-
-	_, err := vault.CreateVault(afero.NewOsFs(), stateDir, "default",
-		testMnemonicBuffer(t), passphrase)
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-
-	output := runWithoutTerminal(t, stateDir, testPassphrase,
-		"unlocker", "add", "passphrase")
-
-	assert.Contains(t, output, "The new unlocker takes its passphrase "+
-		"from SB_UNLOCK_PASSPHRASE, since there is no terminal to ask for a "+
-		"new one on\n")
-}
-
-// runWithoutTerminal runs the secret binary with args and SB_UNLOCK_PASSPHRASE
-// set to passphrase, in a new session, which has no terminal, and returns
-// what it printed once it has succeeded.
-func runWithoutTerminal(
-	t *testing.T, stateDir, passphrase string, args ...string,
-) string {
-	t.Helper()
-
-	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(t.Context(), commandWait)
-	defer cancel()
-
-	//nolint:gosec // G204: test executes the freshly built secret binary
-	cmd := exec.CommandContext(ctx, secretBinaryPath(t), args...)
-	cmd.Env = []string{
-		secret.EnvStateDir + "=" + stateDir,
-		secret.EnvUnlockPassphrase + "=" + passphrase,
-		"PATH=" + os.Getenv("PATH"),
-		"HOME=" + os.Getenv("HOME"),
-	}
-	cmd.SysProcAttr = &syscall.SysProcAttr{Setsid: true}
-
-	output, err := cmd.CombinedOutput()
-	require.NoError(t, err, "secret %v: %s", args, output)
-
-	return string(output)
-}
-
 // runAtTerminal runs the secret binary with args and input on stdin, in a
 // new session whose controlling terminal is a new terminal, which is also
 // its stderr: a command typed at a terminal with its input piped. pty.Open

internal/cli/secrets.go

@@ -422,92 +422,26 @@ func (cli *Instance) AddSecret(secretName string, force bool) error {
 	// Locked only now that stdin has been read: in `secret encrypt key |
 	// secret add name`, holding the lock while reading would leave each
 	// command waiting for the other.
-	return cli.storeSecret(vlt, secretName, valueBuffer, force)
-}
-
-// storeSecret adds the secret name with value to vlt, as vault.AddSecret
-// does, holding the state directory lock while it does. With force, adding
-// an existing secret replaces its current version, which needs the vault's
-// long-term key. Getting the key can ask for the passphrase, so storeSecret
-// gets it before it takes the lock, and no other command waits while the
-// user answers. If another command adds the secret while this one waits for
-// the lock, storeSecret lets go of the lock, gets the key, and takes the
-// lock again.
-func (cli *Instance) storeSecret(
-	vlt *vault.Vault, name string, value *memguard.LockedBuffer, force bool,
-) error {
-	err := vault.ValidateSecretName(name)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-
-	replacing, err := replacesVersion(vlt, name, force)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-
-	if replacing {
-		_, err = vlt.GetOrDeriveLongTermKey()
-		if err != nil {
-			return fmt.Errorf("failed to get long-term key: %w", err)
-		}
-	}
-
-	needsKey, err := cli.addWithoutAsking(vlt, name, value, force)
-	if !needsKey {
-		return err
-	}
-
-	_, err = vlt.GetOrDeriveLongTermKey()
-	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("failed to get long-term key: %w", err)
-	}
-
-	// With the key in memory, this adds the secret
-	_, err = cli.addWithoutAsking(vlt, name, value, force)
-
-	return err
-}
-
-// addWithoutAsking takes the state directory lock and adds the secret name
-// with value to vlt, as vault.AddSecret does. If that would replace the
-// secret's current version while the vault's long-term key is not in
-// memory, getting the key could ask for the passphrase with the lock held:
-// addWithoutAsking then adds nothing and returns true.
-func (cli *Instance) addWithoutAsking(
-	vlt *vault.Vault, name string, value *memguard.LockedBuffer, force bool,
-) (bool, error) {
 	release, err := vault.LockStateDir(cli.fs, cli.stateDir)
 	if err != nil {
-		return false, err
+		return err
 	}
 	defer release()
 
-	replacing, err := replacesVersion(vlt, name, force)
+	// Add the secret to the vault
+	secret.Debug("Calling vault.AddSecret", "secret_name", secretName,
+		"value_length", valueBuffer.Size(), "force", force)
+
+	err = vlt.AddSecret(secretName, valueBuffer, force)
 	if err != nil {
-		return false, err
+		secret.Debug("vault.AddSecret failed", "error", err)
+
+		return err
 	}
 
-	if replacing && vlt.Locked() {
+	secret.Debug("vault.AddSecret completed successfully")
-		return true, nil
-	}
 
-	return false, vlt.AddSecret(name, value, force)
+	return nil
-}
-
-// replacesVersion reports whether adding the secret name to vlt replaces
-// the secret's current version: whether force is set and the secret has one.
-func replacesVersion(vlt *vault.Vault, name string, force bool) (bool, error) {
-	if !force {
-		return false, nil
-	}
-
-	exists, err := secret.NewSecret(vlt, name).Exists()
-	if err != nil {
-		return false, fmt.Errorf("failed to check if secret exists: %w", err)
-	}
-
-	return exists, nil
 }
 
 // GetSecret retrieves and prints the current version of a secret
@@ -773,7 +707,14 @@ func (cli *Instance) ImportSecret(
 
 	// Locked only now that the file has been read, as in AddSecret: the
 	// file may be a pipe written by another secret command.
-	err = cli.storeSecret(vlt, secretName, valueBuffer, force)
+	release, err := vault.LockStateDir(cli.fs, cli.stateDir)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	defer release()
+
+	// Store the secret in the vault
+	err = vlt.AddSecret(secretName, valueBuffer, force)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
@@ -875,12 +816,24 @@ func (cli *Instance) findSecretToRemove(
 	}, nil
 }
 
-// MoveSecret moves or renames a secret (within or across vaults). It
+// MoveSecret moves or renames a secret (within or across vaults), holding
-// leaves taking the state directory lock to moveSecretWithinVault and
+// the state directory lock.
-// moveSecretCrossVault, since a move between vaults unlocks both vaults
-// before it takes the lock.
 func (cli *Instance) MoveSecret(
 	cmd *cobra.Command, source, dest string, force bool,
+) error {
+	release, err := vault.LockStateDir(cli.fs, cli.stateDir)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	defer release()
+
+	return cli.moveSecret(cmd, source, dest, force)
+}
+
+// moveSecret does the work of MoveSecret. The caller holds the state
+// directory lock.
+func (cli *Instance) moveSecret(
+	cmd *cobra.Command, source, dest string, force bool,
 ) error {
 	// Parse source and destination
 	srcVaultName, srcSecretName, srcQualified := ParseVaultSecretRef(source)
@@ -980,9 +933,8 @@ func (cli *Instance) existingVault(name string) (*vault.Vault, error) {
 	return vault.NewVault(cli.fs, cli.stateDir, name), nil
 }
 
-// moveSecretWithinVault renames a secret within the vault vlt, holding the
+// moveSecretWithinVault renames a secret within the vault vlt. Its caller,
-// state directory lock. Its caller, MoveSecret, has already checked both
+// MoveSecret, has already checked both secret names.
-// secret names.
 func (cli *Instance) moveSecretWithinVault(
 	cmd *cobra.Command, vlt *vault.Vault, source, dest string, force bool,
 ) error {
@@ -992,12 +944,6 @@ func (cli *Instance) moveSecretWithinVault(
 		return fmt.Errorf("secret '%s' %w", source, errMoveOntoItself)
 	}
 
-	release, err := vault.LockStateDir(cli.fs, cli.stateDir)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	defer release()
-
 	vaultDir, err := vlt.GetDirectory()
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
@@ -1084,75 +1030,59 @@ func (cli *Instance) sameDirectory(dir, other string) (bool, error) {
 
 // moveSecretCrossVault handles moving between two different vaults. Its
 // caller, MoveSecret, has already checked both secret names and that both
-// vaults exist. The copy needs the source vault's long-term key and is
+// vaults exist.
-// encrypted to the destination vault's long-term public key. The
-// destination vault is unlocked to check that the copy will open with what
-// the user gave, and, once the state directory lock is held, that it still
-// has the key unlocked. Either unlock can ask for a passphrase, so both
-// happen before the lock is taken, and no other command waits while the
-// user answers.
 func (cli *Instance) moveSecretCrossVault(
 	cmd *cobra.Command,
 	srcVault *vault.Vault, srcSecretName string,
 	destVault *vault.Vault, destSecretName string,
 	force bool,
 ) error {
-	// Before unlocking, check that the source secret exists, that the
+	srcVaultDir, err := srcVault.GetDirectory()
-	// destination is not the source under another name, and, without
+	if err != nil {
-	// --force, that the destination secret does not exist
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to get source vault directory: %w", err)
-	_, err := cli.checkCrossVaultMove(
+	}
-		srcVault, srcSecretName, destVault, destSecretName, force)
+
+	// Verify source secret exists
+	srcStorageName := strings.ReplaceAll(srcSecretName, "/", "%")
+	srcSecretDir := filepath.Join(srcVaultDir, "secrets.d", srcStorageName)
+
+	exists, err := afero.DirExists(cli.fs, srcSecretDir)
+	if err != nil || !exists {
+		return fmt.Errorf("secret '%s' %w in vault '%s'",
+			srcSecretName, vault.ErrSecretNotFound, srcVault.Name)
+	}
+
+	// The source is removed after the copy, so a destination that is the
+	// source under another name would be lost with it.
+	destVaultDir, err := destVault.GetDirectory()
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to get destination vault directory: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	destStorageName := strings.ReplaceAll(destSecretName, "/", "%")
+	destSecretDir := filepath.Join(destVaultDir, "secrets.d", destStorageName)
+
+	same, err := cli.sameDirectory(srcSecretDir, destSecretDir)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 
+	if same {
+		return fmt.Errorf("secret '%s:%s' %w: '%s:%s' is the same secret on "+
+			"this filesystem", srcVault.Name, srcSecretName, errMoveOntoItself,
+			destVault.Name, destSecretName)
+	}
+
+	// Copying needs the long-term keys of both vaults
 	srcVault.Mnemonic, srcVault.UnlockPassphrase = cli.Mnemonic, cli.UnlockPassphrase
 	destVault.Mnemonic, destVault.UnlockPassphrase = cli.Mnemonic, cli.UnlockPassphrase
 
 	// Unlock destination vault (will fail if neither mnemonic nor unlocker available)
-	destIdentity, err := destVault.GetOrDeriveLongTermKey()
+	_, err = destVault.GetOrDeriveLongTermKey()
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("failed to unlock destination vault '%s': %w", destVault.Name, err)
 	}
 
-	_, err = srcVault.GetOrDeriveLongTermKey()
-	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("failed to unlock source vault '%s': %w",
-			srcVault.Name, err)
-	}
-
-	release, err := vault.LockStateDir(cli.fs, cli.stateDir)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	defer release()
-
-	err = cli.checkLongTermKey(destVault, destIdentity)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-
-	return cli.copySecretAndRemoveSource(
-		cmd, srcVault, srcSecretName, destVault, destSecretName, force)
-}
-
-// copySecretAndRemoveSource copies the secret srcSecretName of srcVault,
-// with all its versions, to destSecretName in destVault, and removes the
-// source. moveSecretCrossVault calls it holding the state directory lock.
-// Another command may have changed either vault since moveSecretCrossVault
-// checked them, so it checks them again first.
-func (cli *Instance) copySecretAndRemoveSource(
-	cmd *cobra.Command,
-	srcVault *vault.Vault, srcSecretName string,
-	destVault *vault.Vault, destSecretName string,
-	force bool,
-) error {
-	srcSecretDir, err := cli.checkCrossVaultMove(
-		srcVault, srcSecretName, destVault, destSecretName, force)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-
 	// Count versions for user feedback
 	versions, _ := secret.ListVersions(cli.fs, srcSecretDir)
 	versionCount := len(versions)
@@ -1167,9 +1097,12 @@ func (cli *Instance) copySecretAndRemoveSource(
 	// Delete source secret
 	err = secret.RemoveDirAtomic(cli.fs, srcSecretDir)
 	if err != nil {
-		return cli.sourceRemovalError(err, srcSecretDir,
+		// Copy succeeded but delete failed - warn but don't fail
-			srcVault.Name+":"+srcSecretName, destVault.Name+":"+destSecretName,
+		cmd.Printf("Warning: copied secret but failed to remove source: %v\n", err)
-			versionCount)
+		cmd.Printf("Moved secret '%s:%s' to '%s:%s' (%d version(s))\n",
+			srcVault.Name, srcSecretName, destVault.Name, destSecretName, versionCount)
+
+		return nil
 	}
 
 	cmd.Printf("Moved secret '%s:%s' to '%s:%s' (%d version(s))\n",
@@ -1177,90 +1110,3 @@ func (cli *Instance) copySecretAndRemoveSource(
 
 	return nil
 }
-
-// checkCrossVaultMove checks that the secret srcSecretName exists in
-// srcVault, that destSecretName in destVault is not the source under
-// another name, and, unless force is set, that destSecretName does not
-// exist in destVault. It returns the source's directory.
-func (cli *Instance) checkCrossVaultMove(
-	srcVault *vault.Vault, srcSecretName string,
-	destVault *vault.Vault, destSecretName string,
-	force bool,
-) (string, error) {
-	srcVaultDir, err := srcVault.GetDirectory()
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("failed to get source vault directory: %w", err)
-	}
-
-	// Verify source secret exists
-	srcStorageName := strings.ReplaceAll(srcSecretName, "/", "%")
-	srcSecretDir := filepath.Join(srcVaultDir, "secrets.d", srcStorageName)
-
-	exists, err := afero.DirExists(cli.fs, srcSecretDir)
-	if err != nil || !exists {
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("secret '%s' %w in vault '%s'",
-			srcSecretName, vault.ErrSecretNotFound, srcVault.Name)
-	}
-
-	// The source is removed after the copy, so a destination that is the
-	// source under another name would be lost with it.
-	destVaultDir, err := destVault.GetDirectory()
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("failed to get destination vault directory: %w", err)
-	}
-
-	destStorageName := strings.ReplaceAll(destSecretName, "/", "%")
-	destSecretDir := filepath.Join(destVaultDir, "secrets.d", destStorageName)
-
-	same, err := cli.sameDirectory(srcSecretDir, destSecretDir)
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", err
-	}
-
-	if same {
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("secret '%s:%s' %w: '%s:%s' is the same secret "+
-			"on this filesystem", srcVault.Name, srcSecretName, errMoveOntoItself,
-			destVault.Name, destSecretName)
-	}
-
-	exists, err = afero.DirExists(cli.fs, destSecretDir)
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("failed to check if destination secret exists: %w", err)
-	}
-
-	if exists && !force {
-		return "", fmt.Errorf(
-			"secret '%s' %w in vault '%s' (use --force to overwrite)",
-			destSecretName, vault.ErrSecretExists, destVault.Name)
-	}
-
-	return srcSecretDir, nil
-}
-
-// sourceRemovalError returns the error of a move between vaults that
-// copied all versionCount versions of the secret srcName to destName, and
-// then failed with removeErr to remove srcSecretDir, the directory of
-// srcName. The removal can fail after the source has left its vault, when
-// only the temporary directory it was moved into cannot be deleted, so the
-// error says the source remains only if srcSecretDir is still there.
-func (cli *Instance) sourceRemovalError(
-	removeErr error, srcSecretDir, srcName, destName string, versionCount int,
-) error {
-	remains, err := afero.DirExists(cli.fs, srcSecretDir)
-
-	switch {
-	case err != nil:
-		return fmt.Errorf("secret '%s' is copied with all %d version(s) "+
-			"to '%s', but removing the source failed and whether it "+
-			"remains is unknown: %w",
-			srcName, versionCount, destName, errors.Join(removeErr, err))
-	case remains:
-		return fmt.Errorf("secret '%s' is copied with all %d version(s) "+
-			"to '%s', but the source remains: %w",
-			srcName, versionCount, destName, removeErr)
-	default:
-		return fmt.Errorf("secret '%s' is moved with all %d version(s) "+
-			"to '%s', but its old files could not all be deleted: %w",
-			srcName, versionCount, destName, removeErr)
-	}
-}

internal/cli/secrets_size_test.go

@@ -36,11 +36,17 @@ func newSizeTestVault(t *testing.T) (afero.Fs, *vault.Vault) {
 
 	fs := afero.NewMemMapFs()
 
-	// Create vault, which selects it as the current vault
+	// Create vault
 	_, err := vault.CreateVault(fs, testStateDir, testVaultName,
 		testMnemonicBuffer(t), nil)
 	require.NoError(t, err)
 
+	// Set current vault
+	currentVaultPath := filepath.Join(testStateDir, "currentvault")
+	vaultPath := filepath.Join(testStateDir, "vaults.d", testVaultName)
+	err = afero.WriteFile(fs, currentVaultPath, []byte(vaultPath), 0o600)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
 	// Get vault and set up long-term key
 	vlt, err := vault.GetCurrentVault(fs, testStateDir)
 	require.NoError(t, err)

internal/cli/trailing_newline_test.go

@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-//nolint:testpackage // white-box test of unexported internals
-package cli
-
-import (
-	"bytes"
-	"testing"
-
-	"github.com/spf13/afero"
-	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
-	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
-	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
-)
-
-// TestAddDropsOneTrailingNewlineImportKeepsIt pins the rule the README
-// gives: `secret add` drops one trailing newline from stdin, and
-// `secret import` stores the file's bytes unchanged.
-func TestAddDropsOneTrailingNewlineImportKeepsIt(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	fs, vlt := newSizeTestVault(t)
-	value := []byte("a\n\n")
-
-	cmd := &cobra.Command{}
-	cmd.SetIn(bytes.NewReader(value))
-
-	cli := NewCLIInstanceWithStateDir(fs, testStateDir)
-	cli.cmd = cmd
-
-	require.NoError(t, cli.AddSecret("added", false))
-
-	sourceFile := "/test/value"
-	require.NoError(t, afero.WriteFile(fs, sourceFile, value, 0o600))
-	require.NoError(t, cli.ImportSecret(cmd, "imported", sourceFile, false))
-
-	added, err := vlt.GetSecret("added")
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-
-	defer added.Destroy()
-
-	imported, err := vlt.GetSecret("imported")
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-
-	defer imported.Destroy()
-
-	assert.Equal(t, []byte("a\n"), added.Bytes())
-	assert.Equal(t, []byte("a\n\n"), imported.Bytes())
-}

internal/cli/unknown_subcommand_test.go

@@ -1,58 +0,0 @@
-package cli_test
-
-import (
-	"fmt"
-	"os/exec"
-	"strings"
-	"testing"
-
-	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
-	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
-	"sneak.berlin/go/secret/internal/secret"
-)
-
-// TestUnknownSubcommandFails is a regression test for
-// https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/183: given a subcommand it does not
-// have, `secret vault`, `secret unlocker`, `secret version` and `secret
-// generate` printed their help and exited 0, so a script could not tell a
-// mistyped command from a successful one. Each runs here as the built binary
-// and must exit 1 naming the subcommand, as an unknown command does at the
-// top level, and must still print its help and exit 0 when given nothing.
-func TestUnknownSubcommandFails(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	stateDir := t.TempDir()
-
-	// run runs the built binary with args and returns what it printed and
-	// its exit code
-	run := func(args ...string) (string, int) {
-		//nolint:gosec // G204: test executes the freshly built secret binary
-		cmd := exec.CommandContext(t.Context(), secretBinaryPath(t), args...)
-		cmd.Env = []string{secret.EnvStateDir + "=" + stateDir}
-
-		output, err := cmd.CombinedOutput()
-		if err != nil {
-			var exitErr *exec.ExitError
-			require.ErrorAs(t, err, &exitErr, "secret %v did not run", args)
-		}
-
-		return string(output), cmd.ProcessState.ExitCode()
-	}
-
-	for _, call := range []string{
-		"vault improt", "unlocker foo", "version foo", "generate foo",
-	} {
-		parent, unknown, _ := strings.Cut(call, " ")
-
-		output, exitCode := run(parent, unknown)
-		assert.Equal(t, 1, exitCode, "secret %s should fail:\n%s", call, output)
-		assert.Contains(t, output, fmt.Sprintf(
-			"unknown command %q for \"secret %s\"", unknown, parent))
-
-		output, exitCode = run(parent)
-		assert.Equal(t, 0, exitCode,
-			"secret %s should succeed:\n%s", parent, output)
-		assert.Contains(t, output, usageHeading,
-			"secret %s should print its help", parent)
-	}
-}

internal/cli/unlockers.go

@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
-	"filippo.io/age"
 	"github.com/spf13/afero"
 	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
 	"sneak.berlin/go/secret/internal/secret"
@@ -40,10 +39,6 @@ var (
 	// composes "GPG key <id> is already added as an unlocker".
 	errGPGKeyAlreadyUnlocker = errors.New(
 		"is already added as an unlocker")
-	// errVaultCreatedAgain carries only the message tail; the caller
-	// composes "vault '<name>' was removed and created again ...".
-	errVaultCreatedAgain = errors.New("was removed and created again " +
-		"with another key while it was being unlocked; nothing was changed")
 )
 
 // UnlockerInfo represents unlocker information for display
@@ -131,12 +126,6 @@ func newUnlockerCmd() *cobra.Command {
 		Use:   "unlocker",
 		Short: "Manage unlockers",
 		Long:  `Create, list, and remove unlockers for the current vault.`,
-		// Cobra checks Args only on a command that has a RunE; without
-		// one, an unknown subcommand prints this help and exits 0.
-		Args: cobra.NoArgs,
-		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, _ []string) error {
-			return cmd.Help()
-		},
 	}
 
 	cmd.AddCommand(newUnlockerListCmd())
@@ -325,8 +314,7 @@ func (cli *Instance) UnlockersList(jsonOutput bool) error {
 		return err
 	}
 
-	// Not nil, so that a vault with no unlockers prints [] in JSON, not null
+	var unlockers []UnlockerInfo
-	unlockers := make([]UnlockerInfo, 0, len(unlockerMetadata))
 
 	for _, unlockerID := range slices.Sorted(maps.Keys(unlockerMetadata)) {
 		metadata := unlockerMetadata[unlockerID]
@@ -409,6 +397,12 @@ func (cli *Instance) printUnlockersTable(unlockers []UnlockerInfo) error {
 
 // UnlockersAdd adds a new unlocker
 func (cli *Instance) UnlockersAdd(unlockerType string, cmd *cobra.Command) error {
+	release, err := vault.LockStateDir(cli.fs, cli.stateDir)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	defer release()
+
 	switch unlockerType {
 	case unlockerTypePassphrase:
 		return cli.addPassphraseUnlocker(cmd)
@@ -422,64 +416,6 @@ func (cli *Instance) UnlockersAdd(unlockerType string, cmd *cobra.Command) error
 	}
 }
 
-// unlockThenLock gets the long-term key of vlt, the vault an unlocker is
-// added to, then takes the state directory lock and returns the function
-// that releases it. Getting the key can ask for a passphrase, so it comes
-// before the lock, as the question of askThenLock does, and no other
-// command waits while the user answers. Once the lock is held, it fails if
-// another command has removed the vault in the meantime, since writing the
-// unlocker would create the vault's directory again, holding nothing else.
-// It also fails if the vault was removed and created again with another
-// long-term key, which the unlocker would then hold instead of the new
-// vault's own.
-func (cli *Instance) unlockThenLock(vlt *vault.Vault) (func(), error) {
-	ltIdentity, err := vlt.GetOrDeriveLongTermKey()
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to get long-term key: %w", err)
-	}
-
-	release, err := vault.LockStateDir(cli.fs, cli.stateDir)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-
-	err = cli.checkLongTermKey(vlt, ltIdentity)
-	if err != nil {
-		release()
-
-		return nil, err
-	}
-
-	return release, nil
-}
-
-// checkLongTermKey checks, for the vault vlt unlocked as ltIdentity before
-// the state directory lock was taken, that vlt still exists and that its
-// long-term public key is still that of ltIdentity. Another command may have
-// removed the vault in the meantime, or removed it and created it again with
-// another long-term key. The caller holds the lock.
-func (cli *Instance) checkLongTermKey(
-	vlt *vault.Vault, ltIdentity *age.X25519Identity,
-) error {
-	_, err := cli.existingVault(vlt.GetName())
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-
-	vaultDir, _ := vlt.GetDirectory()
-
-	ltPubKey, err := afero.ReadFile(cli.fs, filepath.Join(vaultDir, "pub.age"))
-	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("failed to read long-term public key: %w", err)
-	}
-
-	if string(ltPubKey) != ltIdentity.Recipient().String() {
-		return fmt.Errorf("vault '%s' %w", vlt.GetName(), errVaultCreatedAgain)
-	}
-
-	return nil
-}
-
 // autoSelectUnlocker selects the newly created unlocker as current,
 // printing a warning if selection fails
 func autoSelectUnlocker(cmd *cobra.Command, vlt *vault.Vault, unlockerID string) {
@@ -499,31 +435,23 @@ func (cli *Instance) addPassphraseUnlocker(cmd *cobra.Command) error {
 		return fmt.Errorf("failed to get current vault: %w", err)
 	}
 
+	// For passphrase unlockers, we don't need the vault to be unlocked
+	// The CreatePassphraseUnlocker method will handle getting the
+	// long-term key
 	vlt.Mnemonic, vlt.UnlockPassphrase = cli.Mnemonic, cli.UnlockPassphrase
 
-	// The new passphrase is asked for even when SB_UNLOCK_PASSPHRASE is
+	// The new unlocker gets the passphrase from the environment, which also
-	// set, and the variable unlocks the vault. With no terminal to ask on,
+	// unlocks the current passphrase unlocker, else the one entered here
-	// the new unlocker takes the passphrase in the variable.
+	passphraseBuffer := cli.UnlockPassphrase
-	fromVariable := false
+	if passphraseBuffer == nil {
-
+		// Use secure passphrase input with confirmation
-	passphraseBuffer, err := readSecurePassphrase("Enter passphrase for unlocker: ")
+		passphraseBuffer, err = readSecurePassphrase("Enter passphrase for unlocker: ")
-
+		if err != nil {
-	switch {
+			return err
-	case errors.Is(err, secret.ErrNoTerminal) && cli.UnlockPassphrase != nil:
+		}
-		passphraseBuffer = cli.UnlockPassphrase
-		fromVariable = true
-	case err != nil:
-		return err
-	default:
 		defer passphraseBuffer.Destroy()
 	}
 
-	release, err := cli.unlockThenLock(vlt)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	defer release()
-
 	passphraseUnlocker, err := vlt.CreatePassphraseUnlocker(passphraseBuffer)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
@@ -531,12 +459,6 @@ func (cli *Instance) addPassphraseUnlocker(cmd *cobra.Command) error {
 
 	cmd.Printf("Created passphrase unlocker: %s\n", passphraseUnlocker.GetID())
 
-	if fromVariable {
-		cmd.Printf("The new unlocker takes its passphrase from %s, since "+
-			"there is no terminal to ask for a new one on\n",
-			secret.EnvUnlockPassphrase)
-	}
-
 	// CreatePassphraseUnlocker has already made it the current unlocker
 	cmd.Printf("Automatically selected as current unlocker\n")
 
@@ -562,13 +484,12 @@ func (cli *Instance) addPGPUnlocker(cmd *cobra.Command) error {
 		cmd.Printf("Using default GPG key: %s\n", gpgKeyID)
 	}
 
+	// Check if this key is already added as an unlocker
 	vlt, err := vault.GetCurrentVault(cli.fs, cli.stateDir)
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("failed to get current vault: %w", err)
 	}
 
-	vlt.Mnemonic, vlt.UnlockPassphrase = cli.Mnemonic, cli.UnlockPassphrase
-
 	// Resolve the GPG key ID to its fingerprint, once: the duplicate check
 	// and the new unlocker's metadata both use this result
 	fingerprint, err := secret.ResolveGPGKeyFingerprint(gpgKeyID)
@@ -576,26 +497,21 @@ func (cli *Instance) addPGPUnlocker(cmd *cobra.Command) error {
 		return fmt.Errorf("failed to resolve GPG key fingerprint: %w", err)
 	}
 
-	// Refuse a key that is already an unlocker before asking for anything,
+	// Check if this GPG key is already added
-	// and again once the lock is held, since another command may have added
+	exists, err := cli.pgpUnlockerExists(vlt, fingerprint)
-	// it in the meantime
-	err = cli.checkPGPKeyNotAdded(vlt, gpgKeyID, fingerprint)
 	if err != nil {
-		return err
+		return fmt.Errorf(
+			"could not check whether GPG key %s is already an unlocker: %w",
+			gpgKeyID, err,
+		)
 	}
 
-	release, err := cli.unlockThenLock(vlt)
+	if exists {
-	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("GPG key %s %w", gpgKeyID, errGPGKeyAlreadyUnlocker)
-		return err
-	}
-	defer release()
-
-	err = cli.checkPGPKeyNotAdded(vlt, gpgKeyID, fingerprint)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
 	}
 
-	pgpUnlocker, err := secret.CreatePGPUnlocker(vlt, gpgKeyID, fingerprint)
+	pgpUnlocker, err := secret.CreatePGPUnlocker(cli.fs, cli.stateDir,
+		gpgKeyID, fingerprint, cli.Mnemonic, cli.UnlockPassphrase)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
@@ -770,27 +686,6 @@ func (cli *Instance) UnlockerSelect(unlockerID string) error {
 	return vlt.SelectUnlocker(unlockerID)
 }
 
-// checkPGPKeyNotAdded fails when vlt already has a PGP unlocker for the GPG
-// key gpgKeyID, whose fingerprint is fingerprint, or when that cannot be
-// checked.
-func (cli *Instance) checkPGPKeyNotAdded(
-	vlt *vault.Vault, gpgKeyID, fingerprint string,
-) error {
-	exists, err := cli.pgpUnlockerExists(vlt, fingerprint)
-	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf(
-			"could not check whether GPG key %s is already an unlocker: %w",
-			gpgKeyID, err,
-		)
-	}
-
-	if exists {
-		return fmt.Errorf("GPG key %s %w", gpgKeyID, errGPGKeyAlreadyUnlocker)
-	}
-
-	return nil
-}
-
 // pgpUnlockerExists reports whether the vault already has a PGP unlocker
 // for the GPG key with the given fingerprint. It returns an error, and no
 // answer, when unlockers.d or an unlocker's metadata file cannot be read;

internal/cli/unlockers_list_test.go

@@ -1,14 +1,13 @@
 // Unlocker List Tests
 //
-// Tests for `secret unlocker list`:
+// Tests for `secret unlocker list` behavior when an unlocker's metadata
+// cannot be read or used:
 //
 //   - TestUnlockersListToleratesCorruptMetadata: one unlocker's corrupt
 //     metadata does not stop the others from being listed.
 //   - TestUnlockersListSkipsUnreadableMetadata: an unlocker whose metadata
 //     file cannot be checked for or read is left out, and the other is
 //     still listed.
-//   - TestUnlockersListEmptyJSON: a vault with no unlockers lists them as
-//     an empty JSON list.
 
 //nolint:testpackage // white-box test of unexported internals
 package cli
@@ -322,36 +321,3 @@ func TestUnlockersListSkipsUnreadableMetadata(t *testing.T) {
 		})
 	}
 }
-
-// TestUnlockersListEmptyJSON is a regression test for
-// https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/148: listing the unlockers of a
-// vault that has none, as after its last unlocker is removed, printed
-// "unlockers": null in JSON form instead of an empty list.
-func TestUnlockersListEmptyJSON(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	fs := afero.NewMemMapFs()
-	vaultDir := filepath.Join(listTestStateDir, "vaults.d", listTestVaultName)
-
-	require.NoError(t, afero.WriteFile(
-		fs, filepath.Join(listTestStateDir, "currentvault"),
-		[]byte(listTestVaultName), listTestFilePerm,
-	))
-	require.NoError(t, fs.MkdirAll(
-		filepath.Join(vaultDir, listTestUnlockersDirName), listTestDirPerm,
-	))
-
-	var buf bytes.Buffer
-
-	cmd := &cobra.Command{}
-	cmd.SetOut(&buf)
-
-	instance := &Instance{fs: fs, stateDir: listTestStateDir, cmd: cmd}
-	require.NoError(t, instance.UnlockersList(true))
-
-	var decoded map[string]any
-
-	require.NoError(t, json.Unmarshal(buf.Bytes(), &decoded))
-	assert.Equal(t, []any{}, decoded["unlockers"],
-		"no unlockers must be printed as [], not %s", buf.String())
-}

internal/cli/unreadable_dir_test.go

@@ -9,12 +9,11 @@
 // "nothing there" and go ahead.
 //
 // The tests make the look fail with a wrapper around the in-memory
-// filesystem, which the state directory lock refuses. So they call a
+// filesystem, which the state directory lock refuses. So they call the
-// function that makes the look before any lock is taken: addPGPUnlocker for
+// function each command runs once it holds the lock, such as addPGPUnlocker
-// UnlockersAdd, which looks again once it holds the lock, or, for a removal,
+// for UnlockersAdd, or, for a removal, the function that makes its checks,
-// the function that makes its checks, such as findVaultToRemove for
+// such as findVaultToRemove for RemoveVault, which runs again under the
-// RemoveVault, which runs again under the lock before anything is removed,
+// lock before anything is removed, with --force or without.
-// with --force or without.
 
 //nolint:testpackage // white-box test of unexported internals
 package cli

internal/cli/vault.go

@@ -29,12 +29,6 @@ func newVaultCmd() *cobra.Command {
 		Use:   "vault",
 		Short: "Manage vaults",
 		Long:  `Create, list, and select vaults for organizing secrets.`,
-		// Cobra checks Args only on a command that has a RunE; without
-		// one, an unknown subcommand prints this help and exits 0.
-		Args: cobra.NoArgs,
-		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, _ []string) error {
-			return cmd.Help()
-		},
 	}
 
 	cmd.AddCommand(newVaultListCmd())
@@ -222,14 +216,18 @@ func (cli *Instance) resolvePassphrase() (*memguard.LockedBuffer, func(), error)
 	return passphraseBuffer, passphraseBuffer.Destroy, nil
 }
 
-// CreateVault creates a new vault. It asks for the mnemonic and the
+// CreateVault creates a new vault
-// passphrase before it takes the state directory lock, so that no other
-// command waits while the user answers.
 func (cli *Instance) CreateVault(cmd *cobra.Command, name string) error {
 	secret.Debug("Creating new vault", "name", name, "state_dir", cli.stateDir)
 
+	release, err := vault.LockStateDir(cli.fs, cli.stateDir)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	defer release()
+
 	// Refuse an invalid name or an existing vault before asking for anything
-	err := vault.CheckNewVaultName(cli.fs, cli.stateDir, name)
+	err = vault.CheckNewVaultName(cli.fs, cli.stateDir, name)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
@@ -261,14 +259,7 @@ func (cli *Instance) CreateVault(cmd *cobra.Command, name string) error {
 	}
 	defer cleanupPassphrase()
 
-	release, err := vault.LockStateDir(cli.fs, cli.stateDir)
+	// Create the vault with its passphrase unlocker
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	defer release()
-
-	// Create the vault with its passphrase unlocker. Another command may
-	// have created it since the check above: vault.CreateVault checks again.
 	vlt, err := vault.CreateVault(cli.fs, cli.stateDir, name,
 		mnemonic, passphraseBuffer)
 	if err != nil {

internal/cli/vault_list_test.go

@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-package cli_test
-
-import (
-	"bytes"
-	"encoding/json"
-	"path/filepath"
-	"testing"
-
-	"github.com/spf13/afero"
-	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
-	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
-	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
-	"sneak.berlin/go/secret/internal/cli"
-	"sneak.berlin/go/secret/internal/secret"
-)
-
-// TestVaultListEmptyJSON is a regression test for
-// https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/148: listing the vaults when
-// vaults.d holds none printed "vaults": null in JSON form instead of an
-// empty list.
-func TestVaultListEmptyJSON(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	fs := afero.NewMemMapFs()
-	require.NoError(t, fs.MkdirAll(
-		filepath.Join(testStateDir, "vaults.d"), secret.DirPerms,
-	))
-
-	var buf bytes.Buffer
-
-	cmd := &cobra.Command{}
-	cmd.SetOut(&buf)
-
-	c := cli.NewCLIInstanceWithStateDir(fs, testStateDir)
-	require.NoError(t, c.ListVaults(cmd, true))
-
-	var decoded map[string]any
-
-	require.NoError(t, json.Unmarshal(buf.Bytes(), &decoded))
-	assert.Equal(t, []any{}, decoded["vaults"],
-		"no vaults must be printed as [], not %s", buf.String())
-}

internal/cli/version.go

@@ -43,12 +43,6 @@ func VersionCommands(cli *Instance) *cobra.Command {
 		Short: "Manage secret versions",
 		Long: "Commands for managing secret versions including listing, " +
 			"promoting, and retrieving specific versions",
-		// Cobra checks Args only on a command that has a RunE; without
-		// one, an unknown subcommand prints this help and exits 0.
-		Args: cobra.NoArgs,
-		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, _ []string) error {
-			return cmd.Help()
-		},
 	}
 
 	// List versions command
@@ -235,13 +229,9 @@ func printVersionRow(
 	}
 
 	// Determine status
-	status := "inactive"
+	status := "expired"
-
+	if version == currentVersion {
-	switch {
-	case version == currentVersion:
 		status = "current"
-	case sv.Metadata.NotAfter != nil && sv.Metadata.NotAfter.Before(time.Now()):
-		status = "expired"
 	}
 
 	// Format timestamps

internal/cli/version_test.go

@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@
 // - TestListVersionsCommand: Tests `secret version list` command output
 // - TestListVersionsNonExistentSecret: Tests error handling for missing secrets
 // - TestPromoteVersionCommand: Tests `secret version promote` command
-// - TestListVersionsStatusAfterPromote: Tests each version's status after
-//   promoting an older version
 // - TestPromoteNonExistentVersion: Tests error handling for invalid promotion
 // - TestPromoteHelpSaysCurrentFileIsRewritten: Tests `secret version promote
 //   --help` text
@@ -246,66 +244,6 @@ func TestPromoteVersionCommand(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.Equal(t, []byte("version-1"), promoted.Bytes())
 }
 
-func TestListVersionsStatusAfterPromote(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	fs := afero.NewMemMapFs()
-	cli := NewCLIInstanceWithStateDir(fs, testStateDir)
-	cli.Mnemonic = testMnemonicBuffer(t)
-
-	setupTestVault(t, fs)
-
-	vlt, err := vault.GetCurrentVault(fs, testStateDir)
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-
-	vlt.Mnemonic = cli.Mnemonic
-
-	addTestSecret(t, vlt, []byte("version-1"), false)
-	addTestSecret(t, vlt, []byte("version-2"), true)
-	addTestSecret(t, vlt, []byte("version-3"), true)
-
-	vaultDir, err := vlt.GetDirectory()
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-
-	// Newest first
-	versions, err := secret.ListVersions(fs,
-		filepath.Join(vaultDir, "secrets.d", "test%secret"))
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-	require.Len(t, versions, 3)
-
-	newest, middle, oldest := versions[0], versions[1], versions[2]
-
-	cmd := newRootCmd()
-
-	var buf bytes.Buffer
-	cmd.SetOut(&buf)
-	cmd.SetErr(&buf)
-
-	err = cli.PromoteVersion(cmd, "test/secret", oldest)
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-
-	buf.Reset()
-
-	err = cli.ListVersions(cmd, "test/secret")
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-
-	// STATUS is the fourth field of a row, since CREATED is a date and a time
-	statuses := map[string]string{}
-
-	for line := range strings.SplitSeq(buf.String(), "\n") {
-		fields := strings.Fields(line)
-		if len(fields) > 3 {
-			statuses[fields[0]] = fields[3]
-		}
-	}
-
-	assert.Equal(t, "current", statuses[oldest])
-	// Its NOT_AFTER was set when the newest version was added
-	assert.Equal(t, "expired", statuses[middle])
-	// It has no NOT_AFTER
-	assert.Equal(t, "inactive", statuses[newest])
-}
-
 func TestPromoteNonExistentVersion(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 

internal/secret/atomic.go

@@ -149,9 +149,7 @@ func WriteDir(fs afero.Fs, dir string, write func(dir string) error) error {
 
 // RemoveDirAtomic deletes the directory dir so that it disappears in one
 // rename: dir is moved into a new directory from TempDirFor, which is then
-// deleted. A crash part-way leaves only that temporary directory behind. If
+// deleted. A crash part-way leaves only that temporary directory behind.
-// only deleting the temporary directory fails, dir is already gone, and the
-// error names the temporary directory, which holds what is left of it.
 func RemoveDirAtomic(fs afero.Fs, dir string) error {
 	tmp, err := TempDirFor(fs, dir)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -167,8 +165,7 @@ func RemoveDirAtomic(fs afero.Fs, dir string) error {
 
 	err = fs.RemoveAll(tmp)
 	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("failed to remove %s after moving %s into it: %w",
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to remove %s: %w", dir, err)
-			tmp, dir, err)
 	}
 
 	return nil

internal/secret/crypto.go

@@ -15,13 +15,10 @@ import (
 
 var (
 	errNilPassphraseBuffer = errors.New("passphrase buffer is nil")
+	errNoTerminal          = errors.New("there is no terminal to ask on")
 	errNothingEntered      = errors.New("nothing was entered")
 )
 
-// ErrNoTerminal is wrapped in the error of ReadPassphrase and ReadMnemonic
-// when the process has no controlling terminal to ask on.
-var ErrNoTerminal = errors.New("there is no terminal to ask on")
-
 // ErrMnemonicNotRead is wrapped in every error of ReadMnemonic: there is no
 // terminal to read the mnemonic from, reading it failed, or it was empty.
 var ErrMnemonicNotRead = errors.New("failed to read mnemonic")
@@ -206,7 +203,7 @@ func readFromTerminal(
 
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf(
 			"%w: %w. Please set the %s environment variable or run interactively",
-			notRead, ErrNoTerminal, envVar)
+			notRead, errNoTerminal, envVar)
 	}
 	defer func() { _ = terminal.Close() }()
 

internal/secret/pgpunlock_test.go

@@ -375,7 +375,8 @@ func testCreatePGPUnlocker(
 	}
 
 	// Now create a PGP unlock key (this will use our custom GPGEncryptFunc)
-	pgpUnlocker, err := secret.CreatePGPUnlocker(vlt, keyID, fingerprint)
+	pgpUnlocker, err := secret.CreatePGPUnlocker(
+		fs, stateDir, keyID, fingerprint, mnemonic, nil)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("Failed to create PGP unlock key: %v", err)
 	}

internal/secret/pgpunlocker.go

@@ -192,45 +192,58 @@ func generatePGPUnlockerName() (string, error) {
 	return fmt.Sprintf("%s-pgp-%s", hostname, enrollmentTime), nil
 }
 
-// pgpUnlockerDir returns the directory in vault for a new PGP unlocker,
+// pgpUnlockerDir returns the current vault and the directory in it for a
-// named after the host and the time.
+// new PGP unlocker, named after the host and the time.
-func pgpUnlockerDir(vault VaultInterface) (string, error) {
+//
+//nolint:ireturn // the vault is only available behind VaultInterface
+func pgpUnlockerDir(
+	fs afero.Fs, stateDir string,
+) (VaultInterface, string, error) {
+	// Get current vault
+	vault, err := GetCurrentVault(fs, stateDir)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, "", fmt.Errorf("failed to get current vault: %w", err)
+	}
+
 	// Generate the unlocker name based on hostname and time
 	unlockerName, err := generatePGPUnlockerName()
 	if err != nil {
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("failed to generate unlocker name: %w", err)
+		return nil, "", fmt.Errorf("failed to generate unlocker name: %w", err)
 	}
 
 	vaultDir, err := vault.GetDirectory()
 	if err != nil {
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("failed to get vault directory: %w", err)
+		return nil, "", fmt.Errorf("failed to get vault directory: %w", err)
 	}
 
-	return filepath.Join(vaultDir, "unlockers.d", unlockerName), nil
+	return vault, filepath.Join(vaultDir, "unlockers.d", unlockerName), nil
 }
 
-// CreatePGPUnlocker creates a new PGP unlocker and stores it in vault.
+// CreatePGPUnlocker creates a new PGP unlocker and stores it in the vault.
 // It encrypts to the GPG key gpgKeyID and records fingerprint, that key's
 // fingerprint as ResolveGPGKeyFingerprint returns it, in the metadata.
 // Everything that can fail short of writing a file is done before anything
 // is written, and the files are written through WriteDir, so a failure
-// leaves no partial unlocker. The long-term key comes from vault's
+// leaves no partial unlocker. The long-term key comes from mnemonic when it
-// GetOrDeriveLongTermKey: the key it holds when it is unlocked, else the
+// is not nil, else from the current unlocker, which is given passphrase when
-// key from its mnemonic or its current unlocker.
+// it is a passphrase unlocker.
 func CreatePGPUnlocker(
-	vault VaultInterface, gpgKeyID, fingerprint string,
+	fs afero.Fs, stateDir, gpgKeyID, fingerprint string,
+	mnemonic, passphrase *memguard.LockedBuffer,
 ) (*PGPUnlocker, error) {
 	err := checkGPGAvailable()
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
-	unlockerDir, err := pgpUnlockerDir(vault)
+	vault, unlockerDir, err := pgpUnlockerDir(fs, stateDir)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
-	fs := vault.GetFilesystem()
+	// The vault's GetOrDeriveLongTermKey, in step 2, uses both
+	vault.SetMnemonic(mnemonic)
+	vault.SetUnlockPassphrase(passphrase)
 
 	// Step 1: Generate a new age keypair for the PGP unlocker
 	ageIdentity, err := age.GenerateX25519Identity()
@@ -282,7 +295,7 @@ func CreatePGPUnlocker(
 func encryptPGPUnlockerKeys(
 	vault VaultInterface, ageIdentity *age.X25519Identity, gpgKeyID string,
 ) ([]byte, []byte, error) {
-	// The key vault holds, or else from its mnemonic or current unlocker
+	// From the mnemonic or the current unlocker, as for a passphrase unlocker
 	ltIdentity, err := vault.GetOrDeriveLongTermKey()
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to get long-term key: %w", err)
@@ -375,8 +388,7 @@ func ResolveGPGKeyFingerprint(keyID string) (string, error) {
 			return "", fmt.Errorf("%w: %s", ErrGPGKeyNotFound, keyID)
 		}
 
-		return "", fmt.Errorf(
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("failed to resolve GPG key fingerprint: %w", err)
-			"failed to resolve GPG key fingerprint: %w", withGPGStderr(err))
 	}
 
 	// Parse the output to extract the fingerprint
@@ -406,24 +418,6 @@ func checkGPGAvailable() error {
 	return nil
 }
 
-// withGPGStderr appends gpg's stderr, which says why gpg failed, to err
-// from cmd.Output. cmd.Output keeps that stderr in the *exec.ExitError.
-// err is returned unchanged when gpg wrote nothing to stderr.
-func withGPGStderr(err error) error {
-	var exitErr *exec.ExitError
-
-	if !errors.As(err, &exitErr) {
-		return err
-	}
-
-	stderr := strings.TrimSpace(string(exitErr.Stderr))
-	if stderr == "" {
-		return err
-	}
-
-	return fmt.Errorf("%w: %s", err, stderr)
-}
-
 // gpgEncryptDefault is the default implementation of GPG encryption
 func gpgEncryptDefault(data *memguard.LockedBuffer, keyID string) ([]byte, error) {
 	if data == nil {
@@ -443,7 +437,7 @@ func gpgEncryptDefault(data *memguard.LockedBuffer, keyID string) ([]byte, error
 
 	output, err := cmd.Output()
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("GPG encryption failed: %w", withGPGStderr(err))
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("GPG encryption failed: %w", err)
 	}
 
 	return output, nil
@@ -456,7 +450,7 @@ func gpgDecryptDefault(encryptedData []byte) (*memguard.LockedBuffer, error) {
 
 	output, err := cmd.Output()
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("GPG decryption failed: %w", withGPGStderr(err))
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("GPG decryption failed: %w", err)
 	}
 
 	// Create a secure buffer for the decrypted data

internal/secret/pgpunlocker_test.go

@@ -58,8 +58,7 @@ func TestCreatePGPUnlockerFailureWritesNothing(t *testing.T) {
 	}}
 
 	_, err = secret.CreatePGPUnlocker(
-		vault.NewVault(fs, testVaultStateDir, testVaultName),
+		fs, testVaultStateDir, testGPGKeyID, testGPGFingerprint, nil, nil)
-		testGPGKeyID, testGPGFingerprint)
 	require.Error(t, err)
 
 	vaultDir, err := vlt.GetDirectory()
@@ -88,40 +87,18 @@ func TestPGPUnlockerAddedTwiceKeepsFirst(t *testing.T) {
 
 	fs := afero.NewMemMapFs()
 	mnemonic := testMnemonicBuffer(t)
-	vlt, err := vault.CreateVault(fs, testVaultStateDir, testVaultName, mnemonic, nil)
+	_, err := vault.CreateVault(fs, testVaultStateDir, testVaultName, mnemonic, nil)
 	require.NoError(t, err)
 
-	first, err := secret.CreatePGPUnlocker(vlt, testGPGKeyID, testGPGFingerprint)
+	first, err := secret.CreatePGPUnlocker(
+		fs, testVaultStateDir, testGPGKeyID, testGPGFingerprint, mnemonic, nil)
 	require.NoError(t, err)
 
 	firstFiles := dirFiles(t, fs, first.GetDirectory())
 
-	second, err := secret.CreatePGPUnlocker(vlt, testGPGKeyID, testGPGFingerprint)
+	second, err := secret.CreatePGPUnlocker(
+		fs, testVaultStateDir, testGPGKeyID, testGPGFingerprint, mnemonic, nil)
 	require.NoError(t, err)
 	assert.NotEqual(t, first.GetDirectory(), second.GetDirectory())
 	assert.Equal(t, firstFiles, dirFiles(t, fs, first.GetDirectory()))
 }
-
-// TestGPGDecryptErrorHasGPGReason runs the real gpg on data that is not an
-// OpenPGP message and checks that the error carries the reason gpg writes
-// to stderr.
-func TestGPGDecryptErrorHasGPGReason(t *testing.T) {
-	// The empty GNUPGHOME keeps gpg away from the user's own keyring;
-	// LC_ALL=C keeps gpg's message in English.
-	t.Setenv("GNUPGHOME", t.TempDir())
-	t.Setenv("LC_ALL", "C")
-
-	_, err := secret.GPGDecryptFunc([]byte("not an OpenPGP message"))
-	require.ErrorContains(t, err, "gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found")
-}
-
-// TestGPGDecryptErrorWithoutGPGStderr checks that when gpg fails without
-// writing to stderr, the error ends with the exit status and nothing after it.
-//
-//nolint:paralleltest // installFakeGPG uses t.Setenv
-func TestGPGDecryptErrorWithoutGPGStderr(t *testing.T) {
-	installFakeGPG(t)
-
-	_, err := secret.GPGDecryptFunc([]byte("not an OpenPGP message"))
-	require.EqualError(t, err, "GPG decryption failed: exit status 1")
-}

internal/secret/secret.go

@@ -28,6 +28,11 @@ type VaultInterface interface {
 	GetFilesystem() afero.Fs
 	GetCurrentUnlocker() (Unlocker, error)
 	GetOrDeriveLongTermKey() (*age.X25519Identity, error)
+	// SetMnemonic and SetUnlockPassphrase give GetOrDeriveLongTermKey the
+	// mnemonic to derive the long-term key from, and the passphrase for a
+	// current passphrase unlocker; nil for none.
+	SetMnemonic(mnemonic *memguard.LockedBuffer)
+	SetUnlockPassphrase(passphrase *memguard.LockedBuffer)
 	CreatePassphraseUnlocker(
 		passphrase *memguard.LockedBuffer) (*PassphraseUnlocker, error)
 }

internal/secret/secret_test.go

@@ -118,6 +118,12 @@ func (m *MockVault) GetOrDeriveLongTermKey() (*age.X25519Identity, error) {
 	return nil, errNotImplementedInMock
 }
 
+func (m *MockVault) SetMnemonic(mnemonic *memguard.LockedBuffer) {
+	m.mnemonic = mnemonic
+}
+
+func (m *MockVault) SetUnlockPassphrase(_ *memguard.LockedBuffer) {}
+
 func (m *MockVault) CreatePassphraseUnlocker(
 	_ *memguard.LockedBuffer,
 ) (*PassphraseUnlocker, error) {

internal/secret/version.go

@@ -32,8 +32,7 @@ type VersionMetadata struct {
 	ID        string     `json:"id"`                  // ULID
 	CreatedAt *time.Time `json:"createdAt,omitempty"` // When version was created
 	NotBefore *time.Time `json:"notBefore,omitempty"` // When this version becomes active
-	// NotAfter is set when another version is added while this one is current
+	NotAfter  *time.Time `json:"notAfter,omitempty"`  // Expiry (nil = current)
-	NotAfter *time.Time `json:"notAfter,omitempty"`
 }
 
 // Version represents a version of a secret

internal/secret/version_test.go

@@ -90,6 +90,10 @@ func (m *MockVersionVault) GetOrDeriveLongTermKey() (*age.X25519Identity, error)
 	return nil, errNotImplementedInMock
 }
 
+func (m *MockVersionVault) SetMnemonic(_ *memguard.LockedBuffer) {}
+
+func (m *MockVersionVault) SetUnlockPassphrase(_ *memguard.LockedBuffer) {}
+
 func (m *MockVersionVault) CreatePassphraseUnlocker(
 	_ *memguard.LockedBuffer,
 ) (*secret.PassphraseUnlocker, error) {

internal/vault/errors_test.go

@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ func TestGetSecretWithWrongMnemonic(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Cleanup(mnemonic.Destroy)
 
 	vlt := vault.NewVault(created.GetFilesystem(), testStateDir, testVaultName)
-	vlt.Mnemonic = mnemonic
+	vlt.SetMnemonic(mnemonic)
 
 	_, err := vlt.GetSecret(testSecretName)
 	require.ErrorIs(t, err, vault.ErrMnemonicMismatch)

internal/vault/management.go

@@ -55,10 +55,7 @@ func ValidateVaultName(name string) error {
 }
 
 // ResolveVaultSymlink reads the currentvault file to get the path to the current vault
-// The file contains just the vault name (e.g., "default"). An empty or
+// The file contains just the vault name (e.g., "default")
-// invalid name, or the name of a vault that does not exist, is an error
-// wrapping ErrVaultNotFound that names the file and says to run
-// 'secret vault select <name>'.
 func ResolveVaultSymlink(fs afero.Fs, currentVaultPath string) (string, error) {
 	secret.Debug("resolveVaultSymlink starting", "path", currentVaultPath)
 
@@ -77,21 +74,6 @@ func ResolveVaultSymlink(fs afero.Fs, currentVaultPath string) (string, error) {
 	stateDir := filepath.Dir(currentVaultPath)
 	absolutePath := filepath.Join(stateDir, "vaults.d", vaultName)
 
-	// An empty name would make vaults.d itself the vault's directory
-	exists := false
-	if isValidVaultName(vaultName) {
-		exists, err = afero.DirExists(fs, absolutePath)
-		if err != nil {
-			return "", fmt.Errorf("failed to check if vault exists: %w", err)
-		}
-	}
-
-	if !exists {
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("vault '%s' named in %s %w; run "+
-			"'secret vault select <name>' to select a vault",
-			vaultName, currentVaultPath, ErrVaultNotFound)
-	}
-
 	secret.Debug("Resolved to absolute path", "absolute_path", absolutePath)
 
 	return absolutePath, nil
@@ -158,9 +140,8 @@ func ListVaults(fs afero.Fs, stateDir string) ([]string, error) {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to read vaults directory: %w", err)
 	}
 
-	// Extract vault names. Not nil, so that no vaults prints [] in JSON,
+	// Extract vault names
-	// not null.
+	var vaults []string
-	vaults := make([]string, 0, len(entries))
 
 	for _, entry := range entries {
 		if entry.IsDir() {
@@ -235,9 +216,9 @@ func processMnemonicForVault(
 // vault: one wrapping ErrInvalidVaultName when it is not a valid vault name,
 // and one wrapping ErrVaultExists when that vault already exists. Creating an
 // existing vault again would replace its keys, and its secrets could no
-// longer be decrypted. The commands that create a vault check it before they
+// longer be decrypted. CreateVault checks this before writing anything; the
-// ask for the mnemonic or passphrase, and CreateVault checks it again, under
+// commands that create a vault also check it before they ask for the
-// the state directory lock, before writing anything.
+// mnemonic or passphrase, holding the state directory lock.
 func CheckNewVaultName(fs afero.Fs, stateDir string, name string) error {
 	err := ValidateVaultName(name)
 	if err != nil {

internal/vault/secrets_version_test.go

@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ func TestVaultVersionTimestampsAfterUnlock(t *testing.T) {
 
 	// A new instance is locked; AddSecret unlocks it with the passphrase
 	vault := NewVault(fs, testStateDir, "test")
-	vault.UnlockPassphrase = passphrase
+	vault.SetUnlockPassphrase(passphrase)
 
 	addTestSecretToVault(t, vault, testSecretPath, []byte("version-2"), true)
 	require.False(t, fs.readAt.IsZero(), "AddSecret did not unlock the vault")

internal/vault/vault.go

@@ -64,6 +64,18 @@ func (v *Vault) ClearLongTermKey() {
 	v.longTermKey = nil
 }
 
+// SetMnemonic sets v.Mnemonic, for code that has v only as a
+// secret.VaultInterface.
+func (v *Vault) SetMnemonic(mnemonic *memguard.LockedBuffer) {
+	v.Mnemonic = mnemonic
+}
+
+// SetUnlockPassphrase sets v.UnlockPassphrase, for code that has v only as
+// a secret.VaultInterface.
+func (v *Vault) SetUnlockPassphrase(passphrase *memguard.LockedBuffer) {
+	v.UnlockPassphrase = passphrase
+}
+
 // GetOrDeriveLongTermKey gets the long-term key from memory or derives it
 // from available sources
 func (v *Vault) GetOrDeriveLongTermKey() (*age.X25519Identity, error) {

internal/vault/vault_error_test.go

@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ func TestAddSecretForceWithWrongPassphraseChangesNothing(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Cleanup(wrong.Destroy)
 
 	vlt := vault.NewVault(fs, testStateDir, testVaultName)
-	vlt.UnlockPassphrase = wrong
+	vlt.SetUnlockPassphrase(wrong)
 
 	secretDir := filepath.Join(testStateDir, "vaults.d", testVaultName,
 		"secrets.d", testSecretName)

package.json

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 {
-  "private": true,
   "devDependencies": {
     "prettier": "3.8.1"
   }

script/bootstrap

@@ -2,18 +2,18 @@
 # script/bootstrap: install all dependencies needed to build and develop
 # this repo. Idempotent: every install is guarded by a check so already
 # installed tools are skipped. Base tooling comes from nix, apt, brew,
-# or apk (detected in that order); assumes nothing is present. The
+# or apk (detected in that order); assumes NOTHING is present (not git,
-# installed node is used only when its major version is the pinned one;
+# make, node, yarn, go, or python). Node is used directly if installed;
-# otherwise (node missing, or another major) the pinned version is
+# otherwise a pinned version is installed via nvm (installing nvm
-# installed via nvm (installing nvm itself first, from a hash-verified
+# itself first, from a hash-verified release archive, never curl | sh).
-# release archive, never curl | sh), and yarn and the packages are
-# installed under it.
 # golangci-lint is never installed: script/lint runs it in docker.
+#
+# Uncomment the language sections in main() that apply to this repo.
 set -eu
 
 ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." && pwd -P)"
 
-# Pinned versions, 2026-07-06
+# Pinned versions, 2026-07-06. Never "latest" or "lts"; exact versions.
 NODE_VERSION="22.17.0"
 NVM_VERSION="0.40.3"
 # sha256 of https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm/archive/refs/tags/v0.40.3.tar.gz
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ YARN_VERSION="1.22.22"
 
 PKGMGR=""
 SUDO=""
-APT_UPDATED=""
 
 detect_pkgmgr() {
     [ -n "$PKGMGR" ] && return 0
@@ -51,14 +50,7 @@ pkg_install() {
     detect_pkgmgr
     case "$PKGMGR" in
         nix) nix-env -iA "nixpkgs.$1" ;;
-        apt)
+        apt) $SUDO env DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y "$2" ;;
-            # Package lists may be empty (fresh images); refresh once per run.
-            if [ -z "$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"
-            ;;
         brew) brew install "$3" ;;
         apk) apk add --no-cache "$4" ;;
     esac
@@ -90,7 +82,7 @@ nvm_sh() {
 
 ensure_nvm() {
     [ -s "$HOME/.nvm/nvm.sh" ] && return 0
-    # nvm prerequisites; nvm itself requires bash
+    # nvm prerequisites; nvm itself requires bash, so install it too
     if missing bash; then pkg_install bash bash bash bash; fi
     if missing curl; then pkg_install curl curl curl curl; fi
     if missing git; then pkg_install git git git git; fi
@@ -103,68 +95,56 @@ ensure_nvm() {
     rm -rf "$tmp"
 }
 
-# True when the node on PATH has the pinned major version. Only the
-# major is compared: the Dockerfile stages start from a node 22 alpine
-# image whose exact version is not the pin, and nvm cannot install a
-# prebuilt node on alpine. Another major is not used: the pinned yarn 1
-# prints a deprecation warning under node 24. script/fmt and
-# script/fmt-check carry this function unchanged, to run the yarn
-# installed here.
-node_is_pinned_major() {
-    if ! command -v node >/dev/null 2>&1; then return 1; fi
-    installed="$(node --version)"
-    installed="${installed#v}"
-    [ "${installed%%.*}" = "${NODE_VERSION%%.*}" ]
-}
-
 ensure_node() {
-    if node_is_pinned_major; then
+    if ! missing node; then return 0; fi
-        echo "bootstrap: using node $(node --version)"
-        return 0
-    fi
     ensure_nvm
     nvm_sh "nvm install $NODE_VERSION"
-    nvm_sh "nvm use $NODE_VERSION >/dev/null && \
-        echo \"bootstrap: using node \$(node --version)\""
 }
 
 ensure_yarn() {
-    if ! node_is_pinned_major; then
-        nvm_sh "nvm use $NODE_VERSION >/dev/null && corepack enable && \
-            corepack prepare yarn@$YARN_VERSION --activate"
-        return 0
-    fi
     if ! missing yarn; then return 0; fi
     if ! missing corepack; then
         corepack enable
         corepack prepare "yarn@$YARN_VERSION" --activate
+    elif [ -s "$HOME/.nvm/nvm.sh" ]; then
+        nvm_sh "nvm use $NODE_VERSION >/dev/null && corepack enable && \
+            corepack prepare yarn@$YARN_VERSION --activate"
     else
         npm install -g "yarn@$YARN_VERSION"
     fi
 }
 
 install_js_deps() {
-    if node_is_pinned_major; then
+    if missing yarn && [ -s "$HOME/.nvm/nvm.sh" ]; then
-        yarn install --frozen-lockfile
-    else
         nvm_sh "nvm use $NODE_VERSION >/dev/null && cd \"$ROOT\" && \
             yarn install --frozen-lockfile"
+    else
+        yarn install --frozen-lockfile
     fi
 }
 
 main() {
     cd "$ROOT"
 
-    if missing make; then pkg_install gnumake make make make; fi
+    # Base tooling (every repo)
     if missing git; then pkg_install git git git git; fi
+    if missing make; then pkg_install gnumake make make make; fi
 
+    # ---- JS / docs repos ----
+    # prettier, pinned in package.json and yarn.lock, formats the markdown
     ensure_node
     ensure_yarn
     install_js_deps
 
+    # ---- Go repos ----
     if missing go; then pkg_install go golang go go; fi
     go mod download
 
+    # ---- Python repos ----
+    # if missing python3; then pkg_install python3 python3 python3 python3; fi
+    # python3 -m venv .venv
+    # ./.venv/bin/pip install -e '.[dev]'
+
     echo "bootstrap complete"
 }
 

script/cibuild

@@ -2,11 +2,9 @@
 # script/cibuild: run the CI build. It bootstraps first: a CI runner
 # checks out and runs this and nothing else, and script/fmt-check runs
 # the formatter on the host, which a pristine checkout cannot do.
-# A new CACHEBUST value reruns every RUN step, since a cached gate phase
+# --no-cache for the same reason as script/docker: the gate phases the
-# is a check that did not run; unlike --no-cache, it keeps Go's build cache.
+# final stage depends on are RUN steps, and a cached one is a check that
-# This relies on every stage of the Dockerfile declaring ARG CACHEBUST
+# did not run.
-# first; a stage without that line is served from cache on an unchanged
-# tree, with no warning.
 set -eu
 
 SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd -P)"
@@ -16,17 +14,15 @@ main() {
     cd "$ROOT"
     "$SCRIPT_DIR/bootstrap"
     "$SCRIPT_DIR/check"
-    # The version and the tag each get their own line: a failing
+    # Own line: a failing command substitution inside an argument does
-    # command substitution inside an argument does not trip `set -e`,
+    # not trip `set -e`, so the inline form degrades silently to an
-    # so the inline form degrades silently to an empty constant. The
+    # empty constant. The VERSION build argument takes precedence over
-    # VERSION build argument takes precedence over the version a build
+    # the version a build stage derives from the .git in the context.
-    # 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 \
-    docker build --build-arg CACHEBUST="$(date +%s)-$$" \
         --build-arg VERSION="$version" \
-        -t "$tag" .
+        -t "$("$SCRIPT_DIR/projectname")" .
 }
 
 main "$@"

script/docker

@@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # script/docker: build the Docker image tagged with the project name.
 # Identical in all repos; the tag comes from script/projectname.
-# A new CACHEBUST value reruns every RUN step, since a cached gate phase
+# --no-cache because the gate phases the final stage depends on are RUN
-# is a check that did not run; unlike --no-cache, it keeps Go's build cache.
+# steps, and a cached one is a check that did not run.
-# This relies on every stage of the Dockerfile declaring ARG CACHEBUST
-# first; a stage without that line is served from cache on an unchanged
-# tree, with no warning.
 set -eu
 
 SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd -P)"
@@ -13,17 +10,15 @@ ROOT="$(cd "$SCRIPT_DIR/.." && pwd -P)"
 
 main() {
     cd "$ROOT"
-    # The version and the tag each get their own line: a failing
+    # Own line: a failing command substitution inside an argument does
-    # command substitution inside an argument does not trip `set -e`,
+    # not trip `set -e`, so the inline form degrades silently to an
-    # so the inline form degrades silently to an empty constant. The
+    # empty constant. The VERSION build argument takes precedence over
-    # VERSION build argument takes precedence over the version a build
+    # the version a build stage derives from the .git in the context.
-    # stage derives from the .git in the context.
     version="$(git describe --tags --always --dirty 2>/dev/null || true)"
     [ -n "$version" ] || version="unknown"
-    tag="$("$SCRIPT_DIR/projectname")"
+    docker build --no-cache \
-    docker build --build-arg CACHEBUST="$(date +%s)-$$" \
         --build-arg VERSION="$version" \
-        -t "$tag" .
+        -t "$("$SCRIPT_DIR/projectname")" .
 }
 
 main "$@"

script/fmt

@@ -8,25 +8,15 @@ ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." && pwd -P)"
 # Must match the pin in script/bootstrap.
 NODE_VERSION="22.17.0"
 
-# True when the node on PATH has the pinned major version: the same
+# script/bootstrap installs node and yarn under nvm and leaves neither
-# function as in script/bootstrap, which uses it to decide where it
+# on the PATH of the shell that called it, so resolve the pinned
-# installs yarn.
+# toolchain here the way bootstrap's own install step does. nvm is a
-node_is_pinned_major() {
+# bash script, hence the subshell.
-    if ! command -v node >/dev/null 2>&1; then return 1; fi
-    installed="$(node --version)"
-    installed="${installed#v}"
-    [ "${installed%%.*}" = "${NODE_VERSION%%.*}" ]
-}
-
-# Run the yarn script/bootstrap installed: the yarn on PATH when the
-# node on PATH has the pinned major version, and otherwise yarn under
-# the pinned node in nvm, which bootstrap leaves off the PATH of the
-# shell that called it. nvm is a bash script, hence the subshell.
 run_yarn() {
-    if node_is_pinned_major && command -v yarn >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    if command -v yarn >/dev/null 2>&1; then
         exec yarn "$@"
     fi
-    if node_is_pinned_major || [ ! -s "$HOME/.nvm/nvm.sh" ]; then
+    if [ ! -s "$HOME/.nvm/nvm.sh" ]; then
         echo "fmt: no yarn; run script/bootstrap first" >&2
         exit 1
     fi

script/fmt-check

@@ -8,25 +8,15 @@ ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." && pwd -P)"
 # Must match the pin in script/bootstrap.
 NODE_VERSION="22.17.0"
 
-# True when the node on PATH has the pinned major version: the same
+# script/bootstrap installs node and yarn under nvm and leaves neither
-# function as in script/bootstrap, which uses it to decide where it
+# on the PATH of the shell that called it, so resolve the pinned
-# installs yarn.
+# toolchain here the way bootstrap's own install step does. nvm is a
-node_is_pinned_major() {
+# bash script, hence the subshell.
-    if ! command -v node >/dev/null 2>&1; then return 1; fi
-    installed="$(node --version)"
-    installed="${installed#v}"
-    [ "${installed%%.*}" = "${NODE_VERSION%%.*}" ]
-}
-
-# Run the yarn script/bootstrap installed: the yarn on PATH when the
-# node on PATH has the pinned major version, and otherwise yarn under
-# the pinned node in nvm, which bootstrap leaves off the PATH of the
-# shell that called it. nvm is a bash script, hence the subshell.
 run_yarn() {
-    if node_is_pinned_major && command -v yarn >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    if command -v yarn >/dev/null 2>&1; then
         exec yarn "$@"
     fi
-    if node_is_pinned_major || [ ! -s "$HOME/.nvm/nvm.sh" ]; then
+    if [ ! -s "$HOME/.nvm/nvm.sh" ]; then
         echo "fmt-check: no yarn; run script/bootstrap first" >&2
         exit 1
     fi

script/install-precommit

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # script/install-precommit: install the git pre-commit hook that runs
 # script/precommit. Our own extension to scripts-to-rule-them-all.
+# Generic: needs no adaptation.
 set -eu
 
 ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." && pwd -P)"

script/lint

@@ -5,12 +5,9 @@
 # make its answer untrustworthy.
 #
 # The phase is not the last stage in the file, so it is built only when
-# --target names it. A new CACHEBUST value reruns every RUN step, since
+# --target names it. --no-cache because a cached lint layer is a lint
-# a cached lint layer is a lint that did not run; unlike --no-cache, it
+# that did not run. The tag makes each build replace the previous image
-# keeps Go's build cache. This relies on every stage of the Dockerfile
+# instead of leaving a dangling one behind.
-# declaring ARG CACHEBUST first; a stage without that line is served
-# from cache on an unchanged tree, with no warning.
-# --output type=cacheonly writes no image, since nothing uses one.
 set -eu
 
 SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd -P)"
@@ -18,9 +15,9 @@ ROOT="$(cd "$SCRIPT_DIR/.." && pwd -P)"
 
 main() {
     cd "$ROOT"
-    docker build --build-arg CACHEBUST="$(date +%s)-$$" \
+    docker build --no-cache \
         --target lint \
-        --output type=cacheonly .
+        -t "$("$SCRIPT_DIR/projectname")-lint" .
 }
 
 main "$@"

script/setup

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # script/setup: set up the repo for development after a fresh clone:
-# installs dependencies and the git pre-commit hook.
+# installs dependencies (script/bootstrap) and the git pre-commit hook.
+# Add any repo-specific initialization (db init, .env template) here.
 set -eu
 
 SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd -P)"

script/test

@@ -2,12 +2,8 @@
 # script/test: run the test suite. Testing is a phase of the Dockerfile
 # and this builds that phase alone, on the same terms as script/lint:
 # --target because a phase that is not the last stage is built only when
-# named, and a new CACHEBUST value because a cached test layer is a test
+# named, --no-cache because a cached test layer is a test that did not
-# that did not run; unlike --no-cache, it keeps Go's build cache. This
+# run, and a tag so each build replaces the previous image.
-# relies on every stage of the Dockerfile declaring ARG CACHEBUST first;
-# a stage without that line is served from cache on an unchanged tree,
-# with no warning. --output type=cacheonly writes no image, since
-# nothing uses one.
 set -eu
 
 SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd -P)"
@@ -15,9 +11,9 @@ ROOT="$(cd "$SCRIPT_DIR/.." && pwd -P)"
 
 main() {
     cd "$ROOT"
-    docker build --build-arg CACHEBUST="$(date +%s)-$$" \
+    docker build --no-cache \
         --target test \
-        --output type=cacheonly .
+        -t "$("$SCRIPT_DIR/projectname")-test" .
 }
 
 main "$@"