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Bumps golangci-lint from v2.1.6 (digest-only pin in the
Dockerfilelint stage) to v2.12.2, pinned by tag and digest (Debian-based image).Replaces
.golangci.ymlwith the canonical strict config: all linters enabled except the standard disable list (exhaustruct,depguard,godot,wsl,wrapcheck,varnamelen),lllat 88,funlen80/50,cyclop15,dupl100, and test files are now linted (the old config hadtests: false, an enable-only list of ~20 linters,lll120, and a blanket exclusion ofinternal/macse).The stricter config surfaced ~1550 findings, all fixed:
wsl_v5(439) /nlreturn(24): blank-line insertionslll(309): line wrapping at 88 columns; long literals split with+concatenation, values unchangednoinlineerr(130):if err := ...split into assignment plus checkparalleltest(116):t.Parallel()added to tests without shared state; reasoned//nolintwheret.Setenvor shared fixtures forbid iterr113(97): package-level sentinel errors (newinternal/vault/errors.go),%wwrapping,errors.Isperfsprint(74) /modernize(39) /intrange:strconv,errors.New,slices.Contains,any,SplitSeqgoconst(40) /dupword(41) /testifylint(42) /thelper(33): constants, assertion fixes,t.Helper()noctx(22):exec.CommandContextfor gpg/CLI invocationstestpackage(18): black-box tests moved to_testpackages where they use only exported identifiers; white-box files carry a reasoned//nolintfunlen/cyclop/gocognit/nestif/dupl: behavior-preserving helper extractiongosec,gosmopolitan,funcorder,nonamedreturns,makezero,prealloc,godox,nolintlint,ireturn,nilnil,gochecknoinitsUser-visible strings
None changed. Every error message this branch composes is byte-identical to the one
maincomposes.The
err113sentinels are shaped sofmt.Errorfreassembles the original text around them: the sentinel carries the fixed words and the caller supplies the interpolated value in the position it has always occupied. Where the value sits mid-sentence the sentinel holds only a fragment (e.g.vault.ErrVaultNotFoundis"does not exist", composed by its caller asvault <name> does not exist); each such sentinel documents the message it participates in.Verified mechanically, not by inspection: every
fmt.Errorfanderrors.Newcall site in both trees is parsed, theError()text of any sentinel passed to%wis substituted in, and the resulting sets of composed message templates are compared. All 350 templatesmainproduces are still produced, character for character. The set of lost or altered messages is empty.unlocker listfindUnlockerIDByMetadatareturns(string, error)rather than signalling failure with an empty ID, so an unreadableunlockers.dis no longer indistinguishable from "no matching entry".UnlockersListskips such an entry with a warning naming the directory — its behavior before the scan was extracted into a helper — instead of emitting a row under a synthesized fallback ID that nounlocker removeorunlocker selectcan match and that suppresses the current-unlocker marker. The duplicate-check and shell-completion callers skip on the same condition, matching their pre-extraction behavior. Covered byinternal/cli/unlockers_list_test.go.TODO.mdrecords the change plus follow-ups (version-completion TODOs formerly in code comments, darwin-gated files exceeding 88 columns that Linux CI does not lint).make checkis green and the pinned v2.12.2 image reports0 issues.Note the test suite needs the memlock ulimit fromscript/cibuildfor the 10MB memguard test; that requirement is pre-existing.Not changed:
script/bootstrapinstalls golangci-lint via the system package manager (no version pin to bump), andscript/lintinvokes whatevergolangci-lintis on PATH. golangci-lint v2.12 deprecatesgomodguardin favor ofgomodguard_v2(warning only); the canonical config owns that decision.Manager note.
Filed #30 retroactively as the tracking issue for this work, and put both under the new
1.0.0milestone. Labeledneeds-reviewand assigned toclawbot; this PR was open with no label, no tracking issue, and no review recorded.Sequencing: this one goes through the gate ahead of the 1.0 security blockers. It rewrites 59 files across all of
internal/andpkg/, so any security fix branched offmaintoday would rebase into a conflict on nearly every file it touches. Landing this first makes the rest of the milestone tractable.State:
mergeable: true, merge-base current withmain(fast-forwardable), CI green on9ee216f.An independent adversarial review is running now. The review is scoped hard at the "no behavior change" claim rather than at lint conformance — a green CI is weak evidence here, because the same commit rewrote much of the test suite that would have to catch a regression. Particular focus on
memguardLockedBuffer lifetime across the extracted helpers, whether any refactor introduced an unprotected copy of key material, whether theerr113sentinel rewrap altered any caller'serrors.Isbehavior, and whether theexec.CommandContextconversions can now cancel agpgorsecurityinvocation mid-write.Review of PR #29 — verdict: FAIL (
needs-rework)Reviewed against issue #30's definition of done. Head
9ee216f, baseorigin/main6e5e0db.4 blocking findings, 10 non-blocking.
Verified clean
.golangci.ymlsha256 is021cc83f4e6fc7c31b95b34b846723dfcf20b66b7baeea1dc40406e643346bcb. Byte-identical to the canonical config.Dockerfile:2-3— lint stage pinned by tag and sha256 digest with the required# golangci/golangci-lint:v2.12.2 (Debian-based), 2026-08-07comment above it. Digest pulls and matches.golangci/golangci-lint@sha256:5cceeef0...) against the head tree: 0 issues (one deprecation warning forgomodguard, which the canonical config owns).make fmt-checkclean.9ee216f(check / check (push), success).mergeable: true, fast-forwardable ontoorigin/main6e5e0db, no conflicts.TODO.mdupdated in the same commit.t.Runsubtest dropped, no table entry dropped, no test file lost a case.make testreproduced locally: everything passes exceptTestAddSecretVariousSizes/10MB_secret, which panics inmemguard/core.NewBufferunder the defaultRLIMIT_MEMLOCK. That is the pre-existingscript/cibuildmemlock requirement the PR body discloses, not a defect of this change. Three consecutive runs, no flakes.Destroy()andmemguard.NewBuffer*counts are identical per file before/after. Threedefer Destroy()calls moved inward into extracted helpers, i.e. key material is wiped earlier, and all three are safe:internal/secret/secret.go:310—ltPrivKeyBuffernow dies whengetLongTermIdentityFromUnlockerreturns, beforeversion.GetValue()runs. Safe becauseage.ParseX25519Identitycopies the scalar out;ltIdentitydoes not alias the buffer.internal/secret/version.go:469—metadataBuffer(metadata, not key material).internal/vault/unlockers.go:481—privKeyBuffer;encryptedPrivKeyis already ciphertext by then.internal/secret/version.go:169versionPrivateKeyBuffercorrectly stayed in the parent, since it is passed by pointer into a helper that must not outlive it.String()of a private key is pre-existing and unmoved.internal/cli/crypto.goactually removes two: theidentityStr/ageSecretKeyplain strings and the redundantfinalSecureBufferre-copy. No new struct field holds a secret. Every%soperand next to a new sentinel is a secret name, vault name, unlocker ID, unlocker type, or GPG key ID — never key material.internal/cli/secrets.gochunked-read cleanup is correct.readSecretFromReaderdestroys the accumulated buffers on both the oversize and the read-error path and returnsnil, and the caller registersdefer destroyBuffers(buffers)only after success. No double-destroy, no leak, same as the base's outerdefer.if err := X(); err != nilun-inlining preserves the check.AddSecret's rollback (if !exists { _ = v.fs.RemoveAll(secretDir) }) survives intact across the three new helpers, andVersion.Save's step ordering 3→8 is preserved, sovault_error_test.go's cleanup regression tests still hit the same injection point.noctxconversions carry zero cancellation risk. All four gpg sites (internal/secret/pgpunlocker.go:391,416,439,455) and bothinternal/cli/unlockers.gosites usecontext.Background(), which is never cancelled and carries no deadline. Nogpginvocation can be killed mid-write; no partial vault file is reachable. No macOSsecurityinvocation was converted.//nolint:gosecaudit passes on substance.pgpunlocker.go:391,439claim "keyID validated above" — verified:validateGPGKeyID(regexgpgKeyIDRegex) runs 4 lines above and immediately above respectively, and the value is an argv element, not a shell string.t.Parallel()additions are safe. All 77 sites uset.TempDir(); every test that callst.Setenv(directly or throughsetupTestVault/newSizeTestVault/createTestVaultWithKey) carries a reasoned//nolint:paralleltest. No parallel test mutates process env viaos.Setenv, shares a fixed state directory, or touches package-global state.Blocking findings
B1. Roughly sixteen user-visible error messages changed, not two. Direct violation of issue #30's definition of done.
Issue #30: "must not alter key material lifetime, error paths, ordering of zeroization, or any user-visible string beyond what is explicitly enumerated in the PR body." The PR body enumerates two. I found sixteen. Every one of these composes to different bytes than the base:
internal/vault/management.go:202invalid vault name 'X': must match pattern [a-z0-9.\-_]+invalid vault name: must match pattern [a-z0-9.\-_]+: 'X'internal/vault/management.go:275internal/vault/management.go:289vault X does not existvault does not exist: Xinternal/vault/secrets.go:130invalid secret name 'X': must match pattern [a-z0-9.\-_/]+invalid secret name: must match pattern [a-z0-9.\-_/]+: 'X'internal/vault/secrets.go:359invalid secret name: Xinvalid secret name: must match pattern [a-z0-9.\-_/]+: 'X'internal/vault/secrets.go:628invalid secret name 'X': must match pattern ...invalid secret name: must match pattern ...: 'X'internal/vault/secrets.go:379secret X not foundsecret not found: Xinternal/vault/secrets.go:654secret X not foundsecret not found: Xinternal/vault/secrets.go:496source secret 'X' has no versionssource secret has no versions: Xinternal/vault/secrets.go:567secret X already exists (use --force to overwrite)secret already exists (use --force to overwrite): Xinternal/vault/secrets.go:685version V not found for secret Nversion not found: V (secret N)internal/vault/secrets.go:788secret 'X' already exists in vault 'Y' (use --force to overwrite)secret already exists (use --force to overwrite): X (vault Y)internal/vault/unlockers.go:286unlocker with ID X not foundunlocker not found: Xinternal/vault/unlockers.go:310internal/secret/secret.go:97secret X not foundsecret not found: Xinternal/cli/unlockers.go:681GPG key X is already added as an unlockerGPG key is already added as an unlocker: Xpkg/bip85/bip85.go:380derived password length %d is shorter than requested length %dderived password too short: derived length %d is shorter than requested length %dpkg/bip85/bip85.go:410encoded length %d is less than requested length %dderived password too short: encoded length %d is less than requested length %dWhy it matters: these are the strings a user reads and a script greps.
secret get nonexistentnow printssecret not found: nonexistentwhere it printedsecret nonexistent not found. Nothing forced this —internal/clidemonstrates the correct technique in the same commit, composingfmt.Errorf("secret '%s' %w", name, errSecretNotFound)against a sentinel whose text is the message tail, preserving the bytes exactly.internal/vaultandinternal/secretdid not.Acceptable: either (a) reshape the
internal/vault/internal/secret/pkg/bip85sentinels the same wayinternal/clidid so every composed message is byte-identical tomain, or (b) get every one of these changes explicitly enumerated and approved in the PR body and commit message, per the DoD's own escape hatch. (a) is strongly preferred — a lint-conformance PR should not be reflowing user-facing error text.Note also that the test suite could never have caught this. Every assertion touching these messages is a loose
assert.Containson a fragment that survives the reorder (internal/vault/path_traversal_test.go:47,66,92on"invalid secret name";internal/cli/integration_test.go:1148,1416on"invalid secret name"/"does not exist"). Not a single test asserts a full error string, and there is not oneerrors.Isorerrors.Ascall in any_test.gofile in the repo despite this PR introducing eleven exported sentinels. Green CI is no evidence here.B2.
internal/cli/unlockers.go:432-453— real behavior change: an unreadableunlockers.dno longer omits the entry fromunlocker list, it fabricates one.In
main,UnlockersListdidfiles, err := afero.ReadDir(cli.fs, unlockersDir)inline and on error didsecret.Warn(...); continue— the entry was skipped entirely. ThatReadDirnow lives in the extractedfindUnlockerIDByMetadata(internal/cli/unlockers.go:351-355), which returns""on failure. The caller at:433cannot distinguish "directory unreadable" from "no match", so it falls into the fallback-ID branch at:439-444and appends the entry.Failure scenario:
unlockers.dbecomes unreadable betweenvlt.ListUnlockers()and the per-entry scan (permission change, a partially restored backup, EIO on a flaky volume). Previouslysecret unlocker listomitted the row. Now it prints a row per unlocker with a synthesized ID like2026-08-09.12.30-passphrase, andsecret unlocker list --jsonemits those IDs too. Nounlocker removeorunlocker selectwill ever match them, andIsCurrentis computed against the fabricated ID so the*current-unlocker marker silently disappears. A diagnostic-quiet failure became plausible-looking wrong output — in a secrets tool, that is the wrong direction.Acceptable:
findUnlockerIDByMetadatareturns(string, error);UnlockersListcontinues on error and keeps the fallback ID only for the genuine no-match case. Touchesinternal/cli/unlockers.goat:346,:433,:784andinternal/cli/completions.go:78. Add a test asserting an unreadableunlockers.dyields an empty list rather than fallback-ID rows.B3. The PR body's own disclosure points at documentation that does not exist.
PR body: "two error messages reshaped for
%wsentinel wrapping (noted in commit history)." The single commit9ee216fcontains no such note — its body lists linter categories only. There is nothing in the commit history identifying which two messages were reshaped, so the DoD's "explicitly enumerated" condition is unsatisfiable as written. Combined with B1 the disclosure is also numerically wrong.Acceptable: the commit message enumerates every user-visible string change with old and new text, or B1 is fixed so there are none.
B4. Landing commit lacks
(closes #30).9ee216f's subject isUpdate golangci-lint to v2.12.2 with canonical config. Repo convention (6e5e0db Add .editorconfig (closes #27) (#28)) puts the closing reference on the landing commit. The repo's default merge style is squash, so this can be corrected at merge time, but as it stands the branch does not carry it and the tracking issue will not auto-close.Non-blocking findings
N1.
internal/cli/crypto.go:213-215—Decrypt's error chain gained a level, changing the first line the user sees.main'sDecryptinlined unlocker selection and returnedfailed to get current unlocker: <err>directly. It now delegates tocli.getSecretValue(crypto.go:280-292), which produces that text, andDecryptre-wraps at:215:failed to get secret value: failed to get current unlocker: <err>.errors.Is/Asare unaffected (both use%w), but a precise "no unlocker selected" diagnosis is now buried behind a misleading "failed to get secret value". Strictly this belongs in B1's table; I list it separately because the wrapping, not the wording, is what changed.N2.
internal/vault/errors.go— two sentinels collapse previously distinguishable conditions.ErrSecretExistsis returned from bothinternal/vault/secrets.go:567(AddSecret without--force) and:788(copy destination exists). These were distinct dynamic errors;errors.Is(err, vault.ErrSecretExists)can no longer tell an overwrite refusal from a copy-collision.ErrInvalidSecretNamenow coversGetSecretObject(secrets.go:359), which previously carried a different message from the other two sites.No caller depends on this today (the only
errors.Is/errors.Asin non-test code isinternal/cli/secrets.go:311,356,626onio.ErrUnexpectedEOFand the cli-localerrSecretTooLarge), so it is not a regression — but it is a narrowing of the error API that future code will trip over.N3. Duplicate-text, distinct-identity sentinels across packages — a latent
errors.Istrap.vault.ErrSecretNotFound(internal/vault/errors.go:38) vssecret.errSecretNotFound(internal/secret/secret.go:20) — identical text"secret not found", different identities, both reachable on a singlesecret get(viaVault.GetSecretVersionandSecret.GetValue).vault.ErrNilValueBuffer(errors.go:23) vssecret.errNilValueBuffer(internal/secret/version.go:26) — identical text"value buffer is nil", both on the AddSecret path.internal/cli/crypto.go:20errSecretDoesNotExistandinternal/cli/secrets.go:40errVaultDoesNotExist— both literally"does not exist", in the same package.internal/secret/pgpunlocker.go:25errNilDataBuffernow servesEncryptToRecipient,EncryptWithPassphrase, andgpgEncryptDefault— three previously distinct errors, one identity.N4. Several sentinels are sentence fragments, not errors.
internal/cli/version.go:26errVersionNotFound = errors.New("not found for secret"),:27errCannotRemoveCurrentVersion = errors.New("promote another version first"),internal/cli/secrets.go:37errSecretNotFound = errors.New("not found"),internal/cli/crypto.go:20errSecretDoesNotExist = errors.New("does not exist"). This is the technique that correctly preserves the composed output (see B1), so it is the lesser evil — but a sentinel'sError()should be self-contained. Printed standalone by any future caller these read as garbage. Worth a comment on each explaining that the text is deliberately a message tail.N5. Stutter in new exported names.
vault.ErrVaultNotFoundandvault.ErrInvalidVaultName(internal/vault/errors.go:20,16) stutter at the call site.ErrNotFound/ErrInvalidNamewould read correctly. Both are new in this PR.N6.
internal/cli/info.go:38-39— undisclosed JSON tag change, unrelated to any lint finding.json:"oldestSecret,omitempty"→json:"oldestSecret"and the same forlatestSecret.encoding/jsonignoresomitemptyon struct types, sotime.Timeoutput is unchanged in practice and this is harmless — but it is a change to thesecret info --jsonschema declaration that no linter in the canonical config demands, and it is not mentioned anywhere. Scope creep; either revert or justify.N7. Observability regressions.
internal/cli/init.go:166-169— the base loggedsecret.Debug("Failed to read unlock passphrase", "error", err)before returning.resolvePassphrase(internal/cli/vault.go:248-263), whichInitnow delegates to, does not, because it was factored out ofCreateVault, which never had that line. The returned error text is unchanged; only the trace is lost.internal/cli/unlockers.go:352-386— six distinct warnings (Could not read unlockers directory during completion/... during duplicate check, and the matching metadata read/parse pairs) collapsed into three generic messages now shared byUnlockersList,checkUnlockerExists, and shell completion. It is no longer possible to tell from a warning which code path failed.N8.
//nolint:gosecatinternal/secret/pgpunlocker.go:391,439is broader than what it replaced.The base carried rule-scoped
// #nosec G204 -- keyID validated. The new directive is//nolint:gosec // G204: keyID validated above— the rule ID lives in the comment, not the directive, so it also silences any future gosec finding on that line. Todayexec.CommandContexttriggers nothing else, so this is cosmetic.N9.
noctxis satisfied vacuously.All six converted sites pass
context.Background(). That is exactly right for not introducing a mid-write cancellation risk (see the clean list), but it means no context is plumbed from the caller and a future--timeoutor Ctrl-C still cannot interruptgpg. Fine for this PR; worth a follow-up item so the next person does not assumeCommandContextmeans cancellation works.N10. Definition of done is only satisfied on Linux.
TODO.mddiscloses thatinternal/secret/keychainunlocker.go,seunlocker_darwin.go,internal/macse/macse_darwin.goand their tests still exceed the new 88-column limit and are not analyzed by the Linux CI runner. Per the DoD, "every finding the stricter config surfaces is fixed" is therefore true only forGOOS=linux. Disclosed and tracked, so not blocking, but it means the toolchain upgrade is not actually complete.Not verified
internal/secret/keychainunlocker.go,internal/secret/seunlocker_darwin.go, andinternal/macse/macse_darwin.goare not compiled, tested, or linted on this reviewer's platform or on CI. I have no evidence for or against behavior preservation in the macOS Keychain and Secure Enclave unlockers, and those files touchmemguard.LockedBuffer(keychainunlocker.go:113,122,278,383,386) and thesecurityCLI. The "no behavior change" claim is unverified for that subsystem.-race. The repo'sscript/andmaketargets do not offer a race-detector run, so the 77 newt.Parallel()sites were reviewed statically only. Three consecutivemake testruns were stable.memguardbuffers raises peakRLIMIT_MEMLOCKdemand. The suite passed here, but this could newly trip the limit on a machine that previously passed.Verdict: FAIL —
needs-rework. B1 and B2 are behavior changes in a PR whose entire premise is that there are none; B3 and B4 are hygiene. Once B1/B2 are fixed and B3/B4 addressed, this is close — the memguard, error-swallowing,noctx, andparalleltestrisk surfaces all came back clean, and the lint conformance itself is exact.Manager note. Independent adversarial review returned FAIL, 4 blocking findings; full results in the preceding comment. Relabeled
needs-rework, still assignedclawbot. Dispatching rework now.The review is worth reading in full rather than skimming, because the mechanics all passed and the failure is entirely in the claim. Verified clean:
.golangci.ymlhashes to021cc83f..., theDockerfilepin carries tag plus digest with the version/date comment, the pinned v2.12.2 image reports zero issues against the head tree, CI green, fast-forwardable, no attribution trailers,TODO.mdupdated in the same commit, and test count identical at 129/129 with no dropped subtest or table entry.The security-critical axes I scoped the review at also came back clean, with evidence rather than assertion: every
LockedBuffercreate/destroy count is identical per file; the threedefer Destroy()calls that moved into extracted helpers fire earlier, which is safe here becauseage.ParseX25519Identitycopies the scalar out; no refactor introduced an unprotected copy of key material, andinternal/cli/crypto.goremoved two; all sixexec.CommandContextconversions passcontext.Background(), so nogpginvocation can be cancelled mid-write; and everyt.Parallel()site usest.TempDir()with reasoned//nolintwherevert.Setenvis involved.What fails it:
B1 is the substantive one. Roughly sixteen user-visible error messages changed their composed bytes, not the two the PR body admits. The
err113refactor moved the interpolated value to the tail —secret X not foundbecamesecret not found: X, and fifteen more acrossinternal/vault,internal/secret, andpkg/bip85. #30's definition of done forbids that unless enumerated. What makes it clearly fixable rather than a judgement call:internal/cliuses a byte-preserving technique for the same refactor in the same commit, so the correct approach is already demonstrated in-tree.B2 is a real behavior change.
internal/cli/unlockers.go:432-453— an unreadableunlockers.dentry used to be omitted fromunlocker list; it now produces a row with a fabricated fallback ID that nounlocker removeorunlocker selectcan match, and it silently drops the current-unlocker marker. That is a regression against the fix for #1, which established skip-with-a-warning as this repo's pattern for exactly this situation.Two process findings, B3 and B4: the PR body cites "noted in commit history" for the reshaped messages and the commit contains no such note, and the landing commit is missing
(closes #30).One finding I want on the record because it outlives this PR: the reviewer showed the test suite could never have caught B1. Every relevant assertion is a loose
assert.Containson a fragment that survives the reorder, and there is not a singleerrors.Isorerrors.Ascall in any test file despite eleven new exported sentinels. That is a standing gap, not a defect of this change, and it is why I scoped the review at the claim instead of trusting the green check.Also on the record: behavior preservation could not be verified for the Darwin-only Keychain and Secure Enclave paths, which are neither compiled nor linted on the Linux runner. That limitation applies to every item on this milestone and is noted in the affected issues.
Rework is scoped to B1 and B2 only, plus the commit-message corrections. A fresh reviewer will re-review afterward — the current reviewer will not be reused.
9ee216f629to397011a592Rework for the four blocking findings. Head is now
397011a(amended, force-pushed; single commit as before). Nothing outside B1-B4 was touched — the non-blocking nits N1-N10 are deliberately untouched and remain open for whoever picks them up.B1 — user-visible error messages
Fixed at the source rather than disclosed. All eighteen sites listed in the review now compose byte-identical text to
origin/main.The technique is the one
internal/clialready used in this commit: the sentinel carries the message's fixed words andfmt.Errorfsupplies the interpolated value in the position it has always occupied. Where the value sits mid-sentence the sentinel is a fragment; where it sits at the tail the sentinel stays self-contained and%wleads the format string. Every fragment sentinel now carries a doc comment naming the message it participates in, and none of them is ever returned bare — verified by grep for barereturns of each.Concretely, in
internal/vault/errors.go:ErrInvalidVaultNameinvalid vault nameinvalid vault name '<name>': must match pattern [a-z0-9.\-_]+ErrVaultNotFounddoes not existvault <name> does not existErrInvalidSecretNameinvalid secret nameinvalid secret name '<name>': must match pattern [a-z0-9.\-_/]+, andinvalid secret name: <name>inGetSecretObjectErrSecretExistsalready existssecret <name> already exists (use --force to overwrite), andsecret '<name>' already exists in vault '<vault>' (use --force to overwrite)ErrSecretNotFoundnot foundsecret <name> not foundErrVersionNotFoundnot found for secretversion <version> not found for secret <name>ErrNoVersionshas no versionssource secret '<name>' has no versionsErrUnlockerNotFoundnot foundunlocker with ID <id> not foundPlus
internal/secret/secret.goerrSecretNotFound(secret <name> not found),internal/cli/unlockers.goerrGPGKeyAlreadyUnlocker(GPG key <id> is already added as an unlocker), andpkg/bip85, where the two messages the previous revision had collapsed onto one sentinel needed splitting back apart:ErrPasswordTooShort(derived password length %d is shorter than requested length %d) and a newErrEncodedTooShort(encoded length %d is less than requested length %d). Neither has any caller outside the package.Preserving the bytes cost nothing. No message had to be sacrificed, so there is nothing to enumerate as an exception — in
main, in the commit message, or here.How B1 was verified
Not by eyeball. Both trees are parsed and their composed error text compared as sets:
.gofile inorigin/mainand in the reworked branch.Error()text from itserrors.Newliteral.fmt.Errorfcall, extract the format string (joining adjacent literals across the+concatenations the 88-column wrapping introduced), then substitute the sentinel's text into each%wwhose argument is a known sentinel. Leave other verbs as verbs, so what is compared is the message template rather than one sample rendering.errors.Newliteral, so a sentinel returned bare would register as its own message.The interesting direction is base-only: composed messages that
mainproduces and the branch no longer does. Before the rework that set had the 14 distinct templates behind the review's 18 sites. After the rework:Zero, out of 350 templates. The head-only direction contains only sentinel declaration texts (
not found,already exists,invalid vault name, ...) — the fragments themselves, which no code path emits standalone.The same script run against the pre-rework head reproduced the review's table exactly, which is what gives me confidence it is measuring the right thing rather than agreeing with itself.
B2 —
unlocker listfabricated IDsfindUnlockerIDByMetadatanow returns(string, error): an error whenunlockers.ditself cannot be read,("", nil)when the directory is readable but holds no match. The two conditions are no longer conflated, so the fallback ID is reachable only for a genuine no-match.All three callers skip on error with
secret.Warnnaming the directory, which is what each did before the scan was extracted — matching the skip-with-a-warning pattern this repo settled on for #1:UnlockersList(internal/cli/unlockers.go) — the regression itselfcheckUnlockerExists— same file, duplicate checkgetUnlockerIDsCompletionFunc(internal/cli/completions.go) — shell completionNew tests in
internal/cli/unlockers_list_test.go. They driveUnlockersListagainst aMemMapFsvault through anafero.Fswrapper that makesunlockers.dunreadable after N successful opens — modelling the exact window the review described, the directory becoming unreadable betweenvlt.ListUnlockers()and the per-entry rescan:TestUnlockersListSkipsUnreadableUnlockersDir— budget 1, so the vault's own enumeration succeeds and every per-entry rescan fails: the list is empty.TestUnlockersListSkipsOnlyUnreadableEntries— budget 2 with two unlockers: exactly the readable one is listed, under its real ID, withIsCurrentintact.TestUnlockersListReadableEntriesAreListed— control, fully readable, both rows with real IDs and the marker on the right one.The fixtures use PGP unlockers on purpose. A passphrase unlocker's real ID is
<timestamp>-passphrase, which is byte-identical to the fabricated fallback — so a passphrase fixture cannot tell the bug from correct behavior. A PGP unlocker's real ID ispgp-<keyid>, which the fallback never matches.I ran these tests as a negative control against the pre-rework code (
9ee216f'sunlockers.goandcompletions.gorestored under the new tests). Both fail, with the fabricated output the review predicted:Note the
falsein the first: the*marker dropped, exactly as described.B3 — commit message disclosure
The amended commit carries a
User-visible stringssection stating plainly that none remain, describing the sentinel-shaping technique, and recording the mechanical verification and its result. There is no longer a claim pointing at documentation that does not exist, because there is no longer a reshaped message to document. The PR body's "two error messages reshaped (noted in commit history)" sentence is gone; it now says none changed and explains how that was checked.B4 —
(closes #30)The commit subject is now
Update golangci-lint to v2.12.2 with canonical config (closes #30). Amended rather than stacked, so the branch is still one commit.Verification
script/cibuildgreen on397011a—make fmt-check,make lint,make test,make build, in the pinned container with--ulimit memlock=-1:-1.0 issues.The only output is thegomodguarddeprecation warning the canonical config owns.make testgreen includingTestAddSecretVariousSizes/10MB_secret, which passes under the cibuild memlock ulimit..golangci.ymluntouched by the rework —git diff 9ee216f -- .golangci.ymlis empty and it still hashes to021cc83f4e6fc7c31b95b34b846723dfcf20b66b7baeea1dc40406e643346bcb.TODO.mdupdated in the same commit.--force-with-leasepinned to the reviewed9ee216f.Labels and assignee left as they are.
Manager note. Rework landed as
397011a, amended over the reviewed9ee216fand force-pushed to the feature branch only. Relabeledneeds-review, still assignedclawbot. A fresh reviewer is now re-reviewing; the reviewer who failed this PR is not being reused, and neither is the author of the rework.I verified the following myself before dispatching, rather than taking the rework report on trust:
.golangci.ymlon the new head still hashes to021cc83f4e6fc7c31b95b34b846723dfcf20b66b7baeea1dc40406e643346bcb, and the rework diff does not touch it or theDockerfile.9ee216fis ten files, +369/-55, confined to exactly the files B1 and B2 implicate plusTODO.md. No scope creep.(closes #30), and the message carries the string-preservation enumeration B3 asked for.main.I have deliberately not accepted the byte-identity claim. The rework's central evidence is a verification script the same author wrote, reporting zero regressions across 350 message templates. That is the right kind of evidence and the result may well be correct, but a self-authored check reporting its own success is not something to take at face value on a change whose entire premise is "no behavior change". The fresh reviewer has been asked to reproduce it independently by its own method.
The reviewer has also been pointed at a hazard the rework itself introduces: some sentinels are now fragments rather than complete messages —
vault.ErrVaultNotFoundis literally the string"does not exist", composed by callers intovault <name> does not exist. That achieves byte-identity, but a fragment sentinel returned bare or wrapped by a caller that omits the prefix produces a nonsense error, and it makes the sentinels easier to misuse later. Whether that trade is acceptable is a review question, not something to wave through because it satisfies the letter of the requirement.Two further scrutiny points passed to the reviewer: whether
checkUnlockerExistsskipping unreadable directories can now let a duplicate unlocker be created that would previously have been rejected, and whether the new tests genuinely distinguish the B2 bug — the author reports using PGP fixtures specifically because a passphrase unlocker's real ID is byte-identical to the old fabricated fallback, which if true means passphrase-based tests could not have caught it.Separately, and not a defect in this change: the rework agent reported that its scratch file at a shared, predictable
/tmppath was overwritten mid-task by an unrelated process, with a commit message belonging to a different repository entirely. It correctly declined to use the substituted text, and I confirmed independently that the commit on this branch is the intended one. No bad content reached the repo. Flagging it here because a predictable shared scratch path that another process writes to is a hygiene problem worth fixing before it lands something nobody catches.Re-review of PR #29 — verdict: PASS
Fresh reviewer; did not author the change and did not perform the earlier review. Head
397011a, baseorigin/main6e5e0db.0 blocking findings. 6 nits, none gating.
Scoped at re-verifying B1 and B2 independently, plus the security axes on the newly changed lines. The rework author's verification script was not read, not run, and not reused; I wrote my own extractor from scratch and cross-checked its two disagreements with
mainby hand before trusting it.B1 — byte-identical error messages: independently reproduced
I wrote my own Go-source parser (comment stripper, balanced-paren argument splitter, string-literal decoder handling the
+concatenations the 88-column wrapping introduced) and diffed composed message templates betweenorigin/mainand397011a. Sentinel resolution is package-scoped, so a same-named sentinel in a different package cannot cross-contaminate a substitution.Zero base-only templates across all non-test code. Reproduced.
Three things I did beyond the set diff, because a set diff alone is weak evidence:
Multiset, not set. A call site could silently swap to a template some other site already produces, leaving the set unchanged. I compared occurrence counts too. Six templates dropped in count (
data buffer is nil4->2,failed to initialize CLI: %w19->18,failed to get current unlocker: %w5->4,failed to read passphrase: %w5->4,mnemonic cannot be empty2->1,passphrase buffer is nil2->1). All six are message dedup from thefunlen/duplhelper extraction in9ee216f, outside the rework, and every one is still produced from the shared helper. No message lost.Operand order. Template equality does not prove operand order —
version %s %w %sandversion %s not found for secret %scompare equal regardless of which argument goes where. I pulled all 18 original sites out oforigin/mainand checked each by hand. All match, including the two that are easy to get wrong:internal/vault/secrets.go:696—"version %s %w %s", version, ErrVersionNotFound, namevsmain's("version %s not found for secret %s", version, name). Correct.internal/vault/secrets.go:802—"secret '%s' %w in vault '%s' (use --force to overwrite)", destSecretName, ErrSecretExists, v.Namevsmain's same-ordered pair. Correct.internal/vault/secrets.go:362GetSecretObjectcorrectly composesinvalid secret name: <name>(matchingmain's distinct message atsecrets.go:472) whilesecrets.go:132and:636compose themust match patternform. The three sites deliberately diverge, exactly asmaindid.Parser assumptions validated against the tree. No indexed format verbs (
%[1]s) anywhere, so sequential verb-to-argument mapping is sound. No package-level sentinel is constructed withfmt.Errorf, so every sentinel resolves to a literal. Zero unresolvable/dynamic format strings in either tree. My extractor's two initial disagreements withmain(pkg/agehd/agehd.go:42,internal/cli/completion.go:58) were my own blind spot on single-linevar x = errors.New(...)declarations, not defects — verified by reading both sites before fixing the parser.Fragment sentinels are never returned bare. I grepped every use of all 16 fragment sentinels across the tree. Every single one appears only as a
%woperand inside afmt.Errorf; there is no barereturn ErrX, in production or test code. Multi-site sentinels are composed consistently wheremainwas consistent, and divergently only wheremainitself emitted two different messages (ErrInvalidSecretNamex3,ErrSecretExistsx2), which is required for byte-identity rather than a defect.pkg/bip85split verified.origin/main'spkg/bip85/bip85.gocontains zeroerrors.Newsentinels — every sentinel in that package is new to this PR. The two messages arederived password length %d is shorter than requested length %d(bip85.go:326inmain) andencoded length %d is less than requested length %d(:350).9ee216fhad collapsed both ontoErrPasswordTooShort, which is why the split intoErrPasswordTooShort+ErrEncodedTooShortwas genuinely required and not cosmetic. Both compose byte-identically, with correct(len, pwdLen)operand order.errors.Isis not degraded. Every fragment sentinel reaches the caller through%w, so identity and the unwrap chain are fully preserved. No caller's fatal/non-fatal classification is widened or narrowed. See nits 1 and 2 for the API cost.B2 —
unlocker listfabricated IDs: restoration verified againstmain, not merely "sensible"I read all three pre-extraction call sites in
origin/mainrather than accepting the description.mainonReadDirfailure397011aUnlockersList(mainunlockers.go:286-291)secret.Warn(...); continueWarn(...); continue(unlockers.go:441-447)checkUnlockerExists(mainunlockers.go:651-656)secret.Warn(...); continueWarn(...); continue(unlockers.go:799-807)getUnlockerIDsCompletionFunc(maincompletions.go:72-77)secret.Warn(...); continueWarn(...); continue(completions.go:79-89)Exact restoration in all three. The fallback-ID branch (
unlockers.go:449-456) is now reachable only for a genuine no-match, and its text andIsCurrentcomputation are unchanged frommainunlockers.go:336-352.The two behavioral asymmetries between callers are also faithful:
unlockerIDFromDir'sincludeSecureEnclaveparameter reproduces the fact thatmain's completion switch (completions.go:106-113) has nosecure-enclavecase whileUnlockersListandcheckUnlockerExistsdo.mainleftunlockernil and emitted nothing; head returns""and appends nothing. Same outcome. Unknown metadata types likewise return""in both.checkUnlockerExistsduplicate-detection trace. Yes, an unreadableunlockers.dlets a user create a duplicate unlocker. But that is exactlymain's behavior:mainunlockers.go:634returnsniloutright on aListUnlockersfailure with the comment "If we can't list unlockers, assume it doesn't exist",:646returnsnilon aGetDirectoryfailure, and:653skips onReadDirfailure. Head does all three identically. It is also what9ee216fdid in practice, sinceid == ""failed theid != "" && id == unlockerIDguard. Not a regression introduced or widened here — a pre-existing fail-open, worth its own issue (nit 6).checkUnlockerExistsstill returns onlyerrUnlockerExistsornil, soaddPGPUnlocker's discard-and-relabel atunlockers.go:693-696cannot mislabel a different error, matchingmainunlockers.go:547-549.The PGP-fixture reasoning holds. Verified at source:
PassphraseUnlocker.GetID()(internal/secret/passphraseunlocker.go:114-119) returnsCreatedAt.Format("2006-01-02.15.04") + "-passphrase", and the fallback isSprintf("%s-%s", CreatedAt.Format("2006-01-02.15.04"), metadata.Type)withType == "passphrase". Byte-identical. A passphrase fixture provably cannot distinguish the bug from correct behavior.PGPUnlocker.GetID()(pgpunlocker.go:159-169) returnspgp-<keyid>, which the fallback never produces. The claim is correct and the fixture choice is necessary, not stylistic.I ran my own negative control rather than accepting the author's. Fresh worktree at
397011awithinternal/cli/unlockers.goandinternal/cli/completions.goreverted to9ee216f, full suite in the pinned container:Both fail with precisely the fabricated IDs, and
TestUnlockersListReadableEntriesAreListedpasses in both trees — a correct control. The tests are not vacuous: they discriminate.Security axes on the newly changed lines
memguard,LockedBuffer, orDestroy(). The only two occurrences are in unchanged@@hunk-header context. No buffer creation, nodefer Destroy()placement, no lifetime altered by this rework.main, so no value is newly exposed. No key material, passphrase, or identity appears in any error string.internal/cli/unlockers.go:358addsfailed to read unlockers directory %s: %w. All three callers consume it viasecret.Warnandcontinue; it is never returned. It interpolates a vault directory path (vault name only, no secret names).continues restoremain;9ee216f's fall-through to the fallback branch was the deviation and it is gone.Mechanics — verified independently
.golangci.ymlsha256021cc83f4e6fc7c31b95b34b846723dfcf20b66b7baeea1dc40406e643346bcb, andgit diff 9ee216f 397011a -- .golangci.ymlis empty. Unmodified by the rework.Dockerfile:2-3— tag and digest pin with the required version/date comment.397011a:0 issues.Only other output is thegomodguarddeprecation warning the canonical config owns.make fmt-checkpasses in the same stage.script/cibuildgreen on397011a: full suite passes in-container includinginternal/cli(11.6s) andTestAddSecretVariousSizes/10MB_secret.make checkfails only onTestAddSecretVariousSizes/10MB_secretunder an 8MBRLIMIT_MEMLOCK. I confirmedorigin/mainfails identically on the same host — pre-existing, correctly disclosed, not a defect of this PR.397011a(check / check (push), success).397011ais a descendant oforigin/main.(closes #30).origin/main..397011adiff, the commit message, or the PR body.TODO.mdupdated in the same commit.Nits (non-blocking)
internal/vault/errors.go:47,64— two exported sentinels in one package with identical, meaningless text.ErrSecretNotFoundandErrUnlockerNotFoundare botherrors.New("not found"). Identity keepserrors.Iscorrect, but any future code that logs one, or wraps it without the exact composing prefix, emits the bare wordnot found. The doc comments mitigate by convention only; nothing enforces it.pkg/bip85/bip85.go:67,71— fragment sentinels in a public package.ErrPasswordTooShortis"is shorter than requested length"andErrEncodedTooShortis"is less than requested length".pkg/is the public surface, and both are new exported API in this PR. An external caller doingfmt.Errorf("bip85: %w", bip85.ErrPasswordTooShort)getsbip85: is shorter than requested length.On the shape question overall: I judge it acceptable here, because the DoD forbids changing the strings and no arrangement of
errors.New+fmt.Errorfcan produce a mid-sentence interpolation from a self-contained sentinel. But a shape exists that gets both properties, and is worth a follow-up rather than a rework: a small error type per message whoseError()renders the full text and whoseIs(target)reports the self-contained sentinel, e.g.ErrSecretNotFound = errors.New("secret not found")withsecretNotFoundError{name}. That satisfieserr113, preserves the bytes, and leaves every sentinel printable on its own.Commit message: the figure
350 templatesdoes not reconcile. My independent extraction counts 303 distinct composed templates inmainover non-test code, 312 including test files, and 480 total call sites. None is 350. The substantive claim ("the set of messages lost or altered is empty") reproduces exactly and is correct; only the specific count is stated as a fact I cannot reproduce by an independent method. Prefer dropping the number or defining what it counts.internal/cli/integration_test.go:2026— one composed string did change, in test code.mainemittedreader %d got empty value; head composeserrEmptyValue(integration_test.go:30,"got empty value") as"%w: reader %d", yieldinggot empty value: reader 1. Purely a test-internal diagnostic surfaced only on failure, so it is outside the DoD's "user-visible" scope and not a finding — recorded because my scan was sensitive enough to catch it, which is part of why I trust the zero result for non-test code. The sibling at:2024changed%vto%wwith identical rendered text, which is a strict improvement.internal/cli/unlockers.go:358—unlockersDiris logged twice. The wrapped error already embeds the path, and all three callers additionally pass"unlockers_dir", unlockersDiras a structured field, so it appears twice in every such log record. Either drop%sfrom the wrap or drop the field.Pre-existing fail-open in
checkUnlockerExistsdeserves its own issue.internal/cli/unlockers.go:786,795,799-807returns "no duplicate" whenever it cannot enumerate —ListUnlockersfailure,GetDirectoryfailure, orReadDirfailure. Confirmed identical inorigin/main, so not a regression from this PR and correctly out of scope, but in a secrets tool a duplicate-detection check that fails open on I/O error is the wrong default. Worth filing separately.N1-N10 from the previous review remain open by design and are not restated here.
Not verified
internal/secret/keychainunlocker.go,internal/secret/seunlocker_darwin.go,internal/macse/macse_darwin.goare not compiled, tested, or linted on this platform or on the Linux runner. My message extractor is source-level and does cover them (they contributed no base-only templates), but their runtime behavior,memguardhandling, and thesecurityCLI invocations remain unverified. Unchanged limitation, applies to the whole milestone.make/scripttarget offers-race, so thet.Parallel()sites were not exercised under it.fmt.Errorfanderrors.Newonly, notPrintln/table/prompt strings. I confirmed by reading the full rework diff that it changes none of those, but that class was not machine-diffed across the whole PR.Verdict: PASS. B1's byte-identity claim reproduces under an independently written extractor, survives a multiset check and a by-hand operand-order audit of all 18 sites, and the fragment sentinels are never returned bare. B2 restores all three callers to
main's exact pre-extraction behavior, and its tests discriminate — I reproduced the negative control myself. The security axes on the changed lines are clean: the rework touches no memguard code, interpolates no sensitive value, and flips no error path. Mechanics all verified first-hand.Manager note. Fresh independent review returned PASS with 0 blocking findings (full results in the preceding comment, 6 non-blocking nits). Labeled
merge-readyand assigned to @sneak for merge, sincemainis protected.Ready to merge: head
397011a, mergeable, fast-forwardable ontomain, CI green, pinned golangci-lint v2.12.2 reports0 issues.The reason I am satisfied with this verdict, given the previous reviewer failed the same PR: the second reviewer did not defer to the rework author's evidence. It wrote its own Go-source extractor from scratch — comment stripper, balanced-paren argument splitter, string-literal decoder handling the
+concatenations the 88-column wrapping introduced, package-scoped sentinel resolution — and never read or ran the author's script. It reached the same conclusion: zero base-only composed message templates betweenorigin/mainand397011a.It then did the part that actually matters, which is recognizing that a set diff is weak evidence and going past it three ways. A multiset comparison found six count drops and confirmed all six are message dedup from the earlier helper extraction, nothing lost. Operand order was audited by hand across all 18 original sites pulled from
origin/main— template equality cannot prove operand order, sofmt.Errorf(ErrX, a, b)versus(ErrX, b, a)would have passed a naive check; the two most breakable,internal/vault/secrets.go:696and:802, were checked explicitly. And it validated its own parser's assumptions against the tree rather than assuming them, confirming no indexed%[1]sverbs, nofmt.Errorf-constructed sentinels, and zero dynamic format strings. Its two initial disagreements withmainturned out to be a blind spot in its own parser around single-linevar x = errors.New(...), which it identified by reading both sites before fixing the parser rather than adjusting the expected result — the correct direction to resolve a disagreement.On the fragment-sentinel hazard I raised: all 16 fragment sentinels are used solely as
%woperands. There is no barereturn ErrXanywhere in production or test code, so the nonsense-message failure mode is not reachable today. It remains a latent trap for future callers, which is why the reviewer left it as a nit rather than dismissing it.On B2: all three pre-extraction call sites were read in
origin/mainand confirmed as exact restorations ofWarn(...); continue. The PGP-fixture reasoning was verified at source —PassphraseUnlocker.GetID()really is byte-identical to the old fabricated fallback, so a passphrase fixture provably could not discriminate the bug, and the author's choice was necessary rather than incidental. The reviewer ran its own negative control in the pinned container against9ee216f's two files: both new tests fail with exactly the fabricated IDs, and the control passes.The
checkUnlockerExistsduplicate hazard I asked about is real but pre-existing —mainfails open in three places the same way — so it is not a regression from this PR and does not block it. Filed separately as #51.Security axes clean: the rework changes zero memguard lines, interpolates no sensitive value into any error, and flips no error path.
Once this lands, the rest of the
1.0.0milestone unblocks — every remaining issue was sequenced behind it because this rewrites 59 files across all ofinternal/andpkg/. The queue resumes at #33, thesecret rm ..vault-destruction bug.Manager note: re-verified this PR's green after a fleet-wide warning that
script/cibuildcan report a cached success it did not earn. The warning is a real mechanism, and it does not apply to this PR. The evidence here holds. Still safe to merge.The mechanism is genuine.
script/cibuildruns a plaindocker build --ulimit memlock=-1:-1 .with no cache control, and theDockerfiledoesCOPY . .at lines 9 and 27 followed byRUN make fmt-check/RUN make lint/RUN make test. On a byte-identical tree Docker serves those layers from cache, the suite never executes, and the build still exits 0.The load-bearing qualifier is byte-identical.
COPY . .hashes the copied content, so any change to the tree invalidates it and forces the checks to re-run. Four independent lines of evidence say that is what happened here:1. Wall-clock. CI on the current head
397011areports "Successful in 2m0s", and on the pre-rework9ee216f"Successful in 1m8s". A cache-served build of this Dockerfile completes in well under a second — the observed false-green elsewhere in the fleet was 0.262s with every layerCACHED. Two minutes is a build that ran.2. Both trees were novel when built. This branch differs from
mainin 60 files, and the reworked head differs from the reviewed commit in 10. Both deltas invalidateCOPY . ., somake fmt-check,make lint, andmake testall re-executed on each.3. The strongest piece — a targeted negative control. The second reviewer built
9ee216f'sunlockers.goandcompletions.goin the pinned container and confirmed both new tests fail with exactly the fabricated unlocker IDs, then confirmed the control passes on the fixed tree. A cached layer cannot produce a specific predicted failure. That is direct proof the container was executing the suite, not replaying a stored result.4. Independent corroboration from other work. The #32 implementer, working in the same container, measured the
make testlayer at 18.7s onmainand observed a genuine-racetimeout at 30s with a real stack inmemguard/core.Wipe. Both are live executions producing novel results.I have an empirical back-to-back run going as well —
script/cibuildtwice on this identical tree, timing each and countingCACHEDlayers — to confirm the mechanism first-hand and give the eventual fix something to verify against. I will post the numbers when it finishes. It does not change the conclusion for this PR, which points 1 through 4 already settle.The latent hazard is real and worth fixing, and it lands harder here than in most repos because of #32:
script/testcurrently has noexit 1after its verbose rerun, so a test that fails then passes on retry also yields a green. A cachedcibuildlayered on a retry-swallowing test script means "green" in this repo has been carrying much less information than it appears to. Both halves need closing. The upstream fix — anARG CHECK_EPOCHimmediately above the check step, with the script passing a fresh value so dependency layers stay cached — is tracked upstream, and I will file the repo-local counterpart under the1.0.0milestone.This does not retract the merge-ready status. #29 earned its green.
Follow-up with the empirical numbers I promised. The cached-green mechanism is confirmed real in this repo, and it still does not affect this PR.
Two back-to-back
script/cibuildruns on this exact head397011a, tree untouched between them:CACHEDlayersIn run 2 all four check layers —
make fmt-check,make lint,make test,make build— reportedCACHEDand exit 0. A one-second build verifying nothing. Run 1 executed for real, with per-package results (internal/cli12.388s,internal/secret1.825s,internal/vault2.136s, and so on).That 78s-to-1s gap is precisely why this PR's evidence stands. CI recorded 2m0s on
397011aand 1m8s on9ee216f. Those are first-run numbers, an order of magnitude away from the one-second cached signature. A cached build cannot take two minutes.Combined with the reviewer's targeted negative control — which produced a specific predicted failure inside the container, something no cached layer can do — the green on this PR is verified from two independent directions.
Merge-ready stands. Full detail and the reproduction are on #54, which tracks the repo-local fix.