Re-vendor the canonical files from sneak/prompts at dd4027b (closes #65)
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repository's own entries come after the canonical content, at the end of
each file: /bin in .dockerignore, the Go lines of .gitignore and [*.go]
in .editorconfig; the test-support deny list has no entries of its own.
The lint phase moves to golangci-lint v2.14.0. The build stage now takes
the version from git describe on the .git the build context carries,
unless VERSION is passed, and fails when .git is present but no version
comes out. The test phase drops -count=1, which the policy says it does
not need, and keeps its tmpfs build cache. One test calls Header.Get
with X-Real-IP, as canonicalheader asks.

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---
title: Repository Policies
last_modified: 2026-09-08
last_modified: 2026-10-04
---
This document covers repository structure, tooling, and workflow standards. Code
@@ -104,10 +104,14 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
`lint` phase and a `test` phase, with the final stage depending on both so the
image cannot be built unless they pass. For non-server repos the final stage
brings up a development environment; for server repos it is the runtime image.
Dockerfiles install development prerequisites by running `script/bootstrap`
rather than duplicating installs inline; COPY `script/` and the dependency
manifests (`package.json` + `yarn.lock`, `go.mod` + `go.sum`, etc.) before
running it.
The gate phases and the build stage start from their pinned base images and
install what those images lack either inline, as the canonical Go `Dockerfile`
below does for `git`, or by running `script/bootstrap`, as the `prompts`
repo's own `Dockerfile` does for its yarn packages. The development
environment stage installs development prerequisites by running
`script/bootstrap` rather than duplicating its installs inline. A stage that
runs `script/bootstrap` COPYs `script/` and the dependency manifests
(`package.json` + `yarn.lock`, `go.mod` + `go.sum`, etc.) before running it.
- **Linting and testing run in Docker, as phases of the `Dockerfile`.** There is
no separate lint file. `script/lint` and `script/test` each build one phase
@@ -156,11 +160,14 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
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
hash), so lint failures surface in seconds rather than after a full compile,
and the test phase is based on the Go image. The canonical Go repo
and the test phase is based on the Debian Go image. The canonical Go repo
`Dockerfile`:
```dockerfile
@@ -173,8 +180,9 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
COPY . .
RUN golangci-lint run --config .golangci.yml ./...
# Test phase
# golang:1.x-alpine, YYYY-MM-DD
# Test phase. -race needs cgo and so a C compiler, which the Debian Go
# image ships and the alpine one does not.
# golang:1.x, YYYY-MM-DD
FROM golang@sha256:... AS test
WORKDIR /src
COPY go.mod go.sum ./
@@ -191,15 +199,29 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
FROM golang@sha256:... AS builder
COPY --from=lint /src/go.sum /dev/null
COPY --from=test /src/go.sum /dev/null
RUN apk add --no-cache git
# A tar-stream context keeps the sender's file owners, which git refuses.
RUN git config --system --add safe.directory /src
WORKDIR /src
COPY go.mod go.sum ./
RUN go mod download
COPY . .
ARG VERSION=dev
RUN CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -trimpath \
-ldflags="-s -w -X main.Version=${VERSION}" \
-o /app ./cmd/app/
# The VERSION build arg when one is given, otherwise
# `git describe --tags --always` on the .git in the build context. With
# .git present, a version that is still empty, dev or unknown fails the
# build: git is missing or could not read the checkout.
ARG VERSION
RUN VERSION="${VERSION:-$(git describe --tags --always)}"; \
if [ -e .git ]; then \
case "$VERSION" in ""|dev|unknown) \
echo "version is '$VERSION' although .git is present" >&2; \
exit 1 ;; \
esac; \
fi; \
CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -trimpath \
-ldflags="-s -w -X main.Version=${VERSION}" \
-o /app ./cmd/app/
# Runtime stage, and the last one
FROM alpine@sha256:...
@@ -221,10 +243,41 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
(e.g. a web frontend compiled in a separate stage), the lint phase must
create placeholder files so the embed directives resolve. Example:
`RUN mkdir -p web/dist && touch web/dist/index.html web/dist/style.css`.
- If the project requires CGO or system libraries for linting (e.g.
`vips-dev`), install them in the lint phase with `apk add`.
- `ARG VERSION=dev` is declared in the stage that compiles and supplied by
`script/docker` and `script/cibuild`; no stage may call `git describe`.
- If the project requires CGO or system libraries for linting, install them
in the lint phase. The `golangci/golangci-lint` image is Debian-based and
has no `apk`, so install with `apt-get` under the Debian package name
(`libvips-dev`, where alpine says `vips-dev`), and delete the package
lists in the same `RUN`, so the layer does not keep them:
```dockerfile
RUN apt-get update \
&& apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends libvips-dev \
&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
```
- `.dockerignore` lets `.git` into the build context. It keeps out every git
`config` at any depth (`**/.git/config`, `**/.git/modules/**/config`): the
repository's own, each submodule's under `.git/modules/`, and that of a
submodule keeping its own `.git` directory. `git describe` does not need
them, and each can hold a credential: a password in a remote URL, or the
token the CI checkout step stores there. A submodule whose name has a
`config` segment (`config`, `deploy/config`, `config/lib`) loses its whole
git directory to `**/.git/modules/**/config`, and Go's version stamping
then fails the build: give it a name without that segment
(`git submodule add --name`). The stage that compiles has `git` (the
Debian Go image has it; an alpine one needs `apk add --no-cache git`) and
takes the version from the `VERSION` build argument when one is given,
otherwise from `git describe --tags --always`. That gives the tag on a
tagged commit; on a later commit, the tag, the number of commits since it
and the short commit (`v1.2.3-4-gabc1234`); and the short commit when no
tag is reachable. The stage that compiles also marks its working directory
safe for git (`git config --system --add safe.directory /src`): a context
sent as a tar stream keeps the sender's file owners, and git refuses a
checkout owned by another user, so the version would come out empty.
`ARG VERSION` has no default, and the build fails if the context carries
`.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.
- 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.
@@ -233,7 +286,12 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
carry the same guarantee, because its gate phases may come from the cache. The
image build is uncached and so runs the gate phases a second time. That is the
price of the rule above, and it is worth paying: the image that ships is built
from a run of its own gates rather than from a cache entry.
from a run of its own gates rather than from a cache entry. A separate
workflow limited to `main` by a `branches` list under `on: push` cannot be
checked by 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
@@ -286,17 +344,19 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
```
`-count=1` is required on both invocations: it defeats Go's test _result_
cache, so the target cannot report a pass it did not earn, and the rerun
reproduces a failure instead of replaying it. It leaves the build cache
alone, so it costs the runtime of the suite and no recompilation.
cache, so neither run can report a stored pass in place of running the
tests. It leaves the build cache alone, so it costs the runtime of the suite
and no recompilation.
Note that this is a second, independent cache, stacked below the Docker
layer cache that [issue #26](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/issues/26)
addresses. `CHECK_EPOCH` guarantees the `RUN make test` _step_ re-executes;
it does not guarantee `go test` inside that step does any work, because the
`GOCACHE` baked into earlier image layers survives into the re-executed
step. They are two separate defects requiring two separate fixes, and a fix
for one must not be recorded as covering the other.
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. That matters on a developer's machine, where this
target runs and the directory lasts from one run to the next. The `test`
phase of the `Dockerfile` needs no `-count=1`: its base image holds no
result for this repo's tests and nothing before its `go test` step runs a
test, so there is nothing to replay. `--no-cache` (above) is what makes that
step run on an unchanged tree.
Python example:
@@ -340,7 +400,7 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
— which is more dangerous than a short file with no secret patterns at all,
because it reads as solved and stops anyone looking. Give every
depth-independent pattern the `**/` prefix and leave only genuinely
root-anchored entries unprefixed: `.git`, and the repo's own host-built
root-anchored entries unprefixed: `.claude`, and the repo's own host-built
binary, written `/myapp` and never `**/myapp`, which would also match
`cmd/myapp/` and delete the package directory from the context. Matching is
case-sensitive, and an ALL-CAPS twin per pattern still misses `Server.Key`, so
@@ -365,12 +425,13 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
directory, so a repo running agents in subdirectories still ships
`services/api/.claude/` and must add its own anchored entry there.
- **Excluding `.git` means `git describe` cannot run inside any build stage, and
it fails quietly there.** In a build stage there is no repository, so
`git describe` writes nothing to stdout, `-X main.Version=` comes out empty,
the binary reports no version at all, and the build still exits 0. Compute the
version on the host and thread it in as a build arg. `script/docker` and
`script/cibuild` do this, byte-identically across repos:
- **A plain `docker build .` of a clone stamps the version that
`git describe --tags --always` gives**, derived from the `.git` in the build
context as the canonical `Dockerfile` above shows. Without its failure check,
a missing `git` or an unreadable checkout would leave `-X main.Version=` empty
and the build would still exit 0. `script/docker` and `script/cibuild` pass
the version they compute on the host; it takes precedence. They do this
byte-identically across repos:
```sh
# Own line: a failing command substitution inside an argument does not
@@ -387,7 +448,7 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
fallback is applied — a live check that fires on a build from an export with
no `.git` and on a repository with no commits yet. Do not fold it into the
substitution as `|| echo unknown`, which makes the guard unreachable. The
Dockerfile's side is `ARG VERSION=dev` in the stage that compiles, declared
Dockerfile's side is `ARG VERSION` in the stage that compiles, declared
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
@@ -426,12 +487,18 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
`test-support` depguard rule, where a repo names its own test-support packages
by full import path. A repo adds entries there and changes nothing else, and a
re-vendor carries its entries forward. The canonical golangci-lint version is
v2.12.2 (released 2026-05-06), pinned as the digest of the lint phase's base
v2.14.0 (released 2026-09-24), pinned as the digest of the lint phase's base
image
(`golangci/golangci-lint@sha256:5cceeef04e53efe1470638d4b4b4f5ceefd574955ab3941b2d9a68a8c9ad5240`,
which reports `2.12.2 built with go1.26.2 from c0d3ddc9`). That digest is the
only pin, since no repo installs golangci-lint on the host: bumping the
version means changing it and nothing else.
(`golangci/golangci-lint@sha256:ad862ba6b3798cbe0fd9fd7408d498fd74fbd2623a92406b2fd3898faf0bf98f`,
which reports `2.14.0 built with go1.27.0 from 114493f9`). A module's `go`
directive must not name a newer Go minor version than the one golangci-lint
was built with, or golangci-lint refuses to lint it: this release lints
`go 1.27.1` but not `go 1.28`. That digest is the only pin, since no repo
installs golangci-lint on the host. A repo sets the lint phase digest to the
one named here and re-vendors `.golangci.yml` in the same commit, whichever of
the two prompted the change: the canonical copy can name linters that an older
golangci-lint rejects, and a newer golangci-lint can add linters that
`default: all` switches on until the canonical copy disables them.
- **`script/bootstrap` installs a pinned tool by comparing versions, never by
testing presence.** An `if ! command -v <tool>; then install; fi` guard tests
@@ -455,6 +522,11 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
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
a commit hash (`go install <package>@<commit hash>`). It is never tracked as
a `go.mod` tool dependency or through a `tools.go` file, either of which
pulls the tool's own dependencies into the repo's `go.mod` and `go.sum`.
- When pinning images or packages by hash, add a comment above the reference
with the version and date (YYYY-MM-DD).
@@ -567,10 +639,10 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
settings.
- Avoid putting files in the repo root unless necessary. Root should contain
only project-level config files (`README.md`, `Makefile`, `Dockerfile`,
`LICENSE`, `.gitignore`, `.editorconfig`, `REPO_POLICIES.md`, and
language-specific config). Everything else goes in a subdirectory. Canonical
subdirectory names:
only project-level config files (`README.md`, `AGENTS.md`, `Makefile`,
`Dockerfile`, `LICENSE`, `.gitignore`, `.editorconfig`, `REPO_POLICIES.md`,
and language-specific config). Everything else goes in a subdirectory.
Canonical subdirectory names:
- `bin/` — executable scripts and tools
- `cmd/` — Go command entrypoints; thin only: one `main.go` per binary whose
body is a single call into `internal/` or `pkg/`, no project logic in
@@ -601,3 +673,7 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
- Go: `go.mod`, `go.sum`, `.golangci.yml`
- JS: `package.json`, `yarn.lock`, `.prettierrc`, `.prettierignore`
- Python: `pyproject.toml`
- Guidance for coding agents lives in one `AGENTS.md` at the repository root. It
is never committed under a file or directory named after one agent tool, such
as `CLAUDE.md` or `.claude/`, and never split into separate memory files.