Ban the netblock of a client that breaks a rate limit, in memory (closes #18)

A request over a rate limit is refused with SWWAF_BAN_RESPONSE and bans
the client's netblock: an hour at first, three times the last ban when
broken again within a day of its end, permanent past seven days. The
ban ledger in internal/bans is checked after the static lists and
before the lookup, and the requests it refuses are not counted. A ban
resets the client's counters and carries notes; at most SWWAF_MAX_BANS
are held. SWWAF_BAN_RESPONSE also answers SWWAF_DENY_NETS and the
country lists.

Deviation: the notes hold the request that broke the limit, not the last ten.
Judgement call: the six ban settings cannot be off.
Judgement call: a permanent ban's ban_expires is "permanent".

Model: opus-5-5

.dockerignore

@@ -13,21 +13,9 @@
 # `/myapp`, never `**/myapp`, which also matches `cmd/myapp/` and
 # deletes the package directory from the context.
 
-# .git is sent without its config. Without a VERSION build argument the
+# Excluding .git means `git describe` cannot run in any build stage and
-# stage that compiles runs `git describe --tags --always` on .git, which
+# fails quietly there; pass the version in with --build-arg VERSION.
-# does not need .git/config; that file can hold a credential, such as a
+.git
-# password in a remote URL or the token the CI checkout step stores there.
-# Each submodule keeps a config with the same exposure in its git directory
-# under .git/modules/, nested again for a submodule's own submodules, or in
-# its own .git directory when it keeps one.
-# KNOWN GAP: a submodule whose name has a `config` segment (`config`,
-# `deploy/config`, `config/lib`) loses its whole git directory, because
-# `**/.git/modules/**/config` also matches that segment's directory
-# under .git/modules/. Go's version stamping then fails the build;
-# nothing leaks. Name such a submodule without that segment:
-# `git submodule add --name`.
-**/.git/config
-**/.git/modules/**/config
 
 # Agent scratch: one full checkout of the repo per in-flight agent.
 # Anchored because it occurs once where agents run at the repo root.
@@ -51,13 +39,14 @@
 **/[iI][dD]_[rR][sS][aA]
 **/[iI][dD]_[dD][sS][aA]
 **/[iI][dD]_[eE][cC][dD][sS][aA]
-**/[iI][dD]_[eE][cC][dD][sS][aA]_[sS][kK]
 **/[iI][dD]_[eE][dD]25519
-**/[iI][dD]_[eE][dD]25519_[sS][kK]
 
 # Dependencies: restored inside the image, never copied in.
 **/node_modules
 
+# The binary `make build` writes on the host; the image builds its own.
+/bin
+
 # OS metadata.
 **/.DS_Store
 **/Thumbs.db
@@ -70,6 +59,3 @@
 **/.idea
 **/.vscode
 **/*.sublime-*
-
-# The binary `make build` writes on the host; the image builds its own.
-/bin

.gitignore

@@ -20,31 +20,11 @@ Thumbs.db
 # Node
 node_modules/
 
-# Secrets. Unanchored like every entry above, so each matches at every
+# Environment / secrets
-# depth. Matching is case-sensitive on Linux, so names use character
+.env
-# ranges rather than a lowercase form that misses `Server.Key`.
+.env.*
-
+*.pem
-# Environment files. `*.env` covers bare `.env` and the `prod.env`
+*.key
-# convention. Only the templates `example.env` and `sample.env` are
-# re-included below. A repository that commits any other template adds
-# its own negation after these lines, for example `!.env.example`.
-*.[eE][nN][vV]
-.[eE][nN][vV].*
-.[eE][nN][vV][rR][cC]
-!example.env
-!sample.env
-
-# Private keys and the bundles carrying them.
-*.[pP][eE][mM]
-*.[kK][eE][yY]
-*.[pP]12
-*.[pP][fF][xX]
-[iI][dD]_[rR][sS][aA]
-[iI][dD]_[dD][sS][aA]
-[iI][dD]_[eE][cC][dD][sS][aA]
-[iI][dD]_[eE][cC][dD][sS][aA]_[sS][kK]
-[iI][dD]_[eE][dD]25519
-[iI][dD]_[eE][dD]25519_[sS][kK]
 
 # Go: the binary `make build` writes, test binaries, profiles and logs
 /bin/

.golangci.yml

@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ linters:
   disable:
     # Genuinely incompatible with project patterns
     - exhaustruct      # Requires all struct fields
-    - exhaustruct_v5   # Requires all struct fields (successor to exhaustruct)
     - godot            # Requires comments to end with periods
     - wrapcheck        # Too verbose for internal packages
     - varnamelen       # Short names like db, id are idiomatic Go

Dockerfile

@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 # lint` or `script/lint`, which are themselves a docker build and would
 # recurse into a daemon that does not exist in a build step.
 #
-# golangci/golangci-lint v2.14.0 (built with go1.27.0), 2026-09-24
+# golangci/golangci-lint v2.12.2 (built with go1.26.2), 2026-05-06
-FROM golangci/golangci-lint@sha256:ad862ba6b3798cbe0fd9fd7408d498fd74fbd2623a92406b2fd3898faf0bf98f AS lint
+FROM golangci/golangci-lint@sha256:5cceeef04e53efe1470638d4b4b4f5ceefd574955ab3941b2d9a68a8c9ad5240 AS lint
 
 WORKDIR /src
 
@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@ COPY . .
 # Go's build cache is kept on a tmpfs, out of the image: nothing uses it
 # after this step, and writing it into the image takes seconds.
 RUN --mount=type=tmpfs,target=/root/.cache/go-build \
-    go test -timeout 90s -race -cover ./... || \
+    go test -count=1 -timeout 90s -race -cover ./... || \
     { echo "--- Rerunning with -v for details ---"; \
-      go test -timeout 90s -race -v ./...; exit 1; }
+      go test -count=1 -timeout 90s -race -v ./...; exit 1; }
 
 # Build stage. Nothing is wanted from the two phases above; the copies
 # are what make BuildKit build them first, so the image, which needs this
@@ -46,10 +46,6 @@ FROM golang@sha256:3b77fc618ec235a1ab412de7737f120dd507c57e8d87de4cbb7994fb94275
 COPY --from=lint /src/go.sum /dev/null
 COPY --from=test /src/go.sum /dev/null
 
-# This image has 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 ./
@@ -57,21 +53,12 @@ RUN go mod download
 
 COPY . .
 
-# The VERSION build arg when one is given, otherwise
+# The version is computed on the host and passed in, because
-# `git describe --tags --always` on the .git in the build context. With
+# .dockerignore excludes .git.
-# .git present, a version that is still empty, dev or unknown fails the
+ARG VERSION=dev
-# build: git is missing or could not read the checkout.
+RUN CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -trimpath \
-ARG VERSION
+    -ldflags="-s -w -X main.Version=${VERSION}" \
-RUN VERSION="${VERSION:-$(git describe --tags --always)}"; \
+    -o /usr/local/bin/smallwebwaf ./cmd/smallwebwaf
-    if [ -e .git ]; then \
-        case "$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 /usr/local/bin/smallwebwaf ./cmd/smallwebwaf
 
 # runsvinit, the image's entrypoint, built at the last commit of its
 # archived repository. It has no go.mod, and `go build` of its directory

README.md

@@ -202,11 +202,10 @@ refused ones included:
 
 - `time` is when the request arrived, in UTC. `peer_ip` is the TCP peer,
   normally traefik. `path` and `query` are as the client sent them.
-- `country` is the client's country as GeoJS places it. It is empty with neither
+- `country` is the client's country as GeoJS places it, and empty when it is not
-  country list set, for a client in `SWWAF_ALLOW_NETS` or `SWWAF_DENY_NETS`, for
+  known: with neither country list set, for a client in `SWWAF_ALLOW_NETS` or
-  a client on a private, loopback or link-local address, when GeoJS cannot place
+  `SWWAF_DENY_NETS`, for a client on a private, loopback or link-local address,
-  the client or has not answered in time, and for a request refused because a
+  and when GeoJS cannot place the client or has not answered in time.
-  ban covers its client, even when the client's country is known.
 - `status` is what the client was sent, `0` if nothing was; `upstream_status` is
   what the app answered, and is left out when the app did not answer.
 - `request_bytes` and `response_bytes` count body bytes.
@@ -457,18 +456,17 @@ the metrics, failure behaviour and the build order.
 
 So far `smallwebwaf` looks up only the country, only through GeoJS, and only
 while `SWWAF_DENIED_COUNTRIES` or `SWWAF_EXCLUSIVELY_ALLOWED_COUNTRIES` is set:
-then the address of every new visitor is sent to GeoJS, except a visitor in
+then the address of every new visitor outside `SWWAF_ALLOW_NETS` and
-`SWWAF_ALLOW_NETS` or `SWWAF_DENY_NETS` and one refused because a ban covers its
+`SWWAF_DENY_NETS` is sent to GeoJS, and with neither set, none is. An IPv6
-netblock, and with neither set, none is. An IPv6 visitor is asked about by the
+visitor is asked about by the first address of its /64. A new visitor waits at
-first address of its /64. A new visitor waits at most a second for its answer,
+most a second for its answer, and without one counts as coming from an unknown
-and without one counts as coming from an unknown country until the answer
+country until the answer arrives. The addresses waiting are asked about
-arrives. The addresses waiting are asked about together, up to 200 in one
+together, up to 200 in one request, one request at a time; at most 10,000
-request, one request at a time; at most 10,000 visitors wait, and one more
+visitors wait, and one more counts as coming from an unknown country until there
-counts as coming from an unknown country until there is room. While GeoJS fails,
+is room. While GeoJS fails, visitors with a kept answer are unaffected and new
-visitors with a kept answer are unaffected and new ones count as coming from an
+ones count as coming from an unknown country. GeoJS is then left alone for a
-unknown country. GeoJS is then left alone for a second, twice as long after each
+second, twice as long after each further failure up to five minutes, and asked
-further failure up to five minutes, and asked again by the next request that
+again by the next request that needs it.
-needs it.
 
 In the full design, `smallwebwaf` looks up the AS number and country of every
 client, for the request log, the metrics and the ban notes, and for the country

REPO_POLICIES.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 title: Repository Policies
-last_modified: 2026-10-04
+last_modified: 2026-09-08
 ---
 
 This document covers repository structure, tooling, and workflow standards. Code
@@ -104,14 +104,10 @@ 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.
-  The gate phases and the build stage start from their pinned base images and
+  Dockerfiles install development prerequisites by running `script/bootstrap`
-  install what those images lack either inline, as the canonical Go `Dockerfile`
+  rather than duplicating installs inline; COPY `script/` and the dependency
-  below does for `git`, or by running `script/bootstrap`, as the `prompts`
+  manifests (`package.json` + `yarn.lock`, `go.mod` + `go.sum`, etc.) before
-  repo's own `Dockerfile` does for its yarn packages. The development
+  running it.
-  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
@@ -160,14 +156,11 @@ 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 Debian Go image. The canonical Go repo
+  and the test phase is based on the Go image. The canonical Go repo
   `Dockerfile`:
 
     ```dockerfile
@@ -180,9 +173,8 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
     COPY . .
     RUN golangci-lint run --config .golangci.yml ./...
 
-    # Test phase. -race needs cgo and so a C compiler, which the Debian Go
+    # Test phase
-    # image ships and the alpine one does not.
+    # golang:1.x-alpine, YYYY-MM-DD
-    # golang:1.x, YYYY-MM-DD
     FROM golang@sha256:... AS test
     WORKDIR /src
     COPY go.mod go.sum ./
@@ -199,29 +191,15 @@ 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 . .
 
-    # The VERSION build arg when one is given, otherwise
+    ARG VERSION=dev
-    # `git describe --tags --always` on the .git in the build context. With
+    RUN CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -trimpath \
-    # .git present, a version that is still empty, dev or unknown fails the
+        -ldflags="-s -w -X main.Version=${VERSION}" \
-    # build: git is missing or could not read the checkout.
+        -o /app ./cmd/app/
-    ARG VERSION
-    RUN VERSION="${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:...
@@ -243,41 +221,10 @@ 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, install them
+    - If the project requires CGO or system libraries for linting (e.g.
-      in the lint phase. The `golangci/golangci-lint` image is Debian-based and
+      `vips-dev`), install them in the lint phase with `apk add`.
-      has no `apk`, so install with `apt-get` under the Debian package name
+    - `ARG VERSION=dev` is declared in the stage that compiles and supplied by
-      (`libvips-dev`, where alpine says `vips-dev`), and delete the package
+      `script/docker` and `script/cibuild`; no stage may call `git describe`.
-      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.
@@ -286,12 +233,7 @@ 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. A separate
+  from a run of its own gates rather than from a cache entry.
-  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
@@ -344,19 +286,17 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
     ```
 
     `-count=1` is required on both invocations: it defeats Go's test _result_
-    cache, so neither run can report a stored pass in place of running the
+    cache, so the target cannot report a pass it did not earn, and the rerun
-    tests. It leaves the build cache alone, so it costs the runtime of the suite
+    reproduces a failure instead of replaying it. It leaves the build cache
-    and no recompilation.
+    alone, so it costs the runtime of the suite and no recompilation.
 
-    That cache is Go's own, separate from Docker's layer cache. Go stores a
+    Note that this is a second, independent cache, stacked below the Docker
-    passing result in its cache directory (`GOCACHE`), and when the same tests
+    layer cache that [issue #26](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/issues/26)
-    run again on unchanged code it prints that result, marked `(cached)`,
+    addresses. `CHECK_EPOCH` guarantees the `RUN make test` _step_ re-executes;
-    without running them. That matters on a developer's machine, where this
+    it does not guarantee `go test` inside that step does any work, because the
-    target runs and the directory lasts from one run to the next. The `test`
+    `GOCACHE` baked into earlier image layers survives into the re-executed
-    phase of the `Dockerfile` needs no `-count=1`: its base image holds no
+    step. They are two separate defects requiring two separate fixes, and a fix
-    result for this repo's tests and nothing before its `go test` step runs a
+    for one must not be recorded as covering the other.
-    test, so there is nothing to replay. `--no-cache` (above) is what makes that
-    step run on an unchanged tree.
 
     Python example:
 
@@ -400,7 +340,7 @@ 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: `.claude`, and the repo's own host-built
+  root-anchored entries unprefixed: `.git`, 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
@@ -425,13 +365,12 @@ 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.
 
-- **A plain `docker build .` of a clone stamps the version that
+- **Excluding `.git` means `git describe` cannot run inside any build stage, and
-  `git describe --tags --always` gives**, derived from the `.git` in the build
+  it fails quietly there.** In a build stage there is no repository, so
-  context as the canonical `Dockerfile` above shows. Without its failure check,
+  `git describe` writes nothing to stdout, `-X main.Version=` comes out empty,
-  a missing `git` or an unreadable checkout would leave `-X main.Version=` empty
+  the binary reports no version at all, and the build still exits 0. Compute the
-  and the build would still exit 0. `script/docker` and `script/cibuild` pass
+  version on the host and thread it in as a build arg. `script/docker` and
-  the version they compute on the host; it takes precedence. They do this
+  `script/cibuild` do this, byte-identically across repos:
-  byte-identically across repos:
 
     ```sh
     # Own line: a failing command substitution inside an argument does not
@@ -448,7 +387,7 @@ 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` in the stage that compiles, declared
+    Dockerfile's side is `ARG VERSION=dev` 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
@@ -487,18 +426,12 @@ 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
-  v2.14.0 (released 2026-09-24), pinned as the digest of the lint phase's base
+  v2.12.2 (released 2026-05-06), pinned as the digest of the lint phase's base
   image
-  (`golangci/golangci-lint@sha256:ad862ba6b3798cbe0fd9fd7408d498fd74fbd2623a92406b2fd3898faf0bf98f`,
+  (`golangci/golangci-lint@sha256:5cceeef04e53efe1470638d4b4b4f5ceefd574955ab3941b2d9a68a8c9ad5240`,
-  which reports `2.14.0 built with go1.27.0 from 114493f9`). A module's `go`
+  which reports `2.12.2 built with go1.26.2 from c0d3ddc9`). That digest is the
-  directive must not name a newer Go minor version than the one golangci-lint
+  only pin, since no repo installs golangci-lint on the host: bumping the
-  was built with, or golangci-lint refuses to lint it: this release lints
+  version means changing it and nothing else.
-  `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
@@ -522,11 +455,6 @@ 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).
 
@@ -639,10 +567,10 @@ 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`, `AGENTS.md`, `Makefile`,
+  only project-level config files (`README.md`, `Makefile`, `Dockerfile`,
-  `Dockerfile`, `LICENSE`, `.gitignore`, `.editorconfig`, `REPO_POLICIES.md`,
+  `LICENSE`, `.gitignore`, `.editorconfig`, `REPO_POLICIES.md`, and
-  and language-specific config). Everything else goes in a subdirectory.
+  language-specific config). Everything else goes in a subdirectory. Canonical
-  Canonical subdirectory names:
+  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
@@ -673,7 +601,3 @@ 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.

SPEC.md

@@ -945,9 +945,9 @@ and the running `smallwebwaf` takes the edit in.
     - what was broken: the rule ids and target that matched, or the limit, its
       window, the count reached and the client's limit percentage with what set
       it; and any reputation sources that listed the client;
-    - the request that caused the ban, the one that broke the limit or carried
+    - the requests that caused the ban, up to the last ten: time, method, host,
-      the clear sign of attack: time, method, host, path with its query string,
+      path with its query string, status and user agent, each text cut to 256
-      status and user agent, each text cut to 256 bytes;
+      bytes;
     - how many requests counted toward the ban, and the time span over which
       they came;
     - the netblock's total requests since it was first seen, and the requests
@@ -958,13 +958,13 @@ and the running `smallwebwaf` takes the edit in.
       the table is full, so on a public service the file grows to the default
       `SWWAF_MAX_TRACKED_CLIENTS` of 20,000, about 20 MiB. Written every 15
       minutes, that is under 2 GiB of disk writes a day.
-    - `bans.json` takes about 1.2 KiB per ban and at most about 2.5 KiB, since
+    - `bans.json` takes about 2 KiB per ban and at most about 8 KiB, since the
-      the notes hold one request and their texts are cut short. At the default
+      texts in the notes are cut short. At the default `SWWAF_MAX_BANS` of 5,000
-      `SWWAF_MAX_BANS` of 5,000 it is about 6 MiB, and never more than about 12
+      it is about 10 MiB, and never more than about 40 MiB, plus whatever bans
-      MiB, plus whatever bans an admin made. It is written when a ban is made,
+      an admin made. It is written when a ban is made, lifted or made permanent,
-      lifted or made permanent, at most once every 10 seconds, and otherwise
+      at most once every 10 seconds, and otherwise with the 15-minute write, so
-      with the 15-minute write, so its writes follow the bans made: with a full
+      its writes follow the bans made: with a full file, a hundred new bans a
-      file, a hundred new bans a day come to about 600 MiB of disk writes.
+      day come to about 1 GiB of disk writes.
     - `lookups.json` takes about 150 bytes per answer, about 15 MiB when full.
       Written every 15 minutes, that is under 1.5 GiB of disk writes a day.
     - `reputation.json` and `alerts.json` are usually a few MiB or less.

internal/proxy/client_test.go

@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ func requestWithHeaders(
 			ForwardedFor:   r.Header.Get(forwardedFor),
 			ForwardedHost:  r.Header.Get("X-Forwarded-Host"),
 			ForwardedProto: r.Header.Get("X-Forwarded-Proto"),
-			RealIP:         r.Header.Get("X-Real-IP"),
+			RealIP:         r.Header.Get("X-Real-Ip"),
 		})
 	})
 	addr, out := startProxy(t, app.URL, env)

script/cibuild

@@ -16,8 +16,9 @@ main() {
     "$SCRIPT_DIR/check"
     # Own line: a failing command substitution inside an argument does
     # not trip `set -e`, so the inline form degrades silently to an
-    # empty constant. The VERSION build argument takes precedence over
+    # empty constant. VERSION is computed here because .dockerignore
-    # the version a build stage derives from the .git in the context.
+    # excludes .git, so `git describe` in a build stage yields an empty
+    # version without failing.
     version="$(git describe --tags --always --dirty 2>/dev/null || true)"
     [ -n "$version" ] || version="unknown"
     docker build --no-cache \

script/docker

@@ -12,8 +12,9 @@ main() {
     cd "$ROOT"
     # Own line: a failing command substitution inside an argument does
     # not trip `set -e`, so the inline form degrades silently to an
-    # empty constant. The VERSION build argument takes precedence over
+    # empty constant. VERSION is computed here because .dockerignore
-    # the version a build stage derives from the .git in the context.
+    # excludes .git, so `git describe` in a build stage yields an empty
+    # version without failing.
     version="$(git describe --tags --always --dirty 2>/dev/null || true)"
     [ -n "$version" ] || version="unknown"
     docker build --no-cache \