REPO_POLICIES.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 title: Repository Policies
-last_modified: 2026-07-06
+last_modified: 2026-08-07
 ---
 
 This document covers repository structure, tooling, and workflow standards. Code
@@ -189,8 +189,13 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
   module under test to verify it compiles/parses. There is no excuse for
   `make test` to be a no-op.
 
-- `make test` must complete in under 20 seconds. Add a 30-second timeout in the
-  Makefile.
+- `make test` must complete in under 60 seconds. That is the hard cap, and a
+  suite that exceeds it fails. Under 20 seconds is the target. A suite between
+  20 and 60 seconds is still green, but the overage must be filed as an
+  improvement bug against that repo. Add a 90-second timeout to the test
+  invocation in the Makefile (`go test -timeout 90s`). The backstop deliberately
+  sits above the hard cap so that it catches a genuinely hung test rather than a
+  merely slow one.
 
 - **`make test` should use the conditional verbose rerun pattern.** Run tests
   without `-v` (verbose) first. If tests fail, automatically rerun with `-v` to
@@ -209,9 +214,9 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
 
     ```makefile
     test:
-    	@go test -timeout 30s -race -cover ./... || \
+    	@go test -timeout 90s -race -cover ./... || \
     		{ echo "--- Rerunning with -v for details ---"; \
-    		  go test -timeout 30s -race -v ./...; exit 1; }
+    		  go test -timeout 90s -race -v ./...; exit 1; }
     ```
 
     Python example:
@@ -260,7 +265,10 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
 
 - `.golangci.yml` is standardized and must _NEVER_ be modified by an agent, only
   manually by the user. Fetch from
-  `https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/.golangci.yml`.
+  `https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/.golangci.yml`. The
+  canonical golangci-lint version is v2.12.2 (released 2026-05-06), installed
+  commit-pinned via
+  `go install github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/v2/cmd/golangci-lint@c0d3ddc9cf3faa61a4e378e879ece580256d76e5`.
 
 - When pinning images or packages by hash, add a comment above the reference
   with the version and date (YYYY-MM-DD).