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The onboarding checklist still read like the old house rules: one integration branch, Renovate, Lefthook and Qlty were all mandatory, and it still described the shared queue, which is gone. This rewrites those items as recommended recipes and says plainly that an existing setup that does the same job is fine. Branch protection, the commit convention and the security items stay as they were.

It also fixes a few things that were just wrong:

  • The main-is-released.yml caller example said a caller with permissions: {} needs no grant. A reusable workflow can't raise what its caller grants, so the calling job needs contents: read. The checklist now shows that in YAML, and the comment at the top of the workflow matches. That's a comment change only, so the interface and existing pins aren't affected.
  • The reset-main migration option is gone. Published history stays where it is.
  • Star History is the chart choice again, so the ban on embedding it is removed. Repos still using starchart-refresh.yml keep their pinned caller until they move over themselves.
  • AGENTS.md now checks for content that landed on main directly before the ours reconcile, because that merge keeps dev's tree and would drop it.

On the validation side, validate.sh already ran the same nine suites as CI. There's now a test that keeps the two lists equal to the files in .github/tests. The validator's git calls also drop git's repo-local env vars like GIT_INDEX_FILE, with a test against a temp repo. That one came out of the CodeRabbit thread on #49.

Verified with bash scripts/validate.sh: all nine suites pass, plus compile, YAML/JSON, markdownlint, actionlint and zizmor.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Tracked-file validation now ignores inherited Git-local settings, helping ensure checks run against the intended repository state.
  • Tests
    • Added checks that local validation covers every CI contract suite and correctly validates tracked files when Git index settings are overridden.
  • Documentation
    • Clarified repository onboarding, promotion, release, review, and capacity guidance, with more flexibility in tooling choices.
    • Updated a reusable workflow example to specify read-only content permissions.

- docs(onboarding): present the integration branch, Renovate, Lefthook and
  Qlty as recommended recipes and accept effective existing alternatives
- docs(onboarding): replace the retired queue section with pacing guidance
- docs(onboarding): drop the reset-main migration option; published history
  is preserved
- docs(onboarding): grant contents: read on the main-is-released calling job,
  since a reusable workflow cannot raise its caller's permissions
- docs(onboarding): make Star History the chart choice and keep
  starchart-refresh for existing pins until they migrate
- docs(agents): account for content landed on main before the ours reconcile
- docs(workflows): show the job-level grant in the main-is-released caller
  comment (comment only, interface unchanged)
- fix(validation): strip git's repo-local variables from the validator's git
  calls so an inherited GIT_INDEX_FILE or GIT_DIR cannot redirect them
- test(validation): cover a bogus GIT_INDEX_FILE against a temp repo
- test(contracts): assert validate.sh and Standards Validation run the same
  contract suites as the files in .github/tests
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The changes isolate tracked-file validation from inherited Git-local environment variables and add checks for validation-suite coverage. They also revise repository onboarding, release, promotion, dependency automation, and review-pacing guidance.

Changes: Tracked-file validation

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Isolate validation from Git-local environment
scripts/validate_tracked_files.py, .github/tests/tracked_validation_test.py, .github/tests/community_health_contract_test.py
The validator and its Git commands use an environment without Git-local variables. Tests cover a bogus GIT_INDEX_FILE and require the test-file references in CI, local validation, and .github/tests to match.

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Branch, release, and asset guidance
REPOSITORY_ONBOARDING.md, .github/workflows/main-is-released.yml
Onboarding guidance distinguishes branch and release models, scopes release-invariant checks to tagged-release repositories, and updates chart instructions. The reusable-workflow example grants contents: read to its caller job.
Dependency tooling and review pacing
REPOSITORY_ONBOARDING.md, AGENTS.md
The guidance accepts equivalent dependency automation and local gate tooling, sets per-repository change and review limits, and updates review pacing and Renovate instructions.
Promotion and onboarding checks
AGENTS.md, REPOSITORY_ONBOARDING.md
Promotion guidance requires checking for main-only commits and forward-porting them before reconciliation. The onboarding PR check uses the recorded integration target and promotion model.

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  • CodesWhat/.github#49: PR #49 introduced validation and pacing changes that this PR extends.
  • CodesWhat/.github#48: PR #48 introduced the tracked-file validator and its contract tests, which this PR hardens against inherited Git variables.
  • CodesWhat/.github#50: PR #50 configures Renovate to target dev/repository-standards, a branch model also described in this PR.
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* docs(standards): add organization health defaults

Adds organization-wide community health defaults, validation, ownership, contribution guidance, security policy, and hardened workflow checks.

* ci(greptile): require manual review requests (#11)

* ci(workflows): add reusable CI foundation (#13)

* ci(workflows): add reusable CI foundation

* fix(workflows): harden reusable release contracts

* feat(quality): standardize long-run reporting (#15)

* feat(quality): add normalized reporting foundation

* test(quality): run reporting contracts in standards validation

* fix(quality): align report validator with schema

* test(quality): verify GitHub integration outputs

* fix(quality): enforce report contract boundaries

* fix(quality): decode reports as utf-8

* test(quality): pin fixture encoding

* ci(profile): make asset generation read-only (#10)

* ci(profile): make asset generation read-only

* fix(profile): restrict asset validation egress

* ci(review): add deduplicated Greptile summon (#9)

* ci(review): add deduplicated Greptile summon

* fix(review): serialize exact-head Greptile summons

* test(review): lock Greptile security controls

* ci(workflows): add run-test and run-lint toggles to go-ci (#19)

go-ci.yml's test and lint jobs ran unconditionally, so a Go-less repo
that only wants the language-agnostic workflow-security (zizmor) job
couldn't call it. Add run-test/run-lint boolean inputs, mirroring the
existing run-govulncheck/run-workflow-security/etc. toggle pattern,
defaulting to true so existing callers see no behavior change.

Fixes: #18

* ci(workflows): add module-directory input to node-ci (#22)

* ci(workflows): add module-directory input to node-ci

Mirrors go-ci's module-directory idiom: a string input defaulting to
"." threaded into each fixed script's env as MODULE_DIRECTORY, so a
repo with several independently-gated Node projects can call node-ci
once per project. The default preserves current behavior for existing
callers.

Extends the reusable CI contract test to assert the new input and its
threading, matching how run-test/run-lint were added for go-ci in #19.

* test(workflows): assert module-directory threads into all three node jobs

* docs(onboarding): record the qlty alignment baseline (#24)

* docs(onboarding): align with the codified standards registry (#26)

* docs(onboarding): align with the codified standards registry

- docs(onboarding): name Codecov as the coverage cloud; Qlty Cloud App and
  maintainability badge stay, checks stay non-required
- docs(onboarding): trivy deprecated in favor of Grype, including the qlty
  plugin blocks in the two reference configs (drydock#753, portwing#135)
- docs(onboarding): CodeRabbit free Pro is public-only; private repos use
  cross-account human review
- docs(onboarding): add the greptile.json contract and the label-gated
  second-opinion caller

* docs(onboarding): reword the CodeRabbit private-repo claim as org policy

- docs(onboarding): free-plan private-repo reviews exist but are
  rate-limited and never fired here; the skip is policy, not a plan fact
- docs(onboarding): pair the Greptile caller with auto-applied CodeRabbit
  labeling so the second-opinion label is criteria-driven

* chore(repo): meet our own onboarding checklist (#28)

* chore(repo): meet our own onboarding checklist

- chore(repo): MIT LICENSE (infrastructure repos are MIT; products AGPL)
- docs(repo): root AGENTS.md with repo-specific rules and validation
- build(hooks): lefthook with commit-msg + pre-push mirroring CI via
  scripts/validate.sh

* fix(hooks): tighten the commit-msg exemptions and mirror zizmor's CI flags

- fix(hooks): merge/revert exemptions match git's generated subjects only,
  so a hand-typed 'Merge ...' subject no longer bypasses the check
- fix(hooks): require a non-whitespace character after the colon
- fix(hooks): zizmor runs --no-online-audits locally, matching CI's
  online-audits: false for local/CI parity

* fix(hooks): exempt only git-generated merge and revert subjects

* docs(community): org-default code of conduct + community checklist (#30)

* docs(community): add org-default code of conduct and community checklist items

CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md is Contributor Covenant 2.0 (drydock's tuned copy) with
the org contact security@codeswhat.com, cascading to every repo without a
local one. Onboarding checklist gains the cascade-first rule and the
Discussions on/off split for product vs meta repos.

* test(community): assert the code of conduct in the community-health contract

* feat(workflows): add the shared star-chart refresh reusable workflow (#32)

* feat(workflows): add the shared star-chart refresh reusable workflow

Replaces both retired star-chart engines org-wide. The chart becomes a
first-party SVG generated from GitHub's own stargazer timestamps and
committed into the consuming repository, so it needs no secret and makes
no request at render time.

That property is the point. A live route that loses its credential serves
a plausible placeholder at HTTP 200 forever with nothing reporting red,
which is exactly how drydock's chart sat broken. A committed artifact
fails visibly or not at all.

The generator is embedded in the workflow rather than checked out from a
second repository, so a caller's SHA pin covers every line of behaviour
with nothing resolved at run time. Verified against live data before
committing: byte-identical output to the reference implementation for
drydock at 238 stars and 3 API calls, and a clean no-op exit on a repo
with a single star.

- feat(workflows): starchart-refresh.yml, egress-blocked to api.github.com
  and github.com, contents: write as its only elevated scope
- test(workflows): contract test covering the embedded generator, env-var
  input handling, the self-contained SVG, and the conditional commit-back
- ci(validation): run the new contract test in standards validation
- docs(onboarding): document the caller shape and why the artifact is
  committed rather than served

* test(workflows): syntax-check the embedded star-chart generator

This workflow never runs in this repository, so a syntax error inside the
heredoc would first surface in a consumer's scheduled job, days later and
in someone else's lane.

The test recovers the generator the way the shell will actually see it,
stripping the run block's base indentation rather than reading the file
as written, since a heredoc body that looks correct in YAML can still
reach node malformed. Then node --check parses it.

Verified with a negative control rather than assumed: injecting a syntax
error into the generator fails the test, and reverting passes it.

* fix(workflows): reject the inputs that would publish a wrong star chart

All three from CodeRabbit on #32, and the max-pages one was a real bug of
exactly the kind this workflow exists to prevent.

max-pages: 0 made pages 0, which fetched nothing, which hit the "too few
stars" clean exit. A repository with 238 stars would have reported a
green no-op. A cap below the needed page count was worse than that: it
drew a chart from the first N pages and published a partial history as a
whole one behind a ::warning:: nobody reads. Both now fail loudly, and
the cap must be a positive integer.

branch had no runtime guard. Omitting a default only prevents omission,
so a caller could still pass main and, on a repository whose ruleset let
the push through, commit straight to the default branch. Rejected before
checkout rather than at the push, where the error would be confusing.

output-path was read through the environment, which stops script
injection but not traversal. An absolute or ../ path reached writeFileSync
outside the checkout, and the commit step then found nothing staged and
reported success. Writes now use the resolved and validated path rather
than the raw input, since a check that doesn't govern the write is
decoration.

Verified behaviourally, not by reading: each rejected input throws, the
one-star exit still no-ops, nothing lands outside the workspace, and the
happy path is still byte-identical to the reference output for drydock.

* Main-is-released check, and the codified star-chart shape (#34)

* ci(standards): assert main points at a release tag

Reusable workflow for the invariant behind "main is the released version,
not the newest work": every commit on main is a tagged release, so an
untagged main head is itself the alarm. Callers pin it by SHA and run it
on a schedule plus push to main.

It separates three states that all look like "not tagged" from the
outside. A repository with zero tags cannot be evaluated at all and says
so rather than reporting drift. A drifted main reports the newest
reachable tag and how many commits it is behind. A prerelease on main is
its own failure by default, since a release candidate on the default
branch is the exact drift this exists to catch.

Read-only: contents: read, egress blocked to github.com, and no
credentials persisted through checkout. fetch-depth: 0 because tags only
travel with full history and a shallow clone would fail for the wrong
reason and read as real drift.

* ci(starchart): render the codified chart shape in both themes

Scott drew the target and it is now the renderer. The chart reads as
native GitHub UI rather than as a third-party embed: a 900x460 card on
GitHub's own border colour, sans for the words and mono for every
number, a 2px accent line over a faint gradient, interior gridlines and
a solid baseline. The accent is the repository's logo colour, passed as
a new required input, and an accent that is not a colour now fails
instead of drawing a chart with no line.

Three behaviours the renderer decides rather than hard-codes, each
because the naive version produced something wrong on a real repository.
The y-axis searches step-and-tick-count pairs, since rounding the step
alone put drydock's 239 stars on a 0-400 axis with the curve in the
bottom 60% of the plot. The curve is a monotone cubic, since a cardinal
spline overshoots on a curve this flat and an overshoot on a cumulative
count draws a dip that never happened. X labels drop to day precision
when month names collide, which is the actual condition rather than a
guessed span threshold.

Two files ship now, not one. GitHub's theme toggle does not reach a
media query inside an <img>-embedded SVG, so a self-theming file shows a
white card to anyone reading GitHub dark with a light OS. It does drive
a <picture> element in the README, so the pair is generated from one
fetch and the markup chooses. They commit together or not at all: a
<picture> with a fresh light chart and a stale dark one shows two
different histories depending on who is looking, and nothing reports it.

The documented trigger moves from a cron to the release cut. A committed
artifact refreshed on a schedule mutates underneath a tag, which is what
the main-is-released rule forbids.

The renderer block is generated from ops render-chart.mjs by
splice-into-workflow.mjs rather than hand-copied, and byte parity with
that module was verified against live drydock data before this landed.
Also fixes an assertion in the main-is-released test that sliced the
whole if-block as the decisive expression and so could never pass.

* docs(onboarding): add the main-is-released caller to the section 4 checklist

* fix(workflows): close three shared-workflow defects (#36)

* fix(workflows): close three shared-workflow defects

starchart-refresh: the documented `release: [published]` trigger never
fires. GitHub suppresses workflow runs for events caused by GITHUB_TOKEN,
and every consuming repo publishes its release with exactly that — portwing
via GoReleaser, drydock via `gh release create`. A caller wired from this
file's own example lints clean, reads as correctly configured, and refreshes
nothing forever. That's the silent-success shape the committed-SVG rework
existed to remove, reintroduced by the instructions for it. Example is now a
workflow_dispatch the release cut fires, with the suppression and its two
documented exceptions written down so the next person doesn't rederive the
broken version. Found by the sockguard lane after three repos had been told
to adopt it.

main-is-released: an exact tag match alone was never the invariant. Any tag
satisfied it, so one named `snapshot` or `latest` parked on a drifted main
read as a pass. Now requires a release-shaped version. Prerelease detection
moved off `case *-*`, which called `my-tag` a prerelease and would have
accepted it under allow-prerelease.

main-is-released: a promotion merges before its tag is pushed, so a run in
that window reported drift that resolved itself seconds later. Three
attempts with a tag refetch between them. It can't mask real drift — an
untagged main is still untagged on the last attempt — and a failed refetch
warns rather than passing.

Verified by extracting the decision block and running it against real
repositories: v1.7.4 and 1.7.4 pass, snapshot/latest/my-tag fail as
malformed, v1.7.0-rc.2 fails as prerelease and passes under
allow-prerelease, and allow-prerelease does not reopen the any-tag hole.
87 contract tests green.

* fix(workflows): correct two overstated claims CodeRabbit caught

The refetch warning said the verdict uses the refs from checkout. It might
not: attempt 1 can succeed and attempt 2 fail, and a failed fetch can leave
some refs updated. Now says the refs currently available on the runner,
which is what's actually true.

'The two documented exceptions to the suppression' was an overclaim.
pull_request with opened/synchronize/reopened is a third — it creates a run
in an approval-required state rather than being suppressed. workflow_dispatch
and repository_dispatch are the two that fire UNATTENDED, which is the
property a release cut actually needs, so the comment now says that instead.

* chore: gitignore .claude/ so a nested worktree can't be staged as a gitlink (#38)

* fix(starchart): the documented dispatch step needs actions:write (#39)

* fix(starchart): the documented dispatch step needs actions:write

portwing v0.9.7 shipped this snippet as written and the first real cut died
on HTTP 403: creating a workflow dispatch is an Actions API write, and
contents:write does not imply it. A PAT needs the scope too.

Records the tag-push trigger as the other working option, and the evidence
that a GITHUB_TOKEN dispatch does create a run, since that was reported as
false and it's load-bearing for every cut-dispatched caller in the org.

* docs(starchart): cite GitHub's own wording on the dispatch exception

* test(starchart): assert the refuted-claim verdict, not just its evidence

The contract test named portkey-admin-mcp and github-actions[bot] and stopped
there, so a rewrite that kept both source names and reversed the conclusion
passed. Verified by mutation: flipping "That does not hold:" to "That is
confirmed:" left the old assertions green and now fails.

Asserts against the flattened comment prose for the same reason the tag-trigger
test does, so the assertions pin the claim rather than the line width.

* chore(renovate): tidy go.sum after a gomod update (#40)

Renovate writes the new go.sum hashes and leaves the superseded ones behind.
`go build` passes because go.sum only has to be sufficient, so the failure
surfaces later in the GoReleaser gate, whose `go mod tidy` before-hook removes
the stale lines and dirties the tree against a clean-tree assertion. Diagnosed
on sockguard #343 by that lane: a go-containerregistry 0.21.8 -> 0.21.9 bump
pulled a transitive golang.org/x/net 0.57 -> 0.58 and go.sum ended up carrying
all four versions.

Fixed in the shared preset rather than per-repo. sockguard and portwing are the
two Go consumers, both extend this file with no local postUpdateOptions, so
portwing would hit the identical failure on its next transitive bump.

Only gomodTidy. gomodUpdateImportPaths was suggested alongside it but addresses
major-version module path rewrites, which is a different problem with no
observed failure here, and it changes behaviour on every major bump across both
repos.

* chore(renovate): move the vite ecosystem as one group (#42)

The preset groups `minor` and `patch` per manager and leaves majors to split
into one PR each. That works everywhere except a peer-locked set, where a
major arriving alone has no resolvable outcome at all.

careerrat #208 is the worked example: `@vitejs/plugin-react` 6.1.0 peer-requires
`vite ^8.0.0`, `vite` is pinned at 6.4.3, and no vite major PR exists for it to
land against. The branch is deadlocked no matter how many times it rebases, and
`renovate/artifacts`, `tests`, `web-build`, `website-build` and
`windows-package-smoke` all fail on it every run.

Grouping every update type, not just non-major, is the point: the majors are
exactly the ones that have to travel together. The rule sits last so it wins
over the non-major group for the packages it names.

Affects the three repos that declare any of these, checked against every
tracked package.json: careerrat (vite 6.4.3, @vitejs/plugin-react 4.7.0,
vitest 3.2.7), drydock (vite 7.3.6/8.2.1/8.2.2, @vitejs/plugin-vue 6.0.8,
vitest 4.1.10/4.1.11), mailbox0 (vite ^6.3.5, @vitejs/plugin-react ^4.7.0,
vitest ^1.0.4 and 3.2.4, @vitest/ui ^1.0.4). Presets resolve from this repo's
default branch, so it takes effect on all three the moment it reaches main.

* chore(renovate): scope Portwing lock maintenance exception (#44)

* chore(renovate): scope Portwing lock maintenance exception

* fix(renovate): use exact Portwing repository match

* test(renovate): run config contract in validation

* fix(renovate): scope lock maintenance to npm

* docs(onboarding): add the .planning/ gitignore checkbox (#46)

* fix(quality): isolate validation and pace hosted work (#48)

Batch items:

- docs(quality): use routine CI checks and monthly cloud reporting
- docs(workflow): pace reviews and deployments through admission
- ci(quality): require review admission and pace dependency arrivals
- fix(validation): restrict source checks to tracked files
- refactor(profile): remove unused import and clarify line names

Validation: all 100 tests and the full local validator pass. Standards Validation, CodeQL and Profile Assets passed on the reviewed head. CodeRabbit withdrew the only finding after reproduction; Greptile found no actionable defects. Hosted provider behavior remains pilot follow-through after landing.

* chore(renovate): target dev/repository-standards (#50)

Without a base branch pattern Renovate opens PRs against main, which in
this repo only moves through promotion PRs. Point it at the integration
branch, the same way the onboarding checklist tells other repos to.

* docs(onboarding): align checklist with contextual guidance (#51)

* docs(onboarding): align checklist with contextual guidance

- docs(onboarding): present the integration branch, Renovate, Lefthook and
  Qlty as recommended recipes and accept effective existing alternatives
- docs(onboarding): replace the retired queue section with pacing guidance
- docs(onboarding): drop the reset-main migration option; published history
  is preserved
- docs(onboarding): grant contents: read on the main-is-released calling job,
  since a reusable workflow cannot raise its caller's permissions
- docs(onboarding): make Star History the chart choice and keep
  starchart-refresh for existing pins until they migrate
- docs(agents): account for content landed on main before the ours reconcile
- docs(workflows): show the job-level grant in the main-is-released caller
  comment (comment only, interface unchanged)

* fix(validation): ignore repo-local git env and lock suite parity

- fix(validation): strip git's repo-local variables from the validator's git
  calls so an inherited GIT_INDEX_FILE or GIT_DIR cannot redirect them
- test(validation): cover a bogus GIT_INDEX_FILE against a temp repo
- test(contracts): assert validate.sh and Standards Validation run the same
  contract suites as the files in .github/tests

* docs(onboarding): wrap long lines

* test(contracts): match only executable suite commands
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* docs(standards): add organization health defaults

Adds organization-wide community health defaults, validation, ownership, contribution guidance, security policy, and hardened workflow checks.

* ci(greptile): require manual review requests (#11)

* ci(workflows): add reusable CI foundation (#13)

* ci(workflows): add reusable CI foundation

* fix(workflows): harden reusable release contracts

* feat(quality): standardize long-run reporting (#15)

* feat(quality): add normalized reporting foundation

* test(quality): run reporting contracts in standards validation

* fix(quality): align report validator with schema

* test(quality): verify GitHub integration outputs

* fix(quality): enforce report contract boundaries

* fix(quality): decode reports as utf-8

* test(quality): pin fixture encoding

* ci(profile): make asset generation read-only (#10)

* ci(profile): make asset generation read-only

* fix(profile): restrict asset validation egress

* ci(review): add deduplicated Greptile summon (#9)

* ci(review): add deduplicated Greptile summon

* fix(review): serialize exact-head Greptile summons

* test(review): lock Greptile security controls

* ci(workflows): add run-test and run-lint toggles to go-ci (#19)

go-ci.yml's test and lint jobs ran unconditionally, so a Go-less repo
that only wants the language-agnostic workflow-security (zizmor) job
couldn't call it. Add run-test/run-lint boolean inputs, mirroring the
existing run-govulncheck/run-workflow-security/etc. toggle pattern,
defaulting to true so existing callers see no behavior change.

Fixes: #18

* ci(workflows): add module-directory input to node-ci (#22)

* ci(workflows): add module-directory input to node-ci

Mirrors go-ci's module-directory idiom: a string input defaulting to
"." threaded into each fixed script's env as MODULE_DIRECTORY, so a
repo with several independently-gated Node projects can call node-ci
once per project. The default preserves current behavior for existing
callers.

Extends the reusable CI contract test to assert the new input and its
threading, matching how run-test/run-lint were added for go-ci in #19.

* test(workflows): assert module-directory threads into all three node jobs

* docs(onboarding): record the qlty alignment baseline (#24)

* docs(onboarding): align with the codified standards registry (#26)

* docs(onboarding): align with the codified standards registry

- docs(onboarding): name Codecov as the coverage cloud; Qlty Cloud App and
  maintainability badge stay, checks stay non-required
- docs(onboarding): trivy deprecated in favor of Grype, including the qlty
  plugin blocks in the two reference configs (drydock#753, portwing#135)
- docs(onboarding): CodeRabbit free Pro is public-only; private repos use
  cross-account human review
- docs(onboarding): add the greptile.json contract and the label-gated
  second-opinion caller

* docs(onboarding): reword the CodeRabbit private-repo claim as org policy

- docs(onboarding): free-plan private-repo reviews exist but are
  rate-limited and never fired here; the skip is policy, not a plan fact
- docs(onboarding): pair the Greptile caller with auto-applied CodeRabbit
  labeling so the second-opinion label is criteria-driven

* chore(repo): meet our own onboarding checklist (#28)

* chore(repo): meet our own onboarding checklist

- chore(repo): MIT LICENSE (infrastructure repos are MIT; products AGPL)
- docs(repo): root AGENTS.md with repo-specific rules and validation
- build(hooks): lefthook with commit-msg + pre-push mirroring CI via
  scripts/validate.sh

* fix(hooks): tighten the commit-msg exemptions and mirror zizmor's CI flags

- fix(hooks): merge/revert exemptions match git's generated subjects only,
  so a hand-typed 'Merge ...' subject no longer bypasses the check
- fix(hooks): require a non-whitespace character after the colon
- fix(hooks): zizmor runs --no-online-audits locally, matching CI's
  online-audits: false for local/CI parity

* fix(hooks): exempt only git-generated merge and revert subjects

* docs(community): org-default code of conduct + community checklist (#30)

* docs(community): add org-default code of conduct and community checklist items

CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md is Contributor Covenant 2.0 (drydock's tuned copy) with
the org contact security@codeswhat.com, cascading to every repo without a
local one. Onboarding checklist gains the cascade-first rule and the
Discussions on/off split for product vs meta repos.

* test(community): assert the code of conduct in the community-health contract

* feat(workflows): add the shared star-chart refresh reusable workflow (#32)

* feat(workflows): add the shared star-chart refresh reusable workflow

Replaces both retired star-chart engines org-wide. The chart becomes a
first-party SVG generated from GitHub's own stargazer timestamps and
committed into the consuming repository, so it needs no secret and makes
no request at render time.

That property is the point. A live route that loses its credential serves
a plausible placeholder at HTTP 200 forever with nothing reporting red,
which is exactly how drydock's chart sat broken. A committed artifact
fails visibly or not at all.

The generator is embedded in the workflow rather than checked out from a
second repository, so a caller's SHA pin covers every line of behaviour
with nothing resolved at run time. Verified against live data before
committing: byte-identical output to the reference implementation for
drydock at 238 stars and 3 API calls, and a clean no-op exit on a repo
with a single star.

- feat(workflows): starchart-refresh.yml, egress-blocked to api.github.com
  and github.com, contents: write as its only elevated scope
- test(workflows): contract test covering the embedded generator, env-var
  input handling, the self-contained SVG, and the conditional commit-back
- ci(validation): run the new contract test in standards validation
- docs(onboarding): document the caller shape and why the artifact is
  committed rather than served

* test(workflows): syntax-check the embedded star-chart generator

This workflow never runs in this repository, so a syntax error inside the
heredoc would first surface in a consumer's scheduled job, days later and
in someone else's lane.

The test recovers the generator the way the shell will actually see it,
stripping the run block's base indentation rather than reading the file
as written, since a heredoc body that looks correct in YAML can still
reach node malformed. Then node --check parses it.

Verified with a negative control rather than assumed: injecting a syntax
error into the generator fails the test, and reverting passes it.

* fix(workflows): reject the inputs that would publish a wrong star chart

All three from CodeRabbit on #32, and the max-pages one was a real bug of
exactly the kind this workflow exists to prevent.

max-pages: 0 made pages 0, which fetched nothing, which hit the "too few
stars" clean exit. A repository with 238 stars would have reported a
green no-op. A cap below the needed page count was worse than that: it
drew a chart from the first N pages and published a partial history as a
whole one behind a ::warning:: nobody reads. Both now fail loudly, and
the cap must be a positive integer.

branch had no runtime guard. Omitting a default only prevents omission,
so a caller could still pass main and, on a repository whose ruleset let
the push through, commit straight to the default branch. Rejected before
checkout rather than at the push, where the error would be confusing.

output-path was read through the environment, which stops script
injection but not traversal. An absolute or ../ path reached writeFileSync
outside the checkout, and the commit step then found nothing staged and
reported success. Writes now use the resolved and validated path rather
than the raw input, since a check that doesn't govern the write is
decoration.

Verified behaviourally, not by reading: each rejected input throws, the
one-star exit still no-ops, nothing lands outside the workspace, and the
happy path is still byte-identical to the reference output for drydock.

* Main-is-released check, and the codified star-chart shape (#34)

* ci(standards): assert main points at a release tag

Reusable workflow for the invariant behind "main is the released version,
not the newest work": every commit on main is a tagged release, so an
untagged main head is itself the alarm. Callers pin it by SHA and run it
on a schedule plus push to main.

It separates three states that all look like "not tagged" from the
outside. A repository with zero tags cannot be evaluated at all and says
so rather than reporting drift. A drifted main reports the newest
reachable tag and how many commits it is behind. A prerelease on main is
its own failure by default, since a release candidate on the default
branch is the exact drift this exists to catch.

Read-only: contents: read, egress blocked to github.com, and no
credentials persisted through checkout. fetch-depth: 0 because tags only
travel with full history and a shallow clone would fail for the wrong
reason and read as real drift.

* ci(starchart): render the codified chart shape in both themes

Scott drew the target and it is now the renderer. The chart reads as
native GitHub UI rather than as a third-party embed: a 900x460 card on
GitHub's own border colour, sans for the words and mono for every
number, a 2px accent line over a faint gradient, interior gridlines and
a solid baseline. The accent is the repository's logo colour, passed as
a new required input, and an accent that is not a colour now fails
instead of drawing a chart with no line.

Three behaviours the renderer decides rather than hard-codes, each
because the naive version produced something wrong on a real repository.
The y-axis searches step-and-tick-count pairs, since rounding the step
alone put drydock's 239 stars on a 0-400 axis with the curve in the
bottom 60% of the plot. The curve is a monotone cubic, since a cardinal
spline overshoots on a curve this flat and an overshoot on a cumulative
count draws a dip that never happened. X labels drop to day precision
when month names collide, which is the actual condition rather than a
guessed span threshold.

Two files ship now, not one. GitHub's theme toggle does not reach a
media query inside an <img>-embedded SVG, so a self-theming file shows a
white card to anyone reading GitHub dark with a light OS. It does drive
a <picture> element in the README, so the pair is generated from one
fetch and the markup chooses. They commit together or not at all: a
<picture> with a fresh light chart and a stale dark one shows two
different histories depending on who is looking, and nothing reports it.

The documented trigger moves from a cron to the release cut. A committed
artifact refreshed on a schedule mutates underneath a tag, which is what
the main-is-released rule forbids.

The renderer block is generated from ops render-chart.mjs by
splice-into-workflow.mjs rather than hand-copied, and byte parity with
that module was verified against live drydock data before this landed.
Also fixes an assertion in the main-is-released test that sliced the
whole if-block as the decisive expression and so could never pass.

* docs(onboarding): add the main-is-released caller to the section 4 checklist

* fix(workflows): close three shared-workflow defects (#36)

* fix(workflows): close three shared-workflow defects

starchart-refresh: the documented `release: [published]` trigger never
fires. GitHub suppresses workflow runs for events caused by GITHUB_TOKEN,
and every consuming repo publishes its release with exactly that — portwing
via GoReleaser, drydock via `gh release create`. A caller wired from this
file's own example lints clean, reads as correctly configured, and refreshes
nothing forever. That's the silent-success shape the committed-SVG rework
existed to remove, reintroduced by the instructions for it. Example is now a
workflow_dispatch the release cut fires, with the suppression and its two
documented exceptions written down so the next person doesn't rederive the
broken version. Found by the sockguard lane after three repos had been told
to adopt it.

main-is-released: an exact tag match alone was never the invariant. Any tag
satisfied it, so one named `snapshot` or `latest` parked on a drifted main
read as a pass. Now requires a release-shaped version. Prerelease detection
moved off `case *-*`, which called `my-tag` a prerelease and would have
accepted it under allow-prerelease.

main-is-released: a promotion merges before its tag is pushed, so a run in
that window reported drift that resolved itself seconds later. Three
attempts with a tag refetch between them. It can't mask real drift — an
untagged main is still untagged on the last attempt — and a failed refetch
warns rather than passing.

Verified by extracting the decision block and running it against real
repositories: v1.7.4 and 1.7.4 pass, snapshot/latest/my-tag fail as
malformed, v1.7.0-rc.2 fails as prerelease and passes under
allow-prerelease, and allow-prerelease does not reopen the any-tag hole.
87 contract tests green.

* fix(workflows): correct two overstated claims CodeRabbit caught

The refetch warning said the verdict uses the refs from checkout. It might
not: attempt 1 can succeed and attempt 2 fail, and a failed fetch can leave
some refs updated. Now says the refs currently available on the runner,
which is what's actually true.

'The two documented exceptions to the suppression' was an overclaim.
pull_request with opened/synchronize/reopened is a third — it creates a run
in an approval-required state rather than being suppressed. workflow_dispatch
and repository_dispatch are the two that fire UNATTENDED, which is the
property a release cut actually needs, so the comment now says that instead.

* chore: gitignore .claude/ so a nested worktree can't be staged as a gitlink (#38)

* fix(starchart): the documented dispatch step needs actions:write (#39)

* fix(starchart): the documented dispatch step needs actions:write

portwing v0.9.7 shipped this snippet as written and the first real cut died
on HTTP 403: creating a workflow dispatch is an Actions API write, and
contents:write does not imply it. A PAT needs the scope too.

Records the tag-push trigger as the other working option, and the evidence
that a GITHUB_TOKEN dispatch does create a run, since that was reported as
false and it's load-bearing for every cut-dispatched caller in the org.

* docs(starchart): cite GitHub's own wording on the dispatch exception

* test(starchart): assert the refuted-claim verdict, not just its evidence

The contract test named portkey-admin-mcp and github-actions[bot] and stopped
there, so a rewrite that kept both source names and reversed the conclusion
passed. Verified by mutation: flipping "That does not hold:" to "That is
confirmed:" left the old assertions green and now fails.

Asserts against the flattened comment prose for the same reason the tag-trigger
test does, so the assertions pin the claim rather than the line width.

* chore(renovate): tidy go.sum after a gomod update (#40)

Renovate writes the new go.sum hashes and leaves the superseded ones behind.
`go build` passes because go.sum only has to be sufficient, so the failure
surfaces later in the GoReleaser gate, whose `go mod tidy` before-hook removes
the stale lines and dirties the tree against a clean-tree assertion. Diagnosed
on sockguard #343 by that lane: a go-containerregistry 0.21.8 -> 0.21.9 bump
pulled a transitive golang.org/x/net 0.57 -> 0.58 and go.sum ended up carrying
all four versions.

Fixed in the shared preset rather than per-repo. sockguard and portwing are the
two Go consumers, both extend this file with no local postUpdateOptions, so
portwing would hit the identical failure on its next transitive bump.

Only gomodTidy. gomodUpdateImportPaths was suggested alongside it but addresses
major-version module path rewrites, which is a different problem with no
observed failure here, and it changes behaviour on every major bump across both
repos.

* chore(renovate): move the vite ecosystem as one group (#42)

The preset groups `minor` and `patch` per manager and leaves majors to split
into one PR each. That works everywhere except a peer-locked set, where a
major arriving alone has no resolvable outcome at all.

careerrat #208 is the worked example: `@vitejs/plugin-react` 6.1.0 peer-requires
`vite ^8.0.0`, `vite` is pinned at 6.4.3, and no vite major PR exists for it to
land against. The branch is deadlocked no matter how many times it rebases, and
`renovate/artifacts`, `tests`, `web-build`, `website-build` and
`windows-package-smoke` all fail on it every run.

Grouping every update type, not just non-major, is the point: the majors are
exactly the ones that have to travel together. The rule sits last so it wins
over the non-major group for the packages it names.

Affects the three repos that declare any of these, checked against every
tracked package.json: careerrat (vite 6.4.3, @vitejs/plugin-react 4.7.0,
vitest 3.2.7), drydock (vite 7.3.6/8.2.1/8.2.2, @vitejs/plugin-vue 6.0.8,
vitest 4.1.10/4.1.11), mailbox0 (vite ^6.3.5, @vitejs/plugin-react ^4.7.0,
vitest ^1.0.4 and 3.2.4, @vitest/ui ^1.0.4). Presets resolve from this repo's
default branch, so it takes effect on all three the moment it reaches main.

* chore(renovate): scope Portwing lock maintenance exception (#44)

* chore(renovate): scope Portwing lock maintenance exception

* fix(renovate): use exact Portwing repository match

* test(renovate): run config contract in validation

* fix(renovate): scope lock maintenance to npm

* docs(onboarding): add the .planning/ gitignore checkbox (#46)

* fix(quality): isolate validation and pace hosted work (#48)

Batch items:

- docs(quality): use routine CI checks and monthly cloud reporting
- docs(workflow): pace reviews and deployments through admission
- ci(quality): require review admission and pace dependency arrivals
- fix(validation): restrict source checks to tracked files
- refactor(profile): remove unused import and clarify line names

Validation: all 100 tests and the full local validator pass. Standards Validation, CodeQL and Profile Assets passed on the reviewed head. CodeRabbit withdrew the only finding after reproduction; Greptile found no actionable defects. Hosted provider behavior remains pilot follow-through after landing.

* chore(renovate): target dev/repository-standards (#50)

Without a base branch pattern Renovate opens PRs against main, which in
this repo only moves through promotion PRs. Point it at the integration
branch, the same way the onboarding checklist tells other repos to.

* docs(onboarding): align checklist with contextual guidance (#51)

* docs(onboarding): align checklist with contextual guidance

- docs(onboarding): present the integration branch, Renovate, Lefthook and
  Qlty as recommended recipes and accept effective existing alternatives
- docs(onboarding): replace the retired queue section with pacing guidance
- docs(onboarding): drop the reset-main migration option; published history
  is preserved
- docs(onboarding): grant contents: read on the main-is-released calling job,
  since a reusable workflow cannot raise its caller's permissions
- docs(onboarding): make Star History the chart choice and keep
  starchart-refresh for existing pins until they migrate
- docs(agents): account for content landed on main before the ours reconcile
- docs(workflows): show the job-level grant in the main-is-released caller
  comment (comment only, interface unchanged)

* fix(validation): ignore repo-local git env and lock suite parity

- fix(validation): strip git's repo-local variables from the validator's git
  calls so an inherited GIT_INDEX_FILE or GIT_DIR cannot redirect them
- test(validation): cover a bogus GIT_INDEX_FILE against a temp repo
- test(contracts): assert validate.sh and Standards Validation run the same
  contract suites as the files in .github/tests

* docs(onboarding): wrap long lines

* test(contracts): match only executable suite commands

* chore(deps): update non-major (github-actions) (#53)

Co-authored-by: renovate[bot] <29139614+renovate[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>

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Co-authored-by: renovate[bot] <29139614+renovate[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
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* docs(standards): add organization health defaults

Adds organization-wide community health defaults, validation, ownership, contribution guidance, security policy, and hardened workflow checks.

* ci(greptile): require manual review requests (#11)

* ci(workflows): add reusable CI foundation (#13)

* ci(workflows): add reusable CI foundation

* fix(workflows): harden reusable release contracts

* feat(quality): standardize long-run reporting (#15)

* feat(quality): add normalized reporting foundation

* test(quality): run reporting contracts in standards validation

* fix(quality): align report validator with schema

* test(quality): verify GitHub integration outputs

* fix(quality): enforce report contract boundaries

* fix(quality): decode reports as utf-8

* test(quality): pin fixture encoding

* ci(profile): make asset generation read-only (#10)

* ci(profile): make asset generation read-only

* fix(profile): restrict asset validation egress

* ci(review): add deduplicated Greptile summon (#9)

* ci(review): add deduplicated Greptile summon

* fix(review): serialize exact-head Greptile summons

* test(review): lock Greptile security controls

* ci(workflows): add run-test and run-lint toggles to go-ci (#19)

go-ci.yml's test and lint jobs ran unconditionally, so a Go-less repo
that only wants the language-agnostic workflow-security (zizmor) job
couldn't call it. Add run-test/run-lint boolean inputs, mirroring the
existing run-govulncheck/run-workflow-security/etc. toggle pattern,
defaulting to true so existing callers see no behavior change.

Fixes: #18

* ci(workflows): add module-directory input to node-ci (#22)

* ci(workflows): add module-directory input to node-ci

Mirrors go-ci's module-directory idiom: a string input defaulting to
"." threaded into each fixed script's env as MODULE_DIRECTORY, so a
repo with several independently-gated Node projects can call node-ci
once per project. The default preserves current behavior for existing
callers.

Extends the reusable CI contract test to assert the new input and its
threading, matching how run-test/run-lint were added for go-ci in #19.

* test(workflows): assert module-directory threads into all three node jobs

* docs(onboarding): record the qlty alignment baseline (#24)

* docs(onboarding): align with the codified standards registry (#26)

* docs(onboarding): align with the codified standards registry

- docs(onboarding): name Codecov as the coverage cloud; Qlty Cloud App and
  maintainability badge stay, checks stay non-required
- docs(onboarding): trivy deprecated in favor of Grype, including the qlty
  plugin blocks in the two reference configs (drydock#753, portwing#135)
- docs(onboarding): CodeRabbit free Pro is public-only; private repos use
  cross-account human review
- docs(onboarding): add the greptile.json contract and the label-gated
  second-opinion caller

* docs(onboarding): reword the CodeRabbit private-repo claim as org policy

- docs(onboarding): free-plan private-repo reviews exist but are
  rate-limited and never fired here; the skip is policy, not a plan fact
- docs(onboarding): pair the Greptile caller with auto-applied CodeRabbit
  labeling so the second-opinion label is criteria-driven

* chore(repo): meet our own onboarding checklist (#28)

* chore(repo): meet our own onboarding checklist

- chore(repo): MIT LICENSE (infrastructure repos are MIT; products AGPL)
- docs(repo): root AGENTS.md with repo-specific rules and validation
- build(hooks): lefthook with commit-msg + pre-push mirroring CI via
  scripts/validate.sh

* fix(hooks): tighten the commit-msg exemptions and mirror zizmor's CI flags

- fix(hooks): merge/revert exemptions match git's generated subjects only,
  so a hand-typed 'Merge ...' subject no longer bypasses the check
- fix(hooks): require a non-whitespace character after the colon
- fix(hooks): zizmor runs --no-online-audits locally, matching CI's
  online-audits: false for local/CI parity

* fix(hooks): exempt only git-generated merge and revert subjects

* docs(community): org-default code of conduct + community checklist (#30)

* docs(community): add org-default code of conduct and community checklist items

CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md is Contributor Covenant 2.0 (drydock's tuned copy) with
the org contact security@codeswhat.com, cascading to every repo without a
local one. Onboarding checklist gains the cascade-first rule and the
Discussions on/off split for product vs meta repos.

* test(community): assert the code of conduct in the community-health contract

* feat(workflows): add the shared star-chart refresh reusable workflow (#32)

* feat(workflows): add the shared star-chart refresh reusable workflow

Replaces both retired star-chart engines org-wide. The chart becomes a
first-party SVG generated from GitHub's own stargazer timestamps and
committed into the consuming repository, so it needs no secret and makes
no request at render time.

That property is the point. A live route that loses its credential serves
a plausible placeholder at HTTP 200 forever with nothing reporting red,
which is exactly how drydock's chart sat broken. A committed artifact
fails visibly or not at all.

The generator is embedded in the workflow rather than checked out from a
second repository, so a caller's SHA pin covers every line of behaviour
with nothing resolved at run time. Verified against live data before
committing: byte-identical output to the reference implementation for
drydock at 238 stars and 3 API calls, and a clean no-op exit on a repo
with a single star.

- feat(workflows): starchart-refresh.yml, egress-blocked to api.github.com
  and github.com, contents: write as its only elevated scope
- test(workflows): contract test covering the embedded generator, env-var
  input handling, the self-contained SVG, and the conditional commit-back
- ci(validation): run the new contract test in standards validation
- docs(onboarding): document the caller shape and why the artifact is
  committed rather than served

* test(workflows): syntax-check the embedded star-chart generator

This workflow never runs in this repository, so a syntax error inside the
heredoc would first surface in a consumer's scheduled job, days later and
in someone else's lane.

The test recovers the generator the way the shell will actually see it,
stripping the run block's base indentation rather than reading the file
as written, since a heredoc body that looks correct in YAML can still
reach node malformed. Then node --check parses it.

Verified with a negative control rather than assumed: injecting a syntax
error into the generator fails the test, and reverting passes it.

* fix(workflows): reject the inputs that would publish a wrong star chart

All three from CodeRabbit on #32, and the max-pages one was a real bug of
exactly the kind this workflow exists to prevent.

max-pages: 0 made pages 0, which fetched nothing, which hit the "too few
stars" clean exit. A repository with 238 stars would have reported a
green no-op. A cap below the needed page count was worse than that: it
drew a chart from the first N pages and published a partial history as a
whole one behind a ::warning:: nobody reads. Both now fail loudly, and
the cap must be a positive integer.

branch had no runtime guard. Omitting a default only prevents omission,
so a caller could still pass main and, on a repository whose ruleset let
the push through, commit straight to the default branch. Rejected before
checkout rather than at the push, where the error would be confusing.

output-path was read through the environment, which stops script
injection but not traversal. An absolute or ../ path reached writeFileSync
outside the checkout, and the commit step then found nothing staged and
reported success. Writes now use the resolved and validated path rather
than the raw input, since a check that doesn't govern the write is
decoration.

Verified behaviourally, not by reading: each rejected input throws, the
one-star exit still no-ops, nothing lands outside the workspace, and the
happy path is still byte-identical to the reference output for drydock.

* Main-is-released check, and the codified star-chart shape (#34)

* ci(standards): assert main points at a release tag

Reusable workflow for the invariant behind "main is the released version,
not the newest work": every commit on main is a tagged release, so an
untagged main head is itself the alarm. Callers pin it by SHA and run it
on a schedule plus push to main.

It separates three states that all look like "not tagged" from the
outside. A repository with zero tags cannot be evaluated at all and says
so rather than reporting drift. A drifted main reports the newest
reachable tag and how many commits it is behind. A prerelease on main is
its own failure by default, since a release candidate on the default
branch is the exact drift this exists to catch.

Read-only: contents: read, egress blocked to github.com, and no
credentials persisted through checkout. fetch-depth: 0 because tags only
travel with full history and a shallow clone would fail for the wrong
reason and read as real drift.

* ci(starchart): render the codified chart shape in both themes

Scott drew the target and it is now the renderer. The chart reads as
native GitHub UI rather than as a third-party embed: a 900x460 card on
GitHub's own border colour, sans for the words and mono for every
number, a 2px accent line over a faint gradient, interior gridlines and
a solid baseline. The accent is the repository's logo colour, passed as
a new required input, and an accent that is not a colour now fails
instead of drawing a chart with no line.

Three behaviours the renderer decides rather than hard-codes, each
because the naive version produced something wrong on a real repository.
The y-axis searches step-and-tick-count pairs, since rounding the step
alone put drydock's 239 stars on a 0-400 axis with the curve in the
bottom 60% of the plot. The curve is a monotone cubic, since a cardinal
spline overshoots on a curve this flat and an overshoot on a cumulative
count draws a dip that never happened. X labels drop to day precision
when month names collide, which is the actual condition rather than a
guessed span threshold.

Two files ship now, not one. GitHub's theme toggle does not reach a
media query inside an <img>-embedded SVG, so a self-theming file shows a
white card to anyone reading GitHub dark with a light OS. It does drive
a <picture> element in the README, so the pair is generated from one
fetch and the markup chooses. They commit together or not at all: a
<picture> with a fresh light chart and a stale dark one shows two
different histories depending on who is looking, and nothing reports it.

The documented trigger moves from a cron to the release cut. A committed
artifact refreshed on a schedule mutates underneath a tag, which is what
the main-is-released rule forbids.

The renderer block is generated from ops render-chart.mjs by
splice-into-workflow.mjs rather than hand-copied, and byte parity with
that module was verified against live drydock data before this landed.
Also fixes an assertion in the main-is-released test that sliced the
whole if-block as the decisive expression and so could never pass.

* docs(onboarding): add the main-is-released caller to the section 4 checklist

* fix(workflows): close three shared-workflow defects (#36)

* fix(workflows): close three shared-workflow defects

starchart-refresh: the documented `release: [published]` trigger never
fires. GitHub suppresses workflow runs for events caused by GITHUB_TOKEN,
and every consuming repo publishes its release with exactly that — portwing
via GoReleaser, drydock via `gh release create`. A caller wired from this
file's own example lints clean, reads as correctly configured, and refreshes
nothing forever. That's the silent-success shape the committed-SVG rework
existed to remove, reintroduced by the instructions for it. Example is now a
workflow_dispatch the release cut fires, with the suppression and its two
documented exceptions written down so the next person doesn't rederive the
broken version. Found by the sockguard lane after three repos had been told
to adopt it.

main-is-released: an exact tag match alone was never the invariant. Any tag
satisfied it, so one named `snapshot` or `latest` parked on a drifted main
read as a pass. Now requires a release-shaped version. Prerelease detection
moved off `case *-*`, which called `my-tag` a prerelease and would have
accepted it under allow-prerelease.

main-is-released: a promotion merges before its tag is pushed, so a run in
that window reported drift that resolved itself seconds later. Three
attempts with a tag refetch between them. It can't mask real drift — an
untagged main is still untagged on the last attempt — and a failed refetch
warns rather than passing.

Verified by extracting the decision block and running it against real
repositories: v1.7.4 and 1.7.4 pass, snapshot/latest/my-tag fail as
malformed, v1.7.0-rc.2 fails as prerelease and passes under
allow-prerelease, and allow-prerelease does not reopen the any-tag hole.
87 contract tests green.

* fix(workflows): correct two overstated claims CodeRabbit caught

The refetch warning said the verdict uses the refs from checkout. It might
not: attempt 1 can succeed and attempt 2 fail, and a failed fetch can leave
some refs updated. Now says the refs currently available on the runner,
which is what's actually true.

'The two documented exceptions to the suppression' was an overclaim.
pull_request with opened/synchronize/reopened is a third — it creates a run
in an approval-required state rather than being suppressed. workflow_dispatch
and repository_dispatch are the two that fire UNATTENDED, which is the
property a release cut actually needs, so the comment now says that instead.

* chore: gitignore .claude/ so a nested worktree can't be staged as a gitlink (#38)

* fix(starchart): the documented dispatch step needs actions:write (#39)

* fix(starchart): the documented dispatch step needs actions:write

portwing v0.9.7 shipped this snippet as written and the first real cut died
on HTTP 403: creating a workflow dispatch is an Actions API write, and
contents:write does not imply it. A PAT needs the scope too.

Records the tag-push trigger as the other working option, and the evidence
that a GITHUB_TOKEN dispatch does create a run, since that was reported as
false and it's load-bearing for every cut-dispatched caller in the org.

* docs(starchart): cite GitHub's own wording on the dispatch exception

* test(starchart): assert the refuted-claim verdict, not just its evidence

The contract test named portkey-admin-mcp and github-actions[bot] and stopped
there, so a rewrite that kept both source names and reversed the conclusion
passed. Verified by mutation: flipping "That does not hold:" to "That is
confirmed:" left the old assertions green and now fails.

Asserts against the flattened comment prose for the same reason the tag-trigger
test does, so the assertions pin the claim rather than the line width.

* chore(renovate): tidy go.sum after a gomod update (#40)

Renovate writes the new go.sum hashes and leaves the superseded ones behind.
`go build` passes because go.sum only has to be sufficient, so the failure
surfaces later in the GoReleaser gate, whose `go mod tidy` before-hook removes
the stale lines and dirties the tree against a clean-tree assertion. Diagnosed
on sockguard #343 by that lane: a go-containerregistry 0.21.8 -> 0.21.9 bump
pulled a transitive golang.org/x/net 0.57 -> 0.58 and go.sum ended up carrying
all four versions.

Fixed in the shared preset rather than per-repo. sockguard and portwing are the
two Go consumers, both extend this file with no local postUpdateOptions, so
portwing would hit the identical failure on its next transitive bump.

Only gomodTidy. gomodUpdateImportPaths was suggested alongside it but addresses
major-version module path rewrites, which is a different problem with no
observed failure here, and it changes behaviour on every major bump across both
repos.

* chore(renovate): move the vite ecosystem as one group (#42)

The preset groups `minor` and `patch` per manager and leaves majors to split
into one PR each. That works everywhere except a peer-locked set, where a
major arriving alone has no resolvable outcome at all.

careerrat #208 is the worked example: `@vitejs/plugin-react` 6.1.0 peer-requires
`vite ^8.0.0`, `vite` is pinned at 6.4.3, and no vite major PR exists for it to
land against. The branch is deadlocked no matter how many times it rebases, and
`renovate/artifacts`, `tests`, `web-build`, `website-build` and
`windows-package-smoke` all fail on it every run.

Grouping every update type, not just non-major, is the point: the majors are
exactly the ones that have to travel together. The rule sits last so it wins
over the non-major group for the packages it names.

Affects the three repos that declare any of these, checked against every
tracked package.json: careerrat (vite 6.4.3, @vitejs/plugin-react 4.7.0,
vitest 3.2.7), drydock (vite 7.3.6/8.2.1/8.2.2, @vitejs/plugin-vue 6.0.8,
vitest 4.1.10/4.1.11), mailbox0 (vite ^6.3.5, @vitejs/plugin-react ^4.7.0,
vitest ^1.0.4 and 3.2.4, @vitest/ui ^1.0.4). Presets resolve from this repo's
default branch, so it takes effect on all three the moment it reaches main.

* chore(renovate): scope Portwing lock maintenance exception (#44)

* chore(renovate): scope Portwing lock maintenance exception

* fix(renovate): use exact Portwing repository match

* test(renovate): run config contract in validation

* fix(renovate): scope lock maintenance to npm

* docs(onboarding): add the .planning/ gitignore checkbox (#46)

* fix(quality): isolate validation and pace hosted work (#48)

Batch items:

- docs(quality): use routine CI checks and monthly cloud reporting
- docs(workflow): pace reviews and deployments through admission
- ci(quality): require review admission and pace dependency arrivals
- fix(validation): restrict source checks to tracked files
- refactor(profile): remove unused import and clarify line names

Validation: all 100 tests and the full local validator pass. Standards Validation, CodeQL and Profile Assets passed on the reviewed head. CodeRabbit withdrew the only finding after reproduction; Greptile found no actionable defects. Hosted provider behavior remains pilot follow-through after landing.

* chore(renovate): target dev/repository-standards (#50)

Without a base branch pattern Renovate opens PRs against main, which in
this repo only moves through promotion PRs. Point it at the integration
branch, the same way the onboarding checklist tells other repos to.

* docs(onboarding): align checklist with contextual guidance (#51)

* docs(onboarding): align checklist with contextual guidance

- docs(onboarding): present the integration branch, Renovate, Lefthook and
  Qlty as recommended recipes and accept effective existing alternatives
- docs(onboarding): replace the retired queue section with pacing guidance
- docs(onboarding): drop the reset-main migration option; published history
  is preserved
- docs(onboarding): grant contents: read on the main-is-released calling job,
  since a reusable workflow cannot raise its caller's permissions
- docs(onboarding): make Star History the chart choice and keep
  starchart-refresh for existing pins until they migrate
- docs(agents): account for content landed on main before the ours reconcile
- docs(workflows): show the job-level grant in the main-is-released caller
  comment (comment only, interface unchanged)

* fix(validation): ignore repo-local git env and lock suite parity

- fix(validation): strip git's repo-local variables from the validator's git
  calls so an inherited GIT_INDEX_FILE or GIT_DIR cannot redirect them
- test(validation): cover a bogus GIT_INDEX_FILE against a temp repo
- test(contracts): assert validate.sh and Standards Validation run the same
  contract suites as the files in .github/tests

* docs(onboarding): wrap long lines

* test(contracts): match only executable suite commands

* chore(deps): update non-major (github-actions) (#53)

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* chore(deps): update dependency ubuntu to v26 (#55)

* chore(deps): update dependency ubuntu to v26

* test(contracts): expect ubuntu-26.04 runners

The workflows move to the GA ubuntu-26.04 image in this PR, so the contract tests that pin the runner label move with them.

* ci(actionlint): declare the ubuntu-26.04 runner label

actionlint 1.7.12 predates the GA ubuntu-26.04 label and rejects it. Declare it in .github/actionlint.yaml until a release knows it, and test that the config never ignores findings.

* test(contracts): pin the actionlint config to the one label

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