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ROOT was `Path(__file__).resolve().parents[3]`, which is correct only while the script sits at its template home, docs/architecture/scripts/. TOOLS.md tells an adopting project to take scripts one at a time into its own scripts/, and from <project>/scripts/doc-triggers.py that expression resolves to the *parent of the project* -- outside the repository entirely. The failure is silent and reads as a pass. main() opens with a `not DOCS.is_dir()` guard that prints and returns 0, so an adopting project got exit 0 and one line naming a directory two levels above the code it was asked about. The check that enforces "update the triggered documents in the same commit as the code" had quietly stopped running, in exactly the projects that took the template's advice. That is the failure GUARDS.md opens with -- a guard that cannot fail is worse than no guard, because it is trusted -- landed on the tool that polices the documents. It could not be caught by running it here, because here parents[3] is right; it takes a copy at the documented location to see it. The root is now found rather than assumed: walk up from __file__ for a directory holding both docs/ and .git, then either alone, then `git rev-parse --show-toplevel`, then give up to the script's own parent. Both directories are required before docs/ alone so that a repository vendoring a docs/ in some subdirectory does not anchor on it. Reproduced in a scratch repository with the script at scripts/, a document governing src/**, and src/a.py staged: before, "no docs/ directory at <tmp>/docs"; after, the document and its trigger. The in-place layout is unchanged and still fires DOC_TRUST_MAP.md, TOOLS.md and architecture/README.md. Exit status is still always 0. This is a prompt, not a gate, so the fix belongs in root resolution and not in the exit code. closes #17 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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README.md
Architecture
Status: Current
Owner: <who maintains this>
Last reviewed: <YYYY-MM-DD>
Governs: docs/architecture/**
Review trigger: Any new module, any change to a module boundary or a data shape
What belongs here
How the thing is built, for somebody who has to change it:
- Module boundaries — what each part owns, and what it is not allowed to know about. The boundaries are the architecture; everything else is detail.
- Data shapes — the structures that outlive a single function, especially anything persisted or sent over a wire.
- Reference manuals — the long documents that answer "how does X work" without requiring a full read of X.
- Decisions with consequences — why this database, why this concurrency model, why this dependency. Include the option that was rejected and what it would have cost, because that is the part nobody can reconstruct later.
Documents here
GUARDS.md— how to write a check that actually checks. Read it before adding a structural test or a probe; every rule in it was learned from a guard that had been green over something broken.
What ships in this folder
Working code, not just prose. Copy what a project needs and delete the rest — these are a starting point with the arguments already made, not a framework.
This table is the one copy of that list. docs/TOOLS.md is the
signpost every project is expected to have — it points here rather than
repeating it, and answers the two questions this table does not: which scripts
can stop you, and where to start in a fresh clone.
| Path | What it is |
|---|---|
scripts/release.sh |
version bump, guards, build, verify, push, prune. Refuses to build on a half-run test suite or a malformed public origin. |
scripts/verify.sh |
the repo's own checks, in one command |
scripts/check-env.sh |
which variables are set, which are missing, before anything reads them |
scripts/migrate.sh |
apply and report migrations, including the ones that run outside a transaction |
scripts/backup.sh |
a dump that is verified before it is trusted |
scripts/restore-check.sh |
the other half of backup.sh: restores the newest dump into a scratch database it creates and drops, counts the tables, and times it — the number an incident actually needs. Never accepts a target, because naming one is the mistake --clean punishes. |
scripts/healthcheck.sh |
a liveness tick with the URL written down rather than re-derived each run |
scripts/preflight.sh |
the live-URL checks: headers, TLS, and (with --auth) login rate limiting and account enumeration. Refuses any host but its configured origin — two of its checks generate failed logins and look like an attack in somebody's log. |
scripts/status.sh |
what is deployed, and whether it matches this checkout |
scripts/controls.sh |
which operational controls this project actually has, each row saying how it is known: measured, declared, n/a, or unknown. An unknown is never rendered as absent — "I could not tell" and "it is not there" send people to different places. |
scripts/dev.sh |
bring the local stack up |
scripts/scaffold.sh |
lay out a new project in this shape |
scripts/doc-triggers.py |
which documents a pending change fires, read from their Governs: headers. The Review trigger on each document names the change that should send somebody back to it; this is the check that asks before the commit rather than after |
scripts/prove-guard.sh |
breaks the thing a guard protects, requires the guard to go red, restores the file from a trap. GUARDS.md §1 written out as a command, including the count — one failing test reported on six lines is not six failures |
scripts/commit-mine.sh |
commits only the paths you name, by pathspec, after the secret scan. For a tree something else is also writing: what anyone else has staged is reported and left exactly as it was |
scripts/doc-claims.sh |
every file a document names must exist, and (--covers) every file that exists is named — the second is the one that catches a list missing rows |
scripts/duplication.py |
code that exists twice, tuned so what it reports is worth reading |
scripts/dead-code.py |
exports nothing imports, and assets nothing renders |
scripts/secrets.sh |
credential shapes in a staged diff, using the project's own patterns where it has them |
scripts/audit-gate.mjs |
high/critical advisories in production dependencies, with the allowlist npm does not have. An entry must say why the advisory cannot reach this app, what would make it reachable, and what retires the entry — three fields, so a waiver stays falsifiable. Exits 2 when nothing was checked. |
scripts/forgejo-issue.py |
file and close issues in the tracker convention, with every rule of it as a check |
scripts/deploy.py |
update the running stack to a published image. Publishing and deploying are separate; this is the second one. The only copy — it existed twice and drifted (#209); the privacyllc-deploy skill's is now a symlink to this file. Identity-free by design: it reads DEPLOY_IMAGE, DEPLOY_STACK_ID, DEPLOY_CONTAINER and DEPLOY_SITE_URL from the environment and refuses to run without them, so each project supplies its own via a wrapper. Never hard-code one here — least of all the site URL, which is frozen into the image at build time. |
scripts/release-notes.mjs |
tags the release and writes its notes, grouped by the commit types the message hook already enforces. Runs after release.sh has published, so a failure here cannot cost an image. Scrubs credential shapes out of commit subjects first — the body goes to a public repository. |
githooks/ |
pre-commit, commit-msg, post-commit — see its README for the one install command |
Every script takes its configuration from the environment and hard-codes nothing
about any particular deployment. check-env.sh is the one to run first.
What does not belong here
- Product intent — that is
docs/planning/PROJECT_PLAN.md - What it should feel like — that is
docs/design/ - What happened while building it — that is a history log, not architecture
A note on drift
Architecture docs go stale faster than any other kind, because code changes under them silently. This is exactly what the Review trigger line is for: name the change that should send somebody back here, and a reader can tell whether the trigger has fired.