The exemption is Claude Code's permission list, not "settings files". khosra will
have its own configuration and none of it is exempt: the engine's settings live in
the site root and the engine validates them, while scripts/budgets.env and
everything else under scripts/ and .claude/ stays gated. Verified by touching
budgets.env and watching the coupling gate fail.
go get marks a module indirect until something imports it, and the allowlist
check only inspects direct requires — so an unapproved dependency could sit in
go.mod unnoticed. Demonstrated: adding github.com/google/uuid passed the
allowlist check and was caught only by this gate.
The coupling gate treated every path under .claude/ as mechanism, so editing the
pre-approved command list demanded an explanation of a machine that had not
changed. HARNESS.md already calls settings.json a convenience — if its schema
changed the harness would still work, you would just get more prompts — so the
gate now exempts that one file and nothing else.
Carries the settings.json edit that exposed it.
The queue is a working plan, not a record: git log already carries what landed on
each step, so committing the plan duplicates it and invites the two to disagree.
.scratch/ is gitignored and skipped by the gate the way ideas/ and reference/ are,
so exploratory files there need not compile.
state.md keeps a conditional pointer rather than a path it cannot promise: if the
scratch file is absent, the log is the plan.
The allowlist parser stripped only whole-line comments, so an entry carrying the
reason it exists — the format allowed-deps.txt documents — failed the gate and
would have blocked every dependency ever added.
The interface{}/any advisory printed a line number instead of a filename when
only one file matched, because grep -n omits the name for a single file, and it
matched the word "any" in prose comments.
"Nesting past 4" fired at four tabs, which a closure inside a function reaches
unaided.
Naming is free before a module is published, a URL is shared, or a binary is
deployed; every day it waits costs more. Swept every form: module path, binary,
cmd/ directory, KHOSRA_SITE, the feature-loop skill directory, and the prose in
earlier ADRs — which describe this project under its old name, not a different
project. Recorded as ADR-0030.
go mod init lands here rather than with the first feature because the module
path is what the rename is about. x/text and yaml.v3 are required but not yet
imported, so both are indirect and no direct dependency is claimed yet.
The test-coupling gate failed comment-only and gofmt-only .go diffs, which
ship no behaviour and owe no test. Bypassing it would have cost every gate at
once, so it now compares added and removed lines with comments, blanks and
whitespace runs stripped: equal sets mean nothing happened. A new .go file is
never exempt.
The exported-doc-comment check is now a warning. No gate can tell
"// Load loads." from a useful sentence, so as a hard failure its cheapest
satisfaction was exactly the noise conventions.md calls worse than nothing.
Package comments and ADR citations in code stay hard.
Also fills in state.md's verified-against line and drops a stray blank line
left in roadmap.md by an earlier gate test.
Twenty-seven ADRs existed before a line of Go. Five specified the shape of
unbuilt mechanisms — cache validity, declared types, the settings cascade,
taxonomies, extras — which breaks the rule against abstraction before a
second concrete use, in prose where the counters cannot see it. They move to
ideas/deferred-decisions.md as recorded intent and return shaped by whatever
implements them.
Citations retargeted throughout; where one was decoration the rule now stands
on its own reasoning. Type declarations and the cascade drop to [spec] with
the MVP behaviour stated instead, so the first prompts have less to build.
conventions.md names http.ServeMux as the router, closing a hole that invited
hand-rolling a path splitter. The ADR gate now checks a number is registered
in the log rather than headed by an entry, so withdrawals resolve and invented
numbers still fail. Two architecture invariants corrected: identity no longer
implies a required language suffix, and the duplicated permalink clause is gone.
bdeshi