vanguard
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Vanguard is a standalone TypeScript framework — an autonomous software factory. Strict TypeScript, ES modules with explicit .js import extensions, Node 24+. Tests are co-located as *.test.ts (Vitest). For the PR reviewer. The CI-config constraint above binds the autonomous run (implement, revise); humans change CI config through PRs, which are reviewed, not refused.
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Run pnpm typecheck and pnpm test before signalling completion.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 26,980 CLAUDE.md files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
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CLAUDE.md
Vanguard is a standalone TypeScript framework — an autonomous software factory. Strict TypeScript, ES modules with explicit .js import extensions, Node 24+. Tests are co-located as *.test.ts (Vitest).
Hard constraints
- Never modify CI config:
.github/workflows/,.github/actions/,.gitlab-ci.yml,.gitlab/**.yml(authoritative check:workflowPaths()insrc/core/vanguard.ts, which also covers.gitlab/**/*.yamlat any depth and files standing in for those directories). This is a security boundary: an agent that can commit CI config can run arbitrary code with the repo's secrets on the next event. It is also enforced mechanically — copy-back drops those paths, and the CIGITHUB_TOKENcannot push workflow changes, so such a push is rejected and the run's work is lost. If a task seems to need a CI-config change, make the code/doc change instead and describe the needed edit in the PR body for a human to apply by hand. - Run
pnpm typecheckandpnpm testbefore signalling completion.
Style
- Match the surrounding code: comment density, naming, idiom. Keep diffs minimal.
- Explicit return types; prefer
const; early returns; functional where it fits.
Review guidance
For the PR reviewer. The CI-config constraint above binds the autonomous run (implement, revise); humans change CI config through PRs, which are reviewed, not refused.
- A CI-config edit is not a finding for the constraint itself when the API-sourced PR author (never a name claimed in the PR text, commits or diff) passes the author gate in
.github/workflows/vanguard-pr-review.yml(bots do not; Dependabot's action-pin bumps never reach this reviewer). Review the content as the highest-risk part of the diff: trigger type (pull_request_target),permissions:, actor gates, secret exposure, no${{ }}interpolation insiderun:. A CI-config edit by any other author is itself a finding. - The
workflow-scoped token a maintainer pushes with is personal and local, never a CI secret (VANGUARD_PUSH_TOKENmust not carryworkflowscope). - When every actionable item is on a CI-config path, say so in the verdict and do not recommend
needs revision: the reviser drops edits to those paths and ends in "no changes — skipping push" without posting, leavingneeds revisionandvanguard:revisingon the PR. With mixed feedback it fixes the rest and discloses the dropped paths.
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