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xdg-spec-compliance

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Audit and fix XDG Base Directory compliance in a repo (data/config/cache/state paths, 0700 dirs, 0600 secrets, precedence). Use when the app resolves paths with `expanduser`/`Path.home`, writes logs outside `$XDG_STATE_HOME`, or ships world-readable secrets.

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XDG Base Directory Compliance

Audit and fix a repo's path resolution against the XDG Base Directory spec: run the four-step audit order, check the seven rules projects break, and fix the installer, tests, and provisioner where each rule fails.

Global Rules

  • Quote the spec, don't reason from memory. The authoritative text is v0.8 at https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir/latest/ — three rules are routinely guessed wrong; the rules reference is the single home.
  • Reproduce before claiming. Relative/tilde env values and mkdir umask inheritance are invisible to reading alone; the audit order reference ends in a repro step, and no claim rests on reading alone.
  • Clean up probe junk. Any file the repro dumps into the repo is removed before the run is done; git status must be clean at the end.

Routing

StepReferencePurpose
Audit orderreferences/audit-order.mdThe four cheapest-signal-first checks: path grep, LOG/state location, write/read split, repro.
The rules projects breakreferences/rules.mdThe seven spec rules: absolute-only, empty/unset default, 0700 dirs, 0600 secrets, precedence, vendor subdir, XDG_RUNTIME_DIR.
Bash installerreferences/bash-installer.mdInstaller rules: absoluteness helper, 0700 tree, venv install, entry points.
Test it without touching the user's homereferences/testing-sandbox.mdThe import-time sandbox, the asserts, the fake-green guards, and the lazy log handler.
Destructive provisioningreferences/destructive-provisioning.mdStale-dir rename instead of rmtree, and the symlink exfiltration rule.

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