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Rule: quality gates

Three tiers. Each is scoped so that many agents committing in parallel worktrees stay fast — the whole point is that a gate you are tempted to skip is not a gate.

Tier Hook Scope Budget Runs
1 pre-commit staged files only (lint-staged) < 3s every commit
2 pre-push whole project: build + verify + audit < 90s every push
3 CI (Gitea Actions) tier 2 + lint, on a clean install minutes every push to main

Tier 1 must stay under a few seconds. If it creeps, move the check to tier 2. An agent that waits 40s per commit will start passing --no-verify, and then you have no gate at all.

Tier 1 — pre-commit (lint-staged)

Formats and lints only what you staged. Scoped by construction, so ten parallel worktrees do ten small jobs, not ten full-project sweeps.

  • Prettier + ESLint on *.{js,mjs,ts,astro}
  • Prettier + Stylelint on *.css
  • check-tokens.mjs on changed .astro/.css — catches raw hex before it lands
  • Prettier on *.{json,md}

Tier 2 — pre-push

The real gate:

astro check        types
astro build        it compiles
verify.mjs         42 content assertions — count must not fall
audit-ui.mjs       no external runtime dependencies
check-tokens.mjs   full sweep

Tier 3 — CI

Tier 2 plus pnpm run lint, run against a clean pnpm install --frozen-lockfile — which is the part a local worktree cannot prove.

Screenshot comparison against .agents/snapshots/ is not wired in yet. visual-regression.mjs can only capture baselines, not diff them, so running it in CI would overwrite the baselines and pass unconditionally. It also needs Playwright, which is not a project dependency. Add the step back when the script grows a compare mode.

Bypassing

--no-verify is allowed exactly once: a work-in-progress commit on your own task branch that you will rebase away. It is never allowed on a commit you intend to merge, and the pre-push gate has no bypass.

If a gate is wrong, fix the gate in its own commit. Do not route around it.

Parallelism

  • Hooks are per-worktree. Git's index.lock is per-worktree, so parallel commits do not contend.
  • The heavy tier-2 gate takes a lock (.git/af-gate.lock, shared across worktrees) so ten agents pushing at once do not run ten concurrent builds and thrash the machine. Waiters queue; they do not fail.
  • pnpm install --frozen-lockfile in a fresh worktree is cheap: pnpm hardlinks from the shared content-addressable store, so a second worktree costs seconds and almost no disk instead of another 225 MB. No --prefer-offline needed.

The silent-failure mode you must know about

Husky sets core.hooksPath to .husky/_, and .husky/_ is generated by pnpm install, not committed. A fresh git worktree add therefore has hooks configured but the directory missing — so hooks silently do not run. Every commit passes. Nothing is checked.

.agents/scripts/worktree.sh start runs the install and then verifies. Check manually any time you did not use it:

.agents/scripts/verify-hooks.sh

Run this first in any worktree you did not create with the script.