ci: add contributor guidelines, agent skills and commit message checks - #59
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Contributors and AI agents had no shared rules for commits, code or UI, so every change drifted a little from the last one. Add guides for the commit format, coding standards, UI and fixup commits, skills and roles that carry the same rules for agents, git hooks that format staged files and check commit messages, a CI workflow that validates the pull request title and every commit, a skills check, and pull request and issue templates.
The checker rejected most of main: there was no chore or style type and no docs or release scope, so every release commit and every docs site commit failed. Add those types and scopes, require a body only for feat, fix, perf and refactor, and add a --warn flag that reports problems without failing. The script also exited 0 without checking anything when its path had a space or went through a symlink, because it compared import.meta.url with a hand-built file URL. Compare real paths instead.
Until the maintainers agree on the types and scopes, a failing check would block their own release pull requests. Report problems as warning annotations instead, and match ci.yml's hardening: cancel superseded runs and don't leave the token in the checkout.
The validator built the repository root from the URL pathname, which keeps %20 for a space. With a space in the path it found no skills and printed "0 skills and roles OK". Use fileURLToPath. It also only matched LF frontmatter, so a Windows checkout with autocrlf failed every skill. Accept CRLF, and check text files out with LF everywhere through .gitattributes.
The pre-commit hook ran git add on every staged file after formatting it, which also staged hunks left out on purpose with git add -p, and xargs split file names with spaces. Skip files that have unstaged changes, with a warning, and pass names NUL separated. pnpm install also overwrote core.hooksPath and commit.template on every run, which switched off any hooks a contributor had set up. Only set them when they are unset.
The docs site in apps/docs now owns the setup, project structure, commands, CI steps and the tool list, and the devtools-docs skill owns the writing rules. Link to those instead of repeating them: cut CONTRIBUTING to the rules, hooks, pull request process and agent skills, drop the README contributing section, and list devtools-docs with the other skills. devtools-inspector now updates the tool list on the docs site, devtools-verify runs the docs build checks and nx affected, and devtools-reviewer checks docs changes against devtools-docs.
The repository had neither, so a vulnerability report had nowhere private to go and GitHub's community profile listed both as missing. SECURITY.md sends reports to GitHub's private vulnerability reporting. The code of conduct is the Contributor Covenant 2.1, with the maintainers on GitHub and Discord as the contact.
Turn off blank issues and send questions to Discord and security reports to private vulnerability reporting, request a maintainer review on every pull request through CODEOWNERS, and show the Sponsor button the README already asks for. Add the docs site to the bug report areas, and the skills and docs checks to the pull request checklist.
Reviewers can't tell from the list which part of the repository a pull request touches. Label each one from the paths it changes (panel, package, extension, demo, documentation, agents, ci) with actions/labeler, which runs on pull_request_target without checking out the pull request's code. GitHub's generated release notes then group the merged pull requests by the same labels.
The README thanked sponsors but not the people who wrote the code. Add the all-contributors list, seeded with the four people in the commit history, so the all-contributors bot can add anyone else, for any kind of contribution, from a pull request comment. Prettier skips the config, since the bot rewrites it in its own style.
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Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Other Suggested labels: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The new hook can accidentally include unstaged edits for wildcard-like filenames, and some invalid pull request titles receive no warning. These are bounded contributor-workflow risks with straightforward fixes; review staged changes and correct both checks before relying on them. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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Add the rule to CONTRIBUTING, the pull request template and the verify and reviewer skills, and a warn-only Docs check workflow that flags code changes without an apps/docs change unless the no-docs label is set.
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Review comments at @.githooks/pre-commit:
- Line 25: Update the restaging command in the pre-commit hook to invoke git add
with literal pathspec handling, so only the exact filenames listed are staged,
including names containing wildcard characters.
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- Line 60: Update the header exemption in validate so the Merge, fixup!,
squash!, and amend! prefixes are exempt only during commit-message validation.
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…literally A pull request title like "fixup! ..." now fails the title check, because the title becomes the squash commit. The pre-commit hook restages files with literal pathspecs, so a name like item[1].ts can't also stage item1.ts.
…elines-v2 # Conflicts: # CONTRIBUTING.md
The skills check skipped paths under apps/ because apps/docs was not on main yet. It is now, so references to the docs site are validated like the rest.
…etup Cover the hooks pnpm install turns on, pnpm skills:check and pnpm commit:check, the skills step in CI, the warn-only Commit message and Docs check workflows, and the no-docs label.
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Issue forms add bug or feature with needs triage, the labeler uses area: labels only, release notes group by change type, and CONTRIBUTING lists every label.
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Replaces #37 with the same contributor setup, rebased onto the Nx layout and with the review findings fixed.
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docs/contributing/, with CONTRIBUTING.md trimmed to the rules, the hooks, the PR process and the agent skills. It points to the docs site pages from docs: add the documentation site in apps/docs #49 for setup and writing..claude/skillsand.claude/agents, withdevtools-docslisted everywhere anddevtools-inspectorpointing at the docs site tool list.chore,style,docs,releaseadded). A body is required only forfeat,fix,perfandrefactor.::warningannotations) until we agree to make it blocking.preparedoesn't overwrite existing hook settings.concurrencyandpersist-credentials: false.* text=auto eol=lf.Needs a maintainer
area: *labels with colours, otherwise the labeler creates them grey.Testing
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