Converge Instruction Set with Hub, Retire Hub-Hosted Repo-Config/Secrets

[ptr727]

Part of the periodic hub resync (see also the skills-tree and intent-files PRs from the same
run). Audit run 2026-08-29T01:09:26Z | hub b823bc4.

• Re-vendor AGENTS.md's and GOVERNANCE.md's declared-verbatim sections from the current hub
  canonical. Both files were already cleanly split (heading set matches spec/section-model.md
  exactly), so this is a direct section swap, no local content at risk.
• Delete repo-config/*.json, repo-config/README.md, and spec/secrets.json: each carries a
  retire disposition in the hub's spec/divergences.json gaps list, hub-hosted and checked
  from a hub checkout (repo-config/configure.sh, spec/audit.py) rather than carried here.
• Rewrite AUDIT.md's General Settings/Rulesets/Secrets sections to point at those hub tools
  instead of the now-deleted local payloads.
• Add the now-required OPERATIONS.md "Local Verification" leading section (per
  spec/section-model.md), and sweep every other inbound reference to the deleted paths across
  GOVERNANCE.md, WORKFLOW.md, and host-tools.json.
• Fix publish-release.yml's publish job: its explicit if: bypassed the implicit
  needs-succeeded gate, so a failed validate job would not have blocked a publish. Added
  needs.validate.result == 'success'.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Release publishing now proceeds only after validation succeeds and release conditions are met.

• Documentation

  • Updated governance, operational, release, review, and configuration-auditing guidance.
  • Clarified secure repository changes, local verification, and centralized tooling procedures.
  • Removed obsolete configuration and secret-manifest documentation.

• Chores

  • Updated automated workflow references and development task sequencing.
  • Cleaned up outdated repository configuration artifacts and references.
  • Standardized text-file line endings while preserving platform-specific script formatting.
  • Improved shell-script validation and development workflow reliability.

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Walkthrough

The change moves repository configuration and secret audit guidance to hub-hosted tooling, expands governance and local verification rules, removes local configuration manifests, updates reusable workflow revisions, and prevents release publication when validation fails.

Changes

Repository governance and operations

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Governance and local verification AGENTS.md, GOVERNANCE.md, OPERATIONS.md, .vscode/tasks.json, .husky/pre-commit, .gitattributes, .editorconfig	Operational guidance now defines tool boundaries, secret handling, review cycles, workflow controls, local verification requirements, sequential task execution, ShellCheck handling, and line-ending normalization.
Hub-hosted configuration transition AUDIT.md, GOVERNANCE.md, WORKFLOW.md, host-tools.json, repo-config/*, spec/secrets.json	Audit procedures now use hub-hosted configuration and secret tooling. Local configuration manifests and related references were removed or updated.
Release validation gate .github/workflows/*.yml	Reusable workflow references now use the promoted revision. The publish job requires successful validation in addition to release-plan approval.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk:⚪ Minimal · up to 1d93f

This PR synchronizes repository guidance, removes retired hub-hosted configuration files, and prevents releases from publishing when validation fails; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the primary changes: aligning repository instructions with the hub and removing hub-hosted repository configuration and secrets.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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PR Summary by Qodo

Centralize fleet configuration in hub and gate release publishing

🐞 Bug fix📝 Documentation⚙️ Configuration changes🕐 20-40 Minutes

AI Description

• Sync agent and governance instructions with current hub policy.
• Move settings, rulesets, and secret auditing to hub-hosted tools.
• Block release publishing unless validation succeeds.

Diagram

graph TD
Docs["Local audit docs"] --> HubTools["Hub audit tools"] --> Baselines["Hub baselines"]
HubTools --> Repo["GitHub state"]
Plan["Release plan"] --> Validate["Validation job"] --> Publish["Publish job"]

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High-Level Assessment

The following are alternative approaches to this PR:

1. Keep repository-local baseline copies

• ➕ Audits remain available without fetching the hub
• ➕ Each repository commit fully snapshots its expected configuration
• ➖ Copies drift between periodic synchronization runs
• ➖ Duplicated manifests and references require fleet-wide maintenance

2. Pin audit tooling to a hub revision

• ➕ Audit results remain reproducible against an immutable baseline
• ➕ Hub changes cannot alter checks unexpectedly
• ➖ Repositories need an explicit pin-update process
• ➖ Current fleet policy expects fresh hub main for operational audits

Recommendation: Use the PR's hub-hosted baseline approach because it removes known duplicate sources of truth and aligns audits with fleet policy. Retaining local copies would recreate the drift this resync is retiring; reproducibility is adequately addressed by recording the hub commit for each audit run, while CI continues to use SHA-pinned reusable workflows.

Files changed (7) +60 / -141

Bug fix (1) +2 / -1

publish-release.ymlRequire successful validation before publishing releases+2/-1

Require successful validation before publishing releases

• Extends the publish job condition to require 'needs.validate.result == 'success''. This restores the dependency-success gate that an explicit job condition otherwise bypasses.

.github/workflows/publish-release.yml

Documentation (5) +57 / -139

AGENTS.mdResync agent execution and skill-routing guidance+12/-1

Resync agent execution and skill-routing guidance

• Re-vendors current hub guidance for sandbox boundaries, local verification, review workflows, and newly available skills. The routing table now directs linting, testing, pull-request opening, and code review to their canonical governance surfaces.

AGENTS.md

AUDIT.mdRoute repository audits through hub-hosted tools+6/-58

Route repository audits through hub-hosted tools

• Replaces local JSON comparisons and inline secret checks with the hub's configuration and audit commands. It documents the canonical commands for checking and applying repository settings, rulesets, and secret requirements.

AUDIT.md

GOVERNANCE.mdResync governance and remove local baseline references+34/-75

Resync governance and remove local baseline references

• Imports current fleet policies for write safety, repo-scoped secrets, verification, reviews, workflows, and repository metadata. It also updates configuration references so rulesets, settings, and secret manifests are explicitly hub-hosted.

GOVERNANCE.md

OPERATIONS.mdDeclare local verification as the leading operations contract+4/-3

Declare local verification as the leading operations contract

• Promotes local verification to the required leading section and clarifies which real-tool and end-to-end checks CI cannot perform. It removes the retired local repo-config entry from the repository layout.

OPERATIONS.md

WORKFLOW.mdPoint workflow ruleset guidance to the hub+1/-2

Point workflow ruleset guidance to the hub

• Updates operational workflow guidance to reference the hub-hosted repo-config documentation. The obsolete local link definition is removed.

WORKFLOW.md

Other (1) +1 / -1

host-tools.jsonRemove stale carried-secrets note from host tooling metadata+1/-1

Remove stale carried-secrets note from host tooling metadata

• Deletes the note claiming 'spec/secrets.json' is carried locally while preserving the empty repository-specific tool overlay.

host-tools.json

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🐞 Bugs (0)📘 Rule violations (1)📜 Skill insights (0)

1. PR title lacks title case 📘 Rule violation⚙ Maintainability

Description

The PR title leaves major words such as instruction, set, hub, and retire lowercase. Change
it to title case, for example: `Converge Instruction Set with Hub, Retire Hub-Hosted
Repo-Config/Secrets`.

Code

.github/workflows/publish-release.yml[58]

+ if: >-

Evidence

PR Compliance ID 2826923 requires major words in the pull request title to use title case, but the
supplied title is Converge instruction set with hub, retire hub-hosted repo-config/secrets. The
diff pointer is only a review anchor because the violation is in PR metadata rather than repository
file content.

Rule 2826923: Use title case with lowercase short bind words in pull request titles

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2. Retired payloads remain referenced✗ Dismissed🐞 Bug⚙ Maintainability

Description

Deleting the local repo-config/ payloads leaves active Copilot instructions and skills claiming
those files are carried here and directing agents to import or update them locally. Automated
reviews and branch-protection work can therefore target nonexistent files instead of the hub-hosted
payloads.

Code

repo-config/README.md[L1-3]

-# repo-config--Repository and branch configuration held as committed files, kept out of `.github/` (which holds the GitHub-consumed configuration: workflows, Dependabot).

Evidence

The deleted file establishes that the local payload tree is being retired, while multiple current
instruction surfaces still assert the opposite or tell agents to mutate those paths.

.github/copilot-instructions.md[24-32]
.github/skills/comment-and-doc-style/SKILL.md[194-203]
.github/skills/comment-and-doc-style/references/carried-doc-references.md[7-13]
.github/skills/operational-vs-release-workflow/references/branch-protection-and-promotion.md[9-30]
.github/skills/audit-a-repo/SKILL.md[19-25]
GOVERNANCE.md[260-265]

Agent prompt

The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution
## Issue description
The PR retires the repository-local `repo-config/` payloads, but active Copilot instructions and skills still describe them as carried files and direct agents to operate on local payload paths.
## Issue Context
The replacement model is hub-hosted tooling and payloads. Update the remaining instruction surfaces so they consistently direct users and agents to a hub checkout.
## Fix Focus Areas
- .github/copilot-instructions.md[24-32]
- .github/skills/comment-and-doc-style/SKILL.md[194-203]
- .github/skills/comment-and-doc-style/references/carried-doc-references.md[7-13]
- .github/skills/operational-vs-release-workflow/references/branch-protection-and-promotion.md[9-30]
- .github/skills/audit-a-repo/SKILL.md[19-25]
- .github/skills/workflow-ci-contract/SKILL.md[21-25]

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3. Format task runs concurrently✓ Resolved🐞 Bug☼ Reliability

Description

Making this block the authoritative Local Verification section retains the claim that .NET Format
runs CSharpier, build, and style verification in sequence, but its two dependencies run concurrently
by default. The build can therefore read source while CSharpier is rewriting it, producing
nondeterministic local verification.

Code

OPERATIONS.md[5]

+## Local Verification

Evidence

OPERATIONS defines the newly authoritative verification block and calls .NET Format a sequential
chain; the task lists formatter and build dependencies without a sequence order, while the same task
file explicitly opts into sequencing for Lint: All.

OPERATIONS.md[5-18]
.vscode/tasks.json[23-54]
.vscode/tasks.json[160-169]

Agent prompt

The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution
## Issue description
The Local Verification section documents `.NET Format` as an ordered clean-compile chain, but the VS Code task runs `CSharpier Format` and `.NET Build` concurrently.
## Issue Context
VS Code task dependencies are parallel unless `dependsOrder` is set. The formatter writes source files, so the build must start only after formatting completes.
## Fix Focus Areas
- .vscode/tasks.json[23-43]
- OPERATIONS.md[5-18]

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✅ Compliance rules (platform): 13 rules

Review mode: ⚖️ Balanced: This spans hub/tooling retirement, extensive governance and audit documentation, and a security-relevant release workflow gate; despite many edits, it is not clearly dense enough to justify redundant extended review.

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🟡 Changes recommended

The PR introduces/retains broken or stale documentation pointers (AGENTS.md routes to a removed GOVERNANCE section; host-tools.json still mentions a deleted “carried spec/secrets.json”).

Once you've addressed the issues Copilot identified, you can request another Copilot review.

Pull request overview

This PR performs a hub resync of the repository’s carried instruction set, removes locally-carried repo-config/ and spec/secrets.json payloads in favor of hub-hosted tooling, updates the self-audit/runbook docs accordingly, and hardens the release workflow so publishing cannot proceed when validation fails.

Changes:

• Retire locally-carried repo-config/*.json, repo-config/README.md, and spec/secrets.json, and update AUDIT.md / governance docs to point at hub-hosted checks.
• Add/refresh operational documentation, including OPERATIONS.md “Local Verification”, and resync carried sections in AGENTS.md / GOVERNANCE.md.
• Fix .github/workflows/publish-release.yml so publish requires validate to succeed.

File summaries

File	Description
WORKFLOW.md	Removes local repo-config link reference and updates narrative to hub-hosted repo-config docs.
spec/secrets.json	Deleted local secrets manifest (now hub-hosted).
repo-config/settings.json	Deleted local settings payload (now hub-hosted).
repo-config/README.md	Deleted local repo-config documentation (now hub-hosted).
repo-config/main.json	Deleted local ruleset payload (now hub-hosted).
repo-config/develop.json	Deleted local ruleset payload (now hub-hosted).
OPERATIONS.md	Adds “Local Verification” section (local gate run commands) and repositions runbooks.
host-tools.json	Adjusts repo host-tools note (but still contains a stale reference that needs a follow-up edit).
GOVERNANCE.md	Resyncs governance text; adds repo-scoped secrets section; updates hub-hosting guidance; removes local linter-invocation section.
AUDIT.md	Rewrites audit steps to use hub tools (repo-config/configure.sh and spec/audit.py) instead of local payloads.
AGENTS.md	Updates routing/map content (but includes a pointer to a removed GOVERNANCE section that needs correction).
.github/workflows/publish-release.yml	Ensures publish job only runs when validate job succeeded.

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• Comments generated: 2
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🔵 Needs a closer look

GOVERNANCE.md removes the “Running the Linters Locally” section while other in-repo references still point to it, creating dead navigation unless a redirect/stub is restored.

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GOVERNANCE.md:228

• GOVERNANCE.md no longer contains a "Running the Linters Locally" section, but other in-repo references still point to that anchor/text (e.g., CODESTYLE.md and the workflow-ci-contract skill). With this removal, those references become dead and contributors/agents lose the documented local linter entrypoint. Consider reintroducing a short stub section here that redirects to OPERATIONS.md "Local Verification" to keep anchors stable while preserving the new source of truth.

## Supported Development Platforms

• Files reviewed: 15/15 changed files
• Comments generated: 0 new
• Review effort level: Lite

[Copilot]

🔵 Needs a closer look

WORKFLOW.md still implies a repo-local spec/secrets.json reference, which is now deleted and should be clarified to avoid misleading readers.

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WORKFLOW.md:67

• WORKFLOW.md still refers to spec/secrets.json (e.g. D1.6) even though the repo-local spec/secrets.json was deleted in this PR. To avoid implying a local file exists, clarify here that secrets manifest references in this document now point at the hub-hosted spec/secrets.json alongside repo-config/README.md.

Their CI is lint/validation only (editorconfig/EOL plus domain linters such as Home Assistant or ESPHome config validation or a firmware build, but **no unit tests**), so the D-guarantees below that assume a build/test pipeline are **N/A** exactly as for `source-only` (Section 6). What binds: the promotion gate, where the `develop -> main` PR must pass the required `Check pull request workflow status job`, and the source-only release on manual dispatch (`releaseTrigger: dispatch-only`; tag + source zip). Branch-model rulesets are specified in [GOVERNANCE.md "Branching Model"][governance-branching-model] and the hub's `repo-config/README.md`, not here.

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- Line 3: Update the stale comments in .editorconfig around the .gitattributes
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Re: suppressed finding on WORKFLOW.md:67/D1.6 (spec/secrets.json reference implying a local file, after this PR deletes it). Real for this PR in isolation - WORKFLOW.md isn't touched here, only in the stacked sibling PR #88, which 3-way-merges the whole file against the current hub canonical and rewords D1.6 to stop implying local carry (typeMechanisms is resolved from the hub's own spec/secrets.json plus the registry, per the rewritten AUDIT.md this PR does add). Not duplicating a partial WORKFLOW.md edit here to avoid conflicting with #88's fuller merge of the same file.

[Copilot]

🔵 Needs a closer look

It deletes spec/secrets.json but leaves at least one in-repo doc reference to it (notably in WORKFLOW.md), which should be repointed/clarified to avoid dead guidance.

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spec/secrets.json:1

• WORKFLOW.md still references spec/secrets.json (e.g., in the D1.6 coverage guarantee) as if it were repo-local, but this PR deletes spec/secrets.json. That leaves a dead in-repo reference and makes it unclear where the canonical secret/type mapping now lives (hub vs repo). Update those references to explicitly point at the hub’s spec/secrets.json (github.com/ptr727/ProjectTemplate) or otherwise reword the text so it doesn’t imply a local file exists.

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