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docs/gates.md lists every place a gate deliberately checks less than it
could, each with its reason and the count measured when the row was
written:
- an ESLint rule off, at warn, or not applied, by scope;
- a weak compiler flag, a ruff ignore, the basedpyright mode and baseline;
- a knip exclusion, a lane that does not run everywhere;
- an accepted CVE.
gates.contract.test.ts reads the EFFECTIVE configuration and fails when a
narrowing has no row:
- ESLint's computed config per scope;
- the three tsconfigs, ruff.toml, pyrightconfig, pytest.ini and knip.jsonc;
- .trivyignore.yaml, where an entry also needs a statement and an expiry;
- CI's pip-audit ignores.
It also pins `--max-warnings 0`, which is what makes a warn-level rule fail.
Seen red on a missing row, a new `off` rule and an allowlist entry without
an expiry.

CLAUDE.md gains the rule E32 exists for: a gate with any real hit is never
switched off or narrowed, and an "enforced by" comment is checked by running
the check. The gate descriptions there, in docs/development.md and in
backend/app/README.md name the lanes as they now are, and the "directly"
recipe points at the full list.
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Development

How to run Siftlode locally and pass the gate. Conventions for the backend code itself live in backend/app/README.md.

Node

One major, everywhere. .nvmrc pins it; the CI container, the Dockerfile's frontend build stage, frontend/package.json's engines and @types/node must all match it — and so must the machine you run the gate on. frontend/src/lib/nodeEngine.contract.test.ts fails the gate the moment any of them drift apart, including when yours is the odd one out. nvm use in the repo root picks it up.

This is a contract, not a preference: tsc and vitest read the engine's own Intl and web APIs, and those change between majors — the same currency format renders $160M on one and $160.0M on the next. A gate that is green on a major you do not ship is green about nothing.

Run it locally

The whole stack (Postgres + API + worker) comes up from the localdev compose file:

docker compose -f docker-compose.localdev.yml up --build

Browse at http://localhost:8080 (Google login works — the OAuth redirect is http://localhost:8080/auth/callback). The API runs alembic upgrade head on startup, so the schema is always current.

For a fast frontend edit loop, run the Vite dev server with HMR against that API:

cd frontend && npm install && npm run dev   # http://localhost:5173, proxying the API on :8080

The dev server also serves the design lab at http://localhost:5173/design-lab: the open design decisions and the chosen patterns, rendered with the app's real CSS. It never reaches a production build (see DESIGN.md).

The gate

A change is done when all of this is green. CI runs the same checks server-side (.gitea/workflows/check.yml), so "main is always green". What each gate deliberately does NOT check — and why — is the gate register; a test fails when a narrowing is missing from it.

Backend

# lint + format check (ruff is pinned in backend/requirements-dev.txt)
python -m ruff check --config backend/ruff.toml backend scripts
python -m ruff format --check --config backend/ruff.toml backend scripts

# type check — in the test image (requirements.lock does not install on Windows); new errors only,
# the pre-existing ones are in backend/.basedpyright/baseline.json
docker compose -f backend/docker-compose.test.yml run --rm --no-deps --build test \
  python -m basedpyright --project pyrightconfig.json

# tests — pure-logic + the DB-backed integration lane, against an ephemeral Postgres, ending with the
# coverage total. The backend tree is bind-mounted, so it always tests your working files.
docker compose -f backend/docker-compose.test.yml up --build --abort-on-container-exit --exit-code-from test
docker compose -f backend/docker-compose.test.yml down -v

A missing database or ffmpeg is a hard error, not a skip — so the gate can't print green while the DB-backed tests were quietly not run (SIFTLODE_TEST_REQUIRE_DB=0 is the explicit "pure-logic only" run for a machine without Postgres). Tests that need a database take the db fixture (backend/tests/conftest.py); the rest are pure-logic and run without one.

Frontend (from frontend/)

node ../scripts/check-node-modules.mjs   # node_modules == package-lock.json (else: npm ci)
npm run typecheck     # tsc x3 (app / node / e2e)
npm run lint          # eslint (typed rules included; warnings fail)
npm run format:check  # prettier
npm run knip          # unused files/exports/deps — and unused by what SHIPS (--production)
npm run test          # vitest (incl. the compiler, size/complexity and gate-register contracts)
npx vite build        # the production bundle (devOnlyGuard fails it on dev-only code)

Coverage is reported, never enforced: npm run test -- --coverage, and the pytest lane's last line. The Playwright suite (npm run e2e) runs against the :8080 stack built from your tree; the release requires it. Before an image is pushed, it is scanned with Trivy (HIGH/CRITICAL with a fix fails; exceptions in .trivyignore.yaml, each with a reason and an expiry).

Branching

Trunk-based: branch off main, keep the branch gate-green, and land the whole change back to main in one reviewed step. Migrations are Alembic revisions under backend/alembic/versions; the API applies them on startup, and the DB-lane rebuilds the schema via alembic upgrade head, so a broken migration chain fails the tests.