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The "Repository Structure" block was hard-wrapped by the AsciiDoc→Markdown conversion, so the entire tree collapsed into a single paragraph and rendered as one run-on line.

Rebuilt from the block's own content:

  • depth recovered from the │ continuation bars that survived the wrap
  • the guide entry moved under .github/, where the guide actually lives
  • \# escapes unescaped, └── restored on the last entry of each group
  • the block fenced with ```text so it renders as a tree

Every annotation ("Perimeter 1-2" etc.) is preserved — nothing invented, nothing dropped.

Mechanical repairs to the guide, each anchored on a known-broken form:

- unescaped \# -> #
- rebuilt the hard-wrapped setup block into one command per line
- replaced invalid `():` commit header
- dedented headings that rendered as code

No prose is rewritten; only the broken forms are corrected.
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  • Documentation
    • Updated contribution setup instructions for the Guix development environment.
    • Clarified shell commands and verification steps.
    • Added an updated repository structure overview with path annotations.
    • Standardised section headings.
    • Expanded the Conventional Commits example to include optional body and footer syntax.

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The contribution guide now documents Guix setup commands, revised repository structure, consistent headings, and expanded Conventional Commits syntax.

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Update contribution guidance
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Setup instructions now use guix develop, separate commands, and independent verification steps. The repository tree, headings, branch layout, and commit message example are updated.

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The tree block was hard-wrapped by the AsciiDoc->Markdown conversion, so it
rendered as a paragraph rather than a tree, and it still listed
CONTRIBUTING.md at the repository root, where the guide no longer lives.

Rebuilt from the tree's own content: depth recovered from the `|` continuation
bars that survived the wrap, the guide entry moved under `.github/`, `#`
escapes unescaped, the last entry of each group restored to `└──`, and the
block fenced so it renders as a tree. Every annotation ("Perimeter 1-2") is
preserved - nothing is invented and nothing is dropped.

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🟡 Minor · Fix links after moving this file under .github/. · CONTRIBUTING.md:65

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Fix links after moving this file under .github/.

From .github/CONTRIBUTING.md, .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/... resolves to .github/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/.... Use ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.md and ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.md.

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In @.github/CONTRIBUTING.md at line 65, Update the bug-report and
feature-request template links in CONTRIBUTING.md to use ISSUE_TEMPLATE/...
relative paths, removing the duplicated .github/ prefix so both links resolve
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In @.github/CONTRIBUTING.md:
- Around line 3-4: Update the setup and verification command blocks in the
contributing documentation, including the variants containing clone and
directory-change commands, to use fenced bash blocks. Ensure each command
sequence is separately fenced so Markdown preserves commands as executable lines
and contributors can copy each variant independently.
- Line 18: Update the verification command guidance in CONTRIBUTING.md to remove
the unrelated “mix compile” alternative, leaving `cargo check --workspace` and
the repository-defined `just check` as the supported options.
- Line 4: Update the repository setup instructions in CONTRIBUTING.md to use
palimpsest-plasma consistently for the cloned directory, and replace the stale
workspace directory reference with the actual plasma-parser and plasma-engine
directories.
- Around line 104-107: Update the branch-pattern examples near the contributing
guidance so every pattern appears as its own bullet or fenced line, including
test/what-added and refactor/what-changed, without changing their descriptions
or priorities.
- Line 8: Update the contributor guide’s development-environment command from
guix develop to guix shell, matching the repository quickstart and documented
Guix usage.
- Line 21: Update the “Repository Structure” heading in the contributing guide
from level three to level two, using “## Repository Structure” to maintain the
document’s heading hierarchy.
- Line 52: Remove the unintended four-space indentation from the standalone
Markdown separator lines (---) and the “We follow...” paragraph so they render
as normal Markdown rather than code, while preserving all surrounding content.

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- Line 65: Update the bug-report and feature-request template links in
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duplicated .github/ prefix so both links resolve correctly from the .github
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18-18: 🎯 Functional Correctness

The check recipe exists in Justfile, so the documented just check command is not invalid because of a missing recipe.

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Comment on lines +3 to +4
git clone https://github.com/hyperpolymath/palimpsest-plasma.git
cd plasma-parser-writer

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Fence the setup commands.

The setup block is not fenced. Markdown collapses adjacent commands into paragraphs and interprets lines beginning with # as headings. Contributors cannot copy the documented steps as separate commands. Use fenced bash blocks for each setup variant and for verification.

Also applies to: 8-8, 12-13, 18-19

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In @.github/CONTRIBUTING.md around lines 3 - 4, Update the setup and
verification command blocks in the contributing documentation, including the
variants containing clone and directory-change commands, to use fenced bash
blocks. Ensure each command sequence is separately fenced so Markdown preserves
commands as executable lines and contributors can copy each variant
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Comment thread .github/CONTRIBUTING.md
git clone <https://github.com/hyperpolymath/palimpsest-plasma.git> cd
palimpsest-plasma
git clone https://github.com/hyperpolymath/palimpsest-plasma.git
cd plasma-parser-writer

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Use the repository name from Cargo.toml.

git clone creates palimpsest-plasma, but the next line enters plasma-parser-writer. The tree uses the same stale name. Update both references to palimpsest-plasma, and show the actual workspace directories: plasma-parser and plasma-engine.

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In @.github/CONTRIBUTING.md at line 4, Update the repository setup instructions
in CONTRIBUTING.md to use palimpsest-plasma consistently for the cloned
directory, and replace the stale workspace directory reference with the actual
plasma-parser and plasma-engine directories.

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Comment thread .github/CONTRIBUTING.md
# Using Guix (recommended for reproducibility)

nix develop
guix develop

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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printf '%s\n' '--- CONTRIBUTING ---'
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fd -i -t f 'QUICKSTART|quickstart' . | head -20
for f in $(fd -i -t f 'QUICKSTART|quickstart' . | head -5); do
  printf '\n--- %s ---\n' "$f"
  cat -n "$f"
done
printf '%s\n' '--- Guix references and project metadata ---'
rg -n -i --glob '!target/**' --glob '!node_modules/**' 'guix|guile|channels\.scm|manifest\.scm|\.guix' .
printf '%s\n' '--- top-level files ---'
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GNU Guix manual guix develop command guix shell -D development environment

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The guix shell command is the modern, recommended tool in GNU Guix for creating reproducible, one-off software environments [1][2]. It has officially superseded the older guix environment command, which is now deprecated [3][4]. Key aspects of guix shell for development: 1. Purpose: It allows you to spawn a shell with a specific set of packages available in the environment without installing them globally [2][5][6]. This is ideal for development, as it ensures all necessary build dependencies are present for a project [5][6]. 2. The -D (or --development) flag: When you run guix shell -D package-name, Guix creates an environment containing all the native inputs and inputs required to build the specified package [5]. This is a highly convenient way to set up a development environment for an existing project without manually listing every dependency [5]. 3. Configuration as Code: guix shell can automatically detect and use a guix.scm or manifest.scm file in the current directory [7][5]. If you run guix shell without arguments, it will look for these files to construct the environment, enabling "configuration as code" for project dependencies [7][5]. 4. Isolation: By default, guix shell inherits your current environment variables [2]. To improve isolation, you can use: - --pure: Clears existing environment variables to ensure a clean, reproducible environment [5]. - --container: Uses Linux namespaces to create a highly isolated environment that cannot access the host system, similar to a container [2][5]. 5. Integration: It is commonly used with tools like direnv to automatically activate and deactivate project-specific environments when entering or leaving a directory [5][8]. In summary, use guix shell instead of guix environment for all new workflows [1][2]. The -D flag remains the standard way to quickly pull in the dependencies needed to develop a specific package [5].
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<title>Guix shell for virtual environments and containers</title> https://www.futurile.net/2023/04/29/guix-shell-virtual-environments-containers/ The next area of Guix to look at is the ability to create virtual environments and containers. In Guix we can create a virtual environment consisting of any of the packages in the archive. It&`#39`;s a flexible capability that can be used in a host of ways: this post uses Guix shell containers to confine Firefox (Figure 1), run a compiled Rust binary (Figure 2) and a proprietary game (Figure 3) - each in their own separate environment. ... It&`#39`;s more general than language specific options like Python&`#39`;s Venv or Ruby&`#39`;s Renv, more comparable to Docker or using a &`#39`;chroot plus package manager&`#39`;. Taking advantage of the declarative underpinnings of Guix there are advanced ways of using it to create reproducible development environments. ... We can use Guix shell to: ... 1. Create ephemeral environments We can create temporary environments and run applications from the Guix archive in them. This is useful for exploring applications without adding them to a profile. When we&`#39`;re finished, we shut down the environment and everything is removed without any changes to our existing profiles. 2. Ensure an applications environment is repeatable We can create a virtual environment that is the same every time. This is useful for situations where we want to guarantee repeatability. Perhaps we want to run some specific Python libraries, and ensure that nothing else interferes with them. 3. Confine an application Creating a virtual environment and running an application within a limited sandbox. A good example of this is running code that we don&`#39`;t want to access the whole system (e.g. Web browser). 4. Run something that is not packaged in Guix Applications that aren&`#39`;t packages in Guix can be run inside an environment that looks just like a &`#39`;normal&`#39`; Linux system. This applies to lots of proprietary applications like games and enterprise software that are distributed as a compiled binary. 5. Create reproducible development environments For software development we often want a repeatable environment with the capabilities that are needed to build the software, and common utilities for development. We can use Guix&`#39`;s shell capabilities, along with manifest files and packages to create this type of set-up. ... ## Guix shell overview ... Everything for creating environments and containers in Guix is accessed through the guix shell command. There&`#39`;s a similar command called guix environment which is the predecessor, and some of the older documentation refers to it. The guix shell command is slightly easier to use and is the recommended way. ... To use it we do: ... ``` guix shell [options] [packages...] ... # example 1: start an environment adding the &`#39`;hello&`#39`; command $ guix shell hello [env]$ hello Hello, world! [env]$ exit ``` ... We can tell guix shell to install multiple applications by adding them to the command line. Normally it will drop us into a shell in the new environment, but we can also tell it to run a command directly: ... ``` # example 2: start a throw-away environment with multiple packages installed $ guix shell bat dutree exa fd zoxide ... # example 3: start an environment and run the htop tool directly $ guix shell htop -- htop ... In each example we&`#39`;re creating an ephemeral environment and adding the new packages to our existing $PATH: we can use all our usual commands (e.g. ls, vim, etc) along with the new ones we&`#39`;ve added (e.g. hello in the first example). ... The way to avoid this is to start a completely pristine environment using the --pure switch: ... ``` $ guix shell --pure hello $ echo $PATH /home/steve/.guix-profile/bin:/gnu/store/xgi7iiyh0v2vrwz206pmh6g7b10rrsgf-profile/bin ... With the --pure switch the whole of our environment is cleaned and the only commands we have access to are those that we added through packages. ... ## Guix shell ... Using manifests with guix shell makes it easy to create a clean virtual environment and install all the tools that we…[truncated] <title>guix: switch from `guix environment` to `guix shell`</title> GitHub issue 26077 in bitcoin/bitcoin (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference) # guix: switch from `guix environment` ... See https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-environment.html. > Deprecation warning: The guix environment command is deprecated in favor of guix shell, which performs similar functions but is more convenient to use. See Invoking guix shell. > Being deprecated, guix environment is slated for eventual removal, but the Guix project is committed to keeping it until May 1st, 2023. Please get in touch with us at guix-devel@gnu.org if you would like to discuss it. See also https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2021/from-guix-environment-to-guix-shell/ for a blog post and additional details. Guix `shell` was added to Guix ~1 year ago, in this commit, https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=80edb7df6586464aa40e84e103f0045452de95db, which isn&`#39`;t part of the 1.3.0 release binaries out of the box, but invoking a `guix pull`, and updating will make it available. i.e: ```bash bash-5.1# guix --version guix (GNU Guix) 1.3.0 Copyright (C) 2021 the Guix authors License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. bash-5.1# guix shell guix: shell: command not found Try &`#39`;guix --help&`#39`; for more information. ... bash-5.1# guix pull ... Updating channel &`#39`;guix&`#39`; from Git repository at &`#39`;https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git&`#39`;... Authenticating channel &`#39`;guix&`#39`;, commits 9edb3f6 to 7a980bb (6,278 new commits)... ... Building from this channel: guix https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git 7a980bb < snip > ... building /gnu/store/2wwwsczxcw61m05p4mv0kf0advx4fqsb-inferior-script.scm.drv... building package cache... building profile with 1 package... New in this revision: 6,866 new packages: a2jmidid, abjad, bash-5.1# guix help shell Usage: guix shell [OPTION] PACKAGES... [-- COMMAND...] Build an environment that includes PACKAGES and execute COMMAND or an interactive shell in that environment. ``` ... > > Do you expect everyone to run the development branch of guix? > > No. I don&`#39`;t see running `guix pull` (`Download and deploy the latest version of Guix.`) as running a development branch. It&`#39`;s much more equivalent to running `apt/dnf/brew update`; giving you access to updated versions of packages to install, new features in Guix, bug fixes, support for new platforms/hardware etc. Fwiw I&`#39`;d consider the `core-updates` branch to be the "development branch" of Guix. > > > Everyone running the latest release of guix should be fine without the changes here. > > Sometime prior to May (assuming the command is removed as stated) our scripts will have to change, as we&`#39`;ll need to accomodate builders who keep their Guix updated. Once we make that change, anyone who&`#39`;s not run`guix pull` will no-longer be able to build (master at least), as `guix shell` wont exist in their Guix binary. > > This will also effect any other branch still using `guix environment`, and then this change would need to be backported, so it can continue to be Guix built. > > I&`#39`;m not trying to force anything on Guix builders early, but I also don&`#39`;t see the benefit in leaving this until later, or right up until the point that things might break; especially if currently the only trade-off is accomodating builders who don&`#39`;t want to update their package manager. ... > > Guix `shell` was added to Guix ~1 year ago, in this commit, https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=80edb7df6586464aa40e84e103f0045452de95db, which isn&`#39`;t part of the 1.3.0 release binaries out of the box, but invoking a `guix pull` > > Just a reminder, that `guix pull` failed in certain conditions in the past (just search in https://issues.guix.gnu.org). I don&`#39`;t think we can rely on it. ... > > Once there is a 1.4 release, it seems more accepta…[truncated] <title>Guix for development — dthompson</title> https://dthompson.us/posts/guix-for-development.html ix shell` ... The tl;dr is that Guix is a fantastic developer productivity tool that can easily automate development environment creation and pre-release build testing and you should give it a try but if you like what you already use then that&`#39`;s fine, too. ... What I really want to say is “Computer, provision a development environment containing Guile 3, SDL2, make, and texinfo!” and have Majel Barrett-Roddenberry tell me that all of those things have been made available to me on my host system. No container, no virtual machine. It shouldn&`#39`;t matter if I have Guile 2 installed system-wide, Guile 3 should still be what&`#39`;s used in the context of the project. This is how Guix works and it&`#39`;s very good and cool and I&`#39`;m going to tell you all about how I use it. ... Guix is a general-purpose package manager that can be used on top of any distro and also it is a distro. I use it both on Ubuntu and as a standalone distro. It takes a few minutes to install on top of an existing distro but once it&`#39`;s there the magic begins. Software installed with Guix is not installed globally (`/usr`), which allows it to act like a `virtualenv` for everything. Guix provides the guix shell tool for creating temporary environments with an arbitrary set of software inside. ... Let&`#39`;s start with a real world example. Here&`#39`;s how to build Guile&`#39`;s SDL2 bindings from a Git checkout using Guix: ... ``` git clone https://git.dthompson.us/guile-sdl2.git cd guile-sdl2 echo $PWD >> $HOME/.config/guix/shell-authorized-directories guix shell ./configure make ... Looks pretty straightforward except for that third line, which whitelists the project directory as a place that `guix shell` can be used for security reasons (though I think the potential risk is not worth this extra step that I&`#39`;m now burdened with explaining!) I don&`#39`;t have to look at a `README` to know what software I need to install. The project is pre-configured to work with Guix and the software it installs does not affect the whole system. ... So what&`#39`;s happening? Well, `guix shell` automatically searches the current directory for a `guix.scm` file and loads it. Inside that file is all the information needed to construct an environment that can build the source code: ... ``` (use-modules (guix git) (guix packages) (guix licenses) (guix build-system gnu) (gnu packages) (gnu packages autotools) ... guile) ... (package (name "gu ... -sdl2") (version "0.7.0") (source (git-checkout (url (dirname (current-filename))))) ... build-system gnu-build-system) (arguments &`#39`;(#:make-flags &`#39`;("GUILE_ ... =0") #: ... %standard- ... (add-after &`#39`;unpack &`#39`;bootstrap (lambda _ (invoke "sh" "bootstrap")))))) (native-inputs (list ... )) ( ... .0-latest ... 2 sdl2 ... image sdl2- ... )) (synopsis "Guile ... for SDL2") (description "Guile-SDL2 provides pure Guile ... bindings to the SDL2 C shared ... This is what&`#39`;s known as “configuration as code” and it looks kinda like a `package.json` (not code) or a `.gemspec` (code) file. `guix.scm` contains not just inert data, but a small Scheme program that returns a Guix package. `guix shell` sees to it that all of the dependencies (listed in the `inputs` and `native-inputs` sections) are available within the shell session it creates by downloading (or building, if necessary) the entire dependency tree. Going back to the earlier example, `./configure` and `make` run in the context of that new shell session and are thus able to complete successfully. ... Should you want/need more isolation from the host system, `guix shell` has you covered. The `--pure` flag will clear out most existing environments variables, such as `$PATH`, so that the resulting environment does not contain pointers to places like `/usr`. For more Docker-like isolation, the `--container` flag can be used, which will run the new shell session within a set of Linux namespaces so …[truncated]

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Use the documented Guix command.

The contributor guide uses guix develop, but the repository quickstart and GNU Guix manual use guix shell for development environments. Replace it with:

guix shell
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Comment thread .github/CONTRIBUTING.md
MAINTAINERS.md ├── README.adoc ├── SECURITY.md ├── flake.nix \# Nix
flake (Perimeter 1) └── Justfile \# Task runner (Perimeter 1)

just check # or: cargo check / mix compile / etc.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the unrelated mix compile alternative.

Cargo.toml defines a Rust workspace. mix compile is not a verification command for this project. Use cargo check --workspace or a repository-defined just check.

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In @.github/CONTRIBUTING.md at line 18, Update the verification command guidance
in CONTRIBUTING.md to remove the unrelated “mix compile” alternative, leaving
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Comment thread .github/CONTRIBUTING.md
just check # or: cargo check / mix compile / etc.
just test # Run test suite

### Repository Structure

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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Repository: hyperpolymath/plasma-parser-writer

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Use ## for Repository Structure.

# Clone the repository is the first heading. The ### Repository Structure heading skips the ## level. Fencing the setup commands does not change this hierarchy. Change it to ## Repository Structure.

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[warning] 21-21: Heading levels should only increment by one level at a time
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In @.github/CONTRIBUTING.md at line 21, Update the “Repository Structure”
heading in the contributing guide from level three to level two, using “##
Repository Structure” to maintain the document’s heading hierarchy.

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└── Justfile # Task runner (Perimeter 1)
```

---

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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Repository: hyperpolymath/plasma-parser-writer

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Remove unintended Markdown indentation.

Dedent --- at lines 52 and 98, and We follow... at line 112. These lines are not inside a fenced block or list, so the four-space indentation renders them as code.

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In @.github/CONTRIBUTING.md at line 52, Remove the unintended four-space
indentation from the standalone Markdown separator lines (---) and the “We
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Comment on lines +104 to +107
docs/short-description # Documentation (P3) test/what-added # Test
additions (P3) feat/short-description # New features (P2)
fix/issue-number-description # Bug fixes (P2) refactor/what-changed #
Code improvements (P2) security/what-fixed # Security fixes (P1-2)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Put each branch pattern on its own item.

The current lines join multiple patterns, and test/what-added and refactor/what-changed are split across line breaks. Use one bullet or one fenced line per pattern.

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In @.github/CONTRIBUTING.md around lines 104 - 107, Update the branch-pattern
examples near the contributing guidance so every pattern appears as its own
bullet or fenced line, including test/what-added and refactor/what-changed,
without changing their descriptions or priorities.

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@hyperpolymath hyperpolymath changed the title fix(docs): repair the contributing guide content defects fix(docs): render the repository-structure tree as a tree Sep 19, 2026
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…estate-wide startup_failure) (#98)

## Summary

Estate-wide incident: `github/codeql-action` **v4.38.1** fails GitHub
workflow **startup** on every repo that took it — CodeQL/Hypatia runs
die with `startup_failure`, zero jobs dispatched, no error text in any
API surface. The evidence chain (full detail: **nexia-list#100**):

| repo | ref | status |
|---|---|---|
| nexia-list | `@v4.38.1` tag (via dependabot #94) | 🔴 startup_failure →
fixed by rollback #100 (merged) |
| hypatia | `@1c5b675` (4.38.1 SHA) | 🔴 |
| vexometer | `@v4.38.1` | 🔴 (since Sep-21) |
| rsr-template-repo | `@1c5b675` | 🔴 |
| affinescript / boj-server / deed-ecosystem | ≤ v4.38.0 | ✅ green |

The v4.38.1 tag *exists* (peels to `1c5b675`) and byte-identical
workflow content runs under a fresh path — so the failure is the
**version value itself** at GitHub's start-validation layer, not
content, permissions (probes with `security-events` start fine), or the
default-setup conflict.

## Changes here

- `codeql-reusable.yml`, `hypatia-scan-reusable.yml`: `codeql-action/*`
re-pinned `1c5b675` (v4.38.1) → `b96794f0` (**v4.38.0** commit; wrong `#
v3` comments corrected to `# v4.38.0`).
- `actions.lock`: re-keyed to the v4.38.0 SHA entries (dependabot bumped
the reusable pins without regenerating the lock).
- `dependabot.yml`: **full hold** on `github/codeql-action` — scoped
`versions:` ignores do NOT hold for this bot path (nexia-list#101
re-raised the bump in SHA form within an hour, copying the inline
warning comment verbatim while swapping the SHA).

## Follow-ups

Consumer rollbacks shipped in the same batch: nexia-list (merged ✅),
**hypatia**, **vexometer**, **rsr-template-repo**,
**metadatastician/burble** (each with the same dependabot hold).
Reconsider the hold when upstream clears v4.38.1 or a newer release
verifies green on one canary repo.

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