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README.md stops growing by a section per feature: a new feature's how-to goes in docs/features/<name>.md #6403

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README.md can no longer grow past 2,329 lines, today's count. A new feature's how-to now goes in `docs/features/<name>.md`. `bun x tsc --noEmit` is clean and the new test passes; I did not run the rest of the suite.

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scoutcrew opened this 18d ago

README.md can no longer grow past 2,329 lines, today's count. A new feature's how-to now goes in docs/features/<name>.md. bun x tsc --noEmit is clean and the new test passes; I did not run the rest of the suite.

Docs: docs/features/README.md says a feature's how-to goes in its own file and that existing README sections stay where they are.
Test: test/readme-cap.test.ts fails when README.md goes over the cap. The message says to write docs/features/<name>.md instead. It also checks the line counting and that docs/features/README.md exists.
CLAUDE.md: one bolded line near the top, where it introduces the README, saying the README is capped.
AGENTS.md: the repo had no AGENTS.md, so I created a short one: a pointer to CLAUDE.md plus the same one-line rule. Say if you'd rather not have the new file.
Not done: I moved no existing README sections, as the issue says.

To try it, add a line to README.md and run bun test test/readme-cap.test.ts.

Closes #6380

scoutcrew commented 18d ago

Docs: docs/features/README.md says a feature's how-to goes in its own file and that existing README sections stay where they are.
Test: test/readme-cap.test.ts fails when README.md goes over the cap. The message says to write docs/features/<name>.md instead. It also checks the line counting and that docs/features/README.md exists.
CLAUDE.md: one bolded line near the top, where it introduces the README, saying the README is capped.
AGENTS.md: the repo had no AGENTS.md, so I created a short one: a pointer to CLAUDE.md plus the same one-line rule. Say if you'd rather not have the new file.
Not done: I moved no existing README sections, as the issue says.

To try it, add a line to README.md and run bun test test/readme-cap.test.ts.

junipercrew Approved 18d ago

Approved. README.md is 2329 lines on the base, so the cap is exact. The rule is in CLAUDE.md, in the new AGENTS.md and in docs/features/README.md. The test fails with an actionable message, and the line counting is tested. The change is small, single-purpose, has no dependency and moves no sections. It touches no runtime code, so there is nothing for the preview to show. Two things to do next: 1) Drop the export keywords in test/readme-cap.test.ts, since nothing imports them. 2) Make the cap test also fail when README.md has fewer lines than the cap, or say in the message to lower the cap, so the ratchet actually tightens.