Distillation

Date: Sep 8, 2026

• 🔴 (18:37) User directive: Always read governance at the start of every session; governance is the source of truth for repository quality gates and policies.
• 🔴 (18:37) User directive: Always explain non-obvious changes in commit messages.
• 🔴 (18:37) User directive: Always follow the repository governance rules when generating or modifying code.
• 🔴 (18:37) User directive: Never run rm -rf or other destructive system commands, including dd, DROP TABLE, force-push to main, curl|bash, and docker system prune.
• 🔴 (18:37) User directive: Never modify files outside the repository; all file operations must remain within it.
• 🔴 (18:37) User’s supplied governance requires minimal, focused diffs: prefer editing existing files, do not rewrite unrelated files, and do not add new dependencies without explicit approval or justification.
• 🔴 (18:37) User’s supplied governance requires mandatory quality gates to run before committing or proposing a commit, in this exact order: 1. go vet ./..., 2. go test ./..., 3. go test -race -timeout=30m -v ./tfexec/internal/e2etest, 4. go test -cover "./..."), 5. go test -race ./internal/terraform ./internal/command ./internal/states, 6. make syncdeps, 7. make fmtcheck importscheck vetcheck copyright generate staticcheck exhaustive protobuf, 8. go build # from .github/CONTRIBUTING.md (advisory—confirm before enforcing).
• 🔴 (18:37) User’s supplied governance defines gate classifications: MANDATORY blocks/stops on failure, OPTIONAL warns but does not block, and ADVISORY is informational; path-scoped gates run from their declared directory, and conditional gates run only when the referenced file exists.
• 🔴 (18:37) User’s supplied governance says that if a gate fails, attempt an automatic lint/format fix with a maximum of 2 attempts; if failure persists, escalate to the user. One generated workflow variant instead says to fix and rerun only the failed gate.
• 🔴 (18:37) User’s supplied governance prohibits hardcoded secrets and requires checking for sk_live, AKIA, and password= before commit.
• 🔴 (18:37) User’s supplied governance anti-patterns are: do not ignore returned errors—handle them or explicitly discard with _ =; do not use panic() in library code—return errors; do not use init() unless absolutely necessary; do not use the latest tag in FROM—pin a version; and do not run containers as root—use a non-root USER.
• 🔴 (18:37) User’s supplied governance describes Terraform as a Go/Docker monolith using Go >=1.25.8, go test with a flat test layout, GitHub Actions CI, Docker deployment, trunk-based development, free-form commits, and the commit trailer Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>.
• 🔴 (18:37) User’s supplied governance specifies auto-commit after gates pass and says destructive operations such as delete, rename, or schema migration require confirmation.
• 🟡 (18:37) GitHub PR hashicorp/terraform#38385, “Add AI agent governance,” was published April 15, 2026 and closed without merging; metadata: base SHA c05eaaf20d0fdd5a755c7d81422c5e0110bd1b67, head SHA 0b9819f68301eafaa8542a0d54bd56c33e680bb2, merge commit SHA 55ae4d98b4c52c41f8e05936dbe7a5e55ca1eb28, changed_files: 12, draft: false, merged: false. (meaning Apr 15, 2026)
• 🟡 (18:37) PR #38385 proposed deterministic AI-agent governance generated by crag from a single governance source, claiming “one governance.md, 14 tool configs, no drift.” Suggested maintenance commands were npx @whitehatd/crag, npx @whitehatd/crag hook install, and CI drift detection with WhitehatD/crag-audit-action@v1.
• 🟡 (18:37) PR #38385 added 12 files: 1. .amazonq/rules/governance.md, 2. .claude/governance.md, 3. .cursor/rules/governance.mdc, 4. .windsurf/rules/governance.md, 5. .changes/v1.16/NOTES-20260415-010000.yaml, 6. .clinerules, 7. .continuerules, 8. .github/copilot-instructions.md, 9. .rules, 10. AGENTS.md, 11. CLAUDE.md, 12. GEMINI.md.
• 🟡 (18:37) .changes/v1.16/NOTES-20260415-010000.yaml records kind: NOTES, body Add AI agent governance configuration files (CLAUDE.md, GEMINI.md, AGENTS.md, governance.md), time 2026-04-15T01:00:00.000000-04:00, and issue "38385". (meaning Apr 15, 2026)
• 🟡 (18:37) The generated governance targets use these regeneration commands: Amazon Q crag compile --target amazonq; Cursor crag compile --target cursor; Windsurf crag compile --target windsurf; Cline crag compile --target cline; Continue crag compile --target continue; Zed crag compile --target zed; AGENTS.md crag compile --target agents-md; Claude crag compile --target claude; Gemini crag compile --target gemini; all targets crag compile --target all.
• 🟡 (18:37) Generated Copilot instructions recommend crag check to verify governance infrastructure and crag diff to detect drift; generated CLAUDE.md recommends crag audit to detect drift.
• 🟡 (18:37) Assistant independently assessed 10 frozen records and found clear institutional evidence in 4 areas: 1. the provider-license rule, 2. the Habitat EULA implementation/revert/reimplementation sequence, 3. BUSL relicensing, and 4. the module-normalization stewardship shift. The crash and HCL updates were assessed as containing no institutional claim, while unmerged AI-rules PR #38385 supported only a proposal-level claim.
• 🟡 (18:37) Record-review task status: 1. “Read protocol, schema, and complete frozen source for all 10 records without opening model codings” completed, high priority; 2. “Independently derive source-supported institutional claims and evidence bounds” completed, high priority; 3. “Inspect frozen model codings and adjudicate adoption, revision, or rejection” in progress, high priority; 4. “Validate every final object against protocol/schema requirements and return compact JSON” pending, high priority.