Promote develop to main

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Promotes develop to main.

Includes #1038 (Fixes #675): documents the repo-scoped .secrets/ runtime-secrets convention in GOVERNANCE.md, cross-references it from STANDUP.md, and adds a hand-judged runtime-secrets audit dimension to spec/project-types.json.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Added guidance for managing repository-scoped runtime secrets.
  • Documented naming conventions, credential file extensions, example templates, README cataloging, and Git ignore requirements.
  • Added instructions for documenting local credential storage and rotating exposed credentials.
• Governance
  • Added runtime-secrets audit criteria and related governance references.

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PR Summary by Qodo

Define repo-scoped runtime secrets governance and audits

📝 Documentation ⚙️ Configuration changes 🕐 20-40 Minutes

AI Description

• Standardizes repo-scoped .secrets/ naming, templates, ignore rules, and catalog requirements.
• Directs onboarding guidance to document runtime credentials in each repository's operations
 runbook.
• Adds fleet-wide, hand-judged runtime-secrets naming and catalog audit checks.

Diagram

graph TD
  G["Governance baseline"] --> S["Standup guidance"] --> O["Repo operations"]
  G --> A["Audit guide"] --> P["Project type spec"] --> M["Manual audit"] --> R["Fleet repos"]
  O --> M

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High-Level Assessment

The following are alternative approaches to this PR:

1. Automate objective secret-layout checks

• ➕ Produces consistent fleet-wide findings
• ➕ Scales without repeated filename and ignore-rule inspection
• ➖ Requires executable audit logic and regression tests
• ➖ May misclassify structured credentials or intentionally specialized layouts

Recommendation: Keep the PR's declarative, hand-judged checks for this promotion because the convention includes semantic judgments about credential formats and consumers. Consider later automating only objective signals such as a bare secrets/ directory, .txt credential names, missing examples, and required .gitignore entries.

Files changed (4) +31 / -0

Documentation (3) +24 / -0

AUDIT.mdAdd runtime-secrets audit guidance +2/-0

Add runtime-secrets audit guidance

• Adds a cross-cutting runtime-secrets audit dimension covering dotted directory naming, extensionless opaque credentials, tracked examples, and README cataloging. Links the dimension to the canonical governance section.

AUDIT.md

GOVERNANCE.mdDefine the repo-scoped secrets baseline +19/-0

Define the repo-scoped secrets baseline

• Documents the '.secrets/' directory convention, credential filename rules, purpose-named environment files, tracked examples, safe ignore patterns, rotation guidance, and README catalog requirements. Distinguishes checkout-local runtime credentials from host-scoped secrets and GitHub Actions secrets.

GOVERNANCE.md

STANDUP.mdRoute runtime-secret documentation into operations runbooks +3/-0

Route runtime-secret documentation into operations runbooks

• Requires repositories using local runtime credentials to describe their layout under 'OPERATIONS.md''s 'Configuration Layout' heading and follow the shared governance convention.

STANDUP.md

Other (1) +7 / -0

project-types.jsonDeclare runtime-secrets conformance checks +7/-0

Declare runtime-secrets conformance checks

• Adds an all-repository 'runtime-secrets' cross-cutting dimension with hand-judged naming and catalog checks. Repositories without repo-scoped secret directories remain not applicable.

spec/project-types.json

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The changes define a repository-scoped .secrets/ convention, add operational documentation requirements, and register matching project specification and audit checks.

Changes

Repository-scoped secrets convention

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Secrets convention and operational guidance GOVERNANCE.md, STANDUP.md	Defines .secrets/ naming, credential file formats, .example templates, README cataloging, ignore rules, remediation steps, and OPERATIONS.md documentation requirements.
Audit and project specification spec/project-types.json, AUDIT.md	Adds the runtime-secrets rule set and audit dimension, with a reference to the repository-scoped secrets guidance.

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

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 11067

The PR documents a new runtime-secrets audit dimension, but the audit checklist does not yet include all of its declared checks. This could cause auditors to miss secret-handling requirements; the change is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner follow-up.

🚥 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 describes the pull request action: promoting the develop branch to main. This matches the stated PR objective.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes establish the documented repo-scoped .secrets/ convention, add the Governance reference, cross-reference operational guidance, and add the runtime-secrets audit specification required …
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	All documented changes support issue #675 and the stated promotion objective. No unrelated code or documentation changes are identified.
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…

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Explanation

The changes establish the documented repo-scoped .secrets/ convention, add the Governance reference, cross-reference operational guidance, and add the runtime-secrets audit specification required by issue #675.

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1. Audit assertions duplicate secrets policy ✗ Dismissed 📘 Rule violation ⚙ Maintainability

Description

The new JSON assertions, runtime-secrets audit description, and onboarding instruction repeat the
canonical applicability condition and substantive repo-scoped runtime-secrets requirements from
GOVERNANCE.md, despite carrying or allowing references such as intentRef links. These parallel
copies can drift and violate the requirement that non-canonical files reference rather than
partially or fully restate cross-cutting rules.

Code

spec/project-types.json[R168-169]

+                { "id": "runtimesecrets.naming", "verdict": "letter", "assert": "A repo-scoped runtime-secrets directory is named .secrets/ (dotted, not a bare secrets/), a single opaque credential file inside it carries no extension, a structured credential keeps its own format's extension, and the shared env file is named for what it configures rather than a bare .env. A bare secrets/ directory or a .txt-suffixed single-value secret file is drift. N/A for a repo carrying no repo-scoped secrets directory.", "intentRef": "GOVERNANCE.md#repo-scoped-secrets" },
+                { "id": "runtimesecrets.catalog", "verdict": "letter", "assert": "Every real secret file in a repo-scoped .secrets/ directory has a tracked <name>.example beside it, .gitignore un-ignores only the .example files plus README.md, and that README.md catalogs each file: what it holds and what consumes it. N/A for a repo carrying no repo-scoped secrets directory.", "intentRef": "GOVERNANCE.md#repo-scoped-secrets" }

Relevance

●●● Strong

Recent accepted precedent supports enforcing canonical references for detailed project-type
assertions.

PR-#963

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence

PR Compliance ID 2826346 permits references to canonical rules but prohibits substantive full or
partial copies of cross-cutting governance rules outside GOVERNANCE.md. The JSON assertions at
lines 168-169 repeat the naming, extension, env-file, example-file, ignore, and catalog obligations
from GOVERNANCE.md lines 105-118; the audit description repeats requirements from lines 105-109,
including .secrets/, extensionless opaque credentials, <name>.example, and the README catalog;
and STANDUP.md line 180 repeats the distinctive applicability condition, “A repo whose own stacks
or scripts read local runtime credentials from disk,” from GOVERNANCE.md line 103.

Rule 2826346: Do not duplicate cross-cutting rules from AGENTS.md and GOVERNANCE.md in other repository files
spec/project-types.json[168-169]
GOVERNANCE.md[105-118]
AUDIT.md[90-90]
GOVERNANCE.md[105-109]
STANDUP.md[180-180]
GOVERNANCE.md[103-103]

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 `runtimesecrets.naming` and `runtimesecrets.catalog` JSON assertions, the `runtime-secrets` audit description, and the new `STANDUP.md` onboarding sentence duplicate substantive requirements or applicability conditions from the canonical repo-scoped secrets policy in `GOVERNANCE.md`.

## Issue Context
Cross-cutting rules must remain canonical in `GOVERNANCE.md`; other files should identify the relevant audit dimension or onboarding instruction and refer to that policy without restating its conditions or obligations. Preserve identifiers, verdicts, `intentRef` metadata, and any onboarding-specific instruction needed by the audit and onboarding models, while replacing duplicated policy language with references to `GOVERNANCE.md`.

## Fix Focus Areas
- spec/project-types.json[168-169]
- AUDIT.md[90-90]
- STANDUP.md[180-180]

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Inline comments:
In `@AUDIT.md`:
- Line 90: Update the runtime-secrets checklist entry in AUDIT.md to include all
declared checks: structured credential extensions, purpose-named shared
environment files, restricted .gitignore exceptions, and required catalog
contents, while retaining the existing .secrets naming, opaque credential,
example-file, and README requirements.

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