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docs/go-conventions.md says a failed read is never an answer, and nothing checked it. nilerr refuses one form of that: a function that returns an error catches one and returns nil. On the tree it found 15 such returns. 12 were the project lint's walkers, which the parent commit replaced. The other three: - CheckQuotaActivity answers a failed read of the sites entitlement as a quota of 0, which tells the member they have reached their site limit. That is #231; the return is pinned in .golangci.yml by its source line until #231 removes it. - paymentMethodID in the invoice reconcile returned no id when the mapped payment method id did not parse. The column is UUID NOT NULL, so that cannot happen with the data the schema allows; the function now returns the error, so a row that breaks the rule is reported instead of read as unlinked. Not probed: no test can store a value the column refuses. - The domain claim's connect probe answers a failed lookup of the operator's own target as ProbeStateError, the state that says the record could not be checked. That is the probe's answer, so the return is exempt with that reason. With the pins, golangci-lint reports none. 2 breaks, each caught by scripts/golangci-lint.sh: a read error returned as nil in the lint's readTree, and the payment method id's parse error returned as nil. The rule's page names nilerr as its check and says what it leaves to review: a failed read turned into an empty list or a zero by a function that returns a value. docs/testing.md lists nilerr among the linters. make lint passes; the Stripe workflows and lint packages pass with the database tests skipped (the test stack was down).
title, audience, summary
| title | audience | summary | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Documentation index |
|
Index of member-console documentation, grouped by audience, plus the front-matter convention every doc follows. |
Documentation
Every document in this directory carries YAML front matter declaring its audience, so readers can find what's for them and contributors know who they're writing for.
Front-matter convention
Start each doc with a front-matter block:
---
title: "Human-readable title"
audience: [admin, developer] # one or more of: developer, admin, user (primary first)
summary: "One sentence describing what the doc covers."
---
The three audiences:
- developer — contributing to or understanding the codebase: architecture, design decisions, dev setup, testing, UX research and conventions, the provider-extension contract.
- admin — hosting and operating an instance: installing, configuring an identity provider, building the image, generating secrets, running the service.
- user — the general public or a member using a running service. (None yet — the tag is reserved for member-facing docs.)
List the primary audience first; a doc may name more than one.
For administrators — hosting & operating
- Production Deployment — the sequenced path from a fresh host to a running instance; start here.
- Environment Reference — every configuration key with its default and
MC_*override. - Settings and Configuration — why software uses two words for what a program is told, and how this console applies the rule.
- Hosting member-console — build the image and generate secrets.
- Deployment Architecture — how the console fits alongside a public site and an identity provider.
- Identity Provider Setup — configure an OIDC IdP for login.
- Temporal Authorization Setup — emit the
permissionsclaim Temporal's JWT authorizer expects. - Plan Management — operator guide to plan ladders and grants.
- Stripe Integration — flags, secrets, webhooks, and purchasability.
For developers — contributing & internals
- Database Management — goose migrations and sqlc.
- Database Locks — every advisory and serializing row lock, how each key is built, and the order each path takes them in.
- Design System — UI conventions.
- Domain Model Cards — the model catalog: one card per domain model with invariants, dimensions, and traps.
- FedWiki Integration — provisioning via the FarmManager API.
- Go Conventions — where a rule and an act live, transactions and locks, output order, error handling, and dead code.
- HTMX Setup — HTMX under a strict CSP.
- Identifiers — IDs, names, and keys: which entities carry a key, its grammar and scope, and how seeds and lookups use it.
- Operator Information Architecture — the operator panel's IA contract.
- Operator UX Conventions — form and action conventions.
- First-Contact UX Walk Process — the repeatable method for walking the console as a stranger.
- First-Contact UX Rubric — the instrument that method scores with: the A–G question bank, the walker protocol, and the screen coverage checklist.
- Agent Runner — how an agent from another model family reviews or ideates on the code inside a disposable copy: what contains it, how a task is shaped, and what a finding must carry before it counts.
- Operator UI Accessibility Baseline — what operator-UI changes are diffed against.
- Building an Integration — adding a new integration.
- Testing — the test taxonomy and how to run each kind, plus the gates:
make lint(page-anatomy rules and the Go static checks) andmake screens(contact sheets at two widths).
For users
No member-facing documentation yet.
One page per rule
A rule is written on the one page that owns it. Another page that needs the rule links to that page instead of restating it, because two copies of a rule are edited separately and drift apart.
Where things are not
Research, drafts, audits, walkthrough evidence, and other records of how a
decision was reached are not documentation; they stay in a local notebook
that git ignores, so a clone never carries them. When a decision lands,
whatever a reader still needs is written into this directory, which holds
the result without the history. The rule for every kind of file is in
status/MAINTAINING.md.