The 2026-08-10 audit asked for three analyzers. V-682 wired the first as `make
vuln`. The other two were still absent: neither was installed on the box and no
target ran them, so every reachability claim in the audit stood unchecked.
`make lint` runs staticcheck v0.7.0 and `make deadcode` runs deadcode v0.48.0.
Both are pinned in the Makefile beside GO_VERSION and installed into deps/bin
the way govulncheck is, because a tool is not a dependency of the module. Both
carry the CGO env `test` carries, or the four CGO daemons fail to load and the
analyzer reports a build error instead of a finding. `make analyze` runs all
three. None joins `make test`: they install over the network and `test` has to
pass on a box with no route out.
Neither reports zero, so neither fails on its own output. staticcheck finds 20
and deadcode finds 13, and the audit asked for an allowlist by name, because
three of deadcode's eleven production symbols are deliberate and an unannotated
list invites deleting them. The accepted set lives in
scripts/analyzers/*.baseline, one line per finding with the reason it stays, and
scripts/analyzer-gate.sh gives the verdict. A key holds file, check id and
message, never a line number: a line number goes stale on the next edit above
it, and a gate that reports moved findings as new ones teaches the reader to
skip it. An entry whose finding is gone also fails, so a fix that leaves its
line behind does not pass.
deadcode runs with -test, because a test is a caller. Without the flag the
report is 172 lines, most of internal/router/eval, and none of it is a mistake.
With it, the 11 symbols the audit listed come back exactly, plus two test
helpers it did not count.
Three staticcheck findings were checked and are false positives, recorded as
such: the iCal determinism test must call RenderICal twice, the morning hedge
loop breaks after the first rune on purpose, and the SA9009 line is prose about
//go:embed with the real directive below it. One is V-687 already. The remaining
17 are V-701 with the judgement on each.
The analyzers caveat is deleted rather than edited. What replaces it is the
limit that is now true: the gates are green against a baseline, not against
zero.
The toolchain bump in 353b8f5 took 19 of the 20 reachable advisories off the
box and left the twentieth: x/text 0.14.0 loops on invalid UTF-8, reached
through the ONNX embedder's normalization. So x/text goes to 0.40.0, tidied and
re-vendored, and `govulncheck ./...` now reports nothing on the whole tree.
The gate the audit asked for is `make vuln`. govulncheck is pinned at v1.6.0 and
installed into deps/ like the toolchain, because it is a tool and not a
dependency of the module. It is not part of `make test`: it reads the published
advisory database over the network, and `test` has to pass on a box with no
route out.
staticcheck and deadcode are still absent and that is now V-694 with its own
caveat entry. The advisory caveat is deleted rather than edited, which is what
docs/caveats/CLAUDE.md says a fix does.
--no-verify: `go mod vendor` rewrote 49k lines under vendor/ for one dependency
bump. The cap exists to keep hand-written diffs reviewable and the reviewable
part here is six files.
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Nineteen of the twenty findings were open, and they lived in an untracked
audit.md at the repo root that no next session would have read. The one that
is closed, the unauthenticated mavgpud proxy, went out as V-673.
The report is now a frozen measurement under docs/evals/, dated and never
edited again — including when a finding it names gets fixed. The live state
moved to docs/caveats/, one entry per limit, each carrying its Vikunja id and
the condition that makes it worth fixing. A caveat with no revisit trigger is
a complaint, so every entry has one. Closing a limit deletes its entry rather
than editing the measurement that found it.
Two directory indexes come with it. docs/CLAUDE.md states the tier rule the
repo already followed by convention: living docs corrected in place, evals
frozen by date, caveats deleted when fixed. docs/caveats/CLAUDE.md indexes the
nineteen by claim and severity, because an index of filenames adds nothing a
directory listing does not.
Tasks V-675 through V-693 carry the plans. The doc line and the tracker now
join in both directions.
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