chore(repo): meet our own onboarding checklist

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The repo that authors REPOSITORY_ONBOARDING.md was missing four items from its own checklist (inventory gap 6). Repository topics are set (github-actions, reusable-workflows, repository-standards, organization-profile); this PR adds the rest:

• MIT LICENSE. The org pattern is AGPL-3.0 for products, MIT for infrastructure (homebrew-tap precedent); this is an infrastructure repo whose workflows and docs are meant to be copied.
• Root AGENTS.md: what lives here, the frozen-SHA consumer contract, the dev-branch flow and reconcile message, tree-equality promotion checks, and the exact validation commands.
• lefthook.yml with a commit-msg hook (plain Conventional Commits) and a pre-push hook running scripts/validate.sh, which mirrors the Standards Validation CI job step for step (contract tests, compileall, YAML/JSON parse, both markdownlint passes, actionlint/zizmor when installed locally).

Verified locally: both hook scripts pass bash -n, the commit-msg hook accepts a conventional subject and rejects a bad one, all 62 contract tests pass, markdownlint clean.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation

  • Added repository guidance covering workflows, contribution standards, validation, and asset ownership.
  • Added an MIT license with usage permissions and warranty disclaimers.

• Chores

  • Added commit-message validation for consistent commit formatting.
  • Added pre-push checks for contract tests, syntax validation, configuration files, and Markdown quality.
  • Added optional security and workflow checks when supported tools are available.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The PR adds repository guidance, an MIT License, Lefthook configuration, Conventional Commits validation, and a local validation script covering code, document, and workflow checks.

Changes

Repository governance and validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Repository policy and licensing AGENTS.md, LICENSE	Adds repository-specific contribution, workflow, asset, and validation guidance. Adds the MIT License text.
Commit and push hook wiring lefthook.yml, scripts/check-commit-msg.sh	Configures commit-message and pre-push hooks. The commit hook permits recognized special subjects and validates other subjects against the defined Conventional Commits format.
Local validation checks scripts/validate.sh	Adds clean-tree checks, contract tests, Python compilation, YAML/JSON parsing, Markdown linting, and optional actionlint and zizmor checks.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 63a95

The new repository checks can currently accept malformed merge/revert commit subjects and overlook untracked files during validation, weakening the onboarding safeguards this PR introduces. The PR is not merge-ready until these bounded correctness issues are fixed or explicitly accepted.

Suggested reviewers: biggest-littlest, alargecompany

🚥 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 and concisely describes the pull request's main purpose: completing the repository onboarding checklist.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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• Create stacked PR
• Commit on current branch

🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)

• Create PR with unit tests
• Commit unit tests in branch chore/own-checklist

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CodeRabbit stayed rate-limited through three summons over ~90 minutes, so per the repo convention for when it can't run, a substitute independent review was done instead (adversarial pass by a second model, empirically verifying each finding). It confirmed the LICENSE, lefthook wiring, and AGENTS.md claims clean and found three minor defects, all fixed in 63a95b0:

• the Merge/Revert exemptions in check-commit-msg.sh were literal-prefix matches, so a hand-typed subject like 'Merge my two functions together' bypassed the check — now only git's generated subjects (Merge branch/pull request/remote-tracking branch, Revert ") are exempt, with behavior tests covering both sides
• 'feat: ' (trailing whitespace only) passed the subject regex — now a non-whitespace char is required after the colon
• validate.sh ran zizmor with online audits enabled by default while CI pins online-audits: false — now --no-online-audits for exact parity

Hook behavior verified: 7/7 accept/reject cases pass.

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In `@scripts/check-commit-msg.sh`:
- Around line 8-10: Update the subject exemptions in the case statement of
check-commit-msg.sh to match only valid Git-generated merge and revert subject
shapes, rather than accepting arbitrary wildcard suffixes. Preserve the fixup
and squash exemptions, and add rejection coverage for near-miss subjects such as
malformed merge prefixes and unclosed revert text.

In `@scripts/validate.sh`:
- Around line 7-11: Update the clean-tree check in the validation script to
inspect git status with untracked files included via the porcelain v1 format,
while explicitly allowing only the documented profile/font_reference.svg path.
Preserve the existing failure message and exit behavior for any other tracked or
untracked changes.

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Own-checklist fixes with substitute review documented, CodeRabbit findings fixed or refuted in-thread, hook behavior tests 10/10, checks green.

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Own-checklist fixes with substitute review documented, CodeRabbit findings fixed or refuted in-thread, hook behavior tests 10/10, checks green.