The gate reported 2277 lines of findings and had become unreadable, which read as accumulated debt. It was a tooling bug. In this grep build a single file-level --exclude= silently cancels every --include= on the same command; --exclude-dir= is unaffected. Two innocuous entries, --exclude=findings.sarif and --exclude=report.md, had therefore been disabling the include filters on every check that used the EXCLUDES array. That is why a check whose flags say .py/.vue/.js/.ts was reporting .md, .ps1, .json, .gitignore and vendored DLLs: it was scanning the whole tree including build artifacts.
Removes all file-level excludes and reproduces their intent with a drop_generated post-filter, adds grep -I so binaries can never be reported (there is no line to fix in a DLL), excludes bin/obj/publish/dev-bin and exports/backups, and adds the drop_scratch the shorthand loop was missing while every other check had it. Findings drop from 2277 lines to 11 with all ten checks passing. Verified with a planted canary file that the gate still catches cfg, a snake_case __tablename__ and a snake_case db.Column - a green gate immediately after a filtering change is worth distrusting until shown to still fail. Do not re-add --exclude=<file> to that array.
Style check fixes:
- Replace unicode box-drawing characters with ASCII (|-- instead of ├──)
- Replace emoji status markers with [OK]/[FAIL]/[WARN] tags
- Replace arrows (→ with ->, ↔ with <->) and em-dashes (— with --)
- Add venv-quick to excluded directories in check script
- Exclude darkwing report files (findings.sarif, report.md)
Backup finalization fix:
- Fix finalize-restore endpoint to not claim the upgrade sentinel
- Endpoint now checks for pending upgrade and returns {queued: true}
- Leaves UPGRADE_SENTINEL for background watcher to claim and process
- Prevents inline Alembic runs that can outlast request timeout
Claude Code context:
- Add .claude/ directory with INDEX.md and QUICK-REFERENCE.md
- Add CLAUDE.md with project overview and conventions
- Helps Claude Code understand project structure and rules
Fixes failing test: test_the_endpoint_does_not_run_the_upgrade_itself
Fixes naming/style CI check violations
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Flask + Vue rewrite of the classic-ASP shopdb, built as a plugin
framework so sister GE Aerospace sites can adopt it. Product version
0.7.0-pre-0.8.0, plugin contract 0.11.0, 966 backend tests.
Key entry points:
- docs/INSTALL-WINDOWS-IIS.md - tested Windows + IIS install runbook
(own-site and subpath deployment methods)
- docs/PILOT-DEPLOY.md - production pilot: stand up + import + verify
- docs/IMPORT-API.md - schema-agnostic legacy data import contract
- scripts/site_imports/wjf/ - West Jefferson reference import loader
- docs/adr/ - twelve accepted architecture decision records
