Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main'

2 files changed, 31 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/post-rebuild-check b/scripts/post-rebuild-check
index ee77a19..aa7ef83 100755
--- a/scripts/post-rebuild-check
+++ b/scripts/post-rebuild-check
@@ -428,6 +428,16 @@ printf '%s\n' "$projects" > "$WORK/projects" 2>/dev/null || {
 # steady state rather than reinstall drift, and flagging it would put nine
 # standing findings in front of every real one.
 #
+# .claude/ is absent for the same reason and proven the same way. The
+# bootstrap and the gitignore sweep write it into the ignore set of every
+# gitignore-mode project whether or not one ever exists there, so the entry is
+# aspirational rather than a promise -- pearl, rsyncshot and yt-sync each name
+# it and none of the three has ever had one, on velox or on ratio. Dropping it
+# loses no real signal either: a project that genuinely carries a .claude/
+# (rules and hooks from a language bundle) has it re-synced by
+# sync-language-bundle.sh at every session start, so a true absence heals
+# itself before this check would run.
+#
 # The list is fed to the inner loop straight from a heredoc rather than
 # staged through a file. It is a constant, so a file bought nothing and cost
 # a fifth unguarded write: had it failed (a full tmpfs, say) the inner loop
@@ -458,7 +468,6 @@ while IFS= read -r proj; do
         esac
     done <<'EOF'
 .ai \.ai
-.claude \.claude
 todo.org todo\.org
 inbox inbox
 EOF
diff --git a/tests/post-rebuild-check/test_post_rebuild_check.py b/tests/post-rebuild-check/test_post_rebuild_check.py
index a034f87..bc887c6 100644
--- a/tests/post-rebuild-check/test_post_rebuild_check.py
+++ b/tests/post-rebuild-check/test_post_rebuild_check.py
@@ -765,12 +765,31 @@ class ProjectTooling(unittest.TestCase):
 
     def test_ignored_but_absent_tooling_flags(self):
         with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as root:
-            self.project(root, [".ai/", ".claude/", "todo.org"])
+            self.project(root, [".ai/", "todo.org"])
             r = run_check(project_roots=root)
         self.assertEqual(r.returncode, 1)
-        for missing in (".ai", ".claude", "todo.org"):
+        for missing in (".ai", "todo.org"):
             self.assertIn(missing, r.stdout)
 
+    def test_claude_dir_absence_never_flags(self):
+        # Same shape as CLAUDE.md below, and proven the same way. The bootstrap
+        # and the gitignore sweep write `.claude/` into the ignore set of every
+        # gitignore-mode project whether or not one ever exists there, so the
+        # entry is aspirational rather than a promise. Three projects tripped
+        # this on velox, and ratio is missing the identical directory in the
+        # identical three, which is what proves it is the steady state and not
+        # reinstall drift.
+        #
+        # Nor does dropping it lose a real signal. A project that genuinely
+        # carries one (rules and hooks from a language bundle) has it re-synced
+        # by sync-language-bundle.sh at every session start, so a true absence
+        # heals itself before this check would ever run.
+        with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as root:
+            self.project(root, [".ai/", ".claude/"], present=(".ai/",))
+            r = run_check(project_roots=root)
+        self.assertEqual(r.returncode, 0, r.stdout)
+        self.assertNotIn(".claude", r.stdout)
+
     def test_ignored_and_present_tooling_passes(self):
         with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as root:
             self.project(root, [".ai/", "CLAUDE.md"],