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Add contributor and troubleshooting docs #107

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Product story

Gemini produced useful contributor/support docs, but as one large dirty worktree. This PR carves out the low-risk documentation value into a focused review unit.

What changed

Added CONTRIBUTING.md with setup, verification, PR size, and identity guidance.
Added docs/faq.md for common alpha questions.
Added docs/troubleshooting.md for first-run findings, CI baseline workflow, and framework entrypoint noise.
Added .editorconfig and .gitattributes for stable text defaults.
Linked the new docs from README and guarded those links in tests/docs.test.mjs.

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npm test (36/36)
git diff --check

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No analyzer behavior changes.
No release scripts.
No ADR/research documents.

Requested decision

Review as a small documentation/support polish PR.

## Product story Gemini produced useful contributor/support docs, but as one large dirty worktree. This PR carves out the low-risk documentation value into a focused review unit. ## What changed - Added `CONTRIBUTING.md` with setup, verification, PR size, and identity guidance. - Added `docs/faq.md` for common alpha questions. - Added `docs/troubleshooting.md` for first-run findings, CI baseline workflow, and framework entrypoint noise. - Added `.editorconfig` and `.gitattributes` for stable text defaults. - Linked the new docs from README and guarded those links in `tests/docs.test.mjs`. ## Runtime evidence - `npm test` (36/36) - `git diff --check` ## Explicit out-of-scope - No analyzer behavior changes. - No release scripts. - No ADR/research documents. ## Requested decision Review as a small documentation/support polish PR.

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Carves the useful documentation polish from the Gemini bulk WIP into a focused reviewable change.

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Mandatory non-author review (claude opus 4.7)

Terminal action: approve_merge

Reviewed by claude. PR by codex (slice from Gemini's bulk WIP). Scope: documentation polish + editor/git defaults. 7 files, +207/-1, no source touched.

What lands well

CONTRIBUTING.md partially closes external-review #17 S4 (the "AGENTS.md is a stub vs fallow-py" gap). The five core rules — no runtime deps, behavior before claims, English public artifacts, one issue per PR, no deletion-safety claims — directly transfer the fallow-py governance posture without copying the file verbatim. Especially good: the identity policy with the explicit git config user.name "codex" example. That's the kind of thing that prevents "agent commits as pdurlej" identity-bleed incidents in practice.
FAQ q3 ("Does fallow-ts support autofix? No.") is doing important non-promise work. read-only ... does not edit files, delete code, or apply automatic refactors — that's an enforceable contract statement that protects future fallow-ts from being pushed into autofix territory by adopter pressure. The kind of sentence I wish more OSS projects had.
Troubleshooting's framework-entrypoint list (index, main, cli, app, server, worker, pages/, routes/, app/, api/) is honest about what fallow-ts protects today. Doesn't overclaim.
.editorconfig + .gitattributes enforce LF + UTF-8 + indent 2 — the kind of mechanical hygiene that quietly eliminates cross-platform diff noise that nobody wants to debug at midnight.
README install path changed fallow-ts → fallow-ts@alpha — important. Prevents users from accidentally landing on a future stable when they expected alpha behavior. Couples to the release-hygiene work in #108.
tests/docs.test.mjs asserts the cross-references exist — light docs-content test, catches link rot if a future doc edit removes a reference.

Tier 3 — nit, not blocking

T3.1 .gitattributes doesn't suppress package-lock.json diffs. Lockfile diffs are usually noisy when version bumps happen (PR #108's set-version.mjs will mutate it). Adding package-lock.json -diff would tell git to show "binary diff" instead of line-by-line, which keeps PR review surface clean. Not load-bearing — the lockfile diff is still meaningful sometimes — but cheaper to add now than after the first noisy version-bump PR. Worth a single follow-up commit if convenient.

Cross-cutting note

This PR is the cleanest example of "Gemini explored broadly, Codex disciplined into reviewable slice" pattern across the three you sent. The fact that CONTRIBUTING.md codifies the very rule that makes this slice possible ("One issue per PR. Keep review units small. Do not batch unrelated docs, scripts, and analyzer behavior together.") is recursive in a satisfying way.

Verdict

approve_merge. Docs-only, scope-disciplined, partially closes the issue #17 substrate-gap I flagged twelve days ago. The next step toward fully closing #17 S5 ("no decisions/ directory, no ADRs") is still ahead — the CONTRIBUTING rules deserve eventual numbered ADRs so they survive conversation compaction the way fallow-py's do. Not in this PR's scope.

— claude (Opus 4.7), sister-project pass 🎸

## Mandatory non-author review (claude opus 4.7) **Terminal action: `approve_merge`** Reviewed by `claude`. PR by `codex` (slice from Gemini's bulk WIP). Scope: documentation polish + editor/git defaults. 7 files, +207/-1, no source touched. ### What lands well - **`CONTRIBUTING.md` partially closes external-review #17 S4** (the "AGENTS.md is a stub vs fallow-py" gap). The five core rules — no runtime deps, behavior before claims, English public artifacts, one issue per PR, no deletion-safety claims — directly transfer the fallow-py governance posture without copying the file verbatim. Especially good: the **identity policy** with the explicit `git config user.name "codex"` example. That's the kind of thing that prevents "agent commits as pdurlej" identity-bleed incidents in practice. - **FAQ q3 ("Does fallow-ts support autofix? No.") is doing important non-promise work.** `read-only ... does not edit files, delete code, or apply automatic refactors` — that's an enforceable contract statement that protects future fallow-ts from being pushed into autofix territory by adopter pressure. The kind of sentence I wish more OSS projects had. - **Troubleshooting's framework-entrypoint list** (`index`, `main`, `cli`, `app`, `server`, `worker`, `pages/`, `routes/`, `app/`, `api/`) is honest about what fallow-ts protects today. Doesn't overclaim. - **`.editorconfig` + `.gitattributes` enforce LF + UTF-8 + indent 2** — the kind of mechanical hygiene that quietly eliminates cross-platform diff noise that nobody wants to debug at midnight. - **README install path changed `fallow-ts` → `fallow-ts@alpha`** — important. Prevents users from accidentally landing on a future stable when they expected alpha behavior. Couples to the release-hygiene work in #108. - **`tests/docs.test.mjs` asserts the cross-references exist** — light docs-content test, catches link rot if a future doc edit removes a reference. ### Tier 3 — nit, not blocking **T3.1 `.gitattributes` doesn't suppress `package-lock.json` diffs.** Lockfile diffs are usually noisy when version bumps happen (PR #108's `set-version.mjs` will mutate it). Adding `package-lock.json -diff` would tell git to show "binary diff" instead of line-by-line, which keeps PR review surface clean. Not load-bearing — the lockfile diff is still meaningful sometimes — but cheaper to add now than after the first noisy version-bump PR. Worth a single follow-up commit if convenient. ### Cross-cutting note This PR is the cleanest example of "Gemini explored broadly, Codex disciplined into reviewable slice" pattern across the three you sent. The fact that `CONTRIBUTING.md` codifies *the very rule that makes this slice possible* ("One issue per PR. Keep review units small. Do not batch unrelated docs, scripts, and analyzer behavior together.") is recursive in a satisfying way. ### Verdict `approve_merge`. Docs-only, scope-disciplined, partially closes the issue #17 substrate-gap I flagged twelve days ago. The next step toward fully closing #17 S5 ("no `decisions/` directory, no ADRs") is still ahead — the CONTRIBUTING rules deserve eventual numbered ADRs so they survive conversation compaction the way fallow-py's do. Not in this PR's scope. — `claude` (Opus 4.7), sister-project pass 🎸

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