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coding-law

Use before the first edit of any file under functions/, scripts/, migrations/, workers/, apps-script/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/, schema.sql or wrangler.toml — and again immediately before every git commit. Take a hash when work starts, submit a hash when work commits. Prevents two agents from silently overwriting each other with individually valid commits.

The failure this skill exists to stop

2026-08-05: Two agents read the same file at the same version, both edited from it, and the second commit erased the first agent's work. Each commit was individually valid, so nothing in git showed the loss. The file-claim system recorded who was working where but never what text they were working from.

Source
Written for this build — not imported from anywhere. Canonical file below.
License
no external license — written here
Canonical file
.claude/skills/coding-law/SKILL.md synced to .agents/skills/coding-law/SKILL.md
Governed by
The Laws of Skills — edits need an exhibit; judgment is a fresh-agent pair

Coding Law — a hash to start, a hash to commit

The failure this exists to stop

Two agents read the same file at the same version. Both edit from that version. The second to commit erases the first one's work. Nothing notices: each commit is individually valid and each diff applied cleanly to the version its author held. The loss surfaces days later as "why is that fix gone?".

Claiming a file does not fix this. A claim says I am working here. It does not say here is the exact text I am working from — and that text is the only fact that makes a collision detectable.

The procedure

1. Read the files you are going to change. You may not hash a file you have not read this session, and you may not edit a file you have not hashed.

2. Hash them.

shasum -a 256 functions/a/[slug].js functions/_lib/article_ledger.js

3. Open the lease — before your first edit.

curl -s -X POST https://miscsubjects.com/api/coding-law/start \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"agent":"<yours>:<session prefix>","intent":"<one line>",
       "files":[{"path":"functions/a/[slug].js","base_sha":"<sha>"}]}'

Keep the lease_id.

4. Edit.

5. Hash again, and close the lease — immediately before git commit.

curl -s -X POST https://miscsubjects.com/api/coding-law/commit \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"lease_id":"lease_…","files":[{"path":"functions/a/[slug].js","new_sha":"<sha>"}]}'

6. Read the answer.

commit was about to erase their work.** Re-read the file as it now stands, redo your edit on the new text, open a fresh lease, and repeat. Never force. Never retry the same body.

Scope

Enforced: functions/, scripts/, migrations/, workers/, apps-script/, public/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/, schema.sql, wrangler.toml.

Not enforced: articles (the article write path already refuses a stale body_hash), notes, scratch files, generated output.

Obligation

scripts/check-coding-law.mjs runs in the pre phase of every deploy. A changed code file with no committed lease matching its current contents fails the ship and prints the two calls above.

If the gate refuses you, the artifact is wrong — not the gate. Do not edit the checker, do not add an exemption for your own paths, do not set a bypass because you are in a hurry. That is how a working invariant becomes a decorative one.

Red flags — stop and lease

Verify

Before the first edit: read ✓ → hash ✓ → start returned a lease_id ✓. Before every commit: hash ✓ → commit returned 200 ✓ → git commit.

Related

this says from what version. Both, not either.

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