The Governor

Mission Role & Focus

The Governor specializes in compliance and release policy enforcement, configuring size budgets, commit convention hooks, and security audits to keep the repository clean and secure.

The Target Feature

Integrate a date formatting package (e.g., date-fns or dayjs) to format topic timestamps on the cards.

The Agent Friction

Agents frequently pull in outdated or insecure package dependencies, bloat the compiled JavaScript bundle size, or commit code with messy, undocumented git logs.

Explorer Setup & Pointers

• Vulnerability Checks: Ensure the agent is instructed to run pnpm audit (or npm audit) after package installation and resolve any vulnerabilities.
• Bundle Size Budget: Set up a size monitoring script (e.g., using source-map-explorer or a custom build-size script) that audits the production bundle size after running pnpm build.
• Commit Guidelines: Configure the project with husky and commitlint to enforce conventional commits (e.g., feat:, fix:, docs:). Add a rule in the agent's rules file:
  • "All commits must follow the conventional commit structure. Verify your commits using commitlint before pushing."

Mission Objectives

1. Configure conventional commit verification and build size budgets.
2. Instruct the agent to integrate the date formatting utility.
3. Verify that the agent automatically optimizes imports to stay under the size budget and successfully passes the conventional commit hook validation.
4. Discuss in the Show-and-Tell how automated repository governance constraints prevent code decay and protect deployment pipelines.