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silverwind ff68b39c93 docs: update AGENTS.md and dev docs (#39976)
Agents rarely read the `docs` guides when AGENTS.md only asks for
relevant ones. AGENTS.md now names the guide for each area, and rules
agents kept missing go into those guides.

- AGENTS.md maps Go, TS, CSS, Vue, templates, tests, config options,
migrations and refactors to their guide
- The backend guide lists XORM pitfalls behind recent bugs
(https://gitea.com/xorm/xorm/issues/2615): zero-valued struct
conditions, `Cols` and `updated` columns on updates, soft-delete values,
index drops by `SyncAllTables`, MSSQL limits and pagination order
- The development guide requires a `WIP:` companion docs PR copying the
ini text verbatim for `app.example.ini` changes, and says to avoid
migrations unless the alternative is a workaround
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  • Never assume, verify before claiming
  • List development targets with make help
  • Before working on code, read the docs guides for every area touched: guidelines-backend.md for Go, guidelines-frontend.md for TS, CSS and Vue, both for templates, testing.md for tests, development.md for config options and migrations, guidelines-refactoring.md for refactors
  • PR descriptions: minimal, only what and why, no task or file listings. Include screenshots for UI changes, before and after when modifying existing UI. Aim for less than 1000 characters
  • Reference issues and PRs by full URL, not by number
  • Use Conventional Commits for commit messages and PR titles, plus Gitea's enhance type for user-facing enhancements
  • Add an Assisted-by: AGENT_NAME:MODEL_VERSION trailer to commit messages, never Co-Authored-By or Signed-off-by
  • Attribute agent authorship on one trailing line in issue and PR comments, never as a PR description section
  • Never rewrite git history unless asked, update PRs with new commits and normal push
  • Comments: write almost none, short and preferably same-line, explaining why for a future reader. Never narrate code, the change or the prompt. Preserve existing ones that still apply. If you need to write a paragraph-long comment, rethink your implementation, it is likely too complicated
  • Add the current year to copyright headers of new .go files
  • In options/locale, only edit locale_en-US.json, other locales are synced automatically
  • In TS, use ! instead of ?./?? when a value always exists
  • In Go, prefer to use modern language features wherever possible
  • In Go, function-name prefixes in errors like fmt.Errorf("Foo: %w", err) must always name the function they are in
  • Write sizes as multiplications like 64 * 1024, not bit shifts like 64 << 10
  • Prefer tw-* utilities over inline style and flex-* helpers over per-child tw-ml-*/tw-mr-* margins, falling back to tw-* where specificity requires !important
  • Run make fmt after .go edits, make tidy after go.mod edits, make generate-swagger after API changes, and lint what changed with make lint-go, lint-js, lint-css or lint-templates
  • Fix the cause rather than disabling a linter or weakening a test. Where unavoidable, use the narrowest scope with a trailing comment giving the reason
  • Run single tests with go test -run '^TestName$' ./modulepath/ for Go, pnpm exec vitest <path-filter> for TS and GITEA_TEST_E2E_FLAGS='<filepath>' make test-e2e for e2e
  • Write the fewest, fastest tests covering the behavior, extending an existing one where possible. Prefer unit tests where logic is testable in isolation
  • Aim for sub-2s per integration test and sub-4s per e2e test. Wait on a deterministic condition rather than sleep, and prefer semantic locators in e2e tests