Contributors and coding agents need one local command that both reports and enforces the quality contract. This change turns the PR gate into the shared verification entrypoint, adds path-selected local lanes, tightens coverage accounting around changed lines, and documents the repair loop in contributor and agent-facing guidance.
Constraint: Ordinary PR verification must stay non-live and runnable without provider credentials
Constraint: Coverage policy updates in this commit require maintainer approval before push/merge
Rejected: Keep quality guidance only in docs | agents need executable scripts and AGENTS.md instructions to follow the loop consistently
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: broad
Directive: Do not bypass `bun run verify` for production changes; fix failed lanes and coverage reports instead of lowering thresholds
Tested: bun run check:policy
Tested: ALLOW_CLI_CORE_CHANGE=1 ALLOW_COVERAGE_BASELINE_CHANGE=1 bun run verify
Not-tested: live provider baseline; no provider credentials were required for this non-live PR gate
The repository now has a measurable PR quality path instead of a loose set of
manual checks. Coverage, quarantine governance, provider smoke, desktop smoke,
and workflow wiring all produce durable reports that contributors and maintainers
can inspect without reconstructing terminal output.
This also fixes the desktop smoke current-runtime path so browser-driven smoke
runs use the desktop default active provider instead of forcing the official
current model, and records that runtime decision as an artifact.
Constraint: Default PR gates must remain non-live and contributor-safe while live model checks stay explicit.
Constraint: Release packaging is still GitHub Actions based, so release preflight must run before the build matrix.
Rejected: Make live provider or desktop smoke mandatory on every PR | secrets, quotas, and model availability are maintainer-controlled.
Rejected: Let PRs lower coverage baselines in the same change | base-branch ratchet comparison must remain authoritative.
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: moderate
Directive: Do not relax coverage or quarantine policy without a maintainer approval label and a fresh quality report.
Tested: ALLOW_CLI_CORE_CHANGE=1 ALLOW_COVERAGE_BASELINE_CHANGE=1 bun run quality:gate --mode pr
Tested: bun run quality:gate --mode baseline --allow-live --only provider-smoke:* --provider-model nvidia-custom:main:nvidia-custom-main --artifacts-dir /tmp/quality-gate-live-smoke
Tested: bun run quality:gate --mode baseline --allow-live --only desktop-smoke:* --provider-model current:current:current-runtime --artifacts-dir /tmp/quality-gate-desktop-smoke-fixed
Tested: git diff --check
Not-tested: Full live release mode with multiple providers in hosted CI; provider credentials and quota remain maintainer-controlled.
The desktop app is now a primary entry point for users, so the bilingual README should show the desktop screenshots before architecture details and the GitHub contribution panel should default to Chinese for the main audience.
Constraint: GitHub renders the root CONTRIBUTING.md directly in the repository overview.
Rejected: Leave desktop preview after architecture diagrams | buries the most visible product surface below implementation material.
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: narrow
Tested: bun run check:docs
Tested: git diff --check
Not-tested: GitHub repository page rendering after push
Contributors need a visible path for local verification instead of relying on design notes or maintainer memory. Add a GitHub-facing CONTRIBUTING entrypoint, bilingual docs pages, README links, and VitePress sidebar navigation for PR gates, live model baselines, provider selection, reports, and release checks.
Constraint: Live baseline providers are local machine state; docs must tell contributors how to list and choose their own providers without maintainer UUIDs.
Rejected: Keep the instructions only in the quality-gate design doc | too hidden for clone-and-contribute workflows
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: narrow
Directive: Keep quality-gate commands documented wherever contributor onboarding links are exposed.
Tested: bun run check:docs
Tested: bun run quality:pr
Not-tested: live baseline after the docs-only wording change
