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Two items of the owner's queue (STATE.md, positions 1 and 2), one pull request. It touches .github/workflows/ci.yml, so it is merged from the browser.

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A CI job of its own for the import table. TestTheWindowBinaryDoesNotImportOpenGLAtLoadTime builds tfg-gui.exe with cgo and reads its PE import table - the guard that holds the software renderer's premise (O218). In the test matrix it was the run's only cold cgo build, because CGO_ENABLED is 0 there and nothing else compiles the OpenGL binding or GLFW. Measured 2026-09-17: 822 s for the Windows test step against 434 s warm, four minutes under the timeout, cold again after every change to go.sum. The new job import table of the window binary runs it on windows-latest with a cache keyed on go.sum and the patched binding's PATCH.md, so the matrix's cache (saved first, without a cgo object) is not the one it restores. The matrix sets TFG_IMPORT_TABLE_JOB and the guard skips there with the reason named.

A guard for the skip. A guard skipped in one place and misspelled in the other runs nowhere and is green. So the job reads its log for the test's --- PASS line under pipefail (go test -run with a pattern matching nothing exits 0, and so does a skip on a runner without gcc - both measured), and TestTheImportTableGuardIsRunByTheJobThatNamesIt reads the test's name and the variable out of noimport_test.go and holds ci.yml to both halves. Three mutations, all caught.

The line before the second start speaks as a note. It stated that the driver offers no OpenGL 2.1 as a fact. The program has checked only that the first attempt gave no window, so the line says that, names the usual cause as usual, and says what is being done. One say, en.json regenerated.

Verified locally

  • the new guard and every workflow guard (buildtags, actionpinning, onerun, concurrency, job ceilings), green
  • the import table guard with the variable: skips and names why. Without it: PASS in 4 s on a warm cache
  • 69 cheap whole-tree gates, preflight --only gofmt,vet,build,lint,staticcheck
  • try-named.py: 3 of 3 mutations caught, staleness.py: every pattern occurs exactly once (the notices pattern that build(deps): bump golang.org/x/image from 0.45.0 to 0.46.0 #112 left stale points at 0.42.0 now)

After the first green run

The job does not block a merge until its name is in the ruleset's required checks (11 today). That is a repository setting, so it is the owner's step: add import table of the window binary.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved the Windows software-renderer fallback message to clearly state that the initial window-opening attempt failed.
    • The message now identifies a missing OpenGL 2.1 driver as a common cause rather than a confirmed cause, while retaining the automatic fallback behavior.
  • Documentation

    • Added an Unreleased changelog entry documenting the updated Windows fallback message and behavior.
  • Tests

    • Strengthened Windows CI validation for OpenGL import-table checks.

…t speaks as a note

Two items of the owner's queue, both about the software renderer.

The guard that builds the window with cgo and reads its PE import table
was the test matrix's only cold cgo build: CGO_ENABLED is 0 there, so
nothing else compiles the OpenGL binding or GLFW. Measured 2026-09-17,
822 s for the Windows test step against 434 s warm, four minutes under
the timeout, and cold again after every change to go.sum - which is
every Dependabot pull request. It runs in a job of its own now, with a
cache of its own, and the matrix asks it to skip by a variable declared
once in the guard's source.

A skip is the shape this project has been caught by: a guard that stops
reaching the state it watches and is green honestly. So the job reads
its log for the test's PASS line under pipefail - go test with a -run
pattern matching nothing exits 0, and so does a skip on a runner without
gcc, both measured - and a new guard reads the test's name and the
variable out of the guard's own source and holds ci.yml to both halves.
Three mutations for it, and the notices mutation that #112 left stale
points at the built version again.

The line written to standard error before the second start said the
driver offers no OpenGL 2.1 as a fact. The program has checked only that
the first attempt gave no window, so the line says that, names the usual
cause as usual, and says what is being done - the owner's decision of
2026-09-17.

Rejected: leaving the guard in the matrix with the measured four minutes
of room, because a runner thirty percent slower turns that into a
timeout that names whichever test happened to be running.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The Windows import-table check now runs in a dedicated CGO-enabled job. A new test validates its workflow configuration. Windows fallback messages now distinguish the observed window failure from the usual OpenGL 2.1 driver cause.

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Windows integrity and diagnostics

Layer / File(s) Summary
Dedicated Windows import guard
.github/workflows/ci.yml, internal/guard/noimport_test.go
The matrix job sets TFG_IMPORT_TABLE_JOB. A Windows-only job runs the import-table guard with CGO, caching, pipefail, and PASS-output validation.
Workflow integrity validation
internal/guard/importtablejob_test.go
The new test derives the guard metadata from source and verifies the matching Windows job, skip configuration, PASS check, and shell settings.
Software-renderer fallback messages
internal/gui/text/text.go, internal/gui/text/locale/en.json, CHANGELOG.md
Fallback text states that the initial window attempt failed and identifies a missing OpenGL 2.1 driver as the usual cause.

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Tests For Changed Behavior ⚠️ Warning The PR changes non-UI runtime output on standard error through StartingAgainWithSoftwareRenderer, but it adds no test for the new message semantics. The existing renderer test only checks that the c… Add or update a renderer test that asserts the new message content and rejects the old factual claim, such as checking for the failed first window attempt and the qualified usual cause while ensuring offers no OpenGL 2.1 is absent. Keep t…
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Title check ✅ Passed The title identifies both main changes: moving the import-table check to a dedicated CI job and revising the second-start message. The wording is awkward but remains specific and related to the change…
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No Obvious Performance Problems ✅ Passed No explicit performance problem is introduced. The PR adds one dedicated Windows CI test that performs one go test and one binary build, and one small repository-text validation test. The renderer m…
Desktop Robustness ✅ Passed The pull request changes CI guards, repository test inspection, and renderer status text. It does not add application asset loading, settings or data writes, culture-sensitive number/date handling, de…
Safe File Parsing ✅ Passed No unsafe file parsing was introduced. The new test uses os.ReadFile only for fixed repository files (.github/workflows/ci.yml and internal/guard/noimport_test.go), then applies bounded-looking …
System Changes Are Reversible ✅ Passed The pull request does not add or change code that modifies the listed system state. The workflow changes run a Windows test, configure a cache, and set a test-only environment variable. The Go changes…
Clear User-Facing Text ✅ Passed The PR changes the Windows fallback note, not a control or confirmation. The new text states what happened (the first window-opening attempt failed), identifies the usual OpenGL 2.1 cause without asse…
No Resource Leaks ✅ Passed No resource leak is introduced. The changed guard uses t.TempDir() for the built executable, and Go test removes that directory after the test. exec.Command(...).CombinedOutput() waits for the bui…
Scope, Duplication And Docs ✅ Passed All six changed files match the stated scope: the dedicated Windows import-table CI job and guard, the software-renderer note, and its regenerated English text. The new workflow test reuses existing Y…
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The PR changes non-UI runtime output on standard error through StartingAgainWithSoftwareRenderer, but it adds no test for the new message semantics. The existing renderer test only checks that the current return value is emitted, so it would pass even if the wording were wrong. The new importtablejob_test.go covers CI wiring, not this message. The added skip in noimport_test.go has explicit justification in the PR description and is not the issue.

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Add or update a renderer test that asserts the new message content and rejects the old factual claim, such as checking for the failed first window attempt and the qualified usual cause while ensuring offers no OpenGL 2.1 is absent. Keep the existing emission test.

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// to find out what happened.
func StartingAgainWithSoftwareRenderer() string {
return say("RendererStartingAgain", "The graphics driver on this computer offers no OpenGL 2.1. Starting again with the software renderer shipped beside the program.")
return say("RendererStartingAgain", "The first attempt to open a window did not succeed - usually a graphics driver without OpenGL 2.1. Starting again with the software renderer shipped beside the program.")

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add a regression assertion for the new diagnostic.

The supplied guard test checks strings.Contains(said, text.StartingAgainWithSoftwareRenderer()). It reads the expected text from the function under test, so it also passes after this message reverts. Assert the new observable wording, or add another test that fails when this change is undone, as required by CONTRIBUTING.md.

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In `@internal/gui/text/text.go` at line 297, Add a regression assertion for the
diagnostic returned by the RendererStartingAgain path that checks the new
literal wording rather than calling StartingAgainWithSoftwareRenderer() for the
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The wording guard. TestTheSecondAttemptIsTakenOnlyWhereTheRendererCanBe
reads the expected line from the function it tests, so a revert of the
new wording would leave it green. TestTheSecondStartSpeaksAsANoteNotAFinding
holds the words that make the line a note rather than a finding, with a
mutation that puts the old sentence back.

persist-credentials: false on the checkout of the import table job. The
checkout keeps the token in .git/config unless told not to, and the job
runs go test over the pull request's own code. The other twenty-two
checkouts in these workflows are the same shape and are O230, a change
of their own.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…ne (#118)

* ci: every checkout turns the job's token off, and a guard asks each one

actions/checkout leaves the token it cloned with in .git/config, and the
steps after it run go test over the pull request's own code, which can
read that file. An outside review of #117 named it on the one job it was
reading, and #117 turned the token off there. A fix at one job of twenty
four was an inconsistency (O230).

Checked per step before turning off all of them: no step in these
workflows pushes, fetches or commits after a checkout. The only git
commands are diff, cat-file and rev-parse, all local. The release, the
attestation and the pages talk to GitHub through gh with a token in the
environment, or through actions that carry their own, and none of that
reads .git/config. The weight is small - a pull request's token from a
fork is read only and the workflows ask for contents: read - and the
class is real on every checkout alike.

The guard reads each workflow through the YAML parser rather than the
line under uses:, because in pages.yml the with block sits under a
comment and the key can sit anywhere inside it. It self tests its
predicate on six shapes the tree does not contain, since every checkout
is off now and a rule that weakened would find nothing to let through.
It counts what it saw and refuses a walk that found far fewer than the
twenty four measured. Two mutations.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* guard: the checkout guard reads .yaml too, and two readings of the count agree

An outside review of #118 made two points about the guard. The first is
right: actions/checkout in a file ending .yaml would run and go unasked,
where the pinning guard beside it takes both suffixes. The second mixed
two things - a checkout the walk sees without the key is reported
whatever the count says, and the count guards against a parser that
stopped seeing steps - but the floor of twenty was a number from nowhere.

The proposed exact constant of twenty four is turned down: kept by hand,
it goes stale with the next workflow and would turn red on a good change,
a new checkout with the key and no bump. Instead the text is read once
more, for a second count of "uses: actions/checkout@" outside comments,
and the YAML walk has to find the same number. No constant, and a parser
dropping part of the steps is caught by the disagreement. A third
mutation proves it: the walk stops recognising a checkout, the text still
holds twenty four.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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