{
  "intent": "Stop this session's splits from adding new shfmt violations, after discovering that analyze_repo.sh went from shfmt-clean to shfmt-dirty when it was split.",
  "scope": [
    "linux_configuration/scripts/single_use/utils/analyze_repo.sh",
    "linux_configuration/scripts/meta/lib/shell_check_{discover,install,lint}.sh",
    "Non-goal: the 157 pre-existing shfmt-dirty files, and shell_check.sh itself, which was already dirty at 133fccf"
  ],
  "changes": [
    "Ran shfmt -w on analyze_repo.sh to remove the double blank line the split introduced, then restored the STEP 1 comment banner that shfmt -w also stripped, so all eight STEP banners are intact.",
    "Ran shfmt -w on the three new shell_check libs, converting them from the 2-space indentation they inherited from their parent to shfmt's default tabs. They are new files, so there is no prior style to preserve."
  ],
  "verification": [
    {
      "command": "shfmt -d on the four files",
      "result": "pass",
      "evidence": "No diff for analyze_repo.sh or any of the three shell_check libs. Before this commit, analyze_repo.sh was the only file this session made newly dirty: a check against 133fccf confirmed it was clean there and shell_check.sh was already dirty there."
    },
    {
      "command": "count of shfmt-dirty .sh files at 133fccf",
      "result": "pass",
      "evidence": "157 of 298. This establishes that run_linters exiting 1 on the full tree is the repository's pre-existing state and not a regression from these splits; shfmt is not in .pre-commit-config.yaml and there is no .editorconfig, so the default tab style has never been enforced."
    },
    {
      "command": "shellcheck over every file this session touched",
      "result": "pass",
      "evidence": "Zero findings. Reformatting did not reintroduce any of the SC2034 / SC2154 / SC2086 / SC2153 findings cleared earlier."
    },
    {
      "command": "stubbed end-to-end run of analyze_repo.sh against a fixture repo, artifacts diffed against the 133fccf run",
      "result": "pass",
      "evidence": "Exit 0, and every artifact except the binary cscope index is byte-identical to the pre-split original. Re-run after reformatting to confirm shfmt -w changed no behaviour."
    },
    {
      "command": "bash scripts/meta/shell_check.sh --skip-install --list-only --verbose | grep -c '^  - '",
      "result": "pass",
      "evidence": "321, unchanged after the libs were reformatted."
    },
    {
      "command": "run_linters exercised directly over the three shell_check libs, with install_linters never invoked",
      "result": "pass",
      "evidence": "All six passes (shellcheck, shfmt, checkbashisms, bash -n, zsh -n, sh/dash -n) report PASS and run_linters exits 0. This verifies the CI path from .github/workflows/shell-check.yml, which was the outstanding risk recorded in the shell_check split's evidence."
    }
  ],
  "risks": [
    "run_linters over the whole linux_configuration tree still exits 1, because of the 157 pre-existing shfmt-dirty files. That is unchanged by this commit and was true before this session started.",
    "shfmt -w is a mechanical rewrite and removed a comment banner in analyze_repo.sh without being asked; the banner was restored by hand and all eight STEP headers were re-counted. Any future use of shfmt -w on a commented file deserves the same check."
  ],
  "rollback": [
    "git revert this commit; the four files return to their previous indentation and analyze_repo.sh regains the double blank line.",
    "After rollback, re-run the fixture comparison to confirm analyze_repo.sh still exits 0, since the rollback touches formatting only."
  ]
}