Preflight

Run these in order. Each is cheaper than the one after it, so a failure costs you the least possible time. Stop at the first failure, fix it, restart from that step.

1. Scope check (seconds)

git branch --show-current
git status --short
git diff --stat develop...HEAD

• Not on develop. If you are, branch now — never commit to develop directly.
• No stray files: no exported_world.json, no .ofm build output, no *.local, no editor cruft.
• The diff is the change you meant to make. Unrelated reformatting is noise that hides the real edit; drop it.

2. Types (fast)

npx tsc --noEmit

3. Frontend tests

npm test

Iterate on one area first — npx vitest run src/components/squad — then run the full suite before pushing. Around 150 test files; the whole run takes a few minutes.

If you touched any user-facing text, this is where src/i18n/localeCoverage.test.ts and src/i18n/frontendKeyCoverage.test.ts catch missing locales. They run as part of npm test.

4. Frontend build

npm run build

tsc && vite build. This is the exact command CI runs, so a green local build means a green CI frontend job.

5. Backend tests

cargo test --manifest-path src-tauri/Cargo.toml --workspace

If you changed a Tauri command, also run the lib target explicitly:

cargo test --manifest-path src-tauri/Cargo.toml --lib

cargo test --bin matches zero tests and exits 0. It looks like a pass and checks nothing.

Touched MCP server code? That is behind a feature flag and is not compiled by default:

cargo build --manifest-path src-tauri/Cargo.toml --features mcp

6. Clippy

cargo clippy --manifest-path src-tauri/Cargo.toml --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings

Clippy must be clean before a PR (CONTRIBUTING.md has always asked for this; check .github/workflows/build-check.yml for whether CI enforces it yet). Fix warnings rather than adding #[allow]; if an #[allow] is genuinely right — a Tauri command whose long argument list is the IPC signature, say — put a comment above it explaining why.

Match CI's toolchain. CI pins the version named in .github/workflows/build-check.yml (dtolnay/rust-toolchain@…). Clippy gains lints between releases, so a newer local Rust reports findings CI doesn't have — and an older one misses findings CI will catch. If your results disagree with CI, run cargo +<pinned-version> clippy … before chasing anything.

Touched MCP code? CI lints it separately, because the feature isn't on by default:

cargo clippy --manifest-path src-tauri/Cargo.toml --workspace --all-targets --features mcp -- -D warnings

7. Formatting

cargo fmt --manifest-path src-tauri/Cargo.toml --all

Format the files you touched. A repo-wide sweep is still outstanding, so cargo fmt --check reports pre-existing diffs across the tree and is not a CI gate yet — don't let unrelated formatting churn into your diff.

8. Lint (advisory)

npm run lint

Biome is installed and configured but not a CI gate: the codebase has a large pre-existing backlog. Read the findings for the files you touched and fix those. Don't start the repo-wide sweep here.

9. i18n audit (advisory)

npm run audit:i18n

Always exits 0. It is a heuristic reporter over src/ and src-tauri/ that lists candidate hardcoded strings. Read the output and check whether anything it lists came from your change. The real gate was step 3.

PR hygiene

• Branched from develop, PR targets develop
• Conventional commit subject — fix(ui):, feat(world-cup):, test(training):, refactor(...), chore(...) — matching the existing history
• Linked to an issue, or an issue opened first if the change is a new feature (CONTRIBUTING.md asks for this)
• Commit message explains why, not just what
• Tests added for new behaviour, written before the code
• All 11 locales updated if any user-facing text changed
• AI-assisted work disclosed in the PR description — this is a GPLv3 project and provenance matters

Consider a reviewer agent

For anything non-trivial, run the relevant read-only reviewer over your diff before a human sees it: ofm-architecture-reviewer (crate boundaries, layering, SOLID), i18n-auditor (untranslated strings), ui-accessibility-reviewer (contrast, focus, keyboard, labelling).