axone-contributor-workflow - SKILL.md Agent Skill

name: axone-contributor-workflow description: Contribute safely to the AXONE axoned repository. Use when changing Go code, proto files, generated docs, predicate logic, tests, CI workflows, release plumbing, or local chain behavior in this repo. Applies the repo's validation steps, generation commands, and contributor-specific gotchas before finalizing changes. compatibility: Requires git, go, make, and docker. Node is only needed when validating generated markdown for MDX compatibility.

Axone Contributor Workflow

Use this skill for routine contribution work in this repository. It is the default workflow for changes under app/, cmd/, proto/, scripts/, x/**, docs/, Makefile, and .github/workflows/.

Rules

Read the touched files and the nearest build, generator, or CI entrypoint before editing.
Edit source files, not generated files, unless there is no generator.
Use make targets as the only validation interface.
When several make targets could apply, prefer the broader one.
Regenerate derived artifacts before finishing and inspect the final diff.

Choose validation by change type

Go code, imports, or dependencies: run make lint-go and make test-go.
Proto files: run make proto.
CLI command or Cobra flag changes: run make doc-command.
Predicate, Prolog library, bootstrap, or predicate feature changes: run make doc-predicate and make test-go.
Interface changes that affect mocks: run make mock.
App wiring, local chain behavior, or upgrades: run make build-go. For local chain validation, use make chain-init, make chain-start, and make chain-stop. For upgrade work, use make chain-upgrade FROM_VERSION=... TO_VERSION=....
Generated markdown under docs/: run the relevant generation target from Makefile. CI will additionally check MDX compatibility.

Gotchas

Tests must follow the repo conventions: GoConvey is allowed, testify, ginkgo, and gomega are forbidden.
gofumpt is mandatory, but the correct entrypoint is still make lint-go.
CI regenerates command docs, proto docs, and predicate docs and fails on unexpected diffs.
make doc-command rewrites machine-specific defaults in generated markdown. Do not hand-edit those outputs afterward.
make proto-gen copies generated code back from github.com/axone-protocol/axoned/* into the repo root. Inspect the diff after regeneration.
make build-go-all is host-limited and can fail on cross-compilation mismatches. Prefer make build-go.
make chain-stop runs killall axoned.

High-signal files to read first

Makefile
.github/workflows/lint.yml
.github/workflows/test.yml
.golangci.yml
README.md

For subsystem-specific work, also read the closest source and generator entrypoints:

Predicate docs: scripts/generate_predicates_doc.go
Command docs: scripts/generate_command_doc.go
Proto generation: scripts/protocgen-code.sh and scripts/protocgen-doc.sh
Upgrade work: app/upgrades.go

Final self-check

The validation commands you ran match the change type.
Any generated file diffs are expected and trace back to source edits.
git status --short contains only intended files.
If go.mod or go.sum changed, they were updated intentionally and are tidy.