`Server/go.mod` declared `github.com/owncord/server` while the public repository is `github.com/J3vb/OwnCord`. Nothing resolves that path — there is no `owncord` GitHub org and no vanity-import host serving go-import metadata for it — so every import line in the tree named a location that does not exist. It compiles because a main module's own path is never fetched, which is exactly why it went unnoticed. The obvious fix — an AST-aware import rewriter (`gomvpkg`, `go mod edit`) — is wrong here, and provably so. Six of the 722 occurrences are not imports at all: `api/main_test.go:20` (a goleak `IgnoreTopFunction` pattern), `telemetry/metrics.go:17-19` (three OTel instrumentation-scope names), `invariants/syncutil_locks.go:73` (a diagnostic message), and `invariants/syncutil_locks_test.go:56` (an import line inside a raw-string Go fixture). An import rewriter touches none of them, and the compiler cannot see any of them either. Done as one scripted substitution over `git ls-files`, anchored on the full `github.com/owncord/server` string. The anchor matters: `owncord-server` is a different identifier — the OTel `service.name` (`config/config.go`, `telemetry/telemetry_otel.go`) and the GHCR image name (`.github/workflows/release.yml`, `docker-compose.yml`) — and a looser pattern would have moved it. It is untouched: 10 occurrences across 9 files, before and after. 350 files, 728 insertions, 728 deletions. 722 occurrences in 344 Go files, plus `go.mod:1`, the `sed` at `Makefile:67`, `Server/CLAUDE.md:3`, `docs/architecture/server.md:5`, and the ledger pair (`findings-ledger.json:3758` plus a `render-ledger.mjs` re-render of `FINDINGS.md`). Zero in any workflow, zero in the Dockerfile, zero in `Server/.golangci.yml` (no `local-prefixes`, `gci`, `importas` or `depguard` rule keys on the module path, so import grouping is not configured anywhere). The plan's blast-radius estimate missed one thing, and it is the one that would have gone red: **gofmt**. `J` (0x4A) sorts before every lowercase letter, so in the 36 files where a module-local import shares a contiguous group with a third-party one, the module's imports must move above `github.com/go-chi/...`. `gofmt -l` was clean before the substitution and listed exactly 36 files after it; `gofmt -w` on those 36 restores it to clean. `gofmt` is an enforced gate — the `formatters` block in `Server/.golangci.yml`, which is S-05 — so a substitution-only commit fails Lint. Verified: both directions, and the line accounting is exact. Every added line in this diff contains the new module path (728) and every removed line contains the old one (728); the count of changed lines containing neither is **zero**, so the gofmt re-sort moved module-path lines only and touched no third-party import. The residual check (`git ls-files -z | xargs -0 grep -n 'github\.com/owncord/server'`) returns exactly two hits, both deliberately out of scope: the RL-13 row in `docs/audit-2026-08-23-repository-layout.md` and the measurement row in this phase's own plan. The compiler-invisible half was proven by reverting *only* `api/main_test.go:20` to the old path on the otherwise-renamed tree: `go build ./...` and `go vet ./api/` both still pass — they see nothing wrong — while `go test ./api/` FAILS, because the runtime function name now carries the new path and goleak stops ignoring `ws.(*Hub).Run.func1`. Restoring the line makes it pass. `go.sum` is byte-identical (no `go mod tidy` was run and none was needed). All four build-tag variants compile; `go vet ./...`, `go vet -tags otel,wazero ./...` and `go vet -tags deadlock ./...` pass; `go test -race ./...` is 16/16 packages green; `go test -tags deadlock ./...` passes; the tag-gated `./plugin/...` (wazero) and `./telemetry/...` (otel) runs pass. `golangci-lint` v2.11.3 — the pinned CI version, rebuilt locally against Go 1.26 because the packaged binary cannot load a 1.26 config — reports **0 issues**. `go run ./cmd/genprotocol` leaves `git diff --exit-code ws/message_types.go ../Client/src/lib/protocolTypes.ts` clean, so the rename does not reach the generated protocol constants. `npx prettier --check .` and `node .superpowers/render-ledger.mjs --check` pass. Not included: `docs/audit-2026-08-23-repository-layout.md` and `docs/plans/b1-repository-foundation-2026-08-25.md` keep the old path — they are the audit row and the measurement that motivated this change, and rewriting them would erase the record of what was measured. They are why the residual check needs a two-path allowance rather than being empty; that allowance is stated above rather than hidden in a pathspec. `telemetry/metrics.go:19` declares `scopeVoice` for a `Server/voice` package that does not exist; the substitution carried the dead path forward verbatim as `github.com/J3vb/OwnCord/Server/voice` rather than fixing it, because correcting a real observability bug inside a mechanical rename would hide it in a 350-file diff. It needs its own item. No `go.work`, no second module, and no vanity-import host was set up — the new path resolves against the real repository, but nothing imports this module as a library, so `go get` reachability was not exercised either way. Refs RL-13, L-12
Documentation index
Every document in docs/ is listed here. If it is not on this page it is not
current guidance.
Docs fall into four kinds, and the difference matters when you are deciding whether to trust one: guidance tells you how to do something, reference describes a contract the code actually implements, audits are dated snapshots that were true when written and were never updated, and plans record intent. Read an audit as history, not as status.
Start here
| I want to… | Read |
|---|---|
| Run a server | quick-start.md |
| Deploy for real | deployment.md |
| Contribute a change | contributing.md |
| Understand the system | architecture/ |
| Report a vulnerability | security.md |
Guidance
| Document | Covers |
|---|---|
| quick-start.md | Getting a server running with the fewest steps. |
| deployment.md | Production deployment on Windows and Linux. |
| contributing.md | Environment setup, the branch and PR model, coding standards, how to run the checks CI runs. |
| security.md | How to report a vulnerability, and how findings are handled in public vs private. |
| livekit-setup.md | Standing up the LiveKit SFU for voice and video. |
| port-forwarding.md | Making a server reachable from outside the LAN. |
| tailscale.md | Remote access without port forwarding. |
| mcp-introspect.md | Dev-only MCP server for introspecting a running instance. |
Reference
These describe contracts the code implements. If one disagrees with the code, the code is right and the document is a bug.
| Document | Covers |
|---|---|
| api.md | REST API under /api/v1. |
| protocol.md | WebSocket protocol — frames, sequencing, reconnect. |
| schema.md | SQLite schema and migrations. |
| server-configuration.md | Every server configuration option. |
| credential-storage.md | What the desktop client persists, and where. |
| ../protocol/schema.json | Generated-code source of truth, at the repository root because it is owned by neither side. Server/ws/message_types.go and Client/src/lib/protocolTypes.ts are generated from it — never hand-edit either. See ../protocol/README.md. |
Architecture
architecture/README.md indexes the blueprints and carries the maintenance rule: each blueprint names its source-of-truth files, and a PR touching those updates the blueprint in the same change.
- system-overview.md, server.md, client.md
- data-model.md, websocket.md, voice-e2ee.md
- ux/ — target-state UX spec, per-view states and event→reaction maps
client-architecture.md is a redirect stub; the live document is architecture/client.md.
Audits — dated, not maintained
Point-in-time snapshots. They are not updated as the code moves, and they are deliberately left alone when paths change, so links from commit messages keep resolving. Anything here may be stale; the ledger and the plan index carry current status.
| Audit | Scope |
|---|---|
| audit-2026-08-23-repository-layout.md | Repository layout and contributor experience (RL-01…RL-22). |
| audit-2026-08-23-repository-health.md | Full repository health. |
| audit-2026-08-19.md | Repo health. States "0 open findings" — untrue since; see the ledger. |
| audit-test-coverage-2026-08-19.md | Test audit (T-*, a separate register from the OC-* ledger). |
| audit-2026-08-04-docs-and-coverage.md | Documentation accuracy and UI/UX test coverage. |
| audit-2026-08-04.md | Security review. |
| audit-test-coverage-2026-07-25.md | Test-coverage audit. |
| audit-2026-07-19.md | Architecture and spec-conformance review. |
| audit-2026-04-07.md | First comprehensive audit. |
Plans
plans/README.md indexes every plan with a recorded state — active, partially implemented, design-only, or shipped — and is the authority over a plan's own header, which can drift.
Where status actually lives
Do not read a defect count, or a "what works" claim, out of a document on this page. Status has owners:
| Concern | Source of truth |
|---|---|
| Defect status | .superpowers/findings-ledger.json (FINDINGS.md is rendered from it) |
| Security-sensitive defects | Private GitHub Security Advisories |
| Phase order and gates | plans/repo-health-roadmap-2026-08-23.md |
| Current measured baseline | plans/b0-baseline-2026-08-25.md |
| Generated-code contracts | CLAUDE.md, "Generated code — never hand-edit" |
A CI job checks that documents on this page do not contradict the ledger's
counts. Adding a count to a document means adding it to that check's allow-list
in scripts/check-doc-counts.mjs.