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From: =?UTF-8?q?Nathan=20=F0=9F=94=B6=20Tarbert?=
 <66887028+NathanTarbert@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:41:45 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] chore: keep hand-maintained skill files out of the format
 check

The format check added by #250 runs against the files a PR touches, which is
the right shape -- but two kinds of file in this repo get worse when prettier
formats them, and both are now failing PRs that have nothing wrong with them.

.claude/skills/*.md are hand-maintained spec prose carrying wide reference
tables. Prettier pads every cell out to the widest one, so a one-word edit
rewrites the whole table and the real change disappears into the diff. On #238
that is 305 changed lines across two SKILL.md files.

docs/community-signal/reddit-pulse-seen.json is operational dedup state,
appended by the weekly-report routine rather than written by hand, and 2-space
by construction. The repo's tabWidth is 4, so formatting it reindents all 412
lines -- and the next run rewrites it 2-space again, so the check would break
again every week.

Both patterns are anchored with a leading slash, for the reason the /templates/
entry above them records: unanchored, a gitignore-style pattern matches a
directory of that name at any depth.

Verified against the CI step's own command over #238's three changed files:
fails before, passes after. Repo-wide `prettier --check .` is unchanged at 334
pre-existing warnings, and .claude/settings.json stays covered -- the only
tracked files this exempts are the 13 markdown skill definitions.
---
 .prettierignore | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.prettierignore b/.prettierignore
index 72bb09d..e549bfa 100644
--- a/.prettierignore
+++ b/.prettierignore
@@ -21,3 +21,16 @@ packages/outpost/db/prisma/migrations/
 # apps/web/src/app/**/templates/, exempting them from both the CI check and
 # `pnpm format` with no way to bring them back into compliance.
 /templates/
+
+# Skill definitions under .claude/skills/ are hand-maintained spec prose, and
+# several carry wide reference tables. Prettier pads every cell out to the
+# widest one, so a one-word edit rewrites the whole table and the real change
+# disappears into the diff. Anchored so it matches the directory at the repo
+# root rather than any `skills` directory at any depth.
+/.claude/skills/
+
+# Operational dedup state for Reddit Pulse — appended by the weekly-report
+# routine rather than written by hand, and 2-space by construction. Formatting
+# it to the repo's 4-space width reindents all 412 lines and would do so again
+# after every run.
+/docs/community-signal/reddit-pulse-seen.json