playbooks: repo-sweep tidy entry takes one lane, so a sweep cannot tidy every lane in a repo

[kyle-sexton]

Problem

The hygiene catalog's tidy entry has args: <lane> and applies-when "repo has source code and the user wants one tidying lane in this sweep". code-tidying:tidy runs one lane per invocation, so the entry can only ever cover one slice of a repo.

In the melodic-software/.github sweep (PR melodic-software/.github#153, step commit 5fc82af) the user asked to tidy all of it. That meant three lanes: shell-tooling, docs-prose, and an ad hoc scope for .github/scripts/*.mjs, which has no lane at all. The session ran one tidy dry-run per lane by hand, merged the findings, and recorded the split in the step commit's scope decisions. None of that is in the catalog or in reference/next.md.

Proposed fix

• Let the entry take a list of lanes, or all to mean every lane that matches the repo, and have next run tidy once per lane inside the one step.
• Rewrite applies-when to match, for example "repo has source code or prose that at least one tidy lane covers".
• State in the entry's notes that the findings from every lane go to the user for review together, and that one step commit covers all of them.

Related

Separate from #4503, which is about tidy owning its own branch, PR, and commit structure.

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[kyle-sexton]

Issue stays closed. Audit follow-up in #5295 (Refs only). This comes from the 2026-09-29 audit of the unattended Cursor run.

The audit found an unwrapped Notes line, a false sentence ("ad hoc globs need a lane definition"; tidy's <glob>... row runs ad hoc scope), and tidy and batch-simplify overrides tied to #4503. On the branch the Notes line is re-wrapped, the false sentence is removed, and the overrides are replaced by the skills' own in-place flag now that #4503 shipped (the code-tidying group owns #4503).