Remove submodule-era residue; repair the copilot build fallback

[thedavidmeister]

Closes #2834

What was dangling

git ls-files --stage | grep ^160000 is empty and there is no .gitmodules and
no lib/ in the tree, so every reference below points at nothing.

• .soldeerignore line 18 .gitmodules, line 42 /lib, plus lib/ in the
  header comment on line 3.
• REUSE.toml line 22 "typeshare.toml" — no such file, and .gitignore does
  not list one either, so the annotation matched nothing in any state.
• .github/copilot-instructions.md lines 87–90 — the submodule-era build
  fallback.

.soldeerignore — only the submodule entries

.soldeerignore is a publish filter, not a description of the tree. An
entry naming a path that is absent from a clean checkout is still a live rule
at soldeer push time, when /out, /cache, /dependencies, /target,
/node_modules, .env and .pre-commit-config.yaml all exist. Removing one
publishes that path into the package the next time it appears.

So only .gitmodules and /lib are removed — the two entries whose subject can
never come back (rainix CI's
no-submodules
check fails on a root .gitmodules or any committed gitlink, and foundry.toml
sets libs = ['dependencies'] so forge never creates lib/). Every other entry
is left exactly as it is. REUSE.toml is the opposite case — its annotations
describe files that exist — so the dangling typeshare.toml entry goes.

The copilot-instructions fallback

This is the part worth reading. It fires when someone's build is already broken,
so it was replaced rather than deleted.

Everything in the old recipe was dead, not just the paths the issue names:

old line	why it fails
forge install	the submodule command; soldeer's is forge soldeer install
cd lib/rain.interpreter/… (3 lines)	nested submodule paths that do not exist; rain.interpreter is not a dependency of this repo any more (soldeer.lock carries rain-interpreter-interface 0.1.0)
rainix-sol-prelude, rainix-rs-prelude, rainlang-prelude	do not exist. nix eval .#packages.x86_64-linux --apply builtins.attrNames on this repo returns build-js-bindings js-install prettier-bundle rain-cli raindex-cli-artifact raindex-prelude raindex-rs-test raindex-ui-components-prelude rainix-rs-static rainix-sol-artifacts rainix-wasm-artifacts rainix-wasm-browser-test rainix-wasm-test rust-shell-test sol-shell-test test-js-bindings — no prelude among them, at the flake.lock pin (rainix f22d4dca) or on rainix main

And its trigger was dead too. The section was titled "Fallback if
end-of-session ./prep-all.sh fails early", and §3's end-of-session gate ran
./prep-all.sh as its first line. That script was deleted in f3dcc8cf6
("Remove prep-all.sh + pointers.sh; consolidate CI on cachix"), so the gate died
on line 1 with No such file or directory and the fallback could never be
reached as written. Fixing the recipe without fixing what invokes it would have
left the hole open, so §3's ./prep-all.sh is replaced in the same change. That
is the one edit here beyond the issue's literal list.

What replaced it is the bootstrap CI actually runs, not a guess:

• forge soldeer install then forge build — rainix-sol-static.yaml,
  rainix-sol-test.yaml, rainix-sol-legal.yaml and
  rainix-copy-artifacts.yaml all open with exactly this pair, and it is the
  documented bootstrap in this repo's own README.md and AGENTS.md.
• raindex-ui-components-prelude — defined in this repo's flake.nix and in
  the default devshell; it is in the README bootstrap and in
  copilot-setup-steps.yml.
• The .#wasm-shell block is copied verbatim from test-webapp.yaml /
  test-ui-components.yaml, including the workspace-root
  npm install --no-check that AGENTS.md requires and that the slim shell's
  shellHook does not do for you.

Three short paragraphs replace the per-dependency cd steps and say why there
are none any more (soldeer packages are plain source drops under
dependencies/), which shell provides what, and that stale committed artifacts
are the copy-artifacts regen cascade in the root CLAUDE.md, not this
bootstrap.

Verification

• git ls-files --stage | grep ^160000 → empty, before touching .gitmodules.
• No .gitmodules reference anywhere in the tree; no lib/ reference outside
  package-lock.json bin paths and one unrelated Rust "lib/bin targets" phrase;
  no typeshare reference outside the gitignored, generated
  packages/ui-components/src/lib/typeshare.
• pre-commit run --all-files in rainix rust-shell (the rs-static gate,
  which is what formats markdown via denofmt) — all 11 hooks pass.
• reuse lint in rainix sol-shell (the rainix-sol / legal gate) with the
  typeshare.toml annotation removed — 1238/1238 files compliant.
• The new recipe was run, not just derived. On a fresh clone of this branch,
  nix develop -c bash -c 'forge soldeer install && reuse lint && forge build'
  exits 0 — dependencies/ gets all 17 soldeer packages and forge build
  succeeds (its output is pre-existing forge-lint warnings only).
  nix develop -c raindex-ui-components-prelude was run separately because no
  PR CI job covers it. The .#wasm-shell npm block is exercised verbatim by
  this PR's own test-webapp / test-ui-components jobs.

Noted, not fixed

Two workflow comments still contain the string forge install, both explaining
why it is not done there rather than instructing anyone to run it:
.github/workflows/npm-package-release.yml:113 and
.github/workflows/vercel-docs-preview.yaml:56. The latter also references the
deleted ./prep-all.sh. #2834 declares .github/workflows/ clean and out of
scope, so they are left alone.

QA

• Discriminating tests: n/a — the diff is one prose file plus two
  non-executable config manifests (.soldeerignore, REUSE.toml). No code
  path changes, so there is no behaviour a unit test could pin. The executable
  checks that do cover these files were run instead:
  pre-commit run --all-files in rainix rust-shell (all 11 hooks pass — this
  is the rs-static gate and it is what formats markdown, via denofmt) and
  reuse lint in rainix sol-shell (the rainix-sol / legal gate — 1238/1238
  files compliant with typeshare.toml removed).
• Mutations applied: n/a — nothing executable in the diff to mutate. The
  equivalent falsification was run against the prose instead: every command in
  the old recipe was checked for existence rather than assumed dead.
  nix eval .#packages.x86_64-linux --apply builtins.attrNames on this repo
  shows no rainix-sol-prelude, rainix-rs-prelude or rainlang-prelude, at
  the flake.lock rainix pin (f22d4dca) and on rainix main;
  git log --all -- prep-all.sh shows the script deleted in f3dcc8cf6;
  git ls-files --stage | grep ^160000 is empty and there is no .gitmodules
  or lib/. Each replacement command was checked the same way rather than
  written from memory (see the table and source list above).
• Oracle: the CI workflows, independent of the doc being edited —
  rainix-sol-static.yaml, rainix-sol-test.yaml, rainix-sol-legal.yaml,
  rainix-copy-artifacts.yaml for the Solidity half; test-webapp.yaml,
  test-ui-components.yaml, copilot-setup-steps.yml for the JS half; and
  this repo's README.md / AGENTS.md bootstrap. The new recipe is what those
  run, not a reconstruction.
• Category check: Remove the submodule-era residue — dangling .soldeerignore/REUSE.toml entries, and a submodule-era build recipe in copilot-instructions #2834 asks for four things — .soldeerignore 18 and 42,
  REUSE.toml 22, the copilot-instructions.md fallback rewritten against the
  soldeer layout, and no .gitmodules / lib/ / forge install reference left
  outside dependencies/. All four covered. The lib/ in .soldeerignore's
  header comment (line 3) is covered as part of the fourth. Only lines 18 and
  42 are removed from .soldeerignore — see the scoping note above. §3's
  ./prep-all.sh is one line beyond the issue's list, taken because the
  fallback's own trigger is otherwise dead; called out explicitly above rather
  than folded in silently. The two workflow comments that mention
  forge install are listed under "Noted, not fixed" — Remove the submodule-era residue — dangling .soldeerignore/REUSE.toml entries, and a submodule-era build recipe in copilot-instructions #2834 declares
  .github/workflows/ clean.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores
  • Updated the end-of-session build process to install Solidity dependencies and build required packages in sequence.
  • Improved fallback build behavior for the workspace and WASM shell.
  • Updated dependency publishing and licensing configuration to reflect the current project layout.
  • Added guidance for handling Solidity dependencies and artifact regeneration.

[coderabbitai]

📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The end-of-session build instructions now use Soldeer and Forge commands, with a workspace recovery flow for frontend builds. Soldeer ignore rules and REUSE annotations no longer reference obsolete submodule-era paths or files.

Changes

Soldeer migration cleanup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Soldeer build recovery guidance .github/copilot-instructions.md	Replaces ./prep-all.sh and forge install guidance with Soldeer installation, Forge builds, workspace npm installation, and sequential frontend builds.
Repository metadata cleanup .soldeerignore, REUSE.toml	Updates the package-scope comment and removes .gitmodules, /lib, and typeshare.toml entries.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to a586f

The recovery instructions may send developers through an unnecessary dependency reinstall when a later lint, build, or test command fails; the change is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner follow-up to narrow the fallback trigger.

Possibly related issues

• rainlanguage/rain.tofu.erc20-decimals#30 — Removes similar submodule-era entries from .soldeerignore and REUSE.toml.
• rainlanguage/rainlang#553 — Removes obsolete .gitmodules and /lib entries from .soldeerignore.
• rainlanguage/rain.extrospection#47 — Removes the same obsolete Soldeer and REUSE metadata entries.

Possibly related PRs

• rainlanguage/raindex#2630 — Modifies .soldeerignore package-scope handling for lib/ and packages/ paths.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes satisfy issue #2834 by removing obsolete entries and updating the Copilot instructions for the Soldeer-based layout.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	All changes directly support issue #2834 and remain within its documented cleanup and build-instruction objectives.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes both main changes: removing submodule-era residue and repairing the Copilot build fallback.

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- Around line 83-87: Revise the “Fallback if the end-of-session gate fails
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