Merge branch 'claude/forward-project-args': sibling projects inherit the args, lint with the lite rules

PR #40. GitProject and LocalProject default their args to the loading
project's own (ProjectArgs()), this tree lints with LintRules' lite
set, and the fixes from the branch's review: a project file gets its
args only for the CrafterBuildProject call, host tooling gets project
cache entries of its own, and `--` ends crafter-build's options.

The conflicts with claude/dependency-notes are all places both sides
added to:
- Platform.cppm and Platform.cpp: PragmaDependencies() beside
  ProjectArgs() and LoadingHostTooling(), all three kept.
- LoadProject: the record PragmaDependencies() reads moves up with the
  frame's dependencies, which this branch sets before dlopen. Left
  where it was, it would have copied preDeps.configs after the vector
  was moved into the frame, and recorded nothing.
- README: the pragma section's new last sentence goes before the new
  "Dependency notes for agents" section.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

AGENTS.md

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Prerequisites on Linux: `clang` (with `libclang`, which the AST lint rules load
 Three things to know about this loop:
 
 - `bin/crafter-build` is the bootstrap binary and the harness for every command below. The self-host build writes to `bin/crafter.build-exe-<variant>/crafter-build` and does not replace it.
-- Changes under `implementations/` are picked up by the self-host build and by the tests, which link the local library. Changes under `interfaces/` are not: the harness compiles against the copies in `share/crafter-build/` and the PCM cache built from them, so a new or changed declaration is invisible until you run `./build.sh` again. The symptom is `use of undeclared identifier` for the symbol you just added.
+- Changes under `implementations/` are picked up by the self-host build and by the tests, which link the local library. Changes under `interfaces/` are not: the harness compiles against the copies in `share/crafter-build/` and the PCM cache built from them, so a new or changed declaration is invisible until you run `./build.sh` again. The symptom is `use of undeclared identifier` for the symbol you just added. A changed default member initialiser has no symptom at all: `project.cpp` compiles against the old one and quietly gets the old default, as `project.cpp`'s sibling loads do with a harness that predates `GitProjectSpec::args = ProjectArgs()`.
 - A new exported symbol that a `project.cpp` reaches on its default path also needs `./build.sh`: the old binary does not export it, and `LoadProject` fails with an undefined symbol.
 
 `./build.sh` clones and builds glslang on first run and takes several minutes; later runs are faster. `./bin/crafter-build clean` deletes `bin/` and `build/` without loading `project.cpp`. That takes `bin/crafter-build` itself with it, and `build/flatpak`, the state of the local Flatpak build (see "CI and publishing"): about 2 GB, and the next `run flatpak` rebuilds LLVM. Set `CRAFTER_BUILD_HOME` only when running a binary from outside this tree; `CRAFTER_BUILD_MARCH` and `CRAFTER_BUILD_MTUNE` default to `native`.
@@ -96,14 +96,17 @@ Cross-target runs use `test --target=<triple>` with `--runner=local` or `--runne
 
 ## Code style
 
-Style is enforced by the 17 rules in [Crafter.LintRules](https://forgejo.catcrafts.net/Catcrafts/Crafter.LintRules), which `project.cpp` pulls in through `#pragma crafter dependency` and applies with `crafter-build format` and `lint`. Most rules are transforms, so run `format` and let it restyle rather than hand-formatting. In short:
+`project.cpp` pulls in [Crafter.LintRules](https://forgejo.catcrafts.net/Catcrafts/Crafter.LintRules) through `#pragma crafter dependency` and applies its lite set, `LintRules::AddLiteRules`: the 8 rules that ask for different code, without the ones that only decide layout, whitespace and naming. `lint` reports all 8; `format` applies the two transforms among them, `format-concat` and `fixed-width-types`, and leaves everything else as written. Enforced:
 
 - The first three lines of every source: `// SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-only`, `// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (C) 2026 Catcrafts®`, blank. Examples use MIT.
+- `enum class` only. `std::println` instead of iostream. `std::format` instead of string concatenation. `std::int32_t` and friends instead of `int` or `long` (exempt: `main`, `argc`/`argv`, `extern "C"` and foreign API signatures). No `char*` outside C interop.
+- `const` on scalar locals that are never written; `constexpr` on constants with constant initialisers.
+
+Not checked, so match the surrounding code:
+
 - Four-space indentation, no tabs, no trailing whitespace, final newline.
 - `PascalCase` for types, functions, statics and constants; `camelCase` for variables; a trailing `_` is allowed.
-- `enum class` only. `std::println` instead of iostream. `std::format` instead of string concatenation. `std::int32_t` and friends instead of `int` or `long` (exempt: `main`, `argc`/`argv`, `extern "C"` and foreign API signatures). No `char*` outside C interop.
-- One declaration per statement. K&R braces. `if (x) return;` on one line when it fits. The formatter joins wrapped statements that fit on one line, so do not hand-wrap short ones. `if (` and `for (` with a space; no space before a call's `(`.
-- `const` on scalar locals that are never written; `constexpr` on constants with constant initialisers.
+- One declaration per statement. K&R braces. `if (x) return;` on one line when it fits, and no hand-wrapping of a statement that fits on one line. `if (` and `for (` with a space; no space before a call's `(`.
 
 Suppress one finding with `// lint-disable-next-line <rule>` or a whole file with `// lint-disable-file <rule>`. Both are rare in this tree and need a reason.
 

README.md

@@ -69,12 +69,15 @@ Clones live at `~/.cache/crafter.build/external/<name>-<hash>/`, keyed by `(url,
 ```cpp
 Configuration* math = GitProject({
     .source = { .url = "https://forgejo.catcrafts.net/Catcrafts/Crafter.Math.git" },  // .branch or .commit to pin
-    .args = depArgs,                                                                   // forwarded to its CrafterBuildProject
 });
-Configuration* sibling = LocalProject({ .projectFile = "../Crafter.Math/project.cpp", .args = depArgs });
+Configuration* sibling = LocalProject({ .projectFile = "../Crafter.Math/project.cpp" });
 cfg.dependencies = { math };
 ```
 
+The sibling's `CrafterBuildProject` gets the args this `project.cpp` was loaded with (`ProjectArgs()`), so `--target=`, `--march=`, `--debug` and the project's own flags reach every sibling down the chain. That is all of them: `cfg.projectArgs` holds only what `ApplyStandardArgs` did not interpret, and passing it on would drop the target and the build type. Set `.args` to send something else: `{}` for nothing, or a list built from the project's args, such as one without a flag only this project reads. Build such a list once and give it to every sibling. A project that two paths load with different lists is built twice, and the program ends up with both builds. Releases up to 2.2.0 forward nothing when `.args` is left out.
+
+The default is read when the spec is made, so make it inside `CrafterBuildProject`, on the thread that calls it. A spec made at namespace scope, on a thread of your own or in a script forwards nothing.
+
 Clones share the external cache and identical specs share one `Configuration`. An unpinned source is `git pull`ed on every invocation, set `.commit` for reproducible, offline-after-first-fetch builds.
 
 A project loaded this way runs its `CrafterBuildProject` as a dependency, and `IsTopLevelProject()` is `false` while it does (`true` in the project crafter-build was pointed at, and outside any project file). Wire test-only dependencies behind it: a library whose test links crafter-build itself would otherwise load crafter-build's `project.cpp` from inside crafter-build and recurse.
@@ -94,6 +97,8 @@ import Crafter.LintRules;
 #pragma crafter dependency "<source>" [branch "<name>" | commit "<sha>"] [project "<file>"]
 ```
 
+Such a dependency is built for the host, whatever the project targets, and its `project.cpp` gets none of the project's args.
+
 ### Dependency notes for agents
 
 An agent working on a project reads its `AGENTS.md`, which says nothing about the libraries the project builds against unless someone copied that in by hand. A library ships it instead: an `AGENTS.consumer.md` beside its `project.cpp`, written for whoever uses the library rather than whoever works on it. When a consumer has an `AGENTS.md` beside its own `project.cpp`, `crafter-build` and `crafter-build test` keep its dependencies' notes in a section of it:

implementations/Crafter.Build-Clang.cpp

@@ -1652,6 +1652,10 @@ Build options:
   -v, --verbose             Verbose progress output.
   -q, --quiet               Suppress progress output.
   --project=<path>          Path to the project file (default: ./project.cpp).
+  --                        Ends this tool's options. Every later word is a
+                            project arg, even one that looks like an option or
+                            a verb; after test, lint or format, a glob; after
+                            run, the script's name and then its args.
 
 Test options (after the `test` subcommand):
   --list                    Enumerate matching tests without running them.
@@ -1770,6 +1774,9 @@ std::int32_t Crafter::Run(std::int32_t argc, char** argv) {
         RunLintOptions lintOpts;
         RunScriptOptions scriptOpts;
         Progress::Verbosity verbosity = Progress::Verbosity::Default;
+        // Set by `--`: every later word is an operand of the verb, never an
+        // option or a verb of this tool.
+        bool operandsOnly = false;
 
         for (std::int32_t i = 1; i < argc; ++i) {
             std::string_view arg = argv[i];
@@ -1781,11 +1788,25 @@ std::int32_t Crafter::Run(std::int32_t argc, char** argv) {
             // variant hash and so the directory the project builds into.
             if (scriptOpts.named) {
                 scriptOpts.args.emplace_back(arg);
-            } else if (runScript && !arg.starts_with("-")) {
+            } else if (runScript && (operandsOnly || !arg.starts_with("-"))) {
                 // The first word after `run`, even one that is a verb
                 // elsewhere. Options before it keep their usual meaning.
                 scriptOpts.name = arg;
                 scriptOpts.named = true;
+            } else if (operandsOnly) {
+                if (runTests) {
+                    testOpts.globs.emplace_back(arg);
+                } else if (runLint || runFormat) {
+                    lintOpts.globs.emplace_back(arg);
+                } else {
+                    projectArgs.push_back(arg);
+                }
+            } else if (arg == "--") {
+                // Ends this tool's options and is never forwarded itself. It
+                // used to land in projectArgs as a word of its own, giving the
+                // project a variant hash of its own, and every sibling project
+                // that inherits the args one as well.
+                operandsOnly = true;
             } else if (arg == "--version") {
                 // Answered here, before the project file is looked for, so
                 // it works in any directory and is never forwarded to

implementations/Crafter.Build-External.cpp

@@ -394,11 +394,12 @@ Configuration* Crafter::GitProject(const GitProjectSpec& spec) {
     // source revision (forwarded args don't change what gets cloned, just
     // how the dep's project.cpp interprets them at runtime), while the
     // in-memory Configuration is keyed by the full spec so each (args)
-    // permutation gets its own Configuration object.
+    // permutation gets its own Configuration object, and host tooling one
+    // apart from the target's even for the same args.
     std::string srcKey = std::format("git|{}|{}|{}|{}", spec.source.url, spec.source.branch, spec.source.commit, spec.projectFile.string());
     std::string srcHash = std::format("{:016x}", std::hash<std::string>{}(srcKey));
 
-    std::string fullKey = srcKey;
+    std::string fullKey = std::format("{}{}", LoadingHostTooling() ? "host|" : "", srcKey);
     for (const std::string& a : spec.args) {
         fullKey += '|';
         fullKey += a;
@@ -482,7 +483,7 @@ Configuration* Crafter::LocalProject(const LocalProjectSpec& spec) {
     }
     fs::path canonical = fs::canonical(projectPath);
 
-    std::string fullKey = std::format("local|{}", canonical.string());
+    std::string fullKey = std::format("{}local|{}", LoadingHostTooling() ? "host|" : "", canonical.string());
     for (const std::string& a : spec.args) {
         fullKey += '|';
         fullKey += a;

implementations/Crafter.Build-Platform.cpp

@@ -413,6 +413,11 @@ namespace {
 
     struct ProjectFileFrame {
         fs::path project;
+        // What LoadProject was given, for ProjectArgs(), and only once
+        // CrafterBuildProject is about to be called (see LoadProject). A view
+        // is enough: the caller's storage outlives LoadProject, and the frame
+        // is popped before LoadProject returns.
+        std::span<const std::string_view> args;
         std::vector<Configuration*> dependencies;
     };
 
@@ -441,7 +446,7 @@ namespace {
                 throw std::runtime_error(std::format("circular project dependency: {}{}", chain, absProject.string()));
             }
             index_ = LoadingFrames.size();
-            LoadingFrames.push_back({ absProject, {} });
+            LoadingFrames.push_back({ absProject, {}, {} });
         }
         ~ProjectFileGuard() { LoadingFrames.pop_back(); }
         ProjectFileGuard(const ProjectFileGuard&) = delete;
@@ -453,13 +458,29 @@ namespace {
         std::size_t index_ = 0;
     };
 
+    // How many `#pragma crafter dependency` loads this thread is inside. The
+    // tool's project file runs within its load, and so does every sibling it
+    // loads in turn, which is what LoadingHostTooling() reports to GitProject
+    // and LocalProject. Per thread like LoadingFrames: a sibling loaded on a
+    // thread of the tool's own goes uncounted, as it gets no ProjectArgs().
+    thread_local std::int32_t HostToolingLoads = 0;
+
+    class HostToolingScope {
+    public:
+        HostToolingScope() { ++HostToolingLoads; }
+        ~HostToolingScope() { --HostToolingLoads; }
+        HostToolingScope(const HostToolingScope&) = delete;
+        HostToolingScope& operator=(const HostToolingScope&) = delete;
+    };
+
     // A pre-dependency is host tooling: project.so is loaded into the running
     // crafter-build, so the dependency is built for the host and against the
     // same PCM cache LoadProject populates — the hostConfig LoadProject itself
     // compiles project.so with, so the dependency's std/Crafter.Build PCMs
     // land in the cache dir project.so is built against. Recursive, because
-    // the dependency's project.cpp forwards no arguments but still reads
-    // CRAFTER_BUILD_MARCH from the environment for its own deps.
+    // the dependency's project.cpp is loaded with no arguments and so passes
+    // none on, while its own deps still read CRAFTER_BUILD_MARCH from the
+    // environment.
     void ForceHostTooling(Configuration& cfg, const Configuration& host, std::unordered_set<Configuration*>& seen) {
         if (!seen.insert(&cfg).second) return;
         cfg.target = host.target;
@@ -502,10 +523,21 @@ namespace {
         std::set<std::string> libs;
 
         for (const PragmaDependency& pragma : pragmas) {
+            // Neither spec sets args, and the tool still gets none of the
+            // consumer's: this pre-pass runs before LoadProject hands the
+            // frame its args, so ProjectArgs() is empty. Given the consumer's
+            // --target=, the tool's project.cpp would pick sources and flags
+            // for the wrong triple, and its flags would split the tool's
+            // variant from the one every other consumer shares. The scope
+            // keeps the tool and everything it loads in a project cache of
+            // their own: ForceHostTooling rewrites them in place, and a
+            // consumer loading the same sibling for itself got that host
+            // build back whenever the two cache keys matched.
             Configuration* cfg = nullptr;
+            {
+                HostToolingScope hostTooling;
                 if (IsGitSource(pragma.source)) {
-                GitProjectSpec spec;
-                spec.source = { pragma.source, pragma.branch, pragma.commit };
+                    GitProjectSpec spec{ .source = { pragma.source, pragma.branch, pragma.commit } };
                     if (!pragma.project.empty()) spec.projectFile = pragma.project;
                     cfg = GitProject(spec);
                 } else {
@@ -521,6 +553,7 @@ namespace {
                     if (!fs::exists(local)) PragmaError(absProject, pragma.line, std::format("no such project file: {}", local.string()));
                     cfg = LocalProject({ .projectFile = local });
                 }
+            }
             if (std::ranges::contains(out.configs, cfg)) continue;
 
             ForceHostTooling(*cfg, host, forced);
@@ -596,6 +629,16 @@ std::vector<Configuration*> Crafter::PragmaDependencies(const fs::path& projectF
     return {};
 }
 
+std::vector<std::string> Crafter::ProjectArgs() {
+    if (LoadingFrames.empty()) return {};
+    const std::span<const std::string_view> args = LoadingFrames.back().args;
+    return std::vector<std::string>(args.begin(), args.end());
+}
+
+bool Crafter::LoadingHostTooling() {
+    return HostToolingLoads > 0;
+}
+
 namespace {
     // The one reading of a wait status (pclose, system) for every helper
     // that runs a command: a signal death is reported the way a shell
@@ -971,6 +1014,13 @@ Configuration Crafter::LoadProject(const fs::path& projectFile, std::span<const
         WriteStamp(StampPath(soPath), projectStamp);
     }
 
+    // Before dlopen, so the file's static initialisers can already call
+    // ProjectDependency(): its dependencies are the same on every load.
+    {
+        std::lock_guard lock(PragmaDependenciesMutex);
+        PragmaDependenciesByProject[absProject] = preDeps.configs;
+    }
+    guard.Frame().dependencies = std::move(preDeps.configs);
     void* handle = dlopen(soPath.c_str(), RTLD_NOW | RTLD_GLOBAL);
     if (!handle) {
         throw std::runtime_error(std::format("Failed to load project {}: {}", soPath.string(), dlerror()));
@@ -983,10 +1033,12 @@ Configuration Crafter::LoadProject(const fs::path& projectFile, std::span<const
         throw std::runtime_error(std::format("CrafterBuildProject not found in {}: {}", soPath.string(), err));
     }
 
-    {
-        std::lock_guard lock(PragmaDependenciesMutex);
-        PragmaDependenciesByProject[absProject] = preDeps.configs;
-    }
-    guard.Frame().dependencies = std::move(preDeps.configs);
+    // The args only for the call itself, unlike the dependencies. A static
+    // initialiser runs once per process, on the first load of the file: a
+    // later load gets the same mapping back from dlopen, so a spec built at
+    // namespace scope kept the first load's args for every load after it.
+    // Now it gets none, whichever load ran it. The pragma pre-pass above
+    // also ran on this frame and relies on the args not being there yet.
+    guard.Frame().args = args;
     return fn(args);
 }

interfaces/Crafter.Build-Clang.cppm

@@ -484,7 +484,9 @@ export namespace Crafter {
         // cfg.files, say), and without it both flag settings share one bin dir
         // and interleave their outputs there. Populated by ApplyStandardArgs;
         // the args it does recognise are excluded, since their effect already
-        // shows up in target/march/mtune/debug/sysroot/type.
+        // shows up in target/march/mtune/debug/sysroot/type. For the same
+        // reason this is not what to hand a sibling project: ProjectArgs() is
+        // every arg, the recognised ones included.
         std::vector<std::string> projectArgs;
         std::vector<Test> tests;
         // Lint rules for `crafter-build lint`. Populate via AddLintRule.

interfaces/Crafter.Build-External.cppm

@@ -71,23 +71,48 @@ export namespace Crafter {
     // clone can still differ in includeDirs, libDirs and libs.
     ExternalBuildResult ExternalOutputs(const ExternalDependency& dep, std::string_view target);
 
+    // The args the project file now running its CrafterBuildProject was
+    // loaded with: everything that function receives, --target=, --debug and
+    // the other standard flags included. Not cfg.projectArgs, which holds
+    // only what ApplyStandardArgs left uninterpreted: `.args =
+    // cfg.projectArgs` would drop the target and the build type. Empty
+    // everywhere else, because it reads the stack LoadProject keeps per
+    // thread, as IsTopLevelProject does: outside a project file, on any
+    // thread but the one running it, once CrafterBuildProject has returned
+    // (a script runs later), and before it is called, which covers the
+    // file's static initialisers and its `#pragma crafter dependency`
+    // pre-pass. The specs below default their args to it. Defined beside
+    // LoadProject, but declared here so those defaults can see it: importing
+    // :Platform into this partition would make the exported `struct
+    // Configuration;` above a redeclaration of :Platform's unexported one,
+    // which clang rejects.
+    std::vector<std::string> ProjectArgs();
+
     // Specification for a sibling crafter-build project to fetch and depend on.
     // GitSource picks the revision: leave branch + commit empty for the
     // remote's default branch HEAD (sloppy but convenient), set branch to
     // track a branch tip, or set commit to pin to an immutable SHA. args are
-    // forwarded verbatim to the dep's CrafterBuildProject — typically you
-    // pass through the parent's args so target/march/debug propagate.
+    // what the dep's CrafterBuildProject receives. They default to this
+    // project's own, read when the spec is made, so --target=, --march=,
+    // --debug and the project's own flags reach every sibling down a chain
+    // without being passed. Set them to forward something else: {} for
+    // nothing, or a list built from this project's args, such as one without
+    // a flag only this project reads. Give such a list to every sibling: a
+    // project that two paths load with two different lists is built twice,
+    // and the program ends up with both builds.
     struct GitProjectSpec {
         GitSource source;
         fs::path projectFile = "project.cpp";
-        std::vector<std::string> args;
+        std::vector<std::string> args = ProjectArgs();
     };
 
-    // Clones the spec's git URL into the per-project external cache (keyed by
-    // url+branch+commit+args+projectFile), recursively LoadProject's the
-    // remote's project.cpp, and returns a stable Configuration* you can drop
-    // into cfg.dependencies. The Configuration is owned by an internal cache
-    // for the lifetime of the build; identical specs share one Configuration.
+    // Clones the spec's git URL into the external cache, recursively
+    // LoadProject's the remote's project.cpp, and returns a stable
+    // Configuration* you can drop into cfg.dependencies. The clone is keyed by
+    // url+branch+commit+projectFile alone, so every arg list builds in the
+    // same working tree, each into variant directories of its own. The
+    // Configuration is owned by an internal cache for the lifetime of the
+    // build, keyed by the clone and the args: identical specs share one.
     Configuration* GitProject(const GitProjectSpec& spec);
 
     // Specification for a local sibling crafter-build project (e.g. an
@@ -95,7 +120,7 @@ export namespace Crafter {
     // multiple projects live side-by-side without going through git).
     struct LocalProjectSpec {
         fs::path projectFile;                            // relative to cwd or absolute
-        std::vector<std::string> args;    // forwarded to dep's CrafterBuildProject
+        std::vector<std::string> args = ProjectArgs();   // as GitProjectSpec::args
     };
 
     // Same as GitProject but for a local on-disk project — no fetch, no

interfaces/Crafter.Build-Platform.cppm

@@ -82,6 +82,12 @@ namespace Crafter {
     // dependency notes of the project crafter-build was pointed at are
     // gathered (Crafter.Build:Agents).
     std::vector<Configuration*> PragmaDependencies(const fs::path& projectFile);
+    // True while this thread loads a `#pragma crafter dependency`: the tool's
+    // project file and every sibling it loads in turn. GitProject and
+    // LocalProject key the project cache on it, so host tooling, which
+    // ForceHostTooling rewrites in place, never shares a Configuration with a
+    // load for the target.
+    bool LoadingHostTooling();
     // Resolves the directory holding distributed runtime assets (Crafter.Build
     // module sources, wasi-runtime/, etc). Honors CRAFTER_BUILD_HOME; otherwise
     // derives <prefix>/share/crafter-build from the running executable's path.

project.cpp

@@ -137,15 +137,8 @@ Remove it (do this before `crafter-build clean`, which deletes the repo the remo
 }
 
 extern "C" Configuration CrafterBuildProject(std::span<const std::string_view> args) {
-    std::vector<std::string> depArgs(args.begin(), args.end());
-    Configuration* math = GitProject({
-        .source = { "https://forgejo.catcrafts.net/Catcrafts/Crafter.Math.git" },
-        .args = depArgs,
-    });
-    Configuration* asset = GitProject({
-        .source = { "https://forgejo.catcrafts.net/Catcrafts/Crafter.Asset.git" },
-        .args = depArgs,
-    });
+    Configuration* math = GitProject({ .source = { "https://forgejo.catcrafts.net/Catcrafts/Crafter.Math.git" } });
+    Configuration* asset = GitProject({ .source = { "https://forgejo.catcrafts.net/Catcrafts/Crafter.Asset.git" } });
 
     static auto CrafterBuildLib = std::make_unique<Configuration>();
     CrafterBuildLib->path = "./";
@@ -289,6 +282,10 @@ extern "C" Configuration CrafterBuildProject(std::span<const std::string_view> a
             .LinkFlag("-Wl,--export-dynamic").LinkFlag("-ldl");
         cfg.AddTest("ProjectDependency").Dependencies({ CrafterBuildLib.get() })
             .LinkFlag("-Wl,--export-dynamic").LinkFlag("-ldl");
+        cfg.AddTest("ProjectArgs").Dependencies({ CrafterBuildLib.get() })
+            .LinkFlag("-Wl,--export-dynamic").LinkFlag("-ldl");
+        cfg.AddTest("HostToolingSibling").Dependencies({ CrafterBuildLib.get() })
+            .LinkFlag("-Wl,--export-dynamic").LinkFlag("-ldl");
         cfg.AddTest("Script").Dependencies({ CrafterBuildLib.get() })
             .LinkFlag("-Wl,--export-dynamic").LinkFlag("-ldl");
         cfg.AddTest("DependencyNotes").Dependencies({ CrafterBuildLib.get() })
@@ -297,10 +294,14 @@ extern "C" Configuration CrafterBuildProject(std::span<const std::string_view> a
         cfg.AddTest("Lint").Dependencies({ CrafterBuildLib.get() });
     }
 
-    // Dogfood: the house-style rules, imported from their own repo through
-    // the pragma above. Report rules gate `crafter-build lint`; transform
-    // rules also auto-fix under `crafter-build format`.
-    LintRules::AddRules(cfg);
+    // Dogfood: the lite house rules, imported from their own repo through
+    // the pragma above. Lite is the house rules without the ones that only
+    // decide layout, whitespace and naming, which this tree keeps by hand:
+    // the full set's naming rule, for one, wants camelCase where this tree
+    // spells its statics and constants PascalCase. Report rules gate
+    // `crafter-build lint`; the two transforms also auto-fix under
+    // `crafter-build format`.
+    LintRules::AddLiteRules(cfg);
 
     // See the top of this file.
     cfg.scripts.push_back({"flatpak", BuildFlatpak});

tests/HostToolingSibling/fixture/app/project.cpp

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-only
+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (C) 2026 Catcrafts®
+
+import std;
+import Crafter.Build;
+#pragma crafter dependency "../tool"
+using namespace Crafter;
+
+// Loads for itself the sibling its tool loads, by the same path and, when
+// the app gets no args, with the same args.
+extern "C" Configuration CrafterBuildProject(std::span<const std::string_view> args) {
+    Configuration* shared = LocalProject({ .projectFile = "../shared/project.cpp" });
+
+    Configuration cfg;
+    cfg.path = "./";
+    cfg.name = "app";
+    cfg.outputName = "app";
+    cfg.type = ConfigurationType::Executable;
+    ApplyStandardArgs(cfg, args);
+    cfg.dependencies = { shared, ProjectDependency("tool") };
+    return cfg;
+}

tests/HostToolingSibling/fixture/shared/interfaces/Shared.cppm

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+export module Shared;
+import std;
+export std::int32_t SharedValue() {
+    return 7;
+}

tests/HostToolingSibling/fixture/shared/project.cpp

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-only
+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (C) 2026 Catcrafts®
+
+import std;
+import Crafter.Build;
+namespace fs = std::filesystem;
+using namespace Crafter;
+
+// The sibling both the tool and the app load. ApplyStandardArgs on purpose:
+// it reads CRAFTER_BUILD_MARCH from the environment, which is how the test
+// tells the app's copy from the one built as host tooling.
+extern "C" Configuration CrafterBuildProject(std::span<const std::string_view> args) {
+    Configuration cfg;
+    cfg.path = "./";
+    cfg.name = "shared";
+    cfg.outputName = "shared";
+    cfg.type = ConfigurationType::LibraryStatic;
+    ApplyStandardArgs(cfg, args);
+    std::array<fs::path, 1> ifaces = { "interfaces/Shared" };
+    std::array<fs::path, 0> impls = {};
+    cfg.GetInterfacesAndImplementations(ifaces, impls);
+    return cfg;
+}

tests/HostToolingSibling/fixture/tool/interfaces/Tool.cppm

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+export module Tool;
+import std;
+import Shared;
+export std::int32_t ToolValue() {
+    return SharedValue();
+}

tests/HostToolingSibling/fixture/tool/project.cpp

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-only
+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (C) 2026 Catcrafts®
+
+import std;
+import Crafter.Build;
+namespace fs = std::filesystem;
+using namespace Crafter;
+
+// The app's `#pragma crafter dependency`, with a sibling of its own.
+extern "C" Configuration CrafterBuildProject(std::span<const std::string_view> args) {
+    Configuration* shared = LocalProject({ .projectFile = "../shared/project.cpp" });
+
+    Configuration cfg;
+    cfg.path = "./";
+    cfg.name = "tool";
+    cfg.outputName = "tool";
+    cfg.type = ConfigurationType::LibraryStatic;
+    ApplyStandardArgs(cfg, args);
+    cfg.dependencies = { shared };
+    std::array<fs::path, 1> ifaces = { "interfaces/Tool" };
+    std::array<fs::path, 0> impls = {};
+    cfg.GetInterfacesAndImplementations(ifaces, impls);
+    return cfg;
+}

tests/HostToolingSibling/main.cpp

@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-only
+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (C) 2026 Catcrafts®
+
+#include <stdlib.h>
+import std;
+import Crafter.Build;
+namespace fs = std::filesystem;
+using namespace Crafter;
+
+// A sibling that a project and its `#pragma crafter dependency` both load
+// is two configurations: the tool's copy is host tooling, built for the
+// host and position-independent, and the project's is built the way the
+// project builds. ForceHostTooling rewrites the tool's graph in place, and
+// the project cache used to hand the project that same rewritten
+// Configuration whenever the two loads had the same key, as they do when
+// the project gets no args. The project then built against a sibling
+// compiled with -march=native while itself building for x86-64-v2, and
+// clang refused the sibling's BMI.
+namespace {
+    std::int32_t Failures = 0;
+
+    void Check(bool cond, std::string_view msg) {
+        if (!cond) {
+            std::println(std::cerr, "FAIL: {}", msg);
+            ++Failures;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+int main() {
+    const fs::path installedHome = GetCrafterBuildHome();
+    if (!fs::exists(installedHome / "Crafter.Build.cppm")) {
+        std::println(std::cerr, "SKIP: no module sources at {}", installedHome.string());
+        return 77;
+    }
+
+    // Staged because LoadProject drops a build/ tree next to every project
+    // file it compiles, and the pre-pass builds the tool and its sibling.
+    const fs::path fixture = fs::current_path() / "tests" / "HostToolingSibling" / "fixture";
+    const fs::path scratch = fs::temp_directory_path() / "crafter-build-host-tooling-sibling";
+    std::error_code ec;
+    fs::remove_all(scratch, ec);
+    fs::create_directories(scratch);
+    fs::copy(fixture, scratch, fs::copy_options::recursive);
+
+    // The march the project builds for. Host tooling overrides it to
+    // native, so a sibling that comes back with native was rewritten.
+    setenv("CRAFTER_BUILD_MARCH", "x86-64-v2", 1);
+
+    // From the app's own directory, as crafter-build runs it: the fixture's
+    // LocalProject paths are relative to the working directory.
+    const fs::path cwd = fs::current_path();
+    fs::current_path(scratch / "app");
+    std::array<std::string_view, 0> noArgs = {};
+    try {
+        Configuration cfg = LoadProject("project.cpp", noArgs);
+        Check(cfg.dependencies.size() == 2, std::format("the app declared its sibling and its tool (got {})", cfg.dependencies.size()));
+        if (cfg.dependencies.size() == 2) {
+            const Configuration* shared = cfg.dependencies[0];
+            const Configuration* tool = cfg.dependencies[1];
+            const Configuration* toolShared = tool->dependencies.size() == 1 ? tool->dependencies[0] : nullptr;
+            Check(toolShared != nullptr, "the tool declared its sibling");
+            Check(shared != toolShared, "the app's sibling is not the tool's copy of it");
+            Check(shared->march == "x86-64-v2", std::format("the app's sibling keeps the app's march (got {})", shared->march));
+            Check(!std::ranges::contains(shared->compileFlags, "-fPIC"), "the app's sibling is not built as host tooling");
+            if (toolShared) {
+                Check(toolShared->march == "native", std::format("the tool's copy is built for the host (got {})", toolShared->march));
+                Check(std::ranges::contains(toolShared->compileFlags, "-fPIC"), "the tool's copy is position-independent");
+            }
+        }
+    } catch (const std::exception& e) {
+        fs::current_path(cwd);
+        std::println(std::cerr, "FAIL: LoadProject threw: {}", e.what());
+        return 1;
+    }
+    fs::current_path(cwd);
+
+    return Failures > 0 ? 1 : 0;
+}

tests/ProjectArgs/fixture/app/project.cpp

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-only
+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (C) 2026 Catcrafts®
+
+import std;
+import Crafter.Build;
+using namespace Crafter;
+
+// Loads the same sibling three ways: with its args left at their default,
+// with nothing forwarded, and with a list of its own. Then a sibling that
+// makes its own sibling's spec at namespace scope. The test reads what each
+// copy received back out of cfg.dependencies.
+extern "C" Configuration CrafterBuildProject(std::span<const std::string_view> args) {
+    Configuration* inherited = LocalProject({ .projectFile = "../lib/project.cpp" });
+    Configuration* none = LocalProject({ .projectFile = "../lib/project.cpp", .args = {} });
+    Configuration* replaced = LocalProject({ .projectFile = "../lib/project.cpp", .args = { "--only" } });
+    Configuration* fromStatic = LocalProject({ .projectFile = "../static/project.cpp" });
+
+    Configuration cfg;
+    cfg.path = "./";
+    cfg.name = "app";
+    cfg.outputName = "app";
+    cfg.type = ConfigurationType::Executable;
+    ApplyStandardArgs(cfg, args);
+    cfg.dependencies = { inherited, none, replaced, fromStatic };
+    // GitProjectSpec takes the same default. Checked on the spec itself,
+    // since a GitProject would need a repository to clone.
+    const GitProjectSpec git{ .source = { .url = "unused" } };
+    const bool gitDefault = git.args == std::vector<std::string>(args.begin(), args.end());
+    cfg.compileFlags.push_back(gitDefault ? "-DGIT_DEFAULT=1" : "-DGIT_DEFAULT=0");
+    return cfg;
+}

tests/ProjectArgs/fixture/leaf/project.cpp

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-only
+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (C) 2026 Catcrafts®
+
+import std;
+import Crafter.Build;
+using namespace Crafter;
+
+// The end of the chain: records what it was loaded with and nothing else.
+extern "C" Configuration CrafterBuildProject(std::span<const std::string_view> args) {
+    Configuration cfg;
+    cfg.path = "./";
+    cfg.name = "leaf";
+    cfg.outputName = "leaf";
+    cfg.type = ConfigurationType::LibraryStatic;
+    ApplyStandardArgs(cfg, args);
+    return cfg;
+}

tests/ProjectArgs/fixture/lib/project.cpp

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-only
+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (C) 2026 Catcrafts®
+
+import std;
+import Crafter.Build;
+using namespace Crafter;
+
+// The middle of the chain. Its own sibling takes the default too, so
+// whatever this file was loaded with has to reach the leaf unchanged.
+extern "C" Configuration CrafterBuildProject(std::span<const std::string_view> args) {
+    Configuration* leaf = LocalProject({ .projectFile = "../leaf/project.cpp" });
+
+    Configuration cfg;
+    cfg.path = "./";
+    cfg.name = "lib";
+    cfg.outputName = "lib";
+    cfg.type = ConfigurationType::LibraryStatic;
+    ApplyStandardArgs(cfg, args);
+    cfg.dependencies = { leaf };
+    return cfg;
+}

tests/ProjectArgs/fixture/static/project.cpp

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-only
+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (C) 2026 Catcrafts®
+
+import std;
+import Crafter.Build;
+using namespace Crafter;
+
+// Makes its sibling's spec at namespace scope, so the spec's args default
+// while LoadProject dlopens this file: before CrafterBuildProject is called,
+// and on the first load of the file only.
+namespace {
+    const LocalProjectSpec LeafSpec{ .projectFile = "../leaf/project.cpp" };
+}
+
+extern "C" Configuration CrafterBuildProject(std::span<const std::string_view> args) {
+    Configuration* leaf = LocalProject(LeafSpec);
+
+    Configuration cfg;
+    cfg.path = "./";
+    cfg.name = "static";
+    cfg.outputName = "static";
+    cfg.type = ConfigurationType::LibraryStatic;
+    ApplyStandardArgs(cfg, args);
+    cfg.dependencies = { leaf };
+    return cfg;
+}

tests/ProjectArgs/main.cpp

@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-only
+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (C) 2026 Catcrafts®
+
+import std;
+import Crafter.Build;
+namespace fs = std::filesystem;
+using namespace Crafter;
+
+// A GitProject or LocalProject without `.args` forwards the args of the
+// project file that declares it: both specs default their args to
+// ProjectArgs(). Before that default, every project.cpp with a sibling
+// dependency copied its span into a std::vector<std::string> for each spec,
+// and a spec that missed the copy built its sibling with none of the
+// project's flags: for the host while the project cross-compiled, and in
+// release while the project built --debug. The fixture is a chain
+// app -> lib -> leaf of LocalProjects; app also loads lib with an empty and
+// with a replaced list, and checks the GitProjectSpec default itself, which
+// a clone would need a repository for. A spec made at namespace scope gets
+// no args: made while dlopen runs the file's static initialisers, which
+// happens on its first load only, it would otherwise keep that load's args
+// for every later one.
+namespace {
+    std::int32_t Failures = 0;
+
+    void Check(bool cond, std::string_view msg) {
+        if (!cond) {
+            std::println(std::cerr, "FAIL: {}", msg);
+            ++Failures;
+        }
+    }
+
+    // The single sibling lib, static and leaf declare, or nullptr.
+    const Configuration* OnlyDependency(const Configuration& cfg) {
+        return cfg.dependencies.size() == 1 ? cfg.dependencies[0] : nullptr;
+    }
+
+    // What a sibling was loaded with, as ApplyStandardArgs split it up:
+    // --debug into cfg.debug, the uninterpreted rest into cfg.projectArgs.
+    // Printed either way, so a failure says which args the sibling read.
+    void CheckLoaded(const Configuration* cfg, bool debug, const std::vector<std::string>& rest, std::string_view what) {
+        if (!cfg) {
+            Check(false, std::format("{} (no such configuration)", what));
+            return;
+        }
+        Check(cfg->debug == debug && cfg->projectArgs == rest, std::format("{} (debug {}, projectArgs {})", what, cfg->debug, cfg->projectArgs));
+    }
+}
+
+int main() {
+    const fs::path installedHome = GetCrafterBuildHome();
+    if (!fs::exists(installedHome / "Crafter.Build.cppm")) {
+        std::println(std::cerr, "SKIP: no module sources at {}", installedHome.string());
+        return 77;
+    }
+
+    // Staged because LoadProject drops a build/ tree next to every project
+    // file it compiles.
+    const fs::path fixture = fs::current_path() / "tests" / "ProjectArgs" / "fixture";
+    const fs::path scratch = fs::temp_directory_path() / "crafter-build-project-args";
+    std::error_code ec;
+    fs::remove_all(scratch, ec);
+    fs::create_directories(scratch);
+    fs::copy(fixture, scratch, fs::copy_options::recursive);
+
+    Check(ProjectArgs().empty(), "no project args outside a project file");
+
+    // Loaded from the project's own directory, as crafter-build runs it: the
+    // fixture's LocalProject paths are relative to the working directory.
+    const fs::path cwd = fs::current_path();
+    fs::current_path(scratch / "app");
+    std::array<std::string_view, 2> args = { "--debug", "--flavor=x" };
+    const std::vector<std::string> flavor = { "--flavor=x" };
+    const std::vector<std::string> only = { "--only" };
+    try {
+        Configuration cfg = LoadProject("project.cpp", args);
+        Check(std::ranges::contains(cfg.compileFlags, "-DGIT_DEFAULT=1"), "a GitProjectSpec's args default to the project's own");
+        Check(cfg.dependencies.size() == 4, std::format("the project declared its four siblings (got {})", cfg.dependencies.size()));
+        if (cfg.dependencies.size() == 4) {
+            const Configuration* inherited = cfg.dependencies[0];
+            const Configuration* none = cfg.dependencies[1];
+            const Configuration* replaced = cfg.dependencies[2];
+            const Configuration* fromStatic = cfg.dependencies[3];
+            CheckLoaded(inherited, true, flavor, "a LocalProject without .args gets the project's args");
+            CheckLoaded(none, false, {}, "`.args = {}` forwards nothing");
+            CheckLoaded(replaced, false, only, "an explicit list replaces the args rather than adding to them");
+            Check(inherited != none && inherited != replaced && none != replaced, "each list loads its own configuration");
+
+            // One sibling further down, the same default passes on what the
+            // middle project was given, not what the top one was.
+            CheckLoaded(OnlyDependency(*inherited), true, flavor, "the project's args reach its sibling's sibling");
+            CheckLoaded(OnlyDependency(*none), false, {}, "a sibling loaded with nothing passes nothing on");
+            CheckLoaded(OnlyDependency(*replaced), false, only, "a sibling passes on the list it was given");
+
+            CheckLoaded(fromStatic, true, flavor, "the sibling with a namespace-scope spec is itself loaded with the args");
+            CheckLoaded(OnlyDependency(*fromStatic), false, {}, "a spec made at namespace scope forwards nothing");
+        }
+    } catch (const std::exception& e) {
+        fs::current_path(cwd);
+        std::println(std::cerr, "FAIL: LoadProject threw: {}", e.what());
+        return 1;
+    }
+    fs::current_path(cwd);
+
+    Check(ProjectArgs().empty(), "no project args once the project file has returned");
+    return Failures > 0 ? 1 : 0;
+}

tests/ProjectDependency/fixture/static-dep/project.cpp

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-only
+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (C) 2026 Catcrafts®
+
+import std;
+import Crafter.Build;
+#pragma crafter dependency "../greeter"
+using namespace Crafter;
+
+// Asks for its dependency at namespace scope, so the call runs while
+// LoadProject dlopens this file, before CrafterBuildProject is called.
+namespace {
+    Configuration* const Greeter = ProjectDependency("greeter");
+}
+
+extern "C" Configuration CrafterBuildProject(std::span<const std::string_view>) {
+    Configuration cfg;
+    cfg.path = "./";
+    cfg.name = std::format("static {}", Greeter->name);
+    cfg.outputName = "static-dep";
+    cfg.type = ConfigurationType::Executable;
+    return cfg;
+}

tests/ProjectDependency/main.cpp

@@ -90,14 +90,19 @@ int main(int argc, char** argv) {
 
     const fs::path app = scratch / "app" / "project.cpp";
     const fs::path appSo = scratch / "app" / "build" / "project.so";
-    std::array<std::string_view, 0> noArgs = {};
 
     Check(IsTopLevelProject(), "outside any project file counts as top level");
 
     // The dependency is fetched, built and linked before project.cpp runs,
-    // and ProjectDependency() hands it back by either name.
+    // and ProjectDependency() hands it back by either name. The app ignores
+    // the arg it is loaded with, and the dependency must not get it: host
+    // tooling gets none of the consumer's args, although a LocalProject spec
+    // defaults to them. The consumer's flags would split the tool's variant
+    // from every other consumer's, and its --target= would have the tool's
+    // project.cpp choose for the wrong triple.
     try {
-        Configuration cfg = LoadProject(app, noArgs);
+        std::array<std::string_view, 1> flavored = { "--flavor=x" };
+        Configuration cfg = LoadProject(app, flavored);
         Check(cfg.name == "hello from greeter", std::format("project.cpp imported and called the dependency's module (got '{}')", cfg.name));
         Check(std::ranges::contains(cfg.compileFlags, "-DTOP_LEVEL=1"), "the project LoadProject was pointed at sees itself as top level");
         Check(cfg.dependencies.size() == 2, "ProjectDependency resolved by module name and by configuration name");
@@ -109,12 +114,23 @@ int main(int argc, char** argv) {
             Check(dep.march == "native", "the environment's march was overridden for host tooling");
             Check(std::ranges::contains(dep.compileFlags, "-fPIC"), "the dependency archive was built position-independent");
             Check(std::ranges::contains(dep.compileFlags, "-DTOP_LEVEL=0"), "a dependency's project file does not see itself as top level");
+            Check(dep.projectArgs.empty(), std::format("the dependency got none of the consumer's args (got {})", dep.projectArgs));
             Check(fs::exists(ExpectedOutput(dep)), "the dependency archive exists");
         }
     } catch (const std::exception& e) {
         std::println(std::cerr, "FAIL: LoadProject threw: {}", e.what());
         return 1;
     }
+
+    // A static initialiser of the project file runs while LoadProject
+    // dlopens it, before CrafterBuildProject is called, and can already ask
+    // for a dependency. In a child, because a static initialiser that
+    // throws terminates the process.
+    {
+        const std::string loaded = LoadInChild(scratch / "static-dep" / "project.cpp");
+        Check(loaded == "static greeter", std::format("ProjectDependency() works in a static initialiser (got '{}')", loaded));
+    }
+
     Check(fs::exists(appSo), "project.so was produced");
     if (!fs::exists(appSo)) return 1;
     const fs::file_time_type firstSo = fs::last_write_time(appSo);

tests/Script/main.cpp

@@ -218,6 +218,29 @@ int main() {
         Check(fs::exists(binSentinel) && fs::exists(buildSentinel), "`clean` as a script argument deleted nothing");
     }
 
+    // `--` ends this tool's options and goes nowhere itself. In the
+    // project's args it gave the project a variant of its own, and every
+    // sibling that inherits the args one too. The word after it is an
+    // operand even when it looks like an option, here the script's name;
+    // after the name, a `--` is the script's like any other word.
+    {
+        fs::remove(scratch / "record.txt");
+        const std::int32_t code = RunWith({"crafter-build", project, "--flavour=x", "run", "--", "record", "--", "a"});
+        Check(code == 42, std::format("the script after `--` ran (got {})", code));
+        const std::vector<std::string> expected = {
+            "arg:--", "arg:a",
+            "projectArg:--flavour=x",
+            "debug:false",
+            "project:script-fixture",
+        };
+        const std::vector<std::string> record = ReadLines(scratch / "record.txt");
+        Check(record == expected, "`--` reached neither the project args nor the script");
+        if (record != expected) {
+            for (const std::string& line : record) std::println(std::cerr, "    recorded: {}", line);
+        }
+        Check(RunWith({"crafter-build", project, "run", "--", "-x"}) == 1, "after `--` a word that looks like an option names the script");
+    }
+
     // The first word after `run` is the name even when it is a verb.
     {
         fs::remove(scratch / "record.txt");