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[devcontainers]: Define devcontainer spec extension for hawkeye policy injection
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Description
Issue: [devcontainers]: Define devcontainer spec extension for hawkeye policy injection
Feature: devcontainers
Priority: high
Labels: devcontainers, hawkeye, high-priority
Description
Currently hawkeye policy and devcontainer definitions are separate. When a devcontainer is launched for agent work, hawkeye has no structured way to know which policies apply to that container context. We need a standard extension to the devcontainer spec that declares hawkeye policy bindings — so the container itself encodes what rules govern the agent running inside it.
Intel driver: Martin Fowler's harness engineering article (2026-04-02, martinfowler.com) — "outer harness serves two goals: increases the probability the agent gets it right AND provides a feedback loop that self-corrects." The harness starts at the container definition level.
What
Define a devcontainer.json extension schema:
{
"hawkeye": {
"policySet": "daax/standard-v1",
"qualityGates": ["test-coverage-80", "no-secrets", "lint-pass"],
"feedbackMode": "adaptive",
"maxAutoCorrections": 3
}
}
Why
Container-declared policy means: (1) policy travels with the code, not just the repo config; (2) any agent spawned in that container automatically inherits the right hawkeye ruleset; (3) policy can be version-controlled alongside the container definition.
Definition of Done
- Schema defined and documented in daax devcontainers spec
- devcontainer startup sequence reads
hawkeyeblock and registers policy with hawkeye before first agent command - If
hawkeyeblock is absent, container starts with default policy (not no policy) - Validation:
daax dev validatecatches invalidhawkeyepolicy refs at startup, not at runtime - Test: container with
"qualityGates": ["test-coverage-80"]causes hawkeye to reject code submissions below 80% coverage - Documentation: annotated devcontainer.json example with hawkeye block
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the devcontainer.json handling and the devcontainer startup sequence, then trace the daax dev validate entry point. Define the schema and policy registration behavior against the listed Definition of Done, and add the requested container validation test plus an annotated devcontainer.json example.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- docker, typescript
- Domain
- devops, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100