set up CI, project templates, monorepo management

[designbyajay]

set up a .config folder with nix scripts that make commands for creating projects, linting, building, testing and publishing them. Set up githooks for pre-push and commit msg. Set up .github actions folder for post-push, pre-merge, post-merge actions

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This PR establishes comprehensive CI/CD infrastructure and monorepo management tooling using Nix. It sets up automated validation pipelines, developer tooling, and project scaffolding capabilities to support multiple programming languages in a monorepo structure.

Key Changes:

• Nix-based development environment with cross-platform support (x86_64/aarch64 Linux/Darwin)
• GitHub Actions workflows for commit validation, linting, building, and testing across all platforms
• Git hooks for pre-push validation and commit message linting
• Project templating system for creating new language-specific projects

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File	Description
flake.nix	Root Nix flake defining development shells, schemas, and extensive educational documentation about Nix concepts
flake.lock	Lock file pinning flake-schemas and nixpkgs dependencies
README.md	Project overview with ASCII art branding
CONTRIBUTE.md	Comprehensive contribution guidelines covering monorepo structure, development workflow, and commit conventions
.gitignore	Whitelist-based ignore file for monorepo root
.envrc	Direnv integration for automatic environment loading
.github/workflows/push.yml	Multi-stage CI pipeline validating commits, linting, building, and testing on all platforms
.github/workflows/merge.yml	Enforces fast-forward merge requirement by checking rebase status
.github/workflows/tagMain.yml	Automatic semantic version tagging on main branch merges
.github/CODEOWNERS	Defines repository ownership
.config/devShell.nix	Core development shell configuration with wrapped project commands
.config/stubProject.nix	Project scaffolding system for creating new projects
.config/recurse.nix	Monorepo traversal script for running commands across projects
.config/lintCommit.nix	Commit message linting using conventional commits
.config/commitlintConfig.nix	Configuration for commit message validation
.config/installGitHooks.nix	Git hooks installer for commit-msg and pre-push validation
.config/importFromLanguageFolder.nix	Dynamic import system for language-specific configurations
.config/configVscode.nix	VSCode configuration generator merging language-specific settings
.config/configZed.nix	Zed editor configuration generator
.config/language-nix/*	Nix language support including devShell, IDE configs, and project template

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The nested HTML comment structure here is problematic. Line 10 opens a comment block with the closing tag on line 11, but this is immediately inside another comment block that started on line 6. This creates malformed nested comments which may not render correctly in Markdown parsers.

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This script unconditionally runs direnv allow for every directory containing an .envrc, which bypasses direnv’s explicit trust model and executes arbitrary shell commands from any .envrc without prior user review. If an attacker can introduce or modify a .envrc in the repo (e.g., via a new subproject or a cloned untrusted repository), their code will run whenever recurse is invoked (including from the pre-push hook), allowing exfiltration of local secrets or arbitrary code execution on developer machines. Consider removing the automatic direnv allow and requiring manual approval, or at least restricting it to a vetted allowlist of directories and only using direnv exec after prior explicit approval.

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direnv allow