diff --git a/.github/workflows/linter.yml b/.github/workflows/linter.yml
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+---
+name: Lint Code Base
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [main]
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+  statuses: write
+
+jobs:
+  run-lint:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - name: Lint Code Base
+        uses: super-linter/super-linter@v7
+        env:
+          DEFAULT_BRANCH: main
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          VALIDATE_ALL_CODEBASE: false
+          # Naming any validator puts super-linter in opt-in mode, so only these
+          # three run. Leaving it on the default (every validator it can detect)
+          # fails this repo: jscpd uses a 0% duplicate threshold and flags the
+          # .cjs/.js module twins that CLAUDE.md requires, and checkov flags the
+          # workflows' missing permissions blocks. Bash is deliberately absent —
+          # shellcheck reports 52 findings across bin/ and test/, which is a
+          # cleanup of its own, not a merge gate.
+          VALIDATE_GITHUB_ACTIONS: true
+          VALIDATE_GITLEAKS: true
+          VALIDATE_YAML: true
diff --git a/github/workflows/linter.yml b/github/workflows/linter.yml
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-name: Lint Code Base
-
-on:
-  push:
-    branches: [ "main" ]
-  pull_request:
-    branches: [ "main" ]
-
-jobs:
-  run-lint:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout code
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 0
-
-      - name: Lint Code Base
-        uses: super-linter/super-linter@v7
-        env:
-          VALIDATE_ALL_CODEBASE: false
-          DEFAULT_BRANCH: main
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}