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+# DX Audit Report — go-cache
+
+## 1. CLAUDE.md — helpful for a new developer?
+
+**Overall: Yes.** Covers project purpose, commands, architecture, testing conventions, commit conventions, and environment. A new developer can orient quickly.
+
+**Minor gaps:**
+
+- `cache.go:1` package doc reads "file-based cache for GitHub API responses" — misleading; the package is general-purpose and the GitHub helpers are a small subset.
+- `GitHubReposKey` / `GitHubRepoKey` helpers are not mentioned in CLAUDE.md (only discoverable by reading the source).
+- `docs/architecture.md:182` shows a stale `fmt.Errorf` example in the path-traversal section; the code now uses `coreerr.E()`.
+
+## 2. Test coverage
+
+```
+forge.lthn.ai/core/go-cache  coverage: 70.1% of statements
+
+cache.go:New               83.3%
+cache.go:Path              70.0%
+cache.go:Get               75.0%
+cache.go:Set               66.7%
+cache.go:Delete            66.7%
+cache.go:Clear             66.7%
+cache.go:Age               70.0%
+cache.go:GitHubReposKey     0.0%   ← untested
+cache.go:GitHubRepoKey      0.0%   ← untested
+```
+
+Uncovered paths: both GitHub key helpers, path-traversal rejection in `Path()`, and error injection branches in `Set`/`Delete`/`Clear` (e.g. `EnsureDir` failing, `Write` failing, `Delete` failing).
+
+## 3. Error handling — `coreerr.E()` vs `fmt.Errorf`
+
+**Clean.** No `fmt.Errorf` in source code. All errors use `coreerr.E()`.
+
+One stale documentation example: `docs/architecture.md:182` shows `fmt.Errorf` in an inline code snippet — documentation only, not executed.
+
+## 4. File I/O — `go-io` vs `os.ReadFile` / `os.WriteFile`
+
+**Clean.** All storage operations delegated to `coreio.Medium`. The `os` package is imported only for:
+- `os.Getwd()` — to derive the default `baseDir` when none is provided (not a file read/write).
+- `os.ErrNotExist` — used as a sentinel to distinguish "file not found" from other read errors.
+
+Neither `os.ReadFile` nor `os.WriteFile` appears anywhere in the codebase.