diff --git a/.golangci.yml b/.golangci.yml
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+run:
+  tests: false
+  skip-dirs:
+    - tests/e2e
+    - tests/simulation
+
+  govet:
+    # Enable analyzers by name (in addition to default).
+    # Run `go tool vet help` to see all analyzers.
+    # Default: []
+    enable:
+      - fieldalignment
+
+linters:
+  enable:
+    # - dupl
+    # - nestif
+    # - rowserrcheck -- enable when it will support generics
+    # - whitespace
+    # - wsl
+    - asciicheck
+    - bodyclose
+    # TODO; we need re-enable this linter once golangci-lint or .depguard.yaml is done
+    # - depguard
+    - dogsled
+    - errcheck
+    - exportloopref
+    - goconst
+    - gocritic
+    - gofmt
+    - goimports
+    - gosec
+    - gosimple
+    - govet
+    - grouper
+    - ineffassign
+    - lll
+    - misspell
+    - nakedret
+    - nolintlint
+    - prealloc
+    - revive
+    - staticcheck
+    - stylecheck
+    - typecheck
+    - unconvert
+    - unparam
+    - unused
+    - usestdlibvars
+
+issues:
+  exclude-rules:
+    - path: _test\.go
+      linters:
+        - gosec
+    - linters:
+        - lll
+      source: "https://"
+  max-same-issues: 50
+
+linters-settings:
+  dogsled:
+    max-blank-identifiers: 3
+  misspell:
+    locale: US
+  nolintlint:
+    allow-unused: false
+    allow-leading-space: true
+    require-explanation: false
+  revive:
+    confidence: 0
+    severity: error
+    error-code: 1
+    warning-code: 0
+    # List of rules to enable explicitly should be a subset of .revive.toml
+    # so only critical rules cause CI to fail instead of just generating annotations.
+    rules:
+      - name: blank-imports
+      - name: context-as-argument
+      - name: context-keys-type
+      - name: dot-imports
+      - name: empty-block
+      - name: error-return
+      - name: error-strings
+      - name: error-naming
+      - name: errorf
+      - name: exported
+      - name: if-return
+      - name: increment-decrement
+      - name: indent-error-flow
+      - name: range
+      - name: receiver-naming
+      # - name: redefines-builtin-id
+      - name: superfluous-else
+      - name: time-naming
+      - name: unexported-return
+      - name: unreachable-code
+      # - name: unused-parameter
+      - name: var-declaration
+      - name: var-naming
diff --git a/.markdownlint.yml b/.markdownlint.yml
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+# Default state for all rules
+default: true
+# MD014/commands-show-output Dollar signs used before commands without showing output
+MD014: false
+MD013: false
diff --git a/.revive.toml b/.revive.toml
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+# Sets the default severity to "error"
+severity = "error"
+
+# Sets the default failure confidence. This means that linting errors
+# with less than 0 confidence will be ignored.
+confidence = 0
+
+# https://github.com/mgechev/revive#configuration
+
+# Recommended configuration, minus what's commented out
+[rule.blank-imports]
+[rule.context-as-argument]
+[rule.context-keys-type]
+[rule.dot-imports]
+[rule.empty-block]
+[rule.error-return]
+[rule.error-strings]
+[rule.error-naming]
+[rule.errorf]
+#[rule.exported]
+[rule.if-return]
+[rule.increment-decrement]
+[rule.indent-error-flow]
+#[rule.package-comments]
+[rule.range]
+[rule.receiver-naming]
+#[rule.redefines-builtin-id]
+[rule.superfluous-else]
+[rule.time-naming]
+[rule.unexported-return]
+[rule.unreachable-code]
+#[rule.unused-parameter]
+[rule.var-declaration]
+[rule.var-naming]
+
+# Additional rules
+[rule.atomic]
+[rule.bool-literal-in-expr]
+[rule.constant-logical-expr]
+[rule.datarace]
+[rule.duplicated-imports]
+[rule.early-return]
+#[rule.empty-lines]
+[rule.get-return]
+[rule.identical-branches]
+[rule.modifies-value-receiver]
+#[rule.optimize-operands-order]
+[rule.range-val-address]
+[rule.range-val-in-closure]
+[rule.string-of-int]
+[rule.struct-tag]
+[rule.time-equal]
+[rule.unconditional-recursion]
+#[rule.unexported-naming]
+#[rule.unhandled-error]
+[rule.unnecessary-stmt]
+#[rule.unused-receiver]
+#[rule.use-any]
+#[rule.useless-break]
+[rule.waitgroup-by-value]
+
+# Rules that we might want to enable
+#[rule.bare-return]
+#[rule.deep-exit]
+#[rule.defer]
+#[rule.import-shadowing]