diff --git a/src/resources/extensions/sf/detection.ts b/src/resources/extensions/sf/detection.ts
index 5079a58f3..3742544be 100644
--- a/src/resources/extensions/sf/detection.ts
+++ b/src/resources/extensions/sf/detection.ts
@@ -760,8 +760,30 @@ function detectVerificationCommands(
 
 	if (detectedFiles.includes("go.mod")) {
 		// Limit parallelism: Go's default is GOMAXPROCS which can be very high.
-		commands.push("go test -parallel 2 ./...");
-		commands.push("go vet ./...");
+		const rootHasGoMod = existsSync(join(basePath, "go.mod"));
+		if (rootHasGoMod) {
+			commands.push("go test -parallel 2 ./...");
+			commands.push("go vet ./...");
+		} else {
+			// Multi-module repo (no root go.mod, only nested ones — common in
+			// monorepos like dr-repo/{dr-agent,portal,gateway,...}). Find each
+			// module dir and emit a per-module loop so commands work from the
+			// repo root regardless of which modules exist.
+			const scanned = scanProjectFiles(basePath);
+			const moduleDirs = scanned
+				.filter((f) => f.endsWith("/go.mod") || f === "go.mod")
+				.map((f) => (f === "go.mod" ? "." : f.slice(0, -"/go.mod".length)))
+				.filter((d) => d.length > 0 && !d.includes(".."));
+			if (moduleDirs.length > 0) {
+				const dirsArg = moduleDirs.map((d) => `"${d}"`).join(" ");
+				commands.push(
+					`bash -c 'set -e; for d in ${dirsArg}; do (cd "$d" && go vet ./...); done'`,
+				);
+				commands.push(
+					`bash -c 'set -e; for d in ${dirsArg}; do (cd "$d" && go test -parallel 2 ./...); done'`,
+				);
+			}
+		}
 	}
 
 	if (
diff --git a/src/resources/extensions/sf/gitignore.ts b/src/resources/extensions/sf/gitignore.ts
index c57fdb654..58d831856 100644
--- a/src/resources/extensions/sf/gitignore.ts
+++ b/src/resources/extensions/sf/gitignore.ts
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
 import { execFileSync } from "node:child_process";
 import { existsSync, lstatSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
 import { join } from "node:path";
+import { yamlSafeString } from "./commands-prefs-wizard.js";
+import { detectProjectSignals } from "./detection.js";
 import { GIT_NO_PROMPT_ENV } from "./git-constants.js";
 import { nativeLsFiles, nativeRmCached } from "./native-git-bridge.js";
 import { sfRoot } from "./paths.js";
@@ -271,9 +273,26 @@ export function ensurePreferences(basePath: string): boolean {
 		return false;
 	}
 
+	// Auto-detect project type and seed verification_commands. Without this,
+	// projects fall back to the user-level defaults — which point at sf's own
+	// dev scripts (npm run typecheck:extensions, test:sf-light) and produce
+	// false negatives on every non-Node project. Detection failure is non-fatal.
+	let verifySection = "";
+	try {
+		const signals = detectProjectSignals(basePath);
+		if (signals.verificationCommands.length > 0) {
+			const lines = signals.verificationCommands.map(
+				(c) => `  - ${yamlSafeString(c)}`,
+			);
+			verifySection = `verification_commands:\n${lines.join("\n")}\n`;
+		}
+	} catch {
+		// fall through to bare template
+	}
+
 	const template = `---
 version: 1
-always_use_skills: []
+${verifySection}always_use_skills: []
 prefer_skills: []
 avoid_skills: []
 skill_rules: []