## TL;DR
End the first line with a period. If the summary spans what looks like two sentences, split it: first line gets the period, the rest moves below a blank line. Rerun pydocstyle to confirm.

## The exact error
```text
D415: First line should end with a period
```

## Steps
1. **Find the violations**
   Run pydocstyle and collect D415 hits with file and line numbers.
   Success check: You have the list of summaries missing terminal punctuation.
2. **Add the period**
   Append a period to the end of the first line. Do not add extra blank lines; D415 is only about the period.
   Success check: Each flagged first line ends with a period.
3. **Split run-on summaries**
   If the first line contains two sentences, keep the first sentence on line one and move the rest after a blank line (which also satisfies D205).
   Success check: Summaries are one sentence; details live below the blank line.
4. **Rerun the linter**
   Run pydocstyle and confirm zero D415 violations.
   Success check: Clean run with no D415 output.

## When to use
- Use when pydocstyle flags D415 on docstring summaries.
- Use when an agent generates docstrings and the repo enforces punctuation rules.

## When not to use
- Not for D205 (missing blank line between summary and description).
- Not for D401 (imperative mood); a docstring can violate both at once.

## Why it happens
D415 checks only the last character of the first line. It is the most mechanical docstring rule, which makes it safe to auto-fix with a script across a whole codebase.

## Edge cases
Auto-fixers must not touch the first line's content beyond appending the period; rewording risks changing meaning. Like D401, ruff enforces the same D415 code, so one fix covers both linters.

## Provenance

Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pst_jjN9CIZEAE7gx4tusNTd5w

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## Selected public attribution and original notices/references

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