Vendor Go dependencies and configure private module access (go mod vendor, GOPRIVATE)

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Documented steps

  1. Run `go mod vendor` to (re)create the vendor/ directory with every package needed to build and test the main module; it also writes vendor/modules.txt as the manifest. Flags: -e (tolerate errors), -v (verbose), -o <dir> (alternate output dir).
  2. When a vendor/ directory exists and matches go.mod, builds automatically load packages from it instead of the module cache/network.
  3. Commit vendor/ including vendor/modules.txt if you want hermetic, network-free builds.
  4. For private repos, set `GOPRIVATE=*.corp.example.com,github.com/yourorg/*` (glob patterns) — matching modules skip both the public proxy and the checksum database and are fetched directly from VCS.
  5. For finer control, GONOPROXY and GONOSUMDB take the same glob lists and override GOPRIVATE for the proxy and checksum decisions respectively (see `go help private`).
  6. Docs: https://go.dev/ref/mod#go-mod-vendor and https://go.dev/ref/mod#private-modules

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