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Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1# g1t plan
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status.g1t.sh with incident management, invites that land you in the workspace, settings as pages, usage without quotas3g1t is where people and agents ship software together: a git platform built on Cloudflare Workers and Artifacts for
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts4the "Build the Next-Gen Git Platform on Cloudflare" competition.
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6- Submission closes **October 14, 2026, 11:59 PM PDT**: a 5–10 minute demo
7 video, this repository (MIT) and run instructions.
8- Judging: 50% originality and quality of the prototype for agent-oriented
9 collaboration; 25% multi-agent concurrency, coordination, context
10 preservation, review and conflict handling; 25% ease of use.
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Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell12## The point
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The plan says what g1t is for without measuring it against other products14**g1t is where a team of agents ships code, with the people they work for.**
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell15
The plan says what g1t is for without measuring it against other products16Hosting git is table stakes, and g1t does it the familiar way: issues,
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell17branches, pull requests, review, protected branches, people working by hand.
18None of that is the selling point. The selling point is the layer above it,
19which no forge has: **you hand g1t an outcome, and a fleet of agents converges
20it onto `main`, coordinating with each other and with you, with every decision
21on the record.**
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23Three things only g1t does, and every feature should serve one of them:
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251. **Outcomes, not pull requests.** The unit people work in is "make onboarding
26 work offline", not branch #4012. A brief becomes a plan of issues with
27 dependencies; agents take them as they unblock; people steer the outcome
The plan says what g1t is for without measuring it against other products28 and see it converge, rather than stopping at the pull request.
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell292. **Agents that work as a team.** Agents know what the others are doing, file
30 what they find instead of widening their change, ask and answer each other
31 through the forge, and defer to people. Many agents on one codebase without
32 a human refereeing collisions.
333. **`main` that only ever moves forward.** Every change lands through checks
34 in the combination it will live in (the merge queue), failures go back to the
35 agent that wrote them, and any line can answer "why is this here?"
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Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts37## Product model
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Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts39g1t keeps the two things every engineer already knows, issues and pull
40requests, and changes the assumption underneath them. A forge built for
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell41people expects a few changes in flight, each watched by its author. g1t
42expects dozens of agents working at once across a project, each on its own
43issue, all of which have to land on `main`. A person assigns an issue to
g1t is one name: its agent's work, commits and comments show as @g1t, and nobody can claim g1t or g1t-agent44g1t and chooses nothing else: not how many agents, and not which
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell45model. An issue can still collect more than one pull request (a second
46attempt, or someone's own agent alongside g1t's), and when it does the
47issue records which one was taken.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts48
49| Concept | What it is |
50| --- | --- |
Fast pages, required checks on the branch, self-hosted runners, honest incidents51| **Issue** | What should change in a repo: a bug, a feature, a question. Opened by a person, an agent or an integration such as an error tracker. Carries labels, a description that may say what done means (a Definition of done: context, never a gate), comments, and every pull request made for it. What a merge needs is the default branch's required checks: workflow statuses, the same for people and agents. |
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts52| **Pull request** | A proposed change in its own Artifacts fork, made by an agent or a person, usually for an issue. Any number can be open for one issue. Starts as a draft; marked ready; merged or closed. |
53| **Session** | The agent's full context for a pull request: prompt, messages, tool calls, cost. Stored with the pull request and linked from every commit it produced. |
54| **Compare view** | Every pull request for an issue side by side with diff, check results, conflicts against main and against each other, and a reviewer agent's summary. |
55| **Merge** | A person or a policy picks a pull request. A per-repo merge queue lands it. The issue closes, recording which pull request resolved it; the others for that issue close as superseded, or are rebased by their agents when the issue is kept open. |
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57Issues and pull requests share one sequence of numbers per repository, so
58`#12` names exactly one of them.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts59
60Features that fall out of the model:
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62- **Why-blame.** Click a line and see the prompt and reasoning that produced
63 it, not only the commit.
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts64- **Overlap radar.** Pull requests that touch the same files are flagged
65 while the agents are still working, and the agents are told.
66- **Live lanes.** Watch every pull request progress in real time.
67
68## Why issues and pull requests, not something new
69
70An earlier version of this plan merged the two into one new object, an
71"issue" holding "pull requests". That was wrong, for three reasons.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts72
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts73- **Issues come from everywhere.** People file them, agents file them, and
74 Sentry files them. Most are never worked on by whoever opened them. They
75 need their own life: labels, triage, discussion, closing as not planned.
76- **"Which change did we take?" needs two objects.** When five agents each
77 propose a change, the answer has to be recorded somewhere other than the
78 five proposals. On g1t it is on the issue: `resolved by #14`.
79- **Nobody should have to learn a word to use the product.** An engineer who
80 has used any forge can use g1t on the first day, and finds the agent
81 features where they would look for them.
Rust repos service with shipping; pull requests kept in the model82
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts83What g1t adds to the familiar pair:
Rust repos service with shipping; pull requests kept in the model84
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell85- **Several pull requests per issue is supported**, not an accident. It
86 is the exception, for a second attempt or a competing one, but when it
87 happens the issue's page lists them with their state, and merging one
88 closes the issue with that pull request recorded and the others marked
89 superseded.
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts90- **A pull request can be part of the work.** Merging with "keep the issue
91 open" leaves the issue and its other pull requests alone.
92- **Every pull request has a fork and a session.** See
93 [forks and branches](https://docs.g1t.sh/concepts/forks/).
Teams and CODEOWNERS, labels and milestones, dependency updates, the security suite, and a clearer top bar94- **Labels need no setup.** A repository starts with the default labels
95 (`bug`, `documentation`, `enhancement`, `question`, `dependencies`,
96 `security` and the rest), each with a color and a description, on issues
97 and pull requests alike; someone with Triage makes a new one as they use
98 it. **Milestones** gather issues and pull requests under a goal and a
99 due date. Pull requests can merge into any branch; the default branch's
100 protection holds only for those into it.
Pull requests from branches101- **The developer path is unchanged.** Push a branch, open a pull request
102 from it, get review, merge. Agents get a fork per pull request instead.
Rust repos service with shipping; pull requests kept in the model103- **Both paths meet at `main`.** The same landing rules apply to a person's
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts104 pull request and an agent's.
Rust repos service with shipping; pull requests kept in the model105
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts106## Converging on main
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Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts108Twelve issues started together will finish at different times and touch
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts109overlapping code. Getting them all into `main` without a person refereeing
110is the hard part, and it is handled in four places.
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1121. **Before work starts: plan the overlap away.** A project is a graph of
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts113 issues. A planner agent can split a large goal into issues, predict
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts114 which files each will touch, and add a dependency where two would collide,
115 so one starts from the other's result instead of from `main`.
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1162. **While agents work: overlap radar.** Each pull request's changed files and
117 symbols are tracked as it pushes. When two pull requests from different issues
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts118 enter the same area, both agents are told what the other is doing there.
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1193. **When `main` moves: the author resolves.** Every open pull request is
120 trial-merged against the new `main`. A clean merge updates the pull request
121 silently. A conflict resumes that pull request's agent with its original
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts122 session and the incoming change, so the conflict is resolved by the agent
123 that wrote the code and still knows why.
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1244. **At landing: a speculative queue.** Approved pull requests enter the
125 repo's queue. g1t builds the combined states (`main`+A, `main`+A+B, …) and runs
126 their checks in parallel. Pull requests land in order as their combined state
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts127 passes; one that fails is ejected back to its agent and the states behind
128 it are rebuilt. `main` only ever receives a state that passed.
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130Landing can be fully automatic: a repo policy such as "checks pass and the
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts131reviewer agent approves" merges without a person.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts132
133## Agents aware of each other
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Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts135Each repo keeps a live **work registry**: for every running pull request, its
136issue, a running summary of what it has done, and the files and symbols it
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts137has touched or plans to touch. Agents use it through MCP tools; g1t also
138acts on it without being asked.
139
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts140- **Before starting.** When an issue is opened, or an agent is about to
141 begin a task, g1t searches open issues and running pull requests for the same
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts142 goal (by meaning, not wording) and for the same area of code. If a match
143 exists the agent is told who is on it and how far along, and chooses: join
144 as a deliberate racer, wait for the result, or drop the task. Duplicate
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts145 issues are offered for merging.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts146- **Finding out-of-scope work.** An agent that discovers something outside
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts147 its issue asks the registry who works there. If another pull request owns that
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts148 area, it **hands off**: a note, the relevant excerpt of its session, and
149 optionally commits the receiver can take. If nobody does, it opens a child
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts150 issue instead of widening its own change.
151- **Asking.** An agent can put a question or a request to another pull request.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts152 The receiver gets it at its next turn.
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts153- **Waiting.** An agent that needs another pull request's result parks itself.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts154 Its sandbox sleeps, spend stops, and it resumes from the new state when
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts155 that pull request merges.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts156- **Agents that do not cooperate.** For pushes from tools that never call
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts157 these tools, g1t compares the pushed change against running pull requests and
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts158 flags near-duplicates itself.
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160Every handoff, question and wait has a state (offered, accepted, declined,
161done), appears in the timeline, and is visible to people. A handoff declined
162twice, or two agents passing work back and forth, goes to the "needs you"
163inbox.
164
165## Review at scale
166
167Cloudflare's brief asks "how do you review everything they produce?". With
168hundreds of agents, a person cannot read every diff, so review is by
169exception.
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Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts171- **Evidence, not diffs.** Every pull request carries a proof bundle: checks run
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts172 and their output, a preview URL, a plain-language summary, and the
173 behaviour that changed.
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts174- **Two agent reviewers.** One reviews the change against the issue. A
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts175 second is adversarial: it tries to break the change and reports what it
176 found.
177- **Risk tiers.** Each change is scored from what it touches, how large it
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts178 is, and how the reviewers ruled. Low risk merges on policy; high risk goes
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts179 to a person with the evidence already assembled.
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts180- **Trust is earned.** An agent's record on a path (merged, reverted, caught
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts181 by review) raises or lowers the tier its changes land in.
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts182- **Sampling.** A share of auto-merged changes is sent to a person anyway,
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts183 to keep the policy honest.
184
185## Rethinking the git primitives
186
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts187- **No branches for agents.** A pull request is a fork; `main` is the only
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts188 long-lived line. There is nothing to name, clean up or go stale.
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts189- **Projected main.** New pull requests start from `main` plus everything already
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts190 in the landing queue, so they are built on the state they will land on.
191- **Structural merge.** The merge engine merges by syntax tree, not by line,
192 for supported languages. Two agents adding different functions to the same
193 file do not conflict.
194- **Forkable sessions.** A session can be forked at any turn: the code as it
195 was at that moment plus the conversation up to it, continued with a
196 different instruction. Branching applies to the reasoning as well as the
197 code.
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts198- **Provenance in history.** Every commit records its issue, session,
199 agent, model and cost, and is signed with a key issued to that pull request. The
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts200 history can be audited by machine.
201
202## People in the loop
203
204### Code that arrives from outside
205
206People will keep pushing with plain git, their editor, or another tool. Every
207push goes through g1t's git front end, so none of it bypasses the model.
208
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts209- **A push to a branch becomes a pull request.** g1t adopts it with the pusher as
210 author. A reviewer agent writes the issue it appears to serve and offers
211 to attach it to an open issue it matches. From there it gets the same
212 checks, compare view and queue as agent work.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts213- **A push to `main` follows repo policy.** Protected: refused with a message
214 saying which ref to push to instead, so it enters the queue. Open: accepted
215 and treated as "`main` moved", which re-verifies the queue and triggers
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts216 resolve-on-move for every open pull request.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts217- **Context is an open format.** A commit trailer names the session that
218 produced it, so any tool can attach its transcript. Commits without one are
219 shown in why-blame as "pushed by a person, no session".
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts220- **Approval rules.** Per repo and per path: merge automatically, require a
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts221 named person, or require a person when the change is large or the reviewer
222 agent is unsure.
223
224### Joining work that is already running
225
226- **Every session has a live page** that works on a phone: the transcript as
227 it streams, the current diff, check results.
228- **Steer.** Send a message, pause, or redirect. Hosted agents receive it
229 immediately; a person's own Claude Code receives it at its next turn
230 through the CLI hooks.
231- **Answer.** When an agent is blocked on a question, it appears in a "needs
232 you" inbox and as a notification. The answer resumes the agent.
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts233- **Take over and hand back.** Check out the pull request's fork, commit by hand,
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts234 push, and let the agent continue from there.
235
236### Planning by writing
237
238- **Brief.** Write the outcome in prose on the site, or commit it as a
Fast pages, required checks on the branch, self-hosted runners, honest incidents239 markdown file. A planner agent turns it into a project: issues, each with
240 what done means, and dependencies. The person edits the graph before anything starts.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts241- **Plan from their own agent.** The same operations are MCP tools, so a
242 person can plan in their own Claude Code session and create the project
243 from there.
244- **The brief stays the source of truth.** Editing it later re-plans: new
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts245 issues are added, obsolete ones are closed.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts246
247### Seeing what moved
248
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts249- **Project page.** The outcome, the issue graph coloured by state, and how
Fast pages, required checks on the branch, self-hosted runners, honest incidents250 many of its issues have landed with their required checks passing,
251 compared with when the project started.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts252- **Digest.** An agent-written summary per project and per person: what
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts253 merged, what is blocked on whom, which conflicts were resolved, what it
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts254 cost.
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts255- **Timeline.** Every event (push, steer, check, conflict, merge) in order,
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts256 each linked to the session and the person or agent behind it.
257
258## One session, any surface
259
260A session belongs to g1t, not to the device it started on. The browser, a
261phone and Claude Code are views of the same session.
262
263- **Browser and phone.** The site is a responsive, installable web app with
264 push notifications. Everything a person does (brief, steer, answer,
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts265 approve, merge) works there.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts266- **Claude Code.** Through `mcp.g1t.sh` and the CLI hooks, a local session is
267 a g1t session: its transcript syncs as it runs and it appears in mission
268 control like any other.
269- **Moving a session.** A local session can be sent to the cloud: a hosted
270 agent takes over the fork and the transcript and continues, so the laptop
271 can close. A hosted session can be pulled down: the CLI checks out the fork
272 and resumes it in local Claude Code with its history.
273- **Limit.** A session running only on a laptop stops when the laptop does.
274 It can be steered between turns but not continued until it is moved or the
275 laptop is back.
276
277## For people who do not write code
278
279- **Documents are first-class.** Specs, guides, policies and decisions live
280 in repos as markdown, shown in a Docs view: rendered pages, edited in the
281 browser like a document, with inline comments. "Suggest a change" is an
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts282 pull request and "publish" is merge, without git vocabulary.
283- **Document issues.** "Write the onboarding guide for the billing API" is
Fast pages, required checks on the branch, self-hosted runners, honest incidents284 an issue. Its Definition of done is a checklist judged by a reviewer agent
285 instead of a workflow. Agents draft and revise; people comment and approve.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts286- **Templates.** Product brief, RFC, decision record. A filled-in template is
287 a brief the planner can turn into a project.
288- **Explain.** Ask about any repo, project or change in plain language and
289 get an answer with links to the code and sessions behind it.
290- **Living documentation.** g1t generates "how this works" pages from the
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts291 code and keeps them current. When a merged change contradicts a document,
292 an issue opens to update it.
293- **See it, don't read it.** Every pull request on a deployable repo gets a
294 preview URL (Workers Builds from the pull request's fork), so an approver clicks
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts295 through the result instead of reading a diff. Changes are also summarised
296 in plain language.
Membership as GitHub has it: owners, roles, member privileges, 2FA297- **Roles.** A person can plan and approve work without ever cloning a
298 repo. The roles that were sketched here map onto the five repository
299 roles that are built (see "Access" under what is built): a viewer is
300 Read, a commenter is Read (anyone with Read opens issues and comments),
301 a planner is Triage (labels, milestones, assigning, closing) or Write
302 where planning spends compute, and an approver is Write (reviews count
303 and merges). Workspace-wide, a member may also be a billing manager or a
304 security manager.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts305
306## The macro view
307
308The hierarchy above a single repo:
309
310| Level | What it is |
311| --- | --- |
312| **Workspace** | A company or team: its people, repos, agents, budget and policies. |
313| **Initiative** | A business outcome with an owner and measurable results, e.g. "move billing to usage-based pricing". Spans any number of repos. |
Plan: Projects, the home of everything about running software314| **Outcome** | One deliverable inside an initiative: a brief and its graph of issues (shown as **Plan**). Called "project" before 2026-10-04; that name now means what [Projects](#projects) describes. |
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts315| **Issue / Pull request** | As above. An issue may touch several repos; a pull request for it then holds one fork per repo and they land together. |
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts316
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell317How it feeds up, and what is built:
318
319- **A workspace is the unit everything belongs to.** Repositories, people,
320 access tokens, and later projects, budgets and policies are the
321 workspace's, never a person's. An account owns nothing; its first step
322 after confirming its email is creating a workspace, and the site sends it
323 there from wherever it was going.
324- **One namespace.** Usernames and workspaces share one set of names, as on
325 Docker Hub and npm. A username is reserved for its owner's workspace, so
326 `g1t.sh/<name>` never means two things.
327- **The workspace page is the roll-up.** `g1t.sh/<workspace>` shows its
328 repositories with their open issues and pull requests, and the pull
329 requests in progress across all of them. Projects and initiatives will
330 roll up to the same page. Its own pages live under `/<workspace>/-/`
331 (people, access tokens, settings), which no repository can be named.
332- **Workspace access tokens instead of service accounts.** A workspace has
333 tokens of its own, in the same table and code path as personal ones. One
334 acts as the workspace, with a member's rights in that workspace only,
335 records who made it and when it was last used, and keeps working when
336 that person leaves. CI, integrations and automations use these.
337
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts338### Portfolio
339
340One page answers "where is the business" across every initiative:
341
342- **Health** per initiative: on track, at risk, or blocked, derived from
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts343 facts (checks passing, issues stalled, questions waiting on a person),
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts344 not self-reported.
Fast pages, required checks on the branch, self-hosted runners, honest incidents345- **Progress** as measurable results: required checks passing, issues
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts346 merged out of planned, and the trend since the start.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts347- **Forecast** from actual throughput: at the current rate, when the
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts348 remaining issues land.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts349- **Spend** in tokens and dollars against a budget, per initiative.
350- **Waiting on people**: every decision or approval a person owes, by name.
351- **Roadmap**: initiatives laid out as now, next, later, with optional
352 time-boxed cycles for teams that work in sprints.
353
354### Status without asking
355
356- **Standup.** An agent writes a daily report per initiative and one for the
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts357 whole workspace: what merged, what changed direction, what is at risk and
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts358 why, what needs a person. Delivered by email or webhook.
359- **Ask.** A question box over the full event log and all sessions: "what
360 happened on the billing migration since Monday?" answers with links to the
361 sessions and commits behind each claim.
362
363### Long-running agents
364
365Work that runs for days needs supervision that does not depend on someone
366watching.
367
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts368- **Checkpoints.** A long pull request reports milestones against its issue, so
369 progress is visible before anything merges.
370- **Stall and drift detection.** A pull request with no meaningful progress, or
371 whose changes have wandered away from its issue, is flagged and can be
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts372 stopped or re-briefed automatically.
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts373- **Budgets.** Hard limits on spend and time per pull request, project and
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts374 initiative.
375
376### Context hub
377
378Agents working across repos and days need context that outlives any one
379session and reaches beyond the code. The context hub is one place an agent
380asks, whatever the source.
381
382| Source | What it holds | How it gets there |
383| --- | --- | --- |
384| **Memory** | Decisions, conventions, gotchas, facts about systems | Written by agents and people in g1t |
385| **Code and sessions** | The repos, and the reasoning behind every change | Already in g1t |
386| **Connected sources** | Jira and Linear tickets, Notion and Confluence pages, Google Drive documents, Slack threads, Sentry issues | Connectors, authorised per workspace |
387
388How it behaves:
389
390- **One search.** An agent asks a question and gets ranked results across
391 all sources, each labelled with where it came from, who wrote it, and how
392 fresh it is.
393- **Connected sources stay where they are.** g1t indexes them for search and
394 fetches the current version when an agent opens one. The external system
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts395 remains the source of truth, and a link placed on an issue ("see
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts396 JIRA-482", a Notion URL) is pulled into the agent's starting context.
397- **Permissions carry over.** A connector only exposes what the connecting
398 account can see, and a workspace admin chooses which spaces, projects or
399 channels are included.
400- **External content is untrusted.** A ticket or page can contain text meant
401 to manipulate an agent. It is marked as reference material, never treated
402 as instructions.
403- **Documentation is separate.** Context is what agents know; documentation
404 is what people read, and it is generated from context and code.
405
406Memory is the part of the hub that g1t owns and agents write to:
407
408- **Memory is written freely.** Any agent or person adds an entry with one
409 call: a decision, a convention, a gotcha, a fact about a system. No review
410 gate. Each entry records who wrote it, from which session, and when.
411- **It is still a repository.** Each workspace has a memory repo in
412 Artifacts, so every write is a commit: versioned, attributable, and
413 revertible.
414- **It is kept healthy by an agent.** A consolidation agent merges
415 duplicates, retires entries that newer ones contradict, and flags
416 conflicts it cannot settle. People can pin an entry (agents may not change
417 it), correct it, or retract it.
418- **Agents read it.** Every session starts with the context relevant to its
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts419 issue, found by search, and can query more through MCP.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts420- **Updates are events.** A memory write or a change in a connected source
421 is an event, so "when context changes, update the affected docs" is an
422 automation, on by default.
423- **It is scoped inside the workspace.** Some context applies to the whole
424 workspace, some to one initiative, project or repo, so an agent gets what
425 applies to its work.
426- **It never crosses workspaces.** A workspace is the isolation boundary: its
427 context, sessions and private repos are invisible to every other
428 workspace, and an agent's token is bound to one workspace.
429
430## Working in g1t
431
432- **Mission control.** The signed-in home page: every running session, every
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts433 issue waiting on a decision, and what merged, across all repos.
Plan: Projects, the home of everything about running software434- **Outcomes.** Group issues across repos toward one result and track how
435 many are open, racing, or merged. (What [Projects](#projects) means is
436 below.)
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts437- **Steering.** Send a message to a running pull request, or to all pull requests on an
438 issue at once, without stopping them.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts439- **Automations.** Rules that start work without a person (next section).
440
441## Automations and integrations
442
Sidebar: the panels really slide443> **2026-10-03:** g1t's own `.g1t/automations` format was built and then set
444> aside at the user's request ("let's just copy GitHub Actions on that for the
445> time being"). Automation on g1t is GitHub Actions workflows in
446> `.g1t/workflows/`; the format below is kept for later.
447
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts448An automation is **when** an event happens, **if** conditions hold, **do**
449something. They are defined as files in the repo (`.g1t/automations/`), the
450way GitHub Actions workflows are, and can also be built in the UI.
451
452### Events that can trigger one
453
454| Source | Examples |
455| --- | --- |
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts456| Git | push, merge, check failed, `main` moved |
457| g1t | issue opened, pull request stalled, context updated, handoff declined, budget reached |
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts458| Time | cron schedule |
459| Integrations | Sentry issue, PagerDuty incident, Linear or Jira ticket, Slack message or mention, GitHub issue, Stripe event |
460| Anything else | a signed generic webhook, or an email to a per-repo address |
461
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts462**Actions**: open an issue (optionally assigning N agents to it), message
463a running pull request, update documentation, notify, call a
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts464webhook, write back to the source system.
465
466**Example: Sentry.** A new production error arrives. The automation opens an
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts467issue labelled `bug`, with the stack trace, release and frequency in its
468description. Why-blame
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts469finds the session that wrote the failing line, so the fixing agent starts
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts470with the original reasoning. When the fix merges, g1t comments on the Sentry
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts471issue and resolves it.
472
473### Rules every automation obeys
474
475- **Deduplication.** The same Sentry issue firing 500 times maps to one
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts476 issue.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts477- **Limits.** Concurrency and budget caps per automation.
478- **Loop protection.** Work started by an automation cannot retrigger the
479 same automation without a person in between.
480- **External input is untrusted.** A webhook payload can contain text written
481 by an attacker. Agents started by external events run with reduced
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts482 permissions and cannot merge without the repo's approval rule passing.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts483
484**Checks** are the other half of what GitHub Actions does: build and test
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts485commands declared in `.g1t/checks.yaml`, run in sandboxes on every pull request
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts486and on every combined state in the landing queue.
487
Merge branch 'main' into actions-toolkit-oidc-artifacts488### Docker in workflow jobs (built 2026-10-08)
489
490> **2026-10-08:** "Why didn't we give CI docker then? We need GitHub
491> Actions functionality maxxed baby but with all the good good security
492> etc." The trigger: `deploy.yml`'s runner-image job needs `docker build`
493> and `docker push`, and failed on hosted runners.
494
495**What Cloudflare Containers allow** (their FAQ, updated 2026-10-05, and
496the Docker-in-Docker guide and example it links):
497
498- Docker runs inside a container: `docker:dind`, with `dockerd` as
499 **root**. A rootless Engine does not start there.
500- **No iptables**: `--iptables=false --ip6tables=false`, or the Engine
501 fails setting up its rules. Containers with the `durable_object`
502 scheduling policy (ours: each sandbox is a Durable Object's) cannot turn
503 IP forwarding on either: `--ip-forward=false`, or the Engine exits.
504- So **a bridge network has no way out**: the guide's answer is
505 `--network=host` for `docker run` and `docker build`, which gives
506 containers the outer container's network.
507- Built images and containers are lost when the sandbox stops.
508
509**What was found by trying** (Docker Engine 29.8.2 in a privileged
510container standing in for a sandbox, with the same flags):
511
512- `--bridge=none` makes BuildKit's `RUN` steps fail outright ("network
513 bridge not found"); with the default bridge they run with no route out.
514 Containers default to the bridge too. The default bridge is created
515 fine without iptables, as the FAQ's own example relies on.
516- The overlay snapshotter does not work on an overlay root filesystem, and
517 the containerd image store does not fall back by itself: the Engine
518 starts, then every container fails to mount. Whether a sandbox's disk
519 takes overlays is not documented, so the runner tries a mount first and
520 uses `native` (plain copies) when it fails. `vfs` is not a name the
521 containerd store accepts.
522- `--cpus` and `--memory` need cgroup v2 controllers handed down from a
523 cgroup with no processes, which `docker:dind`'s entrypoint does and a
524 plain `dockerd` does not.
525- A `runc` earlier on the Engine's `PATH` is used both for containers (via
526 containerd's shim) and by BuildKit's executor, with the bundle's
527 `config.json` written before it runs. BuildKit's bridged steps carry
528 libnetwork's `libnetwork-setkey` prestart hook; `RUN --network=none`
529 does not.
530- Buildx skips `type=gha` caches when the job has no GitHub cache service,
531 and the build succeeds without one.
532- Registries' layer hosts: Docker Hub sends layers from
533 `production.cloudfront.docker.com` (and `production.cloudflare.docker.com`),
534 Quay from `cdn0N.quay.io`, Microsoft's from regional
535 `*.data.mcr.microsoft.com`, public ECR from a CloudFront host;
536 `mirror.gcr.io` serves its own.
537
538**What was built** (`crates/runner/src/docker`, `actions/containers.rs`):
539
540- **One Engine per job, started lazily.** The runner listens on
541 `/var/run/docker.sock` itself and starts `dockerd` (root, the flags
542 above, containerd image store, `mirror.gcr.io` first for Docker Hub) on
543 the first connection, or when the job has `services:` or `container:`.
544 A log line says it started and how long it took.
545- **Containers on the job's network.** The socket is an API proxy: a
546 container that asks for a bridge or user network gets `host`; its names
547 (container name, aliases, Compose service, links) resolve to 127.0.0.1
548 in later containers (`ExtraHosts`) and in the job's steps
549 (`/etc/hosts`); `-p 8080:80` is forwarded; `docker inspect` reports the
550 ports as published; `network connect` adds aliases. Sharing the job's
551 network is also what keeps the guardrails on every container: the
552 egress Worker sees their traffic as the job's.
553- **A `runc` shim.** The runner binary, as `runc`: BuildKit steps bound for
554 a bridge lose the network namespace and the libnetwork hook (so they use
555 the job's network); in a guarded job every container (run, exec, build
556 step) gets the egress certificate at `/dev/g1t-egress` and the
557 variables that point tools at it. `/dev` is the container's own tmpfs,
558 so none of it lands in a layer; checked by saving a built image.
559- **Job features:** `services:` (pull, credentials, health waits, logs at
560 the end, `job.services.*`), `container:` (steps and JavaScript actions
561 through `docker exec`, Node mounted from the runner, Alpine falls back to
562 running actions beside it), `docker://` steps and Dockerfile actions in
563 GitHub's `/github/*` layout, `docker/setup-buildx-action` answered
564 natively (the job's Engine is the builder), sign-in to g1t's registry
565 with the run's token.
566- **Kill switch:** the runner Worker's `DOCKER` var (`off`).
567
568**Rejected:** rootless Docker or BuildKit (does not start in Containers);
569Podman or buildah with `vfs` (no better networking, less compatible, slow);
570a standalone `buildkitd --oci-worker-net=host` as the default builder
571(images not in the Engine's store, so `FROM` a just-built image and
572`docker run` of a build fail without `--load` round trips); a `docker` CLI
573wrapper adding `--network=host` (misses Compose, SDKs and testcontainers,
574which speak the API).
575
576**Not yet:**
577
578- Seen on Cloudflare itself: whether a sandbox's disk takes overlays,
579 `--privileged`, and the first deploy's pull of the base from
580 `registry.cloudflare.com` (its layer host may need a workflow-only line).
581- `type=gha` build caches backed by g1t's Actions cache.
582- Multi-platform builds (QEMU's `binfmt_misc` in a sandbox).
583- Docker for agents and checks, not just workflow jobs.
584- `runner-base.yml` on g1t's machines: the base's apt step needs
585 `Acquire::https::CAInfo` pointed at the egress certificate first.
586- A deploy that appends the runner binary as a layer through the registry
587 API, with no Docker and no 3 GB pull.
588
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts589Agents can also reach integrations directly: an agent definition lists MCP
590servers (Sentry, Linear and so on) it may use while working.
591
Actions: OIDC tokens, the toolkit's cache and artifact services, and artifacts in R2592### Workflows: the toolkit, OIDC and artifacts
593
594> **2026-10-08:** built so that workflows that deploy, cache and pass files
595> run unmodified.
596
597- **The toolkit's services.** Every job gets `ACTIONS_RUNTIME_TOKEN` (a
598 JWT whose `scp` names its run and job, signed with a key derived from
599 the job's own token, so nothing new is kept), `ACTIONS_RESULTS_URL`,
600 `ACTIONS_CACHE_URL` and `ACTIONS_CACHE_SERVICE_V2`. The API answers the
601 cache's Twirp service (v2) and its older REST protocol, the artifact
602 Twirp service, and the signed blob links they hand out (a subset of
603 Azure Blob's protocol mapped onto R2 multipart uploads), from the same
604 cache and artifact rows g1t's own runner uses. As the clients' source
605 reads, `@actions/cache` and `@actions/artifact` treat any server
606 but github.com as GitHub Enterprise Server, so the cache client speaks
607 the older protocol and the artifact client refuses to run. g1t's runner
608 therefore keeps handling `actions/upload-artifact`, `download-artifact`
609 and `upload-artifact/merge` itself; the Twirp artifact service is there
610 for clients that do not check.
611- **OIDC.** The issuer is `{API}/actions/oidc`, the API's own host, with
612 discovery, JWKS (RFC 7638 `kid`s, a previous key published while
613 rotating) and a token endpoint for `core.getIDToken`. Claims follow
614 GitHub's. A job gets one only when its permissions (or its workflow's)
615 give `id-token: write`, and never for an untrusted run. The permission
616 check reads only `id-token` (`services/actions/src/runtime.rs`,
617 `id_token_permitted`), the seam for the full `permissions:` model.
618- **Artifacts** moved from KV to R2 (`a/` in the cache bucket), with rows
619 in the actions service: numeric ids, 5 GiB each and 10 GiB a run,
620 zipped by the runner, `retention-days` up to the repository's setting
621 (1 to 90, 14 by default), `overwrite`, `compression-level`, patterns,
622 merging and other runs of the same repository. The REST artifacts API and
623 the `workflow` tool's artifact actions follow GitHub's shapes; the run's
624 page lists them with size and expiry, with download and delete. Their
625 storage is charged with the cache's.
626- **Later:** the toolkit's older artifact protocol (`upload-artifact@v3`
627 inside other actions), downloads from other repositories, and npm
628 trusted publishing, which depends on npm accepting g1t's issuer.
629
Plan: a repository that maintains itself, and deployments on g1t.page630## A repository that maintains itself
631
632> **2026-10-04:** the user asked for Dependabot, GitHub Advanced Security and
633> Vercel-style deployments, "so you're not having to maintain shit and you're
634> just pushing up agents that are delivering work consistently".
635
636GitHub reports problems and leaves the fix to you. In g1t, an agent opens an
637issue for each problem, writes the fix, runs its checks, links a preview and
638lands it through the queue. People only decide.
639
640### Upkeep agents
641
Teams and CODEOWNERS, labels and milestones, dependency updates, the security suite, and a clearer top bar642- **Dependency updates.** The file is `dependabot.yml` version 2, read from
643 the default branch at `.g1t/dependabot.yml` (or `.yaml`), then
644 `.github/dependabot.yml` (or `.yaml`); `.g1t/` wins when both exist, and
645 an imported repository's file works unchanged. Every option is read and
646 checked, each problem reported with its line and key on the Security page
647 and as the `g1t / dependabot.yml` status on pull requests that change the
648 file; a file with problems is not acted on.
649 - **Built (2026-10-07):** version updates for npm, cargo, gomod and pip:
650 schedules (all intervals, cron and natural phrases, time zones, a
651 picked time per repository), allow, ignore, cooldown (3 days by
652 default), groups (including across directories and `group-by`),
653 versioning strategies, open-pull-requests-limit, commit-message,
654 branch names, rebase-strategy, assignees, reviewers, private
655 registries filled from workflow secrets (npm, cargo, Go proxy, Python
656 index), and the `@g1t` comment commands. Pull requests come from g1t
657 with an `updated-dependencies` commit record and land through the
658 required checks; one that fails them is closed and becomes a
659 "needs code changes" issue assigned to g1t.
660 - **Security updates follow the same file:** ignore (and comment
661 ignores), allow names, `applies-to: security-updates` groups,
662 commit-message, assignees, reviewers, labels and milestone. Cooldown
663 and the open pull request limit do not apply. The Security updates
664 switch still turns them on and off.
665 - **Labels, milestone and target-branch** are applied to version
666 updates: `dependencies` and the ecosystem's label by default, missing
667 labels created; `target-branch` updates are made from that branch and
668 merge into it.
669 - **Not done yet:** one pull request for a multi-ecosystem group
670 (it opens one per ecosystem); registries that sign in with OIDC;
671 updating vendored copies; and version updates for the other
672 ecosystems (bundler, composer, docker, github-actions, gradle, maven,
673 nuget, terraform, uv and the rest are read and checked only).
Plan: a repository that maintains itself, and deployments on g1t.page674- **Secret scanning.** Pushes are scanned for known token formats. A push
675 that adds a secret is refused with the file and line; one already in
676 history opens an issue to rotate it and remove it.
677- **Vulnerability alerts.** Dependencies are matched against the OSV
678 database. Every alert links to the issue and pull request fixing it.
679- **Code scanning.** A reviewer agent reads each pull request's diff for
680 security problems and leaves findings as review comments with a
681 suggested fix. Findings on `main` open issues.
682- **A security page per repository** lists alerts, secrets and findings,
683 with the agent work on each, like GitHub's Security tab.
684
685All of these are event sources for the existing issue → agent → checks →
686queue pipeline; they need no new kind of work.
687
Teams and CODEOWNERS, labels and milestones, dependency updates, the security suite, and a clearer top bar688### The security suite (built 2026-10-07)
689
690GitHub Advanced Security's depth, in g1t's shape (services/security,
691`g1t_contracts::security_suite`, docs `guides/security/*`):
692
693- **Secret protection.** Custom patterns (repository and workspace; Rust
694 `regex`, linear time, size-limited; test strings; dry run over the
695 default branch) used by push protection, `commit_file` and history
696 scans. Bypass with a reason (false positive, used in tests, will fix
697 later), recorded on the alert and in the audit log; delegated bypass
698 (requests reviewed by owners and repository admins, through the inbox).
699 Validity checks for GitHub, GitLab, Stripe, Slack, npm, OpenAI,
700 Anthropic and SendGrid tokens, made by the repos service, which reads the
701 landed secret again: the value never leaves it except to the issuer. AWS
702 keys (need their secret key to sign) and webhook addresses (would post)
703 are the extension points left (`g1t_scan::validity::check_for`).
704- **Code scanning.** SARIF 2.1.0 uploads → alerts with fingerprints (tool
705 partial fingerprints first), fixed when no longer reported; pull request
706 uploads → line comments and the `Code scanning` commit status, gated by a
707 per-repository threshold and required like any check. Starter workflow:
708 a scanner per language present, each uploading its own category: Bandit
709 (Python), gosec (Go), ESLint + eslint-plugin-security with the SARIF
710 formatter (JS/TS), Clippy + clippy-sarif (Rust); all install from the
711 registries the runner's egress already allows. Semgrep's registry rules
712 and the Opengrep rules fork are not usable in a paid feature, so neither
713 is used. "Fix with g1t" opens an issue and runs the agent.
714- **Supply chain.** Dependency graph (direct/transitive where the lockfile
715 says, npm licenses), SPDX 2.3 SBOM, `Dependency review` status on every
716 pull request (OSV severity threshold, license deny list, summary comment).
717- **Overview.** Workspace totals, opened/closed, a daily snapshot trend,
718 coverage, repositories most in need first.
719- **Paid.** The Security and quality activation on private repositories;
720 free on public ones; the free core (secret scanning, push protection,
721 vulnerability alerts, security updates, dependency graph) free everywhere.
722
723Not built yet:
724
725- **The reviewer agent as an analysis source.** g1t's reviewer reads each
726 pull request's diff (`agent_review`), but its findings are review
727 comments, not SARIF. Next: have it emit SARIF for the security issues it
728 finds and upload them as the tool `g1t review`, so they become alerts and
729 count toward the Code scanning check.
730- **Repository security advisories.** Private advisories, draft →
731 published, with affected versions (ranges per ecosystem), severity and a
732 CVSS vector, credits, and a private fork (a `g1t/advisory/GHSA-…` working
733 copy only the advisory's collaborators can see) for the fix, merged into
734 the default branch when the advisory publishes. Published advisories
735 should feed the OSV-shaped data other g1t repositories' vulnerability
736 alerts read. CVE requests are out of scope. Needs: an `advisories` table
737 per repository, a collaborator list per advisory, the private-fork
738 visibility rule in repos, and an Advisories page on the Security tab.
739- **SARIF upload as a background job.** Uploads are read in the request
740 (10 MB encoded, 40 MB unzipped, 5,000 results); larger ones need a queue.
741
Plan: a repository that maintains itself, and deployments on g1t.page742### Deployments
743
744- **A preview for every pull request**, at
745 `<pr>--<repo>--<owner>.g1t.page`, linked on the pull request and updated
746 on each push. `main` deploys to `<repo>--<owner>.g1t.page`, and a
747 repository can add its own domain.
748- **On g1t.page, not g1t.sh,** so customer code never shares cookies or an
749 origin with the site people sign in to.
750- **Built on Workers for Platforms.** Each deployment is a user Worker in a
751 dispatch namespace; one dispatch Worker on `*.g1t.page` routes to it. The
752 build runs in the same runners as Actions. Static sites and Workers apps
753 first; container apps and databases later.
754- **Agents use the preview.** The reviewer agent opens the preview in a
755 browser, takes screenshots of what changed and attaches them to its
756 review, so an approver sees the result without reading the diff.
757- **Environments.** Preview, production and their secrets; deploy history
758 and one-click rollback.
759- **Scale to zero.** An idle branch costs neither g1t nor the customer
760 anything: a Worker runs, and is billed, only while it answers a request.
761 A preview is deleted when its pull request closes or merges, and after
762 a set number of idle days. Container apps, later, sleep when idle.
Plan: deployments are billed to the customer, never free763- **Billed to the customer, never free.** The user (2026-10-04): "we
764 should not be giving any of this available for free". Every deployment
765 is metered per workspace (requests, CPU time, deployed apps, stored
766 data), priced at Cloudflare's cost + 20% like agent usage, and drawn
767 from prepaid credit. `FREE_WHILE_BUILDING` and the free model allowance
768 do not cover deployments: a workspace without credit cannot deploy, and
769 turning deployments on says so first.
Plan: turning deployments on is a paid monthly plan770- **Turning them on is a paid plan, the way Cloudflare's is.** "Including
771 things like them even enabling the feature should have that pay like
772 Cloudflare does." Enabling deployments for a workspace starts a monthly
773 fee that includes an allowance of requests, CPU time and deployed apps;
774 usage past it is billed per unit, as Workers for Platforms bills g1t.
775 The fee and allowance are the user's to set.
776- **Recommended, off in one click.** Because enabling costs money, it is
777 never switched on without the workspace agreeing: new repositories
778 recommend it prominently. A repository can turn it off, keep only production, or
Plan: a repository that maintains itself, and deployments on g1t.page779 deploy somewhere else from its own workflows. Apps built for Cloudflare
780 (Workers, static assets, D1, KV, R2) deploy without configuration.
781
782Later, toward GitLab's DevOps breadth: environment protection rules,
783package and container registries, releases, container hosting.
784
Plan: Projects, the home of everything about running software785## Projects
786
787> **2026-10-04:** the user: "an extra dimension of Projects so it's not
788> just repositories … where a lot of things can live", "very Vercel
789> like", with dependencies across projects "the Platform Engineering /
790> Port route", and "the repository is *part* of a project: you could be
791> mirroring it from GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket, or you could let us host it
792> for you", with room for Mercurial or anything else later.
793
794**A project is the thing you are building and running; a repository is
795where some of its code lives.** Everything that is about running software
796(deployments, environments, domains, secrets, dependencies, owners,
797health, upkeep) belongs to the project. What is about the code itself
798(branches, pull requests, review, merge rules) stays with the repository.
799That split is what lets the code live anywhere.
800
801### The model
802
803| | What it is | Like |
804| --- | --- | --- |
805| **Workspace** | The company or team. Members, billing, plans, shared secrets. | Vercel team, GitLab group, GitHub org |
806| **Group** | An optional named set of projects, one level: "Payments", "Mobile". For browsing, ownership and shared settings. | GitLab subgroup, Backstage system, Port domain |
807| **Project** | One deployable thing: a site, an API, a worker, a library. Has exactly one **source**. | Vercel project, Port service, Backstage component |
808| **Source** | Where its code is: a repository and a **root directory** in it. | Vercel's connected repo + root directory |
809| **Dependency** | Project A uses project B: calls its API, consumes its package, reads its queue. | Port relations, Backstage `dependsOn` |
810
811- **One project, one source; one repository, any number of projects.** A
812 project builds from exactly one place, which keeps it as simple as
813 Vercel's. A monorepo is several projects on one repository, each with
814 its own root directory (`apps/web`, `services/api`), and a push builds
815 only the projects whose root it touched. The common case stays 1:1, and
816 every existing repository gets a project of its own name when this
817 ships, so nobody has to set anything up.
818- **Groups are for people; dependencies are for software.** Groups decide
819 where a project shows up and who owns it. Dependencies decide what
820 happens when one changes. Neither replaces the other, and a dependency
821 can cross groups.
822
823### Sources: where the code lives
824
825A source is an adapter behind one interface (`SourcePort`: clone URL,
826branches, commits, pushes as events, pull requests if it has them):
827
828| Source | Code lives | g1t gets pushes by | Pull requests |
829| --- | --- | --- | --- |
830| **Hosted on g1t** (today) | Artifacts | its own events | g1t's, with agents, the queue, review |
831| **Mirrored** from GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket | Both; g1t keeps a copy | the provider's webhook, then fetch | The provider's, read into g1t; agents open theirs there |
832| **Connected, not copied** | The provider only | webhook | The provider's |
833| **Later:** Mercurial, Perforce, a tarball upload | Behind the same port | per adapter | per adapter |
834
835A mirrored or connected project still gets everything that is the
836project's: previews on its pull requests (a status and a comment on
837GitHub's), production on its default branch, secrets, dependencies,
838upkeep agents. That is the on-ramp: a team keeps GitHub and gets g1t's
839deployments and agents first, and moves the code later or never.
840Bring-your-own-git is also why the project, not the repository, holds the
841URL `g1t.sh/<workspace>/<project>`.
842
843### What lives on a project
844
845| | Today it is on | Moves to the project |
846| --- | --- | --- |
847| Deployments: production, previews, build settings, root directory, framework | The repository | Yes |
848| Environments: production, preview, and custom ones (`staging`) with protection rules (required approvers, branch limits) | Nowhere yet | New, on the project |
849| Domains: `<project>--<workspace>.g1t.page`, and custom domains | The repository's name | Yes |
850| Secrets and variables | The repository | Yes. Workspace rows link to projects instead of repositories. A repository's workflows read the rows of its project (with several projects on one repository, the one marked as the repository's default). |
851| Dependencies | Nowhere | New |
852| Owners, on-call, links (docs, dashboards, runbooks) | Nowhere | New: the catalog's metadata |
853| Health: scorecards (has an owner, CI passes, dependencies current, no open security alerts, deploys within N days) | Nowhere | New |
854| Upkeep agents: dependency updates, security alerts | The plan | Scoped per project |
855| Logs and analytics of the running app | Nowhere | New: requests, errors and CPU per environment, from Workers analytics |
856| Branches, pull requests, review, merge rules, the queue, webhooks | The repository | Stay |
857
858### Dependencies: why this gets powerful
859
860Declared in the UI, or in the source as `.g1t/project.yml` (which wins
861when present, as `catalog-info.yaml` does in Backstage):
862
863```yaml
864name: web
865root: apps/web
866dependsOn:
867 - project: api # calls its HTTP API
868 as: API_URL # its URL, per environment, as a variable
869 - project: ui-kit # consumes its package
870```
871
872What g1t does with them:
873
8741. **Reference variables.** `API_URL` above resolves to `api`'s production
875 URL in production and to the matching preview in a preview, the way
876 Railway's `${{ api.URL }}` references work. No hard-coded URLs.
8772. **Preview stacks.** A pull request on `api` gets its own preview, and
878 **Preview with dependents** builds `web`'s preview pointed at it, so a
879 reviewer clicks through the whole change across projects. A change that
880 spans repositories (one issue, one fork per repository) gets one stack.
8813. **Release order.** Production deploys go out in dependency order; a
882 change set across projects lands through the queue together or not at
883 all.
8844. **Impact on every pull request.** "Changes `api`; `web` and `mobile`
885 depend on it." Agents get the graph in their context: an agent
886 changing an API opens follow-up issues on the projects that call it,
887 and reviewers see what else could break.
8885. **Upkeep across the graph.** A vulnerable package in `ui-kit` opens
889 issues, assigned to agents, on every project that consumes it.
8906. **Scorecards turn into work.** A project failing a scorecard check
891 ("no owner", "dependencies 90 days old") gets an issue an agent can fix.
892 That is the Port idea with the work done for you.
8937. **The map.** A workspace's projects as a graph, coloured by health and
894 by what is deploying now.
895
896### Pages
897
898- `g1t.sh/<workspace>`: projects first (grouped, with health and
899 production status), then repositories.
900- `g1t.sh/<workspace>/<project>`: overview (production, latest previews,
901 health, owners, dependencies both ways), **Deployments**,
902 **Environments**, **Secrets and variables**, **Logs**, **Settings**
903 (source, root directory, build, domains, groups, owners).
904- A hosted repository keeps its code pages; from a project they are its
905 **Code** tab. A repository page lists the projects built from it.
906
907### Services
908
909- `services/projects` (new): projects, groups, sources, dependencies,
910 owners, scorecards. Events `project.created`, `project.updated`,
911 `dependency.changed`.
912- `services/deployments`: keyed by project instead of repository.
913- Secrets and variables: the scope becomes workspace → project.
914- Sources: the hosted adapter wraps `services/repos`; a mirror adapter
915 per provider in `services/integrations`, which already holds those
916 connections.
917
918### Build order
919
9201. **Projects as the home of deployments and secrets**, 1:1 with every
921 existing repository: the service, the pages, deployments and secrets
922 moved to the project, `<project>--<workspace>.g1t.page`.
9232. **Dependencies:** declared in the UI and `.g1t/project.yml`, reference
924 variables, impact on pull requests and in agents' context, the map.
9253. **Preview stacks** and cross-project change sets.
9264. **Monorepos:** several projects on one repository, each with a root
927 directory, building only what a push touched.
9285. **Mirrored sources:** GitHub first, then GitLab and Bitbucket.
9296. **Groups, owners, scorecards** feeding the upkeep agents.
9307. **Environments** with protection rules; custom domains; logs.
931
Projects: what a workspace builds and runs, first on every page932**Step 1 shipped 2026-10-04:** `services/projects`; every repository a
933project of its own name; the site projects-first (workspace page of
934project cards, the project overview at `g1t.sh/<workspace>/<project>`, code
935under `/code`, the sidebar and the New project flow); deployments keyed by
936project and branch at `<project>-<workspace>.g1t.page` and
937`<project>-git-<branch>-<workspace>.g1t.page`; secrets and variables owned
938by the project.
939
Invite-only launch: sign in with GitHub, repository access and lifecycle, many emails, a new look940**Step 5, GitHub, built 2026-10-05:** one GitHub App (`g1t-sh`) for both
941sign-in and repository access. Sign-in is its user authorization with PKCE
942(identity, `src/github.rs`): accounts known by GitHub's numeric id, a
943matching verified email never linked without signing in to the account,
944new accounts behind the invite check. Repositories come through its
945installations (integrations, `src/github.rs`), copied with every branch and
946tag by the repos service (`src/mirror.rs`) as **import**, **mirror** (g1t
947follows GitHub on its push webhook) or **move to g1t** (GitHub follows g1t
948on `git.push`). A mirror is a hosted repository that keeps a full copy, so
949its project stays `hosted` and deploys like any other; the tie lives in
950integrations' `github_repos`. Not yet: previews and statuses on GitHub's own
951pull requests, comments and pull requests copied, GitLab and Bitbucket.
952
Projects: what a workspace builds and runs, first on every page953### People and search
954
955> **2026-10-04:** "pull up user profiles, using a /u/username prefix kinda
956> like DockerHub … search for users if you search that explicitly, how
957> GitHub has the aside for searching against filters … a significantly
958> stronger implementation."
959
960- **Profiles at `g1t.sh/u/<username>`**, apart from workspaces at
961 `g1t.sh/<workspace>`: who they are, their workspaces, recent work,
962 agents' sessions they steered.
963- **Search with a filter sidebar:** Projects, Code, Issues, Pull requests,
964 Users, Workspaces, each with its count; filters by workspace, language,
965 state, author, agent, label, date; qualifiers in the query
g1t is one name: its agent's work, commits and comments show as @g1t, and nobody can claim g1t or g1t-agent966 (`user:`, `is:open`, `agent:g1t`) as on GitHub. Typing `u/name`
Projects: what a workspace builds and runs, first on every page967 searches people directly, as Docker Hub does.
968
Plan: Projects, the home of everything about running software9691 and 2 serve the competition directly (multi-agent coordination across
970projects is 25% of the score); 3 is the demo's best moment if time allows.
971
Plan: the billing model972## Billing model
973
974> **2026-10-04:** "Some things just require you to have a card on file …
975> some things will be something you give us an initial amount of money
976> per month just to activate, tons of things additionally will be usage
977> based, some things will just be usage based only … at minimum a
978> breakeven with Cloudflare costs, or in some cases a value add." Stripe
979> moves to Flagon, Inc. (g1t.sh is its product). Proposed below; the
980> prices are the user's to confirm.
981
982### Four kinds of charge
983
984Every feature is exactly one of these, and the Billing page says which:
985
986| Kind | What the workspace does | Example |
987| --- | --- | --- |
988| **Free** | Nothing | Hosting code, issues, pull requests, review, the merge queue, bringing your own agent over MCP |
Prices are what g1t pays plus 20%, from the first second989| **Card on file** | Adds a card; pays only for what it uses | Previews, g1t's agents, workflow minutes |
Plan: the billing model990| **Activation** | Turns a feature on for a monthly fee that includes an allowance; usage past it is metered | Production deployments, Security and quality |
991| **Usage only** | Nothing up front; every unit is metered | Model tokens, build minutes, storage past the free amount |
992
993A card is needed before anything that can cost money starts. Nothing is
994ever switched on without the workspace choosing it.
995
996### Postpaid, with spend limits
997
998- **One Stripe customer and one subscription per workspace**, on Flagon,
999 Inc.'s account. Activations are licensed line items; every usage
1000 dimension is a metered price backed by a Stripe Meter. Stripe invoices
1001 monthly in arrears and charges the card on file; failed payments go
1002 through Stripe's retries and emails, and g1t hears of them by webhook.
1003- **Spend limits instead of prepaid credit.** A workspace sets a monthly
1004 limit overall and per feature (Vercel's spend management). g1t counts
1005 usage as it happens and stops starting new paid work at the limit,
1006 with a warning at 50%, 80% and 100%. Prepaid top-ups go away; promotions
1007 (the free model allowance) become Stripe credit on the customer.
1008- **Usage reaches Stripe from billing alone.** Every service reports
1009 usage to the billing service as it happens (it already records agent
1010 runs and builds); billing batches them into Stripe meter events every
1011 few minutes, idempotently by g1t's own ids, and keeps the ledger g1t's
1012 pages show. Nothing else talks to Stripe.
1013
1014### Scope: workspace, then projects
1015
1016- A feature is turned on for the **workspace** (by an owner, with the
1017 activation if it has one), then allowed for **all projects** or
1018 **selected projects**.
1019- Every **project** can opt out on its own page. A project with nothing
1020 to deploy (no Workers config, no build script, no `index.html`) is
1021 detected, says so on its Deployments page, and never builds or costs
1022 anything.
1023- Agents and workflows are allowed per project the same way, so a
1024 workspace can keep spend to the projects that matter.
1025
Plan: prices pass every Cloudflare cost through1026### Prices: what it costs us, passed through
1027
1028> **2026-10-04, decided:** postpaid with spend limits, as Vercel and
1029> Cloudflare do; no per-seat price, ever ("fuck per-seat pricing").
1030> "If they're barely using them great, but if they're using the shit out
1031> of them that will cost me a ton, so that cost needs to move onto them."
1032
1033**Every Cloudflare cost a workspace causes is metered to it.** Light use
1034fits in a small free allowance; past it, each unit is charged at
1035Cloudflare's price times a margin of at least 1.5, which pays for Stripe
1036(about 3%), shared overhead (the site, the API, D1) and g1t itself.
Plan: the billing model1037
Plan: prices pass every Cloudflare cost through1038Cloudflare's prices (October 2026), and the cost per unit g1t meters:
Plan: the billing model1039
Plan: prices pass every Cloudflare cost through1040| What g1t meters | Cloudflare's price | Cost to g1t per unit |
1041| --- | --- | --- |
1042| **Sandbox minute** (agents, checks, merge queue, workflow jobs, deploy builds), standard-1: ½ vCPU, 4 GiB, 8 GB | CPU $0.00002 / vCPU-s while busy; memory $0.0000025 / GiB-s and disk $0.00000007 / GB-s while running | ≤ $0.0012 / minute (CPU counted as busy throughout, since g1t cannot see it per sandbox) |
1043| **App request** (deployments) | Workers for Platforms: $0.30 / million past 20M | $0.30 / million |
1044| **App CPU** | $0.02 / million CPU-ms past 60M | $0.02 / million ms |
1045| **App** (a deployed script) | $0.02 / script-month past 1,000 | $0.02 / app-month |
1046| **Storage** (repositories, artifacts, caches) | Artifacts $0.50 / GB-month (billing starts 2026-10-14); KV $0.50 / GB-month | $0.50 / GB-month |
1047| **Git operation** (clone, fetch, push) | Artifacts $0.15 / 1,000 past 10,000 | $0.15 / 1,000 |
1048| **Model tokens** | The provider's price | As charged |
1049| Container egress, emails, the site's own requests | Small and shared | In the margin |
1050
status.g1t.sh with incident management, invites that land you in the workspace, settings as pages, usage without quotas1051> **2026-10-06, decided:** no per-feature quotas on the plan. "A paying
1052> user should be able to push past the Git operations number, they're
1053> just paying usage on it." One plan, $20 a month per workspace with $10
1054> of usage included; every meter is charged from the first unit at cost +
1055> 20% (builds, app requests and CPU, custom domains), drawn from the $10
1056> first, then up to the spend limit, which is the only thing that stops a
1057> paying workspace (with abuse protection). Projects, previews and apps
1058> are not metered (Workers for Platforms' script pool makes them ~free).
1059> The forge's free amounts are the same for everyone: 1 GB private storage
1060> and 50,000 git operations a month; past them the plan pays and a free
1061> workspace is held (pushes stop, git slowed). The table below is the
1062> earlier proposal; billing's price book and g1t.sh/pricing are current.
1063
Plan: prices pass every Cloudflare cost through1064What a workspace pays:
1065
1066| Meter | Free each month | Then | Margin | For comparison |
1067| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
Prices are what g1t pays plus 20%, from the first second1068| Sandbox minutes | None (2026-10-05: charged from the first second) | Cost + 20%, by the second | 1.2× | GitHub Actions $0.008 / minute (Linux 2-core); Vercel builds $0.0035 / CPU-minute |
Plan: prices pass every Cloudflare cost through1069| App requests | 1 million with Deployments | $0.50 / million | 1.7× | Vercel $0.60 / million invocations |
1070| App CPU | 3 million ms with Deployments | $0.04 / million ms | 2× | Vercel active CPU about $0.036 / million ms |
1071| Apps | 10 with Deployments | $0.05 / app-month | 2.5× | |
1072| Storage | 1 GB | $1.00 / GB-month | 2× | GitHub LFS $0.07 / GB, but repositories are free there |
1073| Git operations | 10,000 | $0.30 / 1,000 | 2× | |
1074| g1t's models | | Cost + 20% | 1.2× | The provider's own price |
Prices are what g1t pays plus 20%, from the first second1075| Your own model provider | | Only its sandbox minutes (the $0.10 run fee was dropped 2026-10-05) | | |
Plan: prices pass every Cloudflare cost through1076| **Deployments** activation | | $5 / month, with the allowances above | covers Workers for Platforms' $25 / month across workspaces | Vercel Pro $20 per seat |
Teams and CODEOWNERS, labels and milestones, dependency updates, the security suite, and a clearer top bar1077| **Security and quality** activation (built 2026-10-07: price book meter `security_activation`) | | $10 / month; fixes as agent usage | | GitHub Advanced Security $49 per committer |
Plan: the billing model1078
Plan: prices pass every Cloudflare cost through1079A workspace that uses g1t lightly (a few agent runs, a small site)
1080pays nothing or its activation; a workspace running agents all day pays
1081for the sandboxes and models those agents use, with g1t's margin on
1082each. Nothing in a workspace's bill is subsidised by another's.
Plan: the billing model1083
1084### Build order
1085
10861. Stripe customer per workspace and card on file (Checkout in setup
1087 mode), webhooks (invoice paid and failed, subscription changes,
1088 payment method changes), the Billing page rebuilt around the four
1089 kinds.
10902. One subscription per workspace with activations as items; Deployments
1091 moves onto it.
Plan: prices pass every Cloudflare cost through10923. Meters for each usage dimension above, fed from billing's ledger:
1093 every sandbox reports how long it ran when it stops (agents, checks,
1094 the queue, workflow jobs and deploy builds alike); deployments report
1095 requests, CPU and apps; repos report storage and git operations. Spend
Plan: the billing model1096 limits and their warnings; prepaid credit retired.
10974. Per-workspace allow-lists of projects for each feature, and per-project
1098 opt-out; "nothing to deploy" detection.
Billing accounts, terms and enterprises; g1t is no longer free10995. Turn off FREE_WHILE_BUILDING when the user says so. **Done 2026-10-05.**
1100
1101Shipped by 2026-10-05: sandbox seconds for every sandbox; the price book
1102and its keeper (runs settled to AI Gateway's price every 15 minutes;
1103Container and Workers costs checked against Cloudflare's billable usage
1104and container analytics daily, with a public change log on
1105g1t.sh/pricing); usage limits by trust with automatic payment near the
1106limit; app traffic counted toward limits as it happens; billing accounts,
1107terms and enterprises; free mode off, syntaqx comped.
1108
1109Still to build, in order: Stripe card-on-file without a payment (setup
1110mode) and webhooks; month-end invoices for postpaid usage (and one
1111invoice per enterprise); the subscription with activations as items;
1112storage and git-operation meters; limit warnings by email at 50/80/100%;
1113self-serve enterprise management for enterprise owners.
1114
1115### Accounts, terms and enterprises
1116
1117Every workspace is paid for by a billing account: its own (`ws_<slug>`)
1118or an enterprise's (`ent_…`), which pays for several workspaces with one
1119limit, one set of terms and, once invoices exist, one bill, as GitHub
1120Enterprise does. Terms are standard, comped (nothing charged, usage still
1121recorded at cost, paid features on) or custom (a discount, its own
1122ceiling, an end date). g1t staff manage them in **sudo.g1t.sh**, a
1123separate Worker behind Cloudflare Access that also verifies the Access
1124token itself and allows only listed staff emails; every change is kept
1125with who made it and why.
1126
1127### Limits: stop non-payers, never payers
1128
1129The limit is on usage not yet paid for, counted at cost to g1t or charge,
1130whichever is more: $3 before any live payment, then twice what has been
1131paid ($25 to $1,000), or what staff set. A workspace with a card on file
1132is charged automatically near its limit, which both pays what it owes and
1133raises the limit, so paying users are never stopped. A declined card
1134stops work until paid. The owner's own spend limit always means stop.
1135Test-mode payments never lower exposure or raise trust.
Plan: the billing model1136
Merge Stripe Tax, the card fee on card payments, and one free workspace per person1137### Tax, card fees and free workspaces (built 2026-10-08)
1138
1139> **2026-10-08, decided:** Stripe Tax everywhere ("so I don't fuck up on
1140> taxes"); Stripe's card fee passed to the customer with the 20% markup
1141> kept; one free workspace per person; no invites on free workspaces.
1142
1143- **Stripe Tax on every payment.** `automatic_tax` on every Checkout page
1144 (plan, Security and quality, prepaying, AI credit), every subscription
1145 and every invoice g1t makes (month close, threshold, enterprise), and a
1146 tax calculation and transaction for auto-reload's off-session charge.
1147 Tax code `txcd_10103001` (SaaS, business use), every price
1148 `tax_behavior=exclusive`. Checkout always collects the billing address
1149 and tax ID and saves them on the customer. Prices on g1t are shown
1150 excluding tax. Tax is never revenue: balances and plan payments are
1151 credited without it, it is kept in `tax_and_fees`, shown as its own
1152 statement line, and as **Tax collected** on sudo's Costs. Without an
1153 address g1t does not charge: the owners are asked for one.
1154- **The card fee** (2.9% + $0.30, grossed up) is its own line on every
1155 card payment, the plan's and Security's as a monthly item; never on a
1156 bank transfer or an enterprise's invoice. On by default
1157 (`cost_settings.card_fee`). Not revenue either. Meters stay at cost +
1158 20%; models at the provider's price plus the agent rate.
1159- **One free workspace per person.** Identity asks billing
1160 (`free_workspaces`) before creating one; a second is refused with the
1161 way forward. Those who own several from before keep them.
1162- **A free workspace adds no one**: no members, invites or outside
1163 collaborators until it starts the plan; its members stay; @g1t never
1164 counts. Enforced in identity for every path (site, API, MCP).
1165- Details: docs/BILLING_OPERATIONS.md, *Tax and the card fee*.
1166
Billing: credits with a kind and expiry, discounts instead of comped, and safer charging1167### Promo codes (planned)
1168
1169Staff credits (promotional, goodwill, refund; `services/billing/src/grants.rs`,
1170docs/BILLING_OPERATIONS.md) are given one workspace at a time. Promo codes
1171give promotional credit in bulk, on redemption, through the same grants:
1172
1173- **Codes.** sudo → Credits & refunds → **New code**: the code (or one
1174 made up), the credit ($ amount), max redemptions, when the code stops
1175 working, how long each redeemed credit lasts (an expiry, as any grant),
1176 and a note. Table `promo_codes` (code, amount, max, redeemed, ends_at,
1177 credit_days, note, created_by, disabled_at) and `promo_redemptions`
1178 (code, workspace, grant id, by, at), unique on (code, workspace).
1179- **Redeeming.** An owner types it on the workspace's Billing page
1180 (`redeem_code`, owners only). One D1 batch checks the code is open, under
1181 its max and not redeemed by the workspace, counts the redemption and
1182 makes the grant (`grant_credit`, kind promotional, the code as its note),
1183 so two redemptions at once never pass the max. Wrong or used-up codes say
1184 so without telling which codes exist; redemptions are rate-limited per
1185 owner.
1186- **Seeing them.** Each code's redemptions, credit given and spent come
1187 from the grants it made, so margin needs nothing new: spent promo credit
1188 is already given away, by kind.
1189- **Not yet built** because it adds an owner-facing form, abuse limits and
1190 a second sudo form; giving credit by workspace covers launch.
1191
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1192## Agents and models
1193
1194### Defining an agent
1195
1196An agent is a file (`.g1t/agents/<name>.md`, or in the workspace library):
1197instructions, the harness and model to run, the tools and MCP servers it may
1198use, its sandbox image, permissions and budget. Agents take roles: planner,
1199implementer, reviewer, conflict resolver, documenter, memory consolidator.
1200Each role has a default that a repo can replace.
1201
1202### Where it runs, and on whose model
1203
1204| Option | How it works | Fits |
1205| --- | --- | --- |
1206| Hosted, g1t's model | g1t runs the sandbox and bills usage | Getting started; no keys to manage |
1207| Hosted, your API key | Same sandbox, your Anthropic, OpenAI or Google key | Teams with existing contracts |
1208| Hosted, your endpoint | Any OpenAI-compatible URL: Bedrock, Vertex, Azure, a self-hosted model | Private or fine-tuned models |
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1209| Your runner | A g1t runner daemon on your own machines picks up pull requests | Code or models that may not leave your network |
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1210| Your own session | Local Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client joins through `mcp.g1t.sh` | Individuals; subscription plans |
1211
1212Decisions behind this:
1213
1214- **g1t does not build its own agent loop.** It runs existing harnesses
1215 (Claude Code first, through its headless mode) behind a small runner
1216 contract: a container image, an entry command, and session events reported
1217 through the CLI. Other harnesses plug in by meeting the contract.
1218- **All hosted model traffic goes through Cloudflare AI Gateway.** That gives
1219 one place for spend tracking, budgets, rate limits, fallback and logs,
1220 whichever provider or endpoint is behind it.
Merge branch 'model-routing'1221- **Nobody has to pick a model.** A person assigns work to `g1t`, as
1222 they would assign an issue to a colleague, and **Auto** routes each job
1223 to the cheapest model that can do it (see
1224 [Routing for cost](#routing-for-cost) below). A workspace can pin a tier
1225 per kind of work instead. Each request is tagged at the gateway with the
1226 kind of work, the tier, the repository and the pull request, and each
1227 run says which model ran and why. The gateway's own dynamic routes
1228 cannot make the choice yet: they work only on its OpenAI-compatible
1229 endpoint, and the harness speaks Anthropic's.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1230- **Subscriptions stay local.** A Claude subscription cannot be used by a
1231 hosted sandbox; it needs an API key. People on subscriptions use their own
1232 Claude Code session, which is a full participant.
Merge branch 'model-routing'1233- **The workspace pays.** A workspace buys AI credit by card and each
1234 agent run deducts the model at the provider's price plus the agent rate
1235 per million (weighted) tokens; on its own model key, only the agent rate,
1236 counted from the model proxy and the sandbox's own report. The billing service asks
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell1237 nothing of the others: the runner asks it before starting a sandbox and
1238 is refused when there is no credit, and the sandbox reports what its run
1239 cost with a token only it holds. Where no card processor is configured
1240 nothing is charged and agents stay limited to listed accounts.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1241- **Keys are secrets.** Stored in Cloudflare Secrets Store, injected into the
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1242 sandbox for one pull request, never shown again.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1243
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell1244### Seeing a pull request through
1245
1246Assigning an issue is the only thing a person does until there is something
g1t is one name: its agent's work, commits and comments show as @g1t, and nobody can claim g1t or g1t-agent1247to merge. A pull request made by g1t goes through checks, a review
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell1248by another agent, revision when either finds something, and catching up
1249when `main` moves, without anyone pressing a button. It ends as ready to
1250merge, or as "needs you" with the reason: the checks still fail after two
1251revisions, a review could not be written, or a conflict could not be
1252resolved.
1253
1254The work service decides the next step from the pull request's state and
1255claims it in one statement, so a step is taken once. The runner asks on
1256every event that could change the answer (ready, pushed, checks finished,
1257review finished, `main` moved), and on a five-minute sweep for anything
1258missed, and carries the step out in a sandbox.
1259
1260A pull request does not have to be up to date with `main` to merge,
1261unless the repository's settings require it, as on GitHub. Merging one that
1262is behind brings it up to date first (a clean merge needs no model; an
1263agent resolves a conflict) and lands it when that push arrives. With the
1264requirement on, catching up is a step of its own and the checks run again
1265on the result.
1266
1267Each repository sets its own rules, on one settings page: whether its
1268default branch takes pushes at all, how many approvals a merge needs and
1269whether an agent's counts, whether failed checks can be overridden, whether
1270a second agent reviews, and how often an agent is sent back before a person
g1t is one name: its agent's work, commits and comments show as @g1t, and nobody can claim g1t or g1t-agent1271is asked. A pull request g1t opens follows the same rules as anyone's.
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell1272Pushes to a protected branch are refused in the git front end, with the
1273reason shown by git beside the branch.
1274
1275Merging is a person's decision unless the repository says otherwise. With
1276"merge automatically when ready" turned on in its settings, a ready pull
1277request lands by itself, attributed to `g1t`. That is the whole path from
1278an assigned issue to a commit on `main` with nobody in between. Required
1279human approval per path, and risk tiers, are still to come.
1280
Merge branch 'model-routing'1281### Routing for cost
1282
1283*Built (runner `route` in `services/runner/src/model-env.ts`).* The goal
1284is cost per merged change, not cost per request: a cheap attempt that
1285fails and is retried on the same model costs more than one that finishes.
1286
Merge branch 'main' into worktree-agent-a69aeabc4b0deeb971287- **Tiers and catalogue.** `small` (Claude Haiku 5.5 since 2026-10-08,
1288 $0.10/$0.50 per million input/output up to 100k-token prompts, five
1289 times that above; it was Haiku 4.5 at $1/$5), `large` (Claude Sonnet 5.5, $2/$10) and `frontier`
Merge branch 'main' into actions-toolkit-oidc-artifacts1290 (Claude Opus 5.5, $4/$20). Models, names and list prices are data,
1291 never code: since 2026-10-08 billing's model catalogue
1292 (`gateway_models`, one row per model g1t can use) and staff's defaults
1293 in sudo, **Agents & models** (`model_defaults`: each tier's model, the
1294 harness's background model, the AI Gateway's first Claude, each job's
1295 starting tier and effort), read by the runner once a minute over
1296 `AGENT_ROUTING`, which is only the fallback when billing cannot be read.
1297 Catalogue prices are for estimates only; runs are charged what AI
1298 Gateway priced them at.
1299- **Keeping up with new models (built 2026-10-08).** The models service
1300 lists Anthropic's models (through the AI Gateway) and Workers AI's daily
1301 and on demand; a new id lands in the catalogue as `new`, priced from a
1302 maintained table of Anthropic's list prices or Workers AI's listing, or
1303 unpriced, and staff are emailed. Nothing routes to it, offers it or
1304 charges for it until staff approve it with its prices. A model a provider
1305 stops listing is `deprecated`; routing never sends work to a deprecated
1306 or retired model, falling back to the next model of the tier and saying
1307 so on the run. Customers keep Auto: the catalogue is staff's. See
1308 [BILLING_OPERATIONS.md](BILLING_OPERATIONS.md#the-model-catalogue).
Merge branch 'model-routing'1309- **Starting tier by job.** Catch-up, answering a question, and reviews of
1310 at most 10 files and 200 lines touching no sensitive path: small.
Merge branch 'main' into worktree-agent-a69aeabc4b0deeb971311 Plans: small at high effort (Haiku 5.5 takes an effort level).
1312 Changes, revisions and other reviews: large. Reviews over 60 files
Merge branch 'model-routing'1313 or 3,000 lines: frontier. Labels: `architecture` frontier, `security` off
1314 small, `docs`/`documentation`/`typo` let changes and answers start small.
1315- **Escalation.** A failed (or guardrail-stopped) attempt at the same work
1316 goes one tier up; two in a row, frontier; a revision counts its rounds;
1317 a change left at low confidence sends the next attempt up.
1318- **Learning, per repository.** From the last 20 runs of the same kind:
1319 one tier down when the cheaper tier finished at least 90% of at least 5
1320 (never for sensitive or labelled work, never on a retry); one tier up
1321 when this tier failed at least half of at least 5. No new tables: it
1322 reads work's `agent_runs` (model, status, confidence).
1323- **Explained.** Every run's first step and session note is one line:
Merge branch 'main' into worktree-agent-a69aeabc4b0deeb971324 *Used a fast model (Claude Haiku 5.5): small change, 3 files and 80
1325 lines.* Effort per kind of job (`effort` in `AGENT_ROUTING`: plan high,
1326 answer medium, update low) is sent as `CLAUDE_CODE_EFFORT_LEVEL` on
Merge branch 'main' into actions-toolkit-oidc-artifacts1327 g1t's tiers (never on a model the catalogue says takes none) and named
1328 in that line, with the catalogue's name for the model.
Merge branch 'model-routing'1329- **Chosen instead.** `model_routes` rows to g1t's models name `small`,
1330 `large` or `frontier`, or nothing for Auto (Integrations → Models).
1331 A workspace's own Anthropic key with no model named is routed by Auto
1332 too.
1333- **Measured.** `scripts/ops/routing-savings.mjs` replays tasks through
1334 the router offline, priced from the catalogue, against routing before
1335 Auto and against the frontier model for everything, net of failed
1336 attempts, with cost per merged change; `--live` reads billing's runs and
1337 counted tokens. On the bundled sample (13 tasks, assumed failures): Auto
1338 costs 7% less than the frontier model for everything and about 7% more
1339 per run than routing before it, but half as much per merged change,
1340 because it finishes the hard tasks the old routing gave up on. At
1341 current prices Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 cost the same per cache read, and
1342 cache reads are most of an agent run's tokens, so moving off the
1343 frontier model saves less than its list price suggests; the fast tier
1344 and fewer failed attempts are where the money is. Run `--live` monthly
1345 and after any routing change.
1346- **A cheaper route for the simplest jobs (designed, off).** A fourth tier
1347 on Workers AI through AI Gateway (an open model, billed on Cloudflare's
1348 invoice) for classification-sized jobs: commit messages, triage,
1349 summaries. Behind the same router as a tier with its own catalogue entry
1350 and `tasks` rules, off by default. It needs the proxy to translate the
1351 harness's Anthropic requests to the gateway's OpenAI-compatible
1352 endpoint (it already does for workspaces' own OpenAI-shaped providers)
1353 and a quality bar from the savings harness before any job moves to it.
1354
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1355### Choosing the right agent automatically
1356
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1357Because several agents can work on the same issue, every issue with more
1358than one pull request is an evaluation on real work. g1t records, per repo and per kind of issue, each
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1359agent's win rate, cost and time. That produces a leaderboard, and a routing
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1360policy: send each new issue to the agent that wins that kind most often,
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1361start with the cheapest that is good enough, and escalate to a stronger one
1362when checks fail.
1363
Plan: the inbox, then channels and apps, instead of discussions1364## Talking: the inbox and channels
1365
1366Not a discussions forum. People and agents need one place to talk in real
1367time, and an app that feels like one on desktop and phone.
1368
1369**The inbox comes first.** Everything that needs a person or that they
1370follow, from people and agents: review requests, agent questions and
1371handoffs, failures, mentions, deploys. Read and unread, saved, done,
1372snoozed; ranked so what an agent is blocked on comes first; email digests
1373and push. It is the delivery layer chat needs too (who is told what, read
1374state, push), so building it first makes channels cheap.
1375
Docs: inbox threads, reasons, subscriptions, watching, email, API and MCP1376*Built:* the events service keeps it (`services/events/src/inbox.rs` and
1377`subscriptions.rs`, migrations `0005_inbox` and `0006_inbox_threads` on the
1378`g1t-events` database), writing items as events arrive from the bus; work's
1379`inbox_subject` says what each event names. Each person has one **thread**
1380per issue, pull request, workflow on a branch or deployment: new activity
1381brings it back unread with a count and its last 10 activities, and while it
1382is unread its most urgent severity is kept. Each item has a **reason**
1383(`agent`, `review_requested`, `assign`, `mention`, `ci_activity`,
1384`security_alert`, `state_change`, `author`, `comment`, `manual`,
1385`subscribed`). Who is told: `agent.asked` and `pull.stalled` (needs you,
1386closed again by `pull.resumed` and the like), `pull.review_requested`
1387(needs you, closed by `pull.review_request_removed`),
1388`issue.assigned`/`pull.assigned`, failed checks and workflows,
1389`deployment.failed` and a recovering `deployment.succeeded`, g1t's reviews
1390and finished changes, closes, reopens and merges to everyone subscribed,
1391and comments to the people mentioned and everyone subscribed. Never the
1392actor, never g1t. **Subscriptions**: authors, assignees and reviewers are
1393subscribed without a row; commenting or being mentioned subscribes; anyone
1394can subscribe, unsubscribe (still told of what is asked of them) or ignore.
1395**Watching** a repository: participating (the default), all, ignore, or
1396custom (issues, pulls, deployments, security); whoever creates a repository
1397watches it at their default, all activity unless they change it.
1398**Settings**: which reasons are also emailed (agent, review_requested and
1399mention by default) and the default watch for new repositories; email goes
1400through identity's `notify_by_email`, to a confirmed address only while the
1401person can still read the repository. **REST and MCP**: 14 operations under
1402`/notifications`, `/repos/:owner/:name/subscription` and
1403`/user/subscriptions` (scopes `notifications:read` and
1404`notifications:write`, in the Agent preset), and the `notifications` MCP
1405tool; never usable by g1t's own tokens. On the site: a bell in the top bar
1406opening a sheet with tabs (All, Needs you, Errors, Success, Info), Done,
1407Save, Snooze and Mark all read; `/inbox` with Saved, Done and a reason
1408filter; reasons and update counts on each card; a Notifications box on
1409issue and pull request pages; a Watch menu in the repository header;
Previews build from any branch; Agent in place of Ask AI; pin from the sidebar1410Settings → Notifications; a Needs you card on mission control. Agent sits
Docs: inbox threads, reasons, subscriptions, watching, email, API and MCP1411beside the bell, disabled. Still to come: security alerts (the security
Previews build from any branch; Agent in place of Ask AI; pin from the sidebar1412service publishes no event yet), email digests and push, Agent, and
Docs: inbox threads, reasons, subscriptions, watching, email, API and MCP1413channels.
Docs: the inbox, what lands in it and why, its tabs and actions1414
Plan: the inbox, then channels and apps, instead of discussions1415**Channels** (working name): workspace channels, direct messages and
1416threads, live.
1417
1418- Each channel is a Durable Object holding its WebSocket connections with
1419 hibernation, so idle channels cost nothing; history in D1, files in R2.
g1t is one name: its agent's work, commits and comments show as @g1t, and nobody can claim g1t or g1t-agent1420- Agents are members. `@g1t` in a channel starts work, answers, or
Plan: the inbox, then channels and apps, instead of discussions1421 posts a summary; agents post their questions and handoffs where people
1422 already are. A thread becomes an issue or an outcome in one action, and
1423 the agent's progress streams into that thread.
1424- Tied to the work: issues, pull requests, runs and deploys each have a
1425 thread; links unfurl into live cards (checks, agent step, preview).
1426 What a channel settles can become workspace memory, with its source.
1427- Apps: an installable PWA first (desktop and mobile, offline shell, Web
1428 Push), then native shells on the same API: Tauri for desktop (tray,
1429 deep links), React Native for iOS and Android (background
1430 notifications).
1431
1432GitHub-style Discussions are not planned: channels and threads on the
1433work replace them.
1434
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1435## What GitHub ships today, and where g1t differs
1436
1437GitHub's Agent HQ and Copilot app give each agent session its own git
1438worktree and branch, list sessions in a mission-control view grouped by
1439project, and let a task be assigned to several agents so their output can be
1440compared. Underneath, the unit of work is still a branch and a pull request.
1441
1442| | GitHub | g1t |
1443| --- | --- | --- |
1444| Where a session works | A worktree on one developer's machine, or a cloud sandbox | A server-side fork that any agent on any machine can join and anyone can open |
1445| Agent context | Lives in the app's session view | Stored with the repository and linked from each commit (why-blame) |
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1446| Several agents on one task | Separate pull requests to compare by hand | One issue holding every pull request made for it, compared side by side, with the merged one recorded on the issue |
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1447| Collisions between agents | Found as merge conflicts at the end | Flagged during the work (overlap radar) |
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1448| Landing changes | One pull request at a time | A merge queue that lands the chosen one and closes the rest as superseded |
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1449| Which agents | Those offered through a Copilot subscription | Any MCP client, plus hosted agents |
1450
1451## How agents connect
1452
14531. **Bring your own agent.** A remote MCP server at `mcp.g1t.sh` lets Claude
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1454 Code (or any MCP client) list issues, claim one, get a clone URL and
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1455 token, report progress and submit. Adding it is one command; sign-in is a
1456 browser OAuth flow with no token to paste. The `g1t` CLI installs Claude
1457 Code hooks that upload the session transcript as the agent works.
g1t is one name: its agent's work, commits and comments show as @g1t, and nobody can claim g1t or g1t-agent14582. **g1t's agent.** Assign an issue to g1t, or many issues at
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell1459 once, each to an agent of its own. g1t starts a sandbox for each
1460 (Cloudflare Containers), running a coding agent headless against its
1461 own pull request and fork.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts14623. **API and CLI.** Everything above is available at `api.g1t.sh` and
1463 through `g1t`.
1464
1465## Public surfaces
1466
1467| Host | What it serves |
1468| --- | --- |
1469| `g1t.sh` | The site, git over HTTPS, git over SSH |
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell1470| `api.g1t.sh` | REST API, with no version in its paths, with a published OpenAPI document, cursor pagination, rate-limit headers, idempotency keys on writes, server-sent events for live pull request state, and signed webhooks |
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1471| `mcp.g1t.sh` | Remote MCP server over streamable HTTP |
1472
1473g1t is its own OAuth 2.1 authorization server: authorization code with PKCE,
OAuth 2.1 sign-in for MCP clients and other applications1474dynamic client registration that stores nothing (a client id encodes its
1475own registration, so the open endpoint cannot be used to fill a database),
1476discovery metadata and rotating refresh tokens. Still to come: scopes
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1477per resource (`repo:read`, `repo:write`, `issue:write`, `pull:write`).
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1478MCP clients, the CLI (device flow) and third-party apps all use it. Access
1479tokens and SSH keys remain for git itself.
1480
Merge branch 'worktree-agent-a8385d293d42c913a'1481### Workspace aliases (internal, built 2026-10-07)
1482
1483`g1t` is the product; `flagon-io` is Flagon, Inc., the organization that
1484builds it. So nobody mistakes one for the other, `g1t.sh/g1t` leads to
1485`g1t.sh/flagon-io`. That is a workspace alias: a name g1t's staff point at
1486a workspace, kept in identity's `workspace_aliases` (migration 0029, which
1487seeds `g1t`) by the workspace's id, so it follows renames. It is not a
1488customer feature and is not documented for users; staff add and remove
1489aliases on sudo's Aliases page, with a reason, in sudo's audit log. We may
1490give other companies one for a trading name the same way.
1491
1492An alias is resolved wherever an old slug is (identity's `resolve_slug`),
1493so it costs only the not-found path: site pages 301 to the same page under
1494the workspace, the API and MCP run the call again under its slug, package
1495registries 301, and git over HTTPS is answered in place
1496(`resolve_alias`), because pushes do not follow redirects. An alias is
1497never a route, a username or a workspace's slug, and nobody can register
1498it while it exists. `@g1t` stays g1t's agent: mentions link to how the
1499agent works, never to `/g1t`.
1500
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1501## Architecture
1502
1503| Component | Language | Runs on | Responsibility |
1504| --- | --- | --- | --- |
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1505| `crates/contracts`, `packages/contracts` | Rust, TypeScript | — | The interface of every service, the event catalogue, shared types. Services and clients depend on this, never on each other's code. |
OAuth 2.1 sign-in for MCP clients and other applications1506| `services/identity` | Rust | Worker + D1 | Accounts, workspaces and memberships, sessions, SSH keys, access tokens, device sign-in, OAuth codes and grants |
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1507| `services/repos` | Rust | Worker + D1 + Artifacts | Repository registry, contents, forks, diffs, landing, git over HTTPS. Storage sits behind a `GitStore` port with an Artifacts adapter. |
1508| `services/work` | Rust | Worker + D1 | Issues, pull requests, comments, sessions; later a Durable Object per repo for the landing queue and live state |
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell1509| `services/billing` | Rust | Worker + D1 + Stripe | Each workspace's agent credit: payments, the ledger of every run, and the gate on starting one |
Events service in Rust, with RFC 3339 times and accurate push events1510| `services/events` | Rust | Worker + Queues + D1 | The event bus: durable log, and one queue per subscribing service |
g1t is one name: its agent's work, commits and comments show as @g1t, and nobody can claim g1t or g1t-agent1511| `services/runner`, `crates/runner` | TypeScript, Rust | Worker + Containers | Starts a sandbox per g1t run; the program inside runs the agent harness and reports through the public API |
Social cards for every page: og.g1t.sh1512| `services/og` | TypeScript | Worker + Cache API | Social cards at `og.g1t.sh`: one PNG per page of the site and the docs (satori and resvg), looked up as an anonymous visitor, so nothing private appears on one |
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1513| `apps/web` | TypeScript | Worker | Server-rendered site. Holds no data; calls services over RPC. |
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1514| `apps/docs` | TypeScript | Worker (static) | Documentation and the API explorer |
API and MCP server in Rust; a public index at the API root1515| `apps/api` | Rust | Worker | REST API (`api.g1t.sh`), MCP server (`mcp.g1t.sh`) and OpenAPI document, all generated from one list of operations; the OAuth endpoints |
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1516| `crates/sshd` | Rust | Container | Git over SSH, bridged to Artifacts |
1517| `crates/merged` | Rust | Container | Trial merges, conflict matrix, landing merges (needs real git; the Artifacts binding is read-only) |
1518| `crates/core` | Rust | native and WASM | pkt-line, packfile and diff code shared by the above and by the Worker |
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1519| `crates/g1t` | Rust | user's machine | CLI: auth, SSH proxy, Claude Code hooks, issues and pull requests |
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1520
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1521Storage: Artifacts for repositories (one fork per pull request), D1 for accounts
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1522and metadata, R2 for session transcripts and logs, Durable Object SQLite for
1523per-repo coordination state.
1524
1525How the services fit together:
1526
1527- **Each service is its own Worker with its own database.** It deploys,
1528 scales and fails on its own. Callers reach it through a typed RPC binding
1529 to the interface in `packages/contracts`.
1530- **Expected failures are values.** Every call returns a `Result`, so "not
1531 found" or "forbidden" crosses a service boundary as data.
1532- **Side effects travel as events.** A service publishes what happened
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1533 (`git.push`, `issue.opened`, `pull.merged`, …) to the bus and does not
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1534 call other services to react. Each subscriber consumes from its own queue.
1535 Timelines, webhooks and automations read the same stream, which is what
1536 lets something like GitHub Actions be built on top.
1537- **Every read takes the viewer.** Authorization is decided inside the
1538 service that owns the data, not by its callers.
1539
1540The Workers runtime scales request handling on its own, so the edge layer
1541stays in TypeScript. Rust is used where there is real computation or a real
1542protocol to implement.
1543
API and MCP server, Rust identity service, registration, site redesign1544## Languages
1545
1546The site is TypeScript. Everything behind it is Rust, compiled to
API and MCP server in Rust; a public index at the API root1547WebAssembly for Workers and natively for containers and the CLI. Identity, repos, work, events and the API are all Rust. The one exception
1548is the Worker that starts sandboxes, because Cloudflare's Containers
1549library is TypeScript. Rust services speak a
API and MCP server, Rust identity service, registration, site redesign1550small JSON protocol over service bindings (`POST /rpc/<method>`), with the
1551types in `crates/contracts`.
1552
1553## Identifiers
1554
1555Every id is a [TypeID](https://github.com/jetify-com/typeid): a prefix naming
1556the kind of thing, then a UUIDv7 in lowercase base32, such as
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1557`pr_01jb2k7x9hfq0b3zj0f5s2m8ra`.
API and MCP server, Rust identity service, registration, site redesign1558
1559- The prefix makes an id self-describing and stops ids of different kinds
1560 being mixed up.
1561- Ids sort by creation time as plain strings. In SQLite (D1 and Durable
1562 Objects) that keeps inserts at the end of the primary-key index instead of
1563 scattering them, and gives time-ordered paging for free.
1564- The suffix decodes to a standard UUIDv7 for any system that wants one.
1565- Ids are made by the service that creates the record, not by the database,
1566 so they work across services and can be assigned before a write.
1567
1568## Events at scale, and audit
1569
1570The current event log is a single D1 database. That is fine for a
1571prototype and wrong for the target: D1 is one writer and 10 GB. The design
1572for volume splits storage by how the data is read.
1573
1574| Tier | Store | Holds | Read by |
1575| --- | --- | --- | --- |
1576| Hot | A Durable Object per repository, with SQLite | Recent events for that repo | Timelines, live pages over WebSocket |
1577| Complete | Cloudflare Pipelines into R2 as Apache Iceberg | Every event, forever, partitioned by day and workspace | Analytics, standups, "ask", export |
1578| Audit | The same R2 store, under object lock | Who did what, from where, with which credential | Compliance, investigation |
1579
1580- **No single hot database.** Each repository's recent events live with that
1581 repository, so load spreads across as many objects as there are repos.
1582- **The complete record is files, not rows.** Iceberg on R2 has no practical
1583 size limit and is queried with SQL.
1584- **Audit is a property of every event.** The envelope carries the actor
1585 (person, agent, token or system), the credential used, the request id and
1586 the source address. Audit entries for a workspace are hash-chained, so a
1587 removed or altered entry is detectable, and are written under a retention
1588 lock.
1589- **Delivery is at least once.** Consumers are idempotent on the event id.
1590
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1591## Accounts and forge basics
1592
1593- Registration with email verification, sign-in, forgot password (Cloudflare
1594 Email Sending), Turnstile on public forms.
1595- GitHub sign-in, SSH keys, access tokens, active sessions.
1596- Profiles, public and private repositories, repository search (D1 full-text).
1597- Rendered README, syntax highlighting, commit history, diffs.
Invite-only launch: sign in with GitHub, repository access and lifecycle, many emails, a new look1598- Transferring a repository between workspaces (by id: its git store key
1599 never moves; every service follows `repo.transferred`; old paths redirect
1600 until reused) and deleting an empty, settled workspace (its slug is
1601 tombstoned, never reissued except to the person whose username it is).
Membership as GitHub has it: owners, roles, member privileges, 2FA1602- Access: five repository roles (Read, Triage, Write, Maintain, Admin;
1603 the capability table follows GitHub's repository roles, 2026-10-08:
1604 branch protection and rulesets are Admin, labels and milestones are made
1605 with Write and applied with Triage, security alerts are Write), a
1606 workspace base permission (Read for new workspaces), the creator of a
1607 repository given Admin on it, outside collaborators and invitations.
1608 Membership as GitHub's organizations have it (2026-10-08): owners and
1609 members, promote and demote, transfer ownership, leave, a last-owner
1610 guard; billing manager and security manager on top of member; member
1611 privileges (who creates public and private repositories, whether
1612 repository admins change visibility, delete and transfer, and invite
1613 outside collaborators); two-factor authentication (TOTP and recovery
1614 codes) and a workspace policy that requires it, holding non-compliant
1615 people out until they turn it on. Every membership change, token, SSH
1616 key, OAuth grant and two-factor change is in the audit log. Teams are built on it (2026-10-07): visible
Teams and CODEOWNERS, labels and milestones, dependency updates, the security suite, and a clearer top bar1617 or secret, nested up to 8 levels (child teams inherit their parents'
1618 roles), run by maintainers and owners. A team's role on a repository is a
1619 `repo_grants` row whose principal is the team, which identity resolves
1620 into the same `RepoGrant`s on each person, so `access::can` needs nothing
1621 new: the highest role wins. `@workspace/team` mentions tell the team's
1622 people; a team asked to review either asks everyone or picks people by
1623 round robin or load balance.
1624- CODEOWNERS, read in both conventions (single-section, and sections with
1625 approval counts, optional sections and default owners) from the first of
1626 `.g1t/`, `.github/`, the root, `docs/` and `.gitlab/`. Owners are asked to
1627 review, the `g1t / codeowners` status lints a changed file, and branch
1628 protection's "Require review from code owners" holds merges, for people,
1629 agents and the queue alike, until each owning rule is approved.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1630
1631## Built on Cloudflare
1632
1633| Need | Product |
1634| --- | --- |
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1635| Repositories; a fork per pull request; data residency per workspace | Artifacts (forks, jurisdictions) |
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1636| Reacting to pushes | Artifacts event subscriptions on Queues |
Plan: a repository that maintains itself, and deployments on g1t.page1637| Preview URL per pull request; deploy on merge | Workers for Platforms on `g1t.page` |
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1638| Site, API, MCP, git front end | Workers |
1639| Per-repo coordination, live updates | Durable Objects |
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1640| Pull request lifecycles, automations | Workflows, Cron Triggers |
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1641| Agent sandboxes, SSH server, merge engine | Sandbox SDK and Containers |
1642| Fast starts on large repos | ArtifactFS |
1643| Model traffic, spend, budgets | AI Gateway |
1644| Summaries, embeddings | Workers AI |
1645| Context hub search | Vectorize |
1646| Accounts and metadata | D1 |
1647| Transcripts and logs | R2 |
1648| Email, bot protection, keys | Email Sending, Turnstile, Secrets Store |
1649
Running g1t yourself: the design, a docker compose proof, and a guide to what works today1650## Running g1t yourself
1651
1652g1t.sh runs on Cloudflare, and that does not change. The core is MIT and
1653must also run on anyone's own machine with `docker compose up`. A free
1654core people can self-host is what makes paid hosting worth trusting.
1655Self-hosting never makes hosted worse: hosted code paths keep their
1656behaviour, and a self-hosted adapter sits beside the hosted one. The
1657inventory of every Cloudflare dependency, the design and the risks are in
1658[SELF_HOSTING.md](SELF_HOSTING.md).
1659
1660The approach: the Workers stay Workers, and self-hosted they run in
1661workerd, the open-source Workers runtime. D1, KV and Queues are SQLite on a
1662volume, with the same migrations. Cloudflare-only bindings are replaced
1663by stand-ins:
1664
1665- Artifacts becomes bare repositories served by `git http-backend`;
1666- Email Sending becomes SMTP, through Mailpit;
1667- services that are off answer "off" instead of failing.
1668
1669| Phase | Scope | Estimate |
1670| --- | --- | --- |
1671| 1. Core forge | Done: `deploy/self-host/` (compose, git store, binding stand-ins, smoke test) and the "Run g1t yourself" guide. Left: the API on its own port, `PUBLIC_URL` in place of hard-coded hosts, cron, pull requests in the smoke test, CI that runs it. | 1–1.5 weeks left |
1672| 2. Agents | Docker sandboxes with the same runner image, an egress allow-list proxy for guardrails, `g1t.toml`, a launcher in place of `wrangler dev` | 2–3 weeks |
1673| 3. Search, context, deployments | sqlite-vec plus an OpenAI-compatible embedder; an app host on workerd; Caddy for app and custom domains; SSH | 3–4 weeks |
1674| 4. Parity and upgrades | Code-level ports in `g1t_kit` and `@g1t/platform`, sudo without Access, online backups, released images, an upgrade test in CI | 3–4 weeks |
1675
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1676## The submission
1677
1678- **g1t is built on g1t.** This repository is hosted on g1t.sh, its features
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1679 are opened as issues and built by racing agents, and it deploys from
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1680 Artifacts through Workers Builds. The history is the proof.
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1681- **The demo follows one story.** A brief becomes a project; twelve issues
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1682 fan out to dozens of agents; agents notice each other, hand off, and
1683 resolve a conflict; reviewers triage; the queue lands everything on
1684 `main`; why-blame explains a line; the portfolio shows where it all
1685 stands. Then the same thing at a thousand agents.
1686- **Judges can try it in a minute.** Open registration on g1t.sh, one-click
1687 import of a GitHub repo, one command to connect Claude Code, a seeded demo
1688 workspace, and a single deploy command for running their own copy.
1689- **The formats are open.** The commit trailers, session format and runner
1690 contract are published so other tools can interoperate.
1691
1692## Build order
1693
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell1694What is left is ordered by how much it shows the point above, not by forge
1695parity. Forge basics are done well enough; each item below should make the
1696demo's story stronger.
1697
Plan: what is done from the agent-first list, and what is next1698Done from this list: the outcome page (a plan's issues as a live graph with
1699cost and a feed of what happened), coordination you can see (agents' issues
1700and comments stand out in the feed; agents hold g1t's tools through a token
1701scoped to one repository), steering a running agent (messages delivered
1702between steps, and at the end), and recording sessions from anyone's own
Plan: integrations are in1703Claude Code (`curl -fsSL https://g1t.sh/install/claude.sh | sh`). Integrations are
1704in: a workspace's own model provider (Anthropic or any Anthropic-compatible
Prices are what g1t pays plus 20%, from the first second1705endpoint, reached through a model proxy so no sandbox holds a key; its
1706runs pay only their sandbox time), alerts from Sentry, Datadog and signed webhooks
Plan: integrations are in1707that open one issue per problem and can start an agent, and Jira and Linear
1708tickets that agents read, people import, and that hear back. Racing a
Plan: what is done from the agent-first list, and what is next1709set number of agents on one issue is dropped: choosing how many agents to
1710use is not something people should have to do.
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell1711
Agents asked while not at work are woken to answer17121. ~~**Handoffs and questions between agents** as states on the outcome
1713 page.~~ Done: questions and handoffs show as waiting, read, answered,
1714 taken on or declined; since 2026-10-03 an agent asked while it is not at
1715 work is woken to answer, where before the question waited forever.
Plan: a repository that maintains itself, and deployments on g1t.page17162. **Upkeep agents** (above): dependency updates, secret scanning,
1717 vulnerability alerts, code scanning, the security page. No new
1718 infrastructure.
17193. **Deployments on `g1t.page`** (above): previews per pull request,
1720 production on merge, the reviewer agent checking the preview.
17214. **The large run, building 2 and 3.** About 20–30 issues on g1t itself,
1722 built by agents and landed through the queue, for the video: g1t built
1723 on g1t.
17245. **Polish for judges trying it in a minute:** a seeded demo workspace, the
Plan: what is done from the agent-first list, and what is next1725 empty states, and the first-run path from sign-up to an outcome landing.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1726
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell1727Earlier items still open, after those:
1728
Teams and CODEOWNERS, labels and milestones, dependency updates, the security suite, and a clearer top bar17291. Deleting a branch once its pull request merges; risk tiers. (Approval
1730 rules per path are in, as CODEOWNERS.)
Membership as GitHub has it: owners, roles, member privileges, 2FA17312. Event storage per the design above: per-repo hot log, Iceberg on R2,
API and MCP server in Rust; a public index at the API root1732 hash-chained audit.
Membership as GitHub has it: owners, roles, member privileges, 2FA17333. CLI with Claude Code hooks to record sessions automatically.
17344. Reviewing and catching up automatically, by policy; required reviews;
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell1735 risk tiers.
Membership as GitHub has it: owners, roles, member privileges, 2FA17365. Compare view, proof bundles; handoff between agents.
17376. Projects, mission control, steering; why-blame, digest, timeline.
17387. Context hub, portfolio; automations and integrations (Sentry first).
17398. SSH; bot protection; own keys, endpoints and runners.
17409. Large run (100+ agents across many issues), hardening, demo.
174110. Passkeys (WebAuthn) as a second factor and for signing in: feasible on
1742 Workers (P-256 and RS256 verification in Rust, or WebCrypto), next
1743 after TOTP. Then fine-grained tokens, deploy keys and package access.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1744
Membership as GitHub has it: owners, roles, member privileges, 2FA1745Later: code search, mirroring to GitHub, SSH
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1746on port 22 without the CLI proxy (needs the Workers inbound TCP private
1747beta).

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