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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.
111
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.
297- **Roles.** Viewer, commenter, planner, approver: a person can plan and
298 approve work without ever cloning a repo.
299
300## The macro view
301
302The hierarchy above a single repo:
303
304| Level | What it is |
305| --- | --- |
306| **Workspace** | A company or team: its people, repos, agents, budget and policies. |
307| **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 software308| **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 attempts309| **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 attempts310
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell311How it feeds up, and what is built:
312
313- **A workspace is the unit everything belongs to.** Repositories, people,
314 access tokens, and later projects, budgets and policies are the
315 workspace's, never a person's. An account owns nothing; its first step
316 after confirming its email is creating a workspace, and the site sends it
317 there from wherever it was going.
318- **One namespace.** Usernames and workspaces share one set of names, as on
319 Docker Hub and npm. A username is reserved for its owner's workspace, so
320 `g1t.sh/<name>` never means two things.
321- **The workspace page is the roll-up.** `g1t.sh/<workspace>` shows its
322 repositories with their open issues and pull requests, and the pull
323 requests in progress across all of them. Projects and initiatives will
324 roll up to the same page. Its own pages live under `/<workspace>/-/`
325 (people, access tokens, settings), which no repository can be named.
326- **Workspace access tokens instead of service accounts.** A workspace has
327 tokens of its own, in the same table and code path as personal ones. One
328 acts as the workspace, with a member's rights in that workspace only,
329 records who made it and when it was last used, and keeps working when
330 that person leaves. CI, integrations and automations use these.
331
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts332### Portfolio
333
334One page answers "where is the business" across every initiative:
335
336- **Health** per initiative: on track, at risk, or blocked, derived from
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts337 facts (checks passing, issues stalled, questions waiting on a person),
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts338 not self-reported.
Fast pages, required checks on the branch, self-hosted runners, honest incidents339- **Progress** as measurable results: required checks passing, issues
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts340 merged out of planned, and the trend since the start.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts341- **Forecast** from actual throughput: at the current rate, when the
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts342 remaining issues land.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts343- **Spend** in tokens and dollars against a budget, per initiative.
344- **Waiting on people**: every decision or approval a person owes, by name.
345- **Roadmap**: initiatives laid out as now, next, later, with optional
346 time-boxed cycles for teams that work in sprints.
347
348### Status without asking
349
350- **Standup.** An agent writes a daily report per initiative and one for the
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts351 whole workspace: what merged, what changed direction, what is at risk and
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts352 why, what needs a person. Delivered by email or webhook.
353- **Ask.** A question box over the full event log and all sessions: "what
354 happened on the billing migration since Monday?" answers with links to the
355 sessions and commits behind each claim.
356
357### Long-running agents
358
359Work that runs for days needs supervision that does not depend on someone
360watching.
361
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts362- **Checkpoints.** A long pull request reports milestones against its issue, so
363 progress is visible before anything merges.
364- **Stall and drift detection.** A pull request with no meaningful progress, or
365 whose changes have wandered away from its issue, is flagged and can be
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts366 stopped or re-briefed automatically.
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts367- **Budgets.** Hard limits on spend and time per pull request, project and
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts368 initiative.
369
370### Context hub
371
372Agents working across repos and days need context that outlives any one
373session and reaches beyond the code. The context hub is one place an agent
374asks, whatever the source.
375
376| Source | What it holds | How it gets there |
377| --- | --- | --- |
378| **Memory** | Decisions, conventions, gotchas, facts about systems | Written by agents and people in g1t |
379| **Code and sessions** | The repos, and the reasoning behind every change | Already in g1t |
380| **Connected sources** | Jira and Linear tickets, Notion and Confluence pages, Google Drive documents, Slack threads, Sentry issues | Connectors, authorised per workspace |
381
382How it behaves:
383
384- **One search.** An agent asks a question and gets ranked results across
385 all sources, each labelled with where it came from, who wrote it, and how
386 fresh it is.
387- **Connected sources stay where they are.** g1t indexes them for search and
388 fetches the current version when an agent opens one. The external system
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts389 remains the source of truth, and a link placed on an issue ("see
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts390 JIRA-482", a Notion URL) is pulled into the agent's starting context.
391- **Permissions carry over.** A connector only exposes what the connecting
392 account can see, and a workspace admin chooses which spaces, projects or
393 channels are included.
394- **External content is untrusted.** A ticket or page can contain text meant
395 to manipulate an agent. It is marked as reference material, never treated
396 as instructions.
397- **Documentation is separate.** Context is what agents know; documentation
398 is what people read, and it is generated from context and code.
399
400Memory is the part of the hub that g1t owns and agents write to:
401
402- **Memory is written freely.** Any agent or person adds an entry with one
403 call: a decision, a convention, a gotcha, a fact about a system. No review
404 gate. Each entry records who wrote it, from which session, and when.
405- **It is still a repository.** Each workspace has a memory repo in
406 Artifacts, so every write is a commit: versioned, attributable, and
407 revertible.
408- **It is kept healthy by an agent.** A consolidation agent merges
409 duplicates, retires entries that newer ones contradict, and flags
410 conflicts it cannot settle. People can pin an entry (agents may not change
411 it), correct it, or retract it.
412- **Agents read it.** Every session starts with the context relevant to its
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts413 issue, found by search, and can query more through MCP.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts414- **Updates are events.** A memory write or a change in a connected source
415 is an event, so "when context changes, update the affected docs" is an
416 automation, on by default.
417- **It is scoped inside the workspace.** Some context applies to the whole
418 workspace, some to one initiative, project or repo, so an agent gets what
419 applies to its work.
420- **It never crosses workspaces.** A workspace is the isolation boundary: its
421 context, sessions and private repos are invisible to every other
422 workspace, and an agent's token is bound to one workspace.
423
424## Working in g1t
425
426- **Mission control.** The signed-in home page: every running session, every
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts427 issue waiting on a decision, and what merged, across all repos.
Plan: Projects, the home of everything about running software428- **Outcomes.** Group issues across repos toward one result and track how
429 many are open, racing, or merged. (What [Projects](#projects) means is
430 below.)
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts431- **Steering.** Send a message to a running pull request, or to all pull requests on an
432 issue at once, without stopping them.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts433- **Automations.** Rules that start work without a person (next section).
434
435## Automations and integrations
436
Sidebar: the panels really slide437> **2026-10-03:** g1t's own `.g1t/automations` format was built and then set
438> aside at the user's request ("let's just copy GitHub Actions on that for the
439> time being"). Automation on g1t is GitHub Actions workflows in
440> `.g1t/workflows/`; the format below is kept for later.
441
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts442An automation is **when** an event happens, **if** conditions hold, **do**
443something. They are defined as files in the repo (`.g1t/automations/`), the
444way GitHub Actions workflows are, and can also be built in the UI.
445
446### Events that can trigger one
447
448| Source | Examples |
449| --- | --- |
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts450| Git | push, merge, check failed, `main` moved |
451| g1t | issue opened, pull request stalled, context updated, handoff declined, budget reached |
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts452| Time | cron schedule |
453| Integrations | Sentry issue, PagerDuty incident, Linear or Jira ticket, Slack message or mention, GitHub issue, Stripe event |
454| Anything else | a signed generic webhook, or an email to a per-repo address |
455
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts456**Actions**: open an issue (optionally assigning N agents to it), message
457a running pull request, update documentation, notify, call a
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts458webhook, write back to the source system.
459
460**Example: Sentry.** A new production error arrives. The automation opens an
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts461issue labelled `bug`, with the stack trace, release and frequency in its
462description. Why-blame
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts463finds the session that wrote the failing line, so the fixing agent starts
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts464with the original reasoning. When the fix merges, g1t comments on the Sentry
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts465issue and resolves it.
466
467### Rules every automation obeys
468
469- **Deduplication.** The same Sentry issue firing 500 times maps to one
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts470 issue.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts471- **Limits.** Concurrency and budget caps per automation.
472- **Loop protection.** Work started by an automation cannot retrigger the
473 same automation without a person in between.
474- **External input is untrusted.** A webhook payload can contain text written
475 by an attacker. Agents started by external events run with reduced
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts476 permissions and cannot merge without the repo's approval rule passing.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts477
478**Checks** are the other half of what GitHub Actions does: build and test
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts479commands declared in `.g1t/checks.yaml`, run in sandboxes on every pull request
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts480and on every combined state in the landing queue.
481
Actions: keep workflow runs safe482### Keeping workflow runs safe (built 2026-10-08)
483
484An audit of g1t Actions found a job's token was a full-access workspace
485token, environments had no protection, outside pull requests ran at once,
486the cache could be poisoned across branches, a job's token could set off
487more runs, and masking missed multi-line and encoded secrets. Now:
488
489- **The job's token** (`G1T_TOKEN`, `GITHUB_TOKEN`) is minted per job by
490 identity (`create_job_token`, migration identity/0030): it reaches its
491 repository only (`TokenAccess.repo`, enforced by the API, git and the
492 registries), carries the scopes its `permissions:` map to
493 (`g1t_actions::permissions`), is revoked when the job ends, and its
494 writes are audited with the run as `run_kind: workflow_job`. Without
Merge main into the run-protection branch495 `permissions:` it gets the repository's default, the GitHub way:
496 repositories that existed when actions/0007 ran keep read and write,
497 newer ones take their workspace's default (read-only unless an owner
498 says), and a workspace can cap every repository at read-only. An outside
499 pull request's is read-only. "Allow g1t Actions to create and approve
500 pull requests" (repository and workspace, off by default) decides whether
501 the token may open or approve pull requests. OIDC (`id-token: write`)
502 reads the same permissions model.
Actions: keep workflow runs safe503- **No loops.** Work and repos mark the events a job's token causes
504 (`causedByJob`), carried on to a pull request it moves; the actions
505 service starts nothing for them. `workflow_dispatch` and
506 `repository_dispatch` (now sent by `POST {repo}/dispatches`) still start
507 runs.
Merge main into the run-protection branch508- **Environments' protection rules** (actions/0007): required reviewers
Actions: keep workflow runs safe509 (people or teams, up to six, optionally not whoever started the run), a
510 wait timer, which branches and tags may deploy, and admin bypass. A job
511 naming one is `pending` once its needs are done, its environment read
512 then (an expression included); reviewers hear in the inbox
513 (`deployment.review_requested`) and approve on the run's page or through
514 `pending_deployments`; secrets are read only when the job starts.
515- **Approval for outside pull requests**, by a repository policy
516 (first-time contributors, outside contributors (the default), or every
517 external contributor): such runs are `action_required` until someone with
518 Write approves them.
519- **The cache is scoped by ref** (own, then the pull request's base, then
520 the default branch; outside pull requests save where nothing else reads)
Merge main into the run-protection branch521 and versioned by its paths and compression (0006's toolkit `version`,
522 which g1t's runner now sends too); g1t's `actions/cache` and the
523 toolkit's protocols share one scope rule. Entries from before were
Actions: keep workflow runs safe524 expired.
525- **Masking** covers each line of a multi-line secret, base64 at every
526 offset and JSON-escaped forms; outputs holding a secret are withheld and
527 annotations masked.
528- A job's own `concurrency:` is honoured, `create` runs on new branches and
529 tags, and `on: delete` says plainly that it never runs yet.
Merge main into the run-protection branch530### Docker in workflow jobs (built 2026-10-08)
531
532> **2026-10-08:** "Why didn't we give CI docker then? We need GitHub
533> Actions functionality maxxed baby but with all the good good security
534> etc." The trigger: `deploy.yml`'s runner-image job needs `docker build`
535> and `docker push`, and failed on hosted runners.
536
537**What Cloudflare Containers allow** (their FAQ, updated 2026-10-05, and
538the Docker-in-Docker guide and example it links):
539
540- Docker runs inside a container: `docker:dind`, with `dockerd` as
541 **root**. A rootless Engine does not start there.
542- **No iptables**: `--iptables=false --ip6tables=false`, or the Engine
543 fails setting up its rules. Containers with the `durable_object`
544 scheduling policy (ours: each sandbox is a Durable Object's) cannot turn
545 IP forwarding on either: `--ip-forward=false`, or the Engine exits.
546- So **a bridge network has no way out**: the guide's answer is
547 `--network=host` for `docker run` and `docker build`, which gives
548 containers the outer container's network.
549- Built images and containers are lost when the sandbox stops.
550
551**What was found by trying** (Docker Engine 29.8.2 in a privileged
552container standing in for a sandbox, with the same flags):
553
554- `--bridge=none` makes BuildKit's `RUN` steps fail outright ("network
555 bridge not found"); with the default bridge they run with no route out.
556 Containers default to the bridge too. The default bridge is created
557 fine without iptables, as the FAQ's own example relies on.
558- The overlay snapshotter does not work on an overlay root filesystem, and
559 the containerd image store does not fall back by itself: the Engine
560 starts, then every container fails to mount. Whether a sandbox's disk
561 takes overlays is not documented, so the runner tries a mount first and
562 uses `native` (plain copies) when it fails. `vfs` is not a name the
563 containerd store accepts.
564- `--cpus` and `--memory` need cgroup v2 controllers handed down from a
565 cgroup with no processes, which `docker:dind`'s entrypoint does and a
566 plain `dockerd` does not.
567- A `runc` earlier on the Engine's `PATH` is used both for containers (via
568 containerd's shim) and by BuildKit's executor, with the bundle's
569 `config.json` written before it runs. BuildKit's bridged steps carry
570 libnetwork's `libnetwork-setkey` prestart hook; `RUN --network=none`
571 does not.
572- Buildx skips `type=gha` caches when the job has no GitHub cache service,
573 and the build succeeds without one.
574- Registries' layer hosts: Docker Hub sends layers from
575 `production.cloudfront.docker.com` (and `production.cloudflare.docker.com`),
576 Quay from `cdn0N.quay.io`, Microsoft's from regional
577 `*.data.mcr.microsoft.com`, public ECR from a CloudFront host;
578 `mirror.gcr.io` serves its own.
Actions: keep workflow runs safe579
Merge main into the run-protection branch580**What was built** (`crates/runner/src/docker`, `actions/containers.rs`):
581
582- **One Engine per job, started lazily.** The runner listens on
583 `/var/run/docker.sock` itself and starts `dockerd` (root, the flags
584 above, containerd image store, `mirror.gcr.io` first for Docker Hub) on
585 the first connection, or when the job has `services:` or `container:`.
586 A log line says it started and how long it took.
587- **Containers on the job's network.** The socket is an API proxy: a
588 container that asks for a bridge or user network gets `host`; its names
589 (container name, aliases, Compose service, links) resolve to 127.0.0.1
590 in later containers (`ExtraHosts`) and in the job's steps
591 (`/etc/hosts`); `-p 8080:80` is forwarded; `docker inspect` reports the
592 ports as published; `network connect` adds aliases. Sharing the job's
593 network is also what keeps the guardrails on every container: the
594 egress Worker sees their traffic as the job's.
595- **A `runc` shim.** The runner binary, as `runc`: BuildKit steps bound for
596 a bridge lose the network namespace and the libnetwork hook (so they use
597 the job's network); in a guarded job every container (run, exec, build
598 step) gets the egress certificate at `/dev/g1t-egress` and the
599 variables that point tools at it. `/dev` is the container's own tmpfs,
600 so none of it lands in a layer; checked by saving a built image.
601- **Job features:** `services:` (pull, credentials, health waits, logs at
602 the end, `job.services.*`), `container:` (steps and JavaScript actions
603 through `docker exec`, Node mounted from the runner, Alpine falls back to
604 running actions beside it), `docker://` steps and Dockerfile actions in
605 GitHub's `/github/*` layout, `docker/setup-buildx-action` answered
606 natively (the job's Engine is the builder), sign-in to g1t's registry
607 with the run's token.
608- **Kill switch:** the runner Worker's `DOCKER` var (`off`).
609
610**Rejected:** rootless Docker or BuildKit (does not start in Containers);
611Podman or buildah with `vfs` (no better networking, less compatible, slow);
612a standalone `buildkitd --oci-worker-net=host` as the default builder
613(images not in the Engine's store, so `FROM` a just-built image and
614`docker run` of a build fail without `--load` round trips); a `docker` CLI
615wrapper adding `--network=host` (misses Compose, SDKs and testcontainers,
616which speak the API).
617
618**Not yet:**
619
620- Seen on Cloudflare itself: whether a sandbox's disk takes overlays,
621 `--privileged`, and the first deploy's pull of the base from
622 `registry.cloudflare.com` (its layer host may need a workflow-only line).
623- `type=gha` build caches backed by g1t's Actions cache.
624- Multi-platform builds (QEMU's `binfmt_misc` in a sandbox).
625- Docker for agents and checks, not just workflow jobs.
626- `runner-base.yml` on g1t's machines: the base's apt step needs
627 `Acquire::https::CAInfo` pointed at the egress certificate first.
628- A deploy that appends the runner binary as a layer through the registry
629 API, with no Docker and no 3 GB pull.
630
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts631Agents can also reach integrations directly: an agent definition lists MCP
632servers (Sentry, Linear and so on) it may use while working.
633
Merge main into the run-protection branch634### Workflows: the toolkit, OIDC and artifacts
635
636> **2026-10-08:** built so that workflows that deploy, cache and pass files
637> run unmodified.
638
639- **The toolkit's services.** Every job gets `ACTIONS_RUNTIME_TOKEN` (a
640 JWT whose `scp` names its run and job, signed with a key derived from
641 the job's own token, so nothing new is kept), `ACTIONS_RESULTS_URL`,
642 `ACTIONS_CACHE_URL` and `ACTIONS_CACHE_SERVICE_V2`. The API answers the
643 cache's Twirp service (v2) and its older REST protocol, the artifact
644 Twirp service, and the signed blob links they hand out (a subset of
645 Azure Blob's protocol mapped onto R2 multipart uploads), from the same
646 cache and artifact rows g1t's own runner uses. As the clients' source
647 reads, `@actions/cache` and `@actions/artifact` treat any server
648 but github.com as GitHub Enterprise Server, so the cache client speaks
649 the older protocol and the artifact client refuses to run. g1t's runner
650 therefore keeps handling `actions/upload-artifact`, `download-artifact`
651 and `upload-artifact/merge` itself; the Twirp artifact service is there
652 for clients that do not check.
653- **OIDC.** The issuer is `{API}/actions/oidc`, the API's own host, with
654 discovery, JWKS (RFC 7638 `kid`s, a previous key published while
655 rotating) and a token endpoint for `core.getIDToken`. Claims follow
656 GitHub's. A job gets one only when its permissions (or its workflow's)
657 give `id-token: write`, and never for an untrusted run. The permission
658 check reads only `id-token` (`services/actions/src/runtime.rs`,
659 `id_token_permitted`), the seam for the full `permissions:` model.
660- **Artifacts** moved from KV to R2 (`a/` in the cache bucket), with rows
661 in the actions service: numeric ids, 5 GiB each and 10 GiB a run,
662 zipped by the runner, `retention-days` up to the repository's setting
663 (1 to 90, 14 by default), `overwrite`, `compression-level`, patterns,
664 merging and other runs of the same repository. The REST artifacts API and
665 the `workflow` tool's artifact actions follow GitHub's shapes; the run's
666 page lists them with size and expiry, with download and delete. Their
667 storage is charged with the cache's.
668- **Later:** the toolkit's older artifact protocol (`upload-artifact@v3`
669 inside other actions), downloads from other repositories, and npm
670 trusted publishing, which depends on npm accepting g1t's issuer.
671
Plan: a repository that maintains itself, and deployments on g1t.page672## A repository that maintains itself
673
674> **2026-10-04:** the user asked for Dependabot, GitHub Advanced Security and
675> Vercel-style deployments, "so you're not having to maintain shit and you're
676> just pushing up agents that are delivering work consistently".
677
678GitHub reports problems and leaves the fix to you. In g1t, an agent opens an
679issue for each problem, writes the fix, runs its checks, links a preview and
680lands it through the queue. People only decide.
681
682### Upkeep agents
683
Teams and CODEOWNERS, labels and milestones, dependency updates, the security suite, and a clearer top bar684- **Dependency updates.** The file is `dependabot.yml` version 2, read from
685 the default branch at `.g1t/dependabot.yml` (or `.yaml`), then
686 `.github/dependabot.yml` (or `.yaml`); `.g1t/` wins when both exist, and
687 an imported repository's file works unchanged. Every option is read and
688 checked, each problem reported with its line and key on the Security page
689 and as the `g1t / dependabot.yml` status on pull requests that change the
690 file; a file with problems is not acted on.
691 - **Built (2026-10-07):** version updates for npm, cargo, gomod and pip:
692 schedules (all intervals, cron and natural phrases, time zones, a
693 picked time per repository), allow, ignore, cooldown (3 days by
694 default), groups (including across directories and `group-by`),
695 versioning strategies, open-pull-requests-limit, commit-message,
696 branch names, rebase-strategy, assignees, reviewers, private
697 registries filled from workflow secrets (npm, cargo, Go proxy, Python
698 index), and the `@g1t` comment commands. Pull requests come from g1t
699 with an `updated-dependencies` commit record and land through the
700 required checks; one that fails them is closed and becomes a
701 "needs code changes" issue assigned to g1t.
702 - **Security updates follow the same file:** ignore (and comment
703 ignores), allow names, `applies-to: security-updates` groups,
704 commit-message, assignees, reviewers, labels and milestone. Cooldown
705 and the open pull request limit do not apply. The Security updates
706 switch still turns them on and off.
707 - **Labels, milestone and target-branch** are applied to version
708 updates: `dependencies` and the ecosystem's label by default, missing
709 labels created; `target-branch` updates are made from that branch and
710 merge into it.
711 - **Not done yet:** one pull request for a multi-ecosystem group
712 (it opens one per ecosystem); registries that sign in with OIDC;
713 updating vendored copies; and version updates for the other
714 ecosystems (bundler, composer, docker, github-actions, gradle, maven,
715 nuget, terraform, uv and the rest are read and checked only).
Plan: a repository that maintains itself, and deployments on g1t.page716- **Secret scanning.** Pushes are scanned for known token formats. A push
717 that adds a secret is refused with the file and line; one already in
718 history opens an issue to rotate it and remove it.
719- **Vulnerability alerts.** Dependencies are matched against the OSV
720 database. Every alert links to the issue and pull request fixing it.
721- **Code scanning.** A reviewer agent reads each pull request's diff for
722 security problems and leaves findings as review comments with a
723 suggested fix. Findings on `main` open issues.
724- **A security page per repository** lists alerts, secrets and findings,
725 with the agent work on each, like GitHub's Security tab.
726
727All of these are event sources for the existing issue → agent → checks →
728queue pipeline; they need no new kind of work.
729
Teams and CODEOWNERS, labels and milestones, dependency updates, the security suite, and a clearer top bar730### The security suite (built 2026-10-07)
731
732GitHub Advanced Security's depth, in g1t's shape (services/security,
733`g1t_contracts::security_suite`, docs `guides/security/*`):
734
735- **Secret protection.** Custom patterns (repository and workspace; Rust
736 `regex`, linear time, size-limited; test strings; dry run over the
737 default branch) used by push protection, `commit_file` and history
738 scans. Bypass with a reason (false positive, used in tests, will fix
739 later), recorded on the alert and in the audit log; delegated bypass
740 (requests reviewed by owners and repository admins, through the inbox).
741 Validity checks for GitHub, GitLab, Stripe, Slack, npm, OpenAI,
742 Anthropic and SendGrid tokens, made by the repos service, which reads the
743 landed secret again: the value never leaves it except to the issuer. AWS
744 keys (need their secret key to sign) and webhook addresses (would post)
745 are the extension points left (`g1t_scan::validity::check_for`).
746- **Code scanning.** SARIF 2.1.0 uploads → alerts with fingerprints (tool
747 partial fingerprints first), fixed when no longer reported; pull request
748 uploads → line comments and the `Code scanning` commit status, gated by a
749 per-repository threshold and required like any check. Starter workflow:
750 a scanner per language present, each uploading its own category: Bandit
751 (Python), gosec (Go), ESLint + eslint-plugin-security with the SARIF
752 formatter (JS/TS), Clippy + clippy-sarif (Rust); all install from the
753 registries the runner's egress already allows. Semgrep's registry rules
754 and the Opengrep rules fork are not usable in a paid feature, so neither
755 is used. "Fix with g1t" opens an issue and runs the agent.
756- **Supply chain.** Dependency graph (direct/transitive where the lockfile
757 says, npm licenses), SPDX 2.3 SBOM, `Dependency review` status on every
758 pull request (OSV severity threshold, license deny list, summary comment).
759- **Overview.** Workspace totals, opened/closed, a daily snapshot trend,
760 coverage, repositories most in need first.
761- **Paid.** The Security and quality activation on private repositories;
762 free on public ones; the free core (secret scanning, push protection,
763 vulnerability alerts, security updates, dependency graph) free everywhere.
764
765Not built yet:
766
767- **The reviewer agent as an analysis source.** g1t's reviewer reads each
768 pull request's diff (`agent_review`), but its findings are review
769 comments, not SARIF. Next: have it emit SARIF for the security issues it
770 finds and upload them as the tool `g1t review`, so they become alerts and
771 count toward the Code scanning check.
772- **Repository security advisories.** Private advisories, draft →
773 published, with affected versions (ranges per ecosystem), severity and a
774 CVSS vector, credits, and a private fork (a `g1t/advisory/GHSA-…` working
775 copy only the advisory's collaborators can see) for the fix, merged into
776 the default branch when the advisory publishes. Published advisories
777 should feed the OSV-shaped data other g1t repositories' vulnerability
778 alerts read. CVE requests are out of scope. Needs: an `advisories` table
779 per repository, a collaborator list per advisory, the private-fork
780 visibility rule in repos, and an Advisories page on the Security tab.
781- **SARIF upload as a background job.** Uploads are read in the request
782 (10 MB encoded, 40 MB unzipped, 5,000 results); larger ones need a queue.
783
Plan: a repository that maintains itself, and deployments on g1t.page784### Deployments
785
786- **A preview for every pull request**, at
787 `<pr>--<repo>--<owner>.g1t.page`, linked on the pull request and updated
788 on each push. `main` deploys to `<repo>--<owner>.g1t.page`, and a
789 repository can add its own domain.
790- **On g1t.page, not g1t.sh,** so customer code never shares cookies or an
791 origin with the site people sign in to.
792- **Built on Workers for Platforms.** Each deployment is a user Worker in a
793 dispatch namespace; one dispatch Worker on `*.g1t.page` routes to it. The
794 build runs in the same runners as Actions. Static sites and Workers apps
795 first; container apps and databases later.
796- **Agents use the preview.** The reviewer agent opens the preview in a
797 browser, takes screenshots of what changed and attaches them to its
798 review, so an approver sees the result without reading the diff.
799- **Environments.** Preview, production and their secrets; deploy history
800 and one-click rollback.
801- **Scale to zero.** An idle branch costs neither g1t nor the customer
802 anything: a Worker runs, and is billed, only while it answers a request.
803 A preview is deleted when its pull request closes or merges, and after
804 a set number of idle days. Container apps, later, sleep when idle.
Plan: deployments are billed to the customer, never free805- **Billed to the customer, never free.** The user (2026-10-04): "we
806 should not be giving any of this available for free". Every deployment
807 is metered per workspace (requests, CPU time, deployed apps, stored
808 data), priced at Cloudflare's cost + 20% like agent usage, and drawn
809 from prepaid credit. `FREE_WHILE_BUILDING` and the free model allowance
810 do not cover deployments: a workspace without credit cannot deploy, and
811 turning deployments on says so first.
Plan: turning deployments on is a paid monthly plan812- **Turning them on is a paid plan, the way Cloudflare's is.** "Including
813 things like them even enabling the feature should have that pay like
814 Cloudflare does." Enabling deployments for a workspace starts a monthly
815 fee that includes an allowance of requests, CPU time and deployed apps;
816 usage past it is billed per unit, as Workers for Platforms bills g1t.
817 The fee and allowance are the user's to set.
818- **Recommended, off in one click.** Because enabling costs money, it is
819 never switched on without the workspace agreeing: new repositories
820 recommend it prominently. A repository can turn it off, keep only production, or
Plan: a repository that maintains itself, and deployments on g1t.page821 deploy somewhere else from its own workflows. Apps built for Cloudflare
822 (Workers, static assets, D1, KV, R2) deploy without configuration.
823
Actions: keep workflow runs safe824Later, toward GitLab's DevOps breadth: package and container registries,
825releases, container hosting. (Environments' protection rules for g1t
826Actions were built on 2026-10-08; see above.)
Plan: a repository that maintains itself, and deployments on g1t.page827
Plan: Projects, the home of everything about running software828## Projects
829
830> **2026-10-04:** the user: "an extra dimension of Projects so it's not
831> just repositories … where a lot of things can live", "very Vercel
832> like", with dependencies across projects "the Platform Engineering /
833> Port route", and "the repository is *part* of a project: you could be
834> mirroring it from GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket, or you could let us host it
835> for you", with room for Mercurial or anything else later.
836
837**A project is the thing you are building and running; a repository is
838where some of its code lives.** Everything that is about running software
839(deployments, environments, domains, secrets, dependencies, owners,
840health, upkeep) belongs to the project. What is about the code itself
841(branches, pull requests, review, merge rules) stays with the repository.
842That split is what lets the code live anywhere.
843
844### The model
845
846| | What it is | Like |
847| --- | --- | --- |
848| **Workspace** | The company or team. Members, billing, plans, shared secrets. | Vercel team, GitLab group, GitHub org |
849| **Group** | An optional named set of projects, one level: "Payments", "Mobile". For browsing, ownership and shared settings. | GitLab subgroup, Backstage system, Port domain |
850| **Project** | One deployable thing: a site, an API, a worker, a library. Has exactly one **source**. | Vercel project, Port service, Backstage component |
851| **Source** | Where its code is: a repository and a **root directory** in it. | Vercel's connected repo + root directory |
852| **Dependency** | Project A uses project B: calls its API, consumes its package, reads its queue. | Port relations, Backstage `dependsOn` |
853
854- **One project, one source; one repository, any number of projects.** A
855 project builds from exactly one place, which keeps it as simple as
856 Vercel's. A monorepo is several projects on one repository, each with
857 its own root directory (`apps/web`, `services/api`), and a push builds
858 only the projects whose root it touched. The common case stays 1:1, and
859 every existing repository gets a project of its own name when this
860 ships, so nobody has to set anything up.
861- **Groups are for people; dependencies are for software.** Groups decide
862 where a project shows up and who owns it. Dependencies decide what
863 happens when one changes. Neither replaces the other, and a dependency
864 can cross groups.
865
866### Sources: where the code lives
867
868A source is an adapter behind one interface (`SourcePort`: clone URL,
869branches, commits, pushes as events, pull requests if it has them):
870
871| Source | Code lives | g1t gets pushes by | Pull requests |
872| --- | --- | --- | --- |
873| **Hosted on g1t** (today) | Artifacts | its own events | g1t's, with agents, the queue, review |
874| **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 |
875| **Connected, not copied** | The provider only | webhook | The provider's |
876| **Later:** Mercurial, Perforce, a tarball upload | Behind the same port | per adapter | per adapter |
877
878A mirrored or connected project still gets everything that is the
879project's: previews on its pull requests (a status and a comment on
880GitHub's), production on its default branch, secrets, dependencies,
881upkeep agents. That is the on-ramp: a team keeps GitHub and gets g1t's
882deployments and agents first, and moves the code later or never.
883Bring-your-own-git is also why the project, not the repository, holds the
884URL `g1t.sh/<workspace>/<project>`.
885
886### What lives on a project
887
888| | Today it is on | Moves to the project |
889| --- | --- | --- |
890| Deployments: production, previews, build settings, root directory, framework | The repository | Yes |
891| Environments: production, preview, and custom ones (`staging`) with protection rules (required approvers, branch limits) | Nowhere yet | New, on the project |
892| Domains: `<project>--<workspace>.g1t.page`, and custom domains | The repository's name | Yes |
893| 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). |
894| Dependencies | Nowhere | New |
895| Owners, on-call, links (docs, dashboards, runbooks) | Nowhere | New: the catalog's metadata |
896| Health: scorecards (has an owner, CI passes, dependencies current, no open security alerts, deploys within N days) | Nowhere | New |
897| Upkeep agents: dependency updates, security alerts | The plan | Scoped per project |
898| Logs and analytics of the running app | Nowhere | New: requests, errors and CPU per environment, from Workers analytics |
899| Branches, pull requests, review, merge rules, the queue, webhooks | The repository | Stay |
900
901### Dependencies: why this gets powerful
902
903Declared in the UI, or in the source as `.g1t/project.yml` (which wins
904when present, as `catalog-info.yaml` does in Backstage):
905
906```yaml
907name: web
908root: apps/web
909dependsOn:
910 - project: api # calls its HTTP API
911 as: API_URL # its URL, per environment, as a variable
912 - project: ui-kit # consumes its package
913```
914
915What g1t does with them:
916
9171. **Reference variables.** `API_URL` above resolves to `api`'s production
918 URL in production and to the matching preview in a preview, the way
919 Railway's `${{ api.URL }}` references work. No hard-coded URLs.
9202. **Preview stacks.** A pull request on `api` gets its own preview, and
921 **Preview with dependents** builds `web`'s preview pointed at it, so a
922 reviewer clicks through the whole change across projects. A change that
923 spans repositories (one issue, one fork per repository) gets one stack.
9243. **Release order.** Production deploys go out in dependency order; a
925 change set across projects lands through the queue together or not at
926 all.
9274. **Impact on every pull request.** "Changes `api`; `web` and `mobile`
928 depend on it." Agents get the graph in their context: an agent
929 changing an API opens follow-up issues on the projects that call it,
930 and reviewers see what else could break.
9315. **Upkeep across the graph.** A vulnerable package in `ui-kit` opens
932 issues, assigned to agents, on every project that consumes it.
9336. **Scorecards turn into work.** A project failing a scorecard check
934 ("no owner", "dependencies 90 days old") gets an issue an agent can fix.
935 That is the Port idea with the work done for you.
9367. **The map.** A workspace's projects as a graph, coloured by health and
937 by what is deploying now.
938
939### Pages
940
941- `g1t.sh/<workspace>`: projects first (grouped, with health and
942 production status), then repositories.
943- `g1t.sh/<workspace>/<project>`: overview (production, latest previews,
944 health, owners, dependencies both ways), **Deployments**,
945 **Environments**, **Secrets and variables**, **Logs**, **Settings**
946 (source, root directory, build, domains, groups, owners).
947- A hosted repository keeps its code pages; from a project they are its
948 **Code** tab. A repository page lists the projects built from it.
949
950### Services
951
952- `services/projects` (new): projects, groups, sources, dependencies,
953 owners, scorecards. Events `project.created`, `project.updated`,
954 `dependency.changed`.
955- `services/deployments`: keyed by project instead of repository.
956- Secrets and variables: the scope becomes workspace → project.
957- Sources: the hosted adapter wraps `services/repos`; a mirror adapter
958 per provider in `services/integrations`, which already holds those
959 connections.
960
961### Build order
962
9631. **Projects as the home of deployments and secrets**, 1:1 with every
964 existing repository: the service, the pages, deployments and secrets
965 moved to the project, `<project>--<workspace>.g1t.page`.
9662. **Dependencies:** declared in the UI and `.g1t/project.yml`, reference
967 variables, impact on pull requests and in agents' context, the map.
9683. **Preview stacks** and cross-project change sets.
9694. **Monorepos:** several projects on one repository, each with a root
970 directory, building only what a push touched.
9715. **Mirrored sources:** GitHub first, then GitLab and Bitbucket.
9726. **Groups, owners, scorecards** feeding the upkeep agents.
9737. **Environments** with protection rules; custom domains; logs.
974
Projects: what a workspace builds and runs, first on every page975**Step 1 shipped 2026-10-04:** `services/projects`; every repository a
976project of its own name; the site projects-first (workspace page of
977project cards, the project overview at `g1t.sh/<workspace>/<project>`, code
978under `/code`, the sidebar and the New project flow); deployments keyed by
979project and branch at `<project>-<workspace>.g1t.page` and
980`<project>-git-<branch>-<workspace>.g1t.page`; secrets and variables owned
981by the project.
982
Invite-only launch: sign in with GitHub, repository access and lifecycle, many emails, a new look983**Step 5, GitHub, built 2026-10-05:** one GitHub App (`g1t-sh`) for both
984sign-in and repository access. Sign-in is its user authorization with PKCE
985(identity, `src/github.rs`): accounts known by GitHub's numeric id, a
986matching verified email never linked without signing in to the account,
987new accounts behind the invite check. Repositories come through its
988installations (integrations, `src/github.rs`), copied with every branch and
989tag by the repos service (`src/mirror.rs`) as **import**, **mirror** (g1t
990follows GitHub on its push webhook) or **move to g1t** (GitHub follows g1t
991on `git.push`). A mirror is a hosted repository that keeps a full copy, so
992its project stays `hosted` and deploys like any other; the tie lives in
993integrations' `github_repos`. Not yet: previews and statuses on GitHub's own
994pull requests, comments and pull requests copied, GitLab and Bitbucket.
995
Projects: what a workspace builds and runs, first on every page996### People and search
997
998> **2026-10-04:** "pull up user profiles, using a /u/username prefix kinda
999> like DockerHub … search for users if you search that explicitly, how
1000> GitHub has the aside for searching against filters … a significantly
1001> stronger implementation."
1002
1003- **Profiles at `g1t.sh/u/<username>`**, apart from workspaces at
1004 `g1t.sh/<workspace>`: who they are, their workspaces, recent work,
1005 agents' sessions they steered.
1006- **Search with a filter sidebar:** Projects, Code, Issues, Pull requests,
1007 Users, Workspaces, each with its count; filters by workspace, language,
1008 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-agent1009 (`user:`, `is:open`, `agent:g1t`) as on GitHub. Typing `u/name`
Projects: what a workspace builds and runs, first on every page1010 searches people directly, as Docker Hub does.
1011
Plan: Projects, the home of everything about running software10121 and 2 serve the competition directly (multi-agent coordination across
1013projects is 25% of the score); 3 is the demo's best moment if time allows.
1014
Plan: the billing model1015## Billing model
1016
1017> **2026-10-04:** "Some things just require you to have a card on file …
1018> some things will be something you give us an initial amount of money
1019> per month just to activate, tons of things additionally will be usage
1020> based, some things will just be usage based only … at minimum a
1021> breakeven with Cloudflare costs, or in some cases a value add." Stripe
1022> moves to Flagon, Inc. (g1t.sh is its product). Proposed below; the
1023> prices are the user's to confirm.
1024
1025### Four kinds of charge
1026
1027Every feature is exactly one of these, and the Billing page says which:
1028
1029| Kind | What the workspace does | Example |
1030| --- | --- | --- |
1031| **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 second1032| **Card on file** | Adds a card; pays only for what it uses | Previews, g1t's agents, workflow minutes |
Plan: the billing model1033| **Activation** | Turns a feature on for a monthly fee that includes an allowance; usage past it is metered | Production deployments, Security and quality |
1034| **Usage only** | Nothing up front; every unit is metered | Model tokens, build minutes, storage past the free amount |
1035
1036A card is needed before anything that can cost money starts. Nothing is
1037ever switched on without the workspace choosing it.
1038
1039### Postpaid, with spend limits
1040
1041- **One Stripe customer and one subscription per workspace**, on Flagon,
1042 Inc.'s account. Activations are licensed line items; every usage
1043 dimension is a metered price backed by a Stripe Meter. Stripe invoices
1044 monthly in arrears and charges the card on file; failed payments go
1045 through Stripe's retries and emails, and g1t hears of them by webhook.
1046- **Spend limits instead of prepaid credit.** A workspace sets a monthly
1047 limit overall and per feature (Vercel's spend management). g1t counts
1048 usage as it happens and stops starting new paid work at the limit,
1049 with a warning at 50%, 80% and 100%. Prepaid top-ups go away; promotions
1050 (the free model allowance) become Stripe credit on the customer.
1051- **Usage reaches Stripe from billing alone.** Every service reports
1052 usage to the billing service as it happens (it already records agent
1053 runs and builds); billing batches them into Stripe meter events every
1054 few minutes, idempotently by g1t's own ids, and keeps the ledger g1t's
1055 pages show. Nothing else talks to Stripe.
1056
1057### Scope: workspace, then projects
1058
1059- A feature is turned on for the **workspace** (by an owner, with the
1060 activation if it has one), then allowed for **all projects** or
1061 **selected projects**.
1062- Every **project** can opt out on its own page. A project with nothing
1063 to deploy (no Workers config, no build script, no `index.html`) is
1064 detected, says so on its Deployments page, and never builds or costs
1065 anything.
1066- Agents and workflows are allowed per project the same way, so a
1067 workspace can keep spend to the projects that matter.
1068
Plan: prices pass every Cloudflare cost through1069### Prices: what it costs us, passed through
1070
1071> **2026-10-04, decided:** postpaid with spend limits, as Vercel and
1072> Cloudflare do; no per-seat price, ever ("fuck per-seat pricing").
1073> "If they're barely using them great, but if they're using the shit out
1074> of them that will cost me a ton, so that cost needs to move onto them."
1075
1076**Every Cloudflare cost a workspace causes is metered to it.** Light use
1077fits in a small free allowance; past it, each unit is charged at
1078Cloudflare's price times a margin of at least 1.5, which pays for Stripe
1079(about 3%), shared overhead (the site, the API, D1) and g1t itself.
Plan: the billing model1080
Plan: prices pass every Cloudflare cost through1081Cloudflare's prices (October 2026), and the cost per unit g1t meters:
Plan: the billing model1082
Plan: prices pass every Cloudflare cost through1083| What g1t meters | Cloudflare's price | Cost to g1t per unit |
1084| --- | --- | --- |
1085| **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) |
1086| **App request** (deployments) | Workers for Platforms: $0.30 / million past 20M | $0.30 / million |
1087| **App CPU** | $0.02 / million CPU-ms past 60M | $0.02 / million ms |
1088| **App** (a deployed script) | $0.02 / script-month past 1,000 | $0.02 / app-month |
1089| **Storage** (repositories, artifacts, caches) | Artifacts $0.50 / GB-month (billing starts 2026-10-14); KV $0.50 / GB-month | $0.50 / GB-month |
1090| **Git operation** (clone, fetch, push) | Artifacts $0.15 / 1,000 past 10,000 | $0.15 / 1,000 |
1091| **Model tokens** | The provider's price | As charged |
1092| Container egress, emails, the site's own requests | Small and shared | In the margin |
1093
status.g1t.sh with incident management, invites that land you in the workspace, settings as pages, usage without quotas1094> **2026-10-06, decided:** no per-feature quotas on the plan. "A paying
1095> user should be able to push past the Git operations number, they're
1096> just paying usage on it." One plan, $20 a month per workspace with $10
1097> of usage included; every meter is charged from the first unit at cost +
1098> 20% (builds, app requests and CPU, custom domains), drawn from the $10
1099> first, then up to the spend limit, which is the only thing that stops a
1100> paying workspace (with abuse protection). Projects, previews and apps
1101> are not metered (Workers for Platforms' script pool makes them ~free).
1102> The forge's free amounts are the same for everyone: 1 GB private storage
1103> and 50,000 git operations a month; past them the plan pays and a free
1104> workspace is held (pushes stop, git slowed). The table below is the
1105> earlier proposal; billing's price book and g1t.sh/pricing are current.
1106
Plan: prices pass every Cloudflare cost through1107What a workspace pays:
1108
1109| Meter | Free each month | Then | Margin | For comparison |
1110| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
Prices are what g1t pays plus 20%, from the first second1111| 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 through1112| App requests | 1 million with Deployments | $0.50 / million | 1.7× | Vercel $0.60 / million invocations |
1113| App CPU | 3 million ms with Deployments | $0.04 / million ms | 2× | Vercel active CPU about $0.036 / million ms |
1114| Apps | 10 with Deployments | $0.05 / app-month | 2.5× | |
1115| Storage | 1 GB | $1.00 / GB-month | 2× | GitHub LFS $0.07 / GB, but repositories are free there |
1116| Git operations | 10,000 | $0.30 / 1,000 | 2× | |
1117| g1t's models | | Cost + 20% | 1.2× | The provider's own price |
Prices are what g1t pays plus 20%, from the first second1118| Your own model provider | | Only its sandbox minutes (the $0.10 run fee was dropped 2026-10-05) | | |
Plan: prices pass every Cloudflare cost through1119| **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 bar1120| **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 model1121
Plan: prices pass every Cloudflare cost through1122A workspace that uses g1t lightly (a few agent runs, a small site)
1123pays nothing or its activation; a workspace running agents all day pays
1124for the sandboxes and models those agents use, with g1t's margin on
1125each. Nothing in a workspace's bill is subsidised by another's.
Plan: the billing model1126
1127### Build order
1128
11291. Stripe customer per workspace and card on file (Checkout in setup
1130 mode), webhooks (invoice paid and failed, subscription changes,
1131 payment method changes), the Billing page rebuilt around the four
1132 kinds.
11332. One subscription per workspace with activations as items; Deployments
1134 moves onto it.
Plan: prices pass every Cloudflare cost through11353. Meters for each usage dimension above, fed from billing's ledger:
1136 every sandbox reports how long it ran when it stops (agents, checks,
1137 the queue, workflow jobs and deploy builds alike); deployments report
1138 requests, CPU and apps; repos report storage and git operations. Spend
Plan: the billing model1139 limits and their warnings; prepaid credit retired.
11404. Per-workspace allow-lists of projects for each feature, and per-project
1141 opt-out; "nothing to deploy" detection.
Billing accounts, terms and enterprises; g1t is no longer free11425. Turn off FREE_WHILE_BUILDING when the user says so. **Done 2026-10-05.**
1143
1144Shipped by 2026-10-05: sandbox seconds for every sandbox; the price book
1145and its keeper (runs settled to AI Gateway's price every 15 minutes;
1146Container and Workers costs checked against Cloudflare's billable usage
1147and container analytics daily, with a public change log on
1148g1t.sh/pricing); usage limits by trust with automatic payment near the
1149limit; app traffic counted toward limits as it happens; billing accounts,
1150terms and enterprises; free mode off, syntaqx comped.
1151
1152Still to build, in order: Stripe card-on-file without a payment (setup
1153mode) and webhooks; month-end invoices for postpaid usage (and one
1154invoice per enterprise); the subscription with activations as items;
1155storage and git-operation meters; limit warnings by email at 50/80/100%;
1156self-serve enterprise management for enterprise owners.
1157
1158### Accounts, terms and enterprises
1159
1160Every workspace is paid for by a billing account: its own (`ws_<slug>`)
1161or an enterprise's (`ent_…`), which pays for several workspaces with one
1162limit, one set of terms and, once invoices exist, one bill, as GitHub
1163Enterprise does. Terms are standard, comped (nothing charged, usage still
1164recorded at cost, paid features on) or custom (a discount, its own
1165ceiling, an end date). g1t staff manage them in **sudo.g1t.sh**, a
1166separate Worker behind Cloudflare Access that also verifies the Access
1167token itself and allows only listed staff emails; every change is kept
1168with who made it and why.
1169
1170### Limits: stop non-payers, never payers
1171
1172The limit is on usage not yet paid for, counted at cost to g1t or charge,
1173whichever is more: $3 before any live payment, then twice what has been
1174paid ($25 to $1,000), or what staff set. A workspace with a card on file
1175is charged automatically near its limit, which both pays what it owes and
1176raises the limit, so paying users are never stopped. A declined card
1177stops work until paid. The owner's own spend limit always means stop.
1178Test-mode payments never lower exposure or raise trust.
Plan: the billing model1179
Merge Stripe Tax, the card fee on card payments, and one free workspace per person1180### Tax, card fees and free workspaces (built 2026-10-08)
1181
1182> **2026-10-08, decided:** Stripe Tax everywhere ("so I don't fuck up on
1183> taxes"); Stripe's card fee passed to the customer with the 20% markup
1184> kept; one free workspace per person; no invites on free workspaces.
1185
1186- **Stripe Tax on every payment.** `automatic_tax` on every Checkout page
1187 (plan, Security and quality, prepaying, AI credit), every subscription
1188 and every invoice g1t makes (month close, threshold, enterprise), and a
1189 tax calculation and transaction for auto-reload's off-session charge.
1190 Tax code `txcd_10103001` (SaaS, business use), every price
1191 `tax_behavior=exclusive`. Checkout always collects the billing address
1192 and tax ID and saves them on the customer. Prices on g1t are shown
1193 excluding tax. Tax is never revenue: balances and plan payments are
1194 credited without it, it is kept in `tax_and_fees`, shown as its own
1195 statement line, and as **Tax collected** on sudo's Costs. Without an
1196 address g1t does not charge: the owners are asked for one.
1197- **The card fee** (2.9% + $0.30, grossed up) is its own line on every
1198 card payment, the plan's and Security's as a monthly item; never on a
1199 bank transfer or an enterprise's invoice. On by default
1200 (`cost_settings.card_fee`). Not revenue either. Meters stay at cost +
1201 20%; models at the provider's price plus the agent rate.
1202- **One free workspace per person.** Identity asks billing
1203 (`free_workspaces`) before creating one; a second is refused with the
1204 way forward. Those who own several from before keep them.
1205- **A free workspace adds no one**: no members, invites or outside
1206 collaborators until it starts the plan; its members stay; @g1t never
1207 counts. Enforced in identity for every path (site, API, MCP).
1208- Details: docs/BILLING_OPERATIONS.md, *Tax and the card fee*.
1209
Billing: credits with a kind and expiry, discounts instead of comped, and safer charging1210### Promo codes (planned)
1211
1212Staff credits (promotional, goodwill, refund; `services/billing/src/grants.rs`,
1213docs/BILLING_OPERATIONS.md) are given one workspace at a time. Promo codes
1214give promotional credit in bulk, on redemption, through the same grants:
1215
1216- **Codes.** sudo → Credits & refunds → **New code**: the code (or one
1217 made up), the credit ($ amount), max redemptions, when the code stops
1218 working, how long each redeemed credit lasts (an expiry, as any grant),
1219 and a note. Table `promo_codes` (code, amount, max, redeemed, ends_at,
1220 credit_days, note, created_by, disabled_at) and `promo_redemptions`
1221 (code, workspace, grant id, by, at), unique on (code, workspace).
1222- **Redeeming.** An owner types it on the workspace's Billing page
1223 (`redeem_code`, owners only). One D1 batch checks the code is open, under
1224 its max and not redeemed by the workspace, counts the redemption and
1225 makes the grant (`grant_credit`, kind promotional, the code as its note),
1226 so two redemptions at once never pass the max. Wrong or used-up codes say
1227 so without telling which codes exist; redemptions are rate-limited per
1228 owner.
1229- **Seeing them.** Each code's redemptions, credit given and spent come
1230 from the grants it made, so margin needs nothing new: spent promo credit
1231 is already given away, by kind.
1232- **Not yet built** because it adds an owner-facing form, abuse limits and
1233 a second sudo form; giving credit by workspace covers launch.
1234
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1235## Agents and models
1236
1237### Defining an agent
1238
1239An agent is a file (`.g1t/agents/<name>.md`, or in the workspace library):
1240instructions, the harness and model to run, the tools and MCP servers it may
1241use, its sandbox image, permissions and budget. Agents take roles: planner,
1242implementer, reviewer, conflict resolver, documenter, memory consolidator.
1243Each role has a default that a repo can replace.
1244
1245### Where it runs, and on whose model
1246
1247| Option | How it works | Fits |
1248| --- | --- | --- |
1249| Hosted, g1t's model | g1t runs the sandbox and bills usage | Getting started; no keys to manage |
1250| Hosted, your API key | Same sandbox, your Anthropic, OpenAI or Google key | Teams with existing contracts |
1251| 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 attempts1252| 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 attempts1253| Your own session | Local Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client joins through `mcp.g1t.sh` | Individuals; subscription plans |
1254
1255Decisions behind this:
1256
1257- **g1t does not build its own agent loop.** It runs existing harnesses
1258 (Claude Code first, through its headless mode) behind a small runner
1259 contract: a container image, an entry command, and session events reported
1260 through the CLI. Other harnesses plug in by meeting the contract.
1261- **All hosted model traffic goes through Cloudflare AI Gateway.** That gives
1262 one place for spend tracking, budgets, rate limits, fallback and logs,
1263 whichever provider or endpoint is behind it.
Merge branch 'model-routing'1264- **Nobody has to pick a model.** A person assigns work to `g1t`, as
1265 they would assign an issue to a colleague, and **Auto** routes each job
1266 to the cheapest model that can do it (see
1267 [Routing for cost](#routing-for-cost) below). A workspace can pin a tier
1268 per kind of work instead. Each request is tagged at the gateway with the
1269 kind of work, the tier, the repository and the pull request, and each
1270 run says which model ran and why. The gateway's own dynamic routes
1271 cannot make the choice yet: they work only on its OpenAI-compatible
1272 endpoint, and the harness speaks Anthropic's.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1273- **Subscriptions stay local.** A Claude subscription cannot be used by a
1274 hosted sandbox; it needs an API key. People on subscriptions use their own
1275 Claude Code session, which is a full participant.
Merge branch 'model-routing'1276- **The workspace pays.** A workspace buys AI credit by card and each
1277 agent run deducts the model at the provider's price plus the agent rate
1278 per million (weighted) tokens; on its own model key, only the agent rate,
1279 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 shell1280 nothing of the others: the runner asks it before starting a sandbox and
1281 is refused when there is no credit, and the sandbox reports what its run
1282 cost with a token only it holds. Where no card processor is configured
1283 nothing is charged and agents stay limited to listed accounts.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1284- **Keys are secrets.** Stored in Cloudflare Secrets Store, injected into the
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1285 sandbox for one pull request, never shown again.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1286
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell1287### Seeing a pull request through
1288
1289Assigning 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-agent1290to merge. A pull request made by g1t goes through checks, a review
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell1291by another agent, revision when either finds something, and catching up
1292when `main` moves, without anyone pressing a button. It ends as ready to
1293merge, or as "needs you" with the reason: the checks still fail after two
1294revisions, a review could not be written, or a conflict could not be
1295resolved.
1296
1297The work service decides the next step from the pull request's state and
1298claims it in one statement, so a step is taken once. The runner asks on
1299every event that could change the answer (ready, pushed, checks finished,
1300review finished, `main` moved), and on a five-minute sweep for anything
1301missed, and carries the step out in a sandbox.
1302
1303A pull request does not have to be up to date with `main` to merge,
1304unless the repository's settings require it, as on GitHub. Merging one that
1305is behind brings it up to date first (a clean merge needs no model; an
1306agent resolves a conflict) and lands it when that push arrives. With the
1307requirement on, catching up is a step of its own and the checks run again
1308on the result.
1309
1310Each repository sets its own rules, on one settings page: whether its
1311default branch takes pushes at all, how many approvals a merge needs and
1312whether an agent's counts, whether failed checks can be overridden, whether
1313a 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-agent1314is asked. A pull request g1t opens follows the same rules as anyone's.
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell1315Pushes to a protected branch are refused in the git front end, with the
1316reason shown by git beside the branch.
1317
1318Merging is a person's decision unless the repository says otherwise. With
1319"merge automatically when ready" turned on in its settings, a ready pull
1320request lands by itself, attributed to `g1t`. That is the whole path from
1321an assigned issue to a commit on `main` with nobody in between. Required
1322human approval per path, and risk tiers, are still to come.
1323
Merge branch 'model-routing'1324### Routing for cost
1325
1326*Built (runner `route` in `services/runner/src/model-env.ts`).* The goal
1327is cost per merged change, not cost per request: a cheap attempt that
1328fails and is retried on the same model costs more than one that finishes.
1329
Merge branch 'main' into worktree-agent-a69aeabc4b0deeb971330- **Tiers and catalogue.** `small` (Claude Haiku 5.5 since 2026-10-08,
1331 $0.10/$0.50 per million input/output up to 100k-token prompts, five
1332 times that above; it was Haiku 4.5 at $1/$5), `large` (Claude Sonnet 5.5, $2/$10) and `frontier`
Merge main into the run-protection branch1333 (Claude Opus 5.5, $4/$20). Models, names and list prices are data,
1334 never code: since 2026-10-08 billing's model catalogue
1335 (`gateway_models`, one row per model g1t can use) and staff's defaults
1336 in sudo, **Agents & models** (`model_defaults`: each tier's model, the
1337 harness's background model, the AI Gateway's first Claude, each job's
1338 starting tier and effort), read by the runner once a minute over
1339 `AGENT_ROUTING`, which is only the fallback when billing cannot be read.
1340 Catalogue prices are for estimates only; runs are charged what AI
1341 Gateway priced them at.
1342- **Keeping up with new models (built 2026-10-08).** The models service
1343 lists Anthropic's models (through the AI Gateway) and Workers AI's daily
1344 and on demand; a new id lands in the catalogue as `new`, priced from a
1345 maintained table of Anthropic's list prices or Workers AI's listing, or
1346 unpriced, and staff are emailed. Nothing routes to it, offers it or
1347 charges for it until staff approve it with its prices. A model a provider
1348 stops listing is `deprecated`; routing never sends work to a deprecated
1349 or retired model, falling back to the next model of the tier and saying
1350 so on the run. Customers keep Auto: the catalogue is staff's. See
1351 [BILLING_OPERATIONS.md](BILLING_OPERATIONS.md#the-model-catalogue).
Merge branch 'model-routing'1352- **Starting tier by job.** Catch-up, answering a question, and reviews of
1353 at most 10 files and 200 lines touching no sensitive path: small.
Merge branch 'main' into worktree-agent-a69aeabc4b0deeb971354 Plans: small at high effort (Haiku 5.5 takes an effort level).
1355 Changes, revisions and other reviews: large. Reviews over 60 files
Merge branch 'model-routing'1356 or 3,000 lines: frontier. Labels: `architecture` frontier, `security` off
1357 small, `docs`/`documentation`/`typo` let changes and answers start small.
1358- **Escalation.** A failed (or guardrail-stopped) attempt at the same work
1359 goes one tier up; two in a row, frontier; a revision counts its rounds;
1360 a change left at low confidence sends the next attempt up.
1361- **Learning, per repository.** From the last 20 runs of the same kind:
1362 one tier down when the cheaper tier finished at least 90% of at least 5
1363 (never for sensitive or labelled work, never on a retry); one tier up
1364 when this tier failed at least half of at least 5. No new tables: it
1365 reads work's `agent_runs` (model, status, confidence).
1366- **Explained.** Every run's first step and session note is one line:
Merge branch 'main' into worktree-agent-a69aeabc4b0deeb971367 *Used a fast model (Claude Haiku 5.5): small change, 3 files and 80
1368 lines.* Effort per kind of job (`effort` in `AGENT_ROUTING`: plan high,
1369 answer medium, update low) is sent as `CLAUDE_CODE_EFFORT_LEVEL` on
Merge main into the run-protection branch1370 g1t's tiers (never on a model the catalogue says takes none) and named
1371 in that line, with the catalogue's name for the model.
Merge branch 'model-routing'1372- **Chosen instead.** `model_routes` rows to g1t's models name `small`,
1373 `large` or `frontier`, or nothing for Auto (Integrations → Models).
1374 A workspace's own Anthropic key with no model named is routed by Auto
1375 too.
1376- **Measured.** `scripts/ops/routing-savings.mjs` replays tasks through
1377 the router offline, priced from the catalogue, against routing before
1378 Auto and against the frontier model for everything, net of failed
1379 attempts, with cost per merged change; `--live` reads billing's runs and
1380 counted tokens. On the bundled sample (13 tasks, assumed failures): Auto
1381 costs 7% less than the frontier model for everything and about 7% more
1382 per run than routing before it, but half as much per merged change,
1383 because it finishes the hard tasks the old routing gave up on. At
1384 current prices Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 cost the same per cache read, and
1385 cache reads are most of an agent run's tokens, so moving off the
1386 frontier model saves less than its list price suggests; the fast tier
1387 and fewer failed attempts are where the money is. Run `--live` monthly
1388 and after any routing change.
1389- **A cheaper route for the simplest jobs (designed, off).** A fourth tier
1390 on Workers AI through AI Gateway (an open model, billed on Cloudflare's
1391 invoice) for classification-sized jobs: commit messages, triage,
1392 summaries. Behind the same router as a tier with its own catalogue entry
1393 and `tasks` rules, off by default. It needs the proxy to translate the
1394 harness's Anthropic requests to the gateway's OpenAI-compatible
1395 endpoint (it already does for workspaces' own OpenAI-shaped providers)
1396 and a quality bar from the savings harness before any job moves to it.
1397
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1398### Choosing the right agent automatically
1399
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1400Because several agents can work on the same issue, every issue with more
1401than 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 attempts1402agent's win rate, cost and time. That produces a leaderboard, and a routing
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1403policy: send each new issue to the agent that wins that kind most often,
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1404start with the cheapest that is good enough, and escalate to a stronger one
1405when checks fail.
1406
Plan: the inbox, then channels and apps, instead of discussions1407## Talking: the inbox and channels
1408
1409Not a discussions forum. People and agents need one place to talk in real
1410time, and an app that feels like one on desktop and phone.
1411
1412**The inbox comes first.** Everything that needs a person or that they
1413follow, from people and agents: review requests, agent questions and
1414handoffs, failures, mentions, deploys. Read and unread, saved, done,
1415snoozed; ranked so what an agent is blocked on comes first; email digests
1416and push. It is the delivery layer chat needs too (who is told what, read
1417state, push), so building it first makes channels cheap.
1418
Docs: inbox threads, reasons, subscriptions, watching, email, API and MCP1419*Built:* the events service keeps it (`services/events/src/inbox.rs` and
1420`subscriptions.rs`, migrations `0005_inbox` and `0006_inbox_threads` on the
1421`g1t-events` database), writing items as events arrive from the bus; work's
1422`inbox_subject` says what each event names. Each person has one **thread**
1423per issue, pull request, workflow on a branch or deployment: new activity
1424brings it back unread with a count and its last 10 activities, and while it
1425is unread its most urgent severity is kept. Each item has a **reason**
1426(`agent`, `review_requested`, `assign`, `mention`, `ci_activity`,
1427`security_alert`, `state_change`, `author`, `comment`, `manual`,
1428`subscribed`). Who is told: `agent.asked` and `pull.stalled` (needs you,
1429closed again by `pull.resumed` and the like), `pull.review_requested`
1430(needs you, closed by `pull.review_request_removed`),
1431`issue.assigned`/`pull.assigned`, failed checks and workflows,
1432`deployment.failed` and a recovering `deployment.succeeded`, g1t's reviews
1433and finished changes, closes, reopens and merges to everyone subscribed,
1434and comments to the people mentioned and everyone subscribed. Never the
1435actor, never g1t. **Subscriptions**: authors, assignees and reviewers are
1436subscribed without a row; commenting or being mentioned subscribes; anyone
1437can subscribe, unsubscribe (still told of what is asked of them) or ignore.
1438**Watching** a repository: participating (the default), all, ignore, or
1439custom (issues, pulls, deployments, security); whoever creates a repository
1440watches it at their default, all activity unless they change it.
1441**Settings**: which reasons are also emailed (agent, review_requested and
1442mention by default) and the default watch for new repositories; email goes
1443through identity's `notify_by_email`, to a confirmed address only while the
1444person can still read the repository. **REST and MCP**: 14 operations under
1445`/notifications`, `/repos/:owner/:name/subscription` and
1446`/user/subscriptions` (scopes `notifications:read` and
1447`notifications:write`, in the Agent preset), and the `notifications` MCP
1448tool; never usable by g1t's own tokens. On the site: a bell in the top bar
1449opening a sheet with tabs (All, Needs you, Errors, Success, Info), Done,
1450Save, Snooze and Mark all read; `/inbox` with Saved, Done and a reason
1451filter; reasons and update counts on each card; a Notifications box on
1452issue 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 sidebar1453Settings → Notifications; a Needs you card on mission control. Agent sits
Docs: inbox threads, reasons, subscriptions, watching, email, API and MCP1454beside the bell, disabled. Still to come: security alerts (the security
Previews build from any branch; Agent in place of Ask AI; pin from the sidebar1455service publishes no event yet), email digests and push, Agent, and
Docs: inbox threads, reasons, subscriptions, watching, email, API and MCP1456channels.
Docs: the inbox, what lands in it and why, its tabs and actions1457
Plan: the inbox, then channels and apps, instead of discussions1458**Channels** (working name): workspace channels, direct messages and
1459threads, live.
1460
1461- Each channel is a Durable Object holding its WebSocket connections with
1462 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-agent1463- Agents are members. `@g1t` in a channel starts work, answers, or
Plan: the inbox, then channels and apps, instead of discussions1464 posts a summary; agents post their questions and handoffs where people
1465 already are. A thread becomes an issue or an outcome in one action, and
1466 the agent's progress streams into that thread.
1467- Tied to the work: issues, pull requests, runs and deploys each have a
1468 thread; links unfurl into live cards (checks, agent step, preview).
1469 What a channel settles can become workspace memory, with its source.
1470- Apps: an installable PWA first (desktop and mobile, offline shell, Web
1471 Push), then native shells on the same API: Tauri for desktop (tray,
1472 deep links), React Native for iOS and Android (background
1473 notifications).
1474
1475GitHub-style Discussions are not planned: channels and threads on the
1476work replace them.
1477
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1478## What GitHub ships today, and where g1t differs
1479
1480GitHub's Agent HQ and Copilot app give each agent session its own git
1481worktree and branch, list sessions in a mission-control view grouped by
1482project, and let a task be assigned to several agents so their output can be
1483compared. Underneath, the unit of work is still a branch and a pull request.
1484
1485| | GitHub | g1t |
1486| --- | --- | --- |
1487| 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 |
1488| 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 attempts1489| 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 attempts1490| Collisions between agents | Found as merge conflicts at the end | Flagged during the work (overlap radar) |
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1491| 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 attempts1492| Which agents | Those offered through a Copilot subscription | Any MCP client, plus hosted agents |
1493
1494## How agents connect
1495
14961. **Bring your own agent.** A remote MCP server at `mcp.g1t.sh` lets Claude
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1497 Code (or any MCP client) list issues, claim one, get a clone URL and
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1498 token, report progress and submit. Adding it is one command; sign-in is a
1499 browser OAuth flow with no token to paste. The `g1t` CLI installs Claude
1500 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-agent15012. **g1t's agent.** Assign an issue to g1t, or many issues at
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell1502 once, each to an agent of its own. g1t starts a sandbox for each
1503 (Cloudflare Containers), running a coding agent headless against its
1504 own pull request and fork.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts15053. **API and CLI.** Everything above is available at `api.g1t.sh` and
1506 through `g1t`.
1507
1508## Public surfaces
1509
1510| Host | What it serves |
1511| --- | --- |
1512| `g1t.sh` | The site, git over HTTPS, git over SSH |
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell1513| `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 attempts1514| `mcp.g1t.sh` | Remote MCP server over streamable HTTP |
1515
1516g1t is its own OAuth 2.1 authorization server: authorization code with PKCE,
OAuth 2.1 sign-in for MCP clients and other applications1517dynamic client registration that stores nothing (a client id encodes its
1518own registration, so the open endpoint cannot be used to fill a database),
1519discovery metadata and rotating refresh tokens. Still to come: scopes
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1520per resource (`repo:read`, `repo:write`, `issue:write`, `pull:write`).
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1521MCP clients, the CLI (device flow) and third-party apps all use it. Access
1522tokens and SSH keys remain for git itself.
1523
Merge branch 'worktree-agent-a8385d293d42c913a'1524### Workspace aliases (internal, built 2026-10-07)
1525
1526`g1t` is the product; `flagon-io` is Flagon, Inc., the organization that
1527builds it. So nobody mistakes one for the other, `g1t.sh/g1t` leads to
1528`g1t.sh/flagon-io`. That is a workspace alias: a name g1t's staff point at
1529a workspace, kept in identity's `workspace_aliases` (migration 0029, which
1530seeds `g1t`) by the workspace's id, so it follows renames. It is not a
1531customer feature and is not documented for users; staff add and remove
1532aliases on sudo's Aliases page, with a reason, in sudo's audit log. We may
1533give other companies one for a trading name the same way.
1534
1535An alias is resolved wherever an old slug is (identity's `resolve_slug`),
1536so it costs only the not-found path: site pages 301 to the same page under
1537the workspace, the API and MCP run the call again under its slug, package
1538registries 301, and git over HTTPS is answered in place
1539(`resolve_alias`), because pushes do not follow redirects. An alias is
1540never a route, a username or a workspace's slug, and nobody can register
1541it while it exists. `@g1t` stays g1t's agent: mentions link to how the
1542agent works, never to `/g1t`.
1543
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1544## Architecture
1545
1546| Component | Language | Runs on | Responsibility |
1547| --- | --- | --- | --- |
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1548| `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 applications1549| `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 attempts1550| `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. |
1551| `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 shell1552| `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 events1553| `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-agent1554| `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.sh1555| `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 attempts1556| `apps/web` | TypeScript | Worker | Server-rendered site. Holds no data; calls services over RPC. |
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1557| `apps/docs` | TypeScript | Worker (static) | Documentation and the API explorer |
API and MCP server in Rust; a public index at the API root1558| `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 attempts1559| `crates/sshd` | Rust | Container | Git over SSH, bridged to Artifacts |
1560| `crates/merged` | Rust | Container | Trial merges, conflict matrix, landing merges (needs real git; the Artifacts binding is read-only) |
1561| `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 attempts1562| `crates/g1t` | Rust | user's machine | CLI: auth, SSH proxy, Claude Code hooks, issues and pull requests |
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1563
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1564Storage: Artifacts for repositories (one fork per pull request), D1 for accounts
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1565and metadata, R2 for session transcripts and logs, Durable Object SQLite for
1566per-repo coordination state.
1567
1568How the services fit together:
1569
1570- **Each service is its own Worker with its own database.** It deploys,
1571 scales and fails on its own. Callers reach it through a typed RPC binding
1572 to the interface in `packages/contracts`.
1573- **Expected failures are values.** Every call returns a `Result`, so "not
1574 found" or "forbidden" crosses a service boundary as data.
1575- **Side effects travel as events.** A service publishes what happened
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1576 (`git.push`, `issue.opened`, `pull.merged`, …) to the bus and does not
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1577 call other services to react. Each subscriber consumes from its own queue.
1578 Timelines, webhooks and automations read the same stream, which is what
1579 lets something like GitHub Actions be built on top.
1580- **Every read takes the viewer.** Authorization is decided inside the
1581 service that owns the data, not by its callers.
1582
1583The Workers runtime scales request handling on its own, so the edge layer
1584stays in TypeScript. Rust is used where there is real computation or a real
1585protocol to implement.
1586
API and MCP server, Rust identity service, registration, site redesign1587## Languages
1588
1589The site is TypeScript. Everything behind it is Rust, compiled to
API and MCP server in Rust; a public index at the API root1590WebAssembly for Workers and natively for containers and the CLI. Identity, repos, work, events and the API are all Rust. The one exception
1591is the Worker that starts sandboxes, because Cloudflare's Containers
1592library is TypeScript. Rust services speak a
API and MCP server, Rust identity service, registration, site redesign1593small JSON protocol over service bindings (`POST /rpc/<method>`), with the
1594types in `crates/contracts`.
1595
1596## Identifiers
1597
1598Every id is a [TypeID](https://github.com/jetify-com/typeid): a prefix naming
1599the kind of thing, then a UUIDv7 in lowercase base32, such as
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1600`pr_01jb2k7x9hfq0b3zj0f5s2m8ra`.
API and MCP server, Rust identity service, registration, site redesign1601
1602- The prefix makes an id self-describing and stops ids of different kinds
1603 being mixed up.
1604- Ids sort by creation time as plain strings. In SQLite (D1 and Durable
1605 Objects) that keeps inserts at the end of the primary-key index instead of
1606 scattering them, and gives time-ordered paging for free.
1607- The suffix decodes to a standard UUIDv7 for any system that wants one.
1608- Ids are made by the service that creates the record, not by the database,
1609 so they work across services and can be assigned before a write.
1610
1611## Events at scale, and audit
1612
1613The current event log is a single D1 database. That is fine for a
1614prototype and wrong for the target: D1 is one writer and 10 GB. The design
1615for volume splits storage by how the data is read.
1616
1617| Tier | Store | Holds | Read by |
1618| --- | --- | --- | --- |
1619| Hot | A Durable Object per repository, with SQLite | Recent events for that repo | Timelines, live pages over WebSocket |
1620| Complete | Cloudflare Pipelines into R2 as Apache Iceberg | Every event, forever, partitioned by day and workspace | Analytics, standups, "ask", export |
1621| Audit | The same R2 store, under object lock | Who did what, from where, with which credential | Compliance, investigation |
1622
1623- **No single hot database.** Each repository's recent events live with that
1624 repository, so load spreads across as many objects as there are repos.
1625- **The complete record is files, not rows.** Iceberg on R2 has no practical
1626 size limit and is queried with SQL.
1627- **Audit is a property of every event.** The envelope carries the actor
1628 (person, agent, token or system), the credential used, the request id and
1629 the source address. Audit entries for a workspace are hash-chained, so a
1630 removed or altered entry is detectable, and are written under a retention
1631 lock.
1632- **Delivery is at least once.** Consumers are idempotent on the event id.
1633
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1634## Accounts and forge basics
1635
1636- Registration with email verification, sign-in, forgot password (Cloudflare
1637 Email Sending), Turnstile on public forms.
1638- GitHub sign-in, SSH keys, access tokens, active sessions.
1639- Profiles, public and private repositories, repository search (D1 full-text).
1640- Rendered README, syntax highlighting, commit history, diffs.
Invite-only launch: sign in with GitHub, repository access and lifecycle, many emails, a new look1641- Transferring a repository between workspaces (by id: its git store key
1642 never moves; every service follows `repo.transferred`; old paths redirect
1643 until reused) and deleting an empty, settled workspace (its slug is
1644 tombstoned, never reissued except to the person whose username it is).
Teams and CODEOWNERS, labels and milestones, dependency updates, the security suite, and a clearer top bar1645- Access: five repository roles, a workspace base permission, outside
1646 collaborators and invitations. Teams are built on it (2026-10-07): visible
1647 or secret, nested up to 8 levels (child teams inherit their parents'
1648 roles), run by maintainers and owners. A team's role on a repository is a
1649 `repo_grants` row whose principal is the team, which identity resolves
1650 into the same `RepoGrant`s on each person, so `access::can` needs nothing
1651 new: the highest role wins. `@workspace/team` mentions tell the team's
1652 people; a team asked to review either asks everyone or picks people by
1653 round robin or load balance.
1654- CODEOWNERS, read in both conventions (single-section, and sections with
1655 approval counts, optional sections and default owners) from the first of
1656 `.g1t/`, `.github/`, the root, `docs/` and `.gitlab/`. Owners are asked to
1657 review, the `g1t / codeowners` status lints a changed file, and branch
1658 protection's "Require review from code owners" holds merges, for people,
1659 agents and the queue alike, until each owning rule is approved.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1660
1661## Built on Cloudflare
1662
1663| Need | Product |
1664| --- | --- |
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1665| Repositories; a fork per pull request; data residency per workspace | Artifacts (forks, jurisdictions) |
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1666| Reacting to pushes | Artifacts event subscriptions on Queues |
Plan: a repository that maintains itself, and deployments on g1t.page1667| Preview URL per pull request; deploy on merge | Workers for Platforms on `g1t.page` |
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1668| Site, API, MCP, git front end | Workers |
1669| Per-repo coordination, live updates | Durable Objects |
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1670| Pull request lifecycles, automations | Workflows, Cron Triggers |
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1671| Agent sandboxes, SSH server, merge engine | Sandbox SDK and Containers |
1672| Fast starts on large repos | ArtifactFS |
1673| Model traffic, spend, budgets | AI Gateway |
1674| Summaries, embeddings | Workers AI |
1675| Context hub search | Vectorize |
1676| Accounts and metadata | D1 |
1677| Transcripts and logs | R2 |
1678| Email, bot protection, keys | Email Sending, Turnstile, Secrets Store |
1679
Running g1t yourself: the design, a docker compose proof, and a guide to what works today1680## Running g1t yourself
1681
1682g1t.sh runs on Cloudflare, and that does not change. The core is MIT and
1683must also run on anyone's own machine with `docker compose up`. A free
1684core people can self-host is what makes paid hosting worth trusting.
1685Self-hosting never makes hosted worse: hosted code paths keep their
1686behaviour, and a self-hosted adapter sits beside the hosted one. The
1687inventory of every Cloudflare dependency, the design and the risks are in
1688[SELF_HOSTING.md](SELF_HOSTING.md).
1689
1690The approach: the Workers stay Workers, and self-hosted they run in
1691workerd, the open-source Workers runtime. D1, KV and Queues are SQLite on a
1692volume, with the same migrations. Cloudflare-only bindings are replaced
1693by stand-ins:
1694
1695- Artifacts becomes bare repositories served by `git http-backend`;
1696- Email Sending becomes SMTP, through Mailpit;
1697- services that are off answer "off" instead of failing.
1698
1699| Phase | Scope | Estimate |
1700| --- | --- | --- |
1701| 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 |
1702| 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 |
1703| 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 |
1704| 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 |
1705
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1706## The submission
1707
1708- **g1t is built on g1t.** This repository is hosted on g1t.sh, its features
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1709 are opened as issues and built by racing agents, and it deploys from
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1710 Artifacts through Workers Builds. The history is the proof.
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1711- **The demo follows one story.** A brief becomes a project; twelve issues
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1712 fan out to dozens of agents; agents notice each other, hand off, and
1713 resolve a conflict; reviewers triage; the queue lands everything on
1714 `main`; why-blame explains a line; the portfolio shows where it all
1715 stands. Then the same thing at a thousand agents.
1716- **Judges can try it in a minute.** Open registration on g1t.sh, one-click
1717 import of a GitHub repo, one command to connect Claude Code, a seeded demo
1718 workspace, and a single deploy command for running their own copy.
1719- **The formats are open.** The commit trailers, session format and runner
1720 contract are published so other tools can interoperate.
1721
1722## Build order
1723
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell1724What is left is ordered by how much it shows the point above, not by forge
1725parity. Forge basics are done well enough; each item below should make the
1726demo's story stronger.
1727
Plan: what is done from the agent-first list, and what is next1728Done from this list: the outcome page (a plan's issues as a live graph with
1729cost and a feed of what happened), coordination you can see (agents' issues
1730and comments stand out in the feed; agents hold g1t's tools through a token
1731scoped to one repository), steering a running agent (messages delivered
1732between steps, and at the end), and recording sessions from anyone's own
Plan: integrations are in1733Claude Code (`curl -fsSL https://g1t.sh/install/claude.sh | sh`). Integrations are
1734in: a workspace's own model provider (Anthropic or any Anthropic-compatible
Prices are what g1t pays plus 20%, from the first second1735endpoint, reached through a model proxy so no sandbox holds a key; its
1736runs pay only their sandbox time), alerts from Sentry, Datadog and signed webhooks
Plan: integrations are in1737that open one issue per problem and can start an agent, and Jira and Linear
1738tickets that agents read, people import, and that hear back. Racing a
Plan: what is done from the agent-first list, and what is next1739set number of agents on one issue is dropped: choosing how many agents to
1740use is not something people should have to do.
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell1741
Agents asked while not at work are woken to answer17421. ~~**Handoffs and questions between agents** as states on the outcome
1743 page.~~ Done: questions and handoffs show as waiting, read, answered,
1744 taken on or declined; since 2026-10-03 an agent asked while it is not at
1745 work is woken to answer, where before the question waited forever.
Plan: a repository that maintains itself, and deployments on g1t.page17462. **Upkeep agents** (above): dependency updates, secret scanning,
1747 vulnerability alerts, code scanning, the security page. No new
1748 infrastructure.
17493. **Deployments on `g1t.page`** (above): previews per pull request,
1750 production on merge, the reviewer agent checking the preview.
17514. **The large run, building 2 and 3.** About 20–30 issues on g1t itself,
1752 built by agents and landed through the queue, for the video: g1t built
1753 on g1t.
17545. **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 next1755 empty states, and the first-run path from sign-up to an outcome landing.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1756
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell1757Earlier items still open, after those:
1758
Teams and CODEOWNERS, labels and milestones, dependency updates, the security suite, and a clearer top bar17591. Deleting a branch once its pull request merges; risk tiers. (Approval
1760 rules per path are in, as CODEOWNERS.)
OAuth 2.1 sign-in for MCP clients and other applications17612. Scopes on OAuth grants and access tokens.
API and MCP server in Rust; a public index at the API root17623. Event storage per the design above: per-repo hot log, Iceberg on R2,
1763 hash-chained audit.
Rust repos service with shipping; pull requests kept in the model17644. CLI with Claude Code hooks to record sessions automatically.
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell17655. Reviewing and catching up automatically, by policy; required reviews;
1766 risk tiers.
17676. Compare view, proof bundles; handoff between agents.
17687. Projects, mission control, steering; why-blame, digest, timeline.
17698. Context hub, portfolio; automations and integrations (Sentry first).
17709. SSH; bot protection; own keys, endpoints and runners.
177110. Large run (100+ agents across many issues), hardening, demo.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1772
1773Later: code search, mirroring to GitHub, passkeys, SSH
1774on port 22 without the CLI proxy (needs the Workers inbound TCP private
1775beta).

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