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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.
Merge main (membership, two-factor, GitHub repo roles) into tokens297- **Roles.** A person can plan and approve work without ever cloning a
298 repo. The roles that were sketched here map onto the five repository
299 roles that are built (see "Access" under what is built): a viewer is
300 Read, a commenter is Read (anyone with Read opens issues and comments),
301 a planner is Triage (labels, milestones, assigning, closing) or Write
302 where planning spends compute, and an approver is Write (reviews count
303 and merges). Workspace-wide, a member may also be a billing manager or a
304 security manager.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts305
306## The macro view
307
308The hierarchy above a single repo:
309
310| Level | What it is |
311| --- | --- |
312| **Workspace** | A company or team: its people, repos, agents, budget and policies. |
313| **Initiative** | A business outcome with an owner and measurable results, e.g. "move billing to usage-based pricing". Spans any number of repos. |
Plan: Projects, the home of everything about running software314| **Outcome** | One deliverable inside an initiative: a brief and its graph of issues (shown as **Plan**). Called "project" before 2026-10-04; that name now means what [Projects](#projects) describes. |
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts315| **Issue / Pull request** | As above. An issue may touch several repos; a pull request for it then holds one fork per repo and they land together. |
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts316
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell317How it feeds up, and what is built:
318
319- **A workspace is the unit everything belongs to.** Repositories, people,
320 access tokens, and later projects, budgets and policies are the
321 workspace's, never a person's. An account owns nothing; its first step
322 after confirming its email is creating a workspace, and the site sends it
323 there from wherever it was going.
324- **One namespace.** Usernames and workspaces share one set of names, as on
325 Docker Hub and npm. A username is reserved for its owner's workspace, so
326 `g1t.sh/<name>` never means two things.
327- **The workspace page is the roll-up.** `g1t.sh/<workspace>` shows its
328 repositories with their open issues and pull requests, and the pull
329 requests in progress across all of them. Projects and initiatives will
330 roll up to the same page. Its own pages live under `/<workspace>/-/`
331 (people, access tokens, settings), which no repository can be named.
332- **Workspace access tokens instead of service accounts.** A workspace has
333 tokens of its own, in the same table and code path as personal ones. One
Docs and plan: fine-grained tokens, workspace token rules, workflow files, workspace token Write334 acts as the workspace, with a member's rights in that workspace only (the
335 Write role on its repositories; Admin only when an owner ticks it at
336 creation, `access_tokens.admin`, identity/0034), records who made it and
337 when it was last used, and keeps working when that person leaves. CI,
338 integrations and automations use these. Until 2026-10-08 the code gave
339 them Admin on every repository, which the security audit found let any
340 workspace token manage webhooks; code, this plan and the docs now agree.
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell341
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts342### Portfolio
343
344One page answers "where is the business" across every initiative:
345
346- **Health** per initiative: on track, at risk, or blocked, derived from
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts347 facts (checks passing, issues stalled, questions waiting on a person),
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts348 not self-reported.
Fast pages, required checks on the branch, self-hosted runners, honest incidents349- **Progress** as measurable results: required checks passing, issues
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts350 merged out of planned, and the trend since the start.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts351- **Forecast** from actual throughput: at the current rate, when the
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts352 remaining issues land.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts353- **Spend** in tokens and dollars against a budget, per initiative.
354- **Waiting on people**: every decision or approval a person owes, by name.
355- **Roadmap**: initiatives laid out as now, next, later, with optional
356 time-boxed cycles for teams that work in sprints.
357
358### Status without asking
359
360- **Standup.** An agent writes a daily report per initiative and one for the
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts361 whole workspace: what merged, what changed direction, what is at risk and
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts362 why, what needs a person. Delivered by email or webhook.
363- **Ask.** A question box over the full event log and all sessions: "what
364 happened on the billing migration since Monday?" answers with links to the
365 sessions and commits behind each claim.
366
367### Long-running agents
368
369Work that runs for days needs supervision that does not depend on someone
370watching.
371
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts372- **Checkpoints.** A long pull request reports milestones against its issue, so
373 progress is visible before anything merges.
374- **Stall and drift detection.** A pull request with no meaningful progress, or
375 whose changes have wandered away from its issue, is flagged and can be
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts376 stopped or re-briefed automatically.
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts377- **Budgets.** Hard limits on spend and time per pull request, project and
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts378 initiative.
379
380### Context hub
381
382Agents working across repos and days need context that outlives any one
383session and reaches beyond the code. The context hub is one place an agent
384asks, whatever the source.
385
386| Source | What it holds | How it gets there |
387| --- | --- | --- |
388| **Memory** | Decisions, conventions, gotchas, facts about systems | Written by agents and people in g1t |
389| **Code and sessions** | The repos, and the reasoning behind every change | Already in g1t |
390| **Connected sources** | Jira and Linear tickets, Notion and Confluence pages, Google Drive documents, Slack threads, Sentry issues | Connectors, authorised per workspace |
391
392How it behaves:
393
394- **One search.** An agent asks a question and gets ranked results across
395 all sources, each labelled with where it came from, who wrote it, and how
396 fresh it is.
397- **Connected sources stay where they are.** g1t indexes them for search and
398 fetches the current version when an agent opens one. The external system
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts399 remains the source of truth, and a link placed on an issue ("see
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts400 JIRA-482", a Notion URL) is pulled into the agent's starting context.
401- **Permissions carry over.** A connector only exposes what the connecting
402 account can see, and a workspace admin chooses which spaces, projects or
403 channels are included.
404- **External content is untrusted.** A ticket or page can contain text meant
405 to manipulate an agent. It is marked as reference material, never treated
406 as instructions.
407- **Documentation is separate.** Context is what agents know; documentation
408 is what people read, and it is generated from context and code.
409
410Memory is the part of the hub that g1t owns and agents write to:
411
412- **Memory is written freely.** Any agent or person adds an entry with one
413 call: a decision, a convention, a gotcha, a fact about a system. No review
414 gate. Each entry records who wrote it, from which session, and when.
415- **It is still a repository.** Each workspace has a memory repo in
416 Artifacts, so every write is a commit: versioned, attributable, and
417 revertible.
418- **It is kept healthy by an agent.** A consolidation agent merges
419 duplicates, retires entries that newer ones contradict, and flags
420 conflicts it cannot settle. People can pin an entry (agents may not change
421 it), correct it, or retract it.
422- **Agents read it.** Every session starts with the context relevant to its
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts423 issue, found by search, and can query more through MCP.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts424- **Updates are events.** A memory write or a change in a connected source
425 is an event, so "when context changes, update the affected docs" is an
426 automation, on by default.
427- **It is scoped inside the workspace.** Some context applies to the whole
428 workspace, some to one initiative, project or repo, so an agent gets what
429 applies to its work.
430- **It never crosses workspaces.** A workspace is the isolation boundary: its
431 context, sessions and private repos are invisible to every other
432 workspace, and an agent's token is bound to one workspace.
433
434## Working in g1t
435
436- **Mission control.** The signed-in home page: every running session, every
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts437 issue waiting on a decision, and what merged, across all repos.
Plan: Projects, the home of everything about running software438- **Outcomes.** Group issues across repos toward one result and track how
439 many are open, racing, or merged. (What [Projects](#projects) means is
440 below.)
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts441- **Steering.** Send a message to a running pull request, or to all pull requests on an
442 issue at once, without stopping them.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts443- **Automations.** Rules that start work without a person (next section).
444
445## Automations and integrations
446
Sidebar: the panels really slide447> **2026-10-03:** g1t's own `.g1t/automations` format was built and then set
448> aside at the user's request ("let's just copy GitHub Actions on that for the
449> time being"). Automation on g1t is GitHub Actions workflows in
450> `.g1t/workflows/`; the format below is kept for later.
451
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts452An automation is **when** an event happens, **if** conditions hold, **do**
453something. They are defined as files in the repo (`.g1t/automations/`), the
454way GitHub Actions workflows are, and can also be built in the UI.
455
456### Events that can trigger one
457
458| Source | Examples |
459| --- | --- |
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts460| Git | push, merge, check failed, `main` moved |
461| g1t | issue opened, pull request stalled, context updated, handoff declined, budget reached |
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts462| Time | cron schedule |
463| Integrations | Sentry issue, PagerDuty incident, Linear or Jira ticket, Slack message or mention, GitHub issue, Stripe event |
464| Anything else | a signed generic webhook, or an email to a per-repo address |
465
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts466**Actions**: open an issue (optionally assigning N agents to it), message
467a running pull request, update documentation, notify, call a
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts468webhook, write back to the source system.
469
470**Example: Sentry.** A new production error arrives. The automation opens an
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts471issue labelled `bug`, with the stack trace, release and frequency in its
472description. Why-blame
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts473finds the session that wrote the failing line, so the fixing agent starts
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts474with the original reasoning. When the fix merges, g1t comments on the Sentry
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts475issue and resolves it.
476
477### Rules every automation obeys
478
479- **Deduplication.** The same Sentry issue firing 500 times maps to one
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts480 issue.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts481- **Limits.** Concurrency and budget caps per automation.
482- **Loop protection.** Work started by an automation cannot retrigger the
483 same automation without a person in between.
484- **External input is untrusted.** A webhook payload can contain text written
485 by an attacker. Agents started by external events run with reduced
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts486 permissions and cannot merge without the repo's approval rule passing.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts487
488**Checks** are the other half of what GitHub Actions does: build and test
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts489commands declared in `.g1t/checks.yaml`, run in sandboxes on every pull request
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts490and on every combined state in the landing queue.
491
Docs and plan: fine-grained tokens, workspace token rules, workflow files, workspace token Write492### Tokens, scopes and packages the GitHub way (built 2026-10-08)
493
494> **2026-10-08 (owner):** "emulate all of what GitHub does for scope
495> mapping and packages." GitHub's current behaviour is the spec.
496
497This **reverses identity/0023**, which retired a token's reach to some
498workspaces or repositories and left classic tokens only. The reason it is
499reversed: the owner chose GitHub parity, and GitHub has fine-grained tokens
500beside classic ones, with workspaces (organizations) governing both.
501
502- **Fine-grained personal access tokens** (identity/0034,
503 `services/identity/src/token_reach.rs`, `g1t_contracts::fine_grained`):
504 one resource owner (a workspace the person belongs to, or their own
505 account), all, selected (up to 50, by repository id) or only public
506 repositories, and a level per permission under GitHub's names (contents,
507 metadata, issues, pull_requests, actions, workflows, checks, statuses,
508 deployments, pages, environments, secrets, variables, webhooks,
509 administration, packages, security_events; members,
510 workspace_administration, self_hosted_runners, workspace_secrets,
511 workspace_webhooks, workspace_billing, models; email_addresses, starring,
512 notifications; g1t's agents and memory). Each level maps onto g1t's
513 scopes, which the token stores, so every check that reads scopes
514 (`scopes::decide` for the API and MCP, `decide_git`, `decide_packages`)
515 reads them unchanged. They must expire, within 366 days. On each use,
516 identity cuts the resolved person down to the token's reach
517 (`apply_reach`); `access::granted` gives no role outside it, so a public
518 repository elsewhere still reads and nothing more.
519- **Governance** (`token_policies`, `token_workspace_revocations`): per
520 workspace, allow classic, allow fine-grained, require approval (on by
521 default, as GitHub's; owners' own tokens never wait), the longest
522 lifetime, and forbidding tokens that never expire. Owners see every
523 member's token that can reach the workspace, approve or deny pending
524 fine-grained ones (inbox: `token.approval_requested` and
525 `token.approval_reviewed`, the inbox's first notices about no
526 repository), and revoke one there. REST and MCP for owners; audited as
527 `token.*`.
528- **Workflow files** need `workflow_files:write` (GitHub's `workflow`
529 scope; the `workflows` permission) from any token, checked commit by
530 commit on push (`services/repos/src/workflow_gate.rs`) and on files g1t
531 writes for a token. A job's token never has it. g1t's agents push with
532 run credentials, not tokens, and are not gated by it; their work arrives
533 as pull requests people review.
534- **Workspace tokens** have Write unless an owner gives Admin at creation.
535- **Deploy keys** (identity/0035): per repository, read-only unless write
536 is ticked; resolved to a principal bound to the one repository.
537 Serving git over SSH is still to come, so nothing uses them yet.
Merge packages: roles, Actions access, source label, soft delete, API538- **Packages** (packages/0006, `services/packages/src/access.rs` and
539 `settings.rs`): per-package roles (read, write, admin) for people and
540 teams, with "inherit access from the linked repository" (on by default);
541 "Manage Actions access", which a job's token is held to (its own linked
542 repository writes; any other repository needs an entry, added
543 automatically for the repository whose job first publishes an unlinked
544 package); linking by `org.opencontainers.image.source` (manifest
545 annotation or image label, same workspace, pusher may push there); 30-day
546 soft delete of packages and versions, registry deletes included (the name
547 and version stay reserved), restore, and a purge in the hourly cron; a
548 settings tab and a "Deleted packages" view; 17 REST operations and one
549 `package` MCP tool (reads `packages:read`; settings and access
550 `packages:write` with the package's Admin role; delete and restore
551 `packages:delete`); and download counts per version in every registry.
552 Existing unlinked packages have no Actions access entries, so workflows
553 that used them through `G1T_TOKEN` need one added.
Docs and plan: fine-grained tokens, workspace token rules, workflow files, workspace token Write554
Merge branch 'worktree-agent-a3abfcce648e87dca'555### Keeping workflow runs safe (built 2026-10-08)
556
557An audit of g1t Actions found a job's token was a full-access workspace
558token, environments had no protection, outside pull requests ran at once,
559the cache could be poisoned across branches, a job's token could set off
560more runs, and masking missed multi-line and encoded secrets. Now:
561
562- **The job's token** (`G1T_TOKEN`, `GITHUB_TOKEN`) is minted per job by
563 identity (`create_job_token`, migration identity/0030): it reaches its
564 repository only (`TokenAccess.repo`, enforced by the API, git and the
565 registries), carries the scopes its `permissions:` map to
566 (`g1t_actions::permissions`), is revoked when the job ends, and its
567 writes are audited with the run as `run_kind: workflow_job`. Without
568 `permissions:` it gets the repository's default, the GitHub way:
569 repositories that existed when actions/0007 ran keep read and write,
570 newer ones take their workspace's default (read-only unless an owner
571 says), and a workspace can cap every repository at read-only. An outside
572 pull request's is read-only. "Allow g1t Actions to create and approve
573 pull requests" (repository and workspace, off by default) decides whether
574 the token may open or approve pull requests. OIDC (`id-token: write`)
575 reads the same permissions model.
576- **No loops.** Work and repos mark the events a job's token causes
577 (`causedByJob`), carried on to a pull request it moves; the actions
578 service starts nothing for them. `workflow_dispatch` and
579 `repository_dispatch` (now sent by `POST {repo}/dispatches`) still start
580 runs.
581- **Environments' protection rules** (actions/0007): required reviewers
582 (people or teams, up to six, optionally not whoever started the run), a
583 wait timer, which branches and tags may deploy, and admin bypass. A job
584 naming one is `pending` once its needs are done, its environment read
585 then (an expression included); reviewers hear in the inbox
586 (`deployment.review_requested`) and approve on the run's page or through
587 `pending_deployments`; secrets are read only when the job starts.
588- **Approval for outside pull requests**, by a repository policy
589 (first-time contributors, outside contributors (the default), or every
590 external contributor): such runs are `action_required` until someone with
591 Write approves them.
592- **The cache is scoped by ref** (own, then the pull request's base, then
593 the default branch; outside pull requests save where nothing else reads)
594 and versioned by its paths and compression (0006's toolkit `version`,
595 which g1t's runner now sends too); g1t's `actions/cache` and the
596 toolkit's protocols share one scope rule. Entries from before were
597 expired.
598- **Masking** covers each line of a multi-line secret, base64 at every
599 offset and JSON-escaped forms; outputs holding a secret are withheld and
600 annotations masked.
601- A job's own `concurrency:` is honoured, `create` runs on new branches and
602 tags, and `on: delete` says plainly that it never runs yet.
Merge branch 'main' into actions-toolkit-oidc-artifacts603### Docker in workflow jobs (built 2026-10-08)
604
605> **2026-10-08:** "Why didn't we give CI docker then? We need GitHub
606> Actions functionality maxxed baby but with all the good good security
607> etc." The trigger: `deploy.yml`'s runner-image job needs `docker build`
608> and `docker push`, and failed on hosted runners.
609
610**What Cloudflare Containers allow** (their FAQ, updated 2026-10-05, and
611the Docker-in-Docker guide and example it links):
612
613- Docker runs inside a container: `docker:dind`, with `dockerd` as
614 **root**. A rootless Engine does not start there.
615- **No iptables**: `--iptables=false --ip6tables=false`, or the Engine
616 fails setting up its rules. Containers with the `durable_object`
617 scheduling policy (ours: each sandbox is a Durable Object's) cannot turn
618 IP forwarding on either: `--ip-forward=false`, or the Engine exits.
619- So **a bridge network has no way out**: the guide's answer is
620 `--network=host` for `docker run` and `docker build`, which gives
621 containers the outer container's network.
622- Built images and containers are lost when the sandbox stops.
623
624**What was found by trying** (Docker Engine 29.8.2 in a privileged
625container standing in for a sandbox, with the same flags):
626
627- `--bridge=none` makes BuildKit's `RUN` steps fail outright ("network
628 bridge not found"); with the default bridge they run with no route out.
629 Containers default to the bridge too. The default bridge is created
630 fine without iptables, as the FAQ's own example relies on.
631- The overlay snapshotter does not work on an overlay root filesystem, and
632 the containerd image store does not fall back by itself: the Engine
633 starts, then every container fails to mount. Whether a sandbox's disk
634 takes overlays is not documented, so the runner tries a mount first and
635 uses `native` (plain copies) when it fails. `vfs` is not a name the
636 containerd store accepts.
637- `--cpus` and `--memory` need cgroup v2 controllers handed down from a
638 cgroup with no processes, which `docker:dind`'s entrypoint does and a
639 plain `dockerd` does not.
640- A `runc` earlier on the Engine's `PATH` is used both for containers (via
641 containerd's shim) and by BuildKit's executor, with the bundle's
642 `config.json` written before it runs. BuildKit's bridged steps carry
643 libnetwork's `libnetwork-setkey` prestart hook; `RUN --network=none`
644 does not.
645- Buildx skips `type=gha` caches when the job has no GitHub cache service,
646 and the build succeeds without one.
647- Registries' layer hosts: Docker Hub sends layers from
648 `production.cloudfront.docker.com` (and `production.cloudflare.docker.com`),
649 Quay from `cdn0N.quay.io`, Microsoft's from regional
650 `*.data.mcr.microsoft.com`, public ECR from a CloudFront host;
651 `mirror.gcr.io` serves its own.
652
653**What was built** (`crates/runner/src/docker`, `actions/containers.rs`):
654
655- **One Engine per job, started lazily.** The runner listens on
656 `/var/run/docker.sock` itself and starts `dockerd` (root, the flags
657 above, containerd image store, `mirror.gcr.io` first for Docker Hub) on
658 the first connection, or when the job has `services:` or `container:`.
659 A log line says it started and how long it took.
660- **Containers on the job's network.** The socket is an API proxy: a
661 container that asks for a bridge or user network gets `host`; its names
662 (container name, aliases, Compose service, links) resolve to 127.0.0.1
663 in later containers (`ExtraHosts`) and in the job's steps
664 (`/etc/hosts`); `-p 8080:80` is forwarded; `docker inspect` reports the
665 ports as published; `network connect` adds aliases. Sharing the job's
666 network is also what keeps the guardrails on every container: the
667 egress Worker sees their traffic as the job's.
668- **A `runc` shim.** The runner binary, as `runc`: BuildKit steps bound for
669 a bridge lose the network namespace and the libnetwork hook (so they use
670 the job's network); in a guarded job every container (run, exec, build
671 step) gets the egress certificate at `/dev/g1t-egress` and the
672 variables that point tools at it. `/dev` is the container's own tmpfs,
673 so none of it lands in a layer; checked by saving a built image.
674- **Job features:** `services:` (pull, credentials, health waits, logs at
675 the end, `job.services.*`), `container:` (steps and JavaScript actions
676 through `docker exec`, Node mounted from the runner, Alpine falls back to
677 running actions beside it), `docker://` steps and Dockerfile actions in
678 GitHub's `/github/*` layout, `docker/setup-buildx-action` answered
679 natively (the job's Engine is the builder), sign-in to g1t's registry
680 with the run's token.
681- **Kill switch:** the runner Worker's `DOCKER` var (`off`).
682
683**Rejected:** rootless Docker or BuildKit (does not start in Containers);
684Podman or buildah with `vfs` (no better networking, less compatible, slow);
685a standalone `buildkitd --oci-worker-net=host` as the default builder
686(images not in the Engine's store, so `FROM` a just-built image and
687`docker run` of a build fail without `--load` round trips); a `docker` CLI
688wrapper adding `--network=host` (misses Compose, SDKs and testcontainers,
689which speak the API).
690
691**Not yet:**
692
693- Seen on Cloudflare itself: whether a sandbox's disk takes overlays,
694 `--privileged`, and the first deploy's pull of the base from
695 `registry.cloudflare.com` (its layer host may need a workflow-only line).
696- `type=gha` build caches backed by g1t's Actions cache.
697- Multi-platform builds (QEMU's `binfmt_misc` in a sandbox).
698- Docker for agents and checks, not just workflow jobs.
699- `runner-base.yml` on g1t's machines: the base's apt step needs
700 `Acquire::https::CAInfo` pointed at the egress certificate first.
701- A deploy that appends the runner binary as a layer through the registry
702 API, with no Docker and no 3 GB pull.
703
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts704Agents can also reach integrations directly: an agent definition lists MCP
705servers (Sentry, Linear and so on) it may use while working.
706
Actions: OIDC tokens, the toolkit's cache and artifact services, and artifacts in R2707### Workflows: the toolkit, OIDC and artifacts
708
709> **2026-10-08:** built so that workflows that deploy, cache and pass files
710> run unmodified.
711
712- **The toolkit's services.** Every job gets `ACTIONS_RUNTIME_TOKEN` (a
713 JWT whose `scp` names its run and job, signed with a key derived from
714 the job's own token, so nothing new is kept), `ACTIONS_RESULTS_URL`,
715 `ACTIONS_CACHE_URL` and `ACTIONS_CACHE_SERVICE_V2`. The API answers the
716 cache's Twirp service (v2) and its older REST protocol, the artifact
717 Twirp service, and the signed blob links they hand out (a subset of
718 Azure Blob's protocol mapped onto R2 multipart uploads), from the same
719 cache and artifact rows g1t's own runner uses. As the clients' source
720 reads, `@actions/cache` and `@actions/artifact` treat any server
721 but github.com as GitHub Enterprise Server, so the cache client speaks
722 the older protocol and the artifact client refuses to run. g1t's runner
723 therefore keeps handling `actions/upload-artifact`, `download-artifact`
724 and `upload-artifact/merge` itself; the Twirp artifact service is there
725 for clients that do not check.
726- **OIDC.** The issuer is `{API}/actions/oidc`, the API's own host, with
727 discovery, JWKS (RFC 7638 `kid`s, a previous key published while
728 rotating) and a token endpoint for `core.getIDToken`. Claims follow
729 GitHub's. A job gets one only when its permissions (or its workflow's)
730 give `id-token: write`, and never for an untrusted run. The permission
731 check reads only `id-token` (`services/actions/src/runtime.rs`,
732 `id_token_permitted`), the seam for the full `permissions:` model.
733- **Artifacts** moved from KV to R2 (`a/` in the cache bucket), with rows
734 in the actions service: numeric ids, 5 GiB each and 10 GiB a run,
735 zipped by the runner, `retention-days` up to the repository's setting
736 (1 to 90, 14 by default), `overwrite`, `compression-level`, patterns,
737 merging and other runs of the same repository. The REST artifacts API and
738 the `workflow` tool's artifact actions follow GitHub's shapes; the run's
739 page lists them with size and expiry, with download and delete. Their
740 storage is charged with the cache's.
741- **Later:** the toolkit's older artifact protocol (`upload-artifact@v3`
742 inside other actions), downloads from other repositories, and npm
743 trusted publishing, which depends on npm accepting g1t's issuer.
744
Plan: a repository that maintains itself, and deployments on g1t.page745## A repository that maintains itself
746
747> **2026-10-04:** the user asked for Dependabot, GitHub Advanced Security and
748> Vercel-style deployments, "so you're not having to maintain shit and you're
749> just pushing up agents that are delivering work consistently".
750
751GitHub reports problems and leaves the fix to you. In g1t, an agent opens an
752issue for each problem, writes the fix, runs its checks, links a preview and
753lands it through the queue. People only decide.
754
755### Upkeep agents
756
Teams and CODEOWNERS, labels and milestones, dependency updates, the security suite, and a clearer top bar757- **Dependency updates.** The file is `dependabot.yml` version 2, read from
758 the default branch at `.g1t/dependabot.yml` (or `.yaml`), then
759 `.github/dependabot.yml` (or `.yaml`); `.g1t/` wins when both exist, and
760 an imported repository's file works unchanged. Every option is read and
761 checked, each problem reported with its line and key on the Security page
762 and as the `g1t / dependabot.yml` status on pull requests that change the
763 file; a file with problems is not acted on.
764 - **Built (2026-10-07):** version updates for npm, cargo, gomod and pip:
765 schedules (all intervals, cron and natural phrases, time zones, a
766 picked time per repository), allow, ignore, cooldown (3 days by
767 default), groups (including across directories and `group-by`),
768 versioning strategies, open-pull-requests-limit, commit-message,
769 branch names, rebase-strategy, assignees, reviewers, private
770 registries filled from workflow secrets (npm, cargo, Go proxy, Python
771 index), and the `@g1t` comment commands. Pull requests come from g1t
772 with an `updated-dependencies` commit record and land through the
773 required checks; one that fails them is closed and becomes a
774 "needs code changes" issue assigned to g1t.
775 - **Security updates follow the same file:** ignore (and comment
776 ignores), allow names, `applies-to: security-updates` groups,
777 commit-message, assignees, reviewers, labels and milestone. Cooldown
778 and the open pull request limit do not apply. The Security updates
779 switch still turns them on and off.
780 - **Labels, milestone and target-branch** are applied to version
781 updates: `dependencies` and the ecosystem's label by default, missing
782 labels created; `target-branch` updates are made from that branch and
783 merge into it.
784 - **Not done yet:** one pull request for a multi-ecosystem group
785 (it opens one per ecosystem); registries that sign in with OIDC;
786 updating vendored copies; and version updates for the other
787 ecosystems (bundler, composer, docker, github-actions, gradle, maven,
788 nuget, terraform, uv and the rest are read and checked only).
Plan: a repository that maintains itself, and deployments on g1t.page789- **Secret scanning.** Pushes are scanned for known token formats. A push
790 that adds a secret is refused with the file and line; one already in
791 history opens an issue to rotate it and remove it.
792- **Vulnerability alerts.** Dependencies are matched against the OSV
793 database. Every alert links to the issue and pull request fixing it.
794- **Code scanning.** A reviewer agent reads each pull request's diff for
795 security problems and leaves findings as review comments with a
796 suggested fix. Findings on `main` open issues.
797- **A security page per repository** lists alerts, secrets and findings,
798 with the agent work on each, like GitHub's Security tab.
799
800All of these are event sources for the existing issue → agent → checks →
801queue pipeline; they need no new kind of work.
802
Teams and CODEOWNERS, labels and milestones, dependency updates, the security suite, and a clearer top bar803### The security suite (built 2026-10-07)
804
805GitHub Advanced Security's depth, in g1t's shape (services/security,
806`g1t_contracts::security_suite`, docs `guides/security/*`):
807
808- **Secret protection.** Custom patterns (repository and workspace; Rust
809 `regex`, linear time, size-limited; test strings; dry run over the
810 default branch) used by push protection, `commit_file` and history
811 scans. Bypass with a reason (false positive, used in tests, will fix
812 later), recorded on the alert and in the audit log; delegated bypass
813 (requests reviewed by owners and repository admins, through the inbox).
814 Validity checks for GitHub, GitLab, Stripe, Slack, npm, OpenAI,
815 Anthropic and SendGrid tokens, made by the repos service, which reads the
816 landed secret again: the value never leaves it except to the issuer. AWS
817 keys (need their secret key to sign) and webhook addresses (would post)
818 are the extension points left (`g1t_scan::validity::check_for`).
819- **Code scanning.** SARIF 2.1.0 uploads → alerts with fingerprints (tool
820 partial fingerprints first), fixed when no longer reported; pull request
821 uploads → line comments and the `Code scanning` commit status, gated by a
822 per-repository threshold and required like any check. Starter workflow:
823 a scanner per language present, each uploading its own category: Bandit
824 (Python), gosec (Go), ESLint + eslint-plugin-security with the SARIF
825 formatter (JS/TS), Clippy + clippy-sarif (Rust); all install from the
826 registries the runner's egress already allows. Semgrep's registry rules
827 and the Opengrep rules fork are not usable in a paid feature, so neither
828 is used. "Fix with g1t" opens an issue and runs the agent.
829- **Supply chain.** Dependency graph (direct/transitive where the lockfile
830 says, npm licenses), SPDX 2.3 SBOM, `Dependency review` status on every
831 pull request (OSV severity threshold, license deny list, summary comment).
832- **Overview.** Workspace totals, opened/closed, a daily snapshot trend,
833 coverage, repositories most in need first.
834- **Paid.** The Security and quality activation on private repositories;
835 free on public ones; the free core (secret scanning, push protection,
836 vulnerability alerts, security updates, dependency graph) free everywhere.
837
838Not built yet:
839
840- **The reviewer agent as an analysis source.** g1t's reviewer reads each
841 pull request's diff (`agent_review`), but its findings are review
842 comments, not SARIF. Next: have it emit SARIF for the security issues it
843 finds and upload them as the tool `g1t review`, so they become alerts and
844 count toward the Code scanning check.
845- **Repository security advisories.** Private advisories, draft →
846 published, with affected versions (ranges per ecosystem), severity and a
847 CVSS vector, credits, and a private fork (a `g1t/advisory/GHSA-…` working
848 copy only the advisory's collaborators can see) for the fix, merged into
849 the default branch when the advisory publishes. Published advisories
850 should feed the OSV-shaped data other g1t repositories' vulnerability
851 alerts read. CVE requests are out of scope. Needs: an `advisories` table
852 per repository, a collaborator list per advisory, the private-fork
853 visibility rule in repos, and an Advisories page on the Security tab.
854- **SARIF upload as a background job.** Uploads are read in the request
855 (10 MB encoded, 40 MB unzipped, 5,000 results); larger ones need a queue.
856
Plan: a repository that maintains itself, and deployments on g1t.page857### Deployments
858
859- **A preview for every pull request**, at
860 `<pr>--<repo>--<owner>.g1t.page`, linked on the pull request and updated
861 on each push. `main` deploys to `<repo>--<owner>.g1t.page`, and a
862 repository can add its own domain.
863- **On g1t.page, not g1t.sh,** so customer code never shares cookies or an
864 origin with the site people sign in to.
865- **Built on Workers for Platforms.** Each deployment is a user Worker in a
866 dispatch namespace; one dispatch Worker on `*.g1t.page` routes to it. The
867 build runs in the same runners as Actions. Static sites and Workers apps
868 first; container apps and databases later.
869- **Agents use the preview.** The reviewer agent opens the preview in a
870 browser, takes screenshots of what changed and attaches them to its
871 review, so an approver sees the result without reading the diff.
872- **Environments.** Preview, production and their secrets; deploy history
873 and one-click rollback.
874- **Scale to zero.** An idle branch costs neither g1t nor the customer
875 anything: a Worker runs, and is billed, only while it answers a request.
876 A preview is deleted when its pull request closes or merges, and after
877 a set number of idle days. Container apps, later, sleep when idle.
Plan: deployments are billed to the customer, never free878- **Billed to the customer, never free.** The user (2026-10-04): "we
879 should not be giving any of this available for free". Every deployment
880 is metered per workspace (requests, CPU time, deployed apps, stored
881 data), priced at Cloudflare's cost + 20% like agent usage, and drawn
882 from prepaid credit. `FREE_WHILE_BUILDING` and the free model allowance
883 do not cover deployments: a workspace without credit cannot deploy, and
884 turning deployments on says so first.
Plan: turning deployments on is a paid monthly plan885- **Turning them on is a paid plan, the way Cloudflare's is.** "Including
886 things like them even enabling the feature should have that pay like
887 Cloudflare does." Enabling deployments for a workspace starts a monthly
888 fee that includes an allowance of requests, CPU time and deployed apps;
889 usage past it is billed per unit, as Workers for Platforms bills g1t.
890 The fee and allowance are the user's to set.
891- **Recommended, off in one click.** Because enabling costs money, it is
892 never switched on without the workspace agreeing: new repositories
893 recommend it prominently. A repository can turn it off, keep only production, or
Plan: a repository that maintains itself, and deployments on g1t.page894 deploy somewhere else from its own workflows. Apps built for Cloudflare
895 (Workers, static assets, D1, KV, R2) deploy without configuration.
896
Merge branch 'worktree-agent-a3abfcce648e87dca'897Later, toward GitLab's DevOps breadth: package and container registries,
898releases, container hosting. (Environments' protection rules for g1t
899Actions were built on 2026-10-08; see above.)
Plan: a repository that maintains itself, and deployments on g1t.page900
Plan: Projects, the home of everything about running software901## Projects
902
903> **2026-10-04:** the user: "an extra dimension of Projects so it's not
904> just repositories … where a lot of things can live", "very Vercel
905> like", with dependencies across projects "the Platform Engineering /
906> Port route", and "the repository is *part* of a project: you could be
907> mirroring it from GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket, or you could let us host it
908> for you", with room for Mercurial or anything else later.
909
910**A project is the thing you are building and running; a repository is
911where some of its code lives.** Everything that is about running software
912(deployments, environments, domains, secrets, dependencies, owners,
913health, upkeep) belongs to the project. What is about the code itself
914(branches, pull requests, review, merge rules) stays with the repository.
915That split is what lets the code live anywhere.
916
917### The model
918
919| | What it is | Like |
920| --- | --- | --- |
921| **Workspace** | The company or team. Members, billing, plans, shared secrets. | Vercel team, GitLab group, GitHub org |
922| **Group** | An optional named set of projects, one level: "Payments", "Mobile". For browsing, ownership and shared settings. | GitLab subgroup, Backstage system, Port domain |
923| **Project** | One deployable thing: a site, an API, a worker, a library. Has exactly one **source**. | Vercel project, Port service, Backstage component |
924| **Source** | Where its code is: a repository and a **root directory** in it. | Vercel's connected repo + root directory |
925| **Dependency** | Project A uses project B: calls its API, consumes its package, reads its queue. | Port relations, Backstage `dependsOn` |
926
927- **One project, one source; one repository, any number of projects.** A
928 project builds from exactly one place, which keeps it as simple as
929 Vercel's. A monorepo is several projects on one repository, each with
930 its own root directory (`apps/web`, `services/api`), and a push builds
931 only the projects whose root it touched. The common case stays 1:1, and
932 every existing repository gets a project of its own name when this
933 ships, so nobody has to set anything up.
934- **Groups are for people; dependencies are for software.** Groups decide
935 where a project shows up and who owns it. Dependencies decide what
936 happens when one changes. Neither replaces the other, and a dependency
937 can cross groups.
938
939### Sources: where the code lives
940
941A source is an adapter behind one interface (`SourcePort`: clone URL,
942branches, commits, pushes as events, pull requests if it has them):
943
944| Source | Code lives | g1t gets pushes by | Pull requests |
945| --- | --- | --- | --- |
946| **Hosted on g1t** (today) | Artifacts | its own events | g1t's, with agents, the queue, review |
947| **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 |
948| **Connected, not copied** | The provider only | webhook | The provider's |
949| **Later:** Mercurial, Perforce, a tarball upload | Behind the same port | per adapter | per adapter |
950
951A mirrored or connected project still gets everything that is the
952project's: previews on its pull requests (a status and a comment on
953GitHub's), production on its default branch, secrets, dependencies,
954upkeep agents. That is the on-ramp: a team keeps GitHub and gets g1t's
955deployments and agents first, and moves the code later or never.
956Bring-your-own-git is also why the project, not the repository, holds the
957URL `g1t.sh/<workspace>/<project>`.
958
959### What lives on a project
960
961| | Today it is on | Moves to the project |
962| --- | --- | --- |
963| Deployments: production, previews, build settings, root directory, framework | The repository | Yes |
964| Environments: production, preview, and custom ones (`staging`) with protection rules (required approvers, branch limits) | Nowhere yet | New, on the project |
965| Domains: `<project>--<workspace>.g1t.page`, and custom domains | The repository's name | Yes |
966| 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). |
967| Dependencies | Nowhere | New |
968| Owners, on-call, links (docs, dashboards, runbooks) | Nowhere | New: the catalog's metadata |
969| Health: scorecards (has an owner, CI passes, dependencies current, no open security alerts, deploys within N days) | Nowhere | New |
970| Upkeep agents: dependency updates, security alerts | The plan | Scoped per project |
971| Logs and analytics of the running app | Nowhere | New: requests, errors and CPU per environment, from Workers analytics |
972| Branches, pull requests, review, merge rules, the queue, webhooks | The repository | Stay |
973
974### Dependencies: why this gets powerful
975
976Declared in the UI, or in the source as `.g1t/project.yml` (which wins
977when present, as `catalog-info.yaml` does in Backstage):
978
979```yaml
980name: web
981root: apps/web
982dependsOn:
983 - project: api # calls its HTTP API
984 as: API_URL # its URL, per environment, as a variable
985 - project: ui-kit # consumes its package
986```
987
988What g1t does with them:
989
9901. **Reference variables.** `API_URL` above resolves to `api`'s production
991 URL in production and to the matching preview in a preview, the way
992 Railway's `${{ api.URL }}` references work. No hard-coded URLs.
9932. **Preview stacks.** A pull request on `api` gets its own preview, and
994 **Preview with dependents** builds `web`'s preview pointed at it, so a
995 reviewer clicks through the whole change across projects. A change that
996 spans repositories (one issue, one fork per repository) gets one stack.
9973. **Release order.** Production deploys go out in dependency order; a
998 change set across projects lands through the queue together or not at
999 all.
10004. **Impact on every pull request.** "Changes `api`; `web` and `mobile`
1001 depend on it." Agents get the graph in their context: an agent
1002 changing an API opens follow-up issues on the projects that call it,
1003 and reviewers see what else could break.
10045. **Upkeep across the graph.** A vulnerable package in `ui-kit` opens
1005 issues, assigned to agents, on every project that consumes it.
10066. **Scorecards turn into work.** A project failing a scorecard check
1007 ("no owner", "dependencies 90 days old") gets an issue an agent can fix.
1008 That is the Port idea with the work done for you.
10097. **The map.** A workspace's projects as a graph, coloured by health and
1010 by what is deploying now.
1011
1012### Pages
1013
1014- `g1t.sh/<workspace>`: projects first (grouped, with health and
1015 production status), then repositories.
1016- `g1t.sh/<workspace>/<project>`: overview (production, latest previews,
1017 health, owners, dependencies both ways), **Deployments**,
1018 **Environments**, **Secrets and variables**, **Logs**, **Settings**
1019 (source, root directory, build, domains, groups, owners).
1020- A hosted repository keeps its code pages; from a project they are its
1021 **Code** tab. A repository page lists the projects built from it.
1022
1023### Services
1024
1025- `services/projects` (new): projects, groups, sources, dependencies,
1026 owners, scorecards. Events `project.created`, `project.updated`,
1027 `dependency.changed`.
1028- `services/deployments`: keyed by project instead of repository.
1029- Secrets and variables: the scope becomes workspace → project.
1030- Sources: the hosted adapter wraps `services/repos`; a mirror adapter
1031 per provider in `services/integrations`, which already holds those
1032 connections.
1033
1034### Build order
1035
10361. **Projects as the home of deployments and secrets**, 1:1 with every
1037 existing repository: the service, the pages, deployments and secrets
1038 moved to the project, `<project>--<workspace>.g1t.page`.
10392. **Dependencies:** declared in the UI and `.g1t/project.yml`, reference
1040 variables, impact on pull requests and in agents' context, the map.
10413. **Preview stacks** and cross-project change sets.
10424. **Monorepos:** several projects on one repository, each with a root
1043 directory, building only what a push touched.
10445. **Mirrored sources:** GitHub first, then GitLab and Bitbucket.
10456. **Groups, owners, scorecards** feeding the upkeep agents.
10467. **Environments** with protection rules; custom domains; logs.
1047
Projects: what a workspace builds and runs, first on every page1048**Step 1 shipped 2026-10-04:** `services/projects`; every repository a
1049project of its own name; the site projects-first (workspace page of
1050project cards, the project overview at `g1t.sh/<workspace>/<project>`, code
1051under `/code`, the sidebar and the New project flow); deployments keyed by
1052project and branch at `<project>-<workspace>.g1t.page` and
1053`<project>-git-<branch>-<workspace>.g1t.page`; secrets and variables owned
1054by the project.
1055
Invite-only launch: sign in with GitHub, repository access and lifecycle, many emails, a new look1056**Step 5, GitHub, built 2026-10-05:** one GitHub App (`g1t-sh`) for both
1057sign-in and repository access. Sign-in is its user authorization with PKCE
1058(identity, `src/github.rs`): accounts known by GitHub's numeric id, a
1059matching verified email never linked without signing in to the account,
1060new accounts behind the invite check. Repositories come through its
1061installations (integrations, `src/github.rs`), copied with every branch and
1062tag by the repos service (`src/mirror.rs`) as **import**, **mirror** (g1t
1063follows GitHub on its push webhook) or **move to g1t** (GitHub follows g1t
1064on `git.push`). A mirror is a hosted repository that keeps a full copy, so
1065its project stays `hosted` and deploys like any other; the tie lives in
1066integrations' `github_repos`. Not yet: previews and statuses on GitHub's own
1067pull requests, comments and pull requests copied, GitLab and Bitbucket.
1068
Projects: what a workspace builds and runs, first on every page1069### People and search
1070
1071> **2026-10-04:** "pull up user profiles, using a /u/username prefix kinda
1072> like DockerHub … search for users if you search that explicitly, how
1073> GitHub has the aside for searching against filters … a significantly
1074> stronger implementation."
1075
1076- **Profiles at `g1t.sh/u/<username>`**, apart from workspaces at
1077 `g1t.sh/<workspace>`: who they are, their workspaces, recent work,
1078 agents' sessions they steered.
1079- **Search with a filter sidebar:** Projects, Code, Issues, Pull requests,
1080 Users, Workspaces, each with its count; filters by workspace, language,
1081 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-agent1082 (`user:`, `is:open`, `agent:g1t`) as on GitHub. Typing `u/name`
Projects: what a workspace builds and runs, first on every page1083 searches people directly, as Docker Hub does.
1084
Plan: Projects, the home of everything about running software10851 and 2 serve the competition directly (multi-agent coordination across
1086projects is 25% of the score); 3 is the demo's best moment if time allows.
1087
Plan: the billing model1088## Billing model
1089
1090> **2026-10-04:** "Some things just require you to have a card on file …
1091> some things will be something you give us an initial amount of money
1092> per month just to activate, tons of things additionally will be usage
1093> based, some things will just be usage based only … at minimum a
1094> breakeven with Cloudflare costs, or in some cases a value add." Stripe
1095> moves to Flagon, Inc. (g1t.sh is its product). Proposed below; the
1096> prices are the user's to confirm.
1097
1098### Four kinds of charge
1099
1100Every feature is exactly one of these, and the Billing page says which:
1101
1102| Kind | What the workspace does | Example |
1103| --- | --- | --- |
1104| **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 second1105| **Card on file** | Adds a card; pays only for what it uses | Previews, g1t's agents, workflow minutes |
Plan: the billing model1106| **Activation** | Turns a feature on for a monthly fee that includes an allowance; usage past it is metered | Production deployments, Security and quality |
1107| **Usage only** | Nothing up front; every unit is metered | Model tokens, build minutes, storage past the free amount |
1108
1109A card is needed before anything that can cost money starts. Nothing is
1110ever switched on without the workspace choosing it.
1111
1112### Postpaid, with spend limits
1113
1114- **One Stripe customer and one subscription per workspace**, on Flagon,
1115 Inc.'s account. Activations are licensed line items; every usage
1116 dimension is a metered price backed by a Stripe Meter. Stripe invoices
1117 monthly in arrears and charges the card on file; failed payments go
1118 through Stripe's retries and emails, and g1t hears of them by webhook.
1119- **Spend limits instead of prepaid credit.** A workspace sets a monthly
1120 limit overall and per feature (Vercel's spend management). g1t counts
1121 usage as it happens and stops starting new paid work at the limit,
1122 with a warning at 50%, 80% and 100%. Prepaid top-ups go away; promotions
1123 (the free model allowance) become Stripe credit on the customer.
1124- **Usage reaches Stripe from billing alone.** Every service reports
1125 usage to the billing service as it happens (it already records agent
1126 runs and builds); billing batches them into Stripe meter events every
1127 few minutes, idempotently by g1t's own ids, and keeps the ledger g1t's
1128 pages show. Nothing else talks to Stripe.
1129
1130### Scope: workspace, then projects
1131
1132- A feature is turned on for the **workspace** (by an owner, with the
1133 activation if it has one), then allowed for **all projects** or
1134 **selected projects**.
1135- Every **project** can opt out on its own page. A project with nothing
1136 to deploy (no Workers config, no build script, no `index.html`) is
1137 detected, says so on its Deployments page, and never builds or costs
1138 anything.
1139- Agents and workflows are allowed per project the same way, so a
1140 workspace can keep spend to the projects that matter.
1141
Plan: prices pass every Cloudflare cost through1142### Prices: what it costs us, passed through
1143
1144> **2026-10-04, decided:** postpaid with spend limits, as Vercel and
1145> Cloudflare do; no per-seat price, ever ("fuck per-seat pricing").
1146> "If they're barely using them great, but if they're using the shit out
1147> of them that will cost me a ton, so that cost needs to move onto them."
1148
1149**Every Cloudflare cost a workspace causes is metered to it.** Light use
1150fits in a small free allowance; past it, each unit is charged at
1151Cloudflare's price times a margin of at least 1.5, which pays for Stripe
1152(about 3%), shared overhead (the site, the API, D1) and g1t itself.
Plan: the billing model1153
Plan: prices pass every Cloudflare cost through1154Cloudflare's prices (October 2026), and the cost per unit g1t meters:
Plan: the billing model1155
Plan: prices pass every Cloudflare cost through1156| What g1t meters | Cloudflare's price | Cost to g1t per unit |
1157| --- | --- | --- |
1158| **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) |
1159| **App request** (deployments) | Workers for Platforms: $0.30 / million past 20M | $0.30 / million |
1160| **App CPU** | $0.02 / million CPU-ms past 60M | $0.02 / million ms |
1161| **App** (a deployed script) | $0.02 / script-month past 1,000 | $0.02 / app-month |
1162| **Storage** (repositories, artifacts, caches) | Artifacts $0.50 / GB-month (billing starts 2026-10-14); KV $0.50 / GB-month | $0.50 / GB-month |
1163| **Git operation** (clone, fetch, push) | Artifacts $0.15 / 1,000 past 10,000 | $0.15 / 1,000 |
1164| **Model tokens** | The provider's price | As charged |
1165| Container egress, emails, the site's own requests | Small and shared | In the margin |
1166
status.g1t.sh with incident management, invites that land you in the workspace, settings as pages, usage without quotas1167> **2026-10-06, decided:** no per-feature quotas on the plan. "A paying
1168> user should be able to push past the Git operations number, they're
1169> just paying usage on it." One plan, $20 a month per workspace with $10
1170> of usage included; every meter is charged from the first unit at cost +
1171> 20% (builds, app requests and CPU, custom domains), drawn from the $10
1172> first, then up to the spend limit, which is the only thing that stops a
1173> paying workspace (with abuse protection). Projects, previews and apps
1174> are not metered (Workers for Platforms' script pool makes them ~free).
1175> The forge's free amounts are the same for everyone: 1 GB private storage
1176> and 50,000 git operations a month; past them the plan pays and a free
1177> workspace is held (pushes stop, git slowed). The table below is the
1178> earlier proposal; billing's price book and g1t.sh/pricing are current.
1179
Plan: prices pass every Cloudflare cost through1180What a workspace pays:
1181
1182| Meter | Free each month | Then | Margin | For comparison |
1183| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
Prices are what g1t pays plus 20%, from the first second1184| 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 through1185| App requests | 1 million with Deployments | $0.50 / million | 1.7× | Vercel $0.60 / million invocations |
1186| App CPU | 3 million ms with Deployments | $0.04 / million ms | 2× | Vercel active CPU about $0.036 / million ms |
1187| Apps | 10 with Deployments | $0.05 / app-month | 2.5× | |
1188| Storage | 1 GB | $1.00 / GB-month | 2× | GitHub LFS $0.07 / GB, but repositories are free there |
1189| Git operations | 10,000 | $0.30 / 1,000 | 2× | |
1190| g1t's models | | Cost + 20% | 1.2× | The provider's own price |
Prices are what g1t pays plus 20%, from the first second1191| Your own model provider | | Only its sandbox minutes (the $0.10 run fee was dropped 2026-10-05) | | |
Plan: prices pass every Cloudflare cost through1192| **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 bar1193| **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 model1194
Plan: prices pass every Cloudflare cost through1195A workspace that uses g1t lightly (a few agent runs, a small site)
1196pays nothing or its activation; a workspace running agents all day pays
1197for the sandboxes and models those agents use, with g1t's margin on
1198each. Nothing in a workspace's bill is subsidised by another's.
Plan: the billing model1199
1200### Build order
1201
12021. Stripe customer per workspace and card on file (Checkout in setup
1203 mode), webhooks (invoice paid and failed, subscription changes,
1204 payment method changes), the Billing page rebuilt around the four
1205 kinds.
12062. One subscription per workspace with activations as items; Deployments
1207 moves onto it.
Plan: prices pass every Cloudflare cost through12083. Meters for each usage dimension above, fed from billing's ledger:
1209 every sandbox reports how long it ran when it stops (agents, checks,
1210 the queue, workflow jobs and deploy builds alike); deployments report
1211 requests, CPU and apps; repos report storage and git operations. Spend
Plan: the billing model1212 limits and their warnings; prepaid credit retired.
12134. Per-workspace allow-lists of projects for each feature, and per-project
1214 opt-out; "nothing to deploy" detection.
Billing accounts, terms and enterprises; g1t is no longer free12155. Turn off FREE_WHILE_BUILDING when the user says so. **Done 2026-10-05.**
1216
1217Shipped by 2026-10-05: sandbox seconds for every sandbox; the price book
1218and its keeper (runs settled to AI Gateway's price every 15 minutes;
1219Container and Workers costs checked against Cloudflare's billable usage
1220and container analytics daily, with a public change log on
1221g1t.sh/pricing); usage limits by trust with automatic payment near the
1222limit; app traffic counted toward limits as it happens; billing accounts,
1223terms and enterprises; free mode off, syntaqx comped.
1224
1225Still to build, in order: Stripe card-on-file without a payment (setup
1226mode) and webhooks; month-end invoices for postpaid usage (and one
1227invoice per enterprise); the subscription with activations as items;
1228storage and git-operation meters; limit warnings by email at 50/80/100%;
1229self-serve enterprise management for enterprise owners.
1230
1231### Accounts, terms and enterprises
1232
1233Every workspace is paid for by a billing account: its own (`ws_<slug>`)
1234or an enterprise's (`ent_…`), which pays for several workspaces with one
1235limit, one set of terms and, once invoices exist, one bill, as GitHub
1236Enterprise does. Terms are standard, comped (nothing charged, usage still
1237recorded at cost, paid features on) or custom (a discount, its own
1238ceiling, an end date). g1t staff manage them in **sudo.g1t.sh**, a
1239separate Worker behind Cloudflare Access that also verifies the Access
1240token itself and allows only listed staff emails; every change is kept
1241with who made it and why.
1242
1243### Limits: stop non-payers, never payers
1244
1245The limit is on usage not yet paid for, counted at cost to g1t or charge,
1246whichever is more: $3 before any live payment, then twice what has been
1247paid ($25 to $1,000), or what staff set. A workspace with a card on file
1248is charged automatically near its limit, which both pays what it owes and
1249raises the limit, so paying users are never stopped. A declined card
1250stops work until paid. The owner's own spend limit always means stop.
1251Test-mode payments never lower exposure or raise trust.
Plan: the billing model1252
Merge Stripe Tax, the card fee on card payments, and one free workspace per person1253### Tax, card fees and free workspaces (built 2026-10-08)
1254
1255> **2026-10-08, decided:** Stripe Tax everywhere ("so I don't fuck up on
1256> taxes"); Stripe's card fee passed to the customer with the 20% markup
1257> kept; one free workspace per person; no invites on free workspaces.
1258
1259- **Stripe Tax on every payment.** `automatic_tax` on every Checkout page
1260 (plan, Security and quality, prepaying, AI credit), every subscription
1261 and every invoice g1t makes (month close, threshold, enterprise), and a
1262 tax calculation and transaction for auto-reload's off-session charge.
1263 Tax code `txcd_10103001` (SaaS, business use), every price
1264 `tax_behavior=exclusive`. Checkout always collects the billing address
1265 and tax ID and saves them on the customer. Prices on g1t are shown
1266 excluding tax. Tax is never revenue: balances and plan payments are
1267 credited without it, it is kept in `tax_and_fees`, shown as its own
1268 statement line, and as **Tax collected** on sudo's Costs. Without an
1269 address g1t does not charge: the owners are asked for one.
1270- **The card fee** (2.9% + $0.30, grossed up) is its own line on every
1271 card payment, the plan's and Security's as a monthly item; never on a
1272 bank transfer or an enterprise's invoice. On by default
1273 (`cost_settings.card_fee`). Not revenue either. Meters stay at cost +
1274 20%; models at the provider's price plus the agent rate.
1275- **One free workspace per person.** Identity asks billing
1276 (`free_workspaces`) before creating one; a second is refused with the
1277 way forward. Those who own several from before keep them.
1278- **A free workspace adds no one**: no members, invites or outside
1279 collaborators until it starts the plan; its members stay; @g1t never
1280 counts. Enforced in identity for every path (site, API, MCP).
1281- Details: docs/BILLING_OPERATIONS.md, *Tax and the card fee*.
1282
Billing: credits with a kind and expiry, discounts instead of comped, and safer charging1283### Promo codes (planned)
1284
1285Staff credits (promotional, goodwill, refund; `services/billing/src/grants.rs`,
1286docs/BILLING_OPERATIONS.md) are given one workspace at a time. Promo codes
1287give promotional credit in bulk, on redemption, through the same grants:
1288
1289- **Codes.** sudo → Credits & refunds → **New code**: the code (or one
1290 made up), the credit ($ amount), max redemptions, when the code stops
1291 working, how long each redeemed credit lasts (an expiry, as any grant),
1292 and a note. Table `promo_codes` (code, amount, max, redeemed, ends_at,
1293 credit_days, note, created_by, disabled_at) and `promo_redemptions`
1294 (code, workspace, grant id, by, at), unique on (code, workspace).
1295- **Redeeming.** An owner types it on the workspace's Billing page
1296 (`redeem_code`, owners only). One D1 batch checks the code is open, under
1297 its max and not redeemed by the workspace, counts the redemption and
1298 makes the grant (`grant_credit`, kind promotional, the code as its note),
1299 so two redemptions at once never pass the max. Wrong or used-up codes say
1300 so without telling which codes exist; redemptions are rate-limited per
1301 owner.
1302- **Seeing them.** Each code's redemptions, credit given and spent come
1303 from the grants it made, so margin needs nothing new: spent promo credit
1304 is already given away, by kind.
1305- **Not yet built** because it adds an owner-facing form, abuse limits and
1306 a second sudo form; giving credit by workspace covers launch.
1307
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1308## Agents and models
1309
1310### Defining an agent
1311
1312An agent is a file (`.g1t/agents/<name>.md`, or in the workspace library):
1313instructions, the harness and model to run, the tools and MCP servers it may
1314use, its sandbox image, permissions and budget. Agents take roles: planner,
1315implementer, reviewer, conflict resolver, documenter, memory consolidator.
1316Each role has a default that a repo can replace.
1317
1318### Where it runs, and on whose model
1319
1320| Option | How it works | Fits |
1321| --- | --- | --- |
1322| Hosted, g1t's model | g1t runs the sandbox and bills usage | Getting started; no keys to manage |
1323| Hosted, your API key | Same sandbox, your Anthropic, OpenAI or Google key | Teams with existing contracts |
1324| 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 attempts1325| 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 attempts1326| Your own session | Local Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client joins through `mcp.g1t.sh` | Individuals; subscription plans |
1327
1328Decisions behind this:
1329
1330- **g1t does not build its own agent loop.** It runs existing harnesses
1331 (Claude Code first, through its headless mode) behind a small runner
1332 contract: a container image, an entry command, and session events reported
1333 through the CLI. Other harnesses plug in by meeting the contract.
1334- **All hosted model traffic goes through Cloudflare AI Gateway.** That gives
1335 one place for spend tracking, budgets, rate limits, fallback and logs,
1336 whichever provider or endpoint is behind it.
Merge branch 'model-routing'1337- **Nobody has to pick a model.** A person assigns work to `g1t`, as
1338 they would assign an issue to a colleague, and **Auto** routes each job
1339 to the cheapest model that can do it (see
1340 [Routing for cost](#routing-for-cost) below). A workspace can pin a tier
1341 per kind of work instead. Each request is tagged at the gateway with the
1342 kind of work, the tier, the repository and the pull request, and each
1343 run says which model ran and why. The gateway's own dynamic routes
1344 cannot make the choice yet: they work only on its OpenAI-compatible
1345 endpoint, and the harness speaks Anthropic's.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1346- **Subscriptions stay local.** A Claude subscription cannot be used by a
1347 hosted sandbox; it needs an API key. People on subscriptions use their own
1348 Claude Code session, which is a full participant.
Merge branch 'model-routing'1349- **The workspace pays.** A workspace buys AI credit by card and each
1350 agent run deducts the model at the provider's price plus the agent rate
1351 per million (weighted) tokens; on its own model key, only the agent rate,
1352 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 shell1353 nothing of the others: the runner asks it before starting a sandbox and
1354 is refused when there is no credit, and the sandbox reports what its run
1355 cost with a token only it holds. Where no card processor is configured
1356 nothing is charged and agents stay limited to listed accounts.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1357- **Keys are secrets.** Stored in Cloudflare Secrets Store, injected into the
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1358 sandbox for one pull request, never shown again.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1359
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell1360### Seeing a pull request through
1361
1362Assigning 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-agent1363to merge. A pull request made by g1t goes through checks, a review
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell1364by another agent, revision when either finds something, and catching up
1365when `main` moves, without anyone pressing a button. It ends as ready to
1366merge, or as "needs you" with the reason: the checks still fail after two
1367revisions, a review could not be written, or a conflict could not be
1368resolved.
1369
1370The work service decides the next step from the pull request's state and
1371claims it in one statement, so a step is taken once. The runner asks on
1372every event that could change the answer (ready, pushed, checks finished,
1373review finished, `main` moved), and on a five-minute sweep for anything
1374missed, and carries the step out in a sandbox.
1375
1376A pull request does not have to be up to date with `main` to merge,
1377unless the repository's settings require it, as on GitHub. Merging one that
1378is behind brings it up to date first (a clean merge needs no model; an
1379agent resolves a conflict) and lands it when that push arrives. With the
1380requirement on, catching up is a step of its own and the checks run again
1381on the result.
1382
1383Each repository sets its own rules, on one settings page: whether its
1384default branch takes pushes at all, how many approvals a merge needs and
1385whether an agent's counts, whether failed checks can be overridden, whether
1386a 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-agent1387is asked. A pull request g1t opens follows the same rules as anyone's.
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell1388Pushes to a protected branch are refused in the git front end, with the
1389reason shown by git beside the branch.
1390
1391Merging is a person's decision unless the repository says otherwise. With
1392"merge automatically when ready" turned on in its settings, a ready pull
1393request lands by itself, attributed to `g1t`. That is the whole path from
1394an assigned issue to a commit on `main` with nobody in between. Required
1395human approval per path, and risk tiers, are still to come.
1396
Merge branch 'model-routing'1397### Routing for cost
1398
1399*Built (runner `route` in `services/runner/src/model-env.ts`).* The goal
1400is cost per merged change, not cost per request: a cheap attempt that
1401fails and is retried on the same model costs more than one that finishes.
1402
Merge branch 'main' into worktree-agent-a69aeabc4b0deeb971403- **Tiers and catalogue.** `small` (Claude Haiku 5.5 since 2026-10-08,
1404 $0.10/$0.50 per million input/output up to 100k-token prompts, five
1405 times that above; it was Haiku 4.5 at $1/$5), `large` (Claude Sonnet 5.5, $2/$10) and `frontier`
Merge branch 'main' into actions-toolkit-oidc-artifacts1406 (Claude Opus 5.5, $4/$20). Models, names and list prices are data,
1407 never code: since 2026-10-08 billing's model catalogue
1408 (`gateway_models`, one row per model g1t can use) and staff's defaults
1409 in sudo, **Agents & models** (`model_defaults`: each tier's model, the
1410 harness's background model, the AI Gateway's first Claude, each job's
1411 starting tier and effort), read by the runner once a minute over
1412 `AGENT_ROUTING`, which is only the fallback when billing cannot be read.
1413 Catalogue prices are for estimates only; runs are charged what AI
1414 Gateway priced them at.
1415- **Keeping up with new models (built 2026-10-08).** The models service
1416 lists Anthropic's models (through the AI Gateway) and Workers AI's daily
1417 and on demand; a new id lands in the catalogue as `new`, priced from a
1418 maintained table of Anthropic's list prices or Workers AI's listing, or
1419 unpriced, and staff are emailed. Nothing routes to it, offers it or
1420 charges for it until staff approve it with its prices. A model a provider
1421 stops listing is `deprecated`; routing never sends work to a deprecated
1422 or retired model, falling back to the next model of the tier and saying
1423 so on the run. Customers keep Auto: the catalogue is staff's. See
1424 [BILLING_OPERATIONS.md](BILLING_OPERATIONS.md#the-model-catalogue).
Merge branch 'model-routing'1425- **Starting tier by job.** Catch-up, answering a question, and reviews of
1426 at most 10 files and 200 lines touching no sensitive path: small.
Merge branch 'main' into worktree-agent-a69aeabc4b0deeb971427 Plans: small at high effort (Haiku 5.5 takes an effort level).
1428 Changes, revisions and other reviews: large. Reviews over 60 files
Merge branch 'model-routing'1429 or 3,000 lines: frontier. Labels: `architecture` frontier, `security` off
1430 small, `docs`/`documentation`/`typo` let changes and answers start small.
1431- **Escalation.** A failed (or guardrail-stopped) attempt at the same work
1432 goes one tier up; two in a row, frontier; a revision counts its rounds;
1433 a change left at low confidence sends the next attempt up.
1434- **Learning, per repository.** From the last 20 runs of the same kind:
1435 one tier down when the cheaper tier finished at least 90% of at least 5
1436 (never for sensitive or labelled work, never on a retry); one tier up
1437 when this tier failed at least half of at least 5. No new tables: it
1438 reads work's `agent_runs` (model, status, confidence).
1439- **Explained.** Every run's first step and session note is one line:
Merge branch 'main' into worktree-agent-a69aeabc4b0deeb971440 *Used a fast model (Claude Haiku 5.5): small change, 3 files and 80
1441 lines.* Effort per kind of job (`effort` in `AGENT_ROUTING`: plan high,
1442 answer medium, update low) is sent as `CLAUDE_CODE_EFFORT_LEVEL` on
Merge branch 'main' into actions-toolkit-oidc-artifacts1443 g1t's tiers (never on a model the catalogue says takes none) and named
1444 in that line, with the catalogue's name for the model.
Merge branch 'model-routing'1445- **Chosen instead.** `model_routes` rows to g1t's models name `small`,
1446 `large` or `frontier`, or nothing for Auto (Integrations → Models).
1447 A workspace's own Anthropic key with no model named is routed by Auto
1448 too.
1449- **Measured.** `scripts/ops/routing-savings.mjs` replays tasks through
1450 the router offline, priced from the catalogue, against routing before
1451 Auto and against the frontier model for everything, net of failed
1452 attempts, with cost per merged change; `--live` reads billing's runs and
1453 counted tokens. On the bundled sample (13 tasks, assumed failures): Auto
1454 costs 7% less than the frontier model for everything and about 7% more
1455 per run than routing before it, but half as much per merged change,
1456 because it finishes the hard tasks the old routing gave up on. At
1457 current prices Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 cost the same per cache read, and
1458 cache reads are most of an agent run's tokens, so moving off the
1459 frontier model saves less than its list price suggests; the fast tier
1460 and fewer failed attempts are where the money is. Run `--live` monthly
1461 and after any routing change.
1462- **A cheaper route for the simplest jobs (designed, off).** A fourth tier
1463 on Workers AI through AI Gateway (an open model, billed on Cloudflare's
1464 invoice) for classification-sized jobs: commit messages, triage,
1465 summaries. Behind the same router as a tier with its own catalogue entry
1466 and `tasks` rules, off by default. It needs the proxy to translate the
1467 harness's Anthropic requests to the gateway's OpenAI-compatible
1468 endpoint (it already does for workspaces' own OpenAI-shaped providers)
1469 and a quality bar from the savings harness before any job moves to it.
1470
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1471### Choosing the right agent automatically
1472
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1473Because several agents can work on the same issue, every issue with more
1474than 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 attempts1475agent's win rate, cost and time. That produces a leaderboard, and a routing
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1476policy: send each new issue to the agent that wins that kind most often,
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1477start with the cheapest that is good enough, and escalate to a stronger one
1478when checks fail.
1479
Plan: the inbox, then channels and apps, instead of discussions1480## Talking: the inbox and channels
1481
1482Not a discussions forum. People and agents need one place to talk in real
1483time, and an app that feels like one on desktop and phone.
1484
1485**The inbox comes first.** Everything that needs a person or that they
1486follow, from people and agents: review requests, agent questions and
1487handoffs, failures, mentions, deploys. Read and unread, saved, done,
1488snoozed; ranked so what an agent is blocked on comes first; email digests
1489and push. It is the delivery layer chat needs too (who is told what, read
1490state, push), so building it first makes channels cheap.
1491
Docs: inbox threads, reasons, subscriptions, watching, email, API and MCP1492*Built:* the events service keeps it (`services/events/src/inbox.rs` and
1493`subscriptions.rs`, migrations `0005_inbox` and `0006_inbox_threads` on the
1494`g1t-events` database), writing items as events arrive from the bus; work's
1495`inbox_subject` says what each event names. Each person has one **thread**
1496per issue, pull request, workflow on a branch or deployment: new activity
1497brings it back unread with a count and its last 10 activities, and while it
1498is unread its most urgent severity is kept. Each item has a **reason**
1499(`agent`, `review_requested`, `assign`, `mention`, `ci_activity`,
1500`security_alert`, `state_change`, `author`, `comment`, `manual`,
1501`subscribed`). Who is told: `agent.asked` and `pull.stalled` (needs you,
1502closed again by `pull.resumed` and the like), `pull.review_requested`
1503(needs you, closed by `pull.review_request_removed`),
1504`issue.assigned`/`pull.assigned`, failed checks and workflows,
1505`deployment.failed` and a recovering `deployment.succeeded`, g1t's reviews
1506and finished changes, closes, reopens and merges to everyone subscribed,
1507and comments to the people mentioned and everyone subscribed. Never the
1508actor, never g1t. **Subscriptions**: authors, assignees and reviewers are
1509subscribed without a row; commenting or being mentioned subscribes; anyone
1510can subscribe, unsubscribe (still told of what is asked of them) or ignore.
1511**Watching** a repository: participating (the default), all, ignore, or
1512custom (issues, pulls, deployments, security); whoever creates a repository
1513watches it at their default, all activity unless they change it.
1514**Settings**: which reasons are also emailed (agent, review_requested and
1515mention by default) and the default watch for new repositories; email goes
1516through identity's `notify_by_email`, to a confirmed address only while the
1517person can still read the repository. **REST and MCP**: 14 operations under
1518`/notifications`, `/repos/:owner/:name/subscription` and
1519`/user/subscriptions` (scopes `notifications:read` and
1520`notifications:write`, in the Agent preset), and the `notifications` MCP
1521tool; never usable by g1t's own tokens. On the site: a bell in the top bar
1522opening a sheet with tabs (All, Needs you, Errors, Success, Info), Done,
1523Save, Snooze and Mark all read; `/inbox` with Saved, Done and a reason
1524filter; reasons and update counts on each card; a Notifications box on
1525issue 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 sidebar1526Settings → Notifications; a Needs you card on mission control. Agent sits
Docs: inbox threads, reasons, subscriptions, watching, email, API and MCP1527beside the bell, disabled. Still to come: security alerts (the security
Previews build from any branch; Agent in place of Ask AI; pin from the sidebar1528service publishes no event yet), email digests and push, Agent, and
Docs: inbox threads, reasons, subscriptions, watching, email, API and MCP1529channels.
Docs: the inbox, what lands in it and why, its tabs and actions1530
Plan: the inbox, then channels and apps, instead of discussions1531**Channels** (working name): workspace channels, direct messages and
1532threads, live.
1533
1534- Each channel is a Durable Object holding its WebSocket connections with
1535 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-agent1536- Agents are members. `@g1t` in a channel starts work, answers, or
Plan: the inbox, then channels and apps, instead of discussions1537 posts a summary; agents post their questions and handoffs where people
1538 already are. A thread becomes an issue or an outcome in one action, and
1539 the agent's progress streams into that thread.
1540- Tied to the work: issues, pull requests, runs and deploys each have a
1541 thread; links unfurl into live cards (checks, agent step, preview).
1542 What a channel settles can become workspace memory, with its source.
1543- Apps: an installable PWA first (desktop and mobile, offline shell, Web
1544 Push), then native shells on the same API: Tauri for desktop (tray,
1545 deep links), React Native for iOS and Android (background
1546 notifications).
1547
1548GitHub-style Discussions are not planned: channels and threads on the
1549work replace them.
1550
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1551## What GitHub ships today, and where g1t differs
1552
1553GitHub's Agent HQ and Copilot app give each agent session its own git
1554worktree and branch, list sessions in a mission-control view grouped by
1555project, and let a task be assigned to several agents so their output can be
1556compared. Underneath, the unit of work is still a branch and a pull request.
1557
1558| | GitHub | g1t |
1559| --- | --- | --- |
1560| 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 |
1561| 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 attempts1562| 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 attempts1563| Collisions between agents | Found as merge conflicts at the end | Flagged during the work (overlap radar) |
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1564| 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 attempts1565| Which agents | Those offered through a Copilot subscription | Any MCP client, plus hosted agents |
1566
1567## How agents connect
1568
15691. **Bring your own agent.** A remote MCP server at `mcp.g1t.sh` lets Claude
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1570 Code (or any MCP client) list issues, claim one, get a clone URL and
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1571 token, report progress and submit. Adding it is one command; sign-in is a
1572 browser OAuth flow with no token to paste. The `g1t` CLI installs Claude
1573 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-agent15742. **g1t's agent.** Assign an issue to g1t, or many issues at
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell1575 once, each to an agent of its own. g1t starts a sandbox for each
1576 (Cloudflare Containers), running a coding agent headless against its
1577 own pull request and fork.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts15783. **API and CLI.** Everything above is available at `api.g1t.sh` and
1579 through `g1t`.
1580
1581## Public surfaces
1582
1583| Host | What it serves |
1584| --- | --- |
1585| `g1t.sh` | The site, git over HTTPS, git over SSH |
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell1586| `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 attempts1587| `mcp.g1t.sh` | Remote MCP server over streamable HTTP |
1588
1589g1t is its own OAuth 2.1 authorization server: authorization code with PKCE,
OAuth 2.1 sign-in for MCP clients and other applications1590dynamic client registration that stores nothing (a client id encodes its
1591own registration, so the open endpoint cannot be used to fill a database),
1592discovery metadata and rotating refresh tokens. Still to come: scopes
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1593per resource (`repo:read`, `repo:write`, `issue:write`, `pull:write`).
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1594MCP clients, the CLI (device flow) and third-party apps all use it. Access
1595tokens and SSH keys remain for git itself.
1596
Merge branch 'worktree-agent-a8385d293d42c913a'1597### Workspace aliases (internal, built 2026-10-07)
1598
1599`g1t` is the product; `flagon-io` is Flagon, Inc., the organization that
1600builds it. So nobody mistakes one for the other, `g1t.sh/g1t` leads to
1601`g1t.sh/flagon-io`. That is a workspace alias: a name g1t's staff point at
1602a workspace, kept in identity's `workspace_aliases` (migration 0029, which
1603seeds `g1t`) by the workspace's id, so it follows renames. It is not a
1604customer feature and is not documented for users; staff add and remove
1605aliases on sudo's Aliases page, with a reason, in sudo's audit log. We may
1606give other companies one for a trading name the same way.
1607
1608An alias is resolved wherever an old slug is (identity's `resolve_slug`),
1609so it costs only the not-found path: site pages 301 to the same page under
1610the workspace, the API and MCP run the call again under its slug, package
1611registries 301, and git over HTTPS is answered in place
1612(`resolve_alias`), because pushes do not follow redirects. An alias is
1613never a route, a username or a workspace's slug, and nobody can register
1614it while it exists. `@g1t` stays g1t's agent: mentions link to how the
1615agent works, never to `/g1t`.
1616
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1617## Architecture
1618
1619| Component | Language | Runs on | Responsibility |
1620| --- | --- | --- | --- |
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1621| `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 applications1622| `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 attempts1623| `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. |
1624| `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 shell1625| `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 events1626| `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-agent1627| `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.sh1628| `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 attempts1629| `apps/web` | TypeScript | Worker | Server-rendered site. Holds no data; calls services over RPC. |
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1630| `apps/docs` | TypeScript | Worker (static) | Documentation and the API explorer |
API and MCP server in Rust; a public index at the API root1631| `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 attempts1632| `crates/sshd` | Rust | Container | Git over SSH, bridged to Artifacts |
1633| `crates/merged` | Rust | Container | Trial merges, conflict matrix, landing merges (needs real git; the Artifacts binding is read-only) |
1634| `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 attempts1635| `crates/g1t` | Rust | user's machine | CLI: auth, SSH proxy, Claude Code hooks, issues and pull requests |
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1636
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1637Storage: Artifacts for repositories (one fork per pull request), D1 for accounts
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1638and metadata, R2 for session transcripts and logs, Durable Object SQLite for
1639per-repo coordination state.
1640
1641How the services fit together:
1642
1643- **Each service is its own Worker with its own database.** It deploys,
1644 scales and fails on its own. Callers reach it through a typed RPC binding
1645 to the interface in `packages/contracts`.
1646- **Expected failures are values.** Every call returns a `Result`, so "not
1647 found" or "forbidden" crosses a service boundary as data.
1648- **Side effects travel as events.** A service publishes what happened
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1649 (`git.push`, `issue.opened`, `pull.merged`, …) to the bus and does not
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1650 call other services to react. Each subscriber consumes from its own queue.
1651 Timelines, webhooks and automations read the same stream, which is what
1652 lets something like GitHub Actions be built on top.
1653- **Every read takes the viewer.** Authorization is decided inside the
1654 service that owns the data, not by its callers.
1655
1656The Workers runtime scales request handling on its own, so the edge layer
1657stays in TypeScript. Rust is used where there is real computation or a real
1658protocol to implement.
1659
API and MCP server, Rust identity service, registration, site redesign1660## Languages
1661
1662The site is TypeScript. Everything behind it is Rust, compiled to
API and MCP server in Rust; a public index at the API root1663WebAssembly for Workers and natively for containers and the CLI. Identity, repos, work, events and the API are all Rust. The one exception
1664is the Worker that starts sandboxes, because Cloudflare's Containers
1665library is TypeScript. Rust services speak a
API and MCP server, Rust identity service, registration, site redesign1666small JSON protocol over service bindings (`POST /rpc/<method>`), with the
1667types in `crates/contracts`.
1668
1669## Identifiers
1670
1671Every id is a [TypeID](https://github.com/jetify-com/typeid): a prefix naming
1672the kind of thing, then a UUIDv7 in lowercase base32, such as
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1673`pr_01jb2k7x9hfq0b3zj0f5s2m8ra`.
API and MCP server, Rust identity service, registration, site redesign1674
1675- The prefix makes an id self-describing and stops ids of different kinds
1676 being mixed up.
1677- Ids sort by creation time as plain strings. In SQLite (D1 and Durable
1678 Objects) that keeps inserts at the end of the primary-key index instead of
1679 scattering them, and gives time-ordered paging for free.
1680- The suffix decodes to a standard UUIDv7 for any system that wants one.
1681- Ids are made by the service that creates the record, not by the database,
1682 so they work across services and can be assigned before a write.
1683
1684## Events at scale, and audit
1685
1686The current event log is a single D1 database. That is fine for a
1687prototype and wrong for the target: D1 is one writer and 10 GB. The design
1688for volume splits storage by how the data is read.
1689
1690| Tier | Store | Holds | Read by |
1691| --- | --- | --- | --- |
1692| Hot | A Durable Object per repository, with SQLite | Recent events for that repo | Timelines, live pages over WebSocket |
1693| Complete | Cloudflare Pipelines into R2 as Apache Iceberg | Every event, forever, partitioned by day and workspace | Analytics, standups, "ask", export |
1694| Audit | The same R2 store, under object lock | Who did what, from where, with which credential | Compliance, investigation |
1695
1696- **No single hot database.** Each repository's recent events live with that
1697 repository, so load spreads across as many objects as there are repos.
1698- **The complete record is files, not rows.** Iceberg on R2 has no practical
1699 size limit and is queried with SQL.
1700- **Audit is a property of every event.** The envelope carries the actor
1701 (person, agent, token or system), the credential used, the request id and
1702 the source address. Audit entries for a workspace are hash-chained, so a
1703 removed or altered entry is detectable, and are written under a retention
1704 lock.
1705- **Delivery is at least once.** Consumers are idempotent on the event id.
1706
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1707## Accounts and forge basics
1708
1709- Registration with email verification, sign-in, forgot password (Cloudflare
1710 Email Sending), Turnstile on public forms.
1711- GitHub sign-in, SSH keys, access tokens, active sessions.
1712- Profiles, public and private repositories, repository search (D1 full-text).
1713- Rendered README, syntax highlighting, commit history, diffs.
Invite-only launch: sign in with GitHub, repository access and lifecycle, many emails, a new look1714- Transferring a repository between workspaces (by id: its git store key
1715 never moves; every service follows `repo.transferred`; old paths redirect
1716 until reused) and deleting an empty, settled workspace (its slug is
1717 tombstoned, never reissued except to the person whose username it is).
Merge main (membership, two-factor, GitHub repo roles) into tokens1718- Access: five repository roles (Read, Triage, Write, Maintain, Admin;
1719 the capability table follows GitHub's repository roles, 2026-10-08:
1720 branch protection and rulesets are Admin, labels and milestones are made
1721 with Write and applied with Triage, security alerts are Write), a
1722 workspace base permission (Read for new workspaces), the creator of a
1723 repository given Admin on it, outside collaborators and invitations.
1724 Membership as GitHub's organizations have it (2026-10-08): owners and
1725 members, promote and demote, transfer ownership, leave, a last-owner
1726 guard; billing manager and security manager on top of member; member
1727 privileges (who creates public and private repositories, whether
1728 repository admins change visibility, delete and transfer, and invite
1729 outside collaborators); two-factor authentication (TOTP and recovery
1730 codes) and a workspace policy that requires it, holding non-compliant
1731 people out until they turn it on. Every membership change, token, SSH
1732 key, OAuth grant and two-factor change is in the audit log. Teams are built on it (2026-10-07): visible
Teams and CODEOWNERS, labels and milestones, dependency updates, the security suite, and a clearer top bar1733 or secret, nested up to 8 levels (child teams inherit their parents'
1734 roles), run by maintainers and owners. A team's role on a repository is a
1735 `repo_grants` row whose principal is the team, which identity resolves
1736 into the same `RepoGrant`s on each person, so `access::can` needs nothing
1737 new: the highest role wins. `@workspace/team` mentions tell the team's
1738 people; a team asked to review either asks everyone or picks people by
1739 round robin or load balance.
1740- CODEOWNERS, read in both conventions (single-section, and sections with
1741 approval counts, optional sections and default owners) from the first of
1742 `.g1t/`, `.github/`, the root, `docs/` and `.gitlab/`. Owners are asked to
1743 review, the `g1t / codeowners` status lints a changed file, and branch
1744 protection's "Require review from code owners" holds merges, for people,
1745 agents and the queue alike, until each owning rule is approved.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1746
1747## Built on Cloudflare
1748
1749| Need | Product |
1750| --- | --- |
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1751| Repositories; a fork per pull request; data residency per workspace | Artifacts (forks, jurisdictions) |
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1752| Reacting to pushes | Artifacts event subscriptions on Queues |
Plan: a repository that maintains itself, and deployments on g1t.page1753| Preview URL per pull request; deploy on merge | Workers for Platforms on `g1t.page` |
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1754| Site, API, MCP, git front end | Workers |
1755| Per-repo coordination, live updates | Durable Objects |
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1756| Pull request lifecycles, automations | Workflows, Cron Triggers |
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1757| Agent sandboxes, SSH server, merge engine | Sandbox SDK and Containers |
1758| Fast starts on large repos | ArtifactFS |
1759| Model traffic, spend, budgets | AI Gateway |
1760| Summaries, embeddings | Workers AI |
1761| Context hub search | Vectorize |
1762| Accounts and metadata | D1 |
1763| Transcripts and logs | R2 |
1764| Email, bot protection, keys | Email Sending, Turnstile, Secrets Store |
1765
Running g1t yourself: the design, a docker compose proof, and a guide to what works today1766## Running g1t yourself
1767
1768g1t.sh runs on Cloudflare, and that does not change. The core is MIT and
1769must also run on anyone's own machine with `docker compose up`. A free
1770core people can self-host is what makes paid hosting worth trusting.
1771Self-hosting never makes hosted worse: hosted code paths keep their
1772behaviour, and a self-hosted adapter sits beside the hosted one. The
1773inventory of every Cloudflare dependency, the design and the risks are in
1774[SELF_HOSTING.md](SELF_HOSTING.md).
1775
1776The approach: the Workers stay Workers, and self-hosted they run in
1777workerd, the open-source Workers runtime. D1, KV and Queues are SQLite on a
1778volume, with the same migrations. Cloudflare-only bindings are replaced
1779by stand-ins:
1780
1781- Artifacts becomes bare repositories served by `git http-backend`;
1782- Email Sending becomes SMTP, through Mailpit;
1783- services that are off answer "off" instead of failing.
1784
1785| Phase | Scope | Estimate |
1786| --- | --- | --- |
1787| 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 |
1788| 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 |
1789| 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 |
1790| 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 |
1791
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1792## The submission
1793
1794- **g1t is built on g1t.** This repository is hosted on g1t.sh, its features
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1795 are opened as issues and built by racing agents, and it deploys from
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1796 Artifacts through Workers Builds. The history is the proof.
Issues and pull requests replace intents and attempts1797- **The demo follows one story.** A brief becomes a project; twelve issues
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1798 fan out to dozens of agents; agents notice each other, hand off, and
1799 resolve a conflict; reviewers triage; the queue lands everything on
1800 `main`; why-blame explains a line; the portfolio shows where it all
1801 stands. Then the same thing at a thousand agents.
1802- **Judges can try it in a minute.** Open registration on g1t.sh, one-click
1803 import of a GitHub repo, one command to connect Claude Code, a seeded demo
1804 workspace, and a single deploy command for running their own copy.
1805- **The formats are open.** The commit trailers, session format and runner
1806 contract are published so other tools can interoperate.
1807
1808## Build order
1809
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell1810What is left is ordered by how much it shows the point above, not by forge
1811parity. Forge basics are done well enough; each item below should make the
1812demo's story stronger.
1813
Plan: what is done from the agent-first list, and what is next1814Done from this list: the outcome page (a plan's issues as a live graph with
1815cost and a feed of what happened), coordination you can see (agents' issues
1816and comments stand out in the feed; agents hold g1t's tools through a token
1817scoped to one repository), steering a running agent (messages delivered
1818between steps, and at the end), and recording sessions from anyone's own
Plan: integrations are in1819Claude Code (`curl -fsSL https://g1t.sh/install/claude.sh | sh`). Integrations are
1820in: a workspace's own model provider (Anthropic or any Anthropic-compatible
Prices are what g1t pays plus 20%, from the first second1821endpoint, reached through a model proxy so no sandbox holds a key; its
1822runs pay only their sandbox time), alerts from Sentry, Datadog and signed webhooks
Plan: integrations are in1823that open one issue per problem and can start an agent, and Jira and Linear
1824tickets that agents read, people import, and that hear back. Racing a
Plan: what is done from the agent-first list, and what is next1825set number of agents on one issue is dropped: choosing how many agents to
1826use is not something people should have to do.
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell1827
Agents asked while not at work are woken to answer18281. ~~**Handoffs and questions between agents** as states on the outcome
1829 page.~~ Done: questions and handoffs show as waiting, read, answered,
1830 taken on or declined; since 2026-10-03 an agent asked while it is not at
1831 work is woken to answer, where before the question waited forever.
Plan: a repository that maintains itself, and deployments on g1t.page18322. **Upkeep agents** (above): dependency updates, secret scanning,
1833 vulnerability alerts, code scanning, the security page. No new
1834 infrastructure.
18353. **Deployments on `g1t.page`** (above): previews per pull request,
1836 production on merge, the reviewer agent checking the preview.
18374. **The large run, building 2 and 3.** About 20–30 issues on g1t itself,
1838 built by agents and landed through the queue, for the video: g1t built
1839 on g1t.
18405. **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 next1841 empty states, and the first-run path from sign-up to an outcome landing.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1842
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell1843Earlier items still open, after those:
1844
Teams and CODEOWNERS, labels and milestones, dependency updates, the security suite, and a clearer top bar18451. Deleting a branch once its pull request merges; risk tiers. (Approval
1846 rules per path are in, as CODEOWNERS.)
Merge main (membership, two-factor, GitHub repo roles) into tokens18472. Event storage per the design above: per-repo hot log, Iceberg on R2,
API and MCP server in Rust; a public index at the API root1848 hash-chained audit.
Merge main (membership, two-factor, GitHub repo roles) into tokens18493. CLI with Claude Code hooks to record sessions automatically.
18504. Reviewing and catching up automatically, by policy; required reviews;
Agents as a team: lifecycle, merge queue, billing and a new shell1851 risk tiers.
Merge main (membership, two-factor, GitHub repo roles) into tokens18525. Compare view, proof bundles; handoff between agents.
18536. Projects, mission control, steering; why-blame, digest, timeline.
18547. Context hub, portfolio; automations and integrations (Sentry first).
18558. SSH; bot protection; own keys, endpoints and runners.
18569. Large run (100+ agents across many issues), hardening, demo.
185710. Passkeys (WebAuthn) as a second factor and for signing in: feasible on
1858 Workers (P-256 and RS256 verification in Rust, or WebCrypto), next
1859 after TOTP. Then fine-grained tokens, deploy keys and package access.
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1860
Merge main (membership, two-factor, GitHub repo roles) into tokens1861Later: code search, mirroring to GitHub, SSH
Initial g1t: services, event bus, intents and attempts1862on port 22 without the CLI proxy (needs the Workers inbound TCP private
1863beta).

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