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Projects live: fixes from walking them end to end6d ago		1	# Contributing to g1t
		2
		3	g1t is built the way it asks others to build: issues and pull requests on
Fast pages, required checks on the branch, self-hosted runners, honest incidents5d ago		4	[g1t.sh/flagon-io/g1t](https://g1t.sh/flagon-io/g1t), required checks that prove
		5	a change works, and a merge queue that keeps `main` passing.
Projects live: fixes from walking them end to end6d ago		6
		7	## A change ships with its docs
		8
		9	Documentation is part of the product, held to the same bar as the code.
		10	A pull request that changes what someone can do, see or call changes the
		11	docs in the same pull request:
		12
		13	| If you change | Update |
		14	| --- | --- |
		15	| Something a person does on g1t.sh | The guide for it in `apps/docs/src/content/docs/guides/` |
		16	| An API route, a field, or an MCP tool | `apps/api/src/operations.rs` descriptions (they feed the OpenAPI document and the API reference), the example and notes for it in `apps/api/src/reference.json`, `reference/mcp.md`, and any guide that shows the call. Then refresh the docs' copy of the OpenAPI document with `G1T_WRITE_OPENAPI=1 cargo test -p g1t-api openapi`; `cargo test` fails until you do. |
g1t is one name: its agent's work, commits and comments show as @g1t, and nobody can claim g1t or g1t-agent4d ago		17	| How agents behave | `guides/working-with-g1t.md`, and `apps/web/public/llms.txt` |
Projects live: fixes from walking them end to end6d ago		18	| Settings, limits or prices | The page that names them, and the table it is in |
		19	| A new feature | A section in the guide that owns it, linked from the docs home if it is a new task |
		20
		21	The style, in short: plain sentences, second person, no marketing words,
		22	sentence-case headings, a numbered list for steps, a table for options, and
		23	every API mention with its exact route or tool name. Examples are copyable
		24	and real. Nothing is documented that the code does not do.
		25
		26	Check the docs build before you push:
		27
		28	```sh
		29	cd apps/docs && npm run build
		30	```
		31
Invite-only launch: sign in with GitHub, repository access and lifecycle, many emails, a new look5d ago		32	## Icons
		33
		34	- **Interface icons come from [Lucide](https://lucide.dev/icons).** In the
		35	apps, import them from `lucide-react`. In the docs, use `@lucide/astro`:
		36	import an icon component, or give `apps/docs/src/components/Card.astro`
		37	and `Aside.astro` a Lucide name such as `icon="git-branch"`. Starlight's
		38	own `<Card>`, `<LinkCard>` and `<Aside>` draw Starlight's icon set, so the
		39	docs import the wrappers in `apps/docs/src/components/` instead.
		40	- **Brand marks come from [Simple Icons](https://simpleicons.org)**
		41	(`simple-icons`), and follow each brand's own usage guidelines. Add the
		42	dependency with the first one you show.
		43	- **The g1t logo and illustrations are our own artwork**, in
		44	`apps/web/app/components/logo.tsx` and `art.tsx`.
		45	- Never hand-copy an icon's SVG paths into a file. If Lucide lacks the
		46	icon you need, pick the closest one that it has.
		47
CONTRIBUTING says how the site's interface is built: from the shadcn components in apps/web/app/components/ui, themed with g1t's tokens, adding a missing one there first, changing looks through variants rather than one-off class strings, and looking at every changed page in both themes on a desktop and a phone.23h ago		48	## Interface components
		49
		50	- **Build the site from the components in `apps/web/app/components/ui`**,
		51	which are [shadcn/ui](https://ui.shadcn.com) components themed with
		52	g1t's tokens: buttons, cards, badges, tables, tabs, separators,
		53	breadcrumbs, menus, dialogs, sheets, tooltips, form controls.
		54	- **If shadcn has a component you need and `ui` doesn't, add it there**
		55	first, themed with the tokens, then use it. Don't rebuild it inline.
		56	- **Change how something looks through the component's variants**, not
		57	with a one-off class string at the call site. A long `className` on a
		58	`div` that draws a card, a pill or a button is a component that should
		59	exist.
		60	- Hover hints use the `Tooltip` component, never `title=`. Native
		61	`<select>`, file inputs, checkboxes and radios use their `ui`
		62	components.
Agents have faces, and are never mistaken for people. Every agent wears a little bot face drawn from a look it owns, shape, colour, eyes, mouth, antenna, accessory and pattern, chosen in its builder and on its Profile tab with a live preview, Shuffle and a way back to the face its seed gives it; the face blinks on its own time, breathes, narrows its eyes while the agent works, shuts them asleep and bounces when it finishes, all of it still for anyone who asked for less motion. Wherever an agent shows, in chat, in a list, on a mention, on a review or a commit, its avatar carries an agent marker, and the people reading it are told so. In Chat, direct messages are two lists: People, and Agents, which also holds the agents you haven't talked to yet; a conversation with both a person and an agent in it is marked in the list, named in the conversation's header, spelled out by the composer and explained once the first time it opens. Agents keep their look in the agents service, which every service passes along. The chat and agents guides say so, and CONTRIBUTING makes the shared avatar the only way to draw an agent.10h ago		63	- **Every avatar is `Avatar`** (`ui/avatar.tsx`), and every agent's is
		64	`Avatar` with `agent` set, or `AgentAvatar` (`components/agent-avatar.tsx`),
		65	which wraps it. That draws the agent's bot face (`AgentFace`,
		66	`components/agent-face.tsx`) from its `look` or its `avatar_seed`, puts
		67	the agent marker in its corner and names it "…, agent" to a screen
		68	reader. Never hand-draw an agent's face, a sparkle, a letter on a tile or
		69	the marker at a call site: a place that shows an agent differently is a
		70	bug.
CONTRIBUTING says how the site's interface is built: from the shadcn components in apps/web/app/components/ui, themed with g1t's tokens, adding a missing one there first, changing looks through variants rather than one-off class strings, and looking at every changed page in both themes on a desktop and a phone.23h ago		71	- Look at every page you change, in light and dark, on a desktop and a
		72	phone, before calling it done.
		73
Projects live: fixes from walking them end to end6d ago		74	## Before you push
		75
		76	- `cargo test` in the crate or service you changed.
		77	- `npx tsc -b --force` in `apps/web` (the incremental build misses changes
		78	in `packages/contracts`).
		79	- Look at what you changed in a browser. Screenshots catch what type
		80	checks do not.
Deploys as code: a manifest of every Worker, a deploy tool that ships only what changed in parallel stages, and a g1t Actions workflow5d ago		81
		82	## Deploying
		83
		84	Pushes to `main` deploy themselves: `.g1t/workflows/deploy.yml` runs
		85	`scripts/deploy.mjs`, which deploys only the parts that changed, migrations
		86	first. Every deployable part is listed in `deploy/stack.jsonc`; a new service
The docs folder is gone, and what it held lives where people read it: how a self-hosted g1t runs and how to deploy g1t to Cloudflare are pages on docs.g1t.sh under Run g1t yourself, and speed, rate limits and operating g1t.sh are sections of CONTRIBUTING.md; code that cited a file in docs/ now points to the page or section that covers it, or says what it means itself, and applied migrations and the runner images are left as they were.1d ago		87	or app goes there, and in the table on
		88	[How a self-hosted g1t runs](https://docs.g1t.sh/guides/self-hosting-architecture/#each-part)
		89	(`npm run test:deploy` says what is missing).
		90	[Deploy g1t to Cloudflare](https://docs.g1t.sh/guides/deploy-to-cloudflare/)
		91	covers the tool, the workflow, rollbacks, adding a unit and first-time
		92	setup.
		93
		94	- **Migrations run before the code**, so the old code reads the new schema
		95	for a minute or more. Add tables and columns; change what rows mean in
		96	two deploys (code that reads both forms first); never drop what live code
		97	still reads.
		98	- **The self-hosted runner** is released, not deployed: bump `version` in
		99	`crates/runner/Cargo.toml`, merge, and push a `runner-v<version>` tag.
		100	`.g1t/workflows/runner-release.yml` builds, signs and publishes it, and
		101	runners update themselves to it. `scripts/runner-release.mjs` does the
		102	same by hand.
preparing for cloud work9h ago		103	- **The desktop app** is released the same way: bump `version` in
		104	`apps/desktop/src-tauri/Cargo.toml`, merge, and push a
		105	`desktop-v<version>` tag. `.g1t/workflows/desktop-release.yml` builds
		106	the installers (Windows and Linux on Linux; macOS on a Mac runner when
		107	one is registered), signs the updater's files and publishes them, and
		108	installed apps update themselves. `scripts/desktop-release.mjs` does the
		109	same by hand. The app loads the live site, so a change to the site needs
		110	no release; only a change under `apps/desktop` does. The guide is
		111	[The desktop app](https://docs.g1t.sh/guides/desktop/).
The docs folder is gone, and what it held lives where people read it: how a self-hosted g1t runs and how to deploy g1t to Cloudflare are pages on docs.g1t.sh under Run g1t yourself, and speed, rate limits and operating g1t.sh are sections of CONTRIBUTING.md; code that cited a file in docs/ now points to the page or section that covers it, or says what it means itself, and applied migrations and the runner images are left as they were.1d ago		112
		113	## Speed
		114
		115	Pages are a few rounds of service calls, and each round costs a trip to
		116	the databases, so start calls together and add no rounds.
		117
		118	- Every page answers with `Server-Timing`: each loader, each service's
		119	calls and their database time. Look at it in DevTools when a page feels
		120	slow.
		121	- `scripts/perf/measure.ps1` times pages from your machine (`-BrowserUA`
		122	for signed-out pages as a browser sees them). A page that only reads
		123	must not set the `g1t_d1` cookie: a new read-only service method goes in
		124	`READS` in `apps/web/app/lib/perf.ts`.
		125	- Targets from the US: signed-out pages under 200 ms to first byte,
		126	signed-in pages under 400 ms, streamed panels within a second.
		127	- Workers run without Smart Placement; `scripts/perf/placement-probe.mjs`
		128	measures a placement before you pin one.
A doc opens at once: the page carries the document's saved state, so the editor mounts without waiting for its live room, which connects in the background and sends only what changed, with a quiet dot that turns green when it's synced; edits made before then are kept and sent once. The editor's code is preloaded from the page and fetched early when you hover a doc, the app's shared code ships in a few chunks instead of a hundred small ones, socket tickets come with the page instead of a round trip, and the artifacts service answers a page, a sidebar and a room in parallel lookups instead of a dozen in a row, reporting its database round trips in Server-Timing. The artifacts guide says how a doc opens, and CONTRIBUTING's Speed section has the numbers.21h ago		129	- A TypeScript service reports its database time too (`db;dur`, from
		130	`openD1` in `@g1t/contracts`): the round trips a method makes are what
		131	it costs, so start them together (`Promise.all`), keep what never
		132	changes across requests in the isolate (the artifacts service keeps a
		133	workspace's slug for 30 s and whether its General space exists), and
		134	don't wake a Durable Object for a read D1 can answer.
		135	- Nothing live gates a page. A page carries what it shows (a doc's text
		136	and its saved document), opens its sockets as it hydrates rather than
		137	from inside the code they feed, keeps what is typed until they answer,
		138	and says so with a dot, never a spinner. A page opened with an access
		139	token gets its socket tickets with the page (the root loader mints the
		140	feed's, an artifact's loader its room's) rather than asking for each.
		141	- Code that only the browser runs (the doc editor) is still fetched with
		142	the page: `vite.config.ts` notes the chunk and what it imports for the
		143	route's `links`, and a link to such a page warms the chunk on hover.
		144	Modules several routes share are grouped by who shares them
		145	(`codeSplitting.groups`), so a page fetches tens of files, not a
		146	hundred and more. Before this, opening a doc fetched 124 files
		147	(1,049 KB) in three waves and the editor appeared at 2.8–3.3 s; a doc
		148	now fetches 71 files (1,026 KB) in one wave, and against the deployed
		149	services the editor appears at 2.1 s, of which the room's answer is
A doc saved before g1t kept documents with the page opens as fast as any other from its second open: the page asks its room for the document once, sends it with the page and keeps it on the row, instead of leaving the editor to wait for the room's first message. The artifacts guide says so, and CONTRIBUTING's Speed section has today's measurements on g1t.sh and what is still to cut.11h ago		150	0.65 s and the editor's own start 0.4 s. With the saved document in the
		151	page, measured on g1t.sh signed in (2026-10-10, warm, 1440×900), the
		152	editor appears at 1.5 s: first byte 0.53 s, scripts by 0.75 s, the
		153	editor's own start the rest. A doc without a saved document (one last
		154	saved before documents were kept) waited for its room's first message
		155	instead, 0.9 s after the socket opened, and appeared at 2.0–2.5 s; the
		156	page now asks the room once and keeps the answer, so only its first
		157	open pays. Still to cut: the live socket's four service calls before
		158	the room answers, the page and sidebar's 27 database round trips in two
		159	calls, the root loader's billing and identity calls (0.7–1.3 s and
		160	0.45 s inside), and the 3.4 MB of script a doc page decodes.
The docs folder is gone, and what it held lives where people read it: how a self-hosted g1t runs and how to deploy g1t to Cloudflare are pages on docs.g1t.sh under Run g1t yourself, and speed, rate limits and operating g1t.sh are sections of CONTRIBUTING.md; code that cited a file in docs/ now points to the page or section that covers it, or says what it means itself, and applied migrations and the runner images are left as they were.1d ago		161
		162	## Rate limits
		163
		164	`RATE_LIMITS` in `packages/contracts/src/rate-limits.ts` is the table of
		165	record, and the [rate limits page](https://docs.g1t.sh/reference/rate-limits/)
		166	is the public one: change both, and the binding in the Worker's
		167	`wrangler.jsonc`, together (`front-door-limits.test.ts` fails when they
		168	disagree). Limits fail open, keys hash anything secret, and each Worker
		169	takes its namespace ids from its own block of a hundred (41xx packages,
		170	42xx web, 43xx repos, 44xx api, 45xx og, 46xx status).
		171
		172	## Operating g1t.sh
		173
		174	For Flagon staff.
		175
		176	- **Incidents** are declared, updated and resolved in sudo, under
		177	**Platform → Incidents**, and appear on status.g1t.sh within 30 seconds.
		178	Declare as soon as people are affected, and pick the higher severity
		179	when unsure. SEV1 (down for most people, or data at risk) gets an update
		180	at least every 30 minutes and SEV2 (a core part broken for many) at least
		181	hourly; both email subscribers and need a blameless postmortem within
		182	five working days.
The artifacts service is services/artifacts, the Worker g1t-artifacts, bound as ARTIFACTS by the API, the site and the agents; its live rooms move to it with a Durable Object transfer from g1t-docs-service, and its database, bucket, indexes and queue keep their names. The git store's binding and settings are GITSTORE, its ops scripts gitstore-*, and workflow run artifacts keep their compatible API under run_artifacts modules. The deploy tool puts a Worker that has never deployed before the Workers in its stage that bind to it, and the deploy guide gives the cutover runbook.23h ago		183	- **An Artifacts outage:** `scripts/ops/gitstore-namespaces.mjs` shows a
The docs folder is gone, and what it held lives where people read it: how a self-hosted g1t runs and how to deploy g1t to Cloudflare are pages on docs.g1t.sh under Run g1t yourself, and speed, rate limits and operating g1t.sh are sections of CONTRIBUTING.md; code that cited a file in docs/ now points to the page or section that covers it, or says what it means itself, and applied migrations and the runner images are left as they were.1d ago		184	failing namespace. After 15 minutes, serve it read-only from the fallback
		185	git store (`scripts/ops/restore-to-gitstore.mjs restore`, then the repos
		186	Worker's secret `GIT_FALLBACK_NAMESPACES`) and open an incident. To
		187	switch back, `reconcile` anything the fallback took, then delete the
		188	secret. The script's header has every step.
		189	- **Costs and margin**, model prices, credits and the platform pause are
		190	in sudo, under **Costs & margin**. The code is in `services/billing/src`
		191	(`costs.rs`, `margin.rs`, `pricing.rs`, `budget.rs`, `platform.rs`).

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