fix(git): name what the remaining spawns cost, and gate that the doc keeps saying it

[wenzowski]

CLOUD-320's third acceptance clause: "where a verdict is 'stays' for a reason
that is a cost rather than a constraint, it says so in those words." Its §1
names git.rs's module doc as the durable home for that. The paragraph there
recorded only the capability half, and a later session read this file,
concluded the two-backend split was permanent, and wrote that into an issue and
a milestone.

What changed in the doc. Each remaining spawn now names the open row that
would move it (CLOUD-738 refs and object reads, CLOUD-739 patch identity,
CLOUD-740 the status reads and the terminal no-invoker assertion), and the
residual names its price: git2 is capable — Diff::patchid() included — and
barred by macos-link-check rule 1 through libgit2-sys's links key, through
the SDK-free zig Darwin build, through GitHub billing macOS runners at 10x on a
private repository. That clause expires; CLOUD-737 owns the re-decision
behind CLOUD-585.

Two sentences went, because they were the false framing rather than a summary of
it. "Migrating buys nothing an agent can observe" was written while all three
of those rows sat cancelled — taken off the board inside 75 seconds on
2026-08-20 and reopened today. "Risk with no return" describes a row whose own
§2 gate is a differential test against the implementation it replaces.

The gate. every_stays_shelled_out_claim_names_its_price — the module doc
may not claim a spawn stays without naming git2 and the two rows that own the
price. It cannot check that a stated reason is true; it checks that a reason with
an owner is present, which is the failure that actually happened. Shown able to
fail by dropping the citation.

mise run verify green.

Refs: CLOUD-320

---

Closes CLOUD-320. Its three acceptance clauses now resolve: every inventory row
carries a verdict, the git.rs verdict is in-process through the three slices
named above, and the third clause — a cost named as a cost — is this diff, in the
file §1 names as its home. Those slices are separate issues by that row's own §3
("any row that later moves in-process is its own issue"), so they carry their own
acceptance and close themselves by landing.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation

  • Clarified which Git operations remain temporary and documented planned follow-up work.
  • Added details about the build, linking, platform, and private-repository considerations of the current Git integration.
  • Documented when the approach should be reevaluated and the conditions for considering future alternatives.

• Tests

  • Added validation to ensure the Git integration documentation remains complete, accurate, and up to date.

[linear-code]

CLOUD-780 Drop `worktrees` and `stash_create` rather than keep a spawn path gix cannot replace — the pileup gate and `worktree reclaim` retire with them

Why

git.rs's module doc (:50-51) records the one reason two functions stay spawned:

worktrees and stash_create stay because git is the authority: gix has no prunable concept and no stash API at all.

CLOUD-740 was cancelled on that measurement, and CLOUD-742 recorded the consequence — a git.rs that is two-backend with no expiry date attached.

The standing strategy decides it the other way, 2026-08-20: gix for everything gix can do; where it cannot, implement less rather than keep a spawn path. So the two functions go, and the features built on them go with them. This is a deliberate capability loss, priced below, not a refactor.

What is deleted

crates/batten/src/git.rs

Symbol	Line	Why it goes
worktrees + Worktree	:860-943	needs prunable, which gix has no concept of
stash_create	:961	gix has no stash API
update_ref	:976	one caller, worktree::reclaim:416
worktree_remove	:1035	one caller, reclaim; its own doc says it "names that caller rather than reading as a general-purpose verb"

resolve_ref stays — baseline reads it too.

crates/batten/src/worktree.rs

• pileup (:292), Pileup (:234), Piled (:219)
• reclaim (:387), Reclaimed (:349), Outcome (:327), any_refused (:447)
• AtRisk::pileup (:487), and its arms in AtRisk::any and AtRisk::lines
• WorktreeConfig::pileup_threshold (:209) — the struct's only field, so WorktreeConfig and the [worktree] table go with it

crates/batten/src/lib.rs — WorktreeCommand::Reclaim (:205), run_worktree_reclaim (:601-637), and both pileup_threshold reads (:566, :1790).

Elsewhere — surface.rs:1473 (the worktree reclaim row), batten.toml:128-146 (the [worktree] block), and the derived artifacts: schema/batten.schema.json, schema/batten.local.schema.json, completions, man page.

The capability loss, stated as a deliberate trade

1. Stop-gate pileup detection goes. stop.rs:176 calls worktree::status, and AtRisk.pileup is the one machine-level signal it carries — "N worktree(s) dirty and unreapable". That was CLOUD-46's whole deliverable and this reverses it.

What survives is the four per-checkout categories status computes without git::worktrees: uncommitted, unpushed, no_upstream, unlanded. So the stop gate keeps every fact about the work in front of the reader and loses the one about the machine around it. An agent can still run git worktree list on its own initiative; what is gone is Batten answering the question.

2. worktree reclaim goes, and its snapshot with it. This is what makes the trade safe rather than merely smaller. Reclaim was the crate's only destructive path, and the whole interlock — stash_create, update_ref, verify the ref resolves, then worktree_remove, in that order — existed to protect it. Retiring the verb retires the hazard: nothing is left removing a worktree without a snapshot, because nothing is left removing a worktree.

A partial drop would not have this property. Keeping reclaim while dropping stash_create would leave a destructive path with its interlock removed, which is strictly worse than either end state. That is why the answer is all four symbols or none.

What this does not do

It does not reach CLOUD-740's terminal deliverable. query, query_bytes and query_optional stay, with the sixteen ad-hoc callers CLOUD-742 counts, so the crate still spawns git.

What changes is the reason. After this, no spawn in git.rs exists because gix lacks the API; every remaining one is unported rather than unportable. That is the property that makes the backend swappable at all, and it is what CLOUD-737's re-decision needs to be a real choice rather than a partial one.

Ordering

Land before CLOUD-742. Both edit git.rs; this one deletes and that one ports, so deleting first shrinks the port's surface. They touch disjoint functions, so a collision would be mechanical rather than semantic.

Refinement — Ready (2026-08-20)

• Source of truth (§1). crates/batten/src/git.rs's module doc: the "stays because git is the authority" paragraph is rewritten to record this verdict and its date, which is what CLOUD-320's acceptance requires of a verdict reached on a cost. The deletion set above is the scope; no other module changes behaviour.
• Computable predicate (§2). mise run verify green with the deletion set gone, plus an assertion that no gix-gap primitive survives — a search for stash, prunable or worktree_remove under crates/batten/src returns zero hits outside test fixtures.
• Effect (§3). free on the cost model — this resolves no fact that was not already resolved, and removes four processes the crate could spawn.
• Generated artifacts (§4). Both schema files, the shell completions and the man page regenerate in the same change; all four are drift-gated, so a stale one fails the gate rather than landing.
• Output and exit (§5). worktree reclaim leaves the command surface. worktree status keeps its exit contract and its four surviving categories; its report loses the pileup: lines. The 0/1/2/3 table is unchanged.
• Commit / bump (§6). feat → patch (BREAKING CHANGE: the worktree reclaim verb and the [worktree] config table are removed; below 0.1.0 release-plz produces a patch whatever the type says).
• Test obligation (§7). Every test naming a deleted symbol is deleted with it rather than weakened — git.rs:1866-1900 and the worktree.rs pileup cases. The §2 assertion is shown able to fail by reinstating one deleted function. worktree status's surviving four categories keep their existing cases green with no assertion change, which is what proves the drop was surgical.
• Weakens: waiver-added at waiver[tests-not-deleted] — the deletion moves that ratchet 1850 -> 1834, and the rule's own no_fix_reason names the two exits: restore the tests, or waive the reduction deliberately. Restoring is not one of them here — every case that falls names a symbol that falls with it, which is §7 above — so the waiver is the prescribed answer and this clause is the decision to take it. What must NOT fall is the coverage beside it, and it does not: worktree status's four surviving categories keep every case green with no assertion change.
• Blockers (§8). None.

Filed 2026-08-20 from the subprocess-boundary audit, as the decision CLOUD-740's cancellation left unmade.

CLOUD-320 Inventory the engine's shell-outs and decide which should be in-process

Why now. CLOUD-90 added a third class of shell-out — curl for the
https:// provision fetch — and it was added because measurement forced it,
not because it was the design anyone wanted. That is one shell-out too many to
keep carrying without a written position, so this issue is the inventory and the
decision, before a fourth arrives by the same route.

The measurement that produced the newest one (CLOUD-90, 2026-08-11). No
TLS-capable Rust HTTP client can be linked into this crate:

Candidate	Why it fails macos-link-check
reqwest + default-tls (native-tls)	native-tls, openssl-sys — named framework crates
reqwest + rustls-tls-native-roots	pulls security-framework, security-framework-sys
reqwest + rustls-tls-webpki-roots	ring declares a links key (gate rule 1)

The gate exists because the macOS release artifacts are linked on Linux by zig
with no Apple SDK, and it is deliberate. So curl is not a shortcut around a
constraint — it is the only path that satisfies both the constraint and the
acceptance's proxy-CA property, and arguably satisfies the latter better than a
library would, since it is the host's actual TLS stack rather than a
re-implementation of one. House style §9 says the same thing from the other
direction: name a command already on the operator's PATH.

The inventory. Not every shell-out is debt, and conflating them is how the
real one hides:

• By design, not debt. exec.rs (batten exec -- …) and rules.rs's
  command kind run a command the caller named. That is the feature; there is
  nothing to move in-process.
• Debt, load-bearing. git.rs — every git fact is a spawned git with its
  output parsed. It is disciplined (one invoker, gated by
  no_second_git_invoker_exists, environment scrubbed, fixed argv), and it works,
  but it is text-parsing a CLI whose output is version-dependent prose. CLOUD-51
  measured a real instance: rev-parse in ref-printing mode does not consume
  --end-of-options, it echoes it as an output line, so the house pattern
  silently produced "--end-of-options\nrefs/remotes/origin/main" as a resolved
  ref. A library would have made that unrepresentable.
• Debt, new. provision.rs — curl for the https fetch, with --fail
  load-bearing (without it a 404 body is fetched and then reported as a checksum*
  *mismatch, i.e. exit 2 where 3 is correct).
• Debt, fixture-side. The provision TLS test stands up openssl s_server and
  generates key material with openssl req, and is Linux-gated because
  CURL_CA_BUNDLE is an OpenSSL-linked-curl trust surface.
• The whole mise-tasks/ layer is shell by design and out of scope here —
  its migration into the engine is what the DoR §2 amendment already drives, issue
  by issue (CLOUD-50 moved one).

What this issue must decide, per entry: in-process, stays shelled-out with a
stated reason, or blocked on something else. For the two real candidates the
question is concrete:

• git.rs → gix? It is pure Rust, but the links/framework question must be
  measured against macos-link-check first, exactly as CLOUD-90's was — the
  answer is not predictable from the crate's description, and this issue should
  not be refined on an assumption. The measurement is feature-sensitive rather
  than a yes/no on the crate: gix has selectable zlib backends and they differ
  on exactly the property under test — zlib-ng is C and declares a links key,
  zlib-rs does not.

  Correction, 2026-08-19. This bullet previously read "git.rs's
  patch-identity work shells out to git patch-id, which has no library
  equivalent, so a migration may be partial by necessity." That is false, and it
  was load-bearing — it is the sentence that made this entry look undecidable.
  git2::Diff::patchid() exists and has for years (libgit2's
  git_diff_patchid). The true constraint is stronger and is one this issue
  already knows from the provision.rs row: git2 depends on libgit2-sys,
  which declares a links key, so macos-link-check rule 1 excludes it
  outright with no measurement needed. The correct statement is not "no library
  has this" but "the library that has it is barred by the SDK-free macOS build."

  Two consequences for the verdict. First, gix shipping no patch-id verb is
  not a blocker: PatchId (git.rs:161) is only ever compared against ids
  produced by the same binary in the same run — patch_id_index against
  head_index inside landing — and nothing external computes one to compare
  against, so the requirement is a canonical deterministic patch identity, not
  git's. That is re-derivable on gix-diff plus the sha2 already vendored.
  Second, the current approach is already paying for the absence: DIFF_CONFIG
  pins 20 config keys and DIFF_FLAGS 6 flags (git.rs:100-146) purely to stop
  the host's git config from changing the diff bytes, and git.rs's own
  --binary comment concedes the identity is "deterministic for a given zlib but
  not guaranteed across zlib builds". Both costs vanish when the diff is produced
  in-process.

  Prior art, for whoever pulls this. Linking libgit2 through zig with no SDK
  is not something anyone does: libgit2 on macOS needs -framework CoreFoundation -framework Security, zig cannot resolve Darwin frameworks
  without a real SDK (ability to link against darwin frameworks (such as CoreFoundation) when cross compiling ziglang/zig#1349, open since 2018), and cargo-zigbuild's
  documented answer is SDKROOT or its Docker image with an SDK baked in. The
  SDK route is the licensing question release-artifacts.yml already names. The
  third option — a macOS runner — is declined here on cost, not capability
  (release-artifacts.yml:12-14: "GitHub bills macOS runners at 10x … this
  workflow uses neither"), and that is a lever this issue's ledger should record
  as a cost decision rather than a technical constraint. Meanwhile Cargo itself
  carries -Zgitoxide explicitly to replace git2 in full: the largest
  git-in-Rust consumer chose neither libgit2 nor a spawned binary.

• provision.rs → unblocked only if the TLS-linking constraint changes (a
  different macOS build strategy, or a pure-Rust crypto provider with no links
  key reaching production). Until then the honest state is "shelled out, with a
  measured reason", which is what the module documents.

Not in scope: relaxing macos-link-check. That reopens the Apple-SDK
question the gate exists to keep closed and is a separate decision.

Acceptance. Each inventory entry carries a verdict and, where the verdict is
"stays", the measurement that forced it — so the next person who reaches for a
library finds the answer rather than repeating the experiment. Specifically:

• Every row above resolves to exactly one of: in-process; stays shelled-out, with the measurement; or blocked on a named issue. No row is left implicit.
• The git.rs verdict is backed by a run of macos-link-check over a resolved
  gix with a pinned feature set, not by an argument about the crate.
• Where a verdict is "stays" for a reason that is a cost rather than a
  constraint, it says so in those words.

The third acceptance clause is unmet in the file §1 names as its home — measured 2026-08-20

§1 says: "Where a verdict constrains code, its durable home is the module's own*
*doc comment." git.rs's module doc, written by PR #554 (a0c6edb), records the
git.rs row's verdict — and records only the capability and latency halves:
gix has no prunable and no stash API, so git is the authority; and the mediated
path's spawns cost 6.7ms of 100ms, so latency buys no rewrite.

Grepped over the module doc (git.rs:1-90): git2 0, libgit2 0, SDK 0,
runner 0, 10x 0, price 0, public 0, CLOUD-737 0, CLOUD-585 0.

So a reader of git.rs — the durable home — learns that the split is measured,
and does not learn that git2 would close most of the gap, that it is excluded
by a priced decision, or that CLOUD-737 re-decides it when the repo goes
public. This issue's own body has all three ("declined here on cost, not**
capability … a lever this issue's ledger should record as a cost decision rather
**than a technical constraint"); the code comment does not.

The omission propagates, which is how it was found. A session on 2026-08-20
read the module doc and wrote "git.rs is permanently a two-backend module"
into CLOUD-742 and into the fact-model milestone — converting the priced
decision into a technical constraint, in exactly the words this clause forbids.
Both are now corrected and cite CLOUD-737. The doc comment is still the
upstream copy, and PR #554 is open, so this is catchable before it closes.

The fix is one paragraph in the module doc, not a re-decision: state that the
remaining spawns stay under a build strategy priced by private-repo runner
billing, name git2 as capable-but-barred by macos-link-check rule 1, and
point at CLOUD-737 / CLOUD-585. provision.rs is the precedent §1 already
cites for exactly this shape.

And the standing strategy should be stated once, since three issues now assume**
it: gix for everything gix can do; where gix cannot, implement less rather
**than keep a spawn path; re-evaluate git2 when the cost input changes. That
makes the residual concrete rather than rhetorical — the two functions gix cannot
serve are load-bearing, so "implement less" has a named price:

gix gap	serves	kind
worktrees (no prunable)	worktree::pileup (worktree.rs:293)	predicate on the Stop gate
stash_create (no stash API)	worktree.rs:402	effect on a destructive path

Corrected 2026-08-20, same day: an earlier revision of this table listed both**
as "dropping it costs …", which reads as one kind of decision. They are two, and
**only one of them is actually pinned.

worktrees feeds a predicate, and the predicate cannot become a model nudge.
Three reasons, none of them about gix: rule 3 ("gates decide, never estimate …**
**never a model verdict"), and pileup is count >= threshold over a committed
batten.toml key — the canonical gate shape. The nudge surface already exists and
was deliberately built unable to block: a RuleKind::Judge row answers
RuleSeverity::Allow, which the accessor's own doc calls "not a fallback but the*
*accurate statement"*. And the Stop verdict returns before the bypass check
(hook.rs:1705-1714), because "a hatch for one mediated command should not also
*wave through unlanded work" — so it is the most protected verdict in the system,
and a nudge is the least protected intervention available.

But the spawn is not what is pinned — only the deciding is, and that is a
third option this ledger did not carry. claim-check's principle applies:
"agents fetch, gates decide … a pure function of stdin." The pileup gate does
not need git::worktrees() in the crate; it needs a worktree list. Supplied
as a payload, the crate spawns nothing and the gate still decides.

What blocks that today is narrower than "the engine must run git": the Stop**
event has no fetch step. claim-check and graph-check are invoked by the
agent, so there is a fetch to delegate; Event::Stop is invoked by the harness,
so there is not. Give it one — a receipt the agent mints during the turn, or a
pre-Stop resolution — and worktrees() leaves the crate without the feature
**being dropped. That is strictly better than either "keep the spawn" or
"implement less", and it is the option that should be priced first.

stash_create is not a predicate at all — it is an effect, a snapshot taken
before a destructive removal. It decides nothing, so rule 3 does not protect it,
the judge argument does not reach it, and the Stop-gate argument does not apply.
Reclaim is batten-initiated and the area already has a bash half
(mise-tasks/reclaim-census), so nothing in principle stops the snapshot being a
task's or the agent's. The only thing a nudge cannot supply is the interlock
— "snapshot before delete" is worth something only if the delete cannot proceed
without it — and that argues for keeping the ordering inside whatever performs
the removal, not for git::stash_create living in the crate. Move reclaim out
and the interlock moves with it.

So the scope decision is the owner's, but it is one decision, not two: whether
to build the Stop-event fetch step. Reclaim can leave independently and cheaply.

Filed at the user's direction while implementing CLOUD-90, rather than absorbed
into it.

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Refinement — Ready (a verdict per inventory row, each backed by a measurement rather than an argument)

Refinement gate: Definition of Ready & Done. This body carries only specializations.

• Source of truth (§1). The inventory above is the authority for which shell-outs exist, and it stays in this issue rather than being copied into a repo docs/ tree (non-negotiable rule 7, gated by no-docs-tree). Where a verdict constrains code, its durable home is the module's own doc comment — provision.rs already documents its measured reason, and that is the shape the other rows follow. No new config surface and no second list of shell-outs.
• Computable predicate (§2). Per row, the verdict is decided by a command and an exit code, never by a reading: macos-link-check over the dependency graph resolved for aarch64-apple-darwin with the candidate crate and a pinned feature set, then cross-check linking both Darwin triples — because rule 2 of that gate is a hand-maintained list and is incomplete by construction, so a real link is what closes it. A row whose verdict is in-process is only Ready to implement once its measurement has run.
• Effect (§3). This issue lands a decision and doc comments; it changes no verb, no command path, and nothing in the derived read-only allowlist. Any row that later moves in-process is its own issue and declares its own effect there.
• Output & exit (§5). No runtime surface changes, so nothing moves in the output or exit contract. The measurements themselves are gates that already exist and already conform.
• Commit / bump (§6). docs → no bump — issue content plus module doc comments; release-plz releases nothing for a docs change.
• Test obligation (§7). No new test: the deliverable is a decision, and each verdict's evidence is the gate run named in §2, recorded in the row. The one durable assertion is that a row whose verdict is stays carries its measurement in the module doc comment, which no-docs-tree and the existing comment discipline already keep in the code rather than in prose elsewhere. A row that later becomes in-process carries its own test obligation on its own issue.
• Blockers (§8). None — every measurement this needs can be run today. relatedTo CLOUD-718, which is a second measured instance of the git.rs row's failure class (a caller-supplied ref interpolated into an argv string) and informs that row's verdict without deciding it; relatedTo CLOUD-90, whose measurement produced the provision.rs row.

CLOUD-585 Make the repository public: build attestation and three scorecard checks are gated on it

Why

actions/attest-build-provenance is not available for a private repository on this organization's plan, so every release ships unattested. Measured against batten-v0.0.52-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz, digest verified intact first:

gh attestation verify <archive> --repo button-inc/batten
Error: HTTP 404: Not Found
(api.github.com/repos/button-inc/batten/attestations/sha256:deb0c595…41a0)

A control separates the two failure modes: the same endpoint on a repository where the feature is available answers 200 {"attestations":[]} for a digest that has no attestation. A 404 on the resource is the feature being absent for the repository; a 200 with an empty array is the record being absent for the artifact. Only the first is the case here.

Private visibility costs a second thing, independently: curl against a release asset's browser_download_url returns 404, so every consumer and every automated check must hold a credential to read a published artifact.

The decision is already taken — the repository goes public once stable, and the attest step is wired to start succeeding on its own that day with nothing to un-do. What does not exist is the action and a predicate for it.

What lands

The repository's visibility. No commit, no workflow change: release-artifacts.yml already carries the attest step, and CLOUD-258 already ordered it after the upload so a plan-gated step cannot suppress the archives.

Definition of done

• gh api repos/button-inc/batten --jq .private returns false.
• The first release after the flip verifies: gh attestation verify <archive> --repo button-inc/batten exits 0.
• curl -fsSLI against that release's browser_download_url returns 200 with no credential.

Acceptance

• The three commands above, run against the first release published after the change.
• scorecard's Signed-Releases moves off 0 — the same fact from a second instrument.

---

Refinement — Ready

Refinement gate: Definition of Ready & Done. This body carries only specializations.

• Source of truth (§1). The repository's own visibility setting. .github/workflows/release-artifacts.yml is named only to record that it needs no edit.
• Computable predicate (§2). gh api repos/button-inc/batten --jq .private is false, and repos/button-inc/batten/attestations/sha256:<released-digest> answers 200. Two commands and two exit codes; no judgement.
• Effect (§3). No verb and no command surface changes. Nothing in crates/ is touched.
• Output & exit (§5). No check is added. Existing gates start passing.
• Commit / bump (§6). chore → no bump — a repository setting produces no commit at all.
• Test obligation (§7). The three Acceptance commands against the first release after the flip.
• Blockers (§8). None.

Open questions blocking Ready: when — "once stable" names a condition, not a date, and it is the owner's call. Naming a release, a milestone, or a checkable condition is what promotes this.

CLOUD-737 Revisit the Darwin build strategy once the repository is public: the SDK-free zig build is priced by private-repo runner billing, not by capability

Why

Both Darwin release legs build on ubuntu-latest through cargo-zigbuild, with no Apple SDK (release-artifacts.yml:101-104). macos-link-check exists to keep that buildable: it refuses any dependency that would need a real SDK to link, and darwin-link (aarch64-apple-darwin) is a required check.

That is a sound design given the constraint. But the constraint is a price, not a capability limit, and the price is a function of the repository being private. release-artifacts.yml:12-14 records the reasoning in its own words: "GitHub bills macOS runners at 10x and Windows at 2x on a private repo; this workflow uses neither."

Verified 2026-08-20 rather than assumed:

• Standard GitHub-hosted runners are free and unmetered on public repositories, with no minute cap.
• On private repositories the monthly allowance is counted in Linux-equivalent minutes and macOS consumes them at 10x — so a 2,000-minute Free allowance is roughly 200 minutes of macOS.

So the day CLOUD-585 lands, the input that produced this whole strategy changes.

What this issue is for. Not "switch to macOS runners" — that is one candidate among several, and the current build works. It is for re-deciding, once, with the cost input corrected, rather than letting a decision made under private-repo billing quietly persist as though it were a technical constraint. CLOUD-320 asks for exactly this distinction and does not currently have the room to make it: "Where a verdict is 'stays' for a reason that is a cost rather than a constraint, it says so in those words."

What comes back into reach

• A real macOS runner, which resolves the SDK question by having one — SDKROOT is auto-detected on macOS.
• libgit2/git2. libgit2-sys declares a links key, so macos-link-check rule 1 excludes it outright today. That is not an impossibility: zig does not bundle Apple's frameworks (they are not redistributable), so cross-linking CoreFoundation/Security needs a real SDK — ziglang/zig#1349, open since 2018 — and cargo-zigbuild's documented workaround is to set SDKROOT to a macOS SDK path. The honest statement is "git2 needs an Apple SDK in the build", not "git2 cannot be built". Whether that is worth taking is a separate question from whether it is possible, and only the second one is currently settled.
• macos-link-check rule 1 itself, which is deliberately general and deliberately strict because the SDK is unavailable. With an SDK in play it may be narrower than it needs to be, or it may still be the right gate for a different reason (a smaller graph, a faster link). Either answer is fine; assuming the current one is not.
• Executing the Darwin artifacts on Darwin, which CLOUD-364 wants for its own reasons and which the same runner would supply.

What is NOT in scope. Relaxing macos-link-check before an SDK actually exists in the build. The gate is correct under today's inputs, and CLOUD-718 already landed the gix path that needs no SDK at all — so nothing is blocked on this. This issue changes no code on its own.

Note on the licensing half. An Apple SDK carries its own licensing question, which is why the current design avoids it rather than solving it. A macOS runner sidesteps that entirely (Apple's SDK on Apple's hardware, which is what the runner is for); vendoring or fetching an SDK onto a Linux runner does not. Those two are different decisions and should not be collapsed into "get an SDK".

Prior art already in the tree, so whoever pulls this does not re-derive it: Cargo itself carries -Zgitoxide to replace git2 in full, so the largest git-in-Rust consumer chose neither libgit2 nor a spawned binary. That argues the gix direction is right independent of the SDK question — which is a reason this issue is about re-deciding, not about reverting.

Acceptance

• Each item above resolves to: unchanged (with the reason restated under the new cost), or changed (with the change filed as its own issue).
• Where a verdict stays put for a cost reason, it says so in those words — CLOUD-320's rule, applied to the decision that issue's git.rs row was made under.
• release-artifacts.yml's comment either still describes the live reasoning or is corrected, so the next reader is not told a private-repo price about a public repo.

Filed by CLOUD-718, which measured the constraint while landing the first gix slice and had no place to put the finding that the constraint is a price.

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Refinement — Ready (a decision re-run against a cost input that changed, not a code change)

Refinement gate: Definition of Ready & Done. This body carries only specializations.

• Source of truth (§1). The build strategy's authority stays where it is — release-artifacts.yml for how the artifacts are produced, mise-tasks/macos-link-check for what may enter the graph, and CLOUD-320's inventory for the per-row verdicts. This issue adds no fourth place and settles nothing on its own; it re-opens named decisions whose input changed. Where a verdict moves, the change lands in the file that already owns it.
• Computable predicate (§2). Per candidate, the predicate is the same pair that decided the gix verdict and is runnable today: mise run macos-link-check over the graph resolved for aarch64-apple-darwin, then mise run darwin-link for a real link. With an SDK actually present the second is the one that answers — rule 2 is a hand-maintained list and incomplete by construction, which is why the gate's own header defers to the link. "Is a macOS runner affordable" is not a predicate and is not treated as one: it is an owner decision this issue surfaces with the numbers attached.
• Effect (§3). read for the investigation. Any verdict that moves is its own issue with its own effect declaration; nothing here changes a verb, a command path, or the derived read-only allowlist.
• Output & exit (§5). No runtime surface changes, so nothing moves in the output or exit contract. The gates named in §2 already conform and are unmodified by this issue.
• Commit / bump (§6). docs → no bump — the deliverable is a recorded decision plus the comments that carry it; release-plz releases nothing for a docs change.
• Test obligation (§7). No new test: the deliverable is a decision, and each verdict's evidence is the gate run named in §2, recorded in the row it belongs to. The one durable assertion is the one CLOUD-320 already requires — a verdict that stays put for a cost reason says so in those words — so release-artifacts.yml's comment must either still describe the live reasoning or be corrected in the same change. A verdict that moves carries its own test obligation on its own issue.
• Blockers (§8). blockedBy CLOUD-585, and strictly: every item here is a consequence of the repository being public, so pulling this first would re-decide against the same inputs that produced today's answer. relatedTo CLOUD-320, whose git.rs row this supplies the cost half of; relatedTo CLOUD-718, which measured the constraint and filed this; relatedTo CLOUD-364, which wants a real Darwin execution for its own reasons and would be served by the same runner.

CLOUD-738 `git.rs` slice 2: move ref and object reads in-process, deleting the `--end-of-options` convention rather than maintaining it

Reopened 2026-08-21 — cancelled on a rationale that names nothing in this row's scope

This row was created 2026-08-20T00:41:29Z, refined to Ready, and cancelled at 02:55:52Z without ever being pulled. CLOUD-739 was cancelled 36 seconds later and CLOUD-740 39 seconds after that: the three slices that were the git.rs migration, taken off the board inside 75 seconds.

The rationale on record is that gix 0.86 has no stash API and no prunable concept. Neither appears anywhere in this row's scope. This slice is resolve_ref, head_commit, refs, current_branch, upstream_of_head, remote_default_branch, common_dir, remotes, root_commits, is_shallow, count_at_rev — ref and object reads. Its §8 says the blockers are none, and it was right.

What the cancellation therefore discarded, unexamined, is this slice's actual deliverable: deleting the --end-of-options convention rather than maintaining it. That convention has produced two measured bugs — CLOUD-51's echoed token resolving to "--end-of-options\nrefs/remotes/origin/main", and CLOUD-718's missing token on the one call that was a trust boundary. It is a rule an author can follow correctly and still get wrong, and it is still live on main today.

Nothing in the Ready block below has been refuted, so nothing in it is rewritten. count_at_rev and common_dir have since gone in-process by other routes (PR #554, CLOUD-749) and drop out of the scope list; the rest stand as refined.

Why

CLOUD-718 landed the first slice of CLOUD-320's git.rs row: show reads its blob through gix, and everything else in the module still shells out. This slice takes the read-only ref and object queries.

Scope

resolve_ref, head_commit, refs, current_branch, upstream_of_head, remote_default_branch, common_dir, remotes, root_commits, is_shallow, count_at_rev.

What this slice is actually for, beyond "fewer processes". It is where the --end-of-options convention gets deleted rather than maintained. Today seven call sites carry the token and exactly one must not — rev-parse in its ref-printing modes (--abbrev-ref, --symbolic-full-name) does not consume it, it echoes it as an output line, so a copied house pattern yields "--end-of-options\nrefs/remotes/origin/main" and every downstream ref lookup fails on a target nobody configured. That trap is documented at git.rs:1128 because it has to be: it is a convention with an exception in it, and a convention with an exception is a rule an author can follow correctly and still get wrong.

It has now produced two measured bugs — CLOUD-51's echoed-token ref, and CLOUD-718's missing token on the one call that was a trust boundary. A library call has no argv, so neither the token nor its exception is expressible.

The second thing that goes away: parsing version-dependent prose. refs, remote_default_branch and is_shallow each read text git chose the format of. count_at_rev walks ls-tree output and already carries a GITLINK_MODE constant to tell a submodule gitlink from a file — CLOUD-328's measured defect, where a glob spanning a submodule counted 637 paths one side and 1404 the other and produced a gate that could not fail.

Care required

• upstream_of_head must keep its shape, not just its answer. query_optional is the entry point whose non-zero exit is None, for the one question whose honest answer may be "there is none" — a branch tracking nothing. The doc is explicit that a caller treating absent as safe must not use it (CLOUD-51: absence of an upstream is not safety). Whatever replaces it owes the same three-valued reading; collapsing to Option in a way that loses "could not look" is the regression.
• common_dir feeds repo_root, which is the one repo-root primitive and is gated by no_second_repo_root_resolver_exists. Its refusals are load-bearing and must survive verbatim: a bare repository, a submodule interior, and a --separate-git-dir layout all raise UsageError rather than mis-rooting. gix answers these questions structurally, so the risk is accidentally becoming more permissive, not less.
• repo_root returns the parent of the COMMON dir, never --show-toplevel, so a linked worktree resolves to the main repository root. That asymmetry is deliberate (CLOUD-164) and a_linked_worktree_resolves_to_the_main_repository_root pins it.
• Discovery stays as CLOUD-718 established it: gix::discover_opts with default upwards options and gix::open::Options::isolated(), which declines system, global and environment config outright — the structural replacement for scrubbing five named environment variables. Do not reach for discover_with_environment_overrides, which re-admits exactly what the scrub existed to refuse.

Not in scope

Patch identity and landing (their own slice — they are where DIFF_CONFIG and DIFF_FLAGS die), and every write (update_ref, worktree_remove, stash_create).

Acceptance sketch (not yet a Ready block)

• Each function above answers from gix, with its existing tests unchanged and green — these are read primitives with established contracts, so a changed assertion is a changed answer and needs justifying rather than accepting.
• --end-of-options and the git.rs:1128 exception are gone from the migrated call sites, and whatever remains of the constant covers only what still shells out.
• gix_is_confined_to_this_module still holds.
• macos-link-check, darwin-link, cross-check and msrv green, since the feature set may need widening past ["revision", "sha1", "sha256"].

Filed by CLOUD-718 as part of sequencing CLOUD-320's git.rs row. Sliced rather than landed whole because main advances every few minutes and lands by fast-forward: a single 2000-line cutover re-rebases and re-verifies every lap, and slices bisect where a cutover does not.

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Refinement — Ready (the same answers, from a library, so the argv convention stops being a thing an author can get right and still get wrong)

Refinement gate: Definition of Ready & Done. This body carries only specializations.

• Source of truth (§1). git.rs stays the one place the crate answers a git question, and this slice does not widen that — it changes which backend answers, for the functions listed above. No new module, no config surface, no flag. gix_is_confined_to_this_module continues to hold, and no_second_git_invoker_exists continues to hold over whatever still shells out, so neither gate is relaxed to make room for this.
• Computable predicate (§2). Each migrated function keeps its existing tests unchanged and green, which is the whole predicate: these are read primitives with established contracts, so a changed assertion is a changed answer and needs its own justification rather than being accepted as migration noise. Two source-level assertions carry the rest — --end-of-options no longer appears on any migrated path, and gix:: appears in no file but this one. The link gates (macos-link-check, darwin-link, cross-check, msrv) are the third leg, because the feature set may need widening past ["revision", "sha1", "sha256"] and a widened set is a new graph.
• Effect (§3). Unchanged and read throughout: every function in scope is a query today and stays one. No write is added, nothing moves in the derived read-only allowlist, and the writes (update_ref, worktree_remove, stash_create) are deliberately deferred to the last slice so this one cannot change the effect model by accident.
• Output & exit (§5). Unchanged. Refusals stay UsageError → exit 1 and stay pointer-only — git's version-dependent prose never reached the caller and gix's must not start to. upstream_of_head's three-valued reading is the one to watch: query_optional answers None for "there is none", and a replacement that cannot distinguish that from "could not look" has lost information the exit contract depends on (CLOUD-51: absence of an upstream is not safety).
• Commit / bump (§6). refactor → no bump — the answers are identical by construction, so nothing releasable changes; release-plz cuts nothing for a refactor.
• Test obligation (§7). The existing suite is the obligation, and it is unusually strong here: no_second_repo_root_resolver_exists, a_linked_worktree_resolves_to_the_main_repository_root, a_bare_repository_is_a_usage_error, a_separate_git_dir_layout_is_refused_not_mis_rooted and a_path_outside_any_repository_is_a_usage_error already pin the refusals that matter, and the risk this slice carries is becoming more permissive, not less — gix answers structurally where the shell-out refused explicitly. So each of those must be confirmed still able to fail, in the shape CLOUD-718 used: revert the migrated body, watch the case go red, restore. New cases are owed only where a refusal has no existing test — count_at_rev's submodule gitlink is the known one (CLOUD-328 measured 637 paths against 1404, a gate that could not fail).
• Blockers (§8). None — CLOUD-718 landed the dependency, the repository-open options and the error taxonomy this builds on, so everything needed is on main. relatedTo CLOUD-320, whose git.rs row this continues; relatedTo CLOUD-718, which landed the first slice; relatedTo CLOUD-51, which measured the --end-of-options echo this slice deletes rather than documents.

CLOUD-739 `git.rs` slice 3: derive patch identity in-process, deleting the 26 pinned diff settings that exist only to stop the host changing the answer

Reopened 2026-08-21 — cancelled against a question CLOUD-320 had already answered

Created 2026-08-20T00:42:08Z, refined to Ready, cancelled at 02:56:28Z without ever being pulled — 36 seconds after CLOUD-738 and 39 before CLOUD-740. Three slices, 75 seconds, none of them started.

The rationale on record is that gix 0.86 has no stash API and no prunable concept. Neither is in this row's scope. The nearest thing to an objection that is — gix shipping no patch-id verb — CLOUD-320 had already ruled out, in writing, the day before:

gix shipping no patch-id verb is not a blocker: PatchId is only ever compared against ids produced by the same binary in the same run — patch_id_index against head_index inside landing — and nothing external computes one to compare against, so the requirement is a canonical deterministic patch identity, not git's. That is re-derivable on gix-diff plus the sha2 already vendored.

So the cancellation did not resolve this row's question; it discarded the row that carried it. What went with it is the module's largest standing cost, still on main: 26 pinned settings whose only job is to stop the host's git config changing the answer, an identity the code's own comment concedes is "deterministic for a given zlib but not guaranteed across zlib builds", and a whitespace collision inherited by accident of which tool was invoked rather than chosen.

git.rs's module doc says of this exact primitive that "rewriting … would be risk with no return". That sentence describes a row whose §2 is a differential test against the implementation being replaced, over the rebase, squash and cherry-pick fixtures tests/primitives.rs already builds. The risk is priced here, not absent; the return is the 26 pins and the two admitted defects. Nothing in the Ready block below has been refuted, so nothing in it is rewritten.

Why — this is the slice the whole row is actually about

landing decides merged-ness by patch identity, never reachability (CLOUD-36), which is what makes a rebased, squashed or cherry-picked branch recognisable. Every consumer rests on it: worktree::status, baseline's minting predicate, stop's at-risk half, receipt. It is computed by shelling out to git diff | git patch-id --stable, and the cost of doing it that way is written into the module in three places.

1. Twenty-six pinned settings whose only job is to stop the host changing the answer. DIFF_CONFIG (git.rs:107) pins 20 config keys via -c and DIFF_FLAGS (:139) 6 flags. Not defensive habit — diff.renames alone defaults to true for the porcelain git diff used on the cumulative side and false for plumbing, so unpinned the two sides silently disagree about any commit that renames a file and a real landing goes unrecognised. -c rather than blanking GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL, because the values that break comparability can also live in the repository's own .git/config, which no environment variable neutralises.

Every one of those lines exists because the diff is produced by a program that reads the user's configuration. In-process there is no user configuration to read, and all 26 go.

2. The identity admits it is not stable. From DIFF_FLAGS' own comment on --binary: the binary patch body "is zlib output, deterministic for a given zlib but not guaranteed across zlib builds; a stability caveat is the right trade against a wrong answer". --binary is not optional — without it a binary change renders as Binary files a/x and b/x differ, identical text for any two changes to the same path, so two unrelated binary edits share an identity and one is reported as the other's landing. So the current design is forced to choose between a wrong answer and an unstable one, and takes the unstable one.

3. Whitespace collisions are inherited, not chosen. PatchId's doc: git's normalisation drops whitespace and hunk line numbers, so a whitespace-only difference collides. That biases toward reporting work as landed — the safe direction for a primitive whose failure class is a false not landed — but it is git's bias, arrived at by accident of which tool was invoked.

The licence to change it, which CLOUD-320 already established. PatchId is only ever compared against ids produced by the same binary in the same run — patch_id_index against head_index inside landing. Nothing external computes one to compare against, and none is persisted across versions. So the requirement is a canonical deterministic patch identity, not git's. That is re-derivable on gix-diff plus the sha2 already vendored, and doing so lets us define the normalisation instead of inheriting it — including whether a whitespace-only change should collide, which becomes a decision with a reason rather than a side effect.

PatchId::parse accepting both 40- and 64-hex today is about SHA-1 vs SHA-256 repositories; an in-process identity is ours and its width is our choice. Whatever it becomes, a_patch_id_is_hex_of_a_hash_length should still refuse a truncated or non-hex id, since a parsing slip manufacturing an equality is the failure that matters.

Scope

patch_ids, patch_id_index, cumulative_patch_id, rev_list, resolve_commit, landing, PatchId, and the deletion of DIFF_CONFIG, DIFF_FLAGS and DIFF_ENV.

This is the slice with real behavioural risk, so it does not land on unit tests alone

• A differential test is the gate. The gix identity and git patch-id's must agree on landed-ness — not on the hash, which will differ by construction — over a corpus that includes the rebase, squash and cherry-pick shapes tests/primitives.rs' keystone fixture already builds. That fixture exists precisely because ancestry gets the answer wrong where patch identity gets it right, so it is the right corpus and it is already written.
• Binary changes need their own cases, since that is where the current implementation is weakest and where a naive replacement is likeliest to reintroduce the collision --binary was added to prevent: two unrelated binary edits to one path must not share an identity.
• Renames must be measured, not assumed. The current pinning forces diff.renames=false and passes --no-renames; whatever gix does by default has to be pinned deliberately and the choice stated, because this is the exact axis on which the two sides silently disagreed before.
• no_ancestry_decides_merged_ness must still hold, and it scans this file too. The forbidden surface is the reachability-answer one (merge-base, is-ancestor, --contains, --ancestry-path); range selection stays legal. gix offers reachability APIs that are easy to reach for and are exactly what this gate forbids — the temptation is higher in-process, not lower.
• Verdict::NotLandedWithinWindow carries the scan it did, never a bare no, and TRUNCATED must still distinguish an unproven absence from a proven one.
• spawns_processes stays false for Ratchet, whose reasoning is that CLOUD-170's invariant is about user-supplied code. Once nothing spawns, that argument gets simpler rather than being invalidated.

Blocked by the ref-and-object slice, whose object-access surface this builds on.

Acceptance sketch (not yet a Ready block)

• landing answers with no git process, and the differential test above is green.
• DIFF_CONFIG, DIFF_FLAGS, DIFF_ENV deleted; nothing replaces them, because there is no host configuration left to pin against.
• The --binary comment's stability caveat is retired by being made false, not by being deleted.
• The normalisation this identity uses is written down as a decision — whitespace and renames especially — rather than inherited.

Filed by CLOUD-718 as part of sequencing CLOUD-320's git.rs row.

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Refinement — Ready (define the normalisation instead of inheriting it, and prove the verdict unchanged against the tool being replaced)

Refinement gate: Definition of Ready & Done. This body carries only specializations.

• Source of truth (§1). git.rs stays the one merged-ness answer (CLOUD-36) and landing stays the one function that gives it. What moves is where the diff comes from. The normalisation this identity uses becomes ours and written down — in PatchId's doc comment, which is the authority — where today it is git's and is discoverable only by reading which flags happen to be pinned. No config surface: none of this is a consumer's to tune, because an identity two consumers could configure differently is not an identity.
• Computable predicate (§2). A differential test is the gate, and it compares landed-ness, never the hash — the hashes differ by construction, and a test asserting they match would be asserting the migration did not happen. Over the rebase, squash and cherry-pick fixtures tests/primitives.rs already builds, landing's Verdict computed in-process must equal the Verdict the shelled-out implementation gives on the same repository. That fixture is the right corpus and is already written: it exists precisely because ancestry gets the answer wrong where patch identity gets it right.
• Effect (§3). Unchanged and read. landing is a query today and stays one; no command path is added and nothing moves in the derived read-only allowlist. Ratchet's spawns_processes = false stays false and its justification gets simpler rather than being invalidated — CLOUD-170's invariant is about user-supplied code, and after this there is no process at all.
• Output & exit (§5). Unchanged. Verdict::NotLandedWithinWindow still carries the scan it did rather than a bare no, and TRUNCATED still separates an unproven absence from a proven one — an in-process walk makes a window cheaper, which is a reason to keep the distinction honest rather than to drop it. Findings stay pointer-only.
• Commit / bump (§6). fix → patch until 0.1.0 (DoR §6: below 0.1.0 release-plz bumps the patch whatever the type says). fix rather than refactor deliberately: the identity function changes, so two commits that collided before may not after, and calling that a refactor would understate it.
• Test obligation (§7). Beyond §2's differential test: (a) two unrelated binary edits to one path must not share an identity — the collision --binary exists to prevent and the likeliest thing a naive replacement reintroduces; (b) renames are pinned deliberately, since the current code forces diff.renames=false and --no-renames and that is the exact axis on which the two sides silently disagreed before, so whatever gix does by default is asserted rather than assumed; (c) a_patch_id_is_hex_of_a_hash_length still refuses a truncated or non-hex id, because a parsing slip manufacturing an equality is the failure that matters; (d) no_ancestry_decides_merged_ness still holds, and it scans this file — gix exposes reachability APIs that are easy to reach for and are exactly what that gate forbids, so the temptation is higher in-process, not lower; (e) whichever whitespace behaviour is chosen has a case asserting it, since inheriting git's collision silently and choosing it deliberately look identical in the code and differ entirely in what a reader can rely on.
• Blockers (§8). blockedBy CLOUD-738, whose object-access surface this builds on and which should land first so a failure here is attributable to the identity change rather than to the reads under it. relatedTo CLOUD-320, whose git.rs row this is the substantial half of; relatedTo CLOUD-718, which landed the first slice; relatedTo CLOUD-36, which established that merged-ness is decided by patch identity and never by reachability.

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Make the test enforce every remaining shell-out owner.

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