git: a creation gate that never writes history, a git tab with Paperclip's worktree scan, and a warning line in every pane
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@@ -1286,3 +1286,145 @@ I have changed nothing since the last commit except the code you already have (`
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- session: [[packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/paperclip-harness-multi-machine-setup-program-delivery-git-w|Paperclip harness multi-machine setup: program delivery, git worktrees vs local_path, env var inheritance …[truncated]…]]
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- session: [[packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/rich-discovery-cannot-2026-11-12-06-28-28|Rich discovery: cannot 2026-11-12 06:28:28]]
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- context: [[packs/paperclip-harness/20-context/home|cannot]]
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---
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## Update (2026-11-12 09:24:20)
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## Rich discovery update (2026-11-12 09:24:20)
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Research done, measured against the running instance and the installed build rather than remembered. Here is what Paperclip actually offers for git.
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## 1. The CLI has no git commands at all
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```
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paperclipai project list · get · create · update · delete
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paperclipai project-workspace list · create · update · delete · runtime-service · runtime-command
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paperclipai workspace list · get · close-readiness · operations · update · runtime-*
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paperclipai cost · openapi · …
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```
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Nothing initialises a repository, nothing reports whether a folder is one. The git-shaped verbs are all about *execution workspaces* — the per-task worktrees.
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## 2. The web "git screen" is the execution workspace page
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Two things on that page, found in the served bundle:
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- a **"Git status"** panel showing `branchName`, and
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- a **"Source control"** section with `Branch name` ("Useful for isolated worktrees") and `Base ref` editors.
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So the screen you are thinking of is per *task worktree*, not the project folder.
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## 3. The API behind it — and this is useful to us
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`GET /api/execution-workspaces/{id}/close-readiness` returns a `git` object. Live, for AUD-172 a moment ago:
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```json
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"git": {
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"repoRoot": "/home/sam/paseo/projects/test-alpha/.paperclip/worktrees/AUD-172-…",
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"workspacePath":"/home/sam/paseo/projects/test-alpha/.paperclip/worktrees/AUD-172-…",
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"branchName": "AUD-172-add-a-status-md-with-one-line",
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"baseRef": "main",
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"hasDirtyTrackedFiles": false,
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"hasUntrackedFiles": false,
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"dirtyEntryCount": 0,
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"untrackedEntryCount": 0,
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"aheadCount": 0,
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"behindCount": 1,
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"isMergedIntoBase": true,
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"createdByRuntime": true
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},
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"deliveryState": "merged_by_ancestry",
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"warnings": ["This workspace is 1 commit behind main."]
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```
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That is Paperclip doing the git reading for you: branch, dirtiness, how far behind, whether it is already merged. Nothing we should reimplement.
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## 4. The project workspace side is declaration only
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`GET /api/projects/{id}/workspaces` returns configuration, no git state:
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```
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sourceType local_path | git_repo | remote_managed | non_git_path
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cwd · repoUrl · repoRef · defaultRef
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setupCommand · cleanupCommand
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visibility · runtimeConfig · isPrimary
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```
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And the policy on the project has more hooks than we use:
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```
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workspaceStrategy.type project_primary | git_worktree | adapter_managed | cloud_sandbox
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baseRef · branchTemplate · existingBranch · worktreeParentDir
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provisionCommand · runtimeProvisionCommand · teardownCommand
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defaultMode shared_workspace | isolated_workspace | operator_branch | adapter_default
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sharedWorkspaceConcurrency auto | serialize | allow
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```
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## 5. The finding that matters most
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**Paperclip does not check that the folder is a repository.** The whole validation is:
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```js
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function validateProjectWorkspace(value, ctx) {
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const sourceType = value.sourceType ?? "local_path";
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const hasCwd = …; const hasRepo = …;
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if (sourceType === "remote_managed") { …; return; }
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if (!hasCwd && !hasRepo) ctx.addIssue({ message: "Workspace requires at least one of cwd or repoUrl." });
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}
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```
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`git_repo` with a folder that is not a repository is accepted and fails later, when a task first tries to make a worktree. Your instinct was right: this has to be caught on our side, at creation, or it is not caught at all.
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## 6. What cannot be done through Paperclip
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- **No endpoint to create a worktree on demand.** Execution workspaces appear when a task runs. So the first task is the only real test that the repository is usable — we cannot "try one" beforehand.
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- **No hook for `git init`.** `provisionCommand` runs per worktree, which is far too late, and `setupCommand` is per project workspace but is not a validation step.
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- `POST /api/execution-workspaces/{id}/reconcile-branch` exists for repairing a drifted branch record, and `existingBranch` lets a task be pointed at a branch you made yourself, instead of `{{issue.identifier}}-{{slug}}`.
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## 7. One correction to what I built
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Our create body sets the policy's `baseRef` but leaves the project workspace's `defaultRef` as `null` — visible on both existing projects. Those are two fields for the same idea and both should be set. Small, but it is the kind of gap that bites later.
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Also: `non_git_path` exists as a `sourceType`, but it appears exactly once in the whole build (in the schema) and nothing treats it differently from `local_path`. I would keep using `local_path` and not invent a meaning it does not have.
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## What this means for the plan you approved
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| Piece | Change from what we discussed |
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| Gate at creation | stays ours, and is now clearly the **only** early check. Also set `defaultRef`, and refuse to call a non-repo `git_repo` |
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| `git` tab | becomes **two layers**: the folder's own state (we read it), and Paperclip's `close-readiness` scan of each task worktree — branch, dirty, ahead/behind, merged. The second gives "1 commit behind main" and "merged into main" without us computing anything |
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| `.gitignore` editing | unchanged: lazygit, opened with `t`, files panel `i`, then `c` to commit |
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| Banner | unchanged, one line while the folder cannot hold worktrees |
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| Two-step creation | unchanged: repo + `.gitignore` + stage, stop, you commit in lazygit, run again to get the worktree project |
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The research also suggests one extra thing worth having in the `git` tab, since the data is free: **the list of this project's worktrees with their git state**, including ones that are behind `main` or already merged. That is the same view Paperclip's web screen gives, in the place you are already working.
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I have not touched `~/SECURITY`, and I will not run `office` on it.
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Say go and I will build it in this order: the creation gate (with `defaultRef` and the honest `sourceType`), then the `git` tab with both layers, then the banner. All of it lives in the commands and the program, so nothing needs rebuilding on any machine.
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## Source paths observed
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- `./scripts/provision-worktree-runtime.sh`
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- `./scripts/provision-worktree.sh`
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- `./scripts/teardown-worktree.sh`
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- `path/to/worktree`
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- `github.com/acme/growth-playbook`
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- `home/sam/paseo/projects/test-alpha/.paperclip/worktrees/AUD-172-add-a-status-md-with-one-line`
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- `home/sam/paseo/projects/test-alpha`
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- `home/sam/SECURITY`
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- `p/worktrees/AUD-173-add-a-line-to-readme`
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- `home/sam/paseo/projects/test-alpha/.paperclip/worktrees/AUD-172-`
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## Evidence
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- Confidence: 84%
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- Reason: Update component/repository context with detailed discovered structure and configuration
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## Related learned memories <!-- same-turn-2026-11-12 09:24:20 -->
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- session: [[packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/rich-discovery-git-repo-2026-11-12-09-24-20|Rich discovery: git_repo 2026-11-12 09:24:20]]
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- context: [[packs/paperclip-harness/20-context/home|git_repo]]
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- observation: [[packs/paperclip-harness/60-observations/tmp-repository-structure-and-configuration-patterns|git_repo repository structure and configuration patterns]]
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@@ -941,3 +941,113 @@ Operational note: home-manager-only changes are safe to `nixos-rebuild switch` (
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- runbook: [[packs/paperclip-harness/70-runbooks/tmp-deployment-operations|Rebuild .27 and .51 after adding ~/.local/bin to home-manager PATH]]
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- action: [[packs/paperclip-harness/40-actions/2026-11-10-wrote-docs-ui-layout-md-and-three-live-layout-mockups|Added ~/.local/bin to PATH on .27/.51 and committed; .13 untouched]]
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- session: [[packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/nixos-fleet-path-fix-rollout-27-and-51-need-home-rebuild-13-|NixOS fleet PATH fix rollout: .27 and .51 need home rebuild, .13 already correct]]
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---
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## Update (2026-11-12 07:09:34)
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## Rich discovery update (2026-11-12 07:09:34)
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Your summary of the machinery is exactly right, and nothing you asked was silly. TUIOS on each machine, `office` copied to each, Paperclip and therefore the agents only on `.13`. Everything below follows from that one fact.
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## 1. Worktrees by default — agreed, and now it is the default
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You are right that worktrees are the normal case, not an optional extra. Without them two tasks edit the same files, and `Work>change`, `Work>review` and `Work>merge` have nothing to work from — they stop being a review gate and become decoration.
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I also found a real bug while doing it: the base branch was hardcoded to `main`. A repository on `master` would have been given a worktree policy pointing at a branch that does not exist, so every run would fail on first use. It is now read from the folder.
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```
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worktrees: yes — a repository on branch 'main', so each task gets its own
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worktrees: no — this is not a repository
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```
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## 2. Asking, not doing it silently
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This is the part where I would push back on doing it automatically, and `~/SECURITY` is the perfect example of why.
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To give a folder worktrees you have to run `git init`, `git add -A` and a first commit — which commits **every file in that folder**, including anything you forgot was there. In `SECURITY` that means `02-incident-2026-11-11.md`, `03-secret-rotation.md`, `04-login-audit.md`. Committing is a decision about your own files, and it is not one a setup command should make on your behalf. A first commit is also nearly impossible to take back quietly.
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So it asks, and says what it will do before doing it:
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```
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/tmp/officetest is not a git repository, so each task cannot have its own branch and worktree.
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without them, two tasks can change the same files at once, and there
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is no diff to review and nothing to merge.
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make it a repository now? This runs: git init -b main, git add -A,
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and one commit of EVERY file in the folder, including anything you
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have not noticed. Add a .gitignore first if that is not what you want.
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type yes to do it:
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```
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Three ways through, in the order I would use them:
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| Situation | What happens |
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| at a terminal | it asks; `yes` makes the repository, anything else leaves it alone |
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| in a script | `--git-init` makes it without asking |
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| no terminal at all | it changes nothing and prints the exact commands to run yourself |
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Say no, and the project is still created — as `local_path`, in place, with no branch and nothing to merge. That is honest for a folder of notes and wrong for code, and it now says which one you got.
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Verified on a throwaway folder: with `--git-init` it made one commit on `main` and reported ready; a second call found it already ready and did nothing; a repository with no commit was refused with the right one-line fix.
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## 3. Warning when it is not the Paperclip machine — and refusing for a new project
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I made it stronger than a warning for `--new`, because the failure is invisible until a task runs:
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```
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refused: this folder is on sam-4screen-desktop, but Paperclip and its agents run on nixos-desktop
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the panes will open here and will read this folder correctly
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the agents will not: they start on nixos-desktop, where /home/sam/SECURITY does not exist
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a task you assign will fail, or work on a different folder
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move the folder to nixos-desktop, mount it there, or pass --anywhere to go ahead anyway
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```
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My reasoning for refuse rather than warn: creating that project writes a lasting record in Paperclip that can never work, and nothing about the panes will look wrong. Adopting an existing project — `--project` instead of `--new` — only warns, because opening panes to read a folder that lives elsewhere is a legitimate thing to want.
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`--anywhere` proceeds anyway.
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## What this means for the `security` project
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It is currently `local_path` on `.27`, so it has the problem in two ways at once: no worktrees, and its folder is invisible to the agents. A project's policy is fixed when it is created, so it cannot be upgraded — it has to be made again.
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You have three choices, and I have not touched it while you decide:
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1. **Move the notes to `.13`** and re-create it there. Cleanest: panes, agents and worktrees all on the same machine.
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2. **Leave it on `.27`** and use its panes only as a place to read and write the notes yourself, with no agent work.
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3. **Mount `.27`'s home on `.13`** so agents can see the path. Then re-create it. Adds a mount that can fail silently.
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If you want option 1, the commands are:
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```sh
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cd ~/SECURITY && git init -b main && git add -A && git commit -m "security notes as they stand"
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rsync -a ~/SECURITY/ sam@192.168.20.13:/home/sam/SECURITY/ # from .27
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# then on .13:
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office ~/SECURITY --new "security"
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```
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Add a `.gitignore` before the first commit if any of those files should stay out of the history.
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## Committed
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`paperclip-harness` → `f7b77f3`. `office --help` now documents the worktree rule, the question, and where things run, alongside the per-machine commands.
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Nothing needs rebuilding for any of this — it is all in the commands, which `--host` copies to each machine. The only outstanding rebuild is still `.51`, for `~/.local/bin` on `PATH`, and that is optional now that the commands read the secrets file themselves.
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## Source paths observed
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- `tmp/officetest/.harness/harness.toml`
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- `home/sam/SECURITY`
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## Evidence
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- Confidence: 84%
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- Reason: Update component/repository context with detailed discovered structure and configuration
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## Related learned memories <!-- same-turn-2026-11-12 07:09:34 -->
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- session: [[packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/rich-discovery-now-2026-11-12-07-09-34|Rich discovery: now 2026-11-12 07:09:34]]
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- context: [[packs/paperclip-harness/20-context/paperclip-harness|now]]
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- observation: [[packs/paperclip-harness/60-observations/tmp-repository-structure-and-configuration-patterns|now repository structure and configuration patterns]]
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160
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---
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type: context
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id: context.paperclip-harness.with
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title: with
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status: active
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source_of_truth: false
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freshness: current
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last_reviewed: 2026-11-12
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tags:
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- pack/paperclip-harness
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- agent-memory/context
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- autolearn
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- rich-discovery
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- repo/with
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---
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# with
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## Rich discovery update (2026-11-12 09:01:33)
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## Yes — lazygit handles `.gitignore`, so no rethink needed
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I checked the installed build rather than trusting memory. `lazygit 0.66.2`, and its binary contains exactly the code paths and menu items for this:
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```
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FilesController.ignoreOrExcludeFile / ignoreOrExcludeMenu
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"Add to .gitignore" "Add to .git/info/exclude" "Ignore file"
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"Cannot ignore .gitignore"
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"Can't stage '{{.path}}' because it is a worktree. Remove it with …, or ignore it with …"
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"Amend last commit"
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```
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So from the Files panel:
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| key | does |
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| `i` | menu: **Add to .gitignore** or **Add to .git/info/exclude** for the selected file or folder |
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| `space` | stage / unstage |
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| `c` | commit |
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| `A` | amend the last commit (safe here: nothing is pushed) |
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| `e` | edit the file, `.gitignore` included |
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| `?` | every key, in case you want the exact ones for this version |
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Three details worth knowing:
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- It adds the **path** of what you select, one entry per file. Adding the folder `evidence/` ignores the whole folder. For a pattern like `*secret*` you edit `.gitignore` with `e`.
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- It refuses to ignore `.gitignore` itself, so that file always gets committed.
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- It already knows how to complain about worktrees, which is the next point.
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Our `t` tool chooser already opens lazygit **with the project folder as its working directory**, so it lands in the right repository with no setup.
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## The one thing that must not be optional
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Paperclip puts each task's worktree **inside the project folder**, at `.paperclip/worktrees/…`. If git ever sees those, the repository becomes a mess of nested checkouts of itself. So `.paperclip/` has to be in `.gitignore` from the first moment, on every path — not as advice, as a rule. lazygit warns about staging a worktree, but the ignore entry should already be there before it can happen.
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`.harness/` is the opposite: it holds the project's own `check.sh` and notes, the agent may need it, so it should be committed.
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## Revised Option 1 — two choices, no file list
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You are right that listing files is useless: you cannot act on the list at that moment.
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```
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This folder is not a git repository, so each task cannot have its own branch and worktree.
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Y make the repository and commit EVERY file in it
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Hundreds is fine. Anything matched by .gitignore is left out.
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A .gitignore is written first, containing .paperclip/ — that one is not optional.
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N no repository: no worktrees, tasks edit this folder directly,
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no diff to review and nothing to merge
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```
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Two answers, both honest, and the sentence about `.gitignore` does the teaching.
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## The ordering problem, and why your sequence is the right one
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If `office` creates the repository **and commits in the same breath**, you never get the chance to exclude anything first. Fixing it afterwards means `git rm --cached` and `--amend` — doable in lazygit, but rewriting the first commit is exactly the kind of thing that goes wrong quietly.
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So the flow you described is the correct one, and I would build it as two visible steps:
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```
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office ~/SECURITY --new "security"
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made a repository on branch main
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wrote .gitignore → .paperclip/
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staged everything; nothing is committed yet
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8 files staged, 1 folder (evidence/)
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Run t → lazygit to exclude what you do not want (`i` on a file or folder),
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then `c` to commit. When a commit exists, run this command again and it will
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create the project with worktrees.
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```
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and the second run, seeing a commit, creates the project with `isolated_workspace` and the base branch it finds.
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That way no tool ever writes history on your behalf, and the exclusion decision happens where you can actually see the files — in lazygit. For anyone who does not want two steps, `--commit-all` does it in one.
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## The `git` tab in `Project>project`
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It shows facts, read live from the folder and from Paperclip each time the pane draws:
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```
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repository yes, branch main, 1 commit
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remote none (not needed for worktrees)
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worktrees isolated per task (Paperclip policy: isolated_workspace, base main)
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changed 8 staged · 0 unstaged · 3 untracked · 2 ignored
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ignored .paperclip/ evidence/
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next t → lazygit: `i` to ignore a file, `c` to commit
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```
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Two things it deliberately does **not** do:
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- **it does not edit `.gitignore` itself.** lazygit already does it correctly, including `.git/info/exclude` and the guard on `.gitignore`. Two implementations of one job drift apart; one is enough.
|
||||
- **it does not hold a copy of the state.** Same rule as everything else here: read it, do not remember it.
|
||||
|
||||
And a line in `Project>overview` pointing at it, so the tab is found rather than discovered.
|
||||
|
||||
## The banner
|
||||
|
||||
One line, only while something is wrong, in every pane:
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
no worktrees — no commit in this folder · Project>project → git (t: lazygit)
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
It disappears the moment a commit exists, so it cannot become furniture.
|
||||
|
||||
## What I would build
|
||||
|
||||
| | |
|
||||
|---|---|
|
||||
| Gate in `office` — two choices, write `.gitignore`, stage, stop before committing | **yes** |
|
||||
| `--commit-all` for the one-step case | **yes** |
|
||||
| `git` tab in `Project>project`: state, policy, counts, one-line next step | **yes** |
|
||||
| One-line banner in every pane while not worktree-ready | **yes** |
|
||||
| `.gitignore` editing inside our interface | **no** — lazygit does it, `t` opens it |
|
||||
| Interesting complication: showing `staged` counts means running `git status` | read on refresh, on a button, not on every keystroke |
|
||||
|
||||
I have not touched `~/SECURITY`. It is still not a repository, and I will not run `office` on it — when the gate exists you can run it yourself and answer Y or N with everything in front of you.
|
||||
|
||||
## Source paths observed
|
||||
|
||||
- `run/current-system/sw/bin/lazygit`
|
||||
- `b/rebase-merge/doneremote.origin.urlrebase.updateRefsopen`
|
||||
- `.git/info/excludeRemove`
|
||||
- `.git/info/exclude`
|
||||
|
||||
## Evidence
|
||||
|
||||
- Confidence: 84%
|
||||
- Reason: Update component/repository context with detailed discovered structure and configuration
|
||||
|
||||
## Related
|
||||
|
||||
- [[packs/paperclip-harness/00-system/pi-agent/memory-manifest|Memory Manifest]]
|
||||
|
||||
## Related learned memories <!-- same-turn-2026-11-12 09:01:33 -->
|
||||
|
||||
- session: [[packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/rich-discovery-with-2026-11-12-09-01-33|Rich discovery: with 2026-11-12 09:01:33]]
|
||||
- context: [[packs/paperclip-harness/20-context/with|with]]
|
||||
- observation: [[packs/paperclip-harness/60-observations/tmp-repository-structure-and-configuration-patterns|with repository structure and configuration patterns]]
|
||||
@@ -549,3 +549,34 @@ Follow-up: consider making `office` warn/refuse when folder's machine != Papercl
|
||||
- session: [[packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/paperclip-harness-multi-machine-setup-program-delivery-git-w|Paperclip harness multi-machine setup: program delivery, git worktrees vs local_path, env var inheritance …[truncated]…]]
|
||||
- session: [[packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/rich-discovery-cannot-2026-11-12-06-28-28|Rich discovery: cannot 2026-11-12 06:28:28]]
|
||||
- context: [[packs/paperclip-harness/20-context/home|cannot]]
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
## Update (2026-11-12 07:23:27)
|
||||
|
||||
Proposal put to the user (not yet approved/implemented) for alerting users that git must be set up at project creation and that files may need to be gitignored.
|
||||
|
||||
Decision (recommended):
|
||||
- BUILD a real three-answer gate at creation (A commit everything with file list shown; B write starter .gitignore then commit rest; C no repo / direct-edit mode). Rationale: the commit decision is made once, with the file list in front of the user, because commit contents define what the agent sees.
|
||||
- BUILD a `git` tab in `Project>project` that reads the folder live (repo/branch/commits/remote/worktrees/ignored + project policy + copy-paste instructions; `t`→lazygit, `g`→starter .gitignore). Rationale: honest, always-current facts about the project; also surfaces policy mismatch like `no isolation (policy: local_path)`.
|
||||
- BUILD a one-line banner in every pane while the project isn't a git repo: `no worktrees — this folder is not a git repository · Project>project → git`. Catches pre-existing projects like the current `security` one.
|
||||
- Optionally write a starter `.gitignore` only on demand.
|
||||
|
||||
REJECTED / NOT TO BUILD:
|
||||
- A new ninth pane (8 already; this is a project fact, not a work page).
|
||||
- Auto-committing anything (what you commit is what the agent sees; must never be a side effect).
|
||||
- Requiring a remote (worktrees + merges are local; remote is backup only).
|
||||
|
||||
Consequences/caveats: "everything" must never be shown without the concrete file list; the git tab must show Paperclip policy alongside folder state; implementation still pending user selection among the four options. Do not run `office` on `~/SECURITY` — user initializes it themselves.
|
||||
|
||||
## Evidence
|
||||
|
||||
- Confidence: 80%
|
||||
- Reason: Captures a clear architectural/UX decision with rationale and rejected alternatives, though it is a pending proposal awaiting user confirmation.
|
||||
|
||||
## Related learned memories <!-- same-turn-2026-11-12 07:23:27 -->
|
||||
|
||||
- observation: [[packs/paperclip-harness/60-observations/tmp-repository-structure-and-configuration-patterns|Paperclip repo/git mechanics: worktrees, commits, bin/merge, remote necessity]]
|
||||
- decision: [[packs/paperclip-harness/50-decisions/paperclip-harness-ui-six-workspaces-spec-first-four-panel-li|Decision (proposed, pending user pick): gate git at project creation, add Project>project git tab, add no …[truncated]…]]
|
||||
- session: [[packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/git-init-gating-for-paperclip-projects-design-options-and-re|Git-init gating for Paperclip projects: design options and repo-mechanics findings]]
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -6107,3 +6107,426 @@ Three ways to close the gap, and I have already put the least intrusive one in t
|
||||
- session: [[packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/paperclip-harness-multi-machine-setup-program-delivery-git-w|Paperclip harness multi-machine setup: program delivery, git worktrees vs local_path, env var inheritance …[truncated]…]]
|
||||
- session: [[packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/rich-discovery-cannot-2026-11-12-06-28-28|Rich discovery: cannot 2026-11-12 06:28:28]]
|
||||
- context: [[packs/paperclip-harness/20-context/home|cannot]]
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
## Update (2026-11-12 07:09:34)
|
||||
|
||||
## Structural/configuration observations (2026-11-12 07:09:34)
|
||||
|
||||
Your summary of the machinery is exactly right, and nothing you asked was silly. TUIOS on each machine, `office` copied to each, Paperclip and therefore the agents only on `.13`. Everything below follows from that one fact.
|
||||
|
||||
## 1. Worktrees by default — agreed, and now it is the default
|
||||
|
||||
You are right that worktrees are the normal case, not an optional extra. Without them two tasks edit the same files, and `Work>change`, `Work>review` and `Work>merge` have nothing to work from — they stop being a review gate and become decoration.
|
||||
|
||||
I also found a real bug while doing it: the base branch was hardcoded to `main`. A repository on `master` would have been given a worktree policy pointing at a branch that does not exist, so every run would fail on first use. It is now read from the folder.
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
worktrees: yes — a repository on branch 'main', so each task gets its own
|
||||
worktrees: no — this is not a repository
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
## 2. Asking, not doing it silently
|
||||
|
||||
This is the part where I would push back on doing it automatically, and `~/SECURITY` is the perfect example of why.
|
||||
|
||||
To give a folder worktrees you have to run `git init`, `git add -A` and a first commit — which commits **every file in that folder**, including anything you forgot was there. In `SECURITY` that means `02-incident-2026-11-11.md`, `03-secret-rotation.md`, `04-login-audit.md`. Committing is a decision about your own files, and it is not one a setup command should make on your behalf. A first commit is also nearly impossible to take back quietly.
|
||||
|
||||
So it asks, and says what it will do before doing it:
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
/tmp/officetest is not a git repository, so each task cannot have its own branch and worktree.
|
||||
without them, two tasks can change the same files at once, and there
|
||||
is no diff to review and nothing to merge.
|
||||
|
||||
make it a repository now? This runs: git init -b main, git add -A,
|
||||
and one commit of EVERY file in the folder, including anything you
|
||||
have not noticed. Add a .gitignore first if that is not what you want.
|
||||
type yes to do it:
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Three ways through, in the order I would use them:
|
||||
|
||||
| Situation | What happens |
|
||||
|---|---|
|
||||
| at a terminal | it asks; `yes` makes the repository, anything else leaves it alone |
|
||||
| in a script | `--git-init` makes it without asking |
|
||||
| no terminal at all | it changes nothing and prints the exact commands to run yourself |
|
||||
|
||||
Say no, and the project is still created — as `local_path`, in place, with no branch and nothing to merge. That is honest for a folder of notes and wrong for code, and it now says which one you got.
|
||||
|
||||
Verified on a throwaway folder: with `--git-init` it made one commit on `main` and reported ready; a second call found it already ready and did nothing; a repository with no commit was refused with the right one-line fix.
|
||||
|
||||
## 3. Warning when it is not the Paperclip machine — and refusing for a new project
|
||||
|
||||
I made it stronger than a warning for `--new`, because the failure is invisible until a task runs:
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
refused: this folder is on sam-4screen-desktop, but Paperclip and its agents run on nixos-desktop
|
||||
the panes will open here and will read this folder correctly
|
||||
the agents will not: they start on nixos-desktop, where /home/sam/SECURITY does not exist
|
||||
a task you assign will fail, or work on a different folder
|
||||
move the folder to nixos-desktop, mount it there, or pass --anywhere to go ahead anyway
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
My reasoning for refuse rather than warn: creating that project writes a lasting record in Paperclip that can never work, and nothing about the panes will look wrong. Adopting an existing project — `--project` instead of `--new` — only warns, because opening panes to read a folder that lives elsewhere is a legitimate thing to want.
|
||||
|
||||
`--anywhere` proceeds anyway.
|
||||
|
||||
## What this means for the `security` project
|
||||
|
||||
It is currently `local_path` on `.27`, so it has the problem in two ways at once: no worktrees, and its folder is invisible to the agents. A project's policy is fixed when it is created, so it cannot be upgraded — it has to be made again.
|
||||
|
||||
You have three choices, and I have not touched it while you decide:
|
||||
|
||||
1. **Move the notes to `.13`** and re-create it there. Cleanest: panes, agents and worktrees all on the same machine.
|
||||
2. **Leave it on `.27`** and use its panes only as a place to read and write the notes yourself, with no agent work.
|
||||
3. **Mount `.27`'s home on `.13`** so agents can see the path. Then re-create it. Adds a mount that can fail silently.
|
||||
|
||||
If you want option 1, the commands are:
|
||||
|
||||
```sh
|
||||
cd ~/SECURITY && git init -b main && git add -A && git commit -m "security notes as they stand"
|
||||
rsync -a ~/SECURITY/ sam@192.168.20.13:/home/sam/SECURITY/ # from .27
|
||||
# then on .13:
|
||||
office ~/SECURITY --new "security"
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Add a `.gitignore` before the first commit if any of those files should stay out of the history.
|
||||
|
||||
## Committed
|
||||
|
||||
`paperclip-harness` → `f7b77f3`. `office --help` now documents the worktree rule, the question, and where things run, alongside the per-machine commands.
|
||||
|
||||
Nothing needs rebuilding for any of this — it is all in the commands, which `--host` copies to each machine. The only outstanding rebuild is still `.51`, for `~/.local/bin` on `PATH`, and that is optional now that the commands read the secrets file themselves.
|
||||
|
||||
## Source paths observed
|
||||
|
||||
- `tmp/officetest/.harness/harness.toml`
|
||||
- `home/sam/SECURITY`
|
||||
|
||||
## Evidence
|
||||
|
||||
- Confidence: 82%
|
||||
- Reason: Captured factual repo structure/configuration patterns from rich discovery
|
||||
|
||||
## Related learned memories <!-- same-turn-2026-11-12 07:09:34 -->
|
||||
|
||||
- session: [[packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/rich-discovery-now-2026-11-12-07-09-34|Rich discovery: now 2026-11-12 07:09:34]]
|
||||
- context: [[packs/paperclip-harness/20-context/paperclip-harness|now]]
|
||||
- observation: [[packs/paperclip-harness/60-observations/tmp-repository-structure-and-configuration-patterns|now repository structure and configuration patterns]]
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
## Update (2026-11-12 07:23:27)
|
||||
|
||||
Verified/established facts about how Paperclip uses git (relevant when advising on project setup):
|
||||
|
||||
- `bin/merge` is LOCAL only — it rebases and merges; there is no `push` command in it (checked by search). So merging a task branch does not publish anywhere.
|
||||
- `git worktree add` needs an existing commit to cut the branch from. A repo with no commit → Paperclip's worktree step fails.
|
||||
- A worktree is a checkout of a commit: uncommitted/unignored-vs-ignored files do NOT appear in the worktree. Therefore an empty initial commit gives the agent an empty working view. Rule of thumb: what you commit = what the agent sees; ignored files are invisible to it.
|
||||
- Paperclip records only a `cwd` for a project; it does not require a remote and does not itself push. A remote (e.g. Gitea) is optional, for backup/cross-machine copies; cloning/moving to another machine otherwise needs push or rsync.
|
||||
- Project isolation is a project policy (e.g. `local_path` = no worktree isolation) surfaced in `Project>project`; mismatch between the folder's git state and the policy is currently invisible from the panes.
|
||||
- lazygit is already available in a tool pane via hotkey `t`.
|
||||
|
||||
Safe source paths referenced: `bin/merge`, `Project>project` tabs (`overview`, `facts`, `costs`, `settings`, `projects`).
|
||||
|
||||
## Evidence
|
||||
|
||||
- Confidence: 88%
|
||||
- Reason: Factual repository/mechanics discoveries with safe paths that will guide future git-related work.
|
||||
|
||||
## Related learned memories <!-- same-turn-2026-11-12 07:23:27 -->
|
||||
|
||||
- observation: [[packs/paperclip-harness/60-observations/tmp-repository-structure-and-configuration-patterns|Paperclip repo/git mechanics: worktrees, commits, bin/merge, remote necessity]]
|
||||
- decision: [[packs/paperclip-harness/50-decisions/paperclip-harness-ui-six-workspaces-spec-first-four-panel-li|Decision (proposed, pending user pick): gate git at project creation, add Project>project git tab, add no …[truncated]…]]
|
||||
- session: [[packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/git-init-gating-for-paperclip-projects-design-options-and-re|Git-init gating for Paperclip projects: design options and repo-mechanics findings]]
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
## Update (2026-11-12 09:01:33)
|
||||
|
||||
## Structural/configuration observations (2026-11-12 09:01:33)
|
||||
|
||||
## Yes — lazygit handles `.gitignore`, so no rethink needed
|
||||
|
||||
I checked the installed build rather than trusting memory. `lazygit 0.66.2`, and its binary contains exactly the code paths and menu items for this:
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
FilesController.ignoreOrExcludeFile / ignoreOrExcludeMenu
|
||||
"Add to .gitignore" "Add to .git/info/exclude" "Ignore file"
|
||||
"Cannot ignore .gitignore"
|
||||
"Can't stage '{{.path}}' because it is a worktree. Remove it with …, or ignore it with …"
|
||||
"Amend last commit"
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
So from the Files panel:
|
||||
|
||||
| key | does |
|
||||
|---|---|
|
||||
| `i` | menu: **Add to .gitignore** or **Add to .git/info/exclude** for the selected file or folder |
|
||||
| `space` | stage / unstage |
|
||||
| `c` | commit |
|
||||
| `A` | amend the last commit (safe here: nothing is pushed) |
|
||||
| `e` | edit the file, `.gitignore` included |
|
||||
| `?` | every key, in case you want the exact ones for this version |
|
||||
|
||||
Three details worth knowing:
|
||||
|
||||
- It adds the **path** of what you select, one entry per file. Adding the folder `evidence/` ignores the whole folder. For a pattern like `*secret*` you edit `.gitignore` with `e`.
|
||||
- It refuses to ignore `.gitignore` itself, so that file always gets committed.
|
||||
- It already knows how to complain about worktrees, which is the next point.
|
||||
|
||||
Our `t` tool chooser already opens lazygit **with the project folder as its working directory**, so it lands in the right repository with no setup.
|
||||
|
||||
## The one thing that must not be optional
|
||||
|
||||
Paperclip puts each task's worktree **inside the project folder**, at `.paperclip/worktrees/…`. If git ever sees those, the repository becomes a mess of nested checkouts of itself. So `.paperclip/` has to be in `.gitignore` from the first moment, on every path — not as advice, as a rule. lazygit warns about staging a worktree, but the ignore entry should already be there before it can happen.
|
||||
|
||||
`.harness/` is the opposite: it holds the project's own `check.sh` and notes, the agent may need it, so it should be committed.
|
||||
|
||||
## Revised Option 1 — two choices, no file list
|
||||
|
||||
You are right that listing files is useless: you cannot act on the list at that moment.
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
This folder is not a git repository, so each task cannot have its own branch and worktree.
|
||||
|
||||
Y make the repository and commit EVERY file in it
|
||||
Hundreds is fine. Anything matched by .gitignore is left out.
|
||||
A .gitignore is written first, containing .paperclip/ — that one is not optional.
|
||||
|
||||
N no repository: no worktrees, tasks edit this folder directly,
|
||||
no diff to review and nothing to merge
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Two answers, both honest, and the sentence about `.gitignore` does the teaching.
|
||||
|
||||
## The ordering problem, and why your sequence is the right one
|
||||
|
||||
If `office` creates the repository **and commits in the same breath**, you never get the chance to exclude anything first. Fixing it afterwards means `git rm --cached` and `--amend` — doable in lazygit, but rewriting the first commit is exactly the kind of thing that goes wrong quietly.
|
||||
|
||||
So the flow you described is the correct one, and I would build it as two visible steps:
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
office ~/SECURITY --new "security"
|
||||
made a repository on branch main
|
||||
wrote .gitignore → .paperclip/
|
||||
staged everything; nothing is committed yet
|
||||
8 files staged, 1 folder (evidence/)
|
||||
|
||||
Run t → lazygit to exclude what you do not want (`i` on a file or folder),
|
||||
then `c` to commit. When a commit exists, run this command again and it will
|
||||
create the project with worktrees.
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
and the second run, seeing a commit, creates the project with `isolated_workspace` and the base branch it finds.
|
||||
|
||||
That way no tool ever writes history on your behalf, and the exclusion decision happens where you can actually see the files — in lazygit. For anyone who does not want two steps, `--commit-all` does it in one.
|
||||
|
||||
## The `git` tab in `Project>project`
|
||||
|
||||
It shows facts, read live from the folder and from Paperclip each time the pane draws:
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
repository yes, branch main, 1 commit
|
||||
remote none (not needed for worktrees)
|
||||
worktrees isolated per task (Paperclip policy: isolated_workspace, base main)
|
||||
changed 8 staged · 0 unstaged · 3 untracked · 2 ignored
|
||||
ignored .paperclip/ evidence/
|
||||
next t → lazygit: `i` to ignore a file, `c` to commit
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Two things it deliberately does **not** do:
|
||||
|
||||
- **it does not edit `.gitignore` itself.** lazygit already does it correctly, including `.git/info/exclude` and the guard on `.gitignore`. Two implementations of one job drift apart; one is enough.
|
||||
- **it does not hold a copy of the state.** Same rule as everything else here: read it, do not remember it.
|
||||
|
||||
And a line in `Project>overview` pointing at it, so the tab is found rather than discovered.
|
||||
|
||||
## The banner
|
||||
|
||||
One line, only while something is wrong, in every pane:
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
no worktrees — no commit in this folder · Project>project → git (t: lazygit)
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
It disappears the moment a commit exists, so it cannot become furniture.
|
||||
|
||||
## What I would build
|
||||
|
||||
| | |
|
||||
|---|---|
|
||||
| Gate in `office` — two choices, write `.gitignore`, stage, stop before committing | **yes** |
|
||||
| `--commit-all` for the one-step case | **yes** |
|
||||
| `git` tab in `Project>project`: state, policy, counts, one-line next step | **yes** |
|
||||
| One-line banner in every pane while not worktree-ready | **yes** |
|
||||
| `.gitignore` editing inside our interface | **no** — lazygit does it, `t` opens it |
|
||||
| Interesting complication: showing `staged` counts means running `git status` | read on refresh, on a button, not on every keystroke |
|
||||
|
||||
I have not touched `~/SECURITY`. It is still not a repository, and I will not run `office` on it — when the gate exists you can run it yourself and answer Y or N with everything in front of you.
|
||||
|
||||
## Source paths observed
|
||||
|
||||
- `run/current-system/sw/bin/lazygit`
|
||||
- `b/rebase-merge/doneremote.origin.urlrebase.updateRefsopen`
|
||||
- `.git/info/excludeRemove`
|
||||
- `.git/info/exclude`
|
||||
|
||||
## Evidence
|
||||
|
||||
- Confidence: 82%
|
||||
- Reason: Captured factual repo structure/configuration patterns from rich discovery
|
||||
|
||||
## Related learned memories <!-- same-turn-2026-11-12 09:01:33 -->
|
||||
|
||||
- session: [[packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/rich-discovery-with-2026-11-12-09-01-33|Rich discovery: with 2026-11-12 09:01:33]]
|
||||
- context: [[packs/paperclip-harness/20-context/with|with]]
|
||||
- observation: [[packs/paperclip-harness/60-observations/tmp-repository-structure-and-configuration-patterns|with repository structure and configuration patterns]]
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
## Update (2026-11-12 09:24:20)
|
||||
|
||||
## Structural/configuration observations (2026-11-12 09:24:20)
|
||||
|
||||
Research done, measured against the running instance and the installed build rather than remembered. Here is what Paperclip actually offers for git.
|
||||
|
||||
## 1. The CLI has no git commands at all
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
paperclipai project list · get · create · update · delete
|
||||
paperclipai project-workspace list · create · update · delete · runtime-service · runtime-command
|
||||
paperclipai workspace list · get · close-readiness · operations · update · runtime-*
|
||||
paperclipai cost · openapi · …
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Nothing initialises a repository, nothing reports whether a folder is one. The git-shaped verbs are all about *execution workspaces* — the per-task worktrees.
|
||||
|
||||
## 2. The web "git screen" is the execution workspace page
|
||||
|
||||
Two things on that page, found in the served bundle:
|
||||
|
||||
- a **"Git status"** panel showing `branchName`, and
|
||||
- a **"Source control"** section with `Branch name` ("Useful for isolated worktrees") and `Base ref` editors.
|
||||
|
||||
So the screen you are thinking of is per *task worktree*, not the project folder.
|
||||
|
||||
## 3. The API behind it — and this is useful to us
|
||||
|
||||
`GET /api/execution-workspaces/{id}/close-readiness` returns a `git` object. Live, for AUD-172 a moment ago:
|
||||
|
||||
```json
|
||||
"git": {
|
||||
"repoRoot": "/home/sam/paseo/projects/test-alpha/.paperclip/worktrees/AUD-172-…",
|
||||
"workspacePath":"/home/sam/paseo/projects/test-alpha/.paperclip/worktrees/AUD-172-…",
|
||||
"branchName": "AUD-172-add-a-status-md-with-one-line",
|
||||
"baseRef": "main",
|
||||
"hasDirtyTrackedFiles": false,
|
||||
"hasUntrackedFiles": false,
|
||||
"dirtyEntryCount": 0,
|
||||
"untrackedEntryCount": 0,
|
||||
"aheadCount": 0,
|
||||
"behindCount": 1,
|
||||
"isMergedIntoBase": true,
|
||||
"createdByRuntime": true
|
||||
},
|
||||
"deliveryState": "merged_by_ancestry",
|
||||
"warnings": ["This workspace is 1 commit behind main."]
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
That is Paperclip doing the git reading for you: branch, dirtiness, how far behind, whether it is already merged. Nothing we should reimplement.
|
||||
|
||||
## 4. The project workspace side is declaration only
|
||||
|
||||
`GET /api/projects/{id}/workspaces` returns configuration, no git state:
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
sourceType local_path | git_repo | remote_managed | non_git_path
|
||||
cwd · repoUrl · repoRef · defaultRef
|
||||
setupCommand · cleanupCommand
|
||||
visibility · runtimeConfig · isPrimary
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
And the policy on the project has more hooks than we use:
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
workspaceStrategy.type project_primary | git_worktree | adapter_managed | cloud_sandbox
|
||||
baseRef · branchTemplate · existingBranch · worktreeParentDir
|
||||
provisionCommand · runtimeProvisionCommand · teardownCommand
|
||||
defaultMode shared_workspace | isolated_workspace | operator_branch | adapter_default
|
||||
sharedWorkspaceConcurrency auto | serialize | allow
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
## 5. The finding that matters most
|
||||
|
||||
**Paperclip does not check that the folder is a repository.** The whole validation is:
|
||||
|
||||
```js
|
||||
function validateProjectWorkspace(value, ctx) {
|
||||
const sourceType = value.sourceType ?? "local_path";
|
||||
const hasCwd = …; const hasRepo = …;
|
||||
if (sourceType === "remote_managed") { …; return; }
|
||||
if (!hasCwd && !hasRepo) ctx.addIssue({ message: "Workspace requires at least one of cwd or repoUrl." });
|
||||
}
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
`git_repo` with a folder that is not a repository is accepted and fails later, when a task first tries to make a worktree. Your instinct was right: this has to be caught on our side, at creation, or it is not caught at all.
|
||||
|
||||
## 6. What cannot be done through Paperclip
|
||||
|
||||
- **No endpoint to create a worktree on demand.** Execution workspaces appear when a task runs. So the first task is the only real test that the repository is usable — we cannot "try one" beforehand.
|
||||
- **No hook for `git init`.** `provisionCommand` runs per worktree, which is far too late, and `setupCommand` is per project workspace but is not a validation step.
|
||||
- `POST /api/execution-workspaces/{id}/reconcile-branch` exists for repairing a drifted branch record, and `existingBranch` lets a task be pointed at a branch you made yourself, instead of `{{issue.identifier}}-{{slug}}`.
|
||||
|
||||
## 7. One correction to what I built
|
||||
|
||||
Our create body sets the policy's `baseRef` but leaves the project workspace's `defaultRef` as `null` — visible on both existing projects. Those are two fields for the same idea and both should be set. Small, but it is the kind of gap that bites later.
|
||||
|
||||
Also: `non_git_path` exists as a `sourceType`, but it appears exactly once in the whole build (in the schema) and nothing treats it differently from `local_path`. I would keep using `local_path` and not invent a meaning it does not have.
|
||||
|
||||
## What this means for the plan you approved
|
||||
|
||||
| Piece | Change from what we discussed |
|
||||
|---|---|
|
||||
| Gate at creation | stays ours, and is now clearly the **only** early check. Also set `defaultRef`, and refuse to call a non-repo `git_repo` |
|
||||
| `git` tab | becomes **two layers**: the folder's own state (we read it), and Paperclip's `close-readiness` scan of each task worktree — branch, dirty, ahead/behind, merged. The second gives "1 commit behind main" and "merged into main" without us computing anything |
|
||||
| `.gitignore` editing | unchanged: lazygit, opened with `t`, files panel `i`, then `c` to commit |
|
||||
| Banner | unchanged, one line while the folder cannot hold worktrees |
|
||||
| Two-step creation | unchanged: repo + `.gitignore` + stage, stop, you commit in lazygit, run again to get the worktree project |
|
||||
|
||||
The research also suggests one extra thing worth having in the `git` tab, since the data is free: **the list of this project's worktrees with their git state**, including ones that are behind `main` or already merged. That is the same view Paperclip's web screen gives, in the place you are already working.
|
||||
|
||||
I have not touched `~/SECURITY`, and I will not run `office` on it.
|
||||
|
||||
Say go and I will build it in this order: the creation gate (with `defaultRef` and the honest `sourceType`), then the `git` tab with both layers, then the banner. All of it lives in the commands and the program, so nothing needs rebuilding on any machine.
|
||||
|
||||
## Source paths observed
|
||||
|
||||
- `./scripts/provision-worktree-runtime.sh`
|
||||
- `./scripts/provision-worktree.sh`
|
||||
- `./scripts/teardown-worktree.sh`
|
||||
- `path/to/worktree`
|
||||
- `github.com/acme/growth-playbook`
|
||||
- `home/sam/paseo/projects/test-alpha/.paperclip/worktrees/AUD-172-add-a-status-md-with-one-line`
|
||||
- `home/sam/paseo/projects/test-alpha`
|
||||
- `home/sam/SECURITY`
|
||||
- `p/worktrees/AUD-173-add-a-line-to-readme`
|
||||
- `home/sam/paseo/projects/test-alpha/.paperclip/worktrees/AUD-172-`
|
||||
|
||||
## Evidence
|
||||
|
||||
- Confidence: 82%
|
||||
- Reason: Captured factual repo structure/configuration patterns from rich discovery
|
||||
|
||||
## Related learned memories <!-- same-turn-2026-11-12 09:24:20 -->
|
||||
|
||||
- session: [[packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/rich-discovery-git-repo-2026-11-12-09-24-20|Rich discovery: git_repo 2026-11-12 09:24:20]]
|
||||
- context: [[packs/paperclip-harness/20-context/home|git_repo]]
|
||||
- observation: [[packs/paperclip-harness/60-observations/tmp-repository-structure-and-configuration-patterns|git_repo repository structure and configuration patterns]]
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
|
||||
---
|
||||
type: session
|
||||
id: session.paperclip-harness.git-init-gating-for-paperclip-projects-design-options-and-re
|
||||
title: Git-init gating for Paperclip projects: design options and repo-mechanics findings
|
||||
status: active
|
||||
source_of_truth: false
|
||||
freshness: current
|
||||
last_reviewed: 2026-11-12
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- pack/paperclip-harness
|
||||
- agent-memory/session
|
||||
- paperclip-harness
|
||||
- git
|
||||
- worktree
|
||||
- project-creation
|
||||
- gitignore
|
||||
- security-project
|
||||
- design-proposal
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# Git-init gating for Paperclip projects: design options and repo-mechanics findings
|
||||
|
||||
Turn was a design/discovery discussion about how Paperclip should enforce that a project folder is a git repo at creation time. No code was written and no changes were made; the target folder `~/SECURITY` was explicitly protected by the user ("Do NOT START the SECURITY PROJECT — I want to initialize everything myself").
|
||||
|
||||
Key durable findings and mechanics established:
|
||||
|
||||
1. `~/SECURITY` (reported to be on host `.13`) is NOT yet a git repository (confirmed: `fatal: not a git repository`). Its top-level contents (names only, contents not read): `01-caddy-exposure-inventory.csv`, `02-incident-2026-11-11.md`, `03-secret-rotation.md`, `04-login-audit.md`, `05-vulnerability-audit-php2shell-http2shell.md`, `06-independent-review.md`, `AGENTS.md`, and directories `evidence/`, `.harness/`, `.pi/` (10 entries total).
|
||||
|
||||
2. Why the initial commit matters: (a) `git worktree add` requires a commit to branch from, so no commit means Paperclip's worktree step fails; (b) more importantly a worktree is a checkout of a commit, so anything not committed is invisible to the agent in the worktree — an `--allow-empty` first commit yields an empty agent view. Governing principle stated: **what you commit is what the agent works on; what you ignore is invisible to it.**
|
||||
|
||||
3. Remote is optional: `git worktree` is local-only, Paperclip only records a `cwd` per project, and `bin/merge` does not push (verified — no `push` in it; merge rebases/merges locally). A remote (e.g. Gitea) is backup/multi-machine copy, not required for worktrees.
|
||||
|
||||
4. Four proposed options for the creation-time alert, with recommendation to build Options 1–3 and skip a new pane / auto-commit / mandatory remote:
|
||||
- Option 1 (BUILD): replace the yes/no git question at creation with three explicit answers (A commit everything incl. listed files; B write a starter `.gitignore` then commit the rest; C no repo — tasks edit the folder directly). Must show the actual file list, not the word "everything".
|
||||
- Option 2 (BUILD): add a `git` tab to `Project>project` (alongside existing `overview`, `facts`, `costs`, `settings`, `projects`) that reads the folder live and shows repo state, branch, commits, remote, worktree/isolation status vs project policy (e.g. `no isolation (policy: local_path)`), ignored count, and copy-pasteable setup instructions; hotkeys `t` (lazygit, already wired as a tool pane) and `g` (write starter `.gitignore`).
|
||||
- Option 3 (BUILD): one-line banner in every pane while the project isn't a git repo: `no worktrees — this folder is not a git repository · Project>project → git`.
|
||||
- Option 4 (partial): starter `.gitignore` written only on demand, plus lazygit.
|
||||
- REJECT: a ninth pane (8 is already many; this is a project fact not a work page); auto-committing anything; requiring a remote.
|
||||
|
||||
5. Proposed starter `.gitignore` for the security folder (ignore) `.paperclip/`, `.pi/`, `.env`, `.env.*`, `*.pem`, `*.key`, `*secret*`, `*credential*`, `evidence/`, `.DS_Store`, `__pycache__/`, `*.pyc`; intentionally COMMIT `.harness/` (holds project's own `check.sh` and notes the agent may need). Rationale: `03-secret-rotation.md` and `evidence/` are the two things not to commit by reflex.
|
||||
|
||||
Status: no implementation; awaiting user to choose which of the four options to build. Do not run `office` on `~/SECURITY`.
|
||||
|
||||
## Evidence
|
||||
|
||||
- Confidence: 90%
|
||||
- Reason: Rich sanitized discovery + design proposal with concrete mechanics, paths, rejected alternatives, and explicit user guardrails; useful for a future agent continuing the work.
|
||||
|
||||
## Related
|
||||
|
||||
- [[packs/paperclip-harness/00-system/pi-agent/memory-manifest|Memory Manifest]]
|
||||
|
||||
## Related learned memories <!-- same-turn-2026-11-12 07:23:27 -->
|
||||
|
||||
- observation: [[packs/paperclip-harness/60-observations/tmp-repository-structure-and-configuration-patterns|Paperclip repo/git mechanics: worktrees, commits, bin/merge, remote necessity]]
|
||||
- decision: [[packs/paperclip-harness/50-decisions/paperclip-harness-ui-six-workspaces-spec-first-four-panel-li|Decision (proposed, pending user pick): gate git at project creation, add Project>project git tab, add no …[truncated]…]]
|
||||
- session: [[packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/git-init-gating-for-paperclip-projects-design-options-and-re|Git-init gating for Paperclip projects: design options and repo-mechanics findings]]
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,161 @@
|
||||
---
|
||||
type: session
|
||||
id: session.paperclip-harness.rich-discovery-git-repo-2026-11-12-09-24-20
|
||||
title: Rich discovery: git_repo 2026-11-12 09:24:20
|
||||
status: active
|
||||
source_of_truth: false
|
||||
freshness: current
|
||||
last_reviewed: 2026-11-12
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- pack/paperclip-harness
|
||||
- agent-memory/session
|
||||
- autolearn
|
||||
- rich-discovery
|
||||
- repo/git-repo
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# Rich discovery: git_repo 2026-11-12 09:24:20
|
||||
|
||||
Sanitized rich discovery snapshot captured automatically from the completed turn.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
## Source paths observed
|
||||
|
||||
- `./scripts/provision-worktree-runtime.sh`
|
||||
- `./scripts/provision-worktree.sh`
|
||||
- `./scripts/teardown-worktree.sh`
|
||||
- `path/to/worktree`
|
||||
- `github.com/acme/growth-playbook`
|
||||
- `home/sam/paseo/projects/test-alpha/.paperclip/worktrees/AUD-172-add-a-status-md-with-one-line`
|
||||
- `home/sam/paseo/projects/test-alpha`
|
||||
- `home/sam/SECURITY`
|
||||
- `p/worktrees/AUD-173-add-a-line-to-readme`
|
||||
- `home/sam/paseo/projects/test-alpha/.paperclip/worktrees/AUD-172-`
|
||||
|
||||
## Final answer snapshot
|
||||
|
||||
Research done, measured against the running instance and the installed build rather than remembered. Here is what Paperclip actually offers for git.
|
||||
|
||||
## 1. The CLI has no git commands at all
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
paperclipai project list · get · create · update · delete
|
||||
paperclipai project-workspace list · create · update · delete · runtime-service · runtime-command
|
||||
paperclipai workspace list · get · close-readiness · operations · update · runtime-*
|
||||
paperclipai cost · openapi · …
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Nothing initialises a repository, nothing reports whether a folder is one. The git-shaped verbs are all about *execution workspaces* — the per-task worktrees.
|
||||
|
||||
## 2. The web "git screen" is the execution workspace page
|
||||
|
||||
Two things on that page, found in the served bundle:
|
||||
|
||||
- a **"Git status"** panel showing `branchName`, and
|
||||
- a **"Source control"** section with `Branch name` ("Useful for isolated worktrees") and `Base ref` editors.
|
||||
|
||||
So the screen you are thinking of is per *task worktree*, not the project folder.
|
||||
|
||||
## 3. The API behind it — and this is useful to us
|
||||
|
||||
`GET /api/execution-workspaces/{id}/close-readiness` returns a `git` object. Live, for AUD-172 a moment ago:
|
||||
|
||||
```json
|
||||
"git": {
|
||||
"repoRoot": "/home/sam/paseo/projects/test-alpha/.paperclip/worktrees/AUD-172-…",
|
||||
"workspacePath":"/home/sam/paseo/projects/test-alpha/.paperclip/worktrees/AUD-172-…",
|
||||
"branchName": "AUD-172-add-a-status-md-with-one-line",
|
||||
"baseRef": "main",
|
||||
"hasDirtyTrackedFiles": false,
|
||||
"hasUntrackedFiles": false,
|
||||
"dirtyEntryCount": 0,
|
||||
"untrackedEntryCount": 0,
|
||||
"aheadCount": 0,
|
||||
"behindCount": 1,
|
||||
"isMergedIntoBase": true,
|
||||
"createdByRuntime": true
|
||||
},
|
||||
"deliveryState": "merged_by_ancestry",
|
||||
"warnings": ["This workspace is 1 commit behind main."]
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
That is Paperclip doing the git reading for you: branch, dirtiness, how far behind, whether it is already merged. Nothing we should reimplement.
|
||||
|
||||
## 4. The project workspace side is declaration only
|
||||
|
||||
`GET /api/projects/{id}/workspaces` returns configuration, no git state:
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
sourceType local_path | git_repo | remote_managed | non_git_path
|
||||
cwd · repoUrl · repoRef · defaultRef
|
||||
setupCommand · cleanupCommand
|
||||
visibility · runtimeConfig · isPrimary
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
And the policy on the project has more hooks than we use:
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
workspaceStrategy.type project_primary | git_worktree | adapter_managed | cloud_sandbox
|
||||
baseRef · branchTemplate · existingBranch · worktreeParentDir
|
||||
provisionCommand · runtimeProvisionCommand · teardownCommand
|
||||
defaultMode shared_workspace | isolated_workspace | operator_branch | adapter_default
|
||||
sharedWorkspaceConcurrency auto | serialize | allow
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
## 5. The finding that matters most
|
||||
|
||||
**Paperclip does not check that the folder is a repository.** The whole validation is:
|
||||
|
||||
```js
|
||||
function validateProjectWorkspace(value, ctx) {
|
||||
const sourceType = value.sourceType ?? "local_path";
|
||||
const hasCwd = …; const hasRepo = …;
|
||||
if (sourceType === "remote_managed") { …; return; }
|
||||
if (!hasCwd && !hasRepo) ctx.addIssue({ message: "Workspace requires at least one of cwd or repoUrl." });
|
||||
}
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
`git_repo` with a folder that is not a repository is accepted and fails later, when a task first tries to make a worktree. Your instinct was right: this has to be caught on our side, at creation, or it is not caught at all.
|
||||
|
||||
## 6. What cannot be done through Paperclip
|
||||
|
||||
- **No endpoint to create a worktree on demand.** Execution workspaces appear when a task runs. So the first task is the only real test that the repository is usable — we cannot "try one" beforehand.
|
||||
- **No hook for `git init`.** `provisionCommand` runs per worktree, which is far too late, and `setupCommand` is per project workspace but is not a validation step.
|
||||
- `POST /api/execution-workspaces/{id}/reconcile-branch` exists for repairing a drifted branch record, and `existingBranch` lets a task be pointed at a branch you made yourself, instead of `{{issue.identifier}}-{{slug}}`.
|
||||
|
||||
## 7. One correction to what I built
|
||||
|
||||
Our create body sets the policy's `baseRef` but leaves the project workspace's `defaultRef` as `null` — visible on both existing projects. Those are two fields for the same idea and both should be set. Small, but it is the kind of gap that bites later.
|
||||
|
||||
Also: `non_git_path` exists as a `sourceType`, but it appears exactly once in the whole build (in the schema) and nothing treats it differently from `local_path`. I would keep using `local_path` and not invent a meaning it does not have.
|
||||
|
||||
## What this means for the plan you approved
|
||||
|
||||
| Piece | Change from what we discussed |
|
||||
|---|---|
|
||||
| Gate at creation | stays ours, and is now clearly the **only** early check. Also set `defaultRef`, and refuse to call a non-repo `git_repo` |
|
||||
| `git` tab | becomes **two layers**: the folder's own state (we read it), and Paperclip's `close-readiness` scan of each task worktree — branch, dirty, ahead/behind, merged. The second gives "1 commit behind main" and "merged into main" without us computing anything |
|
||||
| `.gitignore` editing | unchanged: lazygit, opened with `t`, files panel `i`, then `c` to commit |
|
||||
| Banner | unchanged, one line while the folder cannot hold worktrees |
|
||||
| Two-step creation | unchanged: repo + `.gitignore` + stage, stop, you commit in lazygit, run again to get the worktree project |
|
||||
|
||||
The research also suggests one extra thing worth having in the `git` tab, since the data is free: **the list of this project's worktrees with their git state**, including ones that are behind `main` or already merged. That is the same view Paperclip's web screen gives, in the place you are already working.
|
||||
|
||||
I have not touched `~/SECURITY`, and I will not run `office` on it.
|
||||
|
||||
Say go and I will build it in this order: the creation gate (with `defaultRef` and the honest `sourceType`), then the `git` tab with both layers, then the banner. All of it lives in the commands and the program, so nothing needs rebuilding on any machine.
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|
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## Evidence
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- Confidence: 86%
|
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- Reason: Preserve full sanitized discovery detail from a rich investigation turn
|
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|
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## Related
|
||||
|
||||
- [[packs/paperclip-harness/00-system/pi-agent/memory-manifest|Memory Manifest]]
|
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|
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## Related learned memories <!-- same-turn-2026-11-12 09:24:20 -->
|
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|
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- session: [[packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/rich-discovery-git-repo-2026-11-12-09-24-20|Rich discovery: git_repo 2026-11-12 09:24:20]]
|
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- context: [[packs/paperclip-harness/20-context/home|git_repo]]
|
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- observation: [[packs/paperclip-harness/60-observations/tmp-repository-structure-and-configuration-patterns|git_repo repository structure and configuration patterns]]
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---
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type: session
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id: session.paperclip-harness.rich-discovery-now-2026-11-12-07-09-34
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title: Rich discovery: now 2026-11-12 07:09:34
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status: active
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source_of_truth: false
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freshness: current
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last_reviewed: 2026-11-12
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tags:
|
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- pack/paperclip-harness
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- agent-memory/session
|
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- autolearn
|
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- rich-discovery
|
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- repo/now
|
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---
|
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|
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# Rich discovery: now 2026-11-12 07:09:34
|
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|
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Sanitized rich discovery snapshot captured automatically from the completed turn.
|
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|
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|
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## Source paths observed
|
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|
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- `tmp/officetest/.harness/harness.toml`
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- `home/sam/SECURITY`
|
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|
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## Final answer snapshot
|
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|
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Your summary of the machinery is exactly right, and nothing you asked was silly. TUIOS on each machine, `office` copied to each, Paperclip and therefore the agents only on `.13`. Everything below follows from that one fact.
|
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|
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## 1. Worktrees by default — agreed, and now it is the default
|
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|
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You are right that worktrees are the normal case, not an optional extra. Without them two tasks edit the same files, and `Work>change`, `Work>review` and `Work>merge` have nothing to work from — they stop being a review gate and become decoration.
|
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|
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I also found a real bug while doing it: the base branch was hardcoded to `main`. A repository on `master` would have been given a worktree policy pointing at a branch that does not exist, so every run would fail on first use. It is now read from the folder.
|
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|
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```
|
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worktrees: yes — a repository on branch 'main', so each task gets its own
|
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worktrees: no — this is not a repository
|
||||
```
|
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|
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## 2. Asking, not doing it silently
|
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|
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This is the part where I would push back on doing it automatically, and `~/SECURITY` is the perfect example of why.
|
||||
|
||||
To give a folder worktrees you have to run `git init`, `git add -A` and a first commit — which commits **every file in that folder**, including anything you forgot was there. In `SECURITY` that means `02-incident-2026-11-11.md`, `03-secret-rotation.md`, `04-login-audit.md`. Committing is a decision about your own files, and it is not one a setup command should make on your behalf. A first commit is also nearly impossible to take back quietly.
|
||||
|
||||
So it asks, and says what it will do before doing it:
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
/tmp/officetest is not a git repository, so each task cannot have its own branch and worktree.
|
||||
without them, two tasks can change the same files at once, and there
|
||||
is no diff to review and nothing to merge.
|
||||
|
||||
make it a repository now? This runs: git init -b main, git add -A,
|
||||
and one commit of EVERY file in the folder, including anything you
|
||||
have not noticed. Add a .gitignore first if that is not what you want.
|
||||
type yes to do it:
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Three ways through, in the order I would use them:
|
||||
|
||||
| Situation | What happens |
|
||||
|---|---|
|
||||
| at a terminal | it asks; `yes` makes the repository, anything else leaves it alone |
|
||||
| in a script | `--git-init` makes it without asking |
|
||||
| no terminal at all | it changes nothing and prints the exact commands to run yourself |
|
||||
|
||||
Say no, and the project is still created — as `local_path`, in place, with no branch and nothing to merge. That is honest for a folder of notes and wrong for code, and it now says which one you got.
|
||||
|
||||
Verified on a throwaway folder: with `--git-init` it made one commit on `main` and reported ready; a second call found it already ready and did nothing; a repository with no commit was refused with the right one-line fix.
|
||||
|
||||
## 3. Warning when it is not the Paperclip machine — and refusing for a new project
|
||||
|
||||
I made it stronger than a warning for `--new`, because the failure is invisible until a task runs:
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
refused: this folder is on sam-4screen-desktop, but Paperclip and its agents run on nixos-desktop
|
||||
the panes will open here and will read this folder correctly
|
||||
the agents will not: they start on nixos-desktop, where /home/sam/SECURITY does not exist
|
||||
a task you assign will fail, or work on a different folder
|
||||
move the folder to nixos-desktop, mount it there, or pass --anywhere to go ahead anyway
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
My reasoning for refuse rather than warn: creating that project writes a lasting record in Paperclip that can never work, and nothing about the panes will look wrong. Adopting an existing project — `--project` instead of `--new` — only warns, because opening panes to read a folder that lives elsewhere is a legitimate thing to want.
|
||||
|
||||
`--anywhere` proceeds anyway.
|
||||
|
||||
## What this means for the `security` project
|
||||
|
||||
It is currently `local_path` on `.27`, so it has the problem in two ways at once: no worktrees, and its folder is invisible to the agents. A project's policy is fixed when it is created, so it cannot be upgraded — it has to be made again.
|
||||
|
||||
You have three choices, and I have not touched it while you decide:
|
||||
|
||||
1. **Move the notes to `.13`** and re-create it there. Cleanest: panes, agents and worktrees all on the same machine.
|
||||
2. **Leave it on `.27`** and use its panes only as a place to read and write the notes yourself, with no agent work.
|
||||
3. **Mount `.27`'s home on `.13`** so agents can see the path. Then re-create it. Adds a mount that can fail silently.
|
||||
|
||||
If you want option 1, the commands are:
|
||||
|
||||
```sh
|
||||
cd ~/SECURITY && git init -b main && git add -A && git commit -m "security notes as they stand"
|
||||
rsync -a ~/SECURITY/ sam@192.168.20.13:/home/sam/SECURITY/ # from .27
|
||||
# then on .13:
|
||||
office ~/SECURITY --new "security"
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Add a `.gitignore` before the first commit if any of those files should stay out of the history.
|
||||
|
||||
## Committed
|
||||
|
||||
`paperclip-harness` → `f7b77f3`. `office --help` now documents the worktree rule, the question, and where things run, alongside the per-machine commands.
|
||||
|
||||
Nothing needs rebuilding for any of this — it is all in the commands, which `--host` copies to each machine. The only outstanding rebuild is still `.51`, for `~/.local/bin` on `PATH`, and that is optional now that the commands read the secrets file themselves.
|
||||
|
||||
## Evidence
|
||||
|
||||
- Confidence: 86%
|
||||
- Reason: Preserve full sanitized discovery detail from a rich investigation turn
|
||||
|
||||
## Related
|
||||
|
||||
- [[packs/paperclip-harness/00-system/pi-agent/memory-manifest|Memory Manifest]]
|
||||
|
||||
## Related learned memories <!-- same-turn-2026-11-12 07:09:34 -->
|
||||
|
||||
- session: [[packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/rich-discovery-now-2026-11-12-07-09-34|Rich discovery: now 2026-11-12 07:09:34]]
|
||||
- context: [[packs/paperclip-harness/20-context/paperclip-harness|now]]
|
||||
- observation: [[packs/paperclip-harness/60-observations/tmp-repository-structure-and-configuration-patterns|now repository structure and configuration patterns]]
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,163 @@
|
||||
---
|
||||
type: session
|
||||
id: session.paperclip-harness.rich-discovery-with-2026-11-12-09-01-33
|
||||
title: Rich discovery: with 2026-11-12 09:01:33
|
||||
status: active
|
||||
source_of_truth: false
|
||||
freshness: current
|
||||
last_reviewed: 2026-11-12
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- pack/paperclip-harness
|
||||
- agent-memory/session
|
||||
- autolearn
|
||||
- rich-discovery
|
||||
- repo/with
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# Rich discovery: with 2026-11-12 09:01:33
|
||||
|
||||
Sanitized rich discovery snapshot captured automatically from the completed turn.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
## Source paths observed
|
||||
|
||||
- `run/current-system/sw/bin/lazygit`
|
||||
- `b/rebase-merge/doneremote.origin.urlrebase.updateRefsopen`
|
||||
- `.git/info/excludeRemove`
|
||||
- `.git/info/exclude`
|
||||
|
||||
## Final answer snapshot
|
||||
|
||||
## Yes — lazygit handles `.gitignore`, so no rethink needed
|
||||
|
||||
I checked the installed build rather than trusting memory. `lazygit 0.66.2`, and its binary contains exactly the code paths and menu items for this:
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
FilesController.ignoreOrExcludeFile / ignoreOrExcludeMenu
|
||||
"Add to .gitignore" "Add to .git/info/exclude" "Ignore file"
|
||||
"Cannot ignore .gitignore"
|
||||
"Can't stage '{{.path}}' because it is a worktree. Remove it with …, or ignore it with …"
|
||||
"Amend last commit"
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
So from the Files panel:
|
||||
|
||||
| key | does |
|
||||
|---|---|
|
||||
| `i` | menu: **Add to .gitignore** or **Add to .git/info/exclude** for the selected file or folder |
|
||||
| `space` | stage / unstage |
|
||||
| `c` | commit |
|
||||
| `A` | amend the last commit (safe here: nothing is pushed) |
|
||||
| `e` | edit the file, `.gitignore` included |
|
||||
| `?` | every key, in case you want the exact ones for this version |
|
||||
|
||||
Three details worth knowing:
|
||||
|
||||
- It adds the **path** of what you select, one entry per file. Adding the folder `evidence/` ignores the whole folder. For a pattern like `*secret*` you edit `.gitignore` with `e`.
|
||||
- It refuses to ignore `.gitignore` itself, so that file always gets committed.
|
||||
- It already knows how to complain about worktrees, which is the next point.
|
||||
|
||||
Our `t` tool chooser already opens lazygit **with the project folder as its working directory**, so it lands in the right repository with no setup.
|
||||
|
||||
## The one thing that must not be optional
|
||||
|
||||
Paperclip puts each task's worktree **inside the project folder**, at `.paperclip/worktrees/…`. If git ever sees those, the repository becomes a mess of nested checkouts of itself. So `.paperclip/` has to be in `.gitignore` from the first moment, on every path — not as advice, as a rule. lazygit warns about staging a worktree, but the ignore entry should already be there before it can happen.
|
||||
|
||||
`.harness/` is the opposite: it holds the project's own `check.sh` and notes, the agent may need it, so it should be committed.
|
||||
|
||||
## Revised Option 1 — two choices, no file list
|
||||
|
||||
You are right that listing files is useless: you cannot act on the list at that moment.
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
This folder is not a git repository, so each task cannot have its own branch and worktree.
|
||||
|
||||
Y make the repository and commit EVERY file in it
|
||||
Hundreds is fine. Anything matched by .gitignore is left out.
|
||||
A .gitignore is written first, containing .paperclip/ — that one is not optional.
|
||||
|
||||
N no repository: no worktrees, tasks edit this folder directly,
|
||||
no diff to review and nothing to merge
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Two answers, both honest, and the sentence about `.gitignore` does the teaching.
|
||||
|
||||
## The ordering problem, and why your sequence is the right one
|
||||
|
||||
If `office` creates the repository **and commits in the same breath**, you never get the chance to exclude anything first. Fixing it afterwards means `git rm --cached` and `--amend` — doable in lazygit, but rewriting the first commit is exactly the kind of thing that goes wrong quietly.
|
||||
|
||||
So the flow you described is the correct one, and I would build it as two visible steps:
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
office ~/SECURITY --new "security"
|
||||
made a repository on branch main
|
||||
wrote .gitignore → .paperclip/
|
||||
staged everything; nothing is committed yet
|
||||
8 files staged, 1 folder (evidence/)
|
||||
|
||||
Run t → lazygit to exclude what you do not want (`i` on a file or folder),
|
||||
then `c` to commit. When a commit exists, run this command again and it will
|
||||
create the project with worktrees.
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
and the second run, seeing a commit, creates the project with `isolated_workspace` and the base branch it finds.
|
||||
|
||||
That way no tool ever writes history on your behalf, and the exclusion decision happens where you can actually see the files — in lazygit. For anyone who does not want two steps, `--commit-all` does it in one.
|
||||
|
||||
## The `git` tab in `Project>project`
|
||||
|
||||
It shows facts, read live from the folder and from Paperclip each time the pane draws:
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
repository yes, branch main, 1 commit
|
||||
remote none (not needed for worktrees)
|
||||
worktrees isolated per task (Paperclip policy: isolated_workspace, base main)
|
||||
changed 8 staged · 0 unstaged · 3 untracked · 2 ignored
|
||||
ignored .paperclip/ evidence/
|
||||
next t → lazygit: `i` to ignore a file, `c` to commit
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Two things it deliberately does **not** do:
|
||||
|
||||
- **it does not edit `.gitignore` itself.** lazygit already does it correctly, including `.git/info/exclude` and the guard on `.gitignore`. Two implementations of one job drift apart; one is enough.
|
||||
- **it does not hold a copy of the state.** Same rule as everything else here: read it, do not remember it.
|
||||
|
||||
And a line in `Project>overview` pointing at it, so the tab is found rather than discovered.
|
||||
|
||||
## The banner
|
||||
|
||||
One line, only while something is wrong, in every pane:
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
no worktrees — no commit in this folder · Project>project → git (t: lazygit)
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
It disappears the moment a commit exists, so it cannot become furniture.
|
||||
|
||||
## What I would build
|
||||
|
||||
| | |
|
||||
|---|---|
|
||||
| Gate in `office` — two choices, write `.gitignore`, stage, stop before committing | **yes** |
|
||||
| `--commit-all` for the one-step case | **yes** |
|
||||
| `git` tab in `Project>project`: state, policy, counts, one-line next step | **yes** |
|
||||
| One-line banner in every pane while not worktree-ready | **yes** |
|
||||
| `.gitignore` editing inside our interface | **no** — lazygit does it, `t` opens it |
|
||||
| Interesting complication: showing `staged` counts means running `git status` | read on refresh, on a button, not on every keystroke |
|
||||
|
||||
I have not touched `~/SECURITY`. It is still not a repository, and I will not run `office` on it — when the gate exists you can run it yourself and answer Y or N with everything in front of you.
|
||||
|
||||
## Evidence
|
||||
|
||||
- Confidence: 86%
|
||||
- Reason: Preserve full sanitized discovery detail from a rich investigation turn
|
||||
|
||||
## Related
|
||||
|
||||
- [[packs/paperclip-harness/00-system/pi-agent/memory-manifest|Memory Manifest]]
|
||||
|
||||
## Related learned memories <!-- same-turn-2026-11-12 09:01:33 -->
|
||||
|
||||
- session: [[packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/rich-discovery-with-2026-11-12-09-01-33|Rich discovery: with 2026-11-12 09:01:33]]
|
||||
- context: [[packs/paperclip-harness/20-context/with|with]]
|
||||
- observation: [[packs/paperclip-harness/60-observations/tmp-repository-structure-and-configuration-patterns|with repository structure and configuration patterns]]
|
||||
Reference in New Issue
Block a user