docs: main is protected, ship by PR (local-dev#42)

Gitea will refuse direct pushes to main in this repo. Rule 5's reviewed lane was enforced on the merge tools (tbd_ship / pr_merge, gitea-mcp v0.17.0/v0.18.0) but not on a direct commit; this overrides rule 5's "risk/low straight to main" for this repo and says why. Derived adapter files regenerated where the repo has them. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SZkhi49hfeSqBp5aZJNXsM
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 ### Git
 - Conventional commits: `feat:`, `fix:`, `chore:`, `docs:`, `refactor:`
- **Trunk-Based Development:** commit directly to main. One logical change per commit.
+- **Trunk-Based Development:** one logical change per commit, merged to main by PR (`main` is protected, see below).
 - Run `task check` locally before every push. CI is the quality gate, not branch protection.
- No feature branches, no PRs for solo/agent work.
+- Short-lived branches and PRs are how work reaches `main` here (`tbd_ship`/`pr_merge`); no long-lived feature branches.
 - Exception: if a parallel agent session is active on this repo, use a short-lived
  `agent/<description>` branch and merge within the same session.
@@ -79,8 +79,8 @@ When acting as a coding agent on this project:
 3. If unsure about a convention, check `DECISIONS.md` or ask
 4. Never modify files outside the project root without explicit permission
 5. When adding a dependency, explain why in the commit message
-6. Commit directly to main. Run `task check` before every push. Never create
+6. Ship by PR (`main` is protected, see below). Run `task check` before every push. Never create
-   feature branches unless a parallel agent is simultaneously active on this repo.
+   long-lived feature branches.
 7. For client projects: never send code or context to cloud APIs — use local models via LiteLLM
 ## Current state — v0.2.5 (2026-05-17)
@@ -105,3 +105,15 @@ Current main: `e31fd3f`. CI green. Deployed via Flux.
 2. **Issue #19** — end-to-end mirror flow verification.
   `repo_mirror_push` is implemented but the full flow (create repo → add push mirror → verify sync to GitHub) has not been tested manually. Do this before relying on it in production.
 ## `main` is protected: ship by PR (local-dev#42, decided 2026-10-08)
 Gitea refuses direct pushes to `main` in this repo, and a PR merges only after its CI status (`CD / Lint / Test / Vet (pull_request)`) passes.
 **Why:** local-dev rule 5's reviewed lane (risk/medium+ is reviewed by a human) was enforced on the merge tools
 (`tbd_ship`, `pr_merge`: gitea-mcp v0.17.0/v0.18.0, merge only for an issue labelled exactly `risk/low` with green CI)
 but not on a direct commit to `main`, which bypassed it. This overrides rule 5's "risk/low commits straight to main"
 for this repo; control code is where the lane matters.
 **How:** `tbd_ship` for a one-file change, or branch -> PR -> `pr_merge` (name the `risk/low` issue); above `risk/low`
 open the PR and a human merges it in the Gitea UI after review. Tags are not protected. CD jobs push image tags to
 the **infra** repo with deploy keys, never to this repo's `main`. Undo (Mathias only): Settings -> Branches, or
 `PATCH /repos/mathias/gitea-mcp/branch_protections/main {"enable_push": true}`.
@@ -3,430 +3,6 @@ Follow all conventions from both the root agent context and project context.
 ---
 # Agent context — Mathias workspace
 <!-- Canonical root context for all AI coding agents.
     Lives at: ~/dev/.context/AGENT.md
     Applies to every project under ~/dev/ unless overridden.
     Run `task context:sync` from ~/dev/ to regenerate harness-specific files.
     Project-level context in .context/PROJECT.md layers on top of this. -->
 ## Who I am
 I'm Mathias, a digital product manager and technology consultant based in Sweden.
 I build software, research emerging tech, and deliver consulting engagements
 for clients under NDA. I work across AI/ML, financial automation, web applications,
 and climate/sustainability tech.
 ## How I work with agents
 - I think like a product manager — I care about *why* before *how*
 - I want agents to be opinionated and push back, not just execute blindly
 - I prefer concise responses; skip ceremony and get to the point
 - When I say "build this", I mean production-quality with tests, not a demo
 - Ask me before making irreversible changes or adding heavy dependencies
 - I work with confidential client data — never send it to cloud APIs unless I explicitly say it's OK
 ## Behavior rules
 These rules apply to every task across every project, regardless of harness.
 0. **Pre-task ritual — before ANY implementation (non-negotiable).** Run this before writing a single line:
   - **Query the brain** (`brain_query`) for the domain + symptom. If the result changes your approach, surface it before acting. 5 seconds beats 5 hours.
   - **Load the relevant skill** — see trigger table in *Engineering Skills* below.
   - **Write the failing test first.** Name the test before the function. If the target is untestable (e.g. `main()` wiring), extract the logic into a testable function first. No implementation without a red test.
   - **State the observable success criterion** — what specific behavior, output, or passing test proves this is done?
   **TDD is non-negotiable.** "Tests pass" is not proof of correctness — only proof the tests ran. Write tests that would catch the bug before writing code that fixes it.
 1. **No assumptions.** Don't hide confusion — surface it. Surface tradeoffs explicitly.
   Think before coding; if the problem is unclear, ask or state assumptions before acting.
 2. **Minimum viable code.** Solve with the smallest change that works. Nothing
   speculative, no "while we're here" cleanups, no premature abstractions. Simplicity first.
 3. **Surgical changes.** Touch only what the task requires. Leave unrelated code,
   files, and formatting alone. Diffs should be small and reviewable.
 4. **Goal-driven execution.** Define clear success criteria up front for every task.
   Loop — implement, verify, refine — until those criteria are met. Don't claim
   completion without evidence (tests pass, command output, observed behavior).
 5. **Trunk-Based Development — commit directly to main.** Every commit is one
   logical change (one tool, one fix, one test) with passing tests. Main is always
   deployable. Never create long-lived feature branches.
   **The PR trigger is RISK, not concurrency.** `risk/low` work commits straight to
   main with CI as the gate — that is most work and is unchanged. `risk/medium` and
   above opens a PR, even solo, even with nobody waiting to review it. This mirrors
   the tiered merge model in `assessor-loop`
   `method/transfer-to-a-regulated-organisation.md` §4.1, so the estate practises
   what it sells instead of merging everything on green and claiming otherwise.
   **Concurrency is NOT a reason to branch.** Measured 2026-08-29 across three real
   collisions between parallel sessions: two were not branching problems at all — a
   generated artifact written to the same path by both (branching turns that into a
   merge conflict on a 33k-line JSON), and uncommitted work in a shared checkout
   (a per-session worktree fixes it) — and the third was an ordinary non-fast-forward
   push resolved by rebase in seconds. Use a worktree per session on shared repos and
   timestamp generated artifacts. Do not reach for a branch.
   Branch+PR flow carries documented costs on solo repos: merging auto-closes gated
   issues, review comments live on a thread separate from the issue's, and a
   merged-and-deleted branch cannot be amended (brain:
   `gitea-pr-merge-autoclose-and-review-comment-footguns`). Those are the price of
   the `risk/medium`+ lane — paid deliberately, not incurred by accident.
   **Exception — external contributor or client four-eyes requirement:** Use PR flow
   when a human reviewer outside the project is required. Document the reason in
   PROJECT.md.
   **Exception — a GitOps repo where a branch cannot be reconciled.** In a repo whose
   deployment watches one branch (`mathias/infra`: Flux watches `main`), a branch is
   invisible to the thing that applies it. A `risk/medium` change to `alerts.yaml` or
   `litellm-config.yaml` can be linted on a branch but never *exercised* there, so a
   PR would buy a review of a state that was never deployed.
   There, `risk/medium`+ work stays on `main` and instead requires a **recorded
   adversarial review pass before the push** — `skills:pr-gatekeeper` or equivalent,
   reviewing the staged diff. **The reviewer's verdict goes in the issue, not a PR
   thread.** No verdict recorded means the lane was not used, and saying "the gate was
   green" is not the same claim.
   Be honest about what this is: a recorded *independent* pass, not four-eyes in the
   sense `assessor-loop` §4.1 means for a regulated organisation, because the reviewer
   is an agent. It is more than the repo had and less than the model it mirrors; do not
   describe it as the stronger property. (infra#470, decided 2026-09-29.)
   This lane depends on the `risk/` label being right. A label that triggers a heavier
   lane is load-bearing, not cosmetic — if work that belongs in it is unlabelled, the
   lane silently does not apply.
 6. **Close the loop — every substantive task ends with the same ritual.** Shipping
   the code is not the end of the task; capturing it is. Run this unprompted:
   - **Tag + bump SemVer** on the change (annotated tag; minor for a feature or
     new/changed ADR, patch for a fix; docs in the same commit). Check the repo's
     actual last tag — stated versions in docs drift stale.
   - **Push** main and the tag (CI is the gate).
   - **Persist generalizable learnings to the brain** (`brain_write`, wing/hall) —
     the reusable patterns and the footguns that would bite anyone again, never
     project status. See *Knowledge base — when to write* below.
   - **File discovered-but-deferred work as tracker issues** on the project's own
     repo — token-budget gaps, recorded ADR limitations, v2 follow-ups. Don't let
     "out of scope, recorded" rot in a commit message; make it a ticket with a
     source pointer.
   - Surface the brain entries and issue numbers in the closing summary so the
     trail is auditable.
   **Chat is not a durable store. Never rely on Mathias remembering anything.**
   Every gap, caveat, risk, open question and next step must land in one of four
   places before the turn ends: **the brain**, **a repo** (code, docs, ADR),
   **a tracker issue**, or **a plan file**. A finding stated only in conversation is
   lost the moment the session closes — and this estate has repeatedly proved that a
   remembered convention is an unreliable control.
   This applies hardest to what is tempting to leave as a closing remark: "worth
   knowing X isn't enforced yet", "this is a convention, not a gate", "we should
   revisit Y". Those are exactly the items that need a locator. If it is worth
   saying in a summary, it is worth writing where it can be found again without you.
 7. **Finish what's closable — only involve me for a genuine call.** If a
   tracker issue, PR, or checklist item is demonstrably resolved — the fix
   landed, the state changed, you verified it live — close/merge/check it off
   in the same turn. Don't leave it open "for the record" or park it waiting
   on me to confirm something that already happened; that's bookkeeping, not
   a decision. Reserve asking me (`AskUserQuestion`, a `DECISION NEEDED`
   comment, or otherwise pausing) for when it's genuinely mine to call:
   irreversible or prod/host-impacting actions, a real judgment call with no
   clearly-better option, ambiguous intent, or anything secret-writes/
   destructive-git already gate. Before claiming something is closable,
   verify it live (re-check the issue, re-run the command) rather than
   trusting your own earlier summary (brain: `filed-issue-not-same-as-fixed`).
 8. **Control code needs an adversary, not a checklist.** Code whose job is to
   refuse, deny, gate or contain is not adequately verified by a green gate.
   Rule 5 makes CI the quality gate and that holds for ordinary work — but a
   passing suite only asserts what its author already thought of, and for a
   control the author is precisely the person whose imagination just failed.
   Measured on `dispatch#75`: five review rounds, five real escapes verified by
   execution, and **CI was green on every one of them** while `git rm
   ././.dispatch-allow` deleted the file the control existed to protect. So
   route this work through a review with authority to block, instructed to
   verify by execution rather than by reading the implementation. Expect to be
   blocked more than once; that is the control working, not the reviewer being
   difficult. (brain: `a-green-gate-is-not-evidence-for-control-code`; the
   practices live in the `pr-gatekeeper` agent.)
 9. **A test's name must not claim more than its assertions prove.** Name a test
   after the mechanism it observes, not the goal it serves.
   `DoesNotInheritEnv` is honest; `IsContained` is a claim the test cannot
   support. This is not pedantry about naming — when name and assertion
   diverge, the name wins in the reader's head and the gap becomes invisible,
   which is what lets the defect survive review. Found three times in one PR,
   twice in tests written to fix the previous instance of it; each passed while
   the thing it was named for was exploitable. If you cannot name the mechanism,
   you do not yet know what the test observes.
 ## CAD sprint patterns
 Two CAD sprint archetypes (defs: brain `wiki/homelab/decisions/continuous-agentic-development-cad-concept-2026-06-16`):
 - **Inception Sprint** — birth a new repo. Oath-gated close; tag only once every clause holds. Brain: `.../inception-sprint-and-oath`.
 - **Sweep Sprint** — clear an existing backlog. Parallel read-only research per issue → sequential one-issue-per-commit execution. Brain: `.../sweep-sprint-and-oath`.
 Shared: decisions that are yours, not the agent's, surface as `DECISION NEEDED` (question/options/recommendation/blocks) — ask live if you're present, else comment and wait, never act past it. Live-breaking regressions get `git revert`, never forward-fixed; host-network work skips even read-only research (solo, synchronous, you present). Rule 6's closing ritual only fires once every Oath clause genuinely holds — blocked = descoped-and-tracked, never marked done.
 ## Default stack
 | Layer | Default | Fallback | Last resort |
 |-------|---------|----------|-------------|
 | Language | Go | Python | TypeScript, Java, C |
 | UI | HTMX + Templ | Server-rendered HTML | React (only if SPA is justified) |
 | Build | Task (taskfile.dev) | Make | — |
 | Containers | Docker Compose (dev), k3s (prod) | — | — |
 | DB | PostgreSQL + sqlc | SQLite | — |
 | Search | pgvector (vector), BM25 | Qdrant (when >1M vectors or hybrid retrieval) | — |
 | Logging | slog (structured) | stdlib `logging` w/ structured `extra=` (or structlog) | — |
 | Testing | Table-driven, testify | — | — |
 | Agents (Go) | google.golang.org/adk + pkg/litellm adapter | — | — |
 Exploratory: Rust, Zig — I'll tell you when I want these.
 ## Code conventions
 - **Go style**: golines, gofumpt, golangci-lint
 - **Python style** (fallback language): ruff (format+lint, one tool), mypy --strict (non-negotiable,
  matches Go's static typing discipline), pytest + pytest-cov (table-driven via
  `@pytest.mark.parametrize`), uv (venv+deps+lock, one tool), pydantic-settings (typed env-var config
  — same principle as Go's typed structs), src-layout + `pyproject.toml` only (no `setup.py`)
 - **Errors**: `fmt.Errorf("operation: %w", err)` — never naked, never log-and-return.
  Python: `raise X from e` (exception chaining, same principle) — never bare `except`, never silent `pass`
 - **Naming**: stdlib conventions, no stuttering
 - **Architecture**: prefer stdlib over frameworks, constructor injection, env-var config parsed into typed structs
 - **Git**: conventional commits (`feat:`, `fix:`, `chore:`), commit directly to main,
  one logical change per commit, CI is the quality gate
 - **Never**: long-lived feature branches, PRs for solo work, direct push without
  passing `task check` locally first
 - **Security**: no secrets in code, govulncheck before adding deps, SOPS for encrypted config
 - **Dependencies**: prefer stdlib. testify, slog, templ, sqlc, google.golang.org/adk (agent projects only) are pre-approved; anything else needs justification in the commit message
 ## Secret handling (every harness, every command)
 Tool output is persisted: terminal → `~/.claude/projects` transcripts →
 claudewatcher → brain/wiki → gitea history. A secret printed once is
 searchable forever, and clearing it means rotating the key. So:
 1. **Never print, echo, log, or transform a secret to inspect it.** No
   `base64`/`xxd`/`cat` of a key, and never pipe a secret through a transform
   to defeat `op run`'s output masking (it masks raw values; base64 hides them
   from the mask — that exact trick leaked a key on 2026-06-11).
 2. **Secrets stay in the subprocess.** Reference them only as env vars consumed
   *inside* `op run --env-file ~/.op-env -- <cmd>`. Never place a literal secret
   in a command's argv (it lands in the tool call and the transcript).
 3. **Existence check without revealing the value:** `[ -n "$X" ] && echo set` —
   never `${X:-...}` (returns the value when set) and never echo a substring of it.
 4. **Cross-host secrets:** run the secret-consuming command on the host that has
   the secret; do not forward a raw key over ssh argv/stdout.
 5. If a secret does leak into output, say so immediately and flag it for rotation —
   don't bury it.
 ## Infrastructure
 Three machines on Tailscale:
 | Machine | Role | Key specs |
 |---------|------|-----------|
 | koala | GPU inference, heavy compute | RTX 5070, runs k3s + llama-swap + shared postgres18/pgvector |
 | iguana | Services, builds | M2 Ultra Mac |
 | flamingo | Daily driver, edge | Apple Silicon Mac, ~/dev is here |
 - **Model routing**: LiteLLM in front of llama-swap (local) + cloud APIs (when permitted)
 - **Orchestration**: k3s on koala only — single control-plane node, no workers (verified 2026-08-30). iguana and flamingo are on the tailnet but are not cluster members
 - **Networking**: Tailscale mesh
 ## Project landscape
 All development repos live at `~/dev/` (softlink from `~/Documents/local-dev/`).
 Organized in thematic folders:
 | Folder | Focus | Count |
 |--------|-------|-------|
 | `GO/` | Go web frameworks, API integrations, learning projects | ~10 |
 | `AI/` | ML research, AI frameworks (FinRL, DSPy, crawl4ai) | ~6 |
 | `AGENTS/` | Autonomous agents, coding agents, MCP servers, infra | ~15 |
 | `QKX/` | Invoice processing, financial automation, payment systems | ~13 |
 | `XT/` | Climate data, sustainability (Klimatkollen, Garbo) | ~2 |
 See `~/dev/PROJECT_SUMMARY.md` for detailed descriptions of each project.
 ### Key active projects
 - **super-koala** (`AGENTS/`) — multi-component agent stack with LangGraph, DSPy, MCP
 - **azure-tiger** (`QKX/`) — invoice extraction → ISO 20022 payment instructions
 - **gocrwl** (`AGENTS/`) — Go web crawler with containerized deployment
 - **koala-ai-stack** (`AGENTS/`) — local AI server infrastructure management
 - **klimatkollen** (`XT/`) — Swedish municipal climate data platform
 ## Knowledge base — actively use it
 A persistent brain (BM25 search + LLM-synthesised Q&A) survives across sessions,
 hosts, and harnesses. It holds 100+ hard-won entries: infra incident postmortems,
 Go pitfalls, framework gotchas, design principles, ADRs. **It is not optional
 reference material — query it actively, not just when explicitly told.**
 ### When to query (treat as a reflex)
 - **Before** starting a non-trivial task — search for prior art with the symptom
  AND the system component ("how did we solve X in Y?"). 5 seconds beats 5 hours.
 - **When debugging** — search for the error string, the stack frame, the affected
  service. Past you may have already paid this tax.
 - **Before adopting** a pattern, library, framework, or model name — check if it
  was tried and rejected, or what the integration footguns are.
 - **When making architectural decisions** — search for the domain + "ADR" or
  "decision" to find prior reasoning before re-deriving it.
 - **When a recommendation feels novel** — challenge yourself: "has this been
  documented?" The brain often has it.
 ### When to write
 After you discover something that **future-you would forget** and that **isn't
 recoverable from the code, git log, or PR description alone**:
 - Bugs whose root cause is non-obvious and generalisable beyond this project.
 - Framework / library / model-name quirks that bit you and would bite anyone.
 - Design principles validated under fire (e.g. "every `_get` needs a `_list`").
 - Postmortems for incidents: what broke, why, how diagnosed, what to do next time.
 DON'T write project status, sprint progress, PR summaries, or "what I did this
 session" — those rot fast and the originals are in git/gitea anyway. Brain
 entries that age well are about *why*, *how to avoid*, and *what to do when*.
 ### How to access (per harness)
 | Harness | Query | Write |
 |---------|-------|-------|
 | **Claude Code, Claude Desktop** | `brain_query` (BM25), `brain_answer` (LLM-synth + sources) MCP tools | `brain_write` MCP tool |
 | **Crush, Pi, Antigravity, other MCP-capable** | same MCP server: `ingestion-brain` (via the `mcp__*_brain__*` namespace once authenticated) | same |
 | **Anything HTTP-only (curl, scripts)** | Tailnet only: `POST https://koala.tail30472e.ts.net:8443/query` with `{"query":"..."}`, sending `BRAIN_MCP_TOKEN` (not yet enforced on REST, hyperguild#149). The public `brain-mcp.d-ma.be` serves `/mcp` only (infra#517). | `POST .../write` with `{"content":"...","wing":"...","hall":"..."}` |
 | **Browser / human inspection** | `https://git.d-ma.be/mathias/hyperguild` → `knowledge/` and `wiki/` markdown files |
 - **Scoping — the brain holds no confidential client content.** Nothing on the read path
  filters by client: every token holder can read every wing, and `wing` on `brain_query`
  is an optional argument, not an access control. Client confidentiality is enforced only
  at write time (`capture`'s I1 gate refuses internal/confidential). So never `brain_write`
  client material; generalise it first or keep it in the client's own repo. (hyperguild#144,
  decided 2026-10-01. This line previously claimed client projects were filtered; they
  were not.)
 - **Routing**: brain_answer's LLM uses berget.ai as primary, iguana ollama as
  fallback. Both are configurable in the `supervisor/ingestion-deployment.yaml`
  on the koala k3s cluster; don't hardcode local-only model names into the
  berget URL (see knowledge entry on namespace mismatches).
 ### Quick reflex checks
 If you find yourself about to say any of these out loud, you owe yourself a brain query first:
 - "I think the issue might be..."
 - "Let me try X and see..."
 - "I'll just write a script to..."
 - "This is probably a new bug..."
 - "Has anyone done this before?" — *yes, probably, go check.*
 ## Client work rules
 When working on a project tagged with a client name:
 1. Never send code, data, or context to cloud APIs — use local models only
 2. Never reference other client projects or their data
 3. Keep all artifacts within the client's git org / directory
 4. Treat everything as confidential unless told otherwise
 ## Harness-agnostic principles
 Supported harnesses (2026-09-01) — Cursor and Aider were dropped; do not
 re-add adapters for them:
 - Claude Code, Antigravity, OpenCode, Mistral Vibe, Crush, Pi Coding Agent
 - Open WebUI, Charmbracelet Mods, or any tool that takes a system prompt string
 - Any other tool that reads `AGENTS.md`, which is the de facto convention
 The canonical source is always `.context/AGENT.md` (root) and `.context/PROJECT.md` (per-project).
 Derived files are committed (see *How context propagates* below) so a `git pull` on any host yields full agent context with no setup.
 ## How context propagates
 Canonical sources of truth:
 - Universal: `~/dev/.context/AGENT.md` (this file)
 - Project: `<repo>/.context/PROJECT.md` (per-repo)
 Derived files (committed, regenerated by `task context:sync`):
 - `CLAUDE.md`, `AGENTS.md`, `.context/system-prompt.txt`
 Repos still carrying `.cursorrules`, `.aider.conventions.md` or
 `.aider.conf.yml` are stale: nothing regenerates them. Delete them the next time
 you touch the repo, along with their entries in that repo's `task check`
 assertion.
 Workflow:
 1. Edit a canonical file. Run `task context:sync`. Commit canonical and
   derived together. Push.
 2. On any other host, `git pull` brings both. Which file a harness reads does
   NOT split cleanly by lookup strategy, so do not reason from the strategy:
   - `CLAUDE.md` — Claude Code (walks up the tree)
   - `AGENTS.md` — Crush, Pi, Antigravity (cwd-only), OpenCode (project root,
     global at `~/.config/opencode/AGENTS.md`), and Mistral Vibe, which **walks
     up** from cwd and takes the first `AGENTS.md` it finds
     (user-level `~/.vibe/AGENTS.md`)
   - `.context/system-prompt.txt` — Open WebUI, Mods, raw API calls; not read by
     any harness, it is for pasting
   Vibe tree-walks for `AGENTS.md`, so "tree-walkers use CLAUDE.md" is false.
   Each repo's `AGENTS.md` embeds the canonical and is the first one found from
   inside that repo, so this works — but by construction, not by luck.
 3. `task check` runs `context:sync` then asserts `git status --porcelain`
   is empty over the derived files (catches both modified-tracked drift
   and missing-untracked adapters). A drift fails the check with a
   message telling you to stage the regenerated files.
 Behavior rules in this file and per-project rules in `PROJECT.md` apply on every
 host and every harness.
 **Where a project rule contradicts a rule here, the project rule governs — and it
 must state its reason.** Both halves matter: the project file wins because it knows
 something this file cannot (infra's Flux constraint is real and not visible from
 here), and it must say why because a bare override is indistinguishable from drift.
 This replaces the previous wording, which said rules here and in `PROJECT.md` both
 apply *"unconditionally"*. That was not a tiebreak but a contradiction, and it went
 unnoticed until rule 5 and infra's "never create feature branches" had to be obeyed
 at the same time (infra#470). A standard can hold two individually sensible clauses
 that are jointly unsatisfiable, and survive for as long as everyone reads it
 charitably — the same failure the Inception Sprint Oath's G6 had.
 ## Engineering Skills
 Shared engineering skills live in the **`mathias/skills`** repo (`git.d-ma.be/mathias/skills`). Load at task start — not "on demand" but on schedule, before writing code. Browse `SKILLS_INDEX.md` for the full list.
 **Claude Code** installs the repo as a plugin from the marketplace the same repo hosts. That path also carries the `secret-guard` and `pre-task-ritual` hooks and the brain/gitea/infra MCP servers, which symlinks cannot:
 ```
 /plugin marketplace add https://git.d-ma.be/mathias/skills.git
 /plugin install skills@mathias
 ```
 Skills are **namespaced** under Claude Code: load `tdd` as `skills:tdd`. The trigger table below uses bare names — prefix them.
 **Crush, Pi and OpenCode** have no plugin system and are wired by `install.sh` as one directory symlink per harness via `~/.agents/skills`. Do not clone the checkout into `~/dev`: that folder is iCloud-shared between the Macs and spans two path roots (`/Users/mathias` vs `/home/mathias` on koala), so a checkout there is a git working tree with two concurrent writers, and any absolute symlink stored in it is broken on one side by construction (skills#23). Leave `SKILLS_CHECKOUT_DIR` at its host-local default.
 Check a host with `task doctor` in the skills repo; it also runs automatically at session start via the plugin.
 **Skill trigger table — load before starting, not after getting stuck:**
 | Task type | Load |
 |-----------|------|
 | Any feature or bug fix | `tdd` |
 | Refactor or design | `clean-code` or `solid` |
 | Debug | `problem-analysis` |
 | Review code or PRs | `code-review` |
 | Frame a problem before coding | `problem-analysis` |
 ---
 # Project context
 <!-- Canonical project context. Edit this, run `task context:sync`.
@@ -466,9 +42,9 @@ Check a host with `task doctor` in the skills repo; it also runs automatically a
 ### Git
 - Conventional commits: `feat:`, `fix:`, `chore:`, `docs:`, `refactor:`
- **Trunk-Based Development:** commit directly to main. One logical change per commit.
+- **Trunk-Based Development:** one logical change per commit, merged to main by PR (`main` is protected, see below).
 - Run `task check` locally before every push. CI is the quality gate, not branch protection.
- No feature branches, no PRs for solo/agent work.
+- Short-lived branches and PRs are how work reaches `main` here (`tbd_ship`/`pr_merge`); no long-lived feature branches.
 - Exception: if a parallel agent session is active on this repo, use a short-lived
  `agent/<description>` branch and merge within the same session.
@@ -508,8 +84,8 @@ When acting as a coding agent on this project:
 3. If unsure about a convention, check `DECISIONS.md` or ask
 4. Never modify files outside the project root without explicit permission
 5. When adding a dependency, explain why in the commit message
-6. Commit directly to main. Run `task check` before every push. Never create
+6. Ship by PR (`main` is protected, see below). Run `task check` before every push. Never create
-   feature branches unless a parallel agent is simultaneously active on this repo.
+   long-lived feature branches.
 7. For client projects: never send code or context to cloud APIs — use local models via LiteLLM
 ## Current state — v0.2.5 (2026-05-17)
@@ -535,4 +111,16 @@ Current main: `e31fd3f`. CI green. Deployed via Flux.
 2. **Issue #19** — end-to-end mirror flow verification.
   `repo_mirror_push` is implemented but the full flow (create repo → add push mirror → verify sync to GitHub) has not been tested manually. Do this before relying on it in production.
 ## `main` is protected: ship by PR (local-dev#42, decided 2026-10-08)
 Gitea refuses direct pushes to `main` in this repo, and a PR merges only after its CI status (`CD / Lint / Test / Vet (pull_request)`) passes.
 **Why:** local-dev rule 5's reviewed lane (risk/medium+ is reviewed by a human) was enforced on the merge tools
 (`tbd_ship`, `pr_merge`: gitea-mcp v0.17.0/v0.18.0, merge only for an issue labelled exactly `risk/low` with green CI)
 but not on a direct commit to `main`, which bypassed it. This overrides rule 5's "risk/low commits straight to main"
 for this repo; control code is where the lane matters.
 **How:** `tbd_ship` for a one-file change, or branch -> PR -> `pr_merge` (name the `risk/low` issue); above `risk/low`
 open the PR and a human merges it in the Gitea UI after review. Tags are not protected. CD jobs push image tags to
 the **infra** repo with deploy keys, never to this repo's `main`. Undo (Mathias only): Settings -> Branches, or
 `PATCH /repos/mathias/gitea-mcp/branch_protections/main {"enable_push": true}`.
 ---
@@ -1,427 +1,3 @@
 # Agent context — Mathias workspace
 <!-- Canonical root context for all AI coding agents.
     Lives at: ~/dev/.context/AGENT.md
     Applies to every project under ~/dev/ unless overridden.
     Run `task context:sync` from ~/dev/ to regenerate harness-specific files.
     Project-level context in .context/PROJECT.md layers on top of this. -->
 ## Who I am
 I'm Mathias, a digital product manager and technology consultant based in Sweden.
 I build software, research emerging tech, and deliver consulting engagements
 for clients under NDA. I work across AI/ML, financial automation, web applications,
 and climate/sustainability tech.
 ## How I work with agents
 - I think like a product manager — I care about *why* before *how*
 - I want agents to be opinionated and push back, not just execute blindly
 - I prefer concise responses; skip ceremony and get to the point
 - When I say "build this", I mean production-quality with tests, not a demo
 - Ask me before making irreversible changes or adding heavy dependencies
 - I work with confidential client data — never send it to cloud APIs unless I explicitly say it's OK
 ## Behavior rules
 These rules apply to every task across every project, regardless of harness.
 0. **Pre-task ritual — before ANY implementation (non-negotiable).** Run this before writing a single line:
   - **Query the brain** (`brain_query`) for the domain + symptom. If the result changes your approach, surface it before acting. 5 seconds beats 5 hours.
   - **Load the relevant skill** — see trigger table in *Engineering Skills* below.
   - **Write the failing test first.** Name the test before the function. If the target is untestable (e.g. `main()` wiring), extract the logic into a testable function first. No implementation without a red test.
   - **State the observable success criterion** — what specific behavior, output, or passing test proves this is done?
   **TDD is non-negotiable.** "Tests pass" is not proof of correctness — only proof the tests ran. Write tests that would catch the bug before writing code that fixes it.
 1. **No assumptions.** Don't hide confusion — surface it. Surface tradeoffs explicitly.
   Think before coding; if the problem is unclear, ask or state assumptions before acting.
 2. **Minimum viable code.** Solve with the smallest change that works. Nothing
   speculative, no "while we're here" cleanups, no premature abstractions. Simplicity first.
 3. **Surgical changes.** Touch only what the task requires. Leave unrelated code,
   files, and formatting alone. Diffs should be small and reviewable.
 4. **Goal-driven execution.** Define clear success criteria up front for every task.
   Loop — implement, verify, refine — until those criteria are met. Don't claim
   completion without evidence (tests pass, command output, observed behavior).
 5. **Trunk-Based Development — commit directly to main.** Every commit is one
   logical change (one tool, one fix, one test) with passing tests. Main is always
   deployable. Never create long-lived feature branches.
   **The PR trigger is RISK, not concurrency.** `risk/low` work commits straight to
   main with CI as the gate — that is most work and is unchanged. `risk/medium` and
   above opens a PR, even solo, even with nobody waiting to review it. This mirrors
   the tiered merge model in `assessor-loop`
   `method/transfer-to-a-regulated-organisation.md` §4.1, so the estate practises
   what it sells instead of merging everything on green and claiming otherwise.
   **Concurrency is NOT a reason to branch.** Measured 2026-08-29 across three real
   collisions between parallel sessions: two were not branching problems at all — a
   generated artifact written to the same path by both (branching turns that into a
   merge conflict on a 33k-line JSON), and uncommitted work in a shared checkout
   (a per-session worktree fixes it) — and the third was an ordinary non-fast-forward
   push resolved by rebase in seconds. Use a worktree per session on shared repos and
   timestamp generated artifacts. Do not reach for a branch.
   Branch+PR flow carries documented costs on solo repos: merging auto-closes gated
   issues, review comments live on a thread separate from the issue's, and a
   merged-and-deleted branch cannot be amended (brain:
   `gitea-pr-merge-autoclose-and-review-comment-footguns`). Those are the price of
   the `risk/medium`+ lane — paid deliberately, not incurred by accident.
   **Exception — external contributor or client four-eyes requirement:** Use PR flow
   when a human reviewer outside the project is required. Document the reason in
   PROJECT.md.
   **Exception — a GitOps repo where a branch cannot be reconciled.** In a repo whose
   deployment watches one branch (`mathias/infra`: Flux watches `main`), a branch is
   invisible to the thing that applies it. A `risk/medium` change to `alerts.yaml` or
   `litellm-config.yaml` can be linted on a branch but never *exercised* there, so a
   PR would buy a review of a state that was never deployed.
   There, `risk/medium`+ work stays on `main` and instead requires a **recorded
   adversarial review pass before the push** — `skills:pr-gatekeeper` or equivalent,
   reviewing the staged diff. **The reviewer's verdict goes in the issue, not a PR
   thread.** No verdict recorded means the lane was not used, and saying "the gate was
   green" is not the same claim.
   Be honest about what this is: a recorded *independent* pass, not four-eyes in the
   sense `assessor-loop` §4.1 means for a regulated organisation, because the reviewer
   is an agent. It is more than the repo had and less than the model it mirrors; do not
   describe it as the stronger property. (infra#470, decided 2026-09-29.)
   This lane depends on the `risk/` label being right. A label that triggers a heavier
   lane is load-bearing, not cosmetic — if work that belongs in it is unlabelled, the
   lane silently does not apply.
 6. **Close the loop — every substantive task ends with the same ritual.** Shipping
   the code is not the end of the task; capturing it is. Run this unprompted:
   - **Tag + bump SemVer** on the change (annotated tag; minor for a feature or
     new/changed ADR, patch for a fix; docs in the same commit). Check the repo's
     actual last tag — stated versions in docs drift stale.
   - **Push** main and the tag (CI is the gate).
   - **Persist generalizable learnings to the brain** (`brain_write`, wing/hall) —
     the reusable patterns and the footguns that would bite anyone again, never
     project status. See *Knowledge base — when to write* below.
   - **File discovered-but-deferred work as tracker issues** on the project's own
     repo — token-budget gaps, recorded ADR limitations, v2 follow-ups. Don't let
     "out of scope, recorded" rot in a commit message; make it a ticket with a
     source pointer.
   - Surface the brain entries and issue numbers in the closing summary so the
     trail is auditable.
   **Chat is not a durable store. Never rely on Mathias remembering anything.**
   Every gap, caveat, risk, open question and next step must land in one of four
   places before the turn ends: **the brain**, **a repo** (code, docs, ADR),
   **a tracker issue**, or **a plan file**. A finding stated only in conversation is
   lost the moment the session closes — and this estate has repeatedly proved that a
   remembered convention is an unreliable control.
   This applies hardest to what is tempting to leave as a closing remark: "worth
   knowing X isn't enforced yet", "this is a convention, not a gate", "we should
   revisit Y". Those are exactly the items that need a locator. If it is worth
   saying in a summary, it is worth writing where it can be found again without you.
 7. **Finish what's closable — only involve me for a genuine call.** If a
   tracker issue, PR, or checklist item is demonstrably resolved — the fix
   landed, the state changed, you verified it live — close/merge/check it off
   in the same turn. Don't leave it open "for the record" or park it waiting
   on me to confirm something that already happened; that's bookkeeping, not
   a decision. Reserve asking me (`AskUserQuestion`, a `DECISION NEEDED`
   comment, or otherwise pausing) for when it's genuinely mine to call:
   irreversible or prod/host-impacting actions, a real judgment call with no
   clearly-better option, ambiguous intent, or anything secret-writes/
   destructive-git already gate. Before claiming something is closable,
   verify it live (re-check the issue, re-run the command) rather than
   trusting your own earlier summary (brain: `filed-issue-not-same-as-fixed`).
 8. **Control code needs an adversary, not a checklist.** Code whose job is to
   refuse, deny, gate or contain is not adequately verified by a green gate.
   Rule 5 makes CI the quality gate and that holds for ordinary work — but a
   passing suite only asserts what its author already thought of, and for a
   control the author is precisely the person whose imagination just failed.
   Measured on `dispatch#75`: five review rounds, five real escapes verified by
   execution, and **CI was green on every one of them** while `git rm
   ././.dispatch-allow` deleted the file the control existed to protect. So
   route this work through a review with authority to block, instructed to
   verify by execution rather than by reading the implementation. Expect to be
   blocked more than once; that is the control working, not the reviewer being
   difficult. (brain: `a-green-gate-is-not-evidence-for-control-code`; the
   practices live in the `pr-gatekeeper` agent.)
 9. **A test's name must not claim more than its assertions prove.** Name a test
   after the mechanism it observes, not the goal it serves.
   `DoesNotInheritEnv` is honest; `IsContained` is a claim the test cannot
   support. This is not pedantry about naming — when name and assertion
   diverge, the name wins in the reader's head and the gap becomes invisible,
   which is what lets the defect survive review. Found three times in one PR,
   twice in tests written to fix the previous instance of it; each passed while
   the thing it was named for was exploitable. If you cannot name the mechanism,
   you do not yet know what the test observes.
 ## CAD sprint patterns
 Two CAD sprint archetypes (defs: brain `wiki/homelab/decisions/continuous-agentic-development-cad-concept-2026-06-16`):
 - **Inception Sprint** — birth a new repo. Oath-gated close; tag only once every clause holds. Brain: `.../inception-sprint-and-oath`.
 - **Sweep Sprint** — clear an existing backlog. Parallel read-only research per issue → sequential one-issue-per-commit execution. Brain: `.../sweep-sprint-and-oath`.
 Shared: decisions that are yours, not the agent's, surface as `DECISION NEEDED` (question/options/recommendation/blocks) — ask live if you're present, else comment and wait, never act past it. Live-breaking regressions get `git revert`, never forward-fixed; host-network work skips even read-only research (solo, synchronous, you present). Rule 6's closing ritual only fires once every Oath clause genuinely holds — blocked = descoped-and-tracked, never marked done.
 ## Default stack
 | Layer | Default | Fallback | Last resort |
 |-------|---------|----------|-------------|
 | Language | Go | Python | TypeScript, Java, C |
 | UI | HTMX + Templ | Server-rendered HTML | React (only if SPA is justified) |
 | Build | Task (taskfile.dev) | Make | — |
 | Containers | Docker Compose (dev), k3s (prod) | — | — |
 | DB | PostgreSQL + sqlc | SQLite | — |
 | Search | pgvector (vector), BM25 | Qdrant (when >1M vectors or hybrid retrieval) | — |
 | Logging | slog (structured) | stdlib `logging` w/ structured `extra=` (or structlog) | — |
 | Testing | Table-driven, testify | — | — |
 | Agents (Go) | google.golang.org/adk + pkg/litellm adapter | — | — |
 Exploratory: Rust, Zig — I'll tell you when I want these.
 ## Code conventions
 - **Go style**: golines, gofumpt, golangci-lint
 - **Python style** (fallback language): ruff (format+lint, one tool), mypy --strict (non-negotiable,
  matches Go's static typing discipline), pytest + pytest-cov (table-driven via
  `@pytest.mark.parametrize`), uv (venv+deps+lock, one tool), pydantic-settings (typed env-var config
  — same principle as Go's typed structs), src-layout + `pyproject.toml` only (no `setup.py`)
 - **Errors**: `fmt.Errorf("operation: %w", err)` — never naked, never log-and-return.
  Python: `raise X from e` (exception chaining, same principle) — never bare `except`, never silent `pass`
 - **Naming**: stdlib conventions, no stuttering
 - **Architecture**: prefer stdlib over frameworks, constructor injection, env-var config parsed into typed structs
 - **Git**: conventional commits (`feat:`, `fix:`, `chore:`), commit directly to main,
  one logical change per commit, CI is the quality gate
 - **Never**: long-lived feature branches, PRs for solo work, direct push without
  passing `task check` locally first
 - **Security**: no secrets in code, govulncheck before adding deps, SOPS for encrypted config
 - **Dependencies**: prefer stdlib. testify, slog, templ, sqlc, google.golang.org/adk (agent projects only) are pre-approved; anything else needs justification in the commit message
 ## Secret handling (every harness, every command)
 Tool output is persisted: terminal → `~/.claude/projects` transcripts →
 claudewatcher → brain/wiki → gitea history. A secret printed once is
 searchable forever, and clearing it means rotating the key. So:
 1. **Never print, echo, log, or transform a secret to inspect it.** No
   `base64`/`xxd`/`cat` of a key, and never pipe a secret through a transform
   to defeat `op run`'s output masking (it masks raw values; base64 hides them
   from the mask — that exact trick leaked a key on 2026-06-11).
 2. **Secrets stay in the subprocess.** Reference them only as env vars consumed
   *inside* `op run --env-file ~/.op-env -- <cmd>`. Never place a literal secret
   in a command's argv (it lands in the tool call and the transcript).
 3. **Existence check without revealing the value:** `[ -n "$X" ] && echo set` —
   never `${X:-...}` (returns the value when set) and never echo a substring of it.
 4. **Cross-host secrets:** run the secret-consuming command on the host that has
   the secret; do not forward a raw key over ssh argv/stdout.
 5. If a secret does leak into output, say so immediately and flag it for rotation —
   don't bury it.
 ## Infrastructure
 Three machines on Tailscale:
 | Machine | Role | Key specs |
 |---------|------|-----------|
 | koala | GPU inference, heavy compute | RTX 5070, runs k3s + llama-swap + shared postgres18/pgvector |
 | iguana | Services, builds | M2 Ultra Mac |
 | flamingo | Daily driver, edge | Apple Silicon Mac, ~/dev is here |
 - **Model routing**: LiteLLM in front of llama-swap (local) + cloud APIs (when permitted)
 - **Orchestration**: k3s on koala only — single control-plane node, no workers (verified 2026-08-30). iguana and flamingo are on the tailnet but are not cluster members
 - **Networking**: Tailscale mesh
 ## Project landscape
 All development repos live at `~/dev/` (softlink from `~/Documents/local-dev/`).
 Organized in thematic folders:
 | Folder | Focus | Count |
 |--------|-------|-------|
 | `GO/` | Go web frameworks, API integrations, learning projects | ~10 |
 | `AI/` | ML research, AI frameworks (FinRL, DSPy, crawl4ai) | ~6 |
 | `AGENTS/` | Autonomous agents, coding agents, MCP servers, infra | ~15 |
 | `QKX/` | Invoice processing, financial automation, payment systems | ~13 |
 | `XT/` | Climate data, sustainability (Klimatkollen, Garbo) | ~2 |
 See `~/dev/PROJECT_SUMMARY.md` for detailed descriptions of each project.
 ### Key active projects
 - **super-koala** (`AGENTS/`) — multi-component agent stack with LangGraph, DSPy, MCP
 - **azure-tiger** (`QKX/`) — invoice extraction → ISO 20022 payment instructions
 - **gocrwl** (`AGENTS/`) — Go web crawler with containerized deployment
 - **koala-ai-stack** (`AGENTS/`) — local AI server infrastructure management
 - **klimatkollen** (`XT/`) — Swedish municipal climate data platform
 ## Knowledge base — actively use it
 A persistent brain (BM25 search + LLM-synthesised Q&A) survives across sessions,
 hosts, and harnesses. It holds 100+ hard-won entries: infra incident postmortems,
 Go pitfalls, framework gotchas, design principles, ADRs. **It is not optional
 reference material — query it actively, not just when explicitly told.**
 ### When to query (treat as a reflex)
 - **Before** starting a non-trivial task — search for prior art with the symptom
  AND the system component ("how did we solve X in Y?"). 5 seconds beats 5 hours.
 - **When debugging** — search for the error string, the stack frame, the affected
  service. Past you may have already paid this tax.
 - **Before adopting** a pattern, library, framework, or model name — check if it
  was tried and rejected, or what the integration footguns are.
 - **When making architectural decisions** — search for the domain + "ADR" or
  "decision" to find prior reasoning before re-deriving it.
 - **When a recommendation feels novel** — challenge yourself: "has this been
  documented?" The brain often has it.
 ### When to write
 After you discover something that **future-you would forget** and that **isn't
 recoverable from the code, git log, or PR description alone**:
 - Bugs whose root cause is non-obvious and generalisable beyond this project.
 - Framework / library / model-name quirks that bit you and would bite anyone.
 - Design principles validated under fire (e.g. "every `_get` needs a `_list`").
 - Postmortems for incidents: what broke, why, how diagnosed, what to do next time.
 DON'T write project status, sprint progress, PR summaries, or "what I did this
 session" — those rot fast and the originals are in git/gitea anyway. Brain
 entries that age well are about *why*, *how to avoid*, and *what to do when*.
 ### How to access (per harness)
 | Harness | Query | Write |
 |---------|-------|-------|
 | **Claude Code, Claude Desktop** | `brain_query` (BM25), `brain_answer` (LLM-synth + sources) MCP tools | `brain_write` MCP tool |
 | **Crush, Pi, Antigravity, other MCP-capable** | same MCP server: `ingestion-brain` (via the `mcp__*_brain__*` namespace once authenticated) | same |
 | **Anything HTTP-only (curl, scripts)** | Tailnet only: `POST https://koala.tail30472e.ts.net:8443/query` with `{"query":"..."}`, sending `BRAIN_MCP_TOKEN` (not yet enforced on REST, hyperguild#149). The public `brain-mcp.d-ma.be` serves `/mcp` only (infra#517). | `POST .../write` with `{"content":"...","wing":"...","hall":"..."}` |
 | **Browser / human inspection** | `https://git.d-ma.be/mathias/hyperguild` → `knowledge/` and `wiki/` markdown files |
 - **Scoping — the brain holds no confidential client content.** Nothing on the read path
  filters by client: every token holder can read every wing, and `wing` on `brain_query`
  is an optional argument, not an access control. Client confidentiality is enforced only
  at write time (`capture`'s I1 gate refuses internal/confidential). So never `brain_write`
  client material; generalise it first or keep it in the client's own repo. (hyperguild#144,
  decided 2026-10-01. This line previously claimed client projects were filtered; they
  were not.)
 - **Routing**: brain_answer's LLM uses berget.ai as primary, iguana ollama as
  fallback. Both are configurable in the `supervisor/ingestion-deployment.yaml`
  on the koala k3s cluster; don't hardcode local-only model names into the
  berget URL (see knowledge entry on namespace mismatches).
 ### Quick reflex checks
 If you find yourself about to say any of these out loud, you owe yourself a brain query first:
 - "I think the issue might be..."
 - "Let me try X and see..."
 - "I'll just write a script to..."
 - "This is probably a new bug..."
 - "Has anyone done this before?" — *yes, probably, go check.*
 ## Client work rules
 When working on a project tagged with a client name:
 1. Never send code, data, or context to cloud APIs — use local models only
 2. Never reference other client projects or their data
 3. Keep all artifacts within the client's git org / directory
 4. Treat everything as confidential unless told otherwise
 ## Harness-agnostic principles
 Supported harnesses (2026-09-01) — Cursor and Aider were dropped; do not
 re-add adapters for them:
 - Claude Code, Antigravity, OpenCode, Mistral Vibe, Crush, Pi Coding Agent
 - Open WebUI, Charmbracelet Mods, or any tool that takes a system prompt string
 - Any other tool that reads `AGENTS.md`, which is the de facto convention
 The canonical source is always `.context/AGENT.md` (root) and `.context/PROJECT.md` (per-project).
 Derived files are committed (see *How context propagates* below) so a `git pull` on any host yields full agent context with no setup.
 ## How context propagates
 Canonical sources of truth:
 - Universal: `~/dev/.context/AGENT.md` (this file)
 - Project: `<repo>/.context/PROJECT.md` (per-repo)
 Derived files (committed, regenerated by `task context:sync`):
 - `CLAUDE.md`, `AGENTS.md`, `.context/system-prompt.txt`
 Repos still carrying `.cursorrules`, `.aider.conventions.md` or
 `.aider.conf.yml` are stale: nothing regenerates them. Delete them the next time
 you touch the repo, along with their entries in that repo's `task check`
 assertion.
 Workflow:
 1. Edit a canonical file. Run `task context:sync`. Commit canonical and
   derived together. Push.
 2. On any other host, `git pull` brings both. Which file a harness reads does
   NOT split cleanly by lookup strategy, so do not reason from the strategy:
   - `CLAUDE.md` — Claude Code (walks up the tree)
   - `AGENTS.md` — Crush, Pi, Antigravity (cwd-only), OpenCode (project root,
     global at `~/.config/opencode/AGENTS.md`), and Mistral Vibe, which **walks
     up** from cwd and takes the first `AGENTS.md` it finds
     (user-level `~/.vibe/AGENTS.md`)
   - `.context/system-prompt.txt` — Open WebUI, Mods, raw API calls; not read by
     any harness, it is for pasting
   Vibe tree-walks for `AGENTS.md`, so "tree-walkers use CLAUDE.md" is false.
   Each repo's `AGENTS.md` embeds the canonical and is the first one found from
   inside that repo, so this works — but by construction, not by luck.
 3. `task check` runs `context:sync` then asserts `git status --porcelain`
   is empty over the derived files (catches both modified-tracked drift
   and missing-untracked adapters). A drift fails the check with a
   message telling you to stage the regenerated files.
 Behavior rules in this file and per-project rules in `PROJECT.md` apply on every
 host and every harness.
 **Where a project rule contradicts a rule here, the project rule governs — and it
 must state its reason.** Both halves matter: the project file wins because it knows
 something this file cannot (infra's Flux constraint is real and not visible from
 here), and it must say why because a bare override is indistinguishable from drift.
 This replaces the previous wording, which said rules here and in `PROJECT.md` both
 apply *"unconditionally"*. That was not a tiebreak but a contradiction, and it went
 unnoticed until rule 5 and infra's "never create feature branches" had to be obeyed
 at the same time (infra#470). A standard can hold two individually sensible clauses
 that are jointly unsatisfiable, and survive for as long as everyone reads it
 charitably — the same failure the Inception Sprint Oath's G6 had.
 ## Engineering Skills
 Shared engineering skills live in the **`mathias/skills`** repo (`git.d-ma.be/mathias/skills`). Load at task start — not "on demand" but on schedule, before writing code. Browse `SKILLS_INDEX.md` for the full list.
 **Claude Code** installs the repo as a plugin from the marketplace the same repo hosts. That path also carries the `secret-guard` and `pre-task-ritual` hooks and the brain/gitea/infra MCP servers, which symlinks cannot:
 ```
 /plugin marketplace add https://git.d-ma.be/mathias/skills.git
 /plugin install skills@mathias
 ```
 Skills are **namespaced** under Claude Code: load `tdd` as `skills:tdd`. The trigger table below uses bare names — prefix them.
 **Crush, Pi and OpenCode** have no plugin system and are wired by `install.sh` as one directory symlink per harness via `~/.agents/skills`. Do not clone the checkout into `~/dev`: that folder is iCloud-shared between the Macs and spans two path roots (`/Users/mathias` vs `/home/mathias` on koala), so a checkout there is a git working tree with two concurrent writers, and any absolute symlink stored in it is broken on one side by construction (skills#23). Leave `SKILLS_CHECKOUT_DIR` at its host-local default.
 Check a host with `task doctor` in the skills repo; it also runs automatically at session start via the plugin.
 **Skill trigger table — load before starting, not after getting stuck:**
 | Task type | Load |
 |-----------|------|
 | Any feature or bug fix | `tdd` |
 | Refactor or design | `clean-code` or `solid` |
 | Debug | `problem-analysis` |
 | Review code or PRs | `code-review` |
 | Frame a problem before coding | `problem-analysis` |
 ---
 # Project context
 <!-- Canonical project context. Edit this, run `task context:sync`.
@@ -461,9 +37,9 @@ Check a host with `task doctor` in the skills repo; it also runs automatically a
 ### Git
 - Conventional commits: `feat:`, `fix:`, `chore:`, `docs:`, `refactor:`
- **Trunk-Based Development:** commit directly to main. One logical change per commit.
+- **Trunk-Based Development:** one logical change per commit, merged to main by PR (`main` is protected, see below).
 - Run `task check` locally before every push. CI is the quality gate, not branch protection.
- No feature branches, no PRs for solo/agent work.
+- Short-lived branches and PRs are how work reaches `main` here (`tbd_ship`/`pr_merge`); no long-lived feature branches.
 - Exception: if a parallel agent session is active on this repo, use a short-lived
  `agent/<description>` branch and merge within the same session.
@@ -503,8 +79,8 @@ When acting as a coding agent on this project:
 3. If unsure about a convention, check `DECISIONS.md` or ask
 4. Never modify files outside the project root without explicit permission
 5. When adding a dependency, explain why in the commit message
-6. Commit directly to main. Run `task check` before every push. Never create
+6. Ship by PR (`main` is protected, see below). Run `task check` before every push. Never create
-   feature branches unless a parallel agent is simultaneously active on this repo.
+   long-lived feature branches.
 7. For client projects: never send code or context to cloud APIs — use local models via LiteLLM
 ## Current state — v0.2.5 (2026-05-17)
@@ -529,3 +105,15 @@ Current main: `e31fd3f`. CI green. Deployed via Flux.
 2. **Issue #19** — end-to-end mirror flow verification.
   `repo_mirror_push` is implemented but the full flow (create repo → add push mirror → verify sync to GitHub) has not been tested manually. Do this before relying on it in production.
 ## `main` is protected: ship by PR (local-dev#42, decided 2026-10-08)
 Gitea refuses direct pushes to `main` in this repo, and a PR merges only after its CI status (`CD / Lint / Test / Vet (pull_request)`) passes.
 **Why:** local-dev rule 5's reviewed lane (risk/medium+ is reviewed by a human) was enforced on the merge tools
 (`tbd_ship`, `pr_merge`: gitea-mcp v0.17.0/v0.18.0, merge only for an issue labelled exactly `risk/low` with green CI)
 but not on a direct commit to `main`, which bypassed it. This overrides rule 5's "risk/low commits straight to main"
 for this repo; control code is where the lane matters.
 **How:** `tbd_ship` for a one-file change, or branch -> PR -> `pr_merge` (name the `risk/low` issue); above `risk/low`
 open the PR and a human merges it in the Gitea UI after review. Tags are not protected. CD jobs push image tags to
 the **infra** repo with deploy keys, never to this repo's `main`. Undo (Mathias only): Settings -> Branches, or
 `PATCH /repos/mathias/gitea-mcp/branch_protections/main {"enable_push": true}`.
@@ -37,9 +37,9 @@
 ### Git
 - Conventional commits: `feat:`, `fix:`, `chore:`, `docs:`, `refactor:`
- **Trunk-Based Development:** commit directly to main. One logical change per commit.
+- **Trunk-Based Development:** one logical change per commit, merged to main by PR (`main` is protected, see below).
 - Run `task check` locally before every push. CI is the quality gate, not branch protection.
- No feature branches, no PRs for solo/agent work.
+- Short-lived branches and PRs are how work reaches `main` here (`tbd_ship`/`pr_merge`); no long-lived feature branches.
 - Exception: if a parallel agent session is active on this repo, use a short-lived
  `agent/<description>` branch and merge within the same session.
@@ -79,8 +79,8 @@ When acting as a coding agent on this project:
 3. If unsure about a convention, check `DECISIONS.md` or ask
 4. Never modify files outside the project root without explicit permission
 5. When adding a dependency, explain why in the commit message
-6. Commit directly to main. Run `task check` before every push. Never create
+6. Ship by PR (`main` is protected, see below). Run `task check` before every push. Never create
-   feature branches unless a parallel agent is simultaneously active on this repo.
+   long-lived feature branches.
 7. For client projects: never send code or context to cloud APIs — use local models via LiteLLM
 ## Current state — v0.2.5 (2026-05-17)
@@ -105,3 +105,15 @@ Current main: `e31fd3f`. CI green. Deployed via Flux.
 2. **Issue #19** — end-to-end mirror flow verification.
   `repo_mirror_push` is implemented but the full flow (create repo → add push mirror → verify sync to GitHub) has not been tested manually. Do this before relying on it in production.
 ## `main` is protected: ship by PR (local-dev#42, decided 2026-10-08)
 Gitea refuses direct pushes to `main` in this repo, and a PR merges only after its CI status (`CD / Lint / Test / Vet (pull_request)`) passes.
 **Why:** local-dev rule 5's reviewed lane (risk/medium+ is reviewed by a human) was enforced on the merge tools
 (`tbd_ship`, `pr_merge`: gitea-mcp v0.17.0/v0.18.0, merge only for an issue labelled exactly `risk/low` with green CI)
 but not on a direct commit to `main`, which bypassed it. This overrides rule 5's "risk/low commits straight to main"
 for this repo; control code is where the lane matters.
 **How:** `tbd_ship` for a one-file change, or branch -> PR -> `pr_merge` (name the `risk/low` issue); above `risk/low`
 open the PR and a human merges it in the Gitea UI after review. Tags are not protected. CD jobs push image tags to
 the **infra** repo with deploy keys, never to this repo's `main`. Undo (Mathias only): Settings -> Branches, or
 `PATCH /repos/mathias/gitea-mcp/branch_protections/main {"enable_push": true}`.