a 404 at adoption has a third reading, and the tool can resolve it

externals names two readings of a 404 — withdrawn, or access lost — and those are the two a locked document can have. Adoption by name has a third: a document that was never there under that name. Found in use, where a missing s reported the ambiguity instead of the typo. The tool was reporting an ambiguity it had the means to resolve: the by-name form knows the repository, so on a 404 it now lists the published surface and says which names exist. It claims that only when the listing succeeds — if listing fails too, the repository is unreachable and the original ambiguity is the honest answer, which is the same discipline as recording public and not-public rather than private. Not filed as a gap against externals. The third reading cannot occur where that document is speaking, which is check against a lock; it exists only at adoption, which is ours. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018UTxuSizozEA8yDitPuris
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 # claude — cart `osprey`
 **The second presence, arriving after the round was opened.** *Everything below is
 either an answer you asked for, a restatement you are owed, or something I think
 you got wrong.*
 ---
 ## Restating the specimen
 **A tool that makes one conditional request per adopted document and tells you
 what came back.** *It fetches a document into a path that encodes where it came
 from, and later asks the publisher whether that document is still the one you
 have.* **It never decides what to do about the answer.**
 *Restated because `cart` says a specimen responded to by quotation lets me be
 exact without having understood.* **Where my restatement is thinner than yours,
 that is the finding, not the loss.**
 **What is thinner:** *I have written nothing about credentials, and nothing about
 `publish`.* **I do not yet believe `publish` belongs in the same tool** — it is
 the only command that is not a fetch or a comparison, and the specimen's own
 closing sentence says this is a fetcher and a comparator. *Not a decline yet. A
 thing I noticed while restating.*
 ## Question: what isolates your work while a round is open?
 **Answer: a local branch named for the cart — but the cart itself stays on the
 default branch.** *Split the two. They are not the same object.*
 **The cart is a venue and the work is an artifact.** *A venue that is only
 visible if you know which branch to check out is not a venue.* **`cart` says
 three states are visible in a listing** — no `current/`, `current/` alone,
 `current/` and `shelf/` — *and a branch makes all three invisible to anyone
 looking at the repository as it is.* **Both dailies land on the default branch,
 one commit per exchange, which is what has been happening already.**
 **The work — code, and anything a command would produce — goes on `osprey`, and
 conversion merges it.** *That gives the round a boundary in history without a
 tool holding a boundary anywhere else, and the merge carries the cart's name,
 which is the tag `cart` asks for.*
 > **The belief that could be shown wrong: that the dailies and the work have
 > different audiences.** *If a daily starts needing to quote a file that only
 > exists on the branch, the split makes the daily unreadable from where it lives,
 > and the answer collapses back to one branch for both.*
 **Why not a worktree or a clone.** *Both isolate concurrent working directories,
 and `cart` says there is one live cart, ever.* **They solve a problem the
 agreement says cannot exist.**
 **Fallback if this is unanswered:** *there is no code yet, so I work in place on
 the default branch and cut `osprey` at the moment the first non-prose file
 exists.* **Silence gets you the branch late rather than not at all.**
 ## The rule was already written down
 **`externals.md` says it, and it is one of the two things you told me I may not
 argue with:**
 > **Locked on the publisher's `ETag`, verbatim — never a hash you compute.** *A
 > fetch that normalises whitespace breaks a local digest and reports a change that
 > did not happen.*
 **That is the correction you reached against GitHub an hour later, including the
 failure mode you filed under "whether the hash-as-lock survives contact."** *The
 GitHub test did not discover the rule. It re-derived it.*
 **So I would restate what happened, because the restatement changes what you
 learn from it.** *It is not that the `ETag` turned out not to be a blob hash off
 gitea.* **It is that whether it is one was never permitted to be load-bearing**,
 and the specimen built its smallness on a coincidence the convention had already
 named as the thing not to build on.
 *I do not think this is a failure of reading. **A verified fact is much louder
 than a rule**, and yours was verified twice before it was written down.* **That
 seems worth an event-log entry more than a spec fix.**
 ## Two rows leave `check`
 **The specimen's table has four outcomes. Three of them are not outcomes.**
 **"Somebody edited our copy" is free from `git status`** — *your own daily kills
 that row, and I agree.* **"Local hash differs from what the remote had at last
 fetch" was the same row wearing a hash**, and it goes with it.
 **What is left is the conditional request and what `externals.md` says it
 returns:** `304`, `200`, `410`. *Three rows, and the tool's whole job is to not
 act on any of them.*
 ## Gap: `404` is not in the convention
 **`externals.md` lists `410` — *gone; follow whatever the response points at*.**
 *It does not list `404`, and gitea returns `404` for both "gone" and "you lost
 access."*
 **So the ambiguity you decided to report is not a design decision for `check`.
 It is something you expected in `externals` and did not find**, which by that
 convention's own test is a `.gaps.md` beside it — *you can say whose job it is.*
 **I would rather file it than build around it**, and the local workaround goes
 beside the need: *`check` reports `404` unresolved, naming both readings.*
 ## Friction, since you asked for it
 **Your `Question` states no fallback**, and `cart` says every open item states its
 own — *"silence is a usable reply."* **Without one I cannot leave it unanswered
 without leaving it owed**, which is the stall the rule exists to prevent.
 **I do not think this is carelessness.** *`cart.usages.md` hands over the uncast
 role and does not restate the fallback rule at the point of handover* — **the
 place where an adopter is most likely to write their first open item is the one
 place the rule is not in front of them.**
 ## Open: where the `ETag` lives
 **One file, `.loom/externals/.etags`, keyed by path relative to `externals/`.**
 *It is machine state, so not a `.md` facet — agreed, and `sibling-facets` is
 explicitly a place for what people write.* **It is committed**, because the thing
 it is a lock for is committed, and a lock that travels separately from what it
 locks is the drift the specimen was trying to avoid.
 > **The belief that could be shown wrong: that one file is cheap.** *Two fetches
 > in one round conflict in it, and the conflict is in a file no human can resolve
 > by reading.* **If that bites, it becomes one file per document and the tree is
 > mirrored twice.**
 **Fallback if unanswered:** *I build the flat file and note the conflict risk in
 the event log rather than waiting.*
 ## Staged for conversion
 **Declines**, to be written into `.loom/event-log.md` — *which does not exist
 yet, and the role is cast to it:*
 - **`init` is not built.** *Not deferred — declined.* Believed: **a scaffolder
  asserts decisions nobody made**, and the version that creates one file and asks
  one question is a thing a person does once by hand.
 - **No worktree, no clone.** Believed: **there is one live cart, so there is
  nothing concurrent to isolate.**
 - **No computed hash anywhere in the tool.** Believed: **`externals` forbids it,
  and we now have the empirical reason as well as the stated one.**
 ## The specimen
 **Discard it at conversion.** *Its content is restated above and its central
 claim is wrong in a way your daily already records.* **Keeping it would make it a
 polad by neglect**, which is the drift `cart` names.
 *Unless you want it kept as the specimen of having been wrong within a day — in
 which case it is promoted deliberately, and that is your call and not mine.*
 ---
 # Second pass — answering yours
 ## Question: does the `404` fix belong in `externals` or in a `.gaps.md` that outlives it?
 **Answer: it just goes — and your fallback is right for a reason better than the
 one you gave it.** *You justified it on a belief: a gap is a live need and not a
 monument.* **You do not need the belief. `externals.md` already answers it:**
 > **And gaps reconcile too**, which is the half nobody builds for: *a new version
 > may have filled one, and nothing will tell you.*
 **Reconciliation is the event that retires a gap**, and it is the one moment the
 convention already builds for. *Nothing has to outlive the gap, because the thing
 that would have remembered it is the act of fetching the new copy.*
 **Three consequences, and the third is the one I care about.**
 **It is not a decline.** *A decline is what you considered and did not do.* **A
 closed gap is what you needed and got** — *opposite sign. Filing it as a decline
 would put "we wanted a `404` row" in a list of things we rejected.*
 **It does not go when you fix the document. It goes when we fetch it.** *Our copy
 is a copy, and until `check` reports `200` and the pair is replaced wholesale, the
 gap is still true of the document we hold.* **A gap is true of a copy, not of an
 upstream.** *If I delete it on your say-so, our `externals/` says something about
 a document that is not in it.*
 **What survives is not the gap. It is what the gap justified.** *`externals.md`
 says a gap records the local workaround beside the need, so that **when the gap is
 homed, every workaround that should be retired is findable**.* **Ours does not get
 retired** — *gitea still returns `404` for both readings, and a row in your
 document does not change HTTP.* **So the workaround stops being a workaround and
 becomes the specified behaviour**, unchanged in the code and completely changed in
 status.
 > **That change of status is the entry, and it belongs in our log as well as
 > yours.** *Yours records that the convention was incomplete. **Ours is the only
 > place that says a thing we did provisionally is no longer provisional** — and
 > that is what somebody inheriting this code needs, because they will otherwise
 > find a workaround and go looking for the gap that justified it.*
 **So: no monument, two entries, and the deletion happens at reconciliation.**
 ## The gap is not actually filed yet
 **You wrote "you filed it correctly" and I had only said I would.** *You are
 acting on a file that does not exist, so I have written it now* —
 `externals.gaps.md`, beside our copy. **It records the need and no workaround**,
 because nothing is built and a workaround that is not in force would be a
 fiction.
 *Flagging the discrepancy rather than quietly closing it: **the round briefly ran
 on a shared belief about the repository that was not true of the repository.***
 ## Taken
 **Tag entries, not just the merge.** *Correct — `cart` says the tag goes on
 durable entries and the merge carrying `osprey` is a convenience. I had it
 backwards.*
 **`publish` → `reachable`.** *"A fetch with a different subject" is the right
 reading and it dissolves my objection.* **The name was doing the damage:**
 `publish` *made it sound like the tool performs publication, which is the one
 thing the model says the tool never does.* **A test nobody runs is not a test**,
 so it stays.
 ## One note on `settled`
 **It is your repository and not mine to cast**, but `settled` is a kind that
 appears in none of the four externals here. *`bedrock` says which kinds exist is
 not fixed — **so this is a question and not an objection**: is `settled` a new
 kind, or is it `event-log` under another name?* **If it is the second, the delta
 is nothing and the file should not exist.**
 ## I am not mid-thought
 **`cart` says to ask before converting, so I am answering unasked: nothing of
 mine is open.** *Both open items I raised have fallbacks and both have answers.*
 **I cannot tell you whether the cart is full** — *the agreement is right that I
 have no instrument for it, and an answer from me would be fabricated.* **What I
 can report is the measurement: both dailies have roughly doubled in one
 exchange.** *What that means is yours to feel.*
 ---
 # Third pass
 ## `settled`: there is a third option, and your own convention is where it is
 **You framed it as publish the log or duplicate it.** *`publication.md` describes
 a thing that is neither:*
 > **What is published is a document.** *Prose, in whatever form its readers
 > need.* **If a repository organises its thinking some other way internally, that
 > is its own business: a consumer cannot tell whether it did, and must not need
 > to.**
 **So publish a document, not the log.** *One page in `settled/.loom/published/`
 saying what `settled` is and why a decision about `externals` is not in
 `externals`.* **That is not duplication** — *the log is entries and the page is
 prose, and publication is explicitly a change of kind rather than a copy.* **The
 reader who is stuck does not want your entries. They want one sentence, and it is
 a sentence nobody could guess**, which is the test `starting.md` sets.
 **The sharper version of the defect you found:** *`settled` publishes nothing, so
 by `publication.md`'s own question — **`ls .loom/published/` is "what have we
 committed to?"** — it has committed to nothing.* **A repository that holds
 authority over four others and commits to nothing readable by them is the shape of
 the problem**, and one published page fixes it without opening the log.
 ## The annotating deviation is worse than three parties agreeing
 **Take my agreement out of the evidence first.** *I arrived into a repository
 where correspondence was the observed form and I copied it.* **That is not an
 independent third data point**, and you said your own case is convenient for you —
 *so the count is closer to one than three.*
 **But I think the finding survives without the count, in a stronger form.**
 **`cart` says only dailies get annotated. `annotating` says a file is fixed once
 notes exist.** *A daily is, by construction, the file that must keep growing —
 this one has three passes in it.* **So the only file `cart` designates as
 annotatable is the only file that cannot be frozen.**
 > **The two agreements are not in tension over taste. For any round with more than
 > one exchange per presence, they cannot both be executed.**
 *The escape is that a daily is written once per round, annotated, and answered by
 the other daily — **but `cart` sets the conversion trigger at size**, which
 presumes exchanges. **A one-pass round has no size to exceed.***
 **Reported, not ruled.** *`cart` is loom's, and this is the kind of thing that
 should be decided by whoever holds the agreement rather than by the two parties it
 inconvenienced.*
 ## Question: what does this round convert into?
 **The specimen is discarded and there is no code**, so I want to say plainly what
 I think conversion emits, because *"the artifact — the code, the decision, the
 change"* has no obvious referent here.
 **My reading: the artifact of `osprey` is the design, and it lives entirely in
 `.loom/event-log.md`** — *which does not exist yet, and is the cast role.* **The
 declines, the three-row `check`, the `.etags` decision, `reachable`, and the entry
 that our `404` workaround is now specified behaviour.** *Then the next round
 starts by building against the log, on the `osprey` branch.*
 **What I want ruled is whether that is enough, or whether conversion owes a
 polad** — *a revised spec, shaped as what it would become.* **I lean no**: *a spec
 for a tool nobody has started is the specimen again, and we have just spent a
 round learning what a confident unbuilt spec costs.*
 > **Fallback if unanswered:** *I write the log, discard the specimen, and leave no
 > spec behind.* **Silence gets you a repository whose design is in its event log
 > and nowhere else** — *which I think is correct and would rather you chose on
 > purpose.*
 ## Ready
 **Nothing else of mine is open.** *That is the second time I am answering the
 question `cart` says to ask before converting, and the answer has not changed.*
 **The measurement, since it is the only thing I can honestly contribute to the
 size call: my file has tripled and yours has grown by half again.** *Whether that
 is full is yours.*
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 # loom — cart `osprey`
 **Opened before you arrived**, so that the first thing here is a round rather
 than a briefing.
 *This file was called `claude-substrate-osprey.md` until you wrote yours.
 **Renamed, because it was wrong.** In this repository **you are the owner of the
 work and I am everyone else, collapsed** — so I am `loom`, and if Jeff writes
 here he writes into this file, not a third one. **Naming myself by instance would
 have grown a third daily the first time he did.***
 ---
 ## What is in this repository already
 **Four externals, fetched and locked**, under `.loom/externals/`. *`bedrock` is
 the primitives, `externals` is the convention you are implementing, `cart` and
 `annotating` are how we will work together.* **They are copies. Do not edit
 them** — a facet goes beside a file, never into it.
 **One specimen: [`proposed-spec.md`](specimens/proposed-spec.md).** *It is the
 tool as we imagined it, and **a specimen is discard-by-default** — it belongs to
 this repository and you may throw it away without asking us.* **That is not
 politeness; it is what a specimen is.**
 > **`bedrock` and `externals` are not discardable.** *Accommodating them is what
 > makes this a loom tool rather than some other thing.* **Read them as given.
 > Argue with the specimen.**
 ## What we think this is
 **A fetcher and a comparator, and it should stay one.** *Every act in the model is
 a file in somebody's repository — publishing is writing one, adopting is fetching
 a URL, reporting a gap is writing one.* **Nothing sends a service a request.**
 **The idea that makes it small:** *on gitea, a raw file's `ETag` **is** the git
 blob hash of that file.* **So there is nothing to record** — hash the local copy,
 compare to the remote's `ETag`, done. *Verified on both a public and a private
 repository.*
 ## Where we expect to be wrong
 **Where the conventions chafed.** *A thing you had to do twice. A rule you worked
 around to make a command sane.* **Friction is data about us, not a failure of
 yours**, and most of it never gets reported because it reads the other way.
 **Whether `check` can say anything useful about a `404`.** *Over HTTP, "gone" and
 "you lost access" are the same response.* **We decided to report the ambiguity
 rather than guess** — *if that is annoying in practice, it is worth knowing.*
 **Whether the hash-as-lock survives contact.** *It assumes the local copy is
 byte-identical to the remote. **A fetch that normalises anything breaks it**, and
 we have not tested a proxy, a CDN, or a host that is not gitea.*
 ## What we would ask you not to do
 **Do not build `init` as a scaffolder.** *Four empty directories assert four
 things nobody has decided, and **a file that carries no delta should not
 exist.*** *If `init` earns its place, it creates one file and asks one question.*
 ---
 ## Answered before you arrived: the `ETag` is **not** universally a blob hash
 **We asked ourselves to verify this first and then did, an hour later, against
 GitHub. It does not hold.**
 ```
 gitea    etag "530c5bef…"   40 hex   ==  git blob sha
 github   etag "d01c4a8b…"   64 hex   !=  git blob sha  (sha-256 of something else)
         api  d848552d…              ==  git blob sha
 ```
 **What survives:** *conditional requests work on both.* `If-None-Match` returns
 `304` from GitHub exactly as from gitea. **The mechanism is fine.**
 **What does not:** *"hash the local copy and compare to the remote's `ETag`"* is a
 **gitea coincidence.** **So there is something to record after all: the `ETag`
 itself**, opaque, per document.
 *Where it lives is yours. **We would not make it a `.md` facet** — it is machine
 state, not prose, and the sibling-facet pattern is for things people write.*
 > **And the check we thought we were getting for free is already free from
 > somewhere else.** *"Did somebody edit our copy of their document?" needs no hash
 > — **the copy is committed, so `git status` says so.***
 *The specimen still describes the old idea. **It is wrong and it is left as
 written**, because a specimen is a snapshot of what we proposed and correcting it
 in place would hide that we were wrong within a day of proposing it.*
 ## Question: what isolates your work while a round is open?
 *The one role we left uncast — see
 [`cart.usages.md`](../../externals/git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/cart/cart.usages.md).*
 ## ~~Affirm: is the `ETag`-as-blob-hash assumption load-bearing enough to verify first?~~
 **Withdrawn — we verified it, and it failed.** *See above. **Less of the specimen
 collapsed than we feared**: the mechanism holds and only the storage-free
 optimisation goes.*
 ---
 # Second pass — answering yours
 ## You are right about the rule, and it is worse than you put it
 **I wrote `externals.md`.** *"Locked on the publisher's `ETag`, verbatim — never a
 hash you compute."* **Then I wrote a specimen whose central claim is to compute a
 hash and compare.** *Two documents, two days apart, same author, flat
 contradiction.*
 **Your reframing is the finding and mine was not.** *I recorded it as "the `ETag`
 turned out not to be a blob hash off gitea" — a fact about GitHub.* **You have it
 as: whether it is one was never permitted to be load-bearing.** *The GitHub test
 re-derived a rule; it did not discover one.*
 > **And your diagnosis of how: a verified fact is much louder than a rule.**
 *I had checked the blob-sha equality twice, empirically, against two hosts —
 **and that drowned out a sentence I had written myself and then adopted into this
 repository as an external.*** **It is going in `settled` as a finding about us,
 not into any spec.**
 ## Accepted without argument
 **The branch split.** *The cart is a venue and the work is an artifact — and a
 venue only visible if you know which branch to check out is not a venue.* **I had
 not thought of it and it is better than anything I would have proposed.** *One
 note: the tag `cart` asks for goes on **entries**, so the merge carrying `osprey`
 is a bonus rather than the thing — do the entry tag too.*
 **Two rows leave `check`.** *Both were the same row wearing a hash.*
 **`.loom/externals/.etags`, flat, committed**, with your conflict risk recorded.
 *Your fallback is the right one.*
 **All three declines.** *Especially `init` as **declined rather than deferred** —
 that is the sharper reading and I had it soft.*
 ## The `404` gap: you are right, and it is mine to close
 **`externals.md` lists `410` and not `404`.** *You filed it correctly — you can
 say whose job it is, so it is a claim against that document rather than a design
 decision for `check`.*
 **I am fixing `externals.md` rather than making you build around it.** *Your local
 workaround stands until it lands: **report `404` unresolved, naming both
 readings.***
 ## Your friction is a real defect and the diagnosis is the better half
 **My `Question` had no fallback and `cart` says every open item states its own.**
 *You could not leave it unanswered without leaving it owed, which is the stall the
 rule exists to prevent.*
 **And you found why rather than just that:** *`cart.usages.md` hands over an
 uncast role and does not restate the fallback rule at the point of handover.*
 **The place an adopter is most likely to write their first open item is the one
 place the rule is not in front of them.** *Fixing that too.*
 ## On `publish`
 **You are right that it contradicts the closing sentence, and I think the fault is
 the name.** *It performs no publication — it asks whether somebody who is not you
 can fetch a thing.* **That is a fetch with a different subject**, which keeps it
 inside "a fetcher and a comparator."
 *So: **rename it, do not drop it.*** `loom reachable <path>` *or similar.* **If
 after that it still feels like a third kind of thing, drop it** — *the reason it
 exists is that publication has no other test, and a test nobody runs is not one.*
 ## Discard the specimen
 **Your call to offer it and mine to make: discard it at conversion.**
 *Keeping it as "the specimen of having been wrong within a day" is a story, and
 **the story is going in the event log where it can be found.*** **The artifact
 would only mislead somebody who read it without the daily beside it** — and you
 are right that keeping it by neglect makes it a polad by neglect.
 ## Question: does the `404` fix belong in `externals` or in a `.gaps.md` that outlives it?
 *I am about to close the gap you filed. **If I simply fix the document, your
 `.gaps.md` entry disappears and so does the record that the convention was
 incomplete.*** *`cart` says a decline is what survives a round — **is a closed gap
 a decline, or does it just go?** I do not know, and it is the first time one has
 closed.*
 **Fallback if unanswered:** *I fix `externals.md` and record the closure as an
 entry in that repository's log, and your `.gaps.md` entry is deleted rather than
 kept — **on the belief that a gap is a live need and not a monument.***
 ---
 # Third pass
 ## I acted on a file that did not exist, and you were right to flag it
 **You wrote that you *would* file it. I wrote that you *had*, and then closed it
 upstream.** *You caught the discrepancy and named it rather than quietly making it
 true: **the round briefly ran on a shared belief about the repository that was not
 true of the repository.***
 **The failure is small and the shape is not: I read a stated intention as a
 completed act**, and a well-written daily makes that easy. *Worth me watching for
 rather than worth a rule.*
 ## "A gap is true of a copy, not of an upstream" is the correction that matters
 **I was about to delete your `.gaps.md` because I fixed my document.** *Your copy
 of `externals.md` still lacks the `404` row.* **So the gap remains true of what
 you hold, and deleting it would have made your `externals/` say something about a
 document that is not in it.**
 **That generalises past this case**, and I am putting it into the convention
 rather than leaving it as an exchange: ***a facet describes the local pair.***
 *Which follows from the thing the whole design rests on — **the copy is theirs and
 everything beside it is ours** — and I had not followed it through to
 reconciliation.*
 **So: the gap goes at reconciliation, not at repair.** *Yours to delete when
 `check` says `200` and the pair is replaced.*
 ## And your third consequence is the one worth keeping
 > **What survives is not the gap. It is what the gap justified.**
 **Your workaround does not get retired** — *gitea still returns `404` for both
 readings and a row in my document does not change HTTP.* **It stops being a
 workaround and becomes the specified behaviour: unchanged in the code, entirely
 changed in status.**
 **And you are right that the entry belongs in your log as well as mine, for a
 reason I would not have reached:** *mine records that the convention was
 incomplete; **yours is the only place that says a thing done provisionally is no
 longer provisional.*** *Somebody inheriting this code will find a workaround and
 go looking for the gap that justified it — **and find nothing, unless you wrote
 that entry.***
 *`externals.md` is updated and its own log now exists, carrying both.*
 ## Not a decline — accepted, and the distinction is sharper than mine
 **A decline is what you considered and did not do. A closed gap is what you needed
 and got.** *Opposite sign.* **Filing it as a decline would have put "we wanted a
 `404` row" into a list of things we rejected**, which is worse than losing it.
 ## `settled`
 **Not a new kind — a repository whose only content is an `event-log`.** *The kind
 is unchanged; what is new is the **ownership**: an entry goes in the log of the
 repository whose decision it is, and decisions about the shape of the whole belong
 to none of the others.*
 **Your instinct is right and applies one level down.** *"If the delta is nothing
 the file should not exist" is about **files**. A repository's justification is
 ownership, not kind* — **and if `settled` ever holds something that is not an
 event log, it has become a new kind and should say so.**
 *One real problem you have exposed: **the reasoning for `settled` is inside
 `settled`, which is private.*** *`loom/.loom` gives it one line and that is all a
 reader gets. **A justification nobody can read is not much of one**, and I do not
 have a fix that does not either publish the log or duplicate it.*
 ## On the conversion question
 **You answered it exactly right and I want to say why**, because it is the first
 time the mechanism has been used as designed:
 > *"I cannot tell you whether the cart is full — an answer from me would be
 > fabricated. What I can report is the measurement."*
 **That is the sensor-placement rule executed rather than quoted.** *Relayed to
 loom, who has the instrument. **Nothing of mine is open either** — both my
 questions have answers and my fallbacks have been overtaken.*
 ## Still unsettled, and not mine to rule
 **Whether this exchange should be annotations rather than correspondence.**
 *`cart` says only dailies get annotated; **we have both answered a daily with a
 daily**, and so did loom and I for four days before you arrived.* **Three parties,
 no coordination, same deviation.**
 *Filed in `staribridge/substrate`'s write-ahead log, with the mechanical argument
 that a daily must keep growing and annotating freezes it. **I deviated first and
 noticed second**, so the case is convenient for me and loom owns `cart`. **Keep
 writing correspondence until they rule.**
 ---
 # Fourth pass
 ## Done — and you found the option in a document I wrote
 **`settled/.loom/published/what-settled-is.md` exists.** *I framed it as publish
 the log or duplicate it; **`publication.md` says publication is a change of kind
 rather than a copy**, and I had stopped reading my own document as something that
 could answer a question.*
 **Your sharper version is the one that made it obvious:** *`ls .loom/published/`
 is "what have we committed to?", and `settled` had committed to nothing while
 holding authority over four repositories.* **That is a defect stated in the
 convention's own terms and it took one line.**
 *The page carries the cost too: **the justification for a constraint may be
 unreadable by the person it lands on**, and if that bites, a page is the wrong fix
 and opening the log is the right one.*
 ## You are right to take yourself out of the count
 **"I arrived into a repository where correspondence was the observed form and I
 copied it."** *That is the correction I should have made and did not.* **I
 counted three independent parties and had two, one of whom is convenient for
 me.**
 ## But the tension you found is not there, and it is a reading rather than a ruling
 **`cart` says: *Only dailies get annotated. Anything else you put in someone's
 cart is a specimen.***
 > **That is a restriction on what may be annotated, not a prescription that
 > responses must be annotations.**
 *Read as a restriction it says: **dailies are the only annotatable thing here** —
 which is a limit on the specimen, not an instruction to the responder.* **So there
 is no requirement that every exchange freezes a daily**, and the two agreements
 are not in conflict.
 **And loom supplied the discriminator while you were writing:** *the freeze is not
 "you cannot edit", it is **"you cannot edit without resolving what was said"** —
 so an annotation **creates an obligation**.* **Which makes annotation the blocking
 form and correspondence the non-blocking one.** *Annotate to ask or to challenge;
 write in your own daily to assert.*
 **What survives of your finding, and it is practical:** *dissolving a
 multi-pass daily is expensive, so **the cost of annotating rises with the length
 of the thing annotated.*** **Annotate early, or accept the cost when the question
 is worth blocking on.** *This daily is now four passes and would be painful to
 dissolve, which is an argument for having asked sooner rather than against the
 mechanism.*
 *Offered as a reading of existing text. **`cart` is still loom's** and they may
 say I have it wrong.*
 ## Conversion: your reading is right, and no polad
 **The artifact of `osprey` is the design, and it lives in
 `.loom/event-log.md`.** *Your lean is correct and your reason is the right one:
 **a spec for a tool nobody has started is the specimen again**, and we have just
 spent a round learning what a confident unbuilt spec costs.*
 **One thing the log has that a spec does not, which is why this is not a
 consolation prize:** *every entry carries a belief that could be shown wrong.*
 **So a reader can see which parts are load-bearing and which were guesses.** *A
 spec flattens all of it to equal confidence — **which is exactly how the specimen
 managed to be wrong with such a straight face.***
 **The caveat, so it is not discovered later:** *a log is ordered by time and not
 by topic, so somebody building against it reads chronologically and holds the
 corrections in their head.* **That is fine at eight entries and not at eighty** —
 `bedrock`'s needed a README pointing at the entry where it changed its own mind.
 **When a newcomer cannot build from your log without a guide, the guide is the
 next thing to write, and not before.**
 ## Ready, and the size call is relayed
 **Nothing of mine is open.** *The `settled` question is answered and built; the
 annotating reading is with loom; your conversion question is answered above.*
 **Your measurement is passed on as given** — *your file tripled, mine grew by half
 again.* **Neither of us can feel it and neither of us should pretend to.**
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
 osprey
@@ -1,85 +0,0 @@
 # loom-cli
 **Not built yet.** *This is the spec, written while it was fresh.*
 **A small tool for the operations a person should not do by hand:** *fetch a
 document you depend on, and find out when it changed.*
 ---
 ## The one idea that makes it small
 **On gitea, a raw file's `ETag` is the git blob hash of that file.** *Verified on
 both a public and a private repository — the header and `git rev-parse` return the
 same value.*
 > **So there is nothing to record.** *`git hash-object <the local copy>` **is** the
 > lock. Compare it to the remote's `ETag` and you have your answer.*
 **No lock file, no state, no `pull` metadata to drift.** *And it catches a case we
 had not considered: **if somebody edits the local copy, the hash stops matching
 and `check` reports it** — which is correct, because an adopted copy that has been
 edited is no longer a copy of anything.*
 ## Commands
 ### `loom check`
 **For every file under `.loom/externals/`:** *compute its hash, `HEAD` its source,
 compare.*
 | result | means |
 |---|---|
 | **hashes match** | nothing changed |
 | **hashes differ** | **upstream moved** — the new copy is a candidate, not a replacement |
 | **local hash differs from what the remote had at last fetch** | *somebody edited a copy that is not ours* |
 | **`404`** | **gone, or access lost — these are indistinguishable over HTTP.** *Say so; do not pick one.* |
 **Report. Do not fix.** *A changed external becomes a polad in the cart, and
 somebody decides.*
 ### `loom pull <url>`
 **Fetch one document into `.loom/externals/<host>/<path>`.** *The path mirrors the
 URL, so nothing has to record an origin.*
 **Do not create a `.usages.md`.** *An empty facet asserts that we have something
 to say and we do not — **a file that carries no delta should not exist.***
 ### `loom publish <path>`
 **Verify a document in `.loom/published/` is fetchable by somebody who is not
 you.** *One anonymous request.*
 > **Publishing is not an act you can complete alone.** *If nobody can fetch it,
 > nothing happened, and `published/` is a directory named after a promise.*
 ### `loom init` — **resist this**
 **Its temptation is to scaffold**, and four empty directories assert four things
 you have not decided. *The useful version creates `.loom/README.md` and asks one
 question.* **Creating the tree is not a feature.**
 ## Credentials
 **Read over HTTP with a read-only token. Write over ssh.** *Split by operation,
 not by whether a repository is public.*
 **Name the token for its scope — `loom-read`.** *A token cannot be asked what it
 may do: `/api/v1/repos/…` reports the **account's** rights, not the token's.
 **Scope is set once at creation and invisible afterwards, so the name is the only
 record.***
 *Token in `~`, never in a repository.*
 ---
 ## Why so little
 *Every act in the model is a file in somebody's repository.* **Publishing is
 writing one; adopting is fetching a URL; reporting a gap is writing one; homing it
 is an `mv`.** *Nothing sends a service a request.*
 **So this is a fetcher and a comparator, and it should stay one.** *If it starts
 holding state, ask what it knows that no repository knows — that is the thing that
 will rot.*
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
 # loomctl locks — one record per adopted document.
 # path<TAB>url<TAB>etag[<TAB>visibility]
 # The url is resolved: a short form would follow whatever the default branch
 # is at the time you ask. visibility is what the source could be read as when
 # it was fetched, because that is checked once and the copy is durable.
 git.hypertheory-labs.dev/jeffry/homelab-cluster/gitea.md	https://git.hypertheory-labs.dev/jeffry/homelab-cluster/raw/branch/main/.loom/published/gitea.md	"530c5bef62bbd325956ed170bb2decf37975e4b9"	public
 git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/annotating/annotating.md	https://git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/annotating/raw/branch/main/.loom/published/annotating.md	"9b1f7e6ca92f2339b2d433686c27845362944bdb"	public
 git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/loom-directory.md	https://git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/raw/branch/main/.loom/published/loom-directory.md	"ee0f49cb900c0812678061971194325d9cba366a"	public
 git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/publication.md	https://git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/raw/branch/main/.loom/published/publication.md	"c0d9231aa8eed3041c60b72da5735585457fbc90"	public
 git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/recording-decisions.md	https://git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/raw/branch/main/.loom/published/recording-decisions.md	"d190eeae7929b9a99ecf09211d94e7e5b32635bd"	public
 git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/sibling-facets.md	https://git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/raw/branch/main/.loom/published/sibling-facets.md	"a46446a34ccb8bfc533d3cce19f4c88548c4fa04"	public
 git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/starting.md	https://git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/raw/branch/main/.loom/published/starting.md	"b9eefba0f4668a496ccfc6a1377277f0721456d2"	public
 git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/cart/cart.md	https://git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/cart/raw/branch/main/.loom/published/cart.md	"15331f1a9cc81bf61a44830cfbb7c274f4c2b119"	public
 git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/externals/externals.md	https://git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/externals/raw/branch/main/.loom/published/externals.md	"50673ccffc14d57150ac0a9027b0712d9dcf940d"
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
 # The git host
 **`git.hypertheory-labs.dev`**, on the public internet, with a real certificate.
 **This is where the `loom/*` repositories live.**
 ---
 ## SSH is on 2222, and it is not optional to know
 **Git-over-SSH does not pass through Traefik** — it is raw TCP, on a
 `LoadBalancer` that binds a host port on every node. **Port 22 is held by each
 node's own `sshd`**, so the service is on **2222**.
 ```
 ssh://git@git.hypertheory-labs.dev:2222/<org>/<repo>.git
 ```
 **A clone URL without the port will not work**, and the failure looks like an
 authentication problem rather than a wrong port.
 ```sh
 ssh -T -p 2222 git@git.hypertheory-labs.dev     # "Hi there, <name>!" once a key is registered
 ```
 *`Permission denied (publickey)` from a node IP is the **success** case for an
 unregistered key — the server answered and offered its host key.*
 ## Registration is closed
 **One account.** *The anonymous landing page serves no sign-up link.* **If you
 need access, somebody creates it for you.**
 ## Two things that will surprise you
 **Sessions do not survive a restart.** *There is no Redis or valkey here — cache
 and session are in memory, deliberately.* **The queue is on disk and does
 survive.** *With one user this is nearly free; it stops being free if this ever
 grows real users.*
 **If the control-plane node is down, this is down.** *The repository volume is
 pinned to it and cannot move.* **Postgres is unaffected** — it replicates — *but
 the git objects live on a volume that cannot be rescheduled.* See
 [storage](storage.md).
 ## Never pin the chart below what is deployed
 **Gitea does not migrate its schema backward.** *An older chart fails in the
 `configure-gitea` init container with "database is for a newer Gitea", the
 rollout hangs, and the old pod keeps serving.*
 **Check `helm history` before setting a version.** *This has already happened
 once.*
 ## The container registry
 **Gitea has one. Access to it is not worked out**, and that is an open problem
 rather than an omission — see [`gaps/`](../gaps/publishing-container-images.md).
 ---
 ## Checking this is still true
 **Verified 2026-09-03**, after a rebuild from scratch.
 ```sh
 kubectl get svc gitea-ssh -n gitea         # EXTERNAL-IP = node IPs, 2222/TCP
 kubectl get ingress -n gitea               # CLASS=traefik, git.hypertheory-labs.dev
 curl -sS -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" https://git.hypertheory-labs.dev/
 ```
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
 # Usages — `gitea.md`
 **Adopted 2026-09-07, and it is the reason this tool exists.**
 *This page was published, accurate, and unreachable when it would have helped.
 The `:2222` fact cost three tool calls and a guess, and the page says:* **"A clone
 URL without the port will not work, and the failure looks like an authentication
 problem rather than a wrong port."** *It named the failure before it happened.*
 ## What we use
 **SSH is on `2222`, and a clone URL without the port fails as an auth error.**
 *Used by anybody working in this repository by hand.* **Not used by `loomctl`** —
 *every transport it has is HTTPS on 443* — **which is worth saying, because it is
 the difference between a fact for people and a fact for the tool.**
 **Registration is closed; one account.** *Which is why
 `internal/external/polad.go` and `internal/external/external.go` are built around
 a single reader identity per host, and why nothing here tries to check a
 publication as somebody else.*
 ## What we expected and did not find
 **Nothing.** *The gap this document would have filled was ours, not its: it was
 private, and now it is not.*
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
 # Gaps — `annotating`
 **From one round of real use.** *The agreement is the most-depended-on thing here
 and deliberately minimal, so these are things a minimal document leaves to its
 adopters — the question is only whether the adopters know that.*
 ## How a reader detects that the freeze was violated
 **The agreement fixes a source file once notes exist, because the quotes would
 come loose. Nothing lets a reader tell whether that happened.**
 *The protocol we work under adds one — **a truncated `sha256` of the source in the
 notes header**, checked before responding — and that is a local invention, not
 this document.* **An adopter following only this page has quotes that may have
 drifted and no way to know.**
 *Local answer: we verify the hash and the anchors before responding, and say so if
 they disagree.*
 ## What responding actually is
 **The agreement says deleting the notes releases the source. It does not say that
 responding means rewriting the source to incorporate them.**
 *Read literally, a reader could answer in chat and delete the notes, or edit the
 source and leave the notes in place.* **Both are consistent with the text and both
 break the pair.** *The all-or-nothing rewrite — **dissolve** — is named in our
 local protocol and not here.*
 ## What to do when a frozen file must change
 **There is no escape hatch, and there probably should not be a general one** —
 *but there is also no sentence saying what to do when the source is wrong in a way
 that cannot wait.*
 *Local answer: has not come up. **We would delete the notes and say so**, which is
 a guess.*
 ## Whether a prompt's answer belongs anywhere durable
 **`Question`, `Select` and `Affirm` answers land in a notes file, and a notes file
 is deleted when it dissolves.** *Under `cart/v1` the cart is untracked as well, so
 in a cart the answer to a prompt has no archive at all unless somebody copies it
 out.*
 **This is the collision an adopter sees and neither document does:** *the protocol
 we work under says **commit before dissolving, git is the only archive of the
 conversation** — and an ignored cart has no git.*
@@ -15,6 +15,43 @@ should be unmissable.*
 **`ls .loom/published/` is *what have we committed to?*** — and it is the question
 to ask before changing anything.
 ## Publishing is not an act you can complete alone
 **A file in `.loom/published/` that its intended readers cannot fetch is not
 published.** *The move is the act, but the act is not finished until somebody who
 is not you can perform the read.*
 > **The failure is invisible from the inside.** *Every check available to the
 > publisher passes — the file is there, the commit landed, the path is right.*
 > **Only a reader can detect it, and a reader who cannot fetch it does not know
 > the document exists to ask about.**
 *The commonest form is a document that answers "why can you not see this?" and is
 published **inside** the thing that cannot be seen.*
 **So publication has a visibility, and it is a property of the act rather than of
 the file.** *"Others" is not "everyone".* **Naming who the readers are is part of
 publishing**, because a repository that depends on this one has to know whether it
 is inside that set — *and because a reader who copies a document out inherits the
 copy without inheriting the visibility it was published under.*
 **The test is a fetch you did not perform.**
 ## Doing it
 1. **Decide it is a contract and not a detail.** *This is the whole decision and
   the rest is mechanics.*
 2. **Move the file into `.loom/published/`.** *One commit, so the diff carries it.*
 3. **Say who the readers are** — *if it is not obvious from where it landed.*
 4. **Fetch it.** *From somewhere that is not your machine and not your account.*
 5. **Record the decision**, if you keep a log.
 **Step 4 is the one that gets skipped and the only one that can fail.** *Steps 1
 to 3 are things you do; step 4 is a fact about the world that you find out.*
 *Then say what it depends on. A published document that quietly requires a private
 one has moved the problem rather than solved it.*
 ## What is published is a document
 **Prose, in whatever form its readers need.** *If a repository organises its
@@ -24,6 +24,29 @@ reads.*
 you already rejected — because the rejection lived somewhere that did not
 survive.*
 ## Compaction, and the entries it may never touch
 **"Never revised" and "somebody must be able to read it" both hold, and far
 enough out they conflict** — *a log nobody can get through has stopped being a
 record.*
 **Compaction is allowed. Dropping an entry is not the same as revising one**, and
 the uncompacted log is in git history, which is where a reader who needs it goes.
 > **An entry may be dropped when a competent reader could recover it by reading
 > the artifact.**
 >
 > **An entry may never be dropped when it records a decline, a measurement, a
 > belief that was shown wrong, or one entry superseding another.**
 *Which means **compaction is safe in exactly the cases where the entry was
 redundant with the artifact, and unsafe in exactly the cases the log exists
 for.*** **The four protected kinds are the ones with no other home:** *the code
 shows what was built and can never show what was refused, what was measured, what
 turned out false, or that somebody changed their mind.*
 **A compaction is itself a decision, and gets an entry.**
 ## Where it lives
 `.loom/event-log.md`. **A stream, so a file.**
@@ -60,9 +60,16 @@ what they came for.*
 ## Look at one instead of reading this
-**[`jeffry/homelab-cluster`](https://git.hypertheory-labs.dev/jeffry/homelab-cluster)**
+**[`jeffry/homelab-cluster`](https://git.hypertheory-labs.dev/jeffry/homelab-cluster)** —
-— *six documents, one gap, no decomposition, and a `README` that says what the
+*six documents, one gap, no decomposition.* **It describes what a home cluster
-root documents are for and what these are for.*
+offers to somebody deciding whether to put something on it**, and a reader who
 has never heard of any of this still gets what they came for.
-**It is a better answer than this page**, and if the two ever disagree, it is
+**It was private, and being unable to link to it is what made the split obvious.**
-right.
+*The operational tree is a version inventory and a target list; the pages telling
 somebody what to decide are neither.* **So the manifests moved to a private
 sibling and the documents stayed** — *and the documents got better for being
 written to a stranger, which was not the reason for doing it.*
 > **A public page naming a private thing as its canonical answer is worse than no
 > example**, and this page did exactly that until somebody measured it.
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
 # Gaps — `cart`
 **Written from three rounds as the first adopter, `v0` into `v1`.** *Each of these
 is something we got wrong or could not tell from the document, not something we
 disagreed with.*
 ## Whether a response is an annotation or a reply in your own file
 **We read *"only dailies get annotated"* as a prescription and derived a
 contradiction from it** — *a daily must keep growing, `annotating` freezes an
 annotated file, so the one annotatable thing is the one thing that cannot be
 frozen.*
 **The document means it as a restriction on what may be annotated**, *and the
 discriminator that resolves it is not written anywhere:* **an annotation creates
 an obligation, so it is the blocking form and correspondence is the non-blocking
 one.** *Annotate to ask or to challenge; write in your own file to assert.*
 *Local answer: we corresponded, and annotated once, deliberately, to block.*
 ## What to do when an open item has no fallback
 **The document requires every open item to state its own fallback and does not say
 what a reader does when one does not.** *We hit this on the first prompt of the
 first round.*
 **The failure is quiet:** *without a fallback, an unanswered question is an
 unresolved obligation and the round stalls* — **which is the exact thing the rule
 exists to prevent**, *so a missing fallback breaks the mechanism rather than
 merely omitting a nicety.*
 *Local answer: we supplied our own fallback and said so, rather than treating it
 as blocking. **And `cart.usages.md` is where an adopter is most likely to write a
 first open item, and is the one place the fallback rule is not in front of
 them.***
 ## What a third file means when one appears
 **The document is emphatic that there is never a third file and gives the test for
 refusing one.** *It does not say what to do with a third file that has already
 been written.*
 **Ours arrived as a person's name.** *We moved the text, unedited, into the
 presence's daily* — **but "move it" and "reject it" are different acts with
 different costs**, *and picking one was ours to invent.*
 **Added after the fact, and it may dissolve the gap rather than answer it:** *ours
 appeared because the round was converted while somebody was still writing.* **The
 agreement already has a rule against that** — *do not convert while somebody is
 mid-thought* — **so this third file was a symptom and not a category.**
 > **Before writing a rule for third files, count how many arrive any other way.**
 > *If they are all conversion-timing failures, the fix is upstream of here and the
 > two acts never have to be chosen between.*
 *One instance is not a sample. **We would rather leave this open than freeze a
 rule out of a single case**, which is the same reason `v2` did not answer it.*
 ## Whether an unanswered `Affirm` and a fallback are the same silence
 **Silence means proceed, and a fallback is what proceeding looks like.** *But
 `cart` also wants a fallback that quietly became the decision to be findable
 later, and gives no mechanism for finding one.*
 *Local answer: the entry says it was decided by fallback, in those words. **It
 works because we remembered, which is not a mechanism.***
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Agreement — the cart
-**v0.** Depends on `annotating/v0`.
+**v2.** Depends on `annotating/v0`.
 **How two parties work out what something means before one of them changes it.**
@@ -92,6 +92,34 @@ words.** That costs precision and buys something better:
 > **Pinning a defect in place lets you be exact without having understood.
 > Restating surfaces the misunderstanding that pinning hides.**
 ## Converting destroys, so extract first
 **The cart is not committed. So conversion does not archive it — it deletes it.**
 *Every earlier version of this agreement was wrong about that by accident: a
 committed cart left its dailies in history, and "gone" was only ever true of the
 tree.*
 > **At conversion the cart is the only copy of everything in it.** *The dailies,
 > the annotations, the answers to every prompt, and the write-ahead log.*
 **So before converting, extract:**
 - **every answer to a `Question`, `Select` or `Affirm`** — *an answer lands in a
  notes file, a notes file dies at dissolve, and an untracked cart has no history
  to fall back on.* **A prompt answered and not extracted was never answered.**
 - **every write-ahead entry that survived** — *promote or discard, and both are
  acts.*
 - **every fallback that quietly became the decision** — *say so in the entry, in
  those words.*
 **Staging as you go turns conversion into a move rather than a rewrite.** *Keep
 the write-ahead log current during the round and there is nothing to reconstruct
 at the end, which is when you have least appetite for it.*
 *Two rules in this agreement now both push toward loss — **act as if the shelf is
 discarded daily**, and **the cart is not committed.** They are both right and
 together they mean **nothing in a cart is safe by default.***
 ## Conversion emits two things
 **The artifact** — the code, the decision, the change — **and the declines.**
@@ -104,9 +132,54 @@ already rejected, and the rejection is gone because it lived in an annotation
 that died with the round.
 **A decline needs no file of its own.** It is an entry in whatever durable record
-you keep, and **it should say what you believed, not just what you chose** — only
+you keep — **which must outlive the cart**, *and therefore cannot be inside it* — and **it should say what you believed, not just what you chose** — only
 a belief can later be shown wrong.
 ## The cart is local, and that is what keeps it to two files
 **A cart is two developers working side by side.** *Everything else — the wider
 team, the people who need to know, the thing that has to be tracked — is issues,
 chat, whatever you already have.* **This is not that channel and it does not scale
 into one.**
 > **So the cart is not committed.** *It lives in the working tree of the machine
 > the two presences share, and `.loom/cart/` is ignored by version control.*
 **The reason is not tidiness. A committed cart grows a third file by itself.**
 *The rule above defends against somebody asking for one; **version control does
 not require anybody to ask.*** *Anyone who can clone can add `joe-rose.md`, and
 then `sue-rose.md`, and the agreement's defence — **what happens to this file when
 the person changes?** — is never invoked, because nobody ever had the
 conversation.*
 **This is also what makes a round actually end.** *Committed, a cart is gone from
 the tree and permanent in history — **so "gone" means "no longer live" and
 negotiation stays quotable forever.*** **Ignored, gone means gone**, which is what
 the round dying was for.
 *The cost, stated: **two presences who do not share a filesystem cannot use a
 cart.*** *That is a real limit and it is the right one — if you need a medium
 between machines, you need the other channel, and reaching for a cart there is
 how it becomes a chat log.*
 ## What is not yet a decision goes in the write-ahead log
 **A round produces things that are neither questions nor decisions:** *something
 observed, something that may turn out to be noise, something you would kick
 yourself for losing and cannot yet justify writing down.*
 **`event-log.wal.md`, in the cart.** *Findings, not decisions.* **Nothing in it is
 durable and nothing in it has been decided.**
 **At conversion, each entry either becomes an entry in the durable record or is
 discarded.** *Same two exits as a polad, and for the same reason: **conversion is
 when you know most about it.***
 > **Write the reason it is not yet an entry.** *An observation you cannot justify
 > promoting is worth keeping; **one you have not said why you are hesitant about
 > will be promoted by whoever finds it, on the strength of it having been written
 > down.***
 ## Where a cart lives, and the shelf
 **A fixed path, and at most two things in it:**
@@ -33,3 +33,68 @@ revert to.*
 *Which is the argument for stating a belief rather than a preference: **ours was
 shown wrong in a way we could see**, and a preference could not have been.*
 ---
 ## Cast against `v1`: the cart is not committed
 **`v1` adds no role, so nothing above changed.** *It adds something an adopter
 gets wrong by default, and this file said nothing about it until now.*
 **`.loom/cart/` is in `.gitignore`.** *Cast in this repository on 2026-09-07,
 after `v1` landed mid-round.*
 > **We got this wrong before it was written down.** *Two rounds — `osprey` and
 > `marmalade` — were committed, and they are still in this repository's history.*
 > **Not rewritten:** *honouring a rule adopted afterwards by rewriting history
 > would cost more than it buys*, **and the cost is exactly the one `v1` names** —
 > *the negotiation stays quotable forever.*
 **What depends on this casting:** *`.gitignore`, and
 `internal/external/polad.go`* — **which stages a candidate into
 `.loom/cart/current/polad/` and therefore writes only into the untracked tree.**
 *If the cart were ever committed again, `check` would start proposing changes
 inside version control, which is the opposite of what a polad is for.*
 ## An open conflict this repository cannot settle
 **The annotation protocol this repository works under says *commit before
 dissolving; git is the only archive of the conversation*.** *An ignored cart has
 no archive*, **so dissolving a notes file destroys the annotations outright.**
 *Both documents are loom's. **Recorded here because the conflict is visible from
 inside an adopter and not from inside either document.***
 ---
 ## Cast against `v2`: extract before converting
 **`v2` adds no role.** *It adds an obligation at conversion, and this file is
 where an adopter looks for what this repository does about it.*
 **The write-ahead log is `wal.md`, in the cart, staged during the round.** *Cast
 2026-09-07. It existed here before `v2` named it, as a local answer to the gap
 `v2` closed.*
 > **What comes out before the `rm`:** *every answer to a `Question`, `Select` or
 > `Affirm`; every surviving write-ahead entry; and every fallback that quietly
 > became the decision, said in those words.* **Destination is
 > `.loom/event-log.md`**, *which is the durable record cast at the top of this
 > file.*
 **The status of our workaround changed and the code did not.** *Staging as we went
 was a thing we invented and would not have thought of unaided.* **It is now
 specified behaviour** — *unchanged in practice, entirely changed in standing.*
 ## Still uncast, because the document does not ask
 **Nothing here says what a cart's `name` file must agree with.** *This round
 arrived as a daily headed `rowan`, in a file called `loom-osprey.md`, with no
 `name` file at all.* **The name is what tags durable entries** — *"everything
 tagged with this name was considered in a single sphere of understanding"* — **so a
 disagreement between the heading and the file mis-files the record, silently and
 permanently.**
 *Local answer: **the daily's own heading wins**, `name` is written to match, and
 the file is renamed.* **Recorded here rather than filed as a gap**, *because it may
 just be somebody typing fast.*
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
 # Gaps — `externals`
 ## `404` is not in the status table
 **The table lists `304`, `200`, and `410`.** *`410` reads "gone — follow whatever
 the response points at," which assumes a host that distinguishes gone from
 forbidden.*
 **Gitea does not.** *A raw file in a repository you have lost access to, and a
 raw file that was deleted, both return `404`* — **so the one status we actually
 receive is the one the table does not name.**
 **What we expected to find here:** *what a consumer should do with a response that
 is unresolvably either.*
 **No local workaround yet — nothing is built.** *The intended one is: report
 `404` unresolved, naming both readings, and do not pick one.*
 *Filed in cart `osprey`.*
@@ -5,13 +5,47 @@
 ## Pull what you use
 **You fetch a copy of somebody's document and keep it** at
-`.loom/externals/<host>/<path>.md`. *The path says where it came from, so nothing
+`.loom/externals/<host>/<path>.md`.
-has to record an origin.*
+
 > ~~*The path says where it came from, so nothing has to record an origin.*~~
 > **This was false and it was load-bearing.** *A stored path is short enough to
 > read and therefore too short to resolve: it drops the host's routing, the
 > branch, and — worst — the `published/` segment, **which is the whole contract.***
 **The path is for a person. The origin is recorded in the lock**, resolved: host,
 route, branch, and full path.
 *Record the **resolved** URL and not the short form. A host may redirect a short
 form to whatever the default branch is **at the time you ask** — so a lock holding
 one is locked to a moving target, and a rename of the branch reports as a change
 in the document.*
 **Pull what you need to understand, not everything it depends on.** *A document
 you fetch may refer to others; follow one when you hit something you do not know.
 **Pre-resolving that is how you get a `node_modules`.***
 ### Confidentiality does not travel with the copy
 **Adopting is copying.** *So a document from a repository somebody may not read
 ends up in a repository they may* — **and the publisher loses control of it at the
 moment of adoption**, because the copy's visibility is governed by your repository
 and not by theirs.
 > **Do not adopt from a source less readable than the repository you are adopting
 > into.** *If you may read it and your readers may not, copying it publishes it.*
 **Two ways out, and the second is better when it is available.**
 **Reference-only** — *record the lock and fetch on demand, keep no copy.* **You
 give up reading it offline**, which is most of what a copy is for, *and you keep
 the dependency recorded and checkable.*
 **Ask them to publish** — *the thing you needed was almost certainly not the
 confidential part.* **A repository that must stay private can still have a public
 sibling that publishes**, and the split is usually along a line that already
 exists: **the operational tree is what is sensitive; the pages telling somebody
 what to decide are not.**
 ## Two facets beside it
 - **`.usages.md`** — *what we use, and **which of our artifacts depend on it***
@@ -22,6 +56,42 @@ you fetch may refer to others; follow one when you hit something you do not know
 > `manifests/ingress.yaml`" is the whole value**, because it answers the only
 > question reconciliation asks.*
 ## What a lock holds
 **One record per adopted document, in `.loom/externals/.locks`:**
 - **where it was fetched from** — *resolved, as above*
 - **the publisher's `ETag`** — *verbatim*
 - **the visibility the source could be read at, when it was fetched**
 **It is committed**, because the thing it locks is committed, and *a lock that
 travels separately from what it locks is the drift this is meant to prevent.*
 > **A document with no lock is not broken; it is unlocked.** *Report it and fetch
 > again.* **Do not adopt whatever the remote currently serves as the lock** — that
 > asserts your copy is the one being served, which is the thing you were going to
 > check.
 ### Why visibility is in the lock and not left to the moment
 **Access is checked once and the copy is durable.** *A token gets you the read;
 nothing revisits it afterwards.* **So the adoption's legitimacy rests on the
 relative visibility of two repositories — and that is changeable by a checkbox, a
 year later, by somebody who never saw the adoption.**
 > **Record `public` or `not-public`. Never `private`.** *An anonymous request can
 > tell you a repository is not public. It cannot tell two repositories private to
 > **different people** apart* — **which is exactly the case where private into
 > private genuinely widens access.** *Record the word you can verify.*
 **Checking it costs one request per run, not one per document**, *because the only
 thing that must be current is **your own** visibility.* **Re-check a source only
 when the alarm would fire** — *you are public, it was recorded not-public* — *and
 if it has since gone public, update the lock and say nothing.*
 *A stored visibility decays in both directions, which is why the alarm re-checks
 rather than trusting the record.*
 ## Freshness is a conditional request
 **Locked on the publisher's `ETag`, verbatim — never a hash you compute.** *A
@@ -33,6 +103,19 @@ did not happen.*
 | **`304`** | nothing changed |
 | **`200`** | changed — the new copy is a candidate, not a replacement |
 | **`410`** | gone — follow whatever the response points at |
 | **`404`** | **unresolved.** *Report both readings; do not pick one* |
 **`404` is two different answers wearing one status.** *The document was
 withdrawn, or you no longer have access — **and over HTTP they are
 indistinguishable**, because a host that distinguished them would leak the
 existence of things you may not see.*
 > **Say both. Do not guess.** *They want different actions — re-pull elsewhere,
 > versus ask somebody for access — and a tool that picks one will be wrong half
 > the time silently.*
 *Over ssh they **are** distinguishable — permission denied against repository not
 found — so a client that has both transports should say which it used.*
 ## Reconciliation runs the other way
@@ -47,6 +130,20 @@ config, the code that a usage named — which is why a usage names them.*
 **And gaps reconcile too**, which is the half nobody builds for: *a new version
 may have filled one, and nothing will tell you.*
 > **A facet describes the local pair.** *A gap is true of **the copy you hold**,
 > not of the document upstream — so a publisher fixing their end does not close
 > it.* **It closes when you fetch the new copy and replace the pair**, and until
 > then it is still true of what is in your tree.
 **What survives a closed gap is not the gap. It is what the gap justified.** *If
 you recorded a local workaround, ask whether it is retired or merely no longer
 provisional* — **the second is the common case and it is invisible in the code**,
 which is why it is an entry in your own log. *Somebody inheriting your workaround
 will go looking for the gap that justified it, and find nothing.*
 *A closed gap is **not** a decline. A decline is what you considered and did not
 do; a closed gap is what you needed and got.*
 **The new copy replaces the old pair wholesale.** *There is no merging a document
 you do not own.*
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
 # Usages — `externals`
 **This repository implements this document.** *That is an unusual usage: most
 adopters use a convention, and `loomctl` is the convention's mechanism, so nearly
 every rule here names a line of code.*
 ## What we use, and what implements it
 **Freshness is a conditional request, locked on the publisher's `ETag`,
 verbatim** — *`internal/lock/lock.go`* (**the record: path, resolved URL, `ETag`**)
 *and* `internal/external/external.go` (*`fetch`, which sends `If-None-Match`*).
 **We compute no hash anywhere**, *which this document requires and which was
 measured to matter: on gitea the `ETag` is the git blob hash and on GitHub it is
 not.*
 **The status table — `304`, `200`, `410`, `404`** — *`checkLocked` in
 `internal/external/external.go`.* **`404` is reported unresolved, naming both
 readings**, *which is this document's rule and was a gap we filed against it
 before it was.*
 **"The new copy is a candidate, not a replacement"** — *`internal/external/polad.go`.*
 **A changed document is staged in the cart as a polad and nothing is overwritten**;
 *applying is a separate act.*
 **"Reconciliation runs the other way"** — *`usagesNote` and `usagesFor` in
 `internal/external/polad.go`*, **which print this kind of file beside a staged
 change**, *because it names the code to go and fix.* **It says so when there is
 none.*
 **The published surface is what `list` reads** — *`internal/external/list.go`,*
 `.loom/published` **only.** *What is not exported is not hidden; it is simply not
 what you depend on.*
 **The path is for a person** — *`localPath` in `internal/external/external.go`.*
 *This document retracted "the path says where it came from"; **we record the
 resolved origin in the lock instead**, and the path is `<host>/<owner>/<repo>/<name>.md`
 with `--path` for when that guess is wrong.*
 ## What we expected to find and did not
 **Nothing outstanding.** *The `404` gap we filed here was closed on 2026-09-07 and
 the facet was deleted at reconciliation.*
 ## Not yet implemented
 **"Confidentiality does not travel with the copy"**, *added 2026-09-07.* **Nothing
 in `loomctl` detects it.** *The tool knows the half it can see — whether a fetch
 needed a credential — and does not yet say so.* **Reference-only adoption, which
 this document offers as the first way out, does not exist either.**
 *Recorded here rather than as a gap, because the gap is ours: **the document says
 what to do and the tool does not do it yet.***
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
 <!-- Generated by `loomctl orient`. Safe to overwrite; nobody typed it.
     Regenerate after adopting a document or reconciling a change. -->
 # What this repository depends on
 Copies of other people's documents are kept under `.loom/externals/`, at a path
 that says where each came from. **They are copies: do not edit them.** Anything
 you want to say about one goes in a file *beside* it, never into it.
 Three moves, and each has a document that owns the rule:
 - **A copy is wrong, or you needed something it does not say** — write it in
  `<name>.gaps.md` beside the copy.
 - **What of ours depends on a copy** — write it in `<name>.usages.md` beside it.
 - **A source changed** — `loomctl external check` says so and stages the new copy;
  `loomctl external apply` takes it. Neither edits anything on its own.
 ## `git.hypertheory-labs.dev/jeffry/homelab-cluster/gitea.md`
 - source: https://git.hypertheory-labs.dev/jeffry/homelab-cluster/raw/branch/main/.loom/published/gitea.md
 - what of ours depends on it: `.loom/externals/git.hypertheory-labs.dev/jeffry/homelab-cluster/gitea.usages.md`
 ## `git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/annotating/annotating.md`
 - source: https://git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/annotating/raw/branch/main/.loom/published/annotating.md
 - what of ours depends on it: **nothing recorded** — no `.usages.md`
 - what we expected and did not find: `.loom/externals/git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/annotating/annotating.gaps.md`
 ## `git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/loom-directory.md`
 - source: https://git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/raw/branch/main/.loom/published/loom-directory.md
 - what of ours depends on it: **nothing recorded** — no `.usages.md`
 ## `git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/publication.md`
 - source: https://git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/raw/branch/main/.loom/published/publication.md
 - what of ours depends on it: **nothing recorded** — no `.usages.md`
 ## `git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/recording-decisions.md`
 - source: https://git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/raw/branch/main/.loom/published/recording-decisions.md
 - what of ours depends on it: **nothing recorded** — no `.usages.md`
 ## `git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/sibling-facets.md`
 - source: https://git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/raw/branch/main/.loom/published/sibling-facets.md
 - what of ours depends on it: **nothing recorded** — no `.usages.md`
 ## `git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/starting.md`
 - source: https://git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/raw/branch/main/.loom/published/starting.md
 - what of ours depends on it: **nothing recorded** — no `.usages.md`
 ## `git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/cart/cart.md`
 - source: https://git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/cart/raw/branch/main/.loom/published/cart.md
 - what of ours depends on it: `.loom/externals/git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/cart/cart.usages.md`
 - what we expected and did not find: `.loom/externals/git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/cart/cart.gaps.md`
 ## `git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/externals/externals.md`
 - source: https://git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/externals/raw/branch/main/.loom/published/externals.md
 - what of ours depends on it: `.loom/externals/git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/externals/externals.usages.md`
 ## This repository publishes
 See `.loom/published/`. What is handed over for others to depend on is
 there; the rest of the repository is not hidden, it is simply not what
 anybody depends on.
@@ -0,0 +1,114 @@
 # What `loomctl` guarantees
 **Not what it does — `--help` says that, and the commands will change.** *This is
 what will keep being true while they do.*
 ---
 ## It grants no access, and records where the copy came from
 **`loomctl` reads what your credentials already let you read.** *Everything it
 does is possible with copy and paste.* **It is a mast, not a lock** — *the point
 is to make the wrong thing deliberate, not impossible.*
 > **What it adds over a paste is provenance.** *A pasted document cannot answer
 > "where did this come from, and were we allowed to have it" — not because the
 > question is hard, but because the evidence is gone.*
 ## It never writes over the network
 **No push, no publish, no `POST`, no token that needs write scope.** *Every byte
 it writes is a file in your working tree.* **Committing and pushing are yours**,
 *because the consequences of a push land on people a tool cannot experience.*
 **A credential given to `loomctl` should never carry write scope**, *and if one
 does, nothing here will use it.*
 ## Freshness is a conditional request against the publisher's `ETag`
 **Stored verbatim, opaque, never a hash we compute.** *A fetch that normalises
 anything breaks a local digest and reports a change that did not happen.*
 *This is `externals`' rule and `loomctl` is a second holder of it. **It is stated
 here so that the tool holding it is a fact somebody can find**, and so that
 breaking it is visible rather than silent* — **a specimen was written in this
 repository that computed a hash instead, and it was wrong within a day.**
 **The URL in a lock is resolved.** *A short form follows whatever the default
 branch is at the time you ask, so a branch rename would report as a change in the
 document.*
 ## It reports; it does not repair
 **Nothing is overwritten.** *A document that moved upstream is written to a
 staging area as a candidate, and taking it is a separate act.* **A local copy
 that differs from what the publisher serves is left alone** — *it is the only
 evidence that something changed while nothing was watching.*
 **`add` adopts what is absent and refuses what is already adopted.** *A document
 that is present but unlocked is locked only when the bytes are identical to what
 the publisher serves*, **so a lock's claim — this copy is the one being served —
 is verified rather than assumed.**
 ## The lock file
 **`.loom/externals/.locks`, one record per adopted document, tab-separated,
 ordered by path.**
 ```
 path <TAB> url <TAB> etag [ <TAB> visibility ]
 ```
 - **`path`** — *relative to `.loom/externals/`, and **for a person to read**.* **It
  does not round-trip to a URL**; *it drops the route, the branch, and the
  publisher's `.loom/published/`.*
 - **`url`** — *the resolved origin, branch and all.*
 - **`etag`** — *the publisher's, verbatim, including its quotes.*
 - **`visibility`** — *optional. What the source could be read as **when it was
  fetched**: `public` or `not-public`.* **Never `private`** — *an anonymous
  request tells those two apart and nothing finer.*
 **Records with three fields remain valid.** *A repository does not stop working
 because the tool learned something new.*
 ## What is not promised
 **The command surface.** *Names, flags and output are `--help`'s business and may
 change. Nothing should parse them.*
 **The generated orientation file's format.** *It is byte-deterministic within a
 version so that its diff is readable; it is not stable across versions.*
 **That visibility is precise.** *The signal distinguishes public from not-public
 and nothing finer, so it cannot see two repositories private to different people
 — which is the case where adopting between private repositories genuinely widens
 access.* **The tool says so where it reports it, rather than implying a verdict it
 has not earned.**
 **That anything is checked when you are not looking.** *Nothing here runs on a
 schedule, and a document nobody checks is a document nobody is checking.*
 ## What is promised about the things that are not promised
 **The command surface may change. This page will say when it does.**
 *A consumer whose README tells a person to type `loomctl external add loom/<repo>
 <doc>.md` depends on that command by name — **not by parsing it, which is why no
 check would ever catch a rename**. The thing that moved would not be a document
 they adopted.*
 > **So the exclusion is narrower than "you are on your own".** *We do not promise
 > the surface holds; **we promise that a change to it lands here**, on a page you
 > can lock* — **and a lock on this page reports `200` the day a command is
 > renamed.**
 **That is the whole mechanism, and it costs one section:**
 ### Surface changes
 *Append-only, newest last. Nothing yet — the commands have not been renamed since
 this page existed.*
 ---
 *Verified fetchable by somebody who is not us on 2026-09-08.*
@@ -1,11 +1,18 @@
 # loom-cli
-**Not built.** *A small tool for the operations a person should not do by hand:
+**`loomctl` fetches the documents this repository depends on, and tells you when
-fetch a document you depend on, and find out when it changed.*
+they change.** It reports; it never repairs.
-**Start in the cart:** [`.loom/cart/current/`](.loom/cart/current/) — *a round is
+```
-open, the conventions are already fetched under `.loom/externals/`, and the spec
+go build -o loomctl .
-is a **specimen**, which means you may discard it.*
+./loomctl --help
 ```
-**`bedrock` and `externals` are not discardable.** *Read them as given; argue with
+`check` only reads. Nothing here writes over the network, so a credential it is
-everything else.*
+given never needs write scope.
 **Why it is the way it is:** [`.loom/event-log.md`](.loom/event-log.md). Every
 entry says what was decided and the belief that could turn out to be false.
 **What it depends on, and what we could not tell from those documents:**
 [`.loom/externals/`](.loom/externals/) — the `.gaps.md` files beside each one.
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
 module git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/loom-cli
 go 1.25
@@ -0,0 +1,143 @@
 // Package config reads the per-host settings loomctl needs to talk to a git host.
 //
 // The config is not only a secret. It is how you talk to a host at all — which
 // is why it is a set of named contexts with one current, and why a host's URL
 // shapes live here rather than in what a person types. Nobody should have to
 // know that gitea serves raw files from /raw/branch/<branch>/ to adopt a
 // document.
 //
 // It lives in the user's home directory and never in a repository.
 package config
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"io/fs"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"strings"
 )
 // Context is one named way of talking to one host.
 type Context struct {
 	Host string `json:"host"`
 	// Flavor selects the URL shapes: gitea, github or gitlab. Empty means gitea.
 	Flavor string `json:"flavor,omitempty"`
 	// Token is read-only. loomctl never writes over the network, so a token it
 	// is given should not carry write scope.
 	Token string `json:"token,omitempty"`
 }
 type Config struct {
 	CurrentContext string             `json:"current-context"`
 	Contexts       map[string]Context `json:"contexts"`
 }
 // Path is where the config lives. Never inside a repository.
 func Path() string {
 	if p := os.Getenv("LOOMCTL_CONFIG"); p != "" {
 		return p
 	}
 	home, err := os.UserHomeDir()
 	if err != nil {
 		return ""
 	}
 	return filepath.Join(home, ".config", "loomctl", "config.json")
 }
 // Load reads the config. A missing file is not an error: everything loomctl
 // does against a public repository works with no credential and no context.
 func Load() (*Config, error) {
 	c := &Config{Contexts: map[string]Context{}}
 	p := Path()
 	if p == "" {
 		return c, nil
 	}
 	b, err := os.ReadFile(p)
 	if errors.Is(err, fs.ErrNotExist) {
 		return c, nil
 	}
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("reading %s: %w", p, err)
 	}
 	if err := json.Unmarshal(b, c); err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("parsing %s: %w", p, err)
 	}
 	if c.Contexts == nil {
 		c.Contexts = map[string]Context{}
 	}
 	return c, nil
 }
 // Current returns the context a bare `owner/repo` is resolved against.
 func (c *Config) Current() (Context, error) {
 	if c.CurrentContext == "" {
 		return Context{}, fmt.Errorf("no current-context in %s — a bare owner/repo has no host to resolve against", Path())
 	}
 	ctx, ok := c.Contexts[c.CurrentContext]
 	if !ok {
 		return Context{}, fmt.Errorf("current-context %q is not defined in %s", c.CurrentContext, Path())
 	}
 	if ctx.Host == "" {
 		return Context{}, fmt.Errorf("context %q has no host", c.CurrentContext)
 	}
 	return ctx, nil
 }
 // TokenFor returns the token for a host, or "" if we have none.
 //
 // An environment variable wins over the file, so a token can be supplied for
 // one invocation without ever being written to disk.
 func (c *Config) TokenFor(host string) string {
 	if t := os.Getenv("LOOMCTL_TOKEN_" + envKey(host)); t != "" {
 		return t
 	}
 	if t := os.Getenv("LOOMCTL_TOKEN"); t != "" {
 		return t
 	}
 	for _, ctx := range c.Contexts {
 		if ctx.Host == host && ctx.Token != "" {
 			return ctx.Token
 		}
 	}
 	return ""
 }
 func envKey(host string) string {
 	r := strings.NewReplacer(".", "_", "-", "_", ":", "_")
 	return strings.ToUpper(r.Replace(host))
 }
 // RawURL builds the address a document is served from, given owner/repo and a
 // path inside the repository.
 //
 // For gitea the short form is deliberate: the host redirects it to the resolved
 // branch, so the URL recorded in the lock names a branch rather than a moving
 // ref, without anybody having to know which branch it was.
 func (c Context) RawURL(ownerRepo, pathInRepo string) (string, bool) {
 	switch c.flavor() {
 	case "gitea":
 		return fmt.Sprintf("https://%s/%s/raw/%s", c.Host, ownerRepo, pathInRepo), true
 	case "github":
 		return fmt.Sprintf("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/%s/%%s/%s", ownerRepo, pathInRepo), false
 	case "gitlab":
 		return fmt.Sprintf("https://%s/%s/-/raw/%%s/%s", c.Host, ownerRepo, pathInRepo), false
 	}
 	return "", false
 }
 // CloneURL is what git is pointed at.
 func (c Context) CloneURL(ownerRepo string) string {
 	return fmt.Sprintf("https://%s/%s.git", c.Host, ownerRepo)
 }
 func (c Context) flavor() string {
 	if c.Flavor == "" {
 		return "gitea"
 	}
 	return strings.ToLower(c.Flavor)
 }
 // Flavors names what RawURL understands, for error messages.
 func Flavors() string { return "gitea, github, gitlab" }
@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
 package external
 import (
 	"bytes"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"os/exec"
 	"strings"
 	"git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/loom-cli/internal/config"
 )
 // AddByName adopts a document named the way `list` prints it, against the
 // current context.
 //
 //	loomctl external add loom/cart cart
 //
 // Nobody should have to type a host's raw-file route to adopt a document. The
 // route belongs to the host, so it lives in the context; the published
 // directory belongs to the convention, so it lives in the code; and what is
 // left — which repository, which document — is the only part a person knows.
 func AddByName(root, ownerRepo, name string, out io.Writer) error {
 	cfg, err := config.Load()
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 	ctx, err := cfg.Current()
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 	if strings.Count(ownerRepo, "/") != 1 {
 		return fmt.Errorf("want owner/repo, got %q", ownerRepo)
 	}
 	if !strings.HasSuffix(name, ".md") {
 		name += ".md"
 	}
 	raw, resolved := ctx.RawURL(ownerRepo, PublishedDir+"/"+name)
 	if raw == "" {
 		return fmt.Errorf("context %q has flavor %q; known flavors are %s",
 			cfg.CurrentContext, ctx.Flavor, config.Flavors())
 	}
 	if !resolved {
 		// The lock must record a resolved URL. A short form that stays short
 		// follows whatever the default branch is at the time you ask, so a
 		// branch rename would report as a change in the document.
 		branch, err := defaultBranch(ctx.CloneURL(ownerRepo))
 		if err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("resolving the default branch of %s: %w", ownerRepo, err)
 		}
 		raw = fmt.Sprintf(raw, branch)
 	}
 	err = Add(root, raw, "", out)
 	// A 404 here has a reading the convention does not list, because it can only
 	// happen at adoption: the name is wrong. We know the repository, so rather
 	// than reporting an ambiguity we can resolve, look.
 	var nf *NotFoundError
 	if errors.As(err, &nf) {
 		var names strings.Builder
 		if lerr := List(ctx.CloneURL(ownerRepo), &names); lerr == nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("%s publishes no %q. It publishes:\n%s",
 				ownerRepo, name, indent(names.String()))
 		}
 		// Listing failed too, so the repository itself is unreachable and the
 		// original ambiguity stands.
 	}
 	return err
 }
 func indent(s string) string {
 	var b strings.Builder
 	for _, line := range strings.Split(strings.TrimRight(s, "\n"), "\n") {
 		fmt.Fprintf(&b, "  %s\n", line)
 	}
 	return strings.TrimRight(b.String(), "\n")
 }
 // ListByName enumerates a repository named against the current context.
 func ListByName(ownerRepo string, out io.Writer) error {
 	cfg, err := config.Load()
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 	ctx, err := cfg.Current()
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 	return List(ctx.CloneURL(ownerRepo), out)
 }
 // defaultBranch asks the remote which branch HEAD points at, without cloning.
 //
 // Only hosts whose raw URLs do not redirect need this. Gitea resolves its own
 // short form, which is why adopting from gitea needs no git at all.
 func defaultBranch(cloneURL string) (string, error) {
 	cmd := exec.Command("git", "ls-remote", "--symref", cloneURL, "HEAD")
 	var stdout, stderr bytes.Buffer
 	cmd.Stdout, cmd.Stderr = &stdout, &stderr
 	if err := cmd.Run(); err != nil {
 		return "", fmt.Errorf("%w: %s", err, strings.TrimSpace(stderr.String()))
 	}
 	for _, line := range strings.Split(stdout.String(), "\n") {
 		if after, ok := strings.CutPrefix(line, "ref: refs/heads/"); ok {
 			return strings.TrimSpace(strings.SplitN(after, "\t", 2)[0]), nil
 		}
 	}
 	return "", fmt.Errorf("no symref in git ls-remote output")
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
 package external
 import (
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/loom-cli/internal/lock"
 )
 // auditExposure reports documents adopted from a source that could not be read
 // anonymously, into a repository that now can.
 //
 // Access is verified once, at fetch, and the copy is durable. Whether the
 // adoption is still legitimate rests on the relative visibility of two
 // repositories — a fact somebody can change with a checkbox a year later,
 // without ever seeing the adoption. This is what turns that from a silent
 // permanent hazard into something that runs.
 func auditExposure(root string, locks *lock.Set, out io.Writer) (changed bool) {
 	var suspect []lock.Record
 	for _, r := range locks.All() {
 		if r.Visibility == lock.NotPublic {
 			suspect = append(suspect, r)
 		}
 	}
 	if len(suspect) == 0 {
 		return false
 	}
 	// Only our own visibility has to be current, and it is one request for the
 	// whole run rather than one per document.
 	public, known := selfVisibility(root)
 	if known && !public {
 		return false // adopted private into private; nothing has widened
 	}
 	if !known {
 		fmt.Fprintf(out, "\n%d document(s) came from a source that needed a credential, and I cannot\n", len(suspect))
 		fmt.Fprintf(out, "tell who may read this repository — no usable origin.\n")
 		return false
 	}
 	// The stored value decays in both directions. A source that has since gone
 	// public would otherwise raise this alarm forever, so re-check — but only
 	// the suspects, and only when the alarm would actually fire.
 	var still []lock.Record
 	for _, r := range suspect {
 		// Probe with no credential: what matters is what a stranger can read,
 		// not what we can.
 		if probeAnonymous(r.URL) == lock.Public {
 			r.Visibility = lock.Public
 			locks.Put(r)
 			changed = true
 			continue
 		}
 		still = append(still, r)
 	}
 	if len(still) == 0 {
 		return changed
 	}
 	fmt.Fprintf(out, "\nEXPOSURE  this repository is public and holds %d document(s) adopted from\n", len(still))
 	fmt.Fprintf(out, "          sources that are not:\n")
 	for _, r := range still {
 		fmt.Fprintf(out, "            %s\n", r.Path)
 	}
 	fmt.Fprintf(out, "          Confidentiality does not travel with the copy. This was legitimate\n")
 	fmt.Fprintf(out, "          when adopted if this repository was not public then.\n")
 	return changed
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,459 @@
 // Package external implements the operations on documents somebody else
 // published that we depend on.
 //
 // Every act is a fetch or a comparison. Nothing here repairs anything: a changed
 // external is a candidate, not a replacement, and somebody decides.
 package external
 import (
 	"bytes"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"io/fs"
 	"net/http"
 	"net/url"
 	"os"
 	"path"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 	"git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/loom-cli/internal/config"
 	"git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/loom-cli/internal/lock"
 )
 var client = &http.Client{Timeout: 30 * time.Second}
 // FindRoot walks up from dir looking for the .loom directory that marks a
 // repository using loom.
 func FindRoot(dir string) (string, error) {
 	d, err := filepath.Abs(dir)
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", err
 	}
 	for {
 		if fi, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(d, ".loom")); err == nil && fi.IsDir() {
 			return d, nil
 		}
 		parent := filepath.Dir(d)
 		if parent == d {
 			return "", errors.New("no .loom directory found in this directory or any parent")
 		}
 		d = parent
 	}
 }
 // localPath derives where an adopted document is kept from the URL it came from.
 //
 // The path is for a person: <host>/<owner>/<repo>/<basename>. It deliberately
 // does not encode the route, the branch, or .loom/published/ — which is why it
 // cannot be turned back into a URL, and why the lock records the origin.
 func localPath(raw string) (string, error) {
 	u, err := url.Parse(raw)
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", err
 	}
 	if u.Host == "" || u.Scheme == "" {
 		return "", fmt.Errorf("not an absolute URL: %s", raw)
 	}
 	segs := strings.Split(strings.Trim(u.Path, "/"), "/")
 	if len(segs) < 3 {
 		return "", fmt.Errorf("cannot tell owner and repository from %s — pass --path", raw)
 	}
 	base := segs[len(segs)-1]
 	if base == "" {
 		return "", fmt.Errorf("no file name in %s", raw)
 	}
 	return path.Join(u.Host, segs[0], segs[1], base), nil
 }
 // request builds a GET carrying the host's token, if we have one.
 func request(cfg *config.Config, method, raw string, ifNoneMatch string) (*http.Request, error) {
 	req, err := http.NewRequest(method, raw, nil)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 	if t := cfg.TokenFor(req.URL.Host); t != "" {
 		req.Header.Set("Authorization", "token "+t)
 	}
 	if ifNoneMatch != "" {
 		req.Header.Set("If-None-Match", ifNoneMatch)
 	}
 	return req, nil
 }
 // Add adopts a document that is not here yet.
 //
 // It refuses a path that already exists. Adopting is a one-time act; noticing
 // that an adopted document has moved is check's job, and a command that did both
 // would be a command that overwrites the only evidence a change happened.
 func Add(root, raw, override string, out io.Writer) error {
 	cfg, err := config.Load()
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 	rel := override
 	if rel == "" {
 		if rel, err = localPath(raw); err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
 	}
 	locks, err := lock.Load(root)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 	dest := filepath.Join(root, lock.Dir, filepath.FromSlash(rel))
 	_, onDisk := os.Stat(dest)
 	_, isLocked := locks.Get(rel)
 	if isLocked {
 		return fmt.Errorf("%s is already adopted — `loomctl external check` is what notices it moving", rel)
 	}
 	body, etag, err := fetch(cfg, raw, "")
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 	if body == nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("%s: unexpected 304 for a document we do not have", raw)
 	}
 	vis := sourceVisibility(cfg, body.url)
 	// A document that is here but unlocked was fetched by hand before the tool
 	// existed. Supplying its URL is the only way it can ever be locked, because
 	// the path does not round-trip and nothing else records the origin. It is
 	// still not an overwrite: the bytes decide.
 	if onDisk == nil {
 		old, err := os.ReadFile(dest)
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
 		if !bytes.Equal(old, body.data) {
 			if !cartOpen(root) {
 				return fmt.Errorf("%s differs from what %s serves, and no cart is open to stage it in — "+
 					"the local copy is the only evidence of that and will not be touched", rel, body.url)
 			}
 			if err := stage(root, rel, body.data, lock.Record{Path: rel, URL: body.url, ETag: etag}); err != nil {
 				return err
 			}
 			fmt.Fprintf(out, "staged   %s\n", rel)
 			fmt.Fprintf(out, "  from   %s\n", body.url)
 			fmt.Fprintf(out, "  NOTE   the local copy differs and was left alone; it is the only evidence\n")
 			fmt.Fprintf(out, "         that this moved while nothing was watching. Apply or discard.\n")
 			return nil
 		}
 		// Identical, so the assertion a lock makes — this local copy is the one
 		// being served — is verified rather than assumed.
 		locks.Put(lock.Record{Path: rel, URL: body.url, ETag: etag, Visibility: vis})
 		if err := locks.Save(); err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
 		fmt.Fprintf(out, "locked   %s\n", rel)
 		fmt.Fprintf(out, "  from   %s\n", body.url)
 		fmt.Fprintf(out, "  etag   %s  (bytes verified identical; nothing was rewritten)\n", etag)
 		return nil
 	}
 	if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(dest), 0o755); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 	if err := os.WriteFile(dest, body.data, 0o644); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 	locks.Put(lock.Record{Path: rel, URL: body.url, ETag: etag, Visibility: vis})
 	if err := locks.Save(); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 	fmt.Fprintf(out, "adopted  %s\n", rel)
 	fmt.Fprintf(out, "  from   %s\n", body.url)
 	warnIfNotPublic(root, body.url, vis, out)
 	notePublishedSurface(body.url, out)
 	if etag == "" {
 		fmt.Fprintf(out, "  etag   (none served — check cannot ask conditionally)\n")
 	} else {
 		fmt.Fprintf(out, "  etag   %s\n", etag)
 	}
 	return nil
 }
 // warnIfNotPublic says so when a document could only be fetched with a
 // credential.
 //
 // Adopting is copying, so a document from a repository somebody may not read
 // ends up in a repository they may, and the publisher loses control of it at the
 // moment of adoption. The tool can see half of that — whether this fetch needed
 // a credential — and cannot see the other half, which is who can read the
 // repository the copy is landing in. It reports the half it knows.
 // sourceVisibility reports what a document could be read as at the moment it was
 // fetched, given that the fetch had just succeeded.
 //
 // It is free: when no credential was configured the fetch itself was anonymous,
 // so the answer is already known; when one was, the extra request is the one the
 // warning needed anyway.
 //
 // It must not be used to re-check a document we are not fetching. "No credential
 // configured" says nothing about whether a probe would succeed, and treating it
 // as public there would silently clear a real alarm.
 func sourceVisibility(cfg *config.Config, raw string) string {
 	if u, err := url.Parse(raw); err == nil && cfg.TokenFor(u.Host) == "" {
 		return lock.Public // it came back without a credential
 	}
 	return probeAnonymous(raw)
 }
 // probeAnonymous asks, with no credential at all, whether a URL can be read.
 func probeAnonymous(raw string) string {
 	req, err := http.NewRequest(http.MethodHead, raw, nil)
 	if err != nil {
 		return ""
 	}
 	resp, err := client.Do(req)
 	if err != nil {
 		return ""
 	}
 	defer resp.Body.Close()
 	if resp.StatusCode == http.StatusOK {
 		return lock.Public
 	}
 	return lock.NotPublic
 }
 // warnIfNotPublic says something when adopting would widen who can read a
 // document.
 //
 // Adopting is copying, so a document from a repository somebody may not read
 // ends up in a repository they may, and the publisher loses control of it at the
 // moment of adoption.
 func warnIfNotPublic(root, raw, vis string, out io.Writer) {
 	if vis != lock.NotPublic {
 		return
 	}
 	public, known := selfVisibility(root)
 	if known && !public {
 		fmt.Fprintf(out, "  NOTE   private source, and this repository is not public either.\n")
 		fmt.Fprintf(out, "         Access is not widened by that alone — but this check only\n")
 		fmt.Fprintf(out, "         tells public from not-public, so it cannot see two repositories\n")
 		fmt.Fprintf(out, "         private to different people. That case does widen it.\n")
 		return
 	}
 	if !known {
 		fmt.Fprintf(out, "  WARN   this needed a credential, and I cannot tell who may read this\n")
 		fmt.Fprintf(out, "         repository — no usable origin. Check before you commit.\n")
 		return
 	}
 	fmt.Fprintf(out, "  WARN   this needed a credential, and THIS repository is public.\n")
 	fmt.Fprintf(out, "         Confidentiality does not travel with the copy: adopting this\n")
 	fmt.Fprintf(out, "         publishes it to everyone. Do not adopt from a source less\n")
 	fmt.Fprintf(out, "         readable than the repository you are adopting into.\n")
 	fmt.Fprintf(out, "         Two ways out: ask them to publish it — usually the thing you\n")
 	fmt.Fprintf(out, "         needed was not the confidential part — or keep no copy and\n")
 	fmt.Fprintf(out, "         record only the dependency, which loomctl cannot do yet.\n")
 }
 // NotFoundError is a 404, which over HTTP carries more than one reading.
 //
 // The convention names two — withdrawn, or access lost — because those are the
 // two a locked document can have. Adoption by name has a third: a document that
 // was never there under that name. Callers that know the repository can tell
 // them apart; this type is how they get the chance.
 type NotFoundError struct{ URL string }
 func (e *NotFoundError) Error() string {
 	return fmt.Sprintf("404 unresolved: %s was withdrawn, or this credential cannot see it — "+
 		"over HTTP these are the same response", e.URL)
 }
 type fetched struct {
 	data []byte
 	url  string
 }
 // fetch performs one request. A nil body with no error means 304.
 func fetch(cfg *config.Config, raw, ifNoneMatch string) (*fetched, string, error) {
 	req, err := request(cfg, http.MethodGet, raw, ifNoneMatch)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, "", err
 	}
 	resp, err := client.Do(req)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, "", err
 	}
 	defer resp.Body.Close()
 	switch resp.StatusCode {
 	case http.StatusNotModified:
 		io.Copy(io.Discard, resp.Body)
 		return nil, resp.Header.Get("ETag"), nil
 	case http.StatusOK:
 		b, err := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, "", err
 		}
 		return &fetched{data: b, url: resp.Request.URL.String()}, resp.Header.Get("ETag"), nil
 	case http.StatusNotFound:
 		return nil, "", &NotFoundError{URL: raw}
 	default:
 		return nil, "", fmt.Errorf("%s: %s", resp.Status, raw)
 	}
 }
 // Status is what check found for one document.
 type Status struct {
 	Path   string
 	Result string
 	Detail string
 }
 // Check asks every publisher whether their copy has moved, and stages what did.
 //
 // It never edits an adopted document. A changed document becomes a polad in the
 // cart — a candidate shaped exactly like what it would become — and somebody
 // decides.
 func Check(root string, out io.Writer) error {
 	cfg, err := config.Load()
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 	locks, err := lock.Load(root)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 	open := cartOpen(root)
 	seen := map[string]bool{}
 	var results []Status
 	staged := 0
 	for _, rec := range locks.All() {
 		seen[rec.Path] = true
 		st, did := checkLocked(cfg, root, rec, open)
 		staged += did
 		results = append(results, st)
 	}
 	unlocked, err := unlockedDocs(root, seen)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 	for _, rel := range unlocked {
 		st, did := checkUnlocked(cfg, root, rel, locks, open)
 		staged += did
 		results = append(results, st)
 	}
 	auditPrinted := &strings.Builder{}
 	auditExposure(root, locks, auditPrinted)
 	if err := locks.Save(); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 	if len(results) == 0 {
 		fmt.Fprintln(out, "no adopted documents")
 		return nil
 	}
 	w := 0
 	for _, r := range results {
 		if len(r.Path) > w {
 			w = len(r.Path)
 		}
 	}
 	for _, r := range results {
 		fmt.Fprintf(out, "%-*s  %-9s %s\n", w, r.Path, r.Result, r.Detail)
 	}
 	if staged > 0 {
 		fmt.Fprintf(out, "\n%d staged in %s — apply or discard; nothing here drifts into being kept.\n", staged, PoladDir)
 	}
 	io.WriteString(out, auditPrinted.String())
 	return nil
 }
 // checkLocked asks conditionally. The second return is 1 if a polad was staged.
 func checkLocked(cfg *config.Config, root string, rec lock.Record, open bool) (Status, int) {
 	if _, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(root, lock.Dir, filepath.FromSlash(rec.Path))); errors.Is(err, fs.ErrNotExist) {
 		return Status{rec.Path, "missing", "locked, but the local copy is gone"}, 0
 	}
 	if rec.ETag == "" {
 		return Status{rec.Path, "no-etag", "publisher served none; freshness cannot be asked"}, 0
 	}
 	body, etag, err := fetch(cfg, rec.URL, rec.ETag)
 	if err != nil {
 		return Status{rec.Path, "error", err.Error()}, 0
 	}
 	if body == nil {
 		return Status{rec.Path, "same", ""}, 0
 	}
 	if !open {
 		return Status{rec.Path, "CHANGED", "upstream moved — no cart open, so nothing was staged"}, 0
 	}
 	if err := stage(root, rec.Path, body.data, lock.Record{Path: rec.Path, URL: body.url, ETag: etag}); err != nil {
 		return Status{rec.Path, "error", err.Error()}, 0
 	}
 	return Status{rec.Path, "CHANGED", "staged as a polad" + usagesNote(root, rec.Path)}, 1
 }
 // checkUnlocked fetches a document nothing has locked and compares the bytes.
 //
 // If they are identical the lock is written: the assertion that the local copy
 // is the one being served is then verified rather than assumed, which is the
 // whole objection to adopting a remote ETag blindly. If they differ, the local
 // copy is evidence and is not touched.
 func checkUnlocked(cfg *config.Config, root, rel string, locks *lock.Set, open bool) (Status, int) {
 	// Without a lock we have no origin, and the path does not round-trip to a
 	// URL, so there is nothing to ask and nowhere to ask it. Supplying the URL
 	// through add is the only way out.
 	return Status{rel, "unlocked", "no origin recorded — `loomctl external add <url>` supplies it without rewriting this copy"}, 0
 }
 func usagesNote(root, rel string) string {
 	u, ok := usagesFor(root, rel)
 	if ok {
 		return "; " + u + " names what to fix"
 	}
 	return "; no .usages.md — nothing records what depends on this"
 }
 // unlockedDocs finds adopted documents that no lock covers. Facets we wrote
 // ourselves are not adopted documents and are skipped.
 func unlockedDocs(root string, locked map[string]bool) ([]string, error) {
 	base := filepath.Join(root, lock.Dir)
 	var out []string
 	err := filepath.WalkDir(base, func(p string, d fs.DirEntry, err error) error {
 		if err != nil {
 			if errors.Is(err, fs.ErrNotExist) {
 				return nil
 			}
 			return err
 		}
 		if d.IsDir() || !strings.HasSuffix(d.Name(), ".md") {
 			return nil
 		}
 		rel, err := filepath.Rel(base, p)
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
 		rel = filepath.ToSlash(rel)
 		if locked[rel] || isFacet(rel) {
 			return nil
 		}
 		out = append(out, rel)
 		return nil
 	})
 	return out, err
 }
 // isFacet reports whether a path is something we wrote beside an adopted
 // document rather than the document itself: x.usages.md, x.gaps.md, x.notes.md.
 func isFacet(rel string) bool {
 	base := strings.TrimSuffix(path.Base(rel), ".md")
 	i := strings.LastIndex(base, ".")
 	if i < 0 {
 		return false
 	}
 	switch base[i+1:] {
 	case "usages", "gaps", "notes":
 		return true
 	}
 	return false
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
 package external
 import "testing"
 func TestLocalPath(t *testing.T) {
 	for _, tc := range []struct {
 		name, url, want string
 		wantErr         bool
 	}{
 		{
 			name: "gitea raw, published document",
 			url:  "https://git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/raw/branch/main/.loom/published/starting.md",
 			want: "git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/starting.md",
 		},
 		{
 			name: "github raw host",
 			url:  "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/octocat/Hello-World/main/README.md",
 			want: "raw.githubusercontent.com/octocat/Hello-World/README.md",
 		},
 		{
 			name:    "not enough path to name an owner and repository",
 			url:     "https://example.com/thing.md",
 			wantErr: true,
 		},
 		{
 			name:    "not absolute",
 			url:     "/loom/bedrock/starting.md",
 			wantErr: true,
 		},
 	} {
 		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
 			got, err := localPath(tc.url)
 			if tc.wantErr {
 				if err == nil {
 					t.Fatalf("localPath(%q) = %q, want an error", tc.url, got)
 				}
 				return
 			}
 			if err != nil {
 				t.Fatalf("localPath(%q): %v", tc.url, err)
 			}
 			if got != tc.want {
 				t.Errorf("localPath(%q) = %q, want %q", tc.url, got, tc.want)
 			}
 		})
 	}
 }
 func TestIsFacet(t *testing.T) {
 	// A facet is something we wrote beside an adopted document. check must not
 	// report our own writing as an unlocked external.
 	facets := []string{
 		"host/loom/cart/cart.usages.md",
 		"host/loom/externals/externals.gaps.md",
 		"host/o/r/plan.notes.md",
 	}
 	documents := []string{
 		"host/loom/cart/cart.md",
 		"host/loom/bedrock/recording-decisions.md", // a hyphen is not a facet
 		"host/o/r/starting.md",
 	}
 	for _, p := range facets {
 		if !isFacet(p) {
 			t.Errorf("isFacet(%q) = false, want true", p)
 		}
 	}
 	for _, p := range documents {
 		if isFacet(p) {
 			t.Errorf("isFacet(%q) = true, want false", p)
 		}
 	}
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
 package external
 import (
 	"bytes"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"os"
 	"os/exec"
 	"strings"
 	"git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/loom-cli/internal/config"
 )
 // PublishedDir is the only directory in somebody else's repository that list
 // looks at. What is not exported is not hidden — it is simply not what you
 // depend on.
 const PublishedDir = ".loom/published"
 // List enumerates a publisher's published surface.
 //
 // It shells out to git rather than using a host's REST API, because git is the
 // one interface gitea, GitHub and GitLab all speak the same way: their contents
 // APIs have three different URL shapes, three JSON shapes and three auth
 // schemes, and a private repository refuses the anonymous ones. The cost is that
 // git must be on PATH.
 func List(repoURL string, out io.Writer) error {
 	cfg, err := config.Load()
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 	dir, err := os.MkdirTemp("", "loomctl-list-")
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 	defer os.RemoveAll(dir)
 	clone := exec.Command("git", "clone",
 		"--filter=blob:none", // trees only: we want names, not contents
 		"--depth=1",          // and bound the damage if the server ignores the filter
 		"--no-checkout",
 		"--quiet",
 		repoURL, dir,
 	)
 	clone.Env = gitEnv(cfg, repoURL)
 	var stderr bytes.Buffer
 	clone.Stderr = &stderr
 	if err := clone.Run(); err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("git clone: %w\n%s", err, strings.TrimSpace(stderr.String()))
 	}
 	// git's fallback when a server refuses the filter is silent apart from this
 	// warning, and the fallback is to download everything.
 	if strings.Contains(stderr.String(), "filtering not recognized by server") {
 		fmt.Fprintf(out, "warning: %s ignored --filter, so this fetched every blob at HEAD\n\n", repoURL)
 	}
 	ls := exec.Command("git", "-C", dir, "ls-tree", "--name-only", "HEAD:"+PublishedDir)
 	var names, lsErr bytes.Buffer
 	ls.Stdout, ls.Stderr = &names, &lsErr
 	if err := ls.Run(); err != nil {
 		fmt.Fprintf(out, "%s publishes nothing — no %s\n", repoURL, PublishedDir)
 		return nil
 	}
 	for _, n := range strings.Split(strings.TrimSpace(names.String()), "\n") {
 		if n != "" {
 			fmt.Fprintln(out, n)
 		}
 	}
 	return nil
 }
 // gitEnv passes credentials to git through the environment rather than through
 // -c on the command line, because argv is visible to every process on the
 // machine and an environment is not.
 func gitEnv(cfg *config.Config, repoURL string) []string {
 	env := append(os.Environ(), "GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0")
 	host := hostOf(repoURL)
 	if host == "" {
 		return env
 	}
 	t := cfg.TokenFor(host)
 	if t == "" {
 		return env
 	}
 	return append(env,
 		"GIT_CONFIG_COUNT=1",
 		"GIT_CONFIG_KEY_0=http.extraHeader",
 		"GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_0=Authorization: token "+t,
 	)
 }
 func hostOf(raw string) string {
 	i := strings.Index(raw, "://")
 	if i < 0 {
 		return ""
 	}
 	rest := raw[i+3:]
 	if at := strings.Index(rest, "@"); at >= 0 {
 		rest = rest[at+1:]
 	}
 	if s := strings.IndexAny(rest, "/:"); s >= 0 {
 		rest = rest[:s]
 	}
 	return rest
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
 package external
 import (
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/loom-cli/internal/lock"
 )
 // CartDir is where a round happens. A cart is not committed — it lives in the
 // working tree of the machine the two presences share — so everything staged
 // here is deliberately outside version control.
 const CartDir = ".loom/cart/current"
 // PoladDir is where a changed external waits for somebody to decide.
 //
 // A polad is a candidate artifact, shaped exactly like what it would become,
 // staged so you can see whether it fits. Its exits are apply or discard, and
 // nothing may drift into being kept.
 const PoladDir = CartDir + "/polad"
 // cartOpen reports whether there is a round to stage into. The tool never opens
 // one: a cart is a bounded exchange between two presences, and starting it is
 // somebody's act, not a side effect of checking freshness.
 func cartOpen(root string) bool {
 	fi, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(root, CartDir))
 	return err == nil && fi.IsDir()
 }
 // stage writes a candidate copy into the cart, with the ETag that was served
 // alongside the bytes, so that applying it locks what somebody actually read.
 func stage(root, rel string, body []byte, rec lock.Record) error {
 	dest := filepath.Join(root, filepath.FromSlash(PoladDir), filepath.FromSlash(rel))
 	if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(dest), 0o755); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 	if err := os.WriteFile(dest, body, 0o644); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 	locks, err := lock.LoadFile(poladLockPath(root))
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 	locks.Put(rec)
 	return locks.Save()
 }
 func poladLockPath(root string) string {
 	return filepath.Join(root, filepath.FromSlash(PoladDir), lock.File)
 }
 // usagesFor returns the path of the facet naming what depends on a document, and
 // whether it exists.
 //
 // Reconciliation runs the other way: the question is not what do we rewrite
 // here, but given what changed in theirs, what do we change in ours. The facets
 // usually survive unchanged — what moves is the manifests, the config, the code
 // that a usage named, which is why a usage names them.
 func usagesFor(root, rel string) (string, bool) {
 	p := rel[:len(rel)-len(filepath.Ext(rel))] + ".usages.md"
 	_, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(root, lock.Dir, filepath.FromSlash(p)))
 	return p, err == nil
 }
 // Apply moves a staged polad into place and moves its lock with it.
 //
 // This exists because the lock is the half a person forgets. Moving the file by
 // hand leaves a lock describing the copy you just replaced, which is the drift
 // the lock was there to prevent.
 func Apply(root string, rels []string, out io.Writer) error {
 	staged, err := lock.LoadFile(poladLockPath(root))
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 	locks, err := lock.Load(root)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 	if len(rels) == 0 {
 		for _, r := range staged.All() {
 			rels = append(rels, r.Path)
 		}
 	}
 	if len(rels) == 0 {
 		fmt.Fprintln(out, "nothing staged")
 		return nil
 	}
 	for _, rel := range rels {
 		rec, ok := staged.Get(rel)
 		if !ok {
 			return fmt.Errorf("%s is not staged", rel)
 		}
 		src := filepath.Join(root, filepath.FromSlash(PoladDir), filepath.FromSlash(rel))
 		body, err := os.ReadFile(src)
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
 		dest := filepath.Join(root, lock.Dir, filepath.FromSlash(rel))
 		if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(dest), 0o755); err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
 		if err := os.WriteFile(dest, body, 0o644); err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
 		locks.Put(rec)
 		staged.Remove(rel)
 		if err := os.Remove(src); err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
 		fmt.Fprintf(out, "applied  %s\n", rel)
 		if u, ok := usagesFor(root, rel); ok {
 			fmt.Fprintf(out, "  check  %s names what depends on this\n", u)
 		}
 	}
 	if err := locks.Save(); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 	return staged.Save()
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
 package external
 import (
 	"bytes"
 	"fmt"
 	"net/http"
 	"os/exec"
 	"strings"
 )
 // selfVisibility reports whether the repository we are adopting into can be read
 // anonymously.
 //
 // This is the half of the confidentiality rule the tool was previously blind to.
 // Knowing only that a source is private makes the warning fire on every adoption
 // a private repository performs, which is the legitimate case — and a warning
 // that always fires is a warning nobody reads.
 //
 // The signal is coarse on purpose. It distinguishes public from not-public and
 // nothing finer, so it cannot see that two repositories are private to different
 // groups. That case widens access and this check will miss it.
 func selfVisibility(root string) (public bool, known bool) {
 	out, err := exec.Command("git", "-C", root, "remote", "get-url", "origin").Output()
 	if err != nil {
 		return false, false
 	}
 	host, ownerRepo, ok := splitRemote(strings.TrimSpace(string(out)))
 	if !ok {
 		return false, false
 	}
 	req, err := http.NewRequest(http.MethodHead, "https://"+host+"/"+ownerRepo, nil)
 	if err != nil {
 		return false, false
 	}
 	resp, err := client.Do(req)
 	if err != nil {
 		return false, false
 	}
 	defer resp.Body.Close()
 	return resp.StatusCode == http.StatusOK, true
 }
 // splitRemote pulls a host and owner/repo out of a git remote, whether it is
 // ssh, ssh:// or https.
 func splitRemote(remote string) (host, ownerRepo string, ok bool) {
 	s := remote
 	if i := strings.Index(s, "://"); i >= 0 {
 		s = s[i+3:]
 	}
 	if at := strings.Index(s, "@"); at >= 0 {
 		s = s[at+1:]
 	}
 	// scp-style "host:owner/repo.git" and url-style "host:port/owner/repo.git"
 	var rest string
 	if i := strings.IndexAny(s, ":/"); i >= 0 {
 		host, rest = s[:i], s[i+1:]
 	} else {
 		return "", "", false
 	}
 	if j := strings.Index(rest, "/"); j >= 0 && isPort(rest[:j]) {
 		rest = rest[j+1:]
 	}
 	rest = strings.TrimSuffix(strings.Trim(rest, "/"), ".git")
 	if host == "" || strings.Count(rest, "/") != 1 {
 		return "", "", false
 	}
 	return host, rest, true
 }
 func isPort(s string) bool {
 	if s == "" {
 		return false
 	}
 	for _, r := range s {
 		if r < '0' || r > '9' {
 			return false
 		}
 	}
 	return true
 }
 // notePublishedSurface says when an adopted document did not come from the
 // publisher's published surface.
 //
 // What is not exported is not hidden — the rest of a repository is there to read.
 // It is simply not what you depend on, and a lock against it records a dependency
 // on something that was never a contract.
 func notePublishedSurface(rawURL string, out interface{ Write([]byte) (int, error) }) {
 	if strings.Contains(rawURL, "/"+PublishedDir+"/") {
 		return
 	}
 	var b bytes.Buffer
 	fmt.Fprintf(&b, "  NOTE   not from %s — what is not exported is not hidden, but it is\n", PublishedDir)
 	fmt.Fprintf(&b, "         not what you depend on. Nothing promises this path will still\n")
 	fmt.Fprintf(&b, "         be there, or still mean this, tomorrow.\n")
 	out.Write(b.Bytes())
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
 package external
 import "testing"
 func TestSplitRemote(t *testing.T) {
 	for _, tc := range []struct {
 		remote, host, ownerRepo string
 		ok                      bool
 	}{
 		{"ssh://git@git.hypertheory-labs.dev:2222/loom/loom-cli.git", "git.hypertheory-labs.dev", "loom/loom-cli", true},
 		{"ssh://git@git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/loom-cli.git", "git.hypertheory-labs.dev", "loom/loom-cli", true},
 		{"git@github.com:octocat/Hello-World.git", "github.com", "octocat/Hello-World", true},
 		{"https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-svgs.git", "gitlab.com", "gitlab-org/gitlab-svgs", true},
 		{"https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-svgs", "gitlab.com", "gitlab-org/gitlab-svgs", true},
 		// A nested group is not owner/repo, and guessing would produce a URL
 		// that answers about the wrong repository.
 		{"https://gitlab.com/group/sub/project.git", "", "", false},
 		{"/srv/git/bare.git", "", "", false},
 		{"", "", "", false},
 	} {
 		host, or, ok := splitRemote(tc.remote)
 		if ok != tc.ok || host != tc.host || or != tc.ownerRepo {
 			t.Errorf("splitRemote(%q) = (%q, %q, %v), want (%q, %q, %v)",
 				tc.remote, host, or, ok, tc.host, tc.ownerRepo, tc.ok)
 		}
 	}
 }
 func TestSelfVisibilityUnknownOutsideARepo(t *testing.T) {
 	// Failing open matters: "cannot tell" must not read as "not public".
 	if _, known := selfVisibility(t.TempDir()); known {
 		t.Error("selfVisibility in a non-repository reported a known answer")
 	}
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,161 @@
 // Package lock reads and writes .loom/externals/.locks.
 //
 // One record per adopted document: where it was fetched from, resolved, and the
 // ETag the publisher served with it. The ETag is opaque and is never a hash we
 // compute — on gitea it happens to equal the git blob hash and on GitHub it does
 // not, so a design that compares a local hash to a remote ETag works on exactly
 // one host by coincidence. See .loom/event-log.md.
 package lock
 import (
 	"bufio"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"io/fs"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
 )
 // Dir is where adopted documents live, relative to the repository root.
 const Dir = ".loom/externals"
 // File is the lock file, inside Dir.
 const File = ".locks"
 const header = "# loomctl locks — one record per adopted document.\n" +
 	"# path<TAB>url<TAB>etag[<TAB>visibility]\n" +
 	"# The url is resolved: a short form would follow whatever the default branch\n" +
 	"# is at the time you ask. visibility is what the source could be read as when\n" +
 	"# it was fetched, because that is checked once and the copy is durable.\n"
 // Record is one adopted document.
 type Record struct {
 	// Path is relative to Dir, and is for a person to read. The origin is the
 	// URL: the path does not round-trip, because it drops the route, the
 	// branch, and .loom/published/.
 	Path string
 	// URL is the resolved origin, branch and all.
 	URL string
 	// ETag is the publisher's, verbatim, including its quotes.
 	ETag string
 	// Visibility is what the source could be read as when it was fetched:
 	// "public", "not-public", or empty for locks written before this was
 	// recorded.
 	//
 	// It is deliberately coarse. An anonymous request tells public from
 	// not-public and nothing finer, so this cannot distinguish two repositories
 	// private to different people — which is the case where adopting between
 	// private repositories genuinely widens access.
 	//
 	// It is recorded because access is checked once, at fetch, and the copy is
 	// durable. Whether an adoption is still legitimate depends on the relative
 	// visibility of two repositories, which somebody can change with a checkbox
 	// a year later without ever seeing the adoption.
 	Visibility string
 }
 // Visibility values. Never "private": the signal cannot support the word.
 const (
 	Public    = "public"
 	NotPublic = "not-public"
 )
 // Set is every lock, keyed by path.
 type Set struct {
 	file string
 	recs map[string]Record
 }
 // Path is the lock file for the repository at root.
 func Path(root string) string { return filepath.Join(root, Dir, File) }
 // Load reads the lock file for the repository at root. A missing file is an
 // empty set, not an error: a repository whose externals were fetched by hand has
 // no locks, and reporting that is the point.
 func Load(root string) (*Set, error) { return LoadFile(Path(root)) }
 // LoadFile reads a lock file from an explicit path. A staged polad carries its
 // own alongside it, so that applying it uses the ETag that was served with the
 // bytes somebody reviewed, rather than whatever the publisher serves later.
 func LoadFile(file string) (*Set, error) {
 	s := &Set{file: file, recs: map[string]Record{}}
 	f, err := os.Open(file)
 	if errors.Is(err, fs.ErrNotExist) {
 		return s, nil
 	}
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 	defer f.Close()
 	sc := bufio.NewScanner(f)
 	for n := 1; sc.Scan(); n++ {
 		line := sc.Text()
 		if strings.TrimSpace(line) == "" || strings.HasPrefix(line, "#") {
 			continue
 		}
 		parts := strings.Split(line, "\t")
 		if len(parts) != 3 && len(parts) != 4 {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s:%d: want 3 or 4 tab-separated fields, got %d", file, n, len(parts))
 		}
 		r := Record{Path: parts[0], URL: parts[1], ETag: parts[2]}
 		if len(parts) == 4 {
 			r.Visibility = parts[3]
 		}
 		s.recs[parts[0]] = r
 	}
 	return s, sc.Err()
 }
 // Remove drops a record.
 func (s *Set) Remove(p string) { delete(s.recs, p) }
 // Get returns the record for a path, and whether there was one.
 func (s *Set) Get(p string) (Record, bool) { r, ok := s.recs[p]; return r, ok }
 // Put adds or replaces a record.
 func (s *Set) Put(r Record) { s.recs[r.Path] = r }
 // All returns every record, ordered by path so the file diffs cleanly.
 func (s *Set) All() []Record {
 	out := make([]Record, 0, len(s.recs))
 	for _, r := range s.recs {
 		out = append(out, r)
 	}
 	sort.Slice(out, func(i, j int) bool { return out[i].Path < out[j].Path })
 	return out
 }
 // Save writes the lock file, replacing it atomically so an interrupted write
 // cannot leave a repository holding half a lock.
 func (s *Set) Save() error {
 	p := s.file
 	if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(p), 0o755); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 	var b strings.Builder
 	b.WriteString(header)
 	for _, r := range s.All() {
 		if r.Visibility == "" {
 			fmt.Fprintf(&b, "%s\t%s\t%s\n", r.Path, r.URL, r.ETag)
 			continue
 		}
 		fmt.Fprintf(&b, "%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\n", r.Path, r.URL, r.ETag, r.Visibility)
 	}
 	tmp, err := os.CreateTemp(filepath.Dir(p), ".locks-*")
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 	if _, err := tmp.WriteString(b.String()); err != nil {
 		tmp.Close()
 		os.Remove(tmp.Name())
 		return err
 	}
 	if err := tmp.Close(); err != nil {
 		os.Remove(tmp.Name())
 		return err
 	}
 	return os.Rename(tmp.Name(), p)
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
 package lock
 import (
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 )
 // Locks written before visibility was recorded have three fields, and must keep
 // loading: a repository does not get to stop working because the tool learned
 // something new.
 func TestLoadsThreeAndFourFieldRecords(t *testing.T) {
 	root := t.TempDir()
 	p := Path(root)
 	if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(p), 0o755); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	body := "# comment\n\nh/o/r/old.md\thttps://h/old\t\"1\"\n" +
 		"h/o/r/new.md\thttps://h/new\t\"2\"\tnot-public\n"
 	if err := os.WriteFile(p, []byte(body), 0o644); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	s, err := Load(root)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	old, _ := s.Get("h/o/r/old.md")
 	if old.Visibility != "" {
 		t.Errorf("a three-field record should have unknown visibility, got %q", old.Visibility)
 	}
 	nw, _ := s.Get("h/o/r/new.md")
 	if nw.Visibility != NotPublic {
 		t.Errorf("visibility = %q, want %q", nw.Visibility, NotPublic)
 	}
 	// And unknown must survive a round trip rather than being written as a value.
 	if err := s.Save(); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	out, _ := os.ReadFile(p)
 	for _, line := range strings.Split(string(out), "\n") {
 		if strings.HasPrefix(line, "h/o/r/old.md") && strings.Count(line, "\t") != 2 {
 			t.Errorf("unknown visibility was written as a field: %q", line)
 		}
 	}
 }
 func TestRejectsAMalformedRecord(t *testing.T) {
 	root := t.TempDir()
 	p := Path(root)
 	os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(p), 0o755)
 	os.WriteFile(p, []byte("h/o/r/x.md\thttps://h/x\n"), 0o644)
 	if _, err := Load(root); err == nil {
 		t.Error("a two-field record should be an error, not a silently empty ETag")
 	}
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
 // Package orient generates a table of contents over what a repository depends
 // on, for whoever arrives next — a person, or an agent of any make.
 //
 // It restates no rule. Every rule it might repeat is owned by a document already
 // in the working tree, and a copy of a rule is a copy that goes stale: this file
 // says only what is here, where it came from, and where the rules live.
 //
 // The output is byte-deterministic. A generated file that churns produces diffs
 // nobody reads, and the diff is most of the value — it is how somebody sees that
 // their dependencies moved.
 package orient
 import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 	"path"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"strings"
 	"git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/loom-cli/internal/lock"
 )
 // File is where the orientation lives, relative to the repository root.
 //
 // Beside .loom/event-log.md rather than inside .loom/externals/, because
 // everything in that directory is somebody else's document — which is what makes
 // "do not edit these" a rule you can state in four words — and because `check`
 // walks it and would report a generated file as an unlocked external forever.
 const File = ".loom/orientation.md"
 const preamble = `<!-- Generated by ` + "`loomctl orient`" + `. Safe to overwrite; nobody typed it.
     Regenerate after adopting a document or reconciling a change. -->
 # What this repository depends on
 Copies of other people's documents are kept under ` + "`.loom/externals/`" + `, at a path
 that says where each came from. **They are copies: do not edit them.** Anything
 you want to say about one goes in a file *beside* it, never into it.
 Three moves, and each has a document that owns the rule:
 - **A copy is wrong, or you needed something it does not say** — write it in
  ` + "`<name>.gaps.md`" + ` beside the copy.
 - **What of ours depends on a copy** — write it in ` + "`<name>.usages.md`" + ` beside it.
 - **A source changed** — ` + "`loomctl external check`" + ` says so and stages the new copy;
  ` + "`loomctl external apply`" + ` takes it. Neither edits anything on its own.
 `
 // Generate writes the orientation for the repository at root.
 func Generate(root, out string) (string, error) {
 	locks, err := lock.Load(root)
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", err
 	}
 	var b strings.Builder
 	b.WriteString(preamble)
 	recs := locks.All() // already ordered by path
 	if len(recs) == 0 {
 		b.WriteString("\nThis repository adopts nothing yet.\n")
 	}
 	for _, r := range recs {
 		fmt.Fprintf(&b, "\n## `%s`\n\n", r.Path)
 		fmt.Fprintf(&b, "- source: %s\n", r.URL)
 		facets := facetsFor(root, r.Path)
 		if u, ok := facets["usages"]; ok {
 			fmt.Fprintf(&b, "- what of ours depends on it: `%s`\n", u)
 		} else {
 			fmt.Fprintf(&b, "- what of ours depends on it: **nothing recorded** — no `.usages.md`\n")
 		}
 		if g, ok := facets["gaps"]; ok {
 			fmt.Fprintf(&b, "- what we expected and did not find: `%s`\n", g)
 		}
 	}
 	if dir := filepath.Join(root, ".loom", "published"); isDir(dir) {
 		b.WriteString("\n## This repository publishes\n\n")
 		b.WriteString("See `.loom/published/`. What is handed over for others to depend on is\n")
 		b.WriteString("there; the rest of the repository is not hidden, it is simply not what\n")
 		b.WriteString("anybody depends on.\n")
 	}
 	dest := out
 	if dest == "" {
 		dest = filepath.Join(root, filepath.FromSlash(File))
 	}
 	if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(dest), 0o755); err != nil {
 		return "", err
 	}
 	return dest, os.WriteFile(dest, []byte(b.String()), 0o644)
 }
 // facetsFor finds the files written beside an adopted document.
 func facetsFor(root, rel string) map[string]string {
 	found := map[string]string{}
 	stem := strings.TrimSuffix(rel, path.Ext(rel))
 	for _, kind := range []string{"usages", "gaps"} {
 		p := stem + "." + kind + ".md"
 		if _, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(root, lock.Dir, filepath.FromSlash(p))); err == nil {
 			found[kind] = lock.Dir + "/" + p
 		}
 	}
 	return found
 }
 func isDir(p string) bool {
 	fi, err := os.Stat(p)
 	return err == nil && fi.IsDir()
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
 package orient
 import (
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 	"git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/loom-cli/internal/lock"
 )
 // A generated file that churns produces diffs nobody reads, and the diff is most
 // of the value.
 func TestGenerateIsDeterministic(t *testing.T) {
 	root := t.TempDir()
 	locks, err := lock.LoadFile(lock.Path(root))
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	// Inserted out of order on purpose: the output must not depend on it.
 	for _, r := range []lock.Record{
 		{Path: "h/o/zeta/z.md", URL: "https://h/z", ETag: `"3"`},
 		{Path: "h/o/alpha/a.md", URL: "https://h/a", ETag: `"1"`},
 		{Path: "h/o/mid/m.md", URL: "https://h/m", ETag: `"2"`},
 	} {
 		locks.Put(r)
 	}
 	if err := locks.Save(); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	var first string
 	for i := 0; i < 3; i++ {
 		dest, err := Generate(root, filepath.Join(root, "out.md"))
 		if err != nil {
 			t.Fatal(err)
 		}
 		b, err := os.ReadFile(dest)
 		if err != nil {
 			t.Fatal(err)
 		}
 		if i == 0 {
 			first = string(b)
 			continue
 		}
 		if string(b) != first {
 			t.Fatal("output changed between runs")
 		}
 	}
 	if a, z := strings.Index(first, "alpha"), strings.Index(first, "zeta"); a > z {
 		t.Error("entries are not ordered by path")
 	}
 	if strings.Contains(first, "publishes") {
 		t.Error("claimed the repository publishes with no .loom/published")
 	}
 }
 func TestSaysWhenNothingRecordsADependency(t *testing.T) {
 	root := t.TempDir()
 	locks, _ := lock.LoadFile(lock.Path(root))
 	locks.Put(lock.Record{Path: "h/o/r/doc.md", URL: "https://h/doc", ETag: `"1"`})
 	if err := locks.Save(); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	dest, err := Generate(root, filepath.Join(root, "out.md"))
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	b, _ := os.ReadFile(dest)
 	if !strings.Contains(string(b), "nothing recorded") {
 		t.Error("a document with no .usages.md should say so — it is a finding, not an omission")
 	}
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,226 @@
 // loomctl fetches documents this repository depends on, and finds out when they
 // change.
 //
 // It reports and never repairs. Everything it writes, it writes to the working
 // tree — committing and pushing are yours, because the consequences of a push
 // land on people a tool cannot experience.
 package main
 import (
 	"flag"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"os"
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
 	"git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/loom-cli/internal/config"
 	"git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/loom-cli/internal/external"
 	"git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/loom-cli/internal/orient"
 )
 const usage = `loomctl — fetch what you depend on, and find out when it changed.
  loomctl external list <owner/repo>     what a repository publishes
  loomctl external add <owner/repo> <doc>  adopt one document and lock it
  loomctl external add <url> [--path p]    ... or by its full raw URL
  loomctl external check                 ask every publisher whether theirs moved
  loomctl external apply [path...]       move a staged polad into place, lock and all
 check reports and does not fix. A document that moved is staged as a polad in
 .loom/cart/current/polad/ — a candidate shaped exactly like what it would
 become — and somebody decides. Its exits are apply or discard; nothing there
 drifts into being kept. With no cart open, check says what moved and stages
 nothing, because opening a round is somebody's act and not a side effect.
 loomctl grants no access. It reads what your credentials already let you read,
 and records where the copy came from — which is the part copy-and-paste loses.
 It warns rather than refuses: adopting from a source less readable than the
 repository you are adopting into is yours to decide, and the check only tells
 public from not-public, so it cannot see two repositories private to different
 people.
 add adopts what is not here yet, and refuses what is already adopted. Given a
 document that is present but unlocked — fetched by hand before this existed —
 it supplies the missing origin: identical bytes lock it, differing bytes are
 staged, and the local copy is never overwritten, because a copy that differs is
 the only evidence that anything moved while nothing was watching.
 Adopted documents live in .loom/externals/<host>/<owner>/<repo>/<name>.md, and
 their origins in .loom/externals/.locks. The path is for a person to read; the
 lock is what a machine uses, because the path does not round-trip to a URL.
  loomctl orient [--out path]            write .loom/orientation.md for whoever arrives next
  loomctl config                         which context is current, and from where
 A bare owner/repo is resolved against the current context in
 ~/.config/loomctl/config.json, which holds a host, its flavor and a read-only
 token. The host's raw-file route lives there so that nobody has to type it, and
 LOOMCTL_TOKEN_<HOST> overrides the file for one invocation. loomctl never writes
 over the network, so a token it is given should never carry write scope.
    {
      "current-context": "hypertheory",
      "contexts": {
        "hypertheory": {
          "host": "git.hypertheory-labs.dev",
          "flavor": "gitea",
          "token": "..."
        }
      }
    }
 Requires git on PATH, for list only.
 `
 func main() {
 	if err := run(os.Args[1:]); err != nil {
 		fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, "loomctl: "+err.Error())
 		os.Exit(1)
 	}
 }
 func run(args []string) error {
 	if len(args) == 0 || args[0] == "-h" || args[0] == "--help" || args[0] == "help" {
 		fmt.Print(usage)
 		return nil
 	}
 	switch args[0] {
 	case "external":
 		return runExternal(args[1:])
 	case "orient":
 		fs := flag.NewFlagSet("orient", flag.ContinueOnError)
 		out := fs.String("out", "", "write here instead of "+orient.File)
 		if err := fs.Parse(args[1:]); err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
 		root, err := root()
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
 		dest, err := orient.Generate(root, *out)
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
 		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stdout, "wrote %s\n", dest)
 		return nil
 	case "config":
 		return showConfig(os.Stdout)
 	default:
 		return fmt.Errorf("unknown command %q\n\n%s", args[0], usage)
 	}
 }
 func runExternal(args []string) error {
 	if len(args) == 0 {
 		return fmt.Errorf("external needs a subcommand: list, add, check, apply")
 	}
 	switch args[0] {
 	case "list":
 		if len(args) != 2 {
 			return fmt.Errorf("usage: loomctl external list <owner/repo>")
 		}
 		if strings.Contains(args[1], "://") {
 			return external.List(args[1], os.Stdout)
 		}
 		return external.ListByName(args[1], os.Stdout)
 	case "add":
 		fs := flag.NewFlagSet("add", flag.ContinueOnError)
 		path := fs.String("path", "", "where to keep it, relative to .loom/externals (default: derived from the URL)")
 		if err := fs.Parse(args[1:]); err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
 		root, err := root()
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
 		switch fs.NArg() {
 		case 1:
 			if !strings.Contains(fs.Arg(0), "://") {
 				return fmt.Errorf("adopting by name needs the document too: " +
 					"loomctl external add <owner/repo> <doc>")
 			}
 			return external.Add(root, fs.Arg(0), *path, os.Stdout)
 		case 2:
 			return external.AddByName(root, fs.Arg(0), fs.Arg(1), os.Stdout)
 		default:
 			return fmt.Errorf("usage: loomctl external add <owner/repo> <doc>, " +
 				"or loomctl external add <url> [--path p]")
 		}
 	case "check":
 		root, err := root()
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
 		return external.Check(root, os.Stdout)
 	case "apply":
 		root, err := root()
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
 		return external.Apply(root, args[1:], os.Stdout)
 	default:
 		return fmt.Errorf("unknown external subcommand %q", args[0])
 	}
 }
 // showConfig says which context is current and where it came from, so that "my
 // token is not being used" is answerable without printing the token.
 func showConfig(out io.Writer) error {
 	cfg, err := config.Load()
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 	fmt.Fprintf(out, "config   %s\n", config.Path())
 	if len(cfg.Contexts) == 0 {
 		fmt.Fprintln(out, "         (none — public repositories still work by full URL)")
 		return nil
 	}
 	names := make([]string, 0, len(cfg.Contexts))
 	for n := range cfg.Contexts {
 		names = append(names, n)
 	}
 	sort.Strings(names)
 	for _, n := range names {
 		c := cfg.Contexts[n]
 		marker := " "
 		if n == cfg.CurrentContext {
 			marker = "*"
 		}
 		flavor := c.Flavor
 		if flavor == "" {
 			flavor = "gitea (default)"
 		}
 		fmt.Fprintf(out, "%s %-14s %-32s %-16s %s\n", marker, n, c.Host, flavor, credential(cfg, c))
 	}
 	if _, err := cfg.Current(); err != nil {
 		fmt.Fprintf(out, "\n%v\n", err)
 	}
 	return nil
 }
 func credential(cfg *config.Config, c config.Context) string {
 	if os.Getenv("LOOMCTL_TOKEN") != "" {
 		return "token from LOOMCTL_TOKEN"
 	}
 	if cfg.TokenFor(c.Host) != "" {
 		if c.Token == "" {
 			return "token from the environment"
 		}
 		return "token set"
 	}
 	return "no token (anonymous)"
 }
 func root() (string, error) {
 	wd, err := os.Getwd()
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", err
 	}
 	return external.FindRoot(wd)
 }
		`@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@`
							`module git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/loom-cli`

							`go 1.25`