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Fixes#809.

Adds host-setup/menu.sh, an interactive, loop-until-quit front end over
the tooling this repository otherwise authors for an agent following
instructions: the host-setup/linux/ scripts, plus the repo-level Python
tools (spec/audit.py, scripts/carry.py, scripts/build_dist.py) that
this hub hosts and every other repo reaches rather than carries.

  • Fetchable on its own, the same shape bootstrap.sh already is, via
    curl -fsSLo menu.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ptr727/ProjectTemplate/main/host-setup/menu.sh.
  • Also runs directly from a checkout that already has one, either the hub
    itself or any other repo in the fleet.
  • Tells the hub apart from a downstream repo and shows each its own
    section: host tasks always, hub tasks (audit a cataloged repo, check
    the generated Skills distributions) from anywhere, downstream tasks
    (check or pull the hub's verbatim-owned files into this repo's own
    worktree, via scripts/carry.py) only from inside that repo's own
    worktree.
  • Reaching the repo-level tools from outside a hub checkout clones one
    fresh (full clone, real git checkout, not a tarball), per the existing
    "hosted and reached, never carried" model in scripts/README.md, and
    per scripts/carry.py's own requirement that its hub argument be a
    clean checkout on a freshly fetched origin/main.

host-setup/README.md documents usage under a new "The Human Menu"
section, and notes the one exception to "nothing here needs Python to
stand a host up": menu.sh checks for python3 lazily, the same way
install-skills.sh already does, so every host task still works without
one.

Verified locally: shellcheck/shfmt clean, prose_lint.py --diff
clean, repo_gate.py clean, docker_lint.py (markdownlint, cspell,
editorconfig-checker) clean, the existing 852 scripts/tests/ pass
unchanged, and the interactive flow end to end via a pty harness: hub
detected locally from within this repo's own checkout, hub cloned fresh
and cleaned up afterward when run from a downstream repo's worktree
(ptr727/PhotoCleaner), carry.py check correctly surfacing a real
target-branch-ancestry finding, an invalid menu choice reprompting
without disturbing the loop, and a failed task returning to the menu
rather than silently ending the session (an actual bug caught and fixed
during that testing, alongside a marker-file-inside-the-clone bug that
made carry.py's own clean-checkout check fail).

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  • New Features

    • Added an interactive menu for host setup, hub, and downstream repository tasks.
    • Supports selected revisions, cloning or checkout, cleanup, dry-run mode, and noninteractive guidance.
    • Added access to auditing, host tools, distribution checks, and downstream file synchronization.
    • Provides prerequisite validation, task-failure feedback, and automatic cleanup of fetched state.
  • Documentation

    • Documented the menu, related tools, repository-context behavior, lazy tool requirements, and host-gate rules.

ptr727and others added 30 commits May 11, 2026 17:57
…nups (#77)
Release merge: brings two squashed PRs and one unnecessary back-merge
commit from `develop` into `main`.
## Squashed PRs included
- **#76 — Document `dotnet/nbgv@master` exception and drop redundant
`secrets: inherit`.**
- `.github/workflows/get-version-task.yml`: inline comment carves out
`dotnet/nbgv@master` as the deliberate deviation from the AGENTS.md
SHA-pinning rule (upstream tag stream is dormant, Dependabot would stall
or attempt a downgrade if we pinned, upstream owner is Microsoft so
retargeting risk is low).
- `.github/workflows/build-nugetlibrary-task.yml`: dropped `secrets:
inherit` from the `get-version` job call (same fix PR #74 applied to
`build-pypilibrary-task.yml`).
- **#78 — Forward-only develop with dual-target Dependabot + codegen.**
The substantive change in this release:
- **AGENTS.md "Branching Model"** explicitly codifies forward-only
develop (no `main → develop` back-merges; develop squash-only ruleset
blocks them) and the dual-target bot model with rationale.
- **`.github/dependabot.yml`** duplicates every ecosystem entry per
branch (six entries total) so Dependabot opens parallel PRs against both
`main` and `develop` independently. Both branches stay current on dep
versions without back-merges.
- **`.github/workflows/run-codegen-pull-request-task.yml`** runs as a
matrix over `main` and `develop`. Branch names `codegen-main` and
`codegen-develop`; each opens a PR against its own base.
- **`.github/workflows/merge-bot-pull-request.yml`** `merge-codegen` job
uses strict head/base pairing and dispatches `--squash` (develop) vs
`--merge` (main) per base, same `case` statement pattern as
`merge-dependabot`.
- **README.md "Template - Release Distribution Model: Push vs. Pull"**
(new section) — documents the default push-on-merge model and the
manual-release alternative for HACS / distro-vendored projects,
referencing
[homeassistant-purpleair](https://github.com/ptr727/homeassistant-purpleair)
as the working example.
- **README.md "Template - GitHub Setup"** rulesets section split into
separate Develop (squash-only + `Require linear history`) and Main
(merge-commit-only) rulesets with shared settings extracted. Repo-level
Pull Requests block now correctly shows **both** `Allow merge commits`
and `Allow squash merging` enabled (the prior wording suggested merge
would be disabled, which contradicted the actual main ruleset).
## Unnecessary back-merge `5ce95cf` (acknowledged misstep)
I opened this release with a `Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main'
into develop` commit assuming the back-merge pattern was the standard
cycle close. **It wasn't.** That model conflicts with AGENTS.md's
squash-only develop rule (the push only succeeded via admin bypass). PR
#78's AGENTS.md update now explicitly forbids future back-merges and
routes both bots to update both branches independently — closing the gap
that made this pattern feel necessary.
The back-merge commit is left in place: reverting requires a destructive
force-push to develop. Behavioral effect is a one-time gitHeight bump,
which fixes the `--pre` channel ordering (develop's next dev publish is
now unambiguously higher than main's last release).
## Operator action items (already completed)
- `CODEGEN_APP_ID` / `CODEGEN_APP_PRIVATE_KEY` in both Actions and
Dependabot secret stores. ✓
- `WORKFLOW_PAT` secret + PAT revoked. ✓
- `pypi` GitHub environment Deployment branch rule allows `main` and
`develop`. ✓
## Open follow-up (tracked separately, not in this release)
PR #78 documented a limitation in the actor-check guardrail on
`merge-codegen` / `merge-dependabot`: it stops the merge-bot from
re-invoking `gh pr merge --auto` on a maintainer-triggered
`synchronize`, but **does not** disable auto-merge that's already
enabled. Once auto-merge is on a bot PR, maintainer commits will land.
The honest workaround is documented (`gh pr merge --disable-auto <PR>`
before pushing). The real safeguard — a `synchronize`-triggered job that
disables auto-merge automatically when the actor isn't the bot — is a
follow-up PR I'll open after this release lands.
## Notes
- Merge method: **merge-commit** (per [AGENTS.md branching
model](https://github.com/ptr727/ProjectTemplate/blob/develop/AGENTS.md#branching-model)).
## Test plan
- [ ] CI passes on the merge commit.
- [ ] `publish-release.yml` on main publishes `1.0.<N>.<B>` as the next
stable release.
- [ ] After release, `pip install ptr727-projecttemplate-library`
resolves to the new stable; `pip install --pre
ptr727-projecttemplate-library` resolves to the latest develop dev
(assuming develop's gitHeight exceeds main's, which the back-merge
ensures).
- [ ] Next Dependabot scheduled run opens **two** PRs per ecosystem (one
against main, one against develop).
- [ ] Next codegen weekly run opens **two** PRs (`codegen-main` against
main, `codegen-develop` against develop).
- [ ] Each bot PR auto-merges via the merge-bot with the correct method
(`--squash` for develop, `--merge` for main).
…rules-docs alignment (#80)
Release merge: brings two squashed PRs from `develop` into `main`.
## Squashed PRs included
- **#79 — Disable auto-merge on maintainer push to bot PR.** Started
narrow (a `synchronize`-triggered job that calls `gh pr merge
--disable-auto` when a maintainer pushes to a bot PR, closing the gap PR
#78 documented but didn't fix) and grew to cover repo-wide SHA pinning
of every action after the maintainer corrected my reading of AGENTS.md's
first-party-actions clause.
### What landed
- **New `disable-auto-merge-on-maintainer-push` job** in
`.github/workflows/merge-bot-pull-request.yml`. Fires on
`pull_request.synchronize` events against bot-authored PRs (Dependabot
or codegen) when the event actor isn't the same bot — calls `gh pr merge
--disable-auto`. App-token-driven (Dependabot PRs run with restricted
secrets regardless of event actor).
- **`merge-dependabot` and `merge-codegen` restricted to
`opened`/`reopened`** so auto-merge is enabled exactly once per PR;
skipping `synchronize` is what keeps the disable safeguard sticky
against bot rebases.
- **`concurrency.cancel-in-progress: false`** in
`merge-bot-pull-request.yml` so the three-job model runs events to
completion in arrival order.
- **Every action SHA-pinned** across all workflows: `actions/*`
(checkout, setup-dotnet, create-github-app-token, upload-artifact,
download-artifact), `docker/*` (setup-qemu-action, setup-buildx-action,
login-action, build-push-action), and `RubbaBoy/BYOB`.
`dotnet/nbgv@master` is the only documented exception.
- **AGENTS.md "Workflow YAML Conventions"** tightened: every action must
be SHA-pinned (the prior "first-party `actions/*` encouraged but not
required" softening is gone). `# vX` major-only comment allowed when
upstream's floating major tag doesn't correspond to a specific
patch/minor release SHA. Concurrency convention gains a documented
exception for `merge-bot-pull-request.yml`.
- **AGENTS.md "Branching Model"** + **README "Template - GitHub Setup"**
updated for the new disable job and the auto-merge condition list.
- **#81 — Drop "branches up to date" rule from main ruleset
(incompatible with forward-only).** Resolved the root cause behind PR
#80 being initially blocked. GitHub's "Require branches to be up to date
before merging" is a graph-based check (it asks whether main's tip merge
commit is reachable from develop) that's fundamentally incompatible with
the forward-only develop model PR #78 codified. Historical back-merges
had been quietly compensating for this; PR #78 forbade them but left the
README's documented "shared settings" ruleset block contradictorily
listing the rule.
- **README "Rules / Rulesets"**: moved `Require branches to be up to
date before merging` out of "Shared settings" into the Develop-only
ruleset entry (where it's standard hygiene). Added explicit
"intentionally OFF" callout in the Main ruleset entry with the full
rationale.
- **AGENTS.md "Branching Model"**: new bullet codifying *why* the main
ruleset omits this rule, framed purely in graph-reachability terms.
## Operator action already completed
- `Require branches to be up to date before merging` unticked on
Settings → Rulesets → Main. ✓ Verified via API.
## Notes
- Merge method: **merge-commit** (per [AGENTS.md branching
model](https://github.com/ptr727/ProjectTemplate/blob/develop/AGENTS.md#branching-model)).
- **No rebase required.** With the ruleset rule now disabled, GitHub no
longer enforces graph-reachability of main's tip from develop, so the
merge proceeds cleanly without admin bypass or back-merge.
## Test plan
- [ ] CI passes on the merge commit.
- [ ] `publish-release.yml` on main produces the next stable release.
- [ ] Next bot PR (Dependabot or codegen) opens with auto-merge enabled
exactly once. A maintainer push to the bot's branch disables auto-merge;
re-enable manually to land the maintainer's edits.
- [ ] No floating-tag actions remain anywhere in `.github/workflows/`
except `dotnet/nbgv@master`.
- [ ] Future develop → main releases land without admin bypass.
## Summary
- Closes#82 — drop strict "Require branches to be up to date before
merging" from the `develop` ruleset (already applied on the live ruleset
id 15886282). With strict on, two bot PRs against `develop` landing
within the same window left the second OPEN forever: the first merge
flipped it to `mergeStateStatus: BEHIND`, GitHub's auto-merge will not
fire while strict is on, and the merge-bot only enables auto-merge on
`opened`/`reopened`.
- Closes#83 — fix the GitHub Pre-Release shield with `&filter=*-g*`
(NBGV pre-release tags carry a `-g<sha>` suffix, stable tags don't);
drop the NuGet Pre-Release badge because shields.io's `vpre` endpoint
accepts no filter parameter and silently returns the latest stable
whenever one exists.
- AGENTS.md "Branching Model" + README.md "Rules / Rulesets" updated in
lockstep — both rulesets now document distinct reasons for omitting the
strict flag.
## Test plan
- [ ] Visual: rendered README badge row shows three pre-release-aware
badges (GitHub Release, GitHub Pre-Release, NuGet Release) — `NuGet
Pre-Release` is gone.
- [ ] Shield URL spot-check:
`https://img.shields.io/github/v/release/<owner>/<repo>?include_prereleases&filter=*-g*`
renders an NBGV pre-release tag, not the latest stable.
- [ ] `gh api repos/ptr727/ProjectTemplate/rulesets/15886282 | jq
'.rules[] | select(.type=="required_status_checks")'` shows
`strict_required_status_checks_policy: false` (already verified).
- [ ] Next pair of overlapping Dependabot/codegen PRs against `develop`
both auto-merge without one stalling in `BEHIND`.
This PR updates the codegen files.
…90) (#91)
## Summary
Promotes develop → main. Two squashed commits ride along:
- **PR #90** — Migrate `actions/create-github-app-token` from deprecated
`app-id` to `client-id` (closes#88), bump pin `v1.12.0` → `v3.2.0`,
drop inert `codegen` entry from `test-pull-request.yml`'s base-branch
filter (closes#89), and relax `AGENTS.md`'s "agents never commit" rule
to allow scope-bound, signing-gated authorization. 5 files, 16+/17-.
- **PR #86** — `[ptr727-codegen]` weekly codegen refresh; 1 line in
`CodeGen/CodeGen.cs`.
The `CODEGEN_APP_CLIENT_ID` secret is already provisioned in both
Actions and Dependabot stores. The legacy `CODEGEN_APP_ID` secret can be
deleted after one round of each bot workflow runs green on main
post-merge.
## Test plan
- [ ] CI green on this PR.
- [ ] Post-merge: trigger `run-periodic-codegen-pull-request.yml` via
`workflow_dispatch`; both matrix legs (main, develop) mint App tokens
and open codegen PRs as `ptr727-codegen[bot]`.
- [ ] Post-merge: next Dependabot PR auto-merges cleanly via
`merge-bot-pull-request.yml` `merge-dependabot`.
- [ ] After one green round of each bot workflow, delete legacy
`CODEGEN_APP_ID` secret from both Actions and Dependabot stores.
This PR updates the codegen files.
This PR updates the codegen files.
This PR updates the codegen files.
Release merge of `develop` into `main`.
## Headline change (#98, closes#97)
Two-phase CI/CD that decouples merging from publishing across all four
delivery targets (Docker, NuGet, PyPI, console executable):
- **PRs smoke-test only** — path-gated, reduced builds (Docker
`linux/amd64`, trimmed executable matrix), no publish.
- **Sole publisher** — `publish-release.yml` (weekly schedule + manual
dispatch) builds/publishes **both** branches via a matrix; the `push`
trigger publishes only when the **`PUBLISH_ON_MERGE`** repository
variable is `true` (opt-in legacy continuous-release). Default is
two-phase.
- Parameterized chain (`ref`/`branch`/`smoke`, per-target `enable_*`
gates), branch-suffixed artifacts, branch-scoped Docker cache, hardened
required-status aggregator.
- Robustness: skip GitHub release on a duplicate version (no-op weeks),
pin the release tag to NBGV `GitCommitId`, global publish concurrency,
`cache-to`/login gating reviewed.
- CodeGen weekly → daily; `test-release-task.yml` +
`publish-periodic-docker-release.yml` removed.
- Corrected the Copilot review runbook (reliable `requestReviews`
mutation) and made the wait-for-maintainer-merge gate explicit.
Also includes routine codegen updates (#93, #95).
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This PR updates the codegen files.
Release of develop → main. Carries three changes:
- **Decouple GitHub-release assembly from per-target builds (#109)** —
`github-release` collects assets by the `release-asset-<branch>-*`
convention instead of naming build jobs, so the release orchestration is
reusable verbatim by downstreams. Fixes#108.
- **Back-port CI/CD fixes discovered during the PlexCleaner port
(#107)** — commit-pinned release leaves, event-aware github-release
gating, Docker cache-export tolerance, publish concurrency scoping,
smoke-build gating, badge filtering, Copilot runbook login fix.
- **Update codegen files (#106).**
Merge-commit (not squash) per the branching model, so main records
develop's tip as the second parent.
This PR updates the codegen files.
Release of develop -> main. Two changes:
- **Standardize ASCII and `.editorconfig` line endings repo-wide;
tighten doc conventions (#114)** - replace typographic Unicode
(em-dashes, arrows, `<=`, ellipsis) with ASCII across all tracked files;
bring every file to its `.editorconfig` line ending; add the ruleset
export/import + signing-order setup docs; add AGENTS rules (Character
Set, Line Endings, current-state tense, ruleset-setup). Source edits are
comments/docstrings/cosmetic-strings and line endings only - no logic
change.
- **Update codegen files (#113).**
Merge-commit (not squash) per the branching model.
The insertions/deletions count is dominated by line-ending normalization
(whole-file churn under `* -text`); `git diff --ignore-cr-at-eol
main...develop` isolates the real content edits.
This PR updates the codegen files.
This PR updates the codegen files.
This PR updates the codegen files.
Promotes `develop` to `main`.
- **#124** - Propagate template contract to derived repos: shared
`.markdownlint-cli2.jsonc` (#116), explicit verbatim-copy contract +
line-ending mandate + upstream-defect-reporting contract (#117),
brownfield `required_signatures` migration (#111), and known-working
actionlint/markdownlint Docker linter guidance. Review-loop feedback
applied (modern re-sign, maintainer-only force-push).
- **#123 / #120 / #119** - Update codegen files.
Promotes `develop` to `main`: template-doc refinements captured from the
downstream realignment - the ruleset full-payload-PUT caveat (README)
and the markdownlint `--fix` first-adoption step incl. CRLF re-check
(AGENTS), plus the US-English 'judgment' fix. (#126)
Promotes the versioning-policy documentation to `main` (#131): the
develop-leads + maintenance-hold model stated in AGENTS.md, README.md,
and .github/copilot-instructions.md. Documentation only; version
unchanged (maintenance).
This PR updates the codegen files.
ptr727 added 10 commits August 25, 2026 13:18
Promotes #1003 (issue #949) to `main`.
## What
- `spec/audit.py`: `_code_view()` drops YAML block-scalar bodies (`key:
|`/`key: >`,
including a step's `- run: |` and an anchored `key: &label |`) from the
interface
token-matching view, so a crafted or ordinary block scalar can no longer
satisfy or
trip a `requireTokensInJob`/`forbidTokensInJob` check as though it were
real YAML
structure (#949).
## Review
PR #1003 review loop: CodeRabbit found one real bug (a sequence-item's
block-scalar
boundary used the dash's column instead of the key's, dropping a genuine
sibling key
alongside the body) and qodo found a second real bug (an anchor property
before the
indicator was not recognized) plus several comment-style findings, all
fixed and
resolved. One qodo informational finding (task-specific issue-number
references in
comments) was declined with in-file precedent (spec/audit.py:13, :281,
:2764 already
cite issue numbers the same way). Copilot's own review account is in the
fleet's
known repo-wide quota-exhausted state (confirmed live on every request
this round),
so this proceeded on CodeRabbit's and qodo's coverage per standing
precedent.
Promotes #1006 (issue #747) and #1007 (issue #954) to `main`.
## What
- `repo-config/README.md`: every `configure.sh` invocation now names its
hub path
and target explicitly, matching
`OPERATIONS.md`/`STANDUP.md`/`RESYNC.md`/
`AUDIT.md`'s existing convention, per `GOVERNANCE.md` "Hub-Hosted
Tooling" (#747).
- `host-setup/bootstrap.sh`, `host-setup/linux/install-tools.sh`,
`host-setup/linux/upgrade-host.sh`: four of the five sites named in #954
now fail
closed when their precondition check itself fails to run (apt-get
install
simulation, sudoers scan, `dpkg --audit`, `apt list --upgradable`),
instead of
silently proceeding into a mutation as though the check had passed. The
fifth
(`bootstrap.sh`'s `resolve_ref()`) is kept deliberately lenient with an
inline
comment explaining why, since it gates no mutation.
## Review
PR #1006 review loop: CodeRabbit's shell-quoting suggestion on
`release|operational`
declined with cross-file precedent (used unmodified in 4 other docs);
qodo's
PR-title-case finding fixed.
PR #1007 review loop: CodeRabbit caught a real bug in the sudoers-scan
fix (the
initial fix still conflated `sudo` itself failing with grep's ordinary
no-match), fixed by folding the exit-1 remap inside the privileged
sub-shell so
the outer status can only mean "sudo couldn't run this" or "grep hit a
real
error", verified live against three cases plus a simulated sudo failure.
qodo
raised 7 comment-quality findings (task-specific issue-number citations,
overlong prose), all fixed.
Copilot's review account is in the fleet's known repo-wide
quota-exhausted
state throughout both PRs, so both proceeded on CodeRabbit's and qodo's
coverage per standing precedent.
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved host setup reliability by correctly detecting package-manager
simulation and repository scan failures.
* Upgrade checks now distinguish command failures from systems with no
available upgrades.
* Release precondition checks now report package audit failures instead
of suppressing them.
* Improved upgrade status reporting to clearly indicate when upgrade
information is unavailable.
* **Documentation**
* Expanded repository configuration guidance, including explicit
repository arguments, payload resolution, workflow model settings, and
apply/check behavior.
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Promotes `develop` to `main`.
Includes:
- #1010's three deferred code-review findings (commit 1071653)
- #763: route a missing lint binary to its documented Docker invocation
(PR #1012)
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Promotes develop to main.
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
- **Bug Fixes**
- Improved hub history tracking with commit dates, commit identifiers,
and decoded content.
- Deletions, directories, symlinks, and submodules are now represented
explicitly.
- Git command failures are reported clearly instead of appearing as
empty history.
- Staleness checks identify the latest meaningful change while ignoring
line-ending normalization, action-pin updates, and job requirement
changes.
- **Documentation**
- Clarified that intent-level fidelity checks disregard revisions
containing only non-functional changes.
- **Tests**
- Expanded coverage for effective-change selection, deletion and
re-addition, file-to-directory and file-to-symlink history, unreadable
revisions, and empty histories.
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Promotes six merged PRs from this session:
- #1021: Fixes#1017 - `hub_last_change()`/`_git_revisions()` read
whatever branch ROOT is on, not `main`. Fixed by fetching and resolving
`origin/main` fresh, and extended to `canonical_blob_sha()`,
canonical-content reads, and `hub_tracked()` (file-set enumeration),
each caught by review as the same class of bug.
- #1022: Fixes#1015 - documents the account-wide "Dependabot on
self-hosted runners" setting in AUDIT.md and STANDUP.md.
- #1023: Fixes 4 of `#928`'s 12 findings (real bugs in newly-packaged
Skills content).
- #1024: Addresses `#669` - marks the `pyproject.toml` divergence-ledger
gap as tracked back to the issue, since 2 of the 3 named entries had
already converged independently.
- #1025: Fixes `#1001` - regenerates `reports/workflow-reuse.md` against
current fleet state.
- #1026: Fixes#928's remaining findings (5-8), closing out the issue.
All six reached `mergeStateStatus: CLEAN` with 0 unresolved review
threads before merging.
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
- **Documentation**
- Clarified title-case, formatting, line-ending, .NET, Python,
repository setup, and skill lifecycle guidance.
- Added profile-specific Python testing and tooling instructions.
- Documented nullable reference enforcement and XML documentation
requirements for .NET projects.
- Added guidance for Dependabot self-hosted-runner configuration and
remediation.
- **Bug Fixes**
- Improved recursive file-format coverage and conflict verification
examples.
- Enhanced audit accuracy by consistently checking the remote main
revision.
- **Reports**
- Refreshed repository divergence and workflow reuse metrics.
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## Summary
Promote `develop` to `main`: PR #1030 (retire the downstream
`spec/secrets.json` carry, per issue #993).
## Verification
Re-verified on `develop` at `7787662`:
- `python3 -m unittest discover -s scripts/tests`: 852 tests, OK
- `python3 spec/validate.py`: OK
- `python3 spec/audit.py --selftest`: OK
- `python3 scripts/prose_lint.py --diff origin/main`: 0 issues
- `python3 scripts/repo_gate.py`: 0 issues
- `python3 scripts/build_dist.py --check`: current
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
* **New Features**
* Added centralized auditing for repository secrets alongside settings
and rulesets.
* Secret requirements are now resolved from registry data and checked
against live secret stores.
* **Documentation**
* Updated audit, resynchronization, workflow, and repository
configuration guidance.
* Clarified that downstream repositories no longer require a local
secrets specification file.
* **Maintenance**
* Removed the secrets specification from required downstream files and
documented its retirement.
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Promotes develop to main.
Includes #1033 (Route Local Test-Runner Confusion to Verification
Discipline, fixes#779).
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* **Documentation**
* Added guidance for verification procedures and local test execution.
* Clarified expected behavior when the standard test runner is
unavailable in lint-only environments.
* Directed contributors to use the documented operations command and
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## Summary
Promotes `develop` to `main`, carrying:
- #1036 (fixes#784, #777): documents that a checkout already sitting on
disk, one this
session did not create, is untrusted (may belong to another concurrent
session, sit on a
stale fetch or unexpected branch, or hold unreviewed uncommitted edits),
and that
`raw.githubusercontent.com` 404s identically for a private repository
and a genuinely
missing file, so `gh api repos/<owner>/<repo>/contents/<path>?ref=<ref>`
is the correct
route when a repo's visibility is not confirmed public. Both
`GOVERNANCE.md` "Verification
Discipline" and the mirrored `agent-conduct` skill summary were updated;
review (qodo +
CodeRabbit, Copilot repo-wide quota-exhausted throughout) caught two
real bugs in the fix
itself along the way (a `gh api | base64 -d` pipe that decodes a failed
fetch as an empty
success, and a skill-summary bullet that dropped the ref-verification
clause), both fixed
and verified before merge.
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* **Documentation**
* Strengthened verification guidance for repository-based tasks.
* Added checks to ensure existing checkouts and branches are trustworthy
before drawing conclusions.
* Clarified that missing content must be verified against the correct
branch rather than inferred from an unavailable result.
* Added guidance for authenticated content retrieval and clearer
handling of fetch, access, and decoding failures.
* Updated related skill references to keep verification practices
consistent across supported environments.
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Promotes develop to main.
Includes #1038 (Fixes#675): documents the repo-scoped `.secrets/`
runtime-secrets convention in GOVERNANCE.md, cross-references it from
STANDUP.md, and adds a hand-judged `runtime-secrets` audit dimension to
spec/project-types.json.
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* **Documentation**
* Added guidance for managing repository-scoped runtime secrets.
* Documented naming conventions, credential file extensions, example
templates, README cataloging, and Git ignore requirements.
* Added instructions for documenting local credential storage and
rotating exposed credentials.
* **Governance**
* Added runtime-secrets audit criteria and related governance
references.
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Fixes#809.
host-setup/menu.sh is an interactive, loop-until-quit front end over the
tooling this repository otherwise authors for an agent following
instructions: the host-setup/linux/ scripts, plus the repo-level Python
tools (spec/audit.py, scripts/carry.py, scripts/build_dist.py) that this
hub hosts and every other repo reaches rather than carries.
It is fetchable on its own, the same shape bootstrap.sh already is, and
it tells a checkout of the hub apart from a checkout of any other repo
in the fleet so it can offer each their own tasks: host tasks always,
hub tasks (audit a cataloged repo, check the generated Skills
distributions) from anywhere, and downstream tasks (check or pull the
hub's verbatim-owned files) only from inside that repo's own worktree.
Reaching the repo-level tools from outside a hub checkout means cloning
one fresh, per the existing hosted-and-reached model in scripts/README.md.
A full clone rather than a shallow one, since spec/audit.py walks the
hub's own commit history, and a real git checkout rather than a tarball,
since scripts/carry.py itself verifies its hub argument is a clean
checkout on a freshly fetched origin/main.
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Add interactive menu for host and repository tooling

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• Adds a looping menu for Linux host, hub audit, distribution, and carry tasks.
• Detects hub and downstream checkouts, cloning and safely cleaning a fresh hub when needed.
• Documents standalone usage, repository-specific options, and lazy Python requirements.
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graph TD
User["Human operator"] --> Menu["Interactive menu"] --> Context{"Repository context"}
Context -->|local or cloned| Hub["Hub checkout"] --> Host["Linux host tools"]
Hub --> Repo["Python repo tools"] -->|carry operations| Target["Downstream worktree"]
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A dedicated standalone menu is the best fit because it preserves bootstrap.sh's minimal no-git host-bootstrap contract while exposing the existing tools without duplicating their behavior. Extending bootstrap.sh would mix one-shot provisioning with repository maintenance, and carrying the Python tools downstream would violate the repository's hosted-and-reached model.

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menu.shAdd interactive host and repository tooling menu+307/-0

Add interactive host and repository tooling menu

• Introduces a loop-until-quit Bash menu over Linux host setup, repository audit, Skills distribution checks, and carry operations. It detects hub and downstream worktrees, obtains a full hub clone when needed, forwards confirmation and dry-run flags, handles task failures without ending the session, and cleans up only owned clones.

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README.mdDocument the human-facing tooling menu+21/-1

Document the human-facing tooling menu

• Adds standalone and in-checkout invocation examples, explains context-specific host, hub, and downstream tasks, and documents why external runs use a full fresh clone. Clarifies that Python is required lazily only for menu actions invoking Python tools.

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Adds host-setup/menu.sh, an interactive Bash frontend for host, hub, and downstream repository tasks. It detects repository context, supports cloning and cleanup options, dispatches existing tools, and documents usage, prerequisites, host-gate behavior, and related commands.

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Host setup menu

Layer / File(s)Summary
CLI and runtime orchestration
host-setup/menu.sh
Adds argument parsing, Git validation, error handling, cleanup traps, noninteractive guidance, menu rendering, and the interactive loop.
Repository resolution and tool dispatch
host-setup/menu.sh
Detects hub and downstream checkouts, clones the hub at a selected ref, manages temporary state, and invokes host, audit, distribution, and carry tools.
Task actions and usage documentation
host-setup/menu.sh, host-setup/README.md
Adds menu actions for host, hub, audit, generated Skills, distribution, and downstream carry tasks. Documents execution modes, prerequisites, host-gate behavior, and related tools.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk:🟠 High · up to 2804c

When validation of the cached hub checkout fails, the menu can delete uncommitted changes while refreshing it, causing avoidable data loss. The refresh path should preserve or explicitly protect dirty checkouts before this PR is merged.

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sequenceDiagram
participant Operator
participant menu.sh
participant Git
participant RepositoryTools
Operator->>menu.sh: Start the host setup menu
menu.sh->>Git: Detect or clone the hub repository
Git-->>menu.sh: Return repository context
menu.sh-->>Operator: Display available tasks
Operator->>menu.sh: Select a task
menu.sh->>RepositoryTools: Run the selected host, audit, carry, or distribution tool
RepositoryTools-->>menu.sh: Return task status
menu.sh-->>Operator: Report the result and return to the menu
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The changes satisfy issue #809 by adding a Linux/Bash menu that supports hub and downstream contexts, dispatches relevant host and repository tasks, supports execution outside a checkout through a fresh clone, and documents usage in the README.

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1. Dry-run applies carried files✓ Resolved🐞 Bug≡ Correctness
Description
Option 13 always invokes carry.py apply, even when --dry-run is set, so a supposedly
non-mutating menu session writes and deletes files in the downstream worktree. carry.py has no
dry-run option of its own, and the menu does not convert this action to check.
Code

host-setup/menu.sh[R170-171]

+ ensure_hub_root+ hub_python scripts/carry.py "$mode" "$name" --target "$DOWNSTREAM_ROOT"
Relevance

●●● Strong

Dry-run is explicitly documented as non-mutating, but apply still mutates; this is a direct
correctness defect.

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence
Argument parsing records DRY_RUN, but only host_tool consumes it. The downstream action passes
apply unchanged, and carry.py calls apply_tree whenever that mode is selected.

host-setup/menu.sh[126-138]
host-setup/menu.sh[162-172]
host-setup/menu.sh[228-229]
host-setup/menu.sh[260-265]
scripts/carry.py[419-448]
scripts/carry.py[451-458]

Agent prompt
The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution
## Issue description
The global `--dry-run` flag does not prevent the downstream apply action from mutating the target worktree.
## Issue Context
`carry.py` supports only `check` and `apply`; therefore the menu must map a dry-run apply request to non-mutating behavior rather than forwarding an unsupported flag.
## Fix Focus Areas
- host-setup/menu.sh[162-172]
- host-setup/menu.sh[228-229]
- scripts/carry.py[419-448]

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2. menu.sh is not self-locating✓ Resolved📜 Skill insight☼ Reliability
Description
The script constructs sibling host-tool paths from HUB_ROOT without deriving its own checkout from
BASH_SOURCE or ensuring/fetching the hub first. As a result, invoking the checked-out menu outside
that checkout—or running it standalone or from a downstream repository before another action
resolves the hub—can resolve tools under /host-setup/linux and make every host option fail,
despite host tasks being expected to remain available.
Code

host-setup/menu.sh[R123-124]

+ local path="$HUB_ROOT/host-setup/linux/$tool"+ [[ -x $path ]] || die "$HUB_ROOT carries no $tool at host-setup/linux, so this ref is not one to run tasks from"
Relevance

●●● Strong

Host actions can resolve invalid paths outside a hub; ensuring or locating the checkout is a
concrete reliability fix.

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence
The added host_tool code immediately constructs host-setup/linux sibling paths from HUB_ROOT,
but detect_hub_root can leave HUB_ROOT empty outside a hub checkout, and the complete script
contains no BASH_SOURCE-based self-location. Unlike audit_repo, check_skills_dist, and
carry_action, the host path never calls ensure_hub_root; therefore, it neither follows the shell
self-location rule for sibling files nor guarantees that a hub checkout exists before resolving the
executable path.

host-setup/menu.sh[90-98]
host-setup/menu.sh[119-129]
host-setup/menu.sh[89-99]
host-setup/menu.sh[120-129]
host-setup/menu.sh[143-171]
host-setup/menu.sh[301-304]
Skill: shell-codestyle

Agent prompt
The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution
## Issue description
Host actions resolve sibling tools through `HUB_ROOT` without first deriving the script's checkout from `BASH_SOURCE` or ensuring that a hub checkout exists. Standalone and downstream runs can therefore construct paths under `/host-setup/linux` and terminate.
## Issue Context
Preserve current-working-directory detection for downstream repository context, but independently derive the script directory and use it to recognize a local hub checkout and resolve sibling tooling. Hub resolution is currently performed lazily only by Python-backed actions, so host actions need equivalent resolution before constructing executable paths while keeping fetched standalone operation working.
## Fix Focus Areas
- host-setup/menu.sh[90-99]
- host-setup/menu.sh[119-129]

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3. Unowned cache tree deleted✓ Resolved🐞 Bug☼ Reliability
Description
Before cloning, fetch_hub recursively deletes any existing $DIR/hub without checking the
ownership marker, so pointing --dir at a cache containing an unrelated hub directory causes data
loss. The marker is created only after this deletion and protects only exit cleanup.
Code

host-setup/menu.sh[R78-81]

+ mkdir -p "$DIR"+ [[ -e "$DIR/hub" ]] && rm -rf "$DIR/hub"+ # A full clone rather than --depth 1: spec/audit.py walks the hub's own history to judge whether a carried copy is trailing the file it was copied from, and a shallow clone would read every file as changed at the truncation boundary and misreport every repo as stale.+ git clone --quiet --branch "$REF" --single-branch "$HUB_URL" "$DIR/hub" ||
Relevance

●●● Strong

Unconditionally deleting an unowned cache tree is a concrete destructive reliability bug requiring a
local guard.

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence
The ownership marker is documented as preventing removal of trees the run does not own, but the
pre-clone deletion does not consult it. The existing bootstrap implementation explicitly refuses an
existing tree unless its marker is present.

host-setup/menu.sh[72-85]
host-setup/menu.sh[111-115]
host-setup/menu.sh[271-276]
host-setup/bootstrap.sh[109-116]

Agent prompt
The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution
## Issue description
Hub fetching unconditionally removes an existing cache tree even when this script did not create it.
## Issue Context
Follow the ownership behavior used by `bootstrap.sh`: refuse an existing unowned tree and require another directory, while allowing replacement only when the adjacent marker proves ownership. Canonicalize or reject traversal-bearing `--dir` values as part of the safety boundary.
## Fix Focus Areas
- host-setup/menu.sh[72-85]
- host-setup/menu.sh[271-276]
- host-setup/bootstrap.sh[109-116]

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Remediation recommended

4. Unavailable downstream actions shown✓ Resolved🐞 Bug≡ Correctness
Description
print_menu always displays downstream options 12 and 13 even when DOWNSTREAM_ROOT is empty,
contrary to the documented repo-sensitive menu. Choosing either unavailable option then reaches a
fatal error instead of presenting only applicable tasks.
Code

host-setup/menu.sh[R204-206]

+ log "Downstream, the repo this menu is run from:"+ log " 12 Check what the hub would change here, change nothing"+ log " 13 Pull the hub's verbatim-owned files into this repo"
Relevance

●●● Strong

Menu promises repo-sensitive options, yet unavailable choices fatally error; conditional rendering
is a clear local correctness fix.

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence
Repository detection deliberately leaves DOWNSTREAM_ROOT empty outside a downstream checkout, and
the heading reports that state, but the menu renders the downstream section unconditionally.
carry_action confirms those choices cannot execute without that root.

host-setup/menu.sh[101-109]
host-setup/menu.sh[162-165]
host-setup/menu.sh[176-206]

Agent prompt
The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution
## Issue description
The downstream section is rendered outside downstream worktrees even though those actions cannot run there.
## Issue Context
Use `DOWNSTREAM_ROOT` when rendering and dispatching repo-specific choices so the visible options match the detected context.
## Fix Focus Areas
- host-setup/menu.sh[176-183]
- host-setup/menu.sh[185-210]
- host-setup/menu.sh[228-229]

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5. README duplicates hub tooling rule✗ Dismissed📘 Rule violation⚙ Maintainability
Description
The new README paragraph restates the canonical requirement that shared tooling is reached from a
fresh hub checkout rather than carried, including the full-clone rationale. Cross-cutting governance
rules must be referenced without repeating their substantive obligations.
Code

host-setup/README.md[83]

+Reaching `spec/audit.py` and `scripts/carry.py` from outside a hub checkout means fetching one, the same "hosted and reached, never carried" model [`scripts/README.md`][scripts-readme] states for those tools generally. `menu.sh` clones fresh rather than reusing `bootstrap.sh`'s tarball, since `scripts/carry.py` itself checks that its hub argument is a real git checkout on a freshly fetched `origin/main` with no local changes, and a full clone rather than a shallow one, since `spec/audit.py` walks the hub's own commit history to judge whether a carried copy is trailing the file it was copied from.
Relevance

●●● Strong

Recent repository precedent accepts README clarifications and substantive governance wording
corrections.

PR-#453

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence
Rule 2826346 prohibits restating cross-cutting rules from AGENTS.md and GOVERNANCE.md. The added
paragraph repeats the canonical GOVERNANCE.md requirements that tooling is reached rather than
carried and that reaching it uses a freshly fetched hub checkout.

Rule 2826346: Do not duplicate cross-cutting rules from AGENTS.md and GOVERNANCE.md in other repository files
host-setup/README.md[83-83]
GOVERNANCE.md[129-135]
AGENTS.md[5-7]

Agent prompt
The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution
## Issue description
The README duplicates the cross-cutting hub-hosted tooling rule instead of only referring readers to its canonical location.
## Issue Context
Keep usage-specific behavior here, but replace the governance obligations about reaching rather than carrying tooling and using a fresh checkout with a reference to `GOVERNANCE.md`.
## Fix Focus Areas
- host-setup/README.md[83-83]

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6. menu.sh has header summary✗ Dismissed📜 Skill insight⚙ Maintainability
Description
Lines 3-4 introduce the file with a boilerplate description of what the script contains and fronts.
File header summary blocks are prohibited.
Code

host-setup/menu.sh[R3-4]

+# A human-facing front end over the scripts this fleet otherwise authors for an agent following instructions: the host tooling in host-setup/linux/, and the repo-level tools in scripts/ and spec/ that ptr727/ProjectTemplate hosts and every other repo reaches rather than carries.+# Menu options rather than a command a human has to already know, and a forcing function on the tools it fronts: a task with no discoverable menu entry is a gap in the tools themselves.
Relevance

●●● Strong

The comment block is explanatory boilerplate, and removing it is a trivial local style correction.

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence
The added comments summarize the menu, the tooling it fronts, and its overall design before any
code, which is the prohibited file-header pattern.

host-setup/menu.sh[3-7]
Skill: comment-and-doc-style

Agent prompt
The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution
## Issue description
The script starts with a file-level summary block that restates its contents and purpose.
## Issue Context
Retain only comments needed to explain non-obvious constraints near the affected code. Usage documentation already belongs in the help text and README.
## Fix Focus Areas
- host-setup/menu.sh[3-7]

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7. Ref option is not honored✓ Resolved🐞 Bug≡ Correctness
Description
fetch_hub passes every --ref value to git clone --branch, which cannot check out an arbitrary
commit despite the documented commit support; when already inside a hub checkout, the requested ref
is ignored entirely. Carry actions also reject non-main checkouts because carry.py requires HEAD
to equal freshly fetched origin/main.
Code

host-setup/menu.sh[R81-82]

+ git clone --quiet --branch "$REF" --single-branch "$HUB_URL" "$DIR/hub" ||+ die "Could not clone $HUB_REPO at $REF. Check the ref exists and that this host reaches github.com."
Relevance

●●● Strong

The documented commit-ref behavior is not implemented, making this a concrete correctness defect.

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence
The help accepts commits, but cloning relies solely on --branch; local hub detection considers
only the origin URL and never reads REF. Independently, every carry run fetches main and rejects a
hub whose HEAD differs from origin/main.

host-setup/menu.sh[46-51]
host-setup/menu.sh[76-99]
scripts/carry.py[245-256]
scripts/carry.py[358-362]

Agent prompt
The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution
## Issue description
The advertised branch/tag/PR/commit ref option is unsupported for commit IDs and is ignored in an existing hub checkout; non-main refs are additionally incompatible with carry verification.
## Issue Context
Implement explicit ref fetching/resolution and detached checkout for arbitrary refs, decide whether an existing hub checkout may be reused when `--ref` is supplied, and make carry's required main revision explicit or isolate carry in a fresh main checkout.
## Fix Focus Areas
- host-setup/menu.sh[76-99]
- host-setup/menu.sh[266-270]
- scripts/carry.py[245-256]

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8. Menu duplicates hub tooling rule✗ Dismissed📘 Rule violation⚙ Maintainability
Description
The new file header repeats the canonical reach-not-carry rule for hub tooling. This creates another
substantive copy of a cross-cutting governance requirement.
Code

host-setup/menu.sh[3]

+# A human-facing front end over the scripts this fleet otherwise authors for an agent following instructions: the host tooling in host-setup/linux/, and the repo-level tools in scripts/ and spec/ that ptr727/ProjectTemplate hosts and every other repo reaches rather than carries.
Relevance

●●● Strong

Recent precedent accepts clarifying repository safety rules in file documentation; this duplication
is directly actionable.

PR-#453

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence
The comment says ProjectTemplate hosts the tools and every other repository reaches rather than
carries them, matching the substantive rule in GOVERNANCE.md. AGENTS.md explicitly says not to
restate such rules elsewhere.

Rule 2826346: Do not duplicate cross-cutting rules from AGENTS.md and GOVERNANCE.md in other repository files
host-setup/menu.sh[3-3]
GOVERNANCE.md[129-135]
AGENTS.md[5-7]

Agent prompt
The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution
## Issue description
The shell script comment duplicates the canonical hub-hosted tooling rule.
## Issue Context
Comments may describe script-specific behavior, but cross-cutting reach-versus-carry policy should only be referenced at its canonical location in `GOVERNANCE.md`.
## Fix Focus Areas
- host-setup/menu.sh[3-3]

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9. Help text uses semicolon✓ Resolved📜 Skill insight✧ Quality
Description
The usage documentation joins two prose clauses with a semicolon. Agent-authored prose must use
sentences or other permitted punctuation instead.
Code

host-setup/menu.sh[43]

+a downstream repo's own worktree. Run from a hub checkout or from any other repo; the menu shows
Relevance

●●● Strong

Replacing the semicolon in user-facing prose is a trivial deterministic documentation fix.

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence
The heredoc line contains repo; the menu, a semicolon separating prose clauses in user-facing
documentation.

host-setup/menu.sh[43-43]
Skill: comment-and-doc-style

Agent prompt
The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution
## Issue description
The user-facing help text uses a semicolon as prose punctuation.
## Issue Context
Split the clauses into separate sentences or join them with a comma and conjunction while preserving the help text meaning.
## Fix Focus Areas
- host-setup/menu.sh[43-44]

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10. Header comments exceed default✗ Dismissed📜 Skill insight⚙ Maintainability
Description
The opening comment uses multiple prose lines, with the second line elaborating on the menu rather
than expressing a constraint the code cannot carry. Comments must be one line by default and use a
second line only for a genuine constraint.
Code

host-setup/menu.sh[R3-4]

+# A human-facing front end over the scripts this fleet otherwise authors for an agent following instructions: the host tooling in host-setup/linux/, and the repo-level tools in scripts/ and spec/ that ptr727/ProjectTemplate hosts and every other repo reaches rather than carries.+# Menu options rather than a command a human has to already know, and a forcing function on the tools it fronts: a task with no discoverable menu entry is a gap in the tools themselves.
Relevance

●●● Strong

The extra prose line is nonessential intent documentation, making the requested one-line
simplification straightforward.

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence
The first two lines already form a multi-line explanatory block, and the added header continues
after a separator with two more prose lines. The extra prose describes intent and behavior rather
than a constraint that cannot be represented in code.

host-setup/menu.sh[3-7]
Skill: comment-and-doc-style

Agent prompt
The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution
## Issue description
The opening prose comment exceeds the one-line default without using the additional line for an unavoidable constraint.
## Issue Context
Remove the summary block or reduce any necessary comment to one concise line. Put user-facing explanation in the README or usage output.
## Fix Focus Areas
- host-setup/menu.sh[3-7]

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11. Task errors terminate menu✓ Resolved🐞 Bug☼ Reliability
Description
Task-time validation and fetch failures call die, whose exit 1 terminates the entire script
instead of being captured by the dispatch loop. For example, selecting a Python action without
Python or encountering a clone failure violates the promised loop-until-quit and prevents the user
from returning to other usable tasks.
Code

host-setup/menu.sh[R32-35]

+die() {+ printf 'ERROR: %s\n' "$*" >&2+ exit 1+}
Relevance

●●● Strong

This directly conflicts with the PR's stated loop-and-recover intent and is a deterministic
control-flow defect.

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence
The loop only recovers from a nonzero return from dispatch; shell exit does not return to that
caller. Both missing Python and clone failure reach die from ordinary menu actions.

host-setup/menu.sh[32-35]
host-setup/menu.sh[76-86]
host-setup/menu.sh[134-138]
host-setup/menu.sh[238-255]

Agent prompt
The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution
## Issue description
Recoverable failures encountered during a dispatched task call `exit`, bypassing the menu's task-status handling and ending the session.
## Issue Context
Keep fatal exits for startup/argument errors, but make action-time prerequisite, fetch, and availability failures return nonzero so `interactive_menu` can warn and continue.
## Fix Focus Areas
- host-setup/menu.sh[32-35]
- host-setup/menu.sh[76-86]
- host-setup/menu.sh[134-138]
- host-setup/menu.sh[238-255]

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In `@host-setup/menu.sh`:
- Around line 46-49: Update interactive_menu so ASSUME_YES=true skips all
Choose, Press Enter, and repository-name prompts by selecting sensible defaults
non-interactively, preserving the documented --yes behavior. Alternatively,
revise the --yes help text to accurately limit its scope to confirming
child-tool prompts.
- Around line 204-206: In host-setup/menu.sh, update the menu rendering around
the downstream choices so options 12 and 13 are printed only when
DOWNSTREAM_ROOT is set. In host-setup/README.md at line 81, clarify that hub
actions remain available by fetching a hub clone, while downstream actions
require an existing downstream checkout.
- Line 229: Update the option 13 dispatch in the menu to call carry_action check
when DRY_RUN is true, while preserving carry_action apply for normal runs.
- Around line 78-83: Update the setup flow before the git clone to avoid
deleting an existing unowned "$DIR/hub" directory: if it exists without the
expected ownership marker, reject it via the script’s established failure path;
only remove and recreate hub when ownership is confirmed, while preserving the
existing clone and marker behavior.
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Fixes six real bugs qodo and CodeRabbit caught on PR #1040:
- host_tool() used HUB_ROOT without ensuring it was resolved, so a host
task (options 1-9) failed with a broken path whenever run standalone
or from a downstream repo, even though host tasks are documented as
always available. It now calls ensure_hub_root itself, matching
hub_python()'s existing lazy resolution.
- Every die() reachable from a dispatched action (a clone failure, a
missing python3, an unavailable downstream checkout) called exit,
which terminates the whole process rather than returning control to
interactive_menu's rc-based error handling. Task-time failures now go
through a new fail() (prints and returns) plus an explicit return 1
at each call site; die() is reserved for startup-time argument and
prerequisite errors.
- Option 13 (pull hub files) ignored dry-run and always ran carry.py
apply, mutating the downstream worktree despite the documented
change-nothing contract. Dry-run now routes it to carry.py check.
- fetch_hub deleted an existing hub cache directory before checking the
ownership marker, so a caller-chosen cache path already holding an
unrelated hub subdirectory lost it. It now refuses an unmarked
existing directory, mirroring bootstrap.sh's own remove_tree.
- The ref option passed straight to git clone --branch, which cannot
check out an arbitrary commit, and was silently ignored whenever the
menu already sat inside a local hub checkout. It now clones the
default branch and explicitly fetches and checks out any other ref,
and the local-checkout shortcut only applies for the default ref, so
testing an unmerged hub change (the documented use case) is not
silently served stale content.
- print_menu always showed the downstream options even with no
downstream checkout, where choosing them then failed. They now only
show when one is detected.
Also tightens the yes-option help text, which read as skipping every
prompt including the menu's own choice, confirmation, and repo-name
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themselves via a pty harness against a real downstream repo worktree,
confirming a failed task (both a synthetic guard failure and
skills_install.py's own real nonzero on a stale install) returns to the
menu instead of ending the session, and that a dry-run apply is routed
to check rather than mutating the target.

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Preserve execution failures from build_dist.py.

check_skills_dist() treats every nonzero status from hub_python scripts/build_dist.py --check as a stale distribution and returns success. This also hides failures such as an unavailable python3 or an unhandled Python exception, so interactive_menu can display Done. Propagate execution failures instead of mapping them to the stale-result message.

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In `@host-setup/menu.sh` around lines 193 - 199, Update check_skills_dist so a
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- Around line 118-126: Update detect_hub_root to record hub context
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used by tools. Ensure detect_downstream_root and options 12/13 use the separate
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- Around line 193-199: Update check_skills_dist so a nonzero status from
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execution failures: retain the stale message only for the expected mismatch
result, and propagate unavailable-runtime or unhandled-exception failures so
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Fixes two more real findings from CodeRabbit's re-review of the previous
fix commit:
- fetch_hub created, deleted, and cloned into the cache directory even
under --dry-run, contradicting its documented "change nothing"
contract. A dry-run task that needs a fetched hub now fails with a
clear message instead of mutating the cache.
- A local hub checkout was trusted as is whenever --ref was main,
without confirming it actually matched a freshly fetched origin/main.
Running an audit or a Skills-distribution check from a hub worktree on
a feature branch, or one merely behind origin, silently read that
stale or wrong content. ensure_hub_root now confirms freshness lazily,
right before a hub-dependent task actually runs, and falls back to a
real clone when the local checkout has moved on. Whether the current
checkout is the hub at all (IS_HUB_CHECKOUT) is now tracked separately
from whether it is fresh enough to reuse (HUB_ROOT), which also closes
a related gap: passing --ref with any value other than main from
inside the hub's own checkout previously left HUB_ROOT unset and
detect_downstream_root then misclassified the hub as a downstream
repo, showing the pull-from-hub options against the hub's own tree.
Also fixes a regression introduced while making that last change:
detect_hub_root's own last statement could itself return non-zero
whenever --ref was not main, and since the function is called as a bare
statement in main (not inside a tested context), that unconditionally
aborted the whole script under "set -Eeuo pipefail" the moment a
non-default --ref was passed. Caught immediately by testing the exact
scenario CodeRabbit's finding described, before it reached review.
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risk; none of the others share it.
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clean; the existing 852 scripts/tests/ pass unchanged; and, via a pty
harness, that "--ref develop" run from inside this hub checkout no
longer crashes and correctly shows no downstream options, and that
running a hub task from this feature-branch worktree (not "main")
correctly falls back to a fresh clone rather than reading the local
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Fixes the last CodeRabbit finding on this PR: ensure_hub_root's own
freshness check ran "git fetch" on the local hub checkout even under
--dry-run, updating FETCH_HEAD and the remote-tracking ref, the same
change-nothing violation already fixed for fetch_hub's own clone path.
--dry-run now refuses before that fetch runs, with the same clear
message fetch_hub already gives when a full clone would be needed.
Also added the check-status-porcelain guard the same finding named:
a locally dirty hub checkout (uncommitted edits) no longer passes the
freshness check just because HEAD matches origin/main, matching
carry.py's own verify_hub bar exactly rather than only half of it.
Verified empirically that a dry-run hub task on this feature-branch
worktree (not "main", so the freshness check would otherwise fall
through to fetch_hub) now refuses cleanly with no cache directory ever
created, where it previously would have silently cloned anyway.
Also audited every function in the file for the same "a bare `cmd1 &&
cmd2` as a function's last statement returns non-zero and aborts the
whole script under set -Eeuo pipefail when called unguarded" shape that
caused the regression fixed in ef7a296, since two of this round's fixes
use the same guard style. None currently end that way; the two new
guards in this commit sit as a function's first statement instead,
which is safe regardless of calling context, confirmed both by tracing
the option-11 dry-run path above and by re-running the downstream-repo
scenario end to end.
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- Around line 151-152: Update ensure_hub_root so fetch, status, revision, and
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Fixes real findings the develop -> main promotion PR (#1041)'s own fresh
review pass caught on `host-setup/menu.sh` and `host-setup/README.md`
that the incremental feature-branch rounds in #1040 missed, since the
promotion diff re-reads the whole file rather than an incremental
change.
- A failed ref fetch/checkout left an unmarked partial hub clone,
blocking every retry until manually cleared. The ownership marker now
lands right after the initial clone succeeds.
- `check_skills_dist` reported a misleading "stale" message plus `Done`
on a real execution failure (missing `python3`, a `build_dist.py`
crash). `hub_python`'s prerequisite failure now returns 127,
distinguishable from `build_dist.py --check`'s own 0/1 contract.
- Downstream carry options (12/13) were shown and always failed in a
non-default `--ref` session, with no indication why. They're now refused
up front with the actual cause, and hidden from the menu entirely at a
non-default ref.
- `--dir /tmp/..` bypassed the root-directory refusal (it isn't the
literal string `/`, but resolves to it). The value is now canonicalized
first.
- The README's "only host tasks show with no checkout" claim was wrong;
hub tasks also work standalone since they self-fetch.
- Three no-semicolon-in-prose violations in error messages, the same
class of gap already closed once for the help text (the automated prose
gate scans comments, not arbitrary string literals).
Declined two findings with evidence in the PR thread (both recur against
this file's own established precedent from #1040's review, and one
misapplies GOVERNANCE.md's write-suppression rule to a plain read).
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* **New Features**
* Standalone setups can display and run hub tasks by fetching the hub
repository when needed.
* Non-hub checkouts show downstream and host tasks.
* Downstream options are available only when using the default
reference.
* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved handling of prerequisite, skills distribution, and repository
fetch failures.
* Carry actions now reject non-default references.
* Directory validation handles canonical paths and prevents selecting
the root directory.
* Validation distinguishes stale generated content from actual errors
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ptr727 added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 27, 2026
Promotes `develop` to `main`.
Includes #1040 (Fixes#809): `host-setup/menu.sh`, an interactive,
loop-until-quit human-facing front end over the fleet's host and repo
tooling (host tool install/upgrade, git/GitHub setup, fleet Skills
install, audit a cataloged repo, check generated Skills distributions,
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
* **New Features**
* Added an interactive menu for host, hub, and repository maintenance
tasks.
* Supports repository auditing, Skills distribution checks, downstream
carry operations, dry runs, cleanup safeguards, and task selection.
* Can fetch and verify required tooling when it is not already
available.
* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved distribution checks with distinct results for current,
outdated, and execution-failure conditions.
* **Documentation**
* Added guidance for standalone use, task selection, dependency
requirements, and available maintenance tools.
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