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name: dough-land
description: >-
  Dough Land lands everything in one reviewed, owned worktree on the authorized
  remote trunk: commits all of its changes, reconciles and publishes them without
  force, refreshes a supplied default checkout when safe, and retires the clean
  worktree and its branch once trunk contains them.
  Use only on explicit invocation, such as "/dough-land", "use Dough Land", or
  "land this worktree", or when another skill's validated keep instruction
  links here. A casual "keep", "looks good", or approval does not invoke it.
  Hosted merges and pull requests are out of scope.
---

# Dough Land

Land one reviewed worktree: commit everything in it, publish that onto the
authorized remote trunk, refresh a supplied default checkout when safe, and
retire the worktree. Publication, refresh, and cleanup are separate results.
A later step that stops or is deferred never undoes an earlier one.

Run only when the developer explicitly invokes Dough Land, or when a calling
skill's own validated keep instruction links here. Reviewing, approving,
pausing, or saying "keep" in passing does not start a landing. Do not open a
pull request, request a hosted merge, or discard anything; when the developer
wants one of those, stop and say that Dough Land does not do it.

## Resolve the worktree and target

Resolve both before any commit:

- **Worktree.** The worktree named by the invocation or its context: normally
  the current one, or the owned workspace a calling skill recorded. Record its
  path and branch, whether this work created it or reused one another
  workflow owns, and its starting revision when known. Ownership comes from
  that context or the worktree's
  [creation record](../dough-manual-testing/references/exploration-workspace.md#close-or-retain-it);
  do not infer it from a clean directory.
- **Default checkout.** The project's established checkout for ordinary work,
  when the context supplies one; the refresh step inspects it. It is never the
  worktree being landed. Landing needs no default checkout.
- **Target.** The authorized remote target as `refs/heads/<branch>` on a named
  remote: the target selection already recorded for this worktree, or the one
  the project or developer authorizes. Default the branch to `main` only when
  neither the caller nor the project supplies one.

Stop before committing, and name the gap, when:

- no worktree is in context, or more than one candidate fits;
- the named worktree is the default checkout itself — landing never commits
  or pushes from it;
- the target is missing, contradictory, or not a branch on an authorized
  remote; or
- the worktree has an `index.lock` or an unfinished merge, rebase,
  cherry-pick, or revert. Name it; the developer resolves it, then reruns.

## Commit everything in the worktree

Everything in the worktree is the reviewed change. Stage all tracked,
untracked, and deleted paths (`git -C <worktree> add -A`) and commit them in
the worktree with a message describing the reviewed change, as an
[agent commit](../dough-execute-plan/references/agent-commits.md) when that
reference applies to the worktree; its refusal stops the landing before
publication. When there is nothing to commit, create no commit; that is the
normal rerun case.

The owned unpublished suffix is every commit on the worktree branch that the
fetched target does not contain. Its previously published base is the last
SHA this landing recorded as accepted, otherwise the worktree's recorded
starting revision, otherwise the merge base of the branch and the fetched
target.

A calling skill that must land only its own record checks, before linking
here, that the worktree holds nothing else. Dough Land does not pick paths out
of a worktree. A preparation keep stages its assignment's release in the
worktree before linking here, so it lands with the result; Dough Land itself
never adds or removes an assignment profile.

## Publish

Apply [publish the candidate](../dough-execute-plan/references/publish-the-candidate.md)
from the worktree, for that suffix and target; do not invent a second
sequence. The check this caller supplies is that the candidate's own changes
are the reviewed worktree content. A rewrite onto a newer target rechecks only
proof the combined change affects. Nothing is registered with a CI observer.

A conflict, refusal, failed recheck, or second rejection stops here. Preserve
the worktree, branch, index, and whatever state Git left. Name the conflict or
contention, and report publication, refresh, and cleanup as not done. Do not
loop.

## Refresh the default checkout

After acceptance, attempt
[Refresh eligibility](../dough-execute-plan/references/maintain-default-checkout.md#refresh-eligibility)
on the supplied default checkout for the landed remote and branch.
Report its
[maintenance result](../dough-execute-plan/references/maintain-default-checkout.md#independent-maintenance-outcome)
and reason separately from publication. No refresh result is a failed landing
or blocks retirement.

Another skill may apply this section on its own after its own accepted
publication.

## Retire the worktree

Retire the worktree only when both gates hold, and let the command below
check them: the fetched target contains its work, and this work created the
worktree, which
[own a temporary exploration workspace](../dough-manual-testing/references/exploration-workspace.md)
"Close or retain it" establishes from the work's records. Containment alone
does not make a worktree this work's to remove.

Before removing anything, record the worktree's repository management
context, its shared Git directory
(`git -C <worktree> rev-parse --path-format=absolute --git-common-dir`). Give
it to the command below, and run any other Git command here from it
(`git -C <management context> ...`), not from the worktree or a default
checkout, so removing the worktree, even the repository's last one, leaves
them usable.

Run the installed retirement command, where `<installed>` is this project's
installed skills directory that holds `dough-land` (normally `.agents/skills/`
or `.claude/skills/`). It names every checkout it acts on, so run it as
written:

```text
node <installed>/dough-land/scripts/worktree-retirement.mjs retire \
  --repository <management context> --worktree <worktree> \
  --branch <worktree branch> --remote <remote> --target-ref refs/heads/<branch> \
  [--identity <work identity>] [--created-for-work] \
  [--remote-branch <remote branch> --contained <sha>]
```

- `--identity` is the identity of the work the worktree serves, such as its
  story identity (`SEED-NNN#slug`), when the context names one. A worktree
  whose creation record names that work is retired whichever session created
  it.
- Pass `--created-for-work` only when the work recorded that its workspace
  selection reported `created: true`, in the plan or the conversation, or the
  caller or developer states the worktree was created for this work. Do not
  infer it from a clean directory, a claim, or a preparation assignment.
- `--remote-branch` names a branch the worktree's work published separately on
  the same remote, such as a Story Branch execution branch; never the target
  branch itself. Pass `--contained` with each revision the target must hold
  before anything is removed, such as the integrated SHA the caller's receipt
  covers; repeat it for more than one.

The command fetches the target's remote, requires the fetched target to
contain the branch tip, any remote branch tip, and each `--contained`
revision, checks the worktree's ownership and state, removes the worktree,
safely deletes the local branch, and then deletes the remote branch. Remote
acceptance is what makes retirement safe; a default checkout being behind the
target, or absent, does not make the branch unmerged. It prints one JSON line:

| Result | Act on it |
| --- | --- |
| `ok: true` | Report the worktree, branch, and any `remoteBranch` as `removed` or `already-absent` |
| `reason: "unique unpublished work"` | The fetched target lacks the branch tip or a `--contained` revision. Retain everything and report it; the target lacks that work |
| `reason: "remote execution tip is not integrated"` | The fetched target lacks the remote branch tip. Retain the worktree and both branches and report the remote tip; it holds work the target does not |
| `reason: "remote branch is the target"` | Nothing ran. Name the separately published branch, never the target |
| `reason: "dirty checkout"`, `"ambiguous checkout"`, or `"another workspace"` | Retain and report path, branch, and reason; the developer decides |
| `reason: "created for other work: <work>"` | The worktree belongs to the named work. Retain it, even when you believed this work created it |
| `reason` naming a reused, host-owned, or unrecorded workspace | It stays with its owning workflow. Retain and report it; rerun with `--created-for-work` only from a record named above |
| `partial: true` | A removal was not verified. Report which of `worktree`, `branch`, and `remoteBranch` was done, then rerun |
| `reason: "git error"` | Report its `error` and the step as unfinished; retain what remains |
| Exit 2 | A usage error; nothing ran. Supply the missing input |

Every result other than `ok: true` exits 1; nothing beyond what it reports
was removed.

Accept already-absent resources on a rerun: once the worktree is gone, rerun
the command with the management context recorded before its removal; it
reports `already-absent` and needs no ownership fact. Never force-remove,
force-delete, or reset to make cleanup possible. A calling skill may add its
own gate, such as a completion receipt that must arrive first; retirement then
waits for that gate as well as containment and ownership, runs the command only
once the gate holds, and keeps every resource while any of them is missing.

Another skill may apply this section on its own after its own accepted
publication, with its own gate.

## Stop, rerun, and report

A stop keeps every resource recoverable (worktree, branch, commits, index, any
default checkout, and the remote as it is) and names the exact unfinished
step. A rerun reads real Git and remote state and continues from the first
unfinished step:

| State found | Continue with |
| --- | --- |
| Unfinished Git operation in the worktree | Stop and name it |
| Uncommitted changes | [Commit everything](#commit-everything-in-the-worktree) |
| Branch tip not contained in the fetched target | [Publish](#publish), through the publisher's [resume](../dough-execute-plan/references/publish-the-candidate.md#resume-an-interrupted-publication) |
| Tip already contained | Record it as accepted; push nothing. Then refresh and retire |
| Worktree or branch already absent | Report it as already retired |

Never commit the same change twice, push an already accepted candidate again,
or create a replacement worktree.

Report, as separate results:

- **Publication:** accepted SHA and target, or the step that stopped and why.
- **Refresh:** the refresh result and reason (including not applicable), or
  not attempted.
- **Cleanup:** worktree and local branch removed, already absent, or retained
  with path and reason; a remote branch deleted only when verified absent.