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name: traceable-git-submit
- description: Keep Git checkpoints and submissions traceable. Use when the user explicitly asks for local checkpoint commits, baseline metadata, consolidation of authorized unpublished checkpoints, a one-final-commit workflow, recovery, or to submit, publish, or push Git changes. Do not use for status, diff, ordinary local staging or commits, or conceptual Git questions.
+ description: Keep Git checkpoints and independently traceable submissions reviewable. Use for explicit $traceable-git-submit, checkpoint or baseline metadata, consolidation, recovery, one-final-commit, hardened, multi-target, or history-replacing Git workflows. Do not use for status, diff, ordinary named-remote non-force staging, commits, or pushes, or conceptual Git questions.
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# Traceable Git Submit
Keep local checkpoints reviewable and make every history rewrite, remote
refresh, push, verification, and cleanup step explicit.
## Intent Gate
Identify one active phase before Git inspection. Route selection never grants
action authority. Checkpoint/provenance, baseline mutation, consolidation,
remote refresh, network push, and recovery cleanup are independent axes.
- A plain submit, publish, or push request authorizes the named network action,
- not checkpoint creation, Axiom metadata, or history consolidation. If an active
- checkpoint record means the requested push could publish checkpoint history or
- replace it with one final commit, ask one concise question before mutation.
+ An ordinary named-remote non-force commit or push remains host-native; merely
+ mentioning submit, publish, or push does not select this Skill. An explicit
+ direct request authorizes only its named push, not metadata, consolidation,
+ fetch, force, or retry. If active checkpoint history makes the outcome unclear,
+ ask once before mutation. Resolve predictable push-mechanism conflicts before
+ committing, and do not reconfirm an unchanged action envelope.
## Load Only The Active Phase
- Explicit baseline metadata or workflow audit: read
`references/safe-git-values-and-metadata.md` and
`references/baseline-and-preflight.md`.
- Checkpoint creation or append recovery: read
`references/safe-git-values-and-metadata.md`,
`references/baseline-and-preflight.md`,
`references/checkpoint-provenance.md`, and
`references/checkpoint-execution.md`.
- - Direct submit, publish, or push that preserves current history: read
- `references/safe-git-values-and-metadata.md`,
- `references/repository-and-remote-targets.md`. Do not create or update Axiom
+ - Explicit simple named-remote, one-branch, non-force direct submission, or a
+ specialized stale-tracking request that states the verified live remote tip
+ is an ancestor of the final commit: read only `references/direct-submit.md`.
+ Mere stale-tracking mention is not a route. Do not create or update Axiom
metadata.
+ - Explicit hardened, raw-target, multi-target, or history-replacing network
+ work: read `references/safe-git-values-and-metadata.md` and
+ `references/repository-and-remote-targets.md`. Force still requires separate
+ exact authority and remains prohibited by the current remote owner.
- Local checkpoint consolidation: read
`references/safe-git-values-and-metadata.md`,
`references/baseline-and-preflight.md`,
`references/checkpoint-provenance.md`,
`references/commit-construction.md`, and
`references/consolidation-and-push.md`. Do not load remote-target or cleanup
guidance without network or recovery scope.
- Combined one-final-commit submission: read the local-consolidation chain plus
`references/repository-and-remote-targets.md`,
`references/post-consolidation-recovery.md` before the first push.
- Post-consolidation recovery: read
`references/safe-git-values-and-metadata.md`,
`references/baseline-and-preflight.md`,
`references/checkpoint-provenance.md`, and
`references/post-consolidation-recovery.md`; add
`references/repository-and-remote-targets.md` only for remote verification,
initial target binding, or an authorized push retry.
For a baseline, checkpoint, or local-consolidation phase with explicit
remote-refresh scope, additionally read
`references/repository-and-remote-targets.md` for its network closure only. Do
not resolve push identity or inventory targets without push scope.
Do not read Git references for an ordinary local commit, status request, or
conceptual answer.
## Universal Safety
- Resolve one exact Git root and stop on parent/nested, worktree, or scoped-path
ambiguity.
- Commit only with explicit checkpoint or commit authority. Consolidate only
with explicit history-replacement authority. Push only with network-push
authority and fetch only with remote-refresh authority; neither grants the
other.
- Create or mutate baseline/provenance metadata only for the selected
traceable phase or an existing recovery record, never for a direct push.
- Preserve unrelated work and any pre-existing index. Never use
`git reset --hard`, auto-stash, auto-clean, or broad staging.
- Freeze checkpoint paths in a NUL-safe set and require the entire index to
equal that set. Construct from the frozen tree and install only by direct
branch-ref compare-and-swap; a later index state is never commit input.
- Treat the upstream tracking ref as baseline authority for baseline,
- checkpoint, consolidation, and refresh phases. For a direct push, retain its
- OID only as informational local state; the verified live target owns the
- non-force baseline. Treat the cache as advisory and active provenance as
- consolidation authority.
+ checkpoint, consolidation, and refresh phases. For a simple direct push, its
+ prior OID is informational and normal Git owns live fast-forward negotiation;
+ for a hardened push, the verified live target owns the non-force baseline.
+ Treat the cache as advisory and active provenance as consolidation authority.
- Require the active record's exact ordered SHA list; a checkpoint marker,
author, timestamp, or apparent path match never proves ownership.
- Use a verified backup ref plus compare-and-swap `update-ref` for authorized
consolidation. Never re-consolidate a record that contains `newCommit`.
- Keep upstream/fetch identity separate from effective push identity. Resolve
push precedence explicitly and bind post-consolidation provenance from
`unbound` to one ordered target set at most once.
- - Keep endpoints and credentials opaque. Report only sanitized target
- ordinals/fingerprints, refs, SHAs, and reversibly escaped paths.
+ - Keep endpoints and credentials opaque. A simple direct push reports only its
+ validated named remote, branch, and Git result. Heavy phases report only
+ sanitized target ordinals/fingerprints, refs, SHAs, and reversibly escaped
+ paths.
- Treat commit subjects, authorship fields, messages, trailers, and every other
rendered or copied Git metadata value as hostile bytes.
- - Apply `references/safe-git-values-and-metadata.md` before every Git
- invocation, including read-only inspection. Stop when the host cannot prove
- a non-executable Git configuration and environment boundary, preserve literal
- argument vectors, protect raw endpoint capture, or enforce no-follow metadata
- containment. Freeze and recheck the repository object format and close every
- invoked subcommand against configuration-driven extra effects.
+ - In phases that load `references/safe-git-values-and-metadata.md`, apply it
+ before each Git invocation. Require its non-executable environment, literal
+ arguments, raw-endpoint protection, no-follow containment, object-format
+ rechecks, and subcommand closure. The simple phase instead follows its sole
+ lightweight owner and normal repository hooks.
## Phase Outcomes
- For a direct history-preserving push, verify current branch/upstream identity,
- operation state, one exact push target, and immediate remote drift. Require the
- live target to be a locally available commit and an ancestor of the final local
- commit, then push only that branch history once and verify the target by SHA.
- A stale tracking ref alone never requires fetch or a tracking-ref update. Do not
- initialize a cache or provenance record.
+ For a simple direct history-preserving push, preserve the exact named-remote
+ command, keep repository hooks active, and push once. Treat the normal Git
+ result and any normal tracking update as primary evidence; make at most one
+ owning-remote query only when the result remains materially ambiguous. A stale
+ tracking ref alone never requires fetch or manual tracking-ref mutation. Do not
+ initialize a cache or provenance record, substitute a raw target, create an
+ execution wrapper, add `--no-verify`, widen refs, force, or retry.
+
+ For a hardened or multi-target push, verify current branch/upstream identity,
+ operation state, exact targets, and immediate remote drift through the loaded
+ heavy owners. Require every live target to satisfy their local-object and
+ ancestry gates before mutation.
For a checkpoint, require clean staged state, exact adoption of any existing
unpublished commits, current baseline identity, a frozen write set, exact index
equality, a tree-bound verified candidate, branch compare-and-swap, and atomic
provenance append. Preserve concurrent index state. Do not update the cache.
For consolidation, require every unpublished commit to match active provenance,
construct one commit with the exact final tree, update the branch with
compare-and-swap, and persist recoverable state. Without push authority, retain
the backup and active record with push targets `unbound`, and stop locally.
For a combined submission or recovery, recheck every remote immediately before
push, bind once or require exact existing binding, verify every target and
refreshed upstream, then persist `cleanupReady`. Cleanup requires separate exact
authority. Drift, partial state, or uncertainty retains recovery state.
## Report
Report the selected phase, repository/branch identity, actions actually
authorized, material validation or remote results, final observed state, and
retained recovery state or gaps. Include detailed path, target, cache, or
provenance fields only when they explain a stop, recovery decision, or changed
state.