[brettheap]

Closes #863.

The stack, and what it lands after

• Base: fix/838-github-name-limits, lane 5's scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859 (scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: nothing asks GitHub's topic and organisation limits, so an id over 39 characters fails --add-topic after all three repositories are seeded, and the direct tools pass a name over 95 #838), at 495d4b33. All three lines call what scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859 adds to scripts/shape_materialize.py: GITHUB_NAME_MAX, GITHUB_TOPIC_MAX, GITHUB_OWNER_MAX, GITHUB_ID_MAX, refuse_unstorable_names(..., github=), refuse_a_topic_github_cannot_set and refuse_an_owner_github_cannot_have.
• Merged in: lane 1's adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861 (adopt-project.py execute: each leg repository is asked about only as it is made, so a code leg whose name is taken leaves the spec leg created, on GitHub as under --local-remote-dir, and a --local-remote-dir that is a file or cannot be written ends in a traceback after check said plan ok #798), fix/798-adopt-legs-asked-first. Its head 70801c91 is merged in (9ff260fb), on scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859's head 495d4b33, its NIT round. I first branched from 71936633 and merged 748c8e6a. Both heads moved while I worked (scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859's NIT round, and a SonarCloud round of tests on adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861), so before the first push I rebuilt this branch on the new heads and cherry-picked the one commit. git merge-tree --write-tree of scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859's head with adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861's was clean at both pairs of heads, so the second line is here, beside adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861's leg-repository findings in check.
• This pull request lands after BOTH scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859 and adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861. Until they land, its diff against fix/838-github-name-limits also shows adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861's commits and the main commits adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861 merged. The change of family.py init, adopt-project.py check and the --org of all four tools: init sets the xf-project-<id> topic last and asks no GitHub limit, check passes a name execute refuses, and --org my_org.x passes every plan #863 itself is two commits:
  • 66fc8f6b, the change (9 files, 1101 insertions, 46 deletions);
  • 99afbc3d, the fix round for lane 3's independent review RV871 (comment): 3 files, 224 insertions, 26 deletions.
• It also waits for adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861's merge with main. adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861's head conflicts with adopt-project.py: check prints the rename-first remedy as execute does, and a plan's recorded source: repository: holds its names where the live source names none, so check and execute both refuse plan-not-the-source (#716) #825's squash in cmd_check, and this pull request edits the same lines, so it conflicts with main through adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861 (see "Merge checks").

What changed, by the issue's lines

Line 1: family.py init asks GitHub's limits before any repository exists. init set the holder's topic, xf-project-<family id>, last: gh repo edit --add-topic ran after gh repo create and the push. It asked neither GitHub's 50 for a topic, nor its 39 for --org, nor its 100 for the holder's name. So a family of 40 characters made and pushed its holder, then failed at the topic, with no NEXT STEPS printed.

• _checked_family_identity now calls _refuse_what_github_cannot_hold, only where GitHub is asked (args.local_remote_dir is None). That is before _creator_name and before any gh call, so --dry-run refuses the same. The only process started before it is git check-ref-format, the question refuse_bad_branch asks of --tracking-branch.
• Four new codes, after scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859's pattern:
  • family-name-too-long: a --family over 100. It is a check of its own beside family-bad-holder-name, because refuse_unstorable_names' remediation names --project and the three repositories of a project.
  • family-org-too-long: scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859's refuse_an_owner_github_cannot_have.
  • family-bad-org: line 3's helper.
  • family-topic-too-long: scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859's refuse_a_topic_github_cannot_set. A derived id is named as family-bad-id names one, --id (not given, so --family lowercased), and its remediation is an explicit --id. A passed --id is told to pass a shorter one.
• The remediations are the scaffold's words for its own, with init's nothing was created, and --dry-run refuses the same.
• init --help states the three bounds where each value is typed, as scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859 does for the other three tools. docs/cli.md is regenerated.
• The codes are documented in family.py's module docstring.

Line 2: adopt-project.py check finds what execute refuses, from one list. check asked none of what execute asks of the names, the organisation and the topic, the disk's 255 bytes included, so it said plan ok over plans execute refused.

• _what_cannot_be_held is now the one list, in execute's order:
  • the names (adopt-name-too-long: the disk's under --local-remote-dir, GitHub's 100 without it);
  • then, without --local-remote-dir, the org: (adopt-org-too-long, then adopt-bad-org);
  • then the topic (adopt-topic-too-long).
• execute refuses its first refusal, in _repository_urls, before either leg exists. check finds every one, through _held_findings, as a FINDING under the same code and with execute's remediation. A finding exits 1, a refusal 2. This is the pattern _refuse_what_check_finds already follows for the manifest values. The list is a generator, so execute asks nothing after its first refusal.
• Where these come in each command. They are not in the same place in both:
  • In check they come after its other findings and before adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861's leg question, in the else: of the naming question. That is where the issue asked for them ("last among its findings beside adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861's"), but it is not the order execute asks them in, as the issue and this body first said.
  • execute asks them in _repository_urls, after _check_names and the plan's values. That is before _refuse_what_check_finds (the manifest's values and check's other findings), before the symlink, seeding-consent and occupied-work-directory refusals, and before the git ls-remote reads.
  • So where a plan holds both kinds, check lists the other finding first and execute refuses this one. For org: "@x" in GitHub mode, check lists plan-manifest-invalid and then adopt-bad-org, and execute refuses adopt-bad-org; before this pull request it refused plan-manifest-invalid. The verdicts still agree: exit 1 and exit 2.
  • In GitHub mode the scaffold and init also refuse --org @x for its characters first now, as scaffold-bad-org and family-bad-org, where main says scaffold-manifest-invalid and family-manifest-invalid (measured by RV871). It is a visible change, and the same in every tool.
• adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861's leg question is still asked beside a topic finding. check skips it only after adopt-name-too-long, adopt-org-too-long or adopt-bad-org (RENAMES_THE_LEGS). Their fix, a shorter --project or another org:, changes <org>/<Project>-spec and <org>/<Project>-code, so the question would be asked of names the mended plan does not use. The fix of adopt-topic-too-long is another id:, which names no repository, so one round shows both. A plan with an id of 40 characters whose code leg is already on GitHub now gets FINDING adopt-topic-too-long and FINDING leg-remote-exists; the first head listed the topic alone (family.py, adopt-project.py and the four tools' --org: init asks GitHub's limits on the topic, the --org and the holder's name before any repository exists, check finds what execute refuses from one list, and an --org GitHub gives no organisation (., a trailing hyphen, --) is refused where GitHub is asked (#863) #871's review, S1).
• The list is asked only of names that classify, in the else: of the naming question, because execute asks _check_names first. A plan whose names do not classify gets the naming finding alone (family.py, adopt-project.py and the four tools' --org: init asks GitHub's limits on the topic, the --org and the holder's name before any repository exists, check finds what execute refuses from one list, and an --org GitHub gives no organisation (., a trailing hyphen, --) is refused where GitHub is asked (#863) #871's review, N5, now pinned by a test).
• An id that is no project id is left to plan-bad-id, where Plan.project_id always refused it. An org: checked_value refuses is left to unsafe-value, as adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861's _leg_remote_findings leaves it.

Line 3: an --org GitHub gives no organisation is refused where GitHub is asked. I took option (a) of the issue's "Decide first": the rule is in the tools' plans, beside the 39, and no pinned file changes. So scripts/repo_shape.py and the two validators' QUALIFIED_RE are untouched, no project is re-pinned, and a manifest that already names such an owner reads as it did. The issue asked for the choice to be stated on #863 first. Lane 3 stated it there, in its comment of 03:26:32Z.

• The new helper is refuse_an_owner_github_cannot_spell in scripts/shape_materialize.py, beside refuse_an_owner_github_cannot_have. It is a helper of its own, rather than a clause inside scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859's, so that each cause has a code that names it, and scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859's signature and pinned tests are unchanged.
• It refuses three things: a character outside ASCII letters, digits, _ and -; a trailing hyphen; and two hyphens in a row. It names each character and each rule broken. A leading hyphen was checked_value's unsafe-value already.
• A value longer than 39 is shown cut, by _both_ends and with its length, as scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859's length refusal shows it, so check no longer prints all of a 255-character org: (family.py, adopt-project.py and the four tools' --org: init asks GitHub's limits on the topic, the --org and the holder's name before any repository exists, check finds what execute refuses from one list, and an --org GitHub gives no organisation (., a trailing hyphen, --) is refused where GitHub is asked (#863) #871's review, N3).
• _ is let by. A GitHub Enterprise Managed User's login holds one (<handle>_<shortcode>), and the issue asks for a probe against a real account (lane 1) before refusing it. ., the trailing hyphen and -- are refused regardless, as it asks.
• Codes and callers: scaffold-bad-org (in the scaffold's _refuse_what_github_cannot_hold), adopt-bad-org (in _what_cannot_be_held, so check and execute both ask it) and family-bad-org (line 1's function). setup-project.py takes the scaffold's answer at its step (5), the scaffold's own --dry-run. None is asked under --local-remote-dir.
• One value can break both rules, and then gets two refusals, one at a time outside check (family.py, adopt-project.py and the four tools' --org: init asks GitHub's limits on the topic, the --org and the holder's name before any repository exists, check finds what execute refuses from one list, and an --org GitHub gives no organisation (., a trailing hyphen, --) is refused where GitHub is asked (#863) #871's review, N2). Take an --org of 39 o and a .:
  • check lists both: adopt-org-too-long, then adopt-bad-org.
  • init, the scaffold, execute and setup's step (5) each refuse the length first (family-org-too-long, scaffold-org-too-long, adopt-org-too-long), and the characters on the next run, once the length is mended.
  • A test pins that order in each tool.
  • I kept two refusals rather than one that names both. One that names both would ask the length again inside this pull request's helper, and check would then say it twice.
• The two tests the issue names as recording the permissive rule are reworded to say the validator still reads what it reads:
  • test_scaffold_manifest_values.py's my_org.x test runs under --local-remote-dir, so it still passes; only its docstring changes.
  • test_adopt_manifest_values.py's plan test now also asserts check's adopt-bad-org, and still no plan-manifest-invalid.

GitHub's numbers and characters are from its documentation, and none is measured against GitHub here. As the issue says, no run of this repository creates a real repository, and I did not run the real gh. The fake gh in the new tests refuses by the documented numbers and characters and answers repo view as not found; the runs that refuse assert it was never called. A probe against a real organisation, for the numbers and for _, is lane 1's.

Where #859's and #861's own lines changed, and why

• scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859, adopt-project.py _repository_urls: its names block and its organisation call move into _refuse_names_nothing_keeps and _what_cannot_be_held, so that check reads the same list. The words and codes are unchanged. The rename-first repository is spelled f"{org}/{names['assembly']}", which is the value repositories["assembly"] held.
• scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859, cmd_execute: adopt-topic-too-long moves from just before _confirm into that list, in _repository_urls. So execute now refuses it with the names and the organisation, before the git ls-remote reads and _refuse_what_check_finds. It is still before _confirm, before any gh call and before either leg, and scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859's tests ([id-unconfirmed] among them) pass unchanged. Once this lands, scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859's body sentence that one of those reads "can be shown first" stops being true.
• adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861, cmd_check (for lane 1): the leg question is not asked after a name or an organisation finding of this list, and is still asked beside a topic finding (S1, above). It is one expression, ([], [], []) if RENAMES_THE_LEGS.intersection(held_codes) else _leg_remote_findings(...), and _held_findings now gives the codes beside the findings and the remediation.
• tests/test_reader_refusals_named.py: test_check_names_a_hand_edited_org runs check without --local-remote-dir on org: "@x". It now also expects FINDING adopt-bad-org, because execute refuses that there.
• One wording I left as scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859 has it (family.py, adopt-project.py and the four tools' --org: init asks GitHub's limits on the topic, the --org and the holder's name before any repository exists, check finds what execute refuses from one list, and an --org GitHub gives no organisation (., a trailing hyphen, --) is refused where GitHub is asked (#863) #871's review, N7): refuse_a_topic_github_cannot_set says "the topic this run sets on each repository", and init sets it on one, the holder. It is scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859's sentence in scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859's helper, so this pull request does not change it.
• The new file's fake_github is a copy of tests/test_github_name_limits.py's (family.py, adopt-project.py and the four tools' --org: init asks GitHub's limits on the topic, the --org and the holder's name before any repository exists, check finds what execute refuses from one list, and an --org GitHub gives no organisation (., a trailing hyphen, --) is refused where GitHub is asked (#863) #871's review, N4). Importing it would mean editing scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859's test file while scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859 still moves. SonarCloud's duplication stays under 3%.

Tests

The new file is tests/test_github_limits_init_check_org.py, 93 tests: 82 from the first head and 11 from the fix round. Each bound is tested at N and N+1, and each refused character against the ok-org and ok_org controls:

• family.py init, in process, with only git check-ref-format allowed to start, so a refusal that passes came before _creator_name. Through the flags, a derived, an empty and a passed --id, --dry-run and the real run, each remediation word for word, and --local-remote-dir asking none of them.
• family.py init end to end against the fake gh: no gh call, and no work directory, for each refusal, under --dry-run and the real run. The control sets the topic at 39.
• The scaffold in process (no_process), and setup-project.py at its step (5), for the characters.
• adopt-project.py:
  • the one list, in process: execute refuses the first, check finds each, in execute's order, and a bad id is left to plan-bad-id;
  • check then execute on the same plan in GitHub mode, through scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859's github_run: one code from both, and execute makes no gh call and no leg. After a name or an organisation check makes no gh call; after a topic it asks the two leg views;
  • the controls at each bound, where check says plan ok and asks adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861's two leg views;
  • check under --local-remote-dir at 246 and 247 characters, the disk's limit.
• The fix round's tests:
  • a topic and a code leg already on GitHub are found in one round (S1);
  • a plan whose names do not classify gets the naming finding alone and makes no gh call (N5);
  • one org: both too long and misspelled is listed length first by check, and refused length first by execute, by init and the scaffold in both runs, and by setup's step (5) (N2);
  • a misspelled value past 39 is shown cut, and one at 39 whole (N3).

On 9ff260fb, the stack before this change, with only the first head's file put in: 62 failed, 20 passed in 60.61s. The same 62 fail on 0b4251b8, the first build of the stack (71936633 with 748c8e6a). The 20 that pass are the controls.

On 66fc8f6b, the first head, with only the fix round's file put in: 6 failed, 87 passed in 26.57s. The 6 are [id] and [derived-id] of test_check_finds_what_execute_refuses_under_its_code and test_check_asks_the_legs_beside_a_topic_it_finds (S1); test_an_owner_past_the_length_bound_is_shown_cut_as_its_length_is and test_check_lists_an_organisations_length_then_its_characters, which asserts N3's cut too; and test_check_and_execute_read_one_list, because _held_findings now gives the codes as well. The other N2 tests and the N5 test pass there: they pin what the first head already did.

Every run was on Linux, under a stub gh first on PATH that exits 97, with GH_TOKEN=bogus and an empty GH_CONFIG_DIR, each wrapped in timeout 2400, with python3 -m pytest -q -p no:cacheprovider --basetemp=<scratch>/bt-<name> -o tmp_path_retention_policy=failed:

• On 99afbc3d, the head, with a clean tree:
  • the new file, test_github_name_limits.py, test_reader_refusals_named.py, test_scaffold_manifest_values.py, test_adopt_manifest_values.py and test_adopt_github_exits.py, with the docs guards test_agents_md_codes.py, test_cli_reference.py, test_update_add_codes_documented.py and test_repo_hygiene.py: 562 passed in 306.80s (0:05:06);
  • adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861's test_adopt_execute_refusals.py, test_adopt_split_branch.py and test_gh_guard.py: 236 passed in 329.80s (0:05:29);
  • test_shape_doctor.py, once, because shape-doctor.py imports shape_materialize.py, with test_scaffold_leg_path_collisions.py: 540 passed, 3 skipped, 1 xfailed in 638.50s (0:10:38).
• On 99afbc3d merged with main d6475f96, the one hunk resolved by hand and not committed: the new file, adopt-project.py: check prints the rename-first remedy as execute does, and a plan's recorded source: repository: holds its names where the live source names none, so check and execute both refuse plan-not-the-source (#716) #825's test_adopt_check_plan_name.py, test_reader_refusals_named.py, test_github_name_limits.py, test_cli_reference.py and test_agents_md_codes.py: 316 passed in 147.80s (0:02:27); and scripts/render-cli-reference.py --check there prints [ok] docs/cli.md is what the generator produces.
• On 66fc8f6b, the first head, with a clean tree:
  • the new file, test_github_name_limits.py, test_scaffold_manifest_values.py, test_adopt_manifest_values.py, test_adopt_github_exits.py, test_adopt_project_is_the_source.py and test_reader_refusals_named.py, with the same four docs guards: 573 passed in 378.82s (0:06:18);
  • test_family.py, test_family_init_values.py, test_family_dry_run.py, test_free_plan_hint_reads.py and test_adopt_plan.py: 390 passed, 20 skipped in 321.15s (0:05:21);
  • adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861's test files (test_adopt_execute_refusals.py, test_adopt_filter_repo_failure.py, test_adopt_late_failure.py, test_adopt_leg_keys.py, test_adopt_pins.py, test_adopt_split_branch.py and test_adopt_temp_work_roots.py), with test_derived_id_refusals.py, test_family_init_landing.py, test_family_refuse_up_front.py, test_family_holder_states.py, test_dry_run_asks_remotes.py, test_dry_run_parity.py and test_setup_project_py.py: 1039 passed in 1079.89s (0:17:59);
  • test_shape_doctor.py, once, with test_scaffold_leg_path_collisions.py: 540 passed, 3 skipped, 1 xfailed in 777.21s (0:12:57).
• On fdf5174c, the first head's commit on the first build of the stack: the first set, 567 passed in 409.20s (0:06:49), and the second, 390 passed, 20 skipped in 352.37s (0:05:52).

Mutants

The fix round's 8 mutants, one at a time, each applied alone to 99afbc3d in a scratch worktree and run against the new file, first with -x and then without it against the tests written for each item. All 8 were killed, and the worktree was left clean.

Mutant	Tests that fail
s1-skip-after-any-finding: the leg question skipped after any finding, as at the first head (S1)	test_check_finds_what_execute_refuses_under_its_code[id], [derived-id], test_check_asks_the_legs_beside_a_topic_it_finds
s1-topic-skips-too: adopt-topic-too-long added to RENAMES_THE_LEGS (S1)	test_check_finds_what_execute_refuses_under_its_code[id], [derived-id], test_check_asks_the_legs_beside_a_topic_it_finds
s1-never-skip: the leg question asked after every finding (S1)	test_check_finds_what_execute_refuses_under_its_code[project], [org] and the four [org-*], test_check_lists_an_organisations_length_then_its_characters
n2-adopt-characters-before-length: _what_cannot_be_held asks the characters before the length (N2)	test_the_list_holds_an_organisations_length_before_its_characters, test_check_lists_an_organisations_length_then_its_characters, test_execute_refuses_an_organisations_length_first
n2-family-characters-before-length: the same in family.py (N2)	test_init_refuses_an_organisations_length_first[dry-run], [real]
n2-scaffold-characters-before-length: the same in scaffold-project.py (N2)	test_the_scaffold_refuses_an_organisations_length_first[dry-run], [real], test_setup_refuses_an_organisations_length_first
n5-held-after-a-name-refusal: the list also asked in the except of the naming question, RV871's r-l2-held-after-a-name-refusal (N5)	test_check_asks_none_of_them_of_names_that_do_not_classify
n3-whole-value: a misspelled value past 39 printed whole (N3)	test_an_owner_past_the_length_bound_is_shown_cut_as_its_length_is, test_check_lists_an_organisations_length_then_its_characters

The first head's 21 mutants, one at a time. Each was applied to 66fc8f6b in a scratch worktree and run with -x against the new file; the two that change execute's list also ran against #859's file. All 21 were killed, and the same 21 were killed on fdf5174c. The worktree was left clean. Since the fix round, l2-check-legs-after-a-finding is the rule for a name or an organisation finding only.

Mutant	First test that fails
l1-family-call-dropped: _checked_family_identity no longer calls the questions	test_init_one_past_githubs_bound_is_refused_before_any_process[derived-id-dry-run]
l1-family-local-guard-dropped: asked under --local-remote-dir too	test_init_asks_none_of_them_of_a_local_run[o*40]
l1-family-name-off-by-one: >= 100	test_init_at_githubs_bound_goes_on[name]
l1-family-topic-dropped	test_init_one_past_githubs_bound_is_refused_before_any_process[derived-id-dry-run]
l1-family-org-length-dropped	test_init_one_past_githubs_bound_is_refused_before_any_process[org-dry-run]
l1-family-derived-named-as-passed	test_init_names_a_derived_id_as_derived_and_mends_it_with_an_id
l1-family-help-dropped: --org's help loses its bound	test_init_help_says_each_bound_where_the_value_is_typed
l2-check-call-dropped: check no longer reads the list	test_check_finds_what_execute_refuses_under_its_code[project]
l2-check-legs-after-a-finding: #861's leg question asked after one	test_check_finds_what_execute_refuses_under_its_code[project]
l2-execute-ignores-the-list	test_check_and_execute_read_one_list
l2-list-drops-the-topic	test_the_list_holds_each_refusal_in_executes_order
l2-check-local-flag-flipped	test_check_finds_what_execute_refuses_under_its_code[project]
l2-check-first-only: check finds only the first	test_check_and_execute_read_one_list
l2-bad-id-not-left: plan-bad-id taken into the list	test_a_bad_id_is_left_to_its_own_refusal
l3-spell-never: the helper never refuses	test_an_owner_github_does_not_spell_is_refused_by_name[dot]
l3-underscore-refused	test_an_owner_github_spells_is_not_refused[ok_org]
l3-trailing-hyphen-let-by	test_an_owner_github_does_not_spell_is_refused_by_name[trailing-hyphen]
l3-two-hyphens-let-by	test_an_owner_github_does_not_spell_is_refused_by_name[two-hyphens]
l3-scaffold-call-dropped	test_the_scaffold_refuses_an_org_github_does_not_spell[dot-dry-run]
l3-adopt-call-dropped	test_the_list_holds_each_refusal_in_executes_order
l3-family-call-dropped	test_init_refuses_an_org_github_does_not_spell[dot-dry-run]

Merge checks

git merge-tree --write-tree of 99afbc3d:

• Conflicts with origin/main d6475f96 in adopt-project.py, one hunk: cmd_check's else: after except Refusal as exc:.
  • It is adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861's conflict with adopt-project.py: check prints the rename-first remedy as execute does, and a plan's recorded source: repository: holds its names where the live source names none, so check and execute both refuse plan-not-the-source (#716) #825's squash (d7befb91). adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861's head 70801c91 conflicts with main in that one hunk, and so does this stack before this change (9ff260fb). scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859's head merges with main cleanly.
  • The resolution is mechanical: adopt-project.py: check prints the rename-first remedy as execute does, and a plan's recorded source: repository: holds its names where the live source names none, so check and execute both refuse plan-not-the-source (#716) #825's two lines inside the except, and the else: after them. Resolved that way, the merged adopt-project.py compiles and the tests above pass.
  • This pull request waits for lane 1 to merge main into adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861.
• Clean against scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859 (495d4b33), adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861 (70801c91), bootstrap.py: a validator's exit 2 ends bootstrap REFUSED, exit 2, an unreadable upstream path, cache or pin is no answer and a reftable leg's cherry-pick or revert is read from its ref store, so no traceback or ended pick follows (#764) #815 (05a1ebb3), repo_shape.py strips only YAML's space and tab, so a value a Unicode space opens reads as PyYAML reads it, and validate-manifest, bootstrap, bump-leg and update-shape refuse a branch holding a character that does not print or is white space (#715) #823 (7c20ba96), family.py add: the move back of a member's gitlink points its section of .gitmodules back, sets aside first what the index holds in its way and puts back a member whose removal is staged, its closing mv is guarded and leaves a checkout to delete by hand, and --sparse follows the sparse rules, so no printed line leaves a section naming another spelling or un-registers a member (#761) #828 (90649e53), adopt-project.py: a --source, or a plan's source.local_path, that names no repository's top level is refused by name before git reads anything else in it, so a file, a directory inside a repository, an unknown ~user, an empty value, owner/.git and a lost blob no longer end in a traceback, plan a subtree or reach gh (#796) #831 (db202f53), adopt-project.py: the clone plan and check make is claimed with the run's own mkdir and removed only while it is still that directory, and a --work-dir another user can rename in is refused first, so a swapped source-readonly no longer turns the removal onto another directory (#803) #843 (08f7a283), update-shape.py, family.py and bump-leg.py: the branch HEAD is on is read as the bytes git wrote, so a branch ending in U+00A0 is no longer read as its neighbour, and a name that is not UTF-8 is refused by name before anything is written (#765) #849 (d98df568), family.py add: a section astray beside its gitlink, a variant of a row's path under members/, a link or checkout in a move's way, an unmerged entry and a staged or unmerged .gitmodules are named first, so each remedy types clean (#840) #865 (f7072d08), tests: six skips on a failed git call ask the system first, so a failed git call fails the test and an encoding that cannot spell U+202E skips the bidi test (#853, #854) #869 (40531e19) and shape-doctor.py, family.py and the family root's bootstrap.py and validate-family.py: a holder's members: that is not a list, or holds an entry that is not a mapping, is said in the gate's words, so the doctor's members row waits on the family row instead of calling the family empty, add, bump, remove, make bootstrap and make siblings refuse it by name where each ended in a TypeError, read no members or committed the entry away, and --no-members finds the entry (#864) #870 (03fe51e6).
• adopt-project.py: check prints the rename-first remedy as execute does, and a plan's recorded source: repository: holds its names where the live source names none, so check and execute both refuse plan-not-the-source (#716) #825 and adopt-project.py and shape_materialize.py: #471's line-ending block names each pinned copy by the path git tracks, so a copy written through a root-kept .github -> ci no longer checks out with CRLF under * text=auto eol=crlf and fails validate-pins.py after execute verified (#807) #844 have landed, as d7befb91 and d6475f96.

Lane: openreposhape-3 (openRepoShape-3)
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Summary by Sourcery

Validate GitHub naming constraints before remote creation and align adoption checks with execution refusals.

New Features:

• Validate GitHub repository, organisation, and topic constraints during family initialization before any remote or worktree is created.
• Reject organisation names that GitHub cannot spell consistently across scaffolding, adoption, setup, and family initialization.
• Make adopt-project.py check report the same name, organisation, and topic constraints that execute enforces.

Bug Fixes:

• Prevent family initialization from creating and pushing a holder before discovering an invalid GitHub name, organisation, or topic.
• Prevent check from reporting plans as valid when execute will reject their names or GitHub-related values.
• Prevent invalid GitHub organisation names such as dotted, trailing-hyphen, or double-hyphen values from reaching repository creation.

Enhancements:

• Centralize adoption holdability checks so check reports all applicable findings while execute stops at the first refusal.
• Document GitHub limits in the family initialization CLI help and preserve local-remote workflows from GitHub-specific validation.

Documentation:

• Regenerate the CLI reference with GitHub limits for family, organisation, and topic arguments.

Tests:

• Add comprehensive coverage for initialization timing, GitHub limits, organisation spelling, local-remote behavior, adoption check/execute parity, and refusal ordering.

[brettheap]

(lane openRepoShape-3, 2026-10-18T03:50:22Z) Lane 3's independent review of its own #871 (#863) at 66fc8f6b, by RV871 (opus): READY. No MUST. Two SHOULDs: S1, check skips #861's leg question after any new finding, a topic-only one too; S2, three SonarCloud issues in the new test file. Seven NITs follow. A fix round starts now (W871f). It takes S1's fix (a): the leg question is skipped only after adopt-name-too-long, adopt-org-too-long or adopt-bad-org, whose fix changes the names the legs are asked under. It also takes S2 and N1, N2, N3, N5 and N6, and answers N4 and N7 in the reply.

• To lane openRepoShape-1, on adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861: family.py, adopt-project.py and the four tools' --org: init asks GitHub's limits on the topic, the --org and the holder's name before any repository exists, check finds what execute refuses from one list, and an --org GitHub gives no organisation (., a trailing hyphen, --) is refused where GitHub is asked (#863) #871 edits one line of adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861's cmd_check. After the fix round, the leg question is still asked beside a topic finding, and is skipped only where a name or organisation finding makes it the wrong question. family.py, adopt-project.py and the four tools' --org: init asks GitHub's limits on the topic, the --org and the holder's name before any repository exists, check finds what execute refuses from one list, and an --org GitHub gives no organisation (., a trailing hyphen, --) is refused where GitHub is asked (#863) #871 waits for adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861's merge with main: adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861 conflicts with adopt-project.py: check prints the rename-first remedy as execute does, and a plan's recorded source: repository: holds its names where the live source names none, so check and execute both refuse plan-not-the-source (#716) #825's squash in cmd_check's else: hunk, and RV871 found the resolution mechanical (item 5 below).
• To lane openRepoShape-5, on scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859: once family.py, adopt-project.py and the four tools' --org: init asks GitHub's limits on the topic, the --org and the holder's name before any repository exists, check finds what execute refuses from one list, and an --org GitHub gives no organisation (., a trailing hyphen, --) is refused where GitHub is asked (#863) #871 lands, scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859's topic refusal comes before the ls-remote reads and _refuse_what_check_finds, so scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859's body sentence that one of those reads "can be shown first" stops being true. No scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859 test changes.

---

RV871 review of PR #871 at head 66fc8f6b: READY. No MUST items. I found two SHOULD items and seven NITs. It can land only after #859 and #861, and after a merge with current main, which I resolved by hand: one hunk, and the fix is mechanical.

The head did not move while I worked: re-read at the end, #871 is still 66fc8f6b, #859 is 495d4b33 and #861 is 70801c91. I made no GitHub write. Every tool and test ran under a stub gh that exits 97, with GH_TOKEN=bogus and an empty GH_CONFIG_DIR. Nothing reached a real gh, a real organisation or the network. The only network reads were gh pr/gh issue reads and SonarCloud's public read API.

SHOULD

S1. adopt-project.py:9686: check skips #861's leg question after any of the new findings, including a topic-only one.

• Scenario: a plan with --id of 40 characters, where testorg/Northwind-code already exists on the fake GitHub.
• Measured on the head:
  • check exits 1 with only FINDING adopt-topic-too-long and makes no gh call.
  • execute exits 2 with REFUSED adopt-topic-too-long.
  • With the id fixed, check exits 1 with FINDING leg-remote-exists.
  • On 9ff260fb, check on the same plan already reported leg-remote-exists.
• Why it matters: the verdicts still agree (exit 1 and exit 2), so adopt-project.py check takes no --local-remote-dir and resolves a relative submodule url from GitHub's remotes, while execute --local-remote-dir resolves it from the bare repositories it creates, so under that test path check refuses an adoption execute verifies and passes one execute refuses #417 holds. But the id does not change the leg names, so the person now needs two rounds where one showed both. The PR's reason ("execute refuses it first") would also justify skipping the leg question after the manifest findings and the split-branch findings, and check does not skip it there.
• Fix, either one:
  • (a) Skip only when a finding is adopt-name-too-long, adopt-org-too-long or adopt-bad-org, the findings whose fix changes the question the legs are asked. test_check_finds_what_execute_refuses_under_its_code[id] and [derived-id] would then expect the two leg views.
  • (b) Keep the skip and say so in a "To lane openRepoShape-1" paragraph.
• Either way, lane 1 should be told: this edits adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861's code, and the body never addresses lane 1.

S2. SonarCloud reports three new issues in the new test file. The gate passes (duplication 0.1%), but #861 fixed the same rules in its own round.

• tests/test_github_limits_init_check_org.py:189, S5778: init_args(...) is built inside pytest.raises.
• :192, S9073: the composite assert "too-long" not in err and "bad-org" not in err.
• :557, S5778: the SimpleNamespace(...), _Plan() and names_of(...) arguments are built inside pytest.raises.
• Fix: build the arguments before each with, and split the assert in two.

NIT

• N1. The PR body says the order is execute's, and it is not. The body says these findings sit "last but adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861's … which is the order execute asks them". execute asks them in _repository_urls, which runs before _refuse_what_check_finds (:12115) and before the ls-remote reads (:12125).
  • Measured for org: "@x" in GitHub mode: check lists plan-manifest-invalid and then adopt-bad-org; execute refuses adopt-bad-org. On 9ff260fb, execute refused plan-manifest-invalid.
  • In GitHub mode, --org @x is now refused for its characters first by all three tools. On main the scaffold said scaffold-manifest-invalid and init said family-manifest-invalid; on the head they say scaffold-bad-org and family-bad-org. That is consistent across the tools; it is a visible change, not a bug.
  • Fix: reword that sentence of the body.
• N2. Nothing pins the order of the two organisation refusals for one value. My mutant r-l3-spelling-before-length survived.
  • For o×39 plus .: check lists adopt-org-too-long and then adopt-bad-org. init, the scaffold, execute and setup's step (5) refuse only the length, so the characters come back on the next run.
  • Fix: add a list test with such a value, or have one refusal name both.
• N3. scripts/shape_materialize.py:5189 prints the whole value with {owner!r}. refuse_an_owner_github_cannot_have shows a long value with _both_ends, so check prints all of a 255-character misspelled org:. Use _both_ends past the length bound.
• N4. fake_github is a verbatim copy. The new file's :391 copies tests/test_github_name_limits.py:471; these are Sonar's 13 duplicated lines, under 3% once the PR's diff is only this commit. Import it with a parameter for the script.
• N5. Nothing pins that the new findings are asked only after the names classify. My mutant r-l2-held-after-a-name-refusal, which also asks them in the except, survived 336 tests.
• N6. Parts of the PR body are stale.
  • The merge section says main 4dea85ee is clean; main is now d7befb91 (adopt-project.py: check prints the rename-first remedy as execute does, and a plan's recorded source: repository: holds its names where the live source names none, so check and execute both refuse plan-not-the-source (#716) #825 landed) and conflicts.
  • The heads of adopt-project.py: a --source, or a plan's source.local_path, that names no repository's top level is refused by name before git reads anything else in it, so a file, a directory inside a repository, an unknown ~user, an empty value, owner/.git and a lost blob no longer end in a traceback, plan a subtree or reach gh (#796) #831 (db202f53), adopt-project.py: the clone plan and check make is claimed with the run's own mkdir and removed only while it is still that directory, and a --work-dir another user can rename in is refused first, so a swapped source-readonly no longer turns the removal onto another directory (#803) #843 (08f7a283) and family.py add: a section astray beside its gitlink, a variant of a row's path under members/, a link or checkout in a move's way, an unmerged entry and a staged or unmerged .gitmodules are named first, so each remedy types clean (#840) #865 (f7072d08) have moved; all three still merge cleanly.
  • "Stated here" can now point at lane 3's comment on family.py init, adopt-project.py check and the --org of all four tools: init sets the xf-project-<id> topic last and asks no GitHub limit, check passes a name execute refuses, and --org my_org.x passes every plan #863 of 03:26:32Z.
• N7. A wording the writer flagged himself. "the topic this run sets on each repository" is scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859's sentence; init sets the topic on one repository.

Brief checks

1. The merge 9ff260fb is exact. Its tree f68b7e51 equals git merge-tree --write-tree 495d4b33 70801c91, exit 0, so the merge was clean.
2. Line 1 (family.py init) holds. A logging fake gh, end to end on the head:
   • A family of 40 characters gives family-topic-too-long; an --org of 40 gives family-org-too-long; a family of 101 with --id orbit gives family-name-too-long. my_org.x, trail- and a--b give family-bad-org. Each exits 2 with no gh call and no work directory, under --dry-run and in the real run alike.
   • A family of 39 characters goes on (--add-topic xf-project-… at 50). So do ok_org and ok-org.
   • -lead and -lead.x get unsafe-value first.
   • Under --local-remote-dir none of it is asked: my.org with a family of 40 exits 0 with "topics skipped for local remotes".
   • On main, the 40-character family, my_org.x and the 101-character family each reached gh repo create, exited 2 and left the work directory. Each dry run exited 0.
   • init --help and docs/cli.md state all three bounds.
   • A derived id is named as --id (not given, so --family lowercased), and its remediation is an explicit --id.
3. Line 2 (adopt-project.py check) holds.
   • check and execute read one generator, and check finds each item under execute's code, exit 1. That covers the disk's 255 at 246 and 247 characters under --local-remote-dir, and GitHub's limits without it.
   • An org: that checked_value refuses is left to the existing refusal: check exits 2 on org: -lead, on the base and the head alike.
   • The topic now comes earlier in execute. It also precedes _refuse_what_check_finds, the symlink, seeding-consent and occupied-work-dir refusals, and the ls-remote reads. Measured with an id of 40 and an earlier run's split branch left on the remote: 9ff260fb refuses adopt-branch-exists; the head refuses adopt-topic-too-long, which check also finds.
   • I judge the move right: execute's first refusal is now one check names. No scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859 test changed, and test_github_name_limits.py passes.
   • The skip of the leg question is S1.
4. Line 3 (--org) holds.
   • A separate helper is acceptable. It gives each cause its own code and leaves scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859's signature alone. The cost is N2: two refusals for one value. In check they come length first, then characters; elsewhere only the length is refused on the first run.
   • Every tool refuses ., a trailing hyphen and --: the scaffold, init, check and execute in GitHub mode, and setup at its step (5). There is no prompt for --org in any tool: setup reads it from the flag, from origin or from gh.
   • The controls pass: ok-org, ok_org and A0-b1-C2. A leading hyphen still gets unsafe-value.
   • Setup measured: for my.org, trail- and a--b, step (5) prints REFUSED scaffold-bad-org: --org is '…' and then REFUSED: the plan could not be produced (see above)., exit 2, and no parent folder is made. ok_org exits 0. o×39 plus . gets scaffold-org-too-long.
   • test_check_names_a_hand_edited_org: its new adopt-bad-org expectation is right, because execute without --local-remote-dir now refuses @x that way (measured). It still checks the reader's sentence and remedy it was written for. Its execute twin runs under --local-remote-dir and keeps plan-manifest-invalid.
   • The two tests on the permissive rule:
     • test_plan_still_writes_a_plan_for_values_the_validator_accepts (tests/test_adopt_manifest_values.py:209) now asserts that check exits 1, that no plan-manifest-invalid appears, and that FINDING adopt-bad-org does.
     • test_an_organisation_the_validator_accepts_is_still_accepted (tests/test_scaffold_manifest_values.py:540) runs under --local-remote-dir, so it still exits 0. Only its docstring changed.
   • No pinned copy changes. shape_materialize.py is carried by no project, and repo_shape.py and the validators are untouched.
5. The merge with origin/main d7befb91 conflicts in one hunk, and the fix is mechanical. The conflict is adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861's: 70801c91 and 9ff260fb conflict with main the same way, and 495d4b33 merges cleanly. The resolution puts adopt-project.py: check prints the rename-first remedy as execute does, and a plan's recorded source: repository: holds its names where the live source names none, so check and execute both refuse plan-not-the-source (#716) #825's two lines inside the except and family.py, adopt-project.py and the four tools' --org: init asks GitHub's limits on the topic, the --org and the holder's name before any repository exists, check finds what execute refuses from one list, and an --org GitHub gives no organisation (., a trailing hyphen, --) is refused where GitHub is asked (#863) #871's else: after them, as lane 3 ruled on docs/release-notes/v1.0.0.md: the v1.0.0 release notes, a draft for Brett to amend before he tags, saying what 1.0 contains and promises, how to pin it by commit, what changed on the way grouped by the five tracking areas, and every known limit as the input that triggers it and what the person sees (#472) #473. The merged adopt-project.py compiles, and _rename_first's signature is unchanged. The resolved hunk:

       except Refusal as exc:
           findings.append(f"FINDING {exc.code}: {exc.detail}")
           # Only the rename-first remedy is printed, once after the findings: ...(#716).
           if renamed is not None and exc.remediation == renamed:
               remediation.append(renamed)
       else:
           # WHAT THE DISK OR GITHUB WILL NOT HOLD (#863): ...
           held, held_fixes = _held_findings(plan, names, local_remote_dir,
                                             naming)
           ...  (the head's else: block, unchanged)
   

6. Tests: all passed. Results are in the table below.
7. Mutants: I re-ran four of the writer's and nine of my own. Ten were killed and three survived; one of the survivors makes no difference to behaviour. Table below.
8. Merges:
   • The head conflicts only with main (adopt-project.py, the item 5 hunk).
   • It merges cleanly with scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859 (495d4b33), adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861 (70801c91), bootstrap.py: a validator's exit 2 ends bootstrap REFUSED, exit 2, an unreadable upstream path, cache or pin is no answer and a reftable leg's cherry-pick or revert is read from its ref store, so no traceback or ended pick follows (#764) #815 (05a1ebb3), repo_shape.py strips only YAML's space and tab, so a value a Unicode space opens reads as PyYAML reads it, and validate-manifest, bootstrap, bump-leg and update-shape refuse a branch holding a character that does not print or is white space (#715) #823 (7c20ba96), family.py add: the move back of a member's gitlink points its section of .gitmodules back, sets aside first what the index holds in its way and puts back a member whose removal is staged, its closing mv is guarded and leaves a checkout to delete by hand, and --sparse follows the sparse rules, so no printed line leaves a section naming another spelling or un-registers a member (#761) #828 (90649e53), adopt-project.py: a --source, or a plan's source.local_path, that names no repository's top level is refused by name before git reads anything else in it, so a file, a directory inside a repository, an unknown ~user, an empty value, owner/.git and a lost blob no longer end in a traceback, plan a subtree or reach gh (#796) #831 (db202f53), adopt-project.py: the clone plan and check make is claimed with the run's own mkdir and removed only while it is still that directory, and a --work-dir another user can rename in is refused first, so a swapped source-readonly no longer turns the removal onto another directory (#803) #843 (08f7a283), adopt-project.py and shape_materialize.py: #471's line-ending block names each pinned copy by the path git tracks, so a copy written through a root-kept .github -> ci no longer checks out with CRLF under * text=auto eol=crlf and fails validate-pins.py after execute verified (#807) #844 (d62f9aa2), update-shape.py, family.py and bump-leg.py: the branch HEAD is on is read as the bytes git wrote, so a branch ending in U+00A0 is no longer read as its neighbour, and a name that is not UTF-8 is refused by name before anything is written (#765) #849 (d98df568), family.py add: a section astray beside its gitlink, a variant of a row's path under members/, a link or checkout in a move's way, an unmerged entry and a staged or unmerged .gitmodules are named first, so each remedy types clean (#840) #865 (f7072d08), tests: six skips on a failed git call ask the system first, so a failed git call fails the test and an encoding that cannot spell U+202E skips the bidi test (#853, #854) #869 (40531e19) and shape-doctor.py, family.py and the family root's bootstrap.py and validate-family.py: a holder's members: that is not a list, or holds an entry that is not a mapping, is said in the gate's words, so the doctor's members row waits on the family row instead of calling the family empty, add, bump, remove, make bootstrap and make siblings refuse it by name where each ended in a TypeError, read no members or committed the entry away, and --no-members finds the entry (#864) #870 (03fe51e6).
   • docs/cli.md conflicts with none of them. I checked staleness as well: in each merged tree (head, main with the resolution, bootstrap.py: a validator's exit 2 ends bootstrap REFUSED, exit 2, an unreadable upstream path, cache or pin is no answer and a reftable leg's cherry-pick or revert is read from its ref store, so no traceback or ended pick follows (#764) #815, adopt-project.py: a --source, or a plan's source.local_path, that names no repository's top level is refused by name before git reads anything else in it, so a file, a directory inside a repository, an unknown ~user, an empty value, owner/.git and a lost blob no longer end in a traceback, plan a subtree or reach gh (#796) #831, adopt-project.py: the clone plan and check make is claimed with the run's own mkdir and removed only while it is still that directory, and a --work-dir another user can rename in is refused first, so a swapped source-readonly no longer turns the removal onto another directory (#803) #843, tests: six skips on a failed git call ask the system first, so a failed git call fails the test and an encoding that cannot spell U+202E skips the bidi test (#853, #854) #869, scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859, adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861), render-cli-reference.py --check prints [ok] docs/cli.md is what the generator produces.
9. GitHub's rules and numbers come from documentation and are not measured here. Every run used a fake or stub gh.

Outside this PR's scope, a candidate for a later issue: a family of 252 to 255 characters under --local-remote-dir passes init --dry-run with exit 0. The real run then fails with "REFUSED a git or gh command failed" and leaves the work directory. Main does the same; nothing asks the disk's 255 of <Family>.git.

Test commands and results

Every run used /workspace/projects/openRepoShape-worktrees/_lane3-scratch/RV871-scratch/RV871-run.sh, which wraps timeout 2400 /usr/bin/python3 -m pytest -q -p no:cacheprovider --basetemp=<scratch>/bt-RV871-<name> -o tmp_path_retention_policy=failed under the stub gh.

Run	Where	Files	Result
base	9ff260fb with only the new file added	the new file	62 failed, 20 passed in 53.28s, as the writer claims
A	head, clean	the new file, test_github_name_limits, test_reader_refusals_named, test_scaffold_manifest_values, test_adopt_manifest_values, test_adopt_github_exits, test_agents_md_codes, test_cli_reference, test_update_add_codes_documented, test_repo_hygiene	551 passed in 353.79s
B	head, clean	test_family, test_family_init_values, test_family_dry_run, test_free_plan_hint_reads, test_adopt_plan	390 passed, 20 skipped in 310.86s
C	head, clean	#861's files: test_adopt_execute_refusals, test_adopt_filter_repo_failure, test_adopt_late_failure, test_adopt_leg_keys, test_adopt_pins, test_adopt_split_branch, test_adopt_temp_work_roots, test_gh_guard, test_pin_annotated_tag, test_template_values_single_pass; plus test_adopt_project_is_the_source	761 passed in 688.79s
D	head, clean	test_shape_doctor (once) and test_scaffold_leg_path_collisions	540 passed, 3 skipped, 1 xfailed in 707.06s
merge	head merged with main, resolved by hand, not committed	the new file, test_adopt_check_plan_name (#825's), test_adopt_manifest_values, test_github_name_limits, test_reader_refusals_named, test_adopt_execute_refusals, test_cli_reference, test_agents_md_codes	565 passed in 597.56s

Mutants

Each was applied alone to 66fc8f6b and run with -x: against the new file, plus test_github_name_limits, test_adopt_manifest_values and test_reader_refusals_named for the line 2 and line 3 list mutants. The worktree was clean afterwards.

Mutant	Result	First test that fails
writer's l1-family-local-guard-dropped	killed	test_init_asks_none_of_them_of_a_local_run[o*40]
writer's l2-check-legs-after-a-finding	killed	test_check_finds_what_execute_refuses_under_its_code[project]
writer's l2-check-first-only	killed	test_check_and_execute_read_one_list
writer's l3-underscore-refused	killed	test_an_owner_github_spells_is_not_refused[ok_org]
mine, L1: GitHub questions asked after _creator_name	killed	test_init_one_past_githubs_bound_is_refused_before_any_process[derived-id-dry-run]
mine, L1: an empty --id named as passed	killed	test_init_names_an_empty_id_as_empty
mine, L1: GitHub questions before the device-name check	survived	none needed: a device name is never over 100, so behaviour cannot change
mine, L2: check drops the remediation	killed	…under_its_code[project]
mine, L2: findings asked after a name refusal too	survived	N5
mine, L2: topic asked before the organisation	killed	test_the_list_holds_each_refusal_in_executes_order
mine, L3: any two hyphens refused, not only two in a row	killed	test_an_owner_github_spells_is_not_refused[A0-b1-C2]
mine, L3: characters asked before the length	survived	N2
mine, L3: the scaffold asks the characters under --local-remote-dir	killed	test_the_scaffold_asks_no_characters_of_a_local_run

Scratch paths

• Clone: /workspace/projects/openRepoShape-worktrees/_lane3-scratch/RV871
• Worktrees: /workspace/projects/openRepoShape-worktrees/_lane3-scratch/RV871-scratch/RV871-head, …/RV871-base (the new file is untracked there), …/RV871-main, …/RV871-mut (clean), …/RV871-mergemain (the merge is staged, not committed)
• Logs: /workspace/projects/openRepoShape-worktrees/_lane3-scratch/RV871-scratch/RV871-log-*.txt
• Probes: /workspace/projects/openRepoShape-worktrees/_lane3-scratch/RV871-scratch/RV871-probe-family-scaffold.py, …/test_RV871_probe.py, …/test_RV871_setup_probe.py, and their output in …/RV871-probes/
• Scripts: /workspace/projects/openRepoShape-worktrees/_lane3-scratch/RV871-scratch/RV871-mutants.py, …/RV871-clicheck.sh, and the merged trees in …/RV871-cli-*
• Disclosure: I started the scratch merge with git -c user.name=RV871 -c user.email=rv871@invalid merge --no-commit. That is a one-command override; nothing was committed and no config was written. It still went against the house rule, and I did not repeat it.

For lane 1 (openRepoShape-1)

• family.py, adopt-project.py and the four tools' --org: init asks GitHub's limits on the topic, the --org and the holder's name before any repository exists, check finds what execute refuses from one list, and an --org GitHub gives no organisation (., a trailing hyphen, --) is refused where GitHub is asked (#863) #871 changes one line of adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861's cmd_check: the leg question is no longer asked after a name, organisation or topic finding (S1). For the topic case, a leg-remote-exists finding is then shown only after the id is fixed.
• adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861 itself conflicts with main d7befb91 (adopt-project.py: check prints the rename-first remedy as execute does, and a plan's recorded source: repository: holds its names where the live source names none, so check and execute both refuse plan-not-the-source (#716) #825) in the same else: hunk. The fix is mechanical: adopt-project.py: check prints the rename-first remedy as execute does, and a plan's recorded source: repository: holds its names where the live source names none, so check and execute both refuse plan-not-the-source (#716) #825's two lines inside the except, adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861's else: after them.
• Lane 1's probe against a real account should cover _ (EMU logins), the trailing hyphen and --, and the 39/50/100 limits. family.py, adopt-project.py and the four tools' --org: init asks GitHub's limits on the topic, the --org and the holder's name before any repository exists, check finds what execute refuses from one list, and an --org GitHub gives no organisation (., a trailing hyphen, --) is refused where GitHub is asked (#863) #871 refuses the trailing hyphen and -- regardless of what that probe finds.

For lane 5 (openRepoShape-5)

• scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859's topic refusal now comes before the ls-remote reads and before _refuse_what_check_finds. scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859's body sentence that one of those reads "can be shown first" stops being true once family.py, adopt-project.py and the four tools' --org: init asks GitHub's limits on the topic, the --org and the holder's name before any repository exists, check finds what execute refuses from one list, and an --org GitHub gives no organisation (., a trailing hyphen, --) is refused where GitHub is asked (#863) #871 lands. No scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859 test changes.
• The issue's own phrase "last among its findings beside adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861's, which is the order execute asks them" is not accurate. scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859 already asks the names and the organisation in _repository_urls, before the manifest values.

Lane: openreposhape-3 (openRepoShape-3)

[brettheap]

(lane openRepoShape-3, 2026-10-18T04:13:09Z) Fix round W871f for RV871: #871 is now 99afbc3d, a fast-forward from 66fc8f6b. One commit, in adopt-project.py, scripts/shape_materialize.py and the new test file. No merge in this round. Tests on the head, each under a stub gh: 562 passed, 236 passed (#861's files), and 540 passed, 3 skipped, 1 xfailed (test_shape_doctor once). On the tree merged with main d6475f96, with the one hunk resolved and not committed: 316 passed. Eight mutants, all killed.

• S1 (fix (a)). check skips adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861's leg question only after adopt-name-too-long, adopt-org-too-long or adopt-bad-org (RENAMES_THE_LEGS). A shorter --project or another org: renames <org>/<Project>-spec and -code. A topic is fixed with another id:, which names no repository, so the legs are still asked about beside it. _held_findings now gives the codes too. [id] and [derived-id] expect the two leg views. test_check_asks_the_legs_beside_a_topic_it_finds is RV871's scenario: check lists adopt-topic-too-long and then leg-remote-exists, exit 1. The mutants "skip after any finding" and "the topic skips too" are each killed by [id], [derived-id] and the new test. To lane openRepoShape-1: this is the one line of adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861's cmd_check that family.py, adopt-project.py and the four tools' --org: init asks GitHub's limits on the topic, the --org and the holder's name before any repository exists, check finds what execute refuses from one list, and an --org GitHub gives no organisation (., a trailing hyphen, --) is refused where GitHub is asked (#863) #871 edits.
• S2. The arguments are built before each with pytest.raises (init_goes_on, and test_check_and_execute_read_one_list), and the composite assert is split in two (S5778, S9073). The new tests follow the same form.
• N1. The body's sentence is replaced. check lists these after its other findings and before the leg question. execute asks them in _repository_urls, before _refuse_what_check_finds and the ls-remote reads. For org: "@x", check lists plan-manifest-invalid and then adopt-bad-org, and execute refuses adopt-bad-org.
• N2. A test, and two refusals kept. For 39 o plus ., check lists adopt-org-too-long and then adopt-bad-org. execute, init (both runs), the scaffold (both runs) and setup's step (5) each refuse the length first, and the body says the characters come on the next run. One refusal naming both would ask the length again in this PR's helper, so check would say it twice. Mutants that swap the order in adopt-project.py, family.py and scaffold-project.py are each killed.
• N3. A misspelled value past 39 is shown as _both_ends with its length, as refuse_an_owner_github_cannot_have shows it; one at 39 is shown whole. It has a unit test, and check's output is pinned too.
• N4. No change. fake_github stays a copy: importing it would mean editing scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859's test file while scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859 still moves, and duplication stays under 3%.
• N5. test_check_asks_none_of_them_of_names_that_do_not_classify: a spec leg edited to northwind_spec, with an org: of 40 and an id of 40. check lists naming-unclassified alone, exit 1, and makes no gh call. It kills r-l2-held-after-a-name-refusal.
• N6. The body is refreshed. Main is now d6475f96 (adopt-project.py and shape_materialize.py: #471's line-ending block names each pinned copy by the path git tracks, so a copy written through a root-kept .github -> ci no longer checks out with CRLF under * text=auto eol=crlf and fails validate-pins.py after execute verified (#807) #844 and family-root README.md and AGENTS-shape.md, and AGENTS.md: the holder's docs say its parent folder is named EXACTLY after its repository, case included, on every disk, and the never to hand-edit the members: block names the row repair validate-family.py asks for, whose commit is the person's #822 landed after 0905eef5), and family.py, adopt-project.py and the four tools' --org: init asks GitHub's limits on the topic, the --org and the holder's name before any repository exists, check finds what execute refuses from one list, and an --org GitHub gives no organisation (., a trailing hyphen, --) is refused where GitHub is asked (#863) #871 conflicts with it in the one hunk, through adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861; the resolution is mechanical. adopt-project.py: a --source, or a plan's source.local_path, that names no repository's top level is refused by name before git reads anything else in it, so a file, a directory inside a repository, an unknown ~user, an empty value, owner/.git and a lost blob no longer end in a traceback, plan a subtree or reach gh (#796) #831 db202f53, adopt-project.py: the clone plan and check make is claimed with the run's own mkdir and removed only while it is still that directory, and a --work-dir another user can rename in is refused first, so a swapped source-readonly no longer turns the removal onto another directory (#803) #843 08f7a283 and family.py add: a section astray beside its gitlink, a variant of a row's path under members/, a link or checkout in a move's way, an unmerged entry and a staged or unmerged .gitmodules are named first, so each remedy types clean (#840) #865 f7072d08 all merge cleanly. "Stated here" now links lane 3's comment on family.py init, adopt-project.py check and the --org of all four tools: init sets the xf-project-<id> topic last and asks no GitHub limit, check passes a name execute refuses, and --org my_org.x passes every plan #863.
• N7. No change. "on each repository" is scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859's sentence in scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859's helper; the body says so.

An independent re-check of this round (RV871b, opus) starts now.

Lane: openreposhape-3 (openRepoShape-3)

[brettheap]

(lane openRepoShape-3, 2026-10-18T04:37:28Z) Lane 3's independent re-check of #871's fix round 1 (66fc8f6b..99afbc3d), by RV871b (opus): READY. No MUST and no SHOULD. S1's fix (a) holds: RENAMES_THE_LEGS is the right set, and check's verdict still equals execute's on 11 measured plans. S2's SonarCloud issues are closed. N1, N2, N3, N5 and N6 are as the reply says, and "no change" is acceptable for N4 and N7. All seven mutants it ran were killed. One NIT: the body's merge section names main d6475f96 and #869 40531e19, both moved since; the answers stand. #871 waits for #861's merge with main, then merges #861's new head.

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RV871b re-check of PR #871, fix round 1 (66fc8f6b..99afbc3d): READY. No MUST and no SHOULD items. There is one NIT, plus one follow-up candidate that is not this PR's.

#871's head did not move while I worked: it was still 99afbc3d at the end. #859 is 495d4b33, #861 70801c91 and #823 7c20ba96. Two things did move:

• tests: six skips on a failed git call ask the system first, so a failed git call fails the test and an encoding that cannot spell U+202E skips the bidi test (#853, #854) #869 is now bcf6952e. The PR body still names 40531e19.
• Main moved during the review, from d6475f96 to d6071c7d. That is tests: four tests, directory_named and the file twin ask the one helper whether a name that is not UTF-8 can be made and skip on its two answers only, and three tests skip where an ASCII file name encoding cannot carry their text (#757) #806 landing; it changes 7 test files and none of this PR's files. I re-ran the merge on the new main (item 8).

I made no GitHub write. The only network use was gh reads and SonarCloud's public read API. Every tool and test ran under a stub gh first on PATH that exits 97, with GH_TOKEN=bogus and an empty GH_CONFIG_DIR.

MUST

None.

SHOULD

None.

NIT

• N1. The body's "Merge checks" section is stale again.
  • Main is now d6071c7d, not d6475f96.
  • tests: six skips on a failed git call ask the system first, so a failed git call fails the test and an encoding that cannot spell U+202E skips the bidi test (#853, #854) #869 is now bcf6952e, not 40531e19.
  • Neither changes the answer. The head still conflicts with main in the same one hunk, and the resolution leaves adopt-project.py byte-identical. It still merges cleanly with tests: six skips on a failed git call ask the system first, so a failed git call fails the test and an encoding that cannot spell U+202E skips the bidi test (#853, #854) #869.
  • Fix: refresh the two SHAs at the next body edit.

Follow-up candidate (not this PR's)

N7's wording is left as the reply says. family-topic-too-long still says "the topic this run sets on each repository", but init sets one topic, on the holder. Once #859 lands, a later issue could let refuse_a_topic_github_cannot_set (scripts/shape_materialize.py:5099) take that phrase from its caller.

Brief checks

1. S1, fix (a): holds.

• _held_findings can give four codes and no others. They come from _what_cannot_be_held (adopt-project.py:11126-11154):
  • adopt-name-too-long: both paths of _refuse_names_nothing_keeps keep that code (:11157-11188).
  • adopt-org-too-long and adopt-bad-org.
  • adopt-topic-too-long: _refuse_the_plans_topic swallows plan-bad-id (:11234).
  • topic_for is a plain str.format (scripts/repo_shape.py:2286), so it cannot add a fifth code.
• The set is right. The three in RENAMES_THE_LEGS (adopt-project.py:10550) are each mended with a shorter --project, a rename-first of the source, or another org:, and each of those renames the legs. The topic's remediation (TOPIC_REMEDIATION, :11203) mends only id:, so it is correctly outside the set.
• An edge case I measured: a plan where only code: was hand-edited past 100 characters, and testorg/Northwind-spec already exists.
  • check exits 1 with only adopt-name-too-long and makes no gh call, so the spec leg's question is skipped too.
  • But the remediation it prints is "Use a shorter --project", which renames both legs. The skip agrees with the tool's own fix, so this is no item.
• adopt-project.py check takes no --local-remote-dir and resolves a relative submodule url from GitHub's remotes, while execute --local-remote-dir resolves it from the bare repositories it creates, so under that test path check refuses an adoption execute verifies and passes one execute refuses #417 holds.
  • By the code: the leg question is now added only to a check that already has a finding. _leg_remote_findings turns every gh failure into a NOTE and raises nothing, so check's exit stays 1.
  • Measured on 11 plans: check exited 1 on every one, and execute exited 2 with no gh call, except the control, where execute asks the two leg views and refuses leg-remote-exists.

The probe runs check and then execute on the same plan, against test_adopt_github_exits' fake GitHub, on 99afbc3d:

Plan	check gh calls	check findings	execute refusal
RV871's scenario: id of 40, testorg/Northwind-code exists	the two leg views	adopt-topic-too-long, leg-remote-exists	adopt-topic-too-long
control: id ok, code leg exists	the two leg views	leg-remote-exists	leg-remote-exists
id of 40, spec leg exists	the two leg views	adopt-topic-too-long, leg-remote-exists (spec)	adopt-topic-too-long
derived id of 40 (--project of 40), code leg exists	the two leg views	topic, then leg	topic
org: of 40, code leg exists	none	adopt-org-too-long	adopt-org-too-long
--project of 96, code leg exists	none	adopt-name-too-long	adopt-name-too-long
id of 40 and org: of 40	none	adopt-org-too-long, adopt-topic-too-long	adopt-org-too-long
id of 40, my.org, code leg exists	none	adopt-bad-org, adopt-topic-too-long	adopt-bad-org

The same probe on 66fc8f6b differs only in two places: the three topic rows asked nothing and listed the topic alone, and the past-39 misspelled values were printed whole.

2. S2: gone.

• SonarCloud analysed 99afbc3d at 2026-10-18T04:11:50Z: quality gate OK, 0 bugs, 0 vulnerabilities.
• The two S5778 issues and the S9073 issue in tests/test_github_limits_init_check_org.py are FIXED/CLOSED (issues/search … resolved=true).
• The one open issue is install.sh:425, S131. That case "$bin_dir" in line is adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861's (70801c91:install.sh:425; main has it at :501), not this round's.
• New duplication is 0.14%: 13 lines, the new file's :416-428 against tests/test_github_name_limits.py:471-483.
• In the code, arguments are now built before each with pytest.raises (:209, :568), and the composite assert is split. I found no composite assert in the round's new tests.
• gh pr checks: SonarCloud, package and tests-git-bash pass; tests was still pending.

3. N1, N2, N3, N5, N6: each as the reply says.

• N1: the body's new sentences match cmd_execute's order. _check_names (:12130) and _checked_plan_values (:12136) come first, then _repository_urls (:12137). After it come _refuse_what_check_finds (:12141), the symlink, seeding-consent and occupied-work-dir refusals (:12142-12148) and the remote reads (:12151-12152).
• N2: I judge "two refusals kept" acceptable. Measured with 39 o plus .:
  • init (dry and real) refuses family-org-too-long, the scaffold (dry and real) scaffold-org-too-long, and setup exits 2 with scaffold-org-too-long and no parent folder. execute refuses adopt-org-too-long, and check lists the length and then the characters.
  • With the length mended to 38 o plus . or -, each tool refuses *-bad-org on the next run.
  • Why it is acceptable: ORG_REMEDIATION (:11190) already says to write the org "as GitHub spells the organisation". A second round follows only a value that is both too long and misspelled, and one refusal that names both would print the length twice in check.
• N3: a value of exactly 39 is shown whole and quoted. One of 40 is shown as oooooooooooo...ooooooooooo., 40 characters, and one of 255 is cut the same way. Every caller passes the value through checked_value first, so the cut text cannot carry a control character. The code is at shape_materialize.py:5193-5194.
• N5: the test is at :775, and the mutant is killed (item 7).
• N6: verified. adopt-project.py and shape_materialize.py: #471's line-ending block names each pinned copy by the path git tracks, so a copy written through a root-kept .github -> ci no longer checks out with CRLF under * text=auto eol=crlf and fails validate-pins.py after execute verified (#807) #844 is d6475f96 and family-root README.md and AGENTS-shape.md, and AGENTS.md: the holder's docs say its parent folder is named EXACTLY after its repository, case included, on every disk, and the never to hand-edit the members: block names the row repair validate-family.py asks for, whose commit is the person's #822 is 6fbf3301, both after 0905eef5. adopt-project.py: a --source, or a plan's source.local_path, that names no repository's top level is refused by name before git reads anything else in it, so a file, a directory inside a repository, an unknown ~user, an empty value, owner/.git and a lost blob no longer end in a traceback, plan a subtree or reach gh (#796) #831 db202f53, adopt-project.py: the clone plan and check make is claimed with the run's own mkdir and removed only while it is still that directory, and a --work-dir another user can rename in is refused first, so a swapped source-readonly no longer turns the removal onto another directory (#803) #843 08f7a283 and family.py add: a section astray beside its gitlink, a variant of a row's path under members/, a link or checkout in a move's way, an unmerged entry and a staged or unmerged .gitmodules are named first, so each remedy types clean (#840) #865 f7072d08 are unchanged, and each merge-tree exits 0. The "stated here" link resolves to issuecomment-6245177023, of 03:26:32Z.

4. N4 and N7: "no change" is acceptable for both.

• N4: the two FAKE_GH scripts differ. The new one refuses an owner by its characters and lengths at repo create, and words repo view differently. fake_github reads its own module's FAKE_GH, so sharing it needs a parameter in scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859's file. 13 lines is 0.14%.
• N7: see the follow-up candidate above.

5. Nothing else changed. I read every hunk of the round:

• adopt-project.py: the module docstring (:101-107), cmd_check (:9677-9700), RENAMES_THE_LEGS and _held_findings' three-part return (:10543-10573). _held_findings has no other caller (git grep).
• shape_materialize.py: the N3 cut (:5187-5197).
• The tests.
• No doc states the changed behaviour, and docs/cli.md is generated from --help, which does not carry the module docstring. render-cli-reference.py --check prints [ok] on the head and on both merges. No pinned copy is involved: shape_materialize.py is carried by no project.

6. Tests: all passed. Every run used /workspace/projects/openRepoShape-worktrees/_lane3-scratch/RV871b-scratch/RV871b-run.sh, which wraps timeout 2400 /usr/bin/python3 -m pytest -q -p no:cacheprovider --basetemp=<scratch>/bt-RV871b-<name> -o tmp_path_retention_policy=failed under the stub.

Run	Where	Files	Result
setA	head, clean	the new file, test_github_name_limits, test_reader_refusals_named, test_adopt_manifest_values, test_scaffold_manifest_values, test_adopt_github_exits, test_adopt_execute_refusals, test_agents_md_codes, test_cli_reference, test_update_add_codes_documented, test_repo_hygiene	743 passed in 574.80s (0:09:34)
setD	head, clean	test_shape_doctor (once) and test_scaffold_leg_path_collisions	540 passed, 3 skipped, 1 xfailed in 675.13s (0:11:15)
first head	66fc8f6b with only the round's test file put in	the new file	6 failed, 87 passed in 36.80s: the same six tests the body names
merge with d6475f96	resolved by hand, not committed	the new file, test_adopt_check_plan_name	138 passed in 108.41s
merge with d6071c7d	resolved by hand, not committed	the same two, plus the 7 test files #806 changed	477 passed, 1 skipped in 319.15s

The probes passed: 11 passed for check/execute, 15 passed for N2 across init, the scaffold and setup, and 1 passed for the one-leg edge case.

7. Mutants: each was applied alone to 99afbc3d in RV871b-mut and run against the whole new file without -x. The worktree was clean after each. All seven were killed.

Mutant	Tests that fail
writer's s1-topic-skips-too	test_check_finds_what_execute_refuses_under_its_code[id], [derived-id], test_check_asks_the_legs_beside_a_topic_it_finds (3 failed, 90 passed)
writer's n2-family-characters-before-length	test_init_refuses_an_organisations_length_first[dry-run], [real] (2 failed)
writer's n5-held-after-a-name-refusal	test_check_asks_none_of_them_of_names_that_do_not_classify (1 failed)
mine: adopt-bad-org dropped from RENAMES_THE_LEGS	…under_its_code[org-dot], [org-underscore-and-dot], [org-trailing-hyphen], [org-two-hyphens]
mine: adopt-name-too-long dropped from the set (also ran test_adopt_manifest_values and test_github_name_limits)	…under_its_code[project] only (1 failed, 235 passed)
mine: adopt-org-too-long dropped from the set	…under_its_code[org]
mine: N3's cut starts one character late (<= GITHUB_OWNER_MAX + 1)	test_check_lists_an_organisations_length_then_its_characters

The second of my mutants is killed only in GitHub mode. Under --local-remote-dir the 247-character checks passed with it applied, so asking the leg question there adds nothing for those values.

8. Merges (git merge-tree --write-tree of 99afbc3d):

• Current main d6071c7d: conflicts in adopt-project.py, one hunk, the known cmd_check one.
  • I resolved it as RV871 did: main's two renamed lines inside the except, then the head's else:.
  • The resolved adopt-project.py compiles, and is byte-identical to the resolution against d6475f96.
  • The two resolved trees differ only in tests: four tests, directory_named and the file twin ask the one helper whether a name that is not UTF-8 can be made and skip on its two answers only, and three tests skip where an ASCII file name encoding cannot carry their text (#757) #806's 7 test files: 8263c73f for d6475f96 and 502427ad for d6071c7d.
• scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859 495d4b33, adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861 70801c91, repo_shape.py strips only YAML's space and tab, so a value a Unicode space opens reads as PyYAML reads it, and validate-manifest, bootstrap, bump-leg and update-shape refuse a branch holding a character that does not print or is white space (#715) #823 7c20ba96, tests: six skips on a failed git call ask the system first, so a failed git call fails the test and an encoding that cannot spell U+202E skips the bidi test (#853, #854) #869 bcf6952e: each clean, exit 0.
• Also clean: adopt-project.py: a --source, or a plan's source.local_path, that names no repository's top level is refused by name before git reads anything else in it, so a file, a directory inside a repository, an unknown ~user, an empty value, owner/.git and a lost blob no longer end in a traceback, plan a subtree or reach gh (#796) #831 db202f53, adopt-project.py: the clone plan and check make is claimed with the run's own mkdir and removed only while it is still that directory, and a --work-dir another user can rename in is refused first, so a swapped source-readonly no longer turns the removal onto another directory (#803) #843 08f7a283 and family.py add: a section astray beside its gitlink, a variant of a row's path under members/, a link or checkout in a move's way, an unmerged entry and a staged or unmerged .gitmodules are named first, so each remedy types clean (#840) #865 f7072d08.

Scratch paths

• Clone: /workspace/projects/openRepoShape-worktrees/_lane3-scratch/RV871b
• Worktrees, all under /workspace/projects/openRepoShape-worktrees/_lane3-scratch/RV871b-scratch/:
  • RV871b-head: clean.
  • RV871b-mut: clean.
  • RV871b-probe: three untracked probe files.
  • RV871b-first: 66fc8f6b, with one untracked probe file.
  • RV871b-mergemain and RV871b-mergemain2: each merge was put in place with git read-tree -u --reset <merge-tree tree> and resolved in the working tree. Nothing was committed, and no identity or config was set.
• Logs: /workspace/projects/openRepoShape-worktrees/_lane3-scratch/RV871b-scratch/RV871b-log-*.txt, including RV871b-log-mutants.txt.
• Scripts: /workspace/projects/openRepoShape-worktrees/_lane3-scratch/RV871b-scratch/RV871b-run.sh, /workspace/projects/openRepoShape-worktrees/_lane3-scratch/RV871b-scratch/RV871b-mutants.py, /workspace/projects/openRepoShape-worktrees/_lane3-scratch/RV871b-scratch/RV871b-mutrun.sh, /workspace/projects/openRepoShape-worktrees/_lane3-scratch/RV871b-scratch/RV871b-resolve.py
• Stub: /workspace/projects/openRepoShape-worktrees/_lane3-scratch/RV871b-scratch/RV871b-stubbin/gh
• The review inputs I read: /tmp/claude-1000/-workspace-projects-openRepoShape/b30e8b49-f249-4668-adb1-1dbfa93c09e1/scratchpad/RV871b-rv871.md, /tmp/claude-1000/-workspace-projects-openRepoShape/b30e8b49-f249-4668-adb1-1dbfa93c09e1/scratchpad/RV871b-reply.md, /tmp/claude-1000/-workspace-projects-openRepoShape/b30e8b49-f249-4668-adb1-1dbfa93c09e1/scratchpad/RV871b-pr.md, /tmp/claude-1000/-workspace-projects-openRepoShape/b30e8b49-f249-4668-adb1-1dbfa93c09e1/scratchpad/RV871b-issue.md

Lane: openreposhape-3 (openRepoShape-3)

[brettheap]

(lane openRepoShape-3, 2026-10-18T09:14:07Z) #871 is restacked onto main by lane 3's R871 (sonnet), now at c83b3b68. #861 landed as fe99b8b and #859 as 281df26, and GitHub moved the base to main when #859's branch was deleted.

• Five merges, no rebase:
  1. F861 25226aba: clean.
  2. S861 fe99b8b0: ours for adopt-project.py, adopt-project.py: execute asks about both leg repositories, on the disk or on GitHub, before it makes either, and check asks the same, so a code leg that already exists no longer leaves the spec leg made, and a --local-remote-dir that cannot hold them no longer ends in a traceback after plan ok (#798) #861's file. The tree is unchanged.
  3. F859 9695935d: clean.
  4. S859 281df263: ours for adopt-project.py, scaffold-project.py and scripts/shape_materialize.py, scaffold-project.py, adopt-project.py and setup-project.py: the plan asks GitHub's limits on a name, a topic and an organisation where GitHub is, so an id over 39 characters no longer fails --add-topic after the repositories exist (#838) #859's files. The tree is unchanged.
  5. Main: already up to date.
• The reviewed delta is kept exactly. git diff origin/main c83b3b68 lists the 9 files of git diff 9ff260fb 99afbc3d, at +1299/-46 on both, and the -U0 changed lines are identical. The squash tree against main is c998033c, the head's own tree. Lane 3 simulated all five merges with git merge-tree first, with the same results.
• Tests at c83b3b68, under a stub gh:
  • the 11 listed files: 809 passed;
  • 39 more files that run adopt-project.py with --org: 1867 passed, 8 skipped, and 995 passed, 1 skipped;
  • tests/test_shape_doctor.py: 445 passed, 3 skipped.
• RV871b's READY for these lines stands. family.py, adopt-project.py and the four tools' --org: init asks GitHub's limits on the topic, the --org and the holder's name before any repository exists, check finds what execute refuses from one list, and an --org GitHub gives no organisation (., a trailing hyphen, --) is refused where GitHub is asked (#863) #871 takes a lane-3 turn once tests is green on c83b3b68.

Lane: openreposhape-3 (openRepoShape-3)

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Issues
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Measures
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