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Michael HönnigandClaude Opus 5 d0169e57bc Renaming gitTally to Werkator because there is another git-related tool named gittally (#1) 
* renaming from gitTally to Werkator

* Rename GitTally to Werkator

`gitTally` is the name of another product in the git space, so the
rename is a precaution; nothing about what the build system does changes.

The name follows one rule: `Werkator` where it is prose, capitalized
where it is a Kotlin type and its file, lowercase everywhere a machine
reads it — the command, packages, paths, configuration keys and values,
the Gitea check context. Environment variables keep their convention and
are uppercase throughout.

Every configuration file is still found under its pre-rename name
(`ConfigFiles`): `.gittally.yml` at the repository root, in a build
worktree and as committed on a branch, `.git/gittally/.gittally.yml` for
the machine layer. The current name wins where both exist, and the old
file is then ignored rather than merged — two files side by side are a
half-done rename, not a layering. Without the fallback an installation
that updated without renaming would not fail: a configuration that is
not found leaves every setting at its default, so it would come up
looking healthy while having forgotten its credentials and its builds.

`docs/werkator-migrationsplan.md` lists what the fallback does not
cover and has to be moved by hand — above all the state directory
`.git/werkator/`, which holds the build history, the control token and
the worktrees, and has no fallback of its own.

`docs/migration-from-legacy.md` is deleted with this: it mapped the
legacy script's environment variables, and every host it addressed has
long since moved to the YAML configuration.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Move the pre-rename state directory at the first start

The configuration is found under either name, the state is not: build
history, control token, auto-build slots and worktrees live at one fixed
path. An installation that updates without moving `.git/gittally` would
not fail — it would come up with an empty history and a fresh control
token, quietly. So the first start moves it instead of the release notes
asking for it.

Only when the old directory exists and the new one does not. Where both
exist nothing is touched and a warning names the leftover: which of the
two is the live state is not something to guess. A failed move is an
error in the log, never an abort — a CI must not hang on it.

The worktrees are dropped rather than moved, since they point at their
old path in both directions; `GitWorktreeWorkspaces` prunes the stale
admin entry and recreates each on its branch's next build. A generated
systemd unit moves with the directory and leaves its symlink dangling,
which is warned about — the running service is unaffected, the next
start is not.

Runs from `CliRunner`, before any command resolves a path under the
directory, and so before the second context of `server` exists.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Document PR#1: the rename to Werkator

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Drop the legacy env-to-YAML conversion from the setup tool

The old bash script configured itself through `GITTALLY_*` environment
variables. The blanket rename rewrote those literals, so the converter
was looking for `WERKATOR_*` — a spelling no host has ever written. Fed
a real legacy file it would have found nothing and written an almost
empty configuration, without an error, which is the same silent failure
this rename is otherwise careful to avoid.

The conversion has served its purpose with the vm2176 to vm4006
migration, so it goes instead of being repaired. What remains is the
setup of a new instance: the preconditions, the credential prompt, and
the machine configuration written mode 600 — now carrying the host's
public URL as well, since that is host-specific too. Everything the
repository builds comes from `init` and its templates.

It also stops emitting a legacy `branches:` section, which step 18 is
about to reject outright.

`docs/plan/00-legacy-analysis.md` and `13-nginx-tls.md` get the real
`GITTALLY_*` spelling back: they record what the old script read.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Describe this repository's build with a build definition

Its own `.werkator.yml` still used the deprecated `branches` section
with an `autoBuild` schedule that was switched off. That section is read
only while nothing defines a build at all, and step 18 rejects it by
name — so this repository would have blocked the precondition of that
step, which asks that no configuration still in play carries it.

Nothing about the build changes: `builds.default` with `trigger.onPush`
is a build of every new commit on every branch, which is what the branch
section said. `config:print --full` resolves the definition completely
and logs no deprecation warning any more.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Stop documenting the pre-rename fallback for users

Exactly one repository is configured with the old names, and it is
migrated by hand in the same move as this release. The fallback is
therefore a transition of days, not a feature anyone reading the release
notes or the configuration reference has to plan around.

Removed from `releases.html` and `docs/configuration.md`. The mechanism
itself is unchanged and stays described where it is worked on: in
`ConfigFiles`, in `StateDirMigration`, and in the migration plan.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Bring the PR-doc to its final state

The `statusContext` question is answered and marked as decided rather
than left standing: it is the one value a human reads as a label, and it
stays lowercase because Gitea matches it and the client reads it back,
which makes it a value.

Also records that the pre-rename fallback is deliberately absent from
the release notes and the configuration reference.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Release v1.0.0: Werkator

The release after 0.9.21 is 1.0.0, because a product that changes its
name is better off counting from one under it. The release note says as
much, so the jump is not read as a claim about maturity — plan steps 14,
17 and 18 are still open.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Correct the PR-doc about the version

It claimed the PR carries no version bump, which the release commit made
untrue, and records why the number is 1.0.0 instead of 0.9.22.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Point the legacy references at the history

`legacy/gitTally` was removed from the tree with the rename, but the
README still described it as a reference kept in the repository, and the
plan told an executing session to read parts of it — including step 14,
which is open.

The README section is gone; `docs/plan/README.md`, step 14 and the
legacy analysis now say where the script actually is
(`git show 7f55068^:legacy/gitTally`). Executed steps and ADR 0004 keep
their wording: they record what was true when they ran.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Retarget the links in the historic PR-docs

The package rename moved every file the older PR-docs link to, leaving
60 dead links. Only the link targets are rewritten, never the visible
text and never a statement: those documents record what was true when
they were written, GitTally in the prose included. A snapshot may be
outdated; it should still be navigable.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Add the v1.0.0 deployment procedure for vm4006

Measured, not estimated: the state directory is 878 MB, of which 878 MB
are the nine build worktrees. What cannot be recreated is 84 KB, so the
snapshot before an in-place switch is instant and the rollback is one
sequence of moves.

Records the three expected non-failures — a cold Gradle volume, one
image rebuild, containers left under the old label — and that
`gitea.statusContext` needs no attention because it comes from the
watched repository's committed configuration.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Rename the machine configuration along with its directory

Found by the deployment to vm4006: the move renames the directory and
leaves the file inside it alone, so the machine configuration ended up at
`.git/werkator/.gittally.yml` — a pair of names the lookup did not
expect, because it pairs directory and file name. The instance resolved
empty credentials, no public URL and none of the host's build
definitions, and said nothing about it. That is the exact failure this
change exists to prevent, produced by the change itself.

`StateDirMigration` now renames the configuration with the directory,
unless one under the current name is already there. `ConfigFiles` carries
`.git/werkator/.gittally.yml` as a third candidate as well, for a
directory somebody moved by hand, where the migration never runs and so
can rename nothing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Let init see a configuration under its previous name

`init --systemd` runs `init`, and its "already exists" check knew only
the current name. On the one repository still carrying `.gittally.yml`
it therefore wrote a fresh template `.werkator.yml` beside it — and
since the current name wins, that repository would have built the
template's `./gradlew test` instead of what its own configuration says.
Found on vm4006, where the file was created in the watched working tree
and removed again by hand.

Both checks now ask `ConfigFiles`, so init decides existence by the same
rule the loader uses to read.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Record the v1.0.0 deployment to vm4006

Deployed from the branch as the final test of PR#1, and it did what a
final test is for: it found two silent-failure defects before the
service was started, both fixed and redeployed in the same window.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Drop the control token left under the old localStorage key

The key is named after the product, so the rename left every browser
with a token under `gittally.controlToken`, which nothing reads any more
and which "forget token" can no longer reach. It is a write-scope token
in a browser store, not a password, but a secret nobody owns is worth
one line to remove.

Removed on load. The token on the server is unchanged, so re-entering it
once per browser is all the rename costs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-31 13:32:54 +02:00

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# Werkator — Agent Instructions
This file holds the shared, tool-agnostic instructions for all AI coding agents.
Claude Code imports it from `CLAUDE.md` via `@AGENTS.md`; Claude-Code-specific instructions belong in `CLAUDE.md`, everything else here.
Detailed guides live as Agent Skills under `.claude/skills/` ([SKILL.md format](https://agentskills.io)); they load on demand — see [Skills](#skills).
## Build and Test Commands
```bash
./gradlew build # compile + ktlintCheck + test
./gradlew ktlintFormat # auto-format before committing
./gradlew test # run all tests (can be slow, prefer single test)
./gradlew test --tests "de.hoennig.werkator.ApplicationContextTest" # example for running a single test class
```
Run the JAR directly:
```bash
java -jar build/libs/werkator.jar --help
java -jar build/libs/werkator.jar init
```
`ktlintFormat` must be run before `build` passes — the formatter is enforced as part of the `check` lifecycle.
## Architecture Overview
Werkator is a lightweight, declarative CI/CD build system: git-centric, one instance per repository, builds native or in Docker, statuses reported to Gitea.
It is a dual-mode application: **CLI** (interactive, status, config) and **Server** (HTTP, persistent web UI + JSON API).
IMPORTANT: Before designing or modifying code in any production package, load the [architecture skill](.claude/skills/architecture/SKILL.md) — it holds the subsystem details (CLI wiring, server mode, web UI, config system, git access, build execution, watcher, metrics).
### Package Structure
All production code lives under `de.hoennig.werkator`, with sub-packages `commands` (picocli subcommands), `config` (YAML config loading and schema), `git` (git CLI access), `gitea` (Gitea commit-status API client), `build` (build execution, results, workspaces), `artifacts` (filesystem artifact store), `watcher` (branch polling, auto-builds, startup recovery), `metrics` (system resource sampling and aggregation), and `server` (JSON API controllers, Thymeleaf UI, artifact serving, control token, watcher and metrics lifecycles). Tests mirror this structure under `src/test/kotlin`.
### Hard Invariants
- `exitProcess` is called only from `main()` — never inside `CliRunner.run()`; this keeps the Spring context alive during tests.
- Nothing is scheduled during CLI runs or tests: the watcher poll loop and metrics sampling start only via an explicit `start()` in the `server` profile.
- Builds run detached in worktrees under `.git/werkator/worktrees/<branchKey>`; the primary checkout is never used for builds; never assume a single running build.
- When config keys change, three places must stay in sync: the `WerkatorConfig` data classes, the `InitCommand` templates, and `docs/configuration.md`.
- Every config file may declare `werkator.version.since`/`below` (the Werkator it is written for, never a format version — no API is involved). `since` is enforced in both directions, using `ConfigVersions.FORMAT_BROKE_IN` for "file predates a breaking change"; `below` only warns. A violation aborts the start for the machine and project config, but fails only that branch's builds for a branch config.
- A branch describes its own CI: its committed `.werkator.yml` is the branch layer (`ConfigLoader.loadWithBranchLayer`, used by the watcher per origin branch and by `loadForWorktree` at build time) and takes precedence over `.git`/project — including the whole `builds` section, so a new configuration can be tried out on a branch without affecting other branches. Only the pinned set is stripped from that layer: secrets (`git`), host/repository sections (`server`, `gitea`, `executor`, `watcher`), the docker sandbox policy (`docker.enabled`, `docker.network`), and the trust gate (`requirePullRequest`). A branch must never reach credentials, disable its container, change its network, raise global concurrency, or bypass its own pull-request gate; a branch's definitions apply to that branch alone.
- A build definition carries the complete description of its build, split in two: the `trigger` block (`onPush`, `atTimes`, `branches`, `activeWithin`) says when and for which branches it runs, everything else what it does. `builds.default` is the base every other definition inherits its settings — never its `trigger` — from. The split is structural so that a selector added to `TriggerConfig` later is non-inheritable by construction; writing a trigger key flat is refused, never ignored, because ignoring it leaves a build that silently stops running. A `!` prefix in `trigger.branches` excludes and always wins.
- The inheritance is applied after all layers are merged: that order is what makes a build a branch invents inherit the host's sandbox policy instead of the data-class default, so the pinning also holds for a build the host has never heard of. Pinned are `requirePullRequest`, `statusContext`, `docker.enabled`, and `docker.network`.
- `builds` or the legacy `branches`, never both: `branches` is read only while the merged config defines no build at all (`builds.maxConcurrent` is not one), and ignored with a warning as soon as one exists. The section is deprecated and goes away once the repositories have migrated; then `ConfigVersions.FORMAT_BROKE_IN` gets set and a leftover `branches:` key must be rejected by name — the version check alone cannot catch a file that declares no version.
- Web UI: server-rendered Thymeleaf plus one hand-written `static/werkator.js` — no SPA framework, no frontend build pipeline; every fetch has a timeout and an explicit error badge; `UiFormats` and `werkator.js` must produce identical display formats.
- Git and Docker access shells out to the CLIs (`GitCommandRunner`, `docker`) — no JGit, no Docker SDK.
## Testing
Tests use Kotest `FunSpec` with MockK; `SpringExtension` is registered globally in `io.kotest.provided.ProjectConfig` — do not add it per-spec.
IMPORTANT: Before writing or changing tests, load the [writing-tests skill](.claude/skills/writing-tests/SKILL.md) — it holds the spec structure and the Spring-slice mocking patterns.
## File-Formatting
### Markdown
Write documentation in English in Markdown files.
In Markdown, use a single line per sentence.
Keep sentences short.
## Documentation
- `docs/Werkator-Konzept.md` — product concept and target architecture (in German): git-centric CI, builds in Docker, one instance per repository, status reported back to Gitea.
- `docs/configuration.md` — configuration reference; keep in sync with `WerkatorConfig` and the `init` templates.
- `docs/bootstrapping.md` — how `init` prepares a repository.
- `docs/deployment.md` — running Werkator as a systemd user service behind an existing reverse proxy (`init --systemd` generates the unit).
- `docs/werkator-migrationsplan.md` — renaming a running installation from GitTally to Werkator: what the name fallback covers and what has to be moved by hand.
- `docs/plan/` — the step-by-step rewrite plan; `docs/plan/README.md` explains how to execute a step, `docs/plan/00-legacy-analysis.md` summarizes the legacy bash script.
- `docs/prs/` — one document per pull request; every PR needs one. IMPORTANT: Before opening or finishing a pull request, load the [pr-doc skill](.claude/skills/pr-doc/SKILL.md) and write the PR-doc.
## Key Architectural Decisions
All major decisions are in `docs/adrs/`. Run `adr-status` (after `source .envrc`) for a one-line summary of each. Decisions in force:
- **Test framework**: Kotest + MockK + WireMock + Testcontainers (ADR 0001)
- **Gradle**: 8.14.5 (ADR 0002)
- **Spring Boot**: 4.0.6 (ADR 0003)
- **Rewrite architecture**: JSON-file persistence behind a repository interface, server-rendered UI with JSON polling, no managed nginx — systemd unit behind the host's reverse proxy (ADR 0004)
- **Managed nginx/TLS**: revises ADR 0004 — an opt-in nginx+certbot container for hosts without a reverse proxy (e.g. Hostsharing), planned as `docs/plan/13-nginx-tls.md` (ADR 0005)
- **Runtime bundle distribution**: `./gradlew runtimeBundle` builds a jlink-trimmed JRE + jar tarball for hosts without a Java runtime; GraalVM native image and a containerized runtime were rejected (ADR 0006)
## Skills
On-demand guides in the cross-tool [SKILL.md format](https://agentskills.io); agents with skill support load them automatically by description, all others should read the linked files when the topic comes up:
- [architecture](.claude/skills/architecture/SKILL.md) — subsystem details: CLI wiring, server mode, web UI, config, git access, build execution, watcher, metrics.
- [writing-tests](.claude/skills/writing-tests/SKILL.md) — Kotest/MockK conventions and Spring slice-test mocking patterns.
- [pr-doc](.claude/skills/pr-doc/SKILL.md) — how to write the mandatory per-PR documentation in `docs/prs/`.
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