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F3a of P38 (sc-forge): the read half of the Gitea-compatible content API. Plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-10-23-p38-f3a-content-reads.md; as-built notes: spec "F3a decisions (as built)" and THREAT-MODEL "Content API reads".

What

  • git/refs, tags, commits, git/commits/{sha} (+ .diff/.patch), git/trees/{sha}, contents, archive/{ref}.{zip,tar.gz}, in the recorded Gitea shapes.
  • Revisions are a grammar (HEAD, branch, tag, hex id), never git syntax; paths are literals (--literal-pathspecs, --); only refs/heads and refs/tags are visible by name.
  • Bounded reads: output caps, timeouts, runner gate (503 when busy), read lock held across each request; at most four archives in memory at once (Resp::hold keeps the slot until the body is written).
  • POST/PUT/DELETE contents answer 501 after the auth checks until F3b.
  • Conformance gate now replays 12 scenarios (adds D and E); the rest of E and the PR/status exchanges are deferred in slice-pending.json.

Review

Opus and Sol both reviewed the diff. Fixed: .patch of a merge returned another commit's patch; the archive memory bound did not hold (the runner permit ends with the git process); symlink targets could be read without limit; an unborn default hid an explicitly named branch; the Link header could switch branches on a repeated parameter; not= was silently ignored (now 400); docs that did not match the code. Departures and approximations are listed in the spec section.

Not done

  • Archives are buffered, not streamed; last_commit_sha is exact for the first 100 listing entries only.
  • Non-UTF-8 and control-character file names are listed but not fetchable.
  • Gate and forge tests pass locally (1.99); CI runs 1.96.1.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added read-only repository endpoints for Git refs, tags, commits, trees, file contents, and downloadable ZIP or TAR.GZ archives.
    • Commit listings support pagination, and content responses include file details and commit information.
  • Documentation
    • Updated the roadmap and technical documentation to describe available repository reads and clarify that repository writes remain unavailable pending a later phase.

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  • crates/forge/src/content_api.rs
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📝 Walkthrough

Forge adds authenticated repository read endpoints for refs, tags, commits, trees, contents, and archives. Git operations use bounded output and timeouts. Archive responses retain a concurrency slot through body delivery. Content writes remain unimplemented.

Changes: Repository content reads

Layer / File(s) Summary
Git read primitives and limits
crates/forge/src/gitobj.rs, crates/forge/src/gitproc.rs, crates/forge/src/lifecycle.rs, crates/forge/src/gitread.rs
Git helpers resolve revisions and read refs, commits, trees, blobs, and archives. Git command specifications support per-run output and timeout limits.
Content read handlers
crates/forge/src/content_api.rs, crates/forge/src/api.rs, crates/forge/src/b64.rs, crates/forge/src/repo_api.rs, crates/forge/src/lib.rs
Handlers return ref, tag, commit, tree, and content data. Shared code adds pagination links, base64 encoding, and access to repository read helpers.
Route wiring and archive response lifetime
crates/forge/src/routes.rs, crates/forge/src/http.rs, crates/forge/src/server.rs, crates/forge/src/cgi.rs, crates/forge/src/transport.rs, crates/forge/src/content_api.rs
Routes enforce repository read or write permissions and dispatch requests. Archive responses retain their slot until body delivery ends. Write routes return not implemented after permission checks.
Read API validation and scope
crates/forge/tests/e2e_content.rs, crates/forge/tests/common/mod.rs, crates/forge/conformance/*, docs/THREAT-MODEL.md, docs/superpowers/plans/2026-10-23-p38-f3a-content-reads.md, docs/superpowers/specs/2026-10-22-p38-forge-design.md, ROADMAP.md
Tests cover content reads, repository states, and access control. Conformance selections and pending exchanges change. The design, threat model, plan, and roadmap record F3a content reads and the F3b write scope.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant Routes
  participant ContentAPI as content_api::get_archive
  participant GitObject as gitobj
  participant GitRunner as Git runner
  participant Server
  Client->>Routes: Send authenticated archive request
  Routes->>ContentAPI: Dispatch archive request
  ContentAPI->>GitObject: Resolve revision and request archive
  GitObject->>GitRunner: Run Git archive command
  GitRunner-->>GitObject: Return archive bytes
  GitObject-->>ContentAPI: Return archive bytes
  ContentAPI->>Server: Return response with archive slot held
  Server-->>Client: Write response body
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 18aec

No merge-blocking issue was established for the content-read APIs; the reviewed ref URLs resolve correctly.

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 18aec

Repository authorization is preserved, but the new buffered reads introduce availability risks. JSON responses can substantially exceed their underlying read limits, and archive reservations are not attached to the bytes after handoff for delivery.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: New directory reads materialize every entry as JSON, duplicate paths into several URLs, and then allocate the serialized response. The 64 MiB Git-output limit therefore does not bound response memory to that size, and there is no aggregate byte reservation covering construction and delivery. A repository writer can prepare a large directory that an authenticated reader repeatedly requests, creating process-wide memory pressure affecting unrelated repositories. The connection cap and lookup budgets limit concurrency and work, but do not provide a practical response-memory budget.
  • Medium · security · inferred: The archive reservation belongs to the Held response producer, but poll_frame transfers ordinary Bytes without transferring that reservation. Producer completion or drop can consequently release capacity independently of bytes retained by the HTTP consumer. The claimed four-archive in-flight memory bound is not established across this ownership transition, allowing concurrent authenticated downloads to retain more memory than the reservation count represents. Error-path cleanup is sound at the inspected ownership boundaries; exact consumer drop-versus-flush timing remains unverified.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — Content access remains repository-authorized, but memory and archive capacity are shared by the serving process. Exploiting expensive repository shapes requires readable content; preparing such shapes additionally requires write access somewhere, not authority over the repositories affected by service-wide resource pressure.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — The material attack paths concern availability, not demonstrated privilege escalation: repeated reads of large directories amplify capped Git output into larger buffered JSON, while archive producer-to-byte handoff can disconnect reservation accounting from retained data. Runtime exhaustion and exact archive-consumer timing were not verified.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Repository resolution uses the authenticated user and requested owner/name before handler execution; Git paths derive from the resolved repository identity. The supplied public-entrypoint test range is test code checking malformed encoding and URL shapes, not an additional production entrypoint.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The runner admits Git processes through a timed gate, terminates their process group on completion or abnormal outcomes, and releases its permit on return. That permit ends before response construction and delivery finish, so it is not an end-to-end response-memory control.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Budget aggregate materialized response bytes through delivery, with explicit listing limits or bounded streaming. Tie archive reservations to the backing byte allocation rather than only the producer wrapper, and verify completion, disconnect, and slow-consumer handoff behavior.
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for c in &commits {
let changes = match load_changes(ctx, a, c, want_files, want_stat) {
Ok(c) => c,
Err(r) => return r,
};
match commit_json(ctx, a, &mut users, c, want_verif, changes) {
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P1 Badge Cap the aggregate commit-change payload

When a page contains many commits with large changed-file lists, the 64 MiB limit applies independently to each load_changes invocation while every resulting JSON object remains in items. With the allowed 50-commit page, one request can retain over 3 GiB before serialization creates another large buffer, so a repository crafted with large trees can exhaust the forge process despite the advertised bounded reads. Apply a request-wide response/change budget rather than only a per-git-process cap.

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},
"author": users.actor(&c.author.email)?,
"committer": users.actor(&c.committer.email)?,
"parents": c.parents.iter().map(|p| commit_meta(ctx, a, p, c.committer.when)).collect::<Vec<_>>(),

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P2 Badge Load each parent's own creation time

When a parent commit has a different committer timestamp from its child, this assigns the child's timestamp to the parent's created field; merge commits also report the same time for every parent. API consumers therefore receive incorrect commit metadata, so each parent timestamp should be loaded from that parent rather than reusing c.committer.when.

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"html_url": html,
"git_url": git_url,
"download_url": if ty == "file" { json!(format!("{web}/raw/{seg}/{enc_ref}/{enc_path}")) } else { Value::Null },
"submodule_git_url": null,

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P2 Badge Populate the URL for submodule content entries

When a tree contains a gitlink with a corresponding entry in .gitmodules, the response identifies it as type: "submodule" but always returns submodule_git_url: null. This drops the remote URL that Gitea-compatible clients use to identify or clone the submodule; resolve the matching .gitmodules URL at the selected commit and return it for gitlinks.

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fn param(ctx: &Ctx, k: &str) -> Option<String> {
ctx.req.param(k).and_then(percent_decode)

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P2 Badge Reject malformed query encodings instead of defaulting

When an explicitly supplied revision contains malformed UTF-8 percent encoding, such as ?ref=%FF or ?sha=%FF, percent_decode returns None and this helper makes it indistinguishable from an absent parameter. The contents and commits handlers then serve the default branch with a successful response rather than rejecting the requested revision, which can make clients consume unrelated content. Preserve the distinction between missing and invalid parameters and return a client error for the latter.

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let tag = r.kind == "tag";
json!({
"ref": r.name,
"url": format!("{api}/git/{}", r.name),
"object": {
"type": r.kind,
"sha": r.oid,
"url": format!("{api}/git/{}/{}", if tag { "tags" } else { "commits" }, r.oid),

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P2 Badge Build ref object URLs from every object type

When a valid lightweight tag points directly to a tree or blob, for-each-ref reports its type as tree or blob, but this branch sends every non-annotated-tag object to /git/commits/{oid}. The returned ref therefore contains a URL that cannot resolve that object—for example, a tree tag links to the commit endpoint instead of /git/trees/{oid}. Select the URL segment from r.kind, not only from whether it equals tag.

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"ref": r.name,
"url": format!("{api}/git/{}", r.name),

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P2 Badge Percent-encode names in ref URLs

When a pushed branch or tag contains a URL-reserved character that Git permits, such as release#1 or a literal %2F, this inserts the raw ref name into the top-level URL. Following that URL either drops the fragment or decodes the percent sequence into a different path, so the advertised self-link does not retrieve the listed ref. Percent-encode each ref-name path segment before constructing the URL, as the contents and archive links already do.

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  • ROADMAP.md
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  • crates/forge/src/api.rs
  • crates/forge/src/b64.rs
  • crates/forge/src/cgi.rs
  • crates/forge/src/content_api.rs
  • crates/forge/src/gitobj.rs
  • crates/forge/src/gitproc.rs
  • crates/forge/src/gitread.rs
  • crates/forge/src/http.rs
  • crates/forge/src/lib.rs
  • crates/forge/src/lifecycle.rs
  • crates/forge/src/repo_api.rs
  • crates/forge/src/routes.rs
  • crates/forge/src/server.rs
  • crates/forge/src/transport.rs
  • crates/forge/tests/common/mod.rs
  • crates/forge/tests/e2e_content.rs
  • docs/THREAT-MODEL.md
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Triage of the Codex review on 78777da (fixed in the next push):

  • Aggregate commit-change payload (P1): fixed. A commits page now carries at most 50,000 changed files in total, 413 over.
  • Malformed query encoding (P2): fixed. An invalid sha, ref or path is 400, never the default branch.
  • Ref object URL by type (P2) and escaping ref names in URLs (P2): fixed, with a test.
  • Parent created (P2): kept. Gitea's own ToCommit stamps parents with the child's committer time, and the conformance fixtures pass with it. It is commented in the code and listed in the spec.
  • Submodule submodule_git_url (P2): not built. Gitea reads .gitmodules; listed as a known gap in the spec.

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Opus and Sol reviews of the F3a diff fixed; Codex and CodeRabbit findings triaged; required checks green on 18aece9.

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