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feat(forge): P38 F4a branch protection and commit statuses - #307
P38 F4a, the first of three F4 slices (plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-10-24-p38-f4-pulls-statuses-merge-protection.md, with the Opus and Sol review decisions appended).
Migration 3: branch_protections and commit_statuses.
/branch_protections CRUD (exact, case-insensitive names; globs and unenforced settings refused).
One protection policy for every ref move: the pre-receive hook (fast-forward test under git's quarantine), the contents API (checked again just before update-ref, under the write gate) and branch DELETE (now a compare-and-swap on the observed tip).
Commit statuses: POST /statuses/{sha}, history lists, combined status. Bounded per commit.
Gate: H, I, W and the first five exchanges of Q (the rest of Q waits for merge in F4c). Departures added for the new refusal texts, the missing-state case and the refused-status lists.
Verification
cargo test -p scl-forge (124 lib tests, 8 new end-to-end tests in e2e_protection.rs against real git), cargo clippy --all-targets -D warnings, cargo fmt --check.
forge-check.sh: 16/16 scenarios.
Not covered
A push already in flight is not stopped by a rule created after its pre-receive ran (documented in the threat model).
Glob rule names, approvals, whitelists and signed-commit rules are refused, not implemented.
Merge-time use of the required contexts is F4c.
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New Features
Added branch-protection rules that administrators can create, view, update, and delete.
Protected branches can restrict pushes, contents changes, and branch deletion; permitted updates must meet applicable fast-forward requirements.
Added commit-status creation and lookup, including status history, combined results, and required status contexts.
Branch details now show protection settings and push eligibility.
Bug Fixes
Improved handling of protected-branch operations, including clearer responses for attempts to delete the default branch.
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crates/forge/src/hook.rs
crates/forge/src/lifecycle.rs
crates/forge/src/protection.rs
crates/forge/src/repo_api.rs
crates/forge/src/statuses.rs
crates/forge/tests/e2e_protection.rs
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This change adds branch-protection rules and commit-status endpoints. Protection checks apply to Git pushes, contents writes, and branch deletion. Status responses include history and combined states. The change also updates conformance expectations and F4 roadmap documentation.
Changes: Branch Protection and Commit Statuses
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Summary
Protection rules and shared policy crates/forge/src/db.rs, crates/forge/src/policy.rs, docs/superpowers/specs/*, docs/superpowers/plans/*, ROADMAP.md
The schema adds protection-rule and commit-status tables. Shared policy checks match branch names case-insensitively and define rules for pushes, contents writes, and branch deletion. The design and roadmap documents describe the F4a scope and behavior.
Protection rule API and branch data crates/forge/src/protection.rs, crates/forge/src/routes.rs, crates/forge/src/repo_api.rs, crates/forge/src/lib.rs, crates/forge/tests/e2e_protection.rs
New routes and handlers support protection-rule CRUD. Rule inputs are validated, and branch responses report protection settings and push eligibility. End-to-end tests cover rule operations and permissions.
Push hooks, contents writes, and branch deletion apply protection checks. Hook ancestry checks validate object IDs and quarantine paths before running Git. Branch deletion uses compare-and-swap retries. Tests and conformance expectations cover protected updates and refusals.
Commit status API and validation crates/forge/src/statuses.rs, crates/forge/src/routes.rs, crates/forge/src/api.rs, crates/forge/src/db.rs, crates/forge/tests/e2e_protection.rs, crates/forge/conformance/*
The status API creates statuses, returns paginated history, and computes combined states. Storage limits each commit to 100 contexts and retains up to 100 rows per context. Tests and conformance cases cover validation, empty status results, and combined-state behavior.
git-agentic/src-control#297: This change adds conformance coverage for combined status responses when a commit has no statuses.
Possibly related PRs
git-agentic/src-control#304: This change extends the pre-receive hook and shared ref-update policy from that PR with protection rules and fast-forward checks.
git-agentic/src-control#306: This change adds protection checks to the contents-write path implemented in that PR.
git-agentic/src-control#305: The status endpoints use the Git object and repository-read helpers added in that PR.
Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 78ca6
This change adds branch-protection rules, applies them to pushes, contents writes and branch deletion, and adds commit-status endpoints. No actionable merge-blocking issue remains from the supplied review evidence. The known limit is that a push already in flight is not stopped by a rule created after its pre-receive check ran; this is documented as intended.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 78ca6
The inspected paths enforce the intended permissions and protect ref updates against concurrent changes. No material security regression was identified. Protection changes do not cancel already-admitted Git pushes, status contexts are trusted writer assertions rather than attestations, and review coverage is not exhaustive.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
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Security Blast Radius
observed — The new mutation authority is scoped to the selected repository: protection changes require repository admin permission, while status creation requires repository write permission. Status queries and writes constrain data by repository ID as well as commit identity.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
observed — A push admitted by pre-receive can complete after an administrator creates or strengthens a rule because receive-pack does not share the server write gate. This is a documented limitation of the new protection contract, not cancellation of an already-admitted operation.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The new routes authenticate tokens, check token scopes, and resolve repository access before handler invocation. Mutation routes declare repository-read access at dispatch, but status creation checks write permission and protection mutations check admin permission before side effects. Broader handler reachability therefore does not establish a mutation-authorization bypass.
observed — Protection enforcement fails closed when rule loading or ancestry evaluation fails. The hook rejects unexpected quarantine paths and malformed object IDs rather than treating an unavailable ancestry result as permission to update.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Status insertion enforces the 100-context-per-commit cap, inserts the row, and trims history to 100 rows per context in one immediate transaction. Concurrent posters cannot independently pass the context cap, and interrupted transactions do not commit insertion without trimming. Repeated successful requests intentionally append history; these are per-commit bounds, not a global storage quota.
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The title names the primary change: branch protection rules and commit statuses for the forge crate, tied to the P38 F4a slice. The changeset adds protection rule storage and endpoints in protection.rs, enforcement in policy.rs, the pre-receive hook, the contents API, and branch deletion, and commit-status handling in statuses.rs. The title's scope matches the changes. The title omits the enforcement and conformance work, but it does not need to list every detail.
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Avoid reacquiring the lifecycle lock in combined status
When a combined-status request for a commit with statuses overlaps a repository deletion, branch deletion, or default-branch change, this call can deadlock the repository. combined_status already holds the shared lifecycle lock through read_locked, but repo_json calls compute_empty, which acquires that same lock again through with_read. On the writer-preferring lock used on Linux, an exclusive operation queued between those acquisitions blocks the second read while waiting for the first read to release, so neither request can finish and subsequent repository operations remain blocked. Build the repository JSON using an already-locked helper rather than reacquiring the lifecycle lock.
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Review comments at @crates/forge/src/lifecycle.rs:
- Around line 520-525: Update delete_branch to return a conflict error when its
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Return 409, not 500, when branch deletion exhausts its compare-and-swap retries.
When three update-ref -d attempts fail, delete_branch returns LifecycleError::GitFailed. life_err sends that error to the catch-all arm, which returns a bare 500. The branch is not deleted, but the client gets a retryable conflict reported as a server fault. The plan for this feature (R8) and the sibling write path in content_write.rs both answer 409 when retries run out on a concurrently changed branch.
Suggested fix
- Err(LifecycleError::GitFailed(+ Err(LifecycleError::Conflict(
"the branch kept changing while it was being deleted".into(),
))
Add a Conflict(String) variant to LifecycleError next to Protected(String). The enum declaration was not inspected, so its exact location is unconfirmed.
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Review comment at @crates/forge/src/lifecycle.rs around lines 520 - 525:
Update delete_branch to return a conflict error when its compare-and-swap
retries are exhausted, and update life_err to map LifecycleError::Conflict to
HTTP 409; add the Conflict variant to LifecycleError if it does not already
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P38 F4a, the first of three F4 slices (plan:
docs/superpowers/plans/2026-10-24-p38-f4-pulls-statuses-merge-protection.md, with the Opus and Sol review decisions appended).branch_protectionsandcommit_statuses./branch_protectionsCRUD (exact, case-insensitive names; globs and unenforced settings refused).pre-receivehook (fast-forward test under git's quarantine), the contents API (checked again just beforeupdate-ref, under the write gate) and branch DELETE (now a compare-and-swap on the observed tip).POST /statuses/{sha}, history lists, combined status. Bounded per commit.statecase and the refused-status lists.Verification
cargo test -p scl-forge(124 lib tests, 8 new end-to-end tests ine2e_protection.rsagainst real git),cargo clippy --all-targets -D warnings,cargo fmt --check.forge-check.sh: 16/16 scenarios.Not covered
pre-receiveran (documented in the threat model).Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
Bug Fixes