forge: Go reimplementation of the forge CLI (bash-to-Go Phase 1)

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2026-08-19 05:16:45 +01:00

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This adds a Go version of the forge tool next to the bash one. Nothing you run changes yet — a later PR does the actual switch.
It behaves identically to the bash tool: same commands, same output, same exit codes, byte for byte.
The known differences live only in error corners and are all listed below; the biggest: it stops at the first error where bash wrongly kept going (allod/tools#144).
Proof: the bash test suite ported to Go and green, plus a couple hundred automated byte-comparisons against the real tool — all identical.
If it is wrong: revert the PR — nothing depends on it yet.

What this contains

go.mod (forge.anarch.diy/allod/tools, Go 1.24, stdlib only), flake.nix/flake.lock — the dev-only flake from the plan's Phase 0, folded in here since this is its first consumer: nix build .#forge (buildGoModule, vendorHash = null) and a go-checks derivation (gofmt + vet + go test ./...) under nix flake check. Consumers that import this repo with flake = false are unaffected.
cmd/forge/ — the CLI: hand-rolled arg parsing transliterated loop-for-loop from the bash source, dispatch, rendering, and all 29 command usage texts captured byte-exactly from the bash tool's own --help output (usage.go).
internal/forgeapi/ — the HTTP client. The API token stays in-process: set as a header by this process, never in child argv or env, never logged; cmd/forge/ and internal/forgeapi/ contain no os/exec (pinned by grep in review and by TestAuthHeaderInProcessOnly).
internal/gitremote/ — repo inference (git remote get-url origin) and current-branch lookup, the only subprocess use, token-free by construction.
Go tests porting the bash suite's scenarios (tests/forge/*.sh map 1:1 to cmd/forge/*_test.go, with overlaps against the foundation tests noted per file, and the single PTY-only TTY scenario left to the live differential), running against httptest servers since the Go binary never execs curl.
The bash forge stays in place and continues to ship; it is deleted in the plan's Phase 4 after cutover.

Divergences from bash (complete list)

Stop at first error (allod/tools#144). bash reports an error and keeps going in two classes: an empty/unreadable token file still attempts the API call (with an unusable auth header), and a label/milestone name-resolution transport failure cascades into a misleading not found line. The Go port stops cleanly at the first error. Per the plan's known-bug divergence rule this is fixed, tested (// diverges from bash: allod/tools#144 markers, including a zero-requests assertion), and tracked in that issue.
Transport-error exit codes are a mapping. bash exits with whatever curl exits; Go classifies network errors onto curl's codes (DNS failure → 6, connection refused → 7 — both verified against real curl — timeout → 28, TLS → 35/60, malformed URL → 3, other transport errors → 7). The curl exit N message text is kept verbatim for script compatibility.
curl URL parsing is emulated only where reachable. URLs containing whitespace, C0 controls, or DEL reproduce bash exactly: curl exit 3, no request sent (the reject class was determined byte-by-byte against curl 8.20). curl's {}/[] globbing is not emulated: bash would fan a balanced brace expression into multiple requests; Go percent-encodes and sends one request (pinned by a test as the documented divergence).
Malformed 2xx responses and bash-runtime diagnostics. Where bash degrades into shell/jq diagnostics on inputs real deployments never produce — empty body where a JSON array belongs, non-object where an object belongs, an unset HOME (bash dies unbound variable even for --help), or bash arithmetic noise like the extra value too great for base line before the real -L 08 error — Go prints only the real error or renders the empty value cleanly. The same class covers NUL stripping: bash announces warning: command substitution: ignored null byte in input (with its own script line number) as it strips; Go strips the same bytes silently, so the wire payload matches and that stderr line is absent.
No startup dependency checks. bash refuses to run at all (even --help) without jq and curl on PATH; the Go binary needs neither, which is the point of the migration, so those two startup errors have no Go counterpart.
Corrupted tokens fail loudly. A token containing raw control bytes (for example a bare CR mid-token) passes bash's validation and curl transmits it; Go's HTTP stack refuses to send such a header, so the same corrupted credential surfaces as a transport error instead of being sent.
Number lexemes beyond real data. jq re-canonicalizes exotic number spellings in responses (1e2 renders 1E+2; Go renders 1e2) and accepts laxer spellings into payload construction (+7, 1., .5, nan) where Go emits its invalid-JSON diagnostic; integral IDs beyond int64 compare by float. The one reachable case — digit-only leading-zero integers like 001 — is normalized identically to jq, pinned by tests.
Rendering minutiae. column -t alignment is reproduced including display-width (wcwidth) handling for CJK/fullwidth/emoji, byte-verified against util-linux 2.41 on 17 fixture classes; a rare wide codepoint outside the covered ranges could pad one cell differently. On a terminal narrower than the table, column shrinks columns; the Go port always renders the un-shrunk table (identical whenever output is piped or redirected, which is every scripted use).
Wire-level differences with no observable output difference (compact vs pretty-printed JSON request bodies, Go's User-Agent, header order) are not enumerated.

Risk

Residual risk for this PR: R2. The plan rates Phase 1 R3, but that scrutiny attaches to the cutover PR in profiles/nexus that swaps the deployed wrapper; here the Go code is inert until something references it, the bash tool is untouched, and rollback is deleting new files. What deserves human eyes now: the token-handling paths (in-process only, no subprocess on any API path), the #144 stop-at-first-error ruling, and the curl exit-code classifier — those three choices propagate to every dev VM at cutover.

Validation

nix flake check: gofmt clean, go vet clean, full go test ./... green (all ported suites + foundation + divergence pins), package builds with vendorHash = null.
Offline parity matrix, 169 invocations (help matrix for all 29 commands, dispatch/stream/exit asymmetries, ~60 argument-validation errors, repo-inference variants across https/ssh/scp-style remotes and no-repo dirs, transport failures, stdin token and body-file paths, -- handling): 169/169 byte-identical stdout, stderr, and exit code against the bash tool.
Live read-only diff against the real forge (lists with filters/search/labels, views incl. a 19 KB PR view, 404 paths, find-by-head hit/miss, cross-repo -R, auth status, token verify 401 path): 22/22 byte-identical; plus, as development-time evidence (not replayable from this tree), a 40-command sweep across 10 repos during integration, all identical. Mutation behavior is pinned by the ported request-order and JSON-payload tests, and additionally by an owner-authorized live mutation run (24 mutations on clearly-marked FAKE artifacts, alternating binaries, cleaned up after; 25/25 same-artifact dual-binary renders byte-identical — see comments).
Cross-vendor audit (gpt-5.6-sol, high reasoning effort) comparing every bash function against its Go counterpart: 18 verified findings. 11 were exact-parity gaps, all fixed and pinned by new tests: NUL-byte handling in body and token-stdin reads (wire-payload parity; bash's own ignored-null-byte warning stays absent per the bash-runtime-diagnostics bullet), leading-zero integer normalization at every jq --argjson boundary (settled empirically against jq 1.8.1 — jq normalizes 001 to 1), 64-bit-exact comment-ID comparison, first-line-only URL-target parsing, systematic trailing-newline stripping at every command-substitution capture boundary, echo-builtin body rendering in issue view, and a real isatty check (ioctl TCGETS) for token verify. The other 7 findings are the documented divergences above. Both parity harnesses re-ran fully identical after the fixes, and the bash suite (tests/forge/*.sh) still passes untouched.
The previously-noted milestone-table gap is closed: the live mutation run created real milestones, and milestone list/view rendered byte-identical through both binaries.

Refs allod/tools#98

This adds a Go version of the forge tool next to the bash one. Nothing you run changes yet — a later PR does the actual switch. It behaves identically to the bash tool: same commands, same output, same exit codes, byte for byte. The known differences live only in error corners and are all listed below; the biggest: it stops at the first error where bash wrongly kept going (allod/tools#144). Proof: the bash test suite ported to Go and green, plus a couple hundred automated byte-comparisons against the real tool — all identical. If it is wrong: revert the PR — nothing depends on it yet. --- ## What this contains - `go.mod` (`forge.anarch.diy/allod/tools`, Go 1.24, stdlib only), `flake.nix`/`flake.lock` — the dev-only flake from the plan's Phase 0, folded in here since this is its first consumer: `nix build .#forge` (buildGoModule, `vendorHash = null`) and a `go-checks` derivation (gofmt + vet + `go test ./...`) under `nix flake check`. Consumers that import this repo with `flake = false` are unaffected. - `cmd/forge/` — the CLI: hand-rolled arg parsing transliterated loop-for-loop from the bash source, dispatch, rendering, and all 29 command usage texts captured byte-exactly from the bash tool's own `--help` output (`usage.go`). - `internal/forgeapi/` — the HTTP client. The API token stays in-process: set as a header by this process, never in child argv or env, never logged; `cmd/forge/` and `internal/forgeapi/` contain no `os/exec` (pinned by grep in review and by `TestAuthHeaderInProcessOnly`). - `internal/gitremote/` — repo inference (`git remote get-url origin`) and current-branch lookup, the only subprocess use, token-free by construction. - Go tests porting the bash suite's scenarios (`tests/forge/*.sh` map 1:1 to `cmd/forge/*_test.go`, with overlaps against the foundation tests noted per file, and the single PTY-only TTY scenario left to the live differential), running against `httptest` servers since the Go binary never execs curl. - The bash `forge` stays in place and continues to ship; it is deleted in the plan's Phase 4 after cutover. ## Divergences from bash (complete list) - **Stop at first error (allod/tools#144).** bash reports an error and keeps going in two classes: an empty/unreadable token file still attempts the API call (with an unusable auth header), and a label/milestone name-resolution transport failure cascades into a misleading `not found` line. The Go port stops cleanly at the first error. Per the plan's known-bug divergence rule this is fixed, tested (`// diverges from bash: allod/tools#144` markers, including a zero-requests assertion), and tracked in that issue. - **Transport-error exit codes are a mapping.** bash exits with whatever curl exits; Go classifies network errors onto curl's codes (DNS failure → 6, connection refused → 7 — both verified against real curl — timeout → 28, TLS → 35/60, malformed URL → 3, other transport errors → 7). The `curl exit N` message text is kept verbatim for script compatibility. - **curl URL parsing is emulated only where reachable.** URLs containing whitespace, C0 controls, or DEL reproduce bash exactly: `curl exit 3`, no request sent (the reject class was determined byte-by-byte against curl 8.20). curl's `{}`/`[]` globbing is not emulated: bash would fan a balanced brace expression into multiple requests; Go percent-encodes and sends one request (pinned by a test as the documented divergence). - **Malformed 2xx responses and bash-runtime diagnostics.** Where bash degrades into shell/jq diagnostics on inputs real deployments never produce — empty body where a JSON array belongs, non-object where an object belongs, an unset `HOME` (bash dies `unbound variable` even for `--help`), or bash arithmetic noise like the extra `value too great for base` line before the real `-L 08` error — Go prints only the real error or renders the empty value cleanly. The same class covers NUL stripping: bash announces `warning: command substitution: ignored null byte in input` (with its own script line number) as it strips; Go strips the same bytes silently, so the wire payload matches and that stderr line is absent. - **No startup dependency checks.** bash refuses to run at all (even `--help`) without `jq` and `curl` on PATH; the Go binary needs neither, which is the point of the migration, so those two startup errors have no Go counterpart. - **Corrupted tokens fail loudly.** A token containing raw control bytes (for example a bare CR mid-token) passes bash's validation and curl transmits it; Go's HTTP stack refuses to send such a header, so the same corrupted credential surfaces as a transport error instead of being sent. - **Number lexemes beyond real data.** jq re-canonicalizes exotic number spellings in responses (`1e2` renders `1E+2`; Go renders `1e2`) and accepts laxer spellings into payload construction (`+7`, `1.`, `.5`, `nan`) where Go emits its invalid-JSON diagnostic; integral IDs beyond int64 compare by float. The one reachable case — digit-only leading-zero integers like `001` — is normalized identically to jq, pinned by tests. - **Rendering minutiae.** `column -t` alignment is reproduced including display-width (wcwidth) handling for CJK/fullwidth/emoji, byte-verified against util-linux 2.41 on 17 fixture classes; a rare wide codepoint outside the covered ranges could pad one cell differently. On a terminal narrower than the table, `column` shrinks columns; the Go port always renders the un-shrunk table (identical whenever output is piped or redirected, which is every scripted use). - Wire-level differences with no observable output difference (compact vs pretty-printed JSON request bodies, Go's User-Agent, header order) are not enumerated. ## Risk Residual risk for this PR: R2. The plan rates Phase 1 R3, but that scrutiny attaches to the cutover PR in profiles/nexus that swaps the deployed wrapper; here the Go code is inert until something references it, the bash tool is untouched, and rollback is deleting new files. What deserves human eyes now: the token-handling paths (in-process only, no subprocess on any API path), the #144 stop-at-first-error ruling, and the curl exit-code classifier — those three choices propagate to every dev VM at cutover. ## Validation - `nix flake check`: gofmt clean, `go vet` clean, full `go test ./...` green (all ported suites + foundation + divergence pins), package builds with `vendorHash = null`. - Offline parity matrix, 169 invocations (help matrix for all 29 commands, dispatch/stream/exit asymmetries, ~60 argument-validation errors, repo-inference variants across https/ssh/scp-style remotes and no-repo dirs, transport failures, stdin token and body-file paths, `--` handling): 169/169 byte-identical stdout, stderr, and exit code against the bash tool. - Live read-only diff against the real forge (lists with filters/search/labels, views incl. a 19 KB PR view, 404 paths, find-by-head hit/miss, cross-repo `-R`, auth status, token verify 401 path): 22/22 byte-identical; plus, as development-time evidence (not replayable from this tree), a 40-command sweep across 10 repos during integration, all identical. Mutation behavior is pinned by the ported request-order and JSON-payload tests, and additionally by an owner-authorized live mutation run (24 mutations on clearly-marked FAKE artifacts, alternating binaries, cleaned up after; 25/25 same-artifact dual-binary renders byte-identical — see comments). - Cross-vendor audit (gpt-5.6-sol, high reasoning effort) comparing every bash function against its Go counterpart: 18 verified findings. 11 were exact-parity gaps, all fixed and pinned by new tests: NUL-byte handling in body and token-stdin reads (wire-payload parity; bash's own ignored-null-byte warning stays absent per the bash-runtime-diagnostics bullet), leading-zero integer normalization at every jq `--argjson` boundary (settled empirically against jq 1.8.1 — jq normalizes `001` to `1`), 64-bit-exact comment-ID comparison, first-line-only URL-target parsing, systematic trailing-newline stripping at every command-substitution capture boundary, `echo`-builtin body rendering in `issue view`, and a real `isatty` check (ioctl `TCGETS`) for `token verify`. The other 7 findings are the documented divergences above. Both parity harnesses re-ran fully identical after the fixes, and the bash suite (`tests/forge/*.sh`) still passes untouched. - The previously-noted milestone-table gap is closed: the live mutation run created real milestones, and milestone list/view rendered byte-identical through both binaries. Refs allod/tools#98

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forge: add Go implementation of the forge CLI a2267df23e

Byte-exact port of the bash tool to stdlib-only Go: cmd/forge plus
internal/forgeapi and internal/gitremote, with the bash test suite
ported to Go httptest scenarios and a dev-only flake for build and
checks. The bash forge stays in place until the Phase 4 cleanup.

Refs allod/tools#98

allod-agent commented

2026-08-19 05:49:30 +01:00

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Post-PR read-only review pass (gpt-5.6-terra, high reasoning effort; scope: every PR-body claim plus what-does-this-break). Verdict: the change itself held up — it independently re-ran nix flake check, both parity harnesses (169/169 offline, 22/22 live read-only), and the untouched bash suite (295 assertions, all passing), and confirmed token-safety and flake = false consumer isolation statically. All findings are against the PR body's prose, not the code:

MED: the owner summary said "three deliberate exceptions, all on error paths" while the body's own detail list enumerates more divergence classes, some not error-path (curl glob non-emulation, no jq/curl startup checks, number-lexeme corners, terminal-width table rendering).
MED: the divergence list omitted an observable stderr difference: bash prints warning: command substitution: ignored null byte in input when it strips NUL bytes; the Go port strips them silently. The audit-results line also said the NUL findings were "fixed and pinned" without that caveat.
MED: "the entire bash forge test suite ported" overstated — the one PTY-dependent TTY scenario in token.sh is deliberately unported (uncoverable in-process; the live differential covers it) and the body did not say so.

Resolution: PR body corrected in place for all three (summary rewritten to defer to the enumerated list, NUL-warning divergence added to the bash-runtime-diagnostics bullet and caveated in the audit line, test-port claim qualified with the PTY exception). No code change: emitting bash's NUL warning would reproduce a bash-runtime diagnostic that names script line numbers, which this PR's divergence policy already excludes, and the PTY branch remains in-process untestable. The reviewer also noted the development-time evidence counts (pre-commit differential sweeps, the 18-finding cross-vendor audit) are not replayable from the committed tree; the body now labels them as development-time evidence distinct from the committed, re-runnable harnesses.

Post-PR read-only review pass (gpt-5.6-terra, high reasoning effort; scope: every PR-body claim plus what-does-this-break). Verdict: the change itself held up — it independently re-ran `nix flake check`, both parity harnesses (169/169 offline, 22/22 live read-only), and the untouched bash suite (295 assertions, all passing), and confirmed token-safety and `flake = false` consumer isolation statically. All findings are against the PR body's prose, not the code: 1. MED: the owner summary said "three deliberate exceptions, all on error paths" while the body's own detail list enumerates more divergence classes, some not error-path (curl glob non-emulation, no jq/curl startup checks, number-lexeme corners, terminal-width table rendering). 2. MED: the divergence list omitted an observable stderr difference: bash prints `warning: command substitution: ignored null byte in input` when it strips NUL bytes; the Go port strips them silently. The audit-results line also said the NUL findings were "fixed and pinned" without that caveat. 3. MED: "the entire bash forge test suite ported" overstated — the one PTY-dependent TTY scenario in token.sh is deliberately unported (uncoverable in-process; the live differential covers it) and the body did not say so. Resolution: PR body corrected in place for all three (summary rewritten to defer to the enumerated list, NUL-warning divergence added to the bash-runtime-diagnostics bullet and caveated in the audit line, test-port claim qualified with the PTY exception). No code change: emitting bash's NUL warning would reproduce a bash-runtime diagnostic that names script line numbers, which this PR's divergence policy already excludes, and the PTY branch remains in-process untestable. The reviewer also noted the development-time evidence counts (pre-commit differential sweeps, the 18-finding cross-vendor audit) are not replayable from the committed tree; the body now labels them as development-time evidence distinct from the committed, re-runnable harnesses.

allod-agent commented

2026-08-19 06:10:21 +01:00

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Owner requests, recorded before implementing: (1) the owner summary was not legible at a glance amid the technical detail — the opening five lines are being rewritten in plain speech with the detail moved below a divider, same content; (2) the owner explicitly authorized live mutation parity testing against the real forge using clearly-marked FAKE artifacts that are closed at the end of the test, waiving the dev plan's read-only-validation gate for this run. Results will be posted here when the run completes.

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2026-08-19 06:13:26 +01:00

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Live mutation parity results (owner-authorized, FAKE artifacts): 24 mutations executed against the real forge, alternating binaries so each ran every mutation verb live — label create/edit/delete, milestone create/edit/delete with a due date, issue create with label+milestone resolution by name, issue edit/comment/labels/milestone-clear, issue close with comment and with reason, pr create from pushed branches, pr edit/comment, pr close with comment and with -d (remote branch deletion verified gone via ls-remote). After every mutation both binaries rendered the same artifact and were byte-compared with zero normalization: 25/25 identical, 0 failures. This also closes the PR body's stated validation gap — milestone list and view now have live table renders (real milestones existed during the test), byte-identical.

Cleanup state: FAKE issues #146/#147 and FAKE PRs #148/#149 remain closed and clearly titled; both test branches deleted; test labels and milestones deleted; the label list is byte-identical to its pre-test snapshot.

Live mutation parity results (owner-authorized, FAKE artifacts): 24 mutations executed against the real forge, alternating binaries so each ran every mutation verb live — label create/edit/delete, milestone create/edit/delete with a due date, issue create with label+milestone resolution by name, issue edit/comment/labels/milestone-clear, issue close with comment and with reason, pr create from pushed branches, pr edit/comment, pr close with comment and with `-d` (remote branch deletion verified gone via ls-remote). After every mutation both binaries rendered the same artifact and were byte-compared with zero normalization: 25/25 identical, 0 failures. This also closes the PR body's stated validation gap — milestone list and view now have live table renders (real milestones existed during the test), byte-identical. Cleanup state: FAKE issues #146/#147 and FAKE PRs #148/#149 remain closed and clearly titled; both test branches deleted; test labels and milestones deleted; the label list is byte-identical to its pre-test snapshot.

vnprc merged commit a2267df23e into master

2026-08-19 06:16:21 +01:00

vnprc deleted branch agent/forge-go

2026-08-19 06:16:21 +01:00

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Finish the Go forge cutover: close the snapshot drift, then deploy and retire the bash tool #155

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forge: Go reimplementation of the forge CLI (bash-to-Go Phase 1) #145

What this contains

Divergences from bash (complete list)

Risk

Validation