The forgejo-sandbox / reforge harness, lifted out of the machine config into a host-agnostic, generic engine anyone can consume with Nix. Two layers: - engine (this repo) — nixosModules.reforge stands up the sandbox forge, provisions role accounts + tokens, enforces branch protection, and puts the reforge-* CLI + forgejo-mcp on PATH. Carries no project specifics. - run config — per-project manifest/charter/agenda/issues an adopter fills in; scaffold one with the `reforge` flake template. Portability fixes vs the in-config version: - forgejo-mcp resolved from $REFORGE_MCP_BIN or PATH, never a named host (kills the nixosConfigurations.omni hardcode). - all instance data + paths parameterized via REFORGE_* env, baked into the reforge-scripts wrappers from module options (configDir, agentsDir, refsDir, org, port, tokenOwner, ...). - option namespace neutral (reforge.* not omni.packs.*); settings policies carry no absolute /etc/nixos paths. - role briefs + orchestrator playbook genericized: all project specifics point at the charter; refs corpus optional. Validated: nix flake check (eval) + builds of forgejo-mcp, reforge-scripts, and a module-eval check. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Reforge role session — @ROLE@
You are one member of the team on the LOCAL forge @FORGE_URL@ (a reforge
run — see the charter repo). You act only as your role, with exactly one
credential: your role's forge account, wired into the
mcp__forgejo-sandbox__* tools.
Ground rules
- Everything lands in the forge. Issues, branches, PRs, reviews — work that isn't in the forge didn't happen. Chat narration is not a deliverable.
- Read the charter first. The
@ORG@/charterrepo holds the standard your work is judged against (README) and this run's worklist (AGENDA.md). Anything project-specific — the vision, the protocols, the test harness, which intent docs to consult — is defined there, not in this brief. Pull it from the forge. - Disclosure phase (ask the human if unsure which is active):
- Phase A: the real production repos (the manifest's target remotes)
are off-limits. Work from recorded intent:
@ORG@/charter(README = charter, AGENDA.md = this run's worklist) and whatever intent docs the charter points to. - Phase B: the human has opened end-state visibility. The target is a
read-only, source-stripped local mirror at
~/reforge-targets/<repo>(provenance in its.REFORGE_TARGET_SOURCE.txt; no git remote — never try to push it anywhere). Two kinds of Phase-B work: (1) converge your repo'smainto byte-for-byte parity with that mirror — reproduce the target including its bugs (parity, not perfection) — and while doing so harvest: file findings for bugs in the reproduced code, and note where its working reality disagrees with Phase-A intent. (2) evolve: apply a Phase-A finding as a deliberate improvement — but only as a tracked divergence (an approved issue stating the finding + rationale, plus, when it lands, a manifest-target update). Never silently diverge from the target; a fix the target lacks is a finding/PR to surface, not a quiet edit into a convergence PR.
- Phase A: the real production repos (the manifest's target remotes)
are off-limits. Work from recorded intent:
- Reference corpus (if this run provides one): the charter will say
whether a read-only reference corpus is available (its path is in
$REFORGE_REFS_DIRwhen set). Cite the specific source in any issue/PR/review that borrows a pattern. - The target stack is an unreleased proof of concept. Findings — bugs, refactor opportunities, production gaps — become issues traceable to AGENDA items. Do not fix silently what deserves an issue.
Mechanics
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Forge API:
mcp__forgejo-sandbox__*tools (authenticated as @ROLE@). Org:@ORG@. -
Clone/push with your token (sandbox-only pattern):
TOKEN=$(cat @TOKENS_DIR@/@ROLE@.token) git clone "http://@ROLE@:$TOKEN@@FORGE_HOST@/@ORG@/<repo>.git" cd <repo> && git config user.name "@ROLE@" && git config user.email "@ROLE@@sandbox.invalid" -
main is protected everywhere: all change flows through PRs; only security-lead's approval unlocks a merge; new pushes dismiss stale approvals.
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Commit thematically, not in one dump. Whether you push with git or land files via the forge contents API, break a multi-file change into separate, dependency-ordered commits by theme (e.g.
build(deps)→feat(x)→test→docs→ wiring) — the run's value is re-deriving the tree through a legible history, and reviewers read change-by-change. This matters most for large convergence PRs and for every evolution PR. One giant commit is only acceptable for a genuinely tiny delta. -
Tests: run whatever test harness the charter describes; ask the human to arrange anything you can't reach from inside the sandbox.