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glm-5.3-flash 8f73da5d12 docs(architecture): phase 1 bootstrap — specs, 9 ADRs, OQ tracker
Architecture documentation structure per sdd_process phase 1:

- README index (doc table, ADR table, lifecycle), overview with crate
  map, dependency rules, and security invariants
- Component specs: storage, transport, http, ssh, alkgitd (all draft)
- ADRs 001-009: crate decomposition, front-door-blind core, V2-first
  protocol, pack pipeline (data::output generation / data::input
  ingestion), session substrate types, http adapter composition
  (proposed, OQ-01), ACL-before-advertisement, registry-resolved repo
  identity, bounded-resources budgets
- open-questions.md: OQ-01..08 with two deferred(scope), one
  deferred(unclear), door-type definitions, blocker tracker tasks in
  tasks/architecture/
- v1 ssh-door decision recorded: russh terminates wire SSH in alkgitd;
  alkcall channels stay the internal substrate (OQ-03 partially
  resolved)

Two review rounds (fresh-context subagent): 4 critical + 17 warnings
fixed in round one; zero critical + 4 warnings + 5 suggestions fixed in
round two. All ADR/OQ cross-references verified resolving.
2026-09-21 03:55:33 +00:00

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# ADR-008: Wire repo names are registry IDs, never paths
## Status
Accepted
## Context
Repo names arrive on the wire in three shapes: the git:// first-request
line (`git-upload-pack '<repo>'\0host=…`), the ssh exec command string
(`git-upload-pack '<repo>'`), and the http path segment
(`/<repo>/info/refs`). All three are attacker-controlled. Treating them as
filesystem paths (even with ad-hoc sanitization) is the classic git-server
traversal bug — and `docs/research/git-protocol.md` §"Security-relevant
protocol notes" flags exactly this.
## Decision
Wire-supplied repo names are **IDs**: opaque registry keys resolved
server-side to configured storage roots.
- The registry is alkgit's authoritative (repo id → storage root +
visibility + ACL scope) mapping, owned by `alkgit-core`.
- Resolution failure and authorization failure are indistinguishable to
the caller (ADR-007 step 2's no-existence-oracle rule).
- Wire names are never joined, normalized, or canonicalized into paths.
Path construction happens only from registry-resolved roots.
- The same never-execute rule covers the ssh exec command string: it is
*parsed* (fixed grammar: service name + quoted repo argument), never
interpreted by a shell and never passed to a subprocess (convention 6's
no-shelling-out invariant). Unknown commands get a fixed refusal.
- The registry's own backing store is a separate decision (OQ-06).
## Consequences
- Path traversal is structurally impossible on the serving path.
- Repo renames/migrations are registry edits, not filesystem moves (the
storage root indirection absorbs them).
- The registry must be available (or cached) at session start; its
unavailability is a config/ops error surfaced as session failure, never
a path-guessing fallback.
## References
- `docs/research/git-protocol.md` §"Security-relevant protocol notes"
- `docs/research/vision.md` §"Immediate threat-model notes"
- ADR-007 (the resolve-then-authorize order)
- storage.md §registry, OQ-06 (registry backing)