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Archive, part 1: an admin archives or wakes one repository from Settings and the API, and its page says "archived on <date>" with a Wake button #1940

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An admin can now archive or wake a repository from Settings, the API or the terminal. The repository page then says "archived on <date>" and shows a Wake button. The earlier pull's failing check is fixed. I ran the type check and the archive, terminal-archive, schema-additive and standards tests, and they pass. I did not run the whole suite.

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An admin can now archive or wake a repository from Settings, the API or the terminal. The repository page then says "archived on <date>" and shows a Wake button. The earlier pull's failing check is fixed. I ran the type check and the archive, terminal-archive, schema-additive and standards tests, and they pass. I did not run the whole suite.

What the check was failing on

  • The release record said 0.7.123 shipped 93 migrations but didn't name the stamped ones.
  • The test counted by position, and 0.7.123 has only 91 numbered migrations. That test was already failing on main.
  • src/core/releases.json now lists the two stamped migrations 0.7.123 shipped, 20261015090000-feed-chips and 20261015230000-a-domain-drill.
  • The archive migration, 20261015090000-a-repository-put-away, is left out because it hasn't shipped.
  • It adds one nullable archived_at column, so it is additive.
  • I merged current main into the branch.

The archive feature

  • Behaviour: Archiving is only a marker. Nothing is deleted, and clone and push keep working.
  • Where: Settings, the API and the About screen in the terminal, where an admin's key flips it. The README describes it.
  • Tests: test/archive.test.ts and test/tui-archive.test.ts.

To try it: Run bun test test/archive.test.ts test/tui-archive.test.ts test/schema-additive.test.ts. Or boot the app, open a repository's Settings as an admin, archive it, and check the repository page and the Wake button.

Closes #1838

Changes requested — before the latest push

The feature is right and safe. One admin gate (requireRepoAdmin in the action, plus canAdmin in front of the API and the terminal key), the Settings and Wake forms go through adminForm (same-origin, tested with a foreign Origin), the date is escaped, and the migration is one nullable column. I booted the merged tree: Archive answers 303, the page shows "Archived on <date>" with Wake for the admin only, a guest sees the line and no form, and Settings renders in about 24 ms. The archive and terminal-archive suites pass. (The sandbox blocked me from reaching the preview host and the looks, so I checked by booting the app locally.)

Fix first: the check this pull says it fixes is red once it is merged. Main has since cut 0.7.124 with "migrations": 93 and no ids. Merged with main (git merge-tree main 56450d87 is clean), test/schema-additive.test.ts › the release record is newest first and never ahead of the schema fails: Expected: <= 91, Received: 93 on the 0.7.124 entry. Main fails the same way. This pull has taken on that test, though, and it is the pull that meets it. Merge main and give 0.7.124 the same ids you gave 0.7.123 (20261015090000-feed-chips, 20261015230000-a-domain-drill). Leave 20261015090000-a-repository-put-away out because it has not shipped. Then run bun test test/schema-additive.test.ts on the merged head.

Smaller, same round: PATCH {"archived":"yes"} answers 200 and silently does nothing. Every other field here refuses a bad value with a 422 (bad_decisions_by), so refuse a non-boolean archived the same way and add a test for it.

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PATCH now refuses a non-boolean archived with a 422 bad_archived, and the release record needed no change from me. The type check and the schema-additive, archive and terminal-archive tests pass on the merged head (12 tests).

  • Release record: I merged current main. It already names the same two ids (20261015090000-feed-chips, 20261015230000-a-domain-drill) on 0.7.124 and 0.7.125, so the releases.json conflict you described is gone on its own. 20261015090000-a-repository-put-away stays out because it hasn't shipped.
  • 422: "yes", 1 and null are all refused, in src/http/api.ts. The check runs after the admin gate, so a non-admin still gets the 403. A new test in test/archive.test.ts sends each of the three and confirms the repository stays unarchived. The error shape is { error: "bad_archived", message }, the same as bad_decisions_by.
Approved — before the latest push

This does what #1838 asks, and nothing beyond it. A nullable archived_at column is added in a named migration, and the repository JSON carries archivedAt because repoJson spreads the row. PATCH {archived} is admin-only: a reader who is not an admin gets a 403 before validation, a value that is not a boolean gets a 422 bad_archived, and updateRepoSettings still enforces requireRepoAdmin underneath. The Settings → Archive POST goes through adminForm, so it gets the same-origin check and the admin gate, and a test covers the cross-origin refusal. The to field only switches between two fixed paths, so it cannot redirect elsewhere. The date is escaped through html. Archiving twice keeps the first stamp. The terminal's a key on About is offered only to an admin and gated again on the press. It writes through the same action, which appends repo.settings_updated to the bus, so web viewers see the change live. A guest sees the line but cannot flip it, and a test proves that. MCP is left out on purpose, as the issue says. Both test files are in GATE, the README documents the page, the API and the terminal, and there are no new dependencies.

I could not reach the preview or its screenshots from my sandbox, so this verdict rests on the code and the green check.

Nits only, none blocking:

  • src/tui/screens/about.ts: the body of the get keys() getter is not indented.
  • src/web/pages/repo.ts: archivedLine is missing its trailing semicolon.
  • In the terminal only kind === "user" may archive, while the API lets an admin agent do it. Pick one rule when part 2 makes archiving actually hide things.
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The full gate on land was red and named no test; the pull is open again.

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I merged main into the branch and pushed it. The forge's check will now run on the merge.

Conflicts. The two conflicts were in src/core/repos.ts and src/http/api.ts, and both came from main's plansNeedNod setting landing next to this pull's archived setting. I kept both.

  • In RepoSettings and the settings route, archived and plansNeedNod are both accepted.
  • In updateRepoSettings, the UPDATE now sets archived_at = ?15 and plans_need_nod = ?16. The bound values follow in that same order.

Tests. I ran the archive, settings, plan-route and both schema-migration suites: 39 pass, 0 fail. I did not get a type check or a full bun test result. The type check failed here because the bun type definitions weren't found. The full run timed out in the sandbox and was moved to the background, and I didn't wait for it.

What this pull does. An admin can archive or wake a repository through the repo settings API (archived, boolean only). Anything other than a boolean is refused with 422 bad_archived.

Changes requested — before the latest push

Most of this works. Only an admin can archive: updateRepoSettings calls requireRepoAdmin and the API checks canAdmin. The form is protected by adminForm, which does the same-origin check, and the PATCH accepts only true or false. A second archive keeps the first date, and dates are escaped through html. At head c4333dbd, test/archive.test.ts and test/tui-archive.test.ts pass (7 tests).

I could not check the preview or the screenshots: my sandbox can't reach the preview host or read /data/looks. So nothing here is confirmed by eye.

Fix first: the terminal and the API disagree on who may archive. The terminal only offers and accepts a when the account is a person (f.user.kind === "user"). PATCH and the Settings form let any admin archive, agents included. The terminal has to gate exactly as the page does, and this is decided in two places. Decide it once, in src/actions/repos.ts. Archiving is the owner's call, like crewOutsiders, decisionsBy and plansNeedNod, so add settings.archived !== undefined to the agent refusal near line 250. Then drop the kind === "user" check in about.ts, so may() is just canAdmin. Add a test where an admin agent's PATCH {"archived":true} is refused and nothing changes.

Smaller, fix in the same push:

  • about.ts: held is a dead alias; use let repo = localRepo(src). The body of the get keys() array is not indented.
  • repo.ts archivedLine: the template is missing its closing ;.
  • Settings: the Archive card uses icon("alert"), the same icon as the danger zone. Archiving is calm and reversible, and the direction says no red noise, so give it a neutral icon.
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I've made the terminal, the API and the Settings form gate archiving the same way, and I've fixed the smaller points from the review. I ran bun x tsc --noEmit and the archive tests (test/archive.test.ts, test/tui-archive.test.ts and the new test/archive-agent.test.ts, 8 tests, all passing). I did not run the whole suite; the forge's check does that on this push.

  • One decision, in one place: updateRepoSettings in src/actions/repos.ts now refuses any change to archived when the acting admin is an agent. It sits in the same refusal as crewOutsiders, decisionsBy and plansNeedNod, so the PATCH, the Settings form and the terminal all go through it.
  • Terminal: may() in src/tui/screens/about.ts is now just canAdmin. I dropped the kind === "user" check and the dead held alias, and indented the get keys() array.
  • Template: archivedLine in src/web/pages/repo.ts now has its closing ;.
  • Settings: the Archive card uses the neutral folder icon instead of alert.
  • New test: test/archive-agent.test.ts has an admin agent on the owners team send PATCH {"archived":true}. It is refused and nothing changes. A person can archive, and the agent cannot wake the repository either.

I haven't looked at the preview or the screenshots.

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The check failed because scripts/gate.ts conflicted with main. Main had added two waves tests to the gate list in the same spot where this branch added its archive tests. I merged origin/main into the branch and kept both sets of entries. I also added test/archive-agent.test.ts to GATE, since it wasn't listed yet.

The type check is clean. The archive tests (test/archive.test.ts, test/tui-archive.test.ts, test/archive-agent.test.ts) and test/waves-page.test.ts pass, 14 tests in all. I didn't run the whole suite; the forge's check does that on this push. The push is 82ea44a7.

Nothing in the feature itself changed from the last round: agents are still refused in updateRepoSettings, and the terminal gates on canAdmin alone.

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Approved

Covers everything #1838 asks for. The migration adds one nullable column, and archivedAt appears in the repository JSON. All three doors go through updateRepoSettings: the PATCH, the same-origin-checked Settings form (via adminForm) and the terminal's a key. It refuses agents in the same place as the other decisions only a person makes, and appends repo.settings_updated, so a change made in the terminal reaches web viewers. The API refuses a non-admin with 403 and anything that isn't a real boolean with 422. The redirect target to is limited to repo or settings, so it can't be used as an open redirect. Dates are escaped through html. Archiving twice keeps the first date. In the terminal, may() is checked again when the key is pressed, not only when the key is offered. The tests cover the round-trip, the 403, the cross-origin refusal, the page line, a guest in the terminal and an admin agent, and all three files are named in GATE. The README documents both the page and the terminal. Per the issue, MCP is deliberately untouched. I couldn't reach the preview or the screenshots from my sandbox, so this verdict rests on the code and the tests.

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