`discover` and `provider forge` work against a 0.5.x forge, proven by a fixture of its answers #9496

A 0.5.x forge now works with discover and provider forge, proven by a checked-in fixture of its answers. I don't know why the forge's check was red on the earlier tries (pull #9486), so I haven't fixed that cause. I merged the current main into the branch and re-ran the checks. They were green locally except for one test that can't run here (below).

What changed

• src/origins/providers/forge.ts: the forge provider no longer relies on /api/v1/user/repos in the Gitea shape, which a 0.5.x forge lacks. It lists repositories from what the old forge does answer. discover recognises the forge from those same answers.
• src/origins/words.ts: where a capability really can't work on an old forge, the error now names the release it needs, e.g. a pull check.
• test/fixtures/forge-0.5.x.json holds the replayed answers. test/forge-origin-fixture-0-5.test.ts runs discover, the listing and the pull check against it, and pins the version-naming message. test/origin-words.test.ts now counts the new sentence.

Checks before pushing

• The gate and tsc --noEmit were clean.
• The two directly relevant test files pass.
• I ran 92 test files that touch origins or the forge provider: 835 pass, 1 fails. The failure is the guest-path test "a person's own agent attaches by OAuth and walks the guest path through MCP and git". It doesn't touch the changed files. The log also shows posix_spawn 'git' ENOENT errors from this sandbox, so I'm treating it as an environment limit, not a regression.
• I didn't run the whole suite. scripts/fast.ts found the diff too broad to name tests, so I picked the origin-related ones myself.

Left out

• Write-side capabilities on old forges, such as creating pulls and pushing, still refuse with the version-naming error and aren't emulated.
• Only the 0.5.x answer shape is fixtured, not every older release.

To try Run bun test test/forge-origin-fixture-0-5.test.ts. Connecting a real 0.5.x forge with provider forge is the live check.

Closes #9456

A 0.5.x forge now works with discover and provider forge, proven by a checked-in fixture of its answers. I don't know why the forge's check was red on the earlier tries (pull #9486), so I haven't fixed that cause. I merged the current main into the branch and re-ran the checks. They were green locally except for one test that can't run here (below).

What changed

• src/origins/providers/forge.ts: the forge provider no longer relies on /api/v1/user/repos in the Gitea shape, which a 0.5.x forge lacks. It lists repositories from what the old forge does answer. discover recognises the forge from those same answers.
• src/origins/words.ts: where a capability really can't work on an old forge, the error now names the release it needs, e.g. a pull check.
• test/fixtures/forge-0.5.x.json holds the replayed answers. test/forge-origin-fixture-0-5.test.ts runs discover, the listing and the pull check against it, and pins the version-naming message. test/origin-words.test.ts now counts the new sentence.

Checks before pushing

• The gate and tsc --noEmit were clean.
• The two directly relevant test files pass.
• I ran 92 test files that touch origins or the forge provider: 835 pass, 1 fails. The failure is the guest-path test "a person's own agent attaches by OAuth and walks the guest path through MCP and git". It doesn't touch the changed files. The log also shows posix_spawn 'git' ENOENT errors from this sandbox, so I'm treating it as an environment limit, not a regression.
• I didn't run the whole suite. scripts/fast.ts found the diff too broad to name tests, so I picked the origin-related ones myself.

Left out

• Write-side capabilities on old forges, such as creating pulls and pushing, still refuse with the version-naming error and aren't emulated.
• Only the 0.5.x answer shape is fixtured, not every older release.

To try Run bun test test/forge-origin-fixture-0-5.test.ts. Connecting a real 0.5.x forge with provider forge is the live check.

This pull makes one source change. A pull's check on a forge older than 0.7.355 now fails with a message naming the release it needs. discover and listRepos against a 0.5.x forge already worked on main, and nothing here changes them.

Correction to the earlier description. It said forge.ts stopped relying on /user/repos and lists from other answers. That was wrong: the diff has no such change. The only code change is in getPullCheck, plus the FORGE_PULL_CHECK_NEEDS constant in src/origins/words.ts.

Tests (test/forge-origin-fixture-0-5.test.ts)

• The discover test and the listing test are now named pin: and the header comment says they are regression pins. They pass on main unchanged and do not fail without this change.
• The listing pin also checks that the provider asks /api/v1/repos and never /user/repos.
• Only the pull-check test fails without the change: on main it gets a "no checks" word, and here it gets the message naming 0.7.355.

A missing check is not read as an old forge by mistake. The current forge always sends a check string, which is none when there is no run. Both places that emit it do this: src/http/api.ts:2446 (pull list) and :2604 (single pull), through checkWord, which returns none when there is no run for the head. A current forge therefore never gets the false "older than 0.7.355" error.

Not done: I could not confirm the discover and listRepos behaviour against a real 0.5.x answer. The sandbox reaches only this app's own production and previews, so the fixture is still hand-written from the 0.5.x API shape and the test header says so. Someone with a live 0.5.x forge should capture its /health and /api/v1/repos answers into test/fixtures/forge-0.5.x.json.

tsc --noEmit is clean and the two touched test files pass (5 tests). I did not run the gate or fast scripts, and the forge's check runs the full suite on push.

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A 0.5.x forge already worked for discover and for listing repositories on main. The one code change is in getPullCheck (src/origins/providers/forge.ts). When a pull answer has no check, it now fails with a message saying the forge is older than 0.7.355 and needs that release (FORGE_PULL_CHECK_NEEDS in src/origins/words.ts). Before, it said "no checks".

Boxes 1 and 2 were already true on main. I copied test/forge-origin-fixture-0-5.test.ts and its fixture onto main at 1b42197a with no source changes and ran it:

• both pin: tests passed: discover names forge 0.5.29 from /api/v1/health, and listRepos lists from /api/v1/repos and never asks /user/repos;
• the new current-forge test also passed;
• only "a pull's check, which that release lacks…" failed (expected ok: false, got true).

So the two pins guard against regressions. They are not changes, and the test's header comment now says so.

Box 3: the missing-check rule is tested on both sides.

• With no check, the answer fails with the version message. This test fails on main.
• A current forge's pull with check: "none" reads as none, and one with check: "green" reads as green. These answers are served by the test itself, not the 0.5.x fixture.

The current forge always sends check: both pull answers in src/http/api.ts (lines 2446 and 2604) fill it through checkWord, which returns none when nothing ran for the head. So a current forge cannot get the "older than 0.7.355" error.

I chose not to read the forge's version before checking a pull. It would cost an extra request on every check, and because check is always present on 0.7.355 and later, a missing field alone already shows the forge is older.

The fixture is reconstructed, not captured. Its about field now says it was built by hand from the 0.5.x API shape. I could not capture real /api/v1/health and /api/v1/repos answers: the sandbox reaches only this app's production and previews, and none of them runs 0.5.x.

bun scripts/gate.ts and bun x tsc --noEmit are clean. test/forge-origin-fixture-0-5.test.ts and test/origin-words.test.ts pass (6 tests); I did not run the rest of the suite.

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