|**Scope**| A self-hosted forge for Oxygen repositories: hosting, browsing, review, issues, releases, an HTTP API and webhooks, and the integration point for a runner. It works like GitHub where GitHub is right and differs where the commutative model makes something better possible. |
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The visual language follows the RetroPlay Network's shape (dark by default, `Barlow` for text and `Press Start 2P` for the wordmark and first columns, square corners, thin `--line` rules, a `--panel` header and footer, a full-width `--band` navigation bar with the active tab underlined in `--acc`) with the palette taken from the Oxygen mark shared with the VS Code extension: the mark's cyan `#00F0FF` to blue `#0072FF` gradient on `#070c18`, so `--acc` is cyan, `--acc-2` blue, and the band a deep blue. The mark itself is the logo in the header, the footer and the favicon; the wordmark beside it reads OXYGEN**HUB**. The stylesheet starts from `retroplay-manager/templates/style.css` lines 1–171 (tokens, shell, band, tabs, main, tables, forms, footer) and adds forge components; the store, showcase and game components are not carried over.
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Per repository and per organisation: a URL, a secret, an event selection, active flag, and delivery log with redelivery. Payloads are JSON with `X-Oxyhub-Event`, `X-Oxyhub-Delivery`, and `X-Oxyhub-Signature: blake3-keyed=<hex>` computed as keyed BLAKE3 over the body. Events: `push` (reference updated: old and new state, heads, changes), `proposal` (opened, edited, review requested, landed, closed, conflicted), `review`, `comment`, `issue`, `release`, `check`, `policy`. Deliveries retry with backoff up to 24 hours.
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A **check** is a result attached to a state hash: name, status (`queued`, `running`, `passed`, `failed`, `cancelled`, `skipped`), a summary, a URL, timing, and an optional signed **seal** from the checker's key over the changes in that state, which makes a passed check a verifiable object. Checks are created through the API (`POST /repos/{o}/{n}/checks`) by any token with `checks:write`, so any CI system can report, and required checks for landing (§7.4) are matched by name against the projected state's hash. The proposal page streams check status updates over server-sent events.
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1.**Pipelines are typed, validated documents, not templated YAML.** The definition lives in the repository (`.oxy/ci/*.kdl`), has a schema, and is validated by `oxyrun check` and by the hub on push before anything runs. Errors point at a line. There is no string templating stage; parameters are typed values.
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2.**Same execution locally and remotely.**`oxyrun` runs the pipeline on a laptop in the same OCI container image with the same inputs and produces the same result. "Works on CI but not here" is a bug in the runner.
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3.**Content-addressed steps and images.** A step references an action by an Oxygen state hash or a Git SHA, never a mutable tag; images by digest. The hub refuses a definition that pins nothing. Actions are ordinary Oxygen repositories with signed tags, so `uses` is verifiable.
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4.**Proposals from outsiders run with no secrets.** There is no `pull_request_target`. Secrets are bound to named environments; an environment lists who may deploy to it and whether a proposal may use it, and using one from a proposal needs an explicit approval by a maintainer on that projected state.
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5.**Results are seals.** A green job is a seal over the state's changes signed by the runner's key, admitted by policy as a checker. It is the same object §13.1 stores, verifiable by any client offline.
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A repository may enable a **Git mirror**: on every landing on selected bookmarks the hub runs `oxy git export` into `<data>/mirrors/<owner>/<name>.git` and serves it read-only over Git's smart HTTP protocol at `/{owner}/{name}.git` (implemented with the `git` binary's `http-backend` behind the hub's authorization, since reimplementing pack negotiation is not the product). This lets GitHub Actions runners, IDEs and tooling that only speak Git read hosted Oxygen repositories. Pushing to a mirror is refused with a message pointing at `oxy`.
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CSRF: every unsafe form carries a token bound to the session (`HMAC(cookie_key, "csrf:" || session mac)`), and the `Origin` header is checked when present. Cookies are `HttpOnly`, `SameSite=Lax`, `Secure` over HTTPS. Content Security Policy: `default-src 'self'`, no inline scripts except the theme snippet by hash, `img-src 'self' data:`; rendered Markdown is sanitised by ammonia with an allow-list; rendered HTML files are never served inline (raw file responses use `Content-Disposition: attachment` and `X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff`) except images with sniffed, allow-listed types. Path parameters are validated before touching the file system; paths inside repositories are resolved against the object store, never the disk.
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1.**Bare repositories.**`Repo::open_bare(dir)`: open a `.oxy/` with no workspace; refuse working-copy operations with a clear error. `oxy init --bare`.
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|**0.2 Accounts and access**| Registration, sessions, TOTP, profile, organisations and teams, roles, visibility, tokens, linked identities with challenge, pushes log, settings pages, audit log | Pushes are attributed to linked keys; a private repository is invisible to outsiders |
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|**0.4 Issues and notifications**| Issues, labels, milestones, cross references, templates, inbox, email, watching, mentions, search over issues and proposals | — |
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|**0.5 API, webhooks, checks**|`/api/v1` complete for every page, `hub-api` crate, webhooks with delivery log, checks with seals, required checks, SSE status | The VS Code extension can list proposals and checks through the API |
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|**0.6 Web edits, releases, mirror**| CodeMirror editing and new file with delegate signing, browser conflict resolution, releases with assets and archives, Git mirror over smart HTTP, code search | A GitHub Actions job can clone a hosted repository over the mirror |
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1.**Seal signing UX.** Requiring `oxy seal` from a client for every approval is honest but slower than a button. A browser-held signing key (WebAuthn `prf` extension deriving an Ed25519 key) could sign approvals in the browser with hardware backing; ML-DSA-65 in the browser is heavier. Decide after 0.3 ships with the client flow.
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2.**Delegate key custody.** One hub key delegated to by many users means one key whose compromise lets an attacker sign as any of them (still subject to policy and to each user's revocation). Per-user delegate keys held by the hub would narrow that blast radius at the cost of a key per user. Decide before 0.6.
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