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AGENTS.md — GitWand AI Agent Rules

This file is read by all AI agents (Claude, Codex, Cursor, etc.) working on this repository. Follow every rule below exactly. When in doubt, ask rather than guess.

Monorepo Structure

apps/desktop/        — Tauri 2 + Vue 3 desktop git client
packages/core/       — TypeScript conflict-resolution engine
packages/cli/        — @gitwand/cli (Node.js CLI)
packages/mcp/        — @gitwand/mcp (MCP server)
packages/vscode/     — VS Code extension
scripts/             — Maintenance scripts (bump-version.sh, etc.)

Package manager: pnpm only (never npm, never yarn).

Security — Critical Rules

No shell string interpolation in git commands

Never build git commands via string interpolation. Always pass arguments as a discrete array or use .arg() chaining.

// WRONG
Command::new("git").arg(format!("checkout {}", branch_name))

// CORRECT
Command::new("git").args(["checkout", &branch_name])

Never bypass safe_repo_path()

apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/lib.rs contains safe_repo_path() which guards against path-traversal attacks. Every file-system operation on user-supplied paths must go through this function. Do not inline your own path validation.

Never log secrets

• API keys, tokens, and passwords must never appear in log output or in spawned process arguments.
• Strip environment variables that carry secrets before spawning any external process. Pass only the specific env vars the child process needs.

Version Management

Never edit version files by hand

The following files are managed automatically — do not touch them directly:

• package.json (any workspace)
• Cargo.toml
• apps/desktop/src-tauri/tauri.conf.json

Always use the bump script

./scripts/bump-version.sh X.Y.Z

This script aligns all version fields in one shot — desktop, core, cli, mcp, website, README, and HomeLanding.vue. It derives the current version from packages/core/package.json and replaces it everywhere.

Files bumped by the script:

• apps/desktop/package.json, src-tauri/Cargo.toml, src-tauri/tauri.conf.json
• packages/core/package.json, packages/cli/package.json, packages/mcp/package.json
• packages/mcp/server.json, packages/mcp/src/server.ts
• website/package.json, website/.vitepress/theme/HomeLanding.vue
• README.md

Independent versioning — VS Code only

packages/vscode is the only package with independent versioning. Its package.json is not touched by bump-version.sh — version it manually and publish via vsce.

Rust / Tauri — Binary Declaration

Secondary binaries in apps/desktop/src-tauri/ must be declared under [[example]] in Cargo.toml, never under [[bin]].

Reason: tauri-bundler automatically bundles every [[bin]] entry, which breaks the release build. The [[example]] section is ignored by the bundler.

# WRONG
[[bin]]
name = "parity-probe"
path = "src/bin/parity-probe.rs"

# CORRECT
[[example]]
name = "parity-probe"
path = "examples/parity-probe.rs"

Frontend Vue 3 — Conventions

Composition API only

All new components must use <script setup> (Composition API). Options API is not acceptable for new code.

Business logic belongs in composables

Extract reusable or non-trivial logic into apps/desktop/src/composables/. Components should stay thin — they orchestrate composables and handle template rendering only.

Settings must be kept in sync

App settings exist in two places that must always stay aligned:

1. apps/desktop/src/composables/useSettings.ts — AppSettings interface
2. apps/desktop/src/components/SettingsPanel.vue — local Settings interface

When adding a new settings field, add it to both files in the same commit.

Sanitize user-generated HTML

Any content derived from user input (PR descriptions, markdown rendered to HTML, commit messages displayed as HTML, etc.) must be sanitized with useSafeHtml.ts (DOMPurify wrapper) before being injected into the DOM.

Diff Parsing — Critical Gotcha

When classifying lines in a git diff, detect context lines by checking for a leading space character.

// WRONG — empty strings pass this test and become phantom context lines
if (!line.startsWith('\\')) { /* context line */ }

// CORRECT
if (line.startsWith(' ')) { /* context line */ }

This applies to both the TypeScript (packages/core) and Rust (apps/desktop/src-tauri) diff parsers. Both implementations must stay in sync.

Modal CSS — Specificity Rule

In apps/desktop/src/components/BaseModal.vue, the .bm-btn base class must remain at specificity (0,1,0) — a single class selector with no parent prefixes.

/* WRONG — raises specificity to (0,2,0), silently overrides modifiers */
.base-modal__footer .bm-btn { ... }

/* CORRECT */
.bm-btn { ... }
.bm-btn--primary { ... }
.bm-btn--danger { ... }

Never prefix .bm-btn with .base-modal__footer or any other ancestor selector. Doing so causes .bm-btn--primary and .bm-btn--danger to lose silently.

IPC — Tauri Commands

All Tauri commands (Rust → TypeScript bridge) are centralized in:

apps/desktop/src/utils/backend.ts

When adding a new #[tauri::command] in Rust, add its typed wrapper in backend.ts in the same PR. Never call invoke() directly from a component or composable — always go through backend.ts.

A command the frontend invokes must also have an entry in apps/desktop/src/utils/commandRegistry.ts, naming either its dev-server route or the reason it cannot have one. commandRegistry.test.ts fails otherwise.

This is not bookkeeping: pnpm dev:web runs dev-server.mjs, not the Rust backend, so a command with no route means manual QA silently tests something other than what ships. A broken glab flag survived in gl_merge_mr for exactly that reason.

Invoke with a string literal — tauriInvoke("git_status", …). A name built at runtime is invisible to the registry, and the guard refuses it.

Testing

Use real git repos in tests

Do not mock the git layer. Spin up a real temporary git repository in each test that needs one, and clean it up on teardown.

Parity tests — Rust backend vs Node dev-server

The parity probe (apps/desktop/src-tauri/examples/parity_probe.rs + the harness in apps/desktop/tests/parity/) verifies that git commands exposed by the Rust Tauri backend and their dev-server.mjs Node equivalents produce identical output (git-status, git-log, git-branches, …). Rule: every #[tauri::command] consumed by the frontend needs an equivalent dev-server route, and deterministic commands should get parity coverage.

The conflict-resolution engine itself is TypeScript-only (@gitwand/core) — there is no Rust resolution implementation to mirror. (Older revisions of this file claimed a Rust↔TS resolution parity probe; that was never what the probe covered — do not derive a "mirror resolution changes in Rust" obligation from it.)

Performance benchmarks

Located at packages/core/src/__tests__/bench.bench.ts. Run them when touching hot paths in the core engine and include results in the PR description if there is a regression risk.

i18n

GitWand supports 5 languages. Every user-visible string must have a key in all locale files.

Locale files live under apps/desktop/src/locales/. Do not hardcode any user-facing text directly in components.

Roadmap

roadmap.md at the repo root is the canonical product roadmap.

Before starting any non-trivial feature

Read roadmap.md first. Locate the relevant section (Shipped, In Progress, or Planned) to understand the intended scope, the already-decided design choices, and what has already been done. Do not re-design something that is already specified there.

When a feature ships (at tag time)

Move the item from its current section into the nearest Shipped block with the correct version, exactly as the release tag names it. Keep the entry concise — one line or a short bullet group.

If the shipped work introduces a new future dependency (a follow-up, a limitation to document, a next phase), add it to the appropriate planned section at the same time.

Changelog

Root CHANGELOG.md — source of truth

CHANGELOG.md at the repo root is the authoritative release history. It follows Keep a Changelog format:

## [Unreleased]

## [X.Y.Z] - YYYY-MM-DD
### Added / Changed / Fixed / …
- entries…

Every release tag must have a corresponding entry here, written before git tag vX.Y.Z is run. Never tag without updating the CHANGELOG first.

website/changelog.md — narrative mirror

website/changelog.md is the public-facing changelog on the marketing site. It uses an editorial/narrative format (prose sections, not raw bullet lists) rather than the technical Keep-a-Changelog format. It must cover every version from v0.0.1 forward — full history, no truncation.

Rules:

• Update website/changelog.md in the same commit as CHANGELOG.md, at every tag. The two files must stay in sync.
• Remove phantom versions (versions absent from the root CHANGELOG.md).
• The editorial content can be richer than the root CHANGELOG, but must never contradict it.
• The frontmatter block (title, description) must be preserved.

Monorepo Commands

# Build all workspaces
pnpm -r run build

# Test all workspaces
pnpm -r run test

# Add a dependency to a specific workspace
pnpm --filter @gitwand/core add some-package

Browser-compatibility constraint for packages/core

packages/core must remain compatible with browser environments. Do not introduce Node.js-only modules (e.g., fs, path, child_process) as dependencies of this package.