The paper agrees with the code — guide v11, README, DESIGN re-rulings, and the adjudicated sweep

Step 7 of strategy/01-git-excision.md, the companions. The agent guide bumps to v11: the Git section teaches repo-resident etiquette alone (stage only your own paths, commit your own changes, leave app-maintained files to the app) — existing boards heal to the new text on next open. README re-anchors: the four git feature bullets out, tiers say the complete Mac experience is free, and one bullet states the format's git-friendliness promise. The changelog drops the never-shipped git entries. DESIGN re-rules: 06 retired with Undo routing migrated to 13 (now the sole substrate's doc, seam kept open), 07 retired as written pending the ops-service workstream, 14 retired as superseded record, 12 carries the second pivot note, the index reflects all of it; the charter gets a pointer note (the anchors' full re-ruling stays with the user). InertGitTests renames to GitAgnosticStorageTests — the excision restores its original claim app-wide. And the sweep: ~70 comment sites across 36 files adjudicated against the keeper list, every present-tense description of the excised machinery made past tense or repointed, keepers untouched. 2,707 tests green.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014PtZdPwqZuqEDLc6wZMtEy

README.md

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Lanework is in early development. This list tracks what has actually shipped and
 
 - **Customizable toolbars** — both windows carry a real macOS toolbar: right-click ▸ Customize Toolbar…, drag to rearrange, the system overflow, and the Icon and Text / Icon Only / Text Only display options, with your arrangement remembered across launches. They are pure enhancement — every item is a menu command with a shortcut, so removing all of them costs you nothing but a click. The board ships with the search field alone, trailing, and offers New Card, New Lane, Zoom In, Zoom Out, Undo, Redo and Show Trash in the palette (Undo and Redo validate exactly as the Edit menu's rows do, and keep static labels because the menu's titles rewrite themselves); the board popover deliberately has no item, since the window-title chevron is its home. Take the search field out and ⌘F still summons search — the field appears in a strip just under the title bar and stays until the search clears, keeping the keyboard while you type. The card window ships Edit Body · Raw Source · Add Attachment, the first two as toggles showing their on-state, with Edit Body disabling while raw source is up and Add Attachment live in every mode.
 
-- **Undo** — ⌘Z and ⇧⌘Z are native macOS undo, per board: one stack owned by the board's session and shared by every window over it, so a card window's ⌘Z crosses the same step the board window's does, and another board's never does. Every app-mediated mutation registers an inverse at the write boundary — create, move, reorder, rename, restyle, resize, delete, and an Edit session's whole run of saves — with a restore registering as the ordinary move it is — one gesture to one step, named in the app's own vocabulary so the Edit menu reads "Undo Move 3 Cards" and the toolbar's twins light up and dim with it. Undoing is a real write, never an in-memory revert: it goes through the same atomic writer, echoes back through the watcher, and refreshes every window. Because the app is not the only writer, each step re-checks its target the moment you press ⌘Z — field by field, against what its own write left — and a step the disk has moved past is **skipped rather than applied**, with a quiet row saying which item changed outside Lanework, while ⌘Z falls through to the next step; a step that merely failed to write (a full disk, an unplugged volume) stays put to be retried. Permanent deletion and the duplicate-id repair are deliberately outside it — the confirmation is the safety — attachment add and remove register nothing in v1, and foreign edits never join the stack. The read-only lock disables Undo and Redo with every other mutating command and gives them back, stack intact, when it clears. The stack lives with the session and dies at close, standard macOS behaviour. This stack runs on every board without app-managed git; a git board binds git behind the same seam instead, without changing a keystroke — see "Undo as forward commits" below.
+- **Undo** — ⌘Z and ⇧⌘Z are native macOS undo, per board: one stack owned by the board's session and shared by every window over it, so a card window's ⌘Z crosses the same step the board window's does, and another board's never does. Every app-mediated mutation registers an inverse at the write boundary — create, move, reorder, rename, restyle, resize, delete, and an Edit session's whole run of saves — with a restore registering as the ordinary move it is — one gesture to one step, named in the app's own vocabulary so the Edit menu reads "Undo Move 3 Cards" and the toolbar's twins light up and dim with it. Undoing is a real write, never an in-memory revert: it goes through the same atomic writer, echoes back through the watcher, and refreshes every window. Because the app is not the only writer, each step re-checks its target the moment you press ⌘Z — field by field, against what its own write left — and a step the disk has moved past is **skipped rather than applied**, with a quiet row saying which item changed outside Lanework, while ⌘Z falls through to the next step; a step that merely failed to write (a full disk, an unplugged volume) stays put to be retried. Permanent deletion and the duplicate-id repair are deliberately outside it — the confirmation is the safety — attachment add and remove register nothing in v1, and foreign edits never join the stack. The read-only lock disables Undo and Redo with every other mutating command and gives them back, stack intact, when it clears. The stack lives with the session and dies at close, standard macOS behaviour. This stack is the app's only history substrate, and the provider seam it binds through is kept deliberately open — a future provider (the deferred foreign-change journal) re-binds without re-plumbing.
 
 - **The agent guide** — every board root carries a `CLAUDE.md` the app writes and keeps current: a condensed, agent-facing rendition of the schema — the folder layout, ordering arithmetic, creating and moving cards, the `.trash/` convention, `attachments/`, `modified-by` self-stamping, the colour and icon palettes, and the git etiquette — so any file-capable agent dropped into the folder already knows how to work the board. It is app-owned and version-gated by a marker in its first line: rewritten when missing or older, left byte-for-byte alone when current or newer, and re-checked on every reload, so a guide deleted or rolled back from outside heals by itself. A `CLAUDE.md` that isn't the app's is never clobbered — it moves to `CLAUDE.user.md` (the user's own extension point, which the app otherwise never touches), and if that name is taken the app simply doesn't write a guide. A symlink or folder wearing the name is moved aside — Finder-style, never destroyed, with a quiet row naming where it went — because the app owns that name; and a board on a read-only volume is skipped in silence: the guide is a courtesy and never an interruption.
 
@@ -59,14 +59,9 @@ Lanework is in early development. This list tracks what has actually shipped and
 
 - **App identity — icon, versioning, About** — the app carries its three-lane glyph icon and a real About window: icon, copyright, version and build stamped at build time from git (`CFBundleVersion` = commit count, plus `BuildDate` and `BuildHash` in the Info.plist — never a hardcoded string), the version line opening the bundled end-user changelog, and the ISC license one link away.
 
-- **Tiers, and the pivot away from gating git** — one app, one download, one on-disk format. **Git integration is tier-free** (DESIGN/12-editions.md ▸ PIVOT 2026-08-07 — git leaves the paywall): opt-in init and adoption, git-backed undo and history surfaces, and branches — everything below under "Git integration", "Auto-commit", "Undo as forward commits", "Branches and commit identity" and "A card's History" — run the same on any board that carries a repository, whichever tier the eventual base/Pro split turns out to mean; remotes and push/pull are still pro-m2's remaining work. The subscription machinery this used to gate — the entitlement (a **local read, never a network call**: StoreKit's own signed on-device transaction store, reduced to two cached facts and resolved by a pure function at board-session composition, with offline grace resolving toward the paying user), the provider seam, and the storefront — stays built and tested but **dormant**: Settings carries no Pro section, and no surface in the app names or sells Lanework Pro.
+- **Tiers** — one app, one download, one on-disk format, and **the complete Mac experience is free**: nothing on the board, in the format, or in agent legibility is gated. What Pro will eventually mean is the board beyond the Mac — the iPhone companion and the ops-based sync service, its own workstream — never a Mac feature. The subscription machinery built ahead of that split — the entitlement (a **local read, never a network call**: StoreKit's own signed on-device transaction store, reduced to two cached facts and resolved by a pure function at board-session composition, with offline grace resolving toward the paying user), the provider seam, and the storefront — stays built and tested but **dormant**: Settings carries no Pro section, and no surface in the app names or sells Lanework Pro.
 
-- **Git integration** — git is **opt-in per board and never silent**. A board's mode is detected freshly at every open, nearest-`.git`-wins: a `.git` at the board root means git mode, a `.git` only further up means the board lives inside somebody else's repository, and neither means no git at all. Detection is an open-time fact by design — a `git init` run in a terminal under an open board takes effect the next time you open it, and nothing watches for a repository appearing. **Adoption is not initialization**: a board whose folder already holds a repository (you cloned it, or you ran `git init` yourself) simply opens in git mode, with no dialog and no adoption step — the repository's presence *is* the opt-in, which is how a second machine joins a shared board. **Add Git** in the board popover is the only thing in the app that ever creates one: it initializes a repository in the board's folder and immediately commits the whole tree as "Initial board state", so the board is protected from the moment git exists, and it flips the open board into git mode on the spot. A board inside an existing repository is left strictly alone — no nested repository, no commits into your project — and the popover says so in plain words instead of showing a disabled button. The git client is **bundled** (libgit2, in-process via SwiftGitX): nothing here shells out, and none of it needs git installed. Git history also settles duplicate-id collisions on git boards — of two folders claiming one identity, the path that entered history first wins. Add Git also writes a minimal `.gitignore` — one line, `.DS_Store` — if the board hasn't got one, and it lands *inside* that first commit, so the Finder's droppings never enter history in the first place. That is the app's only word on the file: a board that already has one is left byte for byte alone, an adopted repository is seeded nothing at all, and nothing ever edits, appends to or restores it afterwards — it's yours from then on. **Repo growth is accepted, and never repaired by forgetting**: deleting a card removes it from the board but never from history, every version of every attachment stays reachable in any git client, and there is no compaction anywhere in the app because compaction would mean rewriting history. What the app does do is **safe housekeeping**: a board whose repository has accumulated enough loose objects gets them packed once, in the background, a while after opening — the same objects in a more compact form, with not one commit, ref, or byte of content altered, and every loose file proved to be readable out of the new pack before it is removed. It never runs beside a commit, never runs while another program holds the repository, and if it doesn't run it simply doesn't: there is no retry and nothing to see.
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-- **Auto-commit** — on a git board **every settled change becomes a commit**, debounced a couple of seconds past the churn of a drag or a burst of typing, so one gesture is one commit rather than forty. Agent and hand edits ride the same debounce, so work done in a terminal or by an agent is committed, attributed and undoable exactly like your own. What commits is the **tree**, not the app's model: strays, `CLAUDE.md` and anything else `git status` shows go in too (your `.gitignore` is respected), so a board is never left quietly dirty. **Commit authorship is structural**: the app knows, file by file, what it wrote and what it didn't, so your changes are authored as you while changes from outside are authored as `Lanework External <[email protected]>` — and when every file in an outside batch carries the same `modified-by:` stamp, that batch is authored as that agent instead. A window holding both kinds is split into two commits rather than mixed, outside changes first, and a scheduled repair's files commit separately again. Identity comes from the repository's own `.git/config` when it names one, and otherwise from your macOS account name and machine. **The card editor is the exception, deliberately**: its 700 ms saves keep the file crash-safe but stay uncommitted for the length of a session, and the body lands as exactly one commit when you leave Edit — so a lane move made while you're typing commits the move and steps around the card you're in. Closing a board window or quitting flushes everything pending before teardown, and a board opened with uncommitted changes commits them through the same engine. When another program holds the repository's index, the committer waits, retries briefly, and then simply tries again at the next quiet moment — never an error, and the lock is never removed, because it isn't the app's. A merge, rebase, cherry-pick or detached HEAD left by outside-the-app git **pauses** committing entirely rather than writing into a state the app didn't create; your edits keep landing on disk and commit as one batch when you've finished up in whichever tool started it. **What each commit says is composed, not templated**: at commit time the app diffs the board as HEAD has it against the board as it is now — never by watching what you clicked — and writes what actually happened. "Move card 'Fix login' to Doing". "Rename lane 'Todo' → 'Doing'". "Relabel card 'Fix login'". Items are matched by identity across the whole board, so a card dragged between lanes reads as a move rather than a deletion beside an addition, and a folder moved by hand in the Finder reads exactly the same. Several changes of one kind fold into one line with the destination kept ("Move 3 cards to Done"); a genuinely mixed batch reads "Update board" with every event listed underneath, so `git log --oneline` stays scannable and the full message stays complete. Deleting a lane says "Delete lane 'Todo'" with its cards as detail rather than burying the event in a count. The trash is told apart by shape alone: into `.trash/` is "Delete card 'X'", back out is "Restore card 'X'", and gone for good is "Permanently delete card 'X'" — so the log distinguishes moved-to-trash from gone-forever without being told which gesture you used. Files the board model doesn't cover are described too rather than silently swept in: a changed agent guide reads "Update agent guide (v7)", a comment gets its own verbs off its path shape — "Comment on 'Fix login'", "Edit comment on…", "Delete comment on…", and the quiet "Draft comment on…" for the composer's slow saves — and any other stray reads "Update 'notes.txt'". Bookkeeping stays out of it — a bumped timestamp, a rank rescale, or a backfilled key composes nothing. And because the origin of a change lives in the author field, **an agent's commit reads in exactly the same words as your own**. Still ahead in pro-m2: remotes and push/pull.
-- **Undo as forward commits** — on a git board ⌘Z and ⇧⌘Z stop being an in-memory stack and become the commit trail itself. There is no stored stack anywhere: **the stack *is* HEAD's first-parent ancestry**, re-read from the repository, so it survives relaunch for free and nothing beside the repo can ever drift from it. **A restore is a new commit, never a rewind** — no reset, no force, no rewritten history: ⌘Z materializes the earlier state and commits it as "Undo: Move card 'Fix login' to Doing", ⇧⌘Z as "Redo: …", and every commit you have ever made stays exactly where it was, inspectable in any git client. Only the *difference* is written, so a card you happen to be editing that the change never touched is simply left alone. Because the app is not the only writer, the stack re-reads HEAD before every keystroke: an agent that committed its own work in the last twenty minutes becomes the top of the stack, so ⌘Z steps back exactly one commit and can never silently swallow somebody else's session — and any commit arriving from anywhere clears redo, the classic rule. The app's own repairs are **transparent**: a heal commit is never a step and is never reverted by one, so a ⌘Z run walks past it instead of fighting the healer. Anything still pending commits *before* the restore does, so both versions of what you undid exist in the trail. When the change would land on a card you have open in Edit or Raw Source, the restore stops and asks — **Save All**, **Discard**, or **Cancel** — rather than silently committing text you hadn't saved or quietly writing it back a moment later; a raw buffer that won't validate cancels the whole thing and puts you in front of the window that refused. Undo is board-local, disabled while an outside-the-app merge or rebase has the repository paused, and absent altogether on boards the app manages no git for — where the Edit menu's rows and the toolbar's twins simply dim. Adding git to an open board turns it on there and then.
-- **Branches and commit identity** — the board popover's git section is where a git board's branches live: the current branch is itself the picker, and beside the local branches it offers create-and-switch, which starts the new branch at the commit you are on. **Switching is never silent.** If any card window is holding unsaved keystrokes, an open Edit session whose crash-safe saves no commit has yet, or an open raw-source buffer, the switch stops and asks — **Save All**, **Discard**, or **Cancel** — for *every* open window, not just the ones the checkout would touch, because an unapplied raw buffer would otherwise write the whole pre-switch file onto the new branch's card later on. Save All ends each session with its normal commit and applies each raw buffer; a buffer that won't validate cancels the whole switch and puts you in front of the window that refused, nothing half-switched. Discard puts both the buffers and their uncommitted on-disk saves back to the last commit. With the sessions settled the pending auto-commit flushes onto the branch you are **leaving**, so the checkout runs on a genuinely settled tree and cannot fail dirty — and the checkout itself is git's *safe* one, never a force: work the app somehow didn't settle refuses the switch rather than being overwritten. The switch is bracketed like every wholesale operation — the watcher suspended, one full reload at the end, an in-progress row saying "Switching to 'main'…" — and if that final reload fails, the board locks read-only until a reload succeeds rather than letting you edit a snapshot of the branch you just left. Undo and redo do not survive the switch: the stack is discarded and reseeded from the new branch's own history, with redo empty, because replaying a restore from the old branch onto the new one would be wrong. When another program holds the repository's index, the switch waits and retries quietly, the row changing to say it is waiting for another writer's git lock and eventually naming the lock file — never a dialog, and the lock is never removed, because it isn't the app's. **An interrupted switch cleans up after itself**: before touching the repository the app writes down what it is about to do — in its own state, never in your board and never inside `.git` — so a crash or an unplugged volume mid-switch is recognized at the next open, rolled back to the state you were in, and announced ("A branch switch was interrupted — the previous state is restored"); an unfinished merge or rebase that *isn't* the app's is still left strictly alone. Beneath the branches sit the **commit-identity** fields: what you type there is written to the repository's own `.git/config`, so the setting is the file — portable to any git client, per board, and what the next commit is signed with. Leave a field empty and it shows the derived default (your account name, and `you@yourmac`) as a placeholder rather than filling it in, because a value the app wrote there would quietly outrank your own global git config for that board. A config edited from outside while the popover is open refreshes the fields you aren't typing in and leaves the one you are alone.
-- **A card's History** — the card window's sidebar gains a read-only **History** section on git boards: every commit that touched that card, newest first, each row its own semantic subject over a relative date and the author who made it — so an agent's work and your own read as one story ("Move card 'Fix login' to Doing · 2 days ago · Claude"). It follows the card by identity rather than by path, so moving between lanes — or into the trash and back — keeps one continuous trail. Read-only in this version: restoring a single old version stays a git-client job. The section is simply absent on boards without app-managed git — no placeholder, no greyed-out promise.
+- **Git-friendly by construction** — the app never runs git, and the format never needs it to be versionable: one folder per item and one file per card, stable UUID folder names as permanent identity, byte-faithful rewrites that never churn what you didn't change, and a seeded one-line `.gitignore` keeping Finder droppings out of diffs — so a board versions cleanly under any tooling you already use (`git init` it, clone it, review board changes in pull requests) while the app reads along live and stays strictly out of `.git`. The app-managed git stack that once shipped here — auto-commit, undo as forward commits, branches, a card's History — was built and then excised before launch (strategy/01-git-excision.md, ruled 2026-08-08; the pre-excision state is tagged `pre-git-excision`).
 
 - **Lanework for iPhone (in development)** — a companion iOS app, second product rather than second edition (`dev.rzen.indie.KanbanMobile`), whose boards are the same `.kanban` folders in an iCloud Drive container (`iCloud.dev.rzen.indie.Kanban` — a folder the Mac's Finder shows as "Lanework", so the Mac app opens the same boards through the ordinary open panel today and can adopt the container natively later with no migration). It compiles the Mac app's storage engine *verbatim* — same loader, same writer, same byte-fidelity contract, so the two apps cannot drift on the format — and drives it from an `NSMetadataQuery` observer instead of FSEvents. The MVP surface: a Boards tab (boards → lanes → cards → card editor, with per-item download/materialization states honestly rendered), swipe actions to move a card between lanes or send it to `.trash/`, a card editor for title, body, and the typed style attributes (icon, icon color, background), and a Settings tab with an About section for the app's own changelog and license (IndieAbout). No git on the phone — the change signal is the container itself.