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Blog: SAMA meets git, plus the build log it came out of

The post is the meta-demonstration of the previous commit: it tells
the story of building a self-hosted CMS that commits to real git
without ever touching the Forgejo HTTP API or shipping a .git
working tree into the container. It was itself committed via the
CMS during the build (the e2e suite proves the round-trip).

cms-forgejo-plan.md: the up-front plan document with the failure
matrix (Forgejo-first / FS-second, conflict / auth / network /
not_found / other) that drove the implementation.

cms-build-log.md: ten SAMA tensions encountered during the build,
each with the workaround we picked and a candidate refinement to
SAMA itself. Two led to concrete proposals (Modeled exemption for
I/O-only c14 files; boundary-contract discriminated unions).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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1+# CMS ↔ Forgejo build log — SAMA tensions encountered
2+
3+A diary of moments where building the self-hosted CMS-with-real-git-commits
4+made the SAMA convention either *help us instantly* or *fail to have an
5+opinion*. Written as we built [c14 commitFile + c21 admin-fork wire-in],
6+not after the fact.
7+
8+## Tension 1 — c14 has no sibling test, by design
9+
10+**Where it bit:** I added `commitFile()` and `getFileSha()` to
11+[c14_forgejo.ts](src/c14_forgejo.ts). Those are mutations against an
12+external service. SAMA's Modeled rule says *"every behaviour has a
13+test file as its sibling"*. But `c14_forgejo.test.ts` would either
14+need a real Forgejo (turns the unit suite into an integration suite)
15+or a mocked `fetch` global (couples the test to implementation
16+details, not behaviour).
17+
18+**What I did:** Split the work. The pure parts — message format,
19+noreply email shape — moved into [c31_forgejo_commit.ts](src/c31_forgejo_commit.ts)
20+with a real sibling test [c31_forgejo_commit.test.ts](src/c31_forgejo_commit.test.ts).
21+The c14 wrapper itself stays untested at unit level.
22+
23+**Candidate SAMA refinement:** Modeled needs a sub-rule for c14:
24+> A c14_*.ts file is exempt from the sibling-test rule when its
25+> entire body is HTTP request construction + response parsing. Its
26+> coverage comes from (a) c31 sibling tests for any pure helpers,
27+> and (b) integration tests separately marked (`*.contract.test.ts`
28+> or e2e Playwright). Without this carve-out, the rule pushes I/O
29+> into mocks, which test the mock more than the I/O.
30+
31+## Tension 2 — failure semantics for cross-boundary mutations
32+
33+**Where it bit:** Admin POST does two writes — Forgejo commit AND
34+local filesystem. SAMA prescribes *which layer* (c14 for HTTP, c21
35+for compositions, c13 for the SQLite proposal row), but is silent
36+on **what order** and **how to roll back when one succeeds and the
37+next fails**. There's no SAMA letter for "transactional intent".
38+
39+**What I did:** Added a per-failure-mode discriminated union
40+([c14_forgejo.ts ForgejoCommitOutcome](src/c14_forgejo.ts)) so the
41+handler can render a useful error per kind: `conflict | not_found |
42+auth | network | other`. Chose Forgejo-first / FS-second deliberately
43+— Forgejo's contents API is the synchronous source of truth, FS is
44+a derived view. Documented the matrix in
45+[cms-forgejo-plan.md](cms-forgejo-plan.md).
46+
47+**Candidate SAMA refinement:** Add a doctrine — not a layer letter,
48+but a discipline:
49+> **Boundary contracts.** Any function that crosses a process or
50+> network boundary returns a discriminated-union outcome, never an
51+> exception, and never a bare boolean. Failure kinds are part of
52+> the type, the renderer per kind is one switch in c51.
53+
54+This isn't strictly a SAMA layer rule — it's an idiom. But the
55+absence of it made me reach for try/catch in the handler, which is
56+the wrong layer for "what does conflict mean to the user".
57+
58+## Tension 3 — types-with-data-source vs types-with-pure-logic
59+
60+**Where it bit:** `ForgejoCommitOutcome` lives in c14_forgejo.ts.
61+`CommitMessageInput` lives in c31_forgejo_commit.ts. Both describe
62+"a Forgejo commit" — but one is the I/O surface, the other is the
63+input we shape. The c21 handler imports from both. Felt wrong but
64+also unavoidable.
65+
66+**What I did:** Followed the existing codebase pattern — types
67+travel with the data source (c13_database.ts owns ProposalRow,
68+c14_forgejo.ts owns the response shape, c31 owns the inputs we
69+parse). Resisted the urge to make a c31_forgejo_types.ts barrel.
70+
71+**SAMA verdict:** No refinement needed. The current pattern is
72+internally consistent — types live with whoever first defines them,
73+imports are explicit. A barrel would have been less honest. SAMA's
74+"no barrel re-exports" rule already covers this case if you take
75+its spirit seriously.
76+
77+## Tension 4 — schema migration without an `IF NOT EXISTS`
78+
79+**Where it bit:** Added a `forgejo_commit_sha` column to the
80+existing `proposals` table. SQLite has no
81+`ALTER TABLE … ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS`. The pre-existing pattern
82+in [c13_database.ts](src/c13_database.ts) is `CREATE TABLE IF NOT
83+EXISTS …` at startup — purely additive, no migrations. This is
84+the first time we needed to evolve a table.
85+
86+**What I did:** Read `PRAGMA table_info(proposals)`, check column
87+names, only `ALTER` if the column is missing. Idempotent across
88+container restarts and across rebuilds with old data volumes.
89+
90+**Candidate SAMA refinement:** c13 layer needs a discipline note:
91+> **Migration is additive.** Schema changes go in a `migrations`
92+> block of `getDb()` after the `CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS` block,
93+> guarded by a PRAGMA probe (or `sqlite_master` query). Never
94+> destructive. Never renames. If you need a rename, it's two
95+> migrations: add the new column, deprecate the old one.
96+
97+This is a one-liner addition to the Architecture page (c13's
98+contract).
99+
100+## Tension 5 — the deploy script is now lying
101+
102+**Where it bit:** `deploy-tdd-md.sh` rsyncs the dev working tree to
103+p620 and rebuilds the image. Now that admin edits commit to
104+git.tdd.md, the *next* deploy will overwrite those commits with
105+whatever's in dev's working tree. The container is briefly the
106+canonical source between admin save and next deploy. Then dev's
107+working tree wins.
108+
109+**What I did:** Documented this as out-of-scope in
110+[cms-forgejo-plan.md](cms-forgejo-plan.md). Surfaced it in the
111+applied-live page copy ("Until then, sync your local working tree
112+with `git pull` before the next `deploy-tdd-md.sh`"). Did **not**
113+fix the deploy script in this PR — that's a workflow decision, not
114+a code change.
115+
116+**Candidate SAMA refinement:** None — this is operational, not a
117+SAMA-layer issue. But it does point at a missing piece in the
118+project's *story*: there's no diagram of "where the truth lives at
119+each second of a request → deploy → restart cycle". A
120+state-diagram in plan.md or a guides/ page would help.
121+
122+## Tension 6 — same-process self-reference
123+
124+**Where it bit:** c21 handler calls c14 (Forgejo PUT). Forgejo lives
125+on the same physical box (host.containers.internal). When it
126+returns success, c21 also writes the same file to the local FS.
127+We're now writing the same bytes twice through different paths,
128+and they could disagree if Forgejo did something weird (LF/CRLF,
129+trailing newline normalisation). SAMA doesn't tell us where to
130+verify they agree.
131+
132+**What I did:** Trusted Forgejo to round-trip UTF-8 verbatim. Added
133+no read-after-write check. If this becomes a source of bugs we'd
134+add a c32 helper `verifyCommittedContent(sha, expected)` that
135+re-reads via `getFileSha` + a contents fetch.
136+
137+**SAMA verdict:** Doesn't need a layer rule. Add to the c14 doctrine
138+note: "external services own their own normalisation; if you care
139+about exact bytes, verify via a follow-up read".
140+
141+## Tension 7 — SAMA doesn't tell you to read the API docs first
142+
143+**Where it bit:** I assumed Forgejo's contents API was upsert-on-PUT
144+like GitHub. Wrong. Forgejo requires `POST` for create (no SHA),
145+`PUT` for update (SHA mandatory). First admin POST returned a
146+422 "[SHA]: Required" we then surfaced as "other" failure.
147+
148+**What I did:** Branch on `priorSha === null` in
149+[c14_forgejo.commitFile](src/c14_forgejo.ts) — POST when null, PUT
150+when set. Two-line fix.
151+
152+**SAMA verdict:** Not a SAMA problem. SAMA prescribes structure,
153+not external-service semantics. The c14 layer is the right place
154+for this knowledge to live (and it does, in the wrapper). The
155+lesson is generic: c14 contracts must encode every quirk of the
156+service they wrap, because no other layer is allowed to know.
157+
158+## Tension 8 — HTTP status codes through a CDN
159+
160+**Where it bit:** I returned `502 Bad Gateway` for "Forgejo is
161+unreachable" failures. Cloudflare (our CDN front) replaced our
162+HTML body with its own 502 error page template, so the admin saw
163+a Cloudflare error instead of our diagnostic. The handler did
164+exactly the right thing in HTTP-purist terms; the user-visible
165+result was wrong.
166+
167+**What I did:** Switched to `200 OK` for non-conflict commit
168+failures (kept `409` for conflict because that's actionable client-
169+side and CDNs don't intercept 4xx). The HTML body carries the
170+error semantics; the status code is just for routing.
171+
172+**Candidate SAMA refinement:** Add a c21 doctrine note:
173+> When the site sits behind a CDN that intercepts 5xx responses,
174+> render handler-generated error pages with `200 OK` (or with
175+> a 4xx the CDN passes through). Never let a synthetic 5xx
176+> compete with a real upstream 5xx for the user's attention.
177+
178+This is operational/CDN-specific so it might not belong in SAMA
179+proper. A `guides/cloudflare-and-handlers.md` page would be more
180+honest than expanding SAMA itself.
181+
182+## Tension 9 — "we don't depend on Forgejo" required actually proving it
183+
184+**Where it bit:** The previous iteration committed via Forgejo's HTTP
185+contents API. Operationally fine, but the system *did* depend on
186+Forgejo being reachable. To prove genuine independence we replaced
187+the Forgejo write-path with a local bare repo + `git` plumbing inside
188+the container.
189+
190+**What I did:** Added [c14_git.ts](src/c14_git.ts) which shells out
191+to `git` against `/app/repo` (a bind-mount of `~/repos/tdd.md.git`
192+on p620). Plumbing chain per commit:
193+`hash-object → read-tree (temp index) → update-index → write-tree
194+→ commit-tree → update-ref` with the parent SHA as the expected
195+old-value for free optimistic concurrency. The pure parts (commit
196+metadata format, ls-tree output, log-format string) live in
197+[c31_git_parse.ts](src/c31_git_parse.ts) with 11 sibling tests.
198+
199+**The proof:** Two Playwright tests:
200+1. [git-native-proof.spec.ts](e2e/git-native-proof.spec.ts) saves a
201+ marker via the editor, then SSH's into p620 and reads the bare
202+ repo HEAD — must equal the SHA the editor reported. Confirmed:
203+ bare repo advanced (`bb9c023`), Forgejo HEAD stayed at `526fa16`.
204+2. [git-native-forgejo-down.spec.ts](e2e/git-native-forgejo-down.spec.ts)
205+ stops `forgejo.service` via systemd, performs an admin edit, and
206+ verifies the commit lands. The test passes only if Forgejo is
207+ genuinely off the edit path. Confirmed: commit `eb1d791` landed
208+ while Forgejo was returning HTTP 000.
209+
210+**SAMA verdict:** No new violations, and the layer hygiene actually
211+stayed clean *because* the Modeled exemption from tension 1 was
212+already the pattern — c14_git is a shell-out wrapper, c31_git_parse
213+holds the pure helpers with sibling tests. We applied the rule
214+that emerged from the previous build to the next layer that needed
215+it. That's the discipline working.
216+
217+## Tension 10 — naming drift after a refactor
218+
219+**Where it bit:** `c31_forgejo_commit.ts` no longer talks about
220+Forgejo — it owns commit-message format and noreply email shape,
221+which c14_git uses just as well. Filename was a lie.
222+
223+**What I did:** Renamed to `c31_commit_meta.ts` (+ `.test.ts`).
224+One-import update in c21_handlers_edit.ts. SAMA's "the number is
225+the layer; the layer is the contract" doctrine doesn't strictly
226+require accurate names — it requires accurate prefixes — but the
227+spirit is that file names communicate intent. Drift after refactor
228+is a small but real form of debt.
229+
230+**Candidate SAMA refinement:** Note in the Atomic doctrine that
231+when a file's contents diverge from its name during a refactor, a
232+rename is part of the refactor, not optional polish.
233+
234+## Summary — what would I add to SAMA after this PR?
235+
236+Two concrete additions:
237+
238+1. **Modeled exemption for I/O-only c14 files.** Sibling-test rule
239+ carves out a path: pure helpers extracted to c31, the I/O
240+ wrapper itself can stand alone with integration coverage.
241+2. **Boundary-contract idiom.** Cross-process functions return a
242+ typed discriminated union, not a thrown exception. The renderer
243+ layer (c51) handles each kind explicitly.
244+
245+Two doctrine notes (not new letters):
246+
247+3. **c13 migrations are additive + probe-guarded.** Never
248+ destructive in-place, never renames.
249+4. **Source-of-truth state diagram.** Document where the canonical
250+ bytes live at each step of write → commit → deploy → restart so
251+ future contributors don't have to reverse-engineer it.
252+
253+The four SAMA letters (Sorted, Architecture, Modeled, Atomic) held
254+up. They don't *cover* every situation — the gaps above are real —
255+but they didn't force us into bad shapes either. The discipline
256+held; the doctrine needs a few footnotes.
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1+# CMS ↔ Forgejo integration as a SAMA stress-test
2+
3+## Goal
4+
5+Make every admin direct-write a real git commit in `git.tdd.md/syntaxai/tdd.md`,
6+without putting a `.git` working tree, ssh keys, or the `git` binary's repo-write
7+capabilities inside the container. The container only ever speaks HTTP to Forgejo
8+(which it already does for users/repos/webhooks). This closes the loop: admin
9+edits become permanent in git automatically, no manual download-patch-and-commit
10+bridge required.
11+
12+## Architecture delta
13+
14+```
15+BEFORE AFTER
16+admin POST /edit/... admin POST /edit/...
17+ → Bun.write content/...md ←┐ → Bun.write content/...md
18+ → SQLite proposal=approved │ → fetch Forgejo PUT contents
19+ → render "applied live" │ → real commit in syntaxai/tdd.md
20+ │ → SQLite proposal=approved + sha
21+ manual: download patch ─────┘ → render "applied live + commit"
22+ manual: git commit on dev
23+ manual: deploy
24+```
25+
26+Layer touchpoints:
27+
28+| Layer | File | Change |
29+|---|---|---|
30+| c14 | `c14_forgejo.ts` | + `getFileSha()`, + `commitFile()` |
31+| c31 | `c31_forgejo_commit.ts` (new) | input/result types + validator |
32+| c31 | `c31_forgejo_commit.test.ts` (new) | sibling test |
33+| c13 | `c13_database.ts` | + `forgejo_commit_sha` column on proposals + setter |
34+| c21 | `c21_handlers_edit.ts` | call commitFile in admin fork |
35+| c51 | `c51_render_edit.ts` | show commit SHA + Forgejo URL on applied-live + admin detail |
36+
37+## Failure semantics (the bit SAMA didn't have an opinion on)
38+
39+Order: **Forgejo first, filesystem second**. Trade ~150ms latency for guaranteed
40+consistency. Reasons:
41+
42+1. Forgejo's `PUT contents` requires the previous SHA → free optimistic
43+ concurrency. If two admin tabs save concurrently, the second one fails with
44+ 409, we surface a "conflict — refresh and retry" message.
45+2. If we wrote FS first and Forgejo failed, we'd have a live-but-uncommitted
46+ change that vanishes at the next deploy. That recreates the exact problem
47+ we're trying to eliminate.
48+3. The container is the single writer. No one else touches the repo from the
49+ admin path, so reading-the-SHA / writing-with-the-SHA is a tight loop with
50+ no contention.
51+
52+Failure matrix:
53+
54+| Forgejo result | Filesystem step | Proposal status | UI |
55+|---|---|---|---|
56+| 200/201 | execute write | `approved` + commit_sha | "applied live · commit `<sha>`" |
57+| 409 conflict | skip | `pending` (kept for retry) | "conflict — content changed elsewhere; refresh" |
58+| 5xx / network | skip | `pending` | "Forgejo unreachable; queued for retry" |
59+| 4xx other | skip | `pending` | "Forgejo rejected: `<message>`" |
60+
61+## Implementation steps (in order)
62+
63+1. **c14_forgejo.commitFile()** — pure HTTP wrapper, no business logic.
64+ Returns `{ ok: true, sha } | { ok: false, status, message }`.
65+2. **c31_forgejo_commit.ts** — typed input contract + validator + a parser
66+ that turns Forgejo's response shape into the typed result. Gets a sibling
67+ test that uses fetch-mocking via `mock.module` or a small interface.
68+3. **c13_database** — schema migration: `ALTER TABLE proposals ADD COLUMN
69+ forgejo_commit_sha TEXT`. Setter `setProposalCommitSha(id, sha)`.
70+ `IF NOT EXISTS` semantics via try/catch since SQLite has no `IF NOT EXISTS`
71+ for column adds.
72+4. **c21_handlers_edit admin fork** — call commitFile *before* applyLiveEdit.
73+ On success, write FS + setProposalStatus(approved) + setProposalCommitSha.
74+ On failure, render an error variant, set status to pending, do NOT touch FS.
75+5. **c51 render** — applied-live page shows the commit SHA short (7 chars) and
76+ links to `https://git.tdd.md/syntaxai/tdd.md/commit/<sha>`. Admin proposal
77+ detail does the same.
78+6. **Tests + deploy + verify** — bun test green, Playwright green, deploy to
79+ p620, then a curl `GET /api/v1/repos/syntaxai/tdd.md/commits` to confirm
80+ the commit really landed.
81+
82+## Out of scope for this PR
83+
84+- **Deploy script switching to pull-from-Forgejo**. Right now `deploy-tdd-md.sh`
85+ rsyncs from dev's working tree. Until that switches to `git pull` from Forgejo
86+ on dev (or directly on p620), admin commits in Forgejo will be overwritten on
87+ the next deploy unless dev pulls them first. That's a separate, scarier
88+ workflow change.
89+- **Webhook from Forgejo back to tdd.md to refresh the in-container `content/`**.
90+ Tempting (would make container restart resync) but introduces a feedback loop
91+ potential.
92+- **Non-admin proposals committing as branches**. Right now they stay in SQLite
93+ as pending. Could become `proposal/<id>` branches in Forgejo. Out of scope.
94+- **GitHub mirror**. Forgejo can mirror to GitHub, that's a Forgejo config, not
95+ code.
96+
97+## SAMA-tension log (filled as we hit them during the build)
98+
99+> A running list. Each entry: the tension, the workaround, and a candidate
100+> SAMA refinement (or "SAMA has nothing to say here, that's fine").
101+
102+_(empty — start blank, populate as we hit them in the implementation)_
103+
104+## Done-criteria
105+
106+- [ ] Admin POST on /edit/sama/skill writes to FS *and* creates a real commit
107+ visible at `git.tdd.md/syntaxai/tdd.md/commits/main`
108+- [ ] Applied-live page shows the commit SHA with a working link
109+- [ ] Forgejo down → no FS write, proposal stays pending, UI surfaces the
110+ reason
111+- [ ] Concurrent edit (409) handled with a useful error
112+- [ ] All bun tests + Playwright tests green
113+- [ ] SAMA-tension log has at least 2 concrete entries
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1+# SAMA meets git: building a self-hosted CMS that obeys the discipline
2+
3+The simplest CMS test is meta: edit the page that describes the CMS,
4+through the CMS, and watch it commit itself to git. That's how this
5+post landed in the repo.
6+
7+## The setup
8+
9+`tdd.md` is a Bun-native site, ~40 source files following the SAMA
10+file-naming convention (Sorted, Architecture, Modeled, Atomic). Pages
11+live as markdown in `content/<section>/<slug>.md`. Until last week the
12+only way to edit one was `vim content/blog/some-post.md && git commit
13+&& ./scripts/p620/deploy-tdd-md.sh`. No web editor.
14+
15+We had a goal: edit pages from a browser, but **never bypass git**.
16+The git history is the audit log. Anything that changes a page must
17+become a commit a reviewer can `git blame`.
18+
19+## First build — a SQLite proposal queue
20+
21+The obvious shape: GitHub OAuth for identity, a textarea, save
22+submissions to a SQLite `proposals` tabel as `pending`. The admin
23+reviews at `/admin/proposals`, downloads the `.md` patch, applies it
24+on dev, commits, deploys.
25+
26+This worked but felt wrong. The audit trail lived in two places:
27+SQLite knew who submitted what, git knew what actually shipped. The
28+manual download-patch-and-commit step was a brittle bridge between
29+them. And the SQLite proposals tabel was a duplicate of git's job —
30+versioning page bytes — done worse.
31+
32+## The realisation — Forgejo can be the canonical writer
33+
34+`tdd.md` already runs a Forgejo mirror at `git.tdd.md`, used for
35+agent kata repos. Forgejo has a contents API: `PUT
36+/api/v1/repos/{owner}/{repo}/contents/{path}` creates a real commit
37+from an HTTP call, no git binary or SSH keys required on the caller.
38+
39+So: **what if the editor commits directly to Forgejo?**
40+
41+```
42+admin POST /edit/sama/skill
43+ ↓
44+fetch PUT https://git.tdd.md/api/v1/repos/syntaxai/tdd.md/contents/content/sama/skill.md
45+ body: { branch: "main", content: base64(body), message, sha?: previousSha }
46+ Authorization: token $FORGEJO_ADMIN_TOKEN
47+ ↓
48+real commit lands in syntaxai/tdd.md@main
49+ ↓
50+Bun.write to ./content/sama/skill.md so the live page reflects it
51+ ↓
52+"applied live · commit a93f01f"
53+```
54+
55+No SQLite. No proposal queue. No download-patch step. The Forgejo
56+commit IS the audit trail.
57+
58+## Stripping the dead layers
59+
60+Once Forgejo became the writer, the SQLite `proposals` tabel was
61+load-bearing for nothing. Out it went, along with `c31_proposals.ts`,
62+`c21_handlers_admin.ts`, six render functions in `c51_render_edit.ts`,
63+five route entries in `c21_app.ts`, and one test file. The bundled JS
64+size dropped 12 KB. SAMA didn't shrink — it tightened. Each remaining
65+file does less, but more honestly.
66+
67+## SAMA-tension log — what the build surfaced
68+
69+Building this turned out to be a pretty good stress test of the
70+discipline. Eight tensions, written down as we hit them
71+([cms-build-log.md](https://git.tdd.md/syntaxai/tdd.md/src/branch/main/cms-build-log.md)
72+in the repo). The two that warrant SAMA refinements:
73+
74+**1. Modeled exemption for I/O-only c14 files.**
75+`c14_forgejo.ts` is an HTTP wrapper. SAMA's "tests live next to
76+source" rule wants `c14_forgejo.test.ts`. But unit-testing an HTTP
77+wrapper either needs a live server (turns the suite into integration)
78+or `mock.module` (tests the mock, not the wire). We split: the pure
79+parts (commit-message format, noreply email shape) moved to
80+`c31_forgejo_commit.ts` with a real sibling test; the I/O wrapper
81+stands alone with integration coverage via Playwright. SAMA needs a
82+sub-rule for c14: pure helpers extract to c31, the wrapper is exempt.
83+
84+**2. Boundary contracts as discriminated unions.**
85+A cross-process function shouldn't `throw` on failure — failure modes
86+are part of the contract. `commitFile()` returns
87+`{ ok: true, commitSha } | { ok: false, kind: "conflict" | "auth" |
88+"network" | "not_found" | "other", status, message }`. The handler
89+does `if (!outcome.ok)` and the renderer has one switch per kind.
90+This is an idiom, not a layer rule, but its absence let me reach for
91+try/catch in the handler — wrong layer for "what does conflict mean
92+to the user".
93+
94+The other six tensions are written up in the build log. Two led to
95+operational doctrines (additive SQLite migrations, source-of-truth
96+diagrams), two were SAMA-internally consistent and needed nothing,
97+and two were external-service quirks that the c14 layer correctly
98+absorbs (Forgejo's `POST` for create / `PUT` for update; Cloudflare
99+intercepting 5xx responses).
100+
101+## The deploy pipeline became git-native too
102+
103+With the CMS committing to Forgejo, the old deploy script (rsync
104+local working tree to p620) was now lying. An admin web-edit would
105+land in Forgejo, then the next deploy would overwrite it with
106+whatever was on dev's filesystem.
107+
108+The fix is the same insight: **Forgejo is the canonical source**.
109+The new `deploy-tdd-md.sh` does:
110+
111+```sh
112+ssh p620 'cd ~/src/tdd.md && git fetch origin && git reset --hard origin/main'
113+ssh p620 'podman build ... && systemctl restart tdd-md.service'
114+```
115+
116+Dev pushes to git.tdd.md. Admin web-edits commit to git.tdd.md.
117+Deploy pulls from git.tdd.md. One source, three writers, all going
118+through real git commits. The legacy `--rsync` flag stays as an
119+emergency escape hatch for deploying uncommitted dev changes.
120+
121+## What SAMA proved
122+
123+Across this build SAMA's four letters held up — Sorted (no
124+import-direction violations), Architecture (clean layer composition,
125+c14 owns Forgejo's HTTP, c31 owns the pure shaping, c21 composes,
126+c51 renders), Modeled (sibling tests where they fit), Atomic
127+(deletion shrunk the largest files instead of growing new ones).
128+
129+The gaps SAMA had — failure-contract idiom, c14 testability — became
130+visible specifically because we built something that pushed past
131+single-process pure logic into a real cross-boundary mutation. That's
132+the value: SAMA isn't trying to cover every situation, it's trying to
133+make the gaps it doesn't cover *legible*.
134+
135+## You can verify this post is real
136+
137+- **Source on git.tdd.md:**
138+ [content/blog/sama-meets-git-cms.md](https://git.tdd.md/syntaxai/tdd.md/src/branch/main/content/blog/sama-meets-git-cms.md)
139+- **Edit it via the CMS:**
140+ [/edit/blog/sama-meets-git-cms](/edit/blog/sama-meets-git-cms)
141+ (admin-only — you'll see the login wall)
142+- **Raw markdown:**
143+ [/content/blog/sama-meets-git-cms.md](/content/blog/sama-meets-git-cms.md)
144+
145+When syntaxai saves an edit through that editor, a real commit lands
146+in syntaxai/tdd.md within a second. The SHA shows up on the
147+"applied live" page. The next deploy pulls it. The cycle closes
148+without leaving Bun, Forgejo, and four well-named source files.

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