| name | agent-libos-git-inspection |
| description | Inspect the fixed Runtime Git repository, managed worktrees, status, diffs, history, refs, remotes, and blame before making or verifying a Git decision. |
| allowed-tools | git_repository_info git_status git_diff git_log git_show git_blame git_list_refs git_list_remotes git_list_worktrees |
Inspect Git state
Git tools operate only on the Runtime workspace repository. They do not accept a repository path, cwd, arbitrary argv, URL, credentials, or revision expression. worktree_id="main" selects the root checkout; another id must come from git_list_worktrees. Returned host paths such as root, git_dir, common_dir, and a worktree path are observations, never selectors.
Exact commit inputs accept a full object-format OID, a validated full ref below refs/heads/, refs/tags/, refs/remotes/, or refs/agent-libos/, or a short local branch name. Do not use HEAD, abbreviated OIDs, ~, ^, @{}, ranges, path/ref ambiguity, or option-like values. Use two exact refs/OIDs in the dedicated base and head fields when a range is required.
Git paths are byte-preserving objects shaped as {display,path_b64,lossy}. For a later path input pass exactly one UTF-8 string, {"path": display}, or {"path_b64": path_b64}. Never copy the whole returned path object or send both forms. If lossy=true, only path_b64 preserves identity. A renamed status entry can also have original_path; review both old and new paths.
Tool guide
Repository, status, and CAS
git_repository_info reports repository/worktree identity, object format, Git version, HEAD, structural paths, and state.token. It does not inspect changed file contents and its returned paths cannot be fed back as a repository selector.git_status reports the selected worktree's branch, configured upstream, ahead/behind counts, HEAD OID, and bounded byte-safe entries. Interpret index_status and worktree_status independently. It requests all untracked paths but does not request ignored paths, so an untruncated clean result does not prove that ignored content is absent. truncated=true means other tracked or untracked entries may also have been omitted.- A non-null status
submodule field describes a parent-repository gitlink entry; it is not nested-repository status. The hardened provider disables recursive submodule inspection. Parent status/diff/show and staging a submodule path observe or record the gitlink OID, not the nested checkout's complete files or history. If nested submodule evidence is required, this fixed-repository tool surface cannot provide it; stop instead of claiming completeness.
A state token is a 64-hex local compare-and-swap state digest, not a nonce or one-use credential. It commits to repository and selected-worktree identity, HEAD, index, effective configuration, refs, worktree registry, simulated-PR metadata, and bounded selected-worktree status/content. The same state can produce the same token before and after a successful no-op, and a token is not consumed merely by being supplied. It is not remote network state, Capability, Human approval, Object authority, or proof about ignored, nested-submodule, or unrelated workspace files.
Return shapes differ:
- Git reads return the observation token at
state.token.
git_create_patch, from the patch Skill, is an Object side effect but also returns its source observation at state.token.- Mutations returning a
GitOperationResult expose their post-operation observation at after.token; it can equal before.token when local state did not change. Likewise, changed_paths can be a selected/reconciliation manifest rather than proof that every path changed.
- Simulated-PR mutations wrap that result at
operation.after.token.
Use a token only for the same repository/worktree observation and exact decision that produced it. Any relevant edit, index/ref/config/worktree/PR mutation can make it stale. A token does not freeze state between calls; whether its hex value changed is never a substitute for readback.
Diffs and commits
git_diff with scope="worktree" reads tracked unstaged changes versus the index. It does not include untracked file contents. scope="staged" reads the index versus HEAD. Both require base=null and head=null. scope="range" requires both exact base and head and resolves them to commit OIDs. paths are literal restrictions, not patterns. Diff generation disables rename detection, external diff, and textconv and includes binary patch data, so a rename can appear as delete plus add.git_log returns bounded structured commit metadata from ref, or from the current HEAD OID when ref=null. It does not return patches or accept a path filter. truncated=true means more commits exist beyond the returned limit.git_show resolves exactly one commit and returns its structured metadata, byte-safe changed paths, and a bounded binary patch. A tag is peeled to a commit for this operation.git_blame returns bounded raw porcelain for one literal path. When ref=null and HEAD exists, it deliberately blames the current HEAD OID, not dirty worktree bytes. Set an exact ref/OID to select another committed version. Use workspace-reading tools when the task is to inspect uncommitted file content.
For git_diff and git_show, patch is a convenience UTF-8 rendering and patch_b64 is the exact returned byte prefix. For git_blame, the analogous fields are content and content_b64. If truncated=true, neither field is a complete result. Where a full capture fit under the hard bound, bytes describes its full byte length and sha256 its full digest even when only a soft-limited prefix is rendered. For limit-driven listings such as log or refs, the digest covers the bounded capture, not all history or all refs.
Refs, remotes, and worktrees
git_list_refs lists bounded structured refs by kind="branches", "tags", "remotes", "pull_requests", or "all". It accepts no arbitrary prefix or cursor. A tag row's oid can be an annotated tag object OID rather than its peeled commit. kind="all" can also expose other refs such as the stash tip. On truncation, narrow by kind or raise the bounded limit; never infer absence.git_list_remotes returns configured remote names plus redacted fetch/push URL placeholders and SHA-256 fingerprints. The strings are not usable URLs and do not grant remote read/write authority. This tool does not contact a remote or read its current refs.git_list_worktrees accepts no worktree selector and lists only main plus structurally trusted worktrees under the configured managed root. Unmanaged external linked worktrees are omitted. The returned state.token is always a main-repository token. Structural visibility is not proof that the current Runtime originally created a worktree, and returned path values are not accepted by mutation tools.
All reads are bounded and can fail with output_too_large instead of returning a partial result when a configured hard limit is crossed. They require Git read/diff authority and data-flow clearance; seeing a tool or receiving a token grants none of the later filesystem, repository, remote, or PR rights.
Recommended workflow
- Select
main or an exact returned worktree_id. Start with git_repository_info when repository identity or object format is unknown, then call git_status.
- Check
truncated before interpreting entries. For renames, retain both path and original_path; for lossy paths retain only their path_b64 forms.
- Read both
git_diff(scope="worktree") and git_diff(scope="staged") for a change-recording decision. Inspect untracked content through workspace tools because worktree diff omits it. Inspect ignored paths separately when the task names them, and stop at a submodule gitlink when nested-repository evidence is required.
- Resolve history questions with
git_log, then use git_show on exact OIDs. For a proposed range, call git_diff(scope="range", base=<exact>, head=<exact>) and require a complete patch.
- Use
git_list_refs, git_list_remotes, or git_list_worktrees for topology. Re-read status for every affected worktree rather than treating a main checkout observation as its local state.
- Immediately before a mutation, repeat the narrow status/diff/ref read after the last edit or test and carry its newest same-worktree
state.token. Re-evaluate the operation, paths, and destructive scope; do not merely replace an old token.
Failure and recovery
repository_busy means the bounded repository lock was unavailable. Wait briefly, then perform a fresh read; do not assume the prior observation is current.stale_state during a read means repository state or data-flow lineage changed while it was observed. Discard the result and read again. During a mutation it means the old decision was not dispatched by that invocation; re-inspect and re-decide.output_too_large or truncated=true is incomplete evidence. Narrow literal paths, reduce the ref kind/history question, or use a supported complete artifact workflow. Never summarize omitted content as clean or absent.- Lossy rendered text is not byte evidence. Use the corresponding base64 field or path token.
unsafe_repository, unsafe_repository_config, or an unsupported operation is a stop condition. Do not bypass the typed boundary with shell Git; direct shell Git supports only a small hardened inspection subset and does not add missing typed mutations.- A read succeeding does not make a later mutation idempotent. The model-facing Git error projection does not expose every provider settlement detail. After any mutation error that is not clearly a pre-dispatch validation, permission, approval, or stale-state rejection, conservatively assume dispatch may have started and use the mutation Skill's read/reconciliation procedure before any retry; do not wait for a literal timeout or
unknown_effect code.
Completion evidence
An inspection claim is complete only when all of the following hold:
- the intended repository and exact
worktree_id are identified;
- status, relevant diffs/history, and all byte-safe paths are untruncated, with ignored and submodule blind spots stated explicitly;
- untracked content was not mistaken for worktree diff content;
- exact refs resolved to the intended full OIDs, with no revision-expression guesswork;
- patch/content byte fields and their
bytes/sha256 meanings were interpreted correctly;
- remote URLs were treated as redacted observations and no local token was called remote proof;
- the final same-worktree
state.token was obtained after the last relevant change;
- any subsequent mutation is separately authorized and verified by a new read.
Stop rather than claim completion when state changed, any required result is truncated, a lossy path was reconstructed from display text, a worktree is omitted/unmanaged, or the typed surface cannot provide authoritative evidence.
