ru

name	ru
description	Repo Updater - Multi-repo synchronization with AI-assisted review orchestration. Parallel sync, agent-sweep for dirty repos, ntm integration, git plumbing. 17K LOC Bash CLI.

RU - Repo Updater

A comprehensive Bash CLI for synchronizing dozens or hundreds of GitHub repositories. Beyond basic sync, RU includes a full AI-assisted code review system and agent-sweep capability for automatically processing uncommitted changes across your entire projects directory.

Why This Exists

When you work with 47+ repos (personal projects, forks, dependencies), keeping them synchronized manually is tedious. But synchronization is just the beginning—RU also orchestrates AI coding agents to review issues, process PRs, and commit uncommitted work at scale.

The problem it solves:

• Manual cd ~/project && git pull for each repo
• Missing updates that accumulate into merge conflicts
• Dirty repos that never get committed
• Issues and PRs that pile up across repositories
• No coordination for AI agents working across repos

Critical Concepts

Git Plumbing, Not Porcelain

RU uses git plumbing commands exclusively—never parses human-readable output:

# WRONG: Locale-dependent, version-fragile
git pull 2>&1 | grep "Already up to date"

# RIGHT: Machine-readable plumbing
git rev-list --left-right --count HEAD...@{u}
git status --porcelain
git rev-parse HEAD

Stream Separation

Human-readable output goes to stderr; data to stdout:

ru sync --json 2>/dev/null | jq '.summary'
# Progress shows in terminal, JSON pipes to jq

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