craftar 0.33.0 → 0.34.1

package/README.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 Craft, sync and convert AI-coding workspace harnesses — rules, agents, commands, skills, MCP servers — across every client workspace you maintain and every AI coder each team uses.
 
-> Status: **phase 1 in progress** — phase 0, the foundations, is done. `import`, `sync`, `status`, `diff`, `explain`, `ls` work end-to-end for the `claude-code` and `kiro` targets and are validated byte-for-byte against a real workspace (see *Oracle*). The Forge commands `forge variants`, `forge diff` (with a suggested class per hunk) and `forge unify` (`--take base|variant`, `take: param` to turn a value into a `{{key}}` parameter, and `take: section` to turn a client block into a section) and `forge promote` (a profile's variant becomes the base) also work, covered by the unit and golden suites rather than the oracle, and `import` is render-aware: importing into an existing Forge reuses a base whose render equals the workspace file, and edits an existing profile and the recipes it owns in place. Ingredient bodies can hold client-specific **sections** (`<!-- craftar:section <name> -->` … `<!-- /craftar:section -->`), overridden by a profile's `sections` and a workspace's `overrides.sections`; import infers each client's content and `forge unify` can extract a section from a variant, and a Forge that uses them declares `schema: 2` or above (see *Forge layout*). The read-only catalogue — `recipes`, `ingredients` and `targets` with the capability matrix — works too, and a workspace can name its Forge by git URL with an optional `ref`, read from a per-machine cache, with a lock that records the ref, commit, recipes and targets it was generated from (see *Remote Forge*). `add recipe` / `remove recipe` change a workspace's recipe choice in `craftar.yaml`, refusing an edit that would not resolve. A writing `sync` records each workspace in a per-machine registry, and `craftar workspaces` lists them all with their status (see *Workspace registry*). `craftar forge impact` lists the workspaces registered on this machine that read a Forge (by path, by a git remote of the clone, or through another clone of the same remote) with what their next sync would do against it, and `forge unify` plans them before and after its writes, names the ones its warnings concern, and with `--prune-recipes` deletes a recipe left identical to its sibling once every one of them plans the same. `craftar doctor` reports, one line per finding, what is off on this machine and in this workspace. `craftar cache prune` removes the cache entries and trees nothing uses. An MCP ingredient can declare `authEnv`, the environment variables its server needs (names only, never a value), and `craftar doctor` checks them; with `claude-code`, `sync` writes an example file listing them. A recipe can bring **local services**: a `service` ingredient is a Docker Compose fragment that `sync` writes under `.craftar/`, and `craftar services up | down | status` run Compose on what the lock records (see *Local services*). A profile's `integrations` block can select recipes and give params in a Forge that declares `schema: 3` or above (see *Integrations*), since `0.27.0`. `craftar templates list | install` shows and runs the profile's `templates` block — `install` runs `dotnet new install` per entry into the user's template store; nothing installs implicitly. An MCP `server` takes the params its ingredient declares, in a Forge that declares `schema: 4` (see *Server params*), since `0.28.0`. `craftar mcp` serves a workspace to an AI coder over the Model Context Protocol — seven reading tools with the data of `status`, `diff`, `explain`, `recipes`, `ingredients`, `targets` and `doctor`; it reads only. `craftar ui` serves a local, read-only dashboard of every registered workspace — the table of `craftar workspaces`, and for one workspace its file states, a file's diff and explanation, and its Forge's recipes and ingredients — on `127.0.0.1` only. `craftar init --clone` and `craftar repos clone` clone a profile's repositories (its `repos` list) into the workspace, and `craftar repos` lists them.
+> Status: **phase 1 in progress** — phase 0, the foundations, is done. `import`, `sync`, `status`, `diff`, `explain`, `ls` work end-to-end for the `claude-code` and `kiro` targets and are validated byte-for-byte against a real workspace (see *Oracle*). The Forge commands `forge variants`, `forge diff` (with a suggested class per hunk) and `forge unify` (`--take base|variant`, `take: param` to turn a value into a `{{key}}` parameter, and `take: section` to turn a client block into a section) and `forge promote` (a profile's variant becomes the base) also work, covered by the unit and golden suites rather than the oracle, and `import` is render-aware: importing into an existing Forge reuses a base whose render equals the workspace file, and edits an existing profile and the recipes it owns in place. Ingredient bodies can hold client-specific **sections** (`<!-- craftar:section <name> -->` … `<!-- /craftar:section -->`), overridden by a profile's `sections` and a workspace's `overrides.sections`; import infers each client's content and `forge unify` can extract a section from a variant, and a Forge that uses them declares `schema: 2` or above (see *Forge layout*). The read-only catalogue — `recipes`, `ingredients` and `targets` with the capability matrix — works too, and a workspace can name its Forge by git URL with an optional `ref`, read from a per-machine cache, with a lock that records the ref, commit, recipes and targets it was generated from (see *Remote Forge*). `add recipe` / `remove recipe` change a workspace's recipe choice in `craftar.yaml`, refusing an edit that would not resolve. A writing `sync` records each workspace in a per-machine registry, and `craftar workspaces` lists them all with their status (see *Workspace registry*). `craftar forge impact` lists the workspaces registered on this machine that read a Forge (by path, by a git remote of the clone, or through another clone of the same remote) with what their next sync would do against it, and `forge unify` plans them before and after its writes, names the ones its warnings concern, and with `--prune-recipes` deletes a recipe left identical to its sibling once every one of them plans the same. `craftar doctor` reports, one line per finding, what is off on this machine and in this workspace. `craftar cache prune` removes the cache entries and trees nothing uses. An MCP ingredient can declare `authEnv`, the environment variables its server needs (names only, never a value), and `craftar doctor` checks them; with `claude-code`, `sync` writes an example file listing them. A recipe can bring **local services**: a `service` ingredient is a Docker Compose fragment that `sync` writes under `.craftar/`, and `craftar services up | down | status` run Compose on what the lock records (see *Local services*). A profile's `integrations` block can select recipes and give params in a Forge that declares `schema: 3` or above (see *Integrations*), since `0.27.0`. `craftar templates list | install` shows and runs the profile's `templates` block — `install` runs `dotnet new install` per entry into the user's template store; nothing installs implicitly. An MCP `server` takes the params its ingredient declares, in a Forge that declares `schema: 4` (see *Server params*), since `0.28.0`. `craftar mcp` serves a workspace to an AI coder over the Model Context Protocol — seven reading tools with the data of `status`, `diff`, `explain`, `recipes`, `ingredients`, `targets` and `doctor`; it reads only. `craftar ui` serves a local, read-only dashboard of every registered workspace — the table of `craftar workspaces`, and for one workspace its file states, a file's diff and explanation, and its Forge's recipes and ingredients — on `127.0.0.1` only. `craftar init --clone` and `craftar repos clone` clone a profile's repositories (its `repos` list) into the workspace, and `craftar repos` lists them. `craftar init --new-profile` creates a profile in a Forge directory (one file, not committed) and starts the workspace on it.
 
 ## The idea in one paragraph
 
@@ -43,6 +43,15 @@ craftar init --workspace C:/Projects/acme-portal-workspace \
 
 The workspace follows the profile's recipes and targets; `--add-recipe` / `--remove-recipe` adjust the recipes, and `--targets` writes the targets into `craftar.yaml`. When the directory already holds a harness, files equal to the Forge's are adopted and different ones are left as they are and reported — `craftar import` (below) brings them into the Forge.
 
+A new client's first workspace starts its profile too:
+
+```bash
+# Creates profiles/initech/profile.yaml in the Forge directory (not committed), then the workspace on it
+craftar init --workspace C:/Projects/initech-portal-workspace \
+  --forge       C:/Projects/forge \
+  --new-profile initech --like acme-portal
+```
+
 ## Quick start: bring an existing workspace into a Forge
 
 ```bash
@@ -68,16 +77,16 @@ From then on, change a rule in `forge/ingredients/rules/<name>/rule.md`, run `cr
 
 | Command | What it does |
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-| `craftar init [--forge <dir\|url>] [--profile <name>] [--ref <ref>] [--targets <a,b>] [--add-recipe <name>]... [--remove-recipe <name>]... [--replace] [--no-sync] [--clone \| --no-clone] [--offline] [--workspace .]` | Starts a workspace: writes a `craftar.yaml` holding `forge` (a directory as the path from the workspace, POSIX; a URL as given), `ref` (a remote Forge only), `profile`, `recipes` (only the lists the recipe flags leave non-empty) and `targets` (only with `--targets`; otherwise the workspace follows the profile's), then runs the first `sync` — which also registers the workspace. **In a terminal** (stdin and stdout both a TTY), `--forge` and `--profile` are optional: what is missing is asked for — the Forge (offering the one last synced on this machine, from the registry), a remote Forge's ref, the profile (from the Forge's list), then the recipes and the targets the profile gives, to keep or adjust; a flag given is never asked for. One confirmation before anything is written, showing what the first sync would do. Ctrl-C, the end of input, or `no` at the confirmation: nothing written, exit 1 (`init cancelled — nothing written`). The run ends with an `again craftar init …` line: the same run as flags, for CI. Off a terminal (a pipe, CI), a missing flag is refused, exit 1, naming the flag; where the terminal does not report a TTY, the flags are required. With both flags given nothing is asked, in a terminal or not. The file is written only once the configuration loads (a remote Forge is fetched as `sync` fetches it; `--offline` reads the cache), resolves and plans, and the sync applies that same plan. `--remove-recipe` and `--add-recipe` go through `remove recipe` / `add recipe`'s core (removes first, then adds; `--replace` swaps a slot holder); a call whose every name changes nothing prints its reasons as a `note`. `--workspace` is created when missing. Files already on disk and not in a lock are adopted when equal to the plan and skipped as a `collision` otherwise, never overwritten, with one warning pointing at `craftar import`. `--no-sync` writes `craftar.yaml` only and prints what the first `sync` would do. When a declared parameter a file cites has no value (see `sync`), `craftar.yaml` is still written — the workspace's `overrides.params` is a place for the value — but the first `sync` is not run: the refusal is printed (`error: N declared parameter(s) have no value — craftar.yaml written, sync not run`, with `then run craftar sync` in its fix line), exit 1; in a terminal the confirmation says `first sync: refused — …` and asks only `Write craftar.yaml`; `--no-sync` prints `next sync: refused — …` and exits 0. Refused, with nothing written and no directory created: an existing `craftar.yaml`; a `--workspace` that is a file, or under one; credentials in `--forge` (the value is never printed); `--ref` with a directory Forge; an unknown target; a recipe both added and removed, or any refusal of `add recipe` / `remove recipe`; a `craftar.local.yaml` that sets `forge` or `profile`, or a key a given flag would write (`ref`, `recipes`, `targets`) — its value would replace the flag's; a Forge, profile or plan that does not load. **`--clone`** clones every entry of the profile's `repos` (see *Forge layout › Repositories*) into the workspace after the first `sync` — one `git clone --no-recurse-submodules [--branch=<ref>] -- <url> <path>` per entry, one after another, with the workspace root as working directory, `git` found in the absolute entries of `PATH` and `GIT_ALLOW_PROTOCOL=https:ssh`; git's own output and credential prompt go to the terminal, with no timeout. With `--no-sync`, `--clone` still clones. Without `--clone` nothing is cloned: with both `--forge` and `--profile` given nothing is asked and nothing is said about repositories; in a terminal, when a flag is missing, a profile with entries is listed — name, URL, destination, ref — and `Clone them into the workspace [no]:` is asked (Enter is no), except under `--offline` or `--no-clone`. A clone that fails is reported with the command to run it by hand and `craftar repos clone <names>`, the other entries are still tried, and `init` exits 1 with the workspace written, synced and registered. A first sync that would be refused clones nothing (`repositories: not cloned — the first sync is refused`). Refused before anything is written: `--clone` with `--no-clone`, or with `--offline`; `--clone` with no `git` on `PATH`, on a profile with no entry, with an entry that does not read, or with a destination that exists, holds a file `sync` writes, lies inside the Forge, leaves the workspace through a link or sits under a file. A clone is recorded nowhere — not in `craftar.lock`, not in the registry; `sync` never updates or removes it, and craftar does not edit a `.gitignore` (in a workspace that is itself a repository the clones show as untracked directories). |
+| `craftar init [--forge <dir\|url>] [--profile <name>] [--new-profile <name> [--like <profile>]] [--ref <ref>] [--targets <a,b>] [--add-recipe <name>]... [--remove-recipe <name>]... [--replace] [--no-sync] [--clone \| --no-clone] [--offline] [--workspace .]` | Starts a workspace: writes a `craftar.yaml` holding `forge` (a directory as the path from the workspace, POSIX; a URL as given), `ref` (a remote Forge only), `profile`, `recipes` (only the lists the recipe flags leave non-empty) and `targets` (only with `--targets`; otherwise the workspace follows the profile's), then runs the first `sync` — which also registers the workspace. **In a terminal** (stdin and stdout both a TTY), `--forge` and `--profile` are optional: what is missing is asked for — the Forge (offering the one last synced on this machine, from the registry), a remote Forge's ref, the profile (from the Forge's list), then the recipes and the targets the profile gives, to keep or adjust; a flag given is never asked for. One confirmation before anything is written, showing what the first sync would do. Ctrl-C, the end of input, or `no` at the confirmation: nothing written, exit 1 (`init cancelled — nothing written`). The run ends with an `again craftar init …` line: the same run as flags, for CI. Off a terminal (a pipe, CI), a missing flag is refused, exit 1, naming the flag; where the terminal does not report a TTY, the flags are required. With both flags given nothing is asked, in a terminal or not. The file is written only once the configuration loads (a remote Forge is fetched as `sync` fetches it; `--offline` reads the cache), resolves and plans, and the sync applies that same plan. `--remove-recipe` and `--add-recipe` go through `remove recipe` / `add recipe`'s core (removes first, then adds; `--replace` swaps a slot holder); a call whose every name changes nothing prints its reasons as a `note`. `--workspace` is created when missing. Files already on disk and not in a lock are adopted when equal to the plan and skipped as a `collision` otherwise, never overwritten, with one warning pointing at `craftar import`. `--no-sync` writes `craftar.yaml` only and prints what the first `sync` would do. When a declared parameter a file cites has no value (see `sync`), `craftar.yaml` is still written — the workspace's `overrides.params` is a place for the value — but the first `sync` is not run: the refusal is printed (`error: N declared parameter(s) have no value — craftar.yaml written, sync not run`, with `then run craftar sync` in its fix line), exit 1; in a terminal the confirmation says `first sync: refused — …` and asks only `Write craftar.yaml`; `--no-sync` prints `next sync: refused — …` and exits 0. Refused, with nothing written and no directory created: an existing `craftar.yaml`; a `--workspace` that is a file, or under one; credentials in `--forge` (the value is never printed); `--ref` with a directory Forge; an unknown target; a recipe both added and removed, or any refusal of `add recipe` / `remove recipe`; a `craftar.local.yaml` that sets `forge` or `profile`, or a key a given flag would write (`ref`, `recipes`, `targets`) — its value would replace the flag's; a Forge, profile or plan that does not load. **`--clone`** clones every entry of the profile's `repos` (see *Forge layout › Repositories*) into the workspace after the first `sync` — one `git clone --no-recurse-submodules [--branch=<ref>] -- <url> <path>` per entry, one after another, with the workspace root as working directory, `git` found in the absolute entries of `PATH` and `GIT_ALLOW_PROTOCOL=https:ssh`; git's own output and credential prompt go to the terminal, with no timeout. With `--no-sync`, `--clone` still clones. Without `--clone` nothing is cloned: with both `--forge` and `--profile` given nothing is asked and nothing is said about repositories; in a terminal, when a flag is missing, a profile with entries is listed — name, URL, destination, ref — and `Clone them into the workspace [no]:` is asked (Enter is no), except under `--offline` or `--no-clone`. A clone that fails is reported with the command to run it by hand and `craftar repos clone <names>`, the other entries are still tried, and `init` exits 1 with the workspace written, synced and registered. A first sync that would be refused clones nothing (`repositories: not cloned — the first sync is refused`). Refused before anything is written: `--clone` with `--no-clone`, or with `--offline`; `--clone` with no `git` on `PATH`, on a profile with no entry, with an entry that does not read, or with a destination that exists, holds a file `sync` writes, lies inside the Forge, leaves the workspace through a link or sits under a file. A clone is recorded nowhere — not in `craftar.lock`, not in the registry; `sync` never updates or removes it, and craftar does not edit a `.gitignore` (in a workspace that is itself a repository the clones show as untracked directories). **`--new-profile <name>`** creates the profile first: one new file, `profiles/<name>/profile.yaml`, in the Forge's working tree — its `name`, `recipes` and `targets` only — then starts the workspace on it as for a profile that was there. The Forge must be a directory that is a git repository with a commit (git is how the write is undone); nothing is committed, no branch is made and nothing is pushed — commit the file in the Forge, on a branch, before anyone else syncs. With `--new-profile`, `--add-recipe`, `--remove-recipe`, `--replace` and `--targets` shape **the profile**, and `craftar.yaml` gets no `recipes` and no `targets`. `--like <profile>` starts the new profile's `recipes` and `targets` from that profile's written lists — nothing else of it is copied: no `params`, `sections`, `integrations`, `repos`, `templates` or `description`; in a Forge at schema 3 or above a recipe only its `integrations` block selects does not come along, and a `note` line says so. The name is lowercase letters and digits in groups joined by one `-` (no `--`, not a Windows device name). Refused before anything is written: `--new-profile` with `--profile`, `--like` without `--new-profile`, a name of another shape, a Forge URL (clone it and pass the directory), a tree of craftar's Forge cache, a directory that is not a git repository with a commit, a name a profile already carries or a `profiles/<name>` that exists, a path git ignores or that goes through a symbolic link, a recipe named for another profile (`<recipe>--<p>`, `<p>-steering` — add the shared recipe it stands for), and a profile that does not resolve or plan. The Forge is planned in memory, the file written, then the Forge read back from disk must plan the same bytes before `craftar.yaml` is written; a failure after the profile was written exits 1 and prints the `git -C <forge> clean -fd -- profiles/<name>` line that removes it. In a terminal the profile list offers `0) a new profile` (for a Forge directory that can take one), and a Forge directory with no profile goes straight to the new profile's questions; the `again` line then names `--profile <name>`, the run a second workspace of that client uses. |
 | `craftar repos [--workspace .] [--offline] [--json]` | Lists the profile's repositories (its `repos`, see *Forge layout › Repositories*) with their state in the workspace — `present` (the destination exists; craftar does not look inside), `missing`, or `blocked` with the reason a clone would be refused — and each one's destination, URL and ref. It loads the Forge as `status` does (a remote Forge is fetched unless `--offline`; a failed fetch is a warning over the cached copy), starts no other program, contacts no repository's host and writes nothing. A profile with no entry prints `profile <p> lists no repositories`. Exits 0 whenever the block reads, missing entries included; 1 for a block that does not read, or a workspace that does not load or plan, as `status`. `--json`, a tooling contract: `{workspace, profile, repos: [{name, url, path, ref, state, reason}], warnings}` (`ref` and `reason` `null` when absent). |
 | `craftar repos clone [<name>…] [--workspace .]` | Clones the `missing` entries — every one, or the names given (compared without case) — as `init --clone` clones them; typing the command is the consent, and nothing is asked. A `present` entry is skipped with a line; a named one is refused. Refused before any clone, exit 1: no `git` on `PATH`; a remote Forge that cannot be fetched (it never clones from a cached copy, and has no `--offline`); a profile with no entry; a block that does not read; any `blocked` entry; a name that is not an entry, or is given twice. It clones whatever the workspace's sync state, and exits 1 when a clone fails, with the command to run it by hand. It writes the clones only: no `craftar.yaml`, lock or registry entry. |
-| `craftar import --from claude-code --forge <dir> --profile <name> [--workspace .] [--write-config] [--report <file.md>] [--prefer-kiro <rule,…>]` | Reads `.claude/{rules,agents,commands,skills,scripts,hooks}`, `.mcp.json` and, when present, `.kiro/steering` (for inclusion modes and hand-written steering — and, with `--prefer-kiro`, the text of the rules it names). A rule's scope comes, in this order, from: a hand-written `.kiro/steering/<name>.md` whose frontmatter sets `inclusion`; a usable `paths:` in the rule's own frontmatter — a non-empty one-line string or a list of them, quoted or not (`- **/*.ts` is read as Claude Code reads it) — which gives `inclusion: fileMatch` and `fileMatchPattern`; a steering mirror craftar generated (its default banner); any other steering file, as before; and `always`. When `paths:` is usable the rule's frontmatter is kept verbatim apart from its body (`frontmatterRaw`), whichever source set the scope, so `.claude/rules/<name>.md` is written back byte for byte and neither `.kiro/steering/<name>.md` nor `AGENTS.md` carries it — except a file whose closing `---` is not followed by a newline, which keeps its frontmatter in its body and is written back as is; its steering mirror — and `AGENTS.md`, where it embeds the rule — then carry the block. What the workspace sees next, for a rule a craftar before this one read as always-on: its `.kiro/steering/<name>.md`, `AGENTS.md` and the `.kiro/agents/*.json` of agents bound to the rule now differ from the plan — where `craftar.lock` records them unedited, `sync` updates them; with no lock entry for them (a first import), they read `collision` and are left alone: delete them and run `craftar sync`. Four warnings name the rule and its files, never the pattern: the hand-written steering file and `paths:` disagree (the steering file's scope is kept); the generated mirror disagrees with `paths:` (scope taken from `paths:`); the steering file sets no `inclusion` (scope taken from `paths:`); `paths:` is not a string or a list of strings (ignored). With `--prefer-kiro`, a steering body that starts with a frontmatter block (as an earlier craftar wrote a `paths:` rule) is taken with it, as before, and the rule keeps no separate frontmatter. Creates ingredients, recipes (`base`, one `stack-*` per scoped rule, `<profile>-steering`) and a profile, or updates them. An ingredient already in the Forge is reused when the base, **rendered** for this profile (its declared defaults, the profile's `params`, the workspace's `overrides.params`), equals the workspace file; failing that, when a unique, proved assignment of the base's declared `{{keys}}` reproduces it, the values are **inferred** into the profile's `params` (one value per key per run; never a change another ingredient would feel). A base with section markers is rendered with the profile's `sections` and the workspace's `overrides.sections` first; when the workspace file differs from it only inside sections, the unique content that reproduces the file byte for byte is **inferred** into the profile's `sections` (tried after params, never combined with them; the report counts lines and never prints the content). An import that writes a section value, or compares a workspace file against a base holding markers, sets `schema: 2` in `craftar.forge.yaml` (a manifest already at 2 or above is left as it is). A reused base takes the place its `<name>--<profile>` variant held: the profile moves to the shared recipe when that orders the base there, and an owned recipe gets the base in the variant's slot, so the rule order (and `AGENTS.md`) stays as it was. Anything else becomes a `<name>--<profile>` variant that emits under the original name, with the reason, so the workspace still round-trips while you decide what to unify. A shared recipe is never widened for one client: a profile whose ingredients differ from `base` or a `stack-*` gets its own `<recipe>--<profile>`. An existing profile is merged in place (`params`, `sections`, the recipes import owns, missing `targets`; every other field and comment kept, and an empty `{}` / `[]` it does not change stays on its line), as is a recipe the profile owns; `--write-config` merges an existing `craftar.yaml` (`forge`, `profile`, `targets`). The report adds `rendered` (with `sections <names>` when a section value filled the render), `inferred`, `sectioned`, `param <key>: <old> → <new>`, `section <key> <name>: <old> → <new>`, `forge craftar.forge.yaml edited (schema: 2)` and `profile … created\|edited\|unchanged` lines. In a Forge at schema 3 or above, what the profile's `integrations` block alone provides is **not imported** — not compared, not written — and is listed (`left to recipe <r> (integrations.<slot>): …`, and under `## Left to an integration recipe` in the `--report` file); `craftar status` then shows whether the workspace's copies differ (`drift`, `collision`); move an agent attached to a scoped rule into the integration recipe with its rule, or `base` splits on import. It refuses, with the Forge untouched, a Forge that does not load, a profile or recipe or `craftar.yaml` that does not round-trip through the YAML writer, a misplaced profile, a recipe import writes whose file and `name` disagree, a workspace override that does not parse, a literal `{{key}}` the profile would render, changing a recipe or variant another profile uses, a workspace file holding a section marker at column 0 (sync would not reproduce it: indent it), a Forge base with malformed section markers, a `craftar.forge.yaml` it needs to bump to `schema: 2` that does not round-trip (set it by hand), and — in a Forge at schema 3 or above — a profile whose `integrations` block is malformed or, when the block holds a `kind`, that does not resolve. Ingredients holding a secret-like value (tokens, private keys, high-entropy MCP `env`/`args` values) are rejected and listed by location — the value is never printed. `authEnv` is never inferred; a variant import rewrites keeps the one it declares, a new variant takes its base's, and a declaration a profile loses is reported. A UTF-16 file with a byte-order mark is decoded for the scan; UTF-16 without one is not detected. An ingredient that would not load back into the Forge (a name that is not slug-like, a non-string MCP `env` value) refuses the import, naming its source; so does an ingredient already in the Forge whose `ingredient.yaml` has an unknown key or a YAML syntax error, naming that file. Every read and check runs before the first write, so an import that fails leaves the Forge untouched and says so. `--report <file.md>` also writes a Markdown report, after the Forge is written: what was created, reused, made a variant or rejected, the import's warnings, and the Kiro side — *Kiro collisions*, every `.kiro/` file that differs from what `sync` would generate for the imported profile (`status`' `collision` state against no lock, so a difference of line endings, BOM or JSON formatting is not one), each with its ingredient and the line counts of the two sides, a rule's steering mirror that outgrew its rule marked `steering bigger than the rule` (not one `--prefer-kiro` took the rule from); and *Unsourced Kiro files*, the files under `.kiro/steering/`, `.kiro/agents/`, `.kiro/skills/` and `.kiro/settings/mcp.json` that the plan for the imported profile does not write — listed, never imported. The report holds **paths and line counts, never content** (a `.kiro/` mirror is not scanned for secrets), and names an inferred parameter's key, not its value; a warning, a rejection reason or the `not computed` line is written with every parameter and section value this run accepted, replaced or inferred as `"…"`, and a variant is named against its base, without its reason — the summary on the terminal keeps them. It describes the profile as imported: of the workspace's own `craftar.yaml` and `craftar.local.yaml` only `overrides.params` and `overrides.sections` are read (as import reads them to decide a reuse) — not its `forge`, `profile`, `targets` or recipes — and `craftar.lock` is not read. The path may be inside the workspace; it is refused, before anything is imported, when it resolves inside the Forge (through symlinks and `..`), when a file already exists there, or when a component of it cannot be resolved. If the Kiro side cannot be computed — the plan fails, or `sync` would refuse it for a declared parameter with no value — its sections read `not computed: …`, the same is an import warning, and the import still exits 0. The report is written after the summary, which then ends with `report <file.md>`; if that write fails the import has still succeeded and the Forge is written, and the command says so and exits 1. Without `--report` none of this is computed. `--prefer-kiro <rule,…>` takes the named rules from `.kiro/steering/<name>.md` instead of `.claude/rules/<name>.md` — for a steering mirror that was edited by hand and is the text to keep; a rule left to an integration recipe is warned (`nothing to prefer; its steering file was not used`) and skipped, before that rule's own refusals (no steering file, a form with no certain source, a line that would not come back). The rule's text is built from the steering file — its frontmatter and its opening banner (the default one, or the line rendered by the `kiro.banner` sync would use: the workspace's `overrides.params`, else — for a profile already in the Forge — the profile's own or a default of a recipe it resolves) dropped, `.kiro/steering/` turned back into `.claude/rules/` except in a reference to a hand-written steering file and under `commands/` — and is accepted only when it is **proved to render back** to that steering file's body for Kiro over the workspace's own rules (every rule aimed at every target, as import writes them); it is then scanned for secrets and decided like any source (reused, a variant, or created; a rejection names the steering file's line, and a rejected rule gets no `prefer-kiro` line), its `inclusion` and `fileMatchPattern` still read from the steering frontmatter. Refused, with the Forge untouched: an empty or repeated name; a name with no `.claude/rules/<name>.md` (the flag takes rules; a steering file with no rule is already imported as steering); a rule with no `.kiro/steering/<name>.md`; a steering file holding a form Kiro writes for a rule it does not have (`AGENTS.md (rule: <x>)`, a link to `AGENTS.md`, `rule not in this workspace`), which has no certain source; and a steering file that would not come back from the rule built from it (it names `.claude/rules/` where `sync` writes `.kiro/steering/`) — the last two name the line of the steering file and quote none of it. The ingredient's `origin.path` is the steering file; the summary gains `prefer-kiro <ref> — source .kiro/steering/<name>.md (N lines; .claude/rules/<name>.md has M)` per rule — N and M count the two files whole, the steering file's frontmatter and banner included — and `--report` a *Preferred from Kiro* section with the same lines. What the workspace sees next: the Forge rule now differs from `.claude/rules/<name>.md` on disk, so with no lock entry for that file the next `sync` shows it as `collision` and leaves it alone — delete it (and the steering file, if it also collides) and run `craftar sync` to regenerate both; where `craftar.lock` already records the file unedited, `sync` updates it. The summary says so in a `note` for each rule whose text changed (after the warnings, before the `report` line). Until the workspace converges, an import without the flag reads `.claude/rules/<name>.md` again and lands that older text as a `<name>--<profile>` variant: keep the flag, or converge first. Rules only: commands, agents and skills are not taken from Kiro. In a schema 4 Forge an MCP base is compared as `sync` renders it (its declared params substituted into its `server`): a workspace whose server equals that rendering reuses the base — unless the base cites a declared key that neither the profile nor the workspace sets while some recipe of the Forge defaults it (import cannot know which value `sync` will render): that one becomes a variant whatever it holds; one whose server differs becomes a variant holding the server as the workspace has it, braces included, with no `params` (it declares nothing, so `sync` writes any braces in it back, with the undeclared-key warning whenever a layer gives that key a value). No value is ever inferred into a profile from a server. |
+| `craftar import --from claude-code --forge <dir> --profile <name> [--workspace .] [--write-config] [--report <file.md>] [--prefer-kiro <rule,…>]` | Reads `.claude/{rules,agents,commands,skills,scripts,hooks}`, `.mcp.json` and, when present, `.kiro/steering` (for inclusion modes and hand-written steering — and, with `--prefer-kiro`, the text of the rules it names). A rule's scope comes, in this order, from: a hand-written `.kiro/steering/<name>.md` whose frontmatter sets `inclusion`; a usable `paths:` in the rule's own frontmatter — a non-empty one-line string or a list of them, quoted or not (`- **/*.ts` is read as Claude Code reads it) — which gives `inclusion: fileMatch` and `fileMatchPattern`; a steering mirror craftar generated (its default banner); any other steering file, as before; and `always`. When `paths:` is usable the rule's frontmatter is kept verbatim apart from its body (`frontmatterRaw`), whichever source set the scope, so `.claude/rules/<name>.md` is written back byte for byte and neither `.kiro/steering/<name>.md` nor `AGENTS.md` carries it — except a file whose closing `---` is not followed by a newline, which keeps its frontmatter in its body and is written back as is; its steering mirror — and `AGENTS.md`, where it embeds the rule — then carry the block. What the workspace sees next, for a rule a craftar before this one read as always-on: its `.kiro/steering/<name>.md`, `AGENTS.md` and the `.kiro/agents/*.json` of agents bound to the rule now differ from the plan — where `craftar.lock` records them unedited, `sync` updates them; with no lock entry for them (a first import), they read `collision` and are left alone: delete them and run `craftar sync`. Four warnings name the rule and its files, never the pattern: the hand-written steering file and `paths:` disagree (the steering file's scope is kept); the generated mirror disagrees with `paths:` (scope taken from `paths:`); the steering file sets no `inclusion` (scope taken from `paths:`); `paths:` is not a string or a list of strings (ignored). With `--prefer-kiro`, a steering body that starts with a frontmatter block (as an earlier craftar wrote a `paths:` rule) is taken with it, as before, and the rule keeps no separate frontmatter. Creates ingredients, recipes (`base`, one `stack-*` per scoped rule, `<profile>-steering`) and a profile, or updates them. An ingredient already in the Forge is reused when the base, **rendered** for this profile (its declared defaults, the profile's `params`, the workspace's `overrides.params`), equals the workspace file; failing that, when a unique, proved assignment of the base's declared `{{keys}}` reproduces it, the values are **inferred** into the profile's `params` (one value per key per run; never a change another ingredient would feel). A base with section markers is rendered with the profile's `sections` and the workspace's `overrides.sections` first; when the workspace file differs from it only inside sections, the unique content that reproduces the file byte for byte is **inferred** into the profile's `sections` (tried after params, never combined with them; the report counts lines and never prints the content). An import that writes a section value, or compares a workspace file against a base holding markers, sets `schema: 2` in `craftar.forge.yaml` (a manifest already at 2 or above is left as it is). A reused base takes the place its `<name>--<profile>` variant held: the profile moves to the shared recipe when that orders the base there, and an owned recipe gets the base in the variant's slot, so the rule order (and `AGENTS.md`) stays as it was. Anything else becomes a `<name>--<profile>` variant that emits under the original name, with the reason, so the workspace still round-trips while you decide what to unify. A shared recipe is never widened for one client: a profile whose ingredients differ from `base` or a `stack-*` gets its own `<recipe>--<profile>`. An existing profile is merged in place (`params`, `sections`, the recipes import owns, missing `targets`; every other field and comment kept, and an empty `{}` / `[]` it does not change stays on its line), as is a recipe the profile owns; `--write-config` merges an existing `craftar.yaml` (`forge`, `profile`, `targets`). The report adds `rendered` (with `sections <names>` when a section value filled the render), `inferred`, `sectioned`, `param <key>: <old> → <new>`, `section <key> <name>: <old> → <new>`, `forge craftar.forge.yaml edited (schema: 2)` and `profile … created\|edited\|unchanged` lines. In a Forge at schema 3 or above, what the profile's `integrations` block alone provides is **not imported** — not compared, not written — and is listed (`left to recipe <r> (integrations.<slot>): …`, and under `## Left to an integration recipe` in the `--report` file); `craftar status` then shows whether the workspace's copies differ (`drift`, `collision`); move an agent attached to a scoped rule into the integration recipe with its rule, or `base` splits on import. It refuses, with the Forge untouched, a `--forge` inside craftar's Forge cache (a tree there, or a directory it would create there), a Forge that does not load, a profile or recipe or `craftar.yaml` that does not round-trip through the YAML writer, a misplaced profile, a recipe import writes whose file and `name` disagree, a workspace override that does not parse, a literal `{{key}}` the profile would render, changing a recipe or variant another profile uses, a workspace file holding a section marker at column 0 (sync would not reproduce it: indent it), a Forge base with malformed section markers, a `craftar.forge.yaml` it needs to bump to `schema: 2` that does not round-trip (set it by hand), and — in a Forge at schema 3 or above — a profile whose `integrations` block is malformed or, when the block holds a `kind`, that does not resolve. Ingredients holding a secret-like value (tokens, private keys, high-entropy MCP `env`/`args` values) are rejected and listed by location — the value is never printed. `authEnv` is never inferred; a variant import rewrites keeps the one it declares, a new variant takes its base's, and a declaration a profile loses is reported. A UTF-16 file with a byte-order mark is decoded for the scan; UTF-16 without one is not detected. An ingredient that would not load back into the Forge (a name that is not slug-like, a non-string MCP `env` value) refuses the import, naming its source; so does an ingredient already in the Forge whose `ingredient.yaml` has an unknown key or a YAML syntax error, naming that file. Every read and check runs before the first write, so an import that fails leaves the Forge untouched and says so. `--report <file.md>` also writes a Markdown report, after the Forge is written: what was created, reused, made a variant or rejected, the import's warnings, and the Kiro side — *Kiro collisions*, every `.kiro/` file that differs from what `sync` would generate for the imported profile (`status`' `collision` state against no lock, so a difference of line endings, BOM or JSON formatting is not one), each with its ingredient and the line counts of the two sides, a rule's steering mirror that outgrew its rule marked `steering bigger than the rule` (not one `--prefer-kiro` took the rule from); and *Unsourced Kiro files*, the files under `.kiro/steering/`, `.kiro/agents/`, `.kiro/skills/` and `.kiro/settings/mcp.json` that the plan for the imported profile does not write — listed, never imported. The report holds **paths and line counts, never content** (a `.kiro/` mirror is not scanned for secrets), and names an inferred parameter's key, not its value; a warning, a rejection reason or the `not computed` line is written with every parameter and section value this run accepted, replaced or inferred as `"…"`, and a variant is named against its base, without its reason — the summary on the terminal keeps them. It describes the profile as imported: of the workspace's own `craftar.yaml` and `craftar.local.yaml` only `overrides.params` and `overrides.sections` are read (as import reads them to decide a reuse) — not its `forge`, `profile`, `targets` or recipes — and `craftar.lock` is not read. The path may be inside the workspace; it is refused, before anything is imported, when it resolves inside the Forge (through symlinks and `..`), when a file already exists there, or when a component of it cannot be resolved. If the Kiro side cannot be computed — the plan fails, or `sync` would refuse it for a declared parameter with no value — its sections read `not computed: …`, the same is an import warning, and the import still exits 0. The report is written after the summary, which then ends with `report <file.md>`; if that write fails the import has still succeeded and the Forge is written, and the command says so and exits 1. Without `--report` none of this is computed. `--prefer-kiro <rule,…>` takes the named rules from `.kiro/steering/<name>.md` instead of `.claude/rules/<name>.md` — for a steering mirror that was edited by hand and is the text to keep; a rule left to an integration recipe is warned (`nothing to prefer; its steering file was not used`) and skipped, before that rule's own refusals (no steering file, a form with no certain source, a line that would not come back). The rule's text is built from the steering file — its frontmatter and its opening banner (the default one, or the line rendered by the `kiro.banner` sync would use: the workspace's `overrides.params`, else — for a profile already in the Forge — the profile's own or a default of a recipe it resolves) dropped, `.kiro/steering/` turned back into `.claude/rules/` except in a reference to a hand-written steering file and under `commands/` — and is accepted only when it is **proved to render back** to that steering file's body for Kiro over the workspace's own rules (every rule aimed at every target, as import writes them); it is then scanned for secrets and decided like any source (reused, a variant, or created; a rejection names the steering file's line, and a rejected rule gets no `prefer-kiro` line), its `inclusion` and `fileMatchPattern` still read from the steering frontmatter. Refused, with the Forge untouched: an empty or repeated name; a name with no `.claude/rules/<name>.md` (the flag takes rules; a steering file with no rule is already imported as steering); a rule with no `.kiro/steering/<name>.md`; a steering file holding a form Kiro writes for a rule it does not have (`AGENTS.md (rule: <x>)`, a link to `AGENTS.md`, `rule not in this workspace`), which has no certain source; and a steering file that would not come back from the rule built from it (it names `.claude/rules/` where `sync` writes `.kiro/steering/`) — the last two name the line of the steering file and quote none of it. The ingredient's `origin.path` is the steering file; the summary gains `prefer-kiro <ref> — source .kiro/steering/<name>.md (N lines; .claude/rules/<name>.md has M)` per rule — N and M count the two files whole, the steering file's frontmatter and banner included — and `--report` a *Preferred from Kiro* section with the same lines. What the workspace sees next: the Forge rule now differs from `.claude/rules/<name>.md` on disk, so with no lock entry for that file the next `sync` shows it as `collision` and leaves it alone — delete it (and the steering file, if it also collides) and run `craftar sync` to regenerate both; where `craftar.lock` already records the file unedited, `sync` updates it. The summary says so in a `note` for each rule whose text changed (after the warnings, before the `report` line). Until the workspace converges, an import without the flag reads `.claude/rules/<name>.md` again and lands that older text as a `<name>--<profile>` variant: keep the flag, or converge first. Rules only: commands, agents and skills are not taken from Kiro. In a schema 4 Forge an MCP base is compared as `sync` renders it (its declared params substituted into its `server`): a workspace whose server equals that rendering reuses the base — unless the base cites a declared key that neither the profile nor the workspace sets while some recipe of the Forge defaults it (import cannot know which value `sync` will render): that one becomes a variant whatever it holds; one whose server differs becomes a variant holding the server as the workspace has it, braces included, with no `params` (it declares nothing, so `sync` writes any braces in it back, with the undeclared-key warning whenever a layer gives that key a value). No value is ever inferred into a profile from a server. |
 | `craftar status` | With a remote Forge, the header's second line names it — `forge <url> @ <ref \| <branch> (default branch)> <commit>`, plus `· lock <commit>` when the Forge moved since the last sync — and `--json` carries `forge: {kind, source, ref, defaultBranch, commit, lockCommit, fetched}` for every Forge. Classifies every file the Forge would produce: `new`, `update`, `unchanged`, `adopt`, `drift`, `collision`, `orphan`, `orphan-drift`. A `.json` file not yet in `craftar.lock` that parses to the planned value with its keys in the same order (it differs only in whitespace, escapes, number spelling or duplicate keys) is `adopt`, and the first `sync` rewrites it with the planned bytes — by design. For `claude-code`'s `.mcp.json` that is two-space JSON keeping the file's BOM and line endings; Kiro's JSON files become CRLF without a BOM, like every Kiro text file. A different key order is a `collision` — except for integer-like keys, which `JSON.parse` reorders. A locked JSON file reformatted by hand is `drift`, not `adopt`. `--json` for tooling: `{forge, statuses, warnings, unsetParams}`. Exits 0 whenever it prints its listing, with two exceptions: when a declared parameter a file cites has no value (see `sync`) it prints the listing, then the refusal on stderr, and exits 1; and when `AGENTS.md` is over an explicit budget (see *Targets › agents-md*) it prints the listing, then that block on stderr, and exits 1. In both cases `--json` still prints the whole object — with `unsetParams: [{key, declaredBy, citedBy}]` (`[]` when there is none) and the budget line in `warnings` — and prints no block on stderr. Exits 1 on malformed section markers and on a section marker in an ingredient the workspace resolves while `craftar.forge.yaml` declares `schema: 1` (or none), naming the Forge file and line, and when a rendered file would still hold a marker line, naming the ingredient, file and rendered line — as do `sync`, `diff`, `explain` and `ls`. Warns about a section value that names no ingredient, or no marker of an ingredient the workspace resolves, and about marker lines in an emitted file not every target renders as text (copied as they are). |
 | `craftar sync` | Renders sections (no rendered body holds a marker; an emitted file not every target renders as text keeps its markers, with a warning), then writes the plan and `craftar.lock` (schema 2, or 3 when the workspace has a service — see *Local services*; it records the Forge's source, requested `ref` and commit, the resolved recipes and targets — rewritten only when that content changes). With a remote Forge it fetches first and exits 1 when the fetch fails, `--dry-run` and `--check` included. `--dry-run` shows without writing. `--check` exits 1 when anything is out of sync, or when `AGENTS.md` is over an explicit budget (CI). `--overwrite-drift` regenerates hand-edited files (explicit, never default); `craftar drift` lists them, discards one, or promotes one to the Forge. A writing `sync` (not `--dry-run`, not `--check`) also records the workspace in `$CRAFTAR_HOME/registry.json` (see *Workspace registry*); a registry it cannot write is a warning, never a failed `sync`. **Refuses when a declared parameter has no value**: a key an ingredient declares under `params` with no `default`, that a file the plan writes cites as `{{key}}`, and that no layer sets (recipe default, profile `params`, `overrides.params` in `craftar.yaml` or `craftar.local.yaml`). The plan's warnings print, then one block on stderr — `error: N declared parameter(s) have no value — nothing written`, one line per key with the ingredients that declare it and the ones that cite it, and the fix — and `sync` exits 1 with nothing written: no file, no lock, no registry entry; `--dry-run` exits 1 the same way, and `--check` prints its listing, then the block, and exits 1 even when every file is `unchanged`. A `{{key}}` no ingredient declares (an Angular `{{ 'X' \| localize }}`, a stray placeholder) is still left verbatim with a warning, and an empty string is a value. (That is a body; a `{{key}}` in an MCP server of a schema 4 Forge follows *Server params*.) |
 | `craftar diff [path] [--exit-code]` | Line diff between disk and what the Forge would generate, for every file `sync --check` refuses: `update`, `drift`, `collision`, `new`, an `orphan` (shown as the removal of the whole file — the next `sync` deletes it) and an `orphan-drift` (a header and one line: `sync` keeps it). For `.claude/settings.craftar.example.json`, when it has drifted or collides, `diff` prints the headers and `content not shown: an example file may hold a value typed by hand`. `[path]` limits it to the one file whose workspace-relative path, as `status` prints it, equals it. Exits 0 by default, differences or not. `--exit-code` exits 1 when there are differences, or when `AGENTS.md` is over an explicit budget — exactly when `sync --check` would — and makes a `[path]` that names no file craftar manages an error (exit 1, nothing on stdout); without the flag such a path prints `no differences`. With a remote Forge, `--exit-code` also exits 1 when the fetch fails, as `sync --check` does; plain `diff` reads the cached copy with a warning. When a declared parameter a file cites has no value (see `sync`), the refusal is printed on stderr after the diff: plain `diff` still exits 0, `--exit-code` with no `[path]` exits 1 even with `no differences` — as `sync --check` does — and with a `[path]` its exit code answers for that file only. The `AGENTS.md` budget block (see *Targets › agents-md*) is printed the same way, on stderr in every form, and sets the exit only for `--exit-code` with no `[path]`. |
 | `craftar drift [show] [path] [--workspace <dir>] [--offline] [--json]` | The hand-edited files (`drift`, `orphan-drift`), whether the Forge also changed each, whether it can be promoted; with a path, its diff. In a Forge at schema 3 or above, a file the profile's `integrations` block alone provides reads `promote: no (provided by integrations.<slot>)` — a service file reads `promote: no (service file)` there too, whoever provides it. In a workspace whose profile's block holds a `kind` and that does not resolve on its own (its `recipes.remove` takes out a missing integration recipe, say), `show` warns that what the block provides could not be computed: a file the block provides then reads `promote: yes`, and `drift promote` refuses it. `show` does not plan a promote, so a file `drift promote` refuses by a check only its plan makes reads `promote: yes` too — a recipe chain (D17), or a recipe a profile's block selects that another profile resolves, or that a profile which does not resolve might (D19). Read-only. `--json` is a contract: `{workspace, profile, files: [{path, state, target, ingredient, forge, promotable, reason}], warnings, unsetParams}`. Exits 0 whenever it prints its listing, with one exception: when a declared parameter a file cites has no value (see `sync`) it prints the listing, then the refusal on stderr, and exits 1 — `--json` still prints the whole object, with `unsetParams: [{key, declaredBy, citedBy}]` (`[]` when there is none). |
 | `craftar drift discard <path...> [--workspace <dir>] [--dry-run] [--offline]` | A `sync` that regenerates only the named hand-edited files and removes a named hand-edited orphan; everything else `sync` would do happens too. A path that is not `drift` or `orphan-drift` refuses the whole run before any write. `--dry-run`. |
-| `craftar drift promote <path> [--forge <dir>] [--workspace <dir>] [--dry-run] [--json]` | Carries one hand edit of a `.claude/` file into the Forge's working tree: a value in the profile's `params` / `sections` when the edit is only that, otherwise a variant for the workspace's profile. A rule's frontmatter travels as read (see `import`); its scope is re-derived only when the edit changed `paths:` — a removed `paths:` takes the scope it gave with it — and an unusable `paths:` is warned as `import` warns it. In a Forge at schema 3 or above, a file the profile's `integrations` block alone provides is not promotable — edit the ingredient in the Forge or discard the edit; and promote refuses to fork a recipe the block selects when it is not that profile's alone — another profile resolves it, or does not resolve at all; and it refuses every file when the block holds a `kind` and the profile does not resolve on its own. Gated on git, proved before the first write, never syncs, never commits. With a remote Forge, `--forge <dir>` names the clone to write. `--dry-run`, `--json`. `--json` is a contract: `{workspace, forge, profile, dryRun, path, ingredient, outcome, promoted, written: [{path, action}], params, sections, flattened, dependents, nextSync, impact, warnings}`. |
+| `craftar drift promote <path> [--forge <dir>] [--workspace <dir>] [--dry-run] [--json]` | Carries one hand edit of a `.claude/` file into the Forge's working tree: a value in the profile's `params` / `sections` when the edit is only that, otherwise a variant for the workspace's profile. A rule's frontmatter travels as read (see `import`); its scope is re-derived only when the edit changed `paths:` — a removed `paths:` takes the scope it gave with it — and an unusable `paths:` is warned as `import` warns it. In a Forge at schema 3 or above, a file the profile's `integrations` block alone provides is not promotable — edit the ingredient in the Forge or discard the edit; and promote refuses to fork a recipe the block selects when it is not that profile's alone — another profile resolves it, or does not resolve at all; and it refuses every file when the block holds a `kind` and the profile does not resolve on its own. Gated on git, proved before the first write, never syncs, never commits; a Forge directory that is a tree of craftar's Forge cache — the workspace's `forge:` or `--forge <dir>` — is refused before the `--forge` match and the git checks. With a remote Forge, `--forge <dir>` names the clone to write. `--dry-run`, `--json`. `--json` is a contract: `{workspace, forge, profile, dryRun, path, ingredient, outcome, promoted, written: [{path, action}], params, sections, flattened, dependents, nextSync, impact, warnings}`. |
 | `craftar explain <path>` | Which ingredient, recipe chain, target and origin produced a file and, for an ingredient with sections, which layer filled each one: `sections    flavors (profile globex), extra (default)` (`default`, `profile <p>` or `workspace`). For an ingredient whose files cite parameters, each cited key with the layer that filled it for this ingredient: `params      org (profile globex), port (default), root (unset)` — `default` (the ingredient's own), `recipe <name>`, `profile <p>`, `workspace` (either workspace file) or `unset`. `AGENTS.md` gets neither line: it is not one ingredient. |
 | `craftar ls` | Recipes and ingredients resolved for this workspace. |
 | `craftar workspaces [--fetch] [--json]` | Every workspace a writing `sync` registered on this machine, sorted by path: name, path, profile, stack (`slot=recipe`), targets, the Forge, the last sync, and a status computed now — `up to date`, `outdated` (`new`, `update` or `orphan` pending), `drift` (a `drift`, `orphan-drift` or `collision`), `no lock`, `missing` (directory or `craftar.yaml` gone) or `error` (it no longer loads, plans or reads its lock, or its `sync` would refuse for a declared parameter with no value — the reason is one of the row's warnings: `sync refused: declared parameter(s) with no value: <keys>`), plus `forge moved` when the Forge's commit differs from the lock's. Read without the network: a remote Forge comes from the cache; `--fetch` fetches first. Each row's warnings print after the table, prefixed with its path. Times are UTC. Writes nothing. Exits 0 whenever the table prints. Takes no `--workspace`. `--json` is a contract: `{registry, fetch, workspaces, warnings}`. |
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 | `craftar forge variants [--forge <dir> \| --workspace <dir>] [--json]` | Lists ingredients that have variants, nearest first, with the profile each came from, its distance to the base and its hunks counted by suggested class (`[1 evolution · 2 block]`), then any variant whose base is missing from the Forge. Read-only; exits 0 either way. `--json` prints `{groups, orphans}`; each variant carries `classes: {evolution, value, block}`, which add up to `distance.hunks`. |
 | `craftar forge impact [--forge <dir> \| --workspace <dir>] [--json]` | Lists every workspace registered on this machine that reads this Forge — by its path, by a git remote of this clone, or through another clone of the same remote — with what its next `sync` would do against the Forge as it is now: a header, then one line per workspace sorted by path (`unchanged`, the next-sync counts, `missing` or `error: <message>` — a workspace whose `sync` would refuse for a declared parameter with no value is `error: sync refused: declared parameter(s) with no value: <keys>`; ` · after push (<remote>)` for a remote match, ` · after push and pull (<dir>)` for a clone match; `, pins <ref>` when the workspace pins a `ref`). When no registered workspace reads this Forge, the short header (`craftar forge impact — <forge>`) then one line: `no registered workspace reads this Forge on this machine`; when the registry is off, the short header then one line: `the registry is off (CRAFTAR_NO_REGISTRY)`; when the registry cannot be read, exits 1. A workspace whose Forge is remote is refused with the same message as `forge unify`. A remote URL holding credentials is not matched — one warning per remote, `remote <name> of <dir> holds credentials in its URL — not matched` (the URL is never printed). Read-only; no fetch. `--json` is a contract: `{forge, registry, workspaces: [{path, profile, match, via, ref, state, counts, error}]}` (every key always present). |
 | `craftar forge diff <type/name> [--against <profile>] [--forge <dir> \| --workspace <dir>] [--json]` | Shows the differences between a base ingredient and each of its variants: a header carrying the same distance `forge variants` reports, then hunk by hunk, each with a suggested class and reason — `evolution` (one side is newer text), `value` (an identifier-like token swapped in shared prose, with a suggested `param.<slug>`) or `block` (lines only one side has) — then the files that exist on only one side. A suggestion never decides anything. It compares the raw Forge text, section marker lines included, so a base with markers shows them as hunks against a variant that has none. Read-only. `--json` prints an array of `{ref, profile, distance, diff}`; each hunk carries `suggestion: {class, reason, tokens?}` next to its `kind`. |
-| `craftar forge unify <type/name> --profile <p> (--take base\|variant \| --plan <file> \| --save-plan <file>) [--no-impact] [--prune-recipes] [--forge <dir> \| --workspace <dir>] [--json]` | Resolves one variant back into its base, hunk by hunk. `--save-plan` writes a reviewable plan with every decision set to `keep`, each hunk annotated with its suggested class (which `--plan` ignores) and, for a `value` hunk, a pre-filled `params` list (`token` → suggested `key`); on a `block` hunk, a pre-filled `section: { name }` from the Markdown heading above (or `section-<n>`); and on a hunk touching a section the base already has, that section's name. It refuses a path that resolves inside the Forge (after `..` segments and symlinks) and a path that already exists, so it never overwrites a Forge file or a plan you already edited; it writes nothing else. A hunk set to `take: param` turns each listed token into `{{key}}` in the base, declares the base's text as the key's default in the base's `ingredient.yaml` and writes the variant's text into the variant profile's `profile.yaml` `params` — only after proving that both the base's and the variant's text render back exactly, and only when the same plan resolves the variant; it refuses (with the Forge untouched) a key another layer, profile or ingredient already uses, a variant another profile also uses, a whitespace-only difference, and a YAML file that would not round-trip unchanged; in a Forge at schema 3 or above it never extracts into a key under `integrations.` (the prefix is reserved there). A hunk set to `take: section` (with `section: { name, lines? }`) wraps the base's lines in section markers as the default and writes the variant's lines into the variant profile's `sections` — consecutive hunks with one name form one section, `lines: "<from>-<to>"` widens it over equal base lines, and hunks inside a section the base already has only write the profile value; it is proved (both sides render back exactly) and needs the same plan to resolve the variant; `take: param` and `take: section` may share a plan, never a hunk. It refuses (Forge untouched) a `take: param` or `take: section` on a file no target emits, a variant that holds markers, a profile that already sets that section (another profile for a new section, or the variant's profile with other content), a span that cuts a hunk or crosses another section, a span that covers a hunk outside the run (including `take: base` on a hunk inside a section the plan fills), a hunk mixing lines inside and outside an existing section, and a span reaching a missing final newline; when it adds a section to a Forge still at `schema: 1` it sets `schema: 2` in `craftar.forge.yaml` in place (refused if the file does not round-trip). `--plan` applies an edited plan, refusing when it is not for this exact ingredient/profile or either side's fingerprint moved since it was saved. `--take base\|variant` resolves every decision to that side. Writes the merged base and, once every difference is resolved, removes the variant and rewrites every recipe reference to it (`ingredients`) to name the base. It never edits an `extends`, and deletes a recipe or repoints a profile's recipe list only under `--prune-recipes`; otherwise it edits a profile only to write the values of a `take: param` or `take: section` extraction into the variant's own profile. A `<recipe>--<profile>` left identical to `<recipe>` is reported as a warning unless pruned; `--prune-recipes` deletes such a recipe and repoints every profile that names it — the candidates are found in a dry pass, their profile files join the git check, and pruning is refused when another recipe's `extends` names the candidate, when the registry is off or unreadable, when the registry did not check every workspace (no registered workspace, a missing entry, one whose configuration did not load), when a registered workspace's plan throws, when a workspace's `recipes.add` or `recipes.remove` names the suffixed recipe, when a profile's recipe list cannot be edited in place (a YAML document that does not round-trip), when a profile selects the candidate through its `integrations` block, or when the Forge no longer loads when the prune reloads it; each remaining candidate is deleted and its profiles repointed only when every registered workspace plans the same files (the same paths and the same bytes) with and without it — any difference refuses that one candidate, and the Forge stays as `unify` left it. `--prune-recipes` with `--no-impact` is refused before anything is read. `unify` plans every registered workspace of the Forge before its writes and again after them, and reports one `impact:` line per workspace — `no effect`, `1 file changes — <path>` / `<n> files change — <paths>`, `missing` or `error: <message>` (each line carries the same ` · after push (<remote>)` / ` · after push and pull (<dir>)` / `, pins <ref>` suffix as `forge impact`) — replacing the `next: run craftar status …` hint when at least one workspace was checked; an unreadable registry is one warning. The three warnings — a removed variant a workspace may name in `overrides.ingredients.disable`, a new parameter a workspace's `overrides.params` now overrides, a new section a workspace's `overrides.sections` now fills — now name the concerned workspaces with the file that holds the entry, vanish when the registry proves none is concerned, or keep their previous text with a reason in parentheses (the registry could not check N workspaces, no workspace registered, registry off, registry unreadable). `--no-impact` skips both impact passes and restores the previous warning text (the identical-to-sibling warning keeps its new ending). Every recipe rewrite is checked before the first write, so one that cannot land (a reference behind a YAML alias) is refused with the Forge untouched; a failure after writing began (an I/O error, a locked file) names the paths already touched and the `git checkout` / `git clean` commands that undo them. A merge never adds, removes or changes a section marker other than the sections the plan declares; a plan or `--take variant` that would is refused before the first write — take `base` for the marker lines, or `take: section` to fill the section; the citation checks of `take: param` also read the profiles' section values, which can cite `{{key}}`. `ingredient.yaml` is never merged: when the two sides' metadata differs (beyond `name`, `as` and `origin`), the variant stays unresolved and the differing fields are named — edit it by hand, or `--take base` to discard the variant, metadata included. Requires a clean git checkout in the Forge with at least one commit (`--save-plan` excepted) — the Forge has no lock, so git is the undo. It also refuses when any path it would overwrite or delete (the base, the variant, the recipe files it rewrites, the profile a parameter or section extraction edits, the profiles `--prune-recipes` repoints, `craftar.forge.yaml` when it is bumped) is ignored, untracked, modified, or flagged skip-worktree or assume-unchanged in the index, since git could not restore it. `--json` prints `{base, profile, resolved, written, removed, unresolved, variantRemoved, recipes: {rewritten, identicalToSibling, pruned, kept}, metaDiffers, params, profileEdited, sections, manifestEdited, impact, warnings}` for `--take`/`--plan` (every key always present, `[]` when empty), or `{base, profile, plan, unresolved}` for `--save-plan`. In a schema 4 Forge `take: param` refuses, with the Forge untouched, a plan that would write a profile param an MCP server cites as a key it declares, and an MCP variant with no `params` under a base that declares some stays (`metaDiffers` then holds `params`); and when that variant's server cites a key the base declares, a second warning line says what discarding it does. `--take base` discards it, with neither line — the next `sync` may then render the base's params into the MCP files of the workspace that variant came from. |
-| `craftar forge promote <type/name> --profile <p> [--forge <dir> \| --workspace <dir>] [--no-impact] [--dry-run] [--json]` | Makes a profile's variant the base — `<type/name>` is the base, `--profile` names the variant, as for `forge unify`. The base takes the variant's whole directory (every file, raw bytes; its `ingredient.yaml` with the base's `name` and no `as`); every other profile that **resolves** the old base today gets it back as a variant of its own, `<name>--<q>` (the old base's whole directory, raw bytes); and the recipes are repointed so each profile resolves, in the same position, the ingredient holding the bytes it resolved before: a recipe naming the variant names the base; a recipe naming the base that the other profile owns by name (`<recipe>--<q>` or `<q>-steering`) is edited in place; any other recipe naming the base is **not edited** — each profile resolving it gets an owned copy `<recipe>--<q>` (the recipe's text with its name and that one entry changed: `slot`, `extends`, `params` and comments carry over) and its `profile.yaml` names the copy in the same position. The variant's directory is then removed. Other variants of the base are not touched; when no other profile resolves the old base, nothing is created and its text is discarded (`the old base is resolved by no profile — discarded (git holds it)`). **Before the first write**: the Forge must be a local directory (a remote one is refused before anything is fetched), a git repository with a commit and a clean tree; git must hold every path the run overwrites or deletes, and ignore none it creates; no path may be reached through a symbolic link; every YAML edit is made in place and refused when the file does not round-trip or the edit does not read back as exactly that change; and the **slot proof** — on a scratch copy holding the edits, every profile that resolves today must resolve the same ingredients in the same order (the variant now the base, the old base now its own variant, each holding the files of the one it replaces), through recipes on the same slots, with the same parameters, sections, targets and resolution warnings. Refused, exit 1, the Forge untouched: a `<type/name>` that is not an ingredient, is itself a variant, or has no variant for `<p>`; a Forge that is remote, not a repository, without a commit, dirty, or with a path git does not hold; a `<name>--<q>` that already exists for a profile that also resolves the base, the promoted profile resolving the base itself, or a recipe naming both (the Forge is inconsistent); a `<recipe>--<q>` that already exists; a profile that reaches a recipe naming the base only through another recipe's `extends` (edit the Forge by hand); in a Forge at schema 3 or above, a profile that resolves a recipe naming the base only because its `integrations` block selects it (`selects recipe <slot>-<kind> … through integrations.<slot>` — promote edits a `recipes` list, and a block's selection is not in one; edit the Forge by hand); a recipe whose file and `name` disagree; and a failed slot proof, which names the profile and what would differ — an owned recipe another profile also resolves fails it. A profile that does not resolve today is warned about and neither given a variant nor checked. **Impact**, as `forge unify`: the workspaces registered on this machine that read the Forge are planned before and after the writes — `impact N workspace(s) planned before and after: no effect` when none changes, otherwise one `impact:` line per workspace with its files, and `impact no workspace of this Forge is registered on this machine` when there is none. A workspace changes only through a reference the Forge cannot see — `recipes.add` of a shared recipe naming the base, `recipes.remove` of a recipe this run copied for its profile (the profile now names the copy, so the removal no longer applies), or `overrides.ingredients.disable` naming the base or the variant — and those are named in a `warn` line (`… its next sync follows the Forge, not this promotion`). `--no-impact` skips both passes; with the registry off (`CRAFTAR_NO_REGISTRY`) or unreadable the command still runs and warns that no workspace was checked; a workspace synced elsewhere is not known. `--dry-run` runs every check and the first impact pass, prints what would be written (`would hold`, `would be created`, `impact N workspace(s) planned: not written, not compared`) and writes nothing. When a variant was created the output ends with `next craftar forge variants — the old base now shows as N variant(s) to unify`: the old base is now an ordinary variant per profile. `--json`, a tooling contract: `{base, profile, dryRun, removed, created, recipes: {edited, created: [{name, from}]}, profiles, impact, warnings}` in that order — `removed` and `created` are refs, `impact` is the array `forge unify --json` gives (`[{path, profile, match, via, ref, state, files, error}]`, `[]` under `--no-impact` or `--dry-run`, or when no workspace was checked), and every array is always present; adding a key is additive, removing or renaming one needs an *Upgrading* line. Exit 0 written, or `--dry-run` passed; 1 a refusal, or a failure after writing began — the error then names the paths already written and the `git checkout` / `git clean` lines that restore them (a directory they leave empty does not stop a re-run). Nothing is committed: review the working tree and commit, or `git checkout` / `git clean` to undo. |
+| `craftar forge unify <type/name> --profile <p> (--take base\|variant \| --plan <file> \| --save-plan <file>) [--no-impact] [--prune-recipes] [--forge <dir> \| --workspace <dir>] [--json]` | Resolves one variant back into its base, hunk by hunk. `--save-plan` writes a reviewable plan with every decision set to `keep`, each hunk annotated with its suggested class (which `--plan` ignores) and, for a `value` hunk, a pre-filled `params` list (`token` → suggested `key`); on a `block` hunk, a pre-filled `section: { name }` from the Markdown heading above (or `section-<n>`); and on a hunk touching a section the base already has, that section's name. It refuses a path that resolves inside the Forge (after `..` segments and symlinks) and a path that already exists, so it never overwrites a Forge file or a plan you already edited; it writes nothing else. A hunk set to `take: param` turns each listed token into `{{key}}` in the base, declares the base's text as the key's default in the base's `ingredient.yaml` and writes the variant's text into the variant profile's `profile.yaml` `params` — only after proving that both the base's and the variant's text render back exactly, and only when the same plan resolves the variant; it refuses (with the Forge untouched) a key another layer, profile or ingredient already uses, a variant another profile also uses, a whitespace-only difference, and a YAML file that would not round-trip unchanged; in a Forge at schema 3 or above it never extracts into a key under `integrations.` (the prefix is reserved there). A hunk set to `take: section` (with `section: { name, lines? }`) wraps the base's lines in section markers as the default and writes the variant's lines into the variant profile's `sections` — consecutive hunks with one name form one section, `lines: "<from>-<to>"` widens it over equal base lines, and hunks inside a section the base already has only write the profile value; it is proved (both sides render back exactly) and needs the same plan to resolve the variant; `take: param` and `take: section` may share a plan, never a hunk. It refuses (Forge untouched) a `take: param` or `take: section` on a file no target emits, a variant that holds markers, a profile that already sets that section (another profile for a new section, or the variant's profile with other content), a span that cuts a hunk or crosses another section, a span that covers a hunk outside the run (including `take: base` on a hunk inside a section the plan fills), a hunk mixing lines inside and outside an existing section, and a span reaching a missing final newline; when it adds a section to a Forge still at `schema: 1` it sets `schema: 2` in `craftar.forge.yaml` in place (refused if the file does not round-trip). `--plan` applies an edited plan, refusing when it is not for this exact ingredient/profile or either side's fingerprint moved since it was saved. `--take base\|variant` resolves every decision to that side. Writes the merged base and, once every difference is resolved, removes the variant and rewrites every recipe reference to it (`ingredients`) to name the base. It never edits an `extends`, and deletes a recipe or repoints a profile's recipe list only under `--prune-recipes`; otherwise it edits a profile only to write the values of a `take: param` or `take: section` extraction into the variant's own profile. A `<recipe>--<profile>` left identical to `<recipe>` is reported as a warning unless pruned; `--prune-recipes` deletes such a recipe and repoints every profile that names it — the candidates are found in a dry pass, their profile files join the git check, and pruning is refused when another recipe's `extends` names the candidate, when the registry is off or unreadable, when the registry did not check every workspace (no registered workspace, a missing entry, one whose configuration did not load), when a registered workspace's plan throws, when a workspace's `recipes.add` or `recipes.remove` names the suffixed recipe, when a profile's recipe list cannot be edited in place (a YAML document that does not round-trip), when a profile selects the candidate through its `integrations` block, or when the Forge no longer loads when the prune reloads it; each remaining candidate is deleted and its profiles repointed only when every registered workspace plans the same files (the same paths and the same bytes) with and without it — any difference refuses that one candidate, and the Forge stays as `unify` left it. `--prune-recipes` with `--no-impact` is refused before anything is read. `unify` plans every registered workspace of the Forge before its writes and again after them, and reports one `impact:` line per workspace — `no effect`, `1 file changes — <path>` / `<n> files change — <paths>`, `missing` or `error: <message>` (each line carries the same ` · after push (<remote>)` / ` · after push and pull (<dir>)` / `, pins <ref>` suffix as `forge impact`) — replacing the `next: run craftar status …` hint when at least one workspace was checked; an unreadable registry is one warning. The three warnings — a removed variant a workspace may name in `overrides.ingredients.disable`, a new parameter a workspace's `overrides.params` now overrides, a new section a workspace's `overrides.sections` now fills — now name the concerned workspaces with the file that holds the entry, vanish when the registry proves none is concerned, or keep their previous text with a reason in parentheses (the registry could not check N workspaces, no workspace registered, registry off, registry unreadable). `--no-impact` skips both impact passes and restores the previous warning text (the identical-to-sibling warning keeps its new ending). Every recipe rewrite is checked before the first write, so one that cannot land (a reference behind a YAML alias) is refused with the Forge untouched; a failure after writing began (an I/O error, a locked file) names the paths already touched and the `git checkout` / `git clean` commands that undo them. A merge never adds, removes or changes a section marker other than the sections the plan declares; a plan or `--take variant` that would is refused before the first write — take `base` for the marker lines, or `take: section` to fill the section; the citation checks of `take: param` also read the profiles' section values, which can cite `{{key}}`. `ingredient.yaml` is never merged: when the two sides' metadata differs (beyond `name`, `as` and `origin`), the variant stays unresolved and the differing fields are named — edit it by hand, or `--take base` to discard the variant, metadata included. Refuses a tree of craftar's Forge cache passed as the Forge directory, and requires a clean git checkout in the Forge with at least one commit (`--save-plan` excepted from both) — the Forge has no lock, so git is the undo. It also refuses when any path it would overwrite or delete (the base, the variant, the recipe files it rewrites, the profile a parameter or section extraction edits, the profiles `--prune-recipes` repoints, `craftar.forge.yaml` when it is bumped) is ignored, untracked, modified, or flagged skip-worktree or assume-unchanged in the index, since git could not restore it. `--json` prints `{base, profile, resolved, written, removed, unresolved, variantRemoved, recipes: {rewritten, identicalToSibling, pruned, kept}, metaDiffers, params, profileEdited, sections, manifestEdited, impact, warnings}` for `--take`/`--plan` (every key always present, `[]` when empty), or `{base, profile, plan, unresolved}` for `--save-plan`. In a schema 4 Forge `take: param` refuses, with the Forge untouched, a plan that would write a profile param an MCP server cites as a key it declares, and an MCP variant with no `params` under a base that declares some stays (`metaDiffers` then holds `params`); and when that variant's server cites a key the base declares, a second warning line says what discarding it does. `--take base` discards it, with neither line — the next `sync` may then render the base's params into the MCP files of the workspace that variant came from. |
+| `craftar forge promote <type/name> --profile <p> [--forge <dir> \| --workspace <dir>] [--no-impact] [--dry-run] [--json]` | Makes a profile's variant the base — `<type/name>` is the base, `--profile` names the variant, as for `forge unify`. The base takes the variant's whole directory (every file, raw bytes; its `ingredient.yaml` with the base's `name` and no `as`); every other profile that **resolves** the old base today gets it back as a variant of its own, `<name>--<q>` (the old base's whole directory, raw bytes); and the recipes are repointed so each profile resolves, in the same position, the ingredient holding the bytes it resolved before: a recipe naming the variant names the base; a recipe naming the base that the other profile owns by name (`<recipe>--<q>` or `<q>-steering`) is edited in place; any other recipe naming the base is **not edited** — each profile resolving it gets an owned copy `<recipe>--<q>` (the recipe's text with its name and that one entry changed: `slot`, `extends`, `params` and comments carry over) and its `profile.yaml` names the copy in the same position. The variant's directory is then removed. Other variants of the base are not touched; when no other profile resolves the old base, nothing is created and its text is discarded (`the old base is resolved by no profile — discarded (git holds it)`). **Before the first write**: the Forge must be a local directory (a remote one is refused before anything is fetched), a git repository with a commit and a clean tree; git must hold every path the run overwrites or deletes, and ignore none it creates; no path may be reached through a symbolic link; every YAML edit is made in place and refused when the file does not round-trip or the edit does not read back as exactly that change; and the **slot proof** — on a scratch copy holding the edits, every profile that resolves today must resolve the same ingredients in the same order (the variant now the base, the old base now its own variant, each holding the files of the one it replaces), through recipes on the same slots, with the same parameters, sections, targets and resolution warnings. Refused, exit 1, the Forge untouched: a `<type/name>` that is not an ingredient, is itself a variant, or has no variant for `<p>`; a Forge that is remote or a tree of craftar's Forge cache, not a repository, without a commit, dirty, or with a path git does not hold; a `<name>--<q>` that already exists for a profile that also resolves the base, the promoted profile resolving the base itself, or a recipe naming both (the Forge is inconsistent); a `<recipe>--<q>` that already exists; a profile that reaches a recipe naming the base only through another recipe's `extends` (edit the Forge by hand); in a Forge at schema 3 or above, a profile that resolves a recipe naming the base only because its `integrations` block selects it (`selects recipe <slot>-<kind> … through integrations.<slot>` — promote edits a `recipes` list, and a block's selection is not in one; edit the Forge by hand); a recipe whose file and `name` disagree; and a failed slot proof, which names the profile and what would differ — an owned recipe another profile also resolves fails it. A profile that does not resolve today is warned about and neither given a variant nor checked. **Impact**, as `forge unify`: the workspaces registered on this machine that read the Forge are planned before and after the writes — `impact N workspace(s) planned before and after: no effect` when none changes, otherwise one `impact:` line per workspace with its files, and `impact no workspace of this Forge is registered on this machine` when there is none. A workspace changes only through a reference the Forge cannot see — `recipes.add` of a shared recipe naming the base, `recipes.remove` of a recipe this run copied for its profile (the profile now names the copy, so the removal no longer applies), or `overrides.ingredients.disable` naming the base or the variant — and those are named in a `warn` line (`… its next sync follows the Forge, not this promotion`). `--no-impact` skips both passes; with the registry off (`CRAFTAR_NO_REGISTRY`) or unreadable the command still runs and warns that no workspace was checked; a workspace synced elsewhere is not known. `--dry-run` runs every check and the first impact pass, prints what would be written (`would hold`, `would be created`, `impact N workspace(s) planned: not written, not compared`) and writes nothing. When a variant was created the output ends with `next craftar forge variants — the old base now shows as N variant(s) to unify`: the old base is now an ordinary variant per profile. `--json`, a tooling contract: `{base, profile, dryRun, removed, created, recipes: {edited, created: [{name, from}]}, profiles, impact, warnings}` in that order — `removed` and `created` are refs, `impact` is the array `forge unify --json` gives (`[{path, profile, match, via, ref, state, files, error}]`, `[]` under `--no-impact` or `--dry-run`, or when no workspace was checked), and every array is always present; adding a key is additive, removing or renaming one needs an *Upgrading* line. Exit 0 written, or `--dry-run` passed; 1 a refusal, or a failure after writing began — the error then names the paths already written and the `git checkout` / `git clean` lines that restore them (a directory they leave empty does not stop a re-run). Nothing is committed: review the working tree and commit, or `git checkout` / `git clean` to undo. |
 | `craftar services up [service...] [--wait] [--workspace <dir>]` | Starts the workspace's local services: `docker compose -p <project> -f .craftar/compose.yaml [--env-file .env] up -d`. It reads `craftar.lock` only — no Forge, no network — and hands Compose only a stack and fragments the lock records: it exits 1, one line per file with its fix, when a recorded file under `.craftar/` is missing (`run craftar sync`), was edited by hand (`run craftar drift discard <path>`: it regenerates the file, or removes it when the Forge no longer produces it), or the stack or a fragment is a file of yours the lock does not record (`run craftar status`), and when the lock records no service file (no recipe brings a service, or the workspace was never synced); a service name starting with `-` is refused. `[service...]` are Compose service names; `--wait` waits until they are running or healthy. Exits 1 as well when Docker or its Compose plugin is missing or Compose is older than 2.20.0. Otherwise exits with Compose's own code. Nothing else in craftar starts a container. See *Local services*. |
 | `craftar services down [--volumes] [--workspace <dir>]` | Stops them (`docker compose -p <project> [-f .craftar/compose.yaml [--env-file .env]] down`). Never refused on the files or the lock: when a recorded file is missing or edited, the stack is not craftar's, the lock cannot be read, or Compose is older than 2.20.0, the project is stopped by its name alone. An unreadable lock is a warning, not a refusal. `--volumes` also removes the volumes the stack declares. Exits with Compose's code; 1 when Docker or its Compose plugin is missing. |
 | `craftar services status [--json] [--workspace <dir>]` | One line per container of a declared service (a service with none reads `not created`) — its ingredient, state (`not created`, or Compose's own: `running`, `exited`…), health and published ports — then every pending file with its fix — a recorded file that is `missing` or `edited`, or a stack or fragment that is `unrecorded` (the lock does not record it). Exits 0 also when nothing runs; 1 when Docker cannot be asked (`--json` still prints, every service `not created`) or the lock cannot be read. A container of the project that no recorded fragment declares is listed too (`(not declared)`; `ingredient: null` in `--json`, where `health`, `composeFile` and `docker.compose` can be `null` as well; `docker.compose` is the bare version, `2.24.5` for `2.24.5-desktop.1`). `--json`: `{workspace, project, composeFile, docker: {available, compose}, services: [{name, ingredient, state, health, ports}], pending: [{path, reason}], warnings}`. `pending[].reason` is `missing`, `edited` or `unrecorded`. |
@@ -504,7 +513,7 @@ The server answers for the directory it is started in; a client that starts its
 
 Phase 0 — foundations (done): schema, import, sync/status/diff/explain, claude-code + kiro + agents-md targets, lock, drift, orphans; `forge variants`, `forge diff` and `forge unify` (`take: param`, `take: section`); sections.
 
-Phase 1 — client profile (in progress). Shipped: the read-only catalogue (`recipes`, `ingredients`, `targets` with the capability matrix); remote Forge (git URL + `ref`, a per-machine cache, the schema 2 lock) and `craftar cache prune`; the workspace registry and `craftar workspaces`; `craftar add recipe` / `remove recipe`; `craftar init` with flags; `craftar doctor`; `craftar forge impact`, `forge unify --prune-recipes` and `forge promote`; an interactive `craftar init` (choose the Forge and the profile); `authEnv` on MCP ingredients (the environment variables a server needs, by name, and the generated `.claude/settings.craftar.example.json`); `craftar drift show` / `drift discard` / `drift promote` (list the files edited by hand, discard an edit, or carry one into the Forge as a profile value or a variant); a sync refused when a declared parameter has no value; `craftar import --report` (a Markdown report of an import, as paths and line counts) and `import --prefer-kiro` (a rule's source taken from its Kiro steering file); a profile's `integrations` block (PM tool and IDP as recipes selected by the profile); `{{param}}` inside an MCP server; `craftar mcp` (a read-only MCP server: seven reading tools for an AI coder, over stdin and stdout); `craftar ui` (a local, read-only dashboard of the registered workspaces, on `127.0.0.1` only); cloning a profile's repositories (`init --clone`, `craftar repos`).
+Phase 1 — client profile (in progress). Shipped: the read-only catalogue (`recipes`, `ingredients`, `targets` with the capability matrix); remote Forge (git URL + `ref`, a per-machine cache, the schema 2 lock) and `craftar cache prune`; the workspace registry and `craftar workspaces`; `craftar add recipe` / `remove recipe`; `craftar init` with flags; `craftar doctor`; `craftar forge impact`, `forge unify --prune-recipes` and `forge promote`; an interactive `craftar init` (choose the Forge and the profile); `authEnv` on MCP ingredients (the environment variables a server needs, by name, and the generated `.claude/settings.craftar.example.json`); `craftar drift show` / `drift discard` / `drift promote` (list the files edited by hand, discard an edit, or carry one into the Forge as a profile value or a variant); a sync refused when a declared parameter has no value; `craftar import --report` (a Markdown report of an import, as paths and line counts) and `import --prefer-kiro` (a rule's source taken from its Kiro steering file); a profile's `integrations` block (PM tool and IDP as recipes selected by the profile); `{{param}}` inside an MCP server; `craftar mcp` (a read-only MCP server: seven reading tools for an AI coder, over stdin and stdout); `craftar ui` (a local, read-only dashboard of the registered workspaces, on `127.0.0.1` only); cloning a profile's repositories (`init --clone`, `craftar repos`); a new profile from `craftar init` (`--new-profile`, `--like`).
 
 Phase 2 — environment (in progress). Shipped: local services (`service` ingredients, `.craftar/`, `craftar services up | down | status`); `craftar templates list | install` (`dotnet new` project templates declared in a profile).
 
@@ -512,6 +521,13 @@ Later: rulesync bridge for Codex/Kimi/Cursor specifics; `craftar docs validate`;
 
 ## Upgrading
 
+### to 0.34.1
+
+- **`forge unify`, `forge promote`, `drift promote` and `import` refuse a tree of craftar's Forge cache** passed as the Forge directory (`--forge <dir>`, or — for the first three — a workspace's `forge:` path), as `init --new-profile` has since 0.34.0. A cache tree is a clean, tracked git repository with a commit, so the git gates of the first three passed (`import` has none) and the edit landed in the tree that every workspace reading that Forge at that commit plans from. `import` also refuses a `--forge` it would create inside the cache. `drift promote` gets it before the `--forge` match, whose messages print the paths they compare. `forge unify --save-plan` still reads a tree.
+- **The refusal names the tree by its place in the cache, with the entry's name as `(a cache entry name — not shown)`**: `<home>/forges/(a cache entry name — not shown)/trees/<commit> is a tree of craftar's Forge cache — nothing is written there; clone the Forge and pass that directory`. `init --new-profile` printed the directory's full path, and an entry named after a URL with credentials (recorded before 0.27.1) held them.
+- **A `forge:` URL that starts with `-` is refused** (the scp form, `-x@host:path`; a path Forge is not) before git runs, under `--offline` too (`a Forge URL that starts with "-" is refused — git would read it as an option`), where it reached `git ls-remote` and `git fetch` as an option; both calls now put `--` before the URL.
+- No emitted byte, lock, registry entry or `--json` key changes.
+
 ### to 0.32.1
 
 - **A cache entry no clean registry row vouches for is printed by a label.** An entry an earlier release named after a URL with credentials keeps that name on disk, and once no registry row names it — right after a re-sync without the credentials — `craftar doctor` and `craftar cache prune` printed it, the user and the password with it. Now a cache entry's name is printed only when a registry row with a clean URL, or the checked workspace, names it; every other one — an orphan, and every entry when `CRAFTAR_NO_REGISTRY` is set or the registry cannot be read — reads `(a cache entry name — not shown)`: `doctor`'s `nothing names it` and `a fetch never completed` lines, and `cache prune`'s rows, its `--json` `path` (`forges/(a cache entry name — not shown)`, `forges/~removing-(a cache entry name — not shown)-<pid>`) and its warnings. Two such rows read the same; each keeps its kind, reason and size, and nothing on disk is renamed. An entry a registry row with credentials names keeps `(a URL with credentials — not shown)`, as since 0.28.1. Where there is no snapshot of the cache — `doctor`'s `cannot read the Forge cache: …` and `cache prune`'s `cannot read …/forges: …` — the name that follows `forges/` in the error is that label whoever names it, a key labelled `(a URL with credentials — not shown)` since 0.28.1 included.