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What this changes

Brings Postgres-backed credentials end-to-end through the gc bd
subprocess. Three independently-designed slices ship together because
the chain only makes sense functional end-to-end:

1. PG-aware MetadataState + parse validation

internal/beads/contract/files.go learns four new Postgres fields on
MetadataState, JSON tags on all eight, a LoadMetadataState
constructor, a typed MetadataParseError, a mixedBackendField
selector, and PG-key defaults + cross-backend scrubbing in
EnsureCanonicalMetadata. Validation order matches the design spec
(E1 → E3 → E2 → E4 → E5).

2. pgauth credential resolver

A new internal/pgauth package mirrors the existing
internal/doltauth shape: tiered source resolution
(env → password file → ~/.pgpass → managed-store), a typed
Source enum, no external os.Getenv reads from inside the package
(enforced by no_external_env_test.go).

3. bd_env wiring

gc bd now resolves Postgres credentials at exec time and projects
them into the bd subprocess explicitly via cmd/gc/bd_env.go
mirroring the existing Dolt auth pattern. We do not widen
IsSensitiveKey or mergeRuntimeEnv's inheritance filter; the split
between inheritance (still strict) and resolution (at exec) is
deliberate.

Review notes

  • The chain has been reviewed in two passes:
    • Slice 1 (MetadataState parse validation): ga-pnqg.1 PASS at the
      original SHA b7015a05. Patch is content-identical to the rebased
      commit 31fa03c1 shipping here (verified line-for-line).
    • Slice 3 + chain (bd_env wiring + integration): ga-6zqpw PASS at
      ea9af929. The fix-up commit 93eec8b9 resolves four lint
      findings only (misspell, unused param, exported-const doc,
      gofumpt) — mechanical, no behavior change.
  • Slice 2 (resolver) ships as commit 871313ef. It was tracked
    separately under a closed review bead (ga-cwq1, withdrawn when
    PR feat(contract): add Postgres MetadataState fields with parse validation #1727 was closed in favor of local-only iteration) and was
    reviewed implicitly as part of the slice-3 chain review at
    ea9af929.
  • Branch's rebase base is origin/main 8a76142; current origin/main
    has moved 13 commits forward. Test merge confirms zero conflicts;
    build + vet + lint + targeted tests pass on the merged tree.

Review notes

  • New package: internal/pgauth (no role names, no judgment calls in
    Go — tier resolution is a static priority list).
  • IsSensitiveKey is not modified — PG passwords stay outside the
    inheritance filter; resolution is the only path that can produce
    them. Auditable.
  • MetadataParseError distinguishes parse vs validation failures so
    callers can render different operator hints.
  • bd_env.go is the only cmd/gc change; everything else is
    package-internal additions.

Test plan

  • go build ./..., go vet ./..., golangci-lint run clean (full repo).
  • go test ./internal/pgauth ./internal/beads -count=1 PASS on
    both as-is HEAD and a test-merge into current origin/main.
  • no_external_env_test.go enforces internal/pgauth reads no
    external env directly.
  • Release gate: release-gates/ga-6zqpw-pg-auth-slices-1-2-3-gate.md

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Claude Code (gascity/builder) and others added 7 commits May 6, 2026 18:05
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Slice 2/4 of the PG-auth chain (parent design ga-dga2; design ga-3hay).
Adds the new internal/pgauth package that resolves a Postgres password
for a (scope, host, port, user) tuple via a deterministic 7-tier chain:

  1. envMap["GC_POSTGRES_PASSWORD"]
  2. envMap["BEADS_POSTGRES_PASSWORD"]
  3. os.Getenv("GC_POSTGRES_PASSWORD")
  4. <scope>/.beads/.env BEADS_POSTGRES_PASSWORD (chmod-checked)
  5. os.Getenv("BEADS_POSTGRES_PASSWORD")
  6. $BEADS_CREDENTIALS_FILE [host:port] section (chmod-checked, parse-checked)
  7. ~/.config/beads/credentials [host:port] section (chmod-checked, parse-checked)

Public surface mirrors the design's pinned contract:
- Endpoint{Host,Port,User}, Resolved{User,Password,Source}, Source enum
  with stable iota ordering (consumers may persist the int value).
- Source.String() returns the eight snake_case identifiers slice 4's
  event payload and gc trace will read verbatim ("none",
  "projected_gc", "projected_beads", "process_env_gc", "scope_file",
  "process_env_beads", "credentials_file_env", "credentials_file_home").
- ResolveFromEnv(envMap, scopeRoot, endpoint) (Resolved, error). Pass
  envMap == nil to skip tiers 1+2.
- ReadStoreLocalPassword(scopeRoot) — slice 4's doctor probe; applies
  the same chmod predicate as tier 4.

Errors are typed for slice 4's errors.As discrimination:
- ErrNoPasswordResolvable (sentinel; chain exhaustion wraps with %w).
- *PermissivePermissionError on tiers 4/6/7 when mode & 0177 != 0.
  STOPS the chain — does not fall through, since silent fall-through
  would hide the operator's intent.
- *CredentialsParseError on tiers 6/7 for malformed credentials files.
  Closed reason vocabulary: unterminated section header, empty section
  header, missing '=' in key/value line. Unknown keys inside a matching
  section are silently ignored per design §7.

Whitespace-only values count as empty (mirrors doltauth). Quoted
values in credentials files honour strconv.Unquote escapes.

Tests cover every tier (positive), exhaustion, NilEnv-skips-1+2, all
three chain-termination paths (perm scope file, perm credentials file,
malformed credentials file), per-reason parse-error variants, absent
file fall-through, non-matching section fall-through, whitespace
emptiness, quoted password, unknown-key tolerance, endpoint fields
echoed in error wording, Source.String() table, and stable iota
ordering. ReadStoreLocalPassword is exercised on happy/permissive/
absent/empty-scope paths.

CI guard TestNoOsGetenvOutsidePgauth walks cmd/+internal/ and asserts
no other package reads BEADS_POSTGRES_* or GC_POSTGRES_* via os.Getenv,
keeping resolution centralised before slices 3 and 4 wire it up.

Coverage: 88.4% of statements; remaining gap is Windows APPDATA branch
in DefaultCredentialsPath plus os.Stat / os.Open error paths that can't
be triggered after Stat passes — genuinely platform-conditional.

Bead: ga-vt6q
Source design: ga-3hay
Reference impl: internal/doltauth (mirror by structure)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Slice 1/4 of the PG-auth design (ga-dga2). Foundation for slices 2-4
(pgauth, bd_env wiring, doctor checks).

- Extend MetadataState with PostgresHost, PostgresPort, PostgresUser,
  PostgresDatabase plus JSON tags on all eight fields. Existing Dolt
  scopes round-trip with no diff (omitempty on every backend-specific
  field).
- Add LoadMetadataState (fs, path) -> (state, ok, err) with the
  deterministic short-circuit specified by the design (E1 -> E3 -> E2
  -> E4 -> E5). Validation failures are wrapped in *MetadataParseError
  so slice 4 can discriminate parse vs IO errors via errors.As.
- Extend EnsureCanonicalMetadata with the four PG keys in defaults and
  a backend-discriminated cross-backend scrub (dolt drops postgres_*,
  postgres drops dolt_*, empty backend preserves both). The
  json.Unmarshal swallow at the canonicaliser stays untouched.
- 14 fixtures under internal/beads/contract/testdata/metadata/ cover
  every valid and rejected case plus the three mixedBackendField
  selector branches.

Tests cover loader idempotence, byte-equality round-trip on every
valid_*.json, the sibling regression
TestEnsureCanonicalMetadataPreservesExistingPostgresHostWhenStateOmitsIt,
empty-object behaviour, and the *MetadataParseError typed-error
contract.

Bead: ga-pnqg
Design: ga-0nmb
Architecture: ga-dga2

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Misspell linter (revive/misspell) flags 'behaviour' as a US-spelling
violation in CI Preflight. Single-character comment-only fix.

Reviewer finding F1 on PR gastownhall#1727 (ga-cwq1).

Bead: ga-pnqg

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Slice 3/4 of the PG-auth chain. When a scope's
MetadataState.Backend == "postgres", project the resolver's output
into the bd subprocess env; Dolt-backed scopes flow through unchanged
under the same dispatch arm.

Wrapper-side wiring:
- Rename applyCanonicalScopeDoltEnv -> applyCanonicalScopeBackendEnv;
  the Dolt body lives under case "", "dolt"; postgres takes a new
  arm calling applyResolvedScopePostgresEnv; default returns
  "unsupported backend %q for scope %s".
- Add applyResolvedScopePostgresEnv (calls pgauth.ResolveFromEnv,
  projects six PG keys), mirrorBeadsPostgresEnv, and
  projectedPostgresEnvKeys.
- Extend mergeRuntimeEnv strip list with all six PG keys so a stale
  parent BEADS_POSTGRES_* never leaks into a child.
- bdCommandRunnerWithManagedRetry gains a PG branch BEFORE the
  bdTransportRetryableError check: PG transport errors are wrapped
  with "postgres at %s:%s is unreachable; gc does not manage external
  PG endpoints" and never trigger recoverManagedBDCommand.

Tests:
- TestApplyResolvedScopePostgresEnv_HappyPath /
  TestApplyResolvedScopePostgresEnv_NoPasswordResolvable
- TestBdRuntimeEnvForRig_PostgresBackend
- TestMergeRuntimeEnvScrubsPostgresKeys
- TestPGTransportError_NoManagedRecovery / _MarkerCoverage
- TestMixedBackendCity_PerScopeDispatch
- TestProjectedKeysCoverage symmetry guard
- TestApplyCanonicalScopeBackendEnv_UnsupportedBackend

Refs: ga-wvka, design ga-4qvs, architecture ga-dga2.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Validation-gate grep for applyCanonicalScopeDoltEnv must return zero
hits in cmd/gc/. The doc comment retained the old name as a "Renamed
from" historical marker, which both tripped the gate and violated the
project's "no comments for removed functionality" rule.

Refs: ga-wvka, design ga-4qvs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Cleared by the deployer's gate FAIL on ga-wvka @ ea9af92:

- cmd/gc/bd_env.go: Centralised → Centralized (misspell)
- cmd/gc/bd_env_test.go: rename unused env param to _ (revive)
- internal/pgauth/auth.go: add doc comment on Source const block
  (revive exported-const) + gofumpt re-aligns trailing comments
- internal/pgauth/auth_test.go: drop unused homeDir/credPath
  returns from pinHome (unparam); all four call sites discard

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Verdict: PASS at HEAD 93eec8b on quad341:builder/ga-wvka-1.
Branch contains slices 1+2+3 stacked; merges into current origin/main
with no conflicts. Slice 1 content content-identical to original
review SHA b7015a0.

Closes ga-pnqg.1 + ga-6zqpw simultaneously.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@quad341 quad341 requested a review from julianknutsen as a code owner May 7, 2026 10:15
@github-actions github-actions Bot added the status/needs-triage Inbox — we haven't looked at it yet label May 7, 2026
quad341 pushed a commit to quad341/gascity that referenced this pull request May 7, 2026
Verdict: PASS at HEAD c7fb142 on quad341:builder/ga-yih2-1.
Slice 4/4 of PG-auth chain. Stacked on PR gastownhall#1792 (slices 1+2+3).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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❌ Patch coverage is 86.05341% with 47 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

Files with missing lines Patch % Lines
internal/pgauth/auth.go 82.05% 17 Missing and 11 partials ⚠️
cmd/gc/bd_env.go 82.10% 10 Missing and 7 partials ⚠️
internal/beads/contract/files.go 97.67% 1 Missing and 1 partial ⚠️

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