A project's trust.merge is operator (the default) or approved (L3, D5, #65). Set to approved, the harness, never the model, merges a PR in the PR watch once an approving review from a gitea.operators account is on its current commit, its checks pass (none at all counts; pending waits) and it's mergeable; the item then goes on as after any merge. Each reason to hold off (failed checks, conflicts, a refused merge) is said once per commit. Gitea enforces it: protection requires approvals from an operators-only whitelist and dismisses stale ones. At start, for each approved project, the agent checks by behaviour that its own unapproved merge is refused, with a throwaway branch and PR made through the API (never the workspace); if it isn't refused, the operator merges until a restart. - gitea: approvals, combined check status, a PR's head commit and mergeability, API-made branches and their deletion. - Test and bring-up repositories get the protection. - Tests: the decision (unit), the hard wall on a real Gitea (test_trust_live), an e2e test where the operator only approves, and a walk property, merges_only_approved, checked against a mutant that ignores which commit was approved. Closes #65 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PPQ14L3LikyefCMFBqEbKE
nisse-dev
The Dev Agent: plans and implements software projects, produces Gitea PRs for human
review, and reacts to review comments and commits. A thin application over the
shared nisse-core library.
Part D of the architecture at ../docs/Architecture.md
covers this agent; Part L covers the library it sits on.