docs: add CLI architecture deep-dive guides

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Summary

Adds comprehensive CLI architecture documentation organized by audience:

• Developer reference (docs/guides/dev/cli-internals.md) - CLI command structure, unified installation pipeline, sandbox lifecycle, workflow deployment, and source code reference
• Admin reference (docs/guides/admin/infrastructure-reference.md) - Token mint (OIDC), WIF provisioning, secrets/variables deployment, and GCF provisioner flow
• User guide (docs/guides/user/customizing-agents.md) - Harness configuration, layered config resolution, agent roles, and customization examples

These guides provide implementation details that complement the existing high-level installation and workflow documentation.

Content Organization

Developer Guide - CLI internals for contributors:

• CLI command tree and token resolution chain
• Unified installation flow (per-org vs per-repo modes)
• OpenShell sandbox runtime lifecycle
• Workflow deployment & scaffold system
• End-to-end flow diagrams
• Source file reference table

Admin Guide - Infrastructure details for operators:

• OIDC token mint architecture and security controls
• Role permissions matrix
• Vertex AI with WIF authentication
• Secrets & variables deployment by mode
• GCF provisioner end-to-end flow
• Multi-org support

User Guide - Customization for end users:

• Harness YAML structure and configuration
• Layered configuration resolution (upstream → org → repo)
• Agent roles and GitHub App mapping
• Practical customization examples
• Per-repo override instructions

Changes

• New files:

  • docs/guides/dev/cli-internals.md (460 lines)
  • docs/guides/admin/infrastructure-reference.md (291 lines)
  • docs/guides/user/customizing-agents.md (220 lines)

• Cross-references added between related guides

• All content verified against current codebase implementation

Test Plan

• Verified documentation matches current implementation
• Checked all internal cross-references
• Removed any internal/research-specific content
• Organized content by appropriate audience (dev/admin/user)

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Review

Findings

Low

• [correctness] docs/guides/dev/cli-internals.md:440 — Variable name FULLSEND_PER_REPO_GUARD is incorrect. The actual environment variable is FULLSEND_PER_REPO_INSTALL (the Go constant PerRepoGuardVar has value "FULLSEND_PER_REPO_INSTALL"). The admin guide infrastructure-reference.md correctly uses the right name.
  Remediation: Change FULLSEND_PER_REPO_GUARD=true to FULLSEND_PER_REPO_INSTALL=true on line 440.

• [documentation-currency] docs/guides/README.md:1 — The guides index (docs/guides/README.md) was not updated to include links to the three new files: admin/infrastructure-reference.md, dev/cli-internals.md, and user/customizing-agents.md. After merge, the index will be incomplete.
  Remediation: Add entries under the appropriate audience sections in docs/guides/README.md.

Previous run

Review

Findings

No findings.

All three documentation files were verified against the current codebase implementation:

• infrastructure-reference.md — Role permissions matrix, mint architecture, GCF provisioner flow, secret/variable names, and multi-org support all match the source code in internal/mint/main.go, internal/dispatch/gcf/provisioner.go, and related files.
• cli-internals.md — CLI command tree, token resolution chain, unified install pipeline, sandbox lifecycle, scaffold system, and source file reference table are all accurate. Line counts are within expected drift margins.
• customizing-agents.md — Harness YAML structure, layered configuration resolution, agent roles, and customization examples match internal/harness/harness.go and internal/scaffold/scaffold.go.

No sensitive data exposure detected — all identifiers use template patterns ({org}, {project}, ${VAR}), environment variable names (not values), and public endpoints. No real GCP project names, service account identifiers, or credentials are present.

All internal cross-references resolve to existing files (installation.md, local-dev.md, bugfix-workflow.md, ADR 0035).

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Review

Findings

Medium

• [docs-currency] docs/guides/README.md — The guides index lists existing guides under Administration, User guides, and Development sections but does not include the three new documents added by this PR. Readers browsing docs/guides/README.md will not discover the new CLI internals, infrastructure reference, or customizing agents guides.
  Remediation: Add entries for admin/infrastructure-reference.md, dev/cli-internals.md, and user/customizing-agents.md to the appropriate sections of docs/guides/README.md.

Low

• [correctness] docs/guides/dev/cli-internals.md:441 — Phase 6 diagram uses FULLSEND_PER_REPO_GUARD=true but the actual environment variable is FULLSEND_PER_REPO_INSTALL (defined as PerRepoGuardVar in internal/forge/forge.go). The admin infrastructure-reference.md correctly uses FULLSEND_PER_REPO_INSTALL.
  Remediation: Replace FULLSEND_PER_REPO_GUARD with FULLSEND_PER_REPO_INSTALL in the Phase 6 diagram.

Info

• [completeness] docs/guides/user/customizing-agents.md — The harness YAML reference omits three fields present in the Harness struct (internal/harness/harness.go): description, api_servers, and agent_input. The example does not claim to be exhaustive, so this is informational — consider adding them if they are user-facing.

Previous run (3)

Review

Findings

No findings.

The prior medium-severity finding (incorrect security block types in customizing-agents.md) has been resolved — the YAML example now correctly matches the Go struct shapes in internal/harness/harness.go. All documented claims verified against the codebase: role permissions matrix, secret naming pattern, token resolution chain, sandbox constants, CLI command tree, harness YAML types, and cross-references.

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Review

Findings

No findings.

The prior medium-severity finding (incorrect security block types in customizing-agents.md) has been resolved — the YAML example now correctly matches the Go struct shapes in internal/harness/harness.go. All documented claims verified against the codebase: role permissions matrix, secret naming pattern, token resolution chain, sandbox constants, CLI command tree, harness YAML types, and cross-references.

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Review

Findings

Medium

• [correctness] docs/guides/user/customizing-agents.md:826-838 — The security block in the harness YAML example uses incorrect types for four fields. host_scanners is shown as a list of strings (- llm-guard, - tirith), but the actual Go struct (HostScanners in internal/harness/harness.go:95) has boolean fields (unicode_normalizer, context_injection, ssrf_validator, secret_redactor) and a nested llm_guard config object. sandbox_hooks is similarly shown as a list of strings, but the actual struct (SandboxHooks, line 114) has boolean and nested-struct fields (tirith, ssrf_pretool, secret_redact_posttool, unicode_posttool, etc.). escalation is shown as a bare string block, but it is actually *EscalationConfig (line 139) with on_critical and review_label subfields. trace is shown as a bare boolean, but it is actually *TraceConfig (line 145) with an enabled subfield. Users following this example would produce invalid YAML that fails to parse.
  Remediation: Update the security block to match the actual struct shapes — host_scanners and sandbox_hooks as objects with boolean/nested fields, escalation as an object with on_critical/review_label, and trace as an object with enabled.

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Review

Findings

Medium

• [correctness] docs/guides/dev/cli-internals.md — The CLI command tree is incomplete. scan has subcommands (input, output, context, url) and both enable and disable have a repos subcommand. Developers relying on this tree will not discover available commands.
  Remediation: Update the command tree to include subcommands for scan, enable, and disable.

• [correctness] docs/guides/user/customizing-agents.md — The harness YAML examples document three fields with incorrect types. plugins is shown as a list of objects with name/config subfields, but the actual Go struct (internal/harness/harness.go:196) defines it as []string. providers is similarly shown as structured objects but is actually []string (line 197). runner_env is shown as a list of strings but is actually map[string]string (line 205). Users following these examples would produce invalid YAML that fails to parse.
  Remediation: Update the harness YAML example to match the actual struct types — plugins and providers as string lists, runner_env as a key-value map.

Low

• [correctness] docs/guides/dev/cli-internals.md — Four entries in the "Key Source Files Reference" table have line counts that are significantly off: root.go (34 actual vs ~50 claimed), layers.go (159 vs ~100), dispatch.go (364 vs ~250), config.go (264 vs ~200). The table includes a disclaimer about approximate line counts, which partially mitigates this.
  Remediation: Update the line counts to current values.

Previous run (7)

Review

Findings

High

• [correctness] docs/guides/admin/infrastructure-reference.md:83-91 — Role permissions matrix contains multiple inaccuracies compared to internal/mint/main.go rolePermissions map. Discrepancies include: triage lists pull_requests: read (not in code); coder lists actions: read, checks: write (actual: checks: read, no actions); review lists checks: write (actual: checks: read); fix lists actions: read, checks: write (neither exists in code); retro lists issues: read (actual: issues: write); prioritize lists pull_requests: read (not in code, missing organization_projects: write); fullsend lists issues: write, checks: write, members: read (none present in code, missing actions_variables: read, workflows: write).
  Remediation: Regenerate the permissions table directly from the rolePermissions map in internal/mint/main.go (lines 750-757).

• [correctness] docs/guides/admin/infrastructure-reference.md:55 — Secret naming pattern documented as {org}-{role}-github-app-pem but the actual pattern in code is fullsend-{org}--{role}-app-pem (with fullsend- prefix and double-hyphen separator). See internal/mint/main.go line 144.
  Remediation: Update to fullsend-{org}--{role}-app-pem to match the smPEMAccessor implementation.

Low

• [correctness] docs/guides/dev/cli-internals.md:744-755 — Source file line counts will drift as the codebase evolves, creating a maintenance burden. Currently accurate (within ~5% verified), but these will become stale with any non-trivial code change.
  Remediation: Consider removing exact line counts or adding a note that they are approximate and may drift.

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[low] correctness

Variable name FULLSEND_PER_REPO_GUARD is incorrect. The actual environment variable is FULLSEND_PER_REPO_INSTALL (the Go constant PerRepoGuardVar has value "FULLSEND_PER_REPO_INSTALL"). The admin guide infrastructure-reference.md correctly uses the right name.

Suggested fix: Change FULLSEND_PER_REPO_GUARD=true to FULLSEND_PER_REPO_INSTALL=true.

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Review follow-ups

Created follow-up issues for actionable non-blocking review findings:

• #1122 — Variable name FULLSEND_PER_REPO_GUARD is incorrect. The actual environment variable is FULLSEND_PER_REPO_INSTALL (the Go constant PerRepoGuardVar has value "FULLSEND_PER_REPO_INSTALL"). The admin guide infrastructure-reference.md correctly uses the right name.
• #1123 — The guides index (docs/guides/README.md) was not updated to include links to the three new files: admin/infrastructure-reference.md, dev/cli-internals.md, and user/customizing-agents.md. After merge, the index will be incomplete.