feat(source-control): GitCafe lives in @t3tools/source-control-gitcafe

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Adds GitCafe as a source control host. This takes over #17324 by @versecafe and rebuilds it on the current package architecture. It stacks on #17667.

#17324 was written before the hosts moved into packages. It added about 16 modules to apps/server, kind === "gitcafe" checks across the server and web, and several GitCafe-only wire fields. This PR builds GitCafe the way the other hosts are built now: one package, @t3tools/source-control-gitcafe, with a driver in BUILT_IN_SOURCE_CONTROL_DRIVERS. The original code was used only as a reference for GitCafe's endpoints, fields, and CLI calls.

What it supports

• Listing, including the Authored and Reviewing filters. GitCafe filters these server-side by the viewer's actor. If it can't, the listing comes back unnarrowed.
• Detail, activity, diff, checks, and stack membership.
• Comments, replies, resolving threads, and submitting reviews without line comments.
• A synchronous merge, which honors GitCafe's per-strategy blockers.
• Stack land and rebase, fenced on expectedStackHeads.
• It fills in the per-item permissions from feat(pull-requests): hosts can report edit and resolve permissions per item #17667: canEdit, canResolve, and editChangeRequest.

Hosts and credentials

• Hosts are hard-coded to git.cafe and staging.git.cafe. The token is sent only to those.
• The token comes from CAFE_TOKEN when CAFE_HOST matches the host. Otherwise it comes from the cafe CLI's git credential helper.
• Requests go through HttpClient, never follow a redirect with the token, and keep the token in Redacted.

Declared off in capabilities (the host refuses these with a clear error)

• Line comments in reviews. These need GitCafe's review drafts, which come with layer 3.
• Reviewer requests and labels.
• Commit diffs and full-file expansion.
• Updating a branch outside a stack.

A merge that GitCafe accepts but hasn't finished is reported as done. Polling it to completion is layer 3.

Not in this PR (layer 3). #17324 also added review-revision fencing, requestId idempotency, and async operation/outcome polling, with about 860 lines of web UI that only show for GitCafe. Only GitCafe produces any of it. These will come as optional provider resolvers, so generic code doesn't check for GitCafe.

Outside the package

• "gitcafe" added to SourceControlProviderKind.
• Presentation (label, icon, URL parsing, cafe pr checkout) in the case tables in shared and web, which already list every host.
• Thread rows now classify linked git.cafe pull requests as GitCafe instead of Forgejo.
• A short section in docs/user/source-control.md.
• Wiring in the server dependencies, knip, and release smoke.

How it was built. In separate runs: focused tests first, then the implementation, then two adversarial review rounds.

• Round 1 found seven issues, now fixed: the native-route merge base, line totals, merge blockers, involvement filters, the checkout transport, the redirect token, and thread-row classification.
• Round 2 confirmed those fixes. It also found that the redirect test was vacuous (it now fails without the fix) and two failure paths that should degrade rather than fail, both now fixed.

Not verified against a live account. Endpoints and field names come from #17324 and its fixtures. They were spot-checked against git.cafe (its routes answer), but no request ran with a real token.

Verified:

• tsc passes for apps/server, apps/web, apps/mobile, contracts, shared, client-runtime, and the package.
• knip passes, a frozen-lockfile install succeeds, and release smoke passes.
• 20 test files (443 tests) pass, including the 70 package tests.
• The Effect-shortcut grep finds no hits in added code.

End-to-end against git.cafe

Driven through a T3 dev server against real git.cafe: create a project, publish it, commit, open a PR, review, react, merge, then land a two-layer stack. The run turned up four driver bugs, all fixed in this PR: GitCafe was missing from the publish/clone pickers, publish failed while git.cafe was still admitting the repo, writes were rejected without a requestId, and stack layers had no heads, so "Merge stack" was disabled. Open questions for GitCafe are in #17744.

Before: GitCafe missing from Publish	After: GitCafe listed and preselected

Repository published to git.cafe	PR detail (opened via Commit, push & PR)

Review submitted from T3	PR merged from T3

Stack layer 2/2, Merge stack enabled	Stack landed: #1, #4, #5 merged

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	20.9 KiB	20.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	29.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	−24 B (−0.5%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	−24 B (−2.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.2 KiB	21.2 KiB	−41 B (−0.2%)	29.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	2	1	−1 (−50.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: 57b3780 · PR result: 9efc1a7 · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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Approvability

Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR adds a substantial GitCafe source-control integration with new authenticated API/CLI operations, repository and pull-request workflows, stack actions, and user-facing provider selection. Its production scope and credential-handling surface exceed the threshold for an automated approval recommendation.

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The change adds GitCafe as a source-control provider. It adds host recognition, credential and API services, source-control and pull-request operations, server registration, and web presentation. Pull-request contracts also gain host-reported edit and thread-resolution permissions.

Changes

GitCafe integration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Host recognition and shared provider contracts packages/contracts/src/sourceControl.ts, packages/shared/src/*, packages/source-control-gitcafe/src/server/gitCafeHosts*	Provider contracts, URL parsing, presentation metadata, and remote parsing recognize GitCafe on git.cafe and staging.git.cafe.
Credential resolution and API requests packages/source-control-gitcafe/src/server/GitCafeCredentials*, packages/source-control-gitcafe/src/server/GitCafeApi.ts	The credential service reads an environment token or invokes the GitCafe CLI, caches results, and supports invalidation. The API service sends authenticated requests and maps credential, transport, and HTTP failures.
Source-control provider and server registration packages/source-control-gitcafe/src/server/GitCafeSourceControlProvider*, packages/source-control-gitcafe/src/server/driver.ts, apps/server/src/sourceControl/*, apps/server/package.json, packages/source-control-gitcafe/package.json, packages/source-control-gitcafe/tsconfig.json, scripts/release-smoke.ts	The provider adds discovery, repository and pull-request operations, admission polling, and checkout. The server registers the GitCafe driver and API layer. Package metadata, release smoke coverage, and tests support the integration.
Pull-request data conversion packages/source-control-gitcafe/src/server/gitCafePullRequestJson*	Schemas and converters map GitCafe pull-request responses to provider data for permissions, activity, reactions, stacks, diffs, and checks.
Pull-request operations packages/source-control-gitcafe/src/server/GitCafePullRequestProvider*	The provider implements pull-request reads, diffs, actions, comments, reviews, reactions, thread resolution, merges, and stack operations. Tests cover requests, responses, and version or head checks.
Pull-request permission enforcement packages/contracts/src/pullRequest.ts, apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/*	Contracts add optional host-reported edit and thread-resolution permissions. Web logic uses those values with the existing capability and repository-level permission checks.
Web presentation and user documentation apps/web/src/components/*, apps/web/src/sourceControlPresentation.ts, apps/web/src/state/sourceControlActions.ts, docs/user/source-control.md	The web app adds GitCafe provider presentation, clone and publish options, linked-pull-request classification, checkout commands, and host labels. The user guide documents setup and supported operations.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SourceControlApp
  participant GitCafeSourceControlProvider
  participant GitCafePullRequestProvider
  participant GitCafeApi
  participant GitCafeCredentials
  participant CafeCLI
  participant GitCafeREST
  SourceControlApp->>GitCafeSourceControlProvider: Request repository or change-request operation
  GitCafeSourceControlProvider->>GitCafeApi: Send request for the resolved GitCafe host
  GitCafeApi->>GitCafeCredentials: Get credentials for the host
  GitCafeCredentials->>CafeCLI: Run credential helper when needed
  CafeCLI-->>GitCafeCredentials: Return credential-helper output
  GitCafeCredentials-->>GitCafeApi: Return token
  GitCafeApi->>GitCafeREST: Send authenticated HTTP request
  GitCafeREST-->>GitCafeApi: Return HTTP response
  GitCafeApi-->>GitCafeSourceControlProvider: Return response body or API error
  GitCafeSourceControlProvider-->>SourceControlApp: Return provider result or error
  SourceControlApp->>GitCafePullRequestProvider: Request pull-request operation
  GitCafePullRequestProvider->>GitCafeApi: Send authenticated pull-request request
  GitCafeApi->>GitCafeREST: Send request to GitCafe API
  GitCafeREST-->>GitCafeApi: Return HTTP response
  GitCafeApi-->>GitCafePullRequestProvider: Return response body or API error
  GitCafePullRequestProvider-->>SourceControlApp: Return pull-request result or error

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to e66c8

GitCafe support is new and mostly sound. SSH clone and checkout of forks may fail or use the wrong transport. Removing a reaction can appear to succeed when it did not. These are bounded follow-ups that do not affect other hosts.

Pre-merge checks | 3 | 1

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Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Title check		The title clearly identifies the main change: adding GitCafe in the dedicated source-control package.

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• apps/server/package.json
• apps/server/src/sourceControl/SourceControlDiscovery.test.ts
• apps/server/src/sourceControl/SourceControlProviderRegistry.test.ts
• apps/server/src/sourceControl/builtInDrivers.ts
• apps/web/src/components/Icons.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/ThreadStatusIndicators.test.tsx
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• apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/pullRequestDetail.logic.ts
• apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/pullRequestLinkContextMenu.ts
• apps/web/src/components/settings/SourceControlSettings.tsx
• apps/web/src/sourceControlPresentation.ts
• docs/user/source-control.md
• package.json
• packages/contracts/src/sourceControl.ts
• packages/shared/src/changeRequestUrl.ts
• packages/shared/src/sourceControl.ts
• packages/source-control-gitcafe/package.json
• packages/source-control-gitcafe/src/server/GitCafeApi.ts
• packages/source-control-gitcafe/src/server/GitCafeCredentials.test.ts
• packages/source-control-gitcafe/src/server/GitCafeCredentials.ts
• packages/source-control-gitcafe/src/server/GitCafePullRequestProvider.test.ts
• packages/source-control-gitcafe/src/server/GitCafePullRequestProvider.ts
• packages/source-control-gitcafe/src/server/GitCafeSourceControlProvider.test.ts
• packages/source-control-gitcafe/src/server/GitCafeSourceControlProvider.ts
• packages/source-control-gitcafe/src/server/driver.ts
• packages/source-control-gitcafe/src/server/gitCafeHosts.test.ts
• packages/source-control-gitcafe/src/server/gitCafeHosts.ts
• packages/source-control-gitcafe/src/server/gitCafePullRequestJson.test.ts
• packages/source-control-gitcafe/src/server/gitCafePullRequestJson.ts
• packages/source-control-gitcafe/tsconfig.json
• scripts/release-smoke.ts

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@versecafe why not just API 😭

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- Line 138: Update the GitCafe source-control provider’s sshUrl handling to use
the canonical SSH URL supplied by GitCafe rather than constructing one from the
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[juliusmarminge]

Open GitCafe questions (SSH clone URL, capabilities.comment, problem text, stacking an existing PR) are tracked in #17744 for @versecafe. They don't block this PR.