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Design document for a platform where git clone = ssh into a running app. Covers environment layer (Nix-based), agent-first sessions, continuous review, and viral migration via GitHub mirrors. https://claude.ai/code/session_01463GBokz33PDkW1upR4cUE
One thing: `zagi mount` gives you any repo as a runnable local directory. Nix hidden underneath, TOML on top, content-addressed cache, secret isolation. Bring your own agent/editor. https://claude.ai/code/session_01463GBokz33PDkW1upR4cUE
A change = source + env. Not two systems bolted together. jj semantics (working copy as change, stable IDs, first-class conflicts) + Nix reproducibility (content-addressed, declarative, cached) exposed through zagi CLI. Server lives on S3/R2 natively -- git objects and env closures in the same bucket. https://claude.ai/code/session_01463GBokz33PDkW1upR4cUE
No Nix on client. No FUSE. No sudo. One static binary, one shell hook. Server builds envs with Nix, packages as relocatable tarballs per OS/arch, client just downloads and hardlinks. Concrete UX flows for fresh machine, second project, existing project, day-to-day, agents. https://claude.ai/code/session_01463GBokz33PDkW1upR4cUE
… model Dependencies are tracked the same way as source -- content-addressed objects in the store. No lock files, no install step, no postinstall scripts. Edit deps directly, upgrade with jj-style conflict resolution. Storage via content-defined chunking (HF/Xet model): 64KB chunks, cross-project dedup, pack-based S3 storage, lazy fetching. https://claude.ai/code/session_01463GBokz33PDkW1upR4cUE
The tracked state IS the manifest. zagi add puts code in the store. zagi deps shows what's tracked. No env.toml, no env.lock, no package.json. One step (add) replaces three (declare, resolve, install). https://claude.ai/code/session_01463GBokz33PDkW1upR4cUE
zagi add is for env (tools, services). For deps, use npm/pip/cargo as normal and commit the result. zagi chunks and tracks node_modules the same way it tracks source. No custom resolver, no reimplementing what package managers already do. https://claude.ai/code/session_01463GBokz33PDkW1upR4cUE
Content-addressing makes dep merges clean: shared transitive deps have identical hashes so no conflicts. Non-overlapping changes are additive. No need to re-run npm install during merge -- the tracked files are the source of truth. https://claude.ai/code/session_01463GBokz33PDkW1upR4cUE
Deps are files. jj merges files. Content-addressing means shared transitive deps never conflict. That's it. https://claude.ai/code/session_01463GBokz33PDkW1upR4cUE
Phase 1: chunking engine (prove dedup works on node_modules) Phase 2: local store + round-trip (snapshot/restore) Phase 3: remote store + push/pull (clone without npm install) Phase 4: shell hook + zagi add (clone and it works, the demo) Phase 5: VCS with jj-style history, branching, merging Phase 6: services (postgres, redis as part of env) Phase 7: mirror + viral loop (convert any GitHub repo) https://claude.ai/code/session_01463GBokz33PDkW1upR4cUE
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Design document for a platform where git clone = ssh into a running app.
Covers environment layer (Nix-based), agent-first sessions, continuous
review, and viral migration via GitHub mirrors.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01463GBokz33PDkW1upR4cUE