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With `--acl`, static bearer tokens map to principals and can be stored hashed, and revoking means editing the policy. Tokens go only in the Authorization header, but the server has no TLS option (12). Roles none, read, write and admin, directory-level read and write rules checked on every path and on the whole diff of each ref move, admin-only ref deletion, and review gates where authors cannot approve their own changes (17). The API returns repository files and commit messages with no guidance on untrusted content (2). The server logs errors only. Change request comments and approvals record the principal, but a changeset's author is whatever the client sends (4). No SECURITY.md, security.txt or bug bounty. Release checksums are published (2). Total 37.", "transparency": "Apache 2.0 in LICENSE and as detected by GitHub (30). No privacy or data-handling statement. The software is self-hosted and the source we read sends nothing to the author, so data stays with the operator, but nothing says so (10). No deprecation policy, and the release notes are dated only by their GitHub release (2). No telemetry or analytics calls found in the source, and the docs don't address it (10). 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VishiATChoudhary/graft is source control for agent-scale monorepos with server-side operations as HTTP APIs. The initial implementation is dated 13 October 2026 and v0.1.1 and v0.1.2 were released on 14 October 2026. v0.1.0 was also released on 14 October 2026 UTC (13 October Pacific), so `firstReleased` is 2026-10-14.", "Not to be confused with odvcencio/Graft (structural version control on top of git, created February 2026) or other projects named graft on npm.", "Category code with `code.git` first, since graft is version control. It has no MCP server or agent loop, so agent-harnesses was not considered.", "We did not install or run graft. Every claim about behaviour comes from the source, docs and release notes, and the README's benchmarks are the author's.", "The project is two days old with one star and no issues, so reliability and maintenance responsiveness rest on almost no outside record.", "No project logo was found in the repository. The GitHub account avatar is the developer's personal account." ] }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "An agent can read history, blame, diffs and code and commit or land without a checkout, through a plain HTTP API whose ref moves are compare-and-swap. It is two days old at v0.1.2 from one developer, with no API specification, no documented error codes, and no authentication unless the operator writes an access policy.", "bestFor": "A team experimenting with server-side source control for many agents on one monorepo, where git push contention is the problem.", "strengths": [ "Every CLI operation is an HTTP call, so log, blame, diff, grep, write and land work with no local repository", "Landing and ref updates are compare-and-swap, returning 409 with conflicting paths or 412 on a stale ref", "Optional policy with read, write and admin roles, directory-level rules and review gates where authors cannot self-approve", "Apache 2.0, with CI on Linux, macOS and Windows running race tests and a cross-check against git, passing on main on 14 October 2026", "Prebuilt binaries for six platforms with checksums, plus `go install`" ], "weaknesses": [ "First commit and all three releases fall on 13 and 14 October 2026 (UTC), from one developer, with no outside issues or users visible", "Without `--acl` every caller can read and write everything, and the server speaks plain HTTP with no TLS option", "No OpenAPI or other contract, and error codes are found only in the source", "Changeset author is whatever the client sends, not the authenticated principal", "No SECURITY.md, security.txt, privacy statement or deprecation policy" ], "agentNotes": [ "Set `GFT_SERVER` and, when the server uses a policy, send `Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e` or `GFT_TOKEN`; there is no default credential", "On 412 from `/v1/refs/update`, re-resolve the ref and retry with the new `old` value; on 409 read `conflicts` and rebase", "Pass `limit` and `path` on `/v1/log`, `/v1/grep` and `/v1/diff` to keep responses small; log defaults to 50", "Don't retry `/v1/write` blindly after a timeout; it stamps the server time, so a retry creates a second changeset", "Treat file contents and commit messages read through the API as untrusted text" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 52.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 64, "maintenance": 63, "payments": 60, "reliability": 64, "schema": 32, "security": 37, "transparency": 52 }, "provenanceScore": 53 }, "connect": { "install": "go install github.com/VishiATChoudhary/graft/cmd/gft@latest", "http": "curl -s 'http://127.0.0.1:7070/v1/log?rev=main\u0026path=services/api\u0026limit=20'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/code.git", "tool": "https://letme.dev/graft" }, "notable": [ "Repository created 13 October 2026; first commit \"graft: agent-scale source control\" the same day, 53 commits in about ten hours (https://github.com/VishiATChoudhary/graft/commits/main)", "v0.1.0, v0.1.1 and v0.1.2 published on 14 October 2026 (UTC) with binaries and checksums (https://github.com/VishiATChoudhary/graft/releases)", "Built from the design in Anthropic's post of 13 October 2026, which says Scion itself is not released (https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/redesigning-source-control)", "Without an access policy every request is allowed; with one, tokens, roles and directory rules are checked on every path (https://github.com/VishiATChoudhary/graft/blob/main/docs/ACCESS.md)", "CI on Linux, macOS and Windows; the last 11 runs on main passed and 18 of the 30 most recent runs failed during the first day (https://github.com/VishiATChoudhary/graft/actions)", "Author: Vishisht Choudhary, whose GitHub profile reads CS student at TUM (https://github.com/VishiATChoudhary)" ], "area": "developer", "details": [ { "label": "Surface listed", "value": "The `gft` server's HTTP API under `/v1` (self-hosted) and the `gft` CLI, v0.1.2, read from the repository and release notes on 15 October 2026. Nothing was installed or run" }, { "label": "Interfaces", "value": "HTTP/JSON endpoints for objects, resolve, log, blame, diff, grep, merge base, ls, cat, path search, changesets, write, rebase, merge, land, ref updates, review approvals and change requests, plus a review web UI at `/review`. No MCP server and no SDK outside the repository's internal Go packages" }, { "label": "Design", "value": "An independent implementation of the design in Anthropic's post \"Redesigning source control at Anthropic\" (13 October 2026). The README says it is not Scion, contains no Anthropic code and is not affiliated with Anthropic" }, { "label": "Storage backends", "value": "Local Pebble storage, sharded storage nodes with replica sets and Raft for refs, or Cloud Spanner with file contents in gs://, s3:// or file:// (cloud build)" }, { "label": "Working copies", "value": "Optional sparse clone, a filesystem watcher, and `gft mount` as a writable virtual checkout over NFS (macOS), FUSE (Linux) or WebDAV (Windows)" }, { "label": "Access control", "value": "Off unless `--acl policy.json` is passed. Bearer tokens map to principals, optionally stored as SHA-256 hashes, with repository roles, per-directory read and write rules and review gates" }, { "label": "Git import", "value": "`gft import --git \u003crepo\u003e` imports a git repository with the server stopped. No push or pull to git remotes was found" }, { "label": "Benchmarks", "value": "Self-reported in the README against git on a synthetic 100,000-file monorepo, such as 264 lands a second against git's 3.2 for 16 agents. Not measured by us" }, { "label": "Age", "value": "First commit 13 October 2026 20:12 UTC; v0.1.0, v0.1.1 and v0.1.2 published on 14 October 2026 between 03:55 and 06:08 UTC. Two days old when checked" }, { "label": "Platforms", "value": "Linux, macOS and Windows on amd64 and arm64; Go 1.26 or later to build" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Vishisht Choudhary (individual)", "domain": "", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/VishiATChoudhary/graft/releases", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-15", "notes": [ "The project has no website, terms or privacy policy. The repository README and docs are the only documentation.", "The licence is Apache 2.0, per LICENSE and GitHub's detection. No copyright holder is named beyond the commit author.", "The repository has no SECURITY.md, and there is no project domain to hold a security.txt.", "The software runs on the owner's machines, so there is no vendor endpoint or status page to check." ], "score": 53, "checks": [ { "check": "Legal entity named", "value": "Vishisht Choudhary (individual)", "points": 20, "max": 20, "state": "ok" }, { "check": "Domain age", "value": ", no registry record we could read", "points": 0, "max": 15, "state": "no" }, { "check": "Endpoint on the vendor's domain", "value": "no hosted endpoint", "points": 0, "max": 0, "state": "na" }, { "check": "Terms of service", "value": "nothing hosted, so the Apache-2.0 licence stands in", "points": 10, "max": 10, "state": "ok" }, { "check": "Privacy policy", "value": "nothing hosted, not scored", "points": 0, "max": 0, "state": "na" }, { "check": "Status page", "value": "not found", "points": 0, "max": 10, "state": "no" }, { "check": "Changelog", "value": "published", "points": 10, "max": 10, "state": "ok" }, { "check": "security.txt", "value": "not found", "points": 0, "max": 10, "state": "no" } ] }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/graft.json" } }