## Today — Forgejo private, public repos mirrored to `knot1.tangled.sh`
Forgejo holds canonical state. A small bridge translates Forgejo webhook events into AT Proto XRPC calls and signed git pushes against the hosted knot. Forgejo image untouched.
```mermaid
flowchart LR
user(["author"]) -->|git push| forgejo
subgraph private["my forge — private"]
forgejo["Forgejo
(authoritative)"]
webhook[/"webhook config
per repo or org"/]
forgejo --- webhook
end
webhook -->|push / create / delete
HMAC-signed| bridge
subgraph bridgeBox["forgejo-knot-bridge — small Go service"]
bridge["event handler
user → DID mapping"]
keystore[("signing keys
per bridged DID")]
statedb[("bridge.db
repo→DID,
last-mirrored ref")]
bridge --- keystore
bridge --- statedb
end
bridge -->|sh.tangled.repo.create
Service-Auth JWT| knot
bridge -->|git push --mirror
Service-Auth Bearer| knot
subgraph hosted["knot1.tangled.sh — hosted, third-party"]
knot["knotserver"]
appview["tangled.sh appview
(consumes firehose)"]
knot -.->|sh.tangled.knot.subscribeRepos
ws firehose| appview
end
plc[("plc.directory")] -.->|DID document
verifies signing key| knot
```
The bridge needs three things from the knot side: knot URL + DID, `server:member` role for the DIDs being published as, and signing keys for those DIDs. From Forgejo it needs a webhook subscription, public-repo read access, and a Forgejo-user → DID mapping.
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## Tomorrow — Forgejo *is* the knot
Instead of bridging Forgejo *into* a separate knotserver, teach Forgejo to *be* a knot. Same Forgejo binary, same `codeberg.org` hostname, with a module that exposes the knot lexicon surface backed by Forgejo's existing repo storage.
```mermaid
flowchart LR
subgraph today["Today (above)"]
f1["Forgejo"] -->|webhook| b1["bridge
(separate service)"]
b1 -->|XRPC + git push| k1["knotserver
(separate process)"]
end
subgraph proposed["Forgejo as a knot"]
forgejo["Forgejo
+ knot-frontend module
(or external sidecar)"]
users(["users
(unchanged web/SSH/REST)"]) --> forgejo
forgejo -.->|"/xrpc/sh.tangled.*
/events firehose
Service-Auth on writes"| world["AT Protocol clients
(tangled.sh appview,
knotmirror, ...)"]
end
today -.->|same protocol surface,
different deployment| proposed
```
The mapping is mostly mechanical — `sh.tangled.repo.{create,delete,tree,log,branches,diff,...}` lands on Forgejo's existing repo APIs in XRPC envelopes; `sh.tangled.knot.listKeys` reuses Forgejo's user SSH keys; identity reconciles via a `did` field on Forgejo's user table.
No-trivial part is `sh.tangled.knot.subscribeRepos` — an atproto-style sequenced WebSocket subscription with `cursor` resume and `ConsumerTooSlow` semantics. Forgejo's existing internal event hooks (the same ones driving its ActivityPub outbound delivery) are the natural source; you translate ref-update events into the lexicon's wire format and replay from a `tangled_firehose_events` table on reconnect.