feat(server): GitHub API transport that uses gh only for the token

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The server shells out to the GitHub CLI for every GitHub read and write. That spawns a process per request, hides what GraphQL gh pr view/gh pr list actually cost, and lets REST calls skip our rate-limit guard. This stack moves GitHub to its own API and keeps gh only as a way to get a token. This first layer adds the transport; nothing calls it yet.

• GitHubCredentials: a token per host. GH_TOKEN/GITHUB_TOKEN (GH_ENTERPRISE_TOKEN for GHES) first, otherwise gh auth token --hostname, matching gh's own precedence. Cached for 5 minutes and dropped on a 401, so a new login applies on the next request. It is the single place tokens come from, so an in-app OAuth flow can be added here later without touching callers.
• GitHubApi: REST and GraphQL over HttpClient. Every call, REST included, goes through the per-host rate-limit pause and the GraphQL budget. It reads x-ratelimit-reset/retry-after, treats a GraphQL RATE_LIMITED answer as a limit, fails on a GraphQL errors list like gh api graphql did, supports ETag revalidation, and maps github.com, *.ghe.com and GHES API URLs. A pinned credential refuses to leave its host.

Expected impact

Old vs new architecture

	Old (gh CLI)	New (GitHub API)
Transport	one gh subprocess per request	in-process HTTP
gh processes / hour	~455	~75 (settings check + gh auth token)
Credential per request	gh auth token + gh api user spawned	token cached 5 min, identity 10 min
Rate-limit guard	GraphQL reads only; ~80 req/h (~20%) bypassed it	every request, REST and GraphQL
Exhausted quota	unguarded paths retried until reset	host paused until x-ratelimit-reset / retry-after
GitHub's untyped "quota exceeded" GraphQL error	ordinary failure, retried	treated as a rate limit
Query cost visibility	none (gh pr view ran hidden GraphQL)	github.graphql.cost on every span
Tracing	a gh process, no arguments	operation, path, status, query + hash, rate-limit headers
Works without gh installed	no	yes, with GH_TOKEN

GraphQL points

What a call costs (measured, unchanged by this stack):

Query	Points
Core PR detail (also checks, permissions)	1
Viewer permissions	1
Activity	1
Review threads	15
Preview	1
Any REST call	0 (separate REST quota)

Steady traffic, points per hour:

Path	Old	New	Why
Detail, checks, sync, head lookups	~150	~150	same queries, same count
Activity	~24	~12	two sources merged into one query
gh pr view fallbacks + gh api user	~9	0	removed; identity is cached REST
Permission check per PR write	3	1	rare
Total	~210/h	~190/h	~10% — about 4% of the 5,000/h budget either way

The retry storm

Normal traffic was never the problem. The branch → PR lookup ignored the guard and kept retrying an exhausted quota:

	Old	New
"GitHub API rate limit exceeded" warnings	84,501	stops at the first refusal
Duration	195 hours with errors, ~30 h continuous (Oct 4–6)	at most one refused call per reset window
Peak / average	~1,259/h peak, ~433/h average	—
Effect on the account	quota held at 0 for every tool using it	quota recovers at reset

Each storm stopped gives back the whole ~5,000 points/h budget. That is the win, not the ~20 points/h saved on normal traffic.

Measured on our own nightly install: 2.06 h of traces (213k spans), its boot log (Oct 4–6), and live rateLimit { cost } probes against #16320. The old code didn't record what each gh call was, so per-path counts come from span ancestry; treat them as rough. The new tracing records operation and GraphQL cost on every request, so the next measurement is a direct query.

Stack:

1. feat(server): GitHub API transport that uses gh only for the token #16319 transport ← this PR
2. feat(server): pull requests talk to GitHub's API instead of the gh CLI #16320 pull request layer on the API
3. feat(server): source control, media and discovery use GitHub's API instead of gh #16321 the rest of the server on the API
4. feat: choose the GitHub account per host, save a GitHub token, and fewer reads per PR action #16322 account/host settings, fewer permission reads, wording

Tests: GitHubApi.test.ts, covering host mapping, env precedence, GraphQL errors, the rate-limit pause, 304 handling, a refused token being re-fetched, and pinned-host refusal.

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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	4.9 KiB	−23 B (−0.5%)	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	−23 B (−1.9%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	20.9 KiB	20.8 KiB	−41 B (−0.2%)	29.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	2	1	−1 (−50.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	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	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.2 KiB	21.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	29.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

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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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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR introduces a substantial GitHub API transport and credential-management subsystem, including token discovery, caching, rate-limit state, and GraphQL budgeting. Its authentication/security-sensitive behavior and unresolved credential and quota-handling risks warrant human review before approval.

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Walkthrough

The pull request adds host-aware GitHub credential lookup and a GitHub API service for REST and GraphQL requests. The service selects API URLs by host and handles credentials, rate limits, request limits, and responses.

Changes

GitHub API and credentials

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Credential lookup and caching apps/server/src/sourceControl/GitHubCredentials.ts, apps/server/src/sourceControl/GitHubApi.test.ts	The credential service selects environment tokens by host or falls back to gh auth token. It returns redacted credentials with fingerprints, caches lookup results, and supports invalidation. Tests cover environment-token selection and GitHub CLI credential errors.
API contracts and host binding apps/server/src/sourceControl/GitHubApi.ts, apps/server/src/sourceControl/GitHubCli.ts, apps/server/src/sourceControl/GitHubApi.test.ts	The API service defines REST and GraphQL request contracts and typed errors. It selects API URLs by host and rejects pinned credentials that do not match the request host. GitHubCli re-exports the shared pinned credential reference.
REST and GraphQL request handling apps/server/src/sourceControl/GitHubApi.ts, apps/server/src/sourceControl/GitHubApi.test.ts	The service executes requests with concurrency, timeout, response-size, and rate-limit controls. It handles REST ETags and JSON parsing, classifies GraphQL and HTTP errors, and invalidates credentials after unauthorized responses. Tests cover rate limits, 304 responses, authentication refusal, and credential replacement.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant GitHubApi
  participant GitHubCredentials
  participant GitHub
  Caller->>GitHubApi: Submit REST or GraphQL request
  GitHubApi->>GitHubCredentials: Get host credential
  GitHubApi->>GitHub: Send authenticated request
  GitHub-->>GitHubApi: Return response
  GitHubApi-->>Caller: Return response or typed error

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The transport is not yet called by the server, so these defects have limited immediate reach. Correct the 401 classification and credential guidance before callers adopt it; isolate the credential tests from host environment settings.

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Do not report every gh failure as unauthenticated.

This code turns every non-NotFound failure into "". That includes a timeout, a non-zero exit with a different cause, and a spawn permission error. The user then sees "run gh auth login" even when a login exists. The code also hides the underlying error as cause, which the guideline asks you to keep. Map only the gh auth token exit failure that means "no login" to unauthenticated. Carry other failures as a typed error with cause.

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Knip fails the Lint job on unused exports. This PR adds exports that nothing imports yet, so vp run knip:check fails.

• apps/server/src/sourceControl/GitHubCredentials.ts#L151-L151: wire layer into an application layer, or mark it @public.
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The mapper still reports every non-NotFound gh failure as GitHubNotSignedInError.

This change replaces the "" sentinel, but the behavior is the same. A timeout, a permission error, or a non-zero exit with another cause becomes GitHubNotSignedInError. The user is then told to run gh auth login even when a login exists. The mapper also drops the underlying VcsProcess error. The guidelines require that error to stay as cause.

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🟠 Major · Apply the timeout to response-body consumption. · GitHubApi.ts:312-324

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Apply the timeout to response-body consumption.

The 30-second timeout ends when httpClient.execute returns a response. If GitHub sends headers and then stalls its body, collectUint8StreamText can wait indefinitely while holding one of the eight permits. The collector also continues draining after its byte limit. Put a deadline around the complete request and body read, and stop consuming an HTTP body once the limit is reached. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Apply the 30-second deadline to the full request flow, including
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- Line 49: Update the 401 recovery message in the GitHub credential flow to tell
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- Line 88: Update GitHubApiResponseError so its message getter returns a fixed
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Isolate the environment in the credential tests.

If a developer or CI sets GH_ENTERPRISE_TOKEN or GITHUB_ENTERPRISE_TOKEN, GitHubCredentials.get uses that token and never calls the mocked VcsProcess. Both tests then fail for the wrong reason. Provide an empty HostProcessEnvironment in this test layer. As per coding guidelines: “Tests exercise behavior through the service, with test layers only for external dependencies.” (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Include environment tokens in the 401 recovery instruction.

If GH_TOKEN is invalid, invalidate clears the cache but the next lookup selects the same environment token. Running gh auth login cannot override that token, so this instruction leaves the user repeating the 401. Tell users to replace or unset the applicable environment token before suggesting gh auth login. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Keep raw GraphQL messages out of GitHubApiResponseError.

graphqlErrors stores response-supplied text, and message returns it verbatim. The GraphQL response body is capped at 8 MiB, so the text is not literally unbounded. That cap still permits raw payload text in structured error attributes and the displayed message. Use a fixed, safe message and keep the raw text only in cause.

Suggested fix

--- a/apps/server/src/sourceControl/GitHubApi.ts
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@@
-    graphqlErrors: Schema.optionalKey(Schema.Array(Schema.String)),
+    cause: Schema.optionalKey(Schema.Defect()),
@@
-    return this.graphqlErrors !== undefined && this.graphqlErrors.length > 0
-      ? `GitHub returned an error: ${this.graphqlErrors.join("; ")}`
-      : `GitHub returned HTTP ${this.status}.`;
+    return this.cause !== undefined
+      ? `GitHub returned a GraphQL error (HTTP ${this.status}).`
+      : `GitHub returned HTTP ${this.status}.`;
@@
-                ...(messages === undefined ? {} : { graphqlErrors: messages }),
+                ...(messages === undefined ? {} : { cause: new Error(messages.join("; ")) }),
--- a/apps/server/src/sourceControl/GitHubApi.test.ts
+++ b/apps/server/src/sourceControl/GitHubApi.test.ts
@@
-      expect(error.message).toContain("Resource not accessible");
+      expect(error.message).toBe("GitHub returned a GraphQL error (HTTP 200).");

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/sourceControl/GitHubApi.ts at line 88:
Update GitHubApiResponseError so its message getter returns a fixed safe GraphQL
error message rather than response-supplied text, and retain any raw GraphQL
messages only in the error cause, not structured attributes. Update the GraphQL
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Give GHES users the correct environment variable.

If gh is missing for a GHES host, this message recommends GH_TOKEN. environmentToken ignores GH_TOKEN for that host, so following the instruction does not restore access. Recommend GH_ENTERPRISE_TOKEN for GHES hosts. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/sourceControl/GitHubCredentials.ts at line
39:
Update the missing-credential message in GitHubCredentials to recommend
GH_ENTERPRISE_TOKEN for GHES hosts while retaining GH_TOKEN for github.com; keep
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🟠 High sourceControl/GitHubApi.ts:462

graphql records budget and rate-limit state under the credential fingerprint resolved at line 463, but send performs a second credential lookup and may authenticate the request with a different token. After a concurrent invalidation or expiry, the request's usage is therefore attributed to the wrong credential, so later requests with the new token bypass its per-credential guard. Resolve the credential once and use the fingerprint from the credential that send actually authenticated with when providing the scope.

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`graphql` records budget and rate-limit state under the credential fingerprint resolved at line 463, but `send` performs a second credential lookup and may authenticate the request with a different token. After a concurrent invalidation or expiry, the request's usage is therefore attributed to the wrong credential, so later requests with the new token bypass its per-credential guard. Resolve the credential once and use the fingerprint from the credential that `send` actually authenticated with when providing the scope.

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🔴 Critical sourceControl/GitHubCredentials.ts:138

gh auth token can return GH_ENTERPRISE_TOKEN for a non-GH_HOST enterprise remote, so get() may send that credential to a hostile host despite environmentToken() rejecting it. ProcessRunner merges this env object with the inherited environment; override both enterprise-token variables before invoking gh.

-        env: { GH_DEBUG: "", GH_PROMPT_DISABLED: "1" },
+        env: {
+          GH_DEBUG: "",
+          GH_PROMPT_DISABLED: "1",
+          GH_ENTERPRISE_TOKEN: "",
+          GITHUB_ENTERPRISE_TOKEN: "",
+        },

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`gh auth token` can return `GH_ENTERPRISE_TOKEN` for a non-`GH_HOST` enterprise remote, so `get()` may send that credential to a hostile host despite `environmentToken()` rejecting it. `ProcessRunner` merges this `env` object with the inherited environment; override both enterprise-token variables before invoking `gh`.

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Review comments at @apps/server/src/sourceControl/GitHubApi.ts:
- Around line 282-284: Update the status handling in GitHubApi.send to return
Unauthorized for status 401 before evaluating any rate-limit conditions.
Preserve the GraphQL rate-limit message predicate and all existing rate-limit
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Give HTTP 401 precedence without removing GraphQL message detection.

A matching rate-limit message currently prevents GitHubApi.send from invalidating a refused credential. Check status === 401 before the rate-limit conditions.

Keep the message predicate. It supports HTTP 200 GraphQL errors that have no error type or quota header. The existing test combines the message with x-ratelimit-remaining: 0, so it does not cover that case.

🐛 Suggested fix

   const types = errors?.flatMap((error) => (error.type === undefined ? [] : [error.type])) ?? [];
   const messages = errors?.flatMap((error) => (error.message === undefined ? [] : [error.message]));
+  if (status === 401) return Answer.Unauthorized();
   if (
     status === 429 ||
     types.includes("RATE_LIMITED") ||
     // An exhausted GraphQL quota can answer HTTP 200 with an untyped "API rate limit already
     // exceeded" error; the headers say the same thing.
     (input.graphql && errors !== undefined && headers["x-ratelimit-remaining"] === "0") ||
     (input.graphql &&
       messages !== undefined &&
       messages.some((message) => /rate limit (already )?exceeded/i.test(message))) ||
     (status === 403 &&
       (headers["x-ratelimit-remaining"] === "0" ||
         headers["retry-after"] !== undefined ||
         /rate limit/i.test(body)))
   ) {
     return Answer.RateLimited();
   }
-  if (status === 401) return Answer.Unauthorized();

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/sourceControl/GitHubApi.ts around lines 282 -
284:
Update the status handling in GitHubApi.send to return Unauthorized for status
401 before evaluating any rate-limit conditions. Preserve the GraphQL rate-limit
message predicate and all existing rate-limit checks for other statuses.

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🟡 Medium sourceControl/GitHubApi.ts:552

A cancelled or queued GraphQL call consumes its estimated cost from GitHubGraphQlBudget even when it never acquires the 8-request semaphore or sends a network request, so later reads can fail with SourceControlRateLimitPausedError until GitHub's reset. budget.query runs before send acquires the permit and has no rollback; acquire the semaphore before reserving the budget, or make the reservation rollback when the request is cancelled.

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In file @apps/server/src/sourceControl/GitHubApi.ts around line 552:

A cancelled or queued GraphQL call consumes its estimated cost from `GitHubGraphQlBudget` even when it never acquires the 8-request semaphore or sends a network request, so later reads can fail with `SourceControlRateLimitPausedError` until GitHub's reset. `budget.query` runs before `send` acquires the permit and has no rollback; acquire the semaphore before reserving the budget, or make the reservation rollback when the request is cancelled.