feat: gitx — bare space repos, the git-object read path, and the id-keyed merge One storage tier: there is no checkout on disk, so every read resolves a tree and reads blobs. The approved head, a pinned ?rev= and a proposal branch are the same code path with a different revision. Lifecycle: Create makes a bare repo at <root>/~<owner>/<space> with HEAD on the approved branch and one empty initial commit, so nothing downstream has to special-case an unborn branch. Open reads the approved branch back from HEAD. Merge: tree-splice, exactly as designed. Staleness is keyed by document ID, not path — each changed document is resolved to its path on the approved head through its frontmatter id before its blob is compared, so a rename between the base and the head neither invents a conflict nor resurrects the moved path. On staleness a *StaleError carries the current head for the caller's 409. Otherwise the approved tree is rewritten with each document's blob at its path in the head and committed with two explicit parents [approvedHead, proposalHead]. Repository.Merge is never called; go-git v5 supports only FastForwardMerge and this is pure object.Tree plumbing. Refs rule: CheckRefUpdate is a pure predicate over (principal, ref, ancestry) — agents may only touch proposals/*, the approved branch takes fast-forwards from the human only and is never force-updated or deleted. hooks/ calls it without a repository, which is why ancestry is an input rather than a lookup. Concurrency: a process-wide per-space mutex keyed by repository directory guards every write, and every ref move is a compare-and-swap that rebuilds and retries when it loses to a concurrent native receive-pack push. Bounded throughout: context deadlines on every operation, a per-blob cap and per-walk byte and entry budgets. Nothing is truncated — a partially read document would be indexed and served as though whole, so it fails instead. Tests build every fixture programmatically through this package's own plumbing, never the git binary, and cover the rename between base and head, each staleness case, the two-parent merge shape, the refs rule for both principals including force-update rejection, oversized blobs, and the CAS retry.