chore(beads): keep the tracker in a private Dolt remote, never in this public repo

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.beads/config.yaml named this public repo as the tracker's sync remote, so one bd dolt push would have published every bead here as refs/dolt/data. Nothing was pushed yet: the repo has no refs/dolt/*.

The fix:

• sync.remote now points at a private repository. The tracker is already there (7 issues, same head as the local copy).
• dolt.auto-commit: on, so every bd write lands as a Dolt commit.
• The root .gitignore no longer ignores the whole .beads/ directory. It lists the tracker data instead: issues.jsonl, interactions.jsonl, dolt/, embeddeddolt/, backup/, *.db, .local_version. .beads/.gitignore gains issues.jsonl and interactions.jsonl as well, so the rule holds even without the root file.
• The scaffolding (config.yaml, README.md, hooks/, metadata.json, .gitignore) stays committed and can be updated again.

I checked it with git check-ignore. Every data path is ignored, and a new file under .beads/ or .beads/hooks/ still shows up as trackable.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores
  • Tracker data now synchronizes with the configured private remote and is committed automatically.
  • Tracker data files and database artifacts are kept out of Git, while other tracker setup files can be committed.
  • Updated ignore rules help keep locally generated data and backups from being added to the repository.

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Walkthrough

The Beads configuration now uses a Gitea Dolt remote and enables auto-commit. Git ignore rules exclude tracker data and generated state while allowing other Beads scaffolding to be committed.

Changes

Beads tracker storage and Git rules

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configure the remote and Git exclusions .beads/config.yaml, .beads/.gitignore, .gitignore	The Beads configuration points to the Gitea repository and enables Dolt auto-commit. Ignore rules exclude tracker data and generated state while leaving other Beads scaffolding unignored.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~5 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to e71b2

Tracker activity remains readable in the public repository’s history. Purge the affected history, or explicitly accept this exposure, before merging the privacy change.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to e71b2

The main tracker stores remain excluded from Git, and the configured destination moves away from the public repository. However, the narrower exclusions leave a documented event export eligible for accidental publication. Actual publication was not demonstrated, and the new destination’s access policy remains unverified.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: Removing the blanket .beads/ exclusion makes the documented .beads/events.jsonl audit export eligible for ordinary Git staging. Manual event export followed by a broad add, commit, and public push could disclose tracker activity even though the primary data stores remain ignored. Automatic event export is not enabled in the checked-in configuration, and no actual disclosure was demonstrated.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The supported exposure is this repository’s exported tracker audit data if a writer exports, stages, commits, and pushes it to public Git. Readers would then inherit public repository access to that data. The evidence does not establish exposure of production services, other tenants, credentials, or unrelated data stores.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• inferred — Private Dolt synchronization and public Git publication are separate boundaries. Moving the Dolt destination cannot protect an exported local file that enters public Git history; selective ignore rules must cover that file independently.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The existing Beads commit and push integrations run conditionally when bd is installed and explicitly continue after timeout. They do not themselves contain a staged tracker-file rejection check. Their external handlers may provide additional controls, but those implementations were unavailable.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Exclude the documented event export and consider a default-deny policy with explicit scaffolding exceptions, or a publication check that rejects tracker-data artifacts. Validate destination privacy and write/push recovery behavior against the installed Beads version before relying on the new configuration as a complete privacy guarantee.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: keeping Beads tracker data in a private Dolt remote instead of the public repository.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Review comments at @.gitignore:
- Around line 67-75: The `.gitignore` entry does not remove
`.beads/interactions.jsonl` from reachable Git history; rewrite history to
remove the file and clean affected public remotes before treating the tracker
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