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title: Development status
description: Implemented capabilities, test coverage, and upcoming roadmap milestones.
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exist.io has completed its foundational core milestones and provides a fully functional, self-hosted Git forge and agent platform.

## Implemented & verified capabilities

All components below are backed by automated unit, contract, and integration tests across 14 Go packages with 100% test pass rates:

### 1. Server daemon & storage foundation
- **Binary Daemon:** Standalone `existd` binary with graceful shutdown and configurable logging.
- **Offline Bootstrap:** Safe, one-time bootstrap command (`existd bootstrap`) provisioning SQLite WAL database, default namespace, and root administrator credentials.
- **Storage Engines:** Pure-Go SQLite metadata store (`modernc.org/sqlite`, zero cgo) and `go-git/v6` bare repository packfile storage.

### 2. Git Smart-HTTP transport
- Standard Git HTTP transport (`info/refs`, `git-upload-pack`, `git-receive-pack`).
- Full support for `git clone`, `git fetch`, and `git push`.
- Integrated token authentication and namespace/repository permission checks.

### 3. REST API surface (119 operations)
- **100% coverage** of the 119 Origin REST API operations.
- Full CRUD for namespaces, repositories, branches, commits, trees, blobs, diffs, and tags.
- Pull request lifecycle: creation, updates, state transitions (`open`, `closed`, `merged`), auto-merge queues.
- Collaboration features: line-level review threads, general comments, emoji reactions, and label management.
- Dynamic OpenAPI 3.1 specification publication at `/v1/origin/openapi.yaml`.

### 4. Model Context Protocol (MCP) server
- First-class JSON-RPC 2.0 MCP server mounted at `/mcp`.
- **34 specialized agent tools** covering tree traversal, blob reads, branch management, pull request creation, inline commenting, and status checks.
- Read-only sandbox mount at `/mcp/readonly` to safely execute unvetted agents.

### 5. Policy, merge engine & security
- Native 3-way merge and squash merge engine with conflict detection.
- Ruleset policy evaluator supporting branch and tag protections, required review counts, passing check runs, and bypass actor lists.
- Check suites and check runs API for reporting CI/CD and agent test results.
- Inbound IP allowlists with CIDR block filtering.
- SSH Certificate Authority key management.
- Ed25519 signed webhooks and delivery logs.
- GitHub mirror configuration and status tracking.

### 6. Exist CLI
- Companion command-line binary (`exist`) in `cmd/exist`.
- Subcommands: `auth`, `repo`, `pr`, `app`, and `api`.
- Supports positional argument reordering and agent-friendly output modes.

### 7. Terraform provider compatibility
- Verified compatibility with Terraform provider client workflows for managing repositories, grants, rulesets, SSH CAs, and IP allowlists as code.

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## What is next on the roadmap

- **Web Dashboard / Browser UI:** A visual web frontend for browsing repositories, visual diffs, and managing organization settings in a browser.
- **SSH Protocol Transport:** Native SSH daemon for `git@host:repo.git` operations in addition to Smart-HTTP.
- **High-Availability Clustering:** Multi-node synchronization and distributed queue workers for large enterprise scale.