feat: wiki-ingest takes updating the captured repositories as a step-1 branch over raw status (#178)

Files changed:
- CHANGES.md
- README.md
- VERSION
- instructions/wiki-ingest/SKILL.md
- raw/CONTRACT.md

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SnAJ7Z3CpVD3PRbN73QtU2

CHANGES.md

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ concern - readable here, never shipped as something to parse.
 
 ---
 
-## 8.0.0-beta.42 - 2026-10-05 - raw accept: an occupied folder name held by a captured bundle points at --replaces-bundle
+## 8.0.0-beta.43 - 2026-10-05 - wiki-ingest: updating the captured repositories is a step-1 branch over raw status
 
 **Author:** Torben Nehmer
 
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ concern - readable here, never shipped as something to parse.
 - lint: Unfilled Template Sections - a section still holding only its template's TODO placeholders (advisory)
 - Comparison and source pages accept the sources: that cite add writes; sources may cite sources
 - raw capture / raw status / --replaces-bundle: documentation from git repositories as a bundle, with drift reporting
+- wiki-ingest: updating the captured repositories is a step-1 branch over raw status
 
 **Low impact**
 - version bump no longer points at version release in its output
@@ -155,6 +156,27 @@ concern - readable here, never shipped as something to parse.
 - raw accept: an occupied folder name held by a captured bundle points at --replaces-bundle
 <!-- /wikitool:bumps -->
 
+### wiki-ingest: updating the captured repositories is a step-1 branch over raw status
+
+`raw status`, `raw capture --update` and `raw accept --replaces-bundle` existed, but nothing told
+a session what to do when asked to update the captured repositories: the decision point for a new
+edition began with "`raw status` reported it" and nobody ran `raw status`. Step 1 of `wiki-ingest`
+now has that entry, built like the existing branch over `raw pending`. It runs `raw status`, ends
+the run when nothing changed (naming every unreachable or refused repository with its reason),
+otherwise takes one changed bundle per run (the one the user named, else the first in the output),
+announces it with `old -> new` and how many others changed, and runs the `raw capture --update`
+line `raw status` printed. From step 5 the existing decision point carries the run. The user never
+names a commit or a path. The skill's description and example triggers name the request ("update
+the captured repositories", "pull the repo docs").
+
+The decision point now says what the edition diff is: `git diff -- <raw-bundle>` for changed and
+removed files, plus the `A` list `raw accept` prints, because added files are still untracked and
+never show up in `git diff`. `raw/CONTRACT.md` § "Getting a repository in" and `README.md` say how
+an update is started.
+
+Instruction text only, no interface changed - drop-in in both directions; an older version simply
+lacks the branch (Gitea #178).
+
 ### raw accept: an occupied folder name held by a captured bundle points at --replaces-bundle
 
 The ON FAILURE reaction `raw accept incoming/<folder>` prints for an occupied name still said

README.md

@@ -222,7 +222,9 @@ Documentation that lives in a git repository is captured, not copied: `tools/wik
 for byte, into `incoming/<bundle>/` together with a `_capture.json` manifest naming the repository,
 the ref rule and the commit. Later, `tools/wikitool raw status` tells you which captured bundles
 have fallen behind their repository, file by file; `raw capture --update` and `raw accept
---replaces-bundle` take the new edition in as a whole. Git uses your own keys and credential
+--replaces-bundle` take the new edition in as a whole. You need not run any of that yourself:
+tell the LLM `Update the captured repositories`, and it checks them, takes one changed bundle per
+run into the wiki and says how many are still behind. Git uses your own keys and credential
 helpers - nothing is stored in the repository.
 
 ### Querying Knowledge

VERSION

@@ -1 +1 @@
-8.0.0-beta.42
+8.0.0-beta.43

instructions/wiki-ingest/SKILL.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 name: wiki-ingest
-description: Processes a new source file into the LLM wiki - extracts entities and concepts, creates a source summary page, files a tracker item for any commitment the source also carries, cross-references, rebuilds indexes, and publishes. Use when the user drops a file or folder into incoming/ or raw/, names a URL to ingest, or says "ingest <file>", "ingest <url>", "process this source", "add this to the wiki" - or just "ingest" with nothing named, which takes the oldest entry waiting in incoming/.
+description: Processes a new source file into the LLM wiki - extracts entities and concepts, creates a source summary page, files a tracker item for any commitment the source also carries, cross-references, rebuilds indexes, and publishes. Use when the user drops a file or folder into incoming/ or raw/, names a URL to ingest, or says "ingest <file>", "ingest <url>", "process this source", "add this to the wiki" - or just "ingest" with nothing named, which takes the oldest entry waiting in incoming/ - or asks to "update the captured repositories" / "pull the repo docs", which takes the next bundle `raw status` reports as changed.
 ---
 
 # Wiki Ingest
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ description: Processes a new source file into the LLM wiki - extracts entities a
 **Trigger:** User drops a file or a folder into `incoming/` (the normal path - see step 5) or
 directly into `raw/`, names a URL to ingest (step 1 fetches it into `incoming/` first), or
 explicitly requests ingestion - with or without naming what (step 1 picks the entry when nothing
-is named). **One run is one source:** one file, one bundle or one folder.
+is named) - or asks to update the captured repositories (step 1 asks `raw status` which one moved).
+**One run is one source:** one file, one bundle or one folder.
 
 **Before the first `wikitool` call:** `instructions/session-setup.md`.
 
@@ -59,6 +60,35 @@ validator complains - and the ticked list is the only record that they happened.
    nothing acceptable is waiting, the run ends here: say so, and name each entry the listing
    marked as not acceptable, with its reason - those need the user, not a guess.
 
+   **The user asks to update the captured repositories** ("update the captured repositories",
+   "pull the repo docs"), **or names one of them?** The entry comes from the repositories, not
+   from `incoming/`:
+
+   ```bash
+   tools/wikitool raw status
+   ```
+
+   It resolves every captured bundle's ref rule against its repository and prints, per bundle that
+   changed, `old -> new` as short commits, its files as `A`/`M`/`D` grouped by the source page that
+   owns them, and the two `Next:` lines that take the new edition in. Everything this run needs
+   comes out of that output: never ask the user for a commit id or a path.
+
+   - **Nothing changed?** The run ends here. Say how many bundles are unchanged, and name every
+     error line - not reachable, manifest or URL refused, no matching ref - with its reason: those
+     need the user, not a workaround.
+   - **One bundle per run:** the one the user named, otherwise the first changed one in the output.
+     Announce it and carry on - which bundle, `old -> new` from its line, how many others changed,
+     and any error lines as above; an error on one repository never stops the run for another. Ask
+     nothing here - step 4 is the halt before anything is written. Each further bundle is a run of
+     its own, started by the same request, so every run stays within the iteration budget and has
+     its own `publish`. A bundle the user named that is unchanged, or on an error line, ends the
+     run with that said - no other bundle is taken in its place unasked.
+   - **Run the `raw capture --update <raw-bundle>` line printed under it.** `incoming/<bundle>/` is
+     this run's source from here on, and step 1 continues as for any folder, the size check below
+     included. A refusal - an `incoming/<bundle>` left over from an earlier run, for instance - is
+     shown to the user, not worked around.
+   - From step 5 on, the decision point "new edition of a captured bundle" below carries the run.
+
    **The source is a folder** (`incoming/<folder>/`, named or picked)? It is one source - read
    every file in it. Whether it is ingested here or by the large-tree procedure is decided by
    the size check below, by its thresholds, not by its being a folder: three notes in a folder
@@ -408,10 +438,13 @@ validator complains - and the ticked list is the only record that they happened.
 - **One source names far more subjects than usual?** That is breadth, not volume. It is not
   split into several sources - it cannot be - and it does not get a page per name either:
   `instructions/ingest-large-tree.md` § A broad source is not cut.
-- **The entry is a new edition of a captured bundle?** `raw status` reported it, `raw capture
-  --update` wrote it, and `raw accept incoming/<bundle> --replaces-bundle <raw-bundle>` takes it
-  in - the name refusal above does not apply to it. Read the edition diff with `git diff` on the
-  bundle, update every page the output lists under the changed files' source page, and carry the
+- **The entry is a new edition of a captured bundle?** Step 1's branch for updating the captured
+  repositories is how a run gets here: `raw status` reported it, `raw capture --update` wrote it,
+  and `raw accept incoming/<bundle> --replaces-bundle <raw-bundle>` takes it in - the name refusal
+  above does not apply to it. The edition diff has two halves: `git diff -- <raw-bundle>` for the
+  `M` and `D` files, and the `A` list the accept prints for the new ones, which are still
+  untracked and so never appear in `git diff`. Update every page the output lists under the
+  changed files' source page, and carry the
   `A`/`D` lines out with the `touch --page "<Source page>" --add/--remove raw_files=<path>` lines
   it prints - a new file may instead earn a source page of its own. A source page left with no
   raw file is retired by `instructions/page-lifecycle.md` § Delete. All of it goes into the one
@@ -438,4 +471,5 @@ validator complains - and the ticked list is the only record that they happened.
 Updated wiki with the source's knowledge integrated, published to `origin/main`.
 
 **Example triggers:** "Ingest raw/articles/my-article.md", "Ingest https://example.org/post",
-"Ingest incoming/projekt-x", "Ingest" (the oldest entry waiting in `incoming/`)
+"Ingest incoming/projekt-x", "Ingest" (the oldest entry waiting in `incoming/`), "Update the
+captured repositories" / "Pull the repo docs" (the next bundle `raw status` reports as changed)

raw/CONTRACT.md

@@ -311,7 +311,12 @@ the folder carries a different name, or when either side is not a captured bundl
 Afterwards the bundle holds exactly the new manifest's files and `_capture.json`. Like
 `--replaces`, it leaves every `raw_files:` as it was: which source page takes a new file, and
 whether a source page left with no file is retired, is the ingest's judgment, and the command
-prints the `touch` lines that carry it out. `git diff` on the bundle is the edition diff.
+prints the `touch` lines that carry it out. The edition diff is `git diff` on the bundle for the
+changed and removed files, plus the added ones the accept lists - those are still untracked.
+
+**When to update is the user's call; the rest is not.** Asked to update the captured
+repositories, `wiki-ingest` runs `raw status` itself and takes one changed bundle per run through
+these two commands - the user never names a commit or a path.
 
 **A captured bundle changes only as a whole.** `raw accept --replaces` and `--page` refuse a
 target inside one: replacing or adding a single file would leave the bundle's content no longer