feat(forge): GitHub adapter — second implementation keeps the seam a contract (#2693, milestone 288 step 8)

ForgeAdapter is now a named base class carrying the shared plumbing
(host join, error taxonomy, contents decoding, archive, default_branch,
latest_commit); GiteaForge keeps its exact behavior and GitHubForge joins
with the real differences: api.github.com / GHE /api/v3 host mapping,
Bearer auth, a commits call for the provenance stamp (GitHub's contents
payload only carries the blob sha), and the codeload tarball redirect.

The contract grew latest_commit, and with it the cached-SHA short-circuit
in pull-time freshness: a stored provenance commit that still heads the
recorded path confirms 'current' without a content transfer — the economy
that fits pulls inside GitHub's rate limits; every surprise falls back to
the full fetch. Webhook deliveries now also accept X-Hub-Signature-256
(sha256=<hex>); the payload shape was already common. Settings card copy
covers both forges' token scopes; the kind selector already flowed from
the server.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

frontend/src/views/SettingsView.vue

@@ -2160,9 +2160,10 @@ function formatUserDate(iso: string): string {
       <section class="settings-section full-width">
         <h2>Git Forge</h2>
         <p class="section-desc">
-          Optional read-only connection to your git forge (Gitea) so snippet
-          code can be fetched and drift-checked server-side. A read-scope API
-          token is enough. Leave the kind unset to keep the integration off.
+          Optional read-only connection to your git forge (Gitea or GitHub) so
+          snippet code can be fetched, drift-checked, and coverage-measured
+          server-side. A read-scope token is enough. Leave the kind unset to
+          keep the integration off.
         </p>
         <div class="smtp-grid">
           <div class="field">
@@ -2179,6 +2180,13 @@ function formatUserDate(iso: string): string {
           <div class="field">
             <label for="forge-token">API Token (read scope)</label>
             <input id="forge-token" v-model="forge.token" type="password" class="input" />
+            <p class="field-hint">
+              Gitea: an access token with read scope on repositories. GitHub:
+              a fine-grained PAT with Contents: Read-only (or a classic token
+              with repo read). For GitHub, use
+              <code>https://github.com</code> as the base URL — or your
+              GitHub Enterprise instance's URL.
+            </p>
           </div>
           <div class="field">
             <label for="forge-webhook-secret">Webhook Secret</label>

src/scribe/routes/webhooks.py

@@ -43,14 +43,24 @@ FORGE_WEBHOOK_SECRET_KEY = "forge_webhook_secret"
 
 
 def signature_ok(secret: str, body: bytes, signature: str) -> bool:
-    """Validate Gitea's push signature: X-Gitea-Signature is the hex HMAC-SHA256
-    of the raw body under the webhook secret. Constant-time compare."""
+    """Validate a push signature: the hex HMAC-SHA256 of the raw body under
+    the webhook secret (Gitea's X-Gitea-Signature verbatim; GitHub's
+    X-Hub-Signature-256 minus its "sha256=" prefix). Constant-time compare."""
     if not secret or not signature:
         return False
     expected = hmac.new(secret.encode("utf-8"), body, hashlib.sha256).hexdigest()
     return hmac.compare_digest(expected, signature.strip().lower())
 
 
+def delivered_signature(headers) -> str:
+    """The HMAC hex a delivery carries, whichever forge sent it: Gitea's
+    X-Gitea-Signature verbatim, or GitHub's X-Hub-Signature-256 minus its
+    "sha256=" scheme prefix (#2693). Empty when neither header is present."""
+    return headers.get("X-Gitea-Signature", "") or headers.get(
+        "X-Hub-Signature-256", ""
+    ).removeprefix("sha256=")
+
+
 def push_facts(payload: dict) -> tuple[str, list[str], list[str], str]:
     """(repo identity, changed paths, removed paths, head commit) from a Gitea
     push payload. Tolerant: absent fields read as empty, never raise."""
@@ -76,7 +86,10 @@ async def forge_push():
         return jsonify({"error": "Not found"}), 404
 
     body = await request.get_data()
-    if not signature_ok(secret, body, request.headers.get("X-Gitea-Signature", "")):
+    # The payload shape push_facts reads (repository.clone_url,
+    # commits[].added/modified/removed, after) is common to both forges, so
+    # the signature header is the whole GitHub mapping.
+    if not signature_ok(secret, body, delivered_signature(request.headers)):
         return jsonify({"error": "Invalid signature"}), 401
 
     try:

src/scribe/services/coverage.py

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ import re
 import tarfile
 from datetime import datetime, timezone
 
-from scribe.services.forge import GiteaForge, get_forge
+from scribe.services.forge import ForgeAdapter, get_forge
 from scribe.services.repo_bindings import keys_for_project
 from scribe.services.settings import get_setting, set_setting
 
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ async def _recorded_locations(user_id: int, project_id: int) -> list[tuple[str,
 
 
 async def compute_coverage(
-    user_id: int, project_id: int, *, forge: GiteaForge | None = None
+    user_id: int, project_id: int, *, forge: ForgeAdapter | None = None
 ) -> dict | None:
     """Measure a project's pattern-library coverage against its bound repos.
 
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ async def compute_coverage(
 
 
 async def refresh_coverage(
-    user_id: int, project_id: int, *, forge: GiteaForge | None = None
+    user_id: int, project_id: int, *, forge: ForgeAdapter | None = None
 ) -> dict | None:
     """Compute and cache. The only writer of the cache key."""
     coverage = await compute_coverage(user_id, project_id, forge=forge)

src/scribe/services/forge.py

@@ -16,8 +16,9 @@ Design constraints, in force everywhere below:
     method to misuse. The token an operator mints for it only ever needs read
     scope, and the docs say so.
   - The contract stays as small as its consumers (steps 5-7): read_file /
-    default_branch / resolve_repo / check. GitHub later implements this same
-    contract (step 8); resist widening it speculatively.
+    latest_commit / archive / default_branch / resolve_repo / check. Two
+    implementations (Gitea, GitHub — step 8) keep it honest; resist widening
+    it speculatively.
   - Repo identity is the repo-binding key — `normalize_repo_key`'s
     host/owner/repo — so the join between a snippet's recorded repo and the
     forge needs no new identity scheme. The host segment selects whether THIS
@@ -50,8 +51,8 @@ FORGE_KIND_KEY = "forge_kind"
 FORGE_BASE_URL_KEY = "forge_base_url"
 FORGE_TOKEN_KEY = "forge_token"
 
-# Kinds an instance can configure. GitHub joins in step 8 of milestone 288.
-FORGE_KINDS = ("gitea",)
+# Kinds an instance can configure. Matches _FORGE_CLASSES below.
+FORGE_KINDS = ("gitea", "github")
 
 # Total budget per forge call. Consumers either have a cache to fall back to
 # (step 5) or a user watching a button (the test probe) — neither tolerates a
@@ -89,15 +90,19 @@ def _host_of(url: str) -> str:
     return (urlsplit(url).hostname or "").lower()
 
 
-class GiteaForge:
-    """The Gitea implementation of the forge contract, over its REST API.
+class ForgeAdapter:
+    """The shared plumbing of the forge contract; adapters supply the API
+    base, auth headers, and any endpoint that differs.
 
     `transport` exists for tests: httpx.MockTransport makes the contract
     testable without a live server or a new dependency. Production callers
     never pass it.
     """
 
-    kind = "gitea"
+    kind = ""
+    # One "newest commit for this path" page — the endpoint is shared but the
+    # page-size parameter is not, so each adapter names its own.
+    _commit_page_params: dict = {}
 
     def __init__(self, base_url: str, token: str, *, transport=None) -> None:
         self.base_url = (base_url or "").rstrip("/")
@@ -125,11 +130,22 @@ class GiteaForge:
             return None
         return rest
 
+    def _api_base(self) -> str:
+        raise NotImplementedError
+
+    def _headers(self) -> dict:
+        raise NotImplementedError
+
     def _client(self) -> httpx.AsyncClient:
         kwargs: dict = {
-            "base_url": f"{self.base_url}/api/v1",
-            "headers": {"Authorization": f"token {self._token}"},
+            "base_url": self._api_base(),
+            "headers": self._headers(),
             "timeout": _TIMEOUT,
+            # GitHub serves tarballs via a 302 to codeload. httpx drops the
+            # Authorization header on the cross-host hop, and GitHub's
+            # redirect target carries its own short-lived token in the URL —
+            # so following is both necessary there and harmless on Gitea.
+            "follow_redirects": True,
         }
         if self._transport is not None:
             kwargs["transport"] = self._transport
@@ -150,6 +166,87 @@ class GiteaForge:
             raise ForgeError(f"forge returned HTTP {resp.status_code} for {url}")
         return resp
 
+    def _decode_contents(self, payload, path: str) -> str:
+        """Both forges speak the same contents-API dialect: a base64 file
+        object, a list for a directory."""
+        if isinstance(payload, list):
+            raise ForgeNotFound(f"{path} is a directory on the forge, not a file")
+        if payload.get("type") != "file":
+            raise ForgeNotFound(
+                f"{path} is a {payload.get('type', 'non-file')} on the forge"
+            )
+        if payload.get("encoding") != "base64" or payload.get("content") is None:
+            raise ForgeError(f"forge returned no readable content for {path}")
+        try:
+            return base64.b64decode(payload["content"]).decode("utf-8")
+        except (binascii.Error, UnicodeDecodeError) as exc:
+            raise ForgeError(f"forge content for {path} is not utf-8 text") from exc
+
+    async def _newest_commit(
+        self, client: httpx.AsyncClient, repo: str, path: str, ref: str
+    ) -> str:
+        params: dict = {**self._commit_page_params, "path": path}
+        if ref:
+            params["sha"] = ref
+        resp = await self._get(client, f"/repos/{repo}/commits", params=params)
+        payload = resp.json()
+        # Tolerant parse on purpose: the caller uses this as an optimization
+        # and falls back to read_file, so a surprising payload must read as
+        # "don't know", never break a pull.
+        if isinstance(payload, list) and payload and isinstance(payload[0], dict):
+            return str(payload[0].get("sha") or "")
+        return ""
+
+    async def latest_commit(self, repo: str, path: str, ref: str = "") -> str:
+        """The newest commit touching ``path`` — "" when it can't be told.
+
+        The cached-SHA short-circuit (#2693): when a snippet's provenance
+        already names a commit, this one small call can prove the file
+        hasn't moved since — no content transfer, which is what keeps
+        pull-time freshness inside GitHub's rate limits.
+        """
+        async with self._client() as client:
+            return await self._newest_commit(client, repo, path, ref)
+
+    def _archive_url(self, repo: str, ref: str) -> str:
+        raise NotImplementedError
+
+    async def archive(self, repo: str, ref: str) -> bytes:
+        """The repo's content at ``ref`` as a gzipped tarball, in one request.
+
+        Coverage measurement (step 7) needs every source file's text; per-file
+        reads would mean one API call per file, so the archive endpoint is the
+        only shape that scales past toy repos. Callers must never run this in
+        a request path — it moves the whole repo.
+        """
+        async with self._client() as client:
+            resp = await self._get(
+                client, self._archive_url(repo, ref), timeout=_ARCHIVE_TIMEOUT
+            )
+        return resp.content
+
+    async def default_branch(self, repo: str) -> str:
+        async with self._client() as client:
+            resp = await self._get(client, f"/repos/{repo}")
+        branch = (resp.json() or {}).get("default_branch") or ""
+        if not branch:
+            raise ForgeError(f"forge reported no default branch for {repo}")
+        return branch
+
+
+class GiteaForge(ForgeAdapter):
+    """The Gitea implementation of the forge contract, over its REST API."""
+
+    kind = "gitea"
+    # stat/verification/files add per-commit work Gitea skips when told to.
+    _commit_page_params = {"limit": 1, "stat": "false"}
+
+    def _api_base(self) -> str:
+        return f"{self.base_url}/api/v1"
+
+    def _headers(self) -> dict:
+        return {"Authorization": f"token {self._token}"}
+
     async def read_file(self, repo: str, path: str, ref: str = "") -> ForgeFile:
         """Read one file's current content, with the commit it was served at.
 
@@ -164,18 +261,7 @@ class GiteaForge:
                 params=params,
             )
         payload = resp.json()
-        if isinstance(payload, list):
-            raise ForgeNotFound(f"{path} is a directory on the forge, not a file")
-        if payload.get("type") != "file":
-            raise ForgeNotFound(
-                f"{path} is a {payload.get('type', 'non-file')} on the forge"
-            )
-        if payload.get("encoding") != "base64" or payload.get("content") is None:
-            raise ForgeError(f"forge returned no readable content for {path}")
-        try:
-            content = base64.b64decode(payload["content"]).decode("utf-8")
-        except (binascii.Error, UnicodeDecodeError) as exc:
-            raise ForgeError(f"forge content for {path} is not utf-8 text") from exc
+        content = self._decode_contents(payload, path)
         return ForgeFile(
             content=content,
             # last_commit_sha is the commit that last touched the file — the
@@ -185,29 +271,8 @@ class GiteaForge:
             path=payload.get("path") or path,
         )
 
-    async def archive(self, repo: str, ref: str) -> bytes:
-        """The repo's content at ``ref`` as a gzipped tarball, in one request.
-
-        Coverage measurement (step 7) needs every source file's text; per-file
-        reads would mean one API call per file, so the archive endpoint is the
-        only shape that scales past toy repos. Callers must never run this in
-        a request path — it moves the whole repo.
-        """
-        async with self._client() as client:
-            resp = await self._get(
-                client,
-                f"/repos/{repo}/archive/{quote(ref, safe='')}.tar.gz",
-                timeout=_ARCHIVE_TIMEOUT,
-            )
-        return resp.content
-
-    async def default_branch(self, repo: str) -> str:
-        async with self._client() as client:
-            resp = await self._get(client, f"/repos/{repo}")
-        branch = (resp.json() or {}).get("default_branch") or ""
-        if not branch:
-            raise ForgeError(f"forge reported no default branch for {repo}")
-        return branch
+    def _archive_url(self, repo: str, ref: str) -> str:
+        return f"/repos/{repo}/archive/{quote(ref, safe='')}.tar.gz"
 
     async def check(self) -> dict:
         """Health probe for the settings test button: reach the forge AND
@@ -222,6 +287,78 @@ class GiteaForge:
         }
 
 
+class GitHubForge(ForgeAdapter):
+    """The GitHub implementation — the second one, which is the point (#2693):
+    it proves the seam is a contract rather than a Gitea-shaped hole. Works
+    against github.com and GitHub Enterprise; the token is a fine-grained PAT
+    with Contents: Read-only (or a classic token with `repo` read)."""
+
+    kind = "github"
+    _commit_page_params = {"per_page": 1}
+
+    _API_VERSION = "2022-11-28"
+
+    def _api_base(self) -> str:
+        # github.com's API lives on its own host; GitHub Enterprise serves
+        # the same API under the instance at /api/v3.
+        if self.host == "github.com":
+            return "https://api.github.com"
+        return f"{self.base_url}/api/v3"
+
+    def _headers(self) -> dict:
+        return {
+            "Authorization": f"Bearer {self._token}",
+            "Accept": "application/vnd.github+json",
+            "X-GitHub-Api-Version": self._API_VERSION,
+        }
+
+    async def read_file(self, repo: str, path: str, ref: str = "") -> ForgeFile:
+        """Same contents-API dialect as Gitea, minus one field: GitHub's
+        payload carries only the blob sha — a content address, not a point in
+        history — so the provenance stamp costs one extra commits call. ""
+        when even that can't be told; consumers already treat an empty stamp
+        as "don't restamp"."""
+        params = {"ref": ref} if ref else None
+        async with self._client() as client:
+            resp = await self._get(
+                client,
+                f"/repos/{repo}/contents/{quote(path, safe='/')}",
+                params=params,
+            )
+            payload = resp.json()
+            content = self._decode_contents(payload, path)
+            try:
+                commit_sha = await self._newest_commit(client, repo, path, ref)
+            except ForgeError:
+                commit_sha = ""
+        return ForgeFile(
+            content=content,
+            commit_sha=commit_sha,
+            path=payload.get("path") or path,
+        )
+
+    def _archive_url(self, repo: str, ref: str) -> str:
+        return f"/repos/{repo}/tarball/{quote(ref, safe='')}"
+
+    async def check(self) -> dict:
+        """GitHub has no /version endpoint; proving the token against /user
+        is the whole probe, and the pinned API version stands in as the
+        version string."""
+        async with self._client() as client:
+            user = (await self._get(client, "/user")).json() or {}
+        return {
+            "ok": True,
+            "version": f"GitHub API {self._API_VERSION}",
+            "username": user.get("login") or "",
+        }
+
+
+_FORGE_CLASSES: dict[str, type[ForgeAdapter]] = {
+    "gitea": GiteaForge,
+    "github": GitHubForge,
+}
+
+
 async def forge_config() -> dict:
     """The instance's forge configuration, DB-first with env fallback.
 
@@ -241,11 +378,12 @@ async def forge_config() -> dict:
     }
 
 
-async def get_forge(*, transport=None) -> GiteaForge | None:
+async def get_forge(*, transport=None) -> ForgeAdapter | None:
     """The configured forge adapter, or None — and None means "behave exactly
     as if this module did not exist", which every consumer must honor."""
     cfg = await forge_config()
-    if cfg["kind"] not in FORGE_KINDS:
+    cls = _FORGE_CLASSES.get(cfg["kind"])
+    if cls is None:
         if cfg["kind"]:
             # A kind we don't implement is a misconfiguration, not "off" —
             # say so once per lookup rather than silently reading as absent.
@@ -256,4 +394,4 @@ async def get_forge(*, transport=None) -> GiteaForge | None:
     if not cfg["base_url"].startswith(("http://", "https://")):
         logger.warning("forge base URL %r has no http(s) scheme — forge disabled", cfg["base_url"])
         return None
-    return GiteaForge(cfg["base_url"], cfg["token"], transport=transport)
+    return cls(cfg["base_url"], cfg["token"], transport=transport)

src/scribe/services/snippets.py

@@ -1046,10 +1046,27 @@ async def attach_live_body(note, data: dict) -> None:
         data["body_freshness"] = "repo-not-on-this-forge"
         return
 
+    stored_prov_sha = (fields.get("provenance") or {}).get("commit_sha") or ""
+
+    async def _probe():
+        # Cached-SHA short-circuit (#2693): provenance names the commit the
+        # cached code was last confirmed at, so one cheap "newest commit
+        # touching this path" call can prove the file hasn't moved since —
+        # no content transfer. That economy is what fits pull-time freshness
+        # inside GitHub's rate limits; it's merely nice on a self-hosted
+        # Gitea. Any surprise (error, empty, mismatch) falls through to the
+        # full fetch, which stays the authoritative path.
+        if stored_prov_sha:
+            try:
+                head = await forge.latest_commit(repo, loc["path"])
+            except ForgeError:
+                head = ""
+            if head and head == stored_prov_sha:
+                return None
+        return await forge.read_file(repo, loc["path"])
+
     try:
-        fetched = await asyncio.wait_for(
-            forge.read_file(repo, loc["path"]), timeout=PULL_FETCH_BUDGET_S
-        )
+        fetched = await asyncio.wait_for(_probe(), timeout=PULL_FETCH_BUDGET_S)
     except ForgeNotFound:
         data["body_source"] = "cache"
         data["body_freshness"] = "missing"
@@ -1064,6 +1081,14 @@ async def attach_live_body(note, data: dict) -> None:
         data["body_freshness"] = "unreachable"
         return
 
+    if fetched is None:
+        # Unchanged since the provenance commit — confirmed against the
+        # source without moving the file. Same stamp, so nothing to persist
+        # (the same-sha rule); the body already reflects that commit.
+        data["body_source"] = "forge"
+        data["body_freshness"] = "current"
+        return
+
     cached = _normalized_code(fields.get("code") or "")
     if cached and cached in _normalized_code(fetched.content):
         data["body_source"] = "forge"

tests/test_forge_webhook.py

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ import hmac
 import pytest
 import pytest_asyncio
 
-from scribe.routes.webhooks import push_facts, signature_ok
+from scribe.routes.webhooks import delivered_signature, push_facts, signature_ok
 from scribe.services.snippets import _path_touches
 
 SECRET = "wh-secret"
@@ -41,6 +41,46 @@ def test_signature_gate():
     assert signature_ok("", body, _sign(body)) is False
 
 
+def test_delivered_signature_reads_both_forges_headers():
+    """#2693: GitHub signs the same HMAC but ships it as
+    X-Hub-Signature-256: sha256=<hex> — the whole webhook payload mapping is
+    this header, so pin it."""
+    hexsig = _sign(b"{}")
+    assert delivered_signature({"X-Gitea-Signature": hexsig}) == hexsig
+    assert delivered_signature({"X-Hub-Signature-256": f"sha256={hexsig}"}) == hexsig
+    # Gitea's header wins when both appear; absence reads as empty (→ 401).
+    assert delivered_signature({}) == ""
+    # The stripped GitHub form still passes the gate end to end.
+    assert signature_ok(
+        SECRET, b'{"x": 1}',
+        delivered_signature({"X-Hub-Signature-256": "sha256=" + _sign(b'{"x": 1}')}),
+    )
+
+
+def test_push_facts_reads_a_github_shaped_payload():
+    """GitHub's push payload carries the same fields push_facts consumes —
+    asserted against a real-shaped sample so a rename on either side of the
+    mapping breaks a test instead of silently flagging nothing."""
+    payload = {
+        "ref": "refs/heads/main",
+        "after": HEAD,
+        "repository": {
+            "full_name": "alice/widget",
+            "clone_url": "https://github.com/alice/widget.git",
+            "html_url": "https://github.com/alice/widget",
+        },
+        "commits": [
+            {"id": "a" * 40, "added": [], "modified": ["src/x.py"], "removed": []},
+        ],
+        "head_commit": {"id": HEAD},
+    }
+    raw, changed, removed, head = push_facts(payload)
+    assert raw == "https://github.com/alice/widget.git"
+    assert changed == ["src/x.py"]
+    assert removed == []
+    assert head == HEAD
+
+
 # --- unit: payload parsing ---------------------------------------------------
 
 def test_push_facts_collects_and_dedups_paths():

tests/test_services_forge.py

@@ -205,10 +205,19 @@ def test_forge_error_taxonomy_is_catchable_as_one_family():
 
 
 def test_adapter_contract_surface():
-    """Step 8's GitHub adapter implements exactly this surface — pin it."""
-    for method in ("read_file", "default_branch", "resolve_repo", "check"):
-        assert callable(getattr(GiteaForge, method))
+    """Both adapters implement exactly this surface — the second
+    implementation is what proves it's a contract (#2693)."""
+    from scribe.services.forge import FORGE_KINDS, GitHubForge
+
+    for cls in (GiteaForge, GitHubForge):
+        for method in (
+            "read_file", "latest_commit", "archive",
+            "default_branch", "resolve_repo", "check",
+        ):
+            assert callable(getattr(cls, method))
     assert GiteaForge.kind == "gitea"
+    assert GitHubForge.kind == "github"
+    assert set(FORGE_KINDS) == {"gitea", "github"}
 
 
 def test_admin_routes_registered():
@@ -241,3 +250,122 @@ def test_config_has_the_docker_secret_channel():
     from scribe.config import Config
     for attr in ("FORGE_KIND", "FORGE_BASE_URL", "FORGE_TOKEN"):
         assert hasattr(Config, attr)
+
+
+# --- the GitHub adapter (#2693) ----------------------------------------------
+# Same contract, second implementation. Where behavior below differs from the
+# Gitea tests above, that difference IS the adapter's job: API host mapping,
+# Bearer auth, the missing last_commit_sha, the codeload redirect.
+
+def _github(handler, base: str = "https://github.com"):
+    from scribe.services.forge import GitHubForge
+
+    return GitHubForge(base, "gh-tok", transport=httpx.MockTransport(handler))
+
+
+def test_github_resolve_repo_is_the_same_host_join():
+    from scribe.services.forge import GitHubForge
+
+    forge = GitHubForge("https://github.com", "t")
+    assert forge.resolve_repo("git@github.com:alice/Widget.git") == "alice/widget"
+    # A Gitea-hosted repo is a NORMAL miss for a GitHub forge, and vice versa.
+    assert forge.resolve_repo("https://git.example.com/alice/widget") is None
+
+
+async def test_github_api_base_maps_dot_com_and_enterprise():
+    seen = []
+
+    def handler(request):
+        seen.append(str(request.url))
+        return _json(200, {"default_branch": "main"})
+
+    await _github(handler).default_branch("alice/widget")
+    await _github(handler, base="https://ghe.example.com").default_branch("alice/widget")
+    assert seen[0] == "https://api.github.com/repos/alice/widget"
+    assert seen[1] == "https://ghe.example.com/api/v3/repos/alice/widget"
+
+
+async def test_github_read_file_decodes_and_stamps_from_the_commits_call():
+    content = "def canonical():\n    return 1\n"
+
+    def handler(request):
+        assert request.headers["Authorization"] == "Bearer gh-tok"
+        assert request.headers["X-GitHub-Api-Version"]
+        if request.url.path.endswith("/commits"):
+            assert request.url.params["path"] == "src/x.py"
+            assert request.url.params["per_page"] == "1"
+            return _json(200, [{"sha": "c" * 40}])
+        return _json(200, {
+            "type": "file", "encoding": "base64",
+            "content": base64.b64encode(content.encode()).decode(),
+            "path": "src/x.py", "sha": "blob-sha-not-a-point-in-history",
+        })
+
+    f = await _github(handler).read_file("alice/widget", "src/x.py")
+    assert f.content == content
+    # From /commits — GitHub's contents payload only carries the blob sha,
+    # which is a content address, not the provenance stamp.
+    assert f.commit_sha == "c" * 40
+
+
+async def test_github_read_file_serves_content_even_when_the_stamp_fails():
+    content = "x = 1\n"
+
+    def handler(request):
+        if request.url.path.endswith("/commits"):
+            return httpx.Response(500)
+        return _json(200, {"type": "file", "encoding": "base64",
+                           "content": base64.b64encode(content.encode()).decode()})
+
+    f = await _github(handler).read_file("alice/widget", "x.py")
+    assert f.content == content
+    assert f.commit_sha == ""  # unknown stamp, not a failed read
+
+
+async def test_github_archive_follows_the_codeload_redirect():
+    def handler(request):
+        if request.url.host == "api.github.com":
+            return httpx.Response(302, headers={
+                "Location": "https://codeload.github.com/alice/widget/tar.gz/main",
+            })
+        assert request.url.host == "codeload.github.com"
+        # httpx drops Authorization on the cross-host hop — codeload's URL
+        # carries its own grant, and leaking the PAT there would be a bug.
+        assert "Authorization" not in request.headers
+        return httpx.Response(200, content=b"tarball-bytes")
+
+    assert await _github(handler).archive("alice/widget", "main") == b"tarball-bytes"
+
+
+async def test_github_check_probes_the_token_with_user():
+    result = await _github(lambda r: _json(200, {"login": "octo"})).check()
+    assert result["ok"] is True
+    assert result["username"] == "octo"
+
+
+async def test_latest_commit_parses_tolerantly_on_both_adapters():
+    """The one caller treats latest_commit as an optimization with a fallback,
+    so a surprising payload must read as "don't know", never raise."""
+    assert await _github(
+        lambda r: _json(200, [{"sha": "d" * 40}])
+    ).latest_commit("a/w", "x.py") == "d" * 40
+    assert await _github(
+        lambda r: _json(200, {"weird": True})
+    ).latest_commit("a/w", "x.py") == ""
+    assert await _forge(
+        lambda r: _json(200, [{"sha": "e" * 40}])
+    ).latest_commit("a/w", "x.py") == "e" * 40
+    assert await _forge(lambda r: _json(200, [])).latest_commit("a/w", "x.py") == ""
+
+
+async def test_full_config_builds_a_github_adapter():
+    from scribe.services.forge import GitHubForge
+
+    with _settings({
+        "forge_kind": "github",
+        "forge_base_url": "https://github.com",
+        "forge_token": "tok",
+    }), patch("scribe.services.forge.Config") as cfg:
+        cfg.FORGE_KIND = cfg.FORGE_BASE_URL = cfg.FORGE_TOKEN = ""
+        forge = await get_forge()
+    assert isinstance(forge, GitHubForge)

tests/test_snippet_live_body.py

@@ -104,6 +104,73 @@ async def test_current_with_same_stored_sha_skips_the_write():
     update.assert_not_called()
 
 
+async def test_stored_sha_short_circuit_skips_the_content_fetch():
+    """#2693: when provenance already names a commit and the forge reports no
+    newer commit touching the path, the pull is confirmed current WITHOUT a
+    content transfer — the economy that fits pull-time freshness inside
+    GitHub's rate limits."""
+    calls = []
+
+    def handler(request):
+        calls.append(request.url.path)
+        if request.url.path.endswith("/commits"):
+            return httpx.Response(200, json=[{"sha": SHA}])
+        raise AssertionError("the content fetch should have been skipped")
+
+    update = AsyncMock()
+    data = _data(provenance={"commit_sha": SHA, "fetched_at": "t"})
+    with _patched(_forge_with(handler)), patch.object(svc.notes_svc, "update_note", update):
+        await svc.attach_live_body(_note(), data)
+        await background.drain()
+    assert data["body_source"] == "forge"
+    assert data["body_freshness"] == "current"
+    assert len(calls) == 1
+    update.assert_not_called()  # same stamp — nothing to persist
+
+
+async def test_moved_file_falls_through_to_the_full_fetch():
+    new_sha = "0" * 40
+
+    def handler(request):
+        if request.url.path.endswith("/commits"):
+            return httpx.Response(200, json=[{"sha": new_sha}])
+        return _file_response("prefix\n" + CODE, commit_sha=new_sha)
+
+    saved = {}
+
+    async def fake_update(uid, nid, **fields):
+        saved.update(fields)
+
+    data = _data(provenance={"commit_sha": SHA, "fetched_at": "t"})
+    with _patched(_forge_with(handler)), patch.object(
+        svc.notes_svc, "update_note", fake_update
+    ):
+        await svc.attach_live_body(_note(), data)
+        await background.drain()
+    # The file moved but still contains the code — current, with the stamp
+    # advanced by the authoritative full fetch.
+    assert data["body_freshness"] == "current"
+    assert saved["data"]["provenance"]["commit_sha"] == new_sha
+
+
+async def test_short_circuit_failure_degrades_to_the_full_fetch():
+    """A forge whose commits endpoint errors must cost nothing: the full
+    fetch stays the authoritative path and the pull behaves as before."""
+
+    def handler(request):
+        if request.url.path.endswith("/commits"):
+            return httpx.Response(500)
+        return _file_response("prefix\n" + CODE)
+
+    update = AsyncMock()
+    data = _data(provenance={"commit_sha": SHA, "fetched_at": "t"})
+    with _patched(_forge_with(handler)), patch.object(svc.notes_svc, "update_note", update):
+        await svc.attach_live_body(_note(), data)
+        await background.drain()
+    assert data["body_freshness"] == "current"
+    update.assert_not_called()  # same sha via the full fetch → same-sha skip
+
+
 async def test_diverged_reports_without_clobbering():
     forge = _forge_with(lambda r: _file_response("def helper(x):\n    return x - 1\n"))
     update = AsyncMock()