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+# Windy Git is the daily driver — 2026-08-13
+
+Grant's call, 2026-08-12: **push to Windy Git; GitHub is the second copy.**
+
+    you ──push──▶ Windy Git (Veron 1) ──▶ CI on 24 cores
+                       │
+                       └──push-mirror on every commit──▶ GitHub
+
+## 🔴 The one rule this creates
+
+**Do not push directly to GitHub for a migrated repo.**
+
+A push mirror makes GitHub match Windy Git. Anything committed straight to
+GitHub is **overwritten on the next sync**, silently, with no conflict and no
+warning. That is the cost of having one writer, and one writer is the point —
+two writers with no reconciliation is how you lose work you thought was saved.
+
+If you must hotfix on GitHub: push there, then immediately pull that commit into
+Windy Git *before* anything triggers a mirror sync. Better: don't.
+
+## Migrated (9)
+
+`windy-calendar` · `windy-search` · `windy-registry` · `Windy-Clone` ·
+`WindyCloud` · `windy-cloud-sites` · `windy-mind` · `eternitas` · `windy-agent`
+
+All writable (`mirror=false`), all push-mirroring to GitHub with
+`sync_on_commit: true`. Clone from `https://app.windygit.com/windyadmin/<repo>.git`.
+
+**Not migrated on purpose:** `windy-pro`. Six checkouts exist, the build counter
+has forked three ways (main 12 / overnight 34 / wave-44 56), and two sessions
+recorded different HEADs hours apart. Resolve which is current and write it
+down first (G11.5). The import script refuses it by name.
+
+## CI
+
+The runner advertises `veron-1`, `linux-x64`, `self-hosted`, `linux`, `x64`.
+**36 of 36 active workflows in the fleet already say
+`runs-on: [self-hosted, linux, x64]`** — they were written for the self-hosted
+runners that died when the repos went private, so they run **as-is, unedited**.
+
+Proven: `windy-calendar`'s existing `.github/workflows/ci.yml` ran on Veron 1
+and reported success with no changes.
+
+**Per-repo secrets are not imported.** A repo whose CI needs a database URL or
+an API key will fail until those are set in its Gitea repo settings. Set them as
+each repo needs them, not speculatively.
+
+## Backups
+
+Nightly `windygit-backup.timer` at 04:17 (`Persistent=true`, so a window missed
+while the workstation is off is caught up rather than skipped). Every repo is
+bundled `--all`, verified, and uploaded to R2 with the `windgit` schema.
+
+**Restore is rehearsed, not assumed:** a bundle was pulled back from R2, cloned,
+and its HEAD matched live `origin/main` exactly.
+
+## Verify the loop yourself
+
+```bash
+git clone https://app.windygit.com/windyadmin/windy-calendar.git
+cd windy-calendar && git commit --allow-empty -m "probe" && git push
+# CI runs on Veron 1; GitHub receives the commit within ~20s
+```