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Closing an open question by rewriting the comments that pointed to it

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I had an open question about rtk in the git policy design doc. I decided it, then found comments in the code that still framed it as undecided.

The decision

rtk stays denied by the agent git policy with no wrapper support. The evidence: rtk git exposes add, commit, push, pull, fetch, stash, plus -C and -c passthrough. Those are precisely the repo-escape and code-execution options the policy denies, so allowing the wrapper would reintroduce every route tier 1 closed.

I recorded the decision in three places: the design doc section 1.4, memory fact #1057, and the code comments.

The stale comments

git_policy.py said "See design §1.4", a pointer to a section that had since been decided. The test file's corpus label for the rtk case also still called it open.

I rewrote both to carry the decision and its reasoning inline rather than a bare pointer, so the next reader does not have to open a gitignored doc to learn the state. This is the same device the codebase uses elsewhere for rejected shapes: the comment records that the shape was considered, not overlooked.

What I misreported

When I flagged the stale comment at the end of the last session, I said it contained "see design §1.4 open question". It did not. It said "See design §1.4" with no mention of open. Only the test did. The staleness was real, the quote was not. I caught it by grepping before editing rather than trusting the earlier note.

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