GitHub

A local GitHub: the REST API the unmodified @octokit/rest and gh call (https://api.github.com), the GraphQL API beside it, git over smart HTTP, and the github.com pages an application sends a person through, over one state.

Use with an existing app

Use Node 22.6 or newer.

In an app that already uses this vendor, install this exact release and the product CLI:

npm install --save-dev --save-exact @volter/world@3.0.147 @volter/twin-github@3.0.7
./node_modules/.bin/volter world init --name my-app --twins github --source github=@volter/twin-github

Run the local executable from this app’s folder; if it is missing, complete the installation here before continuing.

Review the detected vendor and generated bindings before booting. Read the credential names and limitations below; the World supplies throwaway credentials. Then run your app's own command through the World:

./node_modules/.bin/volter world up
./node_modules/.bin/volter world run -- npm test
./node_modules/.bin/volter world log
./node_modules/.bin/volter world down

Here npm test is your app's existing command; replace it with your app or test command. down retains state. A later up resumes it; do not reset or initialize again merely to return.

Publisher and catalog contribution instructions: the public publisher guide.

A Protocol 3 derived pack (publisher guide): the REST surface is generated from GitHub's published OpenAPI description and the GraphQL schema beside it (spec/), plain reads and updates are the derived core's, the state machines are src/semantics/states.ts, handlers by operationId (src/semantics/<family>.ts) serve only what an operation does beyond them, the GraphQL resolvers are src/semantics/graphql.ts, and GitHub's own computation (workflow files, advisories, a README's Markdown, TOTP, a CVSS vector's score) is src/engine/. It serves what the applications call and what one customer's life sends (journeys/demand.json, journeys/decisions.json, journeys/customer-life.json); every other operation answers GitHub's own 404, and every other GraphQL root field GraphQL's undefinedField. GitHub's published examples for the operations served, and the rules its pages state, are replayed in journeys/vendor-examples.json (spec/doc-examples.json).

world-github serve [--port N] [--root DIR] [--read-only]

Point a client at it (new Octokit({ baseUrl }), GH_HOST), or run the application in a World, whose routing sends api.github.com, github.com (its sign-in, settings and app pages and git), uploads.github.com, raw.githubusercontent.com and token.actions.githubusercontent.com here.

What it models

• Who it is for: Volter's own products (Open Autonomy's kit, setup and platform, the Volter Harness board and installer, the Volter Editor, Workbench's store, Twin's World action, Actions runner, catalog release and on-call recipe, Volter identity's sign-in), Dub's GitHub sign-in, Rallly's update check and Twenty's site; the opt-in GitHub features of LibreChat, Postiz and Twenty are listed apart (demand.json's optional).
• Repositories: made by GraphQL createRepository (as gh repo create makes them), read with the caller's permissions, their README (and its HTML), contents committed through the API; rulesets, enforced on pushes, contents commits and merges; environments with their branch policies and secrets, repository variables and secrets (sealed to the repository's key), deploy keys; teams and their repositories.
• Git: smart HTTP clone, fetch and push at github.com/<owner>/<repo>.git, contents, commits, compares, trees, blobs, refs and annotated tags read from the same objects, abbreviated SHAs resolved; a push a ruleset refuses is refused as GitHub refuses it (GH013).
• Issues and pull requests: issues (read one by its number, as Octokit's issues.get), labels, milestones and comments; pull requests from branches of the repository, their reviews, and merges (GraphQL mergePullRequest, and REST's merge, squash or rebase) that close the issues their bodies name; a pull request closes with its deleted head branch.
• Releases, statuses, webhooks and advisories: releases with uploaded assets, commit statuses, a repository's webhooks and their deliveries, repository security advisories (made and published).
• Actions, as the World's runner works it: a push starts the workflows of its commit; the runner (twin-world's volter-world-actions-runner) finds its repositories and their queued runs, starts one through the World's door with its job token, the repository's secrets (sealed to its key) and variables and an OIDC request, and completes it with its jobs' conclusions and artifacts; the OIDC provider (token.actions.githubusercontent.com) signs the job's token, which Sigstore's Fulcio twin verifies.
• Apps: GitHub Apps from a manifest or the World's door, installed from their installation page, their JWT, a repository's installation and its installation tokens (narrowed to permissions and repositories).
• Sign-in: github.com's password and two-factor pages, OAuth apps' web flow, GitHub Apps' user tokens and refresh tokens (a refresh needs no secret and revokes the access token it replaces), and the device flow gh auth login runs.
• GraphQL: repository with what Open Autonomy's community desk and gh pr create, gh pr view and gh pr merge read (its owner, default branch, the caller's permission, its parent, its discussions and their categories, its pull requests by branch with their commits' status rollup, review decision and merge state), the schema's own introspection, and the mutations they send: createRepository, createDiscussion, addDiscussionComment, createPullRequest and mergePullRequest.

Repository browser

The Code tab shows the stored repository files and README with GitHub’s familiar file-list and About layout. Select a branch, open folders and files, or follow Raw to the stored blob content. Branch selection changes only the viewed ref; mounted World URLs stay local. A Markdown file renders through the shared Markdown renderer; text files show line anchors.

Issues, pull requests, Actions, Projects, Security, Insights and Settings remain API capabilities rather than browser tabs. Those tabs and the clone dropdown and Blame controls are unavailable in this mirror. Symbol navigation and submodule navigation are outside this browser scope.

Events

A write GitHub reports sends its webhook (issues, pull_request, push, installation, …), declared as data the kernel renders, signs (X-Hub-Signature-256, and the SHA-1 X-Hub-Signature) and delivers: to the repository's and its organization's hooks whose events take it, and to each GitHub App whose installation covers the repository, with the installation in the payload. A hook's deliveries are GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/hooks/{hook_id}/deliveries.

Vendor-backed. Each stored resource reads back by its list (under its repository, {owner}/{repo}) but installations, which only an App's own credentials list, GitHub's webhooks are ingested by X-Hub-Signature-256 (each event's object at its own key, its repository by repository.full_name; a push is acknowledged and folds nothing), and calls are charged against GitHub's documented limits (5,000 an hour, 900 points a minute).

Doors

The repository mirror opens its Code, Issues and Pull requests tabs. Code reads stored branches, files and README; Issues and Pull requests show open or closed lists and numbered conversations, including their API-created description and comments, labels, assignees and milestone. A pull request names its head and base branches. Its Files changed tab reads the same stored Git comparison as the API, including added and removed lines. These workspace views are read-only. Browser creation, comment editing, reviews, checks and merging are not implemented; use the existing API for writes. Private repositories keep the same signed-in membership requirement across all these pages.

What happens outside the API is the World's door (/_twin/…, declared in the manifest): signing up, choosing a password, turning on two-factor authentication and reading the authenticator's code, making a personal access token, an organization, a GitHub App or an OAuth app, and a runner starting and completing a workflow run.

What it leaves out

Every operation no in-scope application and no life step reaches: the manifest's unmodeled (the rest of Actions, Pages, deployments, attestations, Dependabot and code scanning, Projects, search, forks, transfers, branch protection, issue locks), the GraphQL root fields beyond repository and the five mutations, and the browser download of a release's latest asset, which install.sh fetches. Where GitHub documents more than the twin does, the twin does less: a rebase merge is one commit, a CVSS 4.0 vector is not scored, and a pull request's head is a branch of its own repository. Its standing is twin-packs-p3's generated STANDING.md.