docs(prd): inline #88 rationale into PRD 0025
Add an "Alternatives considered" section enumerating the design options from issue #88 (duplicate bottles / agent-side bottle_config / bottle-side extends) and why extends won, so the PRD stands without the forge thread. Repoint the two phrases that depended on the #88 comment thread at the new section. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -39,6 +39,41 @@ trust boundary*: only `$HOME` bottles can declare it, only `$HOME`
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bottles can be its target. Cloned repos still cannot author
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bottle-equivalent config.
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## Alternatives considered
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The question raised in issue #88 was *where composition should live*.
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Three points in that design space, recorded here so the decision
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stands on its own without the issue thread:
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1. **Duplicate bottles (status quo).** Copy `dev.md` to `staging.md`
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and edit. Zero new mechanism, but every shared field drifts: a
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route added to `dev` is silently missing from `staging`. This is
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the pain that prompted #88.
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2. **Agent-side `bottle_config:` override (the original #88
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proposal).** Let an agent file carry an inline block that merges
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over its referenced bottle. Ergonomically attractive — one file,
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no second bottle — but it **breaks the trust boundary**: agent
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files can come from `$CWD/.bot-bottle/agents/` in a cloned repo, so
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a clone could redeclare egress routes, env mappings, and git
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remotes — i.e. grant itself bottle-equivalent authority over
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credentials and network egress. The home-only-bottle invariant
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exists precisely to stop this.
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3. **Bottle-side `extends:` (chosen).** Move composition to the
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bottle layer, where it inherits the home-only property for free:
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only `$HOME` bottles can declare `extends:`, and only `$HOME`
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bottles can be its target. Identical duplication relief to option
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2, none of its trust erosion. The cost is that an override requires
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a (home-owned) child bottle rather than an inline agent block —
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which is the *point*: the override authority stays in `$HOME`.
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`extends:` wins because it solves the duplication pain entirely on the
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trusted side of the agent-vs-bottle boundary. (PRD 0027 later lifts a
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deliberately narrow, non-credential field — `git.user` — to the agent
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layer, on the separate reasoning that commit identity is not a
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capability; egress, credentials, and remotes stay bottle-only.)
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## Goals / Success Criteria
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- Add `extends: <bottle-name>` to the bottle frontmatter schema.
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## Non-goals
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- **No agent-side `bottle_config:`.** That's the design issue #88
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considered and weighed against; this PRD is the alternative
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picked in the issue's design discussion. Don't reintroduce it.
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- **No agent-side `bottle_config:`.** Option 2 under "Alternatives
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considered" — weighed and rejected on trust grounds. Don't
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reintroduce it.
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- **No additive list merges** (e.g., `routes: append` keyword).
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The `extends:` design uses full-replace for list-valued fields
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(see "Merge rules"); if a use case shows up that genuinely
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@@ -167,7 +202,7 @@ Bottles continue to be loaded from `$HOME/.bot-bottle/bottles/`
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only (`Manifest.from_md_dirs` is unchanged). The `extends:` field
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references another file in that same directory. No cwd-readable
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file gains the ability to declare or modify bottle config — the
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attack surface from issue #88's comment thread stays closed.
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attack surface from option 2 ("Alternatives considered") stays closed.
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If a future change ever introduces cwd-loaded bottles, the
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`extends:` resolver should be gated to forbid a `$CWD` bottle
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