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Emma Thorpe 10cc6cceed refactor(flake): add user registry and multi-user host support
Separate user identity (data) from the reusable modules, and let a host
declare any number of users instead of exactly one.

- users/registry.nix: per-user identity (name, email, groups, authorized
  and signing keys) as the single source of identity; no user data is
  hardcoded in the modules.
- mkHost takes a `users` set keyed by username; per-user identity is
  injected into each home config via the `identity` module arg
  (extraSpecialArgs is per-host, so it cannot carry per-user data).
- modules/users.nix builds accounts from the registry; modules/ssh.nix no
  longer defines authorized keys (the registry owns them); home/git.nix
  and home/desktop.nix read `identity`; users/emmathorpe/work.nix drops
  its now-redundant git identity override.
- Restructure the tree: users/, home/, modules/, hosts/, lib/ replace the
  former lyrathorpe/ and system/ layout.
- Add standalone homeConfigurations (the portable subset: shell, git,
  editor, claude) and an exported homeModules output for use on machines
  not managed by this flake, or as an input to other flakes.

Behaviour-preserving for existing hosts: lyrathorpe-mbp and
emmathorpe-edaas evaluate to identical derivations; lyrathorpe-t400,
lyrathorpe-macpro31 and lyrathorpe-rpi5 differ only by de-duplicating a
repeated authorized_keys entry. Fixes the SSH authorized-key leak (one
user's key was applied to every account), the hardcoded default git
identity, and the hardcoded EDaaS linger setting.
2026-06-29 12:27:52 +01:00

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name, description, metadata
name description metadata
git_check_state Always check real git state (branch, ahead/behind, log) before git work — Lyra edits repos between sessions
node_type type originSessionId
memory feedback ca09fbe4-9226-4ad9-874f-04df90840eef

Before starting any git-related work — and again before committing, amending, or resetting — inspect the actual repo state: current branch, git status -sb (ahead/behind), and the recent log including origin/<branch>.. and ..origin/<branch>. Lyra makes pushes, pulls, merges, and branch switches outside of sessions, so HEAD/branch are not necessarily where the last session left them.

Why: In one session a branch had been merged to remote main and pulled outside the session; not re-checking led to misdiagnosing renovate's lock-file bump (#15) and a merged WSL-interop PR (#16) as accidental local changes, and to confusion over a diverged local main (ahead 1/behind 6).

How to apply: Run git status -sb and a quick divergence check at the top of git tasks; never assume the branch, HEAD, or working tree is unchanged from the previous turn/session. Reconcile against origin/<branch> before building on top. Relates to git_conventions and git_network_ops.