feat: publish verb — PR-based harvest to a remote

[Steel-tech]

Ships the plan's deferred "PR-based harvest (push branch + open PR instead of local merge)" item.

What it does: harvest-step.sh publish <slot> — or p + slot digit in the harvest pane — pushes the slot's branch to a configured remote (default origin, HERDR_SWARM_PUBLISH_REMOTE to override) so review and merge happen on the forge instead of locally.

Safety posture, consistent with the rest of the plugin:

• Plain same-name push, never --force — a non-fast-forward rejection (someone else moved the remote branch) is surfaced with the git error, and the remote is never clobbered.
• No local ref mutation, no worktree touched; uncommitted work never travels (a loud note says to commit-WIP first to include it).
• Typed refusals (HS_EC_REFUSED) for a missing remote, a missing branch, and a slot with nothing past the fork point.

Deliberately no new terminal state: once the forge merge lands and base updates, the next re-preview settles the slot through the detection that already exists — ancestry for merge commits, tree containment (0.2.0's squash_merged) for squash merges — and the slot proceeds to archive as usual. Publish composes with the pipeline rather than forking it.

• scripts/harvest-step.sh — do_publish + dispatch + env-contract docs
• bin/renderer.mjs — publish-pick phase (p, digit, Esc), footer legend
• Tests against a local bare remote: happy path + fast-forward re-publish, missing-remote/empty-slot refusals, and the non-fast-forward rejection proving the remote is untouched; renderer key-flow tests
• README, CONCEPTS glossary ("Publish"), CHANGELOG

233 tests pass on the full suite; shellcheck clean.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added PR-based publishing for selected harvest slots.
  • Publish slot branches from the harvest pane or command line.
  • Configure the publishing remote, with origin used by default.
  • Preview updates automatically detect merged pull requests, including squash merges.
  • Added safeguards against force-pushing and invalid or empty slots.

• Documentation

  • Added publishing instructions, remote configuration details, and guidance for non-fast-forward rejections.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds a publish <slot> harvest command and a p shortcut in the harvest renderer. Publishing uses a configurable remote and a plain push. The script records the remote and commit SHA. Documentation and tests cover successful and rejected publishes.

Changes

Harvest publishing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Publish command and validation scripts/harvest-step.sh, tests/harvest.test.mjs, CHANGELOG.md, CONCEPTS.md, README.md	The script validates the remote, slot branch, and fork-point commits before performing a non-force push. Successful publishes record the remote and SHA. Tests cover fast-forward updates and refusal cases. Documentation describes the command, remote variable, and merge detection.
Renderer publish flow bin/renderer.mjs, tests/renderer.test.mjs	The harvest renderer adds slot selection, the p shortcut, cancellation, validation errors, publish results, and preview reloads. Renderer tests cover navigation and output.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 80281

Publishing may send unrelated or unintended commits to the remote review branch because the branch tip is not validated against the slot’s fork point and may change before the push. Merge readiness requires this bounded correctness risk to be fixed or explicitly accepted.

Suggested reviewers: claude

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the new publish verb and its PR-based remote harvest workflow.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring check was indeterminate for this PR — some files could not be analyzed in time. Not blocking.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Inline comments:
In `@scripts/harvest-step.sh`:
- Around line 701-724: Validate the captured tip in the publish flow before
pushing: require it to be a descendant of FORK_SHA and reject earlier or
unrelated history. Push the captured immutable tip explicitly, using tip for the
source ref instead of the mutable SLOT_BRANCH, so the manifest SHA matches the
published commit. Add coverage for invalid ancestry and branch advancement after
tip capture.

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• CHANGELOG.md
• CONCEPTS.md
• README.md
• bin/renderer.mjs
• scripts/harvest-step.sh
• tests/harvest.test.mjs
• tests/renderer.test.mjs

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[Steel-tech]

The moderate-risk flag from the walkthrough is addressed in 53d5a52:

• Fork-point validation: publish now refuses when the recorded fork SHA is no longer an ancestor of the slot tip (git merge-base --is-ancestor) — a rewritten branch can't ship unaudited history. Covered by a new test that rebuilds the slot branch on an orphan root and asserts the typed refusal.
• Tip race: the push now uses the audited SHA as the refspec source ($tip:refs/heads/<branch>) instead of the branch name, so a commit landing between the checks and the push cannot ride along — the remote receives exactly the tip that passed validation.

234 tests green, shellcheck clean.

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