feat: add opt-in recursive worktree discovery

[patrickleet]

Change

Add discover_worktree_repos_recursive alongside the unchanged legacy API, with deterministic full aliases and explicit traversal failures. This API PR can merge first; the plugin consumer is meta_git_cli #28.

Why merge

Meta creates nested worktree members (for example root → open-source → atc), but legacy inventory stops at the parent worktree. This makes a successfully created child invisible to inventory consumers, including the planned ATC badge. Explicit recursive discovery supplies actual realized members without treating the configured project graph as realized checkouts.

Before / after

For a fixture with root, open-source, open-source/atc, and other/atc:

Invocation	Before	After
list/status without recursive	., open-source, other/atc	unchanged
list/status with recursive	., open-source, other/atc (flag ignored)	., open-source, open-source/atc, other/atc

Example usage (with both PRs)

meta git worktree list --recursive --json
meta git worktree status my-feature --recursive --json
meta git worktree status my-feature -r

Compatibility and safety

• Existing discovery API and default repository boundaries remain unchanged.
• No JSON field names/types change. The explicit recursive option adds member rows.
• Create/add/remove/prune/exec/diff and automatic context detection retain their existing discovery behavior.
• Read-only filesystem/Git observations; no migrations or Git mutations.
• Recursive scans skip hidden directories and do not follow directory symlinks. A 2,000,000-entry budget per set bounds traversal volume.
• Recursive traversal, malformed Git-file, or Git-status errors fail instead of emitting partial successful inventory. Default error behavior remains unchanged.
• Build directories add scan latency. list fails when any set is broken; status NAME isolates the selected set. Callers should impose a subprocess timeout and represent failures as unknown.

Testing

Executed on macOS against both PR branches in the same Meta workspace:

• cargo test --workspace: 581 passed, 0 failed, 0 ignored.
• cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings: passed.
• cargo fmt --all -- --check: passed.
• New discovery tests cover nested members, default boundaries, repeated leaf names, absent members, deterministic aliases, malformed Git files, missing roots, hidden directories, and symlink cycles.
• New public plugin integration test uses real Git worktrees, exercises list/status with protocol and explicit flags (including both together), checks branch/untracked dirty state, and checks failure without partial JSON.
• Actual newly built host/plugin smoke: default list/status return root + open-source; recursive status returns all 14 realized members, including open-source/atc (about 1.3 seconds). Recursive list detects a broken Git pointer in an unrelated existing worktree and exits nonzero as intended.
• Linux/Windows execution and the separate Bats suite were not run locally; this is local evidence, not a claim of cross-platform CI success.

Tracks [[tasks/harmony-1932]], prerequisite for [[tasks/harmony-1918]].

Review follow-up verification

CodeRabbit findings addressed: relative Git links resolve at the checkout; recursive discovery validates admin metadata and backlinks; fixtures use real worktrees. Added missing-root public protocol coverage and function documentation. Latest combined workspace run: 581 passed, zero failed; Clippy and formatting pass.

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Walkthrough

Adds discover_worktree_repos_recursive to find worktree repositories throughout the task directory, including repositories nested beneath other repositories. The function excludes hidden directories, does not follow symlinks, enforces an entry limit, and reports traversal and metadata errors.

Changes

Recursive Worktree Discovery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Recursive scanning and validation src/worktree.rs	Adds recursive discovery with sorted relative-path aliases, traversal limits, and error handling. Tests cover nested repositories, legacy discovery boundaries, malformed metadata, missing roots, hidden directories, and symlink cycles.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 4e1d0

Relative-path worktrees can report the wrong source repository, and stale metadata can appear as a realized worktree. Correct these discovery results before relying on the opt-in API.

Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🟡 Medium · up to 4e1d0

The change affects 1 system.

Changed systems: src

Architecture concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Review details

Systems and components

• observed — src (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in src/worktree.rs: Adds recursive worktree discovery using a non-following walk that prunes hidden directories. Missing .git files and non-file .git entries are skipped; traversal and inspection errors and invalid worktree metadata propagate as errors. Scanning fails once the entry count reaches 2,000,000, and successful results use full relative-path aliases, are sorted, and use "." for the task root.
• observed — Modified behavior in src/worktree.rs: Adds tests and helpers for recursive discovery: verifies nested repos are included while legacy discovery retains its prior boundaries, malformed nested metadata errors instead of returning a partial inventory, missing roots error, and hidden directories and symlink cycles are excluded.

Reliability and maintainability

• inferred — Risk-relevant change factors for src: blast_radius_1; direct_dependents_1

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Inline comments:
In `@src/worktree.rs`:
- Line 202: Update source_repo_from_gitfile and its caller to resolve a relative
gitdir path against the directory containing the .git file before deriving
source_path; preserve the existing behavior for absolute paths and add a test
covering a relative-path worktree.
- Line 202: In discover_worktree_repos_recursive, validate that the parsed
gitdir target and its required worktree metadata exist before adding a
repository record; reject dangling or incomplete .git references. Update member
to create a realized worktree rather than only writing a .git file.

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