Keboola Git

Keboola-Managed Git (Forgejo) for Data Apps

Keboola python-js data apps can host their source in a Keboola-managed Git repo (Forgejo) instead of GitHub. This skill gives you the context to access those repos through the kbagent CLI: provision a repo, mint a push credential, push source in with raw git, and deploy. kbagent has no repo-copy helper — you drive git clone / git remote add / git push yourself.

What this does / when not

Use this for: reading or writing a managed Forgejo repo for a python-js data app; moving an app's source between GitHub and Keboola git; pushing source and deploying from the managed repo.

Not for: authoring the contents of keboola-config/ (nginx, supervisord, setup.sh) — that's the dataapp-developer:dataapp-deployment skill. Not for Streamlit app development — that's dataapp-developer:dataapp-dev. This skill assumes the app source already exists somewhere; it handles the git plumbing to get it into Keboola and deployed.

Working Directory Context

All git and kbagent operations run from the user's project root or a scratch clone created under the user's CWD — never from this skill/plugin directory.

• Do clone/copy work in ./.keboola-git-work/<app>/ under the user's CWD. Add .keboola-git-work/ to the project .gitignore so the scratch clone is never committed.
• Before any in-place git operation on an existing repo, validate it's a worktree: git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree.
• Never run git commands against the plugin install directory.

Prerequisites

1. kbagent installed and on PATH (kbagent --version). Install: see the kbagent docs / kbagent:kbagent skill.
2. Project registered with kbagent (one-time per project):

   kbagent --json project add --project <alias> --stack <stack-url> --storage-token "$KBC_TOKEN"
   

3. Conversation id exported once per shell session:

   export KBAGENT_CONVERSATION_ID=$(uuidgen)
   

4. Always pass --json to tool calls so you can parse configuration_id, repo_url, git_clone_url reliably.

1. Access the managed repo

Existing app — find its repo and config:

kbagent --json tool call get_data_apps --project <alias> --input '{}'

Note the configuration_id, data_app_id, and repo_url (https://git.<stack>/keboola/app-<data_app_id>.git).

Provision a new app + repo:

kbagent --json tool call modify_python_js_data_app --project <alias> \
  --input '{"name":"<Display Name>","slug":"<slug>","description":"<desc>"}'

Returns configuration_id, data_app_id, repo_url. Two-app model: the prod config owns the only repo; draft branches advance from it.

2. Mint a push credential (one-time secret)

kbagent --json tool call create_python_js_data_app_git_credential --project <alias> \
  --input '{"configuration_id":"<cfg>"}'

Returns git_clone_url = https://kai:<secret>@git.<stack>/keboola/app-<data_app_id>.git.

• The secret is shown once. Mint a fresh one anytime — they're cheap and revocable-by-rotation.
• Keep it in a shell variable only. Never commit it, never echo it into a file, never paste it into a log or message. Read it into a var and reference "$URL":

  URL='https://kai:<secret>@git.<stack>/keboola/app-<id>.git'
  

3. Clone / push pattern (raw git)

mkdir -p ./.keboola-git-work && cd ./.keboola-git-work
git clone --single-branch --branch <branch> <source-repo> app && cd app
git remote add keboola "$URL"
git push keboola HEAD:main

• The pre-receive hook declines branch deletes — pushing new commits to main or a draft branch advances normally, but you cannot delete a remote branch.
• Never force-push a shared/managed branch.

4. The 15MB / HTTP 413 cap + build-at-deploy (CRITICAL)

Forgejo rejects pushes over ~15MB with HTTP 413. A single file over the limit cannot be split — you must not track it.

Push source only. Repos that commit their build (e.g. frontend/.next ~55MB, often including a 15.3MB macOS sharp binary that's also the wrong binary for the Linux runtime) must move the build into deploy time:

1. Size guard before pushing:

   find . -size +15M -not -path '*/.git/*'
   

2. If a build dir is tracked, stop tracking it and gitignore it:

   git rm -r --cached frontend/.next
   printf '%s\n' 'frontend/.next/' 'node_modules/' >> .gitignore
   

3. Move the build into keboola-config/setup.sh so it runs in the Linux container at deploy:

   # in keboola-config/setup.sh, run from the app's frontend dir:
   cd frontend && npm ci && npm run build
   # Next.js output:'standalone' does NOT copy static assets — copy them so the
   # standalone server.js can serve them. The destination MIRRORS the path from the
   # Next.js workspace root, so it differs by layout — detect where server.js landed:
   #   find .next/standalone -maxdepth 3 -name server.js
   # Single-package repo (workspace root == frontend/, server.js at .next/standalone/server.js):
   cp -r .next/static .next/standalone/.next/static
   cp -r public       .next/standalone/public
   # Monorepo (workspace root above frontend/, server.js at .next/standalone/frontend/server.js):
   #   cp -r .next/static .next/standalone/frontend/.next/static
   #   cp -r public       .next/standalone/frontend/public
   

   For the exact setup.sh / nginx / supervisord wiring, cross-reference the dataapp-developer:dataapp-deployment skill.

4. Commit the source-only tree, then re-run the size guard (no tracked file >15MB).

5. Check git history, not just the working tree (CRITICAL). git push sends every object reachable from the pushed ref — so a build committed in an earlier commit still gets pushed and still 413s, even after step 2 removes it from HEAD. The find guard only sees the working tree. Check reachable blobs:

   git rev-list --objects HEAD \
     | git cat-file --batch-check='%(objecttype) %(objectsize) %(rest)' \
     | awk '$1=="blob" && $2>15000000 {print $2, $3}'
   

   If anything prints, the over-cap blob is in history. Two remedies:

   • Fresh managed repo (the common case): push a single clean commit so the old blobs are never reachable —

     git checkout --orphan clean-main && git add -A && git commit -m "Source-only (build at deploy)"
     git push keboola clean-main:main
     

   • History must be preserved: purge the blob with git filter-repo (or BFG), then push.

If a push still 413s, re-run both guards (working tree and history) and report the offending file — the user must decide how to externalize it (it can't be split).

5. Deploy + verify

kbagent --json tool call deploy_data_app --project <alias> \
  --input '{"action":"deploy","configuration_id":"<cfg>"}'

Verify from the logs — they are the authoritative signal (build is ~90s+ for npm ci + next build; setup_sh can take ~2min total):

kbagent --allow-env-manage-token data-app logs --project <alias> --app-id <data_app_id> --lines 300

Look for, in order: ✓ Compiled successfully and Generating static pages (the next build finished), Completed: setup_sh (the static-asset cp succeeded — under set -e a wrong copy path would abort here), then success: node-frontend entered RUNNING state and ✓ Ready in …ms (the standalone server is up on :3000). The python service shows success: python-api entered RUNNING state. If a deeper window is dominated by one service's restart loop, raise --lines to see the other service's earlier startup.

Do NOT rely on an HTTP probe to confirm the frontend. An unauthenticated GET / returns the Keboola platform login gate (HTTP 200, <title>Login</title>, no _next/static references) — that's the platform auth proxy in front of the container, not your app. And POST / returns 200 from the nginx location = / health rule regardless of app state. Real proof that the built frontend serves is node-frontend entered RUNNING + Ready in in the logs (optionally: authenticate with the app password, then check the HTML references /_next/static/…).

Get the app password / set secrets + redeploy as needed:

kbagent --json --allow-env-manage-token data-app password --project <alias> --app-id <data_app_id>
kbagent --allow-env-manage-token data-app secrets-set --project <alias> --app-id <data_app_id> '#KEY=VAL'

Success = repo in Keboola git + app deploys + container builds + node-frontend RUNNING + backend process starts. Backend data errors — e.g. python-api crash-looping on a Storage 404 Not Found from its startup data load — mean the app is running and looking for tables that don't exist in an empty project. That's a data condition, not a git/deploy failure.

Gotchas

Full command catalog, the 413/build-at-deploy recipe, and the gotchas table live in references/managed-git.md.