PyAutoGut

PyAutoGut is the Gut of the PyAutoScientist — the organ of elimination. It owns the full lifecycle of condemned self-material: the stale branches, git stash entries, dead code and retired tests that a hygiene sweep is 95%-but-not-100% sure is trash. The Gut holds each item recoverably through a transit window, then performs the final deletion itself.

How PyAutoGut works

1. Condemn. The Brain's hygiene conductor (/hygiene) decides an item is spent and files it in the manifest — the condemned.md ledger in the Mind (symmetric to parked.md: parked will resume, condemned awaits elimination).
2. Transit. Fragile forms (unmerged branches, stashes) are first materialised as real commits and pushed here as durable git refs under refs/heads/archive/condemned/<name> — this repo is the attic remote. Until its sweep-after date, recovery is just a checkout.
3. Void. A batch sweep (/repo_cleanup safety gates against the manifest) eliminates items past their transit window — the Gut deletes; the entry leaves the ledger.

The split mirrors Heart ↔ vitals: the conductor reasons and drives, the organ holds and voids. There is no dashboard here by design — the Gut's ledger is the Mind's condemned.md, one click above.

Full rationale and boundaries: pyautogut-organ-decision. Operating guidance for agents: AGENTS.md. The organism this repo is the Gut of is described once in PyAutoBrain/ORGANISM.md and documented in full at https://pyautoscientist.readthedocs.io.