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Artifacts is a distributed, versioned filesystem built on Git that enables AI agents and serverless compute to programmatically create, manage, and collaborate on code repositories.
•Supports full Git protocol (v1/v2) with REST API and Workers API for creating repositories, generating credentials, and committing without requiring a Git client
•Built on Cloudflare Durable Objects with a Zig-based Git implementation compiled to WebAssembly (~100KB), implementing SHA-1, zlib, delta encoding, and full git smart HTTP protocol
•Uses SQLite for file storage with chunking for large Git objects, R2 for snapshots, and KV for tracking auth tokens across millions of isolated repository instances
•Provides Git semantics (fork, time-travel, diff) beyond source control for managing state, configuration, and session history in agent and sandbox environments
•Includes native git-notes support allowing agents to attach metadata like prompts and attribution to Git objects without mutating the underl
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