The jumphost clone could not push (could not read Username for https://git.baldurkeep.com),
which left this branch 12 commits ahead of origin for two days -- all the D-112 / OPNsense
edge work existed only on this box. Now fixed: credential.helper store + a dedicated PAT at
~/.git-credentials (mode 600), written by the operator via a hidden prompt. The token was
never read into agent context; the credential is verified by USING it, never by printing it.

Two GitBucket behaviours measured and recorded, because both cost a cycle:

1. The git username is NOT the web-UI login. The operator signs in with an email; that is
   rejected for git transport. Measured against info/refs?service=git-receive-pack:
   jesse.austin@neumatrix.com -> 401, JANeumatrix (the git user.name) -> 401,
   jesse.austin -> 200 CAN PUSH. Note GitBucket 401s PAT basic-auth on /api/v3/ across the
   board while accepting it for git -- so validating a credential against the API gives a
   FALSE NEGATIVE. Validate against the receive-pack endpoint.

2. credential.helper store DELETES the stored credential when the server rejects it (git
   calls credential reject on a 401). The first bad-username push therefore emptied
   ~/.git-credentials to 0 bytes, and the follow-up diagnostics were authenticating with an
   empty string -- which read as a corrupt file and misdirected the investigation. If the
   file mysteriously empties: the credential was rejected, it did not fail to write.
   Tooling consequence: validate BEFORE writing.

SEC-005 is OPEN by operator ruling: a long-lived, account-wide PAT now sits in plaintext on
the jumphost (GitBucket has no per-repo token scoping, so the control is rotation, not
scope). Revoke/rotate at v1 close, or immediately if the jumphost is shared or rebuilt.

Revert: git config --global --unset credential.helper && rm -f ~/.git-credentials,
then revoke the token in GitBucket -> Account Settings -> Applications.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01B6Fzre1CxCY8tzwFCudu57