zit#85 landed, so the identity of a store is readable without a checkout. ProjectCode drops the clone handshake — free port, spawn zit serve, poll for readiness, POST a container, scrape the push card — for one subprocess that answers directly.

That handshake was the last thing keeping quarry from serving a BARE store: the read plane was already -R-only with no cmd.Dir anywhere, but zit serve is checkout-only. Verified by serving a directory holding nothing but libfossil's .zit — 3,835 check-ins, and timeline, wiki, ticket, forum and technote all answer 200.

Startup also loses a per-repository 5-second worst case. check-in: d7528db81f user: dmestas tags: trunk