Not mirroring it is deliberate: the handbook maps the infrastructure, backup locations and where the keys live, so putting it on the internet-facing Gitea hands an attacker the roadmap once the stack is compromised. My earlier recommendation only weighed availability and was wrong. Local clone covers the availability gap. Flagged that this is a standing exception to ADR-0001 and would warrant its own ADR. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>