diff --git a/config/git.unkin.net/unkin/team/repospawner.yaml b/config/git.unkin.net/unkin/team/repospawner.yaml
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+# Least-privilege access for the repospawner bot: Write on terraform-git only,
+# which is the minimum Gitea permission that allows pushing a branch and opening
+# a pull request. repospawner does its whole job here (repo-creation PRs), so it
+# is kept out of the org-wide "agents" team (include_all_repositories: true).
+#
+# Merge stays reserved for Ben: branch protection on terraform-git's main sets a
+# merge whitelist of the Owners team only. Keep this team out of every merge and
+# approval whitelist.
+description: "repospawner bot -- push branches + open PRs on terraform-git only"
+permission: write
+include_all_repositories: false
+can_create_repos: false
+repositories:
+  - terraform-git
+members:
+  - repospawner
diff --git a/config/git.unkin.net/user/repospawner.yaml b/config/git.unkin.net/user/repospawner.yaml
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+# Service identity for repospawner, which opens pull requests against this
+# repository (terraform-git) to add new Gitea repositories on request. It is
+# deliberately separate from unkin-agent so its access can stay scoped to the
+# single repository it needs: the "repospawner" team (unkin/team/repospawner.yaml)
+# grants Write on terraform-git and nothing else.
+#
+# Auth is via ephemeral API tokens minted by the vault-plugin-secrets-gitea
+# engine -- no usable credential lives in this repo's state beyond the generated
+# placeholder. Merge stays blocked by branch protection (merge whitelist =
+# Owners only), so it can push branches and open PRs but never merge.
+email: repospawner@unkin.net
+full_name: "Repo Spawner"
+description: "repospawner service identity -- opens repo-creation PRs against terraform-git"
+# Conservative bot posture: not a site admin, cannot create orgs or repos,
+# profile visible only to signed-in users.
+visibility: limited
+admin: false
+allow_create_organization: false
+max_repo_creation: 0