A view is a read-only, presentation-only view: a scheme like sha1:/diff:/spot: that renders a resource without ever mutating it. The goal is one uniform way to inspect any object — sha, bytes, tree, history, or a search hit — composing with the same URI slots as the Verbs. The method: each projector is its own verb that emits a dog/HUNK stream for Bro to page; all four URI slots compose, so be spot:/graf?feature#HASHu64Put is a structural search under /graf on feature.
Every view accepts URIs of any shape and only renders, so projectors are safe to combine with any URI slot and with each other; each is its own read-only verb, not a mutating verb dressed in a scheme.
be diff://ABC-123/file.c?branch diffs another worktree's file — any slot combination is valid.be post sha1:?feat is not a thing.sha1:ssh://… is not valid — fetch with a transport scheme first, then project.
These inspect a single object the ?ref/#sha resolves to — its id, bytes, listing, body, size, or type.
sha1: emits the 40-hex sha of the resource — be sha1:?feat is git rev-parse, be sha1:file.c? the tracked blob sha.blob: emits a blob's raw bytes — be blob:file.c?123abc is git cat-file -p <sha>:file.c.tree: emits a tree listing of mode, sha, and name — be tree:src/?feat lists one dir at a branch tip.commit: emits a commit object's body, headers then message — be commit:?123abc.size: emits the resource's byte size — be size:?#abc1234; type: emits the object type (commit/tree/blob/tag).These render history: the commit log, the ref namespace, and the token-level diff between any two states.
log: emits the refs tail newest-first, one commit per line; #N caps to N — be log:?feat#20 ≈ git log -n 20 feat.refs: lists refs under a dir, ** recursive — be refs:?** is git branch -a.diff: emits a weave-based unified diff, changed state on the right — be diff:file.c, be diff:?main, be diff:?v1#v2.
These search the repo's content; the query body rides the #fragment with an optional .ext filter, delegated to Spot and Graf.
spot: does syntax-aware structural search — be spot:#'u8sFeed( a, b )'.c finds that call shape across .c files.grep: does literal-substring search — be grep:#u8sFeed.c.regex: does PCRE search — be regex:#'u\d+sFeed'.c.
du is a store-level view (arg-less, no URI slots): it tables the disk usage of every shard in the Store backing the current repo, so a store shared by many worktrees stays legible.
du sums each shard's packs, indexes and other bytes, one row per shard (own shard marked *) plus a TOTAL — be du ≈ git count-objects -vH store-wide.