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+# Investigation Report: Gayathri
+
+## Summary
+
+Gayathri is a Malayalam display typeface designed by Binoy Dominic with OpenType engineering by Kavya Manohar, part of the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing (SMC) project. It was onboarded to Google Fonts on 2019-06-10 by Marc Foley. The upstream repository is on GitHub at `smc/Gayathri` (also mirrored on GitLab at `smc/fonts/gayathri`). The onboarding commit is explicitly documented in the google/fonts commit message. The upstream repo has gftools-builder-compatible sources (.designspace + .ufo) at the referenced commit but no config.yaml, so an override config.yaml would be needed.
+
+## Key Findings
+
+| Field | Value |
+|-------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| Family Name | Gayathri |
+| Repository URL | https://github.com/smc/Gayathri |
+| Commit Hash | 5ad0cb435bd61227de1e95dc54ee85bfca671c53 |
+| Commit Date | 2019-06-02 |
+| Commit Message | Fix the name tableentry for copyright |
+| Config YAML | None (upstream has no config.yaml; override needed) |
+| Source Files | sources/Gayathri.designspace, sources/Gayathri-{Thin,Regular,Bold}.ufo |
+| Onboarding PR | Direct commit 9c887c8b (no PR, pushed directly to main) |
+| Onboarder | Marc Foley (m.foley.88@gmail.com) |
+| Date Added | 2019-06-10 |
+| Status | missing_config |
+| Confidence | HIGH |
+
+## Investigation Details
+
+### 1. METADATA.pb Analysis
+
+The current METADATA.pb has no `source { }` block. Key metadata:
+- Name: Gayathri
+- Designer: SMC, Binoy Dominic
+- License: OFL
+- Date added: 2019-06-10
+- Primary script: Mlym (Malayalam)
+- Copyright references `https://gitlab.com/smc/fonts/gayathri`
+
+### 2. Git History in google/fonts
+
+The font was added in commit `9c887c8b` on 2019-06-10 by Marc Foley with the message:
+
+> gayathri: v1.000 added.
+>
+> Taken from the upstream repo https://github.com/smc/gayathri at commit https://github.com/smc/Gayathri/commit/5ad0cb435bd61227de1e95dc54ee85bfca671c53
+
+This commit was pushed directly to main (not via a PR). It added:
+- ofl/gayathri/DESCRIPTION.en_us.html
+- ofl/gayathri/Gayathri-Bold.ttf
+- ofl/gayathri/Gayathri-Regular.ttf
+- ofl/gayathri/Gayathri-Thin.ttf
+- ofl/gayathri/METADATA.pb
+- ofl/gayathri/OFL.txt
+
+No subsequent updates to the binary font files have been made.
+
+### 3. Upstream Repository
+
+The upstream repo exists at two locations:
+- **GitHub**: https://github.com/smc/Gayathri (used for onboarding)
+- **GitLab**: https://gitlab.com/smc/fonts/gayathri (referenced in copyright string)
+
+The commit `5ad0cb435bd61227de1e95dc54ee85bfca671c53` (2019-06-02) exists in the GitHub repo and is titled "Fix the name tableentry for copyright". This commit predates the onboarding (2019-06-10) by 8 days, which is consistent.
+
+### 4. Source Files at Referenced Commit
+
+At commit `5ad0cb435`, the sources directory contains:
+- `sources/Gayathri.designspace` (designspace format 3, weight axis 100-900)
+- `sources/Gayathri-Thin.ufo`
+- `sources/Gayathri-Regular.ufo`
+- `sources/Gayathri-Bold.ufo`
+- `sources/features/` (feature files)
+- `sources/design/` (design files)
+
+The designspace defines three masters: Thin (weight 200), Regular (weight 400), and Bold (weight 700).
+
+Note: The designspace file was later removed from the repo in commit `406d7f4c` ("Remove unused designspace file"), but it existed at the referenced onboarding commit.
+
+### 5. Build System
+
+The original build used a Makefile with direct fontmake invocations to produce static OTF and TTF files (no variable font). There is no config.yaml in the upstream repo at any commit.
+
+The font ships as three static TTF files in Google Fonts (Thin, Regular, Bold), not as a variable font. An override config.yaml for gftools-builder would need to reference `sources/Gayathri.designspace` and configure static instance generation.
+
+### 6. Repository Cache
+
+The upstream repo has been cloned to `upstream_repos/fontc_crater_cache/smc/Gayathri/`.
+
+## Conclusion
+
+The source metadata for Gayathri is straightforward to determine. The onboarding commit message explicitly provides both the repository URL and the commit hash. The upstream repo has gftools-builder-compatible sources (designspace + UFO) but lacks a config.yaml file.
+
+### Recommended METADATA.pb Source Block
+
+```
+source {
+ repository_url: "https://github.com/smc/Gayathri"
+ commit: "5ad0cb435bd61227de1e95dc54ee85bfca671c53"
+}
+```
+
+Note: An override config.yaml in the google/fonts family directory would be needed for gftools-builder compatibility. The config should reference `sources/Gayathri.designspace` and configure static font generation for three weights (Thin 100, Regular 400, Bold 700). When that override is created, the `config_yaml` field can be omitted from METADATA.pb as google-fonts-sources auto-detects local overrides.
+
+### Status: missing_config
+### Confidence: HIGH