fix(runtime): stop Host() re-dialing under the lock; bump grpc; harden CI

[JonahMMay]

Summary

Follow-up to the CodeRabbit review on #11, plus CI hardening.

CodeRabbit findings from #11

• pkg/pluginsdk/runtime/runtime.go:302, host() retried the broker dial while holding s.mu. host() now just returns the client dialed in setBrokerID. The retry could never help: go-plugin keeps the host's connection info for a stream for only ~5 s (the reason setBrokerID dials eagerly), so after a failed bind-time dial every retry fails too. Meanwhile each retry could block in broker.Dial for up to five seconds with s.mu held, serializing every concurrent Host() caller. The Host() doc comment used to say "the first successful call dials"; it now says the client is dialed once at bind time and Host() never dials. Nothing else called dialLocked lazily, since setBroker resets the stream id, so the bind-time path is the only one that can succeed.
• go.mod:9, grpc advisories. google.golang.org/grpc v1.82.1 → v1.83.2 (GO-2026-6348, GO-2026-6443), with go mod tidy.

Not changed: CONTRIBUTING.md:10, usable issue-intake route. The finding is accurate, since issue creation is restricted on every Prairie repo, including prairie-server. Fixing it is a maintainer policy call (allow issue creation, or name a contact channel), so I haven't invented a route.

Other changes

• errcheck: the deferred resp.Body.Close() in pkg/pluginsdk/httpclient now explicitly discards its error. This hit already existed and was hidden by only-new-issues.
• Pinned actions: every uses: in ci.yml and release.yml points at a full commit SHA with a # vX.Y.Z comment (Renovate keeps it updated).
• golangci-lint pinned to v2.14.0 instead of latest.
• Checkout credentials: persist-credentials: false on release jobs that never push.
• CONTRIBUTING lists the lint and coverage commands CI runs, including the package filter that leaves runtime/runtimedefault out of the coverage profile.
• go test in CI never had || true here, and there is no build-all target, so neither change applies to this repo.

Validation

golangci-lint run --max-issues-per-linter=0 --max-same-issues=0 ./...   # 0 issues (was 1)
go test ./... -count=1                                                  # ok
go test -race ./pkg/pluginsdk/runtime/ -count=1                         # ok
go test $(go list ./pkg/pluginsdk/... | grep -vE '/(runtimedefault|runtime)$') -covermode=atomic -coverprofile=coverage.out
./scripts/check-coverage.sh coverage.out                                # coverage 95.2% (min 95.0%)
go build ./examples/...                                                 # ok (each example)

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Behavior Changes
  • Host connections are now established when the broker stream is bound. If the connection fails at that point, the host remains unavailable rather than attempting to connect later.
• Documentation
  • Contributor guidance now includes the project’s linting and coverage checks, including the required coverage threshold.
• Maintenance
  • Updated the gRPC library and related dependencies.

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• pkg/pluginsdk/runtime/host_state_test.go

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Walkthrough

The pull request pins CI and release workflow actions to commit SHAs, updates local validation guidance and Go dependencies, and changes HTTP response cleanup and host client access behavior.

Changes

CI and validation guidance

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Pin CI and release workflow actions .github/workflows/ci.yml, .github/workflows/release.yml	The workflows use commit-SHA-pinned actions. The CI lint job specifies golangci-lint v2.14.0. Release checkouts disable persisted credentials.
Document local validation checks CONTRIBUTING.md	The checklist adds lint and focused coverage commands. It documents the 95% statement coverage threshold and package scope used by CI.

Host client access

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Return the cached host client pkg/pluginsdk/runtime/runtime.go	pluginHostState.host returns the cached client without dialing. The Host documentation describes bind-time dialing and an unavailable client after a bind-time dial failure.

HTTP response cleanup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Handle response body close result pkg/pluginsdk/httpclient/httpclient.go	The deferred response-body close explicitly discards the error returned by Close.

Go dependency updates

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Update module dependency versions go.mod	The gRPC dependency and four indirect dependencies are updated to newer versions.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: quick104

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to e3226

No current user-facing failure is established, so the PR is mergeable; adding the focused regression test would protect the changed Host behavior.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to e3226

The main uncertainty is recovery after a failed host connection: later Host calls no longer retry. Known callers handle an unavailable client, and the inspected changes do not show a new credential or authorization path.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The inspected Host change affects availability of the broker-bound client rather than granting a different client authority: successful acquisition still uses the ID supplied at binding. External SDK consumer exposure is not established by the available dependency graph.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — If Host is nil, the network-access example can return a connected status while skipping host-backed state persistence and status reporting. That nil-client behavior already existed; whether removal of Host retries makes it more reachable remains unresolved.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — DoJSON still requires a configured API key and sends it on the constructed request. The changed deferred Close statement does not alter that check or the request destination construction.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — A bind-time failure remains unavailable to subsequent Host calls unless another binding occurs. Whether the removed retry could have recovered within the broker's connection lifetime is the decisive unresolved comparison.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Where host-backed persistence or reporting is a security control, define whether providers must reject a transition or explicitly enter a degraded state when Host is unavailable.

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Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 2 functions across 2 files. (4 skipped: 4…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately summarizes the main runtime fix, gRPC dependency update, and CI hardening changes.
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pkg/pluginsdk/runtime/runtime.go (1)

302-305: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a regression test for failed bind-time dialing.

When SetHostBrokerID receives a Dial error, call Host() and assert that it returns nil. Also assert that Dial was called only once. The current tests do not exercise this path, so a regression that restores Host-time dialing would pass them.

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Review comment at @pkg/pluginsdk/runtime/runtime.go around lines 302 - 305:
Add a regression test for failed bind-time dialing around SetHostBrokerID: make
Dial return an error, then assert Host() returns nil and Dial was called exactly
once. Use the existing test fixtures and symbols for the host broker and dialer.

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Review comments at @pkg/pluginsdk/runtime/runtime.go:
- Around line 302-305: Add a regression test for failed bind-time dialing around
SetHostBrokerID: make Dial return an error, then assert Host() returns nil and
Dial was called exactly once. Use the existing test fixtures and symbols for the
host broker and dialer.

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• .github/workflows/ci.yml
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• pkg/pluginsdk/httpclient/httpclient.go
• pkg/pluginsdk/runtime/runtime.go

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