fix(ci): resync actions.lock and add a lock-sync recurrence gate - #97
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GitHub refuses a run at startup, creating zero jobs, when a workflow carries a `uses:` ref that the lockfile does not record under that workflow's own path. It matches by LITERAL STRING; `gh actions-lock` matches by resolved commit, so a lock entry naming a tag that dereferences to the pinned SHA passes the tool and still kills the run. Regenerate the lock, make it transitively closed, and add a lock-sync gate carrying no `uses:` of its own so it cannot be disabled by the desync it detects. No workflow YAML is modified. Refs: hyperpolymath/standards#968 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X3hgXxWm6umMgZkjYyHnnm
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WalkthroughThe pull request adds a GitHub Actions lock synchronisation gate and a validation script. The script checks workflow locks, stale entries, deleted workflows, and transitive dependency records. ChangesLock synchronisation validation
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant GitHubActions
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GitHubActions->>GitRepository: fetch target revision
GitHubActions->>check_lock_sync: run executable script
check_lock_sync->>Lockfile: read lock records
check_lock_sync->>WorkflowFiles: read workflow references
check_lock_sync-->>GitHubActions: return validation status
Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The new gate does not yet reliably enforce lock synchronization for all valid workflows or the actual merge result. Fix these core validation gaps before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In @.github/workflows/lock-sync-gate.yml:
- Line 43: Update the SHA input in the lock-sync validation step to use
github.sha exclusively, so pull requests validate GitHub’s synthetic merge
commit rather than only the contributor branch revision.
In `@scripts/check-lock-sync.sh`:
- Line 153: Update the uses-reference matcher in the lock-sync check to
recognize valid YAML key syntax, including quoted uses keys and whitespace
before the colon, or parse workflow files as YAML. Ensure missing-reference and
orphan checks receive these references, and add regression coverage for both
forms.
- Line 157: Remove the /^\$\// special-case branch from the lock-sync parsing
logic so valid $/path self-repository references proceed through norm().
Preserve norm() as the mechanism that excludes these references from external
lock entries, and leave the surrounding parsing behavior unchanged.
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rg -n "['\"]uses['\"]\s*:|uses\s+:" .github/workflows || trueRepository: hyperpolymath/julia-professional-registry
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printf '%s\n' '--- uses key forms in workflows and scripts/tests ---'
rg -n --glob '.github/workflows/*' --glob 'scripts/*' --glob 'tests/**' --glob '*test*' "^[[:space:]]*-?[[:space:]]*['\"]?uses['\"]?[[:space:]]*:" . || true
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- 1: https://yaml.org/spec/1.2.2/
- 2: https://spec.yaml.io/main/spec/1.3.0/
- 3: GitHub issue 1019 in actions/runner (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 4: facebook/watchman@27c4dfc
- 5: PostOakLabs/ocg-verify-action@5f1fdfc
- 6: https://claudeskills.info/skills/dotnet/skills/authoring-github-workflows/
- 7: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75828285/in-yaml-are-spaces-accepted-between-a-key-and-its-colon
- 8: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42124227/why-does-the-yaml-spec-mandate-a-space-after-the-colon
Parse all valid YAML forms of the uses key.
GitHub workflow files use YAML mappings, so 'uses': owner/action@ref and uses : owner/action@ref are valid key forms. The matcher accepts only the literal uses: form. The missing-reference and orphan checks process only references recorded by this matcher. Therefore, an unlocked step using either valid form can pass the gate.
Parse each workflow as YAML, or accept quoted uses keys and whitespace before the colon. Add regression cases for both forms.
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In `@scripts/check-lock-sync.sh` at line 153, Update the uses-reference matcher in
the lock-sync check to recognize valid YAML key syntax, including quoted uses
keys and whitespace before the colon, or parse workflow files as YAML. Ensure
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A workflow absent from actions.lock can be rejected at startup (startup_failure, jobs=0) even when it carries zero real 'uses:' refs and so has nothing to pin. The gate is deliberately zero-'uses:', which is exactly why it had no entry. Measured on two repos in this batch: adding this single line flipped the gate from 7 consecutive startup_failure runs to success on hyperpolymath/verisimdb (two successes since, nothing else changed) and from 2 of 2 startup_failure to success on hyperpolymath/blocky-writer. Enforcement is not uniform across repos — 13 of the 14 repos in this batch start the byte-identical gate today with the same gap. A repo that passes now is not evidence its lock is complete, only that the behaviour has not reached it. This closes the gap before it bites. Zero-'uses:' workflows take the empty list, matching the entries actions.lock already carries for other zero-'uses:' workflows such as labels.yml. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X3hgXxWm6umMgZkjYyHnnm
The gate could not defend the fix this PR ships. Clauses 1-3 ask "is every `uses:` locked under its own workflow path?" GitHub asks a DIFFERENT question: "is every workflow FILE represented in the lock?" A workflow with no `uses:` satisfies clauses 1-3 vacuously and GitHub still refuses to start it - which is exactly how lock-sync-gate.yml failed here 7 times running while the checker reported the lock in sync. Thirteen other repositories passed the gate with the same gap present, so a green gate was not evidence of a complete lock. Clause 4 diffs the set of files under .github/workflows/ against the set of lockfile keys, fails on any file with no key, names it, and quotes the empty-list form to add. Remediation step 4 warns that re-running `gh actions-lock` may not fix it, because omitting the file is the tool's own defect. Mutation-tested both ways: deleting the lock-sync-gate key fails the gate, and deleting the unrelated labels.yml key fails it too; the unmutated tree passes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X3hgXxWm6umMgZkjYyHnnm
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Add regression coverage for orphan detection and missing lockfile references.
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Merging main brings codeql.yml to github/codeql-action@1c5b6756, while the lockfile still named b96794f0. The gate runs against the MERGE ref, so it failed there while passing on the branch head -- the desync only exists in the merged tree. Note for the record: b96794f0 is the true v4.38.0 (the annotated tag derefs to it). The pin on main is 1c5b6756 with a '# v4.38.0' comment, which is a different commit dated 2026-09-18 -- the comment does not describe the pin. The lockfile must match the YAML literally, so it now names 1c5b6756; the mislabelled comment is reported separately and not changed here. Verified against the standards verifier fetched at the PINNED SHA (exit 0) and the lock-sync gate (exit 0). No workflow YAML changed by this commit. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X3hgXxWm6umMgZkjYyHnnm
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In @.github/workflows/lock-sync-gate.yml:
- Line 63: Update the workflow’s lock-sync verification to run an immutable
verifier from the protected base revision against the pull request merge-tree
files, rather than trusting checked-out pull request versions of the workflow or
scripts. Ensure the workflow itself is independently protected so pull requests
cannot modify or bypass the verifier, while preserving the existing check name
and validation of .github/workflows/actions.lock.
In `@scripts/check-lock-sync.sh`:
- Around line 171-244: Update the job-level reusable-workflow validation in the
lock-sync script so any refs collected by joblist that are absent from lock
become fatal: print a FAIL message for jmissing and set bad = 1. Replace the
current jnote-only handling while preserving clause 3 validation for locked
reusable workflows.
In `@tests/check-lock-sync.sh`:
- Line 25: Update the local-action fixture in the uses entry to remove the `@v1`
reference suffix, leaving the valid same-repository path $/path/to/local-action.
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154-154: Use a YAML parser for all validusesmappings.The matcher still accepts only block-style scalar mappings. A valid flow mapping such as
- { uses: actions/checkout@v7 }bypasses reference collection and can let an unlocked action pass the gate.The previous review raised the same regex-parser root cause. Based on learnings, correctness-critical YAML checks must use a real YAML parser and fail clearly when that parser is unavailable.
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Run an immutable verifier against the pull request merge tree.
For a pull_request, github.sha identifies the merge commit. This workflow therefore checks out pull request content before it runs both the workflow-defined command and scripts/check-lock-sync.sh. The executable-bit test does not protect either file. A pull request can preserve the required check name and make the status pass without checking .github/workflows/actions.lock.
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What this fixes
.github/workflows/actions.lockhad drifted from the workflow YAML. That drift isnot cosmetic: GitHub refuses such a run at startup, creating zero jobs, and
reports only "This run likely failed because of a workflow file issue." Most of a
repository's CI can be silently dead for days without a single red tick, because a
run that never starts posts no check.
Measured across the estate on 2026-09-22: 13 of 37 repositories swept were in
this state.
Why it happened here
GitHub's startup check compares the lockfile ref to the workflow's
uses:ref as aliteral string.
gh actions-lockcompares them by resolved commit. The twodisagree whenever a lock entry names a tag that dereferences to exactly the commit
the YAML pins — the tool prints
All N workflows validand GitHub still kills therun.
Proof, on
hyperpolymath/awesome-nickel/codeql.yml:uses:ad035f4e(09-21)codeql-action/init@v4.38.0codeql-action@v4.38.09d83550d(09-22)codeql-action/init@b96794f0…codeql-action@v4.38.0startup_failure, jobs=0v4.38.0dereferences tob96794f0…— the same commit the YAML pins — and the runstill died. A cross-workflow control at the same heads (
boj-build.yml, lock-matched)was green, so the lock is not globally broken; the failure is scoped to the one
workflow whose entry mismatches.
What changed
.github/workflows/actions.lockregenerated and made transitively closed. A refnamed under
workflows:or inside another record's nesteduses:with no top-leveldependencies:record is a dangling edge and kills the run at startup.below.
gh actions-lockwas run with--no-migrate-local-actions, which prevents itrewriting
uses: ./…intouses: $/…— an invalid form that itself causes startupdeath.
The recurrence gate (the actual defect)
Regenerating alone is a one-week fix: Dependabot rewrites
uses:refs in the YAML on aschedule and cannot touch the lockfile, so the repo re-breaks on the next grouped
bump. This PR therefore also adds:
.github/workflows/lock-sync-gate.yml— fails any PR whose lockfile has drifted.scripts/check-lock-sync.sh— the check itself.The gate deliberately carries no
uses:of its own — it checks out by callinggitin a
run:step instead ofactions/checkout, so it has no lockfile entry to go staleand is structurally immune to the very failure it detects. It also has no
paths:filter, on purpose: a filtered workflow never reports on PRs that miss the filter, which
would deadlock any branch ruleset requiring this check.
The gate hard-fails on desync. It is not
continue-on-errorand not a::warning::,which cannot fail a job.
Note on
gh actions-lock --verify-localThe gate does not call
gh actions-lock --verify-local, which was the originallyproposed mechanism. That tool is measured wrong in both directions: it reports STALE on
job-level reusable-workflow refs it cannot parse (upstream #129 — 5 repos in this sweep
are false reds from exactly that), and it reports valid on the tag-vs-SHA literal
mismatch above.
check-lock-sync.shtests literal-string equality, which is what GitHubactually enforces.
Expected on this PR
Workflows that have not executed since the desync began will run here for the first
time, and some may go red for reasons unrelated to this change. Per the estate stopping
rule each becomes its own issue with acceptance criteria, not a blocker on this PR.
Tracking: hyperpolymath/standards#968
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