ci(secret-scan): canonical estate scanner caller, key scan (D243)

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What

Write the canonical estate secret-scanner caller to .github/workflows/secret-scanner.yml so this repo emits scan / gitleaks, the context the estate Secret-Scan-Floor ruleset (D243/D244) requires. This repo had no secret-scanner caller.

Job key scan; reusable hyperpolymath/standards/.github/workflows/secret-scanner-reusable.yml@74d2f66f575246cf6e313ae7775f44df6e097ff2; push trigger on main. actionlint clean (previous file findings: n/a). Commit via GraphQL createCommitOnBranch (GitHub-signed, valid: true).

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• Chores
  • Added automated secret scanning for pull requests and pushes to the main branch. This helps detect exposed secrets during development and reduces the risk of them reaching a release.

Walkthrough

This change adds a GitHub Actions workflow that runs a pinned shared secret scanner on pull requests and pushes to main. It configures run cancellation, read-only contents permission, and inherited secrets.

Changes

Secret scanning

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configure scanner workflow .github/workflows/secret-scanner.yml	Adds the scanner workflow for pull requests and pushes to main. It cancels earlier runs for the same workflow and ref, grants contents: read, and inherits secrets when invoking the pinned shared workflow.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~8 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to fb73d

The scanner configuration is mergeable with bounded owner awareness, but removing unnecessary secret inheritance would reduce credential exposure without changing scanning behavior.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to fb73d

The workflow improves secret scanning but unnecessarily shares available secrets with the shared scanner. The scanner is pinned to an immutable revision, uses read-only repository permissions, and does not reference those inherited secrets. No direct secret-exfiltration path was demonstrated.

Retained concerns

• Low · security · observed: The new caller delegates all caller-eligible secrets across the reusable-workflow boundary even though the pinned scanner does not reference inherited secrets. This introduces unnecessary declared secret authority, not a demonstrated exfiltration path. Actual exposure depends on the repository and organization secret policies.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The declared delegation reaches secrets eligible for this repository's caller, potentially including permitted organization secrets. It does not establish estate-wide access. The downstream services, environments, or data stores those credentials could authorize cannot be determined without their inventory and policies.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• observed — The retained finding concerns unnecessary inherited-secret authority. Pull-request content is scanner input, but the inspected callee does not map inherited secrets into its scan processes or directly reference them. No path from submitted source content to inherited-secret exfiltration was demonstrated.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• inferred — The immutable callee pin prevents changes on its default branch from changing this invocation. Read-only token grants limit repository mutation but do not narrow inherited credentials. Using pull_request rather than pull_request_target avoids that event's elevated execution model; actual secret availability still depends on event origin and repository policy.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The primary working-tree and history scans use failure-producing exit codes, and the history scan rejects shallow checkouts. Cancellation can interrupt scan completion; neither these declarations nor the caller alone establish that live branch policy blocks incomplete or missing checks.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Remove broad secret inheritance for this pinned scanner contract and align the caller's explanatory comments with the direct-binary implementation. Preserve the immutable pin and read-only token permissions; introduce explicit secret mappings only if a future scanner contract actually requires them.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the CI secret-scanner workflow change and the canonical caller. It is concise and specific.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the new secret-scanner caller, its triggers, reusable workflow, required job context, and validation results.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @.github/workflows/secret-scanner.yml:
- Line 27: Remove the `secrets: inherit` entry from the workflow’s
reusable-workflow call; retain the existing `contents: read` permission and do
not add `pull-requests: read`.

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.github/workflows/secret-scanner.yml

[warning] 26-26: secrets unconditionally inherited by called workflow (secrets-inherit): this reusable workflow

(secrets-inherit)

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Addressed at ea77192: the secrets: inherit line is removed (the reusable references no secrets); contents: read retained. CodeRabbit's follow-up review on ea77192 raised nothing further.

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