fix(ci): resync actions.lock and add a lock-sync recurrence gate - #83
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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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Lock synchronisation validator scripts/check-lock-sync.sh |
The script checks step-level references, lockfile orphans, dependency closure, local-action syntax, required files, and GNU-style awk support. |
Workflow gate integration .github/workflows/lock-sync-gate.yml |
The workflow runs on pull requests and pushes to main, fetches the relevant revision without actions/checkout, and runs the validator with a five-minute timeout. |
Priority: ➖ Normal
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes
Change: Bug fix
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participant GitRepository
participant check-lock-sync.sh
participant WorkflowFiles
participant actions.lock
GitHubActions->>GitRepository: Fetch the relevant revision
GitHubActions->>check-lock-sync.sh: Run the lock synchronisation check
check-lock-sync.sh->>WorkflowFiles: Read workflow YAML files
check-lock-sync.sh->>actions.lock: Read lockfile entries
check-lock-sync.sh-->>GitHubActions: Return pass or fail
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A narrow validator edge case produces a misleading failure when no workflow files exist; merging is reasonable with this bounded follow-up.
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| Title check | ✅ Passed | The title clearly identifies the main changes: resynchronising actions.lock and adding a CI gate to prevent future drift. |
| 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 1… |
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In `@scripts/check-lock-sync.sh`:
- Line 297: Update the clause 1 success message in the lock-sync check to state
that every step-level uses entry is locked under its own workflow path, removing
the claim that job-level reusable references are included.
- Around line 138-142: Normalize lockfile workflow subpath references before
generating comparison keys: update the lock-entry parsing logic around ck and
norm so lr is derived from norm(m[1]) before populating disp and lock. Preserve
m[1] as the display value while ensuring comparison keys match the normalized
workflow references.
- Around line 72-77: Update the workflow discovery logic around WORKFLOWS to
first collect matching .yml and .yaml paths in a CANDIDATES array, validate that
array is non-empty, then build the sorted WORKFLOWS list from it. Preserve the
existing fatal message and exit behavior when no workflow files match.
- Line 157: Update the raw `$/` handling in the workflow scan to accept only
valid self-repository action paths, while continuing to reject bare `$/'`,
ref-suffixed forms containing `@`, and reusable-workflow paths under
`.github/workflows`. Adjust the related failure message to describe invalid
self-repository references, using the existing `dollar[wf]` validation flow.
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GitHub Actions: Dogfood Gate / 1_Groove manifest check.txt: fix(ci): resync actions.lock and add a lock-sync recurrence gate
Conclusion: failure
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GitHub Actions: Dogfood Gate / Groove manifest check: fix(ci): resync actions.lock and add a lock-sync recurrence gate
Conclusion: failure
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GitHub Actions: Dogfood Gate / 3_Validate K9 contracts.txt: fix(ci): resync actions.lock and add a lock-sync recurrence gate
Conclusion: failure
##[group]K9 Configuration Validation
Scanning . for K9 files (.k9, .k9.ncl)...
Found 7 K9 file(s)
Validating: ./.machine_readable/svc/k9/examples/ci-config.k9.ncl
Validating: ./.machine_readable/svc/k9/examples/project-metadata.k9.ncl
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Validating: ./.machine_readable/svc/k9/template-yard.k9.ncl
Validating: ./container/deploy.k9.ncl
##[error]Missing K9! magic number. First non-empty line must be exactly 'K9!'
GitHub Actions: Dogfood Gate / Validate K9 contracts: fix(ci): resync actions.lock and add a lock-sync recurrence gate
Conclusion: failure
##[group]K9 Configuration Validation
Scanning . for K9 files (.k9, .k9.ncl)...
Found 7 K9 file(s)
Validating: ./.machine_readable/svc/k9/examples/ci-config.k9.ncl
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Validating: ./.machine_readable/svc/k9/template-yard.k9.ncl
Validating: ./container/deploy.k9.ncl
##[error]Missing K9! magic number. First non-empty line must be exactly 'K9!'
GitHub Actions: Dogfood Gate / 4_Validate DEED manifests.txt: fix(ci): resync actions.lock and add a lock-sync recurrence gate
Conclusion: failure
##[group]A2ML Manifest Validation
Scanning . for .a2ml and .deed files...
Found 106 .a2ml/.deed file(s)
Validating: ./.github/0.1-AI-MANIFEST.a2ml
##[warning]Missing SPDX-License-Identifier in first 10 lines
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Validating: ./.machine_readable/scripts/0.2-AI-MANIFEST.a2ml
Validating: ./.machine_readable/scripts/forge/0.3-AI-MANIFEST.a2ml
Validating: ./.machine_readable/scripts/lifecycle/0.3-AI-MANIFEST.a2ml
Validating: ./.machine_readable/scripts/verification/0.3-AI-MANIFEST.a2ml
Validating: ./0-AI-MANIFEST.a2ml
##[warning]Missing SPDX-License-Identifier in first 10 lines
Validating: ./container/0.1-A...
GitHub Actions: Dogfood Gate / Validate DEED manifests: fix(ci): resync actions.lock and add a lock-sync recurrence gate
Conclusion: failure
##[group]A2ML Manifest Validation
Scanning . for .a2ml and .deed files...
Found 106 .a2ml/.deed file(s)
Validating: ./.github/0.1-AI-MANIFEST.a2ml
##[warning]Missing SPDX-License-Identifier in first 10 lines
Validating: ./.machine_readable/0.1-AI-MANIFEST.a2ml
Validating: ./.machine_readable/6a2/AGENTIC.a2ml
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Validating: ./.machine_readable/6a2/META.a2ml
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##[warning]Missing SPDX-License-Identifier in first 10 lines
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Validating: ./.machine_readable/contractiles/trust/Trustfile.a2ml
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Validating: ./.machine_readable/scripts/0.2-AI-MANIFEST.a2ml
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Validating: ./.machine_readable/scripts/lifecycle/0.3-AI-MANIFEST.a2ml
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Validating: ./0-AI-MANIFEST.a2ml
##[warning]Missing SPDX-License-Identifier in first 10 lines
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GitHub Actions: Dogfood Gate / 5_Validate eclexiaiser manifest.txt: fix(ci): resync actions.lock and add a lock-sync recurrence gate
Conclusion: failure
##[group]Run if [ ! -f "eclexiaiser.toml" ]; then
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GitHub Actions: Dogfood Gate / Validate eclexiaiser manifest: fix(ci): resync actions.lock and add a lock-sync recurrence gate
Conclusion: failure
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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
…ifier validity bit The ref is NOT required: GitHub does not enforce job-level reusable `uses:` at startup, and the standards verifier explicitly accepts it (`workflow_references_reusable_dependency`). But `gh actions-lock` v0.1.6 still reports it as `stale`, which flips the tool's `valid` bit to false. That moves the tree off the `valid == true` early return and into the finding loop, where the standards SHA pinned here (8f2ee508) has no advisory-category filter -- so PRE-EXISTING `sha-as-ref` advisories are counted as blocking. Measured on bofj-kitt: `governance / Actions lockfile verify` was success on main and failure here, with the same two advisories present in both trees. Removing the ref (and its now-orphaned `dependencies:` record) restores `valid = true` and the early return. Verified offline against the verifier fetched at the PINNED standards SHA: exit 0, matching main. No workflow YAML is touched. Also corrects the lock-sync checker's own documentation: clause 1 is enforced at STEP level only, so the header and success message no longer claim job-level reusable refs are locked (raised in review; the checker's behaviour is unchanged and still kills a mutant). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X3hgXxWm6umMgZkjYyHnnm
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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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