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fix(ci): reject malformed Hypatia reports and support blocking high findings - #741

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Hypatia can currently report success without a baseline even when high or critical findings exist; malformed report counting and failed SARIF generation can also produce misleading empty results.

Add the opt-in block-on-high reusable-workflow input and reject missing, malformed, unknown-severity, and multi-document findings. Propagate SARIF generation failures. Existing callers keep their severity policy until they opt in.

Validation: 12 controls execute the actual workflow validator and gate steps; 8 baseline tests and 9 SARIF-filter tests pass. Actionlint, ShellCheck, and the hard checks in just validate pass. The legacy RSR self-audit grade is informational. Regenerated topology after updating the state checkpoint.

Draft while remote CI and security reports are assessed. This change is a dependency of the scoped database/language merge work.

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scripts/tests/hypatia-blocking-gate-test.sh

[failure] 32-32: Use '[[' instead of '[' for conditional tests. The '[[' construct is safer and more feature-rich.

See more on https://sonarcloud.io/project/issues?id=hyperpolymath_standards&issues=AaB5jCBuHDn0C2aoUf-B&open=AaB5jCBuHDn0C2aoUf-B&pullRequest=741


[failure] 22-22: Use '[[' instead of '[' for conditional tests. The '[[' construct is safer and more feature-rich.

See more on https://sonarcloud.io/project/issues?id=hyperpolymath_standards&issues=AaB5jCBuHDn0C2aoUf-A&open=AaB5jCBuHDn0C2aoUf-A&pullRequest=741


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  • New Features

    • Added an optional blocking gate for scan results. When enabled, builds fail if high or critical findings are detected.
    • Critical findings remain advisory when blocking is disabled.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Scan results are now validated before counts and summaries are generated.
    • Malformed or failed scan output is reported instead of being silently replaced with an empty result.
    • SARIF output is produced only from validated scan results.

Walkthrough

The reusable Hypatia workflow now validates findings before producing outputs and supports an optional gate for high or critical findings. A Bash harness tests valid, blocking, and malformed payloads. State and topology records reflect the updated session.

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Hypatia workflow gate

Layer / File(s) Summary
Validated findings and derived outputs
.github/workflows/hypatia-scan-reusable.yml
The workflow adds the block-on-high input, validates Hypatia JSON output, and generates SARIF, counts, outputs, and summaries only after validation.
Optional blocking gate and verification
.github/workflows/hypatia-scan-reusable.yml, scripts/tests/hypatia-blocking-gate-test.sh, .machine_readable/descriptiles/STATE.a2ml, TOPOLOGY.adoc
The workflow fails for high or critical findings when enabled. The test harness covers valid, blocking, and malformed payloads. State and topology timestamps record the update.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 94862

This change makes Hypatia findings handling fail safely on invalid output and adds an opt-in high/critical finding gate without changing existing callers’ default behavior. No concrete merge-blocking risk remains.

Suggested reviewers: joshuajewell

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sequenceDiagram
  participant HypatiaScan
  participant ValidationStep
  participant BlockingGate
  participant WorkflowCaller
  HypatiaScan->>ValidationStep: produce findings JSON
  ValidationStep->>ValidationStep: validate findings and generate SARIF
  ValidationStep->>BlockingGate: pass severity counts
  BlockingGate->>WorkflowCaller: continue when disabled or clear
  BlockingGate->>WorkflowCaller: fail on high or critical findings
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A rabbit checks the findings bright
And guards the gate through day and night
High carrots make the workflow stop
Clean JSON lets the counters hop
SARIF leaves in tidy rows
The burrow records what everyone knows

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…+ regen) (#947)

Fix-forward for the red `main` tip (`4f7f02ca`, #899's squash). Settles
every failing check by code repair where a repair exists, and by Hypatia
baseline triage where the failure is new-scanner-module findings or
accepted debt. Mirrors stay parked (unchanged by this PR).

**Attribution (verified per failure, not assumed):** #899's merge broke
the lock gate (stale deno orphan) and exposed the stale registry; the
reorg broke wave4/C7, three scorecard checks, the wave3 drift control
and `.gitleaksignore`; everything else (Hypatia baseline drift, shape
suite, debtfile contradiction, SonarCloud, the `$/` corruption) predates
#899 and is repaired here because red is red.

## Code repairs (`a5e5ea54`)

- **Lock:** drop two orphan entries — `denoland/setup-deno`
(Deno-retirement leftover; failed `gh` verification as `stale`) and
`asana/push-signed-commits` (leftover of the local signed-push
migration; failed Hypatia as `transitive_dependencies_missing`). `gh
actions-lock --verify-local` exits 0.
- **Governance shape suite (was 6/14, now 14/14):** restore the
`actions-lock-verify` job (2026-09-02 regularisation §6.2 step 2a) by
transplanting #899's lock gate + exemption ledger out of `workflow-lint`
into its own required context; fix two hardcoded `runs-on`.
- **Timeouts/permissions:** `timeout-minutes: 10` on 5 jobs;
workflow-level grants narrowed to job level in 5 workflows; 6
provably-dead grants removed (each verified by reading every step of the
affected jobs — see commit message).
- **Hypatia validator:** drop the incidental `length > 0` (#771 broke
the `empty findings are valid` control; #741/#742 treat empty as valid).
All 9 gate controls re-verified.
- **Debtfile:** #783 shipped two contradictory encodings; test +
spec-glossary now match the validator + MUST section (4-field), plus the
stable-id grammar check the spec requires. Suites 23/23 and 17/17.
- **Reorg fallout:** wave4 conformance path, 3 scorecard checks (agentic
`cd`, session-mgmt exclusion, gatekeeper M1 manifest count), wave3
drift-control dashboard path, `.gitleaksignore` historical paths
(verified: `gitleaks detect` → no leaks).
- **`signed-push-smoke`:** repair committed `$/` verifier-mutation
corruption → `./`.
- **SECURITY.md** added (scorecard SecurityPolicy +
`missing_requirement`).
- **SonarCloud:** S3923 collapse, curl `--proto '=https'`,
NOSONAR+justification on 5 operator-owned CLI paths and the
base-checkout fork gate.

## Baseline triage (`b0f1e95b`, 129 → 210 entries)

The floating scanner grew `content_patterns` (69) and
`research_extensions` (43) since the baseline was written; at
`BLOCKING_THRESHOLD: info` the job cannot pass without acknowledging
them. 81 file-level entries, each with note + `expires_at: 2026-12-22` +
tracking issue #936–#945 (filed by this change). Verified:
`apply-baseline.sh blocking` at threshold `info` over the 133 observed
findings keeps 0. Also: the baseline schema now accepts the scanner's
full severity vocabulary (`warn`, `informational` — `rank()` already
handled `warn`; without this, research findings could never be
acknowledged).

## Regen (`c7cd8c90`)

Registry + topology regenerated over the repaired tree; `--check` green.

## Owner actions (cannot be fixed in code)

1. **`HYPATIA_SCAN_PAT` expired** — Identify Repositories 401s on every
run. Refresh the secret.
2. **Watch for the phantom `security-gate-pr-target` push-run** — a
0-job instant-failure run exists on `4f7f02ca`; no caller, valid YAML,
PR-only triggers. If it recurs on the post-merge main, it needs
console-side diagnosis.
3. **Review the dropped permissions + NOSONARs** — each is documented
in-code; revert any single hunk if a runtime surprise appears.
4. **#936–#945** — the ten triage buckets (debt paydown vs
re-acknowledgement by 2026-12-22).

## Verification

Local: lock verify 0, gitleaks clean, deed self-test + fixtures OK,
debtfile 23/23 + 17/17, wave4 15/15, shape 14/14, registry/scorecard
`--check` OK, scorecard `--verify` clean except k9/M4 (needs cargo —
present in CI, which passed it on main; untouched by this PR).
Ruby-dependent suites can't run in this environment; the Hypatia gate
controls were re-verified by extracting the workflow steps and running
all 9 controls (9/9).

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Co-authored-by: hyperpolymath <hyperpolymath@users.noreply.github.com>
hyperpolymath added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 22, 2026
…lint baseline, debt re-baseline (#954)

Round 2 of the post-#899 fix-forward. #947 merged (7b05a32) but CI on
its merge ref exposed 7 failures; this PR fixes the six that are code
(the seventh, Scorecard Token-Permissions on propagate-hooks, needs an
owner dismiss — the `contents: write` is required for the self-push to
`hyperpolymath/standards`).

## What broke on #947 and why

1. **uses-lock**: #947 deleted `asana/push-signed-commits` from
`actions.lock` to silence Hypatia's transitive finding — but
`.github/actions/signed-push/action.yml:42` really uses it (the ref
entered via #946's line, invisible on the PR branch alone). Deleting
true lock metadata to satisfy a scanner is gaming; restored verbatim,
finding acked honestly instead.
2. **Hypatia gate (latent)**: restoring the metadata re-arms Hypatia's
`transitive_dependencies_missing` (asana floats `setup-python@v2`
upstream — verified still floating on asana main 2026-09-22). Acked in
the baseline (210 -> 211, #951), proven to match with positive +
negative controls.
3. **Repo self-tests**: my validator change (empty scan -> valid) fixed
the hypatia-gate suite but broke science-ci, which pins empty -> exit 2.
The #741 control tested the pre-#771 slurp accident; fail-closed is the
documented intent (comment predates #771, both suites now agree).
Reverted validator, fixed the stale control.
4. **Validate Hypatia Baseline**: `governance-reusable.yml` validated
the new baseline with main's OLD `apply-baseline.sh` (no `warn`
severity) — exit 2 on a valid file. Self-lint preference: caller's own
script when present, main-pinned fallback for consumers.
5. **Debt ratchet**: three breaches. `deno-residue` counted
retirement-doc comments as residue — probe refined to non-comment
matches (0, ceiling holds at 1). `gate-scripts` + `todo-fixme` counts
had fossilized (runner only ratchets down; #820's own tree already
measured 38/79) — re-baselined to measured 40/40 + 80/80 with per-entry
declarations (#953).
6. **Exemption ratchet**: baseline 129 -> 210 grew without a trailer on
#947. This PR's 210 -> 211 carries `Ratchet-exception:
.hypatia-baseline.json`.

## Verified locally (tip worktree)

gh verify `valid:true`, uses-lock 0 exceptions, both security suites
green (24 gate PASSes), debt structure + run + both ratchets green,
registry in sync, baseline ack matches both file variants with a failing
negative control.

Fixes the six code failures; closes #951 and #953 as implemented
(paydown continues in #953).

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Co-authored-by: hyperpolymath <hyperpolymath@users.noreply.github.com>
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