fix(ci): resync actions.lock and add a lock-sync recurrence gate - #73
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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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participant checkLockSync as check-lock-sync.sh
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GitHubActions->>GitRepository: Fetch and checkout target SHA
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checkLockSync->>WorkflowFiles: Parse workflow YAML files
checkLockSync->>ActionsLock: Parse lockfile and dependencies
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In `@scripts/check-lock-sync.sh`:
- Around line 234-243: Update the clause-2 orphan scan in the lockfile
validation loop to skip local-action entries whose paths begin with ./ or $/.
Keep all other workflow lock entries subject to the existing uses check and
reporting behavior.
- Line 157: Update the workflow reference parser around norm(raw) to treat uses:
$/<path> as valid same-repository references: remove the diversion into
dollar[wf] and remove the corresponding END-block failure report for dollar[wf],
while preserving normal external lockfile validation.
- Around line 210-232: Update the job-level reusable-workflow reference handling
so any nonempty jmissing both reports the missing lockfile entries as a 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
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Remove the special $/ rewrite check and outdated harmless-ref guidance. Refs #73
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Update Zig calling convention and error formatting, build and locate Gossamer for E2E tests, fix failure reporting, and add directory READMEs and AI manifests. Refs #73
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Stop shell builds when Gossamer fails to build. Refs #73
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## What this fixes
**Nothing in this repository has ever built the thing it is named
after.**
`host.yml` built one of the two Zig libraries and ran `host_core` unit
tests. No
workflow referenced `src/host`. No workflow built `libgossamer`. The
`paint-type`
binary had never been compiled by CI, never been executed, and never
been shown to
put a single pixel on a canvas. There are zero tags and zero releases.
This PR makes CI build the product and then prove it paints.
## The three changes
**`scripts/build-host.sh`** — one build recipe. Four had drifted apart:
`host.yml`,
the `Justfile`, `release.yml` and `scripts/build-host-local.sh` each
carried a
different version. It gates on Zig 0.15.x because 0.16 removed
`std.posix.getenv`
and the lowercase `std.io` alias, both of which sit on the gossamer FFI
path.
**`tests/fixtures/canvas-probe.html`** — drives the real path, `new_doc`
→
`set_colour` → `set_brush` → `pointer_down`/`move`/`up` → `save_png`. It
waits for
the Gossamer bridge before issuing anything, which `src/ui/app.js:11` is
explicit
about: calling out early silently creates no document and nothing
paints.
**`tests/e2e/scenario_canvas_draws.sh`** — the Tier C gate. It runs the
binary and
asserts the painted canvas **differs from an untouched baseline of
identical
dimensions**.
## Why the assertion is what it is
Asserting `file` reports `PNG image data` would be **vacuous**.
`SavePng` emits a
structurally valid PNG whether or not a pixel was ever touched, so a
no-op paint
path sails straight through it. Difference from a blank of the same
geometry is
what actually says "it drew".
Three controls keep that honest:
| control | why it is needed |
|---|---|
| **negative**: identical launch, no `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`, must die | a
launch test that cannot fail proves nothing. It runs under the same
display as the positive case — outside one the binary dies
`WebviewCreateFailed` regardless, and the two causes would be confounded
|
| **geometry compared before bytes** | `cmp` on two files of different
sizes reports "differ" for free, passing the gate while proving nothing
|
| **positive**: `scenario_host_headless.sh` kept alongside | it drives
the same raster core with no webview. If it writes its PNG and this does
not, the defect is in the webview or bridge and provably **not** in
`paint_core` |
The probe writes a third PNG last as a completion marker, so a chain
that stalls
midway is distinguishable from one that finished. The proof `rm -f`s all
three
first — without that a re-run passes on the previous run's artifacts
even if this
build never wrote a byte.
## Measured locally before committing
Debian 13, Zig 0.15.1, WSLg display:
```
build rc=0, rpath ok: $ORIGIN/../lib
PASS: canvas differs from baseline (64 x 64)
blank 317 bytes
canvas 1194 bytes
PASS: control died as expected (rc=127)
```
`rc=127` is an `ld.so` death — the negative control discriminates.
**Anti-vacuity check on the gate itself.** If the encoder embedded a
timestamp,
blank and canvas would differ even with nothing painted. Both PNGs carry
only
`IHDR`/`IDAT`/`IEND` — no `tIME` — and both are **byte-identical across
two
independent runs**, so the difference is image content, not encoder
nondeterminism.
## Two smaller corrections
- The push filter gains `src/ptype_format/**` and `src/plugins/**`. Both
are direct
dependencies of `host_core` and neither was listed, so a change to
either could
land without ever building the binary that links it. It also gains the
build
script and the test directories, which are as load-bearing as the code.
- The headless step is renamed to say what it covers. Its **filename**
claims to
test the host; `host_core` has no `gossamer-rs` dependency, so it never
links
`libgossamer`, never initialises GTK, never opens a display and never
runs the
binary. It installed `xvfb` and never used it. The file is not renamed
here to
keep this PR reviewable.
## Scope
Every addition is a `run:` step, and `actions.lock` cannot see `run:`
steps. **This
PR needs no lockfile change and does not touch the file PR #73 owns.**
The job name
`build-and-test` is deliberately unchanged: a required context is
demanded
repo-wide the instant it is added but supplied by each PR's own tree, so
renaming
the job would orphan every open PR that predates it.
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
- **Tests**
- Added automated canvas-rendering validation to confirm brush strokes
produce visible image changes.
- Added positive and negative launch checks to improve confidence in
host and rendering behavior.
- Expanded workflow coverage for host, plugin, FFI, end-to-end, and
fixture changes.
- Added diagnostic collection when workflow tests fail.
- **Chores**
- Centralized host build and validation steps for more consistent
release builds.
- Added build environment checks and a time limit to prevent stalled
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…80) The `Check SHA-Pinned Actions` step in `workflow-linter.yml` demanded an inline 40-hex SHA on every action reference. This repo pins through `.github/workflows/actions.lock`, which binds a symbolic ref to a commit. The two regimes contradict each other, so that step could never go green. ## Measured, not assumed | | | |---|---| | action references on `main` | **93** | | violating the 40-hex predicate | **88** | | actually 40-hex pinned | **4** | | this workflow's own lock entry | `actions/checkout@v7.0.1` — a **tag**, which its own step would reject | ## Why deleted rather than softened A replacement predicate that reads the lockfile would be a third lock parser beside `gh actions-lock` and `scripts/check-lock-sync.sh`. A body that `exit 0`s would be a vacuous gate. The question is already owned and **green** elsewhere: the governance bundle's `Actions lockfile verify` job, whose step is literally named *"Verify actions.lock (or SHA pins during the grace window)"*. Retiring this step therefore leaves **no coverage gap**. ## The unmasking was pre-measured A job halts at its first failing step, so the four steps after this one have been `skipped` — **unknown, not passing** — on every run. Fixing an early step unmasks every later one, which is exactly what bit #70. Each was executed against the tree under a clean `bash -e` before this change: ``` rc=0 Check for Duplicate Workflows rc=0 Check CodeQL Language Matrix rc=0 Check Secrets Guards rc=0 Summary ``` `codeql-analysis.yml` and `rust-ci.yml` are both **absent**, so the only `exit 1` path among those four cannot fire. ## Scope - **No `uses:` line changes**, so `.github/workflows/actions.lock` needs no edit — this does not touch the file owned by #73, and does not conflict with it. - Net **−18/+6**: one step removed, a comment left in its place naming where the pinning question now lives. - `yq` parses the result; all seven surviving step bodies parse under `bash -n`. ⚠ For the later "require the checks" work: this workflow is **path-filtered** on `.github/workflows/**`, so its context can never be a required status check — it would block every PR that does not touch `.github/`. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) https://claude.ai/code/session_01YSq3UodR3CjsuAK5yoTzHF <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **Chores** * Updated workflow validation to rely on the centralized actions lockfile verification. * Removed the previous SHA-format validation step that conflicted with the lock-based verification approach. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…ush (#84) Retires the a2ml-keyed manifest gates per owner ruling **D-B**, stops CodeQL firing on PR/push, and fixes one unambiguous defect that the retirement exposed. This is **PR 6a** — the first of a three-way split of the original PR 6. It contains only the parts that could be **fully pre-measured locally**; the hypatia gate (6b) and the Governance parse failure (6c) follow separately, because a five-part PR has five ways to be red and the standing ruling is to land only fully-green PRs. ## What changed, and why each **1. `verify-manifests.yml` — retire STATE / ECOSYSTEM / META (D-B).** Job *Verify Machine-Readable Manifest Currency* halted at step 3 on `.machine_readable/STATE.a2ml`, leaving steps 4–7 `skipped` — **unknown, not passing**. All three a2ml files are **absent**, so there is no content to move and nothing to preserve: only steps to remove. The requirement survives as issue #81 (re-express as `.deed`). Nothing new connects to a2ml. **2. `verify-manifests.yml` — repair a step that had never once executed.** Unmasking step 6 exposed a real defect in *Check TEMPLATE-STANDARDS-AUDIT.adoc currency*: ``` first line of the file : v1.2, 2026-07-26 old: sed 's/v//' → "1.2, 2026-07-26" compared against literal "1.2" → FAIL new: sed 's/^v//' | cut -d, -f1 | tr -d '[:space:]' → "1.2" → PASS ``` The document **is** v1.2, **is** dated 2026-07-26, and **does** reference DEP-09. The gate's own extraction was wrong, not the content — so this is an unambiguous defect fixed directly, per the 09-22 ruling. Both arms were measured against the real file; the old code is a working mutant control. **3. `openssf-compliance.yml` — same STATE.a2ml demand, three steps masked.** Step retired. The three a2ml filenames are also dropped from the placeholder-token list, where each was already guarded by `[ -f "$f" ]` and therefore inert. **4. `codeql.yml` — `workflow_dispatch:` only.** Org code-scanning config 256896 sets `allow_advanced: false`, so this workflow's SARIF is refused outright (*"analyses from advanced configurations cannot be processed when the default setup is enabled"*). Default-setup CodeQL runs separately, is **green**, and already satisfies the `code_scanning` ruleset rule. **The file is not deleted** — `actions.lock` keys an entry to it, and deleting it would orphan that entry and red the bidirectional `check-lock-sync.sh` arriving in #73. The rationale is recorded in-file so a later reader does not "restore" the trigger. ## Pre-measured, not predicted Deleting a failing step promotes whatever sat behind it to its **first real measurement**. All five newly-unmasked predicates were run locally against the real tree *before* pushing: | unmasked predicate | result | |---|---| | `Check TEMPLATE-STANDARDS-AUDIT.adoc currency` | ❌ → **fixed in this PR** (item 2) | | `Check reusable workflow pins` | ✅ both 40-hex and identical | | `Check CHANGELOG exists` | ✅ `CHANGELOG.md` present | | `Check no unfilled placeholder tokens` | ✅ 0 across 7 present files | | `Summary` | ✅ | ## ⚠ Scope — what this PR does *not* claim **This does not turn the `Verify Manifest Files` *workflow* green.** Its other job, *Verify AI-MANIFEST and README.adoc files*, fails **independently** on two missing `README.adoc` files whose cure lives on **PR #73's** branch. The assertion here is the job-level check-run **`Verify Machine-Readable Manifest Currency`**, not the workflow conclusion. Reading job 1's red as "D-B failed" would be a misreading. ## 🚨 Finding for #82 — a fourth settings.yml divergence `.github/settings.yml` declares `analyze (javascript-typescript, none)` as a required status check. That is the CodeQL **advanced** job's matrix name, which item 4 makes permanently unemittable. It is inert today only because the live ruleset carries **no `required_status_checks` rule at all** — which is precisely the drift #82 already tracks. Adding it there rather than silently working around it. ## Verification - `yq` parses all three files; `actionlint` clean. - SPDX header still within `head -5` on `codeql.yml` (the gate PR #70 relaxed). - `yq e '.on | keys'` on `codeql.yml` returns exactly `[workflow_dispatch]`. - Commit signed (`%G? = G`), satisfying `required_signatures`. - Assertion is **per step, not per job**. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) https://claude.ai/code/session_01YSq3UodR3CjsuAK5yoTzHF Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Assert build failures prevent launch and null errors have a fallback; cover deep dependencies, nested case normalization, and duplicate action pins. Refs #73
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…the docs `Governance Check / Workflow security linter` fails at its FIRST step, `Parse every tracked workflow`, which leaves five later steps `skipped` — unknown, not passing. This clears the parse failure and the one real defect that sat masked behind it. 1. Untrack `third_party/gossamer/.github/workflows/` (17 files). The gate delegates to `tools/policy/check-workflows-parse.sh`, which enumerates with `git ls-files -- '**/.github/workflows/*.yml'`. It scans TRACKED files, so untracking is the lever and no policy change is needed. `dogfood-gate.yml` is the single unparseable file in the repo: a `python3 -c` heredoc whose continuation lines sit at column 0 and escape their block scalar. paint-type neither owns nor runs gossamer's CI, and the other 26 vendored `.github/` files are left tracked. A `.gitignore` rule keeps a re-vendor from silently re-adding them. Checked before removing: no `.gitmodules` and no `git-subtree-dir` commit (plain vendored files, mode 100644); `actions.lock` has no `third_party` key, so nothing is orphaned for the lock-sync gate in #73; and nothing outside the vendored tree references `gossamer/.github`. 2. Remove a fabricated commit SHA from `.github/workflows/README.adoc`. Unmasking the parse step exposes `Check action pins resolve upstream`, which was ALREADY failing. Its script greps the whole of `.github/workflows/` for `uses: owner/repo@<40 hex>` with no filename filter, so it read an illustrative pin in prose as a real one: `actions/checkout@8e5e7e5ab8b370d3a0e0e70878d379440678a716 # v3.3.0`. That commit does not exist — `repos/actions/checkout/commits/<sha>` returns 422 "No commit found for SHA". The surrounding prose also asserted that actions "should be SHA-pinned to specific commits", which contradicts every real `uses:` line in the directory: they are tags, and `actions.lock` binds each to a commit. The section now describes the lockfile regime that is actually in force and warns against writing a 40-hex example into this directory again. Measured on this tree, one change apart (same bytes otherwise): step before after Parse every tracked workflow 1 0 Duplicate YAML keys 0 0 Check SPDX headers + permissions 0 0 Check action pins resolve upstream 1 0 Check for duplicate workflows 0 0 The pin gate goes from "1 of 3 action pins DO NOT EXIST upstream" to "All 2 verifiable action pin(s) resolve upstream". Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YSq3UodR3CjsuAK5yoTzHF
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…the docs (#86) `Governance Check / Workflow security linter` fails at its **first** step, `Parse every tracked workflow`, which leaves **five** later steps `skipped` — unknown, not passing. This PR clears the parse failure *and* the one real defect that was sitting masked behind it. ## 1. Untrack `third_party/gossamer/.github/workflows/` (17 files) The gate delegates to `tools/policy/check-workflows-parse.sh`, which enumerates with `git ls-files -- '**/.github/workflows/*.yml'`. It scans **tracked** files, so untracking is the correct lever and no policy change in `standards` is required. `third_party/gossamer/.github/workflows/dogfood-gate.yml` is the **single** unparseable file in the repository — a `python3 -c` heredoc whose continuation lines sit at column 0 and escape their block scalar. paint-type neither owns nor runs gossamer's CI. The other 26 vendored `.github/` files stay tracked; only the workflows directory is removed, and a `.gitignore` rule stops a re-vendor from silently re-adding it. Checked before removing: | pre-flight | result | |---|---| | submodule? | no `.gitmodules`, no `git-subtree-dir` commit — plain vendored files, mode `100644` | | orphans `actions.lock`? | **no** — the lock has no `third_party` key, so #73's bidirectional `check-lock-sync.sh` is unaffected | | positive control | **all 34 root workflows parse**; exactly one vendored file does not | | referenced anywhere? | nothing outside the vendored tree references `gossamer/.github` | ## 2. Remove a fabricated commit SHA from `.github/workflows/README.adoc` Unmasking the parse step exposes `Check action pins resolve upstream`, which was **already failing**. Its script greps the whole of `.github/workflows/` for `uses: owner/repo@<40 hex>` **with no filename filter**, so it read an illustrative pin in a prose file as a real one: ``` - uses: actions/checkout@8e5e7e5 # v3.3.0 ``` That commit does not exist — `repos/actions/checkout/commits/<sha>` returns **422 "No commit found for SHA"**. The surrounding prose also asserted that actions "should be SHA-pinned to specific commits", which contradicts every real `uses:` line in the directory: they are **tags**, and `actions.lock` binds each to a commit (`workflows:` allow-lists the refs per workflow, `dependencies:` records the resolved `commit: sha1-…`). The section now documents the regime actually in force and warns against writing a 40-hex example into this directory again. ## Measured — this tree, one change apart | step | before | after | |---|---|---| | Parse every tracked workflow | **1** | **0** | | Duplicate YAML keys in workflows | 0 | 0 | | Check SPDX headers + permissions | 0 | 0 | | Check action pins resolve upstream | **1** | **0** | | Check for duplicate workflows | 0 | 0 | The pin gate moves from `1 of 3 action pin(s) DO NOT EXIST upstream` to `All 2 verifiable action pin(s) resolve upstream`. Steps 1 and 4 are two-arm controlled: same tree, same bytes, one change. Steps 2, 3 and 5 are root-scoped (`.github/workflows` with no `**`), so untracking a vendored tree cannot affect them — measured green in both arms. ## Not claimed No reduction in Hypatia findings is asserted. 14 of the 17 vendored basenames collide with root workflow basenames, and `workflow_audit` emits bare basenames, so those findings **cannot** be attributed to the vendored tree. The justification here is the parse gate and the dead pin, nothing else. ## Follow-up (issue, not a blocker) The root cause of §2 is estate-wide: `check-action-pins-resolve.sh` scans every file in `.github/workflows/`, so any repository documenting a SHA pin in prose reds this gate. Filtering it to `*.yml`/`*.yaml` belongs in `hyperpolymath/standards`, not here. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) https://claude.ai/code/session_01YSq3UodR3CjsuAK5yoTzHF Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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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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