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Tom Boucher
bbdf7e8e84 chore(#4654): add local/no-unconfined-path-join and drain it to zero — Phase 4 of #4636 (#4674)
* chore(#4654): add local/no-unconfined-path-join and drain it to zero

Phase 4 of epic #4636 — the ratchet, and the phase that makes the epic hold.

THE MEASUREMENT THAT RESHAPED THE PHASE. An AST census (the repo's own parser,
not grep) found what the epic never enumerated: ADR-4650 named seven containment
implementations; `src/` alone held roughly 24 more hand-rolled gates across ~13
files, several guarding a write or an `fs.rmSync`. Two verified by reading rather
than pattern-matching — `research-store.cts` comments its own as "ensure the
resolved file path stays inside the store dir" immediately before a write, and
`capability-lifecycle.cts` gates `fs.rmSync` with one.

So the epic's Done-when "one containment predicate, used at every site" was FALSE
when Phase 3 reported it satisfied. It is true now: the rule is clean across
src/, scripts/, gsd-core/bin/ and hooks/ with an EMPTY allowlist.

WHY NOT THE RULE THE ISSUE PROPOSED. #4654 proposed flagging `path.join` whose
first argument is a managed root and whose later arguments derive from argv. That
is a taint analysis over 2046 call sites, in ESLint, without type information;
"derives from argv" is not locally decidable. Any approximation either floods or
is trivially evaded, and a rule that fires on hundreds of correct sites earns an
allowlist of hundreds — the opposite of a ratchet. What is actually duplicated is
the COMPARISON, not the join, and that has one recognizable shape.

  Arm 1  X.startsWith(Y + sep)            the hand-rolled containment idiom
  Arm 2  a containment predicate called as a bare statement, answer discarded

Arm 2 is the issue's "asserts the result was narrowed, not merely that a helper
was called". Its example `validatePath(x, root).resolved` is already
structurally impossible — Phase 3 un-exported `validatePath` — so the remaining
expressible failure is ignoring the answer, which is the defect that recurred
five times in this epic. The census found exactly one live instance
(`milestone.cts:1643`); it now returns the proven `ContainedPath` so consumers
stop re-deriving the path the comment above it was extracted to stop them
re-deriving.

The rule deliberately does NOT try to catch validate-one-path-use-another where
the answer is used but a different variable flows onward. That needs flow
analysis; the branded `ContainedPath` from Phase 3 is the defense there, and the
two are complementary.

PER-SITE FAMILY CHOICE, NOT A DEFAULT. Phase 3's lesson binds: collapsing a
lexical site onto the realpath family broke four tests and was caught only by the
matrix. Every migrated site was triaged individually. The six
installer-migrations tree-walks and the six capability-lifecycle gates take the
LEXICAL family because their operands are already realpath-resolved and they
deliberately treat the final component as a link; boundary sites take realpath.

TWO SITES WITH AN INVERTED CONTRACT, which a mechanical swap would have broken.
`installer-migrations.cts:127` and `runtime-artifact-install-plan.cts:144` REJECT
`target === root` by contract, while the canonical comparison ACCEPTS it. Swapped
naively, a migration could `rmdir` the user's config root and a third-party
descriptor could write at configHome itself. Both keep `=== root` as an explicit
additional arm alongside the predicate call — the predicate decides containment,
the call site keeps its own extra condition (ADR-4650 decision 6).

ONE DUPLICATE DELETED OUTRIGHT: `planning-inspect.cts`'s `isWithinRoot` was
byte-identical to `isContainedIn` and said so in its own docstring.
`isContainedIn` is now exported for callers that have already resolved both
operands and need only the comparison, with a doc note that a caller which has
NOT resolved them must use a full predicate instead.

THE MARKER, AND WHY IT IS NOT THE ALLOWLIST. Nine sites are justified holdouts and
carry `// allow-handrolled-containment: <reason>` with a mandatory, reviewable
reason. Two justifications: (a) not a containment decision — an ancestor-walk loop
condition, sub-repo grouping, worktree identity matching, declared-path coverage;
(b) it IS containment but the canonical predicate is unreachable —
`capability-validator.cjs` is a committed pre-build `.cjs` and the compiled
`security.cjs` is untracked build output, so requiring it would break a fresh
clone. `scripts/lib/drift-scan.cjs` runs under `lint:ci` with the same exposure.
The marker was renamed from `allow-lexical-prefix-match` mid-phase because that
name asserted only (a) and would have stated something false at the (b) sites.

A marker suppresses BEFORE the violation counter increments, so a file whose
every occurrence is marked still reports `staleAllowlistEntry` — otherwise a
drained entry lingers and silently re-permits the site later.

DEMONSTRATED RED, per #4654: a hand-rolled copy reintroduced into a real `src/`
file made `npm run lint` fail with the rule's full guidance message; removing it
returned the tree to clean. Both halves recorded — red alone proves nothing,
since a rule red for an unrelated reason looks identical.

DISCLOSED: `defaultRequireFromInstallRoot` (gsd-tools.cjs) previously carried two
distinct rejection messages and two manual realpath calls; routing it through
`tryWithinRoot` collapses them to one message, and a missing module now surfaces
as MODULE_NOT_FOUND rather than ENOENT. No test asserts either message. The
security property is preserved and slightly strengthened — the candidate is
realpathed and containment re-checked, and the dangling-symlink oracle closure
comes along with it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(#4654): record the containment ratchet in CONTEXT.md and the security model

Both entries previously described the seam without the thing that keeps it a
seam. They now state what the rule bans, and — more usefully for whoever reads
this next — what it deliberately does NOT attempt: deciding per path.join call
whether an argument came from user input. That question is not locally
decidable, and an approximation across ~2000 join sites would earn an exemption
list of hundreds, which is the opposite of a ratchet.

Also records the marker's two legitimate justifications and that its reason is
mandatory, so the escape stays reviewable rather than becoming a mute button.

Glossary gate 270 refs exit 0; install-tree goldens and CONTEXT-INDEX.json
regenerated and confirmed byte-identical rather than assumed — which also
confirms eslint-rules/ is not a shipped path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#4654): close review findings and the two matrix failures

MATRIX FAILURE 1 — a collapsed message broke a negative-proof test, and my
evidence for collapsing it was wrong. I searched tests/ for the literal string
"resolves outside its install root", found nothing, and reported that no test
asserted it. The test matches a REGEX SUBSTRING, /outside its install root/, so
the literal search missed it. What broke was "NEGATIVE PROOF: a symlinked module
pointing OUTSIDE the install root is not loaded" — the test guarding the exact
property I claimed was preserved. defaultRequireFromInstallRoot now does both
checks again with both messages byte-identical, each routed through the
canonical predicate, which is better than the original since that hand-rolled
both comparisons.

MATRIX FAILURE 2 — shipped migrations are checksum-locked, and a marker cannot
serve there. migrationChecksum hashes plan.toString(), which INCLUDES comments,
so a suppression marker inside a plan body drifts the baseline exactly as an
edit does. Measured: with markers in place, two of the four still differed from
their committed checksums. The four shipped bodies are now byte-identical to
next, and the rule's config excludes those four paths BY NAME rather than by a
directory wildcard, so a NEW migration is still covered. Six containment
comparisons stay un-ratcheted there; that gap is recorded in the rule's Known
gaps, in CONTEXT.md and in the security model rather than left implicit.
Justification (c) is removed from the marker's documented reasons, because a
marker was proven unable to express it.

ADVERSARIAL REVIEW — the sharpest finding was that the rule banned the CORRECT
shape while permitting the incorrect one: startsWith(root) with no separator is
the genuinely unsafe form, since it accepts a sibling such as root-evil, and my
own test blessed it as valid. Flagging every bare startsWith would swamp the
rule, so that stays a STATED gap rather than a silent one. Closed for real: the
template-literal spelling, which the census never saw because it only inspected
plus-concatenation — that surfaced TWELVE more sites, now triaged and migrated.
A separator reached through a const alias is now resolved via scope analysis.
And isContainedIn, exported in Phase 3, was missing from the discarded-result
set, so a bare no-op call went unflagged on the one function the epic funnels
through.

SECURITY REVIEW — the marker could over-suppress two ways: a block comment
worked identically to a line comment, and one marker silently covered every
violation sharing its line. It now requires a Line comment positioned after the
flagged node ends, so it anchors to the node it trails. Four sites had dropped
an unreachable-but-deliberate equality rejection against the root; each is
restored as the call site's own arm. eslint.config.mjs still documented the OLD
marker token, which my rename missed — it would have sent the next author in
circles.

A FALSE GREEN, recorded because it nearly stuck: lint:ci reported exit 0 from a
stale eslint cache while twelve real violations existed. Every lint check here
now clears the cache first.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#4654): anchor a suppression marker to the violation it actually trails

The matrix caught this; my own test caught it, on its first execution. The case
"two violations on one line: trailing marker suppresses only the one it trails"
expected 1 error and got 0 — both were suppressed.

ROOT CAUSE: the anchoring accepted any Line comment on the node's line whose
range started at or after the node's end. A trailing marker at the END of a line
sits after EVERY node on that line, so that condition held for all of them.
"After the node" does not identify WHICH node the marker trails. The fix reads
as correct and is not.

FIX: deferred reporting. Violations accumulate during traversal instead of being
reported immediately; at Program:exit each marker claims exactly ONE pending
violation — the one on its line whose end is nearest before the marker begins —
and every unclaimed violation is then counted and reported. One marker, one
suppression. An earlier violation sharing the line is still reported, which is
the property the security review asked for and the previous attempt only
appeared to deliver.

The counter now increments at flush time rather than during traversal, so a
suppressed occurrence still does not keep an allowlist entry alive.

AND A TOOL THAT SHOULD HAVE EXISTED BEFORE THE FIRST MATRIX RUN. `node --test`
is hard-blocked here, so this rule's test file could only ever be executed on
the remote matrix — which is why a broken anchoring shipped into a run. ESLint's
programmatic Linter API is not a test runner, and exercising the rule through it
verifies every case locally in seconds. All 24 now pass locally, including the
two-on-one-line case that failed remotely. That loop should have been built
before the rule was first sent to the matrix rather than after it failed twice.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(#4654): backfill PR 4674 into the changeset and complete 70-docs.json

The phase gate requires enablementSequence and the Diataxis quadrants; 70-docs
now carries both, with the how-to quadrant skipped for a stated reason rather
than an empty field. The audience for this deliverable is a contributor who
trips the rule, and the task-oriented guidance reaches them in the ESLint
message itself — which names the correct predicate, says how to choose between
the realpath and lexical families, cites the Phase 3 regression caused by
choosing wrong, and gives the marker syntax. A docs/how-to page would be a
second, driftable copy read by nobody at the moment of failure.

enablementSequence is recorded as what it actually is: a VERIFICATION sequence,
not an enablement one. The rule is never off, so there is no off-to-on
transition to describe.

scripts/lint-docs-required.cjs now passes (ok_docs_updated) — it could not
evaluate against the mandated pr:0 placeholder.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-12 22:17:46 -04:00
Tom Boucher
c03f97188f chore(#1328): remove orphaned root vitest.config.ts left by SDK retirement
vitest.config.ts configured Vitest (not a dependency) to run .ts test files (the repo has none) rooted at ./sdk, a directory deleted when the SDK package seam was retired in #191 (ADR-0174). No npm script, workflow, or dependency references it.

Also drop the now-dead sdk/src/*.test.* branch in diff-touches-shipped-paths.cjs isCiGating(), which can never match since the sdk/ tree no longer exists.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-16 08:24:21 -04:00
Tom Boucher
f729101eec refactor(scripts): replace process.exit() with ExitError + runMain handler (#739) (#740)
Part 1 of 2 of the n/no-process-exit cleanup (umbrella #738): convert every
process.exit() call in standalone scripts/** CLIs to the rule-compliant pattern.

- New shared helper scripts/lib/cli-exit.cjs: ExitError(code,message) + runMain()
  which translates a thrown ExitError / returned number into process.exitCode
  (never process.exit()), flushing output and still firing process.on('exit').
- main()-based entrypoints: throw new ExitError(code) for errors, return <code>
  for verdicts; invoked via runMain(main). Child exit codes preserved via return.
- top-level-only scripts: imperative body extracted into main() so mid-flow
  aborts (throw ExitError) actually halt; pure consts/helpers stay at module scope.
- diff-touches-shipped-paths.cjs: stdin event handling restructured to an async
  read so the whole flow runs under runMain; uncaughtException/unhandledRejection
  nets replaced by an in-band catch that preserves EXIT_ERROR=2.

Exit codes verified unchanged for every converted script (success/error/help and
the 0/1/2 semantic codes in diff-touches). Rule stays warn here; flipped to error
in part 2 (#738) once gsd-core/bin/** is also clean.

Refs #739

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-06 16:13:13 -04:00
Tom Boucher
36a237573c chore(#192): retire sdk release pipeline seam 2026-05-25 11:20:43 -04:00
Tom Boucher
0efe4f0612 fix(3621): release-sdk hotfix cherry-picks test-fixture commits (#3623)
* fix(3621): cherry-pick test-fixture commits in hotfix runs

The release-sdk hotfix loop excluded test-fixture updates that align CI
with a cherry-picked production fix, leaving the hotfix branch with new
production behavior and stale test assertions. Broke v1.42.3 CI (run
25949422676) when fix(3562) was cherry-picked but its bundled test
correction in docs(3562) commit 08848df8 was POLICY_SKIPPED by the
prefix filter.

Two-part fix:

1. release-sdk.yml prefix regex now accepts test: alongside fix:/chore:.
   feat:, docs:, refactor: still POLICY_SKIPPED as before.

2. scripts/diff-touches-shipped-paths.cjs treats tests/-rooted paths and
   sdk/src vitest specs as CI-gating-equivalent. A test: commit touching
   only those paths now passes the shipped-paths gate.

The #2980 push-blocking guard is preserved as a separate first-priority
check: any commit touching .github/workflows/<file> still skips
regardless of test paths in the same bundle, because the default
GITHUB_TOKEN lacks the workflow scope and the push step would fail.

New regression coverage in tests/bug-3621-cherry-pick-test-fixtures.test.cjs:
- workflow prefix regex includes test:
- isCiGating accepts tests/ and sdk/src vitest specs, rejects
  non-spec sdk/src paths and incidental "test" name occurrences
- classifier exits 0 for test-only, mixed test+docs, and the original
  shipped paths
- classifier exits 1 for pure docs-only and workflow-only diffs
- new explicit assertion that #2980 push-blocking wins over #3621:
  workflow + test + changelog bundle still skips

Adjusted one pre-existing bug-2980 test fixture to use a non-
push-blocking non-shipped path (planning/notes.md) instead of
.github/workflows/release-sdk.yml. The original assertion was
documenting "mixed diff includes shipped path → include" but its
fixture happened to also trigger the push-blocking guard now made
explicit by this PR.

Fixes #3621

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(release-sdk): align hotfix summary labels with test matcher

* fix(3621): align operator-facing strings with the fix/chore/test matcher

The candidate-loop regex was updated to accept test: but several
human-facing strings in the same job still read fix/chore. Update every
description/comment/summary line for consistency so operators reading
the run summary or workflow_dispatch inputs see the same set of accepted
prefixes the matcher actually applies.

Also corrected the NON_SHIPPED_SKIPPED summary text — it claimed test
changes belong on main, not in a hotfix. That assumption is what #3621
fixes; tests under tests/ and sdk/src vitest specs are now CI-gating
candidates and may be picked. The summary now scopes the never-pick
guidance to CI / docs / planning paths only.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-15 22:43:21 -04:00
Tom Boucher
fb92d1e596 fix(#2983): classifier exit-code discipline, base-tag staging, drop vestigial merge-back (#2984)
* fix(#2983): classifier exit-code discipline, base-tag staging, drop vestigial merge-back

Three issues surfaced by CodeRabbit's post-merge review of #2981 plus
a production failure on the v1.39.1 release run.

(1) Overloaded classifier exit code

scripts/diff-touches-shipped-paths.cjs reused exit 1 for both the
legitimate "no shipped paths" result and Node's default exit on
uncaught throw, so any classifier failure (corrupt package.json,
EPERM, etc.) was indistinguishable from a normal skip — the workflow's
`if ! ... ; then skip` idiom would silently drop the commit.

Distinct exit codes now:
  0  shipped       — at least one path is in the npm `files` whitelist
  1  not shipped   — CI / test / docs / planning only
  2  classifier error — workflow MUST fail-fast

uncaughtException + unhandledRejection + try/catch around fs/JSON
parsing all route to exit 2 with stderr context.

(2) Classifier missing at the base tag (CRITICAL)

`Prepare hotfix branch` runs `git checkout -b "$BRANCH" "$BASE_TAG"`
BEFORE the cherry-pick loop, replacing the working tree with the base
tag's contents. Base tags predating #2980 (notably v1.39.0, the most
likely next hotfix base) don't have scripts/diff-touches-shipped-paths.cjs
at all — `node <missing>` exits non-zero — `if !` skips every commit —
empty hotfix branch published. Strictly worse than the original #2980
push-rejection, which at least failed loudly.

Stage the classifier from the dispatched ref's working tree into
$RUNNER_TEMP at the top of the run script (before any working-tree-
mutating git command). The cherry-pick loop now references $CLASSIFIER
(staged) instead of the in-tree path. Sanity guards: refuse to start
if scripts/diff-touches-shipped-paths.cjs is missing in the dispatched
ref, refuse to proceed if cp didn't materialize $CLASSIFIER.

The cherry-pick loop captures node's exit via ${PIPESTATUS[1]} and
dispatches via explicit case:
  0  proceed with cherry-pick
  1  skip into NON_SHIPPED_SKIPPED
  *  emit ::error:: + exit "$CLASSIFIER_RC"

(3) Drop the merge-back PR step

Auto-cherry-pick only picks commits already on main (`git cherry HEAD
origin/main` outputs the unmerged ones; we filter fix:/chore: from
main). By construction every code commit on the hotfix branch is
already on main. The only hotfix-branch-only commit is `chore: bump
version to X.Y.Z for hotfix`, which either no-ops against main or
rewinds main's in-progress version. The merge-back PR was vestigial.

It also failed in production on run 25232968975 with `GitHub Actions
is not permitted to create or approve pull requests (createPullRequest)`
— org policy blocks PR creation from the workflow's GH_TOKEN. Even
without that block, the PR would have nothing useful to merge.

Step removed. The `pull-requests: write` permission granted solely
for the merge-back step has been dropped from the release job
(least-privilege).

Regression coverage

tests/bug-2983-classifier-exit-codes-and-base-tag-staging.test.cjs
adds 12 assertions across two describe blocks:

  - 5 classifier behavioral: exit 0/1 preserved, exit 2 on missing
    package.json, exit 2 on malformed JSON, exit-code constants
    exported.
  - 7 workflow contract: classifier staged before checkout, target
    is $RUNNER_TEMP, missing-source guard, missing-staged guard,
    PIPESTATUS-based dispatch, error branch fails workflow, loop uses
    staged path (not in-tree).

tests/bug-2980-hotfix-only-picks-shipping-changes.test.cjs updated
where it asserted the pre-#2983 `if ! ... ; then` shape: now accepts
the post-#2983 case-dispatch form. The test still proves the
classifier participates; bug-2983 enforces the specific shape.

Run summary references for the curious reviewer:

  - Run 25232010071 — original #2980 trigger (workflow-file push
    rejection)
  - Run 25232968975 — failed merge-back step that prompted the
    "is this even useful?" question that drove the removal

Closes #2983

* fix(#2983): address CodeRabbit findings on PR #2984

Two findings, both real, both fixed.

(1) [Critical] PIPESTATUS capture clobbered by `|| true`

Pre-fix shape:
  git diff-tree ... | node "$CLASSIFIER" || true
  CLASSIFIER_RC="${PIPESTATUS[1]}"

When the classifier exits 1 ("not shipped" — common case) or 2
(error), `|| true` triggers the right-hand side. `true` is a
one-command "pipeline" that overwrites PIPESTATUS to (0).
${PIPESTATUS[1]} on the next line is therefore unset (or stale
under set -u). The case dispatch then matched the empty string —
falling into `*)` and failing the workflow on every non-shipped
commit, OR matching `0)` after some shells default-init unset
to 0 and silently picking commits that don't ship.

Local repro confirms the issue:

  $ bash -c 'set -euo pipefail; false | sh -c "exit 7" || true; \
       echo "PIPESTATUS: ${PIPESTATUS[*]}"; \
       echo "[1]: ${PIPESTATUS[1]:-<unset>}"'
  PIPESTATUS: 0
  [1]: <unset>

Fix: bracket the pipeline in `set +e`/`set -e`, snapshot
PIPESTATUS into a local array on the very next line, then
dispatch on the snapshot:

  set +e
  git diff-tree ... | node "$CLASSIFIER"
  PIPE_RC=("${PIPESTATUS[@]}")
  set -e
  DIFFTREE_RC="${PIPE_RC[0]}"
  CLASSIFIER_RC="${PIPE_RC[1]}"

The snapshot must happen on the first line after the pipeline;
any intervening simple command resets PIPESTATUS. The array form
is invariant against that.

Bonus from the new shape: $DIFFTREE_RC is now also captured.
git diff-tree is unlikely to fail on a known-good $SHA, but if
it does, we no longer feed partial/empty input to the classifier
and call it "not shipped." A non-zero DIFFTREE_RC emits
::error::git diff-tree failed and exits.

(2) [Minor] Stale "Merge-back PR opened against main" summary line

The hotfix run summary still printed:
  echo "- Merge-back PR opened against main"

But the merge-back step itself was removed in the previous commit
on this branch. Operators reading the summary would expect a PR
that doesn't exist. Replaced with explicit non-action text:

  echo "- No merge-back PR (auto-picked commits are already on main)"

Test coverage

bug-2983 test file gains 3 assertions:
  - PIPE_RC array-snapshot pattern is required (regex matches the
    exact `PIPE_RC=("${PIPESTATUS[@]}")` form).
  - The `pipeline || true; ${PIPESTATUS[1]}` antipattern is
    explicitly forbidden via assert.doesNotMatch.
  - DIFFTREE_RC is captured from PIPE_RC[0] and a non-zero value
    triggers ::error::git diff-tree failed.
  - Run summary forbids `Merge-back PR opened against main` and
    requires the new non-action sentence.

bug-2964 test's loop-anchor window bumped 6 KB → 8 KB to
accommodate the additional pre-pick scaffolding (the test's own
comment had already anticipated this kind of growth, citing prior
precedents from #2970 and #2980).

Mark CodeRabbit comments resolved post-commit.

Refs CR finding ids 3175253571, 3175253578 on PR #2984.
2026-05-01 17:25:20 -04:00
Tom Boucher
7424271aa0 fix(#2980): hotfix cherry-pick only picks commits that change what ships (#2981)
* fix(#2980): pre-skip workflow-file cherry-picks in release-sdk hotfix loop

The default GITHUB_TOKEN issued to the release-sdk run lacks the
`workflow` scope, so the prepare job's `git push origin "$BRANCH"` is
rejected by GitHub when any cherry-picked commit modifies a file under
`.github/workflows/`:

  ! [remote rejected] hotfix/X.YY.Z -> hotfix/X.YY.Z
    (refusing to allow a GitHub App to create or update workflow ...
     without `workflows` permission)

Pre-#2980 behavior: the auto_cherry_pick loop happily picked
workflow-file commits, then the trailing push exploded with no clear
signal which commit was the culprit. v1.39.1 hit this on PR #2977
(run 25232010071) — earlier release-sdk fixes (#2965, #2967, #2970)
had been skipped on conflict so their workflow-file changes never
reached the push step, masking the bug; #2977 was the first
workflow-file commit to apply cleanly and the push immediately
exploded.

Fix: pre-pick guard in the cherry-pick loop. Inspect each candidate
commit's file list via `git diff-tree --no-commit-id --name-only -r`
BEFORE attempting the pick. If any path matches `^\.github/workflows/`,
skip the commit, emit a `::warning::` annotation naming the dropped
commit, and append to a new `WORKFLOW_SKIPPED` bucket. The run summary
surfaces this bucket in its own section, distinct from `CONFLICT_SKIPPED`
(real merge conflicts) and `POLICY_SKIPPED` (feat/refactor exclusions),
so operators reviewing the run never confuse the remediation paths.

The loud-warning piece is non-negotiable: silent drops were explicitly
rejected as a failure mode during the option-1/2/3 tradeoff discussion.
If a workflow-file fix genuinely needs to ship in a hotfix, the
operator applies it manually on the hotfix branch using a token with
`workflow` scope, or lands it on main and re-cuts the release.

Regression covered by tests/bug-2980-skip-workflow-file-cherrypicks.test.cjs
(5 assertions: pre-pick guard exists, uses `git diff-tree`, emits
`::warning::`, lands in dedicated bucket, surfaces in summary).

The bug-2964 test's 4 KB window after the cherry-pick-loop anchor was
nudged to 6 KB to accommodate the new pre-pick scaffolding — the test's
own comment had already anticipated this kind of growth (citing #2970's
merge-commit pre-skip as prior precedent).

Closes #2980

* refactor(#2980): replace workflow-file pre-skip with shipped-paths filter

The previous commit on this branch caught only the .github/workflows/*
subset of the bug, treating the symptom (push rejection on workflow-file
changes) rather than the root cause (the fix:/chore: filter is too broad
— it picks any commit with that conventional-commit type even when the
diff cannot affect the published npm package).

CI-only fixes (release-sdk.yml itself, hotfix tooling, test-only
commits) shouldn't flow through hotfix runs at all — they cannot change
what `npm install get-shit-done-cc@X.YY.Z` produces. The
.github/workflows/* push rejection is just the loudest of these
"shouldn't have been picked" cases; tests/, docs/, .planning/ commits
get picked silently with the same lack of effect on consumers.

Replace the workflow-file pre-skip with a shipped-paths filter:

- New scripts/diff-touches-shipped-paths.cjs reads package.json `files`,
  plus package.json itself (always-shipped per `npm pack` semantics),
  and exits 0 iff any input path is in the shipped set. Lockfile is
  not shipped (npm pack excludes it unless explicitly in `files`).
- Workflow loop now pipes `git diff-tree --no-commit-id --name-only -r`
  through the classifier; on exit 1 the commit is skipped and
  appended to a new NON_SHIPPED_SKIPPED bucket (replaces
  WORKFLOW_SKIPPED).
- Run summary surfaces NON_SHIPPED_SKIPPED as informational — no
  ::warning:: annotation. A non-shipping commit cannot affect the
  package, so a yellow alert would imply remediation is possible
  and would mislead operators.

The classifier in a separate .cjs file (rather than inline bash
heredoc) is so its rules — directory-prefix vs exact-match,
package.json-always-shipped, lockfile-not-shipped — are unit-testable
in tests/bug-2980-hotfix-only-picks-shipping-changes.test.cjs (11 new
assertions: 4 static workflow + 6 classifier behavioral + 1 mixed-
diff edge case).

Why this dissolves the original push-rejection bug: workflow files
aren't in `files`, so workflow-only commits are skipped pre-pick.
The push step never sees them.

If a workflow-file fix genuinely needs to ship in a hotfix release
(extremely rare — the hotfix workflow is read from main's ref, not
the hotfix branch's), the operator applies it manually using a token
with `workflow` scope. The pre-skip puts that requirement in the run
summary explicitly.

Closes #2980
2026-05-01 16:59:49 -04:00