Docs: define Depot PR cache isolation contract

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Summary

• distinguish Depot's disabled Registry/build-tool cache switches from the still-active GitHub Actions cache proxy authority
• document the server-enforced provider isolation contract required before enabling Depot for untrusted PR jobs
• record the unsafe seed/poison sentinel evidence and the remaining Cache Explorer entries
• keep all DEPOT_PR_* gates absent and make no workflow, runner, or settings changes

Why

The controlled sentinel demonstrated that a same-repository PR could restore a trusted seed and publish a poison entry later restored by trusted main. Depot's documented repository-scoped cache has no branch isolation, so workflow-level cache flags and key prefixes are not a security boundary.

Validation

• just ci-validate (460 tests, 7 skipped)
• actionlint -config-file .github/actionlint.yaml
• git diff --check
• all five current main lanes at f2fa14e32b0a3860daaaffdf703856645efb4364 completed successfully

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Clarified that disabling direct Depot Cache and Registry authentication does not disable GitHub Actions cache proxy access.
  • Documented cross-trust cache risks and required provider-enforced isolation before activation.
  • Added validation requirements covering same-repository pull requests, fork pull requests, and trusted-main workflows.
  • Expanded migration guidance, cache-canary checks, failure conditions, and administrator checklists.

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📒 Files selected for processing (3)

• .agents/skills/manage-ci/references/current-inventory.md
• .omo/specs/pr-ci-optimization.md
• ci/DEPOT_MIGRATION.md

🚧 Files skipped from review as they are similar to previous changes (3)

• .omo/specs/pr-ci-optimization.md
• .agents/skills/manage-ci/references/current-inventory.md
• ci/DEPOT_MIGRATION.md

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The CI documentation now distinguishes direct Depot authentication removal from GitHub Actions cache proxy isolation. It defines server-enforced provider controls and requires same-repository PR, fork PR, and trusted-main sentinel validation before PR activation.

Changes

CI cache isolation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Authority boundary clarification .agents/skills/manage-ci/references/current-inventory.md, ci/DEPOT_MIGRATION.md, ci/ci.md	The documentation states that disabling direct Depot and Registry authentication does not disable or isolate the GitHub Actions cache proxy or runtime-token path.
Provider isolation contract .agents/skills/manage-ci/references/current-inventory.md, .omo/specs/pr-ci-optimization.md, ci/DEPOT_MIGRATION.md	The required provider controls use GitHub-native branch-scoped cache semantics or a server-enforced PR-isolated namespace with ACLs and no Depot cache token.
Activation evidence and canaries ci/DEPOT_MIGRATION.md	The migration record documents pending cache entries and requires same-repository PR, fork PR, and trusted-main sentinel validation. Negative canaries only verify removal of direct Depot paths.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to e3049

This PR updates documentation and CI guidance without changing workflows, runners, settings, or runtime behavior; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

Possibly related PRs

• Mesh-LLM/mesh-llm#1302: Addresses CI trust isolation around Depot, GitHub Actions cache, and registry authentication.
• Mesh-LLM/mesh-llm#1317: Covers related Depot PR-runner and GitHub Actions cache isolation documentation.
• Mesh-LLM/mesh-llm#1328: Updates the same CI documentation and provider-isolation evidence.

Suggested labels: experimental

Suggested reviewers: michaelneale

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

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Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary documentation change: defining the Depot PR cache isolation contract.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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In @.omo/specs/pr-ci-optimization.md:
- Around line 269-273: Update the required provider contract wording in the
PR-isolated namespace description to require ACLs scoped exclusively to the
current PR, denying reads and writes from all other PR namespaces as well as
trusted main/release references. Apply the same clarification to the
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• .agents/skills/manage-ci/references/current-inventory.md
• .omo/specs/pr-ci-optimization.md
• ci/DEPOT_MIGRATION.md
• ci/ci.md