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fix(ci): preserve authorized E2E credentials - #9101

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Summary

Manual E2E dispatches now preserve profile credentials only after the workflow validates the repository, event, ref, workflow SHA, and checked-out SHA. Fork repositories and copied workflows continue to receive empty credentials.

Related Issue

Fixes #9047

Changes

  • Emit e2e_credentials_allowed after the parent workflow completes every identity check.
  • Require that result before reusable catalogue profiles enable credentials.
  • Keep direct main qualification unchanged.
  • Protect the authorization boundary with validators and regression cases for fork repositories, copied workflows, checkout_sha mismatches, and workflow SHA mismatches.

Type of Change

  • Code change (feature, bug fix, or refactor)
  • Code change with doc updates
  • Doc only (prose changes, no code sample modifications)
  • Doc only (includes code sample changes)

Quality Gates

  • Tests added or updated for changed behavior
  • Existing tests cover changed behavior — justification:
  • Tests not applicable — justification:
  • Docs updated for user-facing behavior changes
  • Docs not applicable — justification: This changes an internal GitHub Actions credential boundary. It does not change a public API, CLI, configuration, UI, default, or documented product behavior.
  • Sensitive paths changed (security, policy, credentials, preflight, onboarding, inference, runner, sandbox, or messaging)
  • Sensitive-path review completed or maintainer-approved waiver recorded — reviewer/approval link/justification: Credential access remains fail-closed. The parent workflow checks the repository, event, ref, workflow SHA, and checked-out SHA before reusable jobs can receive credentials. Regression cases cover each rejection path.
  • Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer — check name, approval link, and follow-up issue:

Documentation Writer Review

  • Documentation writer subagent reviewed the completed changes
  • Result: no-docs-needed
  • Evidence: The change is limited to internal GitHub Actions credential authorization, E2E boundary validators, and regression tests. No public CLI, API, configuration schema, default, or documentation route changed.
  • Agent: Codex Desktop

DGX Station Hardware Evidence

  • Tested on DGX Station
  • Tested commit:
  • Station profile/scenario:
  • Result:
  • Supporting evidence:

Verification

  • PR description includes a Signed-off-by: line and every commit appears as Verified in GitHub
  • Normal pre-commit, commit-msg, and pre-push hooks passed, or npm run validate:pr passed after refreshing origin/main when hooks were skipped or unavailable
  • Targeted behavior tests pass for the current change set, or tests are marked not applicable above — GitHub CI is running for the current head; a duplicate local run was omitted at maintainer direction.
  • Applicable broad gate passed — npm test for broad runtime/test-harness changes; npm run check for repo-wide validation/coverage changes — Not applicable; the change is limited to the E2E workflow and its boundary validators.
  • Quality Gates section completed with required justifications or waivers
  • No secrets, API keys, or credentials committed
  • npm run docs builds without warnings (doc changes only)
  • Doc pages follow the style guide (doc changes only)
  • New doc pages include SPDX header and frontmatter (new pages only)

Signed-off-by: Souvik Ghosh gshbholanath19@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Carlos Villela cvillela@nvidia.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Security

    • Exact-commit runs now receive trusted credentials only after repository, branch, workflow, commit, and checkout details are verified.
    • Catalogue jobs use authenticated trust signals for exact-candidate executions while preserving trusted status for direct main-branch runs.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented callers from overriding matrix-provided trust decisions with custom trusted-main conditions.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for trusted and untrusted candidate scenarios, validation failures, and workflow-boundary protections.

Signed-off-by: Souvik Ghosh <gshbholanath19@gmail.com>
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  • .github/workflows/e2e.yaml
  • test/e2e/support/e2e-operations-workflow-boundary.test.ts
  • test/e2e/support/standard-profile-workflow-boundary.test.ts
  • tools/e2e/operations-workflow-boundary.mts
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  • test/e2e/support/e2e-operations-workflow-boundary.test.ts
  • tools/e2e/standard-profile-workflow-boundary.mts
  • test/e2e/support/standard-profile-workflow-boundary.test.ts
  • tools/e2e/operations-workflow-boundary.mts

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Walkthrough

The E2E workflow now authorizes credentials only for validated exact-candidate dispatches. Catalogue jobs and the reusable profile consume this authorization. Boundary validators and tests enforce repository, event, SHA, placement, and output requirements.

Changes

Exact-candidate credential trust

Layer / File(s) Summary
Credential authorization and catalogue wiring
.github/workflows/e2e.yaml
The workflow exposes e2e_credentials_allowed. It enables credentials only for matching NVIDIA/NemoClaw main-branch dispatches with validated repository and commit identities. Catalogue jobs use the result for trusted_main.
Workflow boundary validation
tools/e2e/operations-workflow-boundary.mts, test/e2e/support/e2e-operations-workflow-boundary.test.ts
The validator requires the authorization step, its position, bindings, execution settings, and script checks. Tests cover required output wiring and trusted and untrusted repository and SHA combinations.
Reusable profile authorization integration
tools/e2e/standard-profile-workflow-boundary.mts, test/e2e/support/standard-profile-workflow-boundary.test.ts
The profile accepts a selected checkout_sha when the matrix authorizes credentials. Tests reject caller-provided trusted_main expressions and update the checkout validation message.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to c775c

This change restores credentials only for explicitly authorized upstream exact-candidate runs while keeping fork and untrusted workflows credential-free; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Dispatcher
  participant GenerateMatrix
  participant E2ECredentials
  participant Catalogue
  participant ReusableProfile
  Dispatcher->>GenerateMatrix: dispatch exact candidate
  GenerateMatrix->>E2ECredentials: validate repository and commit identity
  E2ECredentials-->>GenerateMatrix: emit e2e_credentials_allowed
  GenerateMatrix->>Catalogue: pass authorization result
  Catalogue->>ReusableProfile: set trusted_main and checkout_sha
  ReusableProfile-->>Catalogue: provide credentialed target configuration
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Suggested reviewers: cv, apurvvkumaria, ericksoa

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Check name Status Explanation
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes implement issue #9047 by authorizing credentials only for validated upstream exact-candidate dispatches and preserving credentialed target execution.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The workflow, validator, and tests directly support credential authorization and boundary validation required by issue #9047.
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: preserving authorized E2E credentials in CI.
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@cv , @apurvvkumaria , @wscurran take a look!

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@cv can i get the ci now

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Next action: No advisor follow-up needed.
Findings: 0 blockers · 0 warnings · 0 suggestions

Model lanes

  • GPT-5.6 Terra (primary): Completed · high confidence · 0 blockers · 0 warnings · 0 suggestions
  • Nemotron 3 Ultra (second opinion): Completed · high confidence · 0 blockers · 0 warnings · 0 suggestions
  • Model comparison: normalized findings match; normalized terminology decisions differ; normalized E2E selections differ; severity counts match.
4 terminology differences from the second opinion

Advisory only. These are normalized differences from the primary terminology receipt.

  • E2E credential authorization at test/e2e/support/e2e-operations-workflow-boundary.test.ts:255: primary classified it as justified; the second opinion classified it as established.
  • trusted_main at .github/workflows/e2e.yaml:1211: selected only by the second-opinion lane as justified.
  • e2e_credentials_allowed at .github/workflows/e2e.yaml:194: selected only by the second-opinion lane as established.
  • Authorize E2E credentials at .github/workflows/e2e.yaml:568: selected only by the second-opinion lane as established.
1 additional E2E selection from the second opinion

Advisory only. The primary lane did not select these E2E jobs or targets.

  • brave-search: The completed second-opinion lane identified E2E coverage that the primary lane omitted.

Second-opinion terminology and E2E selections are advisory. Live E2E does not run automatically for pull requests.

1 semantic terminology decision

Terminology decisions are advisory. They affect the assessment only when a separate finding identifies concrete semantic impact.

  • justified — E2E credential authorization at test/e2e/support/e2e-operations-workflow-boundary.test.ts:255: Keep the term. Its modifier identifies the credential access decision at the protected workflow boundary.

E2E guidance

Advisory only. A maintainer can dispatch the default E2E suite for the commit under review.

Recommended E2E: None

Manual-only E2E: cloud-onboard, security-posture, cloud-inference
The manual PR workflow does not run these selectors for the commit under review. Run them from reviewed code on main.

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In `@test/e2e/support/e2e-operations-workflow-boundary.test.ts`:
- Around line 272-305: Extend the parameterized trust-classification test around
the “Classify exact-candidate credential trust” step with false cases for a
mismatched CANDIDATE_SHA and a mismatched EXPECTED_WORKFLOW_SHA, ensuring each
mismatch produces trusted_exact_candidate=false while the repository matches
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  • .github/workflows/e2e.yaml
  • test/e2e/support/e2e-operations-workflow-boundary.test.ts
  • test/e2e/support/standard-profile-workflow-boundary.test.ts
  • tools/e2e/operations-workflow-boundary.mts
  • tools/e2e/standard-profile-workflow-boundary.mts

Comment thread test/e2e/support/e2e-operations-workflow-boundary.test.ts
@cv cv changed the title fix(ci): preserve exact-candidate credentials fix(ci): preserve authorized E2E credentials Aug 14, 2026
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cv merged commit d2cda22 into NVIDIA:main Aug 14, 2026
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@wscurran wscurran added the chore Build, CI, dependency, or tooling maintenance label Aug 24, 2026
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