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Implements the operator ruling on OMN-16625: markdown-only / docs-only diffs
should not trigger the heavy quality-gate validator suite (except the
doc-length validator, doc-content-scan, which stays unconditional).

  • zone-filter detached from needs: [quality-gate] — now if: always(),
    zero deps, so docs_only is known in parallel with quality-gate's leaves
    instead of after them.
  • 16 non-spec-required quality-gate leaves gated on
    needs: [zone-filter] + if: always() && needs.zone-filter.outputs.docs_only != 'true'.
  • quality-gate's own bash aggregation rewritten into the same skip-tolerant
    per-check-loop shape tests-gate already uses: re-derives docs_only from
    needs.zone-filter.outputs.docs_only (never trusts a leaf's raw .result),
    admits a leaf's skipped conclusion as passing only when docs_only=='true'.
  • The 10 spec-required leaves (incl. doc-content-scan, "the length
    validator" from the operator ruling) stay unconditional + strict == success.
  • .github/required-checks.yaml: 12 rows with a manifest entry get
    skip_semantics: neutral_ok + ticket-cited rationale, mirroring the
    existing Zone Filter row's own precedent.
  • Deliberately untouched: contract-compliance, boundary-validation,
    occ-companion-merged — see ticket body for why (contract-compliance's
    own comment documents a previously-rejected attempt at this exact
    narrowing, blocked by the reject-required-check-skip-vector guard).

RED-first: tests/unit/validation/test_quality_gate_docs_only_short_circuit_omn16625.py
(346 lines) pins the new workflow shape. Also updates
tests/unit/scripts/ci/test_detect_test_paths_ci_contract_omn16917.py: that
selector test's own assertion assumed this ticket's real test module would
NOT independently qualify for the OMN-16917 CI-contract derived class. Once
written, the module legitimately reads .github/workflows/ci.yml and
.github/required-checks.yaml off disk (to assert against them), so it is
correctly a member of both the file-grain-touched set and the derived class
— membership in the two is not exclusive. Corrected the assertion + comment
to match; the underlying OMN-16745 grain guarantee (touched module always
selected by name, never widened to its containing directory) still holds
and is what the test actually proves.

Ticket: OMN-16625

dod_evidence: governed pre-push selector run twice on this branch —
first run (commit 7091ca9) surfaced the stale OMN-16917 test assertion
above as a genuine failure (1727 passed, 1 failed); fixed in commit
c91ecaf; second run green (1728 passed) before push was allowed
("[prepush-smart-tests] impacted tests passed; allowing push"). Selector
readback for this diff: split_count=5, is_full_suite=False,
full_suite_reason=None — narrow selection confirms the OMN-16917 selector
fix (omnibase_core#1614/#1616, merged 2026-08-29) unblocks this diff as
designed.

Depends on OMN-16589 (kb-doc-gate) per the ticket's own dependency note —
not yet pilot-wired into omnibase_core, so this PR treats the existing
doc-content-scan validator as the current stand-in "length validator"
per the ticket's explicit design decision. No redesign needed when
OMN-16589 lands; it is a straightforward unconditional addition.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Documentation-only changes can now bypass selected CI validation jobs while retaining required checks.
    • Quality summaries clearly indicate documentation-only classification and validation results.
    • Critical validators continue to run for all changes.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling of skipped checks, with unexpected or unjustified skips causing CI to fail.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for documentation-only workflows, required validations, untouched jobs, and required-check configuration.

Evidence-Ticket: OMN-16625
Evidence-Source: OCC#7566

jonahgabriel added 2 commits August 29, 2026 08:04
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Operator ruling (verbatim): "Changes to markdown files should not trigger
CI except for the length validator."

zone-filter (the existing docs-only detector, scripts/zone_diff_filter.py)
previously ran AFTER quality-gate's ~26 leaf validator jobs (needs:
[quality-gate]) -- too late in the DAG to gate those leaves. Only the
Phase 2 test-execution matrix (test-parallel/tests-integration/
shadow-compare) was already gated, via tests-gate's existing OMN-15315
per-upstream skip policy.

- Detach zone-filter from needs: [quality-gate]; it now runs immediately
  (if: always(), no needs), in parallel with quality-gate's leaves, so
  docs_only is known up front.
- Gate the 16 non-spec-required quality-gate leaves on docs_only via
  needs: [zone-filter] + if: always() && needs.zone-filter.outputs.docs_only
  != 'true'.
- Rewrite quality-gate's own bash aggregation into the same skip-tolerant
  per-check-loop shape tests-gate already uses: quality-gate itself stays
  if: always() (never a skip-vector) and re-derives docs_only from
  needs.zone-filter.outputs.docs_only before ever admitting a leaf's
  skipped conclusion as passing. The 10 SPEC_REQUIRED_VALIDATOR_JOBS
  members (validator-requirements.yaml) -- including doc-content-scan,
  "the length validator" the operator's ruling carves out -- stay
  unconditional and strictly required.
- required-checks.yaml: skip_semantics: neutral_ok + ticket-cited rationale
  added to the 12 gated leaves that carry a REQUIRED row (mirrors the
  existing Zone Filter row's own precedent); Zone Filter's own row reverted
  to never now that its if: is provably always-true.

Deliberately untouched: contract-compliance, boundary-validation,
occ-companion-merged -- contract-compliance's own in-file comment
documents a previously-rejected attempt to narrow its if: (blocked by the
reject-required-check-skip-vector guard, OMN-14863) because it is a
direct, unwrapped GATE_JOBS entry with no re-deriving aggregator; building
that safe wrapper is separable follow-up scope.

RED-first tests in tests/unit/validation/test_quality_gate_docs_only_short_circuit_omn16625.py
(105 tests, confirmed RED against the pre-change workflow, GREEN after).
validate_no_required_check_skip_vectors.py passes locally. Digests in
AUDITED_GUARD_JOB_EXECUTION_CONTRACTS (test_ci_workflow_shape.py) recomputed
for the 12 changed jobs.

OMN-16625
…the real diff

The real OMN-16625 test module reads .github/workflows/ci.yml and
.github/required-checks.yaml off disk, so once it lands it is legitimately
a member of the derived CI-contract class as well as being selected by
diff-touch file grain -- the two are not exclusive. The OMN-16917 test
asserted the opposite because it was written against a synthetic diff
before this file existed on disk.
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The CI workflow now classifies docs-only changes before validation, skips sixteen selected validators, keeps ten spec-required validators unconditional, and revalidates results in quality-gate. Tests Gate also requires quality-gate success when test matrices are skipped.

Changes

Docs-only CI validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Workflow classification and quality gating
.github/workflows/ci.yml
zone-filter runs unconditionally and computes docs_only. Sixteen validators use docs-only conditions. quality-gate separates strict validators from skip-tolerant validators and fails closed for unjustified skips, failures, cancellations, and unknown results. tests-gate requires quality-gate success before accepting skipped test matrices.
Required-check skip semantics
.github/required-checks.yaml
zone-filter uses never skip semantics. Selected validators use neutral_ok with documented docs-only conditions and quality-gate revalidation.
Workflow and selection regression coverage
tests/unit/validation/test_quality_gate_docs_only_short_circuit_omn16625.py, tests/unit/validation/test_ci_workflow_shape.py, tests/unit/scripts/ci/test_detect_test_paths_ci_contract_omn16917.py, tests/unit/validation/test_draft_state_admission_gate_omn16215.py
Tests cover workflow dependencies, validator tiers, quality-gate outcomes, manifest overrides, execution-contract digests, CI-contract test selection, and draft-state scope documentation.

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 8c05c

This change skips heavy quality checks for markdown-only diffs while retaining required documentation validation, reducing unnecessary CI work; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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  participant zone-filter
  participant validation-jobs
  participant quality-gate
  participant tests-gate
  zone-filter->>validation-jobs: Provide docs_only classification
  zone-filter->>quality-gate: Provide docs_only output
  validation-jobs->>quality-gate: Return validator results
  quality-gate->>quality-gate: Apply strict or skip-tolerant policy
  quality-gate->>tests-gate: Return quality-gate result
  tests-gate->>tests-gate: Admit skipped tests only when docs_only is true and quality-gate succeeds
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jonahgabriel pushed a commit to OmniNode-ai/onex_change_control that referenced this pull request Aug 29, 2026
…#7566)

* evidence: OCC companion pass 1 for OmniNode-ai/omnibase_core#1618

* evidence: OCC companion self-bind for #7566

---------

Co-authored-by: node-occ-companion-effect <occ-companion-effect@omninode.ai>
jonahgabriel and others added 5 commits August 29, 2026 09:39
…t just docs_only

CodeRabbit finding on PR#1618: detaching zone-filter from
needs:[quality-gate] means docs_only is now computed purely from the
diff's file paths and no longer implies quality-gate succeeded. A
genuinely docs-only diff whose quality-gate leg still fails (e.g. a real
doc-content-scan violation) would skip test-parallel/tests-integration
via their own quality-gate==success precondition, and tests-gate would
wrongly accept that skip as the legitimate docs-only case. Add
quality-gate to tests-gate's needs and require its result to be
success before admitting a skip.
…forbid" half is breaking (#1617)

The v0.47.0 CHANGELOG filed #1611 under Features as:

    an OPTIONAL `tenant` field on `ModelEventEnvelope`
    (additive; the model stays `extra="forbid"`)

Three things in that line are wrong, and the third is the one that cost a
fleet re-pin:

1. The field is `tenant_id`, not `tenant`.
2. "additive" describes only half the PR.
3. "the model STAYS extra=forbid" asserts a pre-existing state that never
   existed. `extra` was UNDECLARED on ModelEventEnvelope in every commit of
   its history, so Pydantic's "ignore" default applied. #1611 INTRODUCED
   extra="forbid". That wording is precisely what made the release read as
   safe to cut and to cascade.

The tenant_id half is additive and stays under Features, now correctly
named and cross-referenced. The extra="forbid" half moves to Breaking
Changes with the declared-field list, the `source=` -> `source_tool=`
migration, and the measured blast radius.

No code change: the model is correct as shipped. extra="forbid" is
mandatory on every model in this repo (validators/pydantic_extra_forbid),
and silently discarding a producer's attribution is the exact failure class
the PR was opened to close. Only the notes were wrong.

Evidence-Ticket: OMN-16927

Co-authored-by: jonahgabriel <jonah.neugass@gmail.com>
…nstead of failing closed (#1619)

* fix(OMN-16346): Contract Compliance Check resolves push commit's PR instead of failing closed

Every dev push has been red on this required check since PR #1556
(OMN-16013): the job's DoD check_values are PR-scoped
(github.event.pull_request.number), which push never populates, so it
hit the deliberate exit-1 fail-closed branch on 100% of post-merge
commits (confirmed on 259e9bc, fdf4c23, 3c94923). The if:
condition cannot be narrowed to pull_request-only -- doing so makes
GitHub report `skipped`, which the GATE_JOBS completeness anchor
counts as GOOD, the exact skip-vector the OMN-14863 pre-commit hook
exists to reject.

Fix: on push, resolve the merge commit's originating PR via
`gh api repos/{repo}/commits/{sha}/pulls` (GitHub associates a
squash-merge commit with its source PR) and validate against that PR
number -- the same check_values the PR's own pull_request run already
evaluated, not a vacuous pass and not a skip. Falls through to the
existing fail-closed exit 1 if no merged PR resolves. pull_request
path is untouched (PR_NUMBER already populated, new branch never
executes); merge_group is untouched (still fails closed, no live dev
merge queue to exercise it).

Scope-checked the other 3 repos calling run_contract_compliance_check.py
directly: omnibase_infra (exit-0 vacuous skip on empty PR_NUMBER,
different unaddressed fail-open risk, out of scope here),
omnibase_compat (step-level `if:` skip, job reports success, out of
scope), onex_change_control (job `if:` never admits push at all,
unaffected).

OMN-16346

* test(OMN-16346): bound the fail-closed pin by its own terminator, not a fixed 400-char window

test_empty_pr_number_branch_fails_closed_not_open extracted the
empty-PR_NUMBER branch as `text[idx : idx + 400].split("\n          fi")[0]`.
The character cap was never load-bearing -- the `\n          fi` split already
bounds the branch exactly -- but it made the pin depend on how many COMMENT
characters happen to sit between the `if` and the `exit 1`.

This PR's own change adds an eight-line comment inside that branch explaining
why the three unresolved-PR_NUMBER cases fail closed. That pushed `exit 1`
from roughly offset 250 to offset ~700, so the 400-char window no longer
contained it and the test failed -- while the property it guards was fully
intact. Verified directly against the committed ci.yml, splitting on the
terminator alone: branch length 784, `"exit 1" in branch` True,
`"exit 0" in branch` False.

Dropping the cap makes the extraction match the assertion's stated intent
(the whole branch), so the pin now fails only when the branch actually stops
failing closed.

Verified: tests/unit/scripts/ci/test_ci_summary_gate.py -> 54 passed.
ruff format + ruff check clean on the touched file.

OMN-16346

---------

Co-authored-by: jonahgabriel <jonah.neugass@gmail.com>
…gregator-loop shape

The vector-6 skip-guard's aggregator-loop recognizer only rebinds a for-loop's
value token to the fail-closed sentinel when the literal `${{ needs.<job>.result
}}` GHA expression is inlined directly in the loop's own item list (the exact
shape tests-gate already uses). The previous commit routed both TIER 1 and
TIER 2 through the preamble-assigned `$lint`-style shell variables instead, which
is functionally identical at runtime but statically invisible to the recognizer
-- `required-check-skip-guard / check-skip-vectors` failed on push with
vector-6-result-triage-unverifiable for all 26 consumed upstreams (CI run
33255918432, PR #1618). Confirmed pre-existing PASS on unmodified origin/dev and
FAIL on this branch before the fix, via local run of
omniclaude/.github/actions/required-check-skip-guard/validate_no_required_check_skip_vectors.py
against both trees -- isolating the regression to this diff, not the guard
itself or the OMN-16917 selector fix it depends on.

Inlines the literal `${{ needs.<job>.result }}` expression in each for-loop
item for both tiers; preamble variable assignments are untouched (still feed
the summary table). No behavior change -- same two-tier fail-closed triage,
now provably so.

Also drops the `result_triage: waived` manifest row added for the previous
(unverifiable) shape -- the guard now proves Quality Gate fail-closed on its
own, so the waiver escape hatch is no longer needed. Local guard run
confirms PASS with zero manifest waivers for this job.
The two explanatory comments added in the previous commit wrote the
placeholder as \`\${{ needs.<job>.result }}\` -- but GitHub Actions templates
EVERY \${{ ... }} occurrence in a run: block, including inside a bash \`#\`
comment, before the shell ever sees it. \`needs.<job>.result\` is not valid
GHA expression syntax (the literal \`<\` token), so the workflow file failed
to even start on push (run 33257208424, "This run likely failed because of
a workflow file issue", zero jobs scheduled) -- confirmed via
\`actionlint .github/workflows/ci.yml\`, which reported the exact same
"unexpected token '<'" parse error locally. Reworded both comments to drop
the \${{ }} wrapper around the placeholder; actionlint now reports zero
non-shellcheck findings (matching origin/dev's own pre-existing shellcheck-only
baseline), and the OMN-15304 skip-guard still passes locally.
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