ci: accept trusted full-CI request comments

[MatejKosec]

The CI approval workflow currently ignores the full-CI request comments posted by GLAMR. Accept new PR comments from the GitHub account ID 282374502 (glamr-agent) containing @dynamo-ops please run full CI for <full-head-sha>, with an optional label before the phrase. Authenticate the account using GitHub's event metadata; the label is not tied to Factory or Nursery. This grants the identified account the CI-request capability without requiring collaborator access. Require an open fork PR, a matching current head, and the existing verification of every commit signature before posting /ok to test <sha> through the existing approval account.

Serialize requests per PR without replacing pending requests, skip approvals already posted by that account for the same SHA, and verify signatures using a paginated comparison of captured base and head SHAs. Recheck both SHAs before posting; the read and comment creation are separate operations, so the consumer must enforce the explicit SHA when approval is required. Each new head can be requested without waiting for CodeRabbit, Devin, or human review, but unsigned commits still prevent automatic approval. The existing approved-contributor and maintainer approval paths remain available.

Maintainers can disable this comment path without editing the workflow by setting the repository Actions variable GLAMR_CI_REQUESTS_DISABLED=true. Requests are enabled when the variable is unset; no configuration or additional account access is required to begin using the feature. This condition gates newly evaluated jobs and does not cancel existing runs or retract posted approvals. It does not affect the existing PR-event approval paths.

Repository hooks, 49 executions of the actual embedded Bash scripts with mocked GitHub responses, and 19 cases evaluated from the actual job condition with GitHub's @actions/expressions package passed. These cover enabling and disabling requests, spoofed identities, request formats, stale heads, signature failures, duplicate approvals, API failures, existing approval paths, a changed-and-restored head during signature verification, multi-page comparisons, and base changes. Independent subagent reviews checked authorization, producer compatibility, and the immutable comparison. Live comment-trigger validation requires this workflow to reach the default branch.

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Walkthrough

The workflow accepts exact-head approval comments, resolves the current open fork PR, validates approval and commit ranges, and uses resolved metadata for checks and comments. /ok to test posts only when the PR remains open and unchanged.

Changes

Fork PR approval flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Approval request resolution .github/workflows/trigger-ci-approval-flow.yml	The workflow handles qualifying issue_comment events, authenticates glamr-agent, resolves the current open fork PR, and validates the requested head SHA.
Approval and permission checks .github/workflows/trigger-ci-approval-flow.yml	Author and triggering-actor checks use resolved PR data. Approval can come from the request, approved contributors, maintainers, or maintainer synchronization. Signature verification compares the resolved base and head range.
Resolved-head messaging and test command .github/workflows/trigger-ci-approval-flow.yml	Repository and comment markers are centralized. Stale comments and unsigned-commit messages use the marker. /ok to test avoids duplicates and requires matching open-PR base and head SHAs.

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The approval flow resolves and rechecks the current PR state before posting test instructions. No concrete merge-blocking risk remains.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Description check	⚠️ Warning	The description provides detailed change scope, behavior, validation, and limitations. However, it does not use the required template sections and omits the required Related Issues section, including …	Add the required Overview, Details, Where should the reviewer start?, and Related Issues sections. In Related Issues, include a valid closing or related issue reference, or check the confirmation that no related issue exists.

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Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: support for trusted full-CI request comments in the CI approval workflow.

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The description provides detailed change scope, behavior, validation, and limitations. However, it does not use the required template sections and omits the required Related Issues section, including confirmation that no issue is linked or a valid issue reference.

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- Line 336: Update the signature-verification flow to resolve and persist the
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Previously reported defects still present:

• Original discussion: The final PR-state check is still a separate read before gh pr comment, so a fork author can push a new head after the check and before /ok to test <captured-sha> is published. The current patch documents that the consumer must enforce the SHA, but it does not add an atomic current-head check to the approval consumer identified by the original discussion.

[dynamo-review-agent]

Previously reported defects still present:

• Original discussion: The final PR-state GET remains separate from gh pr comment, so the workflow can still publish an approval after the fork head changes. The workflow documents reliance on the command consumer to enforce the captured SHA, but this checkout does not add or verify an atomic current-head check in that consumer.

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

Reviewed at e98ffc3. Intent, read from the diff and the description: let one trusted bot account request full CI on a fork PR by naming the exact head SHA, so a fork head can be approved without waiting for a maintainer push or a human review, while keeping the all-commits-signed requirement.

I verified the security-relevant behaviour by execution rather than by reading: each step's run: block was extracted verbatim from the workflow and run under bash -e (GitHub's documented default shell for run:) against mocked gh responses, plus real API payloads where the shape mattered.

How trust is decided. The gate is github.event.comment.user.id == 282374502 in the job-level if, so a comment from any other account never starts the job and the body carries no trust. That id resolves to glamr-agent. The body is never interpolated into a run: block — it is read at runtime from $GITHUB_EVENT_PATH through jq — so it is not a command-injection sink. 20 bodies through the real parser: the five legitimate forms (bare phrase, trailing newline, CRLF, Label: prefix, trailing whitespace) resolve; all 15 negatives reject, including the phrase on a second line, inside a fenced code block, blockquoted, with a stale SHA, an uppercase SHA, a 7-character SHA, trailing text, extra trailing hex, and $(...)/;-bearing payloads — no injection artifact was produced in any run.

Whether approval binds to a SHA. It does. The requested SHA must equal the head resolved from the API at run time; the captured base/head pair then drives signature verification over immutable SHAs and the published command. Every negative case failed closed in execution: head moved, base changed, PR closed, non-fork PR, head.repo == null, empty comparison, an unverified signature, verification absent, and a gh api failure at either the comparison or the per-commit call (the step exits non-zero, so the publish step never runs). Duplicate suppression works against this PR's real comment payload, and the same body posted by a different account does not suppress a genuine approval.

The endpoint change is behaviour-preserving. Over the 100 most recently updated PRs against main, the 35 that contain at least one merge commit — fork and non-fork, up to 103 commits — returned identical commit counts from pulls/<n>/commits and from compare/<base>...<head>, and identical commit sets on the two I diffed. --paginate on the comparison endpoint returns the full range rather than truncating: 399 of 399 commits on a 399-commit comparison. So the move to the captured comparison buys immutability without changing which commits are checked.

queue: max is valid syntax — details in the thread reply.

One non-blocking finding inline (P2), on the absence of any authorization lookup behind the identity check. Approving; the mechanism is sound and every negative path I could drive fails closed.

Not verified: whether the external_collaborator environment carries deployment protection rules (needs repository admin), and live comment-trigger behaviour, which cannot run until this file reaches main.

Noted but deliberately not filed, as pre-existing rather than introduced here: Clean up previous unsigned-commits comments reads issues/<n>/comments without --paginate and so only sees the first page, while the duplicate check this PR adds to Comment /ok to test is paginated.

[dynamo-review-agent]

Previously reported defects still present:

• Original discussion: The new comment-trigger path still grants approval solely from the hard-coded GitHub account ID at lines 79 and 204-205. It performs no runtime permission or membership lookup, so removing the account's repository access cannot revoke its ability to trigger trusted CI; revocation requires changing this workflow on the default branch.
• Original discussion: Verified still present: path 4 authorizes solely by the hard-coded GitHub account ID at line 79, without checking current repository permission or collaboration status. Removing that account's GitHub access cannot revoke its ability to trigger this approval path; revocation requires changing this workflow on the default branch.

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/ok to test 3bcfa97

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/ok to test 2e57678

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/ok to test 448356e