ci: publish a consumer-closure SBOM per published package by allxsmith · Pull Request #529 · allxsmith/bestax

allxsmith · 2026-08-18T00:35:58Z

Closes #424.

The SBOM we publish today is the repository closure — the whole dev monorepo toolchain (storybook, playwright, docusaurus, jest, turbo…). That is a legitimate artifact and answers "what builds their releases". Procurement asks a different question — "what enters my dependency tree if I install this?" — and reading the repo SBOM as that answer overstates our footprint by roughly two orders of magnitude. Our genuinely small runtime closure is a selling point the current artifact actively obscures.

Measured, per package installed from the registry:

Package	Consumer closure
`@allxsmith/bestax-bulma`	5 packages
`create-bestax`	12
`bestax-migrate`	98
`bestax-mcp`	94
(all four in one tree)	204

That last row is why this is per package. A single combined scan — which is what the issue's sketch suggested, reusing verify-provenance's existing tree — would bury bulma-ui's five-package closure under the CLIs' dependencies and reproduce the exact problem the issue is about.

Two decisions that are easy to get wrong later

1. The lockfile is kept and scanned.

An earlier draft of this PR installed with --omit=peer and deleted package-lock.json before scanning, to publish only "what we add" — three packages for bulma-ui instead of five. That was wrong on every axis, and the reasoning is recorded in the workflow so nobody reintroduces it:

The lockfile is the only source of integrity (sha512) and resolved URLs. A node_modules-only scan yields names and versions with no digests — most of what makes an SBOM verifiable.
The lockfile is not misleading about peers. It marks them "peer": true, recording "resolved, not installed here" — strictly richer than the physical tree.
npm hoists scheduler into node_modules even with react-dom omitted, so the on-disk tree implies a dependency nothing installed actually requires.
Deleting an input so a scanner produces a preferred answer is shaping the evidence, in a document whose entire purpose is being evidence.

Scanning a consumer tree at all is what carries the point — five packages against the whole dev toolchain. Trading away digests to reach three was a bad bargain.

2. The scratch project is named, not left to npm init -y.

That default names the project after its directory, which would put a package called consumer@1.0.0, license ISC, at the root of the lockfile — and therefore into a published SBOM, describing something that exists nowhere. It is now bestax-consumer-closure-<slug>, private: true, described as a scan container, so the root entry is self-evidently the container rather than a phantom dependency.

--omit=optional is also deliberately not used. It would cut bestax-migrate from 98 packages to 57, but consumers really do get optional dependencies, and an SBOM that omits them understates the tree.

Security review of the workflow change

Per .github/CLAUDE.md:

consumer-sbom holds no credential and declares permissions: contents: read, matching the existing sbom job. The write-scoped upload stays confined to attach-sbom — ci: publish SBOMs per release and verify published provenance #411's split, and an explicit acceptance criterion of [Feature] Publish a consumer-closure SBOM, not just the dev-monorepo one #424.
attach-sbom's if still requires only needs.sbom.result == 'success'. Deliberate and load-bearing: ci: publish SBOMs per release and verify published provenance #411 built that job to degrade rather than withhold, so a failed consumer-SBOM leg must not cost the release its repository SBOM.
Rule 10: this is a new job, so it ships at egress-policy: block. The three sibling jobs are grandfathered; this one is not. The comment explicitly does not claim that buys enforcement — [Security] harden-runner silently downgrades egress-policy: block to audit — no AI job has ever enforced egress #487 is open and nothing here has been observed to enforce egress — and states the allowlist as a guess to correct from the first real run's report.
Rule 1: actions/checkout, actions/setup-node, anchore/sbom-action, step-security/harden-runner, actions/download-artifact, actions/upload-artifact each resolve to exactly one SHA across all workflows (checked, not assumed).
--ignore-scripts is retained on the install: this job never executes arbitrary published code. It is a deliberate divergence from a real consumer's install and is commented as such — lifecycle scripts can write files but cannot add packages, so the document is unaffected.
No untrusted input reaches the new shell. Matrix values are literals, and PACKAGE/SLUG are passed via env: rather than interpolated into the run: body.

/security-review found no HIGH or MEDIUM issues.

Verification

Local: YAML parses with the expected job graph and permissions; lint and format clean; SHA pins consistent.

The upload and signing globs were tested against a realistic fixture directory, because getting them wrong would either drop artifacts or upload signature bundles twice:

consumer SBOMs to upload : 8   (expect 8)
  signatures leaked in   : 0   (expect 0)
signature bundles        : 10  (expect 10)
files the sign loop signs: 10  (expect 10)
empty dir: consumer=0 sigs=0   (warning branches)

What is NOT yet verified

Nobody has seen Syft's actual output for these trees. None of this is exercised by a PR — the job runs on release, schedule, and workflow_dispatch — so before merge this wants a dispatch on the branch and a read of the artifact:

gh workflow run supply-chain.yml --ref ci/424-consumer-closure-sbom
gh run download <id> -n bestax-consumer-sbom-allxsmith-bestax-bulma.spdx.json
jq -r '.packages[].name' bestax-consumer-sbom-allxsmith-bestax-bulma.spdx.json | sort

Specific unknowns worth checking in that output, not just "was the job green":

bulma present, no dev toolchain — no storybook, jest, turbo, docusaurus. The acceptance criterion.
Whether Syft dedupes the lockfile cataloger and the node_modules cataloger, or double-lists packages.
Whether digests survive into the SPDX checksums field. Keeping the lockfile is only worth it if they do.
bestax-migrate shows ~98 entries, not ~57 — confirms optional dependencies were kept.

Known limitation, stated rather than discovered later

The SBOM will almost certainly not convey the peer distinction. The lockfile marks react and react-dom "peer": true, but Syft's SPDX/CycloneDX output has no natural place for that, so they will appear as ordinary packages. A reader will see React in bulma-ui's closure even though every consumer of a React component library already has it. Keeping the lockfile buys digests and honesty at the cost of that nuance — the right trade, but the nuance does not survive into the document.

Also worth a decision

Each release will now carry ~20 assets (2 repository SBOMs + 8 consumer + 10 signature bundles). Correct, and noisy on a release page.

consumer-sbom runs on the weekly cron as well, while attach-sbom is release-only, so Monday runs produce artifacts nothing attaches. The existing sbom job behaves identically, and there is an upside — the weekly run is the canary that finds a broken egress allowlist on a Monday rather than mid-release.

Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features
- Added software bill of materials (SBOM) generation for published packages.
- SBOMs are produced in SPDX and CycloneDX formats with package version details.
- Added signing and release attachment support for available SBOMs.
Reliability
- Repository SBOM releases remain available even if package-level generation, signing, or uploads fail.

The existing SBOM is the repository closure — the whole dev monorepo toolchain. That answers "what builds their releases". Procurement asks a different question, "what enters my dependency tree if I install this?", and reading the repo SBOM as that answer overstates our footprint by about two orders of magnitude. Our genuinely small runtime closure is a selling point the current artifact obscures. Measured, per package installed from the registry: @allxsmith/bestax-bulma 5 packages create-bestax 12 bestax-migrate 98 bestax-mcp 94 Per package rather than one tree: installing all four together resolves to 204, which would bury bulma-ui's five-package closure under the CLIs' dependencies and reproduce the exact problem this exists to fix. Two things are deliberate and easy to get wrong later. The lockfile is kept and scanned. An earlier draft installed with --omit=peer and deleted package-lock.json first, to publish only "what we add" — three packages instead of five. That was worse on every axis: the lockfile is the only source of integrity digests and resolved URLs, it marks peers "peer": true rather than hiding them, npm hoists scheduler into node_modules even with react-dom omitted so the on-disk tree implies a dependency nothing requires, and deleting an input so a scanner produces a preferred answer is shaping the evidence in a document whose whole purpose is being evidence. Scanning a consumer tree at all is what carries the point; trading away digests to reach three packages was a bad bargain. The scratch project is named rather than left to `npm init -y`, which names it after its directory. That default puts a package called consumer@1.0.0, license ISC, at the root of the lockfile and therefore into a published SBOM, describing something that exists nowhere. Generation holds no credential and stays contents: read; the write-scoped upload remains confined to attach-sbom, which is #411's split and an explicit acceptance criterion here. attach-sbom's `if` still requires only needs.sbom, so a failed consumer leg degrades to "the repository SBOMs still ship" rather than costing the release its evidence. Rule 10: the new job ships at egress-policy: block, with the allowlist stated as a guess to correct from the first real run rather than as a control. Closes #424

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The workflow adds a read-only matrix job that generates per-package consumer SBOMs. Signing discovers all available SBOMs. Release attachment keeps repository uploads mandatory and handles consumer artifacts on a best-effort basis.

Changes

Consumer SBOM Release

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Consumer SBOM generation `.github/workflows/supply-chain.yml`	The workflow installs four published packages in isolated projects, validates their versions, scans their lockfiles with Syft, and generates version-stamped SPDX and CycloneDX SBOMs.
SBOM signing and release attachment `.github/workflows/supply-chain.yml`	Signing waits for both SBOM jobs, signs all available repository and consumer files, and uploads consumer signature bundles. Release attachment requires repository SBOMs while uploading consumer SBOMs and signatures on a best-effort basis.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to e3f1f

The workflow adds per-package consumer SBOM publication, but two bounded risks remain: restricted network access may prevent setup on runners without cached dependencies, and mutable package tags may produce artifacts that do not match the released versions. The change is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up on these workflow and artifact-accuracy risks.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ConsumerSBOM as consumer-sbom
  participant NPM as npm
  participant Syft
  participant SignSBOM as sign-sbom
  participant AttachSBOM as attach-sbom

  ConsumerSBOM->>NPM: Install each published package
  ConsumerSBOM->>Syft: Scan each consumer lockfile
  Syft-->>ConsumerSBOM: Generate SPDX and CycloneDX SBOMs
  ConsumerSBOM-->>SignSBOM: Provide available SBOMs
  SignSBOM->>SignSBOM: Sign available SBOM files
  SignSBOM-->>AttachSBOM: Provide signature bundles
  AttachSBOM->>AttachSBOM: Upload repository and available consumer artifacts

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the primary change: publishing a consumer-closure SBOM for each published package.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description thoroughly explains the change, affected packages, linked issue, implementation decisions, verification, and known limitations.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The workflow generates separate consumer SBOMs, preserves the repository SBOM, keeps generation read-only, attaches both artifacts, and verifies package-specific contents [`#424`].
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    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    needs: sbom
+    needs: [sbom, consumer-sbom]
    if: github.event_name == 'release'


A single flaky consumer npm install now ships the whole release unsigned — 🟠 Major · Robustness

What: sign-sbom gained consumer-sbom in its needs, but its if is still the bare github.event_name == 'release' — no status-check function. GitHub Actions implicitly evaluates such an if as success() && (...), so all needs must succeed for the job to run. With fail-fast: false, if any one of the four matrix legs fails (a transient npm registry hiccup, a momentary 5xx, semver resolution flake), needs.consumer-sbom.result == 'failure' and sign-sbom is skipped entirely — including the signatures for the repository SBOMs.

Why it matters: Before this PR, the repository-SBOM signature depended only on sbom (deterministic: pnpm + frozen lockfile). This PR couples it to the flakiest thing in the workflow — four live npm installs from the registry. When sign-sbom is skipped, attach-sbom still runs (its !cancelled() guard), finds no .sigstore.json bundles, and emits "SBOMs attached unsigned; Signed-Releases will score this release 0." That is the exact metric #404/#411 exist to protect, now regressed by a transient consumer-install failure. The PR body claims "a failed consumer-SBOM leg must not cost the release its repository SBOM" — true for the SBOM file, but it silently costs the repository SBOM its signature, which is not acknowledged.

Fix: Give sign-sbom the same degrade-don't-withhold guard attach-sbom already uses. Keeping consumer-sbom in needs preserves ordering (the job still waits for it to finish); dropping the implicit success() lets it sign whatever SBOMs did materialize (the sign loop is already globbed + nullglob).

Suggested change

if: github.event_name == 'release'

if: >

!cancelled() && github.event_name == 'release' &&

needs.sbom.result == 'success'

Failure flow

flowchart TD A[sbom ✅] --> S{sign-sbom} B[consumer-sbom leg fails ❌<br/>e.g. npm 5xx on 1 of 4] --> S S -->|if lacks status fn ⇒ success and event=release<br/>consumer-sbom≠success ⇒ SKIPPED| X[no signature bundles produced] X --> C[attach-sbom runs via !cancelled] C --> W["::warning:: SBOMs attached unsigned<br/>Signed-Releases scores 0"]

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With the fix, sign-sbom runs after consumer-sbom completes regardless of its result and signs the repo SBOMs + whichever consumer SBOMs succeeded.

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Deep review — 1 blocking · 3 advisory

#	Severity	Area	Finding	Location
1	🟠 Major	Robustness	`sign-sbom` now hard-depends on all four `consumer-sbom` matrix legs succeeding (its `if` has no status function ⇒ implicit `success()`), so one transient npm-install failure skips signing entirely and ships the whole release unsigned, scoring Signed-Releases 0.	`.github/workflows/supply-chain.yml:249`
2	🔵 Advisory	Correctness	The `peer` distinction (react/react-dom marked `"peer": true`) will not survive into SPDX/CycloneDX — React appears as an ordinary package in bulma-ui's closure. Stated by the PR; on the record.	`supply-chain.yml:162`
3	🔵 Advisory	Robustness	Syft's actual output for these trees is unverified — no PR exercises this job (`release`/`schedule`/`dispatch` only). The #424 spot-check (bulma present, no dev toolchain; digests survive; no double-listing) still needs a `workflow_dispatch` read before a real release.	`supply-chain.yml:209`
4	🔵 Advisory	Robustness	`egress-policy: block` allowlist for `consumer-sbom` is an unmeasured guess (rule 10 — nothing enforces egress today, #487). Correctly commented as such; widen from the first real run's StepSecurity report.	`supply-chain.yml:133`

Overall: The change is well-reasoned and the glob/nullglob plumbing in sign-sbom and attach-sbom is correct — the consumer/signature separation (.spdx.json vs .sigstore.json), the bestax-*sbom* download patterns, and the 20-asset accounting all check out. The riskiest part is the job-graph coupling: adding consumer-sbom to sign-sbom's needs without matching the !cancelled() degrade-guard that attach-sbom already uses means the four live-registry installs are now upstream of every signature, including the repository SBOM's — a robustness regression the human should fix before merge. Everything else is either a documented, accepted trade-off or a "verify on first dispatch" item.

Residual risk — the failure class here is "consumer-tree evidence gets shaped or lost":

Losing the repository SBOM signature to a consumer flake — not refuted; this is finding #1. The attach-sbom degrade path protects the SBOM files but not their signatures, because sign-sbom is skipped wholesale on any leg failure.
Losing a consumer SBOM to a flaky leg — refuted: fail-fast: false isolates legs, and both sign-sbom (globbed) and attach-sbom (nullglob array with ${#consumer[@]} -gt 0 guard) sign/attach whatever succeeded and warn on the rest.
Evidence-shaping regressions (--omit=peer, lockfile deletion, npm init -y phantom root) — refuted: the install keeps the lockfile, omits nothing, and names/privatizes the scan container; the reasoning is embedded in-file so a future edit that reintroduces them has to argue past it.

🏄 Clean set, dude — the SBOM's telling the real story now, five packages instead of the whole dev toolchain, and the glob plumbing rides smooth. Only gnarly bit is the sign job wiping out if one npm install wipes out — patch that if with a !cancelled() and you're golden to paddle out.

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Pull request overview

Adds per-package consumer-closure SBOMs alongside the existing repository SBOM.

Changes:

Generates SPDX and CycloneDX SBOMs for four published packages.
Signs available SBOM artifacts.
Attaches consumer SBOMs and signatures to releases.

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allxsmith · 2026-08-18T01:12:13Z

+          path: ${{ runner.temp }}/consumer
+          format: spdx-json
+          artifact-name: bestax-consumer-sbom-${{ matrix.slug }}.spdx.json
+          output-file: bestax-consumer-sbom-${{ matrix.slug }}.spdx.json


You are right, and this was the load-bearing claim of the PR, so thank you for checking it rather than accepting the rationale.

Verified against syft's source rather than taking either side on faith — toPackageChecksums in syft/format/common/spdxhelpers/to_format_model.go:552 switches on exactly three metadata types:

case pkg.JavaArchive: // ArchiveDigests case pkg.GolangBinaryBuildinfoEntry: // H1Digest case pkg.OpamPackage: // meta.Checksums

No npm case, so NpmPackageLockEntry.Integrity never reaches SPDX checksums. The claim that keeping the lockfile buys "verifiable package digests" was false, and it was the argument I used to reverse an earlier decision in this PR. Removed in 6209169.

What I did find, checking the other half of the same claim: NpmPackageLockEntry.Resolved does survive, via DownloadLocation in spdxutil/helpers/download_location.go → SPDX downloadLocation. So each entry records the registry URL its tarball came from, which a node_modules-only scan cannot say. That is a real benefit and it is now the stated reason, alongside the two that never depended on tooling: the lockfile marks peers "peer": true rather than hiding them, and deleting an input so a scanner produces a preferred answer is shaping the evidence in a document whose whole purpose is being evidence.

The comment now also warns explicitly against re-adding the digest claim without re-checking that exporter, since it is exactly the kind of thing that reads as obviously true.

Your other three are fixed in the same commit — contents: read is a credential and the guarantee is specifically no write-scoped one; the --ignore-scripts note now says the document is npm's resolved closure before any post-install mutation rather than claiming scripts cannot affect the inventory; and the stale 97 is now 98.

Your sign-sbom finding was fixed in 8a5e9bf before this pass — the deep review flagged the same regression independently, which is a good signal for it.

+    needs: [sbom, consumer-sbom]
    if: github.event_name == 'release'


+  # Generation only, like `sbom`: no credential, `contents: read`, and the
+  # write-scoped upload stays confined to `attach-sbom` (#411's split, and an
+  # explicit acceptance criterion of #424).


+      # `--ignore-scripts` is a deliberate divergence from a real consumer's
+      # install, not an oversight. It matches this repository's standing posture
+      # (pnpm-workspace.yaml blocks install scripts by default) and means this
+      # job never executes arbitrary published code. It does not affect the
+      # document: lifecycle scripts can write files, but they cannot add
+      # packages to the tree, which is what is being catalogued.


Three review findings, one of them a regression this PR introduced. Adding consumer-sbom to sign-sbom's `needs` while leaving its `if` as the bare `github.event_name == 'release'` was wrong. An `if` with no status-check function is implicitly `success() && (...)`, so every job in `needs` must succeed — meaning one flaky npm install in any of four matrix legs would skip signing entirely and ship the release with its *repository* SBOMs unsigned. That is a Signed-Releases score of 0 caused by an unrelated registry hiccup, and it coupled a deterministic job (pnpm, frozen lockfile) to the flakiest thing in the workflow. sign-sbom now uses the same shape attach-sbom already had, depending only on `sbom`; consumer SBOMs are additive, and if their job failed the glob simply expands to nothing. nodejs.org is added to the egress allowlist. setup-node falls back to downloading from nodejs.org/dist when the runner's tool cache misses the requested version, which under `block` would fail the job before npm runs — exactly the kind of host a guessed allowlist omits. The artifact names now carry the resolved version. The install takes the mutable `latest` dist-tag, so without a stamp an SBOM attached to a release would not say which version it describes, and a later publish would make the document silently disagree with the release it hangs off. The version is read back out of the installed tree rather than re-resolved, so the stamp cannot disagree with what was scanned, and a missing version fails the step instead of producing an unnamed artifact. Pinning to the release's own version is not possible and the comment says so: a release event names one package, but this job documents all four, so on a bulma-ui release create-bestax's SBOM necessarily describes whatever create-bestax is at that moment. Naming the version is what keeps that honest.

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.github/workflows/supply-chain.yml:100

The “no credential” guarantee is inaccurate. This job receives a read-scoped GITHUB_TOKEN, and the pinned Anchore action's github-token input defaults to github.token, so that third-party action receives the token. Describe the credential as read-only rather than absent.

  # Generation only, like `sbom`: no credential, `contents: read`, and the
  # write-scoped upload stays confined to `attach-sbom` (#411's split, and an
  # explicit acceptance criterion of #424).

.github/workflows/supply-chain.yml:189

--ignore-scripts can affect the scanned document: lifecycle scripts can install additional packages or download binaries and other files that Syft catalogs. Keeping scripts disabled is a valid security tradeoff, but this should state that the result is the declarative npm closure rather than claim it is unaffected.

      # job never executes arbitrary published code. It does not affect the
      # document: lifecycle scripts can write files, but they cannot add
      # packages to the tree, which is what is being catalogued.

.github/workflows/supply-chain.yml:182

This count conflicts with the measured value of 98 stated earlier in this workflow and in the PR description. Use the same value so the rationale is internally consistent.

      # bestax-migrate from 97 packages to 57, but consumers really do get

.github/workflows/supply-chain.yml:144

When block actually arms on these trusted triggers, this job cannot start Syft on a fresh runner. The pinned Anchore action downloads https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anchore/syft/main/install.sh when Syft v1.42.3 is not already cached, but that host is absent from this allowlist. Add it so release and dispatch runs do not fail at SBOM generation.

          allowed-endpoints: >

The rationale for keeping package-lock.json said it was the only source of integrity digests "which is most of what makes an SBOM verifiable". That was wrong, and the review that caught it was right. syft's SPDX exporter populates package checksums for Java archives, Go build info and OPAM only — toPackageChecksums in spdxhelpers/to_format_model.go has no npm case — so the lockfile's integrity values are dropped on the way out. Checked against syft's source rather than assumed in either direction. Keeping the lockfile is still correct, for the reason that does survive: syft maps NpmPackageLockEntry.Resolved to SPDX downloadLocation, so every entry records the registry URL its tarball came from, which a node_modules-only scan cannot say. The comment now states that and explicitly warns off re-adding the digest claim without re-checking the exporter. Three other overstatements, all the same species: "No credential" was wrong about this job. contents: read grants a read-scoped GITHUB_TOKEN and sbom-action defaults its github-token input to it. The guarantee is no WRITE-scoped credential, which is what the comment now says. "Lifecycle scripts cannot add packages to the tree" was too strong: a script can invoke a package manager and mutate node_modules or the lockfile. The document is npm's resolved closure before any post-install mutation, stated that way now. One comment still said bestax-migrate was 97 packages after the measurements were redone at 98, which would have sent a future output check looking for the wrong number.

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.github/workflows/supply-chain.yml:191

This stale sentence still says deleting the lockfile trades away digests, but lines 172–178 correctly establish that Syft drops npm integrity values. The surviving benefit is the registry downloadLocation, so describe that instead.

      # away digests to reach three was a bad bargain.

.github/workflows/supply-chain.yml:102

The live PR description still says this job holds no credential, that the lockfile produces verifiable SHA-512 digests, and that lifecycle scripts cannot add packages. These new workflow comments correctly contradict all three claims, so the review rationale currently misstates the actual security boundary and artifact contents. Update the PR description to match the implementation before approval.

  # Generation only, like `sbom`. Stated precisely: this job does hold a
  # credential — `contents: read` grants a read-scoped GITHUB_TOKEN, and
  # sbom-action defaults its `github-token` input to it. The guarantee is that
  # it holds no WRITE-scoped credential; the write-scoped upload stays confined
  # to `attach-sbom` (#411's split, and an explicit acceptance criterion of

.github/workflows/supply-chain.yml:259

Issue #424 requires a spot-check that the generated SBOM contains Bulma and excludes the dev toolchain, but this branch has no supply-chain.yml workflow run and the PR states Syft's actual output has not been inspected. Because lockfile/node_modules deduplication and the resulting inventory remain unknown, validate both generated formats with workflow_dispatch before merging.

      - name: Generate SPDX consumer SBOM
        uses: anchore/sbom-action@e22c389904149dbc22b58101806040fa8d37a610 # v0.24.0
        with:
          path: ${{ runner.temp }}/consumer
          format: spdx-json

…nforced The first dispatch of this job failed all four legs with ECONNREFUSED during SBOM generation. harden-runner's post-step names the cause: "domain not allowed: raw.githubusercontent.com". sbom-action fetches syft's install script from there, which reading the action would not have made obvious — which is why rule 10 says to widen from the first real run's report rather than by guessing again. Added. The more interesting result is that the policy enforced at all. Run 32088629752 reported EgressPolicy:block and genuinely refused the connection. #487 states that nothing in this repository has been observed to enforce egress, and the sign-sbom comment hypothesised that jobs on non-untrusted triggers might differ because #487's root cause is the Actions cache going read-only for issues, issue_comment and pull_request. That hypothesis is now observed for workflow_dispatch, and the comment says so while explicitly declining to generalise it to the workflows #487 is actually about. The same run also confirms the sign-sbom comment's other claim: harden-runner's probe discovered and added the blob cache host (productionresultssa12.blob.core.windows.net) by itself, so it stays out of the list.

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…SBOM Dispatching the workflow and reading a generated document found three problems that a green job did not. All three are fixed by one syft config. The worst: syft's github-actions cataloger was picking up .github/workflows YAML that some upstream packages ship inside their npm tarballs, so the consumer closure listed actions/checkout@v4 and actions/setup-node@v4 as if they were dependencies. bestax-migrate came out at 111 entries against a real closure of 98. A document whose whole purpose is "what enters my dependency tree" must contain npm packages and nothing else, so default-catalogers is now javascript. Every document was also named /home/runner/work/_temp/consumer — identical across all four, leaking the runner's filesystem layout and never saying which package it described — and that path appeared as a package entry with a null version. source.name and source.version now carry the package and the resolved version, so each document identifies itself rather than relying on its filename. Two things the same run confirmed and did not need changing: the scratch container appears as bestax-consumer-closure-<slug>@0.0.0 rather than the consumer@1.0.0 that npm init -y would have produced, and every package carries its registry tarball URL as downloadLocation, which is the benefit claimed for keeping the lockfile. checksums are empty on every entry, exactly as the corrected comment now says.

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.github/workflows/supply-chain.yml:133

This assertion conflicts with the repository's workflow security contract, which says not to cite egress blocking as an active control until #487 closes (.github/CLAUDE.md:212-213). Since #487 is still open, either update that contract to document the verified trusted-trigger exception or keep this comment non-assertive so reviewers do not have two contradictory sources of truth.

      # Unlike every other harden-runner comment in this repository, this one
      # CAN claim enforcement, because it was measured. Run 32088629752 (a
      # workflow_dispatch on this branch) reported `EgressPolicy:block` and
      # actually refused a connection: `domain not allowed:
      # raw.githubusercontent.com`, which failed the job with ECONNREFUSED.

.github/workflows/supply-chain.yml:206

This still says retaining the lockfile avoids trading away digests, but lines 187–193 now establish that Syft drops npm integrity values. The published SBOM therefore does not gain digests from the lockfile, leaving the rationale internally contradictory; refer to the surviving registry URLs and peer metadata instead.

      # five packages for bulma-ui against the whole dev toolchain. Trading
      # away digests to reach three was a bad bargain.

… the SBOM Reading the second generated document caught the fix for the first one being worse than the problem. `default-catalogers: javascript` selects BOTH javascript catalogers, so every package appeared twice — once from its node_modules/package.json and once from the lockfile. bulma-ui went from 7 entries to 13, bestax-migrate from 111 to 200. A doubled inventory is a worse document than one with a few stray GitHub Actions in it. javascript-lock-cataloger alone is the right selection. The lockfile is complete, so it sees every package, and it is the cataloger that carries `resolved` — the registry URL that becomes SPDX downloadLocation, which is the entire reason this job keeps the lockfile. The other two fixes from that run hold: no github-actions entries, and each document now names itself (@allxsmith/bestax-bulma, bestax-mcp, …) instead of four identical copies of /home/runner/work/_temp/consumer.

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+          artifact-name: bestax-consumer-sbom-${{ matrix.slug }}-${{ steps.install.outputs.version }}.spdx.json
+          output-file: bestax-consumer-sbom-${{ matrix.slug }}-${{ steps.install.outputs.version }}.spdx.json
+          # Same reason as the repository SBOM: one deterministic uploader.
+          upload-release-assets: false


+      # nodejs.org is in the list above because `setup-node` falls back to
+      # downloading from nodejs.org/dist when the runner's tool cache misses the
+      # requested version. That is exactly the kind of host a guessed allowlist
+      # omits, and under `block` it would fail the job before npm ever runs.
+      - name: Setup Node.js


This reverts commit e5edf22.

syft emits the configured source as its own SPDX package, so naming it plainly after the target made the target appear twice: once from the lock cataloger with its registry tarball URL, and once as the source with NOASSERTION. That is why bulma-ui showed seven entries for a five-package closure. The source is now prefixed `consumer-closure:`, which keeps each document self-identifying — the reason source.name was set at all, replacing four identical copies of /home/runner/work/_temp/consumer — while ensuring every actual closure package appears exactly once. The scan-container root (bestax-consumer-closure-<slug>@0.0.0) remains and is inherent to scanning a directory: the lockfile has a root entry and the lock cataloger reports it. It is named and marked private so it reads as the container rather than as a dependency.

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.github/workflows/supply-chain.yml:206

This still says the lockfile preserves digests, contradicting the verified Syft behavior documented immediately above: npm integrity values do not reach the SPDX checksums. The rationale here should refer only to evidence that survives export, such as resolved registry URLs and peer metadata.

      # The point of #424 is already carried by scanning a consumer tree at all:
      # five packages for bulma-ui against the whole dev toolchain. Trading
      # away digests to reach three was a bad bargain.

.github/workflows/supply-chain.yml:133

This enforcement claim conflicts with the repository’s workflow security contract: .github/CLAUDE.md:204-213 still states that nothing enforces egress and forbids citing block as a control until #487 closes. The measured trusted-trigger exception may justify changing that policy, but the guide and workflow must be updated together so future reviews do not receive contradictory instructions.

      # Unlike every other harden-runner comment in this repository, this one
      # CAN claim enforcement, because it was measured. Run 32088629752 (a
      # workflow_dispatch on this branch) reported `EgressPolicy:block` and
      # actually refused a connection: `domain not allowed:
      # raw.githubusercontent.com`, which failed the job with ECONNREFUSED.

.github/workflows/supply-chain.yml:196

npm install has installed peer dependencies by default since npm 7, and this command does not use --omit=peer, so "peer": true does not mean “resolved, not installed here” for this tree. Keep the valid point that the lockfile preserves peer metadata without claiming those packages are absent from disk.

      #   - The lockfile is not misleading about peers: it marks them
      #     `"peer": true`, recording "resolved, not installed here" — strictly
      #     richer than the physical tree.

Local code review, run before merge rather than after. Three real defects and six inaccurate comments. The worst: the consumer SBOM upload had no failure guard. `run:` executes under bash -e, so a 502 or a rate limit on any of eight assets aborted the step before the signature bundles were attached — shipping a release with SBOMs and no signatures, which is Signed-Releases 0 and the exact outcome this job exists to prevent. The `[ -gt 0 ]` guard did not cover it: it tests "no files found", not "upload failed". The comment calling consumer SBOMs best-effort was therefore describing something the code did not do. The lock cataloger globs **/yarn.lock and **/pnpm-lock.yaml as well as **/package-lock.json, and syft was pointed at the whole tree including node_modules. npm always excludes package-lock.json from a tarball but not yarn.lock, so one dependency publishing without a `files:` field would inject its entire dev closure into this document. That is the third instance of this failure class on this branch, after the github-actions cataloger and the javascript group; the tree is now excluded. The installed version is validated as semver before it reaches $GITHUB_OUTPUT and the syft heredoc. It comes out of a published tarball — the one input an attacker would control if a package were compromised — and a newline in it would define arbitrary step outputs and inject syft config keys, silently re-shaping the document. npm will not publish a non-semver version, so this should never fire; it costs one regex not to depend on that. The comments, all the same species of overstatement: Claiming egress-block enforced violated rule 10 outright, which forbids citing it as a control until #487 closes, and contradicted invariant I1 and a sibling comment in this same file. The observation from run 32088629752 stays on the record as an observation; promoting it belongs in .github/CLAUDE.md, updating I1 and rule 10 together. raw.githubusercontent.com now carries its consequences: sbom-action fetches syft's installer from a mutable `main` ref, so the action's SHA pin does not cover the shell that runs, and the host serves every public repository on GitHub rather than being the tight entry the surrounding comments imply. Pinning to the release's version was called "not possible"; it is possible for the one package a release names, and not for the other three. The two concrete failures from resolving latest — a CDN-cached packument stamping the previous version, and a re-run producing a filename --clobber cannot replace — are now stated, with the fix tracked rather than done as a drive-by. Also: the header counts said 5/12/98/94 while the documents ship 7/14/100/95; a comment still named the `bestax-sbom.*` download pattern this PR widened; the sbom job still said per-package SBOMs were tracked elsewhere; and the nullglob justification credited it with covering two literal filenames it cannot.

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.github/workflows/supply-chain.yml:312

This is non-trivial workflow parsing, but it is inline and untested despite .github/CLAUDE.md:189-193 requiring such logic in scripts/*.mjs with a node --test sibling. The current glob is also not a semver check—values such as 1foo.2bar.3baz pass it and the character filter below. Extract the validation/output construction and cover valid prerelease/build versions plus malformed and multiline values.

          case "$version" in
            [0-9]*.[0-9]*.[0-9]*) ;;
            *)
              echo "::error::$PACKAGE reported an implausible version: '$version'"
              exit 1

.github/workflows/supply-chain.yml:100

This paragraph begins with a sentence fragment. Rephrase it so the comparison to the repository SBOM has a subject.

  # against a repository SBOM covering the whole dev toolchain. Reading the repo
  # SBOM as a consumer closure overstates our footprint by about two orders of
  # magnitude, and the genuinely tiny runtime closure is a selling point that
  # obscures.

+            "description": "Scan container: the installed closure of $PACKAGE"
+          }
+          JSON
+          npm install --ignore-scripts "$PACKAGE"


allxsmith · 2026-08-18T11:59:13Z

Deferred work from this PR is now tracked in #530 — five items, none of them silently dropped:

Pin the released package to the release tag. release.tag_name is <pkg>@X.Y.Z, so the one package a release names is pinnable; the other three necessarily stay on latest. Two real failure modes from not doing it are recorded there.
A re-inflation guard, as a floor rather than an exact count. The separable, useful half of the reverted normalization — with the reasoning for why exact counts against live registry closures cannot ship.
Move the testable shell into scripts/ per rule 9, including the semver validation added here.
De-duplicate the artifact naming across the eight places it currently appears.
Scan the lockfile directly rather than walking node_modules twice per leg.

Latest state of this PR, verified on run 32133655876 rather than inferred from a green check:

counts        : 7 / 14 / 100 / 95   (closures of 5 / 12 / 98 / 94, plus scan container and document subject)
document names: consumer-closure:@allxsmith/bestax-bulma, …:create-bestax, …:bestax-migrate, …:bestax-mcp
github-actions entries : 0
runner path leaked     : 0
dev toolchain          : 0
bulma present in the bulma-ui document, with its registry tarball URL

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… path Addresses three review findings on #594, one of which turned out to be a live defect this branch introduced. The scan source is a lockfile-only DIRECTORY, not the lockfile as a file source. Passing it as sbom-action's `file` input worked and did remove the node_modules walk, but a file source makes syft emit the scanned file as a component: every CycloneDX document came out carrying `/home/runner/work/_temp/consumer/package-lock.json`. That is the runner-path leak #529 fixed for SPDX, reintroduced in the other format — and it was signed and attached. Copying the lockfile into an otherwise empty directory keeps the document shape #529 measured while still removing the walk. The guard now reads BOTH documents. An SPDX-only guard is what passed the leak above: the two come from separate sbom-action invocations, every .spdx.json was clean, and nothing looked at the .cdx.json that was not. CycloneDX states the same claims in its own vocabulary, so `pkg:npm/` purls stand in for registry.npmjs.org download locations and metadata.component carries the subject. The guard also asserts the target package is in its own closure at the stamped version. Without it, a wrong install spec or a cataloger dropping the direct dependency produces a well-formed closure OF SOMETHING ELSE and passes every other assertion. Missing required flags now exit 2 rather than 1. The header promised the codes stay distinct so a mistyped invocation is not reported as a supply-chain failure, and the checks were on the assertion path; parseArgs owns them now. The test asserting the old behaviour asserted it against a comment that said the opposite.

…ance The runner-path leak in the CycloneDX documents is NOT something this branch introduced, and the previous commit message said it was. Run 32706731377 — a scheduled run on main from before this branch existed — carries `/home/runner/work/_temp/consumer/package-lock.json` in all four .cdx.json files. It has been shipping in every release since #529, which fixed the same leak for SPDX and never looked at the other format. Switching to a file source moved which path was leaked; it did not create the leak. The cause is that file metadata is cataloged independently of `default-catalogers`, so restricting that to the lock cataloger never touched it. `file.metadata.selection: none` is what turns it off. The exporters disagreed about naming, which is why only one format showed it: SPDX writes a relative `package-lock.json` into its `files` array, CycloneDX writes a `type: file` component with the absolute path. Also drops backticks from the syft heredoc. It is unquoted — it interpolates $PACKAGE and $VERSION — so the existing "`files:`" in a comment was being run as a command and substituted away, leaving "publishing without field" in the generated config. Inert inside a YAML comment; not inert in general.

Deep review finding #1 on #594, and it was right. sbom-action generates and uploads in one step, so the artifact existed before anything had inspected it — and `sign-sbom`/`attach-sbom` deliberately do not require `consumer-sbom` to have succeeded. On a real release that meant a document the guard had already rejected still got signed and permanently attached to the release. The run went red and the bad SBOM shipped anyway, which is most of the value of the guard gone. `upload-artifact: false` on both generators plus one explicit upload after the assertion closes it: nothing is published unless both documents check out. This preserves the degradation #529 designed for rather than trading it away. A leg that fails for any reason now produces no artifact at all, the globs in the downstream jobs expand to nothing, and `attach-sbom` emits its ::warning:: while the repository SBOMs still ship. The alternative — gating those jobs on `needs.consumer-sbom.result` — would have been worse: the matrix is fail-fast: false precisely so one bad leg cannot take the other three with it, and a job-level gate would have done exactly that. Also makes the non-registry message say what to do when the entry is a legitimate git/tarball/alias runtime dependency rather than a leak (finding #3), so the next person to hit it decides about the dependency instead of reflexively widening the check.

The origin loop reads packages and components; SPDX keeps file entries in a separate `files` array that it never saw. syft writes those relative today — a bare `package-lock.json`, which leaks nothing and still passes — but that array is exactly where the absolute path would land if the file config changed, and an absolute path there is the SPDX shape of the leak that shipped in every .cdx.json from #529 until this branch. Checked rather than trusted to stay relative.

Two more Copilot findings, both right. The SPDX subject was exempted by name and never validated, while the CycloneDX one was checked. So an SPDX document could name the wrong version — or omit the claim entirely — while every dependency entry in it was correct, and the guard would pass it. The subject is the document's identity, not a structural detail to skip past, so both formats are now checked the same way and the tests assert the symmetry rather than one side of it. The normalize() comment claimed both documents come from "the same syft run". They do not: they are two separate sbom-action invocations sharing a scan directory and a config. That distinction is the entire reason each document is inspected independently — the leak that shipped from #529 until this branch was in every CycloneDX document and in none of the SPDX ones, which cannot happen if they are two renderings of one result. A comment that overstates its mechanism is worse than no comment, because the next reader stops checking.

Copilot again, and the finding lands on something I wrote rather than inherited: the guard claimed CycloneDX asserts registry provenance "with a pkg:npm/ purl". It does not. syft's lock cataloger builds pkg:npm/name@version from the name and version alone and records `resolved` nowhere in a CycloneDX document — not in externalReferences, not in properties. Verified against a real component from run 33262407242. So that test is an ECOSYSTEM test: it catches a github-actions entry or a bare file component, which is the leak class it was added for, but a git, tarball, private-registry or aliased dependency passes it untouched. Overstating it was the more serious half. A comment that claims a control it does not have is worse than no comment, because the next reader stops checking — and this is the second time on this branch I have written one. The gap itself is closed by a fourth assertion: the two documents must list the same name@version set. Nothing made them agree by construction — they are separate syft runs, which is exactly how the #529 leak lived in every CycloneDX document and no SPDX one — so this is a real check, and it carries the registry claim across: anything the weak purl test would admit has to appear in SPDX too, where downloadLocation and the strong test are waiting. That means both documents in one invocation. Two separate ones could each pass while disagreeing with each other, which is the whole case being closed.

Deep review advisory #1: crossCheck used Array.includes, which asks only whether an identity appears at all. A package listed twice in one document and once in the other therefore looked identical to both listing it once, so asymmetric duplicate inflation passed silently. Counting is the same work and answers the question the function claims to answer. Duplicates within a single document are a WARNING rather than a failure, and the split is deliberate. The doubled-catalogers regression (#529) reds today only because the second copy carried no registry origin; a future duplication that kept a valid origin in both documents would pass everything here, since growth is explicitly allowed. But npm can legitimately place the same name@version at two paths when it cannot hoist, and failing on that would red somebody else's release for a tree shape nobody chose — the false-red generator 48c57d5 reverted and #391/#525 are about. A warning names the count and the offenders, which is enough for a human reading a dispatch to recognise "every package is listed twice" at a glance, and cannot cost a release. Measured before choosing: zero duplicates across all 208 catalogued entries in the four closures of run 33263381732.

* ci: pin, guard and de-duplicate the consumer-closure SBOM Four of the five follow-ups #529 deferred (#530). Item 3 is deliberately partial; see below. 1. Pin the released package to its release tag. `release.tag_name` is `<pkg>@X.Y.Z`, so the one package a release names is now installed at that exact version instead of resolving `latest`. That closes two real failures: the event fires immediately after `npm publish`, so a CDN-cached packument could stamp release 5.12.0 with an SBOM describing 5.11.1; and a re-run days later resolved a newer `latest` and produced a filename `--clobber` cannot replace, leaving the release carrying two contradictory documents for the same package. The other three legs stay on `latest` — a release says nothing about them — which is why the decision is a script matching the tag to its matrix leg rather than an expression. The pin also buys a free assertion: `--expect` fails the job if the tree does not carry the version that was asked for. Pinning is retried, because it trades "resolves the wrong version" for "may not resolve at all" while the packument propagates. Without that, the released leg — the one the release cares about — would be the one most likely to ship no SBOM. 2. Assert the document is still a consumer closure. Nothing checked, so a syft, cataloger or exporter change shipped silently green. Deliberately not a count: 48c57d5 reverted exactly that, because live registry closures drift on somebody else's release and a false-red generator is the cry-wolf failure #391 and #525 already fixed. Instead every catalogued package must resolve to registry.npmjs.org, plus a floor. That catches inflation by its cause rather than its size, and replays both #529 regressions in the test sibling. 3. Move the install/stamp shell into scripts/ with node --test siblings (rule 9). The semver validation guards a value out of a published tarball that flows into $GITHUB_OUTPUT and syft's config heredoc, and there was no way to test it where it lived. This job now needs a checkout; it takes the event ref rather than `main`, because it asserts a property of a document it just generated rather than a third party's claim, and because `main` would make the only available verification — a dispatch on a branch — impossible. NOT done: extracting `attach-sbom`'s upload branching. That job has no checkout and runs no repository code, which is the whole reason it is safe to give it `contents: write`. Adding one to gain a unit test is a worse trade than the test is worth. #530 stays open for it. 4. Build the artifact name once. Four occurrences collapse to one step output. `sign-sbom` and `attach-sbom` glob these names from their own jobs and cannot read a step output across a job boundary, so this is four to one, not eight — what keeps those globs honest is that the prefix is now one exported constant pinned by a test. 5. Scan the lockfile rather than the tree. syft walked every file under node_modules — thousands per leg, twice — to satisfy a cataloger that only reads the root lockfile. The node_modules exclusion stays and is now structurally unnecessary rather than merely correct. None of this is exercised by a PR: the job runs on release, schedule and workflow_dispatch only. Verified by dispatch and by reading the generated documents, which is how every defect in #529 was found. * ci: pass the lockfile as sbom-action's file input, not its path input sbom-action prefixes `path` with syft's `dir:` scheme, so the lockfile pointed at it failed with `not a directory source` on every matrix leg. `file` is the input that takes one. Found by dispatch (33260609524), which is the only way this job is exercised at all. * ci: re-measure the consumer closure sizes from a real run bestax-mcp read 94 against 95 entries, which two structural entries can never produce. The measured closure is 93. Numbers now cite the run they came from and say plainly that they drift, so the next reader re-measures instead of trusting them. * ci: read both SBOM formats, and stop the scan source leaking a runner path Addresses three review findings on #594, one of which turned out to be a live defect this branch introduced. The scan source is a lockfile-only DIRECTORY, not the lockfile as a file source. Passing it as sbom-action's `file` input worked and did remove the node_modules walk, but a file source makes syft emit the scanned file as a component: every CycloneDX document came out carrying `/home/runner/work/_temp/consumer/package-lock.json`. That is the runner-path leak #529 fixed for SPDX, reintroduced in the other format — and it was signed and attached. Copying the lockfile into an otherwise empty directory keeps the document shape #529 measured while still removing the walk. The guard now reads BOTH documents. An SPDX-only guard is what passed the leak above: the two come from separate sbom-action invocations, every .spdx.json was clean, and nothing looked at the .cdx.json that was not. CycloneDX states the same claims in its own vocabulary, so `pkg:npm/` purls stand in for registry.npmjs.org download locations and metadata.component carries the subject. The guard also asserts the target package is in its own closure at the stamped version. Without it, a wrong install spec or a cataloger dropping the direct dependency produces a well-formed closure OF SOMETHING ELSE and passes every other assertion. Missing required flags now exit 2 rather than 1. The header promised the codes stay distinct so a mistyped invocation is not reported as a supply-chain failure, and the checks were on the assertion path; parseArgs owns them now. The test asserting the old behaviour asserted it against a comment that said the opposite. * ci: stop syft cataloging the scan file, and correct the leak's provenance The runner-path leak in the CycloneDX documents is NOT something this branch introduced, and the previous commit message said it was. Run 32706731377 — a scheduled run on main from before this branch existed — carries `/home/runner/work/_temp/consumer/package-lock.json` in all four .cdx.json files. It has been shipping in every release since #529, which fixed the same leak for SPDX and never looked at the other format. Switching to a file source moved which path was leaked; it did not create the leak. The cause is that file metadata is cataloged independently of `default-catalogers`, so restricting that to the lock cataloger never touched it. `file.metadata.selection: none` is what turns it off. The exporters disagreed about naming, which is why only one format showed it: SPDX writes a relative `package-lock.json` into its `files` array, CycloneDX writes a `type: file` component with the absolute path. Also drops backticks from the syft heredoc. It is unquoted — it interpolates $PACKAGE and $VERSION — so the existing "`files:`" in a comment was being run as a command and substituted away, leaving "publishing without field" in the generated config. Inert inside a YAML comment; not inert in general. * ci: make the closure guard a gate rather than a detector Deep review finding #1 on #594, and it was right. sbom-action generates and uploads in one step, so the artifact existed before anything had inspected it — and `sign-sbom`/`attach-sbom` deliberately do not require `consumer-sbom` to have succeeded. On a real release that meant a document the guard had already rejected still got signed and permanently attached to the release. The run went red and the bad SBOM shipped anyway, which is most of the value of the guard gone. `upload-artifact: false` on both generators plus one explicit upload after the assertion closes it: nothing is published unless both documents check out. This preserves the degradation #529 designed for rather than trading it away. A leg that fails for any reason now produces no artifact at all, the globs in the downstream jobs expand to nothing, and `attach-sbom` emits its ::warning:: while the repository SBOMs still ship. The alternative — gating those jobs on `needs.consumer-sbom.result` — would have been worse: the matrix is fail-fast: false precisely so one bad leg cannot take the other three with it, and a job-level gate would have done exactly that. Also makes the non-registry message say what to do when the entry is a legitimate git/tarball/alias runtime dependency rather than a leak (finding #3), so the next person to hit it decides about the dependency instead of reflexively widening the check. * ci: reject an absolute path in SPDX's files array too The origin loop reads packages and components; SPDX keeps file entries in a separate `files` array that it never saw. syft writes those relative today — a bare `package-lock.json`, which leaks nothing and still passes — but that array is exactly where the absolute path would land if the file config changed, and an absolute path there is the SPDX shape of the leak that shipped in every .cdx.json from #529 until this branch. Checked rather than trusted to stay relative. * ci: anchor the semver check at both ends Copilot was right: the shape test was `/^\d+\.\d+\.\d+/`, a PREFIX match, so `1.2.3garbage`, `1.2.3.4` and `01.2.3` all passed a function whose error message says "is not a semver version". A validator that accepts what it claims to reject is the failure .github/CLAUDE.md's checklist ends on. Replaced with semver.org's anchored grammar, which still admits prerelease and build metadata — a regex that reds a real release would be worse than the loose one it replaces. The two checks are now ordered character-test-first, and that order is load-bearing rather than incidental. The anchored grammar rejects everything the character test rejects, so running it first would leave the character test unreachable — dead code wearing the label of the control that matters most here. Running the character test first keeps it live and makes each error name the real problem: a value carrying a newline is reported as an injection attempt rather than as a formatting quibble. Tests assert which check catches what, rather than only that something threw. Rejected-for-the-wrong-reason is how the prefix bug survived the first review. * ci: validate the SPDX subject too, and stop overstating the syft run Two more Copilot findings, both right. The SPDX subject was exempted by name and never validated, while the CycloneDX one was checked. So an SPDX document could name the wrong version — or omit the claim entirely — while every dependency entry in it was correct, and the guard would pass it. The subject is the document's identity, not a structural detail to skip past, so both formats are now checked the same way and the tests assert the symmetry rather than one side of it. The normalize() comment claimed both documents come from "the same syft run". They do not: they are two separate sbom-action invocations sharing a scan directory and a config. That distinction is the entire reason each document is inspected independently — the leak that shipped from #529 until this branch was in every CycloneDX document and in none of the SPDX ones, which cannot happen if they are two renderings of one result. A comment that overstates its mechanism is worse than no comment, because the next reader stops checking. * ci: cross-check the two documents, and stop calling a purl provenance Copilot again, and the finding lands on something I wrote rather than inherited: the guard claimed CycloneDX asserts registry provenance "with a pkg:npm/ purl". It does not. syft's lock cataloger builds pkg:npm/name@version from the name and version alone and records `resolved` nowhere in a CycloneDX document — not in externalReferences, not in properties. Verified against a real component from run 33262407242. So that test is an ECOSYSTEM test: it catches a github-actions entry or a bare file component, which is the leak class it was added for, but a git, tarball, private-registry or aliased dependency passes it untouched. Overstating it was the more serious half. A comment that claims a control it does not have is worse than no comment, because the next reader stops checking — and this is the second time on this branch I have written one. The gap itself is closed by a fourth assertion: the two documents must list the same name@version set. Nothing made them agree by construction — they are separate syft runs, which is exactly how the #529 leak lived in every CycloneDX document and no SPDX one — so this is a real check, and it carries the registry claim across: anything the weak purl test would admit has to appear in SPDX too, where downloadLocation and the strong test are waiting. That means both documents in one invocation. Two separate ones could each pass while disagreeing with each other, which is the whole case being closed. * ci: enforce that each file's contents match the flag it was passed as The --spdx and --cdx flags were a claim about each file; normalize() detects the format from the document's own shape. Nothing compared the two, which made the flags decoration: hand the checker the CycloneDX file twice and every per-document assertion passes, the same-closure assertion trivially agrees with itself, and the release ships an asset named `.spdx.json` that is not SPDX. A `format:` typo on either sbom-action step produces precisely that, and it is the kind of defect the rest of this guard exists to catch. Detected format is now compared against the flag before any other assertion runs. Tests cover the same file passed twice, in both formats, and the swapped pair — each individually well-formed, all three rejected. * ci: compare the two closures as multisets, and warn on duplicates Deep review advisory #1: crossCheck used Array.includes, which asks only whether an identity appears at all. A package listed twice in one document and once in the other therefore looked identical to both listing it once, so asymmetric duplicate inflation passed silently. Counting is the same work and answers the question the function claims to answer. Duplicates within a single document are a WARNING rather than a failure, and the split is deliberate. The doubled-catalogers regression (#529) reds today only because the second copy carried no registry origin; a future duplication that kept a valid origin in both documents would pass everything here, since growth is explicitly allowed. But npm can legitimately place the same name@version at two paths when it cannot hoist, and failing on that would red somebody else's release for a tree shape nobody chose — the false-red generator 48c57d5 reverted and #391/#525 are about. A warning names the count and the offenders, which is enough for a human reading a dispatch to recognise "every package is listed twice" at a glance, and cannot cost a release. Measured before choosing: zero duplicates across all 208 catalogued entries in the four closures of run 33263381732. * ci: detect formats by their own markers, and stop a multi-version false red Round 3 of review, four findings, all real. The target check took the FIRST entry matching the package name. npm can carry more than one version of a package in a closure and nothing orders the document by depth, so a nested older copy emitted ahead of the direct one reported a mismatch while the stamped version sat further down the list. That is a false red on a good release — the failure this whole guard is written to avoid. Any matching entry now satisfies it, and the message lists every version actually found rather than just the first. normalize() keyed on array shape alone, so any object with a `packages` array read as SPDX. An exporter result that had lost `spdxVersion` is no longer a valid SPDX document and is not what the asset's name promises, yet it satisfied the --spdx/--cdx role check and would have shipped. Detection now requires each format's own top-level marker as well as its array, and the fixtures carry the markers a real document has. The SPDX files-array check rejected only ABSOLUTE names. `work/_temp/scan/…` discloses the same layout as `/home/runner/work/_temp/scan/…`, so it now rejects any name carrying a path separator; the scan directory holds one file, so the only legitimate entry is a bare `package-lock.json` (`./` prefix tolerated). Recorded what this guard does NOT defend, per the deep review: the registry-origin assertion is the second line against inflation, not the first. A genuine npm package resolving from registry.npmjs.org and present in both documents passes every assertion here. What prevents that class is the scan shape — a directory holding only the root lockfile — so weakening the scan back to the installed tree on the grounds that the guard will catch it would be wrong. It would not. * ci: stop the rejection message re-introducing what it rejected Copilot, round 4, and it is the sharpest finding on this PR. assertVersion blocks a version carrying a newline from reaching $GITHUB_OUTPUT — and then interpolated that same value verbatim into its own `::error::` complaint. A GitHub Actions workflow command is terminated by a newline, so the message ::error::version contains unexpected characters: "1.0.0 ::error::FORGED COMMAND" emits a second, attacker-authored workflow command. The guard was performing the attack in the course of reporting it. Reproduced before fixing. Both scripts now render untrusted values through a `forLog` helper — JSON.stringify, which escapes newlines, carriage returns, quotes and control characters so the value can only ever be one inert line. Applied to every value that came out of a published tarball, a generated document, or a release tag: version strings, JSON parser messages, SBOM entry names and versions, download locations, purls, file names, subject names, duplicate identities. The same class was live in check-consumer-sbom.mjs, which reports entry names straight out of a document whose contents are tarball-derived. Fixed there in the same pass rather than waiting for it to be found separately. Tests assert the property rather than the wording: no message may contain a raw newline or a line beginning `::`. * ci: sweep the remaining log-injection sites, and require --event Round 5. My round-4 commit claimed forLog was applied to every value out of a tarball or a generated document, and specifically that check-consumer-sbom.mjs had been swept. That was wrong — Copilot found two live sites in that file and both reproduce: readDocument: SyntaxError.message embeds a snippet of the offending source, raw newlines included, and it is printed under ::error::. Identical to the defect fixed in the sibling script one commit earlier. crossCheck: excess() builds `name@version` strings out of document values and main prints each discrepancy, so a CycloneDX-only entry named `evil\n::error::FORGED` reached the log intact. Both now go through forLog. More usefully, the coverage is a SWEEP rather than another list: a test poisons every string-valued field a document can carry — names, versions, downloadLocations, purls, metadata.component, files — drives both entry points and all three crossCheck orderings, and asserts no resulting message contains a raw newline or carriage return. Eyeballing the call sites is what missed these two after a pass that declared the file clean, so the test now does the enumerating. Separately: `spec` now requires --event. installSpec treats an absent event as "not a release", so a malformed invocation exited 0 and resolved `latest` — silently turning OFF the release pin this script exists to apply. A workflow edit dropping the flag would have disabled item 1 with nothing reporting it. --tag stays optional; schedule and dispatch legitimately have none. * ci: count distinct names for the floor, and require an entry to identify itself Round 6, two Copilot findings, both real. The floor counted ENTRIES. Duplicates are only warned about — npm can legitimately place a version at two paths — so three copies of the target package cleared a floor of three while the closure had in fact collapsed to a single package. Worse, symmetric copies also satisfy origin, target, subject and the multiset cross-check, so nothing else would have caught it. Distinct names is what "the document collapsed" actually means. Measured before tightening: the smallest real closure carries 5 distinct names, so the floor of 3 keeps its headroom. A catalogued entry must now carry a non-empty name and version. Without that, an entry with a plausible origin but no identity produced no problem at all, and identities() rendered a missing version as `?` — so when both syft runs omitted the same metadata the floor and the cross-check agreed with each other and a malformed document shipped. Measured before requiring it: 428 entries across the four closures, none missing either field. Deep review's three advisories need no change: the origin check's false-red exposure, the release-only paths being unexercisable, and the three unpinned legs are all trades already argued in the PR body and deliberately kept. * ci: reject unknown flags instead of ignoring them Round 7. Both parsers accepted any dashed option and silently ignored it, which in this script is not a usability wart but another silent-disable path — the third found on this branch. Every optional flag here turns a safeguard OFF by being absent, so a typo that is ignored exits 0 having disabled it: --tagg a release leg resolves `latest` — the pin item 1 exists to add simply does not happen --exepct the installed-version assertion is skipped Both now fail, naming the flags the mode does accept. A flag valid for the other mode is rejected too, since `spec --dir` is as wrong as `spec --tagg`. Fixed in check-consumer-sbom.mjs in the same pass, though Copilot only named the sibling. No flag there is optional today, so a typo would currently be caught by the required check — but that is a property of today's flag list rather than a guarantee, and the first optional flag added would reopen it silently. Round 5 is the precedent for sweeping the sibling rather than waiting for it to be reported separately. Deep review's three advisories need no change; all are documented trades. Its #2 is worth a maintainer's explicit nod rather than a diff read: this job went from running no repository code to executing event-ref code, which is the one genuinely new trust surface in this PR.

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