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ci(security): give CI jobs read-only tokens instead of the write default - #1552
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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The workflow now applies read-only permissions to every job, but the semantic-release-validation job is identified as needing write access. CI validation may therefore fail unless that job receives an explicit exception or its requirement is confirmed otherwise. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In @.github/workflows/ci.yml:
- Around line 40-45: Update the semantic-release-validation job to run only for
trusted push contexts, grant that job contents: write permission, and skip or
replace the semantic-release dry-run for fork pull requests where GITHUB_TOKEN
remains read-only. Preserve read-only permissions for unrelated jobs.
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ci.yml declared no permissions, so its jobs inherited the repository
default:
{"default_workflow_permissions":"write",
"can_approve_pull_request_reviews":true}
A job that only checks out the repository and runs tests therefore held a
token that can push to the repository and approve pull requests. ci.yml
was the only workflow in .github/workflows not declaring its own
permissions; the other nine all do.
The distribution was also backwards. `test` and `provider-safety-net`
declared contents: read — but those are the 2-4 second aggregator jobs
that run no code of their own. Their shards, which install dependencies
and execute the suites and are where a compromised dependency would
actually run, inherited the write-scoped default. The lockdown was on the
jobs that could not use it.
A workflow-level `permissions: contents: read` now applies to all eleven
jobs. The three per-job blocks that restated it are removed so there is
one place to read, and a job needing more has to declare it — which makes
the exception visible in review rather than implicit in a repository
setting nobody looks at.
One job does need more, and it is declared inline as the exception the
design intends. semantic-release calls verifyAuth() unconditionally —
index.js:88, not guarded by dryRun — which runs `git push --dry-run` and
so needs push permission. On pull_request it never reaches that line:
index.js:60 returns early with "triggered by a pull request and therefore
a new version won't be published". ci.yml also runs on push to release,
where that early return does not apply. semantic-release-validation
therefore declares contents: write.
Worth recording how that was found. This PR's own run showed
semantic-release-validation passing under contents: read, which looks like
proof and is not: a PR run short-circuits before the check that needs the
permission. The trigger that exercises it is the one a pull request cannot
use, so no amount of green here could have revealed it. It came out of
review, and was then confirmed against semantic-release 25.0.3's source
rather than by reasoning about what dry-run ought to skip.
No other job pushes, tags, publishes or comments. One already sets
persist-credentials: false on checkout for the same reason.
This does not change the repository-level setting, which still grants
write by default to any workflow that omits a permissions block. Narrowing
that is a repository-settings decision, not a code one, and worth doing
separately.
Verified: job set, matrices, step counts and the four required contexts
are all unchanged; every job now resolves to contents: read with no
override.
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In @.github/workflows/ci.yml:
- Around line 40-43: Update the workflow permission comment to identify
semantic-release-validation as the exception requiring contents: write, while
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Four incidents in one session produced confident wrong answers, and all four are the same mistake: treating the absence of a signal as a signal. None of it was written down anywhere, so the next session repeats it — CLAUDE.md had zero occurrences of CANCELLED, precondition, statusCheckRollup or cancel-in-progress before this. CANCELLED is not a failure. Superseded runs report it, and ci.yml cancels its own in-progress runs, so an amend-and-force-push routinely leaves cancelled runs behind; a check written as conclusion != "SUCCESS" alarms on healthy history. Three runs fired for one SHA in 28 seconds on #1552 and the first was cancelled by the second. A check that has not appeared has not passed. pending == 0 is true both when everything finished and when nothing has started, and GitHub takes a while to register check runs. A pull request polled inside that window looks green on eight unrelated checks while four of the five required contexts are simply missing — which is exactly what happened on #1569. Required checks must be counted as distinct contexts. The Single Commit Policy context appears twice in statusCheckRollup, verified again while writing this, so a comparison written as == 5 fails on a green pull request. gh pr checks --json returns empty in some environments. It exits zero and prints nothing, which reads as "no failures". The general rule is worth more than the four instances, so it is stated last: an assertion about something NOT happening needs a precondition proving the thing under test actually ran. A probe once reported "socket still open" for a Bedrock request on a run where the request never left the machine, and three successive probe designs agreed with each other while all being wrong for the same unstated reason. The jq snippet in the section was run against a live pull request before being committed — it returns 5 on a fully-reported PR, and the duplicate context it warns about was confirmed at 2. Documentation that ships a command nobody ran is the same class of defect this section is about. Additive only: 47 lines, 0 removed, no other part of CLAUDE.md touched.
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Closes the review threads left open on merged PRs against the CI workflows, the repo's gate scripts and a few dev tools. Each change is the smallest one that closes its finding. Behaviour changes are covered by a new suite (test/continuous-test-suite-tooling-scripts.ts, `pnpm run test:tooling-scripts`) and by additions to the provider-structure and provider-descriptors suites; every new test was run red against the unfixed source first. Workflows - ci.yml: persist-credentials: false on the seven checkouts that never push, semantic-release-validation keeps its token (T3790294038, #1335). The permissions comment names that job as the one contents: write exception (T3858986829-a, #1552). The pinned suite counts and the 373-assertion figure are gone (T3869180755-f1, #1580). The new tooling-scripts suite is added to extended-suites; its weight (100) is an estimate, not a CI median. - release.yml: the ffmpeg note no longer says build-check gates this workflow (T3810295618-a, #1360). - single-commit-enforcement.yml: one SKIP_RE shared by both greps, printf instead of echo, and the guidance names the push/pull_request workflows rather than "every workflow" (T3813387872-printf-regex, T3813416696-overstated-guidance, #1364). Config and lint docs - config/models.json: Opus 4.5 uses the real snapshot id 20251101 for anthropic, bedrock and vertex instead of the 20251124 launch date (T3816077440, #1375). provider-structure now checks every Claude id in the file against the model enums. - eslint-rules/index.cjs: header lists e2e-tests-only, no-inline-secret-regex, provider-typed-errors and provider-base-class (T3801758166-1, #1344). Scripts - build-validations.ts: fails when typedoc.json carries an unanchored `**/<dir>/**` exclude, which drops every file under a checkout whose path contains that directory (T4042344752-guard, #1723). - check-banned-deps.ts: scans each file as a whole, so import(), require() and `from` followed by a specifier on the next line are found, and a `//` inside a string no longer hides the rest of the line (T3956062753, #1662). Files in the repo root and .mts/.cts are scanned too (T3956062775, #1662). - check-shipped-types.ts: the declarations under dist/ must equal the set the source tree emits, so a partial or stale build above the 100-file floor fails (PF-T3927528338, #1627). A wildcard export is matched against the whole pattern, including a `*` in a directory component (T3931686738-wildcard-match, #1632). - codex-replay-listener.ts: the tool-call script names `replay_tool` instead of `exec`, which Codex declares as a custom tool and which raised a Fatal "incompatible payload" error (F1-T4087477953-custom-tool-shape, #1783); reproduced and cleared against codex-cli 0.160.0. --requests counts served /responses turns, so a 404 probe cannot shut the listener down first (F2-T4087477985-requests-limit-counts-404s, #1783). - commit-validation.ts: execFileSync("git", [...]) instead of a shell string; behaviour unchanged (T3838161513-b, #1499). - migration-symbol-diff.mjs: this/super-rooted paths keep their full name, and tagged templates, obj["name"](), super() and import() are tracked; the header says it follows calls (T3835058026-residual, PF-T3833252257, #1448). - tools/automation/environmentManager.ts: credential-free providers count as configured only when the .env sets one of their variables, the score no longer divides by the size of the catalog, and the report lists the configured providers plus one count instead of every missing one (T3792794348, T3792807279, #1337). Not done, on purpose - The skip-checks trailer in the single-commit grep (optional in the finding). - Checkouts in workflows other than ci.yml: the findings named only ci.yml. - migration-symbol-diff still does not record a function passed by reference (`items.forEach(handler)`); the header now says so. Pre-existing, not touched: test:dynamic fails its five live cases without provider credentials, identically with config/models.json reverted.
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ci.ymldeclared nopermissions, so its jobs inherited the repository default:{"default_workflow_permissions":"write","can_approve_pull_request_reviews":true}A job that only checks out the repository and runs tests therefore held a token that can push to the repository and approve pull requests.
ci.ymlwas the only workflow in.github/workflowsnot declaring its own permissions — the other nine all do.The distribution was backwards
test(aggregator, ~2s)contents: readprovider-safety-net(aggregator, ~4s)contents: readtest-shardsprovider-safety-net-shardssecurity-suites,build-check,extended-suites, …The two jobs that were locked down are the ones that run nothing. Their shards — where a compromised dependency would actually execute — held the write-scoped token.
Change
A workflow-level
permissions: contents: readnow applies to all eleven jobs. The three per-job blocks that merely restated it are removed, so there is one place to read and a job needing more must declare it — making the exception visible in review rather than implicit in a repository setting nobody looks at.Nothing needs more today: no job pushes, tags, publishes or comments. The single
GITHUB_TOKENconsumer issemantic-release --dry-run, restricted tocommit-analyzerandrelease-notes-generator, so it never reaches the GitHub plugin. One job already setspersist-credentials: falseon checkout for the same reason.What this does not do
It does not change the repository-level setting, which still grants write by default to any workflow omitting a
permissionsblock. Narrowing that is a repository-settings decision rather than a code one, and worth doing separately — this PR removes the exposure forci.ymlspecifically.Verification
Job set, matrices, step counts and the four required contexts all unchanged; every job now resolves to
contents: readwith no override.Summary by CodeRabbit