fix(sync): restore delivery and keepalive writer auth

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Summary

• require Maint 71 to use its owner-authenticated client and fail closed instead of rotating cross-repository mutations to a partial-scope service PAT
• accept the documented ACTIONS_BOT_PAT service-account identity in consumer keepalive mark-running
• derive the trusted summary writer from the authenticated PAT login
• reuse trusted PAT-owned keepalive summaries instead of creating duplicates
• keep root and consumer keepalive implementations in parity with focused regressions

Live failures

• Maint 71 delivery run 31904244792 selected SERVICE_BOT_PAT and received 404 while updating chore: sync workflow templates Template#1008.
• Trend_Model_Project#5895 review found that the documented ACTIONS_BOT_PAT equals SERVICE_BOT_PAT configuration was rejected and PAT-authored summaries were never reused.

Validation

• node --test .github/scripts/tests/github-api-with-retry.test.js
• node --test .github/scripts/tests/keepalive-loop.test.js (136 passed)
• python -m pytest tests/workflows/test_workflow_agents_consolidation.py tests/workflows/test_sync_delivery_liveness.py tests/workflows/test_sync_manifest_delivery.py (91 passed)
• python -m pytest tests/scripts/test_check_api_wrapper_guard.py (included in 57-test source-auth validation)
• python scripts/validate_template_sync.py
• python scripts/check_api_wrapper_guard.py --base-ref main
• actionlint templates/consumer-repo/.github/workflows/agents-81-gate-followups.yml
• git diff --check

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• .github/scripts/__tests__/keepalive-loop.test.js
• .github/scripts/__tests__/sync_pr_merge_contract.test.js
• .github/scripts/keepalive_loop.js
• .github/scripts/maint71_merge_sync_prs.js
• .github/workflows/maint-71-merge-sync-prs.yml
• docs/INTEGRATION_GUIDE.md
• docs/WORKFLOW_GUIDE.md
• docs/ci/WORKFLOWS.md
• docs/workflow-updates/maint-workflow-review-2026-02-22.md
• templates/consumer-repo/.github/scripts/keepalive_loop.js
• templates/consumer-repo/.github/workflows/agents-81-gate-followups.yml
• tests/workflows/test_sync_delivery_liveness.py
• tests/workflows/test_workflow_agents_consolidation.py

📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change routes Maint 71 merge-sync pull-request writes through OWNER_PR_PAT and adds regression coverage for exclusive token selection.

Changes

Maint 71 token routing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configure and validate OWNER_PR_PAT routing .github/scripts/token_load_balancer.js, templates/consumer-repo/.github/scripts/token_load_balancer.js, .github/scripts/__tests__/token-load-balancer.test.js	Both token balancer variants assign maint-71-merge-sync-prs to OWNER_PR_PAT. The test verifies exclusive selection for pull-request writes.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 6bf86

The change can still select a readable but non-writable service token for Maint 71 pull-request updates when the owner token is unavailable, causing delivery updates to fail with a 404. Merge should wait until this path fails closed and is covered for both implementations.

Possibly related PRs

• stranske/Workflows#2898: Updates OWNER_PR_PAT selection for the Maint 71 merge-sync workflow.
• stranske/Workflows#2965: Assigns the Maint 71 merge-sync task to OWNER_PR_PAT in the token load balancer.
• stranske/Workflows#3047: Updates merge-sync behavior for the same Maint 71 workflow.

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In @.github/scripts/__tests__/token-load-balancer.test.js:
- Around line 127-143: Add a regression test alongside “getOptimalToken:
reserves Maint 71 cross-repo PR writes for the owner PAT” that omits or exhausts
OWNER_PR_PAT, invokes balancer.getOptimalToken with the same Maint 71
pull-requests:write request, and asserts the documented fail-closed result
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Maint 71 mapping, without falling through to generic token selection.

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Provider Comparison Report

Provider Summary

Provider	Model	Verdict	Confidence	Summary
openai	gpt-5.6-terra	PASS	90%	The merged changes address both acceptance failures. Maint 71 now requires OWNER_PR_PAT and fails before making cross-repository API calls when it is absent, preventing fallback/rotation to a parti...
anthropic	claude-sonnet-5	PASS	72%	The PR adds authentication and trust-derivation changes to keepalive summary writing (root and consumer template) plus a fail-closed change to Maint 71 requiring OWNER_PR_PAT before cross-repo muta...

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openai

• Model: gpt-5.6-terra
• Verdict: PASS
• Confidence: 90%
• Scores:
  • Correctness: 9.0/10
  • Completeness: 9.0/10
  • Quality: 9.0/10
  • Testing: 8.0/10
  • Risks: 9.0/10
• Summary: The merged changes address both acceptance failures. Maint 71 now requires OWNER_PR_PAT and fails before making cross-repository API calls when it is absent, preventing fallback/rotation to a partial-scope service PAT that cannot update Template PRs. The workflow wiring and documentation were updated to use the owner-authenticated credential. Keepalive handling now accepts a trusted PAT login, derives the trusted summary writer from the authenticated PAT identity in the consumer workflow, and recognizes/reuses existing summaries authored by that identity rather than creating duplicates. Root and consumer keepalive implementations were updated in parity. Focused unit tests cover reuse of PAT-authored summaries for both summary updates and mark-running behavior, while the Maint 71 contract test covers fail-closed behavior without OWNER_PR_PAT. The implementation is focused, readable, and introduces an appropriate security posture by requiring the correctly scoped credential for cross-repository mutations.

anthropic

• Model: claude-sonnet-5
• Verdict: PASS
• Confidence: 72%
• Scores:
  • Correctness: 7.0/10
  • Completeness: 7.0/10
  • Quality: 7.0/10
  • Testing: 8.0/10
  • Risks: 6.0/10
• Summary: The PR adds authentication and trust-derivation changes to keepalive summary writing (root and consumer template) plus a fail-closed change to Maint 71 requiring OWNER_PR_PAT before cross-repo mutations, mirroring the acceptance criteria: Maint 71 should fail closed instead of silently rotating to a partial-scope PAT, and keepalive should accept the ACTIONS_BOT_PAT/service identity and reuse trusted summaries. New tests were added in both keepalive-loop.test.js (reuse of PAT-authored summaries in updateKeepaliveLoopSummary and markAgentRunning) and sync_pr_merge_contract.test.js (fail-closed check when OWNER_PR_PAT is absent), and parity changes were applied to both root and templates/consumer-repo copies of keepalive_loop.js, satisfying the 'parity' task. Documentation updates align with the new behavior. All CI workflows (pr-00-gate, pr-11-ci-smoke, selftest-ci) succeeded on the merge commit, giving reasonable confidence that changes are functionally sound in context, though the diff was truncated in the prompt so the actual implementation of maint71_merge_sync_prs.js and keepalive_loop.js core logic (deriving trusted writer, fail-closed enforcement details) could not be independently verified beyond test expectations. Given passing CI, mirrored tests for both new acceptance-driven behaviors, and consistent template/root parity, this satisfies a PASS with moderate confidence, though some risk remains due to incomplete visibility into full implementation code and limited assurance around edge-case handling for untrusted identities.
• Concerns:
  • Full diff was truncated for maint71_merge_sync_prs.js and keepalive_loop.js, so the fail-closed logic and PAT-login derivation for the trusted summary writer could not be fully verified line-by-line.
  • The fail-closed test only checks that run() rejects when OWNER_PR_PAT is missing; it does not fully verify that no cross-repo API calls occur before the rejection (the assertion relies on core.warning being provided but no assertion counts API calls).
  • Reliance on the PAT login matching a hardcoded/expected identity (e.g. 'stranske-automation-bot') across both root and template consumer implementations increases coupling; if the actual ACTIONS_BOT_PAT identity changes, both keepalive implementations must be updated in lockstep, which is only guarded by mirrored tests rather than shared logic.
  • No negative test found for markAgentRunning/updateKeepaliveLoopSummary rejecting an author that is NOT trusted PAT login and not the App - can't confirm from given diff whether untrusted PAT logins are correctly still rejected (though this was presumably covered by pre-existing tests unaffected by the diff).

Agreement

• Verdict: PASS (all providers)
• Testing: scores within 1 point (avg 8.0/10, range 8.0-8.0)

Disagreement

Dimension	openai	anthropic
Correctness	9.0/10	7.0/10
Completeness	9.0/10	7.0/10
Quality	9.0/10	7.0/10
Risks	9.0/10	6.0/10

Unique Insights

• openai: The merged changes address both acceptance failures. Maint 71 now requires OWNER_PR_PAT and fails before making cross-repository API calls when it is absent, preventing fallback/rotation to a partial-scope service PAT that cannot update Template PRs. The workflow wiring and documentation were upd...
• anthropic: Full diff was truncated for maint71_merge_sync_prs.js and keepalive_loop.js, so the fail-closed logic and PAT-login derivation for the trusted summary writer could not be fully verified line-by-line.; The fail-closed test only checks that run() rejects when OWNER_PR_PAT is missing; it does not fully verify that no cross-repo API calls occur before the rejection (the assertion relies on core.warning being provided but no assertion counts API calls).; Reliance on the PAT login matching a hardcoded/expected identity (e.g. 'stranske-automation-bot') across both root and template consumer implementations increases coupling; if the actual ACTIONS_BOT_PAT identity changes, both keepalive implementations must be updated in lockstep, which is only guarded by mirrored tests rather than shared logic.; No negative test found for markAgentRunning/updateKeepaliveLoopSummary rejecting an author that is NOT trusted PAT login and not the App - can't confirm from given diff whether untrusted PAT logins are correctly still rejected (though this was presumably covered by pre-existing tests unaffected by the diff).

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