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feat: implement issue #1267 — Standards sweep and compliance audit accept a stale channel major, so a stub on an orphaned <agent>/v<old>-<tier> is never re-pinned (dev-lead: 5 repos stuck on v1-stable) - #1269

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Problem

Standards sweep and compliance audit accept a stale channel major, so a stub on an orphaned /v- is never re-pinned (dev-lead: 5 repos stuck on v1-stable)

From the issue: Five consumer repos pin dev-lead/v1-stable. Promotion only moves the dev-lead/v139-* tags, so those repos never receive a dev-lead release. Neither standard routine notices:

Risk

Low — changes automation shell logic under scripts/, covered by shellcheck (--severity=warning) and the bats suite.

Test plan

Tests added/updated: test/scripts/compliance-audit/centralized-stub-pins.bats,test/scripts/compliance-audit/dev-lead-stub-channel-sync.bats test/scripts/compliance-audit/stale-channel-major-agreement.bats,test/scripts/deploy-standard-workflows/emit-vform.bats test/scripts/lib/ring-pins.bats,tests/test_seed_repo_template_workflows.bats. Verification: bash scripts/dev-lead-lint.sh (shellcheck --severity=warning) ran pre-commit; the bats suite runs in CI.

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Revert this PR. No non-revertible side effects (no tags, migrations, or external state).

Monitoring

This PR's Lint (shellcheck) and bats checks show pass/fail; watch subsequent dev-lead / pr-review runs for behavioral regressions.

Closes #1267

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…cept a stale channel major, so a stub on an orphaned <agent>/v<old>-<tier> is never re-pinned (dev-lead: 5 repos stuck on v1-stable)
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  • Bug Fixes
    • Workflow checks now flag outdated or wrong-channel version pins and identify the current version for each channel.
    • If version information is unavailable or a channel cannot be resolved, checks report the issue rather than treating a pin as current or suggesting a replacement.
    • Version updates follow channel-specific rules, including when a new major version is available for only some channels.
  • Updates
    • Updated the dev-lead workflow to use the current stable version.

Walkthrough

The deploy sweep and compliance audit now validate ring-managed pins against the highest channel major available for the repository’s tier. Tag-list failures do not produce compliance or guessed pins. The dev-lead template and its test now use dev-lead/v139-stable.

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Channel Pin Validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Resolve current major by tier
scripts/lib/ring-pins.sh, test/scripts/lib/ring-pins.bats
Adds per-tier channel-major selection and shared pin validation. Tests cover tier matching, fallback behavior, release tags, and tag-list failures.
Apply current-major checks
scripts/deploy-standard-workflows.sh, scripts/compliance-audit.sh, test/scripts/deploy-standard-workflows/*, test/scripts/compliance-audit/*
The sweep checks pins and emits the expected ref through ring_pin_current. The audit reports stale pins, unresolved tier channels, and tag-list failures. Tests cover stale and current pins, partial tier rollouts, failed probes, and agreement between sweep and audit verdicts.
Update pin standard and template
standards/ci-standards.md, standards/workflows/dev-lead.yml, tests/test_seed_repo_template_workflows.bats
The CI standard describes superseded channel majors as drift. The dev-lead workflow and its test use the v139-stable ref.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium


Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 685b1

Per-tier pin checks and fail-closed probe handling are implemented, and an unresolvable fallback cannot reach generated workflow output. No concrete merge-blocking risk remains.

Pre-merge checks | Passed 4 | Inconclusive 1

❌ Failed checks (1 inconclusive)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check Inconclusive Issue #1267 implementation requirements are supported by the reviewed changes. ring_pin_current provides the shared per-tier current-major check and fails closed on tag-listing errors. The sweep and… Provide the CI result for the listed Bats suites, including the command that ran them. Confirm that the required suites passed.
✅ Passed checks (4 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Title check Passed The title accurately identifies the main change: detecting stale channel-major pins and re-pinning affected workflow stubs. It is longer than necessary but remains specific and related to the changese…
Description check Passed The description directly explains the stale-pin problem, implementation scope, testing, rollback, and monitoring. It is clearly related to the changeset.
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changes stay within issue #1267. They modify shared ring-pin logic, the standards sweep, the compliance audit, the dev-lead template, standards documentation, and related tests. The reviewed summa…
Docstring Coverage Passed Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 22 functions across 9 files.

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Explanation

Issue #1267 implementation requirements are supported by the reviewed changes. ring_pin_current provides the shared per-tier current-major check and fails closed on tag-listing errors. The sweep and audit use it, stale findings include pinned and expected refs, and the template and standards text are updated. The added Bats tests cover stale, current, partial-tier, bare-pin, probe-failure, and agreement cases. The PR description states that ShellCheck ran, but it does not report a result for the Bats suites or name the Bats command result. The required test-pass criterion cannot be established from the available evidence.


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This pull request updates the workflow compliance audit and deployment sweep scripts to ensure that stubs pin the current channel major specifically for their repository's tier (addressing #1267). It introduces the ring_pin_current helper to unify the compliance verdict across both scripts, updates the dev-lead workflow template to pin the current v139-stable channel, and adds extensive integration tests. The code review feedback recommends refactoring BATS test assertions to avoid generic negation like ! grep -q, which can mask syntax errors, and instead explicitly assert an exit status of 1.

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1. When no channel tags exist, ring_pin_current accepts the bare tier pin, but this extra v-form gate rejects it; the audit reports drift while the deploy sweep treats it as compliant.

Api mismatch · scripts/compliance-audit.sh:1832-1833

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CodeAnt PR Risk: Low Risk

  • The PR appears safe to merge: audit and deployment share a per-tier current-major pin check and handle stale pins and failed tag lookups explicitly.
  • Regression tests cover stale and current pins, partial major rollouts, failed tag probes, and agreement between audit and deployment.

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Existing test changed without justification — human attention needed

The fix-reviews pass changed, deleted, or skipped existing test(s) to go with its fix: test/scripts/compliance-audit/centralized-stub-pins.bats, test/scripts/deploy-standard-workflows/emit-vform.bats. A previously-passing test that disagrees with a change is a reason to question the change, not to edit the test, so dev-lead did not push this pass (#2013).

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- ring_pin_current: warm tier cache in-shell; tier without channel tag is never
  compliant and flagged unresolvable (RING_EXPECTED_RESOLVABLE=0)
- compliance-audit: follow ring_pin_current on bare pins; no unresolvable repair
- deploy sweep: read existing ref from uses: lines only
- tests: refute_output_matches helper, severity-anchored assertion, new tests
- docs: clarify tier vs major-scoped ref in ci-standards.md

Test-Change-Justification: tightens tests added by this PR for #1267, as requested in review #1269 (comment) and #1269 (comment)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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A commit was pushed, but not every requested change was applied. Per requested item:

  • test/scripts/deploy-standard-workflows/emit-vform.bats:357 — applied
  • standards/ci-standards.md:134 — not applied
  • scripts/compliance-audit.sh:1849 — applied
  • scripts/compliance-audit.sh:1830 — applied
  • scripts/lib/ring-pins.sh:384 — applied
  • test/scripts/compliance-audit/centralized-stub-pins.bats:321 — applied
  • scripts/deploy-standard-workflows.sh:399 — applied
  • test/scripts/compliance-audit/centralized-stub-pins.bats:321 — applied

The unaddressed items above still need work.

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Existing test changed without justification — human attention needed

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- Line 1955: Update the bare agent_ref validation in the compliance audit check
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…eneric reusable check

When no channel tags exist on a RING reusable's agent, ring_pin_current accepts
bare tier pins (no v-form). The bare_ok flag is set to track this exception, but
the error reporting at line 1862 was unconditionally rejecting bare pins as drift,
creating disagreement with the deploy sweep's verdict.

Added [[ "$bare_ok" = 0 ]] && guard to skip the drift error when bare pins are
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Fixed in scripts/compliance-audit.sh: Added bare_ok check to line 1862 so the error reporting respects the bare_ok flag when ring_pin_current accepts bare tier pins due to no channel tags existing.

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When uses is a bare channel (e.g., dev-lead/stable), require agent_ref to match that exact pin, rather than accepting any dev-lead stable, next, or ring channel. This prevents split-brain configurations where the stub pins one channel but forwards a different one to the reusable.

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