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feat: implement issue #990 — stub-surface-drift on: check contradicts the template's own TODO — workflow_run.workflows must name the repo's CI workflow but is compared verbatim - #991

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Closes #990

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Allow repository-specific CI workflow names without hiding trigger changes

What Changed

  • Compliance checks no longer flag a repository for changing the workflow_run workflow name or adding multiple CI workflow names.
  • Changes to the workflow_run trigger itself, such as removing it or its check_suite trigger, remain flagged.
  • Added tests covering allowed workflow-name changes and protected trigger changes.

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✅ Fewer false compliance failures for customized CI workflow names
✅ Trigger configuration remains protected
✅ Clearer validation of repository workflow changes

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Compliance checks now allow repository-specific workflow names while continuing to detect meaningful workflow trigger changes.
    • Preserved detection for removed workflow triggers and other changes to trigger configuration.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for workflow triggers, permissions, reusable workflows, and secret configuration.
    • Added validation for both permitted workflow customization and flagged trigger removal.

… the template's own TODO — workflow_run.workflows must name the repo's CI workflow but is compared verbatim
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The compliance audit now normalizes workflow_run.workflows values during caller-stub comparisons. Tests add a PR Auto-Review fixture and verify that workflow names may change while required triggers remain protected.

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Workflow surface drift

Layer / File(s) Summary
Normalize workflow names
scripts/compliance-audit.sh
stub_normalize_surface replaces workflows: values with WORKFLOWS during surface comparisons.
Validate PR Auto-Review drift
test/scripts/compliance-audit/stub-surface-drift.bats
Adds the PR Auto-Review canonical fixture and tests customizable workflow names plus detection of removed check_suite or workflow_run triggers.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d87c8

The change can incorrectly reject valid repository-specific workflow configurations and may allow a broader exception than the documented compliance contract. Merge should wait until the exception scope and YAML normalization behavior are aligned and covered.

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes implement issue #990 option 1 by allowing repository-specific workflow_run.workflows values while preserving trigger-surface checks.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The script change and added tests directly support the linked issue and do not introduce unrelated code changes.
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This pull request updates the compliance audit script to normalize the workflows list value under workflow_run to a placeholder, preventing per-repository CI workflow name customizations from being flagged as trigger-surface drift. It also adds corresponding test cases to verify this behavior. The review feedback suggests improving the robustness of the new tests by asserting an exact exit status of 1 instead of any non-zero status, which prevents false positives caused by unexpected execution errors.

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In `@scripts/compliance-audit.sh`:
- Around line 1731-1743: Update scripts/compliance-audit.sh:1731-1743 so
stub_normalize_surface scopes workflows normalization to the intended PR
Auto-Review workflow_run exception rather than broadly normalizing every
workflows key, unless all guarded values are explicitly validated as
customizable. Update
test/scripts/compliance-audit/stub-surface-drift.bats:219-224 and the referenced
standards/ci-standards.md contract to document the same explicit exception while
keeping the remaining on: surface fixed.
- Line 1743: Update the workflow normalization logic around the workflows
substitution in the compliance audit script to normalize the complete
workflow_run.workflows YAML node, including block-style sequences, to the
canonical representation; alternatively reject block style explicitly. Add a
Bats regression case covering an allowed workflow-name change with block-style
workflows, using the existing compliance-audit-tests.yml suite.
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Automated review — APPROVED ✓

Risk: MEDIUM
Reviewed commit: 8a46139fe8d69c7eb4d1481ec4a8855b68875752
Review mode: triage-approved (single reviewer)

Summary

Implements issue #990 (option 1): the stub-surface-drift normalizer in scripts/compliance-audit.sh now collapses pr-auto-review's workflow_run.workflows: list VALUE to a placeholder, so repos following the template's own TODO (naming their CI workflow) are no longer falsely flagged. The workflow_run trigger key and the rest of the on: surface remain verbatim-locked. Six new bats tests cover allowed renames/multi-name lists, protected trigger removals, and malformed value shapes.

Linked issue analysis

Closes #990, which documented a contradiction: the pr-auto-review template's TODO instructs each repo to name its own CI workflow in workflow_run.workflows, but the compliance check compared the on: surface verbatim, flagging every compliant repo (played out on google-app-scripts #540/#541). This PR implements the issue's option 1 — exempt only the workflows: list value from the verbatim compare. The fix is substantive and precisely scoped: the sed rule requires a literal '[' after 'workflows:', so only valid inline-list shapes normalize; 'workflows: null', bare strings, and removal of the workflow_run or check_suite triggers still flag as drift, all verified by tests.

Findings

  • Normalizer change is minimal (one sed rule) and well-documented in the function comment, including the justification that 'workflows:' appears only under workflow_run in guarded surfaces, making the unconditional collapse safe.
  • Prior bot findings (Gemini assertion robustness, CodeAnt malformed-value bypass, CodeRabbit scope-definition concern) were addressed in a follow-up commit; all 5 review threads are resolved and CodeRabbit re-approved.
  • Malformed-shape guardrails: 'workflows: null' and 'workflows: CI' (bare string) do NOT match the normalizer and are still flagged — tested.
  • Secret scanning MCP tool was not available in this session; the gitleaks CI check passed on this commit. No secrets in the diff (test fixture references secret names only in a canonical workflow template, matching the existing standard stub).
  • No security anti-patterns; change relaxes one documented per-repo value in a compliance audit, consistent with the template's stated intent.

CI status

All substantive checks green on 8a46139: Lint, Lint and bats, ShellCheck, CodeQL, Analyze (actions), Secret scan (gitleaks), SonarCloud (quality gate passed), Agent Security Scan, agent-shield, dependency-audit, pr-auto-review, Graphite AI, CodeRabbit. One 'dev-lead / ci-relay' run shows cancelled — it is the dev-lead agent's own orchestration relay, cancelled ~3s in by concurrency supersession on a review event; not a code-quality check.


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Automated review — APPROVED ✓

Risk: MEDIUM
Reviewed commit: 8a46139fe8d69c7eb4d1481ec4a8855b68875752
Review mode: triage-approved (single reviewer)

Summary

Implements option 1 from issue #990: the compliance audit's stub-surface-drift check no longer verbatim-compares the per-repo workflow_run.workflows list value for pr-auto-review stubs. A single sed rule in stub_normalize_surface collapses a flow-style workflows list to a WORKFLOWS placeholder, while the workflow_run trigger key, check_suite, and the rest of the on: surface remain verbatim-locked. Six new bats tests cover allowed renames/multi-name lists and still-flagged trigger removals plus malformed shapes (null, bare string). Change is narrow, documented in-line, and shape-safe (only matches values starting with '['), so invalid YAML shapes still surface as drift.

Linked issue analysis

Issue #990 (closed by this PR) documented a real contradiction: the template's own TODO instructs repos to rename workflow_run.workflows, but the drift check flagged any rename (seen on google-app-scripts #540/#541). The issue offered two policies; this PR implements option 1 (exempt the workflows list value, keep the rest of on: locked). Substantively addressed with regression tests for both the allowed customization and the still-protected trigger surface.

Findings

  • No security-relevant surface touched: changes are confined to a normalization function in scripts/compliance-audit.sh and its bats tests. No auth, secrets, credentials, or workflow-trigger changes to live workflows.
  • The collapse applies unconditionally to all guarded surfaces, justified by the in-line comment that 'workflows:' only appears under workflow_run in guarded stubs — CodeRabbit raised this scoping concern and approved after the fix cycle.
  • Prior bot findings all addressed at head: tests assert exact exit codes, and the regex requires a '[' so 'workflows: null' / bare-string shapes are still flagged (covered by tests).
  • Minor, non-blocking: a YAML block-sequence workflows list (multi-line '- CI' style) would not be collapsed and would flag as drift; canonical uses flow style, so this just constrains repos to flow style.
  • run_secret_scanning MCP tool not available in this run; gitleaks CI check passed (SUCCESS), and the diff introduces no credential-like content.

CI status

All required checks green: ShellCheck, Lint and bats, CodeQL, Agent Security Scan, gitleaks secret scan, SonarCloud quality gate, CodeRabbit, Graphite AI review — all SUCCESS. The CANCELLED/SKIPPED entries are dev-lead dispatch/ci-relay orchestration runs, not test failures. All review threads resolved; CodeRabbit's earlier changes-requested review superseded by its APPROVED review at head.


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