Add SITE_AUTH_TOKEN_ID/SITE_AUTH_TOKEN Secret Handoff to Deploy-Site Verify Hook

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deploy-site-task.yml's verify hook invocation had no path to forward a secret — only GitHub Environment variables (SITE_BASE_URL, DEPLOY_SSH_USER, DEPLOY_SSH_HOST) crossed into any hook invocation. Blog's checks/check-live-urls.sh needs a PANGOLIN_ACCESS_TOKEN_ID/PANGOLIN_ACCESS_TOKEN pair to open its staging environment's auth gate, which was blocking Blog's deploy-site-task.yml adoption (tracked in docs/reusable-workflows.md's Stage 5 rollout).

Change

• Declares an optional, generic SITE_AUTH_TOKEN_ID/SITE_AUTH_TOKEN secret pair (required: false) under on.workflow_call.secrets.
• Forwards both as env: on the verify hook invocation only, the same mechanism the task already uses for GitHub Environment variables (plain env:, not a declared with: input, so no other mode needs to declare/pass an input it doesn't use).
• Names no vendor on the hub task: Blog's own caller maps its PANGOLIN_ACCESS_TOKEN_ID/PANGOLIN_ACCESS_TOKEN secrets to these generic names in its own secrets: block.
• Updates docs/reusable-workflows.md's hook-contract prose and ticks the Stage 5 rollout checklist item that tracked this decision.
• Removes the now-resolved TODO.md item.

Fixes #929

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Deploy workflows can now perform token-gated live-site verification using optional site authentication credentials.
  • Authentication credentials must be supplied together and are used only during verification.

• Documentation

  • Added guidance for configuring authentication during deploy verification.
  • Clarified secret policies and how to map site authentication credentials for deployment.

• Chores

  • Removed the completed task related to forwarding authentication credentials during deployment.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The reusable deploy workflow now accepts optional authentication token secrets and forwards them only to the verify hook. It validates that the pair is complete. Documentation describes the generic handoff and Blog’s secret mapping. Obsolete TODO entries are removed.

Changes

Deploy verification authentication

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Workflow token contract and forwarding .github/workflows/deploy-site-task.yml	The workflow declares optional SITE_AUTH_TOKEN_ID and SITE_AUTH_TOKEN secrets, validates them as a pair, and passes them to the verify invocation.
Adoption documentation and TODO cleanup docs/reusable-workflows.md, TODO.md	The documentation describes the token policy and Blog mapping. Obsolete TODO details and the issue link are removed.

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

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to fb390

The deployment workflow cannot reliably use the new authentication handoff because the documented caller configuration is rejected by GitHub and environment-bound secrets may override the values needed by deployment and verification; incomplete mappings and inconsistent contract documentation add further failure risk. Merge should wait until the secret boundary and caller configuration are corrected.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant DeployWorkflow
  participant VerifyHook
  Caller->>DeployWorkflow: Provide SITE_AUTH_TOKEN_ID and SITE_AUTH_TOKEN
  DeployWorkflow->>DeployWorkflow: Validate both secrets or neither
  DeployWorkflow->>VerifyHook: Invoke verify with the token pair

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the addition of generic authentication secrets for the deploy-site verify hook.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The workflow adds the optional secret pair and forwards it only to verify, satisfying issue #929.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The documentation and TODO updates directly support the secret handoff and issue #929 rollout.
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Forward optional auth token secrets to deploy-site verify hook

✨ Enhancement 📝 Documentation ⚙️ Configuration changes 🕐 20-40 Minutes

AI Description

• Add optional SITE_AUTH_TOKEN_ID/SITE_AUTH_TOKEN secrets to deploy-site-task workflow_call.
• Forward token secrets only into the deploy verify hook via env variables.
• Update reusable-workflows docs and remove the resolved TODO tracker for #929.

Diagram

graph TD
  A["Site repo caller"] --> B["deploy-site-task.yml"] --> C["deploy hook (verify)"] --> D["site verify script"]
  E[("GitHub Environment")]
  F[("GitHub Secrets")]
  B --> E
  B --> F
  E --> C
  F --> C

  subgraph Legend
    direction LR
    _wf["Workflow"] ~~~ _act["Action/Hook"] ~~~ _db[("Secrets/Vars store")]
  end

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High-Level Assessment

The following are alternative approaches to this PR:

1. Add verify-only `with:` inputs for auth tokens

• ➕ Makes the contract explicit as typed inputs rather than implicit env
• ➕ Easier to document/validate input presence and naming
• ➖ Composite-action input declaration constraints force other modes to declare/pass unused inputs
• ➖ Adds boilerplate and coupling across build/prune/verify invocations

2. Use `secrets: inherit` and read secrets directly in the hook

• ➕ Avoids adding new secrets to the hub workflow_call contract
• ➕ Allows downstream repos to keep their native secret names
• ➖ Not viable across repositories in the intended hub/task usage
• ➖ Reduces explicitness of which secrets are required/expected

Recommendation: Keep the PR’s approach: declare an optional generic secret pair and pass it only to verify via env. This preserves a vendor-agnostic hub contract, avoids composite-action input pitfalls, and limits secret exposure to the single mode that needs it.

Files changed (3) +15 / -10

Documentation (2) +4 / -10

TODO.mdRemove resolved tracker for hook secret forwarding (#929) +0/-7

Remove resolved tracker for hook secret forwarding (#929)

• Deletes the TODO item that tracked adding a secret-forwarding path to deploy-site hook invocations and removes the now-unused issue link reference.

TODO.md

reusable-workflows.mdDocument verify-mode optional auth token handoff and mark Stage 5 item done +4/-3

Document verify-mode optional auth token handoff and mark Stage 5 item done

• Updates the deploy-site reusable workflow contract documentation to include the optional SITE_AUTH_TOKEN_ID/SITE_AUTH_TOKEN secret pair for verify. Marks the previously-blocking rollout checklist item as complete and adds an issue-929 reference.

docs/reusable-workflows.md

Other (1) +11 / -0

deploy-site-task.ymlAdd optional auth token secrets and forward them to verify hook +11/-0

Add optional auth token secrets and forward them to verify hook

• Declares optional SITE_AUTH_TOKEN_ID and SITE_AUTH_TOKEN under workflow_call.secrets. Forwards both secrets as env vars only on the verify-mode deploy hook invocation, keeping other modes unchanged.

.github/workflows/deploy-site-task.yml

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Pull request overview

Adds a generic, optional secret handoff for token-gated site verification checks by extending the deploy-site-task.yml reusable workflow contract, and updates the rollout documentation to reflect the resolved gap tracked in #929.

Changes:

• Declares optional SITE_AUTH_TOKEN_ID / SITE_AUTH_TOKEN under on.workflow_call.secrets and forwards them into the deploy hook’s verify invocation via env.
• Updates docs/reusable-workflows.md to document the new verify-hook secret contract and marks the Stage 5 rollout item complete.
• Removes the now-resolved TODO tracker entry for the verify secret-forwarding gap.

File summaries

File	Description
.github/workflows/deploy-site-task.yml	Adds optional auth-token secrets to the reusable workflow interface and forwards them to the verify hook.
docs/reusable-workflows.md	Updates the deploy-site hook contract prose and Stage 5 rollout checklist to reflect the new secret handoff.
TODO.md	Removes the resolved tracking item and its issue reference.

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• Comments generated: 1
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Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/deploy-site-task.yml:
- Around line 12-14: Validate SITE_AUTH_TOKEN_ID and SITE_AUTH_TOKEN before the
build/deployment steps, requiring both values together or neither; fail early
with a clear error for a partial pair so the verify hook is never invoked with
incomplete authentication.

In `@docs/reusable-workflows.md`:
- Around line 550-556: Update the reusable-workflow rule in the documented
workflow-call secrets guidance to distinguish required secrets from optional
secrets, allowing the optional SITE_AUTH_TOKEN_ID and SITE_AUTH_TOKEN pair while
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1. Docs use change-framing tense ✓ Resolved 📜 Skill insight ✧ Quality

Description

New documentation text uses change-framing language like gained and now declares/forwards
instead of stating current behavior in present tense. This violates the Markdown present-tense
requirement.

Code

docs/reusable-workflows.md[217]

+- [x] The `deploy` hook's `verify` mode gained a same-shaped secret handoff as `DEPLOY_SSH_PRIVATE_KEY` above it, for a repo that gates a non-production environment behind a token, such as Blog's `PANGOLIN_ACCESS_TOKEN_ID`/`PANGOLIN_ACCESS_TOKEN` pair for `checks/check-live-urls.sh`. `deploy-site-task.yml` now declares an optional, generic `SITE_AUTH_TOKEN_ID`/`SITE_AUTH_TOKEN` pair and forwards it into the `verify` invocation as `env:`, the named-pair shape from [issue #929][issue-929], so the hub task itself names no vendor. Blog's own adoption below still maps its Pangolin-named secrets to these generic ones.

Relevance

●●● Strong

Recent documentation precedents consistently accept precise prose-convention rewrites; no rejection
precedent supports retaining change-framing tense.

PR-#383
PR-#822

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Evidence

PR Compliance ID 2826805 requires Markdown prose to be written in present tense rather than
change-framing. The updated checklist bullet and deploy-site section use phrases like gained and
now declares / now forwards, which narrate the change rather than stating the current behavior.

docs/reusable-workflows.md[217-217]
docs/reusable-workflows.md[556-556]
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## Issue description
The documentation uses past-tense or change-framing wording (for example, `gained`, `now declares`, `now forwards`).

## Issue Context
Docs should describe current behavior in present tense, not narrate the change (except in changelogs/commit messages/PR descriptions).

## Fix Focus Areas
- docs/reusable-workflows.md[217-217]
- docs/reusable-workflows.md[556-556]

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2. Token pair not validated ✓ Resolved 🐞 Bug ☼ Reliability

Description

The workflow declares SITE_AUTH_TOKEN_ID and SITE_AUTH_TOKEN as an optional pair but forwards both
to the verify hook without enforcing “both set or neither set”. A caller can accidentally pass only
one secret (the other becomes empty) and the verify hook will fail later with a confusing auth error
instead of an early, actionable configuration failure.

Code

.github/workflows/deploy-site-task.yml[R237-238]

+          SITE_AUTH_TOKEN_ID: ${{ secrets.SITE_AUTH_TOKEN_ID }}
+          SITE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SITE_AUTH_TOKEN }}

Relevance

●● Moderate

The reliability concern is plausible, but history provides no close precedent for validating
optional secret pairs.

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence

The workflow’s comments describe the values as an “auth pair”, but they are declared independently
as required: false and then forwarded directly to the verify hook, so a caller can supply only one
and the other will be empty at runtime.

.github/workflows/deploy-site-task.yml[37-42]
.github/workflows/deploy-site-task.yml[232-241]

Agent prompt

The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution

## Issue description
The reusable workflow treats `SITE_AUTH_TOKEN_ID`/`SITE_AUTH_TOKEN` as a logical pair, but it currently allows a caller to supply only one of them. Because the verify hook receives both env vars regardless, the hook may see an empty counterpart and fail late (after deploy) with a non-obvious auth/config error.

## Issue Context
The workflow declares both secrets as optional and forwards them via `env:` only for the verify invocation.

## Fix Focus Areas
- .github/workflows/deploy-site-task.yml[37-42]
- .github/workflows/deploy-site-task.yml[232-241]

## Suggested fix
Add an explicit pre-verify assertion step (or incorporate into an existing assertion step) that enforces:
- either both `SITE_AUTH_TOKEN_ID` and `SITE_AUTH_TOKEN` are non-empty
- or both are empty

Fail with a clear `::error::` message when exactly one is set.
Optionally, also avoid passing these env vars to the hook when both are empty (if you choose to restructure via a conditional step or separate verify steps).

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3. Verbose workflow comment block ✓ Resolved 📜 Skill insight ⚙ Maintainability

Description

New multi-line comment prose was added to the workflow header and secret section, exceeding the
one-line default expectation for comments and expanding a file header summary block. This increases
maintenance cost and violates the repository comment conventions.

Code

.github/workflows/deploy-site-task.yml[R12-14]

+# The verify invocation also carries an optional SITE_AUTH_TOKEN_ID/SITE_AUTH_TOKEN secret pair the same way, for a hook whose live check sits behind its own token-gated auth, such as a non-production environment fronted by an access-controlled proxy.
+# Both are required: false, since most callers need no such gate.
+# A declared with: input was rejected for the same reason the vars above are not one: every mode's hook invocation would then need to declare and pass an input only verify uses.

Relevance

●● Moderate

Recent workflow-comment precedent accepts clarifying multi-line comments; no close rejection
precedent for this exact verbosity rule.

PR-#621

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Evidence

PR Compliance ID 2826677 limits comments to one line by default (second line only for genuine
constraints), and PR Compliance ID 2826694 prohibits file header summary blocks. The added comment
lines at the top of the workflow and in the secrets section introduce new multi-line prose blocks
rather than concise, single-line intent/constraint comments.

.github/workflows/deploy-site-task.yml[12-14]
.github/workflows/deploy-site-task.yml[37-38]
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## Issue description
The workflow gained additional multi-line comment prose in the file header and secrets section.

## Issue Context
Repository policy expects comments to be one line by default (with a second line only for genuine constraints) and prohibits file header summary blocks.

## Fix Focus Areas
- .github/workflows/deploy-site-task.yml[12-14]
- .github/workflows/deploy-site-task.yml[37-38]

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71-71: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Use a supported secret boundary for reusable workflows

The caller’s deploy job combines environment with reusable-workflow uses, which GitHub rejects. The called workflow’s environment binding also overrides any same-named caller secret, including DEPLOY_SSH_PRIVATE_KEY and the optional auth pair. Use repository or organization secrets through the caller’s secrets: map without the conflicting environment binding, or redesign the environment-secret handoff.

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In `@docs/reusable-workflows.md` at line 71, Update the deploy job and its called
reusable workflow to avoid combining environment with workflow uses, since
GitHub does not support that boundary and it can override caller-provided
secrets. Pass DEPLOY_SSH_PRIVATE_KEY and the optional
SITE_AUTH_TOKEN_ID/SITE_AUTH_TOKEN explicitly through the caller’s secrets map
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