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  • 🐛 Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue)
  • ✨ New feature (non-breaking change that adds functionality)
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  • 🕳️ Soundness fix (fixes a checker/proof false-negative)
  • 📖 Documentation
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  • New files carry the correct SPDX-License-Identifier (code/config MPL-2.0,
    prose CC-BY-SA-4.0); I did not relicense existing files.
  • Docs are updated, and no public claim now overstates what the code does.
  • I have not introduced a soundness hole (or I have flagged where I might have).

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hyperpolymath and others added 2 commits October 1, 2026 23:26
Three checks were red on most estate PRs because pinned reusable workflows
pulled unpinned things at run time, and the Guix gate contradicted the canon.

- hypatia-scan-reusable: new `hypatia-ref` input, default 51ab6496 (the
  hypatia#895 warn->medium fix). "HEAD" keeps a canary path. Value is
  validated as 40-hex or HEAD.
- governance-reusable: every standards sparse checkout uses
  job.workflow_sha (the reusable's own commit) instead of `ref: main`, so a
  caller's pin pins the scripts too. gh-actions-lock installed --pin v0.1.6.
  The package-policy step ships check-rsr-profile.sh and the gates table.
- check-package-policy.sh: packaging is required only where the
  rsr-profile declares reproducible-build or container (rsr-criteria-v2
  1.2.1/1.2.3/8.1.4 are gated, not universal). Real packaging passes before
  the profile is read; every Containerfile is tried; .clusterfuzzlite/ is
  ignored; a stub guix.scm fails only where the capability is declared; an
  unresolvable profile is named in a warning; the Nix ban still fails
  regardless of profile.

Census over 325 local governance callers: 86 red before, 20 after (all
Nix-only, removed by the per-repo sweep); no previously-green repo turns red.
Tests: governance-gates-505 39/39, with a mutant (REQUIRED forced empty)
killed by 8 cases.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016L7GFo3yGQ2vK9YgKL2wsP
Callers pinned to a pre-2026-10-01 governance-reusable copy
check-package-policy.sh alone, so the resolver is absent by construction.
Measured over the 325 local callers in that lone-file shape: 305 pass,
20 Nix-only fail, same as the full-layout run.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016L7GFo3yGQ2vK9YgKL2wsP
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  • New Features

    • Packaging checks now apply when a repository declares reproducible-build or container capabilities. Genuine Guix packages and active containers can satisfy the checks; incomplete templates do not.
    • Hypatia scans can use a specified revision or the current remote HEAD, with invalid revisions rejected.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Governance checks now use standards matching the workflow revision, and package-policy checks include the capability declarations.
    • Actions-lock verification now uses a pinned version of its verification tool.
    • Missing required packaging warns before the enforcement date and fails on or after it.

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The pull request makes package-policy enforcement depend on declared RSR capabilities, updates governance workflow references, and adds configurable Hypatia scan reference resolution.

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Capability-aware package policy

Layer / File(s) Summary
Capability and artefact discovery
scripts/check-package-policy.sh
The checker resolves profile capabilities and searches Guix and container artefacts, distinguishing stubs and templates from qualifying packaging.
Policy decisions and workflow integration
scripts/check-package-policy.sh, .github/workflows/governance-reusable.yml, scripts/tests/governance-gates-505-test.sh
The checker applies capability-based packaging requirements and retains the unconditional Nix ban. The workflow stages the checker, resolver, and gate table. Fixtures cover declared and unresolved profiles, packaging artefacts, and enforcement dates.

Governance workflow references

Layer / File(s) Summary
Pin standards and actions-lock references
.github/workflows/governance-reusable.yml
The listed standards checkouts now use job.workflow_sha. The actions-lock job installs gh-actions-lock at v0.1.6.

Hypatia scan reference selection

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configure and resolve the Hypatia reference
.github/workflows/hypatia-scan-reusable.yml
The workflow accepts an optional hypatia-ref. The resolver fetches remote HEAD when the value is HEAD, then validates the selected SHA.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller as Workflow caller
  participant Resolver as Hypatia ref resolver
  participant Remote as Git remote
  Caller->>Resolver: Pass hypatia-ref
  alt hypatia-ref is HEAD
    Resolver->>Remote: Fetch remote HEAD with git ls-remote
    Remote-->>Resolver: Return HEAD SHA
  else hypatia-ref is a SHA
    Resolver->>Resolver: Use supplied SHA
  end
  Resolver->>Resolver: Validate 40-character lowercase SHA
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Suggested reviewers: joshuajewell

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to fa035

Valid lowercase container files can incorrectly fail governance checks, while Nix-only repositories with scaffold Guix files can incorrectly pass. Fix both policy decisions before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 8f277

Packaging requirements can now become successful exemptions when the capability resolver is unavailable or cannot read an existing profile. Older workflow layouts are particularly exposed. The updated workflow supplies the required dependencies, and revision pinning reduces uncontrolled changes, but those controls do not cover every failure or migration state.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: An existing profile whose capabilities cannot be resolved is treated as a successful packaging exemption. This weakens the declared reproducible-build/container governance guarantee and creates a rollout gap for older workflows that fetch the updated checker but stage no resolver. The updated co-packaged workflow mitigates resolver absence, but resolution errors still receive only warnings.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The affected security outcome is a repository's packaging-governance verdict, potentially across multiple consumers of the reusable workflow. Exposure depends on caller version and dependency layout. The inspected package job grants contents read; this concern does not establish token privilege escalation, production access or cross-tenant execution.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — Repository-controlled profile data enters applicability through the trusted resolver. A resolution failure before effective capabilities are emitted leads to an empty requirement and a successful packaging verdict rather than an indeterminate or failed check. This is a control-assurance downgrade; removing an intentionally optional capability is not separately characterized as an attack, and no profile-driven code execution is established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The updated package job checks out the caller's event SHA, obtains policy dependencies from standards, moves them outside the inspected tree, and removes the standards checkout before scanning. This prevents standards-owned packaging files from satisfying the caller's requirement and separates policy implementation from caller profile data.
  • observed — Hypatia revision input enters through an environment variable rather than shell-source interpolation. Only a validated SHA reaches the output, cache key and fixed upstream checkout, and cached source must match that SHA. Scanner execution receives HYPATIA_SCAN_PAT or the Actions token, so revision selection remains security-sensitive; SHA syntax validation does not attest the selected code or cached binary.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Unreadable profiles and absent resolvers produce named warnings, but those warnings do not preserve a failing terminal status. Once dependencies are available and capabilities resolve, declared missing packaging again fails after the cutoff. The checker therefore recovers on the next invocation, while repeated unresolved invocations continue reporting successful exemptions.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Keep intentional no-profile applicability separate from unresolved applicability. For an existing profile, use a distinct blocking or explicitly indeterminate result when the resolver or table cannot establish requirements, and retain the co-deployed dependency layout during consumer upgrades.
🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❓ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 inconclusive)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Description check ❓ Inconclusive The description contains only an uncompleted template and does not explain the workflow, packaging-policy, or test changes. Add a concise summary of the changes, explain the reason for pinning and scoping the gates, and record the verification commands and results.
✅ Passed checks (4 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main changes: fixing gates, pinning workflow dependencies, and scoping checks.
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring coverage is 83.33% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 6 functions across 2 files. (2 skipped: 2 u…
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Review comments at @scripts/check-package-policy.sh:
- Line 200: Update the grep check that identifies container instructions so it
matches RUN, ENTRYPOINT, and CMD case-insensitively. Add a lowercase-instruction
fixture to verify that a valid container is not classified as a template.
- Line 236: Move the Nix-only retirement check ahead of the success return for
an undeclared stub, so a repository with flake.nix and a stub guix.scm still
fails after the cutoff when it has no packaging capability. Add a fixture
covering both files with no profile.

Review comments at @scripts/tests/governance-gates-505-test.sh:
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echo "::notice::${GUIX_STUB#"$ROOT"/} is a scaffold stub (criterion 8.1.4)." \
"Not enforced: this repo declares neither reproducible-build nor container."
echo "✅ Packaging not applicable (no packaging capability declared)."
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Apply Nix retirement before returning success for an undeclared stub.

If a repository contains flake.nix, a stub guix.scm, and no packaging capability, this return skips the Nix check at Line 251. The gate passes after the retirement cutoff, although the stub provides no working Guix packaging.

Run the Nix-only check before this success return. Add a fixture with both files and no profile.

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Review comment at @scripts/check-package-policy.sh at line 236:
Move the Nix-only retirement check ahead of the success return for an undeclared
stub, so a repository with flake.nix and a stub guix.scm still fails after the
cutoff when it has no packaging capability. Add a fixture covering both files
with no profile.

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