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The Windows formatter lane compiled mdtablefix from source, taking 66 to 77 seconds on a cold run. It was the last exception to this repository's rule that CI tools come from trusted prebuilt releases, and it existed because mdtablefix published no Windows archive at all (leynos/mdtablefix#459) and because its binstall metadata declared `bin-dir = "."`, which cargo-binstall rejects (leynos/mdtablefix#458). 0.5.1 fixes both. It publishes archives for Linux and macOS on x86_64 and aarch64 and for Windows on x86_64, with correct metadata, so both formatter lanes now use the shared `install-mdtablefix` action, pinned to the commit that widened it to those platforms. The local action goes with the exception, and so does the Windows build directory it compiled into: that directory existed only to keep the compile's output away from the product's tree, so leaving it in the Windows cache entry would archive an empty path on every run. The Windows lane takes its version through the reusable workflow's own input rather than a second literal, so `ci.yml` remains the single place the pin is written. With no exception left, the ownership contract's counting logic becomes an absolute rule. Counting permitted builds made sense while there were some; now it asserts the permitted set is empty, lists both retired tools by name, and rejects `cargo install` anywhere in any workflow or composite action. Checking by name matters more than the count: a count is satisfied by adding a tool back as a newly permitted entry, which is the regression worth catching. `ci_mdtablefix_installer_test.py` is rewritten around the new arrangement. It holds both lanes to the shared action at a full commit SHA and to a version no earlier than 0.5.1, resolving that version through the reusable-workflow boundary rather than stopping at the first expression, and requires the retired action and its build directory to be absent rather than merely unused.
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Reviewer's GuideRetires the final CI source-build exception by installing mdtablefix 0.5.1 from the shared, SHA-pinned action on both formatter lanes, removing the local Windows workaround and cache directory, and strengthening workflow contracts and documentation to prohibit any source-built CI tool. Flow diagram for the absolute CI source-build policyflowchart TD
Workflows[Workflows and composite actions] --> Contract[Workflow contracts]
Contract --> Empty[Permitted source-build set is empty]
Contract --> Forbidden[FORBIDDEN_SOURCE_BUILDS\nmdtablefix and cargo-orthohelp]
Contract --> CargoInstall[Reject cargo install]
Empty --> Fail[Source-built CI tool is rejected]
Forbidden --> Fail
CargoInstall --> Fail
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WalkthroughReplace source-built ChangesPrebuilt mdtablefix installation
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The new policy checks can accept invalid version expressions and miss prohibited source builds in valid Cargo commands or action.yaml files. A previously identified test-import failure also remains unresolved, so these issues should be addressed before merge. Caution Pre-merge checks failedPlease resolve all errors before merging. Addressing warnings is optional.
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Full details: Testing (Overall)Explanation The new tests do not fully guard the version-propagation behaviour described by the pull request. In Resolution Require each formatter install step to use the expected Full details: Developer DocumentationExplanation The pull request adds two Resolution Update the shared-action pin section in Full details: Module-Level DocumentationExplanation The modified Python modules all have module docstrings, but Resolution Update the module docstring in Full details: Testing (Unit And Behavioural)Explanation The new tests cover useful workflow wiring and parser edge cases, but they leave explicit gaps. Resolution Add exact comment, quoted-string, and command-boundary cases. Either make the detector shell-aware and ignore comments/non-command text, or document and test its conservative textual policy. Validate shared-action references as 40 lowercase hexadecimal characters. Add an integration/end-to-end Windows workflow check that runs the pinned shared installer and asserts Full details: Testing (Property / Proof)Explanation The pull request introduces a range-based parsing invariant but adds only example-based tests. The changed Resolution Add a Hypothesis property test for Comment |
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In `@docs/developers-guide.md`:
- Line 876: Update the Markdown prose near the existing “reintroducing a
compile” wording to say “reintroducing source compilation,” preserving the
sentence’s meaning and surrounding documentation.
- Around line 860-861: Update the historical transition sentence in the
developer guide to say the rule became absolute with mdtablefix 0.5.1, add a
comma after “Until then,”, and remove the comma before “because.”
- Line 892: Update the contract summary wording to state that the rule is
absolute and the three contracts enforce it, using the requested direct
phrasing. In the FORBIDDEN_SOURCE_BUILDS sentence, remove the comma before the
essential because clause and preserve the applicable en-GB grammar and triage
annotations.
In `@tests/workflow_contracts/cache_ownership_test.py`:
- Around line 373-375: Replace the literal "cargo install " assertion in the
cache ownership test with token-aware detection that recognizes cargo followed
by any shell whitespace and the install subcommand, including repeated spaces
and tabs. Extend the existing source-build parser and add rigorous tests
covering these whitespace variants while preserving detection of standard cargo
install commands.
In `@tests/workflow_contracts/ci_mdtablefix_installer_test.py`:
- Line 54: Import pathlib as pl at runtime, outside the TYPE_CHECKING-only
block, so the workflow test function’s pl.Path annotation evaluates successfully
during collection.
- Line 96: Update the expression validation in the installer-step test around
the version check: require the installer input to be exactly `${{
env.MDTABLEFIX_VERSION }}`, then validate that the reusable workflow expression
references its `mdtablefix-version` input before resolving it. Add substantive
tests covering rejection of unrelated environment expressions and acceptance of
the expected chained reference.
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The absolute prohibition searched for the literal "cargo install ", which `cargo install`, a tab, `cargo +nightly install` and a line continuation all slip past while running the same command. That left the general rule enforced only for the two tools named in the forbidden list, which is the opposite of what "absolute" should mean. The source-build detector already parsed commands for the by-name check, so the sweep now uses it. Its pattern gains the toolchain selector, and five spellings are pinned as tests alongside three that must not be flagged, `cargo binstall` among them. Also validate each hop before following it when resolving the pinned version. The contract read `MDTABLEFIX_VERSION` whenever the installer passed any expression, so a step switching to an unrelated variable would have kept passing against the old, still-correct pin while the lane received something else. Each hop is now checked for the reference it is about to follow. ci.yml returns to 400 lines, and the guide takes four grammar corrections.
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353-353: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winScan both supported action metadata filenames.
When a composite action uses
action.yaml,workflow_textexcludes it, sosource_build_commands(workflow_text)cannot detectcargo install. Include both supported metadata filenames.Proposed fix
- + sorted(ACTION_DIR.rglob("action.yml")) + + sorted( + { + *ACTION_DIR.rglob("action.yml"), + *ACTION_DIR.rglob("action.yaml"), + } + )Add a regression fixture that places
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In `@tests/workflow_contracts/ci_mdtablefix_installer_test.py`:
- Line 102: Update _resolve_literal to accept only the exact GitHub Actions
expressions `${{ env.MDTABLEFIX_VERSION }}` and `${{
inputs['mdtablefix-version'] }}` at each indirection hop, rejecting composite
expressions that merely contain those references; add tests covering rejection
of both composite forms, including cases where UNRELATED is set.
In `@tests/workflow_contracts/source_build_data.py`:
- Line 23: Update the _CARGO_INSTALL pattern used by source_build_commands() to
accept Cargo global options before install, both with and without an optional
toolchain such as +nightly, while preserving existing command matching. Add
direct regression cases and bounded Hypothesis coverage for valid whitespace and
pre-subcommand option sequences.
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In `@tests/workflow_contracts/cache_ownership_test.py`:
- Line 353: Update the action metadata scan in the workflow text construction to
include both action.yml and action.yaml files, while preserving deduplication
and sorting. Add a regression fixture covering cargo install in action.yaml so
source_build_commands detects it.
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Two more holes in the same guard, both found by review.
Cargo takes global options before its subcommand, so
`cargo --config net.retry=1 install some-tool` is a source build that no
pattern anchored on `cargo install` can see. Adding another alternative to the
regex would have been the third such patch, so the detector now tokenizes:
skip a `+toolchain` selector and any options, then look at the first ordinary
word.
That raises an ambiguity the regex never had to face. `--flag install` is
either a flag followed by the subcommand or an option whose value is
`install`, and telling them apart needs cargo's own option table. It resolves
toward detection: this guards a prohibition, where a false positive is
arguable and a false negative is a hole.
Fourteen spellings are pinned by name and a Hypothesis property covers
arbitrary prefixes of selectors, flags, options with separate values, and
whitespace.
The version resolution had the same shape of defect. It accepted any
expression containing the reference it was about to follow, so a composite
such as `${{ env.MDTABLEFIX_VERSION }}${{ vars.UNRELATED }}` would satisfy it
while resolving to something else. Each hop is now compared whole, with
internal spacing collapsed so formatting cannot defeat the comparison.
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CodeScene flagged the tokenizer as a Bumpy Road: skipping the prefix and deciding the subcommand in one loop nested the option-value case two deep inside a while. The prefix scan becomes `_skip_prefix`, which answers one question, where the subcommand starts. `_install_arguments` then reads as the two facts it asserts: the first ordinary word is `install`, and everything after it is the command. Behaviour is unchanged; the thirteen named spellings and the property still pass.
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The Windows formatter lane compiled
mdtablefixfrom source. It was the lastexception to this repository's rule that CI tools come from trusted prebuilt
releases, and it existed for two upstream reasons: no Windows archive was
published at all
(leynos/mdtablefix#459), and
the crate's binstall metadata declared
bin-dir = ".", which cargo-binstallrejects (leynos/mdtablefix#458).
0.5.1 fixes both, so the exception is retired.
Windows install step, before and after
The before figures are from runs 33891104448, 33887402565, 33882903615,
33890685806 and 33885893633, each logging
no prebuilt release for Windows; building from source. The after figure willbe confirmed from this pull request's own Windows run.
What changed
Both formatter lanes now use the shared
install-mdtablefix,pinned to
c5a54701, the commit that widened it to the platforms 0.5.1publishes.
The local
.github/actions/install-mdtablefixis deleted, and so is the.mdtablefix-builddirectory from bothwindows-gate-cachesteps. Thatdirectory existed only to keep the compile's output away from the product's
tree; with no compile, leaving it in the cache entry would archive an empty
path on every Windows run.
The Windows lane takes its version through the reusable workflow's existing
mdtablefix-versioninput rather than a second literal, soci.ymlremains theone place the pin is written.
The rule is now absolute
With no exception left, the ownership contract's counting logic becomes a flat
prohibition. It asserts the permitted set is empty, so reinstating an exception
is a deliberate policy change rather than an edit; it lists both retired tools
in
FORBIDDEN_SOURCE_BUILDS, checked by name; and it rejectscargo installanywhere in any workflow or composite action.
Checking by name matters more than the count. A count of permitted builds is
satisfied by adding a tool back as a newly permitted entry, which is exactly the
regression worth catching.
ci_mdtablefix_installer_test.pyis rewritten around the new arrangement. Itholds both lanes to the shared action at a full commit SHA and to a version no
earlier than 0.5.1, and requires the retired action and its build directory to
be absent rather than merely unused. Resolving the version needed care: the
Windows lane's value passes through
envand then a workflow input, so acontract that stopped at the first expression would have asserted nothing about
the lane that used to compile. I verified it bites by downgrading the pin to
0.5.0 and watching it fail.
Validation
Sequential, with per-agent target directories:
make check-fmt,lint-python,typecheck,github-actions-lint,markdownlint,lint-clippy,lint-whitaker,nixie,doc-coverageat 99.14%, 267 workflowcontracts, and 2,798 Rust tests. All green.
Summary by Sourcery
Retire the final CI source-build exception by installing mdtablefix 0.5.1 from trusted prebuilt releases on every formatter lane.
Enhancements:
CI:
Documentation:
Tests: