fix: workspace-clean install, robust Markdown and outputs, fork-PR docs - #279
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…pattern The two-workflow pattern in docs/fork-pr-comments.md and examples/ told Workflow A to upload `result.txt`, a file the action has never written, and did so without `if: always()`, so on the failing runs that need a comment the upload step never ran at all. Workflow B then re-rendered a comment under a title the action no longer recognises as its own, and read the PR number from `workflow_run.pull_requests[0]`, which is empty for fork PRs. Add a `report` output beside `result`: the Markdown report byte for byte, marker to footer, written to GITHUB_OUTPUT in the same heredoc form. A workflow_run job can post it verbatim, so the fork comment is identical to one the action posts itself and a later `pr-comments: true` run adopts it instead of adding a second one. Rewrite the doc and both examples around it: Workflow A saves report.md, result.json and pr-number under `if: always()`; Workflow B downloads by run id and updates the comment carrying `<!-- commit-check-action -->`. Document the output in the README and fix the diagram labels. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018xYa7m3qup5wyN5MaXFgf6
The composite step ran in $GITHUB_WORKSPACE and left `venv/` (63 MB) and fourteen wheels next to the caller's sources, where any later `git status`, linter or `upload-artifact: .` step saw them. It also downloaded the dependency closure twice: `pip download` fetched all fourteen wheels, then `pip install commit_check-*.whl pygithub-*.whl` resolved the twelve transitive ones against PyPI again, so the installed wheels were not provably the downloaded ones. And when `gh` was missing, as on a self-hosted runner, the failure read "Artifact verification failed", blaming the wheel for an absent tool. Work under $RUNNER_TEMP/commit-check-action instead: one `pip download -d` into it, an explicit `command -v gh` check with its own `::error::`, `gh attestation verify` on the single downloaded commit-check wheel, and an offline `pip install --no-index --find-links` of requirements.txt so the verified wheel is the installed one and nothing is fetched twice. The Windows/Linux activation logic and DEB_PYTHON_INSTALL_LAYOUT are unchanged. Simulated in a scratch workspace seeded with README.md: before, `ls -A` showed README.md, 14 wheels and venv; after, README.md alone, with venv and wheels/ under $RUNNER_TEMP and zero "Downloading" lines on a forced reinstall from the wheel directory. Point the README SLSA badge at the current verify block; it linked to line numbers in an April 2025 revision of action.yml that no longer match. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018xYa7m3qup5wyN5MaXFgf6
… the report The failure table wrapped the checked value in a single pair of backticks and escaped nothing. A commit subject such as `fix: handle `None` | retry`, the kind of thing a fix or docs commit says all the time, closed the code span at its own backtick and split the row at its pipe: GitHub rendered four cells against a three-column header, showed a fragment as the value, and discarded the rule link in the fourth column, the one thing the reader needed. The details block had the same class of bug one size up: its fixed ```text fence was closed by any value quoting a fence, and the rest of the report, footer included, spilled out as prose. Add _markdown_code() for the value cell: a fence one backtick longer than the longest run inside the value, a space of padding when the value starts or ends with a backtick (GFM strips it), and `|` escaped, which GFM honours inside a code span in a table cell. _markdown_details() picks its fence the same way over the whole tree. The row for the subject above now reads | Commit 1/1 (5584f46) | ``fix: handle `None` \| retry`` | [CC001 message](...) | and splits into exactly three cells. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018xYa7m3qup5wyN5MaXFgf6
All 32 patches of main.subprocess.run feed back the JSON shape that make_check() hard-codes, so the suite passed with commit-check removed from PATH entirely. A renamed key or a new status in the CLI would have left 191 tests green while the action rendered "—" for every value, which is the class of bug the warn status already caused once. Add TestRealCommitCheckBinary: two run_check_json calls against the pinned CLI, one passing and one failing subject, asserting the key set, the status vocabulary, the rule-id and docs-url shapes, and that a ScopeResult and the rendered report built from the real output come out right. It is skipped with a clear reason when the binary is not on PATH; CI installs it from requirements.txt, so it always runs where it matters. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018xYa7m3qup5wyN5MaXFgf6
is_fork_pr_with_readonly_token() compared head and base repositories, so a Dependabot pull request, whose branch lives in the repository itself, went on to the API with the read-only token GitHub hands Dependabot-triggered pull_request runs, took a 403, and logged "Ensure your workflow grants 'pull-requests: write' permission" — advice the workflow had already followed, on every Dependabot PR. Treat GITHUB_ACTOR == dependabot[bot] as read-only under pull_request (pull_request_target keeps its configured permissions, as for forks), so Dependabot takes the same graceful skip as fork PRs, and word the warning and the job-summary notice for both cases. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018xYa7m3qup5wyN5MaXFgf6
…nd the alternatives The usage snippet's fetch-depth comment did not say what a shallow clone costs: the action falls back to GitHub's merge commit, whose subject passes the default rules, so every PR looks green and author checks are skipped. Spell that out in the comment and a WARNING callout, with the exact annotation the run carries. Add a "Runner requirements" section (Python 3.10+, the gh CLI for the attestation check, PyPI and api.github.com access, git; which wheels are and are not attested; no input skips verification) — action.yml now points self-hosted operators here. Add the "Action, pre-commit hook, or GitHub App" comparison so evaluators can pick, and note under pr-comments that Dependabot pull requests are skipped like forks because GitHub runs their pull_request workflows with a read-only token. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018xYa7m3qup5wyN5MaXFgf6
…ot skip them Reverts the Dependabot special case: since October 2021 workflows triggered by Dependabot pull requests respect the workflow's permissions key, so a workflow that grants pull-requests: write can comment on them. Treating them as read-only would have silenced the comment exactly where it works. The README now says what is true: the token is read-only by default, the permissions key lifts that, and Actions secrets are unavailable. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018xYa7m3qup5wyN5MaXFgf6
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In `@action.yml`:
- Line 82: Update the dependency installation flow around the pip download
command to use a committed platform-aware lock file containing SHA-256 hashes
for every distribution. Apply --require-hashes and --only-binary=:all: to both
dependency download and installation, ensuring the full dependency closure is
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- Around line 61-82: The action’s WORK directory is reused across invocations,
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Update the setup around WORK, venv creation, and pip download to clear the
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populating it, while preserving the existing isolated venv and wheels layout.
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- Line 333: Update the report-writing command to use printf without an added
trailing newline, preserving REPORT byte-for-byte when creating report.md. Keep
the existing REPORT variable and output flow unchanged.
- Line 109: Update the “What it checks” table entry for the action to state that
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Verify the complete dependency closure.
pip download resolves the dependency closure on each run, but only the commit-check wheel receives attestation verification. The action installs every downloaded wheel into a process with GITHUB_TOKEN. Commit a platform-aware lock file with SHA-256 hashes for every distribution, then use --require-hashes --only-binary=:all: for both download and installation.
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Deferred, deliberately. The closure has five platform-specific wheels (cffi, cryptography, pynacl, pyyaml, charset_normalizer), so hash pinning means a pip-compile --generate-hashes lock with every platform's wheel hashes plus a Dependabot change to keep it fresh. That is its own PR. This one narrows the gap it can: the download now takes --only-binary=:all: and the install is offline from the downloaded set, and the README states plainly that only the commit-check wheel is attested.
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@shenxianpeng, understood. The current changes reduce the risk by requiring wheels, installing offline, and documenting the attestation boundary.
The full dependency closure remains unverified, so this finding should stay open for the follow-up PR.
Would you like me to create a GitHub issue for the platform-aware hashed lock file and Dependabot update?
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…y cannot break outputs On a failing message rule the report quotes the commit message in full, and a body line reading EOF is legal. With the fixed EOF delimiter the runner rejected GITHUB_OUTPUT, failed the step and dropped the report output. Each value now gets a per-write random delimiter, the shape actions/github-script uses. Multi-line values and suggestions are split into one tree row per line, like errors and fixes already were, so no user text lands at column 0. The test parser is a port of the runner's file-command loop and raises on a file the runner would reject; a new test writes a value with a bare EOF line, a CRLF EOF line and an EOF line in the suggestion. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018xYa7m3qup5wyN5MaXFgf6
…ly; doc fixes - action.yml removes $RUNNER_TEMP/commit-check-action before use, so a second invocation in one job cannot leave two commit_check wheels for the attestation glob; pip download takes --only-binary=:all: so a platform without wheels fails at download time with pip's message instead of at the offline install. - README comparison table: the Action's title and author checks are opt-in; the GitHub App reports one check run per commit and posts no comment. - Workflow A, docs and README write report.md with printf '%s' so the posted comment is byte-identical to the report output. - Workflow B tolerates a missing artifact (A's install failed) with a notice instead of a red run. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018xYa7m3qup5wyN5MaXFgf6
…r the App A fork pull request only loses the comment: the check status, the annotations on the Files changed tab, the job summary and the result output all work, and pr-comments on a fork is a no-op rather than an error. The two-workflow pattern spent two files, an artifact round trip, actions: read and a smuggled PR number to move information the contributor could already see into a comment, and the report output existed only to feed it. The Commit Check GitHub App receives the pull_request webhook on the base repository and acts with its own token, so fork PRs are ordinary PRs to it: one check run per commit, no workflow file, free on public repositories, which is where fork PRs happen. docs/fork-pr-comments.md now says what a fork contributor actually sees, points at the App, and keeps pull_request_target with its security warning for anyone who cannot install one. The file name stays so links from released versions still resolve. The random heredoc delimiter stays: it protects the result output, whose JSON quotes commit subjects and error text as they are. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018xYa7m3qup5wyN5MaXFgf6
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- Line 22: Update the fenced log block near the existing code fence so its
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Tier-3 batch for the Action: an install step that stops leaving files in the caller's checkout, Markdown and outputs that survive commit text quoting code, one unmocked test of the real CLI, and the fork-PR story told honestly.
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docs/fork-pr-comments.mdand two example workflows described a two-workflow pattern that saved aresult.txtthe action no longer writes, downloaded an artifact named byworkflow_run.pull_requests[0].number(empty for fork PRs) and posted a# Commit-Check ❌body the action never produces. Following it could not work.resultoutput; only the comment is skipped, and that is a no-op, not an error. For feedback on the PR itself it points at the Commit Check GitHub App (base-repo webhook, own token, one check run per commit, no workflow file, free on public repositories) and keepspull_request_targetwith its security warning for anyone who cannot install an App. The two-workflow pattern and both example workflows are gone. The file name is unchanged so links from released versions still resolve.GITHUB_OUTPUTwriterEOFheredoc delimiter. The JSON quotes commit subjects and error text as they are, so a subject readingEOFmade the runner reject the file and fail the step. Found by the adversarial review of this PR.ghadelimiter_<uuid>, the shape actions/github-script uses). Multi-line values and suggestions are one tree row per line, so no user text sits at column 0. The test parser is a port of the runner's file-command loop and raises on a file the runner would reject.venv/and 14 wheels were created in the caller's workspace;pip installwent back to PyPI a second time.$RUNNER_TEMP/commit-check-action, wiped at the start of each invocation so two revisions in one job cannot leave twocommit_checkwheels for the attestation glob; onepip download --only-binary=:all:, thenpip install --no-index --find-linksfrom the verified wheels; an explicit::error::names the wheel when attestation fails. Simulated: workspace holds onlyREADME.mdafterwards, 0 re-downloads, and a planted stale wheel is cleared on the second run.|split the table row. A ``` in the details tree closed the fence._markdown_code()grows the span past the longest backtick run and escapes|; the details fence is one longer than any backtick run inside. Fuzzed with 6000 random values through a GFM parser: every row parses to exactly three cells.commit-checkbinary.TestRealCommitCheckBinaryruns the installed CLI once end to end; skips with a clear message when it is not onPATH.fetch-depth: 0comment only; no runner requirements; SLSA badge pointed at an old SHA's line range.gh, network, git); Action vs pre-commit vs App comparison table; Dependabot note; badge points atmain.No new action output
An earlier revision of this PR added a
reportoutput carrying the rendered Markdown, so aworkflow_runjob could post it as the fork PR comment. That has been removed: an action output is permanent API, and it existed only to serve a pattern this PR now recommends against. The App covers the same need with no YAML.Dependabot
An intermediate commit treated Dependabot PRs as read-only and skipped their comment. That was wrong: since October 2021 Dependabot-triggered workflows honour the
permissionskey, sopull-requests: writeis enough. A later commit reverts that logic and the README says exactly that.Not done here
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