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Garry TanandClaude Fable 5 2f65ed8da6 fix(ci): harden the PR gate — comment-ownership, output sanitization, deterministic lane downgrades (blind review round 1)
Two independent blind reviews of #3698 (one APPROVE, one REJECT). Every
confirmed finding from the reject side, plus the cheap hardening both
reviews flagged.

BLOCKING

1. Sticky-comment hijack. upsertStickyComment adopted ANY comment containing
   the marker, so a contributor could pre-post `<!-- gbrain-pr-gate -->`, have
   the gate PATCH it, then edit it into a fake green verdict. isOwnComment()
   now requires user.type === 'Bot' AND login === 'github-actions[bot]' AND
   the body to START WITH the marker; anything else gets a fresh comment.

2. LLM output injected as raw Markdown. Model-produced reasons[] and
   reviewer_checklist[] reached the comment unescaped — PR-body-driven
   injection could forge headings, a second marker, and live @mentions.
   sanitizeModelText()/sanitizeList() are now the single choke point in
   renderComment(): HTML comments stripped, mentions zero-width-broken,
   leading block markers removed, newlines collapsed, 300 chars per string,
   8 entries per list, both caps self-marking.

3. Lane was purely model-decided. A well-written feature pitch could talk
   itself into merge-lane. The model now RECOMMENDS; applyMechanicalDowngrades
   forces merge-lane -> needs-maintainer on any of: workflow edits, a new
   package.json dependency, a new src/core/ai/recipes/ provider file, new
   KNOWN_CONFIG_KEYS entries, >40 changed files, >400 net source lines outside
   test/, or a src/ change with no test file touched (#3665). The sticky
   comment reports them under "Mechanical downgrades applied".

4. The test file did not pin what it claimed. Added: no gh pr checkout /
   git fetch / refs/pull / pull/*/head in any spelling; exact permissions
   key->value map plus a single-permissions-block assertion so no job-level
   grant re-widens contents; the ${{ }}-in-run scanner now covers folded
   (`run: >`) and chomped blocks, with a guard-the-guard test; and mocked
   end-to-end runGate() runs for close-lane exit 1, marker hijack, sanitizer,
   truncation, refusal routing, NEUTRAL label clearing, label swap, and the
   spend guard.

5. Version-first title regex rejected the documented suffix form.
   `v0.31.1.1-fixwave fix: ...` now passes. VERSION_AT_END_RE no longer
   false-positives on `chore: bump zod (3.25.76)`: it fires only on a
   v-prefixed or 4-segment trailing version, i.e. this project's own shape.

6. Refusal fail-open. stop_reason=refusal exhausted retries into a green
   NEUTRAL — a deterministic way to dodge the red X. Refusal and
   schema-invalid output now route to needs-maintainer with an explicit
   note; only transport failure stays NEUTRAL. Refusal also short-circuits
   the retry loop, since retrying a deterministic refusal only burns spend.

ALSO

7. persist-credentials: false on the checkout step.
8. Dropped pull-requests:write. Everything the script calls is the issues
   API (comments, label create, label add/remove), so issues:write is the
   only grant that is actually needed.
9. Spend guard for the edited/synchronize amplification: the LLM call is
   skipped when sha256(title+body+head_sha) matches the hash recorded in the
   previous sticky comment's state block, and the stored lane's exit code is
   reused.
10. NEUTRAL runs now clear every gate:* label instead of leaving a stale
    verdict behind.

Verified: bun test test/pr-gate-workflow.test.ts 63 pass / 0 fail,
bun run typecheck clean, actionlint clean, check-privacy /
check-no-tracked-symlinks / check-progress-to-stdout /
check-bun-test-timeout clean, plus a live Anthropic smoke of the exact
request shape (HTTP 200, valid strict JSON, injection attempt rejected).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04 10:46:09 +08:00
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