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The current shared test workflow fails during Composer Audit because phpro/grumphp-shim is blocked by the repository's allow-plugins policy. The failure happens before PHPUnit runs: https://github.com/php-fast-forward/clock/actions/runs/37701269713/job/113065058121.

This caller change enables the required per-version commit statuses and supplies contents: read, actions: read, and statuses: write for the isolated publisher introduced by php-fast-forward/dev-tools#362. Dependabot runs do not request status publication. Unneeded contents/pages/id-token write permissions are removed.

The plugin-free Composer Audit and dependency-health corrections live in php-fast-forward/dev-tools#362. This PR is the repository-specific companion, separate from the Dash artwork PR #1. Merge the actions-read-only compatibility PRs config#5, enum#6 and framework#10 first, then dev-tools#362, and only then this caller. This prevents granting a status-write token to the old test implementation. Until the shared correction reaches main, this PR's checks still reproduce the Composer failure.

The standalone test-statuses.yml lifecycle workflow supplies Dependabot statuses from the default branch. It accepts same-repository Dependabot push requests, starts and completions; revalidates repository, source SHA, workflow path/name/ID and attempt through the GitHub API; and rejects stale runs and attempts. Current active attempts receive pending statuses, including reruns. Completed attempts publish actual conclusions only after all three jobs validate. Delayed start events read fresh API state and cannot overwrite a completed result with pending. It has no checkout, artifact/cache download, dependency installation or caller-code execution. This repository requires the bare PHP 8.3/8.4/8.5 statuses; pull-request merge runs and fork PRs are excluded. The copy matches the central resource in dev-tools#362 and becomes active only on the default branch.

The final lifecycle publisher passed 130 scenarios / 1,130 assertions on each of PHP 8.4 and 8.5 (260 executions / 2,260 assertions total). Verified failed/canceled runs with no matrix receive terminal failures; full reruns cannot reuse old successes after a failed resolver; legitimate partial/dependency-only retries retain prior tests. Extra observed PHP versions are rejected and Run metadata is rechecked before each POST. The canonical template is now optional under resources/github-actions-optional, so dev-tools:sync does not install it in incompatible customized consumers. The configured complete version list is explicit for these twelve audited repositories. Actual API contracts were confirmed. Real lifecycle publication remains pending default-branch installation.

Validation: actionlint and git diff --check pass. The publisher permission contract was also tested in real GitHub Actions: the same pinned reusable workflow with actions: none fails at startup (https://github.com/php-fast-forward/dev-tools/actions/runs/37701792651), while actions: read succeeds (https://github.com/php-fast-forward/dev-tools/actions/runs/37702214640). No package code, dependency allowlist, or branch protection is changed.

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    • Automated test workflows now use more limited access permissions. Required status reporting remains enabled for standard runs and disabled for automated dependency updates.
    • Added status reporting for automated dependency-update test runs, with results reported for each configured PHP version. Superseded runs are skipped, and incomplete or ambiguous results are not reported as successful.
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The test workflow now uses narrower repository permissions and sets publish-required-statuses based on the GitHub actor. A new workflow validates Dependabot test runs and publishes per-version commit statuses.

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Test workflow status publishing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Permissions and required-status configuration
.github/workflows/tests.yml
The workflow grants read access to contents and actions, and write access to statuses. It passes publish-required-statuses as false for Dependabot and true for other actors.
Dependabot test-run statuses
.github/workflows/test-statuses.yml
The new workflow validates Dependabot runs, attempts, PHP versions, and job results. It publishes pending statuses for non-completed runs and per-version success or failure statuses for completed runs. It skips superseded runs and rechecks the source run before each status write.

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  WorkflowRun->>StatusPublisher: Deliver run event
  StatusPublisher->>GitHubActions: Validate run and inspect jobs
  GitHubActions-->>StatusPublisher: Return run snapshot and job results
  StatusPublisher->>GitHubActions: Recheck run snapshot
  StatusPublisher->>CommitStatuses: Publish per-version status
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Dependabot test runs now publish per-version required statuses. Two concerns remain. Test jobs that run pull-request code may still hold a token that can write commit statuses, so they could forge a passing required check. Separately, unrelated runs on the same commit can cancel a queued status update and leave checks stuck as pending. Resolve both, or explicitly accept them, before merging.

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P1 Badge Delay status-write until publisher isolation lands

The referenced reusable workflow still grants statuses: write workflow-wide and runs checked-out consumer code in the test jobs; its isolation change remains in the open dev-tools PR #362. Therefore, on any non-Dependabot push containing malicious test or dependency code, the newly granted token can be recovered from persisted checkout credentials and used to forge required statuses. Keep publication disabled and omit this permission until the isolated publisher is merged, or pin uses to a verified isolated revision.

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Confirmed: the current dev-tools main workflow exposes status-write permission to code-executing jobs. The correction is in dev-tools#362, where all code-executing jobs explicitly deny status writes, all checkouts disable credential persistence, and only the checkout-free metadata publisher has write permission. I corrected the integration order in this PR's description: first config#5/enum#6/framework#10 (existing status ceiling; add Actions-read), then dev-tools#362, then these ten callers. This caller must not merge against the old main implementation. I am leaving this finding open until the shared correction actually reaches main; no CI PR has been merged.

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Scope statuses: write to publisher jobs only.

The referenced reusable workflow grants statuses: write at workflow scope. Its test job checks out PR code and runs PHPUnit. The publish-required-statuses input skips publishing steps, but it does not remove the token permission. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

actions/checkout persists credentials by default, and explicit workflow permissions can give Dependabot a write-capable token. (github.com) PR-controlled test code can use that token to post a passing Run Tests (...) status and satisfy a required context.

Set workflow-level permissions to read-only. Grant statuses: write only to dedicated publisher jobs, and move final status writes out of jobs that execute PR code.

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Confirmed: the current dev-tools main workflow exposes status-write permission to code-executing jobs. The correction is in dev-tools#362, where all code-executing jobs explicitly deny status writes, all checkouts disable credential persistence, and only the checkout-free metadata publisher has write permission. I corrected the integration order in this PR's description: first config#5/enum#6/framework#10 (existing status ceiling; add Actions-read), then dev-tools#362, then these ten callers. This caller must not merge against the old main implementation. I am leaving this finding open until the shared correction actually reaches main; no CI PR has been merged.

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@coisa Thanks for the clarification. This finding stays open until the shared correction reaches dev-tools/main.

The corrected merge order is:

  1. config#5, enum#6, and framework#10.
  2. dev-tools#362.
  3. The ten caller PRs, including this PR.

The caller’s statuses: write permission provides the permission ceiling. The shared workflow must deny status writes to code-executing jobs and restrict status writes to the checkout-free metadata publisher.


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Learning: In php-fast-forward repositories, reusable test workflow callers can grant statuses: write as a permission ceiling for an isolated publisher. The shared php-fast-forward/dev-tools/.github/workflows/tests.yml must explicitly deny status writes in every code-executing job, disable credential persistence in every checkout, and grant status-write permission only to the checkout-free metadata publisher. Review caller permissions together with the shared workflow's job-level restrictions.

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@coisa coisa changed the title ci: enable isolated required test statuses ci: repair test workflow permissions and Dependabot statuses Oct 8, 2026

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Scope the concurrency group to Dependabot push runs.

The workflow-level concurrency block applies to every workflow_run event, including runs that the job-level if later skips. GitHub keeps one pending run per concurrency group. A newly queued run cancels the earlier pending run, even when cancel-in-progress: false.

Trigger: a maintainer uses workflow_dispatch to start "Fast Forward Test Suite" on a Dependabot branch. That run has the same head_sha and a non-Dependabot actor. Suppose a Dependabot completed event run is waiting in the group. A requested, in_progress, or completed event from the manual run then cancels it. The manual run's own publisher job is skipped. It also does not count as a superseding run, because Line 136 filters on event=push.

Consequence: the Run Tests (<version>) statuses can stay pending on the Dependabot commit. Merge is blocked until someone reruns the source workflow.

Fix: add the source event and actor to the group key. Then unrelated runs cannot cancel the pending Dependabot publications.

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--- "a/.github/workflows/test-statuses.yml"
+++ "b/.github/workflows/test-statuses.yml"
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@
 
 permissions: {}
 
 concurrency:
-  group: dependabot-test-statuses-${{ github.event.workflow_run.head_sha }}
+  group: dependabot-test-statuses-${{ github.event.workflow_run.event }}-${{ github.event.workflow_run.actor.login }}-${{ github.event.workflow_run.head_sha }}
   cancel-in-progress: false
 
 jobs:
   publish:
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concurrency:
group: dependabot-test-statuses-${{ github.event.workflow_run.head_sha }}
cancel-in-progress: false
concurrency:
group: dependabot-test-statuses-${{ github.event.workflow_run.event }}-${{ github.event.workflow_run.actor.login }}-${{ github.event.workflow_run.head_sha }}
cancel-in-progress: false
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Update the concurrency group key in the workflow-level concurrency block to
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