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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/http-message/actions/runs/37701400177/job/113065491367.

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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    • Updated automated workflow permissions and status reporting. Required status reporting is disabled for Dependabot runs and enabled for other runs.
    • Added per-version status updates for eligible Dependabot test runs. Outdated or superseded runs do not publish statuses, and invalid or inconsistent test results are flagged rather than reported as successful. These changes affect automated checks; no user-facing features are included.

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The test workflow permissions and required-status publishing input now depend on the actor. A new workflow validates eligible Dependabot test runs and publishes per-version commit statuses for active and completed runs.

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Workflow permissions and status publishing
.github/workflows/tests.yml
The workflow permissions now grant read access to contents and actions, and write access to statuses. The reusable test workflow receives publish-required-statuses, set to false for dependabot[bot] and true otherwise.
Run validation and status publication
.github/workflows/test-statuses.yml
The new workflow checks event and repository eligibility, validates source-run identity and job results, and publishes pending or completed statuses for configured PHP versions. It stops publishing if the source run changes and reports malformed or ambiguous results.

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  participant TestRun as Fast Forward Test Suite run
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  TestRun->>StatusWorkflow: requested, in-progress, or completed event
  StatusWorkflow->>GitHubAPI: validate run identity and job results
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  StatusWorkflow->>GitHubAPI: publish per-version commit statuses
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Withhold statuses: write from the reusable workflow caller.

For non-Dependabot runs, the mutable php-fast-forward/dev-tools/.github/workflows/tests.yml@main workflow executes PR-controlled code in the test job. That job inherits statuses: write, and its checkout persists the token. PR-controlled code can therefore use the checkout credential to create the required per-version commit statuses before the separate publisher runs. Required checks can then appear successful without the corresponding tests passing.

Grant statuses: write only to the isolated publisher job after the reusable workflow pins or otherwise guarantees that permission boundary.

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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. The finding remains open until dev-tools#362 reaches main and the permission boundary is verified.

The merge order is:

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

Once the shared workflow enforces that boundary, the caller can grant statuses: write without exposing it to code-executing jobs.


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Learning: In php-fast-forward repositories, callers of php-fast-forward/dev-tools/.github/workflows/tests.yml need a workflow-level statuses: write ceiling for isolated required-status publication. The security boundary belongs in the reusable workflow: code-executing jobs must explicitly deny status writes, all checkouts must disable credential persistence, and only the checkout-free metadata publisher may receive statuses: write. Do not recommend removing the caller's permission ceiling when this boundary is enforced.

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Stop unrelated runs from cancelling the queued final-status publisher.

Lines 10-12 set concurrency for the whole workflow, keyed only by head_sha. GitHub keeps only one waiting workflow run per concurrency group by default. When a new job or workflow run is queued, any existing pending job or workflow run in the same group is canceled and replaced. cancel-in-progress: false does not prevent this. That setting only protects the run that is already in progress.

The group is assigned before the job-level if on lines 16-19 runs. Every workflow_run event from "Fast Forward Test Suite" for the same SHA therefore joins the group, including events that the if later skips. Two examples are a workflow_dispatch run and a push run by a different actor.

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  1. A requested or in_progress handler is running for the Dependabot run.
  2. The completed handler waits in the group.
  3. A lifecycle event from a non-Dependabot run on the same SHA arrives. It replaces the waiting completed handler.
  4. That new handler is then skipped by the if.

Result: the Run Tests (<version>) statuses stay pending. Branch protection blocks the Dependabot PR until someone re-runs the workflow.

Events from the same Dependabot run are safe. Each handler reads the current run state, and any event type for a completed run publishes the final statuses (lines 130 and 167).

Fix: set queue: max. Waiting handlers then queue in order and nothing replaces them. Each handler re-validates the run before it writes, so running stale handlers one after another is safe.

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--- "a/.github/workflows/test-statuses.yml"
+++ "b/.github/workflows/test-statuses.yml"
@@ -7,9 +7,10 @@
 
 permissions: {}
 
 concurrency:
   group: dependabot-test-statuses-${{ github.event.workflow_run.head_sha }}
   cancel-in-progress: false
+  queue: max
 
 jobs:
   publish:
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