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WalkthroughThe test workflow uses narrower permissions and sets required-status publishing by actor. A new workflow validates Dependabot test runs and publishes pending or completed commit statuses for each configured PHP version. ChangesTest workflow configuration and status publishing
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant TestWorkflow as Fast Forward Test Suite
participant StatusWorkflow as test-statuses workflow
participant GitHubAPI as GitHub Actions and Statuses API
TestWorkflow->>StatusWorkflow: Send run lifecycle event
StatusWorkflow->>GitHubAPI: Validate run and matching attempts
GitHubAPI-->>StatusWorkflow: Return run and job data
StatusWorkflow->>GitHubAPI: Publish per-version pending or final statuses
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The new Dependabot status workflow looks carefully guarded. One residual concern remains. The caller may grant commit-status write access to reusable test jobs that do not need it. Confirm the reusable workflow limits that permission to the publisher job, or accept the risk, before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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- Line 10: Add explicit read-only permissions to the test and dependency jobs in
the referenced reusable workflow so they do not inherit status-write access;
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Restrict status writes to the publisher job.
The caller must allow statuses: write, but the referenced reusable workflow currently gives its test job no job-level permissions override. The test job therefore inherits status-write access while it runs the package's test commands. Add explicit read-only permissions to the called test and dependency jobs, and retain statuses: write only for status-publishing jobs. This preserves the caller's permission ceiling without giving test code the publisher's token scope. (docs.github.com)
As per the retrieved least-privilege learning, elevate only the jobs that need a write scope.
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[warning] 10-10: overly broad permissions (excessive-permissions): statuses: write is overly broad at the workflow level
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Review comment at @.github/workflows/tests.yml at line 10:
Add explicit read-only permissions to the test and dependency jobs in the
referenced reusable workflow so they do not inherit status-write access; retain
statuses: write only on status-publishing jobs. Locate the relevant jobs by
their job identifiers and leave the caller’s permission ceiling unchanged.
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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 remains open until the shared correction reaches main.
The required integration order is:
- Merge config#5, enum#6, and framework#10.
- Merge dev-tools#362.
- Merge the ten caller PRs, including this PR.
This caller must not merge against the old main implementation.
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File: .github/workflows/tests.yml:10-10
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Learning: In php-fast-forward/dev-tools reusable GitHub Actions test workflows, the intended security boundary requires all code-executing jobs to explicitly deny status writes and all checkouts to disable credential persistence. Only the checkout-free metadata publisher may have write permission. Caller workflows must retain the permission ceiling required by that publisher; enforce code-executing job restrictions in the reusable workflow.
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| publish-required-statuses: ${{ github.actor != 'dependabot[bot]' }} |
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This enables the shared status publisher for every non-Dependabot run, but in the referenced @main workflow the tests matrix and publish_required_statuses both depend only on resolve_php: matrix jobs write final statuses while the independent publisher writes pending for the same contexts. If the publisher's runner is delayed until a fast matrix lane finishes, its later pending becomes the latest status—which GitHub uses for the context—and leaves a successful commit blocked indefinitely. Make the matrix depend on pending publication, or otherwise prevent the pending writer from running after a final writer.
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Restricting this lifecycle finalizer to Dependabot leaves normal pushes, for which status publication is enabled in tests.yml, dependent solely on the shared workflow's per-matrix final steps. After its separate publisher writes pending, canceling the workflow while matrix jobs are queued—or encountering a runner startup failure—means those jobs never execute their final status steps, so the required contexts remain pending indefinitely. GitHub's cancellation process only reevaluates jobs that are already running; add completion handling for non-Dependabot runs or a terminal job that finalizes every context.
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cancel-in-progress: false does not preserve every queued run: a concurrency group permits only one pending run by default, and a newly queued run replaces the existing pending one (GitHub concurrency behavior). Because requested, in_progress, and completed publishers all share this SHA-based group, a fast source run can emit completed while its start publisher is still pending, canceling the publisher before it writes the reset statuses. This is particularly unsafe on reruns, where GitHub does not emit requested: losing the sole in_progress publisher leaves prior successful contexts valid throughout the rerun until completion, allowing required-check evaluation against stale results. Preserve the queued lifecycle events or redesign the group so the reset cannot be replaced.
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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/container/actions/runs/37701288520/job/113065115258.
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 #7. 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.