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Most Dependabot PRs failed CI for reasons unrelated to their content. Three causes, each fixed at the source.

Runtime pins

  • Dependabot's uv ecosystem widens ~=X.Y.Z to a range whatever versioning-strategy says (chore(deps): bump tantivy from 0.26.2 to 0.27.0 #225, chore(deps): bump tomlkit from 0.14.0 to 0.15.2 #215).
  • check_runtime_pins.py --fix rewrites offenders to ~= the version uv.lock resolves.
  • New dependabot-pins.yml applies it to Dependabot PRs and re-locks:
    • repin job: no secret, uv lock --no-build, uploads the diff.
    • push job: git only, hooks off; refuses a patch that changes anything but pyproject.toml / uv.lock (status + --summary, so renames, mode changes, odd names are caught); pushes with the PIN_FIX_DEPLOY_KEY deploy key, which the main ruleset does not exempt.
    • Gated on Dependabot authoring the PR from this repo.
  • The pin check now covers every extra and the semantic group (previously unchecked), reads the requirement before any ; marker and keeps the marker on fix, and refuses a forked lock whose entries span several minors.

ruff

pip-audit

Verification

  • make batch-close: 6412 passed, 5 skipped; harness 12 scenarios passed.
  • New tests each fail with their code removed.
  • Replayed locally: chore(deps): bump tantivy from 0.26.2 to 0.27.0 #225 through --fix + uv lock --no-build gives the one-line pin change; the stale-base audit passes with 14 ignored, while reintroducing the CVEs still fails; hostile patches are refused by the push gate.
  • Not exercised on GitHub yet: dependabot-pins.yml runs only on Dependabot PRs. After merge, @dependabot recreate on chore(deps): bump tantivy from 0.26.2 to 0.27.0 #225 is the live test.

Three causes failed most Dependabot PRs regardless of their content.

- Runtime pins: Dependabot's uv ecosystem widens `~=X.Y.Z` to a range
  whatever `versioning-strategy` says. `check_runtime_pins.py --fix`
  rewrites offenders to `~=` the locked version, and the new
  dependabot-pins workflow applies it to Dependabot PRs and re-locks.
  The job that resolves packages holds no secret and runs
  `uv lock --no-build`; the push job runs only git with hooks off,
  refuses a patch changing anything but pyproject.toml and uv.lock, and
  pushes with a deploy key the main ruleset does not exempt.
- The pin check now covers every extra and the `semantic` group, which
  users install but nothing checked.
- ruff: the pre-commit hooks run the ruff uv.lock resolves, so a lock
  bump can no longer drift from a separate `rev:`. check_ruff_sync.py
  is gone.
- pip-audit: on a PR, advisories the base branch already carries are
  reported as warnings and skipped, so a new CVE in an untouched
  transitive dependency no longer reds every open PR. Push and cron
  audits on main stay strict.
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The changes update pull request vulnerability audits, add automatic restoration of widened runtime dependency pins for eligible Dependabot pull requests, and replace the remote Ruff pre-commit hooks with local commands. CI no longer checks Ruff version synchronisation.

Changes: Pull request security audit

Layer / File(s) Summary
Base-branch audit comparison
.github/scripts/base_vulns.py, .github/workflows/security.yml, tests/test_a_pr_audit_skips_what_main_already_carries.py, SECURITY.md
The workflow records a base-branch audit report and excludes its vulnerability IDs from the pull request audit. Tests cover findings and a missing report. The security policy describes the audit behaviour.

Runtime dependency pin restoration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Pin detection and restoration
.github/scripts/check_runtime_pins.py, tests/test_a_widened_runtime_pin_is_restored.py
The checker examines project dependencies and optional dependency groups. Its --fix option restores widened specifiers from uv.lock; tests cover replacements, unchanged pins, and missing locked packages.
Dependabot pin workflow
.github/workflows/dependabot-pins.yml, .github/dependabot.yml, SECURITY.md
For eligible Dependabot pull requests, the workflow restores pins, regenerates the lockfile, and can push a patch limited to pyproject.toml and uv.lock. The configuration and security policy describe the workflow.

Ruff hook execution

Layer / File(s) Summary
Local Ruff hooks and CI check removal
.pre-commit-config.yaml, .github/scripts/check_ruff_sync.py, .github/workflows/ci.yml
Pre-commit runs Ruff through local uv run --frozen commands. The Ruff version synchronisation script and its CI step are removed.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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  participant security.yml
  participant base_vulns.py
  participant pip-audit
  security.yml->>base_vulns.py: Read base-audit.json
  base_vulns.py-->>security.yml: Print vulnerability ignore arguments
  security.yml->>pip-audit: Run strict pull request audit with ignores
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  participant Dependabot
  participant dependabot-pins.yml
  participant check_runtime_pins.py
  participant uv.lock
  participant PR_branch
  Dependabot->>dependabot-pins.yml: Open pull request changing pyproject.toml
  dependabot-pins.yml->>check_runtime_pins.py: Run pin restoration
  check_runtime_pins.py->>uv.lock: Read locked package versions
  check_runtime_pins.py-->>dependabot-pins.yml: Update pyproject.toml pins
  dependabot-pins.yml->>PR_branch: Apply and push pyproject.toml and uv.lock patch
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The change should mostly work as intended, with narrow gaps: the PR audit can hide a new finding that shares an advisory ID with one already on the base branch, and the pin-restoration script would strip platform markers from a future marked dependency. Neither is likely today, but both are cheap to fix before merging.

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Docstring Coverage Warning Docstring coverage is 30.77% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 13 functions across 4 files. (5 skipped: … Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check Passed The title is concise and accurately summarises the main objective: preventing Dependabot pull requests from failing CI for structural reasons.
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Description check Passed The pull request description directly addresses the runtime pin, Ruff, and pip-audit changes in the changeset. It also describes the new workflow, tests, and verification results.
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Docstring coverage is 30.77% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 13 functions across 4 files. (5 skipped: 5 unsupported.)

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Actionable comments posted: 3

🔇 Additional comments: 2
.pre-commit-config.yaml: 1

16-17: LGTM!

Also applies to: 20-24, 26-30

.github/scripts/check_runtime_pins.py-55-60: 1

55-60: Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Heavy lift

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Do not select a locked version by name alone.

If uv.lock contains two versions of a direct dependency for different platforms, next(...) selects whichever appears first. The resulting ~=X.Y.Z pin can exclude the version required on another supported platform, so uv lock can fail or change that platform’s resolution. Match the applicable resolution markers, or stop with a clear error when the versions cannot share one minor pin. Universal uv lockfiles can contain multiple versions of one package. (docs.astral.sh)


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Inline comments:
Review comments at @.github/scripts/base_vulns.py:
- Around line 38-39: Update the base/PR report handling around `vuln_id` so
findings are compared by package and advisory ID, and fail when the PR
introduces a new package–advisory pair; do not globally suppress an advisory
with `--ignore-vuln` when that would hide a finding for a different package.

Review comments at @.github/scripts/check_runtime_pins.py:
- Around line 67-68: Update the pin reconstruction around `release.group` so
`pinned` retains any environment marker from the original requirement when
restoring a pin. Add a regression test confirming a marked requirement keeps its
marker.

Review comments at @.github/workflows/security.yml:
- Line 58: Update both `uv export` commands in the security workflow—the base
export and the PR export—to use frozen lockfile resolution, so each audit uses
the checked-in lockfile rather than re-locking.

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- The PR audit compares package and advisory pairs (IDs and aliases)
  against the base report instead of passing global `--ignore-vuln`
  flags, so an advisory shared with a different package still fails.
  A missing PR report fails; a missing base report audits strictly.
- Both `uv export` calls are `--frozen`, so each audit reads the
  checked-in lock rather than a re-lock.
- The pin check reads the requirement before any `;` marker, so a
  correctly pinned marked requirement passes, and `--fix` keeps the
  marker.
- `--fix` reads every locked entry for a package: a forked resolution
  pins its lowest patch when the entries share one minor, and refuses
  when they span several.
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Two items from the review summary:

  • check_runtime_pins.py 55-60, forked lock versions (outside the diff): not triggered today (uv.lock has no duplicate package entries), but uv does fork per platform and next() would then pin whichever entry came first. Fixed in 70ef000: pinned() reads every locked entry, pins the lowest patch when they share one minor, and refuses with an error when they span several minors, since no single ~=X.Y.Z covers them. Both cases are tested.
  • Docstring coverage (30% vs 80%): declined. The repo convention (CLAUDE.md, "Comments and docstrings") is no docstring by default, and a one-line contract where one earns its place. The undocumented functions here are main() entry points, one-line private helpers and test functions, and no test function in the suite carries a docstring.

- `RELEASE` is anchored and admits only final and post-releases: a
  locked rc, dev or local version is outside the `~=X.Y.Z` pin it
  would produce, so `--fix` refuses instead.
- The base and PR audit reports go to `$RUNNER_TEMP`, so a report
  committed in a PR can never stand in for one pip-audit failed to
  write.
`~=1.28.2` covers `1.28.2.1`, so `RELEASE` admits trailing numeric
components again; rc, dev, local and epoch versions are still refused.
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