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Remediates GitHub Workflow Dependency Locking (public preview, no changelog entry), which rejects runs at startup_failure — zero jobs, no logs, nothing in REST or GraphQL. Full analysis: hyperpolymath/standards#657.

Proven on hyperpolymath/anamnesis: 6 of 6 workflows dead → 0 startup_failure, 13 running.

Five steps, in order — each blocks the next

1. Unbreak the workflow YAML. Any permissions: carrying a scalar with an indented mapping under it:

permissions: read-all
  actions: read        # <- mapping under a scalar. Unparseable.

This reaches past the one file: gh actions-lock refuses to run when any workflow in the repo fails to parse, so the repo can never acquire a lockfile and can never self-heal.

2. Repin standards reusables off commits with no actions.lock. The rejection requires the callee to be covered at the pinned SHA — unsatisfiable at a pre-lockfile commit.

3. Generate the lockfile with gh actions-lock.

4. Hand-add the reusable-caller entries the tool omits, as '<path>': [].

⚠️ Measured across 218 repos: P(startup_failure | has lockfile) = 91.7% vs 15.8% without — because every workflow a lockfile omits is rejected. A partial lock is worse than none. Running gh actions-lock and stopping there is how this outage spread.

5. Restore SPDX-License-Identifier to line 1, which the tool displaces with its own banner and which the workflow-security linter greps via head -1.

Verified before this PR was opened

0 unparseable workflows · lockfile covers every workflow, no omissions · SPDX on line 1 in every file. The script refuses to push if any of the three fails.

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Remediates GitHub Workflow Dependency Locking (public preview), which
rejects runs at startup_failure with zero jobs and no logs. See
hyperpolymath/standards#657.

Five steps, in order, because each blocks the next:

1. Unbroke any workflow whose `permissions:` carried a scalar with an
   indented mapping under it - blind-permissions-insertion damage. This
   matters beyond the one file: gh actions-lock refuses to run when ANY
   workflow in the repo fails to parse, so the repo could never acquire a
   lockfile and could never self-heal.

2. Repinned hyperpolymath/standards reusables off commits that have no
   actions.lock. The rejection requires the CALLEE to be covered at the
   pinned SHA, which is unsatisfiable at a pre-lockfile commit.

3. Generated the lockfile with gh actions-lock.

4. Hand-added the reusable-workflow caller entries the tool omits, as
   '<path>': []. Measured across 218 repos: P(startup_failure | has
   lockfile) = 91.7% vs 15.8% without, because every workflow a lockfile
   OMITS is rejected. A PARTIAL lock is worse than none - running
   gh actions-lock and stopping there is how this outage spread.

5. Restored SPDX-License-Identifier to line 1, which the tool displaces
   with its own banner and which the workflow-security linter greps with
   head -1.

Verified before push: 0 unparseable workflows, lockfile covers every
workflow with no omissions, SPDX on line 1 in every file.

Proven on hyperpolymath/anamnesis: 6 of 6 workflows dead -> 0
startup_failure, 13 running.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Not up to standards ⛔

🔴 Issues 1 high

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⚠ 1 issue (≤ 0 issues of at least minor severity)

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Pull Request Overview

The pull request is currently not up to standards according to Codacy, primarily due to the use of a mutable version tag instead of a commit SHA in the workflow configuration. While the PR aims to unbreak the workflow YAML and implement dependency locking, several issues persist.

First, there is a systemic redundancy across all 16 modified files where the header comment is duplicated on line 3. Second, while the PR description mentions fixing permissions: blocks, no such structural changes are present in the provided diff. Finally, the push-email-notify.yml file uses a version tag rather than a commit SHA, which fails the requirement for immutable dependency locking and introduces a potential security risk.

About this PR

  • The PR description mentions fixing permissions: blocks under scalar mappings, but no such changes appear in the diff hunks. Please ensure all intended YAML fixes are included in this PR.
  • A duplicate comment line '# This workflow is managed by gh actions-lock.' was added to line 3 of all 16 modified workflow files. This redundancy should be cleaned up across the repository.

Test suggestions

  • Verify all GitHub workflow files are valid YAML
  • Verify SPDX license header exists on the first line of all workflows
  • Verify all reusable workflow calls are pinned to commit SHAs
  • Verify actions.lock contains manual caller entries ('': [])
Prompt proposal for missing tests
Consider implementing these tests if applicable:
1. Verify actions.lock contains manual caller entries ('<path>': [])

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- name: Send push notification email
uses: dawidd6/action-send-mail@v18
uses: dawidd6/action-send-mail@v3.12.0

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🔴 HIGH RISK

To ensure the action is immutable and follows the dependency locking requirements of this PR, use a full-length commit SHA instead of a version tag. This protects the workflow against supply chain attacks where a tag could be reassigned to a malicious commit.

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@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
# SPDX-License-Identifier: MPL-2.0
# This workflow is managed by gh actions-lock.
# This workflow is managed by gh actions-lock.

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⚪ LOW RISK

Nitpick: This line is a duplicate of the comment on line 2. It should be removed to avoid redundancy in the workflow header.

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