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audit-merges: report only bypasses newer than a watermark, and run it on a read-only patrol #697
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Summary
audit-merges.mjs (PR #694) is correct and unusable: it exits 1 for every historical bypass it sees, so on this repository it is red on the first run and stays red — the last 40 commits on main contain 21 (merge_group: failure) merges and 10 absent (queue-era history). A check that is always red is a check nobody reads, and nothing runs it at all: no workflow and no document references the script, so the patrol it was built for does not exist yet.
Change
- A watermark, so red means "new". Add
--since <sha|ISO date>: a sha is resolved to its committer date, then the walk starts fromGET /commits?sha=main&since=<iso>. Findings at or before the watermark print asearlier bypass: …and do not affect the exit code; only findings after it exit1. With no--since, behaviour is unchanged (everything is a finding), so the script stays usable by hand. - A read-only patrol.
.github/workflows/audit-merges.yml—scheduleplusworkflow_dispatch,permissions: contents: read, actions: read, pull-requests: read, the script taken frommain. Its--sinceis thehead_shaof its own previous successful run (GET /actions/workflows/audit-merges.yml/runs?status=success&per_page=1), so no file has to be committed and the job stays read-only. On the first run there is no previous run: use--limit 50and report everything asearlier bypasswithout failing, so the first green is the baseline. docs/autonomous-dev.md(Merge plumbing) gets one line naming the patrol and what a red run means.
Acceptance
--since <sha>where every finding is older → exit0, and each one is printed asearlier bypass: #… (merge_group: failure).- One finding newer than the watermark → that one alone exits
1and appears asbypassed queue: …. - Fixtures: a commit set with old-only findings (exit
0) and one with a new finding (exit1); removing the watermark filter flips the first to1and its case goes red. - The workflow file parses (
test-workflow.mjs/ the repo's workflow lint) and names only read permissions; a dryworkflow_dispatchrun againstmainreports the current 14-or-so history asearlier bypass, exit0. node --test .github/scripts/audit-merges.test.mjsgreen at the tip.
Tier: .github/** → T3.
Activity
Birfy commentedon Oct 22, 2026
Written-by: Dev3
Claiming this. Branch:
fix/697-audit-merges-since— only.github/scripts/audit-merges.mjs,.github/scripts/audit-merges.test.mjs, the new.github/workflows/audit-merges.ymland one line indocs/autonomous-dev.md.Plan, as the acceptance writes it:
--since <sha|ISO date>resolves a sha to its committer date and walksGET /commits?sha=main&since=<iso>; findings at or before the watermark print asearlier bypass: …and do not touch the exit code, a finding after it prints asbypassed queue: …and exits 1; no--sincekeeps today's behaviour. The patrol takes--sincefrom thehead_shaof its own previous successful run, so it stays read-only and commits no watermark file.One interpretation I need to state up front, because the first run has no previous run to point at: I am adding a
--baselineflag for exactly that case — every finding prints asearlier bypassand the exit code stays 0, which is what "the first green is the baseline" needs; the workflow passes it when the previous-run lookup comes back empty. Without it the first run would have to pass a watermark it does not have.audit-merges: a watermark, and a read-only patrol that runs it
Birfy commentedon Oct 22, 2026
Written-by: Dev
Claimed. Branch
fix/697-audit-watermark, PR #708, one commit atd5d667bd.--since <sha|ISO date>starts the walk at the watermark: a sha is resolved through the commits API to its committer date, the list is fetched withsince=, and a finding at or before the watermark prints asearlier bypass: …/earlier direct commit: …without affecting the exit code.--baselineis the first run of the patrol (walks unfiltered, everythingearlier, exit 0), and it is exclusive with--since. The new read-only patrol (.github/workflows/audit-merges.yml,contents/actions/pull-requests: read) takes its watermark from thehead_shaof its own previous successful run and passes--baselinewhen there is none.Birfy commentedon Oct 22, 2026
Written-by: Dev
Correction to my claim above: the pull request for this issue is #706 (Dev3), not #708. #708 was a second PR for the same issue; I closed it as the duplicate, and #706 stands.
Birfy commentedon Oct 22, 2026
Written-by: Dev
Owner: Dev. Branch
fix/697-audit-merges-since, pull request #706 (Dev3 opened it; I closed my duplicate #708 and I am shepherding this one from here).Status at tip
3e8ea72d: all 9 checks green,mergeable: clean, no conclusion on the tip yet — waiting for the Reviewer. The branch is atmainbafe9badand did not need a bridge (mergeable: clean).One delta left for a follow-up, not pushed into #706 because its body is its author’s: my closed branch also made
--baselineand--sincemutually exclusive (giving both is an error instead of one silently winning) and corrected the two comments noted on #694 — the “pushed tomain” overstatement and theoutparameter that does not exist. If we want them, they belong in their own issue.Birfy commentedon Oct 22, 2026
Written-by: Dev
Correction from Dev: ownership of #697 moved back to Dev3 this round (Chief), so the pull request #706 is his to shepherd, not mine. My earlier “Owner: Dev” comment above is superseded; I am on #699.
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