Martin Vogel
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Restructured after concluding the architecture was wrong, not the rules. The CI gate protected the REPOSITORY. The threat for autonomous work is an agent reading attacker-controlled text and being persuaded by it -- and there, the agent is the target, so enforcement belongs at the point of consumption rather than at a checkpoint. A checkpoint also only ever saw content arriving through a pull request to us; the read path covers every issue, comment and discussion an agent touches anywhere. REMOVED: ci-integrity.yml. With enforcement at the read path, a pull request disabling its own checks matters far less, and that workflow was carrying the entire cost -- pull_request_target, a required-check registration, a branch-protection dependency, and break-glass friction on every CI or tooling contribution. It was also the one piece that could not be tested the way CI actually runs it. KEPT: the Layer 0 file scan, gating. It is 23 seconds with no false positives and it stops a payload LANDING in main, where it would be read by every agent afterwards and indexed into the product's own graph. The read-path scanner cannot substitute for that: by the time main is being read, the payload is already shipped. Prevention and detection, not one instead of the other. ADDED: scripts/fetch-scanned.sh, which pulls every agent-readable surface of an issue or pull request -- title, body, comments, reviews, inline review comments, commit messages -- scans the lot, and prints it only if nothing is concealed. Five API calls become one command, so the safe path is also the shorter path. That is the only kind of safety measure that gets used. SEVERITY, added because the binary model was unusable. An HTML comment is a hiding MECHANISM, not an attack SIGNATURE, and our own acknowledgement bot posts one into nearly every thread -- refusing on it rejected 28 of 40 recent pull requests. A tool that refuses 70% of real content is switched off within a day. Signatures now refuse; mechanisms are noted. A payload hidden INSIDE a downgraded comment still refuses, because the phrase rules fire on the text wherever it sits, and the selftest pins exactly that. Re-measured end to end across 40 recent pull requests: 1 refused, 28 noted, 11 clean. The single refusal is this pull request, whose commit messages document the markers the scanner looks for. Signed-off-by: Martin Vogel <martin.vogel.tech@gmail.com>
scripts/ — the canonical leg entries
The doctrine (enforced, not advisory): a venue may provision a machine;
only a canonical leg script may exercise the product. Local CI, PR CI, the
dry run and the release all call the SAME files below — venues differ only in
host specs, architecture and inputs, never in what a leg does. Platform
differences (arm64 sanitizer flags, native Windows behavior, the Linux portable
binary) live INSIDE these scripts, once, never per-venue.
tests/test_venue_parity_contract.sh (run as Step 0j of every test leg) turns
any violation — inline harness logic in a workflow, a bypassed wrapper, a
missing --help — into a red build.
Every entry answers --help (authoritative, agent-oriented: modes, env, exit
codes) and rejects unknown flags with exit 2 + Please consult --help.
The legs
| leg | entry | what a run gives you |
|---|---|---|
| test | test.sh |
DEFAULT = the venue leg: static contracts (Step 0a–0r) + CLEAN ASan+UBSan build + all suites via the parallel harness + prod-binary guards. --suites a,b = iteration mode (incremental rebuild, subset, seconds). --tsan = the ThreadSanitizer leg. CLANGARM64 gets CI's trap-UBSan flags automatically. |
| package wrappers | ci/test-package-wrappers.sh |
Go, npm, and PyPI runtime-set publication/lock suites on the current host. CI runs the same entry on Linux and Windows so both platform lock implementations gate. |
| build | build.sh |
CLEAN production runtime set (native executable + authenticated integration asset; --with-ui adds one content-addressed UI pack). ccache via env.sh makes repeats fast; CCACHE_COMPILERCHECK=content guarantees a hit is byte-identical to a cold compile — never stale. --version, STATIC=1, BUILD_DIR=. |
| lint | lint.sh |
clang-tidy + cppcheck + clang-format (+ no-skips policy). --ci = the CI gate set (no clang-tidy). Drives the same make targets as make lint/lint-ci. |
| smoke (unix) | smoke-local.sh |
Stages a full release fixture, serves it on a kernel-assigned port, runs smoke-test.sh (ALL phases incl. download/install/update E2E) inside a disposable HOME/XDG/TMP sandbox. ui variant makes a missing verified UI pack a FAILURE. CBM_SMOKE_ARTIFACT_DIR = smoke an extracted release artifact verbatim (release mode). |
| smoke (windows) | ../test-infrastructure/vm/vm-smoke.sh |
Same verified runtime-set contract on the real Windows VM, plus the user-PATH registry guard (prepare/verify/cleanup). |
| smoke-invariants | smoke-invariants.sh |
Production-path resilience battery (MCP handshake, all tools invocable, malformed-input handling, supervised crash/hang recovery) — no fixture server or install E2E. smoke.yml runs an explicitly seam-enabled build on the WIDEST source matrix; release artifacts remain seam-free and use the release-shaped smoke legs above. |
| soak | soak-legs.sh |
The release-gating soak SEQUENCE: quick then query-leak (the #581 detector — never reindexes, so RSS growth = query-path leak), each guarded by a completion-summary check. --legs quick for the ASan single-leg variant. Duration is per leg. |
Internal harnesses — never called directly by a venue (the contract forbids
it): smoke-test.sh (phases; wrappers provide fixture server + sandbox),
soak-test.sh (one soak run; soak-legs.sh provides the sequence + guards),
run-tests-parallel.sh (reached through test.sh).
Conventions
- Exit codes: 0 = pass · 2 = usage error · 90 = guard (a run died without its completion summary — never counts as green) · anything else = the leg's real failure.
- Iteration is a flag, not a side-tool: the fast paths (
--suites,--legs) are modes of the SAME entry the gates run, so a dev loop can never drift from the venue behaviour. - Env sandboxing: the smoke wrappers neutralize every agent-config destination override; a smoke can never scribble on your real config.
Recommended workflows
- Iterating on a change:
scripts/test.sh --suites <suite>(seconds, incremental, same ASan+UBSan flags as the gate). List suites:build/c/test-runner --list-suites. Debugging a Windows-on-ARM trap: re-run withSANITIZE=for a plain build, or use the emulatedwin.sh ubsan-*pair for full diagnostics. - Before any push (the 3-OS ladder):
scripts/test.sh(macOS, full) →./test-infrastructure/run.sh full(Linux + TSan + smoke) →test-infrastructure/vm/win.sh test-par+guards+smoke-install(+soakwhen the change touches memory/daemon paths). - Concurrency-touching change: add
scripts/test.sh --tsanearly — the same leg CI gates on. - Release-shaped verification:
CBM_SMOKE_ARTIFACT_DIR=<extracted artifact> scripts/smoke-local.sh <binary> [ui]smokes exactly what would ship. - A leg is red in CI but green locally: first suspect environment shape,
not code — the preflights (
win.shautomatic;scripts/ci/preflight-docker.sh) andtest-infrastructure/README.md's residuals list cover the knowable differences.
See scripts/ci/README.md for the CI plumbing and
test-infrastructure/README.md for the venue map.