A commit that reaches main without a pull request, such as an asset
uploaded through the web UI, was never analysed until the weekly run.
Run on push to main as well. Pull-request runs still cancel their
superseded heads; push runs are grouped per commit and never cancelled,
so back-to-back merges each keep their own analysis.
The Trivy install step piped a script fetched from a tag straight into a
shell. A tag can be moved to other content, so the job ran whatever the
ref pointed at, with the runner's privileges, and the Scorecard check
flagged it as an unpinned download-then-run.
The script now comes from the commit the tag points at, is checked
against its SHA-256 before it runs, and the binary version stays what it
was.
S1. The journey signs in with a real account and POSTs that account's
password to whatever BASE_URL names, and the workflow took BASE_URL as
free text. Anyone with repo write, or a leaked token, could dispatch the
run at a collector of their own and keep a working credential; secret
masking guards the log, never the egress.
The host now has to be on a short const allowlist in the script, checked
before anything is sent, with exit 2 and a named refusal otherwise. The
workflow input is a choice between the two hosted instances, so the form
cannot offer a third; the script's own check still stands behind it for a
dispatch that goes round the form.
--self-test covers the refusal, the prefix lookalike a startsWith check
would have waved through included.
Post-publish verify proves the published image boots. Nothing proved that
on a running instance a person can sign in, write a reading and read it
back — which is exactly the shape of the defects this line keeps
rediscovering: a value written and never read.
`scripts/synthetic-journey.mjs` walks that journey in plain Node 22 with no
dependencies, so it runs from a workstation, a runner or the deploy host.
It warms `/`, `/api/health`, `/api/version` and the measurements list first
and discards those timings (the first hit on each route after a deploy is a
cold start), then asserts five legs in order: the served version equals the
expected one, the password flow signs in through a cookie jar, a weight
reading is written with an Idempotency-Key, the same row reads back with
its value, unit and source, and the reversible delete leaves the account
clean. One line per leg with the elapsed time; the first failure ends the
run non-zero with the status and a body excerpt that has every token shape
redacted out of it.
The workflow is `workflow_dispatch` only, with `base_url` and
`expected_version` as inputs and the credentials read from repository
secrets. It is deliberately not wired into the deploy path: the target
instance and the secrets are the maintainer's call.
Mutation proof, against a production build served from
`.next/standalone/server.js` on a throwaway Postgres.
Green:
warm 35 ms (discarded)
ok version 2 ms serves 1.38.13
ok sign in 78 ms session cookie held
ok write 64 ms wrote cmtup9lwu0007zhovn0mxajdz
ok read back 8 ms 77.7 kg (MANUAL)
ok delete 27 ms account left clean
synthetic journey green
Read leg broken deliberately — the same server behind a throwaway forwarder
that empties the `GET /api/measurements` list and changes nothing else:
ok version 4 ms serves 1.38.13
ok sign in 38 ms session cookie held
ok write 40 ms wrote cmtupa4ck000gzhovwnij64fz
FAILED read back 8 ms read back: the list came back without the reading
status 200
body {"data":{"measurements":[],"meta":{"total":0}},"error":null}
synthetic journey RED on "read back"
Version leg broken the same way, by asking the instance for the previous
tag:
FAILED version 3 ms version: instance serves "1.38.13", expected "v1.38.12"
synthetic journey RED on "version"
`--self-test` carries that proof in the repository: it runs the journey
against an in-process instance nine times, once with nothing broken and
once per broken leg, and fails if a broken leg still comes back green. The
workflow runs it before it touches the real instance.
Gates: typecheck, `node --check`, lint (the three known warnings, no
errors), prettier, the workflow and CI-determinism guards.
The audit had moved off the pull_request trigger entirely, which left a window in which a tag could be cut from a merge the audit had not seen. It runs on pull requests again as an advisory job (continue-on-error), stays blocking on the push run for main and on the daily schedule, and a tag is only ever cut from a green push run.
The hero-geometry check stopped skipping under CI in v1.38 and started failing
instead, which was the point: it had caught its own launch failure and passed
for months, measuring nothing. The install step went into the quality job of
`security.yml` and nowhere else, and a second job runs the same suite — the
auto-merge job for dependency bumps. Every Dependabot pull request has failed
since on `browserType.launch: Executable doesn't exist`, four of them on
2026-09-06 alone (run 34043840314), on an error that says nothing about the
bump. One workflow was fixed; the class was not.
That job installs the same headless shell now, off the same cache key. The
error the check throws names both jobs rather than sending a reader to the
workflow that was already correct, and a guard sweeps the workflow directory so
a third job cannot run the suite with no browser anywhere in it. Its limit is
written down: the sweep is file-scoped, so a workflow with two jobs where only
one installs still satisfies it.
Gates:
CI=1, browser path hidden exit=1, "This check is the gate in CI and it
has no browser to measure with"
CI=1, browser present exit=0, 4 tests passed (it measures)
install step deleted from the guard fails: ["dependabot-auto-merge.yml"]
auto-merge workflow
`pnpm audit --prod` answers a question about the published advisory database,
not about the diff. The same lockfile passes on Monday and fails on Tuesday
because someone else published, and the branch that turns red changed nothing:
seventeen of the forty-one Security & Quality failures in the last thirty days
were advisory publications on branches that touched no dependency
(GHSA-jqff-g426-hqxp, GHSA-fph4-wmhf-6fwf, GHSA-f65p-4m7j-42xc and
GHSA-5jgf-p345-68v8 in one run alone). A gate that fails for a reason the author
cannot act on is a gate people re-run instead of read.
It keeps running on every push to `main` and once a day on a new schedule
trigger, which is the cadence the question actually has. The other three jobs
sit out the scheduled run. Nothing about what ships is loosened: the container
scan still builds and scans the image on every push to `main`, and the daily
Trivy workflow still scans the lockfile with dev dependencies included and the
published image.
Gate — the trigger set, read back from the parsed workflow:
triggers: push, pull_request, schedule
quality | if: github.event_name != 'schedule'
dependency-audit | if: github.event_name != 'pull_request'
secret-scan | if: github.event_name != 'schedule'
docker-security | if: github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/main'
The scanner job installed Trivy through apt, which runs `apt-get update`
across every repository on the runner image. On the v1.38.12 merge
commit the runner's preinstalled Chrome repository answered with a
corrupt index ("Hash Sum mismatch") twice in a row, and the release gate
went red on a step that has nothing to do with the image under test.
The step now fetches the pinned release binary through Trivy's own
installer, which downloads the tarball for that exact version and checks
it against the published checksums. No apt, so no unrelated repository
can fail the job.
The workflow granted contents: write and pull-requests: write at the top
level, so every step in the run held them, including the checkout and
the dependency install that execute code from the pull request being
merged. Scorecard flags the shape, and the shape is the problem: a
compromised transitive in a Dependabot branch would run with a token
that can write to the repository.
The workflow default is contents: read now, and the two write scopes sit
on the auto-merge job, which is the only job there is and the only place
they are spent. gh pr merge --auto needs contents: write to enable
merge-on-green and pull-requests: write to act on the pull request; the
major-bump comment needs pull-requests: write. The metadata fetch and
the test run need neither. Nothing about which updates merge
automatically changes.
Three of the last four pushes to main failed the integration workflow
without a single failing test. Shard 1 of 3 was still logging green
results when the 25-minute job timeout cancelled it; the same tests in
the same shard had run in 13 minutes the day before. A slow runner day
doubles every test's wall time, and a guard under twice the ordinary
run cannot absorb that.
Four shards keep each slice around fifty files, and the guard moves to
40 minutes, three times an ordinary run. A wedged test still fails
through vitest's own 60-second budget, so the job timeout only has to
catch a container that never boots. The fan-in job is unchanged; it
still refuses a matrix with any cancelled shard.
init, analyze and upload-sarif are the same release pinned in three
workflows. Dependabot opened them as three separate pull requests, so each
run mixed two versions and analyze rejected the config init had written:
"Loaded a configuration file for version 4.37.7, but running version
4.37.9". None of the three could go green alone, and the code-scanning
analysis stayed red while they waited on each other.
Bump all five references together and group the action in dependabot.yml so
the next release arrives as one pull request.
The hero-geometry check has never measured anything in CI. It launches
Chromium in a hook, catches the launch failure, and every case then
returns early — green. The quality job installs no browsers, so every
run of it since the file landed printed
[hero geometry] SKIPPED — no Chromium build available (Error:
browserType.launch: Executable doesn't exist at
/home/runner/.cache/ms-playwright/chromium_headless_shell-1234/ch)
and passed. The file's own header warned about exactly this trap and
then fell into it.
Both ends move. The quality job installs the headless shell before the
unit suite — `--only-shell chromium`, because that is the build
`chromium.launch()` resolves to and the one the failing runs named, with
a cache on the lockfile hash so the download is paid once. And the check
now refuses to be optional: with CI set, a launch failure throws out of
the hook and fails the suite with the step to restore. Without CI it
still skips, through the test context so the skip and its reason land in
the report rather than in a console line nobody reads.
No panel number changed. The measurements the check reads back are the
same ones the reserve was set against: panels of 400 / 428 / 456 / 484
px for three to six rows, 420 px for three rows plus the basis line,
against a 448 px reserve.
Dependabot treats `init`, `analyze` and `upload-sarif` as separate
dependencies, so it raised `init` to 4.37.7 in one PR and left `analyze` on
4.37.6 in the same workflow. The action refuses that pairing outright:
"Loaded a configuration file for version '4.37.7', but running version
'4.37.6'", and the CodeQL job failed on the very PR doing the bump.
All five pinned references move together here: init and analyze in
codeql.yml, and the three upload-sarif steps in scorecard.yml and trivy.yml.
The commit SHA is the one the v4.37.7 tag dereferences to, which is also the
SHA both Dependabot PRs pin.
The determinism guard reads the job that runs the browser, which is now
the shard matrix rather than the gate that only carries the required
check name. The report artifact is named per shard so the two uploads
cannot clobber each other.
The single job passed at about eighteen minutes against a twenty-minute
cap, and the settings geometry measurements pushed it over, so the run
died at the timeout with everything to that point green. Same remedy as
the integration suite, split rather than raise: two Playwright shards,
each with its own database and production build, and a gate job carrying
the exact name branch protection requires that fails when any shard
failed or was cancelled.
Two shards cleared in about fourteen minutes on a quiet day, but with six
pull requests running side by side the larger shard hit the same 25-minute
guard the split was meant to escape. Three shards keep the biggest slice
around sixty files, which clears the guard with real headroom on the
slowest runner observed. The gate job is unchanged.
The suite outgrew its runner. The 25-minute guard was sized for 128 files
taking about 13 minutes; the sharing release took the suite to 180 files and
past the cap on CI runners, so every run died at the timeout with every test
to that point green, reported as cancelled. The guard's own rule applies:
split, don't raise.
The files run as two vitest shards, each with its own Postgres testcontainer.
A gate job carries the exact name branch protection requires and fails when
any shard failed or was cancelled, so a half-green matrix cannot satisfy it.
vitest is invoked directly because pnpm passes the -- separator through to
the script literally: the flag never applied through the script form, and
both "shards" ran the full suite. Proven by paired local runs: the script
form ran 180 files twice, the direct form splits 90/90 with 927 plus 689
tests, all green.
Most of what Scorecard looks for this repository already does: Actions
pinned by commit SHA, a security policy with a private reporting path,
Dependabot with auto-merge, keyless signing on the release image, a
branch-protected trunk. The value is not the score, it is that the checks
keep running after the person who set them up has moved on, and that
anyone evaluating the project can read the result without being given CI
access.
publish_results is on, which is what makes the score citable. It reads
repository metadata and the workflow files; nothing about the code or its
contents goes anywhere. The token is an OIDC exchange, the same mechanism
the release workflow already uses to sign the image.
No badge in the README yet. The public API has no entry for this
repository until the first run publishes one, and the badge URL currently
renders 'invalid repo path'. It goes in once there is a score behind it.
Two questions the existing scans cannot answer.
The dependency audit runs with --prod, which is the right scope for a
blocking gate but leaves a gap: a dev dependency can still ship. pdfjs-dist
is the case that made this concrete. It sits in devDependencies, and
rasterize-pdf.ts imports it at runtime, so standalone output tracing copies
it into the production image where the prod-scoped audit has never looked.
Trivy reads 627 packages out of pnpm-lock.yaml without --include-dev-deps
and 1455 with it; pdfjs-dist is only in the second set. Trivy's help text
lists the flag as npm/yarn/gradle only, but it works on the pnpm lockfile
too, which is worth knowing before someone deletes it as a no-op.
The container scan builds the image from the current main. Nobody runs
that image. What self-hosters pull is the one built from the last release
tag, and an advisory published after the tag lands against an image
nothing is about to rebuild. So the second job scans ghcr.io/mbombeck/
healthlog:latest instead of a local build.
Schedule only, no push or pull_request trigger, because the change-
triggered half is already covered and would just run twice. The lockfile
job reports into code scanning without failing: widening to dev
dependencies surfaces transitive tool advisories by the dozen, and a red
badge from day one gets muted inside a week. The image job fails on
CRITICAL, after its own report has been uploaded by a separate step.
Static analysis was the one class of check the pipeline had no answer for:
lint catches style, the type checker catches shape, the tests catch
behaviour, and nothing walked the data flow from an untrusted input to a
sink. This is GitHub's default setup written out as a workflow file, so the
query suite, the excluded paths and the schedule sit in the diff rather
than behind a settings toggle.
Pull requests and a weekly run on the default branch. No push trigger:
everything reaches main through a pull request that was already analysed,
and the weekly run is what keeps the Security tab current.
src/generated is excluded. Extracting the 9 MB Prisma client costs minutes
and can produce nothing anyone would act on, because the fix for anything
found in there is to regenerate it.
Vitest is a knip plugin, so every file under `src/**/__tests__/**` is an
entry, and a module whose only importer is its own test counts as used
for as long as the test survives. Planting a module with a single test
importing it left `pnpm knip` at exit 0 — the gate reports green on code
production stopped reaching.
Knip can answer the question, just not in the pass CI runs: production
mode drops the plugin's test entries and keeps the entry and project
patterns suffixed with `!`. Mark them, which is inert in the default
pass, so `pnpm knip --production --include files` is one command away.
It stays a review tool rather than a second gate, and the config says
why: twenty-nine files today, some test-only by construction and some
unreachable from production on purpose, plus at least one false positive
where a script's `@/` import does not resolve. Baselining that set
unread would encode noise as an invariant.
Move the config to JSONC so all of the above lives next to the settings
it describes instead of in a commit message nobody will run `git log`
for.
The e2e job called next build directly, skipping the prebuild hook
that generates the service-worker version stamp and the static i18n
catalog assets — fourteen specs timed out waiting on a UI that never
got its catalog.
The measured first-load gap on / was never the server: FCP painted the
SSR shell at ~1.8 s but LCP landed at ~5.5 s (mobile-throttled) because
the tiles waited for JS download + hydrate + a CLIENT-side snapshot
fetch — while /api/dashboard/snapshot answers in ~8 ms server-side.
src/app/page.tsx is now a thin RSC wrapper: it runs the same cached
snapshot read the API route uses (extracted to
src/lib/dashboard/snapshot-read.ts, one shared SWR cell for both
readers) and hands the result to TanStack via HydrationBoundary +
dehydrate, so the first HTML carries real tile data and the mounted
cell starts warm (staleTime 60 s, refetchOnMount false — no double
fetch). Query keys come only from the central factory
(dashboardSnapshot(locale) + the dashboardWidgets seed the client cell
already performs); the payload is JSON-round-tripped so the hydrated
shape is byte-equal to the wire shape. Fail-soft: no session or any
builder error renders the page exactly as before. The 1,727-line client
page moves unchanged to src/app/page-client.tsx; no component-tree
rewrite.
Companion: the documented bundle tooling was dead on Turbopack
(ANALYZE=1 silent no-op, bundle-report read a webpack-only JSON), so
H2/H3-class regressions shipped invisibly. scripts/check-bundle-budget.mjs
derives per-route gzip totals from the Turbopack client-reference
manifests + rootMainFiles, prints the report (pnpm bundle-report), and
enforces bundle-budget.json (pnpm bundle-check): per-route caps,
total-client-JS cap, a recharts-duplication guard (fingerprint count
must stay 1), and a catalog guard (no message catalog referenced by any
route manifest). Wired into the existing e2e workflow after next build.
H4
next 16.2.10, @tanstack/react-query 5.101.2, nodemailer 9.0.3,
react-hook-form 7.81.0, @types/node 26.1.0; docker buildx/metadata/
build-push action pins to their current releases.
A deterministic golden-set + red-team floor that gates every Coach change
offline, plus an opt-in live-judge layer that scores warmth and groundedness
with a pinned model only when COACH_EVAL_API_KEY is set.
- 42 golden cases across grounding, cross-metric, data-honesty, provider-parity
and own-baseline taxonomies, graded by behaviour-anchored binary criteria.
- Structured-claim grounding helpers extend the numeric verifier from numbers
to threshold / own-baseline / confident-verdict claims; the numeric API is
unchanged so the existing grounding tests stay green.
- Red-team battery asserts the existing inbound refusal, outbound dose screen,
acute red-flag escalation and learn-link guards fire.
- Nightly + manual workflow runs the deterministic floor always; the live judge
step runs only when the secret is present and is non-blocking.
Marc-André Bombeck