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Problem (LAB-1140 + LAB-2528 Finding 1)

The nightly atheris-fuzzing job in security-deep.yml could not fail, and had never fuzzed anything:

  1. Every invocation was || true — import errors, libFuzzer crash exits, and timeout exit 124 were all swallowed.
  2. Crash artifacts went where nobody looked — no -artifact_prefix, so libFuzzer wrote crash-* to the repo root while the "Report fuzzing results" gate inspected tests/fuzzing/corpus/, a directory nothing ever wrote to (its only content was a .gitignore).
  3. Zero matched targets was also green — the [ -f ] guard skipped the loop body silently.
  4. The targets died at startup, every night (root cause found while fixing the above, previously undiagnosed in LAB-2528): atheris.instrument_imports() instrumented pydantic, whose instrumented bytecode segfaults CPython 3.11 in _decorators.merge_seqs during pydantic_settings' CLI-provider model construction (imported transitively via cachekit.hiredis_compat). SIGSEGV → no traceback → eaten by || true. The targets had also rotted against deleted APIs while dead (cachekit.serializers.raw, decorators.main.redis_cache, per-call tenant_id) — proof they never executed even once.

Net effect: Security Deep Success was green nightly with ~41 s of "30 min" fuzzing and zero iterations, feeding a false atheris-fuzzing: success to the working failure-alert path.

Fix

Workflow (same shape as the merged Extended Fuzzing precedent from #251 / LAB-1136):

  • || true gone; every non-zero exit fails the job (documented exit-code contract inline).
  • -artifact_prefix=tests/fuzzing/artifacts/ + libFuzzer -timeout=60 per-input watchdog (a hang leaves a timeout-* reproducer); timeout -k 30s 15m backstop for native hangs (libFuzzer traps SIGTERM). Exit 124 is a deliberate failure — budget exhaustion exits 0 at 600 s, so 15 min alive = hung.
  • Zero matched targets fails the job (nullglob + explicit array).
  • if: failure() upload of tests/fuzzing/artifacts/ (only ever crash artifacts — no corpus dir is passed, so a file there is always a finding). retention-days: 7 — public repo, a reproducer is a ready-made PoC.
  • Deleted the "Report fuzzing results" step: a named green step incapable of failing is manufactured evidence (the fix(fuzz): fuzz the codec that ships — core 0.4.0, all 14 targets, fail loudly (LAB-1136) #251 rationale).
  • Python 3.11 pin + its comment preserved on both uv sync and uv run.

Targets (required for the positive control — an honest job with segfaulting targets is permanently red):

  • Third-party deps pre-imported outside instrument_imports() (pydantic and the rest of the third-party set — instrumented third-party bytecode is the proven startup-crash class; we fuzz cachekit's code).
  • Rewritten against the live API, same intent, stronger asserts: fuzz_byte_storage.py (renamed from fuzz_raw_serializer.pyRawSerializer no longer exists) roundtrips the ByteStorage FFI and requires hostile envelopes to raise clean ValueError; fuzz_encryption_wrapper.py asserts roundtrip, AAD cache-key binding, and tenant isolation with forged metadata (must die at the AES-GCM layer, not the unauthenticated metadata compare); fuzz_decorator_stack.py fuzzes the L1-only decorator stack with a bounded L1 (default budget reaches ~1.5 GB real RSS over 600 s — inside libFuzzer's 2 GB OOM kill).

Local counterpart (scripts/fuzz-python.sh, per the LAB-1136 sweep lesson): same contract; the old atheris probe used PATH python while targets run under uv run, so on Linux without an active venv it soft-skipped green having fuzzed nothing — now only Darwin soft-skips.

Dead tests/fuzzing/corpus/ deleted; tests/fuzzing/artifacts/ gitignored.

Proof (acceptance criteria: linked runs, not claims)

Control Run Result
Import-error target → red run 33335780308 ModuleNotFoundError → exit 1 → job failure
Crashing target → red + reproducer run 33335781506 ❌ crash → tests/fuzzing/artifacts/crash-*atheris-crash-artifacts uploaded (208 B, 7-day expiry)
Positive control (real targets, full 3×600 s) → green run 33335782735 ✅ success — job wall time 37 min (21:12→21:50 UTC) of real fuzzing vs the old 41 s no-op
First-generation proofs (pre-panel loop, same failure paths) 33334651511 / 33334653163 ❌ / ❌

Proof runs use lab-1140-proof-*-2 branches: the workflow there is trimmed to the atheris-fuzzing job only (byte-identical job block) so each proof doesn't burn ~4 h of unrelated kani/miri/sanitizer time on the self-hosted pool. Branches are marked never-merge.

Expert panel (mandatory gate — run at high stakes)

Verdict FIX-FIRST, all accepted findings applied in the follow-up commit: decorator-target RSS growth bounded (measured 154→356 MB/60 s unbounded, plateaus <260 MB bounded); pre-import shield broadened beyond pydantic; forged-metadata tenant check; fuzz-python.sh Linux soft-pass killed; timeout -k + libFuzzer -timeout=60; artifact retention 30→7 days; target renamed; dead corpus dir deleted; over-claiming comments corrected.

Rejected, with reasons: consolidating the CI loop into scripts/fuzz-python.sh (the AC requires the explicit --python 3.11 pin inline in the workflow, and #251's precedent is inline steps; mitigated with keep-in-sync cross-references in both files); trimming the tombstone comment (pragmatism review ruled the old-gate autopsy load-bearing at these stakes).

Docs gate

Pass run; no docs needed beyond the diff itself: no doc surface documents the corpus-gate behavior being removed; DEVELOPMENT.md's claims ("Atheris fuzzing | 10 min/target | Nightly CI", make fuzz-quick) remain true; no src/ change, so doctests/markdown-docs are unaffected. Verified uv run pytest -x -m "not slow": 455 passed; the single failure (tests/integration/saas/PERFORMANCE.md) requires a live saas dev worker and fails identically on main.

Follow-up candidates (not in scope)

  • The Extended Fuzzing job's extended-fuzz-crash-artifacts upload keeps retention-days: 30 — same public-PoC exposure as finding applied here; parity fix is one line but touches a job this ticket excludes.
  • LAB-2528 Findings 2–3 (attestation-check TAG swallow, codecov silent degrade) remain open in LAB-2528; Finding 1 is fixed here.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Tests

    • Added fuzz testing for byte storage, including round-trip integrity and hostile input handling.
    • Strengthened fuzz coverage for caching and encryption, including tenant isolation and authentication checks.
    • Removed redundant raw serializer fuzz testing.
  • Chores

    • Fuzzing now reports crashes, hangs, timeouts, exceptions and missing targets as failures.
    • Failed runs upload crash artefacts retained for seven days.
    • Fuzzing is skipped only on macOS.
    • Updated dependency constraints to include an additional security fix.

Summary

This PR migrates the security-deep.yml nightly workflow from self-hosted (cachekit) runners to GitHub-hosted ubuntu-latest runners, and fixes the Atheris fuzzing job which was previously non-functional.

Changes

Runner migration (all jobs)

  • Switched kani-verification, fuzzing, atheris-fuzzing, miri-full, sanitizers, and generate-security-report from the self-hosted cachekit runner to ubuntu-latest.
  • Removed the RUSTUP_HOME=/tmp/rustup and CARGO_HOME=/tmp/cargo environment overrides that were workarounds for EXDEV "cross-device link" errors specific to the ARC runner pod. These are no longer needed on GitHub-hosted runners.
  • Removed the manual PATH setup and stable-toolchain install steps from the Kani job, since the hosted image ships them by default.

Atheris job repair

  • Added the astral-sh/setup-uv action (pinned to v10.1.0 / uv 0.12.12), with caching disabled. Previously uv was assumed present on the self-hosted runner; on hosted runners it must be explicitly installed for the job to run at all.

Documentation/comment updates

  • Updated budget and rationale comments to reflect the 360-minute GitHub-hosted hard cap and the intentional decision to skip caching on nightly jobs.
  • Reworded references from "self-hosted runner" to "CI runner" and clarified why libFuzzer/clang-based sdist builds fail on hosted images.

Purpose

The Atheris job's dependency on the self-hosted environment left its targets effectively dead. Moving to GitHub-hosted runners and explicitly provisioning uv makes the fuzz job actually runnable and capable of failing (surfacing real issues) rather than silently breaking on environment setup.

Remove the blanket || true that swallowed import errors, libFuzzer crash
exits, and hangs alike; route crash reproducers to tests/fuzzing/artifacts/
via -artifact_prefix and upload them on failure (the old gate inspected
tests/fuzzing/corpus/, which nothing ever wrote to); fail the job when the
fuzz_*.py glob matches nothing. Same shape as the Extended Fuzzing fix
merged in #251 (LAB-1136). scripts/fuzz-python.sh gets the identical
contract so 'make fuzz-quick' stops lying locally.
Root cause of the audit's 'zero fuzzing while green' finding (LAB-2528
Finding 1): atheris.instrument_imports() instrumented pydantic, whose
instrumented bytecode segfaults CPython 3.11 in _decorators.merge_seqs
during pydantic_settings CLI-provider model construction (imported
transitively via cachekit.hiredis_compat). SIGSEGV during startup, before
one fuzz iteration — swallowed by the workflow's || true every night.
Fix: pre-import pydantic/pydantic_settings outside the instrumentation
block; we fuzz cachekit's code, not third-party bytecode.

The targets had also rotted against APIs deleted while they were dead:
cachekit.serializers.raw.RawSerializer and decorators.main.redis_cache no
longer exist, and EncryptionWrapper moved tenant_id to the constructor and
grew mandatory cache_key AAD binding. Rewritten against the live API, same
intent, stronger asserts (AAD wrong-key and cross-tenant decrypt must fail
authentication). Verified locally: all three run clean 15 s (2.9M / 278k /
312k execs), and a deliberate crash drops its reproducer in
tests/fuzzing/artifacts/ with a non-zero exit.
Panel verdict FIX-FIRST; all accepted findings applied:
- decorator target: bound L1 (max_size_mb=8) — default 100MB accounted
  budget reaches ~1.5GB real RSS over 600s (per-entry overhead uncounted),
  within 25% of libFuzzer's rss_limit_mb=2048 OOM kill; comments corrected
  to stop claiming serialization coverage L1-only mode doesn't run
- all targets: pre-import shield broadened from pydantic-only to the full
  third-party set (numpy/pandas/pyarrow/redis/msgpack/xxhash/prometheus) —
  instrumented third-party bytecode is the proven startup-SIGSEGV class,
  one dep bump from a permanent-red nightly
- encryption target: cross-tenant check now FORGES metadata (tenant_id +
  key_fingerprint) so it must die at the AES-GCM layer, not the
  unauthenticated metadata string compare
- fuzz-python.sh: atheris probe used PATH python while targets run under uv
  — on Linux without an active venv it soft-skipped green having fuzzed
  nothing; now only Darwin soft-skips, everything else runs and fails loudly
- both loops: timeout -k 30s (libFuzzer traps SIGTERM) + libFuzzer
  -timeout=60 per-input watchdog so a hang leaves a timeout-* reproducer
- artifact retention 30d -> 7d (public repo: reproducer = ready-made PoC)
- rename fuzz_raw_serializer.py -> fuzz_byte_storage.py (RawSerializer no
  longer exists); delete dead tests/fuzzing/corpus/ (nothing writes or
  reads it)

Rejected (with reasons in PR): consolidating the CI loop into the script
(AC pins 3.11 inline; LAB-1136 precedent is inline), trimming the tombstone
comment (load-bearing per pragmatism review).
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Walkthrough

Atheris fuzzing now covers storage, caching, and encryption boundaries. Local and CI runners fail on missing targets, crashes, exceptions, hangs, and timeouts. Crash reproducers are stored and uploaded from a dedicated artefact directory. The development pip constraint is also updated.

Changes

Fuzzing enforcement and coverage

Layer / File(s) Summary
Fuzz target behaviour
tests/fuzzing/fuzz_byte_storage.py, tests/fuzzing/fuzz_decorator_stack.py, tests/fuzzing/fuzz_encryption_wrapper.py
The targets cover ByteStorage roundtrips, L1 cache calls, cache-key authentication, and tenant isolation. Broad exception suppression was removed. The raw serializer target was removed.
Local fuzz runner enforcement
scripts/fuzz-python.sh, .gitignore
The runner skips only on macOS. Other platforms discover targets, apply time limits, write reproducers, and propagate failures. Generated reproducers are ignored by Git.
CI failure handling and artefacts
.github/workflows/security-deep.yml
The Atheris job rejects empty target matches and failures, applies libFuzzer limits, and uploads crash artefacts for seven days.

Dependency security update

Layer / File(s) Summary
pip security constraint
pyproject.toml, .github/workflows/ci.yml, .github/workflows/security-fast.yml
The dev-only pip constraint is raised from >=26.1.2 to >=26.2. The related security documentation uses the new floor.

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  participant Atheris
  participant FuzzTarget
  participant ArtifactStore
  Runner->>Atheris: execute discovered fuzz target with limits
  Atheris->>FuzzTarget: provide fuzz input
  FuzzTarget-->>Atheris: return or propagate failure
  Atheris-->>Runner: report exit status
  Runner->>ArtifactStore: write crash reproducer on failure
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335-338: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Include Atheris in the report success condition.

When only atheris-fuzzing fails, this condition still prints ✅ All deep security checks passed. Add needs.atheris-fuzzing.result to the condition.

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              [[ "${{ needs.fuzzing.result }}" == "success" ]] && \
+             [[ "${{ needs.atheris-fuzzing.result }}" == "success" ]] && \
              [[ "${{ needs.miri-full.result }}" == "success" ]] && \
              [[ "${{ needs.sanitizers.result }}" == "success" ]]; then
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Per-target iteration counts from the positive control (run 33335782735) — each target ran its full 600 s budget:

Fuzzing tests/fuzzing/fuzz_byte_storage.py...       Done 247,186,426 runs in 601 second(s)
Fuzzing tests/fuzzing/fuzz_decorator_stack.py...    Done   2,918,028 runs in 601 second(s)
Fuzzing tests/fuzzing/fuzz_encryption_wrapper.py... Done  13,117,931 runs in 601 second(s)

For contrast, the last nightly before this fix (run 33277738921) spent ~41 s total on the same step and executed zero fuzz iterations — every target segfaulted during Atheris import-instrumentation and || true reported success.

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Found critical issues please review the requested changes

…I (LAB-1140)

Two things stood between this PR and an honestly-green CI.

1. The fuzz oracles were `assert`, which the peephole optimiser strips under
   -O / PYTHONOPTIMIZE. A target run that way explores millions of inputs,
   verifies nothing, and reports no crashes — the same "green means nothing"
   failure this PR exists to remove, just reached by a different route. All
   six oracles across the three targets now raise AssertionError explicitly,
   so the type Atheris classifies and the artifact signature are unchanged
   while the check itself is no longer optional.

   Kody flagged only fuzz_byte_storage.py; the other two carried the identical
   latent fault and are already in this PR's diff, so fixing one and leaving
   two would have been a band-aid. Note the encryption target had already
   reached this conclusion for its AAD-binding and tenant-isolation oracles,
   which raise RuntimeError — the remaining asserts were the inconsistency.

   ruff's tests/** per-file-ignore of S101 is not evidence against this: it
   exists because pytest is built on assert, rewrites assertions, and never
   runs under -O. These targets are standalone scripts invoked as
   `uv run python <target>`, where neither of those protections applies.

2. pip-audit reds the PR on PYSEC-2026-3721 — pip 26.1.2 mishandles
   doubly-encoded index URLs and can write outside the target directory when
   installing from a malicious index. Bumped the existing dev-only
   constraint-dependencies pin to pip>=26.2 (the mechanism and comment style
   already in place for urllib3/h2/werkzeug) and relocked. Verified against
   pip-audit directly: clean at 26.2.

Verified: byte_storage target runs 9.5M iterations clean, and again under -O;
ruff check and ruff format clean on tests/fuzzing/.

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Comment thread pyproject.toml
Expert-panel finding (craftsman, high stakes): the assert->raise rewrite is a
deliberate deviation from this repo's own convention — pyproject.toml grants
S101 to tests/** precisely so tests may assert freely — and a deviation with
no stated reason gets "cleaned up" back to a one-line assert, at which point
the oracle silently becomes strippable again and the fuzz job goes back to
lying. One comment per target names the reason.

The encryption target's comment also points at the AAD-binding and
tenant-isolation oracles directly below it, which already raise — so the file
reads as one consistent rule rather than two conventions.
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Expert panel — high stakes, applied

Ran the mandatory panel (bug-hunter-supreme, security-specialist, code-craftsman, catchphrase-agent) over e916dbf. Bug-hunter and security returned NO FINDINGS; one craftsman finding applied in 92f177a.

Applied — the assert→raise rewrite is a deliberate deviation from this repo's own convention (pyproject.toml:127 grants S101 to tests/** precisely so tests may assert freely), and a deviation with no stated reason gets "cleaned up" back to a one-line assert — at which point the oracle becomes strippable again and the job goes back to lying. Each target now carries a one-line comment naming the reason; the encryption target's also points at the AAD-binding and tenant-isolation oracles directly below it, which already raise, so the file reads as one rule rather than two conventions.

Security specialist, on the crypto-adjacent questions (the reason this hit the gate):

  • Tenant isolation and roundtrip oracles are the exact negation of the originals for bytes operands, and still fail closed.
  • The two crypto-critical negative oracles — AAD binding and forged cross-tenant metadata — were already raise RuntimeError inside a try whose except DecryptionAuthenticationError does not catch RuntimeError, so they propagate and crash the target. Untouched.
  • grep -rn "assert " tests/fuzzing/ now returns nothing: all six oracles across three targets survive -O. Verdict: a strengthening, not a weakening.
  • pip>=26.2 bump correct, uv.lock matches at 26.2.1 with the sdist hash pinned. The specialist could not independently sweep the rest of the lock (orjson won't build in the sandbox — no free-threaded 3.14 wheel), so CI's pip-audit job remains the authority there.

Bug-hunter specifically checked the type-coercion risk I'd flagged as the likely trap — retrieved being a memoryview — and confirmed bytes(retrieved) normalises before comparison, with no __eq__/__ne__ asymmetry class in play on any of the operands.

Catchphrase defended the change rather than cutting it, which is worth recording since it's the agent whose job is to cut: under -O the file would have had split semantics — half the invariants live, half silently evaporating — which is strictly worse than either uniform choice and invisible to a reader.

Verified after the comment change: target still runs clean (3.7M iterations), ruff check and ruff format --check clean across tests/fuzzing/.

CodeRabbit follow-up, and a fair catch: both pip-audit steps carry a comment
naming the constraint versions, and each ends with "Keep this list IDENTICAL
to <the other> so the two cannot drift." Bumping pyproject to pip>=26.2 without
touching them is exactly the drift the comment exists to prevent.

Both now read pip>=26.2. Also replaced "pinned" with "floored" — >= is a
minimum, not an exact pin, and the old wording invited someone to go looking
for a pin that was never there.
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…v pair (LAB-2528) (#270)

* fix(ci): fail loudly on attestation lookup failure; decide the codecov pair (LAB-2528)

Two of the three LAB-2528 fail-open findings. Finding 1 (the Atheris job that
fuzzed nothing) is fixed under LAB-1140 in #269 and deliberately not touched
here, so the two PRs cannot conflict in security-deep.yml.

Finding 2 — attestation-check.yml swallowed a failed release lookup into a
green skip. `2>/dev/null || echo ""` made "the gh API failed" and "this repo
has no releases" the same fact: the run exited 0, wrote skip=true, and logged
"No releases found, skipping" — so a week with no attestation verification at
all was indistinguishable from a healthy one. The lookup now fails the step
with an ::error:: annotation and only a genuinely empty release list skips,
with distinct log lines for the two. github.repository moves into env: REPO,
which also removes a template-expansion-into-shell site.

Finding 3 — the codecov fail_ci_if_error pair, recorded as a decision rather
than left at its default. coverage.xml is flipped to true: it is the only
input to the project/patch statuses codecov.yml declares, and with
carryforward: true on every flag a silently-dropped upload does not remove
the patch status, it answers "is this PR's new code 80% covered?" with an
earlier run's numbers — a green status that measured none of the diff, the
same manufactured-evidence class as the two findings above. junit.xml stays
false on purpose: it feeds Test Analytics only, nothing gates on it, and a
Codecov outage there would redden passing CI while hiding nothing. Both
rationales live in ci.yml at the point of enforcement. No fork-PR exposure —
fork PRs cannot mint the OIDC token these uploads use.

Evidence: the shipped step body extracted from the YAML and run under bash -e
against a stubbed gh, pre-fix vs post-fix. Pre-fix on API failure: exit 0,
skip=true, "No releases found, skipping". Post-fix: exit 1 with the
annotation; empty list still exits 0 with skip=true; healthy path yields
tag=v0.17.1, skip=false. gh's --jq null rendering checked against the real
binary on repos with and without releases. actionlint passes.

* fix(ci): apply expert-panel findings — draft/prerelease lookup, tag injection, fork-scoped codecov gate (LAB-2528)

Four-agent panel at high stakes. Surviving findings, all applied:

CRIT (introduced by the previous commit, caught by two agents independently):
the in-file comment justifying `fail_ci_if_error: true` claimed fork PRs
"cannot mint the OIDC token" and therefore could not be reddened. Read at the
pinned SHA, the action does the opposite: `Get OIDC token` is guarded
`CC_USE_OIDC == 'true' && CC_FORK != 'true'`, so on a fork it never attempts
OIDC, CC_TOKEN stays empty, `Override branch for forks` sets TOKENLESS, and
CC_FAIL_ON_ERROR still applies — a Codecov rate-limit would redden an outside
contribution. On a repo with no branch protection that trains maintainers to
merge over red CI, i.e. it degrades the gate it was meant to harden. The flag
is now scoped to same-repo events, where OIDC actually authenticates, and the
comment records the mechanism rather than the false premise. A comment
asserting behaviour the code does not exhibit is a trust bug in its own right.

MAJ (introduced): the new `exit 1` on a failed lookup fell into the
`if: failure()` issue-creation step, filing a public bug issue titled
"Attestation verification failed for " — empty tag, blaming attestation
verification for an API outage that never reached the verify step, weekly and
undeduped. Gated on `steps.release.outputs.skip == 'false'`; for a lookup
failure the red run is the signal.

CRIT (in scope — this diff rewrote the lookup): `gh release list --limit 1` is
unfiltered. `--exclude-drafts` / `--exclude-pre-releases` are opt-in, so a
draft or prerelease can win `.[0]` — verifying an RC green while the stable
wheel users install goes unchecked, or failing on a wheel PyPI never got. Now
selects on `isLatest` (GitHub's own newest-non-draft-non-prerelease marker),
and "releases exist but none is latest" is a hard failure rather than a green
skip: that was the LAB-984 shape reproduced one level down.

CRIT (pre-existing, in-family so fixed here): `VER="${{ ... outputs.tag }}"`
template-interpolated a release tag into the shell body. `git check-ref-format`
accepts `v1.0.0$(id)` and backticked tags, and whoever can name a tag is the
adversary this tripwire exists to catch — that is code execution in a job
holding GH_TOKEN and issues: write, from where a `gh` shim makes the verify
two lines later exit 0. TAG and REPO now arrive via env in both remaining
steps; the previous commit had moved only `github.repository`, leaving the one
value that is actually externally set interpolated.

Two rhetorical comment sentences cut (both agents flagged them as restating
the preceding line).

REJECTED, with reason recorded in-file: `handle_no_reports_found: true`. It
would also swallow "the report was never written" — the silent degradation
finding 3 exists to remove. A second red step on an already-red job is noise;
a green job that uploaded nothing is a trust bug.

Evidence. The shipped lookup body is extracted from the YAML with yaml.safe_load
and run under `bash -e` against a stubbed gh, five cases, all asserted: lookup
failure -> exit 1; releases-but-none-latest -> exit 1; zero releases -> exit 0
skip=true; healthy -> exit 0 tag=v0.17.1; prerelease newer than stable -> picks
the stable one. `isLatest`/`isDraft`/`isPrerelease` confirmed as real `--json`
fields and `--exclude-*` confirmed opt-in against the installed gh. The codecov
flip is backed by the step LOG (not the step conclusion, which proves nothing
while the flag is false) on the last three main runs: `Get OIDC token`
succeeded and "Your upload is now queued for processing" on every interpreter.
actionlint passes — it caught a literal template marker inside a comment being
parsed as an empty expression.

Out of scope, filed as observations rather than silently widened: the verify
call pins neither `--signer-workflow` nor `--source-ref` and emits no
`--format json` evidence (needs checking against a real 0.17.1 attestation);
only 1 of the 21 attested artifacts per release is verified; junit-unit.xml is
generated and never uploaded; and the vendored codecov action proceeds after
its own CLI signature check prints "Could not verify signature".

* fix(ci): close the fail-open the first fix introduced; scope the failure issue to the verify step (LAB-2528)

Second expert-panel pass, run because the fix for a panel's own findings is not
covered by that panel. Both agents independently found the same defect, and it
is the one this ticket exists to remove — reintroduced two lines below the
`|| echo ""` it replaced.

MAJ, fail-open (introduced in 228e904): the release-count check was written
`if [ "$(jq -r 'length' <<<"$RELEASES")" -ne 0 ]`. Three faults compounding:
the command substitution hides jq's exit code, `set -e` does not fire inside an
`if` condition, and when `[` itself errors on non-numeric input the test
evaluates FALSE — falling straight through to `skip=true` and exit 0. Reachable
whenever `gh` exits 0 with empty stdout: jq on empty input exits 0 with no
output, so the job reported a green "no published releases, skipping" having
verified nothing. Now validated in its own statement with
`jq -e 'if type == "array" then length else null end'`, so a parse error, an
absent array, a JSON null and an object all land on the annotated hard failure
rather than the skip path or a raw jq trace. `--limit` raised 30 -> 100 and the
error now reports the actual count, so the window is diagnosable rather than an
arbitrary constant that arms itself as the repo grows.

MAJ, misleading alarm: `if: failure() && skip == 'false'` fixed the empty-tag
case but still filed a public "Attestation verification failed for v0.17.1"
issue when `setup-python` failed, or when `pip download` hit a release-day PyPI
publish lag or a yank — blaming the release pipeline's attestations for
something that never reached the attestation check, on the day maintainers are
busiest. Now gated on the verify step's own `steps.verify.outcome`, retitled to
"Attestation health check failed" (the step covers both the download and the
verification), and the body sends the reader to the log to find out which.

ci.yml: the fork scoping is kept, but the comment now states the residual risk
it creates instead of only the risk it avoids — on a fork PR a dropped
tokenless upload is silent and carryforward answers the patch question with an
earlier commit's numbers. Accepted because a fork PR cannot reach the
self-hosted runner without a maintainer approving the run; the real fix is a
local `--cov-fail-under` floor, tracked separately rather than smuggled in here.

Evidence: the harness now asserts eight cases against the step body extracted
from the YAML, including the three malformed-payload cases that previously
produced a green skip (empty stdout, unparseable stdout, JSON null) — all now
non-zero with the annotation. actionlint passes.

Deferred with reasons, not silently widened: verifying the newest release in
addition to `isLatest` (a publisher can flag a malicious release prerelease and
leave `isLatest` on the previous stable — a coverage gap, not a fail-open, and
the same "which artifacts should the weekly check cover" question as the
already-deferred 1-of-21 artifact gap); `gh issue create` dedup (pre-existing;
duplicate weekly issues are noise rather than silence, and the obvious
implementation wants a `|| echo 0` swallow this PR is removing).

* fix(ci): resolve the latest release server-side instead of paging for it

CodeRabbit, PR #270: capping the lookup at N releases means the isLatest
release can fall outside the window, leaving TAG empty on a non-empty list
and hard-failing a perfectly healthy repo. Raising N only moves the cliff.

/releases/latest — what `gh release view` with no tag resolves — is the same
newest-non-draft-non-prerelease release the isLatest flag marks, computed
server-side, so there is no window for it to fall outside of. `gh release
list --limit 1` keeps answering the one question that genuinely needs the
listing: does this repo publish anything at all.

All three outcomes preserved: lookup failure red, zero releases skip,
releases-without-a-latest red. A tripwire that cries wolf is the same trust
bug as one that stays silent.

Refs LAB-2528

* chore(deps): bump pip constraint past PYSEC-2026-3721

Not this PR's subject — riding along because it reds every PR in the repo,
including this one, and CI-green is the review gate.

pip-audit flagged pip 26.1.2 itself: doubly-encoded package URLs from an
index can install files to arbitrary paths on disk, wheels included. Fixed
in 26.2; the [tool.uv] constraint pinned the vulnerable floor. Lock resolves
to 26.2.1 and nothing else moved.

Repo-wide, not branch-specific: main carries the same floor and has not run
CI since 2026-08-08, which is why nobody had seen it yet.

Refs LAB-2528

* docs(ci): sync the pip floor in both pip-audit rationales

CodeRabbit, PR #270: the constraint moved to 26.2 but the comment still said
26.1.2. Fixed in ci.yml too, not just the file CodeRabbit named — the comment
itself says to keep the two identical so they cannot drift, and fixing one
half of a keep-in-sync pair is how the drift starts.

Refs LAB-2528

* fix(ci): bump codecov-action to v7.0.0 so CLI signature verification can pass

The pinned v5.5.3 fetches Codecov's GPG key from keybase.io/codecovsecurity,
an account Codecov deleted in June 2026 (HTTP 404, "SELF-SIGNED PUBLIC KEY NOT
FOUND"). Key import yields "no valid OpenPGP data", `gpg --verify` fails with
"No public key", and the wrapper's exit_if_error fires. With the PR's
fail_ci_if_error: true on same-repo events that is now a hard failure — the
Tests (Python 3.12) job on 8ec07c3 died exactly there.

On main (fail_ci_if_error: false) the same failure has been silent: the log
prints "Could not verify signature" then "CLI integrity verified" and runs
the unverified 10 MB binary anyway. Every green main run since the deletion
did this.

v7.0.0 (fb8b3582) moves the key URL to keybase.io/codecovsecops, which serves
the same key (fingerprint 2703 4E7F DB85 0E0B BC2C 62FF 806B B28A ED77 9869 —
the RSA key that signed the failing run's SHA256SUM). The only other change on
our code path since v5.5.3 is v6.0.1's template-injection hardening (inputs
hoisted into env:). The Get OIDC token fork guard the in-file comment cites is
unchanged. node24, which v6+ requires, is already required by checkout@v6 in
the same job.

Not chosen: skip_validation (disables the check), reverting fail_ci_if_error
(defeats LAB-2528), v5.5.5 (node20 compatibility line we have no need for).

Refs LAB-3408, LAB-2528.

* fix(ci): make the junit upload enforce the CLI signature too; tighten the pin note

Expert-panel pass on 2ffb843 (bug-hunter-supreme and security-specialist,
independently): fail_ci_if_error is not just "redden CI on upload error", it
is the wrapper's signature-enforcement switch. exit_if_error only exits when
CC_FAIL_ON_ERROR=true; with false a failed `gpg --verify` falls through to a
same-origin SHA256SUM check, prints "CLI integrity verified", chmods and
executes the downloaded binary with the OIDC token in env. The junit step's
hard-coded false therefore kept the exact fail-open 2ffb843's own comment
describes, two lines below it, and its "hiding nothing" rationale was wrong.

The step now sets fail_ci_if_error: true and carries the PR's recorded
"a Test Analytics outage must not redden CI" decision in step-level
continue-on-error: true instead: the wrapper stops before exec, the step is
marked failed-and-continued, the job stays green. Same observable CI outcome
on an outage; no unverified execution.

Pin note reworded per the panel: dropped the v5.5.5/v6.0.2 parenthetical
(v6.0.2 is this very commit; v5.5.5 is the node20 line without v6.0.1's
hardening, an in-file licence to downgrade), fixed "every earlier release"
(false by version order), gave it its own paragraph, and named the accepted
fail-closed: a keybase.io outage now fails same-repo CI red rather than
running an unverified binary.

Not changed: the coverage step's same-repo scoping. On a fork PR it still
runs tokenless with fail_ci_if_error false, so the same unverified-binary
path exists there; that is gated by a maintainer approving the run on the
self-hosted runner and is the PR author's recorded design. Flagged on
LAB-3408 for the owner rather than rewritten here.

Refs LAB-3408, LAB-2528.

* docs(ci): record the fork-PR signature residual; scope the no-reports rationale

Second expert-panel pass on ade459d, comment accuracy only, no behaviour
change:

- The ACCEPTED RESIDUAL RISK paragraph named only the silent tokenless drop
  on fork PRs. It now also names that the wrapper's CLI signature check is
  unenforced there (fail_ci_if_error is its switch), and states why that is
  accepted: a tampered cli.codecov.io binary cannot target fork runs
  selectively, so it hits same-repo runs first, where the step fails closed.
  "A human is already in that loop" was dropped: maintainer approval vets the
  PR's code, not Codecov's CDN.

- The handle_no_reports_found paragraph claimed "a green job that uploaded
  nothing is a trust bug" for both uploads, while the junit paragraph above
  it now deliberately accepts a green job on an outage. Scoped to
  coverage.xml; on junit.xml the default keeps the failed step visible as an
  annotation.

Refs LAB-3408, LAB-2528.

* docs(ci): record why continue-on-error on the junit upload is visibility-only

Kody read the junit step's `continue-on-error: true` as defeating the
`fail_ci_if_error: true` signature guarantee and proposed flipping the
latter to false. Checked against dist/codecov.sh at the pinned SHA, that
proposal reopens the exact hole ade459d closed, and the reading conflates
"the job goes red" with "the wrapper refuses to execute". Comment only, no
behaviour change; it records the two facts the next reader would otherwise
have to re-derive from the wrapper:

- continue-on-error is job-level and cannot reach inside the step. With
  CC_FAIL_ON_ERROR=true, exit_if_error exits at the failed gpg --verify
  (:133), before chmod +x (:142) and before the CLI runs (:268). A bad
  signature here runs no downloaded code; only the red X is downgraded to
  an annotation.

- The coverage step above is the integrity canary for same-repo events: same
  action SHA, same `latest` CLI, same keybase key and SHA256SUM, hard-fail,
  and it runs first. A signature that cannot pass reddens the job there.

No integrity-only failure signal exists to build a separate check on: every
error class shares exit 1, the action declares no outputs, and a later step
cannot read an earlier step's log.

Refs LAB-3408, LAB-2528.

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Co-authored-by: Winston <winston@27b.io>
Co-authored-by: Mark S <ray@insighttimer.com>
Resolve conflicts in ci.yml, security-fast.yml and pyproject.toml by taking
main: both sides already carry pip>=26.2, only the constraint comment prose
differed, and those lines are no longer this PR's change.
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