Publish by OIDC trusted publishing instead of the expired npm token - #56
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The release job authenticated with NODE_AUTH_TOKEN from the NPM_TOKEN secret. That credential started being rejected on 2026-08-17. Every daily run since then reached the publish step and failed with npm E404 on PUT to the registry, which is how npm reports a rejected write credential rather than a missing package. Rotating the secret on 2026-08-22 changed nothing, and the copy of the credential on the maintainer host answers 401 to npm whoami, so the token is dead rather than mis-stored. Nothing else in the pipeline noticed. The version bump and the release commit both land before the publish step, so main kept advancing with no matching tag and nothing on the registry while every other job stayed green. Sixteen of the eighteen published fleet packages are in that state. Trusted publishing removes the credential that can expire: the registry mints a short-lived one from the workflow's OIDC identity. Two changes had to go together - the token env is gone from the publish step, and npm is raised to >=11.5.1 first, because the npm bundled with node 22 has no OIDC support and would silently fall back to token auth. Two tests fail closed on regression: one rejects any NODE_AUTH_TOKEN, NPM_TOKEN or secrets.NPM reference outside a comment and requires id-token: write, the other requires the npm upgrade to precede the publish step. Both were mutation-checked - reintroducing the token fails the first, deleting the upgrade fails the second. This needs a one-time npmjs.com setup binding the package to its repo and release.yml before the next release can publish.
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WalkthroughThe release workflow installs npm 11.19.0, validates OIDC trusted publishing before mutations, and publishes without stored npm credentials. Tests enforce these requirements. PM records document the related outages and acceptance criteria. Changesnpm Trusted Publishing Migration
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk:🔵 Low · up to The release workflow moves npm publishing to OIDC, but its credential cleanup does not cover lowercase or mixed-case npm configuration variables or an explicit --userconfig path. An alternate npm configuration could retain credentials during publishing, so this bounded security risk needs owner awareness or a follow-up before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ReleaseWorkflow
participant GitHubOIDC
participant NpmRegistry
participant PackageRelease
ReleaseWorkflow->>GitHubOIDC: Request id-token
GitHubOIDC-->>ReleaseWorkflow: OIDC token
ReleaseWorkflow->>NpmRegistry: Validate trusted publisher
NpmRegistry-->>ReleaseWorkflow: Accept or reject configuration
ReleaseWorkflow->>PackageRelease: Publish package through OIDC
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Reviewer's GuideThe release workflow now publishes through npm trusted publishing with GitHub OIDC instead of the expired npm token, explicitly upgrades npm to ^11.5.1 before publishing, and adds text-based regression tests to prevent token reintroduction or incorrect upgrade ordering. A one-time npmjs.com trusted-publishing configuration is required before the next release. Sequence diagram for npm OIDC trusted publishingsequenceDiagram
participant Release as GitHub Release Workflow
participant NPM as npm CLI 11.5.1+
participant GitHub as GitHub OIDC
participant Registry as npm Registry
Release->>NPM: npm install -g npm@^11.5.1
Release->>GitHub: Request id-token
GitHub-->>Release: OIDC identity token
Release->>NPM: npm publish
NPM->>Registry: Exchange OIDC identity token
Registry-->>NPM: Short-lived publish credential
NPM->>Registry: Publish package
Registry-->>Release: Publish result
Flow diagram for release workflow authentication guardsflowchart TD
Start([Release workflow]) --> Upgrade[npm install -g npm@^11.5.1]
Upgrade --> Publish[npm publish]
Publish --> OIDC[GitHub OIDC trusted publishing]
OIDC --> Registry[npm Registry]
TokenGuard{NODE_AUTH_TOKEN present?}
VersionGuard{npm version supports trusted publishing?}
TokenGuard -->|Yes| Fail([Fail regression test])
TokenGuard -->|No| Pass([Pass regression test])
VersionGuard -->|No| Fail
VersionGuard -->|Yes| Pass
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@coderabbitai full review This is one of seventeen identical migrations across the fleet, so a finding here almost certainly applies to all of them — please be specific about whether an issue is repo-local or structural. The thing I most want checked, because I cannot settle it locally: removing Second, the npm floor. Third, and most useful if you can do it: both guard tests were mutation-checked — reintroducing the token fails the OIDC test, deleting the upgrade step fails the npm-version test, and the unmodified tree passes both. If you can construct a third mutation that reintroduces token authentication and that both tests miss, that is the highest-value thing you could report, because these two tests are the only thing standing between this fleet and a silent repeat of a ten-day publishing outage. |
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Finding: The OIDC guard can miss a restored token-authentication path
jobs:
release:
permissions:
contents: writeactions: writepull-requests: writeid-token: none - name: Configure publish credentialenv:
PUBLISH_CREDENTIAL: ${{ secrets.PUBLISH_CREDENTIAL }}run: npm config set //registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken "$PUBLISH_CREDENTIAL"The current OIDC test still passes because the top-level The guard should verify the effective For the other two checks:
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In `@test/release-workflow.test.ts`:
- Around line 36-41: Strengthen the release workflow checks in
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…structurally Review found the third mutation both guard tests missed: they asserted that the upgrade COMMAND appears, which is satisfied by a step disabled with if: false, by an install whose failure is swallowed with || true, and by a later step putting npm 10 back. In all three the workflow still publishes with an npm that cannot exchange an OIDC token, and both tests stay green. The workflow now checks the EFFECTIVE version and exits non-zero below 11.5.1, under set -euo pipefail so the install cannot fail quietly. Three of the assertions were also weaker than they looked, and two were wrong: - id-token: write was matched against the whole file, so a comment or another job's permission satisfied it. It now resolves the effective permissions for jobs.release - the job-level block if present, the workflow-level block otherwise, because a job block REPLACES rather than merges with the top-level one. - The upgrade-precedes-publish slice spanned every step in between, so an unrelated || true tripped it and the step's own if: was never checked. It now slices the single step. - Comments were stripped before offsets were computed, which shifts every index after the first comment and silently broke the between-steps count. Stripping now happens on the slice. A fourth check rejects reintroducing the token as an .npmrc _authToken line, which the NODE_AUTH_TOKEN assertion could never have seen. Seven mutations were run against this repo and every sibling: disabled step, swallowed install, later downgrade, commented permission, .npmrc token, faked version check, and NODE_AUTH_TOKEN restored. All seven fail; the unmodified tree passes.
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Pushed the hardening that came out of review on the sibling PRs — re-review please. @coderabbitai full review Review on four sibling PRs converged on the same real gap, and they were right: asserting that the npm upgrade command appears is not the same as asserting it took effect. That assertion is satisfied by a step disabled with Workflow: now checks the effective version and exits non-zero below 11.5.1, under Tests: three assertions were weaker than they looked and two were outright wrong.
A fourth check rejects reintroducing the token as an Seven mutations, run against this repo and all seventeen siblings: disabled step, swallowed install, later downgrade to npm 10, commented-out permission, If you can still construct a way to publish with token auth or with npm 10 that all five tests miss, that is the most useful thing you can report. |
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High: The tests do not verify the npm executable used for publicationThe version check at This mutation passes all five tests but runs the publish operation with npm 10: publish_with_provenance() {npm exec --yes --package=npm@10 -- npm publish --access public --provenance --ignore-scripts}
Use a guard that rejects npm package runners or package overrides in the publish step. At minimum, reject Medium: The token guard still permits legacy authentication configuration
For example, this mutation can configure legacy authentication and passes all five tests: - name: Configure npm credentialsenv:
PUBLISH_CREDENTIAL: ${{ secrets.PUBLISH_CREDENTIAL }}run: | npm config set _auth "$PUBLISH_CREDENTIAL" npm login --auth-type=legacyThe exact practical legacy mechanism depends on npm configuration and registry policy. The guard should fail closed before that configuration can reach the release workflow. Reject at least:
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…tity Publishing is the only step in the release job that can fail for a reason outside this repository, and it runs last - after the version bump and the release commit have already landed on main. When the npm credential died on 2026-08-17 that ordering meant every nightly run advanced main to a fresh version, pushed no tag, published nothing, and still reported the bump as progress. Sixteen packages drifted that way for ten days, because CI was green on everything except the step nobody was reading. Ask the registry for a credential before mutating anything. The new preflight mints the workflow's OIDC id-token, offers it to npm's exchange endpoint, and fails the run when npm will not accept it - naming the package, organization, repository and workflow filename to configure on npmjs.com. Nothing is bumped, committed or tagged on that path. That endpoint is also how the outage was diagnosed rather than guessed: it answers 404 "OIDC token exchange error - package not found", which is npm reporting no trusted publisher binding, not a missing package. This rules out the competing hypothesis that setup-node's empty _authToken short-circuits the exchange. That is handled too, defensively, but it was not the cause. Also addresses the review findings raised across the sibling OIDC pull requests: - Pin npm exactly (11.19.0) instead of resolving ^11.5.1 on every run. A privileged step that fetches an unreviewed publisher on each execution is not reproducible between two identical release commits. - Strip the //registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken line that setup-node's registry-url writes. With no token in the environment it expands to an empty credential that npm can treat as legacy auth. - Reject registry credentials by mechanism rather than by name: _authToken, npm config set //, npm login and always-auth anywhere in the workflow, and any secrets. reference inside the publish step. Rejecting three literal names let secrets.PUBLISH_TOKEN through. Every guard is verified by mutation rather than inspection. Seven reverts were applied one at a time and the suite re-run against each; all seven fail. Tracked as pm-github-yq1d.
Two review findings were not closed by the first pass and are addressed here. The guard that allows exactly one global npm install before publication matched only 'npm install -g'. 'npm install --global npm@10' walked straight past it and left npm 10 active, which cannot exchange an OIDC token, while every assertion still passed. Both spellings are matched now. The credential guard rejected _authToken alone. npm accepts a registry credential under several other names - _auth for basic auth, the legacy username/_password pair, and certfile/keyfile for mTLS - and any of them restores exactly the stored credential this migration removed. The same credentials can also arrive as NPM_CONFIG_* environment overrides rather than .npmrc lines. All are rejected by mechanism, allowing only NPM_CONFIG_USERCONFIG, which is how the publish step finds the file it strips. Five further reverts were applied and re-run: a --global downgrade, an _auth line, a username line, a keyfile line, and NPM_CONFIG__AUTH in the publish env. All five fail the suite, bringing it to twelve verified reverts. Tracked as pm-github-yq1d.
The npm-upgrade assertions matched raw step text. Commenting out the real
'npm install -g npm@11.19.0' left the assertion satisfied by the comment while
npm 10 stayed active - and npm 10 cannot exchange an OIDC token, which is the
entire premise of the step. They now run against comment-stripped source.
The effective-permission parser understood only block-style job permissions. An
inline mapping ('permissions: { contents: write }') or a scalar shorthand
('permissions: read-all') matched neither branch, so the function fell through
to the workflow-level block and reported id-token: write for a job that had just
overridden it away. Both spellings are parsed now, and a scalar override is
correctly read as granting nothing.
Five further reverts verified: a comment-only upgrade, a job-level block without
id-token, an inline mapping without it, a scalar shorthand, and id-token granted
to a different job only. All five fail. Seventeen verified reverts in total.
Tracked as pm-github-yq1d.Earlier editing of the guard suite dropped the docstring on stepIndex, and the constant holding the workflow source was never documented. Packages that gate on 100% docstring coverage fail on both. Caught by pm-presets, whose gate runs over its test tree, and fixed everywhere for consistency. Tracked as pm-github-yq1d.
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The preflight's HTTP 200 response body is a short-lived npm publish credential.
It was written to a predictable path and left there for the remainder of the
job. Every later step - build, changelog generation, release checks - runs as
the same runner user and could have read it off disk. Never echoing it was not
enough.
It now goes to an mktemp file removed by an EXIT trap, which fires on success,
on failure and on early return alike, and the error path reads the file through
the environment rather than by hardcoded name.
Also matches bracket-form secret references. The publish-step guard used
/secrets\./, so ${{ secrets['NPM_TOKEN'] }} passed it - the secrets context
supports index syntax and the guard did not.
Three further reverts verified: a fixed /tmp path, mktemp without the trap, and
a bracket-form secret in the publish env. All three fail. Twenty verified
reverts in total.
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Pushed the fix for the credential leak found in the last round — re-review please. @coderabbitai full review What changed since your last pass
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The evidence comments for this work were written with 'pm comment --text', which this CLI rejects - the accepting form is 'pm comments --add'. The invocation exited 2 and said so, but the error was piped through tail and the visible line was a token-ceiling notice rather than the failure, so eighteen items recorded nothing while appearing to record everything. Re-added through the accepting form: the twenty verified reverts, how the root cause was established against npm's exchange endpoint rather than inferred from CI, and the credential leak review found in the preflight. Tracked as pm-github-yq1d.
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Re-review please — pushed again after the last trigger. @coderabbitai full review The newest commit is tracker-only ( No source or workflow change since your last pass. Flagging it because the instruction here is to re-trigger on any push, and because a silent-looking failure that still exits non-zero is worth having in the record. The substantive changes you may not have seen yet, if your last review predates them:
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…ct releases
Two defects in the preflight, either of which would have failed a release whose
trusted publisher is correctly configured. A gate that blocks correct releases
is worse than the outage it exists to prevent.
The exchange URL was built from the raw package.json name. A scoped name is not
path-safe: @unbrained/pm-web has to reach the registry as %40unbrained%2Fpm-web,
and sending it raw addresses a different path entirely. The name is encoded with
encodeURIComponent now; unscoped names encode to themselves, so this is correct
for both rather than a scoped-only special case.
Only HTTP 200 was accepted. npm answers 201 Created on a successful exchange, so
a configured trusted publisher would have failed the preflight. Any 2xx is
accepted now.
Two bypasses are also closed. The preflight's condition could be changed to
'if: ${{ false }}', leaving the step present, correctly ordered and never
executed while the bump, commit and publish steps still ran - so the exact
release condition is pinned, and pinned to the same one the mutating steps use.
And a second 'trap ... EXIT' silently REPLACES the first, which would keep the
credential file on disk, so exactly one trap is permitted.
Four further reverts verified: if-false on the preflight, a second EXIT trap, a
raw scoped name in the URL, and accepting only 200. All four fail. Twenty-four
verified reverts in total.
Tracked as pm-github-yq1d.…ry outage
The credential scrub deleted only the token spelling. npm will just as happily
use basic auth, the legacy username/_password pair, or the certfile/keyfile mTLS
pair from the same userconfig, so removing one of six left the exchange
bypassable. All six are removed now, along with always-auth.
Both preflight requests were unbounded. A hung registry would have hung a job
that is holding an id-token rather than failing it; both curls carry --max-time.
A registry outage was reported as an identity refusal. That is the worst kind of
wrong error: it sends a maintainer to reconfigure a trusted publisher that is
already correct. HTTP 000 (curl could not reach the registry) and 5xx now fail
with their own message saying so, while still refusing to release on an
unverified identity.
Guard bypasses closed: a global flag written before the subcommand
('npm -g install npm@10'), the lowercase npm_config_ environment family, 'npm
set' as distinct from 'npm config set', space-separated auth options where key
and value are not joined by '=', and a permission line downgraded behind a
trailing comment. The credential assertions also had to stop matching the scrub
step's own deletion expressions, which name every credential precisely because
they remove it.
Also repairs shell-quoting damage that left "workflow'''s" in three comments.
Eight further reverts verified; thirty-two in total.
Tracked as pm-github-yq1d.The metadata timestamps are UTC and the prose dates were bare, so a reader reconciling the timeline had to assume which zone the prose meant. The dates now say UTC and each record says so once at the end. Applied to every package rather than only the three where review raised it: all seventeen items share this description, and a record that is right in three places and ambiguous in fourteen is not better than one that is consistent.
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Check release ref refused a non-main trigger ref only after the OIDC preflight, the version bump and the release commit had already run. A workflow_dispatch from a feature branch would therefore mint an id-token, exchange it for a short-lived npm publish credential, mutate the repository, and only then be refused - obtaining a credential the run is forbidden to use. Requesting a credential is itself an action, not a read. Refusing on the ref costs nothing and now happens first. The guard asserts the ordering: moving the check back after the preflight fails the suite. Review raised this and I pushed back on it, arguing the ordering was immaterial because both steps precede publication. That was wrong, and the record says so rather than quietly reversing. Also qualifies the incident dates in the earlier outage record as UTC, matching the metadata timestamps, so the timeline can be read without assuming a zone. Tracked as pm-github-yq1d.
unbraind
commented
Aug 26, 2026
Re-review please — pushed the ref-check reordering since your last pass. @coderabbitai full review The change, and a correction on my part
Review raised this and I pushed back on it, arguing the ordering was immaterial because both steps precede publication. That was wrong: requesting a credential is itself an action, not a read. The check now runs immediately after Also in this push: the incident dates in the tracker records are qualified as UTC (applied to all eighteen packages, not only where it was raised), and the What to scrutinise most
Thirty-three verified reverts now, all failing. The newest is moving the ref check back after the preflight. |
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High: A feature-branch dispatch runs dependency code before the ref check
A The new check correctly precedes the explicit npm OIDC exchange. It does not precede all privileged external actions. The guard test also misses this case. It asserts: refCheck<preflightIt does not assert that the ref gate runs before Use a job-level condition so GitHub does not start the privileged job for a non-main ref: jobs:
release:
if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main'Keep the step-level check as defense in depth. Add a test that requires the job-level condition. If a step-level design is required, move the ref check before
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… reachable
Three defects, all from review, all Major.
The job inherited id-token: write, and npm ci runs the checked-out package's
prepare hook. A workflow_dispatch from a feature ref therefore executed
repository-controlled code with release privileges before any step-level
refusal could fire. The job is gated by ref now; the step check stays as
defence in depth.
npm was verified only at install time, which does not bind at publish time: a
later step can prepend a directory to GITHUB_PATH and change which npm resolves.
The effective version is re-verified immediately before publication, and
GITHUB_PATH writes between the upgrade and the publish step are rejected.
The preflight's own failure handling was unreachable. Under set -u a bare
${ACTIONS_ID_TOKEN_REQUEST_TOKEN} aborts the step with 'unbound variable'
before the 'this job needs id-token: write' message can print, and under set -e
a non-zero curl aborts before the 000 branch can tell a registry outage from an
identity refusal. Both requests now capture their status, so the messages this
step exists to print are actually reachable.
Also fixes two defects in my own guards: the credential filter deleted whole
sed lines, so a same-line 'scrub then restore' would have been hidden from the
credential search along with the scrub; and the scrub assertions read raw step
source, so deleting the scrub while keeping its comment left them green against
comment text.
Four further reverts verified; forty-one in total.
Tracked as pm-github-yq1d.unbraind
commented
Aug 26, 2026
Re-review please — round-7 hardening pushed. @coderabbitai full review Three Major defects from the last round, all fixed
Two defects in my own guards, also fixed
What to scrutinise most
Forty-one verified reverts, all failing. A revert that still passes remains the most useful thing you could find. |
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The reachable-history privacy issue asked for a maintainer decision before release. The decision, taken 2026-08-27, is to freeze the past and gate forward. What the measurement actually shows: no keys, tokens, private addresses or credentials anywhere - GitHub secret scanning is clean and tracked files are clean. What remains is a small number of machine-local commit identities in older history, and absolute home paths that survive only inside .agents/pm prose - including, unavoidably, records that describe removing them. Rewriting that history would orphan release tags across the fleet, break the provenance chain of already-published npm versions, and invalidate every existing clone. That cost exceeds the benefit of removing a Linux username from old commit metadata, so it is not being paid. What is added instead is a gate that stops the exposure growing: identity-audit.test.ts refuses any commit after the recorded baseline whose author or committer is not in approved-git-identities.txt, and any commit that adds an absolute home path in any file, prose included. The baseline file records the decision itself, so the freeze is documented where the gate reads it rather than only in a pull request. Verified by violation, not by inspection: an unapproved-identity commit and a commit adding an absolute home path each fail the suite, and a baseline the checkout does not contain fails all three tests - so a shallow clone cannot make this gate silently pass, which would be worse than not having it. Tracked as pm-github-yq1d.
unbraind
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Aug 27, 2026
Re-review please. Two changes since your last completed pass. @coderabbitai full review 1. Round-7 hardening (your previous round found these; the trigger was rate-limited, so you may not have seen the fixes)
2. New: a forward privacy gate The reachable-history privacy issue is closed by maintainer decision — freeze the past, gate the future. History is not rewritten (it would orphan release tags and break published npm provenance to remove a Linux username from old commit metadata). Instead What to scrutinise most
Forty-four verified reverts across both suites, all failing. |
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A two-commit mutation passes all three tests:
The baseline exists, so Line 41 passes. The identity and path checks exclude the offending commit because it is now at the range boundary. The second commit has an approved identity and need not contain the path. This makes the gate bypassable without a shallow clone. Treat the baseline as immutable after the initial bootstrap. Protect changes to Medium: The net diff misses temporary home-path additions
git diff --unified=0 baseline..HEADThis compares the baseline tree with the final For example, one commit can add: A later commit can remove that line. The final tree has no added path relative to the baseline. The test passes even though reachable history contains a post-baseline commit that added the path. Inspect each commit delta instead. For example, iterate commits in The job-level I used the existing release-permission learning during this review. 🧠 Learnings usedYou are interacting with an AI system. |
…run scripts
Review found that a guard I had reported as verified did not hold. Asserting
publish.includes('_auth') is satisfied by the _authToken deletion expression
alone, so the basic-auth scrub could be removed outright while the assertion
still passed. My earlier mutation deleted all five expressions at once, which is
why it never exposed the gap. Each key is now asserted in the delimited form the
scrub actually uses, and removing any single expression fails.
The npm substitution window stopped at the START of the publish step, so an
install placed after the publish-time version gate and before npm publish
satisfied every assertion while publishing with a downgraded npm. The window now
runs through the end of that step.
429 was classified as an identity refusal. Rate limiting says nothing about
whether a trusted publisher is bound, and the message sent a maintainer to
reconfigure one that was already correct.
The exchange URL used encodeURIComponent, which percent-encodes the leading
at-sign. npm's escapedName preserves it and encodes only the separator, so a
scoped package addressed a path the registry does not know.
Four run scripts interpolated workflow context directly into shell commands
inside a job holding id-token: write, including github.event.repository.name,
which is repository-controlled metadata. Values reach those scripts through env
now, where the runner quotes them.
Tracked as pm-github-yq1d.Review caught that the revert total in these records was arithmetically wrong: the increments did not sum to the totals quoted, and one revert reported as verified was vacuous. A number maintained by hand across eight rounds drifts, and a drifting number is worse than none because it is quoted as evidence. The mutation set is enumerated and re-run as a suite instead. Forty-two distinct mutations of the release workflow: credential reintroduction under every name and mechanism, npm substitution before and inside the publish step, preflight deletion and disabling, permission overrides in three spellings, credential-file handling, transient-versus-refusal classification, scoped-name encoding, and workflow-context interpolation. Forty-two applied, forty-two caught, none missed. Also in this commit: - stepSource derived the step boundary from a fixed six-space indent while stepIndex accepted any indentation. Had the workflow been reindented, the boundary search would have returned -1, stepSource would have returned the rest of the file, and every scoped assertion would have silently widened rather than failed. - The preflight's success message now states what it does NOT prove. The exchange verifies that npm recognises this workflow as a trusted publisher; it does not verify which actions the binding permits, and a binding scoped to staging alone exchanges successfully and then fails at npm publish, after the run has already mutated main. Tracked as pm-github-yq1d.
unbraind
commented
Aug 27, 2026
Re-review please — round-8 fixes pushed. @coderabbitai full review Your findings, all taken
Also reverted a mistake of my own: the identity-gate propagation had overwritten What to scrutinise most
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Rate Limit Exceeded
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npm honours a credential configured without a registry scope, and every guard here required one. 'npm config set _auth <value>' - no scope, no equals sign, space-separated - passed the delimited-key checks, the colon-prefixed check and the //registry check alike. The publish-time scrub removed only the registry-scoped forms, so legacy authentication stayed configured in the userconfig while the no-credential guard reported clean, which is exactly the state that would make an OIDC publish use or conflict with a stored credential. The scrub now removes both the scoped and the global spelling of every credential key, and the guard rejects 'npm set' and 'npm config set' of a credential key with or without a registry scope. Five further mutations verified: a global config set, a global set without the config subcommand, a bare global _auth line appended to .npmrc, and dropping either the global _auth or the global keyfile scrub expression. The enumerated set is forty-eight applied, forty-eight caught, none missed. Tracked as pm-github-yq1d.
unbraind
commented
Aug 27, 2026
Re-review please — round-9 fix pushed. @coderabbitai full review A global credential evaded every guard. npm honours a credential configured without a registry scope, and every check here required one: Both halves are fixed: the scrub removes the global and scoped spelling of every credential key, and the guard rejects 48 enumerated mutations, 48 caught, 0 missed — measured by re-running the set rather than tallied by hand. Five of those are new and each passed cleanly before this change. What to scrutinise most
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Two holes, and the second is why the first mattered. The guard required the credential key immediately after 'set', so 'npm config set --global _auth <value>' and '--location=global' both walked past it. It tolerates any number of flags between the subcommand and the key now. And a global credential is not written to the userconfig at all - it goes to npm's global config, which the publish-step scrub never touched. Catching the command would not have helped if the file it wrote was out of reach, so the scrub now iterates over the userconfig and the path reported by 'npm config get globalconfig'. Three further mutations verified: 'npm config set --global _auth', 'npm config set --location=global _auth', and removing the global-config lookup from the scrub. The enumerated set is fifty-one applied, fifty-one caught, none missed. Worth recording, because this is the second credential spelling to escape a guard described as by-mechanism rather than by-name: the mechanism being enumerated was the FILE FORMAT, and what kept escaping was the COMMAND SURFACE that writes it. Tracked as pm-github-yq1d.
`.agents/pm/transactions/` holds crash-recovery journals written by --atomic SDK transactions. They are runtime state: once the transaction lands the journal has no value, and `pm health` fails closed on a tracked one (tracked_runtime_cache_files), so committing one turns the health gate red. Three repositories had already committed such a journal on 2026-08-24 and had to remove it again. Fourteen of twenty-one repositories were still missing the ignore rule that prevents it, including all three that had been bitten. This adds it, deliberately outside any `pm-cli:` fence, since the CLI rewrites those blocks on upgrade.
Greptile SummaryThe PR replaces npm token authentication with OIDC trusted publishing and adds a preflight before release-state mutation.
Confidence Score: 5/5The PR appears safe to merge. No blocking failure remains.
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| Filename | Overview |
|---|---|
| .github/workflows/release.yml | Migrates publication to OIDC, adds pre-mutation identity verification, gates privileged execution to main, and scrubs legacy npm authentication state. |
| test/release-workflow.test.ts | Adds static and mutation-oriented safeguards for OIDC permissions, npm-version enforcement, release ordering, credential removal, and shell interpolation. |
| .gitignore | Excludes clone-local PM transaction journals from version control. |
| .agents/pm/issues/pm-github-m8u2.toon | Records the expired npm-token incident and trusted-publishing migration requirements. |
| .agents/pm/issues/pm-github-yq1d.toon | Records the release-ordering incident, remediation criteria, and verification history. |
Sequence Diagram
sequenceDiagram
participant Trigger as Scheduled/manual trigger
participant Job as Release job
participant GitHub as GitHub OIDC
participant npm as npm registry
participant Main as Protected main
Trigger->>Job: Start on main
Job->>Job: "Install and verify npm >= 11.5.1"
Job->>GitHub: Request OIDC id-token
GitHub-->>Job: Short-lived identity token
Job->>npm: Exchange identity token
alt Identity rejected or service unavailable
npm-->>Job: Failure
Job-->>Trigger: Stop before mutation
else Identity accepted
npm-->>Job: 2xx exchange response
Job->>Job: Prepare release metadata
Job->>Main: Merge protected release PR
Job->>npm: Publish with trusted publishing
npm-->>Job: Published package
Job->>Main: Push matching tag
end
Reviews (4): Last reviewed commit: "fix: split on unspaced shell separators,..." | Re-trigger Greptile
`effectiveReleasePermissions` handles four ways a workflow can declare the
release job's permissions. The flow-mapping branch -- `permissions: { id-token:
write }` -- returned the mapping as written, braces included, while every other
branch returns block form and the caller anchors its assertion at end of line.
A `}` or a `,` therefore sat after `write` and the anchor never matched, so that
branch could only ever produce a FALSE failure: a correctly declared permission
reported as missing, in the one form the branch exists to support. The branch
had no test, so nothing noticed.
The mapping is now normalised to one entry per line. Both directions executed
against a real workflow rewritten into the inline form:
permissions: { id-token: write, contents: write } -> passes (previously failed)
permissions: { contents: write } -> fails, as it must
the workflow as actually written (block form) -> passes
Reported by CodeRabbit on unbraind/pm-linear#83.…the clock Round three of review on this wave. Each reproduced before and after. 1. `trustedControl`'s catch swallowed EVERY failure, not only "the control does not exist on the base ref", and then read the working tree. An unresolvable base ref, an unreadable object, or an I/O error therefore downgraded the audit to reading the branch under audit -- the fail-open the anchoring exists to prevent, reached by breaking git rather than by editing a control (CWE-807). Only absence falls through now; anything else is rethrown. Verified by making the base-ref blob unreadable: the suite fails hard instead of quietly passing on working-tree values. 2. The interpolation scan sliced from `jobs:\n release:` to end of file, so it also covered `alert-on-release-failure`. An interpolation in that job would have failed an assertion about the release job, naming the wrong one. It now uses the same job-boundary logic as the permissions helper, extracted as `releaseJobSource()`. Executed both ways: an interpolation in the later job no longer fails the release-job assertion; one in the release job still does. 3. The changelog-date verifier asserted the UNFLAGGED heading equals today's date. That pinned the generator's current default -- a compatible dependency update that changed it would fail the gate with no defect present -- and it sampled the date once for two subprocess runs, so a run crossing UTC midnight would fail for no defect either. The contract is that the flag CHANGES the heading, and that is what is asserted now; whether the control happens to be clock-derived is reported rather than required. All three reported by CodeRabbit (1 and 3) and by Greptile (2) on this wave.
The acceptance criterion required "all forty-eight enumerated mutations" to fail the guard suite, while the record's own latest verification said fifty-one. The number was correct when written and went stale the moment three more mutations were added and caught -- and it went stale again this round, when the credential guard, the block-scalar guard, the inline-permissions branch and the identity audit each gained cases. A criterion that names a count has to be edited every time the suite gets better, and until it is, the record asserts a floor its own evidence has already cleared. The criterion now states the property -- every enumerated mutation fails the guard suite -- and leaves the count to the run that verified it, where it is a measurement rather than a promise. The append-only history keeps both the original criterion and this correction. Reported by CodeRabbit across several repositories in this wave.
unbraind
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Aug 27, 2026
Round three pushed. Every finding from your last pass is either fixed with the reproduction in the thread, or answered with the evidence for why it does not hold. Three of them were fail-open bugs in guards, which is the pattern worth carrying into this review:
Where I would most like you to push back this round:
Two things are deliberately not fixed, and are recorded in their threads rather than silently skipped: the suffixed-CalVer probe (blocked on a @coderabbitai review |
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fd -HI '^\.npmrc$|.*\.npmrc$'. -E .git -E node_modules -E dist -E build \
-x sh -c 'echo "### $1"; nl -ba "$1"' sh {} ||trueecho'--- guard-mutation model ---'
python3 - <<'PY'from pathlib import Pathimport reworkflow = Path(".github/workflows/release.yml").read_text()test = Path("test/release-workflow.test.ts").read_text()def executable(s): return re.sub(r'^[ \t]*#[^\r\n]*$', '', s, flags=re.M)def step(name): m = re.search(rf'^[ \t]*-[ \t]+name:[ \t]+{re.escape(name)}[ \t]*(?:#[^\r\n]*)?$', workflow, re.M) assert m, name start = m.start() indent = len(re.match(r'^[ \t]*', workflow[start:]).group(0)) following = workflow[start + 1:] nxt = re.search(rf'^ {{{indent}}}- name:', following, re.M) return workflow[start:] if not nxt else workflow[start:start + 1 + nxt.start()]def without_scrub(s): s = executable(s) s = re.sub(r"-e\s+'\/[^']*\/d'", "", s) return re.sub(r'\bsed\s+-i(?:\'\'|"")?', "", s)def credential_guard_passes(candidate): source = without_scrub(candidate) keys = ["_authToken", "_auth", "username", "_password", "certfile", "keyfile"] checks = { "key assignment": not any(re.search(rf"{key}\s*[=:]", source) for key in keys), "registry config set": not bool(re.search(r'npm\s+(?:config\s+)?set\s+["\']?\/\/', source, re.I)), "login": not bool(re.search(r'npm\s+login', source, re.I)), "always-auth": not bool(re.search(r'always-auth', source, re.I)), "scoped space key": not bool(re.search(r':(?:_authToken|_auth|username|_password|certfile|keyfile)\s+\S', source, re.I)), "global key command": not bool(re.search( r'npm\s+(?:config\s+)?set\s+(?:--\S+\s+)*["\']?(?:\/\/\S*?[:/])?(?:_authToken|_auth|username|_password|certfile|keyfile|email)\b', source, re.I)), } publish = executable(step("Publish npm package")) if candidate == workflow else "" return checksmutations = { "publish --userconfig": workflow.replace( "npm publish --access public --provenance --ignore-scripts", "npm publish --userconfig .release-npmrc --access public --provenance --ignore-scripts", 1, ), "npm --location=global config set": workflow.replace( "npm publish --access public --provenance --ignore-scripts", 'npm --location=global config set _auth "$PUBLISH_CREDENTIAL"\n npm publish --access public --provenance --ignore-scripts', 1, ), "npm config set --location global": workflow.replace( "npm publish --access public --provenance --ignore-scripts", 'npm config set --location global _auth "$PUBLISH_CREDENTIAL"\n npm publish --access public --provenance --ignore-scripts', 1, ),}for label, candidate in mutations.items(): print(f"\n{label}:") for check, result in credential_guard_passes(candidate).items(): print(f" {check}: {'passes' if result else 'fails'}") print(f" contains --userconfig: {'--userconfig' in candidate}")PYecho'--- releaseJobSource indentation boundary model ---'
python3 - <<'PY'from pathlib import Pathimport res = Path("test/release-workflow.test.ts").read_text()for label, text in { "current": "jobs:\n release:\n runs-on: ubuntu\n later_job:\n runs-on: ubuntu\n", "four-space jobs": "jobs:\n release:\n runs-on: ubuntu\n later_job:\n runs-on: ubuntu\n", "quoted later job": 'jobs:\n release:\n runs-on: ubuntu\n "later-job":\n runs-on: ubuntu\n',}.items(): jobs = text.find("jobs:\n release:") if jobs < 0: result = "assertion fails before scan" else: rest = text[jobs + len("jobs:\n release:"):] m = re.search(r"^ {2}[A-Za-z][\w-]*:", rest, re.M) result = "bounded at next job" if m else "extends to EOF" print(f"{label}: {result}")PYLength of output: 4401 🏁 Script executed: #!/bin/bashset -euo pipefail
echo'--- exact release-test range ---'
sed -n '105,350p' test/release-workflow.test.ts
echo'--- tracked npm configuration files ---'
fd -HI '^\.npmrc$|.*\.npmrc$'. -E .git -E node_modules -E dist -E build \
-x sh -c 'echo "### $1"; sed -n "1,240p" "$1"' sh {} ||trueecho'--- guard-mutation model ---'
python3 - <<'PY'from pathlib import Pathimport reworkflow = Path(".github/workflows/release.yml").read_text()def executable(s): return re.sub(r'^[ \t]*#[^\r\n]*$', '', s, flags=re.M)def without_scrub(s): s = executable(s) s = re.sub(r"-e\s+'\/[^']*\/d'", "", s) return re.sub(r'\bsed\s+-i(?:\'\'|"")?', "", s)def checks(candidate): source = without_scrub(candidate) keys = ["_authToken", "_auth", "username", "_password", "certfile", "keyfile"] return { "key assignment": not any(re.search(rf"{key}\s*[=:]", source) for key in keys), "registry config set": not bool(re.search(r'npm\s+(?:config\s+)?set\s+["\']?\/\/', source, re.I)), "login": not bool(re.search(r'npm\s+login', source, re.I)), "always-auth": not bool(re.search(r'always-auth', source, re.I)), "scoped space key": not bool(re.search(r':(?:_authToken|_auth|username|_password|certfile|keyfile)\s+\S', source, re.I)), "global key command": not bool(re.search( r'npm\s+(?:config\s+)?set\s+(?:--\S+\s+)*["\']?(?:\/\/\S*?[:/])?(?:_authToken|_auth|username|_password|certfile|keyfile|email)\b', source, re.I)), }mutations = { "publish --userconfig": workflow.replace( "npm publish --access public --provenance --ignore-scripts", "npm publish --userconfig .release-npmrc --access public --provenance --ignore-scripts", 1, ), "npm --location=global config set": workflow.replace( "npm publish --access public --provenance --ignore-scripts", 'npm --location=global config set _auth "$PUBLISH_CREDENTIAL"\n npm publish --access public --provenance --ignore-scripts', 1, ), "npm config set --location global": workflow.replace( "npm publish --access public --provenance --ignore-scripts", 'npm config set --location global _auth "$PUBLISH_CREDENTIAL"\n npm publish --access public --provenance --ignore-scripts', 1, ),}for label, candidate in mutations.items(): print(f"\n{label}:") for check, passed in checks(candidate).items(): print(f" {check}: {'passes' if passed else 'fails'}")PYecho'--- releaseJobSource indentation boundary model ---'
python3 - <<'PY'import refor label, text in { "current": "jobs:\n release:\n runs-on: ubuntu\n later_job:\n runs-on: ubuntu\n", "four-space jobs": "jobs:\n release:\n runs-on: ubuntu\n later_job:\n runs-on: ubuntu\n", "quoted later job": 'jobs:\n release:\n runs-on: ubuntu\n "later-job":\n runs-on: ubuntu\n',}.items(): jobs = text.find("jobs:\n release:") if jobs < 0: result = "assertion fails before scan" else: rest = text[jobs + len("jobs:\n release:"):] result = "bounded at next job" if re.search(r"^ {2}[A-Za-z][\w-]*:", rest, re.M) else "extends to EOF" print(f"{label}: {result}")PYLength of output: 16864
High: npm options before |
…ight boundary
Round five, all three from CodeRabbit, all executed before and after.
1. The verifier split commands on separators only when they were surrounded by
whitespace, so `flagged&&unflagged` stayed one segment and the first call's
--date-from-version covered for the second. `&&`, `||` and `;` now split with
or without whitespace. A bare `|` still requires whitespace on both sides:
an unspaced pipe is far more likely to be inside an argument -- an alternation
in a tag pattern, say -- and splitting there would separate a version input
from its own flag and report a defect that is not present. Both directions are
in the suite: six separator spellings each catch the unflagged half, and a
quoted alternation still passes.
2. `releaseJobSource()` bounded the release job with `[A-Za-z]`, so a later job
whose id begins with an underscore did not stop the slice. An `id-token:
write` declared on `_audit` could then be read as the release job's own, and
a release job without OIDC permission would pass the check that exists to
require it. The boundary now accepts a leading underscore. Not observable in
this repository, whose release job declares its own permissions -- which is
exactly why it was worth fixing rather than leaving to be discovered by the
workflow that does not.
3. The interpolation guard matched `run: >-2` but not `run: >2-`. YAML accepts
both indicator orders; the unmatched one was treated as a one-line script and
its body never scanned. A `${{ … }}` inside a `run: >2-` body now fails the
test, as it already did for `>`, `|-` and `>-`.Uh oh!
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The publish credential is dead, and nothing said so
pm-githublast reached npm on 2026.8.18.mainreads 2026.8.18, with no matching tag and nothing on the registry. Sixteen of the eighteen published fleet packages are in the same state, all stopping on 2026-08-16 or 2026-08-17.The release job fails at
Publish npm package:A 404 on
PUTis a rejected write credential, not a missing package. The registry answers 404 rather than 401 so it does not disclose package existence to an unauthorised caller — which is why this reads like a normal first publish rather than an outage. The repository secret was already rotated on 2026-08-22 and the failures continued unchanged;npm whoamiagainst the maintainer host's stored auth returns401. The credential is dead, not mis-stored.Nothing else noticed, because the version bump and the release commit both land before the publish step — deliberately, so an interrupted release resumes the same version. So
mainadvances whether or not the artifact ships and every other job stays green.The change
Trusted publishing removes the credential that can expire: the registry mints a short-lived one from the workflow's own OIDC identity. Two changes had to go together, and the second is the easy one to miss:
NODE_AUTH_TOKEN/secrets.NPM_TOKENare gone from the publish step.id-token: writeandregistry-urlstay — they are what make OIDC reachable.>=11.5.1before the publish step. node 22 ships npm 10.x, which has no trusted-publishing support and would silently fall back to token auth — producing exactly the same E404 and looking like the migration simply failed.Verification
Two guards fail closed, and both were mutation-checked rather than assumed:
NODE_AUTH_TOKENGates:
build,check,test,docstring,changelog:full+changelog:check, andpm health --strict-exitagainst the pinned binary — all green.pm item
pm-github-m8u2Summary by Sourcery
Migrate release publication to fail-closed npm OIDC trusted publishing and protect the release workflow from stale credentials, unsafe execution paths, and unverified registry access.
New Features:
Bug Fixes:
Enhancements:
Deployment:
Tests:
Chores:
Summary by cubic
Switches npm publishing from the expired stored
NPM_TOKENto OIDC trusted publishing, and makes the release fail before any version bump when npm rejects the workflow's identity.mainat the job level, keeping a step-level check as defense in depth.11.19.0, fails closed on the effective version at install, re-verifies it immediately before publication, and rejectsGITHUB_PATHwrites in between.escapedName, accepting any 2xx, and distinguishing a registry outage or rate limit from a misconfigured trusted publisher..npmrc, and npm's global config, rejecting anynpm setornpm config setof a credential key.mktempfile removed by exactly one EXIT trap; the success message notes the exchange proves identity, not what the binding permits.env, so repository-controlled text can't be spliced into privileged shell commands.&&,||, and;split changelog commands, the release-job boundary accepts a leading underscore in job ids, both YAML block-scalar indicator orders are matched, and the changelog gate asserts the flag changes the heading instead of pinning today's date..agents/pm/transactions/journals, which are runtime state that would trippm healthif committed.Migration
Bind
pm-githubtounbraind/pm-githubandrelease.ymlon npmjs.com once before the next release; until then publishing fails closed.Written for commit 6aecd47. Summary will update on new commits.