@agent-delivery-harness/action 0.1.0 → 0.5.0

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package/NOTICE

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 delivery-harness
-Copyright the delivery-harness authors
+Copyright Kwamina Essuah Mensah
 
 This product includes software developed by the delivery-harness authors
 (https://github.com/kwam1na/agent-delivery-harness).

package/package.json

@@ -1,14 +1,19 @@
 {
   "name": "@agent-delivery-harness/action",
-  "version": "0.1.0",
+  "version": "0.5.0",
   "type": "module",
   "description": "GitHub Action verifying a tracked delivery record on pull requests",
-  "license": "Apache-2.0",
+  "license": "FSL-1.1-ALv2",
+  "repository": {
+    "type": "git",
+    "url": "git+https://github.com/kwam1na/agent-delivery-harness.git",
+    "directory": "packages/action"
+  },
   "engines": {
-    "node": ">=22"
+    "node": ">=22.6.0"
   },
   "dependencies": {
-    "@agent-delivery-harness/kernel": "0.1.0"
+    "@agent-delivery-harness/kernel": "0.5.0"
   },
   "exports": {
     ".": "./src/index.ts"

package/src/bootstrap.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+// Consumer configuration imports the Action's pinned kernel, even when the
+// repository has no harness package or source checkout installed.
+import { register } from "node:module";
+register(new URL("./loader.mjs", import.meta.url));

package/src/loader.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+import { realpathSync } from "node:fs";
+import { fileURLToPath, pathToFileURL } from "node:url";
+const kernel = pathToFileURL(realpathSync(fileURLToPath(new URL("../../kernel/src/index.ts", import.meta.url)))).href;
+
+export async function resolve(specifier, context, nextResolve) {
+  if (specifier === "@agent-delivery-harness/kernel") return { url: kernel, shortCircuit: true };
+  return nextResolve(specifier, context);
+}

package/src/main.ts

@@ -39,9 +39,9 @@
  * never consulted for identity. `GITHUB_SHA` is recorded in the summary as the
  * commit that was *not* verified, and is resolved nowhere.
  *
- * NO CLOCK (sensor rule e). Nothing here reads a clock. A record's freshness is
- * its identity's agreement with the head, never elapsed time, and an Action that
- * consulted a clock would be able to expire evidence the kernel considers valid.
+ * Record freshness remains identity-based. This module reads no clock; the
+ * runtime boundary supplies one instant solely to evaluate the expiry of an
+ * owner-declared hosted-check exemption. Evidence age never enters admission.
  *
  * FAIL CLOSED, ALWAYS. Every path that cannot reach a verdict — an event that is
  * not a pull request, a payload without a head, a config that will not load, a
@@ -50,10 +50,10 @@
  * skip: a check that reports success because it could not run is worse than no
  * check, because it looks like one.
  */
-import { realpathSync } from "node:fs";
 import { access, appendFile, readFile } from "node:fs/promises";
 import path from "node:path";
-import { fileURLToPath, pathToFileURL } from "node:url";
+import { pathToFileURL } from "node:url";
+import { observeHostedCheckTime } from "./observation.ts";
 import {
   ATTESTATION_LABEL,
   BlockedError,
@@ -64,15 +64,23 @@ import {
   createBlocker,
   createInternalErrorBlocker,
   deliveryRecordPathFor,
+  needsCommittedSymlinkTarget,
+  parseCandidateTreeListing,
   parseDeliveryRecord,
   renderBlockers,
   runGitCommand,
   selectDeliveryRecordForIdentity,
   validateHarnessConfig,
   verifyDeliveryRecord,
+  capturePortableVerificationInputs,
+  collectLiveProviderResults,
+  isObligationActive,
+  invokedDirectly,
+  type CapturedCandidate,
   type Blocker,
   type BlockerSource,
   type CandidateCommandRunner,
+  type CandidateTreeEntry,
   type DeliveryRecordCheck,
   type DeliveryRecordClaim,
   type DeliveryRecordFile,
@@ -138,10 +146,13 @@ export const CI_POLICY_INPUT_ENV = "DELIVERY_HARNESS_CI_POLICY_ID";
  * simulated git would let the head-vs-merge-ref proof pass against a fiction.
  */
 export interface ActionRuntime {
+  /** Boundary-observed UTC instant used only for owner-declared exemption expiry. */
+  readonly observedAt?: string;
   readonly env: EnvSnapshot;
   /** The checked-out repository root. Used as git's cwd, never as the identity source. */
   readonly workspace: string;
   readonly git: CandidateCommandRunner;
+  readonly signal?: AbortSignal;
   readonly readFile: (absolutePath: string) => Promise<string>;
   readonly loadConfig: (rootDir: string) => Promise<HarnessConfig>;
   /** Emits the check summary. In a runner this appends to `$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY`. */
@@ -170,9 +181,6 @@ export interface ActionResult {
 
 // ── Blockers ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
-/** `git ls-tree -z` separates records with NUL, so a path containing a newline stays one record. */
-const NUL = "\u0000";
-
 const ACTION_SOURCE: BlockerSource = { kind: "command", id: "delivery-harness.action" };
 
 const RECORD_AND_COMMIT: Remediation = {
@@ -270,6 +278,7 @@ const REFUSED_EVENT = "pull_request_target";
 
 interface PullRequestEvent {
   readonly headSha: string;
+  readonly baseSha: string | null;
   readonly headRef: string | null;
   readonly number: number | null;
 }
@@ -359,12 +368,14 @@ async function resolvePullRequestEvent(runtime: ActionRuntime): Promise<EventRes
   if (typeof headSha !== "string" || !HEAD_SHA_GRAMMAR.test(headSha)) {
     return unreadable(`the payload carries no usable pull_request.head.sha (${JSON.stringify(headSha ?? null)})`);
   }
+  const baseSha = readMember(readMember(pullRequest, "base"), "sha");
   const headRef = readMember(readMember(pullRequest, "head"), "ref");
   const number = readMember(pullRequest, "number");
   return {
     ok: true,
     event: {
       headSha,
+      baseSha: typeof baseSha === "string" && HEAD_SHA_GRAMMAR.test(baseSha) ? baseSha : null,
       headRef: typeof headRef === "string" ? headRef : null,
       number: typeof number === "number" && Number.isSafeInteger(number) ? number : null,
     },
@@ -476,6 +487,13 @@ interface DiscoveredRecords {
   /** Parse failures. Findings, never skips — see below. */
   readonly blockers: readonly Blocker[];
   readonly trackedCount: number;
+  /**
+   * Every tracked entry in the head tree, for the protected-path check —
+   * mode and, for a delivery-owned symlink, the target read from its committed
+   * blob, because the one admitted exception under `.claude/skills/` turns on
+   * both and neither is visible in a name-only listing.
+   */
+  readonly allPaths: readonly CandidateTreeEntry[];
 }
 
 /**
@@ -503,11 +521,12 @@ async function readTrackedRecords(git: GitPort, headSha: string, config: Harness
   // from a root-level path of that name — a path/content confusion. The two
   // sides of this check must be anchored identically or they are not comparing
   // the same tree.
-  const listing = await git(["ls-tree", "-r", "--name-only", "-z", "--full-tree", headSha]);
+  const listing = await git(["ls-tree", "-r", "-z", "--full-tree", headSha]);
   if (listing.exitCode !== 0) {
     return {
       files: [],
       trackedCount: 0,
+      allPaths: [],
       blockers: [
         actionBlocker({
           code: "tracked_tree_unreadable",
@@ -525,7 +544,20 @@ async function readTrackedRecords(git: GitPort, headSha: string, config: Harness
     };
   }
 
-  const paths = listing.stdout.split(NUL).filter((entry) => entry.length > 0 && isRecordPath(entry, shape));
+  const listed = parseCandidateTreeListing(listing.stdout);
+  const allPaths: CandidateTreeEntry[] = [];
+  for (const entry of listed) {
+    if (!needsCommittedSymlinkTarget(entry)) {
+      allPaths.push(entry);
+      continue;
+    }
+    // Read out of the commit, like every other byte this verifier judges: the
+    // link under review is the one in the tree. A blob that will not read
+    // leaves the target absent, and an entry with no target cannot be admitted.
+    const link = await git(["cat-file", "blob", entry.objectSha]);
+    allPaths.push(link.exitCode === 0 ? { ...entry, symlinkTarget: link.stdout } : entry);
+  }
+  const paths = listed.map((entry) => entry.path).filter((entry) => isRecordPath(entry, shape));
   const files: DeliveryRecordFile[] = [];
   const blockers: Blocker[] = [];
   for (const recordPath of paths.sort()) {
@@ -548,7 +580,7 @@ async function readTrackedRecords(git: GitPort, headSha: string, config: Harness
     }
     files.push({ path: recordPath, record: parsed.record });
   }
-  return { files, blockers, trackedCount: paths.length };
+  return { files, blockers, trackedCount: paths.length, allPaths };
 }
 
 // ── The summary ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
@@ -642,6 +674,13 @@ function renderSummary(input: SummaryInput, config: HarnessConfig | null): strin
   lines.push(`| Attestation | ${ATTESTATION_LABEL} |`);
   lines.push("");
 
+  if (input.ok && input.check?.hostedChecks.status === "exempted") {
+    const body = JSON.stringify(input.check.hostedChecks.exemption, null, 2)
+      .replace(/[\u007f-\u009f\u200b-\u200f\u202a-\u202e\u2066-\u2069]/g, (character) => `\\u${character.charCodeAt(0).toString(16).padStart(4, "0")}`);
+    const fence = fenceFor(body);
+    lines.push("### Hosted checks: exempted", "", `${fence}json`, body, fence, "");
+  }
+
   if (input.check !== null && config !== null && input.check.claims.length > 0) {
     lines.push("### Claims");
     lines.push("");
@@ -707,6 +746,7 @@ export async function runAction(runtime: ActionRuntime): Promise<ActionResult> {
       try {
         await runtime.writeOutputs({
           verified: String(ok),
+          "hosted-checks": ok ? (check?.hostedChecks.status ?? "required") : "blocked",
           mode,
           "head-sha": headSha ?? "",
           "record-path": recordPath ?? "",
@@ -949,8 +989,24 @@ export async function runAction(runtime: ActionRuntime): Promise<ActionResult> {
     }
 
     recordPath = selected.path;
-    check = verifyDeliveryRecord(config, selected.record, identity, base);
-    blockers.push(...check.blockers);
+    const candidate: CapturedCandidate = {
+      vcs: "git", treeSha, headSha: event.event.headSha, mode: "clean", statusEntries: [], untrackedFiles: [],
+      deliverable: { digest: identity.deliverableDigest, identity: identity.identityToken }, base,
+      workspaceId: selected.record.workspaceId,
+    };
+    const inputs = await capturePortableVerificationInputs(repoRoot, config, candidate, selected.record, runtime.git);
+    const activationThreshold = config.activationThreshold;
+    if (config.obligations.some(obligation => obligation.freshness === "live" &&
+      isObligationActive(obligation.activation, inputs.projection, activationThreshold)) && base.tipSha !== event.event.baseSha) {
+      blockers.push(actionBlocker({code:"live_provider_base_mismatch",summary:"The configured base does not match the pull request event base for live verification.",
+        remediations:[{id:"fetch-the-pull-request-base",kind:"manual_action",summary:"Fetch the pull request head and base, then rerun the check against that exact checkout."}]}));
+      return await settle();
+    }
+    const live = await collectLiveProviderResults({rootDir:repoRoot,config,candidate,projection:inputs.projection,evidenceContext:inputs.evidenceContext,
+      env:runtime.env,run:runtime.git,...(runtime.signal===undefined?{}:{signal:runtime.signal})});
+    check = verifyDeliveryRecord(config, selected.record, identity, base, { candidateTreePaths: discovered.allPaths, ...inputs, ...(runtime.observedAt === undefined ? {} : { observedAt: runtime.observedAt }), liveResults:live.liveResults,
+      executionContext: classifyExecutionContext({ config, env: runtime.env, stdinIsTTY: false, stdoutIsTTY: false }) });
+    if (!check.ok) blockers.push(...live.blockers, ...check.blockers);
     return await settle();
   } catch (error) {
     blockers.push(
@@ -990,7 +1046,7 @@ async function workspaceHas(runtime: ActionRuntime, repoRoot: string, relativePa
  *
  * The Action carries its own loader rather than importing the CLI's: the Action
  * is a wrapper over the *kernel*, and a dependency on the operator CLI would put
- * seven commands and an interactive prompt behind a read-only check. The
+ * eleven commands and an interactive prompt behind a read-only check. The
  * validation itself is the kernel's single implementation; only the import and
  * the blocker's source id are local, so the two loaders cannot disagree about
  * what a valid config is.
@@ -1024,6 +1080,7 @@ export function defaultRuntime(): ActionRuntime {
   const outputPath = process.env["GITHUB_OUTPUT"];
   return {
     env: process.env,
+    observedAt: observeHostedCheckTime(),
     workspace,
     git: runGitCommand,
     readFile: (absolutePath) => readFile(absolutePath, "utf8"),
@@ -1048,45 +1105,6 @@ export function defaultRuntime(): ActionRuntime {
   };
 }
 
-/** The spelling the filesystem can vouch for: the realpath where it can answer, the spelling itself where it cannot. */
-function canonicalEntryPath(entryPath: string): string {
-  try {
-    return realpathSync(entryPath);
-  } catch {
-    return entryPath;
-  }
-}
-
-/**
- * Whether this module is the entry the process was started with.
- *
- * argv and `import.meta.url` may spell the same file differently: argv is the
- * caller's spelling, and Node builds the module URL from the realpath by
- * default but from the caller's spelling under `--preserve-symlinks-main`. So
- * each side is canonicalized independently and the canonical forms compared:
- * a symlinked spelling matches its realpath whenever the link can be read
- * (`/tmp` → `/private/tmp` on macOS, a runner's action path, a pnpm workspace
- * link), and equal spellings still match when neither side resolves.
- *
- * What is NOT claimed: a symlink the filesystem cannot resolve cannot be seen
- * through, and the failing-exit-code floor below sits inside this guard, so an
- * under-match exits 0 in silence — the Action reporting success having
- * verified nothing. The floor cannot be hoisted above the guard: that would
- * stamp a failing exit code on every process that merely *imports* this
- * module. And a non-`file:` module href (a bundled or single-executable
- * build) never matches — such a build must invoke `main` explicitly.
- */
-export function invokedDirectly(argvEntry: string | undefined, moduleHref: string): boolean {
-  if (argvEntry === undefined) return false;
-  let modulePath: string;
-  try {
-    modulePath = fileURLToPath(moduleHref);
-  } catch {
-    return false;
-  }
-  return canonicalEntryPath(argvEntry) === canonicalEntryPath(modulePath);
-}
-
 export async function main(): Promise<number> {
   const result = await runAction(defaultRuntime());
   return result.exitCode;

package/src/observation.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+/** Runtime boundary only: expiry applies to owner exemptions, never evidence age. */
+export function observeHostedCheckTime(): string {
+  return `${new Date().toISOString().slice(0, 19)}Z`;
+}