@davidvornholt/standards 0.17.2 → 0.18.0

package/README.md

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ standards poller --config <path>
 standards poller --print-units --config <path>
 ```
 
-`dependabot --write` regenerates the composed `.github/dependabot.yml` from the canonical `.github/dependabot.base.yml` and the optional repo-owned `.github/dependabot.local.yml`; `init` and `sync` do the same automatically. `dependabot --check` verifies the generated file still matches its sources, and `doctor`/`check` include the same verification. The overlay is deliberately lean and additive only: new update blocks for repo-specific ecosystems, top-level private registry definitions, and `ignore` or `registries` entries appended by repeating a canonical block's normalized target. Matching blocks cannot add labels, groups, cooldowns, pull-request limits, or other policy.
+`dependabot --write` regenerates the composed `.github/dependabot.yml` from the canonical `.github/dependabot.base.yml` and the optional repo-owned `.github/dependabot.local.yml`; `init` and `sync` do the same automatically. `dependabot --check` verifies the generated file still matches its sources, and `doctor`/`check` include the same verification. The overlay is deliberately lean and additive only: new update blocks for repo-specific ecosystems, top-level private registry definitions, and `ignore` or `registries` entries appended by repeating a canonical block's normalized target. Matching blocks cannot add labels, groups, cooldowns, pull-request limits, or other policy. Update blocks for the same ecosystem and target branch must not select intersecting directories after Dependabot's path normalization. A plural `directories` target is expanded as a glob when it contains `*`, `?`, or both `[` and `]`: `*` and bare `**` stay within one path segment, `**/` matches zero or more directory segments, `?` matches one non-separator character, and bracket expressions match character sets or ranges. Singular `directory` values are always literal.
 
 `dev-env` decrypts the SOPS-encrypted `secrets/dev.yaml` — keyed by workspace group and a one-segment kebab-case workspace name (`apps.<name>`, `packages.<name>`), each mapping portable environment variable names to string values — and transactionally writes every declared workspace's `.env.local` with owner-only permissions and a do-not-edit header. Its Bun-specific dotenv codec exactly round-trips every value it accepts without adding helper environment variables; a value the codec cannot encode exactly is gathered as a validation problem instead of being changed silently. Validation gathers all document, containment, destination-type, workspace, and gitignore problems before writing anything. Generation then stages every output in its destination directory and rolls the whole set back if staging or commit fails, preserving prior contents, modes, and absent files; symlink destinations, duplicate resolved destinations, changed parent-directory identities, and symlinked workspace paths are rejected without following the link. Cleanup trouble after a completed commit is reported loudly as a warning rather than falsely reporting generation failure. Parent identities are checked immediately before each path operation; an unavoidable swap in the syscall-sized interval after a check remains outside the non-hostile maintainer threat model. The canonical `justfile` exposes the command as `just dev-env-generate`, and `just dev-refresh` chains a `just secrets edit dev` session into regeneration.
 
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ standards poller --print-units --config <path>
 
 `structure` enforces the canonical monorepo structure contract: workspace scripts (`check-types`, `lint`, `lint:fix`, `test`), root gate scripts, filtered Turbo convenience aliases, internal `0.0.0`/`workspace:*` versioning, package `exports`, shared tsconfig inheritance, and browser a11y wiring. Only a workspace containing an explicit `*.a11y.ts` suite must provide a `test:a11y` script and direct `@axe-core/playwright` and `@playwright/test` dependencies. `check` includes `structure`, so these rules gate every consumer PR.
 
-`poller` runs one tick of the fix poller: host-level automation that turns maintainer-approved GitHub issues into verified draft PRs and maintainer-approved draft PRs into completed review-fix cycles, using headless Codex runs. All workflow state lives in GitHub labels, comments, and draft PRs (the labels are canonical declared settings — see `github --apply`), so ticks are stateless, re-runnable, and safe to schedule from any host. A tick claims work by label (`fix-in-progress` / `review-in-progress`), releases claims stale for longer than `staleClaimHours`, and fails loudly — a red tick means jobs stalled, never silence. A separate acknowledgement tick validates pending approvals and posts one deduplicated queued message per approval generation; it never claims or starts work, so it can keep giving maintainers prompt feedback while the worker is occupied. When a worker claims a request, it posts a concise start message. The exact approval and distributed claim records remain in hidden comment metadata, and losing claim contenders remove their duplicate comments. Trust is verified per event, not per configuration: the approval labels (`approved-for-fix`, `approved-for-review`) only count when the applying user holds the `admin` or `maintain` role, bind to the exact approved issue revision or PR head, and are revalidated before publication; only admin/maintain comments are treated as answers to agent questions. Approved Codex runs inherit the poller's GitHub token and use authenticated `gh` for relevant reads and comments; review runs also maintain the PR review ledger, apply authorized title or body edits, post fix threads, and file deferred findings directly. The run works in a throwaway git worktree, grants Codex write access to that worktree and its exact Git common directory so commits can update the linked repository metadata, and hands results back through a structured outcome file. The poller then verifies the approved head, commits, and protected paths before pushing or publishing; it replies to and resolves agent-posted fix threads only after the reviewed head is pushed, and it alone changes protocol labels, posts the final report, and flips a reviewed draft ready, while required CI remains the quality gate. Sealed review plans from the earlier protocol are rejected and their output branches are ignored, so the review reruns on a fresh protocol-versioned branch rather than silently dropping legacy deferred work. Host mutation is declarative-only: `--print-units` emits four correctly escaped systemd units for the polling host's infrastructure repository to adapt and deploy: the worker service and timer plus an independent lightweight acknowledgement service and timer. That repository owns the service identity, writable HOME, PATH, authenticated `gh`, lingering, and deployment. The worker service's tick budget (`TimeoutStartSec`) is derived from `maxJobsPerTick` × `runTimeoutMinutes` plus overhead, so re-render and redeploy the units after changing either value.
+`poller` runs one tick of the fix poller: host-level automation that turns maintainer-approved GitHub issues into verified draft PRs and maintainer-approved draft PRs into completed review-fix cycles, using headless Codex runs. All workflow state lives in GitHub labels, comments, and draft PRs (the labels are canonical declared settings — see `github --apply`), so ticks are stateless, re-runnable, and safe to schedule from any host. A tick claims work by label (`fix-in-progress` / `review-in-progress`), releases claims stale for longer than `staleClaimHours`, and fails loudly — a red tick means jobs stalled, never silence. A separate acknowledgement tick validates pending approvals and posts one deduplicated queued message per approval generation; it never claims or starts work, so it can keep giving maintainers prompt feedback while the worker is occupied. When a worker claims a request, it posts a concise start message. The exact approval and distributed claim records remain in hidden comment metadata, and losing claim contenders remove their duplicate comments. Trust is verified per event, not per configuration: the approval labels (`approved-for-fix`, `approved-for-review`) only count when the applying user holds the `admin` or `maintain` role, bind to the exact approved issue revision or PR head, and are revalidated before publication; only admin/maintain comments are treated as answers to agent questions. Approved Codex runs inherit the poller's GitHub token and use authenticated `gh` for relevant reads and comments; review runs also maintain the PR review ledger, apply authorized title or body edits, post fix threads, and file deferred findings directly. The run works in a throwaway git worktree, grants Codex write access to that worktree and its exact Git common directory so commits can update the linked repository metadata, and hands results back through a structured outcome file. The poller then verifies the approved head, commits, and protected paths before pushing or publishing; it replies to and resolves agent-posted fix threads only after the reviewed head is pushed, and it alone changes protocol labels, posts the final report, and flips a reviewed draft ready, while required CI remains the quality gate. If publishing a sealed fix or review result fails, the poller releases only its owned in-progress claim and keeps the approval and sealed output, so the next worker tick retries publication without another Codex run. Sealed review plans from the earlier protocol are rejected and their output branches are ignored, so the review reruns on a fresh protocol-versioned branch rather than silently dropping legacy deferred work. Host mutation is declarative-only: `--print-units` emits four correctly escaped systemd units for the polling host's infrastructure repository to adapt and deploy: the worker service and timer plus an independent lightweight acknowledgement service and timer. That repository owns the service identity, writable HOME, PATH, authenticated `gh`, lingering, and deployment. The worker service's tick budget (`TimeoutStartSec`) is derived from `maxJobsPerTick` × `runTimeoutMinutes` plus overhead, so re-render and redeploy the units after changing either value.
 
 `creds` is the credential broker: it mints scoped Cloudflare tokens, rotates and revokes those tokens, and places GitHub App credentials into SOPS-encrypted targets — secret values never touch stdout, argv, or an agent's context; commands print only metadata (token name, scopes, expiry, destination). Cloudflare reconciliation has exactly two sources of truth: the plaintext key structure of the SOPS files and the provider token list under the deterministic naming scheme `standards/<owner>/<repo>/<sops-target>/<dotted.key>`; there is no separate credential manifest. `plan` and `apply` reconcile Cloudflare only: each run uses the stored bootstrap credential to verify its current provider token ID, excludes that ID from reconciliation regardless of its current name, and aborts if the identity cannot be correlated with the complete account token list; a brokered token whose SOPS key was deleted is revoked, while one nearing expiry (30 days) is renewed by creating a fresh-expiry replacement with the live token's policy, durably writing and verifying the new value, and only then revoking the old token; secrets the broker did not mint are never touched. Without a manifest there is no desired-policy record, so live policy drift is not detected, and a repository rename or transfer changes the deterministic namespace and requires the visible old token to be re-minted under the new name and revoked. `add cloudflare` mints an account-owned API token (default TTL 90 days) scoped to the named permission groups (`permissions` lists the valid names) and writes it to `--dest <target>:<dotted.key>`, where `<target>` resolves like the canonical `just secrets` targets (`ci` → `secrets/ci.yaml`, `prod-1` → `infra/hosts/prod-1/secrets.yaml`); zone-scoped groups such as DNS Write are rejected because the current command supplies an account resource, not a zone resource. `--bucket <name>` switches the policy resource to a single R2 bucket; `--jurisdiction default|eu` selects the provider jurisdiction and defaults to `default`, producing `com.cloudflare.edge.r2.bucket.<account_id>_default_<bucket>` or `com.cloudflare.edge.r2.bucket.<account_id>_eu_<bucket>`. FedRAMP jurisdictions are not supported. Bucket destinations accept only bucket-scoped groups such as Workers R2 Storage Bucket Item Read/Write, and account-scoped groups are rejected. `--s3` requires `--bucket` and stores the S3-compatible credential pair Cloudflare derives from an API token — access key ID is the token ID, secret access key is the SHA-256 hex digest of the token value — as `<dotted.key>.access_key_id` and `<dotted.key>.secret_access_key` under the destination instead of the raw token value; the default endpoint is `https://<account_id>.r2.cloudflarestorage.com`, while EU uses `https://<account_id>.eu.r2.cloudflarestorage.com`. Reconciliation infers each destination's concrete write footprint from the plaintext SOPS key structure — a bearer owns the leaf at its key, while an S3 token owns both pair leaves — and aborts before mutation when managed footprints intersect. `plan` and `apply` renew and revoke S3 destinations like any other brokered token, but renewal first proves the stored access key ID matches the current provider token; an incomplete pair, unreadable value, or identity mismatch is surfaced as a finding and never mutated automatically. `add github` writes the broker GitHub App's `app_id` and `private_key` under the destination key; durable GitHub tokens cannot be created via API (PAT and OAuth-app creation are UI-only), so workflows mint short-lived installation tokens from the App at runtime (`actions/create-github-app-token`), scoped per repository and permission. The canonical weekly sync expects `bun standards creds add github --dest ci:ci.broker_app`, then mints a current-repository token with Contents read and Pull requests write; missing credentials or minting failures stop it without a fallback. Bootstrap is once per machine: `login github` runs the App manifest flow (a localhost page posts the pre-filled manifest; one "Create GitHub App" click; credentials return through the conversion endpoint — nothing is copied by hand) and opens the installation page, where the App must be bound to selected repositories rather than all repositories; `login cloudflare` guides the one dashboard paste Cloudflare requires for the first account token (named `standards-broker` to match the App, created from the "Create additional tokens" token template because its "Account API Tokens: Edit" permission is unavailable in the custom token builder, and holding that permission only), verifies that it is active, correlates its verified ID with the complete account token list and an active list record, and stores it; a bootstrap token named inside the minted `standards/` namespace is rejected before storage to keep its role unambiguous, while any other divergence from the recommended name only warns. `plan` and `apply` do not rotate GitHub App keys; create a replacement key on the App's settings page, atomically replace `github.private_key` in the protected machine-global broker store while preserving its `0600` mode, then update every intended SOPS destination, verify workflows can mint installation tokens, and revoke the old key manually. Root credentials live in the machine-global broker store (see Configuration); SOPS writes go through `sops edit` with a non-interactive editor, preserving comments and reusing the file's data key.
 
@@ -48,6 +48,6 @@ standards poller --print-units --config <path>
 - **`.github/settings.local.json` `"rulesetEnforcement": "unavailable-on-plan"`** (optional) — declares that the repository's GitHub plan cannot enforce rulesets (private repositories on GitHub Free, both personal accounts and organizations). `github --check` and `--apply` then skip rulesets instead of comparing them, because a comparison cannot be trusted there: personal accounts answer ruleset reads with HTTP 403, and free-plan organizations report declared rulesets as active while silently not enforcing them. Plan-gated repository settings that only function alongside branch protection (`allow_auto_merge`) are skipped for the same reason — GitHub accepts a PATCH for them with HTTP 200 and silently keeps the old value. The remaining repository merge settings are still checked and converged, and both commands print an unprotected-branch notice on every run. The only accepted value is `"unavailable-on-plan"` (enforcement is the default; omit the key on paid plans), and combining the opt-out with additional local rulesets is rejected. After upgrading the plan, remove the declaration and run `bun standards github --apply` to restore enforcement.
 - **Poller config file** (required for `poller`, passed via `--config`) — host-level JSON, deliberately not repository state. Required: `"repos"` (1–12 unique `owner/repo` strings), `"model"` and `"reasoningEffort"` (passed to `codex exec`; the model choice is deliberate and has no default). The 12-repository maximum and five-minute acknowledgement cooldown keep supported mixed fix/review queues and persisted review-plan recovery below the 5,000-request/hour GitHub API budget with at least 1,400 requests/hour reserved for pagination, active jobs, writes, and other token users; the compound regression bound covers four acknowledged fixes plus four acknowledged reviews with persisted plans in every repository at no more than 3,312 requests/hour. Existing configs above the repository limit must be reduced or split across pollers with independent GitHub API budgets before upgrading. Optional: `"maxJobsPerTick"` (default 1 — the maximum number of new Codex runs the sequential worker may start in one tick), `"staleClaimHours"` (default 6; must exceed `runTimeoutMinutes` so a sweep can never release the claim of a job that is still running), `"runTimeoutMinutes"` (default 240 — the timeout catches wedged agents, not honest multi-hour review runs), `"cacheDir"` (default `~/.cache/standards-poller`; holds bare mirrors and job worktrees; relative paths resolve against the config file), `"extraCodexArgs"` (extra `codex exec` arguments, e.g. enabling the collaboration feature for subagent fan-out). Unknown keys are rejected. The poller needs `git`, `gh`, `codex` (authenticated — its rotating auth state must live in a writable location), and a GitHub token per the bullet below; the token needs issues, pull-requests, and contents write on the watched repos, and nothing else.
 - **Broker store** (created by `creds login`) — machine-global root credentials at `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/standards/broker.yaml` (default `~/.config/standards/broker.yaml`; override with `STANDARDS_BROKER_FILE`), holding the GitHub App identity (id, slug, client id, private key) and one bootstrap token per Cloudflare account. The file is plaintext with `0600` permissions — deliberately the same local-account trust boundary as the plaintext personal age identity at `~/.config/sops/age/keys.txt`, which unlocks the same secrets; SOPS-encrypting the store to that adjacent identity would not improve custody. Writes use an owner-only temporary file and atomic replacement, and simultaneous provider logins merge rather than overwrite each other; `creds status` warns when the final mode is broader. The store lives outside every repository, is never synced or backed up, and losing it is cheap: re-run the two login commands and revoke the old App key and bootstrap token. On an additional machine, do not create a second App: generate an additional private key from the existing App's settings page (GitHub Apps support several active keys; key generation has no API) and add it to that machine's store, so retiring a machine revokes one key, not the setup.
-- **`GH_TOKEN` / `GITHUB_TOKEN`** (optional generally; poller automation requires this or a logged-in `gh`) — GitHub API token for the `github` command and the GitHub portion of `check`; poller runs pass environment tokens through to Codex, while a local poller can share the service identity's authenticated `gh` state. When neither is available, other commands can still read public repositories anonymously, but poller writes and `github --apply` fail. GitHub's REST API reveals repo merge settings only to write-capable viewers — `check` retries REST-hidden keys over GraphQL, which serves them to read-only tokens — ruleset `bypass_actors` requires repository Administration read, and private-repository labels require Issues read (or Pull requests read); a token that still cannot see declared state fails the check rather than passing unverified. In CI, the canonical workflow decrypts `ci.github_settings_read_token` from the SOPS-encrypted `secrets/ci.yaml`: a repository-scoped fine-grained PAT with read-only "Administration" and "Issues" access.
+- **`GH_TOKEN` / `GITHUB_TOKEN`** (optional generally; poller automation requires this or a logged-in `gh`) — GitHub API token for the `github` command and the GitHub portion of `check`; poller runs pass environment tokens through to Codex, while a local poller can share the service identity's authenticated `gh` state. When neither is available, other commands can still read public repositories anonymously, but poller writes and `github --apply` fail. GitHub's REST API reveals repo merge settings only to write-capable viewers, and `check` retries REST-hidden keys over GraphQL, which serves them to read-only tokens. REST serves ruleset `bypass_actors` only to a user-scoped token holding repository Administration read (a fine-grained PAT with that permission, such as CI's settings token, or the local `gh` CLI), and never to a GitHub App installation token at any permission level, so `check` retries the hidden lists over GraphQL, which withholds the actor identities but answers an exact bypass-actor count (established for a GitHub App installation token and for a non-admin classic-scope viewer, not for every identity class): a declared-empty list verifies exactly, a count that disagrees with the declared length is drift, and a matching non-zero count leaves *which* actors bypass unconfirmed, so the gate fails closed on that ruleset. An installation-token run therefore leaves a declared non-empty list failing until the check is re-run locally with admin `gh` auth; broadening the settings PAT beyond read-only Administration is not the fix. Private-repository labels require Issues read (or Pull requests read); a token that still cannot see declared state fails the check rather than passing unverified. In CI, the canonical workflow decrypts `ci.github_settings_read_token` from the SOPS-encrypted `secrets/ci.yaml`: a repository-scoped fine-grained PAT with read-only "Administration" and "Issues" access.
 
 See the standards repository README for the ownership model and adoption workflow.

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@davidvornholt/standards",
-  "version": "0.17.2",
+  "version": "0.18.0",
   "description": "Bootstrap, synchronize, and validate davidvornholt/standards consumers",
   "license": "MIT",
   "repository": {
@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@
     "src/creds-store-lock.ts",
     "src/dependabot-compose-input.ts",
     "src/dependabot-compose.ts",
+    "src/dependabot-directory-character-class.ts",
+    "src/dependabot-directory-normalize.ts",
+    "src/dependabot-directory-overlap.ts",
     "src/dependabot-inspect.ts",
     "src/dependabot-update.ts",
     "src/dev-env-document.ts",
@@ -66,13 +69,18 @@
     "src/dev-env.ts",
     "src/github-api.ts",
     "src/github-apply.ts",
+    "src/github-bypass-actors.ts",
     "src/github-command-shared.ts",
     "src/github-commands.ts",
     "src/github-diff.ts",
+    "src/github-graphql.ts",
     "src/github-labels.ts",
     "src/github-label-identity.ts",
     "src/github-live-drift.ts",
     "src/github-paginate.ts",
+    "src/github-ruleset-api.ts",
+    "src/github-ruleset-diff.ts",
+    "src/github-ruleset-visibility.ts",
     "src/github-settings-merge.ts",
     "src/github-settings-parse.ts",
     "src/github-settings.ts",
@@ -84,6 +92,8 @@
     "src/poller-codex-stderr.ts",
     "src/poller-commands.ts",
     "src/poller-comment-metadata.ts",
+    "src/poller-comment-reconciliation.ts",
+    "src/poller-claim-reconciliation.ts",
     "src/poller-config.ts",
     "src/poller-fix-outcome.ts",
     "src/poller-fix-output.ts",

package/src/cli.ts

@@ -328,13 +328,6 @@ const reportMirror = (result: MirrorResult, dryRun: boolean): void => {
         `  would overwrite ${result.tampered.length} locally-modified canonical file(s): ${result.tampered.join(', ')}`,
       );
     }
-    const changes =
-      result.created.length + result.updated.length + result.deleted.length;
-    console.log(
-      changes === 0
-        ? 'dry run: already in sync; no changes'
-        : `dry run: ${result.created.length} to create, ${result.updated.length} to update, ${result.deleted.length} to delete`,
-    );
     return;
   }
   for (const rel of result.deleted) {
@@ -347,6 +340,22 @@ const reportMirror = (result: MirrorResult, dryRun: boolean): void => {
   }
 };
 
+const reportDryRunSummary = (
+  result: MirrorResult,
+  generated: boolean,
+): void => {
+  const changes =
+    result.created.length +
+    result.updated.length +
+    result.deleted.length +
+    Number(generated);
+  console.log(
+    changes === 0
+      ? 'dry run: already in sync; no changes'
+      : `dry run: ${result.created.length} to create, ${result.updated.length} to update, ${result.deleted.length} to delete, ${Number(generated)} to generate`,
+  );
+};
+
 const seedTargets = (
   srcDir: string,
   seedDir: string,
@@ -422,8 +431,13 @@ const runSync = async (
     dryRun,
   });
   reportMirror(result, dryRun);
-  await applyProspectiveDependabot(consumer, prospectiveDependabot, dryRun);
+  const generated = await applyProspectiveDependabot(
+    consumer,
+    prospectiveDependabot,
+    dryRun,
+  );
   if (dryRun) {
+    reportDryRunSummary(result, generated);
     return;
   }
   await writeLock(consumer, {
@@ -612,16 +626,17 @@ const applyProspectiveDependabot = async (
   consumer: string,
   prospective: ProspectiveDependabot,
   dryRun: boolean,
-): Promise<void> => {
+): Promise<boolean> => {
   if (prospective.current === prospective.composed) {
-    return;
+    return false;
   }
   if (dryRun) {
     console.log(`  would generate ${DEPENDABOT_FILE}`);
-    return;
+    return true;
   }
   await writeComposedDependabot(consumer, prospective.composed);
   console.log(`  generated ${DEPENDABOT_FILE}`);
+  return true;
 };
 
 const runDependabotCheck = async (consumer: string): Promise<boolean> => {

package/src/creds-login-github-manifest.ts

@@ -10,13 +10,20 @@ import { isRecord } from './github-settings-parse';
 
 export const MANIFEST_STATE_BYTES = 32;
 
-// Root-credential ceiling: everything the broker may ever delegate. Actual
-// grants are narrowed per installation token at mint time.
-const DEFAULT_PERMISSIONS = Object.fromEntries(
-  'administration actions contents issues pull_requests secrets workflows'
-    .split(' ')
-    .map((permission) => [permission, 'write']),
-);
+// Root-credential ceiling: everything the broker may ever delegate. The
+// `permission-*` inputs a workflow passes when minting are a request, not a
+// constraint — anything holding the durable private key can request the whole
+// ceiling — so this, not those inputs, is the blast radius of the App identity
+// sitting in every consumer's secrets/ci.yaml. It therefore lists only grants a
+// workflow actually uses today; widening it is a deliberate edit here plus a
+// settings-page change on the existing App, not a default to grow into.
+const DEFAULT_PERMISSIONS = {
+  actions: 'read',
+  contents: 'write',
+  issues: 'write',
+  metadata: 'read',
+  pull_requests: 'write',
+} as const;
 
 export const buildAppManifest = (
   name: string,

package/src/dependabot-directory-character-class.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,139 @@
+export type CharacterMatcher =
+  | { readonly kind: 'literal'; readonly value: number }
+  | { readonly kind: 'non-slash' }
+  | {
+      readonly kind: 'class';
+      readonly ranges: ReadonlyArray<readonly [number, number]>;
+      readonly negated: boolean;
+    };
+
+type CharacterRange = readonly [number, number];
+
+type ClassValue = {
+  readonly escaped: boolean;
+  readonly value: number;
+};
+
+const BEFORE_SLASH = '/'.codePointAt(0) ?? 0;
+const AFTER_SLASH = BEFORE_SLASH + 1;
+const HYPHEN = '-'.codePointAt(0) ?? 0;
+const MAXIMUM_CODE_POINT = 0x10_ff_ff;
+
+const NON_SLASH_RANGES: ReadonlyArray<CharacterRange> = [
+  [0, BEFORE_SLASH - 1],
+  [AFTER_SLASH, MAXIMUM_CODE_POINT],
+];
+
+const intersectRanges = (
+  left: ReadonlyArray<CharacterRange>,
+  right: ReadonlyArray<CharacterRange>,
+): ReadonlyArray<CharacterRange> => {
+  const intersection: Array<CharacterRange> = [];
+  for (const [leftStart, leftEnd] of left) {
+    for (const [rightStart, rightEnd] of right) {
+      const start = Math.max(leftStart, rightStart);
+      const end = Math.min(leftEnd, rightEnd);
+      if (start <= end) {
+        intersection.push([start, end]);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return intersection;
+};
+
+const subtractRanges = (
+  ranges: ReadonlyArray<CharacterRange>,
+  excluded: ReadonlyArray<CharacterRange>,
+  // biome-ignore lint/complexity/noExcessiveCognitiveComplexity: Range subtraction keeps the finite character-class intersection exact.
+): ReadonlyArray<CharacterRange> => {
+  let remaining = [...ranges];
+  for (const [excludedStart, excludedEnd] of excluded) {
+    const next: Array<CharacterRange> = [];
+    for (const [start, end] of remaining) {
+      if (excludedEnd < start || excludedStart > end) {
+        next.push([start, end]);
+      } else {
+        if (start < excludedStart) {
+          next.push([start, excludedStart - 1]);
+        }
+        if (excludedEnd < end) {
+          next.push([excludedEnd + 1, end]);
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    remaining = next;
+  }
+  return remaining;
+};
+
+const matcherRanges = (
+  matcher: CharacterMatcher,
+): ReadonlyArray<CharacterRange> => {
+  if (matcher.kind === 'literal') {
+    return [[matcher.value, matcher.value]];
+  }
+  if (matcher.kind === 'non-slash') {
+    return NON_SLASH_RANGES;
+  }
+  return matcher.negated
+    ? subtractRanges(NON_SLASH_RANGES, matcher.ranges)
+    : intersectRanges(NON_SLASH_RANGES, matcher.ranges);
+};
+
+export const matchersIntersect = (
+  left: CharacterMatcher,
+  right: CharacterMatcher,
+): boolean =>
+  intersectRanges(matcherRanges(left), matcherRanges(right)).length > 0;
+
+export const parseCharacterClass = (
+  characters: ReadonlyArray<string>,
+  start: number,
+  // biome-ignore lint/complexity/noExcessiveCognitiveComplexity: Ruby character classes require escape, negation, and range state in one parser.
+): { readonly end: number; readonly matcher: CharacterMatcher } | null => {
+  let cursor = start + 1;
+  const negated = characters[cursor] === '!' || characters[cursor] === '^';
+  if (negated) {
+    cursor += 1;
+  }
+  const values: Array<ClassValue> = [];
+  for (
+    ;
+    cursor < characters.length && characters[cursor] !== ']';
+    cursor += 1
+  ) {
+    let escaped = false;
+    if (characters[cursor] === '\\' && characters[cursor + 1] !== undefined) {
+      cursor += 1;
+      escaped = true;
+    }
+    values.push({
+      escaped,
+      value: characters[cursor]?.codePointAt(0) ?? 0,
+    });
+  }
+  if (characters[cursor] !== ']') {
+    return null;
+  }
+  const ranges: Array<CharacterRange> = [];
+  for (let index = 0; index < values.length; index += 1) {
+    const startValue = values[index]?.value ?? 0;
+    const separator = values[index + 1];
+    const endValue = values[index + 2]?.value ?? 0;
+    if (
+      index + 2 < values.length &&
+      separator?.value === HYPHEN &&
+      !separator.escaped
+    ) {
+      if (startValue <= endValue) {
+        ranges.push([startValue, endValue]);
+      } else {
+        ranges.push([startValue, startValue], [endValue, endValue]);
+      }
+      index += 2;
+    } else {
+      ranges.push([startValue, startValue]);
+    }
+  }
+  return { end: cursor, matcher: { kind: 'class', ranges, negated } };
+};

package/src/dependabot-directory-normalize.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+const applySegment = (
+  segments: Array<string>,
+  segment: string,
+  absolute: boolean,
+): void => {
+  if (segment !== '' && segment !== '.') {
+    if (segment !== '..') {
+      segments.push(segment);
+    } else if (segments.at(-1) !== undefined && segments.at(-1) !== '..') {
+      segments.pop();
+    } else if (!absolute) {
+      segments.push(segment);
+    }
+  }
+};
+
+export const normalizeDependabotDirectory = (directory: string): string => {
+  const absolute = directory.startsWith('/');
+  const segments: Array<string> = [];
+  for (const segment of directory.split('/')) {
+    applySegment(segments, segment, absolute);
+  }
+  let normalized = segments.join('/');
+  if (normalized === '') {
+    normalized = absolute ? '/' : '.';
+  }
+  return normalized.startsWith('/') ? normalized : `/${normalized}`;
+};
+
+export const isDependabotGlob = (directory: string): boolean =>
+  directory.includes('*') ||
+  directory.includes('?') ||
+  (directory.includes('[') && directory.includes(']'));

package/src/dependabot-directory-overlap.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,139 @@
+import {
+  type CharacterMatcher,
+  matchersIntersect,
+  parseCharacterClass,
+} from './dependabot-directory-character-class';
+
+type Edge = {
+  readonly from: number;
+  readonly to: number;
+  readonly matcher: CharacterMatcher | null;
+};
+
+type Automaton = {
+  readonly accept: number;
+  readonly edges: ReadonlyArray<Edge>;
+};
+
+const compileDirectory = (
+  directory: string,
+  supportsGlobs: boolean,
+  // biome-ignore lint/complexity/noExcessiveCognitiveComplexity: Ruby glob tokens have distinct NFA transitions that are clearest in one ordered parser.
+): Automaton => {
+  const characters = [...directory];
+  const edges: Array<Edge> = [];
+  let current = 0;
+  let states = 1;
+  const append = (matcher: CharacterMatcher): void => {
+    const next = states;
+    states += 1;
+    edges.push({ from: current, to: next, matcher });
+    current = next;
+  };
+
+  for (let index = 0; index < characters.length; index += 1) {
+    const character = characters[index];
+    if (!supportsGlobs) {
+      append({ kind: 'literal', value: character?.codePointAt(0) ?? 0 });
+    } else if (character === '\\' && characters[index + 1] !== undefined) {
+      index += 1;
+      append({
+        kind: 'literal',
+        value: characters[index]?.codePointAt(0) ?? 0,
+      });
+    } else if (
+      character === '*' &&
+      characters[index + 1] === '*' &&
+      characters[index + 2] === '/' &&
+      (index === 0 || characters[index - 1] === '/')
+    ) {
+      const next = states;
+      const insideDirectory = states + 1;
+      states += 2;
+      edges.push(
+        { from: current, to: next, matcher: null },
+        { from: current, to: insideDirectory, matcher: { kind: 'non-slash' } },
+        {
+          from: insideDirectory,
+          to: insideDirectory,
+          matcher: { kind: 'non-slash' },
+        },
+        {
+          from: insideDirectory,
+          to: current,
+          matcher: { kind: 'literal', value: '/'.codePointAt(0) ?? 0 },
+        },
+      );
+      current = next;
+      index += 2;
+    } else if (character === '*') {
+      while (characters[index + 1] === '*') {
+        index += 1;
+      }
+      const next = states;
+      states += 1;
+      edges.push(
+        { from: current, to: next, matcher: null },
+        { from: current, to: current, matcher: { kind: 'non-slash' } },
+      );
+      current = next;
+    } else if (character === '?') {
+      append({ kind: 'non-slash' });
+    } else if (character === '[') {
+      const parsed = parseCharacterClass(characters, index);
+      if (parsed === null) {
+        append({ kind: 'literal', value: '['.codePointAt(0) ?? 0 });
+      } else {
+        append(parsed.matcher);
+        index = parsed.end;
+      }
+    } else {
+      append({ kind: 'literal', value: character?.codePointAt(0) ?? 0 });
+    }
+  }
+  return { accept: current, edges };
+};
+
+export const directoriesOverlap = (
+  leftDirectory: string,
+  leftSupportsGlobs: boolean,
+  rightDirectory: string,
+  rightSupportsGlobs: boolean,
+  // biome-ignore lint/complexity/noExcessiveCognitiveComplexity: The product walk must process both automata's epsilon and consuming transitions together.
+): boolean => {
+  const left = compileDirectory(leftDirectory, leftSupportsGlobs);
+  const right = compileDirectory(rightDirectory, rightSupportsGlobs);
+  const pending: Array<readonly [number, number]> = [[0, 0]];
+  const visited = new Set<string>();
+  for (const [leftState, rightState] of pending) {
+    const key = `${leftState}:${rightState}`;
+    if (!visited.has(key)) {
+      visited.add(key);
+      if (leftState === left.accept && rightState === right.accept) {
+        return true;
+      }
+      const leftEdges = left.edges.filter((edge) => edge.from === leftState);
+      const rightEdges = right.edges.filter((edge) => edge.from === rightState);
+      pending.push(
+        ...leftEdges
+          .filter((edge) => edge.matcher === null)
+          .map((edge) => [edge.to, rightState] as const),
+        ...rightEdges
+          .filter((edge) => edge.matcher === null)
+          .map((edge) => [leftState, edge.to] as const),
+      );
+      for (const leftEdge of leftEdges) {
+        for (const rightEdge of rightEdges) {
+          if (
+            leftEdge.matcher !== null &&
+            rightEdge.matcher !== null &&
+            matchersIntersect(leftEdge.matcher, rightEdge.matcher)
+          ) {
+            pending.push([leftEdge.to, rightEdge.to]);
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return false;
+};

package/src/dependabot-update.ts

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+import {
+  isDependabotGlob,
+  normalizeDependabotDirectory,
+} from './dependabot-directory-normalize';
+import { directoriesOverlap } from './dependabot-directory-overlap';
 import { isNonEmptyString, isRecord } from './github-settings-parse';
 
 export type UpdateBlock = Record<string, unknown>;
@@ -6,6 +11,8 @@ export type UpdateTarget = {
   readonly ecosystem: string;
   readonly targetBranch: string | null;
   readonly directories: ReadonlyArray<string>;
+  readonly normalizedDirectories: ReadonlyArray<string>;
+  readonly globDirectories: ReadonlySet<string>;
 };
 
 const listOfNonEmptyStrings = (
@@ -72,6 +79,7 @@ export const updateTarget = (
   block: UpdateBlock,
   label: string,
   problems: Array<string>,
+  // biome-ignore lint/complexity/noExcessiveCognitiveComplexity: Target validation deliberately gathers every independent configuration problem.
 ): UpdateTarget | null => {
   const ecosystem = block['package-ecosystem'];
   if (!isNonEmptyString(ecosystem)) {
@@ -103,6 +111,9 @@ export const updateTarget = (
     ? [directory as string]
     : (directories as ReadonlyArray<string>);
   const normalized = [...new Set(rawDirectories)].sort();
+  const normalizedDirectories = [
+    ...new Set(normalized.map(normalizeDependabotDirectory)),
+  ].sort();
   if (
     !hasDirectory &&
     Array.isArray(directories) &&
@@ -120,6 +131,10 @@ export const updateTarget = (
     ecosystem,
     targetBranch: targetBranch ?? null,
     directories: normalized,
+    normalizedDirectories,
+    globDirectories: new Set(
+      hasDirectories ? normalizedDirectories.filter(isDependabotGlob) : [],
+    ),
   };
 };
 
@@ -135,9 +150,13 @@ export const sameUpdateTarget = (
   right: UpdateTarget,
 ): boolean =>
   sameUpdateScope(left, right) &&
-  left.directories.length === right.directories.length &&
-  left.directories.every(
-    (directory, index) => directory === right.directories[index],
+  left.normalizedDirectories.length === right.normalizedDirectories.length &&
+  left.normalizedDirectories.every(
+    (directory, index) => directory === right.normalizedDirectories[index],
+  ) &&
+  left.globDirectories.size === right.globDirectories.size &&
+  [...left.globDirectories].every((directory) =>
+    right.globDirectories.has(directory),
   );
 
 export const overlapsUpdateTarget = (
@@ -145,7 +164,16 @@ export const overlapsUpdateTarget = (
   right: UpdateTarget,
 ): boolean =>
   sameUpdateScope(left, right) &&
-  left.directories.some((directory) => right.directories.includes(directory));
+  left.normalizedDirectories.some((leftDirectory) =>
+    right.normalizedDirectories.some((rightDirectory) =>
+      directoriesOverlap(
+        leftDirectory,
+        left.globDirectories.has(leftDirectory),
+        rightDirectory,
+        right.globDirectories.has(rightDirectory),
+      ),
+    ),
+  );
 
 export const updateTargetDescription = (target: UpdateTarget): string => {
   const branch =