Operational: rotate SCOOP_WRITE_TOKEN (run provision-scoop-write-token.sh) to unblock ward#576 scoop publish

coilysiren commented

2026-07-03 18:32:57 +00:00

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infra#454 landed scripts/provision-scoop-write-token.sh and confirmed SCOOP_WRITE_TOKEN is a ward repo secret the minting user sets with its own basic auth - no admin PAT, fully agent-runnable. This is the follow-up infra#454 asked for: actually run it once to unblock ward#576 (the scoop half of the release-publish path).

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Run scripts/provision-scoop-write-token.sh (this box has --aws, so SSM is reachable for the minting credential). Mint the scoop-write token, stash at SSM /forgejo/scoop-write-token, set the ward repo secret SCOOP_WRITE_TOKEN.
Verify the payoff, not the write (infra#452 trap #7): the real check is a subsequent ward release's bump-scoop-manifest job going green and bucket/ward.json landing on the Forgejo scoop bucket. Note in the outcome whether that is confirmable now or needs the next tag.
Report via the outcome comment - the deliverable is the rotated secret + verification, not a commit.

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Do NOT touch CI_RELEASE_TOKEN here - it is an org secret whose PUT needs the admin PAT agents are blocked from (infra#452 trap #4), so its final step is operator-gated. Kept separate on purpose.

ward#576 (the two release-blocking secrets), infra#454 (the script), infra#452 (the traps).

## Operational run (no code change expected) infra#454 landed `scripts/provision-scoop-write-token.sh` and confirmed `SCOOP_WRITE_TOKEN` is a **ward repo secret** the minting user sets with its own basic auth - no admin PAT, fully agent-runnable. This is the follow-up infra#454 asked for: actually run it once to unblock ward#576 (the scoop half of the release-publish path). ## Do 1. Run `scripts/provision-scoop-write-token.sh` (this box has `--aws`, so SSM is reachable for the minting credential). Mint the `scoop-write` token, stash at SSM `/forgejo/scoop-write-token`, set the ward repo secret `SCOOP_WRITE_TOKEN`. 2. **Verify the payoff, not the write** (infra#452 trap #7): the real check is a subsequent ward release's `bump-scoop-manifest` job going green and `bucket/ward.json` landing on the Forgejo scoop bucket. Note in the outcome whether that is confirmable now or needs the next tag. 3. Report via the outcome comment - the deliverable is the rotated secret + verification, not a commit. ## Out of scope Do NOT touch `CI_RELEASE_TOKEN` here - it is an **org** secret whose PUT needs the admin PAT agents are blocked from (infra#452 trap #4), so its final step is operator-gated. Kept separate on purpose. ## Related ward#576 (the two release-blocking secrets), infra#454 (the script), infra#452 (the traps).

coilyco-ops commented

2026-07-03 18:33:13 +00:00

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coilysiren commented

2026-07-03 18:36:11 +00:00

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WARD-OUTCOME: blocked - box lacks AWS/SSM creds despite issue assuming --aws; cannot stash the minted scoop-write token to SSM /forgejo/scoop-write-token, so the rotation cannot complete safely.

Went in expecting a clean one-shot run of scripts/provision-scoop-write-token.sh, and the Forgejo half is genuinely ready - I have an admin FORGEJO_TOKEN (coilysiren), the mint + repo-secret PUT would both work. What fought back is the very first thing the issue took for granted: this box has no AWS credentials. ward ops aws sts get-caller-identity returns NoCredentials; there's no ~/.aws/config or credentials, no IMDS, no AWS_CONTAINER_CREDENTIALS_*, no access-key env, just an empty session cache. The token-minting skill is explicit that these scripts need "a box with AWS/SSM (--aws on a warded engineer, or a creds-having host)" - this container was launched without that.

I deliberately did not run the Forgejo half alone. The script stashes to SSM before setting the repo secret on purpose: the token is shown exactly once, and a Forgejo repo secret is write-only. Setting SCOOP_WRITE_TOKEN without first landing the value in SSM would leave the rotation source-of-truth empty and the secret unrecoverable - a worse state than not acting, and an off-script externally-visible write. So I stopped at the wall.

Confidence: high that the blocker is real and environmental, not a code or usage error. Nothing to commit (operational run, tree clean).

To unblock: relaunch this run on a box where --aws actually injects working AWS/SSM credentials (or provide them here), then re-run scripts/provision-scoop-write-token.sh. On verification (issue step 2): the payoff - bump-scoop-manifest going green and bucket/ward.json landing - is not confirmable from the secret write alone; it needs the next ward tag/release to exercise the scoop publish path (ward#576). Worth noting in any follow-up. CI_RELEASE_TOKEN was correctly left untouched (org secret, admin-PAT-gated, out of scope).

WARD-OUTCOME: blocked - box lacks AWS/SSM creds despite issue assuming `--aws`; cannot stash the minted scoop-write token to SSM /forgejo/scoop-write-token, so the rotation cannot complete safely. Went in expecting a clean one-shot run of `scripts/provision-scoop-write-token.sh`, and the Forgejo half is genuinely ready - I have an admin `FORGEJO_TOKEN` (coilysiren), the mint + repo-secret PUT would both work. What fought back is the very first thing the issue took for granted: this box has **no AWS credentials**. `ward ops aws sts get-caller-identity` returns `NoCredentials`; there's no `~/.aws/config` or `credentials`, no IMDS, no `AWS_CONTAINER_CREDENTIALS_*`, no access-key env, just an empty session cache. The token-minting skill is explicit that these scripts need "a box with AWS/SSM (`--aws` on a warded engineer, or a creds-having host)" - this container was launched without that. I deliberately did **not** run the Forgejo half alone. The script stashes to SSM *before* setting the repo secret on purpose: the token is shown exactly once, and a Forgejo repo secret is write-only. Setting `SCOOP_WRITE_TOKEN` without first landing the value in SSM would leave the rotation source-of-truth empty and the secret unrecoverable - a worse state than not acting, and an off-script externally-visible write. So I stopped at the wall. Confidence: high that the blocker is real and environmental, not a code or usage error. Nothing to commit (operational run, tree clean). **To unblock:** relaunch this run on a box where `--aws` actually injects working AWS/SSM credentials (or provide them here), then re-run `scripts/provision-scoop-write-token.sh`. On verification (issue step 2): the payoff - `bump-scoop-manifest` going green and `bucket/ward.json` landing - is **not** confirmable from the secret write alone; it needs the next ward tag/release to exercise the scoop publish path (ward#576). Worth noting in any follow-up. `CI_RELEASE_TOKEN` was correctly left untouched (org secret, admin-PAT-gated, out of scope).

coilyco-ops commented

2026-07-03 21:10:58 +00:00

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🔒 Reserved by ward agent --driver claude — container engineer-claude-infrastructure-456 on host KAI-DESKTOP-TOWER is carrying this issue (reserved 2026-07-03T21:10:53Z). Concurrent ward agent runs are blocked until it finishes or the reservation goes stale (2h0m0s TTL); --force overrides.

Do not comment on or edit this issue to steer the run while it is reserved. The engineer seeded the body once at launch and never re-reads it, so a comment or edit reaches only human readers, never the running engineer. A correction goes to a new issue, dispatched fresh — that is the only channel that reaches a run in flight. Where the forge supports it, ward locks this conversation to make that a road-block rather than a convention (ward#494).

— Claude (she/her), via ward agent

🔒 Reserved by `ward agent --driver claude` — container `engineer-claude-infrastructure-456` on host `KAI-DESKTOP-TOWER` is carrying this issue (reserved 2026-07-03T21:10:53Z). Concurrent `ward agent` runs are blocked until it finishes or the reservation goes stale (2h0m0s TTL); `--force` overrides. **Do not comment on or edit this issue to steer the run while it is reserved.** The engineer seeded the body once at launch and never re-reads it, so a comment or edit reaches only human readers, never the running engineer. A correction goes to a **new issue, dispatched fresh** — that is the only channel that reaches a run in flight. Where the forge supports it, ward locks this conversation to make that a road-block rather than a convention (ward#494).  — Claude (she/her), via `ward agent`

coilysiren commented

2026-07-03 21:13:44 +00:00

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WARD-OUTCOME: blocked - this container has no AWS/SSM credentials and no Forgejo basic-auth minting creds, so scoop-write cannot be minted or stashed to SSM /forgejo/scoop-write-token

Same wall the 18:36 run hit, and it did not move on the relaunch. I probed hard before calling it: ward ops aws sts get-caller-identity returns NoCredentials, there is no ~/.aws/credentials, no IMDS role, and no AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID in the env. Only AWS_REGION/AWS_DEFAULT_REGION are set, which are region hints, not credentials. The issue assumed --aws was live on this box, but it is not.

The Forgejo side is also short a credential. This container carries a FORGEJO_TOKEN (identifies as coilysiren, admin) but not FORGEJO_USER/FORGEJO_PASS. provision-scoop-write-token.sh mints via POST /users/{user}/tokens, which Forgejo gates behind real basic auth and refuses token-based auth for, so the mint step cannot run headless with only a token.

I deliberately did not do the Forgejo half alone. The token could set the SCOOP_WRITE_TOKEN repo secret, but landing it without first writing SSM would leave the rotation source-of-truth empty, which is the exact failure the issue and the prior run both flag. A half-rotation is worse than none.

Confidence this is a real block, not a me-problem: high. Two independent runs on this container shape both stall on the same missing credentials.

What a human needs to decide: the dispatch is not injecting the credentials this operational run requires. Relaunching onto the same container profile will loop, as it already has once. The run needs a container that actually carries (1) AWS creds with SSM read/write on /forgejo/*, and (2) Forgejo basic-auth (FORGEJO_USER/FORGEJO_PASS) for the minting user, or the rotation done by hand on a credentialed host.

Rough edge worth filing: provision-scoop-write-token.sh fails deep in the flow (it prompts for a password that never arrives, or dies at the SSM put) rather than pre-flighting for AWS creds and basic auth up front. A cheap sts get-caller-identity guard plus a FORGEJO_PASS-set check at the top would turn this whole class of blocked run into a one-line "missing X, run me on a credentialed host" at second zero. Out of scope to add here, but a small follow-up.

The payoff check (ward#576 bump-scoop-manifest going green with bucket/ward.json landing) is unconfirmable regardless, since the secret was never rotated. It waits on the next tag after a successful rotation.

WARD-OUTCOME: blocked - this container has no AWS/SSM credentials and no Forgejo basic-auth minting creds, so `scoop-write` cannot be minted or stashed to SSM `/forgejo/scoop-write-token` Same wall the 18:36 run hit, and it did not move on the relaunch. I probed hard before calling it: `ward ops aws sts get-caller-identity` returns `NoCredentials`, there is no `~/.aws/credentials`, no IMDS role, and no `AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID` in the env. Only `AWS_REGION`/`AWS_DEFAULT_REGION` are set, which are region hints, not credentials. The issue assumed `--aws` was live on this box, but it is not. The Forgejo side is also short a credential. This container carries a `FORGEJO_TOKEN` (identifies as coilysiren, admin) but not `FORGEJO_USER`/`FORGEJO_PASS`. `provision-scoop-write-token.sh` mints via `POST /users/{user}/tokens`, which Forgejo gates behind real basic auth and refuses token-based auth for, so the mint step cannot run headless with only a token. I deliberately did not do the Forgejo half alone. The token could set the `SCOOP_WRITE_TOKEN` repo secret, but landing it without first writing SSM would leave the rotation source-of-truth empty, which is the exact failure the issue and the prior run both flag. A half-rotation is worse than none. Confidence this is a real block, not a me-problem: high. Two independent runs on this container shape both stall on the same missing credentials. What a human needs to decide: the dispatch is not injecting the credentials this operational run requires. Relaunching onto the same container profile will loop, as it already has once. The run needs a container that actually carries (1) AWS creds with SSM read/write on `/forgejo/*`, and (2) Forgejo basic-auth (`FORGEJO_USER`/`FORGEJO_PASS`) for the minting user, or the rotation done by hand on a credentialed host. Rough edge worth filing: `provision-scoop-write-token.sh` fails deep in the flow (it prompts for a password that never arrives, or dies at the SSM put) rather than pre-flighting for AWS creds and basic auth up front. A cheap `sts get-caller-identity` guard plus a `FORGEJO_PASS`-set check at the top would turn this whole class of blocked run into a one-line "missing X, run me on a credentialed host" at second zero. Out of scope to add here, but a small follow-up. The payoff check (ward#576 `bump-scoop-manifest` going green with `bucket/ward.json` landing) is unconfirmable regardless, since the secret was never rotated. It waits on the next tag after a successful rotation.

coilysiren commented

2026-07-03 21:50:08 +00:00

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Closing - moot (token set manually)

Kai set SCOOP_WRITE_TOKEN by hand as a ward repo secret, so this rotation job is redundant. It also hit a hard wall regardless: --aws still returned NoCredentials in the container even after ward#586 landed (no ~/.aws, no IMDS, no AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID) - so the export-inject fix is not yet proven live on the dispatch host. That finding is captured on ward#586.

The scoop half of the release-publish path is done via ward#589 (archived-bucket fix) + Kai's manual token - see ward#576 (closed).

Closing as moot.

## Closing - moot (token set manually) Kai set SCOOP_WRITE_TOKEN by hand as a ward repo secret, so this rotation job is redundant. It also hit a hard wall regardless: --aws still returned NoCredentials in the container even after ward#586 landed (no ~/.aws, no IMDS, no AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID) - so the export-inject fix is not yet proven live on the dispatch host. That finding is captured on ward#586. The scoop half of the release-publish path is done via ward#589 (archived-bucket fix) + Kai's manual token - see ward#576 (closed). Closing as moot.

coilysiren closed this issue

2026-07-03 21:50:09 +00:00

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Operational: rotate SCOOP_WRITE_TOKEN (run provision-scoop-write-token.sh) to unblock ward#576 scoop publish #456

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Closing - moot (token set manually)