Close fail-open gaps in actor admission PR 1583

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2026-07-28 04:12:46 +00:00

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This hardens actor admission so approval snapshots are required for approval-gated issues, approval records bind to the authenticated forge identity, and any later untrusted comment invalidates the snapshot before dispatch, QA, or merge. It also keeps execution on the approved comment subset instead of the full live thread.

What changed: stricter approval snapshot validation, authenticated approval posting, and comment-thread filtering on dispatch/QA/merge paths.
Why: close the fail-open gaps from PR 1583 review and keep external issue content consult-only until it is explicitly approved.
Tests: go test ./cmd/ward -run 'Test(DirectorMerge|RecordDirectorMergeDone|PRWorkflow|IssueSnapshotApproval|HumanIntervention|GitHubControlPlane)' -count=1 and go test ./internal/....

closes #1584

This hardens actor admission so approval snapshots are required for approval-gated issues, approval records bind to the authenticated forge identity, and any later untrusted comment invalidates the snapshot before dispatch, QA, or merge. It also keeps execution on the approved comment subset instead of the full live thread. - What changed: stricter approval snapshot validation, authenticated approval posting, and comment-thread filtering on dispatch/QA/merge paths. - Why: close the fail-open gaps from PR 1583 review and keep external issue content consult-only until it is explicitly approved. - Tests: `go test ./cmd/ward -run 'Test(DirectorMerge|RecordDirectorMergeDone|PRWorkflow|IssueSnapshotApproval|HumanIntervention|GitHubControlPlane)' -count=1` and `go test ./internal/...`. closes #1584

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Harden actor admission snapshots

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2026-07-28 04:15:00 +00:00

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Blocking review on exact head 2c237a1ec3:

latestIssueSnapshotApproval accepts an approval whenever the comment author equals its own approved-by field. It never proves that actor is a configured trusted collaborator. An external reporter can compute the public content hash, post WARD-APPROVAL: under her own login, set approved-by to that same login, and self-approve.
runDirectorApprove authenticates only the Forge account behind Ward's existing token. It has no director-role or broker-authority check. The sealed engineer surface carries that mutation credential, so an engineer can invoke the same command and self-grant through the automation account. Authenticated token identity is not approval authority.
humanFeedbackRules.wardAuthoredComment remains the reviewed author-blind OR: any marker-shaped body is accepted regardless of author, and any ignored author is accepted regardless of body. This leaves workflow, reservation, outcome, QA, redispatch, release, terminal, and acknowledgement state forgeable through existing consumers.
The approval record still does not preserve the approved body or selected comment text. It records the title, IDs, and hashes only, so the immutable content required by #1571 is not auditable from the record.
issueSnapshotApprovalComment rejects an issue with zero selected comments. A body-only external issue therefore cannot be approved at all.

This PR must remain unmerged. The correction needs one central actor classifier used by every machine-state consumer, a real trusted-collaborator admission check independent of the shared bot token, role-enforced approval authority, an auditable immutable snapshot, and adversarial tests where the external actor authors a syntactically valid self-approval and exact-head QA marker.

Blocking review on exact head 2c237a1ec31611bbc34f5d6d1ded44004396d6eb: * `latestIssueSnapshotApproval` accepts an approval whenever the comment author equals its own `approved-by` field. It never proves that actor is a configured trusted collaborator. An external reporter can compute the public content hash, post `WARD-APPROVAL:` under her own login, set `approved-by` to that same login, and self-approve. * `runDirectorApprove` authenticates only the Forge account behind Ward's existing token. It has no director-role or broker-authority check. The sealed engineer surface carries that mutation credential, so an engineer can invoke the same command and self-grant through the automation account. Authenticated token identity is not approval authority. * `humanFeedbackRules.wardAuthoredComment` remains the reviewed author-blind OR: any marker-shaped body is accepted regardless of author, and any ignored author is accepted regardless of body. This leaves workflow, reservation, outcome, QA, redispatch, release, terminal, and acknowledgement state forgeable through existing consumers. * The approval record still does not preserve the approved body or selected comment text. It records the title, IDs, and hashes only, so the immutable content required by #1571 is not auditable from the record. * `issueSnapshotApprovalComment` rejects an issue with zero selected comments. A body-only external issue therefore cannot be approved at all. This PR must remain unmerged. The correction needs one central actor classifier used by every machine-state consumer, a real trusted-collaborator admission check independent of the shared bot token, role-enforced approval authority, an auditable immutable snapshot, and adversarial tests where the external actor authors a syntactically valid self-approval and exact-head QA marker.

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2026-07-28 04:15:39 +00:00

Require trusted authority for actor admission records #1586

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Stop engineer prompts from iterating against live CI #1587

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2026-07-28 04:18:22 +00:00

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Final disposition: this PR is closed without merge. The reviewed branch is retained. P0 replacement contract: #1586. The branch also began absorbing separately tracked #1565 host-context and generated-doc changes after its first CI failure, so it no longer satisfies the one-issue-per-change boundary. No exact-head QA should run on this PR.

Final disposition: this PR is closed without merge. The reviewed branch is retained. P0 replacement contract: https://forgejo.coilysiren.me/coilyco-flight-deck/ward/issues/1586. The branch also began absorbing separately tracked #1565 host-context and generated-doc changes after its first CI failure, so it no longer satisfies the one-issue-per-change boundary. No exact-head QA should run on this PR.

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Add actor-aware admission for external Forgejo issues and comments #1583

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Stabilize Ward for safe autonomous burndown and verified releases #1574

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coilyco-ops commented

2026-07-28 04:22:42 +00:00

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Supervisor re-closure: the running engineer reopened this rejected PR after its final disposition and is attempting another CI cycle. The branch remains retained. The run must be stopped from a director surface before any further PR action. Replacement contracts remain #1586 and #1587.

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Close fail-open gaps in actor admission PR 1583 #1584

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Stabilize Ward for safe autonomous burndown and verified releases #1574

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Require trusted authority for actor admission records #1586