Three findings, all real, all fixed.
1. The analysis job's tool grant was too broad. `Bash(gh api:*)` against a
token holding `issues: write` would have let an injected instruction
PATCH, close or relabel any issue in the repo — and this agent reads
untrusted upstream release notes by design, so the prose constraints
in the prompt are not a control. `gh api` is gone; the two
mutating-capable commands are pinned to the matrix issue by NUMBER, so
a call against any other issue does not match the prefix and is
denied. `--disallowedTools` now names the file-writing tools and
`git`/`gh pr`/`gh issue edit`/`gh issue close` explicitly, so a later
edit that widens the whitelist cannot silently restore them. The
prompt states the exact command shape the grant permits.
2. Targeting the highest `latest` in a lockstep group was wrong in both
directions. npm publishes a release one package at a time, so a sweep
landing mid-publish would have told maintainers to move all four
packages to a version three of them do not have — and written a
marker for that version, which would then suppress the real filing
once the publication completed, so the release would never be tracked
at all. The target is now the LOWEST `latest` across the group: the
newest version the whole group has actually reached. That stays
actionable during a partial publish (on 2.0.0 it files 2.1.0 rather
than going silent), waits correctly when only the in-flight half is
ahead, and produces a different marker when the publish completes so
the real release gets its own issue. The body explains itself when a
`Latest` in the table sits above the target.
3. A failure after an irreversible issue creation lost the issue. The
sweep exited before emitting `filed`, so the issue never reached the
analysis job — and the next night's retry would match its own marker,
emit `[]`, and leave it permanently unanalyzed with nothing left to
notice. Each group is now isolated, `filed` is appended the moment an
issue exists, and the emit happens in a `finally`. The run still fails
afterwards, loudly, but never at the cost of the record. The analyze
job's gate changed to match: it consumes `filed` whenever the sweep
named something, whether or not the sweep job itself went green.
Fixing 3 exposed a second instance of the bug CI caught earlier: the
test helper passed `output: undefined` to suppress the emit, but a
destructuring default fires on `undefined`, so it selected
`process.env.GITHUB_OUTPUT` instead of overriding it. Once the emit moved
into a `finally`, the throwing cases reached it and leaked a real
`filed=[]` into the runner's job-output file. The helper now passes
`null`, which suppresses a default and is falsy. Verified by running the
suite with `GITHUB_OUTPUT` set and confirming no file is created.
Test fixtures that bumped a single package's `latest` were modeling a
partial publication without meaning to, so `groupAt`/`latestAt` now make
"completed lockstep release" and "publication in flight" separate,
named cases. 42 tests in this file, 580 across `scripts/`, green with
the runner's environment set and unset.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019JWUZxLDnPgLQzjBrtk1x9
Signed-off-by: cliffhall <cliff@futurescale.com>
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