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ci(badges): draw the README status badges in one design - #3393
Every badge on the README now has one design, for-the-badge with the dark label. Before this change the header mixed four designs: the seven workflow badges were GitHub's own badge.svg images, the Best Practices and Codacy badges came in their services' designs, the OpenSSF Scorecard badge was a static image that showed no score, and the backends row used flat-square.
GitHub's badge.svg cannot be restyled, and shields.io's workflow badge reads that same image, so the ten status badges are now drawn by this repository:
Workflow:.github/workflows/readme-badges.yml is scheduled every 15 minutes and runs on demand; GitHub can start a scheduled run late or drop it under load, so 15 minutes is the intended step, not a bound. scripts/ci/readme_badges.py reads the newest decisive push run of each badged workflow on master and the public Scorecard, Best Practices and Codacy APIs; tools/badges/render.mjs draws the SVGs with badge-maker 6.0.0, pinned in tools/badges/package-lock.json.
Branch: the publish job commits the SVGs and state.json to a badges branch, and the README links https://raw.githubusercontent.com/VMAFx/vmafx/badges/<slug>.svg.
Run selection: a run in progress or cancelled never hides a red one, and the Scorecard badge shows the score.
Failures: a source that fails, or answers with a cut-off or malformed response, turns that run red at once; its badge keeps the last value for six hours, then reads stale.
Guard:scripts/ci/readme_badges.py check-readme refuses any README image that is not a rendered badges SVG, a for-the-badge shields.io badge with the dark label, or a file in the repository. The readme-badge-design hook runs it at commit and push, so a mixed design cannot come back unnoticed. The Praetor governance badge is the one exception until Praetor issue 1893 lands.
Standard:docs/README-STANDARD.md now asks for one badge design across the whole page, so the version row in "Backends at a glance" uses for-the-badge too.
The badge request goes through a new shared helper, https_json in scripts/ci/ci_tier.py, which api_request now uses too. It refuses non-https URLs, follows no redirect, and caps each answer, 32 MiB for the GitHub API (API_MAX_BYTES; api_request read without a limit before) and 1 MiB for the public sources.
Rights: the render job holds actions: read and contents: read; the publish job holds contents: write, the narrowest right that can create a commit. GitHub cannot limit that right to one branch. The script writes only refs/heads/badges, never forces, and publishes only a commit GitHub reports as signed; the master ruleset requires a pull request, so the token cannot move master. Both jobs run only on master and check out github.sha, so the publish token never runs a branch copy of the workflow. No ruleset guards badges yet; issue 3394 tracks a dedicated GitHub App as its only publisher.
After landing: the badges branch does not exist yet, so the ten images are broken until the first run creates it. I start that run by hand right after the merge (gh workflow run readme-badges.yml -R VMAFx/vmafx) and check the rendered page.
The design, the trigger choice and the alternatives are in ADR-3519 (docs/adr/3519-readme-badges-rendered-branch.md); the operating rules are in docs/development/readme-badges.md.
Every commit is signed off (git commit -s; fix a branch with git rebase --signoff origin/master). See DCO sign-off.
make format && make lint is green locally. pre-commit run --files per round, 0 failed each time: the read-time fix files 52 passed, the review-fix files 68 passed, the four docstring files 42 passed, the three docs 39 passed (the rest skipped, no matching files); ruff check and mypy on both scripts and both test files report no issues; the pre-push gate passed on the full branch.
Unit tests pass: python3 scripts/ci/run_meson_test.py -- -C build. The Meson suite does not cover scripts/ci/; the tooling tests below cover it.
If I touched any SIMD/GPU code path, I ran /cross-backend-diff and the worst ULP is ≤ 2. No SIMD or GPU path touched.
If I touched a feature extractor with SIMD/GPU twins, I either updated every twin or listed the gap under "Known follow-ups" below. No feature extractor touched.
If I added a new .c / .cpp / .cu / .h / .hpp, it has the appropriate license header (see CONTRIBUTING.md). No C or C++ file added.
If this is a breaking change, the commit message uses ! or BREAKING CHANGE: and the migration path is documented below. Not a breaking change: the README image addresses change, no API or CLI does.
If this PR adds an ADR, the ADR row lives in docs/adr/_index_fragments/<NNNN-slug>.md and nothing else is touched for the index: do not edit docs/adr/README.md, docs/adr/by-tag/, docs/adr/titles.md or _order.txt (rendered when pull requests land by make docs-render; see ADR-2197; the render-only pull request of ADR-3295 is the one exception). ADR-3519, row in docs/adr/_index_fragments/3519-readme-badges-rendered-branch.md.
docs/state.md updated in this PR with a row in the appropriate section, OR the opt-out line. no state delta: README presentation and CI tooling; no bug is opened, closed or ruled out.
I did not modify any assertAlmostEqual(...) score in the Netflix golden Python tests, except by porting Netflix's own updated assertion verbatim from upstream (value and places as upstream has them, measured against the fork's CPU build first; ADR-1828).
If I believe a golden value must change, I have explained why below AND pinged the code owner for a CODEOWNERS exception. No golden value changes.
Research digest — docs/research/3519-readme-badges-rendered-branch.md: question, sources, findings, alternatives and open questions; scripts/ci/check-research-digest-ids.py passes.
Decision matrix — ## Alternatives considered in docs/adr/3519-readme-badges-rendered-branch.md: five options, including shields.io dynamic URLs and a workflow_run trigger.
AGENTS.md invariant note — scripts/ci/AGENTS.d/readme-badges.md (script rules), indexed in scripts/ci/AGENTS-gates.md, and .github/AGENTS.d/readme-badges.md (workflow rules), indexed in .github/AGENTS.md.
Reproducer / smoke-test command — pasted below under "Reproducer".
CHANGELOG fragment — changelog.d/changed/readme-badges-uniform.md.
Rebase note — no rebase impact: the README, mkdocs.yml and docs/README-STANDARD.md are the fork's own; every other touched file is fork-only.
Tests:pytest -W error on both files gives 145 passed and 230 subtests (104 tests in test_readme_badges.py, 41 in test_ci_tier.py). They cover each value rule, the six-hour carry, the publish rules (signed commit, no force, quiet hour, recorded read times), the renderer allow-list, the https and size caps of https_json, broken answers, and the design check.
Planted defects: fifteen mutations of the design check, from dropping the labelColor rule to exiting 0 on faults, each made the suite fail (15 of 15 killed, against a control run that passes). The check passes this branch's README and finds 19 faults on master's: the seven GitHub workflow badges, the Best Practices and Codacy badges and the ten flat-square backend badges. A planted flat-square badge makes the hook exit 1. The review fixes carry eleven more mutants, one per fix and named in the thread replies, and each one fails the suite.
Review round: all 20 review threads (Sourcery, CodeRabbit, Codacy) are answered and resolved. Sixteen are fixed in 0bc84f4; one trade-off is kept and documented (the 75-minute early stale); two needed no change, with the check named in the reply; one, a badges ruleset, is the follow-up issue 3394. CodeRabbit's docstring-coverage check read 32.05% against its 80% threshold; since 42f91a4 every function and class this pull request adds or changes has a docstring (203 of 203, counted over the diff against master).
Third review round: CodeRabbit's six threads on 42f91a4 are answered and resolved. Five are fixed in f796981: a cut-off or malformed answer (http.client.HTTPException) is now a TierError in https_json, so it can no longer escape refresh or previous_state (four new tests; a planted mutant fails six); the research digest links every source; the docs no longer treat 15 minutes as a maximum badge age; the signed-commit claim is limited to the publish job's commits; and a failed source is said to turn its run red at once. One needed no change: the req source line stays a paraphrase, following ADR-0106.
Fourth review round: CodeRabbit's thread on f796981 is answered and resolved, fixed in 470bfaa. A source that recovered with its old value after a long outage kept its old read time on the branch, because the SVG was unchanged and the last commit young, so a later failure could show stale early. The publish job now also commits when the branch's state.json records a badge's read time an hour or more before this run's, or one it cannot compare. A regression test runs outage, unchanged recovery and a later failure, and eight planted mutants of the rule each fail the suite. stale now comes at most an hour early instead of 75 minutes.
Mirror: the jobs run only for VMAFx/vmafx on github.com (github.server_url guard). The artifact steps carry the Gitea twins that scripts/ci/check_gitea_artifact_steps.py asks for, so the Gitea mirror parses the file and skips the jobs.
Known follow-ups
badges branch writers (issue 3394): publish with a dedicated GitHub App token and add a second ruleset on refs/heads/badges, managed by scripts/dev/check_repository_security.py, that lets only that App write. Until then any token with contents: write can push to badges; today the only person with write access is the repository admin.
Praetor governance badge: the badge inside the praetor:readme-governance block is written by Praetor and keeps GitHub's design. Praetor issue 1893 asks for an adopter-chosen image.
Limit: an SVG cannot age by itself. If the workflow stops (disabled, or scheduled runs paused after 60 days without activity), the badges keep their last values; the red or missing README Badges run is the signal.
Summary by Sourcery
Standardize README badges by rendering status images in CI, publishing them safely to a badges branch, and enforcing the unified design through documentation and repository checks.
New Features:
Render the ten README status badges with a consistent for-the-badge design and publish them to a dedicated badges branch.
Add scheduled and on-demand badge generation using workflow results and public Scorecard, Best Practices, and Codacy data, including failure carry-forward and stale status handling.
Add automated README badge design validation and a documented standard covering badge sources, operation, and security considerations.
Bug Fixes:
Ensure badge failures cannot be hidden by in-progress, cancelled, or skipped workflow runs, and display the OpenSSF Scorecard value instead of a static badge.
Enhancements:
Centralize bounded HTTPS JSON requests with HTTPS-only, no-redirect, and response-size protections.
Add comprehensive unit and integration coverage for badge rendering, source handling, publishing safeguards, request validation, and README design checks.
CI:
Add a least-privilege README Badges workflow that renders on master and publishes signed, non-forced commits to the badges branch.
Run README badge design checks and badge tooling tests during pre-commit and pre-push.
Documentation:
Document the README badge operating model and add ADR-3519 and its research record.
Update the README presentation standard and navigation for the unified badge design.
Tests:
Add extensive coverage for badge value rules, stale carry-forward, publishing behavior, HTTPS request limits, and design validation.
Chores:
Update README status and backend badges to use repository-rendered or consistent for-the-badge images, retaining the Praetor-managed exception.
Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
README status badges now use consistent for-the-badge styling and repository-hosted images, except for the governance badge.
Badge values refresh every 15 minutes or on demand and show decisive workflow results alongside security and quality assessments.
When a source is unavailable, its previous value may be retained for up to six hours before being marked stale.
Documentation
Added guidance on badge sources, appearance, status colors, refresh behavior, and validation, plus a decision record describing the badge display and publishing approach.
The README header mixed four badge designs: GitHub's workflow
badge.svg images, the Best Practices and Codacy service badges, a
static Scorecard image without the score, and a flat-square backends
row. GitHub's badge.svg cannot be restyled, so the ten status badges
are now drawn by the repository in the for-the-badge style.
The README Badges workflow runs every 15 minutes. readme_badges.py
reads the newest decisive push run of each badged workflow on master
and the public Scorecard, Best Practices and Codacy APIs; render.mjs
draws the SVGs with the pinned badge-maker; the publish job commits
them to the badges branch, signed by GitHub and never forced. A
failed source keeps its value for six hours, then reads stale, and
the run turns red. Requests go through the new ci_tier.https_json,
which refuses non-https URLs and caps each answer; api_request uses
it too and is now size-capped.
check-readme refuses any README image outside the one design and runs
as a pre-commit and pre-push hook; the Praetor governance badge is the
one exception until Praetor issue 1893 lands. ADR-3519 records the
design and why a schedule replaces workflow_run.
Signed-off-by: lusoris <lusoris@proton.me>
Add a shared bounded HTTPS JSON request interface and route GitHub API requests through it, preserving error-status handling while refusing redirects and oversized or malformed responses.
scripts/ci/ci_tier.py L68-92, L193-240 (+2 small edits)
Implementation
Implement badge source selection, stale-value carry-forward, rendering inputs, signed non-forced branch publishing, and README image validation as the badge workflow's core logic.
scripts/ci/readme_badges.py L1-791
Add the badge renderer that validates its input allow-list and produces the README SVGs in the shared style.
tools/badges/render.mjs L1-76
UI
Replace the README status badge sources and align the backend badges with the unified design.
README.md L14-24, L108-117
Configuration
Add the guarded scheduled/manual workflow that renders badges with read-only permissions and publishes the artifact with contents-write permission.
.github/workflows/readme-badges.yml L1-122
Register the badge design check and its test suite in pre-commit and pre-push.
.pre-commit-config.yaml L811-826
Declare the private Node package and pin its renderer dependency.
tools/badges/package.json L1-14
Documentation
Record the workflow guard, checkout, permissions, trigger, and publish-ref invariants for maintainers.
.github/AGENTS.d/readme-badges.md L1-28
.github/AGENTS.md L42
Document the README badge implementation rules and index them with the CI gate guidance.
scripts/ci/AGENTS-gates.md L38
scripts/ci/AGENTS.d/readme-badges.md L1-26
Update the README presentation standard with the unified badge style, rendered sources, and design-check guidance.
docs/README-STANDARD.md L42-46, L84-93 (+4 small edits)
Add the operating guide, decision record, research digest, changelog entry, and documentation navigation for the badge system.
Lock the renderer dependency tree and integrity metadata used by the workflow.
tools/badges/package-lock.json L1-87
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This change adds a scheduled and manually triggered workflow to generate README badges and publish them to a badges branch. It adds source-state handling, an SVG renderer, publishing and README design checks, and updates the README and supporting documentation.
Changes: README Badge Rendering
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Read sources and prepare state scripts/ci/readme_badges.py, scripts/ci/tests/test_readme_badges.py
The script reads workflow, Scorecard, Best Practices, and Codacy data. It validates values, carries a prior value for up to six hours after a source failure, and writes renderer specifications and state. Tests cover source selection, value validation, state handling, and refresh behavior.
Render and publish badge assets .github/workflows/readme-badges.yml, scripts/ci/readme_badges.py, tools/badges/*, scripts/ci/tests/test_readme_badges.py, .pre-commit-config.yaml
The workflow renders SVGs from the generated specification and publishes validated files and state to the badges branch. Publishing requires a verified commit before the branch moves. The renderer validates badge entries, and tests cover publication behavior.
The script checks README image URLs and badge styles. Pre-commit hooks run the check and related tests. The README uses repository-hosted badges and applies for-the-badge styling to backend and toolchain badges.
The documentation describes badge sources, styling, refresh and publishing behavior, and validation. The development guide is added to the MkDocs navigation.
CI-tier API Transport
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Summary
Bound API requests and verify transport scripts/ci/ci_tier.py, scripts/ci/tests/test_ci_tier.py
The CI-tier API helper adds optional JSON request bodies, HTTPS-only requests without redirect following, and a response-size limit. Tests cover request bodies, headers, size limits, and redirect handling.
sequenceDiagram
participant Workflow as README Badges workflow
participant BadgeScript as readme_badges.py
participant Sources as GitHub and public APIs
participant Renderer as Badge renderer
participant Artifact as Workflow artifact
participant BadgesBranch as badges branch
Workflow->>BadgeScript: Run spec command
BadgeScript->>Sources: Read badge values and prior state
BadgeScript-->>Workflow: Write renderer specification and state
Workflow->>Renderer: Render SVG files
Workflow->>Artifact: Upload generated files
Workflow->>Artifact: Download files in publish job
Workflow->>BadgeScript: Run publish command
BadgeScript->>BadgesBranch: Publish verified commit
Workflow->>BadgeScript: Run verdict command
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VMAFx/vmafx#3250: Adds the Codacy README badge and documents its source; this change replaces that badge with a rendered Codacy SVG.
Merge Risk: Low · up to 470bf
The badge publishing guidance slightly misstates when a commit is skipped. This does not affect runtime behavior, but maintainers could be misled when investigating skipped commits. Correct the wording before or soon after merge.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 470bf
The new publisher can write repository contents, but collection and publication are separated, credentials are not sent to public badge services, and publication validates its file set before updating the badge branch. No introduced security vulnerability was established. Live branch protection and successful end-to-end publication remain unverified.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — The intended mutable surface is the badges branch, but contents-write permission is repository-scoped, not branch-scoped. A compromised publisher could affect other refs allowed by repository protections. The declared master ruleset requires pull requests and does not list the workflow identity as a bypass actor; deployed enforcement was not verified.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The renderer and its dependencies run without the publication token. The write-enabled job consumes generated files rather than executing them and applies an exact filename allow-list. This preserves a meaningful privilege boundary, while deliberately trusting the renderer for the contents of those permitted assets.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
inferred — During continued execution, failed source reads retain a prior value for six hours and then render stale; the workflow reports source failures after publication. This does not bound image age if scheduling or publication stops entirely, because the existing SVG cannot expire itself. The badge should therefore be treated as cached status, not a live security guarantee.
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Pull Request Overview
⚠️Resolve issues before merging
Two README validation checks can accept invalid content: badges may point to another repository, and local images need not exist within the repository. These gaps can allow broken or externally controlled badges to pass validation and should be fixed before merging.
The required tests cover most behavior, but renderer execution and workflow-contract validation remain missing. The complex badge implementation also lacks direct runtime coverage for the Node renderer.
About this PR
Add automated coverage for executing the Node renderer and for the workflow contract, including permissions, repository guards, artifact handling, and publishing behavior.
Test suggestions
Workflow value selection ignores unfinished, cancelled, skipped, and other non-decisive runs while recognizing all decisive outcomes.
Scorecard, Best Practices, and Codacy value and color boundaries are validated.
Failed sources retain values through exactly six hours and become stale afterward.
Rendered specification entries enforce the allow-listed shape, text, colors, duplicate prevention, and output limits.
Execute the Node renderer and verify that it creates valid SVG files in the output directory.
Publishing creates signed commits, rejects unsigned commits, avoids force updates, and honors the quiet window.
README design validation covers shields.io parameters, rendered badge URLs, local images, governance exceptions, references, HTML images, and code fences.
HTTPS requests enforce timeouts, response-size limits, and correct request bodies and headers.
Test the workflow contract for permissions, repository/server guards, artifact handling, and publish behavior.
Prompt proposal for missing tests
Consider implementing these tests if applicable:
1. Execute the Node renderer and verify that it creates valid SVG files in the output directory.
2. Test the workflow contract for permissions, repository/server guards, artifact handling, and publish behavior.
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Hey - I've found 15 issues
Prompt for AI Agents
Please address the comments from this code review:
## Individual Comments### Comment 1
<locationpath="scripts/ci/readme_badges.py"line_range="378-382" />
<code_context>
+ tree = call("POST", f"/repos/{repository}/git/trees", {"tree": entries})
+ message = f"chore(badges): render the README badges at {stamp(now)}"
+ parents = [head["sha"]] if head else []+ payload = {"message": message, "tree": field(tree, "sha"), "parents": parents}
+ commit = call("POST", f"/repos/{repository}/git/commits", payload)
+ sha = str(field(commit, "sha"))
+ verification = commit.get("verification") if isinstance(commit, dict) else None
+ if not isinstance(verification, dict) or verification.get("verified") is not True:
+ raise BadgeError(f"commit {sha} is not signed by GitHub; the branch stays put")+ if head:
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Badge commits never publish**
When the publisher creates a commit through GitHub’s Git Data API without a signature, `publish` checks `verification.verified` and raises because the API returns the unsigned commit as unverified, before moving the `badges` ref; the badge files are never published.
Provide a valid signature for the commit or stop requiring `verification.verified` for commits created without one.
</issue_to_address>
### Comment 2
<locationpath="scripts/ci/ci_tier.py"line_range="198-204" />
<code_context>
if urllib.parse.urlsplit(url).scheme != "https":
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Badge APIs can redirect into the runner**
When a public badge API returns a redirect to an internal host or a non-HTTPS URL, `https_json` checks only the initial URL, then `urllib.request.urlopen` follows redirects without validating the destination. A redirected badge request can therefore reach runner-accessible internal or non-HTTPS endpoints, giving a compromised public API a blind SSRF path.
Disable redirects for these requests or validate every redirect destination against an HTTPS host allow-list before following it.
</issue_to_address>
### Comment 3
<locationpath=".github/workflows/readme-badges.yml"line_range="18" />
<code_context>
+# master.+ schedule:
+- cron: "7,22,37,52 * * * *"
+ workflow_dispatch:
+
+permissions: {}
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Branch dispatch exposes write token**
When a user manually dispatches the workflow for a non-default branch containing a modified workflow definition, a manual run selected on a non-default branch can execute that branch’s modified workflow with `contents: write`. Its steps can exfiltrate the token or write refs beyond the badges branch, bypassing the script’s intended write restriction.
Ensure privileged publication runs only from a trusted workflow definition on the protected default branch, rather than granting write permissions to a manually selected branch’s workflow.
Also at `.github/workflows/readme-badges.yml:84`.
</issue_to_address>
### Comment 4
<locationpath=".github/workflows/readme-badges.yml"line_range="84" />
<code_context>
+# the job writes refs/heads/badges only, and the master ruleset refuses+# this token on master.+ permissions:
+ contents: write+ steps:
+ - uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Untrusted writers can forge badges**
When a repository collaborator with `contents: write` pushes directly to the unprotected `badges` branch, gitHub serves the pushed SVGs through the README’s raw URLs without running `collect` or `publish`; the signed-commit check and `force: false` protect only workflow writes, so readers see forged status badges until a later publish.
Protect `refs/heads/badges` against direct updates or require updates through a trusted publishing path, and include that protection in the repository policy.
Also at `scripts/ci/readme_badges.py:385-388`.
</issue_to_address>
### Comment 5
<locationpath="scripts/ci/readme_badges.py"line_range="294" />
<code_context>
+ error.close() # it holds the answer body; a 404 or a carried failure ends here+ if error.code == HTTPStatus.NOT_FOUND:+ return {}, None+ return {}, f"{STATE}: {error}"+ except (ci_tier.TierError, OSError, ValueError) as error:
+ return {}, f"{STATE}: {error}"
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**State read errors erase cached badges**
When the state-file read fails for a reason other than 404 while one or more corresponding badge sources also fail, `previous_state` returns an empty cache and `cmd_spec` continues into `refresh` and publication; `carried` has no prior values, so failed sources become `stale` and overwrite their last good values in `state.json`.
Abort the refresh and publication when the state-file read fails for a reason other than 404, rather than treating the cache as empty.
Also at `scripts/ci/readme_badges.py:247`, `scripts/ci/readme_badges.py:295-302`, `scripts/ci/readme_badges.py:540-544`.
</issue_to_address>
### Comment 6
<locationpath="scripts/ci/readme_badges.py"line_range="216" />
<code_context>
+ return None+ if not (isinstance(color, str) and COLOR.fullmatch(color)):
+ return None+ if fetched is not None and not isinstance(fetched, str):
+ return None+ return {"message": message, "color": color, "fetched_at": fetched}
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Naive timestamps stop badge refresh**
When a previous state entry has a valid ISO timestamp without a timezone and its source fails, `carried` subtracts the naive datetime returned by `datetime.fromisoformat` from the UTC-aware `now`, raising `TypeError`; the exception escapes `refresh` and the workflow does not publish badges.
Reject timezone-naive timestamps or normalize them to UTC before subtracting them from `now`.
Also at `scripts/ci/readme_badges.py:226-227`.
</issue_to_address>
### Comment 7
<locationpath="scripts/ci/readme_badges.py"line_range="361-363" />
<code_context>
+ if not isinstance(rows, list):
+ raise BadgeError("the tree answer has no tree list")+ current = {str(field(e, "path")): str(field(e, "sha")) for e in rows}
+ if set(current) != set(files):
+ return False+ return all(current[name] == blob_sha(data) for name, data in files.items() if name != STATE)
++
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Fresh badge reads are not persisted**
When a source succeeds with an unchanged SVG during the one-hour quiet window, then fails before a later state commit, `unchanged` ignores `state.json`, so `publish` skips persisting the refreshed `fetched_at`; the later failure carries the value from the older timestamp and displays it as `stale` before six hours have passed since the successful read.
Include `state.json` in the unchanged comparison so refreshed `fetched_at` values are published.
Also at `scripts/ci/readme_badges.py:364`, `scripts/ci/readme_badges.py:369-370`.
</issue_to_address>
### Comment 8
<locationpath="scripts/ci/readme_badges.py"line_range="409-411" />
<code_context>
+HTML_IMAGE = re.compile(r"<(?:img|source)\b[^>]*>", re.I)
+HTML_SOURCE = re.compile(r'\b(?:src|srcset)[ \t]*=[ \t]*"(?P<url>[^"]*)"', re.I)
+RENDERED = re.compile(
+ r"https://raw\.githubusercontent\.com/[A-Za-z0-9_.-]+/[A-Za-z0-9_.-]+/"
++ re.escape(BRANCH)
++ r"/(?P<slug>[a-z0-9-]+)\.svg"
+)
+LOCAL_IMAGE = re.compile(r"[A-Za-z0-9_][A-Za-z0-9_./-]*")
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Other repositories’ badges pass validation**
When a README badge uses a known slug in another repository’s `badges` branch URL, `RENDERED` accepts any owner and repository, and `image_fault` checks only the slug; `check-readme` therefore accepts an SVG that is not rendered by this project, allowing an unrelated design to appear in the README.
Restrict `RENDERED` to this project’s owner and repository.
Also at `scripts/ci/readme_badges.py:435-438`.
</issue_to_address>
### Comment 9
<locationpath=".github/workflows/readme-badges.yml"line_range="40" />
<code_context>
+ steps:
+ - uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1+ with:+ ref: master+ persist-credentials: false+ - uses: actions/setup-python@6d4fd22b20465ccc0f7354476588e8df7c9ca0e0 # v7.1.0
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Publisher rejects a valid artifact**
When `master` advances after the render job checks out its code but before the publish job checks out its code, and the change affects badge collection or rendering, the render and publish jobs each resolve `master` separately, so a master update between their checkouts can make the publisher run newer code against an artifact produced by older code. If the newer `BADGES` list differs, `collect` rejects the artifact and that refresh does not publish.
Check out the same immutable commit in both jobs, such as the workflow run's triggering SHA.
Also at `.github/workflows/readme-badges.yml:88`.
</issue_to_address>
### Comment 10
<locationpath="scripts/ci/readme_badges.py"line_range="129" />
<code_context>
+ raise BadgeError("the runs answer has no workflow_runs list")+ for row in rows:
+ conclusion = row.get("conclusion") if isinstance(row, dict) else None+ if conclusion in DECISIVE:+ return DECISIVE[conclusion]+ return ("unknown", GREY)
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Non-success runs appear passing**
When the newest completed push run has a conclusion such as `action_required` or `neutral`, and an older run in the returned page succeeded, `workflow_value` skips that completed conclusion and selects an older success from the API page, so the badge says `passing` even though the newest run did not succeed.
Treat completed non-success conclusions as non-passing (or explicitly return unknown) instead of falling back to an older success.
</issue_to_address>
### Comment 11
<locationpath="scripts/ci/readme_badges.py"line_range="62" />
<code_context>
+AMBER = "#9a6700"
+GREY = "#6e7781"
+SCORE_MAX = 10 # OpenSSF Scorecard scores run from 0 to 10
+SCORE_GREEN = 7.0 # shown score from which the badge is green
+SCORE_AMBER = 4.0 # shown score from which it is amber; red below
+TEXT = re.compile(r"[\x20-\x7e]{1,40}")
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Scorecard can show green below policy**
When the public API score is below 8.5 or describes a different head, the API reports a score from 7.0 through 8.4, so `SCORE_GREEN` colors the badge green even though the repository requires at least 8.5. The endpoint also supplies no exact-head full-report verification, so the displayed green status does not establish the required Scorecard result.
Use the verified exact-head Scorecard result and color the badge green only when its unrounded score meets the 8.5 requirement.
Also at `scripts/ci/readme_badges.py:193`, `docs/development/readme-badges.md:26`.
</issue_to_address>
### Comment 12
<locationpath=".github/workflows/readme-badges.yml"line_range="1" />
<code_context>
+name: README Badges
+
+# Render the README status badges in one style (docs/development/readme-badges.md).
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Workflow lacks scoped invariant page**
The new workflow invariant is recorded only in `scripts/ci/AGENTS.d/readme-badges.md`; `.github/AGENTS.d/` has no corresponding page or index topic, so the changed GitHub workflow lacks its scoped invariant page.
Add a `.github/AGENTS.d/` page for the workflow invariant and include it in the generated `.github/AGENTS.md`.
</issue_to_address>
### Comment 13
<locationpath="docs/adr/3519-readme-badges-rendered-branch.md"line_range="71" />
<code_context>
+
+## References
+
+- Controller answer `vmafx-readme-badge-style-r1` (2026-11-10, option b,
+ paraphrased): one `for-the-badge` design everywhere, a workflow rendering the
+ dynamic badges with a pinned `badge-maker` onto a `badges` branch with the
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**ADR source citation is untraceable**
ADR-3519 cites paraphrased controller and operator answers, but includes no `req` direct quote or `Q<round>.<q>` popup citation, leaving its decision source untraceable in the required form.
Add a source citation in the required `req` or `Q<round>.<q>` form to the ADR references.
</issue_to_address>
### Comment 14
<locationpath="docs/adr/3519-readme-badges-rendered-branch.md"line_range="44-47" />
<code_context>
+| Rendered badges on a `badges` branch, schedule trigger (chosen) | One design; the project decides which run a badge shows; Scorecard shows its score; no third-party request per page view | Up to 15 minutes of lag; a job with `contents: write`; a branch that grows by about one commit an hour | Chosen |
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Required research digest missing**
The PR adds a non-trivial architecture decision and an alternatives table, but no research digest under `docs/research/`; the stated reason that the alternatives table carries the comparison does not meet the rule's `no digest needed: trivial` exception.
Add a research digest under `docs/research/` for the decision and its evidence.
</issue_to_address>
### Comment 15
<locationpath="scripts/ci/tests/test_readme_badges.py"line_range="306" />
<code_context>
+ with self.subTest(code=code):+ error = http_error(code)+ rb.previous_state(self.fetch(error), REPO)+ self.assertTrue(error.fp.closed)++ def test_the_badges_of_the_state_file_are_read(self) -> None:
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Synthetic HTTP errors break tests**
When the new tests run with their `HTTPError` fixtures, which have no response stream, `http_error()` constructs each `HTTPError` with `fp=None`; `previous_state()` and `branch_head()` call `error.close()`, and the tests then access `error.fp.closed`. The close path cannot close a missing stream, so these tests raise instead of checking cleanup.
Pass an `io.BytesIO()` (or another closable stream) as the `HTTPError` fixture's `fp`.
Also at `scripts/ci/tests/test_readme_badges.py:520`.
</issue_to_address>
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Needs a human reviewer. 15 findings to address first, and the publish job gets a contents: write token and uses it to update repository refs; a mistake in the publishing code could change persistent repository contents, and reverting this PR would not restore those refs. The script targets only the badges branch, but the token itself is not restricted to that branch.
Blocking findings: scripts/ci/readme_badges.py:382, scripts/ci/ci_tier.py:204, .github/workflows/readme-badges.yml:18, .github/workflows/readme-badges.yml:84, scripts/ci/readme_badges.py:294, and 10 more
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Review comments at @changelog.d/changed/readme-badges-uniform.md:
- Line 1: Qualify the README-badges changelog headline and the matching
rendered-branch ADR summary so they do not claim every badge uses the new
design; explicitly identify the Praetor governance badge as retaining GitHub’s
design.
Review comments at @docs/development/readme-badges.md:
- Around line 78-81: Update the workflow-stopped guidance to tell operators to
check when the latest run occurred and restore the schedule if runs have
stopped; clarify that a red run signals failure only after a run starts, while
published SVGs may continue showing stale green values.
Review comments at @scripts/ci/readme_badges.py:
- Around line 227-228: Update carried to handle TypeError from subtracting a
timezone-naive fetched_at datetime the same way it handles ValueError, treating
the timestamp as stale. Extend test_a_future_or_unreadable_time_reads_stale with
a naive ISO timestamp case and verify it returns the stale result.
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Codacy raised three new issues on this branch; each is fixed in the
source, with nothing dismissed or suppressed.
- ci_tier.https_json called urllib.request.urlopen, which also opens
file:, ftp:, data: and http: addresses (Bandit B310). It now uses
HTTPS_OPENER, an OpenerDirector built with the https handler only,
so neither a caller nor a redirect can reach another scheme.
- readme_badges.blob_sha hashed blobs with hand-written SHA-1 code
(insecure-hash-algorithm-sha1). git computes the object id itself
now through `git hash-object --stdin`, run with the repository's
bounded subprocess helper; a failing or garbled answer is a
BadgeError.
- A test closure took its loop values as mutable default arguments
(Pylint W0102). A commit_answering() factory builds it now.
New tests cover the opener (https reaches the handler, other schemes
fail, a redirect off https is not followed) and blob_sha (the empty
blob id, a non-zero exit, a garbled id, a missing git). Four mutants
of the new code each fail at least one test.
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The pull request 3393 review found gaps in how the badge script picks a
run, carries a value, reads its state and checks the README, and in how
the workflow chooses the code it runs.
Script:
- the newest completed run that was not cancelled or skipped decides a
workflow badge; timed_out and startup_failure read failing, any other
conclusion unknown, and an older run never stands in
- a naive or unreadable read time counts as stale instead of raising or
passing as fresh
- a state.json read that fails with anything but 404 stops the run
- the Scorecard badge is green from an unrounded 8.5, the master gate
- check-readme accepts only this repository's rendered badges, and a
local image must name a file inside the README directory
- the https opener follows no redirect, so a 3xx is an error
Workflow: the render job runs only on master, and both jobs check out
github.sha, so the publish token never meets a branch copy and a master
push between the jobs cannot change the code.
Docs: the guide, both agent pages, ADR-3519 and a new research digest
record the run rule, the 75-minute early stale bound, the rights limits
and the open App-token follow-up. Eleven planted mutants fail the tests.
Signed-off-by: lusoris <lusoris@proton.me>
CodeRabbit's docstring-coverage check on pull request 3393 read 32.05
percent against its 80 percent bar. Every function and class this pull
request adds or changes in the badge script, its tests, the ci_tier
tests and the renderer now carries a docstring or JSDoc block, 203 of
203 counted over the diff against master.
The review left one finding open on purpose: any token with contents:
write can push to the badges branch, because a ruleset cannot name the
workflow token as its only bypass actor. Issue 3394 tracks a dedicated
GitHub App as the publisher with its own badges ruleset. ADR-3519, its
research digest and the badge guide now name that issue and the gap, and
ADR-3519 records the answer to land on the workflow token first. The
ruleset that only refuses deletion and non-fast-forward updates is
dropped as a follow-up of its own, since it would not stop a writer.
Signed-off-by: lusoris <lusoris@proton.me>
Docstring Coverage (CodeRabbit pre-merge check, 32.05% against the 80% bar) is fixed in 42f91a41b. Every function and class this pull request adds or changes now has a docstring, or a JSDoc block in tools/badges/render.mjs.
Measured over the diff against master: 203 of 203 touched definitions and classes, and 114 of 114 touched functions with a cyclomatic complexity of 2 or more.
Checks on the four changed code files:ruff check, mypy and pytest -W error (133 passed, 210 subtests); pre-commit run --files 42 passed, 0 failed.
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Review comments at @docs/adr/3519-readme-badges-rendered-branch.md:
- Around line 80-82: Update the `req` reference so it cites a verified direct
user quote, or replace it with the applicable `Q<round>.<q>` popup-answer
reference. Do not present paraphrased wording as a direct quote; establish the
original source before changing the citation.
Review comments at @docs/research/3519-readme-badges-rendered-branch.md:
- Line 31: Update the trigger description near the schedule to present the
15-minute cadence as the intended schedule, not a maximum refresh delay, since
GitHub may delay or drop scheduled runs. Also qualify timing bounds in the
corresponding Line 37 text and scripts/ci/AGENTS.d/readme-badges.md without
asserting a guaranteed refresh interval.
- Around line 14-20: Add direct links to the upstream sources cited in the
research digest, especially the GitHub API, signing, ruleset and trigger
documentation and referenced issue or marketplace material. Update the
corresponding source entries while preserving their existing descriptions and
claims.
- Line 37: Clarify the staleness description to distinguish the immediate run
failure from the badge’s retained value: a source failure makes the run’s
verdict fail immediately, while the previous value remains until it becomes
stale after six hours. Preserve the existing timing and publish-job details.
- Line 35: Revise the “Signed commits” statement to limit the verification claim
to commits created by the publish job, and clarify that this does not guarantee
every commit on the badges branch is verified because other workflows with
contents: write may add commits.
Review comments at @scripts/ci/readme_badges.py:
- Line 277: Update the badge-read exception handling in refresh to catch
http.client.HTTPException so failed sources retain their previous values, and
update previous_state to convert that exception into a BadgeError. Extend
test_a_failing_source_keeps_its_last_value_and_is_reported with an
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CodeRabbit's third review of pull request 3393 found that an answer
cut off mid-body (http.client.IncompleteRead) or a malformed status
line (BadStatusLine) escaped refresh and previous_state, because
http.client.HTTPException is not an OSError. https_json in
scripts/ci/ci_tier.py now turns any HTTPException into a TierError, so
a public source keeps its last value and a broken state answer stops
the run. An error status stays an HTTPError, as api_request expects.
One fix at the shared helper covers both callers.
The same review asked for precise docs. The research digest now links
each external source and limits the signed-commit claim to the publish
job's commits. ADR-3519, the digest, the badge guide and the script
note no longer treat 15 minutes as a maximum badge age: GitHub can
start a scheduled run late or drop it under load. They also say that a
failed source turns its run red at once while the badge keeps its last
value for six hours.
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- Line 20: Correct the recovered-source timestamp claim around STALE_AFTER and
read_time: after a failure, a successful read with an unchanged value may leave
state.json’s timestamp uncommitted, so a later failure can become stale sooner
than the stated bound. Persist the recovered timestamp or revise the
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CodeRabbit found that a source which recovers with its old value after
a long outage left the old read time on the badges branch. The SVG was
unchanged and the last commit young, so the publish job skipped the
commit, and a failure soon after could show stale well before six hours
had passed since the last good read.
The publish job now skips only while the branch's state.json also holds
each badge's read time less than an hour before this run's
(reads_recorded, read_lag). A missing, unreadable, future or one-sided
read time means a commit. The recorded time therefore trails the last
successful read by less than an hour, so stale comes at most an hour
early instead of 75 minutes. ADR-3519, its research digest, the badge
guide and the script notes now state that bound.
A regression test runs the outage, the unchanged recovery and a later
failure, and eight planted mutants of the new rule each fail the suite.
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- Line 22: Update the publish rule to document that when both badge state
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- Renderer allow-list: keys `slug`, `label`, `message`, `color` only; text `[\x20-\x7e]{1,40}`; colour `#[0-9a-f]{6}`. `TEXT` / `COLOR` in Python and `render.mjs` stay equal (test compares both).
- Carry: failed source keeps last value `STALE_AFTER` = 6 h from `state.json` read time, then `stale` grey; naive or unreadable time = stale (`read_time`). Recorded time trails last successful read < `QUIET_WINDOW` (`reads_recorded`), recovery with same value included (regression test pins it); `stale` <= 1 h early, <= 1 step late; accepted trade-off vs 4 commits/h. GitHub may delay or drop scheduled runs: 15 min = intended step, never stated as max badge age. `verdict` step exits 1 on any failed source.
- State read: `previous_state` 404 = new branch, empty; any other failure -> `BadgeError`, run stops, nothing rendered or published. Never return empty state on failed read.
- Publish: one commit via Git data API; GitHub-signed commit required (unverified -> no ref move); `force: false`; ref path only `refs/heads/badges`; no commit only when SVGs unchanged, head < `QUIET_WINDOW` = 1 h old, and branch `state.json` holds each badge read time 0 to < `QUIET_WINDOW` before this run's (`reads_recorded`); missing, unreadable, future or one-sided time -> commit.
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Document the two-missing-times exception.
If both state entries have no read time, read_lag returns zero, so publishing can skip the commit. The regression test explicitly covers this case. The current rule can mislead maintainers investigating skipped commits. Document the exception. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Review comment at @scripts/ci/AGENTS.d/readme-badges.md at line 22:
Update the publish rule to document that when both badge state entries lack a read time, read_lag returns zero and the no-commit condition may be satisfied; distinguish this exception from missing, unreadable, future, or one-sided times, which require a commit.
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Summary
Every badge on the README now has one design,
for-the-badgewith the dark label. Before this change the header mixed four designs: the seven workflow badges were GitHub's ownbadge.svgimages, the Best Practices and Codacy badges came in their services' designs, the OpenSSF Scorecard badge was a static image that showed no score, and the backends row usedflat-square.GitHub's
badge.svgcannot be restyled, and shields.io's workflow badge reads that same image, so the ten status badges are now drawn by this repository:.github/workflows/readme-badges.ymlis scheduled every 15 minutes and runs on demand; GitHub can start a scheduled run late or drop it under load, so 15 minutes is the intended step, not a bound.scripts/ci/readme_badges.pyreads the newest decisive push run of each badged workflow on master and the public Scorecard, Best Practices and Codacy APIs;tools/badges/render.mjsdraws the SVGs withbadge-maker6.0.0, pinned intools/badges/package-lock.json.state.jsonto abadgesbranch, and the README linkshttps://raw.githubusercontent.com/VMAFx/vmafx/badges/<slug>.svg.stale.scripts/ci/readme_badges.py check-readmerefuses any README image that is not a renderedbadgesSVG, afor-the-badgeshields.io badge with the dark label, or a file in the repository. Thereadme-badge-designhook runs it at commit and push, so a mixed design cannot come back unnoticed. The Praetor governance badge is the one exception until Praetor issue 1893 lands.docs/README-STANDARD.mdnow asks for one badge design across the whole page, so the version row in "Backends at a glance" usesfor-the-badgetoo.The badge request goes through a new shared helper,
https_jsoninscripts/ci/ci_tier.py, whichapi_requestnow uses too. It refuses non-https URLs, follows no redirect, and caps each answer, 32 MiB for the GitHub API (API_MAX_BYTES;api_requestread without a limit before) and 1 MiB for the public sources.Rights: the render job holds
actions: readandcontents: read; the publish job holdscontents: write, the narrowest right that can create a commit. GitHub cannot limit that right to one branch. The script writes onlyrefs/heads/badges, never forces, and publishes only a commit GitHub reports as signed; the master ruleset requires a pull request, so the token cannot movemaster. Both jobs run only onmasterand check outgithub.sha, so the publish token never runs a branch copy of the workflow. No ruleset guardsbadgesyet; issue 3394 tracks a dedicated GitHub App as its only publisher.After landing: the
badgesbranch does not exist yet, so the ten images are broken until the first run creates it. I start that run by hand right after the merge (gh workflow run readme-badges.yml -R VMAFx/vmafx) and check the rendered page.The design, the trigger choice and the alternatives are in ADR-3519 (
docs/adr/3519-readme-badges-rendered-branch.md); the operating rules are indocs/development/readme-badges.md.Type
feat— new featurefix— bug fixperf— performance improvementrefactor— no behavior changedocs— documentation onlytest— test-onlybuild/ci— tooling / infraport— cherry-pick from upstream Netflix/vmafsycl/cuda/simd— backend-specificChecklist
git commit -s; fix a branch withgit rebase --signoff origin/master). See DCO sign-off.make format && make lintis green locally.pre-commit run --filesper round, 0 failed each time: the read-time fix files 52 passed, the review-fix files 68 passed, the four docstring files 42 passed, the three docs 39 passed (the rest skipped, no matching files);ruff checkandmypyon both scripts and both test files report no issues; the pre-push gate passed on the full branch.python3 scripts/ci/run_meson_test.py -- -C build. The Meson suite does not coverscripts/ci/; the tooling tests below cover it./cross-backend-diffand the worst ULP is ≤ 2. No SIMD or GPU path touched..c/.cpp/.cu/.h/.hpp, it has the appropriate license header (seeCONTRIBUTING.md). No C or C++ file added.!orBREAKING CHANGE:and the migration path is documented below. Not a breaking change: the README image addresses change, no API or CLI does.docs/adr/_index_fragments/<NNNN-slug>.mdand nothing else is touched for the index: do not editdocs/adr/README.md,docs/adr/by-tag/,docs/adr/titles.mdor_order.txt(rendered when pull requests land bymake docs-render; see ADR-2197; the render-only pull request of ADR-3295 is the one exception). ADR-3519, row indocs/adr/_index_fragments/3519-readme-badges-rendered-branch.md.Bug-status hygiene (ADR-0165)
docs/state.mdupdated in this PR with a row in the appropriate section, OR the opt-out line. no state delta: README presentation and CI tooling; no bug is opened, closed or ruled out.Netflix golden-data gate (ADR-0024)
assertAlmostEqual(...)score in the Netflix golden Python tests, except by porting Netflix's own updated assertion verbatim from upstream (value and places as upstream has them, measured against the fork's CPU build first; ADR-1828).Cross-backend numerical results
No numerical path touched.
Deep-dive deliverables (ADR-0108)
docs/research/3519-readme-badges-rendered-branch.md: question, sources, findings, alternatives and open questions;scripts/ci/check-research-digest-ids.pypasses.## Alternatives consideredindocs/adr/3519-readme-badges-rendered-branch.md: five options, including shields.io dynamic URLs and aworkflow_runtrigger.AGENTS.mdinvariant note —scripts/ci/AGENTS.d/readme-badges.md(script rules), indexed inscripts/ci/AGENTS-gates.md, and.github/AGENTS.d/readme-badges.md(workflow rules), indexed in.github/AGENTS.md.changelog.d/changed/readme-badges-uniform.md.mkdocs.ymlanddocs/README-STANDARD.mdare the fork's own; every other touched file is fork-only.Reproducer
Tests:
pytest -W erroron both files gives 145 passed and 230 subtests (104 tests intest_readme_badges.py, 41 intest_ci_tier.py). They cover each value rule, the six-hour carry, the publish rules (signed commit, no force, quiet hour, recorded read times), the renderer allow-list, the https and size caps ofhttps_json, broken answers, and the design check.Planted defects: fifteen mutations of the design check, from dropping the
labelColorrule to exiting 0 on faults, each made the suite fail (15 of 15 killed, against a control run that passes). The check passes this branch's README and finds 19 faults on master's: the seven GitHub workflow badges, the Best Practices and Codacy badges and the tenflat-squarebackend badges. A plantedflat-squarebadge makes the hook exit 1. The review fixes carry eleven more mutants, one per fix and named in the thread replies, and each one fails the suite.Review round: all 20 review threads (Sourcery, CodeRabbit, Codacy) are answered and resolved. Sixteen are fixed in 0bc84f4; one trade-off is kept and documented (the 75-minute early
stale); two needed no change, with the check named in the reply; one, abadgesruleset, is the follow-up issue 3394. CodeRabbit's docstring-coverage check read 32.05% against its 80% threshold; since 42f91a4 every function and class this pull request adds or changes has a docstring (203 of 203, counted over the diff againstmaster).Third review round: CodeRabbit's six threads on 42f91a4 are answered and resolved. Five are fixed in f796981: a cut-off or malformed answer (
http.client.HTTPException) is now aTierErrorinhttps_json, so it can no longer escaperefreshorprevious_state(four new tests; a planted mutant fails six); the research digest links every source; the docs no longer treat 15 minutes as a maximum badge age; the signed-commit claim is limited to the publish job's commits; and a failed source is said to turn its run red at once. One needed no change: thereqsource line stays a paraphrase, following ADR-0106.Fourth review round: CodeRabbit's thread on f796981 is answered and resolved, fixed in 470bfaa. A source that recovered with its old value after a long outage kept its old read time on the branch, because the SVG was unchanged and the last commit young, so a later failure could show
staleearly. The publish job now also commits when the branch'sstate.jsonrecords a badge's read time an hour or more before this run's, or one it cannot compare. A regression test runs outage, unchanged recovery and a later failure, and eight planted mutants of the rule each fail the suite.stalenow comes at most an hour early instead of 75 minutes.Mirror: the jobs run only for
VMAFx/vmafxon github.com (github.server_urlguard). The artifact steps carry the Gitea twins thatscripts/ci/check_gitea_artifact_steps.pyasks for, so the Gitea mirror parses the file and skips the jobs.Known follow-ups
badgesbranch writers (issue 3394): publish with a dedicated GitHub App token and add a second ruleset onrefs/heads/badges, managed byscripts/dev/check_repository_security.py, that lets only that App write. Until then any token withcontents: writecan push tobadges; today the only person with write access is the repository admin.praetor:readme-governanceblock is written by Praetor and keeps GitHub's design. Praetor issue 1893 asks for an adopter-chosen image.Summary by Sourcery
Standardize README badges by rendering status images in CI, publishing them safely to a badges branch, and enforcing the unified design through documentation and repository checks.
New Features:
for-the-badgedesign and publish them to a dedicatedbadgesbranch.Bug Fixes:
Enhancements:
CI:
Documentation:
Tests:
Chores:
for-the-badgeimages, retaining the Praetor-managed exception.Summary by CodeRabbit
for-the-badgestyling and repository-hosted images, except for the governance badge.