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Adds the governance-enforce A_BLOCK gate (secrets / hardcoded-paths, diff-scoped) to this repo. Part of claude-workstation#1624 E4 T4.9a, following the wave-av/cli#20 pilot.

Why this repo had no secrets scan

The org ruleset governance-a-block-enforce (17901847) requires an enforce check across the fleet. Its scope is an explicit include list of 112 hand-maintained repository names — and every one of them matches wave-*.

The 16 public repos absent from that list are exactly the 16 not named wave-*: .github, adk, api-spec, cli, companion-module-wave, create-wave-app, crest-console, dispatch-edge, examples, mcp-server, obs-wave-plugin, sdk, sdk-python, sdks, vmix-wave-integration, workflow-sdk.

Read the intersection: the repos that publish our npm packages are precisely the repos running with no A_BLOCK secrets scan. Nobody excluded them. A naming convention silently became a security boundary, and it drew the line in the worst possible place.

Why the workflow lands before the ruleset entry

Adding a repo to a required_status_checks ruleset before it emits that check is a permanent deadlock — a required check that never reports can never go green, and every PR on the repo becomes unmergeable. So the order is: vendor the workflow, observe it green, then extend the list. Doing it the intuitive way round would have bricked all sixteen.

This PR is also its own liveness drill. The workflow triggers on pull_request, so it runs on the PR that adds it. If enforce reports green here, the vendored shape works in this repo. If it does not, nothing was required and nothing is blocked — which is the point of this ordering.

Proven before fan-out, not assumed

@wave-av/governance is an internal-visibility package owned by claude-workstation, so whether a public repo's GITHUB_TOKEN can read it was the one real assumption. Rather than fan out on the inference, it was piloted on a single repo first:

wave-av/cli#20 — workflow run 31011943790, conclusion success.

That is the receipt this PR rides on. The shape is copied verbatim from wave-av/wave-moq-edge (public, 12/12 green), which matters because auto-approve.yml fails silently on every public repo — it calls a reusable workflow in the private wave-foundation, and a public repo cannot do that (parse-time failure, zero jobs, no annotation). This workflow calls nothing cross-repo, so that trap does not apply.

Security properties, unchanged from the source:

  • actions SHA-pinned (actions/checkout@df4cb1c, actions/setup-node@48b55a0)
  • persist-credentials: false on checkout
  • least privilege: contents: read + packages: read
  • isolated install into RUNNER_TEMP, --no-save, so nothing touches this repo's dependency tree
  • the .npmrc is written with a literal ${NODE_AUTH_TOKEN} (single-quoted printf) which npm expands at run time — no secret value is ever written to disk or a log
  • both ${{ }} inputs (base.sha, event.before) are routed through env: and read as "$VAR", never interpolated into the script body

Diff-scoped by design: it blocks new violations without failing on legacy debt.

Refs wave-av/claude-workstation#1624.


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Adds CI-only enforcement with read-only repo permissions and an isolated npm install; no application or API code changes. Main operational risk is workflow correctness (base resolution and package pin), not production security surface.

Overview
Adds .github/workflows/governance-enforce.yml, a new CI job that runs @wave-av/governance on pull requests and pushes to main/master so this repo gets the same diff-scoped A_BLOCK checks (secrets in git, hardcoded paths) that org wave-* repos already had via ruleset governance-a-block-enforce.

The workflow installs @wave-av/governance@0.4.6 into RUNNER_TEMP with GITHUB_TOKEN limited to the install step, --ignore-scripts, and a trap-cleaned .npmrc. It resolves a diff base from the PR base SHA or push before SHA, validates the commit exists, then runs enforce.mjs --changed $BASE. Hardening baked into this copy includes: push runs use concurrency without cancelling in-progress work (so cancelled pushes are not left un-scanned), and when no base can be resolved it diffs against the empty tree instead of HEAD (avoids a green job with zero files scanned).

The workflow comments note the repo should not be added to the required-check ruleset until this job is observed green here.

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Add governance enforcement workflow to scan diffs on PRs and pushes to main

Adds governance-enforce.yml, which runs @wave-av/governance@0.4.6 on pull requests, merge groups, and pushes to main/master. The enforcer scans only changed files using a computed diff base; if no valid base is found, it falls back to the empty tree and scans the full repository. Push and merge group runs are not cancelable to ensure no committed ranges are skipped.

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Add diff-scoped governance-enforce A_BLOCK gate to CI

✨ Enhancement ⚙️ Configuration changes 🕐 10-20 Minutes

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• Add a GitHub Actions workflow that runs A_BLOCK governance checks on PR diffs.
• Fetch @wave-av/governance from GitHub Packages with least-privilege, isolated install.
• Fail closed when no diff base commit is available to prevent unscanned passes.
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graph TD
  A["GitHub event (PR/Push)"] --> B["Checkout repo"] --> C["Setup Node 22"] --> D["Isolated npm install @wave-av/governance"] --> E["Compute diff base SHA"] --> F["Run enforce on changed files"]
  D --> G["GitHub Packages (npm)"]
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The following are alternative approaches to this PR:

1. Reusable workflow from a central repo
  • ➕ Single source of truth; easier fleet-wide updates
  • ➕ Reduces duplication across repos
  • ➖ Public repos can’t safely depend on private reusable workflows; parse-time failures can silently skip jobs
  • ➖ Cross-repo coupling increases blast radius if the central workflow changes unexpectedly
2. Use GitHub Advanced Security secret scanning / CodeQL gates
  • ➕ Native platform support, less custom code to maintain
  • ➕ No need to fetch internal npm packages at workflow runtime
  • ➖ May not replicate the same A_BLOCK rule set (e.g., hardcoded-path policy) or diff-scoped behavior
  • ➖ Enterprise feature availability/consistency may vary across repos and doesn’t enforce the same org-defined contract check name
3. Publish a dedicated GitHub Action for the enforcer
  • ➕ Avoids runtime npm install complexity and token handling per workflow
  • ➕ Versioning via action tags/SHAs can be simpler than npm auth setup
  • ➖ Requires building and maintaining an action distribution pipeline
  • ➖ Still needs access control to private logic and careful pinning/upgrades

Recommendation: The PR’s approach (vendored workflow + isolated install of @wave-av/governance with scoped token and SHA-pinned actions) is the most reliable for a public repo while preserving the org-required enforce check name and diff-scoped scanning. A central reusable workflow would be attractive, but cross-repo reuse is brittle for public repos; a dedicated action could be a future simplification once distribution and access constraints are solved.

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Add governance-enforce A_BLOCK diff-scoped CI gate

• Introduces a new GitHub Actions workflow that runs an 'enforce' job on PRs and pushes to main/master. The job installs @wave-av/governance in an isolated temp directory using GITHUB_TOKEN for GitHub Packages access, computes a safe diff base SHA (and fails closed if unavailable), then runs the enforcer against changed files only.

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1. No job timeout ✓ Resolved 🐞 Bug ☼ Reliability
Description
The new required enforce job has no timeout-minutes, so in worst cases (e.g., stuck npm/network
operations) the check can run until the platform default timeout, consuming runners and delaying
merges. Adding an explicit timeout bounds impact even though concurrency cancellation reduces
repeated-run accumulation.
Code

.github/workflows/governance-enforce.yml[R31-34]

+jobs:
+  enforce:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
Evidence
The new enforce job definition lacks a timeout-minutes field, while other gating jobs in this
repo explicitly set timeouts (demonstrating an existing reliability practice for CI gates).

.github/workflows/governance-enforce.yml[31-36]
.github/workflows/_checks.yml[18-23]

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The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution

### Issue description
The `enforce` job does not set `timeout-minutes`, so a hung/stalled run can occupy CI resources and keep the required check pending for an extended period.

### Issue Context
Other gate-style jobs in this repo explicitly bound runtime with `timeout-minutes`.

### Fix
- Add `timeout-minutes` to `jobs.enforce` (e.g., 10–15 minutes, tuned to typical install + scan duration).

### Fix Focus Areas
- .github/workflows/governance-enforce.yml[31-40]
- .github/workflows/_checks.yml[18-23]

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2. Unpinned enforcer version ✓ Resolved 🐞 Bug ⛨ Security
Description
The workflow installs @wave-av/governance with a caret range (^0.4.4), so the required
enforcement check can change behavior or break due to a newly published compatible release without
any PR in this repo. This makes the gate non-deterministic and can unexpectedly block merges or
change enforcement semantics out-of-band.
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+          mkdir -p "$RUNNER_TEMP/gov" && cd "$RUNNER_TEMP/gov"
+          printf '@wave-av:registry=https://npm.pkg.github.com\n//npm.pkg.github.com/:_authToken=${NODE_AUTH_TOKEN}\n' > .npmrc
+          npm install @wave-av/governance@^0.4.4 --no-save --no-audit --no-fund
+          rm -f .npmrc
Evidence
The workflow installs the governance enforcer with @^0.4.4, which allows different resolved
versions over time. The repo’s existing secret/content gate documents and implements pinned,
deterministic tooling (including checksum verification), showing an established expectation for
reproducible security gates.

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### Issue description
The workflow installs `@wave-av/governance` using a semver range (`^0.4.4`), making this required check non-deterministic across time.

### Issue Context
This job is intended to be a required A_BLOCK enforcement gate; other security gates in this repo emphasize deterministic, pinned tooling.

### Fix
- Change the install to an exact version (e.g. `@wave-av/governance@0.4.4`) or to a repo-managed pinned variable.
- (Optional) Add additional hardening (e.g., lockfile-based install in the temp dir, or other integrity controls appropriate for your environment).

### Fix Focus Areas
- .github/workflows/governance-enforce.yml[42-49]

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Review mode: ⚖️ Balanced: This adds a security-sensitive CI governance gate with package installation, token permissions, diff-base logic, and required-check liveness implications; one localized workflow still warrants a careful single-pass review.

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Five defects, none of them cosmetic. Refs wave-av/claude-workstation#1747.

1. FAIL-OPEN DIFF BASE. `BASE=$(git rev-parse HEAD~1 2>/dev/null || git rev-parse HEAD)`
   — on a root commit `git rev-parse HEAD~1` prints its unresolved argument to stdout AND
   fails, so the `||` branch appends and BASE becomes a two-line string. `git diff` then
   exits 128, and the pinned enforcer turned that into zero files and a green check. Now:
   a reachability-checked base (a force-push can leave `github.event.before` pointing at a
   commit this checkout does not have), and with no resolvable base at all it diffs against
   the EMPTY TREE so the whole repo is scanned rather than nothing.

2. THE PINNED ENFORCER ITSELF FAILED OPEN. `^0.4.4` resolved to 0.4.4, whose file lister is
   `catch { return []; }` — any git error became zero files and rendered as
   `OK[enforce]: 0 changed file(s) scanned — 0 A_BLOCK violations`. A git error and a clean
   diff were byte-identical in the output. The fix had sat unreleased on claude-workstation
   main since 2026-07-29 because no `governance-v*` tag was ever pushed. Released now as
   0.4.6 and pinned exactly here.

3. TOKEN IN SCOPE FOR THE WRONG STEPS. `NODE_AUTH_TOKEN` was job-level, so it was also in
   the environment of the step that executes the downloaded package. Now step-scoped, and
   the .npmrc holding it is removed on exit.

4. INSTALL SCRIPTS RAN WITH THAT TOKEN. `npm install` runs preinstall/postinstall by
   default. Added `--ignore-scripts`.

5. CANCELLED PUSH RUNS WERE SCANNED BY NOBODY. `cancel-in-progress: true` applied to push
   runs, and each push run only diffs its own before..HEAD range — so a cancelled run's
   commits were never examined by anything. Now PR-only.

Also: `timeout-minutes: 10` and `set -euo pipefail`.

Receipt, against a scratch repo whose root commit carries a no-hardcoded-paths violation,
simulating a branch-creation push (`before` = all zeros):
  old logic -> malformed base -> caught error -> [] -> OK, 0 files scanned, PASS
  new logic -> "no diff base resolved ... scanning the whole tree" -> BLOCK, exit 1

Credit where it is due: several of these were found by the review bots on the sibling
vendoring PRs and are folded in here — the step-scoped token, the .npmrc cleanup, the exact
pin, `--ignore-scripts`, the force-push reachability check, `timeout-minutes`, and the
concurrency hole (5), which was crest-console#7's catch and which I had missed entirely.
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if [ -z "$BASE" ]; then
BASE="$(git hash-object -t tree /dev/null)"
echo "::notice::no diff base resolved (root commit or unreachable before-sha) — scanning the whole tree against the empty tree"
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🔍 Empty-tree fallback base may not be accepted by the enforcer's diff path

The final fallback sets the base to the empty tree object (git hash-object -t tree /dev/null4b825dc...) and passes it to enforce.mjs --changed BASE. This only works if the enforcer diffs with a two-dot/tree-compatible form (e.g. git diff --name-only BASE); if it uses the symmetric form git diff BASE...HEAD or git merge-base, git rejects a tree object ("not a commit") and 0.4.6 is documented here as failing closed — i.e. the job would hard-fail rather than scan. That path is only hit on a root commit or an unreachable before-sha, so it is unlikely to bite in normal PR flow, but it is worth confirming against the package's implementation before relying on it as the fail-closed behaviour.

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Verified against @wave-av/governance@0.4.6 source: both enforce.mjs and enforce-ramp.mjs diff via changedArgs(), which uses the two-argument git diff BASE HEAD form (never A...B or merge-base) and explicitly documents accepting the empty-tree object as base, citing this exact CI fallback as the motivating case. The fallback scans the whole tree as intended rather than hard-failing.

…l a false pass

Correction to the previous commit on this branch. Refs wave-av/claude-workstation#1747.

That commit replaced the fail-open `BASE=HEAD` with a fallback to `HEAD~1`. `HEAD~1` is
also wrong: it scans exactly ONE commit, so a five-commit push whose base is indeterminate
(branch creation, force-push, unreachable `github.event.before`) examines the last commit
and reports a confident pass on the other four. A narrowed scan reported as a full pass is
the same defect in a quieter costume.

Receipt — scratch repo, five-commit push, violation planted in commit 1:
  HEAD~1 base      -> OK[enforce]: 1 changed file(s) scanned  -> PASS   (never saw it)
  empty-tree base  -> 5 changed file(s) scanned -> BLOCK[enforce]: no-hardcoded-paths, exit 1

Now: with no resolvable base of any kind, diff against git's empty-tree object so every
tracked file reads as added and the whole repo is scanned. Loud, never partial, never empty.

Credit: wave-av/wave-rig's copy on main already had this right, with the reasoning in a
comment ("HEAD~1 would skip earlier commits in a multi-commit push and let a violation
through"). The fan-out copied the broken shape from elsewhere and I did not check the one
repo that had already solved it.

Also from wave-rig: `merge_group` is now a declared trigger and `github.event.merge_group.
base_sha` joins the base chain. None of these repos runs a merge queue today, so the trigger
is inert — but a required check that never reports on an event the repo actually uses is a
permanent deadlock, and this closes that in advance rather than after someone hits it.

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- uses: actions/checkout@df4cb1c069e1874edd31b4311f1884172cec0e10 # v6.0.3
with:
fetch-depth: 0
persist-credentials: false
- uses: actions/setup-node@48b55a011bda9f5d6aeb4c2d9c7362e8dae4041e # v6.4.0
with:
node-version: "22"

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🔍 Pinned action SHAs diverge from the sibling workflow's checkout pin

foundation-gate.yml pins actions/checkout@34e1148... # v4.3.1 while this new workflow pins actions/checkout@df4cb1c... # v6.0.3. Not a defect by itself, but the two pins should be verified to actually correspond to the tags in the trailing comments (a mislabelled SHA pin is invisible until the action behaves unexpectedly), and ideally kept consistent across the repo's workflows so bumps are a single edit.

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