feat: declare what ovos-installer may rely on, and keep it honest

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Second half of a contract between this repository, hivemind-docker and ovos-installer, so a change here stops being able to break an install silently. Companion to hivemind-docker#48.

Why

ovos-installer clones this repository at a pinned ref and runs the compose files out of it. Four things are a public interface even though nothing here said so:

coupling	how it fails
compose file names	the installer names them exactly; a rename fails the install
container names	docker_container_exec targets ovos_cli and ovos_skill_homeassistant; a rename fails late, after the stack is up
variables the compose reads	a new variable with an inline default keeps working and quietly uses the fallback
images pulled	compose comes from a pinned tag, images from a moving channel tag, so the two can disagree

The third row is the quiet one and it shapes the design. TZ and PULL_POLICY both have inline defaults here and are set by the installer. A naive "are all required variables provided?" check calls them fine — but if the installer stopped setting TZ, every container would run in the fallback timezone with nothing failing. So they carry owner: installer: "has a default" and "nobody needs to set it" are different claims, and only the second is safe to skip.

What this adds

contract.yml states the four — 10 compose files, 49 services, 29 variables, 31 images. scripts/contract.py derives them from compose/ and fails when the file disagrees, so the declaration cannot rot in place. --write rewrites it, preserving the two fields that are not derivable (owner, description).

A Contract job runs the check on every pull request. No Docker, seconds.

Verified against real drift

Renaming ovos_cli in docker-compose.yml:

contract.yml does not match compose/:
  services docker-compose.yml ovos_cli: declared container_name=ovos_cli, actual container_name=ovos_terminal

That is the exact coupling that produced a late Could not find container "ovos_cli" install failure once already, so it is the case the check most needs to catch.

Two details worth knowing: variables are recorded with the compose files that use them, so a consumer selecting only the server profile is not asked for GUI variables; and image names are canonicalised to an explicit registry, since the compose files spell the same one both smartgic/x and docker.io/smartgic/x.

The consumer half — ovos-installer verifying its env.j2 and task references against this file at the pinned ref, and noticing when the pin falls behind a release — follows separately.

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• Chores

  • Added automated pull request validation to ensure service declarations remain synchronized with the project’s Compose configuration.
  • Added a machine-readable contract describing Compose files, services, environment variables, and container images.

• Documentation

  • Added ownership and description notes for supported environment variables, including PULL_POLICY and TZ.
  • Contract checks now identify configuration drift and report which declaration areas require updates.

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The change adds a script that derives and validates compose declarations, adds the generated contract.yml, and runs drift checks in pull-request workflows.

Changes

Compose contract validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Contract derivation and annotations scripts/contract.py	The script scans compose files and derives canonical images, services, and environment variable declarations. It preserves existing owner and description annotations.
Contract writing and drift checking scripts/contract.py	The command supports --write and compares compose files, images, services, and environment variables against contract.yml.
Generated contract and pull-request validation contract.yml, .github/workflows/pull-request.yml	The generated contract records compose declarations. The pull-request workflow runs the checker with pyyaml installed.

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The new contract may incorrectly list required environment inputs, allowing installation-facing compose changes to appear validated while consumers receive incomplete or false variable declarations. Correct Compose-aware extraction is needed before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant GitHubActions
  participant ContractScript
  participant ComposeFiles
  participant ContractFile
  GitHubActions->>ContractScript: run scripts/contract.py
  ContractScript->>ComposeFiles: derive current declarations
  ComposeFiles-->>ContractScript: compose declarations
  ContractScript->>ContractFile: compare contract.yml
  ContractFile-->>GitHubActions: return validation status

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Confirmed and fixed in #180. All four claims hold against the code: the pattern accepted only upper-case names, it matched HOME inside $$HOME, it scanned YAML keys and comments because it ran over raw text, and pass-through environment: - NAME entries never reached the contract. None of them fire on the compose files as they stand, which is the reason to fix them — each one yields a contract that looks right and is wrong, and silent drift is what this gate exists to catch.

derive() now walks the parsed document's values rather than the raw text, which excludes keys and comments by construction, accepts the names compose accepts, discards escaped dollars, and records pass-through environment entries as required inputs. An empty document reads as no services instead of raising AttributeError — the same latent crash reported on the identical script in hivemind-docker.

scripts/test_contract.py holds one fixture per case and runs in the contract job; six of seven fail against the previous scan. The derived contract for this repository is byte-identical before and after, so contract.yml is unchanged and the gate still passes.