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Follows an unresolved review comment on #181, which turns out to be right.

The select job asks this workflow's own run history for the last commit it actually published, so a cancelled run's work is retried rather than skipped for good. It never had permission to ask. The workflow-level permissions: block grants contents, packages and id-token, and naming any permission sets every other one to none — so actions is none for this job.

It succeeds regardless, because this repository is public and its Actions API is readable anonymously. I verified that against the real run from #179:

diffing from the last successful publish: 5373a566df267ad1eba6d237b5f994086d9c19e7

So nothing is broken today. But that is a property of the repository, not of the permissions. The day this repository turns private, || true swallows the failure, the diff silently reverts to github.event.before, and the publish that gets dropped when a run is cancelled starts being dropped again — with every run still green. That is the same shape as the defect #181 was written to fix.

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actions: read on the job. A job-level block replaces the workflow-level one, so this also drops the contents: write / packages: write / id-token: write that the select job never needed.

A failed lookup is no longer the same answer as an empty one. Three outcomes now, where there were two:

lookup before now
returns a sha diff from it unchanged
succeeds, empty (new branch) diff from push parent diff from push parent, and says so
fails diff from push parent, silently build every target, with a ::warning::

Building everything is wasteful and visible, which is the right way round: it cannot drop a publish.

Verification

All three paths exercised against a throwaway repository with a stubbed gh, under bash -e as the runner invokes it:

1. lookup returns a sha    -> diffing from the last successful publish: 15a2952
2. lookup succeeds, empty  -> no previous successful publish on this branch; diffing from this push's parent
3. lookup FAILS            -> ::warning:: ... / RESULT: building everything

The same fix applies to hivemind-docker, whose workflow is identical — filed alongside this.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved publish history handling when run history cannot be retrieved.
    • Ensures all targets are rebuilt instead of incorrectly using the current push’s parent commit after interrupted or cancelled runs.
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    • Updated workflow permissions to allow required read-only access.

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The push workflow grants the select job read-only permissions. It also distinguishes failed publish-history lookups from branches without a prior publish, preventing incomplete target selection after lookup failures.

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The select job declares actions: read and contents: read permissions. Failed gh run list lookups emit a warning and build every target. Successful lookups without a prior publish retain the push-parent fallback.

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Force-pushed branches can skip required image targets because the workflow diffs from the push parent when its prior publish commit is unavailable. Resolve this fallback before merge.

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- Line 60: Update the `last` validation branch in the workflow so that when
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Comment thread .github/workflows/on-push.yml Outdated
The select job asks this workflow's own run history for the last commit it
actually published, so that a cancelled run's work is retried rather than
skipped for good. It never had permission to ask. The workflow-level block
grants contents, packages and id-token, and naming any permission sets every
other one to none, so actions is none here.

The lookup succeeds anyway, because the repository is public and its Actions
API is readable anonymously. That is a property of the repository rather than
of the permissions, and it stops being true the day the repository turns
private - at which point `|| true` would have swallowed the failure, the diff
would have silently gone back to this push's parent, and the publish that gets
dropped when a run is cancelled would start being dropped again with every run
still green. The same shape as the defect this job was written to fix.

So the job now asks for actions: read - and, since a job-level block replaces
the workflow-level one, drops the write access it never needed. The lookup
failing is also no longer the same answer as there being nothing to find:
having no previous successful publish is normal on a new branch and diffs from
the parent, while failing to find out builds every target and says why. That is
wasteful and visible, which is the right way round - it cannot drop a publish.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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