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Summary

Fixes four findings in .github/workflows/dependency-audit-reusable.yml. The Cargo/Python discovery and the new gate verdict now live in a sourceable, bats-tested library, .github/scripts/dependency-audit/lib/dependency-audit.sh, per AGENTS.md "Decision Logic Lives in a Pure, Tested Script". The workflow steps are now thin glue:

• audit-cargo and audit-pip check the audited repo out under repo/. They check this repo out at the reusable's own commit (job.workflow_sha, the same pattern as fix(feature-ideation): source tooling from the reusable's own commit (#839) #1368) into .dependency-audit-tooling/, outside the scanned tree, and source the lib from there.
• A new aggregate job, Audit gate, needs detect and every audit job.
• The caller stub (standards/workflows/dependency-audit.yml) stays compatible. No inputs or secrets were added, and the Detect ecosystems job name and the dependency-audit / Detect ecosystems required context are unchanged.

Fixes #1393: Cargo workspace dedup used directory ancestry

Confirmed: at dependency-audit-reusable.yml:194-208 on main, any non-[workspace] crate under a workspace root's directory was treated as covered. I ran main's Audit Cargo dependencies step against a fixture whose workspace has exclude = ["tools/excluded"], with cargo stubbed. It audited only ./repo and never tools/excluded.

Fix: each Cargo.toml is resolved with cargo metadata --no-deps --format-version 1. That command doesn't need the network and doesn't write a lockfile. The audit set is the de-duplicated workspace_root values. Cargo reports the parent workspace for a member and the crate's own directory for an excluded or standalone crate. If Cargo can't resolve a manifest, the job fails with ::error:: and does not skip it. Every root that does resolve is still audited.

Fixes #1394: committed Cargo.lock regenerated before audit

Confirmed: at dependency-audit-reusable.yml:212 on main, the step ran cargo generate-lockfile 2>/dev/null; cargo audit in every directory. In the same fixture, a committed lockfile with a vulnerable pin was overwritten and the step exited 0.

Fix: cargo audit runs against the committed Cargo.lock unchanged. cargo generate-lockfile runs only when no Cargo.lock exists, which is typical for libraries. A failed generation now fails the job; before, it was ignored.

Fixes #1404: newline-delimited Python discovery

Confirmed: at dependency-audit-reusable.yml:241-259 on main, a requirements.txt in a directory named svc<LF>api was split into ./repo/svc and api. Both -f guards were false, so no pip-audit ran and the step exited 0.

Fix: discovery uses find -print0, NUL-safe dirname, sort -zu and read -d ''. If a discovered project has no readable pyproject.toml or requirements.txt (for example a dangling symlink), the job fails. If the discovery walk itself fails, the job fails too. Directory names are shown with CR/LF escaped in ::group:: and ::error:: lines, so a crafted name can't start a new workflow-command line.

Part of #1406: required check is ecosystem discovery

Confirmed: standards/rulesets/code-quality.json:30 requires dependency-audit / Detect ecosystems. That job only runs find and succeeds no matter what the scanners report.

Fix (additive): a new Audit gate job in the reusable:

• It has needs: [detect, audit-npm, audit-pnpm, audit-go, audit-cargo, audit-pip] and if: always().
• It uses always(), not !cancelled(), so a cancelled run reports a failure here instead of a skip.
• It passes only when detect succeeded and every audit job either succeeded or was skipped. A job is skipped when its ecosystem is absent. failure, cancelled, a missing result or malformed input all fail it.
• This follows the same pattern as the CodeQL aggregate job in codeql.yml.
• In consumers it reports as dependency-audit / Audit gate.
• A test pins that the gate needs every other job, so a future ecosystem job can't bypass it.

Not changed (decision needed): standards/rulesets/code-quality.json still requires dependency-audit / Detect ecosystems. Repointing it to dependency-audit / Audit gate changes the required-check contract for the whole fleet. Consumers pin dependency-audit/v2-stable, which has no Audit gate job. If the ruleset were applied before that channel ships the job, every consumer PR would wait forever on a check that never reports. That's why this PR uses Part of #1406 and not Fixes. Suggested sequence once this ships to dependency-audit/v2-stable:

1. Add dependency-audit / Audit gate to code-quality.json, either in addition to or in place of Detect ecosystems.
2. Update the PROVIDERS / REUSABLE_JOB_NAMES entries in test/workflows/required-checks/merge-group.bats.
3. Update the comments and docs that name the context: scripts/apply-rulesets.sh, the stub headers, standards/github-settings.md, and the renames map in compliance-audit.sh.
4. Run apply-rulesets.sh.

standards/github-settings.md now documents the gate and the pending decision.

A no-ruleset-change alternative for reviewers: rename the old detect job's display name and give the aggregate job the name Detect ecosystems. The existing required context would then gate on the scanners as soon as the channel is promoted. The cost is a confusingly named job, so I haven't done it here.

Also fixed in the same jobs (please review)

• pip-audit install path. audit-pip installed from scripts/pip-audit-requirements.txt in the audited repo. Consumer repos don't have that file (the same class of bug as feature-ideation v1-next: pip step fails — tooling_ref default 'v1' skews from reusable (blocks .github-private, will break fleet on promotion) #839), so the job failed at "Install pip-audit". It now installs from the tooling checkout's copy. This matters for dependency-audit-reusable: the required check is ecosystem discovery, not the scanners' outcome #1406: a required gate would otherwise fail on every Python consumer. test/workflows/dependency-hardening.bats now maps the .dependency-audit-tooling/ prefix back to the repo root, just as it already does for .feature-ideation-tooling/.
• cargo install cargo-audit runs outside the audited repo (in the workspace root, not repo/). An audited repo's .cargo/config.toml or rust-toolchain.toml no longer affects how the scanner is installed.

Behaviour changes for consumers (after channel promotion)

• More crates may be audited: excluded and non-member crates under a workspace directory.
• A Cargo.toml that Cargo can't resolve now fails cargo audit. Before, it was skipped if it sat under a workspace directory. Fixture crates inside a workspace should be listed in the workspace's exclude or carry their own [workspace] table.
• A vulnerable committed Cargo.lock now fails. Before, the runner regenerated it and could mask the vulnerable pin.
• A new, non-required dependency-audit / Audit gate check appears.

Tests

New suite: test/workflows/dependency-audit/dependency-audit.bats (27 tests), run by a new Dependency Audit Tests workflow (.github/workflows/dependency-audit-tests.yml) on any change to the reusable, the lib, the tests or the stub template. It covers:

• the lib functions, with cargo and pip-audit stubs that record their calls and fail on a VULN marker;
• the reusable's own run: steps, extracted from the YAML with yq and run with bash -e against fixtures;
• the gate's wiring, including needs completeness, always(), and the tooling checkout ref and path.

Regression check: running the same suite against main's workflow, the step-level tests for #1393/#1394 (Cargo), #1404 (Python) and #1406 (gate step), plus the wiring tests, fail. With this branch, all 27 pass.

Commands run locally:

• bats test/workflows/dependency-audit/: 27/27 pass under bash 3.2 and bash 5.3
• bats test/workflows/dependency-hardening.bats test/workflows/required-checks/: all pass
• bats test/scripts/standards-templates/ test/scripts/compliance-audit/{centralized-stub-pins,required-workflows-ingress}.bats test/scripts/apply-rulesets/: all pass
• deploy-standard-workflows/dry-run.bats and lib/standards-deploy.bats fail identically on an untouched origin/main tree. That is the macOS base64 environment, not this change.
• shellcheck -x on the lib, helpers and bats file: clean
• actionlint with the CI ignore set: clean
• gitleaks dir .: no leaks

No cargo is available locally. The real cargo metadata / cargo audit behaviour will be exercised by this repo's dogfood run and by the next canary.

Release notes / follow-ups

• This is a reusable change. It ships to consumers on the next dependency-audit release cut and channel promotion (v2-next → v2-stable). No tags are moved here.
• After promotion: make the dependency-audit-reusable: the required check is ecosystem discovery, not the scanners' outcome #1406 ruleset decision above.
• Not in scope, possible follow-ups:
  • The npm, pnpm and Go loops still use newline-delimited find … -exec dirname, the same pattern dependency-audit-reusable: newline-delimited Python project discovery silently skips directories whose names contain newlines #1404 fixed for Python.
  • A committed Cargo.lock that is stale relative to its Cargo.toml is audited as committed. A --locked freshness check would close that gap, but it needs network access and could break repos whose libraries don't keep their lockfiles in sync.

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Problem

See the linked issue.

Risk

Medium — changes GitHub Actions workflow behavior, which is exercised only post-merge; verify via the affected workflow runs.

Test plan

Tests added/updated: test/workflows/dependency-audit/dependency-audit.bats,test/workflows/dependency-hardening.bats. Verification: bash scripts/dev-lead-lint.sh (shellcheck --severity=warning) ran pre-commit; the bats suite runs in CI.

Rollback

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Risk: MEDIUM
Reviewed commit: d8e47e3cad68ff711c27271f09dd8983b8a58e4c
Review mode: triage-approved (single reviewer)

Summary

Hardens the fleet-wide dependency-audit reusable. Cargo/Python discovery and a new aggregate gate verdict move into a sourceable, bats-tested lib (.github/scripts/dependency-audit/lib/dependency-audit.sh). Cargo coverage now comes from cargo metadata workspace_root (#1393). A committed Cargo.lock is audited as committed (#1394). Python discovery is NUL-safe (#1404). An additive Audit gate job aggregates detect plus every audit job (part of #1406). Two jobs are now thin glue: they check the audited repo out under repo/ and the reusable's own commit (job.workflow_sha) under .dependency-audit-tooling/. A new Dependency Audit Tests workflow runs shellcheck and 27 bats tests. I rated it MEDIUM, not HIGH: it is non-trivial logic that changes behaviour for consumers, but it adds no new security-sensitive surface. Triage assessment confirmed.

Linked issue analysis

• #1393 (Cargo excluded crates dropped by directory-ancestry dedup): addressed. Each manifest is resolved with cargo metadata --no-deps and audit roots are deduplicated by workspace_root. A manifest that can't be resolved fails loudly instead of being skipped. Pinned by tests for the lib and for the extracted workflow step.
• #1394 (committed Cargo.lock regenerated before audit): addressed. generate-lockfile runs only when no Cargo.lock exists, and a failed generation now fails the job. A test asserts the committed lock is left unchanged.
• #1404 (newline-split Python discovery): addressed. Discovery uses find -print0, sort -zu and read -d ''. A discovered project with no readable manifest, or a failed discovery walk, now fails the job. CR/LF in paths are escaped before they reach ::group:: / ::error:: lines, which closes a workflow-command injection vector. Tested.
• #1406 (required check is discovery, not scanner outcome): correctly marked Part of, not Fixes. The Audit gate job is additive and fails closed on failure, cancelled, missing or malformed input. A wiring test pins needs completeness and always(). Repointing the ruleset is deferred until v2-stable ships the job, which is the right call: doing it earlier would leave consumer PRs waiting on a check that never reports.

Findings

No blocking findings.

Security review: no regressions, net hardening.

• Permissions stay contents: read at the top level. Both checkouts use persist-credentials: false.
• Actions are pinned by SHA. The new test workflow uses permissions: {} plus a job-level read.
• toJSON(needs) reaches the script through env:, not interpolated into run:.
• The tooling checkout is a sibling of the scanned tree, so the audited repo can't shadow the lib.
• combsmith/.github is public, so the cross-repo checkout works with consumers' tokens.
• cargo install cargo-audit now runs outside the audited repo, so its .cargo/config.toml / rust-toolchain.toml can't affect the scanner install.
• The pip-audit requirements path bug (installing from the audited repo, which consumers don't have) is fixed.

Non-blocking notes (for the canary / channel promotion):

1. Rust layout breakage risk. Cargo itself errors ("believes it's in a workspace when it's not") on a Cargo.toml under a workspace directory that is neither a member nor excluded, for example cargo vendor output in vendor/ or test-fixture crates. With this change those fail cargo audit, where before they were silently skipped. The PR documents this as intended. Check the Rust consumers in the canary before promoting to v2-stable.
2. Not live-tested yet. The tooling checkout and new install path in audit-cargo / audit-pip didn't run in this repo's dogfood run (both jobs were skipped because those ecosystems are absent). The bats step-extraction tests cover the logic; the first real run will be the canary.
3. Known gap, tracked as a follow-up in the PR body. The npm, pnpm and Go loops still use newline-delimited find ... -exec dirname, the same pattern #1404 fixed for Python.

Errexit check: the runner uses bash -e, and every fallible call in the lib sits in an if ! or || status=1 context, so failures are counted rather than aborting the step part-way.

CI status

All checks green:

• Lint and bats (Dependency Audit Tests), bats, ShellCheck, Lint
• CodeQL / Analyze (actions, python), SonarCloud (Quality Gate passed, 0 hotspots)
• gitleaks, AgentShield, Agent Security Scan, duplicate-decl-gate
• dependency-audit / Detect ecosystems, npm audit and the new dependency-audit / Audit gate, all SUCCESS

pnpm, govulncheck, cargo and pip were skipped because those ecosystems are absent here. CodeRabbit is NEUTRAL (rate-limited, no findings). There are no review threads, and the bot notices have all been dispositioned.

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Quality Gate passed

Issues
13 New issues
0 Accepted issues

Measures
0 Security Hotspots
0.0% Coverage on New Code
0.0% Duplication on New Code

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