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Reviewer's GuideIntroduces a hardened, composite install-mdtablefix action that validates inputs, fails closed on platforms without prebuilt releases, reuses caller-owned caches, provisions commit-pinned cargo-binstall only when necessary, installs with source-compilation disabled, verifies the pinned version, and is covered by manifest, fragment-level, and runner-backed tests. Sequence diagram for the install-mdtablefix actionsequenceDiagram
participant Caller
participant Action as install-mdtablefix
participant Cache as Caller-owned bin-dir
participant Binstall as cargo-binstall
participant Upstream as Pinned binstall action
participant Binary as mdtablefix
Caller->>Action: Invoke with version, binstall-version, bin-dir
Action->>Action: Validate inputs
Action->>Action: Check platform support
alt Unsupported platform
Action-->>Caller: result=no-prebuilt, fail
else Linux X64 or ARM64
Action->>Cache: Probe pinned executable
alt Pinned version already present
Cache-->>Action: mdtablefix --version matches
Action-->>Caller: result=cached
else Install required
Action->>Binstall: cargo binstall -V
alt binstall unavailable
Action->>Upstream: Install pinned cargo-binstall
end
Action->>Binstall: Install mdtablefix with compile disabled
Binstall-->>Binary: Download prebuilt release
Action->>Binary: mdtablefix --version
alt Version matches
Action-->>Caller: result=installed
else Version mismatch
Action-->>Caller: result=version-mismatch, fail
end
end
end
Flow diagram for install-mdtablefix decision pathsflowchart TD
A[Validate version and bin-dir inputs] --> B{Supported platform?}
B -- No --> C[Fail with result=no-prebuilt]
B -- Yes --> D{Pinned mdtablefix already cached?}
D -- Yes --> E[Return result=cached]
D -- No --> F{cargo binstall -V succeeds?}
F -- No --> G[Install commit-pinned cargo-binstall]
F -- Yes --> H[Run hardened cargo binstall]
G --> H
H --> I[Use prebuilt asset only with compile disabled]
I --> J{Reported version matches?}
J -- Yes --> K[Return result=installed]
J -- No --> L[Fail with result=version-mismatch]
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participant Cargo
Runner->>Action: Supply version and bin-dir
Action->>Action: Validate inputs and platform
Action->>Runner: Check cached mdtablefix executable
Action->>Cargo: Probe cargo-binstall
Action->>Cargo: Install pinned mdtablefix without compilation
Action->>Runner: Verify version and export PATH
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The installer is broadly mergeable, but localized harness and property-test issues could produce misleading test results and should be corrected. Caution Pre-merge checks failedPlease resolve all errors before merging. Addressing warnings is optional.
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Full details: Testing (Overall)Explanation Require stronger behavioural tests for the new output-bounding and verification paths. The action limits cached and installed version output with Resolution Add scenario controls for multi-line, overlong version output and for a successful Cargo invocation that creates no executable. Add behavioural tests that assert only the first 120 characters reach comparisons and annotations, and that a missing executable produces Full details: Unit ArchitectureExplanation Fail: the new query-like helpers hide filesystem effects and fallible I/O. Resolution Refactor the path helper so it only joins paths. Move directory creation into an explicitly named command at the execution/setup boundary, and add a test that the query does not change the filesystem. Load and parse
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In @.github/actions/install-mdtablefix/CHANGELOG.md:
- Line 22: Update the changelog entry containing “neutralise” to use the Oxford
en-GB-oxendict spelling “neutralize,” leaving the surrounding text unchanged.
In @.github/actions/install-mdtablefix/tests/test_install_mdtablefix_inputs.py:
- Around line 78-81: Update the assertions in the test module, including those
validating outputs["version"], outputs["binstall-version"], outputs["bin-dir"],
and outputs["executable-path"], to provide descriptive failure messages using
the relevant received outputs or process stderr where useful; replace every bare
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@coderabbitai The three pre-merge warnings are addressed in Observability. The
I have kept Property tests. A new Hypothesis module states the input grammar from the documentation and checks the shipped fragment against it. Generated version strings and Linked issues. Answered on the issue rather than in code, since the issue is what is wrong: #442 (comment). |
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Verify that Keep the 120-character, first-line limit before cached executable output is compared or logged. Keep Keep the independent Hypothesis grammar oracle. It verifies the documented contract instead of restating the shell fragment. Treat macOS as unsupported until the pinned No remaining pre-merge finding applies from this review. Runtime execution was not performed in this review environment. ✏️ Learnings added
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In @.github/actions/install-mdtablefix/tests/_mdtablefix_scenarios.py:
- Around line 197-199: Update the bin-directory resolution conditional to treat
a standalone "~" the same as paths beginning with "~/", expanding both into the
sandbox home directory; continue using Path(...) only for other paths so cached
scenarios locate the intended executable without creating a literal "~"
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- Around line 221-224: Update _run_validation to return stderr, then strengthen
the invalid-input test to assert exactly one ::error annotation and exactly one
install-mdtablefix.result=invalid-input metric, rather than relying on substring
containment.
In `@composite_fragments.py`:
- Around line 196-199: Move output_dir.mkdir out of
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FragmentEnvironment construction or through an explicit preparation command.
Keep output_file limited to returning the output path without side effects.
- Around line 89-104: Refactor CompositeResolver.resolve to use structural
match/case for branching on the expression body, replacing the current literal
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- Around line 170-180: Update _parse_outputs so heredoc parsing is selected only
when “<<” appears before the first “=” on a line. Preserve normal key-value
parsing when “<<” occurs within the value, including bin-dir inputs such as
“/tmp/a<<b”, and retain the existing heredoc behavior for valid heredoc openers.
In `@docs/users-guide.md`:
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the second-person pronoun “yourself,” using an impersonal construction such as
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Every repository whose `make check-fmt` shells out to mdtablefix carried its own installer step, and the shapes had diverged: some fell back to `cargo install`, which is a source build in CI. This adds one hardened installer to sit alongside install-nixie and install-whitaker. The action validates its inputs, rejects a runner with no prebuilt release before the cache is consulted, probes bin-dir and PATH for the pinned version, obtains cargo-binstall only when `cargo binstall -V` fails, then runs a binstall that cannot compile. Each run writes exactly one bounded `install-mdtablefix.result` metric. cargo-binstall is probed by running it rather than by looking for a name on PATH, because a Cargo subcommand shim can exist and still be unusable (#420). A composite action cannot condition a `uses:` step on a shell result, so the probe publishes a step output and the pinned upstream action carries an `if:` over it. The install passes `--bin-dir '{ bin }{ binary-ext }'`. mdtablefix 0.5.0 declares `bin-dir = "."`, which cargo-binstall 1.22 rejects with "bin-dir configuration provided generates empty source path"; with the compile strategy correctly disabled the install then fails outright (leynos/mdtablefix#458). Verified against the pinned binstall release: without the override the install fails, with it the executable reports mdtablefix 0.5.0. Contrary to issue #442, macOS gets no prebuilt asset either. The v0.5.0 release publishes Linux gnu x86_64 and aarch64 tarballs plus FreeBSD, and the crate's binstall override is gated on `cfg(target_os = "linux", target_env = "gnu")`. macOS therefore fails closed exactly as Windows does, and the runner-backed macos-15 job asserts that failure rather than a version. The stubbed cargo in the behavioural tests refuses to install without the bin-dir override, so dropping the override fails the suite rather than passing locally and failing on a runner. The ubuntu-latest job proves the cached outcome by putting a failing cargo stub on PATH before a second invocation. Refs #442. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QrjNTnTwM7FmWXe5KFPMPY
Two CI failures on fde5d89. The spelling gate rejected "neutralise": this estate's typos configuration is en-GB-oxendict, which takes the -ize ending. It passed locally because `make spelling` feeds typos from `git ls-files`, so the new files were invisible to it until they were committed. Run it again after the first commit, not before. CodeScene flagged `run_scenario` as a Complex Method. Its three jobs are now separate: `_build_sandbox` lays out the directories, stubs and fixtures, `_build_environment` assembles what the fragments observe, and `_execute_steps` walks the manifest. A `_Sandbox` record carries the paths between them instead of ten locals. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QrjNTnTwM7FmWXe5KFPMPY
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Two pre-merge errors from round two. The output bounding had no behavioural cover. The stubbed binstall now copies a prepared body rather than printing a fixed line, so a scenario can name exactly what the installed executable prints and whether it is written at all. Five tests follow: a report spanning several lines does not fail a good install; an overlong report fails, and the annotation carries the first 120 characters and not the whole line; a cached executable reporting too much is reinstalled rather than believed; a cached executable may print more than its version line; and a `cargo binstall` that exits zero having installed nothing is noticed rather than trusted. That last one is a real cargo-binstall outcome, and the action reported it correctly already, but nothing said so. `ScenarioResult` now keeps everything the installed executable prints and derives the version from it, and it runs the executable rather than reading its text, so a fixture is observed the way the action observes it. `FragmentEnvironment.output_file` was already reduced to a query in the previous commit; a test now asserts it creates nothing. `load_manifest` parses `action.yml` once per session instead of on each of the dozens of calls the suite makes; the document is read-only by contract. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QrjNTnTwM7FmWXe5KFPMPY
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@coderabbitai The two pre-merge errors are addressed in Testing (Overall). You were right that the output bounding had no behavioural cover. The stubbed binstall now copies a prepared executable body rather than printing a fixed line, so a scenario names exactly what the installed executable prints and whether it is written at all. Five tests follow:
Unit Architecture. Linked Issues. This is the option your own resolution offers second, and it is the correct one: macOS cannot be installed, so the issue is what needed updating. #442 (comment) records the measurements against the pinned cargo-binstall 1.22.0, including that |
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Keep the first-line and 120-character limit in both version-read paths. The action applies this limit before it compares or logs cached and installed executable output. Keep the five behavioural tests. They cover multiline reports, overlong reports, cached executable reports, and a successful Keep macOS and Windows fail-closed. The platform gate permits only Keep Static source inspection verified these changes. This review did not execute repository code or tests. ✏️ Learnings added
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CodeScene flagged duplication in the install tests and a complex conditional in `parse_outputs`. The install tests had written the same three-line metric assertion nineteen times, each with its own slightly different message. Five named helpers now say what is being checked: a metric is present, a metric is the only one, the failure was annotated, the run installed and verified a version, and nothing was left behind. The tests read as their intent rather than as their mechanism, and a new one cannot invent a twentieth phrasing. `parse_outputs` asked whether a line opens a heredoc inside its loop condition. That question is now `_opens_heredoc`, where the reason a `<<` after an `=` is not an opener can be stated where it is decided. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QrjNTnTwM7FmWXe5KFPMPY
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A run that fails closed on macOS or Windows now names leynos/mdtablefix#459 in its annotation, and the action README and users' guide say the same. That issue asks mdtablefix for macOS and Windows release assets and for its binstall metadata to stop being gated on `linux-gnu`, which is what the platform gate here is waiting for. Someone meeting the failure should not have to work out what would fix it. The macOS job also records the shell the no-ERR-trap rule was decided under: `$BASH_VERSION`, `bash --version`, which bash is on PATH, and whether an `ERR` trap fires there today. The manifest test forbids ERR traps because one did not run on this platform; that rule should rest on a measurement anyone can re-read in a log, not on a recollection. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QrjNTnTwM7FmWXe5KFPMPY
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The probe added in the previous commit called the failing command from an `if` condition. Errexit is suppressed there, and with it the `ERR` trap, on every Bash ever released, so `not-run` on macOS said nothing about macOS. It would have reported `not-run` on Bash 5 too. The failing command now sits at the top level of its own script and is run as `bash <script>`, which is exactly where `cargo binstall` sat in the action's fragment. The Linux job runs the same probe, so the two logs can be read against each other rather than one being interpreted alone. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QrjNTnTwM7FmWXe5KFPMPY
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Bash 3.2 on macos-15 fires the `ERR` trap for a failing builtin at the top level of a script, so the version alone does not explain what happened here. The action's fragment differed in two ways from that probe: the failing command was external, and it was the last command in the script. Bash has long replaced itself with the last command in some cases, which would discard the trap with the shell. Both jobs now run three probes that differ only in what fails and where: a builtin last, an external command last, and an external command followed by a no-op. Locally on Bash 5.3 all three fire. Whatever the macOS log says, it says it about the case the action was actually in. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QrjNTnTwM7FmWXe5KFPMPY
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A runner writes a composite `run:` fragment to a file and executes that file. The harness passed the same text to `bash -c`. Those are not the same shell invocation, and the whole point of the harness is that a fragment behaves as it will on a runner, so it now writes the fragment out and runs the file. This is also the remaining candidate for the macOS failure. All three of yesterday's probes fire on Bash 3.2 when read from a file, so the version alone explains nothing; the only untested difference between the probes and the action's fragment is the `-c`. Both jobs now run each case twice, once from a file and once from a command string, so the next log either names the cause or rules the last hypothesis out. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QrjNTnTwM7FmWXe5KFPMPY
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I claimed Bash 3.2 does not run `ERR` traps and put that in the action's comments, its changelog, its README, the developers' guide, the pull request, and a manifest test forbidding the idiom across this action. It is not true, and the claim was doing real damage: it was on its way to an issue against `install-whitaker`'s seven traps. Six probes on `macos-15` and `ubuntu-latest`, differing only in what fails, where, and how the script is invoked, put the cause in exactly one cell. `bash -c` with an external command last, on Bash 3.2, does not run the trap. Every other combination fires on both platforms, including a file with an external command last, and including `bash -c` when any command follows. Bash 3.2 replaces itself with that last command and the trap goes with the shell; Bash 5 suppresses the optimization when a trap is set. A runner writes a composite fragment to a file. It was the harness that used `bash -c`, so the failure I attributed to macOS was a harness artefact, and `install-whitaker` is fine. The harness now runs fragments from a file, as the previous commit made it, and two tests hold that: one asserts a fragment's `$0` names a file, and one asserts a fragment's `ERR` trap fires when its last command fails. Either would have caught this. The manifest test forbidding `ERR` traps is gone; it banned an idiom the rest of the repository uses, on evidence that did not survive. The action keeps its explicit status check, which is no more code and is invariant to how the fragment is invoked, and now says that rather than claiming a platform bug. The workflow probes are gone with the question they answered. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QrjNTnTwM7FmWXe5KFPMPY
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The developers' guide said folding install-whitaker's private harness copy into the shared module was "a separate change", which is true and unhelpful. It now names issue #449, and says what is still wrong with that copy: it invokes fragments with `bash -c`. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QrjNTnTwM7FmWXe5KFPMPY
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What
Adds
.github/actions/install-mdtablefix, a composite action that installs apinned
mdtablefixfrom its prebuilt release through a hardenedcargo binstall, and never from source. Closes #442.Seven steps, whose order is part of the contract:
version(required, three numeric components),binstall-version(default1.22.0),bin-dir(default~/.local/bin,absolute or
~/-rooted, bounded, no parent components, noPATHseparator, creatable and enterable on this runner).
cached executable cannot report success on a runner this action could not
have installed. That is the failure
install-whitakerhad to be correctedfor.
install-mdtablefix.result=cachedwhenbin-dirorPATHalready holds the pinned version, then probescargo-binstall by running
cargo binstall -V.cargo-bins/cargo-binstall@75b4bfae1b2c753a6806bbce6e6cb89b602de33c(v1.22.0), pinned by commit SHA.
action cannot annotate from inside, so a
failure()-guarded step reportsbinstall-unavailable.--no-confirm --locked --disable-strategies compile --disable-telemetry --install-path <bin-dir> --bin-dir '{ bin }{ binary-ext }'.Every terminal path emits exactly one
install-mdtablefix.resultline, overinvalid-input,cached,installed,no-prebuilt,binstall-unavailable,install-failed, andversion-mismatch. The action caches nothing itself; thecaller owns
bin-dirand its key, so one key keeps one owner.The
bin-diroverride, provenmdtablefix0.5.0 declaresbin-dir = "."in its binstall metadata. Againstthe pinned cargo-binstall 1.22.0, downloaded and run locally:
bin-dir configuration provided generates empty source path, thenFallback to cargo-install is disabled, exit 94.--bin-dir '{ bin }{ binary-ext }'it installs, and the executablereports
mdtablefix 0.5.0. Same for--targets aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.Remove the override, and the test that pins it, once a pinned release carries
fixed metadata (leynos/mdtablefix#458).
Correction to the issue: macOS has no prebuilt asset either
#442 expected macOS to be satisfied by binstall. It is not. The v0.5.0 release
publishes only Linux gnu
x86_64andaarch64tarballs plus a FreeBSD binary,and the crate's binstall override is gated on
cfg(all(target_os = "linux", ..., target_env = "gnu")). Verified with--targets aarch64-apple-darwinand--targets x86_64-pc-windows-msvc: bothfail closed against the pinned binstall.
So macOS is treated exactly as Windows:
no-prebuiltand a hard failure, nevera source build. The runner-backed
macos-15job asserts that failure and thatno executable was left behind. The corrected acceptance criteria are recorded
on #442.
What would unblock those platforms is
leynos/mdtablefix#459, which
asks for macOS and Windows release assets and for the
binstallmetadata to beungated from
linux-gnu. Theno-prebuiltannotation names it, so a failingrun says what would fix it.
Two defects found while building this
runner writes a composite
run:fragment to a file and executes that file;the harness passed the same text to
bash -c. Bash 3.2, which macOS runnersship, replaces itself with the last command of a
bash -cstring when thatcommand is external, discarding an
ERRtrap along with the shell, whileBash 5 suppresses that optimization when a trap is set. So a fragment that
reported its failure from a trap passed on Linux and, on macOS, failed with
no annotation and no metric. Measured across six cases on
macos-15andubuntu-latest: every combination fires exceptbash -cwith an externallast command on Bash 3.2. The harness now runs fragments from a file, and two
tests hold that line. This is a harness defect, not a platform one; the
sibling installers'
ERRtraps are fine on a runner. An earlier revision ofthis pull request claimed otherwise, and was wrong.
bin-dirthe runner could not create exited silently. Found by theproperty tests, not by reasoning: an absolute candidate outside the sandbox
failed
mkdirand the run ended with no annotation and no metric. It is nowrefused like any other bad input.
Tests
preceding the cache probe, the upstream commit SHA and the release its
comment names, every hardening flag, and a Bash 3.2 guard.
stubbed
cargo, covering every outcome above, plus what the action readsfrom an executable it did not write: a report spanning several lines, an
overlong one, and a
cargo binstallthat exits zero having installednothing. The stub refuses to install unless it receives the
--bin-diroverride, so deleting that override fails nine tests rather than passing
locally and failing on a runner. Confirmed by deleting the line.
the shipped fragment against it, so a fragment that drifts from what is
documented fails.
.github/workflows/test-install-mdtablefix.ymlis the runner-backedboundary. The
ubuntu-latestjob installs the pinned version, asserts whatthe executable reports, then puts a failing
cargostub onPATHandinvokes the action again. A second run that reaches cargo-binstall fails the
job, so the cached outcome is proved rather than read out of a log. The
macos-15job asserts the fail-closed contract.Fragment harness
composite_fragments.pyat the repository root runs a composite action's Bashfragments outside GitHub Actions, resolving the expression subset the installer
manifests use, evaluating each step's
if:including afailure()guard, threading$GITHUB_OUTPUTbetween steps, and running each fragment from a file. It has its own tests, because adefect there makes every suite built on it report an outcome no runner would
produce; one such defect, reading
key=a<<bas a heredoc opener, was found inreview.
install-whitakerkeeps its private copy for now; folding it in is aseparate change, so that action's in-flight work is not disturbed.
Gates
make fmt,check-fmt,typecheck,lint,markdownlint,nixieandtestwere run sequentially. All pass except pre-existing environmentalfailures in unrelated suites (
rust-build-releasecross builds needing acontainer runtime, an
rpmpackaging error, and HypothesisDeadlineExceededflakes under host load), which are issue #434. All 82 new tests pass.
Relationship to #412
PR #412, "Install cargo-binstall with cargo-bins action", is a draft opened on
2026-08-21 and untouched since. It does not add a reusable binstall
installation step, and this pull request does not build on it.
Its premise no longer holds: it adds the probe so
install-nixiecan reach abinary Merman path, but
install-nixieonmainno longer usescargo-binstallat all, because #423 replaced that path with verified releasearchives. Its probe is
command -v cargo-binstall, which is the presence-probedefect recorded as #420 and which this pull request deliberately avoids by
running
cargo binstall -V. ItsMakefilechange is already onmain.The shared shape, a probe step publishing an output and a
uses:stepconditioned on it, is forced by composite actions and is not borrowed from
#412. This pull request supersedes that pattern with a corrected probe, a newer
pinned SHA, a forwarded
binstall-version, and an annotation for a failure ofthe upstream installer. Recorded on #412; closing it is the maintainer's call.
Follow-up
Replace the local installers in netsuke, rstest-bdd, cuprum, whitaker and the
Tier 2 repositories with this action, in separate pull requests.