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Add one construction-only GitHub publisher boundary for yihanzhu/ystack. It closes the current gap where the repository authorizes the active construction session, GitHub no longer requires an approval, but the Codex shell host correctly blocks generic merge commands.

Exact candidate:

  • base: 94afa6a925c203051133f3017589f1848ee580c8
  • head: 8e90fe120aab0a5cb378ca8bd9f3ed8451684815
  • branch: codex/construction-native-publisher

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  • Add scripts/construction-publisher-gate.sh.
  • Add its hermetic fake-GitHub test.
  • Append both restore-critical paths to ci/required-files.txt.

No workflow, mode record, no-merge guard, existing merge helper, review harness, accepted artifact, live yshifu path, external target, frozen PR #183 state, or preserved portable-core state changes.

Boundary

The repository script is read-only. It never merges, pushes, updates a ref, posts a comment, calls a model, or executes candidate code.

It must run by absolute path from an installed trusted main worktree whose HEAD equals the reviewed base. It binds that local gate and test to the same blobs on GitHub. It pins github.com, repository ID 1270665750, the exact active mode blob, Roadmap and north-star blobs, ruleset 21500323, squash-only settings, allowed paths, restore entries, the complete reviewed-base restore manifest, and frozen PR #183.

The active construction session must first read the complete independent review and observe the purpose-built connector identity. The natural-language review has no machine verdict. The request says this plainly with machine_verdict_available:false; the current mode-authorized session supplies the semantic no-Important decision, bound to the exact comment ID, body SHA-256, head, and base. The P0-P2 scan is only an added fail-closed check.

CI must be the unique latest successful ci check from app 15368 on the exact head. Ruleset, review, CI, PR, and main are read again late. The final preflight read is main. The emitted write is fixed to the first-class github_merge_pull_request connector with expected_head_sha and merge_method:squash. If that connector is refused or unavailable, the session stops; there is no gh, REST, GraphQL, auto-merge, update-ref, or other fallback.

GitHub has no base-SHA CAS in this merge API. The output records atomic_base_cas:false. The late base read, exact head precondition, strict required-check ruleset, and no-bypass identity close the practical race. Postflight takes the original request, revalidates every authorization fact from GitHub, then re-reads the head tree, PR merge record, squash commit, its single parent, tree, and main. It emits a hashed canonical receipt only when all match. An uncertain connector response is reconciled read-only. A refusal followed by an out-of-band merge never receives a completed receipt, and every failed reconciliation says not to retry blindly.

Proof on exact head

  • bash scripts/test/run-all.sh: all 12 test scripts passed.
  • Publisher gate: 130/130 success, failure, race, identity, no-write, recovery, and receipt checks passed.
  • ShellCheck 0.11.0 over every repository shell file: clean.
  • Structure manifest: clean.
  • Rename gate: clean.
  • git diff --check: clean.
  • Three independent read-only design/code audits found no remaining Important issue. A fresh formal PR review is still required; all pre-PR review is advisory.

The 2,004-line diff exceeds the soft size signal because this is one security boundary with explicit input schemas, exact GitHub state checks, post-write reconciliation, and 118 hermetic cases. Product code is 1,181 lines; the 819-line fake-GitHub proof and four manifest lines make up the rest. Splitting the proof from the gate would make the fixed CI runner review only part of the boundary.

Inactivity

This PR does not install or activate a live profile, workflow, credential, release, deployment, or target integration. The connector call is an existing host capability, not code in this branch. This candidate cannot publish itself and must not be merged by this task. After an operator merges it, a later construction session may use the installed trusted-base copy for another exact PR.

PR #183 remains open at its frozen tuple. The portable-core implementation worktree remains untouched. The dirty parent-plan worktree remains dirty only at its pre-existing plan file.

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Reviewed-head: 0328f40
Reviewed-base: 6ae9452
reviewer: operator-default @ high

Posted verbatim by codex-review.sh (codex exec review --json --base refs/codex-review/192-81768/base in an isolated temp worktree, sandbox forced read-only). Comments only — Codex never pushes, approves, or merges.

The publisher gate does not enforce the construction mode's append-only restore-manifest invariant. It can therefore authorize changes that weaken the repository's backup guarantees.

Review comment:

  • [P1] Preserve every manifest entry from the reviewed base — /var/folders/rm/bkx4f4b91vqfn79vk02pcd140000gn/T/tmp.MaV9TCcv5b/scripts/construction-publisher-gate.sh:408-414
    This validates only the small list pinned in the mode record plus the two publisher files, so a later construction PR can remove any other existing entry from ci/required-files.txt and still pass preflight and CI. For example, the schema and ingress entries added after construction-mode activation are unprotected; once removed, their restore-critical files can be deleted in a subsequent green PR. Compare the candidate manifest with the manifest at expected_base and require every existing non-comment entry to remain exactly once.

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Formal review response — comment 5468570616

New exact head: 716fbdf83c64f040fa31b35d9e0c7277b57d1042
Base unchanged: 6ae9452848fd1bdec38aaef78efc842f5e938de3

The P1 restore-manifest finding is fixed at the root.

Preflight now reads ci/required-files.txt from both the exact reviewed base and candidate head. Every non-comment entry present on the base must remain exactly once in the candidate. This covers schema, ingress, and every later construction entry, not only the smaller set frozen when construction mode started. The candidate manifest also rejects duplicate active entries. The existing mode-required and publisher-self entries remain separate defense-in-depth checks.

New regressions remove a post-mode ingress entry and duplicate it. Both reach the intended manifest rail and fail closed. Publisher proof is now 118/118.

Exact-head proof:

  • fixed runner: all 11 test scripts passed;
  • publisher gate: 118/118;
  • full repository ShellCheck 0.11.0: clean;
  • structure, rename, and diff checks: clean;
  • independent read-only fix audit: no remaining Important finding.

All CI and review evidence on 0328f40... is stale. Fresh app-15368 CI and formal independent review are required for this head.

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Exact-base refresh

The default branch advanced while the P1 fix was being verified.

  • prior candidate head: 716fbdf83c64f040fa31b35d9e0c7277b57d1042
  • prior base: 6ae9452848fd1bdec38aaef78efc842f5e938de3
  • new base: fbe3850b94bfa153a169d5bb67348c1b312e3be6
  • current head: 72068c827ae29fb95317d2cd8c649844bfbb77f1
  • merge first parent: prior candidate head
  • merge second parent: new base
  • history: ordinary merge; no rebase, reset, force-push, or rewrite

The only conflict was the append-only restore manifest. Resolution keeps the new profile-graph entries from main, then appends the two publisher entries. Relative to the new base, the candidate still changes exactly the same three allowed paths.

Fresh exact-head proof:

  • fixed runner: all 12 test scripts passed, including the newly merged profile-graph proof;
  • publisher gate: 118/118;
  • full repository ShellCheck 0.11.0: clean;
  • structure, rename, and diff checks: clean.

Every earlier CI and review is stale. Fresh CI and formal independent review must bind this exact head/base.

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Reviewed-head: 72068c8
Reviewed-base: fbe3850
reviewer: operator-default @ high

Posted verbatim by codex-review.sh (codex exec review --json --base refs/codex-review/192-52551/base in an isolated temp worktree, sandbox forced read-only). Comments only — Codex never pushes, approves, or merges.

Postflight can issue an authoritative-looking completed receipt from a well-formed but fabricated preflight record. This undermines the gate's core review and CI evidence guarantees.

Review comment:

  • [P1] Revalidate authorization evidence in postflight — /var/folders/rm/bkx4f4b91vqfn79vk02pcd140000gn/T/tmp.x3LUtBcvia/scripts/construction-publisher-gate.sh:711-713
    When preflight.json is replaced or semantically edited before postflight, this validation checks only field shapes and fixed constants. Valid-looking changes to the CI run ID, review comment/digest, request digest, or allowed paths are accepted and copied into a completed receipt without being rechecked against GitHub. Consequently, any matching squash merge can be represented as having review and CI evidence that never existed; postflight must authenticate the original preflight output or revalidate its authorization evidence.

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Formal review response — comment 5468659263

New exact head: 1be38f2c65c06ff8e78f94af16e353f93aef3f4e
Base unchanged: fbe3850b94bfa153a169d5bb67348c1b312e3be6

The P1 receipt-authentication finding is fixed at the trust boundary.

Postflight now requires the original request.json in addition to the preflight and connector result. It canonicalizes and validates that request, recomputes its SHA-256, and requires the complete request tuple to match preflight.

Before any completed receipt, it then re-reads and validates from GitHub:

  • repository, exact mode, Roadmap, north star, installed gate/test blobs, and ruleset;
  • exact independent review comment ID, body digest, timestamps, head, and base;
  • exact changed paths and complete base/head restore manifests;
  • exact base-to-head ancestry and frozen PR Add the v1 portable core contract validator (inactive) #183 tuple;
  • exact app-15368 CI check-run ID, URL, head, and success.

Only then does it re-read the head tree, squash parent/tree, and main. Any mismatch produces merged_unverified with retry_allowed:false; it cannot produce a completed receipt.

New regressions cover a well-formed forged CI run ID, matching forged request+review evidence, matching forged request+path evidence, divergent ancestry, and moved PR #183. Publisher proof is now 130/130.

Exact-head proof:

  • fixed runner: all 12 test scripts passed;
  • publisher gate: 130/130;
  • full repository ShellCheck 0.11.0: clean;
  • structure, rename, and diff checks: clean;
  • independent read-only fix audit: no remaining Important finding.

All CI and review evidence on 72068c8... is stale. Fresh app-15368 CI and formal independent review are required for this head.

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Reviewed-head: 1be38f2
Reviewed-base: fbe3850
reviewer: operator-default @ high

Posted verbatim by codex-review.sh (codex exec review --json --base refs/codex-review/192-9085/base in an isolated temp worktree, sandbox forced read-only). Comments only — Codex never pushes, approves, or merges.

The publisher gate treats a moving property of frozen PR #183 as immutable. This prevents normal preflight after main advances and prevents successful postflight receipt generation after the gate's own merge.

Review comment:

  • [P1] Stop pinning the frozen PR's moving base SHA — /var/folders/rm/bkx4f4b91vqfn79vk02pcd140000gn/T/tmp.giHmJXKKNp/scripts/construction-publisher-gate.sh:433-434
    For an open PR targeting main, GitHub's .base.sha follows the current target-branch tip, so it changes whenever any construction PR is merged even though PR Add the v1 portable core contract validator (inactive) #183's head, state, and labels remain frozen. Since the mode record pins an older SHA, preflight already fails after main advances; moreover, a successful connector merge necessarily advances main, causing this same check during postflight to reject every completed merge receipt. Validate the frozen PR's base ref and fixed head/state/labels instead of requiring its base SHA to remain fixed.

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Review response — comment 5468742253

The proposed .base.sha change is not applied because the live API disproves the finding on the exact frozen PR.

After main advanced to 94afa6a925c203051133f3017589f1848ee580c8, this read:

GET /repos/yihanzhu/ystack/pulls/183

still returned:

  • state: open
  • base.ref: main
  • base.sha: 14988a8a5392e888ff1aaee4c48afa5024bee003
  • head.sha: ab4a7082f02e67b5748c5c54b9214f37d222f53f
  • labels: round-3, needs-human
  • updated_at: 2026-08-29T18:45:36Z

That is exactly the mode's frozen tuple even though current main is now several commits ahead. The moving target-branch tip is checked separately through git/ref/heads/main; this PR payload's frozen base SHA is not that value.

No code changes were made for this finding. Separately, main moved during the review, so the review is stale regardless of this disagreement. The branch will now merge exact main 94afa6a... without rebase or rewrite, then obtain fresh CI and a fresh full review on the new head/base.

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Exact-base refresh — construction authority policy

The parent construction pipeline merged policy PR #194 while the prior review was running.

  • first parent: 1be38f2c65c06ff8e78f94af16e353f93aef3f4e
  • second parent / new base: 94afa6a925c203051133f3017589f1848ee580c8
  • current head: 8e90fe120aab0a5cb378ca8bd9f3ed8451684815
  • history: ordinary merge; no rebase, reset, force-push, or rewrite
  • merge result: clean; only AGENTS.md arrived from main
  • diff versus new main: exactly the same three publisher paths

The new policy explicitly says the active identity-matching ystack-self construction overlay is the sole narrow merge exception and authorizes only its named publisher after exact gates pass. No publisher code changed during this refresh.

Fresh exact-head proof:

  • fixed runner: all 12 test scripts passed;
  • publisher gate: 130/130;
  • full repository ShellCheck 0.11.0: clean;
  • structure, rename, and diff checks: clean.

The review on base fbe3850... is stale. Its PR #183 base-sha finding was also disproved by a live API read after main reached 94afa6a...: PR #183 still reports the exact frozen base 14988a8.... Fresh CI and full formal review must bind 8e90fe1... / 94afa6a....

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Reviewed-head: 8e90fe1
Reviewed-base: 94afa6a
reviewer: operator-default @ high

Posted verbatim by codex-review.sh (codex exec review --json --base refs/codex-review/192-51924/base in an isolated temp worktree, sandbox forced read-only). Comments only — Codex never pushes, approves, or merges.

The frozen-PR validation treats normal movement of main as a mutation of PR #183, preventing the publisher gate from completing its intended merge workflow.

Review comment:

  • [P1] Stop pinning the frozen PR's moving base SHA — /var/folders/rm/bkx4f4b91vqfn79vk02pcd140000gn/T/tmp.ANXqnUeRZD/scripts/construction-publisher-gate.sh:434-434
    For an open PR targeting main, GitHub's .base.sha follows the base branch tip, so it changes whenever any construction PR merges even though PR Add the v1 portable core contract validator (inactive) #183 itself remains untouched. Comparing it with the historical frozen_pr_183_base makes preflight fail once main advances and also makes postflight reject the authorized merge that just advanced main; validate the base ref and the frozen head/state/labels instead of requiring this SHA to remain fixed.

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Reviewed-head: 8e90fe1
Reviewed-base: 94afa6a
reviewer: /root/final_fast_lane_review @ high

完成 Bugs、Security、Compliance 三轮只读审查。

  • Bugs:完整检查 publisher gate、postflight reconciliation、receipt 及测试。目标测试 130/130 通过。
  • Security:写路径仅为预检输出中固定的 github_merge_pull_request 参数;脚本自身只读,无 gh pr merge、REST/GraphQL 写入、ref 写入或失败回退。Exact head/base、app 15368 CI、review、ruleset、allowed paths、squash parent/tree/main 均绑定并 fail closed。
  • Compliance:diff 仅含 ci/required-files.txtscripts/construction-publisher-gate.shscripts/test/construction-publisher-gate.test.sh。未触碰 frozen PR Add the v1 portable core contract validator (inactive) #183、portable-core、constitution/forbidden paths、live yshifu 或外部 target。工作树保持 clean。
  • Live PR construction: add GitHub connector publisher gate #192:open、clean,head/base 与上述 tuple 一致;唯一最新 ci 来自 app 15368,check run 99259450651,结论 success
  • Live PR Add the v1 portable core contract validator (inactive) #183 核验:current main 为 94afa6a925c203051133f3017589f1848ee580c8;GET pulls/183 返回 state=openhead.sha=ab4a7082f02e67b5748c5c54b9214f37d222f53fbase.ref=mainbase.sha=14988a8a5392e888ff1aaee4c48afa5024bee003、labels=round-3, needs-human,与 mode record 完全一致。

无 unresolved Important。

重复的 PR #183 base.sha finding 被具体 live API 证据驳回:main 已推进至 94afa6a…,而 PR #183base.sha 仍保持 mode pin 的 14988a8…。因此 cpg_validate_frozen_pr 当前检查的是该 frozen PR 的稳定 base snapshot;它不会仅因 main 前进而误报。

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Construction publish receipt: head 8e90fe1 on base 94afa6a squash-merged as 3dbd969. Merge parent equals reviewed base; merge tree fc01c5e5fce5727efd19a03879c7732d8cc92ccb equals reviewed head tree; fetched main equals the merge commit.

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