ci: reuse the normal build for an advisory ABI/API check, published safely

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Advisory abicheck integration for PVXS. ABICC (abi-diff.sh) remains authoritative throughout; this check never gates.

Scope: 7 files, 1,174 added lines, all CI and documentation. No runtime source change. Inline shell+Python across the whole integration: 257 → 100 lines (−61%).

Summary

Consumes the build PVXS already performs, captures each public component once, compares against reusable baselines, and reports ABI/API changes to the pull request without giving contributor builds privileged access.

candidate build (1x, existing matrix leg)
  -> capture libpvxs + libpvxsIoc once each (L2, installed headers + installed DSOs)
  -> compare vs accepted-main and vs release-contract (advisory)
  -> retain canonical reports + diagnostics
  -> trusted, report-only workflow_run publisher
  -> one PR comment covering both components

One build. One capture per component per revision, reused for every comparison and for rendering. Nothing re-extracts; nothing re-compares to produce a comment.

Dependency

Every abicheck Action and reusable workflow is pinned to one merged, immutable revision: 902ee99 on abicheck main — the merge of abicheck #1325, "Close the four gaps that made a consumer reimplement publication, provenance and binding". No unmerged revision, no mutable branch, no placeholder ref, no guessed SHA.

What PVXS owns, and what it no longer does

The generic machinery belongs to abicheck. PVXS declares its components and its policy, and nothing else.

Deleted from PVXS	Upstream owner
.github/actions/abicheck-publish-baseline/action.yml (149 lines)	publish-baseline.yml — baseline-set-artifact-prefix + baseline-set-source-run-*
tested-sha.txt writer (producer) and parser (privileged publisher)	actions/aggregate record-analysis-context
second verify-source-run call + second artifact download	verify-source-run provenance-from / report-from
recursive inline JSON binding routine (~54 lines)	actions/baseline library-spec-bindings
hand-written gh/jq tag peeling in the bootstrap	verify-baseline-source mode: tag
manual resolve+compare orchestration per channel	actions/check-target, over already-captured snapshots
analyzed == 0 ⇒ "baselines unavailable" rule + duplicate status echo	aggregate.txt + the document's own coverage/status/channels
.ci-local/abicheck-inputs.sh (126)	actions/baseline library-spec
.ci-local/abicheck-snapshots.sh (69)	actions/resolve-baseline kind: members
.ci-local/abicheck-collect.sh (63), -validate-aggregate.sh (65)	actions/aggregate

Zero abicheck .sh files remain, and PVXS now has no publisher, no schema parser, no second verifier and no expected-check construction of its own.

What replaces them is a declaration — .ci-local/abicheck-components.json:

Component	Owned public surface	Include-only context
libpvxs	every installed include/pvxs/*.h except iochooks.h	include/, EPICS include/, include/os/Linux, include/compiler/gcc
libpvxsIoc	include/pvxs/iochooks.h only	the same roots plus the installed core headers

An include root is parser context. It never widens what a component is held responsible for.

Two assertions are kept deliberately, because a glob alone would lose them and a pattern matching nothing is a hard error upstream:

• versionNum.h is named explicitly as well as matched by *.h. Verified: with the glob alone a missing generated header resolves silently to 14 headers — which would report every versionNum declaration as removed.
• header_exclude on iochooks.h fails if that header ever moves, so libpvxs cannot quietly re-acquire its sibling's declarations.

The only project-specific logic left in the capture Action is where cue.py recorded EPICS_BASE, which EPICS_HOST_ARCH it built for, and the native-Linux guard. Those are build-system facts, not ABI facts. Binding those two values into the declaration is now library-spec-bindings, which walks the document as JSON and inserts each value literally — a textual pass mangles any value containing &, a quote or a backslash.

Build reuse

The capture runs inside the existing Native Linux (WError) leg — the one configuration carrying the abicheck: 1 marker — after that leg's own tests, so no other consumer of the checkout is disturbed. It runs even when those tests failed, as long as the build produced an installation: an unrelated red test must not hide an ABI finding.

No second build, no second dependency preparation, no source-tree inputs, no EPICS Makefile internals reconstructed.

Evidence depth, stated plainly

--depth headers (L2): exported symbols and DWARF plus the public header AST. Build-flag and toolchain drift (L3) are not covered. L4/L5 source evidence is not collected and is not enabled implicitly. Debug information is whatever the normal build produced.

Baselines

Two questions, separately labelled, never merged into one number:

• accepted-main — what did this PR introduce? The ci-scripts-build.yml run for the PR's exact base commit. Declared only on pull_request events: a push or tag build has no PR base, and declaring it there would manufacture a missing check for a question nobody asked.
• release-contract — what changed since the selected supported release? A release asset published only from a tag build.

Eligibility is actions/verify-baseline-source, not shell here: refs/tags/<name> resolved explicitly rather than through a revision endpoint (which would resolve a branch), annotated tags peeled, no v prefix assumed (PVXS tags are bare versions like 1.5.2), the capture must belong to the tagged commit, not_found kept distinct from lookup_failed, and each rejection printed so "no eligible baseline" can say what it did see. PVXS still fetches the bytes; only the decision is upstream's.

A missing, expired, wrong-profile or incompatible baseline is an explicit incomplete outcome, never a clean result.

Publication and bootstrap

Both paths call abicheck's reusable publish-baseline.yml, which owns packaging, the manifest/schema/profile/generation/digest gate, tag resolution and the immutability chain — identity-verified idempotent republish and fail-closed on a conflicting asset, rather than the filename-only idempotence the deleted local Action had. There is no second publisher and no retained fallback; the overwrite dispatch input is gone with it.

• Automatic. A mode: tag gate establishes that the pushed ref really is a tag naming the built commit; publication then takes the bytes from that already-completed producer run through the API, with the run's repository, workflow, event, id, attempt and conclusion each verified and artifacts selected by their own ids. A pull-request-triggered producer is refused unconditionally.
• Bootstrap (workflow_dispatch, one-time per release). Read-only build of the historical revision with PVXS's normal cue.py prepare / libevent.py / build commands and the same component declaration as the candidate, then capture; the set crosses to the publishing job as an artifact, not a local path assumed to survive a job boundary. Read-only build and trusted write-capable publication stay separate jobs, and the write-capable half refuses to run off anything but the default branch.

The publication tag and the revision a set records are two different identifiers: expected-project-ref: commit resolves the tag and requires the set's own project_ref to equal that commit. A SHA-valued manifest is never rewritten to satisfy a tag-valued validator.

Security

The analysis stays unprivileged: contents: read, actions: read, no secrets. A fork PR is never given write access to make a comment work, and contributor code is never run under pull_request_target.

abicheck-report.yml is a separate trusted publisher running from the default branch on workflow_run with only actions: read + pull-requests: write. It runs no analysis, compiler or build query, resolves the PR through the API rather than trusting the artifact, and orders the sticky comment by the producing run rather than the publishing one.

The artifact is acquired once. On a pull_request run the analysed revision is an ephemeral merge commit no API endpoint names, so actions/aggregate records it into the aggregate document's own analysis_context block (tested revision, PR head, PR base, producer run and attempt, orchestration ref — five separate fields, emitted for a zero-comparison run too), and verify-source-run reads it back with provenance-from out of the extraction it already performed, verifies that commit's association with the pull request through the API, and returns the document with report-from. This replaces the previous consumer sidecar, its privileged shell parser, and the second whole verify-source-run pass that downloaded the same bytes again. require-provenance: true means an artifact recording no context is refused, never silently reported as the PR head; a verified run whose report member is missing is an explicit unavailable-analysis answer.

post-on: changes is restored. The pinned revision clears a resolved result in place and posts for a material analysis limitation, so always is not needed merely to clear a stale warning.

Safe publication is not independent attestation: the report's contents remain contributor-generated evidence. What is enforced is the recipient and the execution boundary.

Declarations and summary

The four checks are named once, by a declaration step deliberately independent of whether any comparison ran — the event's policy decides what is expected, and a check that produced nothing is declared with an empty report so it aggregates as unavailable instead of vanishing. Upstream enforces agreement: a report recording its own target_id is authoritative, so a declaration disagreeing with the identity check-target computed is refused, not silently relabelled. No target@profile#channel@depth strings are reconstructed, no consumer loop and no per-combination matrix were added.

One canonical bounded renderer: aggregate.txt plus the document's own coverage/status/compatibility-exit/channels. The handwritten rule that analyzed == 0 means "baselines unavailable" is gone — zero analyses can equally mean a failed capture or a corrupt report, and only the structured outcome knows which. coverage: empty remains unmistakably incomplete, never compatible.

Extraction context

The -std=c++17 override is retained and disclosed. Measured on the toolchain CI selects (CastXML 0.6.20260105-g9864b1e, bundled Clang 21.1.8, GCC 13.3.0, libstdc++ 13) by running abicheck dump over the real header set once per mode:

Mode	Result
-std=c++11	FAILS — char_traits.h:125:7: constexpr function's return type 'void' is not a literal type
-std=c++14	FAILS — new_allocator.h:147:31: call to '__builtin_operator_new' selects non-usual allocation function
-std=c++17	OK

Two different failures, not one. A bare castxml call parses these headers in C++11 quite happily; it is the extraction pipeline that does not. C++17 extraction is not validation of C++11 consumer behaviour, and the config carries a short current-limitation note rather than this history.

PVXS_API_BUILDING and PVXS_ENABLE_EXPERT_API remain deliberately unset: headers are parsed the way an ordinary consumer sees them.

Validation

Live CI on the current head

Run 35280072142 on 7cbd1c3 — PVXS EPICS green, 18/18 jobs, ABI/API check (advisory) green with every step successful. Read from its log rather than inferred from the tick:

Check	Evidence
All pinned Actions load and run	verify-baseline-source, resolve-baseline, check-target (×4), aggregate all executed at 902ee99
One capture, both components, reused	snapshot-paths={"libpvxs": …/libpvxs.abicheck.json.zst, "libpvxsIoc": …/libpvxsIoc.abicheck.json.zst}, each outcome: resolved; all four comparisons read those two files, and Capture ABI snapshots is skipped on every non-WError leg
Canonical check identity	the four check-id values emitted by check-target match the declaration verbatim, separators intact: libpvxs@…#accepted-main@headers, libpvxsIoc@…#accepted-main@headers, libpvxs@…#release-contract@headers~release, libpvxsIoc@…#release-contract@headers~release
Missing baseline is an outcome, not a crash	all four: outcome=not_found → verdict=NO_BASELINE, step success — zero occurrences of ambiguous in the whole log
record-analysis-context	step succeeded; context recorded into the aggregate document
Aggregate	aggregate ok: status fail, coverage empty, 0/4 target(s) analyzed
Bounded summary rendered	aggregate.txt written to the job summary beside coverage/status/compatibility-exit/channels

The only two non-zero exits in the job are the two continue-on-error staging steps, reporting the missing baselines honestly: no release to resolve a release-contract baseline from, and eligible baseline run 35182897594 has no abicheck-candidate-… artifact (expired or never produced).

A defect the previous run exposed, fixed in 7cbd1c3. In run 35277576445 both accepted-main checks failed hard with resolve-baseline failed (ambiguous): … exists but does not contain a manifest.json. A mkdir -p step that pre-created the baseline channel directories defeated its own purpose: resolve-baseline separates path does not exist (not_found, the bootstrap case these checks opt into) from path exists without a manifest.json (a partial restore or stripped artifact — a hard failure), so pre-creating turned every unpublished baseline into a corrupt-evidence error. Both download commands create their own --dir. The table above is the same job after the fix.

Local comparison evidence

Measured on the previous pin, with one declaration and the toolchain CI selects. The capture contract is unchanged by this consolidation, so these remain valid for the comparison path itself:

Check	Old side	Verdict	Gating	Public +/−/mod
libpvxs vs accepted-main	base b5024df	COMPATIBLE	0	0 / 0 / 0
libpvxsIoc vs accepted-main	base b5024df	COMPATIBLE	0	0 / 0 / 0
libpvxs vs release-contract	tag 1.5.2 (8e00eae)	BREAKING	2	1 / 2 / 0
libpvxsIoc vs release-contract	tag 1.5.2 (8e00eae)	COMPATIBLE	0	0 / 0 / 0

The channels disagree, and that is the point. Against its own base this PR introduces nothing — correct for a CI-and-docs-only diff. Against release 1.5.2 libpvxs reports breaking: two weak typeinfo symbols for a lambda inside SharedPV::Impl::connectSub(...) exist in 1.5.2 and not afterwards, absent from both base and head, so it is drift between the release and master, not this PR's doing. nm -D corroborates the symbols' presence and absence as export-table evidence; it does not by itself establish a supported-public-ABI break, and the scanner's verdict, that binary evidence and the contract interpretation are kept distinct.

Control	Result
Capture parity, new resolver vs deleted script	identical artifacts, headers, include roots
Independent rebuild, same revision	COMPATIBLE, 0 gating
Disposable public break (testAfterShutdown() removed from the binary)	func_removed, breaking, artifact_proven, gating 1, exit 4
Disposable compatible addition (abicheckProbe(long))	func_added, compatible, non-gating
Snapshot independence	compared in 1s after source and install trees were deleted; no re-extraction
Test mutations in shared source	none — controls lived in a throwaway worktree
Generated header missing	capture refused by name
iochooks.h renamed	stale-exclusion refused by name
Corrupted report	tracked as unusable, distinct from "never ran"
Declaration step, comparisons skipped / present / push event	4 checks with empty reports / 4 with paths / 2 release-contract only

Every comparison also reports 339–517 non-gating risk changes; comparing a revision against an independent rebuild of itself still yields 339. That is the noise floor of the known upstream attribution defect, not change — and part of why this stays advisory.

Still not demonstrated

No completed comparison has run in CI, because neither baseline exists in this fork yet — the green job above analysed 0/4, and says so. The acceptance rows needing eligible old-side evidence (four real comparisons in CI, surface controls, rebuild/relocation, corrupt-report handling) remain unproven here, as do the bootstrap path and any publication. A green advisory job is not evidence of four comparisons.

Channel	Why	What would change it
accepted-main	the base commit is on master, whose ci-scripts-build.yml contains no abicheck integration, so no push run of that revision ever produced — or could produce — a candidate artifact	this integration reaching the default branch
release-contract	the fork has tags but zero GitHub Releases, so there is no release to carry an asset	an authorized one-time bootstrap dispatch of abicheck-baseline.yml

Neither is worked around: no baseline is fabricated, no revision is silently substituted, no channel is quietly dropped, and missing coverage is reported as missing.

Known issues — abicheck product bugs, not papered over

Attribution: EPICS Base and libstdc++ symbols reached only through -I roots are still listed as libpvxs's own, and pvxs::version_* as libpvxsIoc's. Both fold to 0 gating findings and are labelled pre-existing on both sides. No suppressions were added here, and this stays advisory until they are fixed.

Remaining blockers — upstream, not consumer glue

actions/report cannot be loaded at 902ee99. Two of its input descriptions quote ${{ github.event.workflow_run.id }} (actions/report/action.yml:122) and ${{ github.event.workflow_run.run_attempt }} (:133) as usage examples. GitHub Actions evaluates expressions inside action metadata and the github context does not exist there, so the file fails template validation and any job referencing it dies in "Set up job" before a step runs:

abicheck/abicheck/<sha>/actions/report/action.yml (Line: 119, Col: 18):
Unrecognized named-value: 'github'.

Unconditional and independent of the inputs a caller passes. The green run above isolates it to this one Action: every other pinned Action loaded and ran in the same job. Until upstream quotes those two as plain text, abicheck-report.yml cannot publish. Nothing is reimplemented here to route around it.

Non-blocking, owed upstream: publish-baseline.yml has no expected-member-set input, so "this set covers both libpvxs and libpvxsIoc" is no longer asserted at publication time. Coverage is still enforced where it matters — the capture fails if either component's declared headers resolve to nothing, and resolve-baseline kind: members reports a missing member as an explicit unavailable check — so no fallback was retained for it.

Deployment prerequisite: workflow_run only runs the default-branch copy, so until a maintainer merges these workflows there, no PR — including this one — publishes a comment or a baseline. That is by design, and no upstream publication is claimed.

See documentation/abicheck.md for the operational guide (setup, surfaces, baseline policy, permissions, interpreting outcomes, troubleshooting, current limitations).

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The pull request adds advisory ABI/API capture, comparison, baseline publication, and report workflows for libpvxs and libpvxsIoc. It adds validated EPICS build resolution, pinned actions, release publication controls, and supporting documentation.

Changes

ABI validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
ABI capture configuration and execution .ci-local/*, .github/actions/abicheck-capture/action.yml, .github/workflows/ci-scripts-build.yml	Defines component headers and C++17 extraction settings. Resolves the Linux EPICS build context and captures ABI snapshots from the native build.
ABI baseline publication .github/actions/abicheck-publish-baseline/action.yml, .github/workflows/abicheck-baseline.yml	Validates baseline manifests and tag revisions. Publishes eligible producer artifacts and supports verified historical-release bootstrap with controlled overwrites.
Advisory ABI comparison .github/workflows/ci-scripts-build.yml, documentation/abicheck.md	Stages accepted-main and release-contract baselines, compares candidate snapshots, and documents incomplete and advisory comparison outcomes.
Trusted ABI report publication .github/workflows/abicheck-report.yml, documentation/abicheck.md	Verifies producer workflow data, artifacts, pull-request association, and analyzed commits before publishing ordered reports.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Build as Native Linux build
  participant Capture as ABI capture
  participant Compare as ABI comparison
  participant Publish as Report publication
  Build->>Capture: create libpvxs and libpvxsIoc snapshots
  Capture->>Compare: provide candidate snapshots and metadata
  Compare->>Publish: provide aggregate reports
  Publish->>Publish: verify producer identity and publish reports

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ABI publication controls appear bounded, but unresolved existing concerns include false discovery state changes, a concurrent pending-operation mutation, and skipped close callbacks. Resolve or explicitly accept these remaining risks before merging.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 24.62% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 65 functions across 33 files. (6 skipped:…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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src/sharedpv.cpp (1)

239-239: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Protect pending in the operation-close callback.

ConnectOp::onClose() executes on the server worker, while SharedPV::open() moves impl->pending under impl->lock and may run from another thread. Concurrent access to the std::set causes a data race. Take Guard G(self->lock) before self->pending.erase(conn).

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In `@src/sharedpv.cpp` at line 239, Update ConnectOp::onClose() to acquire
self->lock with Guard before erasing conn from self->pending, synchronizing with
SharedPV::open() and preventing concurrent access to the set.

src/serverintrospect.cpp (1)

47-49: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Invoke cleanup() when GET_FIELD completes.

ServerIntrospect::doReply() bypasses ServerOp::cleanup(), so onClose callbacks do not run after successful or error replies. cleanup() also performs the required map removal.

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-        state = ServerOp::Dead;
-        conn->opByIOID.erase(ioid);
-        ch->opByIOID.erase(ioid);
+        cleanup();

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In `@src/serverintrospect.cpp` around lines 47 - 49, Update
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In @.ci-local/abicheck-diff.sh:
- Around line 117-118: Update the summary JSON generation around the status-file
initialization to JSON-encode OLD_REF and NEW_REF before interpolating them into
the document, using the existing shell tooling or a safe serializer such as jq
--arg; preserve the current old_sha and new_sha fields and output structure.

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- Around line 49-50: Format all diagnostic output in setup.py instead of passing
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at line 75 before calling print().

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- Line 810: Update procSearchReply() and the ContextImpl::onBeacon()
beacon-change handling so discovery replies without beaconChange are not treated
as zero: track whether the field is present, and only compare or store
beaconChange for received CMD_BEACON messages, preventing synthetic beacons from
triggering change events or overwriting the tracked counter.

In `@tools/put.cpp`:
- Line 33: Update the usage output in the put command’s help text to remove the
misleading stdin redirection syntax and show separate usage forms for positional
value arguments and field=value arguments, matching the actual parsing behavior.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@src/serverintrospect.cpp`:
- Around line 47-49: Update ServerIntrospect::doReply() to invoke
ServerOp::cleanup() when GET_FIELD handling completes, for both successful and
error replies. Remove the direct opByIOID erasures and rely on cleanup() to
perform map removal and trigger onClose callbacks.

In `@src/sharedpv.cpp`:
- Line 239: Update ConnectOp::onClose() to acquire self->lock with Guard before
erasing conn from self->pending, synchronizing with SharedPV::open() and
preventing concurrent access to the set.

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The walkthrough summary is still anchored at 7143f5d and reports Merge Risk: High, citing the historical-publication credential exposure, the capture failure and the clean-PR-reporting gap. All four findings from that review were fixed in b13f69d, and each thread is marked "✅ Addressed in commit b13f69d" — it is only the summary block that has not regenerated, so it now overstates the risk on the current head.

Two commits since: d97e677 repins every abicheck Action from 0b50f80 to 80cf72a, and a4965ce is documentation only.

The repin is worth a look, because it fixes something this PR could not see. At 0b50f80, actions/report declared and documented source-run-id/source-run-attempt and its run.sh read INPUT_SOURCE_RUN_ID, but action.yml never forwarded them into the step environment — so the values this workflow passes were discarded and the comment-ordering guard silently fell back to the publisher's own GITHUB_RUN_ID. abicheck #1319 fixes the forwarding. Drift across the eight pinned Actions between those two revisions is exactly that two-line change.

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Correct, and fixed in ea4f758. This one is worth spelling out because it was a gap in the fix I made two commits earlier, not an independent finding.

Splitting the bootstrap into a read-only build job and a write-scoped publish job closed the route where historical code overwrites ./.github/actions/abicheck-publish-baseline before the runner loads it. It left a second route open: workflow_dispatch runs from whichever ref is selected, and actions/checkout with no ref: takes that ref — so dispatching from any branch loads the publishing action from that branch into the job holding contents: write and github.token. Same exposure, different path.

What makes it worse than a missing guard: the job carried the comment # Default branch only. A reviewer reading that has no reason to check whether the YAML actually says so. It didn't. The documentation repeated the same unbacked claim.

Now enforced twice, as suggested — the job refuses to run unless github.ref is the default branch, and its checkout names that branch explicitly rather than inheriting it:

    if: >-
      github.ref == format('refs/heads/{0}', github.event.repository.default_branch)
...
    - uses: actions/checkout@v6
      with:
        ref: ${{ github.event.repository.default_branch }}

bootstrap-build is left unrestricted deliberately, as you noted it should be: it is read-only, so dispatching it from a branch to exercise the capture is safe, and the publish job simply does not run.

One check worth recording: the workflow_run tag-publication job does not need the same guard. workflow_run always runs the default-branch copy of the workflow and its checked-out ref is the default branch by construction, so there is no selectable ref to abuse there.

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• The "bootstrap workflow exposes a write-capable token to code from a selected branch" risk was fixed in ea4f758. bootstrap-publish now refuses to run unless github.ref is the default branch, and its checkout names that branch explicitly instead of inheriting the dispatch ref. bootstrap-build stays unrestricted and read-only on purpose.
• e27eb5f is documentation only.

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🟠 Major · Validate the manifest revision before publication. · action.yml:38-101

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Validate the manifest revision before publication. The bootstrap job executes the requested tag's code before it loads the capture action, then transfers the resulting artifact to the publishing job. That code can alter the capture action or manifest. The publisher checks only .profile and library names, so an artifact with a different .project_ref can be published under the requested tag. Release-contract comparisons can then use snapshots from the wrong revision and report incorrect ABI changes.

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🟠 Major · Validate the manifest revision before publication. · .github/actions/abicheck-publish-baseline/action.yml:38-101

Verified and fixed in 08b895b. The finding is correct, and checking it made it slightly worse than reported.

The publisher validated profile and that both components were present, but never project_ref. What I checked next was whether anything downstream caught it anyway — it doesn't, and the asymmetry is deliberate:

• the two accepted-main check-target steps pass expected-project-ref, because a pull request knows exactly which commit its baseline must describe;
• the two release-contract check-target steps (rel-core, rel-ioc) pass none, because the release is selected at consumption time, so the consumer has no expected ref to assert.

So for the channel this action publishes to, the publisher was the only place a wrong-revision set could ever be caught, on either path. A poisoned or simply mistaken set would have produced release-contract comparisons reporting the gap between two revisions as ABI change.

On the bootstrap path specifically, your premise holds: that job runs the historical revision's own build system in the shared workspace before the runner loads ./.github/actions/abicheck-capture from this checkout, so that code can influence what is captured and what the manifest records. Splitting the job in d97e677 took the write token out of its reach — it did not make the artifact it hands over trustworthy. Those are different properties and I had only fixed the first.

The check now runs before staging or upload, resolving the tag the same way the rest of this integration does — refs/tags/<name> explicitly rather than the commits endpoint (which would resolve a branch of the same name), peeling an annotated tag rather than accepting the tag object's sha. Exercised against a stubbed API:

Case	Result
manifest revision == peeled tag commit	passes
manifest revision is a different commit	refused by name
manifest records the annotated-tag object sha, unpeeled	refused
manifest has no project_ref	refused

documentation/abicheck.md gains a section stating why the check lives in the publisher rather than in the consumer.

On the Docstring Coverage warning (24.62%, "65 functions across 33 files"): still not applicable — this PR's diff is 8 files of CI and documentation and defines no functions.

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Completion pass: the check now actually compares something

Three commits since the last review (5a129fa, f5ade4a, on top of 08b895b). Scope is unchanged — 8 files, CI and documentation, no runtime source change.

The headline: four real comparisons

This branch previously proved the plumbing but had never compared anything. All three revisions have now been built and captured with one declaration and the toolchain CI actually selects:

Check	Old side	Verdict	Gating
libpvxs vs accepted-main	base b5024df	COMPATIBLE	0
libpvxsIoc vs accepted-main	base b5024df	COMPATIBLE	0
libpvxs vs release-contract	tag 1.5.2	BREAKING	2
libpvxsIoc vs release-contract	tag 1.5.2	COMPATIBLE	0

The channels disagree, which is the point. Against its own base this PR introduces nothing. Against 1.5.2, libpvxs is breaking because two weak typeinfo symbols for a lambda inside SharedPV::Impl::connectSub(...) are in 1.5.2 and gone afterwards — confirmed independently of abicheck with nm -D: present in 1.5.2, absent from both base and head. So it is drift between the release and master, not this PR's doing. A release-relative finding is never automatically a change this PR introduced.

A wrong answer I'm recording rather than quietly fixing

The first attempt reported libpvxsIoc BREAKING against its own base — impossible for a CI-and-docs-only diff. The shared checkout's installed include/ tree (a gitignored build output) still held an earlier session's disposable controls, while its source and binary were clean. The candidate snapshot came from a stale mutated install. abicheck was right about the inputs it was given; the inputs were wrong. Everything above was re-measured from fresh worktrees, and the git source was never affected.

Three defects found and fixed

1. The component declaration was rendered with sed, which is not JSON escaping. Measured with values a path may legitimately contain: & produced a silently wrong value, " produced invalid JSON, a backslash was dropped, | failed the command. EPICS_BASE comes from configure/RELEASE.local, so its content isn't ours to constrain. Now bound by a JSON reader/writer over exactly two names.

2. The publisher displayed a commit the analysis never looked at. verify-source-run's tested-sha was never passed, and empty means "the run's own head SHA" — the PR head, not the merge commit actually captured. The comment beside that step asserted the opposite, so the property lived in prose only. Now the documented two-pass shape, with the producer's claim validated as a full hex SHA and re-verified through the API.

3. A green advisory job said nothing about having compared nothing. The summary now leads with ABI/API comparison not performed: 0/4 checks completed.

Extraction context, corrected

The -std=c++17 override stays, but its recorded reason was wrong — it blamed CastXML 0.7.0/Clang 20, a local experiment on a toolchain CI does not use. Re-measured on the real one: C++11 and C++14 both fail, for two different reasons, and C++17 is the only mode that extracts. A bare castxml call parses these headers in C++11 happily; it is the extraction pipeline that does not, which is how the earlier measurement reached a confident wrong answer.

Still blocked on you, and not worked around

CI here has still compared 0/4, for two reasons this PR cannot fix:

Channel	Why	Needed
accepted-main	the base commit is on master, whose workflow has no abicheck integration at all — structural, not a flake. Fixing master's failed run would not help; the artifact doesn't exist in that revision's workflow	this integration reaching the default branch
release-contract	the fork has tags but zero GitHub Releases	an authorized one-time bootstrap: create the release for a selected tag, then dispatch abicheck-baseline.yml

Also unchanged: workflow_run only runs the default-branch copy of the publisher, so no PR — including this one — posts a comment until it is merged there. No upstream publication has been tested and none is claimed. I have not created releases, dispatched the bootstrap, or merged anything; those are yours to authorize.

Upstream epics-base/pvxs#216 shares this head branch, so the code changes reach it automatically, but its description is stale and unreachable from my session — a replacement is prepared and ready to paste.

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The summary and merge-risk banner are anchored at e27eb5f, three commits behind the current head f5ade4a. Reviews are paused on this branch, so pushes have not refreshed it.

The Moderate risk it still shows — "the bootstrap path can publish a snapshot from the wrong revision under a release tag" — was fixed in 08b895b. .github/actions/abicheck-publish-baseline now refuses to stage or upload unless the manifest's project_ref equals the commit the tag resolves to, resolving refs/tags/<name> explicitly and peeling annotated tags.

Since then, 5a129fa and f5ade4a changed things worth a fresh look:

• .github/actions/abicheck-capture/action.yml — the component declaration is no longer rendered with sed. Textual substitution is not JSON escaping: measured against real EPICS_BASE values, & produced a silently wrong value, " produced invalid JSON, a backslash was dropped, and | failed the command. It is now bound by a JSON reader/writer over exactly two names, refusing any other ${...}. The extraction config is also resolved against the trusted checkout explicitly rather than relying on the runner's cwd.
• .github/workflows/abicheck-report.yml — two-pass tested-sha verification. The publisher previously displayed the PR head rather than the merge commit the analysis actually captured, because verify-source-run's tested-sha input was never passed and empty means "the run's own head SHA". The producer now records the analysed commit into the reports artifact (it previously went only into the candidate artifact, which the publisher never downloads); the publisher validates it as a full hex SHA before it becomes a step output, then re-verifies it through the API.
• .github/workflows/ci-scripts-build.yml — two new read-only summary steps, including actions/report in dry-run mode (no token, no API, no posting).
• .ci-local/abicheck.yml — the -std=c++17 override is retained, with its recorded justification corrected to what was actually measured on the CI toolchain.

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CI failure at f5ade4a: mine, fixed in 40c8eb8 — and it exposed a blocking upstream defect

PVXS EPICS push run 35182340420 failed. The ABI/API check (advisory) job died in Set up job, before any step ran:

abicheck/abicheck/<sha>/actions/report/action.yml (Line: 119, Col: 18):
Unrecognized named-value: 'github'. Located at position 1 within
expression: github.event.workflow_run.id

My fault for triggering it — the previous commit added a dry-run rendering step using abicheck/abicheck/actions/report to give the analysis job a bounded summary. But the defect is upstream, and it is prose, not logic.

Two input descriptions in actions/report/action.yml quote expressions as usage examples:

  source-run-id:
    description: >
      ... In a `workflow_run` publisher pass
      `${{ github.event.workflow_run.id }}` (or verify-source-run's own ...

Actions evaluates ${{ }} inside input descriptions, and the github context does not exist in action metadata. The same syntax is fine in inputs.*.default — actions/check-target uses default: ${{ github.repository }} happily — but not in a description. Validation happens when the file is parsed, so no caller, input set or trigger avoids it; passing the inputs explicitly does not help.

actions/report is the only abicheck Action with an expression in a description, and no abicheck workflow references actions/report — so it has no in-repo consumer that would have caught this.

The part that matters more than my step

abicheck-report.yml — the trusted publisher — loads the same action, so it cannot work as pinned either. It has never run (it is workflow_run-only and not yet on a default branch), which is why nothing had exercised it. The publication path is now blocked on upstream twice: it needs the default-branch deployment and it needs this fixed.

What I did

Removed the step rather than routing around it. I did not vendor a patched copy of the Action — that is exactly the local reimplementation this integration exists to remove — and deleting two expression markers from upstream's documentation is upstream's call.

The mandated summary survives intact, because it never depended on the broken action:

ABI/API comparison not performed: 0/4 checks completed.
Baselines unavailable; no compatibility verdict was produced.

That line is written from actions/aggregate's own canonical outputs (status, coverage, analyzed/expected, channels) in plain shell.

Reported upstream with this reproduction. Full write-up in documentation/abicheck.md. CI re-running at 40c8eb8.

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Five stale review threads — out of scope here, not dismissed

Cleaning up the thread list after the consolidation. Five threads are still open, all bot-authored and all marked outdated. Every one of them anchors to a file this PR does not modify:

Thread	File	Severity as posted
Absent beacon counter compared as zero	src/client.cpp	🟠 Major (CodeRabbit)
onClose not invoked when GET_FIELD completes	src/pvxs/source.h	P2 (Codex)
Unclaimed source's close handler not cleared	src/serverchan.cpp	P2 (Codex)
print() does not apply %s substitution	setup.py	🟡 Minor (CodeRabbit)
Ambiguous usage line for positional values	tools/put.cpp	🟡 Minor (CodeRabbit)

The current diff is 7 files, all CI and documentation:

.ci-local/abicheck-components.json      .github/workflows/abicheck-baseline.yml
.ci-local/abicheck.yml                  .github/workflows/abicheck-report.yml
.github/actions/abicheck-capture/…      .github/workflows/ci-scripts-build.yml
                                        documentation/abicheck.md

git diff master..HEAD touches none of the five files above — they are byte-identical to master on this branch. These threads date from the period when this PR carried a stale base and appeared to touch src/, ioc/, test/ and tools/; those commits have since landed on master, so the code the comments describe is now master's, not this PR's.

I am resolving them as out of scope, not as answered. The three substantive ones are not refuted by anything here — if they are real they are real in master today, independently of this PR, and they deserve their own issue or PR against the runtime sources. I have deliberately not touched src/, ioc/, tools/ or setup.py: this change is required to make no runtime-source modification, and editing them to close a review thread would both violate that and misattribute the fix to an ABI-tooling PR.

Happy to open separate issues for the three substantive findings if that is useful — say the word and I will, with the original comment links.

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Review sweep 2026-10-03

Checked: the seven changed files at 7cbd1c3, actionlint on all three workflows, the abicheck pin, and mergeability against epics-base/pvxs master. actionlint reports only the three matrix.* property warnings that upstream master already has (test, libevent, extra), so nothing new. The branch is 7 commits behind upstream master, including the 1.5.3 tag, and merges cleanly. The bot threads have been answered or resolved as out of scope.

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blocker (known, still open upstream): the trusted publisher cannot load actions/report (.github/workflows/abicheck-report.yml:117)
This PR documents the issue, so this is a status check. At the pin e38c3f9, actions/report/action.yml still has ${{ … }} in the descriptions of source-run-id and source-run-attempt. It is also still there on abicheck main today (902ee99, 2026-10-04). I found no issue or open PR on abicheck/abicheck that tracks it. Until it's fixed and the pin moves, the publication half of this integration cannot run even after a default-branch merge.
Suggested fix: fix abicheck first (drop the ${{ markers from the two descriptions, or escape them), then repin here.

minor: the commit authorship will show on the upstream PR
epics-base/pvxs#216 uses this same head, and 17 of the 45 commits on it are authored as Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> or Claude <sfasp.post@gmail.com>. Before marking epics-base#216 ready, consider squashing and re-authoring, since upstream maintainers review commit authorship.

Fixed in this sweep

None. The blocker is in abicheck, not in this repository.

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All 193 checks at 7cbd1c3 are green. The 4 publish jobs are skipped, as expected for this trigger.

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Re-checked the sweep's findings against primary sources. Two confirmations and one scope correction.

Blocker: confirmed still open, independently. I fetched abicheck/abicheck main at 902ee99 today and the two expressions are still inside the input descriptions:

actions/report/action.yml:122    `${{ github.event.workflow_run.id }}` (or verify-source-run's own
actions/report/action.yml:133    `workflow_run` publisher, `${{ github.event.workflow_run.run_attempt }}`.

So this is unchanged since the pin e38c3f9, and nothing in this repository can route around it. Note the backticks do not help: GitHub evaluates ${{ … }} while parsing the action metadata, before any Markdown meaning exists, so the fix has to remove the delimiters rather than quote them. The minimal upstream change is to name the context path without the expression wrapper — github.event.workflow_run.id and github.event.workflow_run.run_attempt — which keeps both descriptions equally informative. Nothing else in the file needs to move, and no schema, output or behaviour changes, so repinning here afterwards is a one-line edit to ABICHECK_REF.

Scope correction on "7 commits behind". That is true of epics-base/pvxs master, which is epics-base#216's base. This PR's base is napetrov/pvxs master, still at 3b8f5d1, and it is already merged into the head — git merge-base --is-ancestor confirms it, with zero commits to bring in. So there is no base sync owed on #2, and no conflict. epics-base#216 is the one that would want the upstream merge.

Authorship: your call, and deliberately not mine. Squashing and re-authoring would rewrite history on a branch that is simultaneously the head of #2 and epics-base#216, which would invalidate every existing checkout and review anchor. I am not doing that unilaterally, and this change was required not to rewrite history. If you want it before epics-base#216 goes ready, say so and I will do it as an explicit, announced operation.

Nothing else to act on: CI green at 7cbd1c3, base current, all review threads resolved, description matches the branch. No upstream issue tracks the actions/report defect yet — I cannot file one (this session has read-only access to abicheck/abicheck and no authorization to post there), but the reproduction and the exact patch above are ready to hand over.

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[napetrov]

Audit against abicheck main (902ee99) and its set-up-abi-compatibility-ci skill — d4023bf

Repinned all 16 references e38c3f9 → 902ee99. Verified behaviour-neutral before pushing: exactly one commit separates them ("remove the ABICC compat front end"), which strips ADR cross-references from prose and deletes a front end this integration never used. The only interface additions are optional recording inputs we do not pass — baseline's extraction-context, check-target's build-system / build-generator — and publish-baseline's new project-config / toolchain-bindings-path are gated on mode == 'capture', while this project publishes through its existing-set mode.

Leaner, per the skill's own rule ("add config only for a real decision, never to restate defaults"): dropped severity-preset: default and head-sha: ${{ github.sha }} from all four check-target calls — both are precisely those inputs' upstream defaults. 8 lines, no behaviour change. base-ref stays on the accepted-main pair, where the default is empty and the value is real.

Checked and deliberately not changed

Skill rule / option	Finding
Pin an exact release (@v0.6.0) everywhere	Cannot. aggregate, report, verify-baseline-source and verify-source-run do not exist in v0.6.0, and that tag is not an ancestor of main. Now documented; repin to a release once those four ship in one.
Repeated literal SHA looks like duplication	Required — GitHub does not expand expressions in uses:. ABICHECK_REF carries the same value only to inputs that record it. Documented so it is not "fixed".
Pin the runner image; toolchain drift	Needs no guard here: a mismatched pair resolves as profile_mismatch, verdict: null, exit 16 — explicitly not a pass. Documented.
"Many targets/profiles/channels → use check-project.yml"	Re-tested on current main: still takes candidate binaries plus build-output.json, so it would re-extract libpvxs per cell instead of reusing the one capture. Rejected again, for the same measured reason.
continue-on-error on a check step	Not present. It sits only on the four staging/download steps, which is what makes a missing baseline a reported outcome rather than a silent pass.
mode: scan / against: / audit: (retired in 0.6, now hard errors)	None present. The mode: values here are verify-baseline-source's own tag / producer-run.
Declare deployment.runtime_floors	Not added — that is a new feature, and this change is scoped to consolidation. Worth a separate decision: without declared floors, a glibc raise is only a warning.
Advisory gate needs an explicit flip condition	Already stated: advisory until the upstream attribution defects are fixed.

Counts

Executable/orchestration shrank by 8 lines (inline shell+Python unchanged at 100, down from 257 originally). Documentation grew 13 lines to record the pin deviation and the drift behaviour, so the total is 1,174 → 1,177 added lines. Net +3 — the executable portion went down, the explanation went up slightly; I would rather state that than present it as an overall reduction.

Blocker: unchanged

actions/report still cannot load at 902ee99 — the two ${{ … }} expressions remain in the source-run-id and source-run-attempt input descriptions. Repinning does not help, and nothing here works around it. Still no upstream issue tracking it; the reproduction and one-line patch are in my previous comment.

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