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Consolidation of the integration in #2, on top of that branch plus current master. 7 files, ~1,170 added lines, no runtime-source changes (down from 8 files / 1,886 lines). Inline shell+Python across the integration: 257 → ~95 lines (−63%). abi-diff.sh (ABICC) remains authoritative; this check never gates.

Every abicheck Action and reusable workflow is pinned to one merged, immutable revision: e38c3f9 on abicheck main — the merge of abicheck#1325, "Close the four gaps that made a consumer reimplement publication, provenance and binding". No placeholder, no mutable main, no guessed SHA.

Deletion map

Deleted from PVXS Upstream owner now
.github/actions/abicheck-publish-baseline/action.yml (149 lines) .github/workflows/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) in the capture Action 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, consuming the already-captured snapshots
analyzed == 0 ⇒ "baselines unavailable" rule + duplicate status echo aggregate.txt + the document's coverage/status/channels
File Before After
.ci-local/abicheck-components.json 32 32
.ci-local/abicheck.yml 47 25
.github/actions/abicheck-capture/action.yml 216 143
.github/actions/abicheck-publish-baseline/action.yml 149 0
.github/workflows/abicheck-baseline.yml 247 196
.github/workflows/abicheck-report.yml 201 169
ci-scripts-build.yml additions 473 ~390
documentation/abicheck.md 521 217

Publication (§2)

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 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, then publication 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. Read-only build of the historical revision (PVXS's normal cue.py prepare / libevent.py / build commands, same component declaration as the candidate) hands its captured set to the publishing job as an artifact, not a local path assumed to survive a job boundary. The write-capable half still refuses to run off anything but the default branch.
  • Tag vs capture revision stay separate: expected-project-ref: commit resolves refs/tags/<name> and requires the set's own project_ref to equal that commit. A SHA-valued manifest is never rewritten to match a tag-valued validator.

Provenance (§3)

One acquisition. actions/aggregate writes the 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); verify-source-run reads it back out of the artifact it already extracted with provenance-from, verifies the commit's association with the PR through the API, and returns the document with report-from. require-provenance: true means missing context is refused — never described as a verified tested merge via a fallback to PR head. A verified run with no report member 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 to clear a stale warning.

Preserved: one sticky comment per PR/profile covering both components with channels separately labelled, producer-run ordering, cross-run serialization, read-only analysis, bounded artifact processing, independent comment/summary budgets.

Declarations and summary (§4)

The four checks are named once, by a declaration step that is deliberately independent of whether any comparison ran — the event's policy (accepted-main only on pull_request) 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.

An earlier revision derived the ids from check-target's check-id outputs instead. That was wrong in the case that matters most — a failed candidate download or snapshot resolution skips every comparison step, so the declaration collapsed to an empty list and an ABI analysis failure disappeared from the advisory result. Caught by CodeRabbit, fixed in daffed4.

One canonical bounded renderer: aggregate.txt plus the document's own coverage/status/compatibility-exit/channels. coverage: empty is unmistakably incomplete, and the cause comes from the structured outcome — zero analyses can equally mean a failed capture or a corrupt report.

Capture (§5)

Unchanged in substance: the existing Native Linux (WError) leg, one candidate build, one capture per component reused across both channels, --depth headers, no Bear/L3/L4/L5. libpvxs owns every installed include/pvxs/*.h except iochooks.h with versionNum.h explicitly required; libpvxsIoc owns only iochooks.h; core and EPICS headers stay include context. The C++17 extraction override is retained and disclosed as a current limitation.

What changed: the recursive inline JSON binder is replaced by library-spec-bindings (abicheck walks the document as JSON and inserts each value literally, so a path containing &, a quote or a backslash is not mangled). Trusted spec/config paths are still resolved from the checkout before entering the historical tree. Only EPICS_BASE discovery, host-arch resolution and the native-Linux guard remain PVXS's.

Validation

Live CI run — what actually executed

Run 35277576445, job ABI/API check (advisory), is the first real execution of the consolidated path. Confirmed from its log:

Check Result
Pinned Actions load and run ✅ verify-baseline-source, resolve-baseline, check-target (×4), aggregate all executed at e38c3f9
Candidate capture + cross-job handoff ✅ artifact produced by the WError leg, downloaded, resolve-baseline kind: members ran on it
record-analysis-context ✅ step succeeded, context recorded into the aggregate document
Aggregate declaration accepted ✅ aggregate ok: status fail, coverage empty, 0/4 target(s) analyzed — expected set of 4 preserved
Zero comparisons reported as incomplete ✅ coverage: empty + status: fail, never "compatible"
Missing release baseline ✅ outcome=not_found → verdict=NO_BASELINE, step success, check declared and reported unavailable
accepted-main baseline genuinely absent ✅ verify-baseline-source found run 35182897594 eligible, which has no candidate artifact — reported as a warning, exactly as predicted for a master without the integration
Reports artifact ✅ 6 files uploaded

One real defect this run exposed, fixed in 7cbd1c3. Both accepted-main checks failed hard:

resolve-baseline failed (ambiguous): .../abicheck-baseline-main exists but does not
contain a manifest.json -- this looks like an empty/partial cache restore or stripped
artifact directory, not simply an unpublished baseline (a baseline-path that does not
exist at all is the not_found/bootstrap case).

A mkdir -p step I had added to make a staging failure surface as that channel's not_found did the opposite. resolve-baseline separates the two states deliberately: a path that does not exist is not_found (the bootstrap case these checks opt into with baseline-required: false), while a path that exists without a manifest.json is ambiguous — a hard failure, because that is what a partial restore or stripped artifact looks like. Pre-creating the directory turned every unpublished baseline into a corrupt-evidence error. Both download commands create their own --dir, so nothing needed it. The release channel in the same run already demonstrated the correct behaviour, since its baseline-path is a file inside the directory and so did not exist.

Also executed locally

YAML parse of every workflow and Action; JSON parse of the component declaration; bash -n over every inline run: block; upstream interface audit against e38c3f9's own metadata. The declaration step's script was run directly:

Input Declared
pull_request, every comparison skipped 4 checks, all reports empty
pull_request, all four produced reports 4 checks with paths
push (no PR base) 2 release-contract checks only

Still not demonstrated

No completed comparison has run in CI, because neither baseline exists in this fork yet (no push run of a base commit carries a candidate artifact; no Release carries the asset). So the §7 rows that need eligible old-side evidence — four real comparisons, surface controls, rebuild/relocation, corrupt-report handling — remain unproven here, as does the bootstrap path and any publication. A green advisory job is not evidence of four comparisons; this run's own summary says 0/4.

Remaining blocker — upstream

actions/report cannot be loaded at e38c3f9. 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. Note the live run above proves this is specific to actions/report: 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.

Also owed upstream, non-blocking: 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 prerequisites, unexecuted: workflow_run runs only the default-branch copy, so neither the publisher nor the baseline workflow can publish until merged there; and the fork has no GitHub Release carrying the asset, so release-contract needs one authorized bootstrap dispatch. No upstream publication is claimed.

Branch note

Pushed to claude/pvxs-consolidate-integration-95zrk2 (the branch assigned to this session) rather than to #2's head abicheck-shadow-integration-clean, which was not authorized for a push. This branch is #2's head merged with current master; fold it into #2 or retarget as you prefer.

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napetrov and others added 30 commits September 11, 2026 18:20
Replace the 232-line .ci-local/abicheck-diff.sh wrapper and its standalone
workflow with an integration that consumes the build PVXS already performs.

Build reuse
  The capture now runs inside the existing "Native Linux (WError)" matrix
  leg, marked with `abicheck: 1`, after that leg's own tests.  It reads the
  installed include/pvxs headers and the installed shared objects; it no
  longer rebuilds both revisions under Bear, copies headers out of src/ and
  ioc/, parses Makefiles, rewrites configure/*.local, or moves HOME.  Each
  component is captured exactly once per revision and that capture is reused
  for every comparison, the job summary and the PR comment.

Scope
  Evidence depth drops from L3 to L2 (--depth headers).  Build-drift
  coverage is intentionally removed, not silently retained; this is stated
  in documentation/abicheck.md rather than implied.  L4/L5 stay off.

Ownership
  libpvxs owns every installed public header except iochooks.h; libpvxsIoc
  owns iochooks.h alone, with the core and EPICS headers as include-only
  context.  The two shared objects are resolved explicitly and validated,
  so symlinks are not analysed as duplicate components and static archives
  are never eligible.

Baselines
  accepted-main resolves the default-branch run for the pull request's exact
  base commit and rejects a mismatch; release-contract resolves a published
  release asset.  Both are labelled separately and never merged.  A missing
  or incompatible baseline is an explicit incomplete outcome.

Publication
  The analysis stays unprivileged (contents: read, no secrets), and a
  separate default-branch workflow_run publisher with only actions: read and
  pull-requests: write verifies the producer run, resolves the pull request
  through the API, distinguishes the PR head SHA from the built merge
  commit, and renders the canonical report without running any analysis.

Removed
  The 120-minute timeout and its ~100-minute rationale, the mandatory Bear
  capture, the projected compile databases, the hand-rolled non-atomic
  summary.json, the hard-coded 0/2/4 exit-code acceptance, and the practice
  of concatenating full review reports into $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY.

The abicheck extraction config keeps its -std=c++17 override, now with the
measured reason: C++11 and C++14 both fail to parse libstdc++ 13 under the
supported CastXML 0.7.0.

Two abicheck product bugs found while validating this are documented as
known issues; they are owed by abicheck and are not papered over here.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BFumn6v9CSsM3euZ8ekcqy
The first real run of the comparison job failed at "Locate candidate
snapshots" with "manifest entry for libpvxs escapes the baseline-set".

A baseline-set manifest records two different paths per library, and this
script read the wrong one.  "artifact" echoes the input binary the
producing job dumped -- an absolute path in that job's workspace, which is
meaningless once the set has travelled as an artifact.  "snapshot" is the
snapshot file's own name inside the set.  Joining an absolute "artifact"
against the download directory yielded a path outside it, which the
containment guard then correctly rejected.

Read "snapshot" instead, keep the containment guard (it is what caught
this), and say "snapshot path ... escapes" so the message names the field.

Content identity is deliberately not re-verified here: the manifest's
per-artifact sha256 is abicheck's normalised content hash, not a whole-file
digest, and reimplementing that recipe would be a second, silently
divergent verifier.  resolve-baseline, which check-target already invokes,
is what validates baseline-set identity.

Reproduced and fixed against a real baseline-set built by
actions/baseline's own build_manifest.py from this branch's captured
snapshots, then moved to a different directory to model the cross-job
handoff.  Negative controls: path traversal, absolute path, a symlink
leaving the set, a missing snapshot file, a component absent from the
manifest, an absent manifest, and a malformed manifest are each refused
with a distinct message; the valid set resolves both components.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BFumn6v9CSsM3euZ8ekcqy
…ract

Addresses the review of f1cc10a.  Every finding below was reproduced
locally before it was changed.

Report matching was silently losing every finding
  abicheck aggregate matches a report to its expected target by the
  report's own target_id, falling back to the file stem after the
  "abi-report-" prefix.  abicheck-collect.sh sanitised '@', '#' and '~'
  out of the check id when naming the file, so the stem could never match
  and every report aggregated as an unavailable target.  Check ids are now
  written verbatim, with path separators refused.  A local run over a real
  compare report went from 0/2 to 1/2 targets analyzed.

Accepted-main baselines were not required to be trustworthy
  The lookup selected any completed push run at the base SHA, from any
  branch, regardless of conclusion -- and the capture step deliberately
  runs after a test failure, so a failed run's snapshot could become the
  baseline.  It now requires this repository's own ci-scripts-build.yml,
  a push to the pull request's base branch, and conclusion success.
  "Not found", "lookup failed" and "artifact expired" are distinct
  outcomes.

The publisher conflated the PR head with the tested commit
  workflow_run.head_sha is the pull request head, not the merge commit the
  producer built, and it was being emitted as build-sha.  The hand-rolled
  resolution is replaced by abicheck's actions/verify-source-run, which
  returns pr-head-sha and tested-sha as separate verified coordinates and
  applies the artifact size/entry/ratio caps.  Publication is bound to the
  triggering run attempt, and concurrency is keyed per pull request and
  profile rather than per producer run.

Producer and publisher disagreed on failure
  A missing candidate wrote abicheck-incomplete.json and skipped
  aggregation, while the publisher read aggregate.json.  There is now one
  shape: the expected checks are always declared and aggregated, so an
  incomplete analysis is an aggregate whose targets are unavailable.  Only
  the checks an event actually has are declared -- accepted-main exists on
  a pull request, not on a push or tag build.

Aggregate validation was a key-presence check
  {"aggregate_schema_version": "nonsense"} passed it.  Replaced with a
  structural check of status, coverage (against abicheck's own
  CoverageStatus values), gate and per-target states, and the aggregate
  exit code is recorded rather than discarded.

Release publication could not work as documented
  The automatic trigger required a "v" prefix; PVXS tags are bare versions
  such as 1.5.2, so it excluded every real release.  Tag identity is now
  proved through refs/tags/<name> with annotated-tag resolution, and must
  point at the built revision.  The documented bootstrap was circular --
  the workflow at a historical tag has no capture step -- so it now builds
  the requested revision once in the trusted workflow and captures it with
  the same shared action the matrix leg uses.  --clobber is gone: an
  existing asset is left in place unless replacement is explicitly
  requested.  Profile and component coverage are checked before upload,
  since stage-baseline does not check them.

Duplicate manifest components were last-one-wins; now refused.

Shared .github/actions/abicheck-capture removes the duplication between
the matrix capture and the bootstrap build.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BFumn6v9CSsM3euZ8ekcqy
The capture-failure steps referenced steps.abi-inputs, which stopped
existing when the resolver moved into the shared capture action -- the
reference rendered as an empty string in the marker it wrote.

Rather than repair it, remove it.  The artifact it produced was never
consumed by anything, and it was a second way of saying "the analysis did
not complete" alongside the aggregate-of-unavailable-targets shape this
branch just made canonical.  A one-line warning replaces it; the
comparison job still reports the incomplete outcome.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BFumn6v9CSsM3euZ8ekcqy
Two review findings, both confirmed against the code.

gh release upload refuses an asset name that already exists unless
--clobber is passed.  The overwrite branch logged its warning and then
fell through to an upload without it, so "overwrite: true" failed the job
instead of replacing the asset -- the bootstrap dispatch input could not
do what it offered.  --clobber is now passed on that branch only; the
default path still leaves a published baseline untouched, which was the
point of removing the blanket --clobber in the first place.

abicheck-inputs.sh pointed readers at .github/workflows/abicheck-analyse.yml
for the ownership rules.  That file never existed on this branch -- it was
a name from an earlier draft -- so the reference now points at
documentation/abicheck.md, which is where those rules actually live.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BFumn6v9CSsM3euZ8ekcqy
Rendering a real aggregate through the publisher's own renderer, with no
credentials, surfaced two integration bugs that CI would have shipped.

The expected-target manifest was written into the report directory that
`abicheck aggregate` scans, so the manifest was itself picked up as a
report.  A two-component run declared "3 targets", one of them
`expected-targets`, reported as outside the expected set.  It is now
written outside that directory.

Aggregation ran with an absolute report-directory argument, so each
target's recorded `report_path` was absolute.  The publisher reads member
reports only from the aggregate document's own directory and refuses an
absolute path -- so every per-target detail was dropped and replaced by a
limitation row, which reads exactly like a finding-free result.
Aggregation now runs from inside the report directory, making each
`report_path` a bare filename beside `aggregate.json`.

Verified end to end in the CI shape: 2 targets instead of 3, no
absolute-path refusals, and the analysed component's addition now counted
("2 safe" where it was "1") instead of being silently lost.

The publisher is pinned to abicheck 9bc92e635fbfae3252189d3bd09059cc28599490,
the head of abicheck PR #1311, replacing the earlier branch-tip pin.  The
caller's inputs and outputs were re-validated against that revision's
declared schemas.  The pin is immutable but the PR is not merged and its
own CI had not finished, which documentation/abicheck.md now states.

That revision also carries the fix for the persistent-hygiene bug reported
from this branch: the rendered comment separates "339 pre-existing
cross-source hygiene findings present on both sides -- not introduced by
this change" from what the change actually introduced.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BFumn6v9CSsM3euZ8ekcqy
0beca2b set the abicheck job's EXPECTED_TARGETS from ${{ runner.temp }} in
the job's `env:` block.  The `runner` context is not available there --
only github, needs, strategy, matrix, vars, inputs and secrets are -- so
the whole workflow file became invalid.  GitHub failed the run instantly
with no jobs at all, listing it by path rather than by its `name:`, which
is what that failure looks like.

The manifest path moves to ${{ github.workspace }}, which is valid in a
job env block and is still outside REPORT_DIR, so `abicheck aggregate`
still does not pick the manifest up as an extra target.

YAML well-formedness was never the issue and parsing the file locally
never would have caught this; the check that does is whether each
expression's context is permitted at the level it appears.  Verified by
scanning every job's env/if/concurrency for `runner.` before pushing, and
by re-running the collect/aggregate/validate chain in the corrected
layout: 2 targets, relative report_path, artifact carrying only the
reports and the aggregate.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BFumn6v9CSsM3euZ8ekcqy
Two findings from re-checking the publisher dependency.

actions/report grew source-run-id and source-run-attempt, and this caller
was not passing them.  Left unset they default to the PUBLISHER's own run
id, which orders by when publication was triggered rather than when the
analysis ran -- so a late re-run of an older commit would look newer than
the current result and overwrite it.  That is the precise inversion the
ordering guard exists to prevent, and it is the lifecycle property this
integration claims to have.  Both are now passed from the workflow_run
event.

The pin moves from 9bc92e6 to 2324460, six commits later on the same
unmerged PR.  Those commits fix defects in the parts this integration
depends on: the PR-head/merge-commit association check, what a refused
artifact leaves behind, member-report work bounds, shell-value handling,
and an eleven-defect review round.  Remaining on the older revision would
have meant pinning to known-defective run-selection code -- the security
boundary of this whole design.

Still an unmerged revision, which documentation/abicheck.md continues to
say.  The caller's inputs and outputs re-validate against the new
revision's schemas, and the render path still produces the same comment
from a real aggregate.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BFumn6v9CSsM3euZ8ekcqy
abicheck PR #1311 merged as bc2ee0c, so the temporary pin on an unmerged
revision is gone.  Every Action and the analysis package now name one
commit instead of two, which also removes the split where the publisher
and the analysis ran different abicheck revisions.

The move was checked rather than assumed, in two parts.  The five Action
definitions this caller uses -- report, verify-source-run, baseline,
check-target, stage-baseline -- are byte-identical between the previously
pinned revisions and bc2ee0c, so no interface changed.  The analysis
package is not identical: bc2ee0c carries four later fixes, among them
sided --header/--include resolution and the demotion of binary churn on
exports no public header declares.  Both components were therefore
re-captured at --depth headers on bc2ee0c and re-aggregated -- schema
1.11, status pass, coverage complete, 2/2 analyzed -- and the PR comment
was rendered from that real aggregate.

The Known issues section is re-measured rather than carried forward.  The
merged revision does bound the damage: an unchanged pair now folds to
zero gating findings and the comment labels the 845 hygiene findings as
pre-existing on both sides.  The attribution itself is still wrong --
EPICS Base and libstdc++ symbols reached only through -I roots are still
listed as libpvxs's own, and pvxs::version_* as libpvxsIoc's -- so the
section says what improved and what did not, and the integration stays
advisory.

Also recorded: one dump failed the CastXML version probe against the same
0.7.0 binary that a probe and the next dump both accepted, once, not
reproducible.  Noted as a flake to recognise, not worked around.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BFumn6v9CSsM3euZ8ekcqy
abicheck #1315 merged as 0b50f80, adding actions/aggregate,
actions/verify-baseline-source, and library-spec resolution in
actions/baseline.  Those are the owners this integration was hand-rolling,
so the hand-rolled versions go.

Deleted outright, with the upstream owner named:

  abicheck-inputs.sh            (126)  actions/baseline library-spec
  abicheck-snapshots.sh          (69)  actions/resolve-baseline kind: members
  abicheck-collect.sh            (63)  actions/aggregate
  abicheck-validate-aggregate.sh (65)  actions/aggregate

That is every ELF inspection, manifest parse, report-identity rule and
aggregate-document check PVXS was maintaining.  Hand-written shell/python
across the integration drops from 415 lines to 212.  Zero abicheck .sh
files remain.

What replaces them is declaration.  .ci-local/abicheck-components.json
states the ownership split -- libpvxs owns every installed public header
except iochooks.h, libpvxsIoc owns only iochooks.h, the core and EPICS
trees are include context that never widens what a component owns -- and
abicheck resolves it.

Two assertions are kept deliberately rather than lost to a glob, because 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.

Capture parity was checked before deleting anything, not assumed: the new
resolver and the old script name the same two artifacts, the same 15/1
header split and the same four include roots on a real PVXS install, with
machine EM_X86_64.  Both guards above were fired against a disposable copy
of that tree.

The eligibility shell goes to verify-baseline-source: producer-run for the
PR base, tag for the release channel.  It keeps what the shell established
-- refs/tags resolution rather than the commits endpoint, annotated-tag
peeling, no v prefix, the capture must belong to the tagged commit, and
not_found distinct from lookup_failed -- and adds printed rejection
reasons.  PVXS still fetches the bytes; only the decision moved.

actions/aggregate replaces collect + aggregate + validate, including the
|| true.  compatibility-exit carries aggregate's own 0/1/2/4 without
failing the step, so the gate stays advisory, while a refused declaration
or a document describing no real outcome fails loudly.  Exercised on real
reports: a half-declared run yields status=fail coverage=partial with
channels split accepted-main 2/0 and release-contract 0/2, the old
{"aggregate_schema_version":"nonsense"} bypass is refused, and a corrupted
report is tracked as unusable rather than as one that never ran -- a
distinction the deleted validator could not make.

Known issues re-measured on 0b50f80 rather than carried forward: unchanged
at 505/340 detected, 0 gating, NO_CHANGE.

Not delivered upstream, so kept and disclosed: abicheck-publish-baseline
has no upstream replacement yet -- publish-baseline.yml captures rather
than publishing a pre-captured set.  Extending it is the owed follow-up; a
second publisher here would be the competing implementation this change
exists to remove.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BFumn6v9CSsM3euZ8ekcqy
claude and others added 13 commits September 16, 2026 17:51
PVXS EPICS run 35130816212 at 22ca9d5, success.  This is the execution
abicheck's HANDOFF.md said was missing: its Actions' composite step wiring
had never run on a GitHub runner, only as unit-tested decisions.  All four
ran.

library-spec resolved the same 15/1 header split and the same two
artifacts the deleted script produced, from the same SONAME alias chain --
lib/linux-x86_64 holds libpvxs.so -> libpvxs.so.1.5, and the glob
de-duplicated to the one real object instead of analysing the alias twice.
resolve-baseline kind: members returned outcome=resolved for both, with
libpvxsIoc keeping its real casing.

The eligibility check justified itself on this run rather than in theory.
A push run for the PR's exact base commit, on the right branch, from the
right workflow, did exist -- and had failed.  verify-baseline-source
refused it by name and printed why.  Without that rule a failed run's
snapshot would have become the baseline this PR is measured against, which
is exactly the case selecting on base SHA alone cannot catch.

The aggregate reported status=fail, coverage=empty, 0/4 analyzed,
compatibility-exit=1, channels split per baseline channel -- and the step
still succeeded.  That is the advisory contract: the code is carried, not
swallowed, and not converted into a job failure.

Timings recorded separately per step so the bounded timeout has evidence
behind it: capture 360s dominates, everything else is under 30s.

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All four verified against the code before changing anything; all four are
in files this PR owns.

1. The component declaration was resolved after `cd "$TOP"`.  In the
   matrix leg TOP is the workspace so it worked, but the historical
   bootstrap points TOP at a checkout of an OLD tag -- a revision that
   predates .ci-local/abicheck-components.json entirely.  The bootstrap
   would have read a missing file, or a stale declaration if one ever
   existed there.  The declaration belongs to the checkout, so it now
   resolves against the workspace, with an explicit existence check.
   This was introduced by the migration itself.

2. The bootstrap gave one job `contents: write` AND ran the historical
   revision's own code in it.  cue.py, its submodules and its makefiles
   run in the shared workspace, and the local publishing action is loaded
   from that same workspace afterwards and handed github.token -- so
   historical code could replace the action that receives the token.
   `persist-credentials: false` does not cover this: it stops the
   historical checkout getting credentials, not a later step loading a
   tampered local action.  Split into a `contents: read` build+capture job
   that hands the baseline-set over as an artifact, and a `contents:
   write` publishing job that checks out only the default branch and runs
   none of that code.  Asserted mechanically: the write-scoped job's
   definition contains neither "historical" nor "cue.py".

   This is also what the task asked for -- read-only build/capture
   separated from write-capable publication -- and the single-job version
   did not meet it.

3. post-on was `changes`, so a run whose comparison came back clean
   published nothing and left an earlier run's warning standing.  The
   contract is one sticky comment per PR/profile that reflects the current
   state, so a clean resolution has to clear a stale warning.  Now
   `always`.  Checked rather than assumed: an INCOMPLETE analysis already
   counts as a change (total_changes=5 on the real aggregate), so
   `changes` was publishing that correctly -- it is specifically the clean
   case it skipped.

4. `gh release list --limit 1` defaults both exclusions to false, so a
   draft or pre-release could be selected as the release contract.  Now
   --exclude-drafts --exclude-pre-releases.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BFumn6v9CSsM3euZ8ekcqy
abicheck #1319 fixes a defect that silently disabled a guarantee this
integration claims.

At the previous pin, actions/report declared `source-run-id` and
`source-run-attempt`, documented them, and its run.sh read
INPUT_SOURCE_RUN_ID / INPUT_SOURCE_RUN_ATTEMPT -- but action.yml never
forwarded the inputs into the step's env block.  The values this caller
passes were discarded, and run.sh fell through to its documented default:
GITHUB_RUN_ID, the PUBLISHER's own run.

That orders the sticky comment by when publication was triggered rather
than when the analysis ran, so a late re-run of an older commit carries the
larger id and overwrites the newer result.  It is the exact inversion
440fa8e wired those inputs to prevent, and it was inert from then until
now.  Nothing in PVXS was wrong; the values simply never arrived.

Verified at both revisions rather than inferred: at 0b50f80 action.yml
contains no INPUT_SOURCE_RUN_ID at all while run.sh reads it; at 80cf72a
both lines are present.

Drift across the eight pinned Actions between the two revisions is exactly
this: actions/report/action.yml, +2 lines.  Nothing else changed, so this
is a two-line behavioural fix and not a re-validation of the whole surface.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BFumn6v9CSsM3euZ8ekcqy
abicheck #1319 added publish-baseline.yml's baseline-set-artifact-prefix --
the pre-captured-set input this integration's local publish action has been
waiting for, and stronger than that action: it validates the set against
the profile, tag and generation it is being published as.

It fits one of the two publication paths.  The bootstrap
(workflow_dispatch) produces its set in the same run, so the workflow can
download it.  Tag publication is a workflow_run job whose set lives in the
PRODUCING run, and publish-baseline.yml fetches the pre-captured set with
actions/download-artifact using `pattern:` alone -- no run-id -- so it can
only see artifacts of the run it executes in.

Moving the capture into the publishing run would fix the fetch and break
the security boundary: the separation between the unprivileged run that
captures and the trusted run that publishes is the point.  So that is not
an option.

Adopting it for the bootstrap alone would leave two publishers for one
job, which is the duplication this whole change exists to remove.  The
local action therefore stays, with the gap stated rather than worked
around: publish-baseline.yml needs a run-id passthrough on the
pre-captured path, or the ability to accept an already-downloaded
directory.  Either retires the action outright.

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The write-scoped bootstrap-publish job carried the comment "Default branch
only" and did not enforce it.  workflow_dispatch runs from whichever ref is
selected, and actions/checkout with no `ref:` takes that ref -- so
dispatching from any branch would load
./.github/actions/abicheck-publish-baseline from that branch into a job
holding contents: write and github.token.

That is the same class of exposure the previous commit split the jobs to
close, reached by a different route: not historical code overwriting the
action, but the dispatch ref selecting which copy of it runs.  Splitting
the jobs removed the first route and left this one.

Worse than a missing guard, the comment asserted the property: a reviewer
reading "Default branch only" has no reason to check whether the YAML says
so.  It did not.

Now enforced twice.  The job refuses to run unless github.ref is the
default branch, and its checkout names that branch explicitly rather than
inheriting it.  bootstrap-build stays unrestricted and read-only on
purpose: dispatching it from a branch to exercise the capture is safe, and
the publish job simply does not run.

The documentation said "checks out only the default branch" too, which was
the same unbacked claim; it now describes the enforcement.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BFumn6v9CSsM3euZ8ekcqy
The advisory job concludes success on every run of this branch while the
aggregate reports `status=fail coverage=empty, 0/4 target(s) analyzed`.
That combination is correct -- the gate is advisory and missing coverage is
reported as missing rather than as a clean result -- but nothing in the
documentation said it was the current state, so a reviewer seeing a green
check had no way to know that no ABI comparison has actually run here.

Both channels are unavailable for reasons this pull request cannot fix:
the base branch's own ci-scripts-build.yml run concluded failure, which
verify-baseline-source refuses by name, and no baseline release asset has
been published yet.

What the real runners do demonstrate is the candidate half -- build reuse,
declarative component resolution, capture, and resolve-baseline returning
outcome=resolved with two members -- plus the eligibility and aggregation
machinery behaving correctly with nothing to compare against.  The
comparison half has only been exercised against locally constructed
snapshot pairs.  Separating those two claims is the point of this section.

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The publisher checked the manifest's profile and that both components were
present, but never that the set describes the commit the tag actually
names.  A set captured from a different revision could therefore be
published as a release's baseline, and every later release-contract
comparison would report ABI changes that are really just the gap between
two revisions.

Nothing downstream catches this.  The accepted-main comparisons pass
expected-project-ref to check-target, because a pull request knows exactly
which commit its baseline must describe.  The release-contract comparisons
deliberately pass none -- the release is selected at consumption time, so
the consumer has no expected ref to assert.  That leaves the publisher as
the only place either path can catch it.

It matters most on the bootstrap path, which runs a historical revision's
own build system (cue.py, its submodules, its makefiles) in the shared
workspace before the runner loads the capture action from this checkout.
Splitting that job in two took the write token out of that code's reach; it
did not make the artifact it hands over trustworthy.  Verifying the claim
where both paths converge is the difference between trusting the producer
and checking it.

The tag is resolved the same way the rest of this integration resolves
tags: refs/tags/<name> explicitly rather than the commits endpoint, which
would resolve a branch of the same name, and an annotated tag is peeled
rather than having its tag-object sha accepted as the commit.  Verified
against a stubbed API: a matching revision passes, a wrong revision is
refused by name, an unpeeled annotated-tag sha is refused, and a manifest
with no project_ref is refused.

Reported by CodeRabbit on PR #2.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BFumn6v9CSsM3euZ8ekcqy
Three defects the completion review identified, each verified against the
real code before changing it.

1. The component declaration was rendered with `sed`, which is not JSON
   escaping.  Measured against the real declaration with EPICS_BASE values
   a path may legitimately contain: `&` silently produced a WRONG value (in
   a sed replacement it means "the whole match"), `"` produced INVALID
   JSON, a backslash was dropped, and the `|` delimiter failed the command
   outright.  EPICS_BASE comes from configure/RELEASE.local, so its content
   is not ours to constrain.  The binding is now done by a JSON reader and
   writer that substitutes exactly two names and refuses any other ${...},
   so it stays a two-variable binding rather than a local template engine.
   All five previously-broken values now bind correctly.

   The extraction config is now resolved against the trusted checkout
   explicitly too.  It was correct only by accident: a `uses:` step runs
   with cwd = workspace, so a relative path happened to land in the right
   tree.  Accident is not a property.

2. The publisher displayed a commit the analysis never looked at.
   verify-source-run's `tested-sha` input was never passed, and empty means
   "the run's own head SHA" -- for a pull_request producer that is the PR
   HEAD, not the ephemeral merge commit that was actually built and
   captured.  The comment above that step asserted the opposite, which is
   the same failure as the "Default branch only" comment fixed earlier: the
   claim was in prose, not in the code.

   Now the documented two-pass shape.  The producer records the commit it
   analysed into the REPORTS artifact -- previously this context went only
   into the candidate artifact, which the publisher never downloads, so it
   could not have been used even in principle.  The publisher reads that
   claim, validates it as a full hex SHA before it becomes a step output (a
   bare echo of file contents lets a newline forge any other output of a
   privileged job), and passes it back through verify-source-run, which
   accepts it only as the PR head or a merge of it.  It remains a claim
   until the API agrees.  Verified: a valid SHA is accepted, and forgery,
   abbreviated, non-hex, empty and command-substitution inputs are refused.

3. A green advisory job said nothing about having compared nothing.  The
   job summary now leads with the canonical counts -- "ABI/API comparison
   not performed: 0/4 checks completed. Baselines unavailable; no
   compatibility verdict was produced." -- and then renders the aggregate
   through the same upstream renderer the publisher uses, in dry-run mode:
   no API, no token, no posting, so the analysis job stays contents: read.
   Every value comes from actions/aggregate's outputs; no report file is
   re-read and no reason string is parsed.

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…hing

Two things this branch had been asserting without having measured them.

**The C++17 extraction override.**  The recorded reason for it was wrong.
It blamed CastXML 0.7.0 / Clang 20 and quoted one libstdc++ error for both
C++11 and C++14 -- but that was a local experiment on a toolchain CI does
not use.  Re-measured on the toolchain CI actually selects (CastXML
0.6.20260105-g9864b1e, bundled Clang 21.1.8, GCC 13.3.0), by running
`abicheck dump` over the real declared header set once per mode: C++11 and
C++14 both still fail, for two DIFFERENT reasons, and C++17 is the only mode
that extracts.  So the override stays -- but the limitation recorded beside
it is now the one that was demonstrated, on the toolchain that matters.

Worth noting for anyone who repeats this: a bare `castxml` invocation parses
these headers in C++11 quite happily.  It is the extraction pipeline that
does not.  Testing the parser instead of the pipeline is how the previous
measurement reached a confident wrong answer.

**Four real comparisons.**  Until now nothing had compared anything: every
CI run reports 0/4, for reasons outside this pull request, and this branch
had no evidence the comparison path works at all.  All three revisions were
built and captured locally with one declaration and one toolchain -- base
b5024df, release tag 1.5.2, and head -- and all four checks run.

The two channels disagree, which is the result worth having.  Against its
own base this pull request is COMPATIBLE on both components with zero public
additions, removals or modifications, which is what a CI-and-docs-only diff
should produce.  Against release 1.5.2, libpvxs is BREAKING: 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 something this pull request did.  That
distinction is the entire reason the channels are separate, and it is now
demonstrated on real data rather than asserted.

Controls: an independent rebuild of the same revision is COMPATIBLE at 100%
binary compatibility; a disposable public break is caught as func_removed /
breaking / artifact_proven; a disposable compatible addition is caught as
func_added / compatible / non-gating; snapshots still compare in 1s after
their source and install trees are deleted.  The controls lived in a
throwaway worktree and HEAD is untouched by them.

The rebuild control also puts a number on the noise: comparing a revision
against an independent rebuild of ITSELF still reports 339 risk changes.
That is the floor of the known upstream attribution defect, and it is why
the 339-517 risk counts elsewhere are reported but never gated.

**A wrong answer, recorded rather than quietly fixed.**  The first attempt
reported libpvxsIoc BREAKING against its own base -- impossible for this
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, so the candidate snapshot came from a stale mutated
install.  The tool was right about the inputs it was given; the inputs were
wrong.  Everything above was re-measured from fresh worktrees.

Also re-checked the upstream publisher gap at abicheck main (db3b12c):
actions/ and publish-baseline.yml are byte-identical to this pin, so the
missing run-id passthrough is unchanged and there is nothing newer to adopt.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BFumn6v9CSsM3euZ8ekcqy
The abicheck job failed at "Set up job" on the previous commit -- before any
step ran -- because the dry-run renderer step I added references
abicheck/abicheck/actions/report, and that action fails GitHub Actions
template validation at the pinned revision:

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

The cause is prose, not logic.  Two input DESCRIPTIONS quote
`${{ github.event.workflow_run.id }}` and
`${{ github.event.workflow_run.run_attempt }}` as usage examples
(action.yml:122 and :133).  Actions evaluates expressions inside input
descriptions and the `github` context does not exist in action metadata.
The same syntax is legal in inputs.*.default -- actions/check-target uses
`default: ${{ github.repository }}` without trouble -- but not in a
description.  It is unconditional: validation happens when the file is
parsed, so no caller, input set or trigger avoids it.

actions/report is the only abicheck Action with an expression in a
description, and no abicheck workflow references actions/report at all,
which is why it had no in-repo consumer to catch this.

The step is removed rather than worked around.  The mandated summary
survives: the headline is written from actions/aggregate's own outputs and
depends on nothing that fails to load.

The finding that matters more than my step: abicheck-report.yml cannot work
as pinned either, since its publish step loads the same action.  That
workflow has never run -- it is workflow_run-only and not yet on a default
branch -- so nothing had exercised it.  The publication path is therefore
blocked on upstream twice: a default-branch deployment AND this fix.  Not
papered over, and not vendored: patching a published Action into this
repository is the local reimplementation this integration exists to remove.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BFumn6v9CSsM3euZ8ekcqy
Delete the machinery abicheck now owns, and pin every Action to one
merged, immutable revision (e38c3f9, abicheck#1325 on main).

Deleted
  .github/actions/abicheck-publish-baseline/action.yml (149 lines).
    Both publication paths now 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 filename-only
    idempotence.  The automatic path takes the bytes from the producer
    run through the API with that run's repository, workflow, event, id,
    attempt and conclusion verified; the bootstrap hands its set over as
    an artifact, not a path assumed to survive a job boundary.  The
    publication tag and the captured revision stay separate values
    (expected-project-ref: commit).
  The consumer tested-sha.txt writer and parser, the second
    verify-source-run call and the second artifact download.  One
    acquisition now carries the whole canonical context:
    actions/aggregate records analysis_context, and verify-source-run
    reads it back with provenance-from/report-from.  Missing context is
    refused (require-provenance), never reported as the PR head.
  The inline recursive JSON binding routine in the capture Action,
    replaced by actions/baseline's library-spec-bindings.
  The hand-written gh/jq tag peeling in the bootstrap, replaced by
    verify-baseline-source mode: tag.
  The Python that rebuilt every target@profile#channel@depth string and
    reconstructed the expected set.  Each check is declared from
    check-target's own check-id output; which checks an event asks for
    stays PVXS policy, expressed as the step's `if:`.
  The handwritten rule that analyzed == 0 means "baselines unavailable",
    and the duplicate status-echo block.  One canonical bounded renderer
    (aggregate.txt) plus the document's own coverage/status/channels
    outputs; the cause comes from the structured outcome, because zero
    analyses can equally mean a failed capture or a corrupt report.

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

Preserved: one build and one capture per component reused across both
channels; all four PR comparisons (two components x two channels) with
accepted-main limited to pull-request events; the C++17 extraction
deviation; read-only build and trusted write-capable publication in
separate jobs with the default-branch restriction; bounded artifact
processing; advisory gate.

Documentation reduced to a maintenance guide; investigation history
moves to the pull request evidence.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Q2Herd15iLCwK3ainaw52a
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This change adds ABI/API component and extraction configuration, captures snapshots from the native Linux build, compares advisory baselines, publishes validated release baselines, and reports verified pull-request results.

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ABI configuration and snapshot capture
.ci-local/abicheck-components.json, .ci-local/abicheck.yml, .github/actions/abicheck-capture/action.yml
Defines libpvxs and libpvxsIoc extraction inputs. Adds the composite action that resolves EPICS context and captures compressed ABI snapshots.
Build capture and advisory comparison
.github/workflows/ci-scripts-build.yml, documentation/abicheck.md
Captures snapshots from the selected native build. Compares accepted-main and release-contract baselines. Aggregates and uploads advisory reports. Documents the configuration and outcome rules.
Baseline validation and publication
.github/workflows/abicheck-baseline.yml
Adds tag-based baseline publication and historical bootstrap publication with producer, commit, artifact, and asset validation.
Verified pull-request reporting
.github/workflows/abicheck-report.yml
Verifies producer provenance and publishes aggregate ABI/API reports for pull-request workflows.

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  participant BuildWorkflow
  participant PVXSABICapture
  participant AbicheckJob
  participant BaselinePublisher
  participant ReportPublisher
  BuildWorkflow->>PVXSABICapture: capture candidate snapshots
  PVXSABICapture-->>BuildWorkflow: return snapshot artifact
  BuildWorkflow->>AbicheckJob: provide candidate and baseline inputs
  AbicheckJob->>AbicheckJob: compare and aggregate ABI/API results
  BuildWorkflow->>BaselinePublisher: provide eligible tagged baseline artifact
  BaselinePublisher-->>BuildWorkflow: publish validated baseline
  BuildWorkflow->>ReportPublisher: provide completed pull-request producer
  ReportPublisher-->>BuildWorkflow: publish verified aggregate report
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- Line 516: Update the aggregate input generation around the DECLARED parsing
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Deriving the aggregate declaration from check-target's own check-id
outputs lost the expected set in the one case that matters most: when the
candidate download or snapshot resolution fails, every comparison step is
skipped and emits no id, so the filter reduced the declaration to an
empty list and the run reported a shorter set of checks than it actually
had -- an ABI analysis failure disappearing from the advisory result.

Declare from the event's own policy instead, unconditionally, with the
report path left empty when a comparison produced nothing: that is a
declared-but-unavailable check, which is what the aggregate contract
expects.  The ids are still cross-checked upstream, where a report
recording its own target_id is authoritative and a disagreeing
declaration is refused rather than silently relabelled.

Verified by running the step against three inputs: a pull_request event
with every comparison skipped now declares 4 checks with empty reports
(previously 0), the same event with reports declares 4 with paths, and a
push event declares only the 2 release-contract checks.

Also corrects the publication section of documentation/abicheck.md: the
producer run and its pull request come from the API, but the analysed
commit is read from aggregate.json and then verified against the API --
the text had the trust boundary backwards, and stated it accurately only
in the following paragraph.

Both found by CodeRabbit on #4.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Q2Herd15iLCwK3ainaw52a
The first real run of the consolidated job failed on both accepted-main
checks:

  resolve-baseline failed (ambiguous): .../abicheck-baseline-main exists
  but does not contain a manifest.json -- this looks like an
  empty/partial cache restore or stripped artifact directory, not simply
  an unpublished baseline (a baseline-path that does not exist at all is
  the not_found/bootstrap case).

The `mkdir -p` step defeated its own purpose.  It was added so a staging
failure would reach resolve-baseline as that channel's own `not_found`
outcome, but resolve-baseline deliberately separates the two states: a
path that does not exist is `not_found`, the bootstrap case these checks
opt into with baseline-required: false, while a path that exists without
a manifest.json is `ambiguous` -- a hard failure, because that is what a
partial cache restore or a stripped artifact looks like.  Pre-creating
the directory therefore converted every unpublished baseline into a
corrupt-evidence error.

Both download commands create their own --dir, so nothing else needed
it.  The same run already demonstrates the intended behaviour on the
release channel, whose baseline-path is a file inside the directory and
so did not exist: outcome not_found, verdict NO_BASELINE, step success,
the check still declared and reported as unavailable.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Q2Herd15iLCwK3ainaw52a

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Superseded by #2 — closing.

All three commits from this branch (e4c5428, daffed4, 7cbd1c3) are now on #2's head abicheck-shadow-integration-clean as a fast-forward from 40c8eb8, so no history was rewritten and nothing is lost. #2's description has been refreshed to match. Work continues there.

This PR existed only because a push to #2's branch was not yet authorized.


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