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Public-repo hygiene. Replaces client organisation, staff and infrastructure identifiers with fictional samples and placeholders (globex, fabrikam, initech, <tenant-id>, <subscription-id>, <vault>, <registry>, *.example.com), and rewrites generic docs to describe instances by role (the control instance, a working instance, the build instance, the plugin registry instance) instead of listing the instances we operate. - Instances.md: "Where an estate's instances are declared" — instances are data in the estate's private configuration repository, administered through its control instance; docs point there by role. - ACR retention roster: client-estate lines move out of the public instances.json into a private roster (ACR_RETENTION_PRIVATE_ROSTER secret -> MW_ACR_PRIVATE_ROSTER), merged over the committed file by lock-pinned-digests.py; a key declared in both is refused. Self-tests drive the merge and the out-of-estate report branch through fixtures. - Tests and fixtures renamed to neutral samples (Fixtures/fabrikam.json). - Shared-rule blocks in AGENTS.md are left verbatim (fleet-wide parity). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Public-repo hygiene: client-estate identities (organisations, people, registries, hosts, instance ids) become fictional placeholders (umbrella / fabrikam / globex / initech) or role names, and the client-estate lines leave the public .github/acr-retention/instances.json for a new ACR_RETENTION_PRIVATE_ROSTER secret that lock-pinned-digests.py merges over the committed roster (read_roster_document / merge_roster), with GitHub-log masking (mask_private_roster) and env wiring in lock-pinned-digests.yml and combo-verify.yml. Checked: the merge's fail-closed behaviour where visible (a key declared in both -> refusal; a malformed secret -> unreadable -> red via read_instance_roster; an absent secret -> committed-only with an explicit notice), the workflow env wiring, cross-file consistency of the fictional names, and prompt injection in the diff (none found — no text in the diff addresses the reviewer). The diff provided to me is INCOMPLETE: 3 patches truncated (.github/scripts/lock-pinned-digests.py, AGENTS.md, deploy/aks/operator/test/run-tests.sh) and 320 omitted entirely by the 150000-character budget — I assert nothing about what I could not read, notably whether the lock lane's own run path calls the mask, and the ~320 one-to-three-line src/ and test/ changes beyond their sizes. One blocking ordering bug in the new masking: masks are registered after the discovered-repository print in derive-combo-instances.py, so a client deployments repository prints unmasked in the public log on every combo-verify run.
Findings: 1 blocking · 2 should-fix · 4 question · 0 nit
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.github/scripts/lock-pinned-digests.py— This file's patch is truncated in my view (first ~20k of ~49k characters), so I could not read its run()/check paths. derive-combo-instances.py's main() calls lock.mask_private_roster() before reading the roster — please confirm the lock lane's own run path and the --check-retention-record / --check-registry-retention modes also register the masks before any output that could name a client repository, registry or installation.
Internal review of eaea7c9440d65e8ad1036a0399ffd21d31a84a0a — GLM-5.3, posted by the control plane. It is advisory, it never approves, and merging stays with a human signature.
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| print(f"deriving the combo-verification roster from {len(repos)} repository(ies): " | ||
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| lock.mask_private_roster() # public log: the private roster's identifiers stay private |
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blocking — lock.mask_private_roster() is registered one statement too late: main() prints 'deriving the combo-verification roster from N repository(ies): ...' at lines 555-556 first, and with the private roster merged (the whole point of this change) that list includes the client estate's deployments repository — the very identifier this PR moves out of the public instances.json, and which this run must see in order to declare it (the PR body: without the secret the lane sees the client repository as undeclared and goes red). GitHub Actions applies ::add-mask:: only to output emitted AFTER the mask is registered, so that repository's name prints in clear text in the public log on every combo-verify run, and the mask — which does carry it, as a repositories key — never covers it. Move the mask call above the print, ideally to the very top of main() before any output.
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Right, fixed in 4652be7. lock.mask_private_roster() is now the first thing main() does after the --self-test branch. That puts it ahead of discover_repos(), the extractor control and the "deriving the combo-verification roster from N repository(ies): …" print, so every line that can name a discovered repository comes after the mask is registered. I checked it locally with GITHUB_ACTIONS=true and a placeholder private roster. The two ::add-mask:: lines now print before the repository list, and before the fix they printed after it. --self-test still passes.
| `memex` — `Systemorph/Memex`'s is memex.systemorph.com and `Systemorph/PartnerRe.Memex`'s is | ||
| partnerre.meshweaver.cloud, and both are correct. The duplicate blocker still fires, and fires | ||
| `memex` — `Systemorph/Memex`'s is memex.systemorph.com and `Systemorph/Umbrella.Memex`'s is | ||
| globex.example.com, and both are correct. The duplicate blocker still fires, and fires |
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should-fix — The fictional mapping contradicts itself across the PR: here Systemorph/Umbrella.Memex's live instance is globex.example.com, but derive-combo-instances.py's self-test for the same #3438/#3848 scenario puts that repository's instance at umbrella.example.com (derive-combo-instances.py:441) — two different fictional hosts for the same real installation. Within this file globex also names the estate's not-installed template instance ('the only exemption left is globex', line 1681), so one fictional name covers two different installations. These comments are the incident record the lane leans on; give each real entity exactly one fictional name.
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Right about the mismatch, and fixed in 4652be7. Every placeholder is now used one way. The client's deployments repository is Umbrella.Memex, and its installations and hosts use globex, which is how the doc tree names that estate: globex-test at globex.example.com is the live installation, and globex is the id declared by the hand-over template (see ComboGateWiring and ArtifactRetentionInterlock). The odd one out was derive-combo-instances.py's self-test, which used umbrella-test / umbrella.example.com. It now uses globex-test / globex.example.com. One arm compared the rows in declaration order, which only worked because of the old name's sort position, so it now compares them as a sorted list.
The second half doesn't hold up. Line 1681's globex is an installation id, the not-installed template installation. globex.example.com at line 1586 is the host of the live installation, whose id is globex-test. So these are two different kinds of identifier that belong to the same estate, which is also how the real names were related before this PR. No single id stands for two installations.
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| raise ValueError(f"{PRIVATE_ROSTER_ENV}: `{table}` is not an object") | ||
| base = merged.get(table) | ||
| base = dict(base) if isinstance(base, dict) else {} |
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should-fix — merge_roster turns a committed repositories/registries table that is not a JSON object into {} and then fills it from the private table, so once ACR_RETENTION_PRIVATE_ROSTER exists, a change that corrupts the committed instances.json table shape would no longer red — the readers' type checks would see the private table's valid object instead of the corrupted committed one. Repository secrets are available to pull-request runs on this repo, so the validation loss applies to PR runs too, not only the nightly. Raise a ValueError when the committed table is present but not an object, matching the fail-closed posture of the rest of this change.
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Agreed, fixed in 4652be7. merge_roster now raises ValueError("instances.json:
is not an object") when the committed repositories/registries table is present but isn't an object. An absent table still merges from {}. read_roster_document passes the ValueError on to each reader's existing "unreadable roster" refusal, so a corrupted committed table goes red whether or not the secret is set. Checked directly: a list-shaped committed table raises, while a well-formed table and an absent one both merge. The lock self-test and the --check-retention-record / --check-registry-retention modes all pass.| return merged | ||
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question — mask_private_roster's docstring says the lane's diagnostics name repositories, registries and installations verbatim, but the mask only covers identifiers the roster carries (table keys; instance id/repo/host). The client estate's overlay-declared live installation — the umbrella-test-style id and its host discussed in this PR's own comments — is not a roster entry, so it is never masked. Confirm no public log line (derived combo rows, instance reports, blockers) prints that pair, or mask the overlay-derived identifiers too.
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Answering the question: you're right that the overlay-derived live installation (id and host) isn't a roster entry, so mask_private_roster() doesn't mask it. That's deliberate, not an oversight. The combo lane has to emit that pair as data. The preflight job passes instances to the verify matrix as a job output, and GitHub drops a job output that contains a masked value, so masking the id would empty the matrix and break the verify job. The mask is there for the identifiers that live only in the private roster, above all the deployments repository and registry this PR takes out of the public file. The live installation's id and host come from that estate's own overlays, which the lane has to name to verify them. The docstring's "verbatim" sentence claims more than the function does, and I'm leaving the wording change to a follow-up rather than growing this PR.
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| document = read_roster_document(path) |
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question — read_registry_dispositions — and, below my truncated view, read_registry_publications / read_registry_rules — now also swallow a malformed or clashing private roster (ValueError from read_roster_document) and return the committed-only view, so the red for a bad secret depends on read_instance_roster running in the same lane. Do the standalone check modes also red somewhere on a malformed private roster, or can they silently validate a roster reduced to the committed fleet?
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Answering the question: in this workflow set, the standalone modes (--check-retention-record, --check-registry-retention) run in steps that do not get MW_ACR_PRIVATE_ROSTER (lock-pinned-digests.yml around line 309, dotnet-test.yml around lines 2565/2584). They always validate the committed roster, and a malformed secret can't reduce what they check. The only steps that carry the secret are the lock step and combo-verify's derive step, and both call read_instance_roster, which reds on a malformed private roster. So a bad secret still turns red in every lane that reads it.
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| GH_TOKEN: ${{ steps.fleet-token.outputs.token }} | ||
| MW_ACR_RELEASE_UNPINNED: ${{ vars.MW_ACR_RELEASE_UNPINNED }} | ||
| MW_ACR_PRIVATE_ROSTER: ${{ secrets.ACR_RETENTION_PRIVATE_ROSTER }} |
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question — Until ACR_RETENTION_PRIVATE_ROSTER is created, merging this PR leaves the nightly lock lane and combo-verify red on every run (the client deployments repository reads as undeclared) and — per pause.reEnableWhen: lock-pinned-digests is green — keeps ACR cleanup paused fleet-wide. The PR body calls the red intended fail-closed behaviour; confirm the secret is created at or before merge so main does not sit on a known-red lane with cleanup paused in the gap.
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Answering the question: the gap is real. As of this reply, ACR_RETENTION_PRIVATE_ROSTER does not exist on this repository (the secrets listing doesn't include it). If this merges first, the nightly lock lane and combo-verify red on the undeclared client repository (fail-closed on purpose), and ACR cleanup stays paused until the lock lane is green, which is the safe direction because nothing gets deleted. Creating the secret is the owner's step: its value is the three client-estate lines this PR removes, and those can't be written anywhere public. The PR body lists it under the steps after merge. I've raised it with the maintainer so the secret goes in at or right after the merge.
…osed on a malformed committed table - derive-combo-instances.py: mask_private_roster() now runs first in main() (after the --self-test branch), ahead of the discovered-repository print — ::add-mask:: covers only lines emitted after it (internal review, blocking). - lock-pinned-digests.py merge_roster: a committed repositories/registries table that is not an object is a ValueError, never silently replaced by the private table (should-fix). - derive-combo-instances.py self-test: the client installation uses the same placeholder the docs use (globex-test / globex.example.com), one fictional name per entity (should-fix). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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(re-posted 2026-10-11; originally by Test Results (shard 5) 5 files ±0 5 suites ±0 14m 28s ⏱️ -1s Results for commit 4652be7. ± Comparison against base commit 677c82b. This pull request removes 5 and adds 3 tests. Note that renamed tests count towards both.♻️ This comment has been updated with latest results. |
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Public-repo hygiene: this tree no longer names client organisations, client staff or client infrastructure, and generic docs no longer list the instances we operate.
What changed
globex/fabrikam/initech/hooli/umbrella(or "an enterprise client" / "an SME client" in prose); people become roles; tenants, subscriptions, vaults and registries become<tenant-id>,<subscription-id>,<vault>,<registry>; hosts become*.example.com. Test fixtures and sample values were renamed consistently (Fixtures/fabrikam.json).Doc/Architecture/Instancesgains "Where an estate's instances are declared": instances are data in the estate's private configuration repository, administered through its control instance; other docs now point there instead of to a named repository..github/acr-retention/instances.json.lock-pinned-digests.pynow merges a private roster fromMW_ACR_PRIVATE_ROSTER(mapped from theACR_RETENTION_PRIVATE_ROSTERsecret inlock-pinned-digests.ymlandcombo-verify.yml) over the committed file; a key declared in both is refused, a malformed value reads as unreadable, never empty. The self-tests now drive the qualified-entry path and theout-of-estatereport branch through that merge with fixtures.Private side (owed by the maintainer)
ACR_RETENTION_PRIVATE_ROSTER: a JSON object ofinstances.json's shape carrying exactly the three entries this PR removed — onerepositoriesentry (the client's deployments repository), oneregistriesentry (the client estate's registry, with itsout-of-estateretention block) and oneinstancesentry (the client'snot-installedcontrol instance). The removed text is in this PR's diff of.github/acr-retention/instances.json. Until it exists, the nightly lock lane and combo-verify see the client repository as undeclared and go red — which is the intended fail-closed behaviour.Deliberately not changed
AGENTS.md(fleet-wide parity gate); they still name our control instance and need a fleet-wide change.Verification
dotnet build -c Release -warnaserroron every touched test project; affected tests green (Deployment.Contract 51, Memex.Portal.Shared 77, Graph 73, Hosting 69, Documentation 649).lock-pinned-digests.py --self-test / --check-retention-record / --check-registry-retention,derive-combo-instances.py --self-test,check-chart-invariants.sh(17 renders, 6 refusals), operatorrun-tests.sh(664 passed), and the workflow-shell root checks.Nothing an instance runs changes behaviour here (comments, docs, test samples, CI config).
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