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…v pair (LAB-2528) Two of the three LAB-2528 fail-open findings. Finding 1 (the Atheris job that fuzzed nothing) is fixed under LAB-1140 in #269 and deliberately not touched here, so the two PRs cannot conflict in security-deep.yml. Finding 2 — attestation-check.yml swallowed a failed release lookup into a green skip. `2>/dev/null || echo ""` made "the gh API failed" and "this repo has no releases" the same fact: the run exited 0, wrote skip=true, and logged "No releases found, skipping" — so a week with no attestation verification at all was indistinguishable from a healthy one. The lookup now fails the step with an ::error:: annotation and only a genuinely empty release list skips, with distinct log lines for the two. github.repository moves into env: REPO, which also removes a template-expansion-into-shell site. Finding 3 — the codecov fail_ci_if_error pair, recorded as a decision rather than left at its default. coverage.xml is flipped to true: it is the only input to the project/patch statuses codecov.yml declares, and with carryforward: true on every flag a silently-dropped upload does not remove the patch status, it answers "is this PR's new code 80% covered?" with an earlier run's numbers — a green status that measured none of the diff, the same manufactured-evidence class as the two findings above. junit.xml stays false on purpose: it feeds Test Analytics only, nothing gates on it, and a Codecov outage there would redden passing CI while hiding nothing. Both rationales live in ci.yml at the point of enforcement. No fork-PR exposure — fork PRs cannot mint the OIDC token these uploads use. Evidence: the shipped step body extracted from the YAML and run under bash -e against a stubbed gh, pre-fix vs post-fix. Pre-fix on API failure: exit 0, skip=true, "No releases found, skipping". Post-fix: exit 1 with the annotation; empty list still exits 0 with skip=true; healthy path yields tag=v0.17.1, skip=false. gh's --jq null rendering checked against the real binary on repos with and without releases. actionlint passes.
…njection, fork-scoped codecov gate (LAB-2528)
Four-agent panel at high stakes. Surviving findings, all applied:
CRIT (introduced by the previous commit, caught by two agents independently):
the in-file comment justifying `fail_ci_if_error: true` claimed fork PRs
"cannot mint the OIDC token" and therefore could not be reddened. Read at the
pinned SHA, the action does the opposite: `Get OIDC token` is guarded
`CC_USE_OIDC == 'true' && CC_FORK != 'true'`, so on a fork it never attempts
OIDC, CC_TOKEN stays empty, `Override branch for forks` sets TOKENLESS, and
CC_FAIL_ON_ERROR still applies — a Codecov rate-limit would redden an outside
contribution. On a repo with no branch protection that trains maintainers to
merge over red CI, i.e. it degrades the gate it was meant to harden. The flag
is now scoped to same-repo events, where OIDC actually authenticates, and the
comment records the mechanism rather than the false premise. A comment
asserting behaviour the code does not exhibit is a trust bug in its own right.
MAJ (introduced): the new `exit 1` on a failed lookup fell into the
`if: failure()` issue-creation step, filing a public bug issue titled
"Attestation verification failed for " — empty tag, blaming attestation
verification for an API outage that never reached the verify step, weekly and
undeduped. Gated on `steps.release.outputs.skip == 'false'`; for a lookup
failure the red run is the signal.
CRIT (in scope — this diff rewrote the lookup): `gh release list --limit 1` is
unfiltered. `--exclude-drafts` / `--exclude-pre-releases` are opt-in, so a
draft or prerelease can win `.[0]` — verifying an RC green while the stable
wheel users install goes unchecked, or failing on a wheel PyPI never got. Now
selects on `isLatest` (GitHub's own newest-non-draft-non-prerelease marker),
and "releases exist but none is latest" is a hard failure rather than a green
skip: that was the LAB-984 shape reproduced one level down.
CRIT (pre-existing, in-family so fixed here): `VER="${{ ... outputs.tag }}"`
template-interpolated a release tag into the shell body. `git check-ref-format`
accepts `v1.0.0$(id)` and backticked tags, and whoever can name a tag is the
adversary this tripwire exists to catch — that is code execution in a job
holding GH_TOKEN and issues: write, from where a `gh` shim makes the verify
two lines later exit 0. TAG and REPO now arrive via env in both remaining
steps; the previous commit had moved only `github.repository`, leaving the one
value that is actually externally set interpolated.
Two rhetorical comment sentences cut (both agents flagged them as restating
the preceding line).
REJECTED, with reason recorded in-file: `handle_no_reports_found: true`. It
would also swallow "the report was never written" — the silent degradation
finding 3 exists to remove. A second red step on an already-red job is noise;
a green job that uploaded nothing is a trust bug.
Evidence. The shipped lookup body is extracted from the YAML with yaml.safe_load
and run under `bash -e` against a stubbed gh, five cases, all asserted: lookup
failure -> exit 1; releases-but-none-latest -> exit 1; zero releases -> exit 0
skip=true; healthy -> exit 0 tag=v0.17.1; prerelease newer than stable -> picks
the stable one. `isLatest`/`isDraft`/`isPrerelease` confirmed as real `--json`
fields and `--exclude-*` confirmed opt-in against the installed gh. The codecov
flip is backed by the step LOG (not the step conclusion, which proves nothing
while the flag is false) on the last three main runs: `Get OIDC token`
succeeded and "Your upload is now queued for processing" on every interpreter.
actionlint passes — it caught a literal template marker inside a comment being
parsed as an empty expression.
Out of scope, filed as observations rather than silently widened: the verify
call pins neither `--signer-workflow` nor `--source-ref` and emits no
`--format json` evidence (needs checking against a real 0.17.1 attestation);
only 1 of the 21 attested artifacts per release is verified; junit-unit.xml is
generated and never uploaded; and the vendored codecov action proceeds after
its own CLI signature check prints "Could not verify signature".
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WalkthroughThe attestation workflow now distinguishes release discovery outcomes and verifies the selected release. CI coverage failures vary by event and repository origin. Test-result uploads remain non-blocking. The pip constraint and related documentation now use ChangesAttestation release validation
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…ure issue to the verify step (LAB-2528) Second expert-panel pass, run because the fix for a panel's own findings is not covered by that panel. Both agents independently found the same defect, and it is the one this ticket exists to remove — reintroduced two lines below the `|| echo ""` it replaced. MAJ, fail-open (introduced in 228e904): the release-count check was written `if [ "$(jq -r 'length' <<<"$RELEASES")" -ne 0 ]`. Three faults compounding: the command substitution hides jq's exit code, `set -e` does not fire inside an `if` condition, and when `[` itself errors on non-numeric input the test evaluates FALSE — falling straight through to `skip=true` and exit 0. Reachable whenever `gh` exits 0 with empty stdout: jq on empty input exits 0 with no output, so the job reported a green "no published releases, skipping" having verified nothing. Now validated in its own statement with `jq -e 'if type == "array" then length else null end'`, so a parse error, an absent array, a JSON null and an object all land on the annotated hard failure rather than the skip path or a raw jq trace. `--limit` raised 30 -> 100 and the error now reports the actual count, so the window is diagnosable rather than an arbitrary constant that arms itself as the repo grows. MAJ, misleading alarm: `if: failure() && skip == 'false'` fixed the empty-tag case but still filed a public "Attestation verification failed for v0.17.1" issue when `setup-python` failed, or when `pip download` hit a release-day PyPI publish lag or a yank — blaming the release pipeline's attestations for something that never reached the attestation check, on the day maintainers are busiest. Now gated on the verify step's own `steps.verify.outcome`, retitled to "Attestation health check failed" (the step covers both the download and the verification), and the body sends the reader to the log to find out which. ci.yml: the fork scoping is kept, but the comment now states the residual risk it creates instead of only the risk it avoids — on a fork PR a dropped tokenless upload is silent and carryforward answers the patch question with an earlier commit's numbers. Accepted because a fork PR cannot reach the self-hosted runner without a maintainer approving the run; the real fix is a local `--cov-fail-under` floor, tracked separately rather than smuggled in here. Evidence: the harness now asserts eight cases against the step body extracted from the YAML, including the three malformed-payload cases that previously produced a green skip (empty stdout, unparseable stdout, JSON null) — all now non-zero with the annotation. actionlint passes. Deferred with reasons, not silently widened: verifying the newest release in addition to `isLatest` (a publisher can flag a malicious release prerelease and leave `isLatest` on the previous stable — a coverage gap, not a fail-open, and the same "which artifacts should the weekly check cover" question as the already-deferred 1-of-21 artifact gap); `gh issue create` dedup (pre-existing; duplicate weekly issues are noise rather than silence, and the obvious implementation wants a `|| echo 0` swallow this PR is removing).
CodeRabbit, PR #270: capping the lookup at N releases means the isLatest release can fall outside the window, leaving TAG empty on a non-empty list and hard-failing a perfectly healthy repo. Raising N only moves the cliff. /releases/latest — what `gh release view` with no tag resolves — is the same newest-non-draft-non-prerelease release the isLatest flag marks, computed server-side, so there is no window for it to fall outside of. `gh release list --limit 1` keeps answering the one question that genuinely needs the listing: does this repo publish anything at all. All three outcomes preserved: lookup failure red, zero releases skip, releases-without-a-latest red. A tripwire that cries wolf is the same trust bug as one that stays silent. Refs LAB-2528
Not this PR's subject — riding along because it reds every PR in the repo, including this one, and CI-green is the review gate. pip-audit flagged pip 26.1.2 itself: doubly-encoded package URLs from an index can install files to arbitrary paths on disk, wheels included. Fixed in 26.2; the [tool.uv] constraint pinned the vulnerable floor. Lock resolves to 26.2.1 and nothing else moved. Repo-wide, not branch-specific: main carries the same floor and has not run CI since 2026-08-08, which is why nobody had seen it yet. Refs LAB-2528
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…can pass The pinned v5.5.3 fetches Codecov's GPG key from keybase.io/codecovsecurity, an account Codecov deleted in June 2026 (HTTP 404, "SELF-SIGNED PUBLIC KEY NOT FOUND"). Key import yields "no valid OpenPGP data", `gpg --verify` fails with "No public key", and the wrapper's exit_if_error fires. With the PR's fail_ci_if_error: true on same-repo events that is now a hard failure — the Tests (Python 3.12) job on 8ec07c3 died exactly there. On main (fail_ci_if_error: false) the same failure has been silent: the log prints "Could not verify signature" then "CLI integrity verified" and runs the unverified 10 MB binary anyway. Every green main run since the deletion did this. v7.0.0 (fb8b3582) moves the key URL to keybase.io/codecovsecops, which serves the same key (fingerprint 2703 4E7F DB85 0E0B BC2C 62FF 806B B28A ED77 9869 — the RSA key that signed the failing run's SHA256SUM). The only other change on our code path since v5.5.3 is v6.0.1's template-injection hardening (inputs hoisted into env:). The Get OIDC token fork guard the in-file comment cites is unchanged. node24, which v6+ requires, is already required by checkout@v6 in the same job. Not chosen: skip_validation (disables the check), reverting fail_ci_if_error (defeats LAB-2528), v5.5.5 (node20 compatibility line we have no need for). Refs LAB-3408, LAB-2528.
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… the pin note Expert-panel pass on 2ffb843 (bug-hunter-supreme and security-specialist, independently): fail_ci_if_error is not just "redden CI on upload error", it is the wrapper's signature-enforcement switch. exit_if_error only exits when CC_FAIL_ON_ERROR=true; with false a failed `gpg --verify` falls through to a same-origin SHA256SUM check, prints "CLI integrity verified", chmods and executes the downloaded binary with the OIDC token in env. The junit step's hard-coded false therefore kept the exact fail-open 2ffb843's own comment describes, two lines below it, and its "hiding nothing" rationale was wrong. The step now sets fail_ci_if_error: true and carries the PR's recorded "a Test Analytics outage must not redden CI" decision in step-level continue-on-error: true instead: the wrapper stops before exec, the step is marked failed-and-continued, the job stays green. Same observable CI outcome on an outage; no unverified execution. Pin note reworded per the panel: dropped the v5.5.5/v6.0.2 parenthetical (v6.0.2 is this very commit; v5.5.5 is the node20 line without v6.0.1's hardening, an in-file licence to downgrade), fixed "every earlier release" (false by version order), gave it its own paragraph, and named the accepted fail-closed: a keybase.io outage now fails same-repo CI red rather than running an unverified binary. Not changed: the coverage step's same-repo scoping. On a fork PR it still runs tokenless with fail_ci_if_error false, so the same unverified-binary path exists there; that is gated by a maintainer approving the run on the self-hosted runner and is the PR author's recorded design. Flagged on LAB-3408 for the owner rather than rewritten here. Refs LAB-3408, LAB-2528.
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… rationale Second expert-panel pass on ade459d, comment accuracy only, no behaviour change: - The ACCEPTED RESIDUAL RISK paragraph named only the silent tokenless drop on fork PRs. It now also names that the wrapper's CLI signature check is unenforced there (fail_ci_if_error is its switch), and states why that is accepted: a tampered cli.codecov.io binary cannot target fork runs selectively, so it hits same-repo runs first, where the step fails closed. "A human is already in that loop" was dropped: maintainer approval vets the PR's code, not Codecov's CDN. - The handle_no_reports_found paragraph claimed "a green job that uploaded nothing is a trust bug" for both uploads, while the junit paragraph above it now deliberately accepts a green job on an outage. Scoped to coverage.xml; on junit.xml the default keeps the failed step visible as an annotation. Refs LAB-3408, LAB-2528.
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Closes LAB-2528 findings 2 and 3.
Finding 1 is not in this PR. The dead Atheris fuzz job is fixed under LAB-1140 in #269, which root-causes the startup death (
atheris.instrument_imports()instrumented pydantic; the instrumented bytecode segfaults CPython 3.11 duringpydantic_settingsmodel construction) and rewrites the targets. Deliberately untouched here so the two PRs cannot conflict insecurity-deep.yml.Finding 2 —
attestation-check.ymlswallowed a failed release lookup into a green skip2>/dev/null || echo ""made "the gh API failed" and "this repo has no releases" the same fact. Proven againstmain's own step body, run underbash -ewith a stubbed failinggh:A week with no attestation verification at all exited 0 and read as healthy.
There are now three outcomes on three exit paths, and the panel found the lookup had a second fail-open one level down:
--exclude-drafts/--exclude-pre-releasesare opt-in, so an unfiltered--limit 1lets a draft or prerelease win.[0]— verifying an RC green while the stable wheel users install goes unchecked. Selection is now onisLatest(GitHub's own newest-non-draft-non-prerelease marker), and "releases exist but none is latest" is a hard failure rather than a green skip.Finding 3 — the codecov
fail_ci_if_errorpair, decided rather than defaultedcoverage.xmlis the only input to the project/patch statusescodecov.ymldeclares, andcarryforward: trueis set ondefault_rulesplus both individual flags. So a silently-dropped upload does not remove the patch status — it answers "is this PR's new code 80% covered?" with an earlier run's numbers. A green status that measured none of the diff is the same manufactured-evidence class as finding 2, so it is nowtrue, scoped to same-repo events.junit.xmlstaysfalseon purpose: Test Analytics only, nothing gates on it, and a Codecov outage there would redden passing CI while hiding nothing.handle_no_reports_foundstays at its default on both, and the reason is recorded in-file: it would also swallow "the report was never written", which is the silent degradation this ticket exists to remove.Expert-panel review
Four agents at high stakes (bug-hunter-supreme, security-specialist, code-craftsman, catchphrase-agent), then a second pass on the remediation head because the fix for a panel's own findings is not covered by that panel. Surviving findings applied:
fail_ci_if_error: trueclaimed fork PRs "cannot mint the OIDC token" so could not be reddened. False — read at the pinned SHA,Get OIDC tokenis guardedCC_USE_OIDC == 'true' && CC_FORK != 'true', so on a fork it never attempts OIDC,CC_TOKENstays empty, the upload goes TOKENLESS (rate-limited), andCC_FAIL_ON_ERRORstill applies. A 429 would redden an outside contribution.gh release list --limit 1unfiltered — a draft or prerelease can win.[0].isLatestselection; releases-but-none-latest is a hard failure.VER="${{ steps.release.outputs.tag }}"interpolated a release tag into the shell body.git check-ref-formatacceptsv1.0.0$(id); whoever can name a tag is the adversary this tripwire exists to catch, and aghshim would make the verify two lines later exit 0. Pre-existing, but the first commit moved onlygithub.repository— leaving the one externally-set value interpolated.TAG/REPOviaenv:in both steps.exit 1fell intoif: failure(), filing a weekly undeduped public issue titledAttestation verification failed for— empty tag, blaming attestations for an API outage. A guard that misreports is the same trust bug as the silence it replaced.steps.release.outputs.skip == 'false'.conclusion=successproves nothing while the flag isfalse.mainruns:Get OIDC tokensucceeded and "Your upload is now queued for processing" on every interpreter.Rejected, with reason:
handle_no_reports_found: true(reintroduces the fail-open this ticket removes — recorded in-file).Second panel pass (on the remediation head)
The fix for a panel's own findings is not covered by that panel, so bug-hunter-supreme and security-specialist re-reviewed
0d1c0e9..228e904. Both independently found the same defect — and it was the one this ticket exists to remove, reintroduced two lines below the|| echo ""it replaced:if [ "$(jq -r 'length' <<<"$RELEASES")" -ne 0 ]— the command substitution hides jq's exit code,set -edoes not fire inside anifcondition, and when[itself errors on non-numeric input the test evaluates FALSE, falling through toskip=trueand exit 0. Reachable wheneverghexits 0 with empty stdout: jq on empty input exits 0 with no output, so the job reported a green "no published releases, skipping" having verified nothing.jq -e 'if type == "array" then length else null end'. Parse error, absent array, JSON null and object now all hit the annotated hard failure.if: failure() && skip == 'false'still filed a public "Attestation verification failed for v0.17.1" issue whensetup-pythonfailed, orpip downloadhit a release-day PyPI publish lag or a yank — blaming the release pipeline for something that never reached the attestation check.steps.verify.outcome; retitled "Attestation health check failed" (the step covers download and verification); body sends the reader to the log.--limit 30is an arbitrary window that arms itself as the repo grows (27 releases exist), and the count test measured the window, not the repo.--limit 100; the error reports the actual count.Deferred with reasons, not silently widened: verifying the newest release in addition to
isLatest— a publisher can flag a malicious release prerelease and leaveisLateston the previous stable, so the check would verify the old wheel and go green. That is a coverage gap rather than a fail-open, and it is the same "which artifacts should the weekly check cover" question as the already-deferred 1-of-21 artifact gap. Also deferred:gh issue creatededup (pre-existing; duplicate weekly issues are noise rather than silence, and the obvious implementation wants exactly the|| echo 0swallow this PR removes).Live proof
workflow_dispatchof the branch's copy — run 33352732589, conclusion success, doing real work rather than skipping:Open issue on failurecorrectly skipped. TheisLatestlookup resolved the real release and the verify step downloaded and checked the actual published wheel.Panel dissent recorded, not applied: security-specialist argued that on a repo with 20+ releases, a genuinely empty release list is itself a tamper signal and should hard-fail rather than skip. The ticket's acceptance criteria specify "only a genuinely empty release list skips", so that is left as-specified for the owner to decide — it is a one-line change. The realistic subcase (releases exist, none published stable) is now a hard failure.
Evidence
The shipped lookup body is extracted from the YAML with
yaml.safe_load— not retyped — and run underbash -eagainst a stubbedgh. All five cases asserted:The three malformed-payload cases are the ones that previously produced a green skip.
isLatest/isDraft/isPrereleaseconfirmed as real--jsonfields and--exclude-*confirmed opt-in against the installedgh. actionlint passes — it caught a literal template marker inside a comment being parsed as an empty expression.Out of scope — filed as observations, not silently widened
The verify call pins neither
--signer-workflownor--source-refand emits no--format jsonevidence, so per LAB-984 an attestation minted by any workflow on any branch satisfies it and a passing verify prints nothing. Only 1 of the 21 attested artifacts per release is verified (pip downloadon one runner).junit-unit.xmlis generated and never uploaded, so flake history omits the unit suite. And the vendored codecov action proceeds after its own CLI signature check printsCould not verify signature.Docs gate
No docs needed. Neither change has a documented surface:
README.md's only Codecov reference is a badge,docs/CONTRIBUTING.mddocuments no coverage gate, codecov config or attestation workflow, and the sole othercodecov-actionmention is a code sample in a historical E2E results doc for an unrelated workflow. No Python changed, so the doctest/markdown-docs runners are unaffected. Both decisions are recorded as comments at the point of enforcement, which is where a future editor looks.Summary by CodeRabbit
Reliability
Quality Assurance
Maintenance
pipversion and refreshed related security references.Summary
This PR upgrades the Codecov GitHub Action from v5 to v7 to fix a silent security vulnerability in the CI attestation/signature verification process.
Changes
codecov/codecov-actionfrom v5 to v7 in both the "Upload coverage to Codecov" and "Upload test results to Codecov" steps in the CI workflow.Why
The pinned v5 action (and all releases prior to v7.0.0, except the v5.5.5 / v6.0.2 backports) fetches Codecov's signing key from a Keybase account that Codecov deleted in June 2026. As a result:
fail_ci_if_erroris set tofalse, this verification failure occurs silently, and an unverified binary runs without alerting anyone.Pinning to v7 establishes a floor where attestation/signature verification can actually succeed, closing this trust gap and ensuring the CI fails loudly rather than silently running an unverified binary.
A code comment was also added documenting the rationale for the version floor.
Summary
This PR hardens the Codecov integration in the CI workflow to prevent unverified binaries from running silently, addressing finding 3 of LAB-2528.
Changes
Test results upload now enforces signature verification (
.github/workflows/ci.yml)fail_ci_if_errorfromfalsetotrueon the "Upload test results to Codecov" step.continue-on-error: trueto that same step.Why
The
codecov-actionwrapper usesfail_ci_if_erroras a dual-purpose switch: besides deciding whether upload errors fail the job, it also acts as the CLI signature-enforcement toggle. With it set tofalse, the wrapper would print "CLI integrity verified" and proceed to run an unverified binary even when GPG verification could not pass.By flipping the test-results upload to
fail_ci_if_error: true, signature enforcement is now active on both uploads. To preserve the original "don't redden otherwise-passing CI on a Codecov outage" intent (junit.xml only feeds Test Analytics flaky-test history and gates nothing), that behavior is moved intocontinue-on-error: true— so a Codecov-side outage marks the step failed-and-continued while the job stays green.Accepted trade-off
A keybase.io outage will now cause same-repo CI to fail closed rather than pass silently, which is the intended safety posture.
Documentation
The accompanying comments were rewritten to clearly explain the deliberate, differing treatment of the two uploads and the reasoning behind the v7.0.0 pin (earlier releases fetch the CLI signing key from a deleted keybase account, so verification can never pass).
Description
This PR refines the CI workflow's Codecov integration by clarifying and correcting the documented rationale around attestation lookup and upload failure handling.
Changes
The modifications are limited to comment/documentation updates within
.github/workflows/ci.yml, expanding on the security and trust reasoning for the Codecov upload steps:Attestation/CLI signature check scoping: Added a note clarifying that the wrapper's CLI signature check is unenforced on fork PRs (controlled by the
fail_ci_if_errorswitch). The accepted-risk explanation now includes that a tampered binary would reach same-repo runs first, where it fails closed—strengthening the justification for the residual risk on fork PRs.handle_no_reports_foundbehavior clarification: Refined the explanation of why this setting is left at its default (false) for both uploads, now distinguishing between the two report types:coverage.xml: a green job that uploaded nothing is treated as a trust bug.junit.xml: sincecontinue-on-erroralready accepts a green job, keepingfalseensures a failed step remains visible as an annotation rather than being silently hidden.Purpose
These changes document the decision (per LAB-2528) to fail loudly on attestation lookup failures and to distinguish handling between the coverage and test-results upload pairs. No functional workflow logic is changed—the update is purely to the rationale comments guiding the existing upload configuration.
Fail loudly on attestation lookup failure; clarify Codecov pair decision (LAB-2528)
Summary
This PR adds clarifying documentation to the CI workflow explaining the safety reasoning behind the
continue-on-errordowngrade on the Codecov test analytics upload step.Changes
.github/workflows/ci.ymlto document that thecontinue-on-errordowngrade is visibility-only and does not weaken security:Impact
No functional or behavioral change — this is a documentation-only update that records the rationale for the existing configuration, making the CI security posture clearer to future maintainers.