ci: publish stack-aware preview images and charts for pull requests - #810
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GitHub evaluates the trigger's paths filter against a PR's own slice, so the top PR of a native stack never built images when its slice was docs-only, while every lower PR rebuilt a prefix of the same images on each restack. Move the allowlist into a job that diffs against the stack base, gate all four jobs on it, and tag the manifests stack-<n> next to pr-<N>. The comment on the top PR lists the PRs it contains. Manually chained PRs are unchanged: they are not a stack to GitHub and match no branches filter, so they get no preview at all. Signed-off-by: Vadim Bauer <vb@container-registry.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe workflows detect image and chart changes against stack bases, gate preview publishing, sign outputs, and update pull request comments with stack and preview details. ChangesStack-aware pull request CI
Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant PullRequest
participant changes
participant ImagePipeline
participant ChartPipeline
participant GitHubAPI
PullRequest->>changes: start workflow and detect stack-relative changes
changes->>ImagePipeline: provide image build decision
changes->>ChartPipeline: provide chart build decision
ImagePipeline->>GitHubAPI: publish signed image results
ChartPipeline->>GitHubAPI: publish signed chart preview
ImagePipeline->>GitHubAPI: update image preview comment
ChartPipeline->>GitHubAPI: update chart preview comment
Priority: ➖ Normal Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Preview artifacts may publish successfully without a corresponding PR comment, while change-detection failures can be reported as harmless no-change skips. Fixing the shared comment handling is recommended before merge so preview status remains reliable. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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The workflow logic appears consistent and self-contained, with only a minor Markdown-formatting best-practice note outstanding.
Pull request overview
Updates the PR Preview Images GitHub Actions workflow to behave correctly with native GitHub stacks, ensuring preview images are built from the top-of-stack PR even when that PR’s own diff slice is docs-only.
Changes:
- Removes
on.pull_request.pathsfiltering and replaces it with achangesgate job that diffs stack base (or PR base) → PR head and decides whether to build. - Gates
build,merge,sign, andpr-commentonchanges.outputs.build == 'true', and skips non-top stack members. - Adds optional
stack-<n>tagging on merged manifest lists and extends the PR comment to describe the stack and its members.
File summaries
| File | Description |
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| .github/workflows/pr-ci.yml | Reworks workflow gating for stacked PRs, adds stack-aware tagging, and enhances PR comment content with stack context. |
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| stackSection = ` | ||
| This PR is the top of stack #${stackNumber}. The images are built from its head, so they contain every PR in the stack: | ||
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| The same images are tagged \`${stackTag}\`, which always points at the latest build of the top of the stack. Lower PRs do not get images of their own; push a fix there and \`gh stack rebase && gh stack push\` to rebuild. | ||
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Not applied: the script: | block scalar strips the common indentation before github-script sees the source, so the template literal lines start at column 0. The existing body literal in this file relies on the same behaviour, and the identical construct rendered the member list as a plain ordered list on harbor-scanner-trivy#93 (verification stack), not as a code block.
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<file name=".github/workflows/pr-ci.yml">
<violation number="1" location=".github/workflows/pr-ci.yml:359">
P3: `GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/stacks/{stack_number}` returns `pull_requests` as minimal objects that contain only `number`, `state`, `draft`, `merged_at`, and `head` (`ref`/`sha`) — the schema has no `title` field (confirmed in GitHub's Stacks REST API docs). So `pr.title` is `undefined` and every stack member renders as `1. #94 undefined` in the preview comment.</violation>
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| owner, repo, stack_number: Number(stackNumber), | ||
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| members = stack.pull_requests | ||
| .map((pr, i) => `${i + 1}. #${pr.number} ${pr.title}`) |
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P3: GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/stacks/{stack_number} returns pull_requests as minimal objects that contain only number, state, draft, merged_at, and head (ref/sha) — the schema has no title field (confirmed in GitHub's Stacks REST API docs). So pr.title is undefined and every stack member renders as 1. #94 undefined in the preview comment.
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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At .github/workflows/pr-ci.yml, line 359:
<comment>`GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/stacks/{stack_number}` returns `pull_requests` as minimal objects that contain only `number`, `state`, `draft`, `merged_at`, and `head` (`ref`/`sha`) — the schema has no `title` field (confirmed in GitHub's Stacks REST API docs). So `pr.title` is `undefined` and every stack member renders as `1. #94 undefined` in the preview comment.</comment>
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@@ -288,19 +334,46 @@ jobs:
+ owner, repo, stack_number: Number(stackNumber),
+ });
+ members = stack.pull_requests
+ .map((pr, i) => `${i + 1}. #${pr.number} ${pr.title}`)
+ .join('\n');
+ } catch (error) {
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Not applied: the schema has a title field and the response carries it. GET /repos/container-registry/harbor-scanner-clair/stacks/32 returns {"number":24,"title":"refactor: replace the job store and queue with a Postgres table and slog"} for the first entry, and the rendered comment on harbor-scanner-trivy#93 (the verification stack) listed 1. #92 ci: build the preview image from the top of a stack, no undefined.
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Preview images for this PR are available in
A preview chart for this PR is published too, and its comment carries the install command: #810 (comment) Verify a preview image: Verify the SBOM attestation: |
A PR pushed on top of an in-flight top let the older build finish last and repoint stack-<n> backwards; the group is now the stack number when stacked. git diff's rename detection showed only the new path of a file moved out of the allowlist, hiding that an image input went away. Signed-off-by: Vadim Bauer <vb@container-registry.com>
The top PR's pr-<N> already is the stack image, so the alias only duplicated it, and two PRs writing one tag was the sole reason for the stack-keyed concurrency group. Back to one tag per PR and per-PR concurrency; the gate, the top-only build and the member list stay. Signed-off-by: Vadim Bauer <vb@container-registry.com>
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<file name=".github/workflows/pr-ci.yml">
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P1: Custom agent: **Enforce Pragmatic Test Coverage**
The stacked publication path now creates only `${PREVIEW_TAG}`, and no automated check covers the required `stack-<n>` alias. Add a workflow-level test or command-generation check for both tags, and restore the alias behavior.</violation>
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P1: Custom agent: Enforce Pragmatic Test Coverage
The stacked publication path now creates only ${PREVIEW_TAG}, and no automated check covers the required stack-<n> alias. Add a workflow-level test or command-generation check for both tags, and restore the alias behavior.
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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At .github/workflows/pr-ci.yml, line 251:
<comment>The stacked publication path now creates only `${PREVIEW_TAG}`, and no automated check covers the required `stack-<n>` alias. Add a workflow-level test or command-generation check for both tags, and restore the alias behavior.</comment>
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# shellcheck disable=SC2046
- docker buildx imagetools create "${tags[@]}" \
+ docker buildx imagetools create \
+ -t "${IMAGE}:${PREVIEW_TAG}" \
$(printf "${IMAGE}@sha256:%s " *)
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Fair, and partly covered already: both scripts are extracted and rendered against stubs for success, skipped, failed, non-top-of-stack, stale-on-stale and missing-stack-field before each push, which is how the last four defects were caught. That harness is a local script rather than a committed test, because committing it means committing a YAML-scraping extractor whose own drift would be untested. Happy to commit it if you want the coverage visible in CI.
pr-chart.yml packages, pushes and signs <chart version>-pr.<N> into the PR registry project with the same gate as pr-ci.yml: diff against the stack base with --no-renames, top of a stack only, status on every pull request. Subcharts come from Chart.lock; the Artifact Hub annotation names the release project's images, as on release. Signed-off-by: Vadim Bauer <vb@container-registry.com>
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P2: Custom agent: **Enforce Strict Maintainability Standards**
When `Chart.yaml` uses a valid quoted top-level key, this `awk` parser returns an empty value because it only matches unquoted `$1`. Use a YAML-aware metadata extractor and share it with `chart-annotate-images.sh` instead of duplicating this formatting-sensitive parser.</violation>
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This scrapes free-form `helm push` output and takes the first SHA token, so output changes or SHA-bearing diagnostics can make cosign target the wrong digest. Use Helm's `--output json` result and extract `.digest` with `jq` instead.</violation>
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| run: | | ||
| set -euo pipefail | ||
| read_key() { | ||
| awk -F'[:[:space:]]+' -v key="$1" '$1 == key { gsub(/["'"'"']/, "", $2); print $2; exit }' deploy/chart/Chart.yaml |
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When Chart.yaml uses a valid quoted top-level key, this awk parser returns an empty value because it only matches unquoted $1. Use a YAML-aware metadata extractor and share it with chart-annotate-images.sh instead of duplicating this formatting-sensitive parser.
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<comment>When `Chart.yaml` uses a valid quoted top-level key, this `awk` parser returns an empty value because it only matches unquoted `$1`. Use a YAML-aware metadata extractor and share it with `chart-annotate-images.sh` instead of duplicating this formatting-sensitive parser.</comment>
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+ run: |
+ set -euo pipefail
+ read_key() {
+ awk -F'[:[:space:]]+' -v key="$1" '$1 == key { gsub(/["'"'"']/, "", $2); print $2; exit }' deploy/chart/Chart.yaml
+ }
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Not applied: both lines are copied verbatim from the release workflow, which has published every chart in this repository. Changing the preview alone would create the divergence the maintainability rule is meant to prevent; if the parser is wrong it is wrong in the release path first, and that is where it should be fixed.
| # itself contain a sha256 digest the capture below would match. | ||
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| set -euo pipefail | ||
| helm push "dist/harbor-next-${PREVIEW_VERSION}.tgz" \ |
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This scrapes free-form helm push output and takes the first SHA token, so output changes or SHA-bearing diagnostics can make cosign target the wrong digest. Use Helm's --output json result and extract .digest with jq instead.
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<comment>This scrapes free-form `helm push` output and takes the first SHA token, so output changes or SHA-bearing diagnostics can make cosign target the wrong digest. Use Helm's `--output json` result and extract `.digest` with `jq` instead.</comment>
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+ # itself contain a sha256 digest the capture below would match.
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+ set -euo pipefail
+ helm push "dist/harbor-next-${PREVIEW_VERSION}.tgz" \
+ "oci://${REGISTRY_ADDRESS}/${PR_REGISTRY_PROJECT}/charts" 2>&1 | tee push.log
+ digest=$(grep -o 'sha256:[a-f0-9]\{64\}' push.log | head -1)
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Not applied: both lines are copied verbatim from the release workflow, which has published every chart in this repository. Changing the preview alone would create the divergence the maintainability rule is meant to prevent; if the parser is wrong it is wrong in the release path first, and that is where it should be fixed.
GitHub opens the PRs of a stack before it links them, so the opened event never carries pull_request.stack and the top PR of a fresh stack got no preview until its next push. The link fires the stacked action. Signed-off-by: Vadim Bauer <vb@container-registry.com>
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<violation number="1" location=".github/workflows/pr-chart.yml:198">
P2: The comment job uses the Issues comments API but grants only `pull-requests: write`, so publishing can succeed while the sticky chart comment fails with a 403. Add `issues: write` to this job's permissions.</violation>
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| if: needs.changes.outputs.build == 'true' | ||
| runs-on: ubuntu-26.04 | ||
| permissions: | ||
| pull-requests: write |
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P2: The comment job uses the Issues comments API but grants only pull-requests: write, so publishing can succeed while the sticky chart comment fails with a 403. Add issues: write to this job's permissions.
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+ if: needs.changes.outputs.build == 'true'
+ runs-on: ubuntu-26.04
+ permissions:
+ pull-requests: write
+ env:
+ PREVIEW_VERSION: ${{ needs.preview-chart.outputs.version }}
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Not applied, disproven in practice. Every preview comment in these repositories is posted by a job holding only pull-requests: write, including the ones on this pull request. GitHub treats a pull request comment as a pull request write, not an issue write.
Each comment now names the commit it was built from, lists the inputs that triggered it, links the sibling preview comment when one exists, and is rewritten with a delimited outdated notice when a build is skipped, fails, or the PR is not the top of its stack. The unused gh CLI install step goes with it. Port of container-registry/harbor-scanner-trivy#101. Signed-off-by: Vadim Bauer <vb@container-registry.com>
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261-280: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy liftExtract the shared comment script.
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post,withoutNotice, stack lookup, and stale-notice logic are duplicated in.github/workflows/pr-ci.ymllines 368-428. The duplicated blocks already carry the same two defects reported above. Move the shared logic into one file, for example.github/scripts/preview-comment.js, and call it from both workflows with the artifact-specific strings as environment variables.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In @.github/workflows/pr-ci.yml:
- Around line 409-414: Add a CHANGES_RESULT !== 'success' branch before the
BUILD_RESULT === 'skipped' branch in both .github/workflows/pr-ci.yml lines
409-414 and .github/workflows/pr-chart.yml lines 287-292, assigning a reason
that reports the changes job failure or cancellation; retain the existing
BUILD_RESULT skipped reason only for successful changes detection.
- Around line 437-439: Guard stack.pull_requests in the stackSection
construction before invoking map: use stack?.pull_requests?.length as the
condition and retain the existing fallback message when absent or empty. Apply
this change in .github/workflows/pr-ci.yml at lines 437-439 and
.github/workflows/pr-chart.yml at lines 315-317.
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In @.github/workflows/pr-chart.yml:
- Around line 261-280: Extract the duplicated comment-management logic,
including post, withoutNotice, stack lookup, and stale-notice handling, into a
shared script such as preview-comment.js. Update both pr-chart.yml and pr-ci.yml
to invoke that script, passing their artifact-specific strings through
environment variables while preserving existing behavior and fixing the shared
defects in one place.
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<violation number="1" location=".github/workflows/pr-ci.yml:356">
P2: Custom agent: **Enforce Strict Maintainability Standards**
The preview-comment state machine is duplicated inline in `pr-ci.yml` and `pr-chart.yml`, including the hand-rolled `withoutNotice` parser and stale/sibling marker protocol. Extract the shared comment-management logic into a dedicated script or reusable action so fixes cannot drift between the two workflows.</violation>
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| const marker = process.env.MARKER; | ||
| const siblingMarker = process.env.SIBLING_MARKER; | ||
| const staleStart = '<!-- preview:stale-start -->'; |
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P2: Custom agent: Enforce Strict Maintainability Standards
The preview-comment state machine is duplicated inline in pr-ci.yml and pr-chart.yml, including the hand-rolled withoutNotice parser and stale/sibling marker protocol. Extract the shared comment-management logic into a dedicated script or reusable action so fixes cannot drift between the two workflows.
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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At .github/workflows/pr-ci.yml, line 356:
<comment>The preview-comment state machine is duplicated inline in `pr-ci.yml` and `pr-chart.yml`, including the hand-rolled `withoutNotice` parser and stale/sibling marker protocol. Extract the shared comment-management logic into a dedicated script or reusable action so fixes cannot drift between the two workflows.</comment>
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- const registryProject = process.env.PR_REGISTRY_PROJECT;
- const previewTag = process.env.PREVIEW_TAG;
+ const siblingMarker = process.env.SIBLING_MARKER;
+ const staleStart = '<!-- preview:stale-start -->';
+ const staleEnd = '<!-- preview:stale-end -->';
const stackNumber = process.env.STACK_NUMBER;
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Not applied, and the trade-off is worth stating. A local composite action needs actions/checkout in a job that touches no repository content, and this workflow pair is copied per project into repos generated from the template, where each file's header states self-containment. That buys removing about forty duplicated lines across two files in one repository. A third preview workflow would change the arithmetic.
A changes job that fails or is cancelled skips the build too, so the comment claimed no input had changed. It now names the incomplete check. The sibling link no longer calls a comment current when that comment carries its own outdated notice, and the stack member list is guarded the way the stale path already was, so a shape change in the stacks API cannot take the whole comment job down with it. Signed-off-by: Vadim Bauer <vb@container-registry.com>
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<file name=".github/workflows/pr-ci.yml">
<violation number="1" location=".github/workflows/pr-ci.yml:17">
P1: When a new PR is linked above an in-flight top-of-stack PR, this group differs for the old and new PR numbers, so the old run is not canceled and can publish images for a lower PR. Key the group by the stack number when present, falling back to the PR number.</violation>
<violation number="2" location=".github/workflows/pr-ci.yml:404">
P2: Custom agent: **Enforce Pragmatic Test Coverage**
The new preview-comment state machine has no behavioral coverage for its success, skipped, failed, non-top-stack, or stale-notice paths. Extract the comment decision/rendering logic into a testable script or helper and cover the main success and failure transitions with tests.</violation>
<violation number="3" location=".github/workflows/pr-ci.yml:439">
P2: For plain PRs, this stack-only branch drops the triggering-input list even though `matched` is computed for every successful check. Render the `Built because ...` line for ordinary PRs too, while keeping the stack-member text conditional.</violation>
<violation number="4" location=".github/workflows/pr-ci.yml:450">
P2: When image and chart previews finish concurrently, each workflow can observe no sibling and permanently omit the cross-link; a later chart/image update can also leave the sibling status text stale. Re-fetch and reconcile both comments after posting, or use a coordination/retry step instead of embedding a one-time snapshot.</violation>
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<violation number="1" location=".github/workflows/pr-chart.yml:38">
P2: When a native stack is being created, the `opened` event has `pull_request.stack == null`, so this condition lets every lower PR publish before the `stacked` event arrives. Defer publication for stack creation or otherwise distinguish an unlinked stack from a plain PR to preserve the top-only guarantee.</violation>
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P1: When a new PR is linked above an in-flight top-of-stack PR, this group differs for the old and new PR numbers, so the old run is not canceled and can publish images for a lower PR. Key the group by the stack number when present, falling back to the PR number.
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<comment>When a new PR is linked above an in-flight top-of-stack PR, this group differs for the old and new PR numbers, so the old run is not canceled and can publish images for a lower PR. Key the group by the stack number when present, falling back to the PR number.</comment>
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- # Keyed by stack when stacked: a PR pushed on top of an in-flight top would
- # otherwise let the older build finish last and repoint stack-<n> backwards.
- group: pr-preview-${{ github.event.pull_request.stack && format('stack-{0}', github.event.pull_request.stack.number) || github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
+ group: pr-preview-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
cancel-in-progress: true
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| group: pr-preview-${{ github.event.pull_request.stack && format('stack-{0}', github.event.pull_request.stack.number) || github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }} |
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Not applied, and the alias tag that motivated it is gone, so two PRs no longer write one reference. Keying the group by stack would also be actively harmful: the gate run of a lower PR takes about thirty seconds and would cancel the top's fifteen-minute build, after which nothing rebuilds it until the next push. Per-PR keying keeps the long build safe from short ones.
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P2: Custom agent: Enforce Pragmatic Test Coverage
The new preview-comment state machine has no behavioral coverage for its success, skipped, failed, non-top-stack, or stale-notice paths. Extract the comment decision/rendering logic into a testable script or helper and cover the main success and failure transitions with tests.
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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At .github/workflows/pr-ci.yml, line 404:
<comment>The new preview-comment state machine has no behavioral coverage for its success, skipped, failed, non-top-stack, or stale-notice paths. Extract the comment decision/rendering logic into a testable script or helper and cover the main success and failure transitions with tests.</comment>
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+ return kept.join('\n').trim();
+ };
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+ if (process.env.BUILD_RESULT !== 'success') {
+ // Nothing was published, so there is nothing to correct unless an
+ // earlier revision left a reference behind.
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Fair, and partly covered already: both scripts are extracted and rendered against stubs for success, skipped, failed, non-top-of-stack, stale-on-stale and missing-stack-field before each push, which is how the last four defects were caught. That harness is a local script rather than a committed test, because committing it means committing a YAML-scraping extractor whose own drift would be untested. Happy to commit it if you want the coverage visible in CI.
| github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name == github.repository && | ||
| !contains(fromJSON('["8gcr-renovate[bot]", "renovate[bot]", "8gcr-sync[bot]"]'), github.actor) && | ||
| !startsWith(github.head_ref, 'release-please--') && | ||
| (github.event.pull_request.stack == null || |
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P2: When a native stack is being created, the opened event has pull_request.stack == null, so this condition lets every lower PR publish before the stacked event arrives. Defer publication for stack creation or otherwise distinguish an unlinked stack from a plain PR to preserve the top-only guarantee.
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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At .github/workflows/pr-chart.yml, line 38:
<comment>When a native stack is being created, the `opened` event has `pull_request.stack == null`, so this condition lets every lower PR publish before the `stacked` event arrives. Defer publication for stack creation or otherwise distinguish an unlinked stack from a plain PR to preserve the top-only guarantee.</comment>
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+ github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name == github.repository &&
+ !contains(fromJSON('["8gcr-renovate[bot]", "renovate[bot]", "8gcr-sync[bot]"]'), github.actor) &&
+ !startsWith(github.head_ref, 'release-please--') &&
+ (github.event.pull_request.stack == null ||
+ github.event.pull_request.stack.position == github.event.pull_request.stack.size)
+ runs-on: ubuntu-26.04
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Not reachable for the members that matter. Until the stack is linked, every PR above the bottom has its base set to the branch below, which does not match the branches filter, so no run starts. The bottom PR does run, and at that moment it is a plain PR targeting the trunk, which is the correct verdict. Observed on the stack that produced this design: the top PR got no run at opened and its first run came from stacked.
| stackSection.push('', 'Lower PRs publish nothing of their own; push a fix there, then `gh stack rebase && gh stack push` to rebuild this one.'); | ||
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P2: When image and chart previews finish concurrently, each workflow can observe no sibling and permanently omit the cross-link; a later chart/image update can also leave the sibling status text stale. Re-fetch and reconcile both comments after posting, or use a coordination/retry step instead of embedding a one-time snapshot.
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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At .github/workflows/pr-ci.yml, line 450:
<comment>When image and chart previews finish concurrently, each workflow can observe no sibling and permanently omit the cross-link; a later chart/image update can also leave the sibling status text stale. Re-fetch and reconcile both comments after posting, or use a coordination/retry step instead of embedding a one-time snapshot.</comment>
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+ stackSection.push('', 'Lower PRs publish nothing of their own; push a fix there, then `gh stack rebase && gh stack push` to rebuild this one.');
+ }
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+ const sibling = comments.find(comment =>
+ comment.user?.login === 'github-actions[bot]' && comment.body?.startsWith(siblingMarker));
+ const siblingSection = sibling
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Deliberate asymmetry rather than a race we lose. The image run takes roughly fifteen minutes and the chart run one or two, so the comment written last is the one that can see its sibling, and the chart comment does not need the link because it already prints the pairing flag. Having the later job edit the earlier comment means two workflows writing one comment, which fails worse than a missing link.
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P2: For plain PRs, this stack-only branch drops the triggering-input list even though matched is computed for every successful check. Render the Built because ... line for ordinary PRs too, while keeping the stack-member text conditional.
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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At .github/workflows/pr-ci.yml, line 439:
<comment>For plain PRs, this stack-only branch drops the triggering-input list even though `matched` is computed for every successful check. Render the `Built because ...` line for ordinary PRs too, while keeping the stack-member text conditional.</comment>
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+ const more = matched.length > 5 ? ` and ${matched.length - 5} more` : '';
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+ const stackSection = [];
+ if (stackNumber) {
+ stackSection.push('', `This PR is the top of stack #${stackNumber}, so the images come from a head that contains every PR in it:`, '');
+ stackSection.push(...(stack?.pull_requests?.length
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Not applied. On a plain pull request the diff is the pull request, so listing the inputs that matched restates what the Files tab already shows. The line earns its place only in a stack, where the inputs may come from a PR other than the one being read.
chart-annotate-images.sh comes from the pull request and ran after the registry login, so a same-repository PR could edit it and read the credentials off the runner. It only edits Chart.yaml, so it moves ahead of the login. The unused envsubst install goes too. The comment jobs judge "no input changed" by the gate's own output rather than by a downstream job being skipped, which is also what happens when a build fails, and they warn that a failed build may already have repointed the preview reference. The chart comment no longer claims the PR's images are selected: the command it prints installs the committed appVersion, and pointing the chart at the preview images needs per-component image values. Signed-off-by: Vadim Bauer <vb@container-registry.com>
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1 issue found across 2 files (changes from recent commits).
Prompt for AI agents (unresolved issues)
Check if these issues are valid — if so, understand the root cause of each and fix them. If appropriate, use sub-agents to investigate and fix each issue separately.
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<violation number="1" location=".github/workflows/pr-chart.yml:336">
P2: When an existing image preview comment still uses the legacy inline `:stale` marker, this check reports that images are published. Reuse the legacy-marker test from `withoutNotice` when classifying sibling comments.</violation>
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| comment.user?.login === 'github-actions[bot]' && comment.body?.startsWith(siblingMarker)); | ||
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P2: When an existing image preview comment still uses the legacy inline :stale marker, this check reports that images are published. Reuse the legacy-marker test from withoutNotice when classifying sibling comments.
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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At .github/workflows/pr-chart.yml, line 336:
<comment>When an existing image preview comment still uses the legacy inline `:stale` marker, this check reports that images are published. Reuse the legacy-marker test from `withoutNotice` when classifying sibling comments.</comment>
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+ const sibling = comments.find(comment =>
+ comment.user?.login === 'github-actions[bot]' && comment.body?.startsWith(siblingMarker));
+ const siblingSection = sibling
+ ? ['', sibling.body.includes(staleStart)
+ ? `Preview images for this PR have a comment, but it is currently marked outdated: ${sibling.html_url}`
+ : `Preview images for this PR are published too: ${sibling.html_url}`]
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Preview artifacts now follow what a pull request actually changes, including across a GitHub stack: the seven images when image inputs change, the chart when chart inputs change, always from the top of a stack. Same change as container-registry/harbor-scanner-trivy#92, applied to the inline seven-image workflow, plus the chart preview this repo did not have.
Problem
On a native stack the trigger's
pathsfilter saw only each PR's own slice: the top PR, the only one worth deploying, got no images when its slice was docs-only, while every lower PR rebuilt all fourteen platform images on eachgh stack push. The chart had no preview at all; a chart change could only be tried after a release.How it worked before
pr-ci.ymlfiltered withon.pull_request.paths, evaluated against the PR's own diff;build,merge,signandpr-commenteach repeated the sameif:and ran for every position of a stack.How it works now
maintouches one of its inputs. The check is a job, not apathstrigger filter, so every PR gets a status and the diff is the real one.gh stack): only the top PR publishes; its head is the whole stack, so its ordinarypr-<N>artifacts are the stack artifacts. Lower PRs are skipped at the gate. Plain PRs behave as before.stackedactivity type: GitHub opens the PRs of a stack before it links them, soopenednever carriespull_request.stack; the link does. Verified on trivy stack fix(ci): run unit tests on self-hosted services #96: linking fired both previews on the top with no push (gate loggedevent=stacked stack=96), the bottom was skipped.pr-ci.yml: the 15-entry allowlist moves into achangesjob; the four jobs depend on it. The comment lists the stack members when stacked.pr-chart.yml:<chart version>-pr.<N>intoPR_REGISTRY_PROJECTwith thePR_REGISTRY_*credentials, subcharts fromChart.lock, Artifact Hub annotation against the release project as on release, signed, sticky comment with the install command.build.ymlandtest.ymlare untouched: native stacks already trigger them as if targetingmain. Manually chained PRs such as #753 -> #754 are not a stack to GitHub; their bottom PR gets ordinary previews, the ones above match nobranchesfilter.gh stack initon those branches is the fix.Verification
actionlintandzizmorfindings identical tomain(theubuntu-26.04label and SC2086 notes are pre-existing); comment scripts passnode --check.pr-ci.ymland addspr-chart.yml, so its own runs exercise both plain paths: gate, 14 builds, 7 merges, sign, comment; chart packaged, pushed, signed, commented.Preview comments
Each preview comment names the commit it was built from, lists the inputs that triggered the build, links the sibling preview comment when one exists, and is rewritten with an outdated notice when a build is skipped, fails, or the pull request is not the top of its stack. The notice is delimited by markers, so a second one replaces the first and a later successful build clears it. Ported from container-registry/harbor-scanner-trivy#101.