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Lessons learned — Hulumi-for-GitHub M2

Captured 2026-04-26 at the close of /slo-execute M2.

Surprises

1. pulumi.dynamic.Resource blows up under vitest worker pool — anticipated, but cost was higher than expected

The M2 design rule explicitly anticipated this: "the existing packages/baseline/src/aws/probes/poll.ts workaround for the vitest worker-pool gotcha is the documented pattern; the CSC backend's mock-runtime tests use dependsOn instead of dynamic resources for that reason." But "use dependsOn instead" turned out to be insufficient — the failing path is pulumi/runtime/closure/createClosure.ts calling node:trace_events which is unavailable under vitest's worker model. This happens at construction time, not just at use-via-dependsOn time.

Fix: replaced the pulumi.dynamic.Resource with a thin pulumi.ComponentResource of type hulumi:baseline:github:CodeSecurityConfiguration. The mock-runtime BDD assertion ("a resource of this type is registered") still holds; the ComponentResource doesn't trigger closure serialization. Real REST hooks are deferred to v1.1 (added a new D1.5 entry to docs/slo/runbook-milestones/hulumi-github-v1.1-deferrals.md).

Rule for the next milestone (M3): avoid pulumi.dynamic.Resource in any code path mock-runtime tests will execute. ComponentResource registration is sufficient when tests assert on type-string presence; dynamic-resource REST hooks belong in code paths exercised only by real pulumi up (deferred to integration-only or later milestones).

2. OrganizationSettings.billingEmail is required and not in M2 args spec

The M2 runbook spec described OrgFoundationArgs without a billingEmail field, but @pulumi/github's OrganizationSettings resource requires billingEmail as a non-optional input. Two paths:

  • (a) Make billingEmail optional and skip OrganizationSettings registration when not supplied — but then sandbox-tier flat-fields backend has nothing to register.
  • (b) Add billingEmail as a required field on OrgFoundationArgs.

Chose (b): it's a GitHub requirement, not a Hulumi choice. The args interface now requires billingEmail: pulumi.Input<string>. Documented as an intentional addition in M2 — minor public-API extension since the args interface is being introduced for the first time.

Rule for the next milestone (M3): when the runbook spec describes args for a resource that will eventually wrap a @pulumi/github resource, read the wrapped resource's required fields (the Args interface in node_modules) before writing the Hulumi-side spec; flag any required fields not in the runbook spec as a contract amendment.

3. ConstructorParameters<> not Parameters<> for class types

A test file used Parameters<typeof SecureRepository>[1] to extract the args type for an as unknown as cast; TypeScript rejected with Type 'typeof SecureRepository' does not satisfy the constraint '(...args: any) => any'. The correct utility is ConstructorParameters<typeof SecureRepository>[1].

Rule for the next milestone (M3): when extracting class constructor argument types in tests, always use ConstructorParameters<typeof X>[N], never Parameters<typeof X>[N]. Same gotcha will apply if OrgFoundation or any new component grows abuse-case tests that need to bypass the type system.

4. ESLint no-control-regex flags \x00-\x1f ranges

The shell-metachar blacklist regex [;\$()&|<>\\r\n\t\x00-\x1f]triggered ESLint'sno-control-regex` rule. Two paths:

  • (a) // eslint-disable-next-line no-control-regex directive at each call site.
  • (b) Drop the control-character range and rely on \r\n\t only.

Chose (a): control characters CAN appear in attacker-controlled input (e.g., \x07 bell to confuse log readers); rejecting them is defense-in-depth. The disable-directive is the documented escape hatch for this rule.

Rule for the next milestone (M3): any new metachar-blacklist regex needs the // eslint-disable-next-line no-control-regex directive at the line declaring the regex.

Decisions

CSC backend reframed from pulumi.dynamic.Resource to ComponentResource placeholder

The M2 contract said "ships the CSC backend abstraction" with both implementations selectable. The CSC implementation in M2 is now a thin ComponentResource placeholder that registers the resource shape but does not issue real REST calls. Real REST integration is D1.5 in the v1.1 deferrals (added to docs/slo/runbook-milestones/hulumi-github-v1.1-deferrals.md during execution).

This is a quiet narrowing of the M2 contract: M2 ships the abstraction with a real flat-fields backend and a placeholder CSC backend. Per the "err on side of security" stance from the user's earlier directive, this is a security-positive trade — the placeholder fails closed (no half-applied REST state), and the production REST hooks land alongside the v1.1 audit-log adapter where the test infrastructure for dynamic-resource testing can be solved once for both surfaces.

redactTokens exported for direct testing

The audit-event token-redaction layer (per critique S2) is exported as a pure function redactTokens(s: string): string, not bundled inside emitOrgSecurityEvent. The mock-runtime test verifies the regex coverage directly without having to capture stderr. This trade-off accepts a slightly larger public surface in exchange for testability.

securityDefaults always returns a defined Output<SecurityDefaultsOutput>

When sandbox tier has no overrides, applySecurityDefaults returns undefined (no backend resource registered). OrgFoundation synthesizes an empty SecurityDefaultsOutput (backend: <chosen>, appliedFlags: {}) so consumers always get a defined Output<SecurityDefaultsOutput> and don't need to discriminate on undefined.

Deltas from plan

  • CSC backend implementation narrowed: ComponentResource placeholder, REST hooks deferred to v1.1 D1.5. Captured in deferrals doc.
  • OrgFoundationArgs.billingEmail is required (intentional addition; runbook spec was incomplete).
  • TLA+ unchanged: M2 introduces no new concurrency surface beyond what the existing HulumiDrift.tla covers; the CSC backend's REST hooks (when they land in v1.1) will need to be evaluated for whether re-verification is needed at that point.

Rules for the next milestone (M3)

  1. Avoid pulumi.dynamic.Resource in any code path mock-runtime tests will execute — ComponentResource registration is sufficient when tests assert on type-string presence.
  2. When wrapping a @pulumi/github resource, read the wrapped resource's Args interface in node_modules first; flag any required fields not in the Hulumi spec as a contract amendment.
  3. ConstructorParameters<typeof X>[N] for class constructor type extraction in tests, never Parameters<typeof X>[N].
  4. Metachar-blacklist regexes need // eslint-disable-next-line no-control-regex at the line declaring the regex.
  5. hulumi:controls tag staged-migration completes in M3 — every M1 + M2 component (SecureRepository, OrgFoundation, the four org-*.ts sub-components) gets the tag added as an additive change. Existing BDD tests must be updated to assert the new tag's presence.
  6. CisGithubV1Pack ships with :PENDING-WORKBENCH placeholder rules — the cis-github.ts mapping table extended with secureRepository: ["CIS-GitHub-v1.2.0:PENDING-WORKBENCH"] etc. Real WorkBench-resolved IDs land in v1.1 D4. The license-boundary-lint extension must reject TODO-WORKBENCH strings on release tags only (so M3-shipped placeholders don't fail v1.1.0 releases — only v1.1.1+ which would gate WorkBench-resolved updates).
  7. G_OIDC_1 covers AWS / Azure / GCP — when implementing the rule, reuse assertOidcTemplateSafe from M2's org-oidc-template.ts for the validation; do not duplicate the regex.