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Stack 2 of 3 · base feat/foundations-config-and-resilience (#285) · next #287

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What this does

Before this PR, .github-app.yaml existed but only the scheduler read it, via src/scheduler/config-schema.ts + config-fetcher.ts. This promotes that reader into the single per-repo control surface under src/repo-config/, widens the document well beyond cron actions, and wires it into the two places that can act on it.

flowchart TD
    Yaml[".github-app.yaml<br/>default branch root only"]:::input
    Fetch["fetcher.ts<br/>getContent with NO ref<br/>ETag + negative cache"]:::new
    Result["RepoConfigResult<br/>ok / absent / invalid"]:::new
    Eff["effective.ts<br/>merge workflows.name over defaults<br/>then clamp to env ceilings"]:::new
    Gate1["gate.ts · Gate 1<br/>pre-dispatch, NARROWING ONLY"]:::gate
    Refuse["refuse + comment<br/>3 rules, static strings"]:::stop
    Silent["refuse silently<br/>4 passive trigger filters"]:::stop
    Gate2["agent-policy.ts · Gate 2<br/>model, turns, timeout, tools,<br/>path filters, instructions"]:::gate
    Run["pipeline + prompt builder"]:::ok
    Fail["DEFAULT_REPO_POLICY<br/>missing, unreachable or invalid"]:::ok
    PrChk["pr-check.ts<br/>head-ref read, READ-ONLY<br/>sticky validation comment"]:::iso

    Yaml --> Fetch --> Result --> Eff
    Eff --> Gate1
    Gate1 -->|"repo off, workflow off,<br/>not in allowed_users"| Refuse
    Gate1 -->|"draft, title, base branch,<br/>ignore_authors"| Silent
    Gate1 -->|"admitted"| Gate2 --> Run
    Result -->|"any error"| Fail --> Gate2
    Yaml -.->|"PR head ref, separate path"| PrChk
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classDef gate fill:#8e44ad,color:#ffffff
classDef stop fill:#c0392b,color:#ffffff
classDef ok fill:#1e8449,color:#ffffff
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The three invariants worth reviewing

1. Only the default branch's copy is ever applied. fetchRepoConfig calls getContent with no ref, so editing the config inside a PR is inert for that PR. Do not add a ref to that call; test/repo-config/fetcher.test.ts asserts its absence.

2. Gate 1 is narrowing only. Every rule can refuse; none can permit. No YAML value can readmit a repo that the ALLOWED_OWNERS env allowlist rejected. Of the seven ordered rules, only three earn a public refusal comment; the four passive triggers.* filters stay silent. ignore_authors is checked before allowed_users deliberately: a bot login is normally in the former and absent from the latter, so the other order would answer every Renovate event with a public refusal comment.

3. pr-check.ts cannot leak into the applied policy. It is the one module that reads a head-ref copy, so it is read-only by construction: it imports neither fetchRepoConfig nor loadRepoPolicy, meaning a head-ref read can never populate the fetcher caches or reach Gate 2. test/repo-config/pr-check.test.ts asserts the absence of both symbols in that source file.

Everything fails open. A missing, unreachable, or schema-invalid file yields DEFAULT_REPO_POLICY and the run proceeds, with the validation error surfaced as a configWarning banner rather than a dropped job.

Generated schema

schema/github-app.schema.json is emitted from the zod schema and byte-compared in CI by the new check:config-schema. That artifact is what authors consume through a # yaml-language-server: $schema= modeline, so a stale copy would advertise a surface the runtime rejects.

It is structural only: zod v4's toJSONSchema drops .refine/.superRefine, so prompt-ref path traversal, IANA timezone validity, glob safety in review.path_filters, and duplicate action names stay runtime-only checks that no editor will catch. scripts/validate-repo-config.ts <path> runs the real pipeline and does cover them.

Config rename

SCHEDULER_CONFIG_FILEREPO_CONFIG_FILE, since the file stopped being scheduler-specific once it grew feature toggles. The old name is still honoured as a fallback so an upgrade does not silently change which file is read, with a one-shot boot warning. Blank counts as unset, because a chart rendering an unset optional key as "" would otherwise skip both the fallback and the zod default and leave a path resolving to the repo root.

Verification

Gate Result
typecheck · lint · format pass, 0 errors
check:config-schema · check:env-contract (97 vars) pass
check:docs-citations · check:test-globs · check:no-destructive pass
test 153 files pass, 0 assertion failures

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added repository-level .github-app.yaml configuration for feature toggles, workflow settings, agent policies, trigger filters, and review learning.
    • Added configuration validation tools and a generated JSON Schema.
    • Added pull request comments identifying invalid repository configuration.
    • Added support for per-repository review instructions, excluded paths, and execution limits.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved process cancellation so agent execution stops cleanly on aborts and timeouts.
    • Added compatibility for the deprecated scheduler configuration variable.
  • Documentation

    • Added comprehensive repository configuration documentation and corrected code references.

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  • docs/operate/configuration.md
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  • scripts/gen-config-schema.ts
  • src/repo-config/fetcher.ts
  • src/repo-config/pr-check.ts
  • src/repo-config/schema.ts
  • src/scheduler/scheduler.ts
  • src/shared/workflow-types.ts
  • test/repo-config/effective.test.ts
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The change expands repository configuration to cover workflow policies, triggers, agent controls, schema tooling, PR validation, and scheduler integration. It adds fail-open policy loading, prompt integration, cancellation cleanup, generated-schema checks, and extensive validation tests.

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Repository configuration and policy controls

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configuration schema and tooling
src/repo-config/schema.ts, schema/github-app.schema.json, scripts/*, package.json, docs/use/repo-config.md
Adds repository configuration fields, generated JSON Schema output, local validation commands, dependency wiring, CI drift checks, and configuration documentation.
Policy loading and gates
src/repo-config/fetcher.ts, src/repo-config/effective.ts, src/repo-config/gate.ts, test/repo-config/*
Fetches default-branch configuration with bounded ETag and negative caches, resolves inherited and clamped policies, applies fail-open defaults, and evaluates enable, identity, and trigger rules.
Agent policy execution
src/core/agent-policy.ts, src/core/pipeline.ts, src/core/prompt-builder.ts, src/shared/ws-messages.ts, src/types.ts, src/core/executor.ts, test/core/*
Carries policy values through job payloads, filters review paths, renders repository instructions, applies execution limits and tools, and closes active SDK queries on cancellation or timeout.
PR validation and scheduler migration
src/repo-config/pr-check.ts, src/scheduler/*, src/config.ts, src/orchestrator/connection-handler.ts, test/scripts/*, test/scheduler/*
Validates head-ref configuration in sticky PR comments, separates validation from applied-policy caches, renames the configuration environment variable with legacy fallback, and updates scheduler consumers.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to ae1e0

Repository configuration can currently expand automated execution capabilities and apply trusted review instructions, while documented workflow defaults are not honored; this can change privileged run behavior and requires owner attention before merge.

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Promotes the scheduler-only config reader into a first-class per-repo control
surface under `src/repo-config/`, and adds the two gates that consume it.

- Move `src/scheduler/config-schema.ts` + `config-fetcher.ts` to
  `src/repo-config/{schema,fetcher}.ts` and widen the document schema beyond
  scheduled actions. The fetcher now returns a discriminated
  `ok` / `absent` / `invalid` result instead of a nullable value.
- Add `src/repo-config/effective.ts` to merge `workflows.<name>` over
  `defaults` and clamp the result against the server env ceilings, failing
  open to `DEFAULT_REPO_POLICY`.
- Add `src/repo-config/gate.ts` (Gate 1): a narrowing-only pre-dispatch check.
  Every rule can refuse, none can permit, so no YAML value can readmit a repo
  the `ALLOWED_OWNERS` env allowlist rejected.
- Add `src/repo-config/pr-check.ts`, the one module that reads a head-ref
  copy. It is read-only by construction and imports neither `fetchRepoConfig`
  nor `loadRepoPolicy`, so a head-ref read can never populate the fetcher
  caches or reach the applied policy.
- Add `src/core/agent-policy.ts` (Gate 2) and apply the resolved knobs in the
  pipeline and prompt builder.
- Rename `SCHEDULER_CONFIG_FILE` to `REPO_CONFIG_FILE`, keeping the old name
  as a deprecated fallback with a one-shot boot warning.
- Generate `schema/github-app.schema.json` from the zod schema and gate it in
  CI via `check:config-schema`, so the `$schema` modeline authors consume
  cannot advertise a surface the runtime rejects.

Only the default branch's copy is ever applied: `fetchRepoConfig` calls
`getContent` with no `ref`, so a config edit inside a pull request is inert
for that pull request.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KUPpJPtxAaHWrBsjytRGyM
Comment thread src/shared/ws-messages.ts
Comment thread src/repo-config/gate.ts
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Review found that the config surface landed here while every production call
site that consumes it landed in the isolated-workflow-runner change, so Gate 1,
Gate 2 and the PR config-check were unreachable outside tests while the docs
claimed they were applied. The wiring cannot move here: the dispatch
chokepoints depend on `runs-store` columns introduced by migration 017.

- `docs/use/repo-config.md`: the status table now says which blocks actually
  take effect today (`review_learnings`, `scheduled_actions`, `config`) and
  which are parsed-and-validated only, with a warning admonition naming the
  three uncalled entry points. Drops the citation of
  `src/orchestrator/workflow-runner-payload.ts`, which does not exist yet.
- `src/shared/ws-messages.ts`: declare `policy` on the job payload. The wire
  schema now matches the exported `AgentPolicy` type; without the key a plain
  `z.object` would silently strip a policy a future producer sent.
- Revert `src/shared/dispatch-types.ts` and `src/core/tracking-comment.ts` to
  their `main` versions. The `workflow-runner` dispatch target has no producer
  here and its DB CHECK constraint is not relaxed until migration 017, so
  widening the type now would advertise a value the database rejects. The
  `configWarning` banner and its test move to the runner change with their
  producer.
- `src/core/pipeline.ts`: the comment justifying the missing review-only gate
  named `stripInstructionsUnlessReview`, which exists nowhere. Replaced with
  what is actually true, including the gap it leaves.
- `package.json`: `picomatch` pinned to `4.0.5` to match the pre-existing
  `overrides` entry and the lockfile. The `4.0.4` pin never described what ran.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Inline comments:
In `@docs/operate/configuration.md`:
- Line 178: Move the REPO_CONFIG_FILE documentation out of the scheduler-only
section into a repository-configuration section, while keeping the deprecated
SCHEDULER_CONFIG_FILE row adjacent so the fallback remains discoverable. Ensure
the scheduler section’s server-mode-only scope no longer applies to
REPO_CONFIG_FILE.

In `@docs/use/repo-config.md`:
- Around line 245-248: Update docs/use/repo-config.md lines 245-248 to describe
enabled:false behavior as planned until Gate 1 is wired, and update lines
548-560 to describe pull-request validation comments as planned until the
read-only handler is wired; do not present either behavior as currently
implemented.

In `@schema/github-app.schema.json`:
- Around line 398-469: Update the generated prompt schema for promptRefSchema so
the emitted union accepts the documented shorthand inputs { inline: string } and
{ ref: string } in addition to the tagged form branches, preserving the existing
validation constraints and runtime behavior. Ensure z.toJSONSchema output no
longer requires form for these shorthand shapes.

In `@src/repo-config/effective.ts`:
- Line 156: Update the effective workflow configuration construction to use the
corresponding defaults as fallbacks for enabled, path_filters, and instructions
when an entry-level value is absent. Preserve entry-level values when provided
and keep auto entry-only as documented; update the logic around the enabled
field and the path_filters and instructions fields.

In `@src/repo-config/fetcher.ts`:
- Around line 205-208: Update the invalid repository configuration warning in
the safeParse handling to log the sanitized summary returned by
formatConfigIssues(result.error.issues) instead of the raw result.error.issues
array, while preserving the existing event metadata and message.

In `@src/scheduler/scheduler.ts`:
- Around line 342-344: Update the fetched.kind handling in the manual-run path
to keep absent configurations on the existing “no valid .github-app.yaml”
reason, while returning the scrubbed, capped validation message from invalid
results (via the existing formatConfigIssues flow) as the reason. Preserve the
enqueued: false result.

In `@test/repo-config/effective.test.ts`:
- Around line 277-279: The longKeys fixture in effective.test.ts currently
places all unknown keys in one object, producing a single unrecognized_keys
issue. Update the fixture to distribute the unknown keys across distinct nested
paths so validation yields separate rendered issues and exercises the
MAX_RENDERED_ISSUES cap.
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  • .github/workflows/ci.yml
  • .prettierignore
  • CLAUDE.md
  • docs/build/architecture.md
  • docs/operate/configuration.md
  • docs/use/repo-config.md
  • env-contract.json
  • package.json
  • schema/github-app.schema.json
  • scripts/gen-config-schema.ts
  • scripts/validate-repo-config.ts
  • src/config.ts
  • src/core/agent-policy.ts
  • src/core/executor.ts
  • src/core/pipeline.ts
  • src/core/prompt-builder.ts
  • src/orchestrator/connection-handler.ts
  • src/repo-config/effective.ts
  • src/repo-config/fetcher.ts
  • src/repo-config/gate.ts
  • src/repo-config/pr-check.ts
  • src/repo-config/schema.ts
  • src/scheduler/config-fetcher.ts
  • src/scheduler/config-schema.test.ts
  • src/scheduler/index.ts
  • src/scheduler/prompt-resolver.ts
  • src/scheduler/scheduler.ts
  • src/shared/workflow-types.ts
  • src/shared/ws-messages.ts
  • src/types.ts
  • test/core/agent-policy.test.ts
  • test/core/build-provider-env.test.ts
  • test/core/executor.test.ts
  • test/core/pipeline.test.ts
  • test/core/prompt-builder.test.ts
  • test/repo-config/effective.test.ts
  • test/repo-config/fetcher.test.ts
  • test/repo-config/gate.test.ts
  • test/repo-config/pr-check.test.ts
  • test/repo-config/schema.test.ts
  • test/scheduler/due-evaluator.test.ts
  • test/scheduler/log-fields.test.ts
  • test/scheduler/prompt-resolver.test.ts
  • test/scheduler/scheduler.test.ts
  • test/scripts/gen-config-schema.test.ts
  • test/scripts/validate-repo-config.test.ts
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…and docs

Second review round on this PR. Six of seven findings applied.

- `scripts/gen-config-schema.ts`: `promptRefSchema` is a `z.preprocess`, so
  `toJSONSchema` only saw the post-preprocess side and every emitted branch
  required `form`. Editors therefore flagged `prompt: { inline: "..." }`, the
  form the docs and every example recommend and the runtime accepts. Unlike
  the dropped `.refine` checks this is a false negative, so the authoring
  shapes are added back to the emitted union rather than merely documented.
  The injection throws when its anchor is gone, so a schema change that moves
  the node fails the CI gate instead of silently losing the shorthands again.
- `src/repo-config/fetcher.ts`: log the rendered `formatConfigIssues` summary
  instead of `result.error.issues`. An `unrecognized_keys` issue carries
  repository-controlled key names and a raw issue object bypasses the logger's
  named-field redaction (CWE-532).
- `src/scheduler/scheduler.ts`: the manual-run reason collapsed `absent` and
  `invalid` into one string. It now surfaces the already-scrubbed validation
  message so an operator learns why the file was rejected.
- `test/repo-config/effective.test.ts`: the worst-case warning fixture put
  eight unknown keys on one object, which zod 4 collapses into a single
  `unrecognized_keys` issue, so it rendered one line and never reached
  `MAX_RENDERED_ISSUES`. Now one unknown key per workflow block: six issues.
- `docs/operate/configuration.md`: `REPO_CONFIG_FILE` moved out of the
  scheduler section, whose intro says "server mode only", into its own section.
- `docs/use/repo-config.md`: the `enabled: false` and PR-validation sections
  described unwired behaviour as current. Both now carry a warning admonition.

Not applied: the report that `resolveKnobs` ignores `defaults.enabled`,
`defaults.path_filters` and `defaults.instructions`. `repoDefaultsSchema` is
`z.strictObject(agentKnobsShape)` and none of those fields exist on it, so
`defaults: { enabled: false }` is rejected as an unrecognized key rather than
silently ignored. Reasoning recorded on the thread.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KUPpJPtxAaHWrBsjytRGyM
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Summary

This is a well-built control surface. The two things that usually go wrong in a "read config from the repo" feature — reading the PR's copy instead of the default branch's, and echoing attacker-influenced YAML into a public comment — are both handled deliberately and are covered by tests. fetchRepoConfig calls getContent with no ref and fetcher.test.ts asserts the absence of the key rather than its value, which is the right way to pin that invariant. The output paths use redactSecrets (silent) rather than sanitizeContent (marker-substituting), scrub before truncating so a bisected token can't slip past a length-bounded pattern, and strip backticks before building Markdown code spans. Gate 1 is narrowing-only by construction and gate.test.ts asserts that property directly rather than trusting the comments.

Validation is clean: bun run typecheck passes, bun run lint reports 0 errors (547 pre-existing warnings, none new-file-specific), and all 16 changed test files pass under the repo's per-file isolation runner. CI on the head commit is green.

Three findings, all minor. None blocks the merge; the first is the one I'd most want addressed, because it leaves two exported HandlerResultSchema symbols with divergent shapes.

What was checked

  • Rebase/diff survey. Branch is 3 ahead / 0 behind main; no refresh needed, so no force-push was performed. Surveyed git diff origin/main...HEAD (47 files, +5862/-417).
  • Full reads, not hunks: src/repo-config/{fetcher,effective,gate,schema,pr-check}.ts, src/core/{agent-policy,executor,pipeline,prompt-builder}.ts, src/shared/{workflow-types,ws-messages}.ts, src/config.ts, src/scheduler/scheduler.ts, src/orchestrator/connection-handler.ts, src/types.ts, scripts/validate-repo-config.ts, scripts/gen-config-schema.ts, and the new test/repo-config/* suites.
  • Cross-referencing. Grepped every new export for consumers. Confirmed loadRepoPolicy, toAgentPolicy, checkRepoGate and runPrConfigCheck have no production call site — consistent with the PR being scoped to the surface, which you already established in the earlier round, so not re-raised. Traced policyForWorkflowdoc.workflows[name] and confirmed the shared WorkflowName list is transitively pinned to the registry by typecheck plus test/repo-config/schema.test.ts:243, so the duplicated name list cannot silently drift.
  • Validation actually run (not inferred): bun install --frozen-lockfile, bun run typecheck (clean), bun run lint (0 errors), and each changed test file individually — agent-policy 6, build-provider-env 18, executor 25, pipeline 18, prompt-builder 62, repo-config/effective 22, fetcher 9, gate 15, pr-check 17, schema 26, scheduler/* 25, scripts/* 10 — all 0 fail.
  • Specifically hunted and cleared:
    • Prompt injection. The <repo_review_policy_<nonce>> block is trusted-as-policy without the untrusted_ prefix. Checked that it still carries the per-call nonce (so the boundary is unforgeable), that it is fed only from the default branch, that sanitizeContent runs on the body, and that the <security_directive> exception exists in both buildPrompt (interpolated) and buildStaticAppend (static). Sound.
    • Glob handling. Verified empirically that picomatch does not throw on malformed patterns ("[a-", "a{b", "!(", "+(a" all compile and return false), so the un-try/catch'd pathFilters.map(picomatch) in applyPathFilters cannot take down a run. isSafeGlob re-runs at the pipeline as defence-in-depth against a stale wire producer.
    • Unclamped model:. Flagged, then withdrawn — docs/use/repo-config.md:81 and :422 reason it out explicitly (no ordering to min() over, principal already inside ALLOWED_OWNERS, consistent with the pre-existing scheduled-action field).
    • Timeout attribution. Traced the per-repo deadline end to end: applyAgentPolicy uses a named Error rather than AbortSignal.timeout so executor.ts:536's identity check survives, dispose() is in a finally so the timer cannot pin Bun's event loop, and the post-executeAgent throwIfAborted() still returns the attributed message via err.message. The tracking comment goes generic in that case, but buildFinalOpts deliberately never forwards errorMessage publicly anyway, so nothing is actually lost.
    • Test isolation. mock.module("../../src/repo-config/fetcher") in test/scheduler/scheduler.test.ts:24 is process-global and does break the three test/repo-config/* suites under a bare bun test. Confirmed this is a non-issue: package.json:47 runs scripts/test-isolated.sh, which forks a process per file precisely for this, and CI invokes bun run test.
    • Concurrency / caches. etagCache and absentCache are both FIFO-bounded at 1000, keyed per owner/repo/path, per-process, and correctness-neutral (a 304 revalidates every hit). Transient failures are deliberately not cached so the next call retries.

Findings

[minor] src/shared/workflow-types.ts:129 — workflow-runner scaffolding shipped unused, with a duplicate divergent HandlerResultSchema.
The repo-config surface needs only WorkflowName from this file (imported by gate.ts:19 and effective.ts:24), plus DaemonActions and WorkflowRunRef which types.ts:5 and job-dispatcher.ts:4 consume. The other ~120 lines — workflowRunnerId(), WorkflowRunSnapshotSchema, PriorPlanStateSchema, RepoMemoryEntrySchema, WORKFLOW_RUNNER_HUMAN_MESSAGE_MAX_CHARS, WorkflowRunRefSchema, HandlerResultSchema — have zero consumers anywhere in src/ or test/. The HandlerResultSchema added here is not the one handlers satisfy: src/workflows/registry.ts:58 still exports a same-named schema and the two have already diverged (this copy adds daemonActions and .max() caps). This is the same shipped-ahead-of-its-producer situation you resolved earlier in this PR by reverting src/shared/dispatch-types.ts to main, so it reads as an inconsistency rather than a deliberate carve-out.

[minor] src/repo-config/fetcher.ts:175 — no size gate before the base64 decode, and >1 MB configs report a misleading schema error.
pr-check.ts:262 gates on data.size > MAX_CONFIG_BYTES before decoding, "so an oversize blob is never materialised". fetchRepoConfig has no equivalent, and the module header notes this runs per job. Separately, for blobs over 1 MB the Contents API returns content: "" with encoding: "none"; that passes the typeof data.content === "string" check at line 165, parseYaml("") yields null, and the owner gets (root): expected object, received null — a schema complaint for what is really a size limit.

[minor] src/repo-config/pr-check.ts:204touchesConfigFile can reject, breaking the module's otherwise-total contract.
readHeadRefOutcome wraps its getContent and returns null so the caller "stays silent rather than posting a misleading verdict", and fetchRepoConfig is documented "Never throws". The octokit.paginate on line 204 has no guard and runPrConfigCheck has no wrapper, so a 403 secondary-rate-limit or a revoked pull_requests: read turns the check into a rejected promise the caller must handle. The docstring already accepts best-effort semantics for the 3000-file cap; a failed list is the same trade.

Reasoning

I weighted the security-sensitive paths hardest, because this feature moves repository-authored YAML into agent instructions and into public comments — two places where a mistake is expensive and hard to spot later. Those paths are the strongest part of the change: the default-branch-only read is asserted negatively, the trusted-vs-untrusted split in the prompt is argued rather than assumed, and the scrub-before-truncate ordering shows someone thought about how length-bounded redaction patterns fail.

Several things I initially suspected turned out to be already reasoned about in the code or docs, and I dropped them rather than spend your time: the unclamped model: knob, the picomatch compile path, the discarded timeout attribution, and the mock.module leak. I'd rather flag three real things than nine plausible ones.

What remains is mostly about consistency between sibling modules — pr-check.ts and fetcher.ts read the same file and should fail the same way — and about scope. The workflow-types.ts finding is the one I care about, not because anything breaks today but because two exported schemas with the same name and different shapes is the kind of thing that costs someone an afternoon six months from now, and you've already set the precedent for how to handle it in this PR.

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Three review findings on the repo-config surface.

`fetcher.ts` had no size gate before the base64 decode, unlike its sibling
`pr-check.ts`. Adds the gate, sharing `MAX_CONFIG_BYTES` from `schema.ts` so
the two read paths cannot drift. The empty-`content` case is folded in on
purpose: over 1 MB the Contents API returns `content: ""` with
`encoding: "none"`, which decoded to "", parsed to null, and surfaced as a
root-level schema error blaming the owner's document for a size limit.

`touchesConfigFile` was the one GitHub call in `pr-check.ts` that could
reject, so `runPrConfigCheck` was not the total function its siblings are. A
secondary rate limit or a revoked `pull_requests: read` now no-ops the check
instead of throwing into the caller.

`workflow-types.ts` carried workflow-runner scaffolding with no consumer on
this branch, including a second `HandlerResultSchema` whose shape already
disagreed with the registry's. Trimmed 20 export statements to the 9 that
have callers; the rest land with the isolated runner.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KUPpJPtxAaHWrBsjytRGyM
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chrisleekr force-pushed the feat/repo-config-surface branch from bf61282 to ca9cbab Compare September 1, 2026 12:11
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chrisleekr merged commit 938aa20 into main Sep 1, 2026
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chrisleekr deleted the feat/repo-config-surface branch September 1, 2026 12:15
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