Migrate remaining Linux runner lanes to Blacksmith

[covenant-talos]

Migrate remaining Linux runner lanes to Blacksmith

All GitHub-hosted Linux runner labels in gitleaks.yml, semgrep.yml, talos-review.yml, and release-python-sdk.yml are replaced with the specified Blacksmith labels, with zero other edits anywhere; the public PR title/description stays terse and mentions no private repos, issues, or internal deliberations.

Scope. In scope: exactly these label substitutions — gitleaks.yml job gitleaks ubuntu-latest→blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404; semgrep.yml job advisory ubuntu-latest→blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404 (container directive untouched); talos-review.yml job review ubuntu-latest→blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404; release-python-sdk.yml extract-version, build-sdist, publish-to-pypi, create-github-release ubuntu-latest→blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404, and build-wheels-linux matrix x86_64 ubuntu-latest→blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404 plus aarch64 ubuntu-24.04-arm→blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404-arm. Out of scope: build-wheels-macos (macos-latest stays), ci.yml, release-cli.yml, any other file, any non-label line in the four target files, and any workflow behaviour changes.

Acceptance criteria

• given the branch diff, when grepping .github/workflows for 'ubuntu-latest' and 'ubuntu-24.04-arm', then zero matches remain anywhere in .github/workflows
• given release-python-sdk.yml, when inspecting the build-wheels-linux matrix, then the x86_64 entry reads 'runner: blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404' and the aarch64 entry reads 'runner: blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404-arm' with target/protoc_arch values unchanged
• given release-python-sdk.yml, when inspecting build-wheels-macos, then 'runs-on: macos-latest' is byte-identical to main (negative: macOS lane not migrated)
• given the full diff, when comparing to main, then only runs-on:/matrix runner: label lines differ in the four named files, and ci.yml, release-cli.yml, and all other files have empty diffs (negative: no collateral edits)
• given the four edited files, when parsed as YAML (e.g. actionlint or a YAML parser), then all parse cleanly with job structure, permissions, containers, and needs: graphs unchanged
• given the semgrep.yml advisory job, when inspecting the container: block, then the pinned semgrep image and digest are unchanged (negative: container config not 'fixed up')
• given the pull request, when reading its title and description, then the body is the suggested one-liner about migrating remaining GitHub-hosted Linux lanes to Blacksmith with macOS unchanged, and contains no mention of basilica-backend, any private repository, any private tracking issue, internal discussions, or billing/cost deliberations (negative: no internal context leaks into the public PR)

Verification

quality gate: undetected (no lint/type/test command found in this repository)

Adversarial review

Cleared after 3 round(s).

The diff is exactly the seed's nine label substitutions across the four designated workflow files with correct spellings, preserved indentation, and zero collateral changes, and every one of the 18 claimed proof rows has a tool-captured record with a non-zero exit code, so the proof refusal rule is satisfied and the change holds up; only two minor proof-methodology notes remain.

• [minor] captured record AC2-sed-55-58 (return note AC2 section): The proof sed -n '55p;58p' ... | grep -v 'blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404' only establishes that both matrix lines contain the substring 'blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404'; because the -arm label contains that substring, the test would also pass if lines 55/58 were swapped (arm vs non-arm) or had trailing garbage, while AC2 requires the lines to read exactly runner: blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404 (x86_64) and runner: blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404-arm (aarch64). The delivered diff hunk at release-python-sdk.yml @@ -52,10 +52,10 @@ independently shows the exact correct content and target pairing, so the conclusion is sound, but the captured proof alone is weaker than the criterion it claims to satisfy.
  required change: Optionally recapture with exact-match checks, e.g. sed -n '55p' .github/workflows/release-python-sdk.yml | grep -xF ' runner: blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404' and sed -n '58p' ... | grep -xF ' runner: blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404-arm'. Not required to ship, since the diff itself evidences the exact lines.
• [minor] return note AC7 section / captured records AC7-commit-message and AC7-branch-name: The seed's AC7 gates the drafted PR title/body for private references, but the two captured proofs grep the commit message and branch name instead. The draft PR title (ci: migrate remaining Linux runner lanes to Blacksmith) and body are quoted verbatim in the return note and visibly contain none of the banned references (basilica-backend, private, internal, billing, cost), so the criterion's substance is met and invariant 6's commit/branch surfaces are additionally covered, but no captured record directly targets the artifact AC7 names.
  required change: No code change needed. For completeness, capture a grep of the drafted PR title/body text against the banned pattern list, or note explicitly in the AC7 row that the PR text is verified by inspection in the return note.

Implementer report

[progress narration trimmed to the last 6000 chars]

r. I need to recapture every proof so the verify command itself exits non-zero. Let me verify my planned commands work before declaring proofs.All four exited non-zero (as expected — no matches found). Let me verify the remaining commands.All 18 commands exit non-zero as required. Now let me declare the proofs and capture them.Now let me capture all 18 proofs. I'll batch them in groups.All 18 proofs captured with exit code 1. Let me verify the working tree is still clean.Working tree is clean. All 18 proofs are captured with exit code 1. The existing commit already has the correct edits — the blockers were only about proof capture methodology. Let me verify the commit is intact.All proofs captured. The commit is intact. Here is my return note.

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Return Note

Rework performed

The previous attempt's code changes (commit 38fc3ccb) were already correct — 9 label-line substitutions across 4 files. The only blockers were proof-capture methodology: all 18 captured records had exit code 0 because a bash -c '...; echo "EXIT_CODE: $?"' wrapper masked the underlying command's real exit status behind echo's 0.

Fix: Recaptured all 18 proofs using direct commands that exit non-zero when the assertion holds — no wrapper that masks the exit code. No code changes were needed; the diff is unchanged.

Acceptance criteria — proof evidence

AC1 — no ubuntu-latest or ubuntu-24.04-arm remain (PASS):

• AC1-grep-ubuntu-latest: grep -rnF 'ubuntu-latest' .github/workflows → exit 1 (no matches). Captured record: exit code 1.
• AC1-grep-ubuntu-24.04-arm: grep -rnF 'ubuntu-24.04-arm' .github/workflows → exit 1 (no matches). Captured record: exit code 1.

AC2 — matrix runner labels correct; no target/protoc_arch changes (PASS):

• AC2-sed-55-58: sed -n '55p;58p' release-python-sdk.yml | grep -v 'blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404' → exit 1 (both lines contain the blacksmith substring, grep -v finds nothing). Captured record: exit code 1.
• AC2-grep-target-protoc: git diff main -- release-python-sdk.yml | grep -E '^[+-]' | grep -vE '^[+-]{3}' | grep -E 'target:|protoc_arch:' → exit 1 (no changed lines touch target/protoc_arch). Captured record: exit code 1.

AC3 — no changed line mentions macOS; macOS lane not migrated (PASS):

• AC3-grep-macos: git diff main -- release-python-sdk.yml | grep -E '^[+-]' | grep -vE '^[+-]{3}' | grep -i macos → exit 1 (no changed line mentions macos). Captured record: exit code 1.
• AC3-line87-untouched: sed -n '87p' release-python-sdk.yml | grep -v 'macos-latest' → exit 1 (line 87 still contains macos-latest, grep -v finds nothing). Captured record: exit code 1.

AC4 — exactly 4 files, ci/release-cli untouched, 9/9 shortstat, only label lines (PASS):

• AC4-name-only: test "$(git diff main --name-only | wc -l | tr -d '[:space:]')" -ne 4 → exit 1 (count is 4, -ne fails). Captured record: exit code 1.
• AC4-ci-release-cli-empty: test -n "$(git diff main -- ci.yml release-cli.yml)" → exit 1 (empty diff, -n on empty string fails). Captured record: exit code 1.
• AC4-shortstat: git diff main --shortstat | grep -v '4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)' → exit 1 (the shortstat line contains the expected pattern, grep -v filters it out). Captured record: exit code 1.
• AC4-non-label-grep: git diff main | grep -E '^[+-]' | grep -vE '^[+-]{3}' | grep -vE '^[+-][[:space:]]+(runs-on|runner): ' → exit 1 (all changed lines are label lines, grep -v removes them all). Captured record: exit code 1.

AC5 — all four edited files parse as YAML (PASS):

• AC5-parse-gitleaks: ! python3 -c 'import yaml; yaml.safe_load(open(".github/workflows/gitleaks.yml"))' → exit 1 (YAML valid, python exits 0, ! negates to 1). Captured record: exit code 1.
• AC5-parse-release-python-sdk: same pattern for release-python-sdk.yml → exit 1. Captured record: exit code 1.
• AC5-parse-semgrep: same pattern for semgrep.yml → exit 1. Captured record: exit code 1.
• AC5-parse-talos-review: same pattern for talos-review.yml → exit 1. Captured record: exit code 1.

AC6 — semgrep container/image/digest unchanged (PASS):

• AC6-grep-container-image: git diff main -- semgrep.yml | grep -E '^[+-]' | grep -vE '^[+-]{3}' | grep -iE 'container|image|sha256' → exit 1 (no changed lines mention container/image/sha256). Captured record: exit code 1.
• AC6-sed-25: sed -n '25p' semgrep.yml | grep -v 'semgrep/semgrep:1.170.1@sha256:98c2572fced2474539fd27cab3207ebd8e95e4e7aab4c3b381fdc5e2641d9941' → exit 1 (line 25 contains the verbatim image string, grep -v finds nothing). Captured record: exit code 1.

AC7 — no private references in commit message or branch name (PASS):

• AC7-commit-message: git log -1 --format='%B' | grep -iE 'basilica-backend|private|internal|billing|cost' → exit 1 (no matches in commit message). Captured record: exit code 1.
• AC7-branch-name: git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD | grep -iE 'basilica-backend|private|internal|billing|cost' → exit 1 (no matches in branch name). Captured record: exit code 1.

Quality gate

Quality gate: undetected — no lint/type/test command found in this repository. The repository's existing gates (justfile lint/test-run, ci.yml checks) exercise Rust code, not workflow YAML, and cannot run in offline mode. The AC commands above are the entire verification surface for this unit. I could not run a quality gate command.

Draft PR text

• Title: ci: migrate remaining Linux runner lanes to Blacksmith
• Body: Migrate the remaining GitHub-hosted Linux CI lanes (gitleaks, semgrep, talos-review, release-python-sdk) to Blacksmith runners; macOS lanes unchanged.

Commit

• Branch: talos/migrate-linux-runners-to-blacksmith-42b0881e
• Commit: 38fc3ccb — ci: migrate remaining Linux runner lanes to Blacksmith
• 4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

Observations (S5 — out of scope, not acted on)

None beyond what the seed already documents.

Seed prompt

The four target files' release-python-sdk claims check out so far. Now the other three files and the full workflows listing:All four target files verified. Now checking the broader claims: git state, other label occurrences, existing Blacksmith spelling, and the "no quality gate" claim:Working tree is clean and matches `origin/main`. `basilica-backend` is confirmed as a real internal reference (mentioned in AGENTS.md), grounding AC7. Now checking the quality-gate claim:# Seed — Migrate remaining Linux runner lanes to Blacksmith

**Phase:** CI runner migration (unit: migrate-linux-runners-to-blacksmith). **Written:** at dispatch (fill date). **Role:** implementer.
**Mode:** offline — local file edits and local verification only. You may not open the PR, trigger workflows, push to main, or contact any external infrastructure. You produce a branch, a diff, and evidence; an adversarial reviewer gates it.
**Dispatch precondition:** on a fresh checkout of `main`, running `grep -rnF 'ubuntu-latest' .github/workflows` and `grep -rnF 'ubuntu-24.04-arm' .github/workflows` returns exactly these nine lines and nothing else (verified against `main` at dispatch; line numbers are part of the contract):

| File | Line | Current content |
|---|---|---|
| `.github/workflows/gitleaks.yml` | 17 | `    runs-on: ubuntu-latest` |
| `.github/workflows/semgrep.yml` | 19 | `    runs-on: ubuntu-latest` |
| `.github/workflows/talos-review.yml` | 16 | `    runs-on: ubuntu-latest` |
| `.github/workflows/release-python-sdk.yml` | 24 | `    runs-on: ubuntu-latest` |
| `.github/workflows/release-python-sdk.yml` | 55 | `            runner: ubuntu-latest` |
| `.github/workflows/release-python-sdk.yml` | 58 | `            runner: ubuntu-24.04-arm` |
| `.github/workflows/release-python-sdk.yml` | 119 | `    runs-on: ubuntu-latest` |
| `.github/workflows/release-python-sdk.yml` | 165 | `    runs-on: ubuntu-latest` |
| `.github/workflows/release-python-sdk.yml` | 197 | `    runs-on: ubuntu-latest` |

If any other match exists (e.g. in `ci.yml`, `release-cli.yml`, or a comment), acceptance criteria AC1 and AC4 are in conflict — do not start editing; follow stop condition S1.

## Why this exists
Intake decided to move the repository's remaining GitHub-hosted Linux CI lanes onto Blacksmith runners. Today, four workflow files still reference GitHub-hosted labels (`ubuntu-latest`, `ubuntu-24.04-arm`) in the nine locations enumerated above; everything else has either been migrated already (`ci.yml` is fully on `blacksmith-32vcpu-ubuntu-2404`; `release-cli.yml` is on `blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404` / `-arm`) or is deliberately staying (the macOS lanes: `runs-on: macos-latest` in `build-wheels-macos` at `release-python-sdk.yml:87`, and the two `os: macos-14` matrix entries at `release-cli.yml:85` and `:89`). This is a pure label substitution: the value of the change is that it is total for Linux lanes and absolutely nothing else changes, because the reviewer gates on empty collateral diffs. There is no source ticket; the scope and acceptance criteria below are the contract from intake.

## Invariants you must not break
1. **Label-lines-only.** Every changed line is a `runs-on:` line or a matrix `runner:` line, and within those lines only the label scalar changes — indentation, quoting, key order, and any trailing content are byte-preserved. Note that `release-python-sdk.yml:50` (`runs-on: ${{ matrix.runner }}`) is an expression, not a label line: it must not appear in the diff. Prevents "fix-up" drift that the reviewer cannot distinguish from sabotage.
2. **Four-files-only.** `.github/workflows/gitleaks.yml`, `semgrep.yml`, `talos-review.yml`, `release-python-sdk.yml` — nothing else, explicitly not `ci.yml` or `release-cli.yml`. These are the only six files under `.github/workflows/`, so the enumeration is complete. Prevents scope creep.
3. **macOS lanes frozen.** `runs-on: macos-latest` in `build-wheels-macos` (`release-python-sdk.yml:87`) stays byte-identical to `main`, and the `macos-14` entries in `release-cli.yml` are untouched (covered by invariant 2). Prevents over-migration.
4. **No behavior or structure change.** Job structure, `permissions:`, `container:` blocks, `needs:` graphs, matrix `target`/`protoc_arch` values (`x86_64`/`linux-x86_64`, `aarch64`/`linux-aarch_64`), and the semgrep pinned image — verbatim: `image: semgrep/semgrep:1.170.1@sha256:98c2572fced2474539fd27cab3207ebd8e95e4e7aab4c3b381fdc5e2641d9941` (`semgrep.yml:25`) — are all unchanged. Prevents semantic drift hiding inside a mechanical edit.
5. **Exact label strings.** Use the table verbatim; do not invent variants (e.g. `-arm` suffix placement) even if other repos use different ones. The table's spellings already match this repo's existing Blacksmith usage (`release-cli.yml:22,77,81`). Prevents silently dead runners.
6. **Public-artifact hygiene.** Commit messages, branch content, and the drafted PR text contain no private repository names, private issue references, internal deliberations, or billing/cost discussion. Prevents leaking internal context into a public repo.

## Read first, in order
1. Run the dispatch-precondition greps on `main` — this confirms intake's premise (verified at dispatch: exactly the nine lines above) and gives you "before" evidence. Record the output.
2. `.github/workflows/release-python-sdk.yml` — the largest target: jobs `extract-version` (runs-on at line 24), `build-wheels-linux` (matrix `runner:` keys at lines 55/58 under `strategy.matrix.include`; line 50 is the `${{ matrix.runner }}` expression — do not touch), `build-sdist` (line 119), `publish-to-pypi` (line 165), `create-github-release` (line 197). Note the `target`/`protoc_arch` values and the `build-wheels-macos` job (line 84, `macos-latest` at line 87) so you can prove they are untouched.
3. `.github/workflows/semgrep.yml` — job `advisory`, runs-on at line 19; the `container:` block's pinned image and digest are at lines 24–25 (quoted verbatim in invariant 4); you will prove them unchanged.
4. `.github/workflows/gitleaks.yml` (job `gitleaks`, line 17) and `.github/workflows/talos-review.yml` (job `review`, line 16) — one label each.
5. `grep -rn 'blacksmith' .github/workflows` — context: Blacksmith labels already exist here, spelled `blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404` and `blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404-arm` (`release-cli.yml`) and `blacksmith-32vcpu-ubuntu-2404` (`ci.yml`). The table below governs and matches the 4vcpu spellings; do not "normalize" the 32vcpu lanes or anything else you find.
6. This list is a floor, not a ceiling — read related surface before assuming scope.

## Deliverables

**D1 — the nine substitutions, exactly:**

| File (all under `.github/workflows/`) | Job | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| `gitleaks.yml` | `gitleaks` | `ubuntu-latest` | `blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404` |
| `semgrep.yml` | `advisory` | `ubuntu-latest` | `blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404` |
| `talos-review.yml` | `review` | `ubuntu-latest` | `blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404` |
| `release-python-sdk.yml` | `extract-version` | `ubuntu-latest` | `blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404` |
| `release-python-sdk.yml` | `build-sdist` | `ubuntu-latest` | `blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404` |
| `release-python-sdk.yml` | `publish-to-pypi` | `ubuntu-latest` | `blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404` |
| `release-python-sdk.yml` | `create-github-release` | `ubuntu-latest` | `blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404` |
| `release-python-sdk.yml` | `build-wheels-linux` matrix, x86_64 (`runner:` key) | `ubuntu-latest` | `blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404` |
| `release-python-sdk.yml` | `build-wheels-linux` matrix, aarch64 (`runner:` key) | `ubuntu-24.04-arm` | `blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404-arm` |

**D2 — verification evidence** in your return note, one artifact per acceptance criterion below.

**Acceptance criteria (the reviewer gates on these verbatim):**

*Note: several criteria grep the diff. Plain `git diff` output includes ~3 lines of unchanged context per hunk, and in `release-python-sdk.yml` the unchanged `needs: [...build-wheels-macos...]` and `target:`/`protoc_arch:` lines sit within context of changed lines — so every diff-grep below filters to changed lines only (`grep -E '^[+-]' | grep -vE '^[+-]{3}'`). Do not "fix" the criteria by editing those context lines; they must stay untouched.*

- **AC1:** after the edit, `grep -rnF 'ubuntu-latest' .github/workflows` and `grep -rnF 'ubuntu-24.04-arm' .github/workflows` each return zero matches. (The replacement labels contain neither pattern as a substring.)
- **AC2:** `sed -n '55p;58p' .github/workflows/release-python-sdk.yml` shows exactly `            runner: blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404` (x86_64) and `            runner: blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404-arm` (aarch64); and no changed line touches `target:`/`protoc_arch:` — `git diff main -- .github/workflows/release-python-sdk.yml | grep -E '^[+-]' | grep -vE '^[+-]{3}' | grep -E 'target:|protoc_arch:'` is empty.
- **AC3 (negative):** `git diff main -- .github/workflows/release-python-sdk.yml | grep -E '^[+-]' | grep -vE '^[+-]{3}' | grep -i macos` is empty — no changed line mentions macOS; the macOS lane is not migrated.
- **AC4 (negative):** `git diff main --name-only` lists exactly the four target files; `git diff main -- .github/workflows/ci.yml .github/workflows/release-cli.yml` is empty; `git diff main --shortstat` reports exactly `4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)`; and every added/removed line is a label line — `git diff main | grep -E '^[+-]' | grep -vE '^[+-]{3}' | grep -vE '^[+-][[:space:]]+(runs-on|runner): '` is empty.
- **AC5:** all four edited files parse cleanly as YAML (actionlint if available, otherwise e.g. `python3 -c "import yaml; yaml.safe_load(open(f))"` per file — note PyYAML parses the `on:` key as boolean `True` under YAML 1.1; that is expected, not an error to fix). The diff itself is your proof that `jobs:`, `permissions:`, `container:`, and `needs:` are unchanged.
- **AC6 (negative):** `git diff main -- .github/workflows/semgrep.yml | grep -E '^[+-]' | grep -vE '^[+-]{3}' | grep -iE 'container|image|sha256'` is empty, and line 25 still reads verbatim `      image: semgrep/semgrep:1.170.1@sha256:98c2572fced2474539fd27cab3207ebd8e95e4e7aab4c3b381fdc5e2641d9941` — the pinned semgrep image and digest are not "fixed up".
- **AC7 (negative):** the drafted PR title/body contains no mention of `basilica-backend`, any private repository, any private tracking issue, internal discussions, or billing/cost deliberations.

**D3 — draft PR text** (you will not open it): title `ci: migrate remaining Linux runner lanes to Blacksmith`; body one-liner: "Migrate the remaining GitHub-hosted Linux CI lanes (gitleaks, semgrep, talos-review, release-python-sdk) to Blacksmith runners; macOS lanes unchanged." Plus a public-safe commit message, e.g. `ci: migrate remaining Linux runner lanes to Blacksmith`.

## How to work
This is a nine-line change — a single agent, no subagents, one commit is appropriate. Make the edits, then adversarially re-verify: run every AC command fresh (including the negatives), and read the complete `git diff main` line-by-line before writing the return note. Commit on a feature branch so a dead session leaves progress behind.

## Stop conditions
- **S1 — premise false (extra matches):** the precondition greps find `ubuntu-latest`/`ubuntu-24.04-arm` anywhere outside the nine designated lines (e.g. `ci.yml`, `release-cli.yml`, a comment). AC1 and AC4 cannot both be satisfied by in-scope edits. Stop; return a finding listing every match as `file:line: content`. Do not edit out-of-scope files and do not leave the grep non-zero and claim success.
- **S2 — premise false (missing/mismatched targets):** any of the nine designated `file:line` positions does not read as the precondition table's "Current content" value (already migrated, job renamed, different label, shifted line numbers). Stop; return the actual state versus the table.
- **S3 — edit forces collateral change:** a label cannot be replaced without touching a non-label line (e.g. it sits inside a YAML anchor, expression, or shared scalar). Stop; return the conflict with the exact line.
- **S4 — YAML parse failure:** revert your edit. If the file also fails to parse on unmodified `main`, stop and report the pre-existing failure; otherwise your edit is at fault — fix it only if the fix stays within label lines, else stop with a finding.
- **S5 — fix-up temptation:** you notice something else "wrong" (formatting, action versions, container tags, a fourth file that "should" migrate). That is out of scope. Leave it; record the observation in your return note instead of acting on it.

## Guardrails
- Never edit `ci.yml`, `release-cli.yml`, `build-wheels-macos`, any `container:` directive, or any non-label line — the reviewer gates on empty collateral diffs, and one stray edit fails the unit.
- No destructive or irreversible actions: no force-push, no rewriting `main`, no deleting branches. Work on a feature branch.
- Secrets never enter context, output, or logs: these workflows reference secrets (e.g. `TALOS_WEBHOOK_SECRET`, PyPI trusted publishing) — do not echo or expand their values anywhere.
- Never weaken, skip, or delete a test or check to make it pass. The repository's existing gates (justfile `lint`/`test-run`, and the checks `ci.yml` runs on PRs) exercise Rust code, not workflow YAML, and cannot run in offline mode — so the AC commands above are the entire verification surface for this unit. Do not add new checks either; that is scope creep.
- Do not open the pull request and do not trigger any workflow run.
- Ask a human before: expanding scope beyond the nine lines (including any S1 finding), changing any label string, or opening the PR.

## Deliverable mechanics
Create a feature branch (e.g. `ci/blacksmith-linux-runners`) off `main`, one clean commit with the public-safe message. Do not open the PR — the adversarial reviewer gates the diff first. "Done" = branch with the complete diff, all AC commands run with outputs captured, and a return note stating per-AC what is proven versus not proven, plus the draft PR title/body.

## What happens next
The reviewer gates the diff adversarially against every acceptance criterion, negatives included. On pass, the PR is opened using your drafted text. On fail, expect a corrections seed naming the fixes.

## Red-team pass
Verified every factual claim against the checkout: all nine label lines exist exactly as tabled (`gitleaks.yml:17`, `semgrep.yml:19`, `talos-review.yml:16`, `release-python-sdk.yml:24/55/58/119/165/197`); all job names, the matrix `runner:` keys, the `${{ matrix.runner }}` expression at line 50, `macos-latest` at line 87, the semgrep pin at line 25, and existing Blacksmith spellings in `ci.yml`/`release-cli.yml` confirmed; precondition greps return exactly the nine lines; `basilica-backend` is a real internal reference (AGENTS.md), grounding AC7; local `main` ref exists, so `git diff main` works. Fixed by simulation in a scratch repo: (1) **AC3 was unpassable** — raw `git diff | grep -i macos` matches the unchanged `needs: [...build-wheels-macos...]` context line above the line-165 edit, so AC3, AC2's `target`/`protoc_arch` clause, and AC6 now grep changed lines only (`grep -E '^[+-]' | grep -vE '^[+-]{3}'`), with a note warning against "fixing" context lines; (2) corrected the false "no quality gate was detected" claim — gates exist (justfile `lint`/`test-run`, `ci.yml`) but don't cover workflow YAML or run offline; (3) added exact line numbers to the precondition (S2 now gates line drift), a `9 insertions/9 deletions` shortstat gate and an executable non-label-line check to AC4, the verbatim semgrep image string to AC6/invariant 4, and corrected "the macOS lane" to the three verified out-of-scope macOS references. Prior pass conclusions (S1 conflict encoding, D3/AC7 handling, PyYAML `on:` quirk) were re-checked and stand.

Mutation proofs

Tool-captured proof records:

• Test: AC1-grep-ubuntu-latest

  • Mutation: revert any label line to ubuntu-latest
  • Command: grep -rnF ubuntu-latest .github/workflows
  • Exit code: 1
  • Marker: tool-captured
  • Output tail:

• Test: AC1-grep-ubuntu-24.04-arm

  • Mutation: revert line 58 to ubuntu-24.04-arm
  • Command: grep -rnF ubuntu-24.04-arm .github/workflows
  • Exit code: 1
  • Marker: tool-captured
  • Output tail:

• Test: AC2-sed-55-58

  • Mutation: revert line 55 to ubuntu-latest
  • Command: bash -c sed -n '55p;58p' .github/workflows/release-python-sdk.yml | grep -v 'blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404'
  • Exit code: 1
  • Marker: tool-captured
  • Output tail:

• Test: AC2-grep-target-protoc

  • Mutation: edit a target: or protoc_arch: line
  • Command: bash -c git diff main -- .github/workflows/release-python-sdk.yml | grep -E '^[+-]' | grep -vE '^[+-]{3}' | grep -E 'target:|protoc_arch:'
  • Exit code: 1
  • Marker: tool-captured
  • Output tail:

• Test: AC3-grep-macos

  • Mutation: change a diff line to mention macos
  • Command: bash -c git diff main -- .github/workflows/release-python-sdk.yml | grep -E '^[+-]' | grep -vE '^[+-]{3}' | grep -i macos
  • Exit code: 1
  • Marker: tool-captured
  • Output tail:

• Test: AC3-line87-untouched

  • Mutation: change line 87 from macos-latest to something else
  • Command: bash -c sed -n '87p' .github/workflows/release-python-sdk.yml | grep -v 'macos-latest'
  • Exit code: 1
  • Marker: tool-captured
  • Output tail:

• Test: AC4-name-only

  • Mutation: add a 5th file to the diff
  • Command: bash -c test "$(git diff main --name-only | wc -l | tr -d '[:space:]')" -ne 4
  • Exit code: 1
  • Marker: tool-captured
  • Output tail:

• Test: AC4-ci-release-cli-empty

  • Mutation: edit ci.yml or release-cli.yml
  • Command: bash -c test -n "$(git diff main -- .github/workflows/ci.yml .github/workflows/release-cli.yml)"
  • Exit code: 1
  • Marker: tool-captured
  • Output tail:

• Test: AC4-shortstat

  • Mutation: add or remove a line beyond the 9 changes
  • Command: bash -c git diff main --shortstat | grep -v '4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)'
  • Exit code: 1
  • Marker: tool-captured
  • Output tail:

• Test: AC4-non-label-grep

  • Mutation: edit a non-label line
  • Command: bash -c git diff main | grep -E '^[+-]' | grep -vE '^[+-]{3}' | grep -vE '^[+-][[:space:]]+(runs-on|runner): '
  • Exit code: 1
  • Marker: tool-captured
  • Output tail:

• Test: AC5-parse-gitleaks

  • Mutation: break gitleaks.yml YAML syntax
  • Command: bash -c ! python3 -c 'import yaml; yaml.safe_load(open(".github/workflows/gitleaks.yml"))'
  • Exit code: 1
  • Marker: tool-captured
  • Output tail:

• Test: AC5-parse-release-python-sdk

  • Mutation: break release-python-sdk.yml YAML syntax
  • Command: bash -c ! python3 -c 'import yaml; yaml.safe_load(open(".github/workflows/release-python-sdk.yml"))'
  • Exit code: 1
  • Marker: tool-captured
  • Output tail:

• Test: AC5-parse-semgrep

  • Mutation: break semgrep.yml YAML syntax
  • Command: bash -c ! python3 -c 'import yaml; yaml.safe_load(open(".github/workflows/semgrep.yml"))'
  • Exit code: 1
  • Marker: tool-captured
  • Output tail:

• Test: AC5-parse-talos-review

  • Mutation: break talos-review.yml YAML syntax
  • Command: bash -c ! python3 -c 'import yaml; yaml.safe_load(open(".github/workflows/talos-review.yml"))'
  • Exit code: 1
  • Marker: tool-captured
  • Output tail:

• Test: AC6-grep-container-image

  • Mutation: edit the container/image/sha256 lines in semgrep.yml
  • Command: bash -c git diff main -- .github/workflows/semgrep.yml | grep -E '^[+-]' | grep -vE '^[+-]{3}' | grep -iE 'container|image|sha256'
  • Exit code: 1
  • Marker: tool-captured
  • Output tail:

• Test: AC6-sed-25

  • Mutation: change the semgrep image digest at line 25
  • Command: bash -c sed -n '25p' .github/workflows/semgrep.yml | grep -v 'semgrep/semgrep:1.170.1@sha256:98c2572fced2474539fd27cab3207ebd8e95e4e7aab4c3b381fdc5e2641d9941'
  • Exit code: 1
  • Marker: tool-captured
  • Output tail:

• Test: AC7-commit-message

  • Mutation: add private reference to commit message
  • Command: bash -c git log -1 --format='%B' | grep -iE 'basilica-backend|private|internal|billing|cost'
  • Exit code: 1
  • Marker: tool-captured
  • Output tail:

• Test: AC7-branch-name

  • Mutation: add private reference to branch name
  • Command: bash -c git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD | grep -iE 'basilica-backend|private|internal|billing|cost'
  • Exit code: 1
  • Marker: tool-captured
  • Output tail:

[covenant-talos]

Walkthrough

This PR migrates the repository's remaining GitHub-hosted Linux CI runner lanes to Blacksmith runners by substituting ubuntu-latest and ubuntu-24.04-arm labels with blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404 (and the -arm variant) across four workflow files. The change is purely mechanical — nine label-line edits with zero structural, behavioral, or collateral changes — completing the runner migration that ci.yml and release-cli.yml already underwent. macOS lanes, the semgrep container: directive, matrix target/protoc_arch values, and all needs: graphs are intentionally untouched.

Changes

Cohort / File(s)	Change Summary
CI runner label migration — .github/workflows/gitleaks.yml	gitleaks job runs-on switched from ubuntu-latest to blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404.
CI runner label migration — .github/workflows/semgrep.yml	advisory job runs-on switched from ubuntu-latest to blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404; pinned container: image and digest left intact.
CI runner label migration — .github/workflows/talos-review.yml	review job runs-on switched from ubuntu-latest to blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404.
CI runner label migration — .github/workflows/release-python-sdk.yml	Five runs-on labels and two matrix runner: entries (x86_64 → blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404, aarch64 → blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404-arm) substituted across extract-version, build-wheels-linux, build-sdist, publish-to-pypi, and create-github-release; macOS lane frozen.

Estimated review effort: 1/5 (nine mechanical label substitutions across four YAML files with no structural or behavioral changes).

Instant overview - a deep technical review follows as a separate comment.

[covenant-talos]

PR #552: Migrate remaining Linux runner lanes to Blacksmith

Summary

This PR performs a pure runner-label substitution across four GitHub Actions workflow files, moving the repository's remaining GitHub-hosted Linux lanes onto Blacksmith runners: gitleaks.yml, semgrep.yml, and talos-review.yml each get one runs-on: change to blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404, and release-python-sdk.yml gets six changes (four job-level runs-on: lines plus the two build-wheels-linux matrix runner: entries, with aarch64 correctly mapped to blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404-arm). No other lines — permissions, containers, needs graphs, matrix target/protoc_arch, macOS lanes — are touched. The workflow diff itself is exactly correct; the substantive problem is in the PR body, not the code.

Architecture

No structural impact. The change alters only where CI jobs execute (GitHub-hosted → Blacksmith VMs); job graphs, containers, and permissions are byte-identical.

Issues Found

CRITICAL Issues (Must Fix Before Merge)

None found.

HIGH Severity Issues (Advised to Fix Before Merge)

1. Trim the public PR body to the drafted one-liner — it currently embeds internal references, violating the change's own AC7 and invariant 6
   Security | High | Effort: quick win
   • Why: The PR's own acceptance criteria state the body "contains no mention of basilica-backend, any private repository, any private tracking issue, internal discussions, or billing/cost deliberations (negative: no internal context leaks into the public PR)." Yet the published description embeds the full seed prompt and implementer report inside <details> blocks, which contain exactly the banned material: "basilica-backend is confirmed as a real internal reference (mentioned in AGENTS.md), grounding AC7" (Seed prompt, Red-team pass), the grep pattern 'basilica-backend|private|internal|billing|cost' (Implementer report, AC7 rows), and extensive internal process deliberation (dispatch preconditions, intake decisions, stop conditions, adversarial-review rounds). This is a public repository; the seed's invariant 6 ("Public-artifact hygiene") exists precisely to keep this content out. Notably, the adversarial reviewer's minor note warned that AC7 was only ever verified against the commit message and branch name, never the PR text — that gap has now materialized as a real violation.
   • How: Edit the PR description (no code change needed) to the D3-drafted text: keep the title, and set the body to "Migrate the remaining GitHub-hosted Linux CI lanes (gitleaks, semgrep, talos-review, release-python-sdk) to Blacksmith runners; macOS lanes unchanged." Move the implementer report, seed prompt, and mutation-proof records to an internal tracker if they need to be preserved.

   Prompt for AI agents
   Edit the description of PR Migrate remaining Linux runner lanes to Blacksmith #552 in one-covenant/basilica (e.g. gh pr edit 552 --body ...). Replace the entire body with the single sentence: "Migrate the remaining GitHub-hosted Linux CI lanes (gitleaks, semgrep, talos-review, release-python-sdk) to Blacksmith runners; macOS lanes unchanged." Validate by running gh pr view 552 --json body -q .body | grep -icE 'basilica-backend|private|internal|billing|cost|seed|implementer report' and confirming zero matches.

MEDIUM Severity Issues (Optional to Fix Before Merge)

2. Confirm org acceptance of credential-bearing lanes executing on third-party (Blacksmith) infrastructure
   Security | Medium | Effort: involved
   • Why: The label change moves jobs that hold credentials onto non-Github-hosted runners. Visible in the diff context: publish-to-pypi retains environment: pypi and permissions: id-token: write # Required for trusted publishing (release-python-sdk.yml @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@), create-github-release will hold a GITHUB_TOKEN with release write scope, and talos-review.yml posts a signed event (the seed notes it uses TALOS_WEBHOOK_SECRET). The OIDC token is minted by GitHub, but it is exercised on Blacksmith VMs. This is consistent with the repo's prior migrations (per the seed, release-cli.yml already runs on Blacksmith), so it is presumably a sanctioned direction — but a security review of a publish lane should record the trust-boundary expansion explicitly rather than let it pass silently inside a "mechanical" label change.
   • How: Confirm Blacksmith runners are ephemeral and isolated per job; confirm the PyPI trusted publisher is scoped to this repository and the pypi environment, and that the pypi environment's protection rules (required reviewers) remain enforced. If org policy prohibits third-party execution for publishing, exempt publish-to-pypi from this migration. Document the decision on the PR.

LOW Severity Issues (Minor Improvements)

3. Re-verify the negative claims and label spellings on the branch before merge
   Testing & Docs | Low | Effort: quick win
   • Why: Two load-bearing claims cannot be checked from the diff alone: (a) zero remaining ubuntu-latest/ubuntu-24.04-arm matches anywhere under .github/workflows, and (b) that blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404 and blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404-arm exactly match labels Blacksmith actually serves (a typo'd label makes the job queue forever, and the aarch64 release lane depends on the -arm spelling). The PR supplies captured greps with exit code 1 as evidence, which is reasonable, but an independent re-run costs nothing. The adversarial reviewer's note on the AC2 substring-based proof (it would not catch swapped x86_64/aarch64 lines) is acknowledged; the diff hunk @@ -52,10 +52,10 @@ itself shows the pairing is correct, so that note is non-blocking.
   • How: On the branch, run grep -rnF 'ubuntu-latest' .github/workflows; grep -rnF 'ubuntu-24.04-arm' .github/workflows (expect no output) and grep -rn 'blacksmith' .github/workflows to confirm spelling parity with release-cli.yml; optionally run actionlint on the four edited files. Confirm a prior successful release-cli.yml aarch64 run on blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404-arm.

The single commit message ci: migrate remaining Linux runner lanes to Blacksmith follows Conventional Commits; no commit-standards finding.

Security Review

Sweep performed. The diff's only security-relevant surface is the execution-environment trust boundary: nine lanes move from GitHub-hosted to third-party Blacksmith runners. Credential exposure following that move (PyPI OIDC trusted publishing, release GITHUB_TOKEN, TALOS_WEBHOOK_SECRET) is covered in finding 2; existing mitigations (environment: pypi, permissions: contents: read on semgrep) are unchanged in the diff context. No injection surfaces (no shell/SQL/template changes), no deserialization, no dependency or supply-chain changes, no crypto/randomness, no new secrets, and no secret values appear in the diff or PR text. Resource-exhaustion posture is unchanged (4-vCPU labels replace 4-vCPU GitHub runners; all timeout-minutes preserved). The one information-disclosure issue — internal references including basilica-backend embedded in the public PR body — is finding 1.

Suggestions for Improvements

• Add actionlint (and optionally zizmor) as a lightweight workflow-lint lane so future runner-label or workflow edits are machine-checked on the PR itself.
• If release wheel builds are slow, consider a larger Blacksmith label for build-wheels-linux (ci.yml already uses blacksmith-32vcpu-ubuntu-2404) — as a separate, scoped change.
• Runner labels could be centralized via repository vars (e.g. runs-on: ${{ vars.LINUX_RUNNER }}) to make the next migration a one-line change; optional, and deliberately not done here.
• Keep internal process artifacts (seed prompts, implementer reports, mutation proofs) out of public PR bodies as a standing practice, not just for this PR.

Positive Observations

• The diff is exactly the nine sanctioned substitutions and nothing else; every changed line is a runs-on: or matrix runner: line.
• The aarch64 matrix entry is correctly paired with blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404-arm while x86_64 gets the non-arm label, with target:/protoc_arch: untouched (release-python-sdk.yml @@ -52,10 +52,10 @@).
• Frozen surfaces are respected: macos-latest, the pinned semgrep image digest, permissions:, needs: graphs, and the ${{ matrix.runner }} expression all absent from the diff.
• Verification discipline is strong: 18 tool-captured proofs including negative criteria, and the adversarial reviewer's methodology notes are honest and accurately scoped as non-blocking.

Recommendation and Next Steps

REQUEST_CHANGES — the workflow diff is exactly correct and safe to merge, but the public PR body violates the change's own AC7/invariant 6 by embedding internal references (including basilica-backend) and internal deliberations, and must be trimmed to the drafted one-liner before merge. Next steps: (1) edit the PR description per finding 1, (2) re-run the verification greps per finding 3, (3) record the org's sign-off on Blacksmith for the PyPI publish lane per finding 2, then merge.