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shankar0123 155f1fec98 ci(arch-h1): Phase 13 Sprint 13.7 — tighten rest-deferred floor from monotonic-decrease to hard zero-exact pin; close ARCH-H1 + ARCH-M1
Closure commit for Phase 13 (ARCH-H1 OpenAPI ↔ handler gap + ARCH-M1
per-process rate-limit ceiling). Tightens the parity-script CI guard
to a HARD zero-exact pin on the rest-deferred bucket: any future PR
adding a new REST route MUST author its OpenAPI op or fail CI.
The `category: rest-deferred` escape hatch is now closed for good.

The sibling monotonic-decrease guard (openapi-rest-deferred-
monotonic.sh) stays in tree as belt-and-suspenders — both must hold.
The monotonic guard catches baseline-drift accidents (operator edits
the baseline up without surfacing rationale); this guard catches the
underlying rest-deferred bucket re-growing at all.

Phase 13 commit chain (six prior commits, ordered):

  67f346cd  Sprint 13.1  — two-bucket exception categorization +
                          monotonic guard (rest-deferred=28 baseline,
                          wire-protocol=36, fail-on-drift)
  c8347d74  Sprint 13.2  — ARCH-M1 Postgres sliding-window limiter
                          (SELECT FOR UPDATE arbitration) + migration
                          000046 rate_limit_buckets + falsifiable
                          multi-replica integration test
                          (TestRateLimit_PostgresBackend_CapEnforced
                          AcrossReplicas: 100 concurrent allows across
                          3 limiters cap=10 → exactly 10 succeed /
                          90 ErrRateLimited)
  a41fc2d7  Sprint 13.3  — backend selector
                          (CERTCTL_RATE_LIMIT_BACKEND={memory|postgres})
                          + scheduler janitor sweeping
                          updated_at<NOW()-maxWindow + helm chart wiring
                          + docs/operator/observability.md operator
                          decision tree
  952682eb  Sprint 13.4  — OpenAPI authoring batch 1 (13 ops + 8
                          schemas: sessions cluster + OIDC CRUD + JWKS
                          + test + refresh + group-mappings).
                          rest-deferred 28 → 15.
  9135c449  Sprint 13.5  — OpenAPI authoring batch 2 (8 ops + 5
                          schemas: breakglass admin + users + runtime
                          -config). rest-deferred 15 → 7.
  29cb13e7  Sprint 13.6  — OpenAPI authoring batch 3 final 7 ops +
                          2 schemas (audit/export + demo-residual +
                          auth/logout + breakglass/login + 3 OIDC
                          browser flows modeled as 302+Location).
                          rest-deferred 7 → 0. ARCH-H1 substantive
                          close.

Sprint 13.7 deliverables (this commit):

  • scripts/ci-guards/openapi-handler-parity.sh: append inline
    hard zero-exact check after the bucket-counts report. Fails CI
    immediately on any rest-deferred entry, enumerating offenders
    with the suggested-fix narrative.
  • Header docstring updated to reflect post-Sprint-13.7 state:
        220 router routes
        186 OpenAPI operations
         36 documented exceptions (36 wire-protocol + 0 rest-deferred)
          0 unaccounted router routes

Falsifiable closure proofs (re-run in CI on every PR):

  $ bash scripts/ci-guards/openapi-handler-parity.sh
    Router routes:                  220
    OpenAPI operations:             186
    Documented exceptions:          36
      wire-protocol:                36
      rest-deferred:                0
    openapi-handler-parity: clean.

  $ bash scripts/ci-guards/openapi-rest-deferred-monotonic.sh
    openapi-rest-deferred-monotonic: clean — rest-deferred = 0,
    baseline = 0.

  $ cat api/openapi-handler-exceptions-baseline.txt
    0

Negative test (synthetic rest-deferred entry, restored after):

  $ # append GET /scep with category: rest-deferred …
  $ bash scripts/ci-guards/openapi-handler-parity.sh
    ::error::rest-deferred bucket is non-empty (1 entries) —
    Phase 13 Sprint 13.7 closure pins this at zero.
    Offending entries: GET /scep
    exit 1   ← guard fails correctly

  $ gofmt -l .
    (no output — clean)

Findings flipped to ✓ Shipped in
cowork/certctl-architecture-diligence-audit.html:

  • ARCH-H1 — OpenAPI surface diverges from REST handlers
    (commit chain 67f346cd + 952682eb + 9135c449 + 29cb13e7)
  • ARCH-M1 — Per-process rate limiter caps single instance only
    (commit chain c8347d74 + a41fc2d7)

Progress widget: 46 / 56 findings shipped (82%) + 2 scaffolded.
The remaining 8 open findings are v3-scope strategic items
(multi-tenancy, EAB/External Account Binding, cluster coordination
primitives) — explicitly out of v2.2 scope per audit triage.

OPERATOR ACTION REQUIRED (one toggle, no code change):

  Promote TestRateLimit_PostgresBackend_CapEnforcedAcrossReplicas
  in deploy/test/integration_test.go to a required status check in
  GitHub branch-protection settings for master. Code-side wiring
  (.github/workflows/ci.yml) is done; the missing piece is the
  GitHub Settings → Branches → Branch protection rules toggle.
  Without that toggle, the test runs on every PR but isn't gating.

  After flipping the toggle, ARCH-M1 closure is fully load-bearing
  at the CI gate — a regression in the Postgres sliding-window
  backend (e.g. a future refactor that breaks SELECT FOR UPDATE
  arbitration) cannot reach master.
2026-05-14 13:06:57 +00:00
..

scripts/ci-guards/ — Regression-guard scripts

Each <id>.sh script in this directory pins one closed audit finding from regressing. CI runs the full set on every push via the Regression guards step in .github/workflows/ci.yml. Operators can run any script locally:

bash scripts/ci-guards/G-3-env-docs-drift.sh

Contract

Every script in this directory MUST:

  1. Be exit-code 0 on a clean repo (no regression present).
  2. Be exit-code non-zero on regression, with a ::error:: annotation prefix so PR reviewers see the failing line in the GitHub Actions UI.
  3. Be runnable from repo root via bash scripts/ci-guards/<id>.sh with NO arguments and NO env-var requirements. The CI loop step (for g in scripts/ci-guards/*.sh; do bash "$g"; done) iterates every .sh here without args; any script that requires an arg or env var WILL fail in that loop.
  4. Carry a head-comment block matching the in-source justification from the original ci.yml entry: the audit-finding reference, the closure rationale, the exempt-surface list (if any).
  5. Use set -e early to fail-fast on internal command errors.
  6. Produce no output on the happy path beyond a final echo "<id>: clean." confirmation line.

Helpers vs guards

Scripts that consume input artifacts (a test-output log, a coverage.out file) or env vars (PR_NUMBER, GH_TOKEN) are HELPERS, not guards. They live in scripts/, NOT scripts/ci-guards/.

Current helpers:

  • scripts/vendor-e2e-skip-check.sh — consumes test-output.log arg from the deploy-vendor-e2e job
  • scripts/coverage-pr-comment.sh — consumes coverage.out + PR_NUMBER + GH_TOKEN env from the go-build-and-test job
  • scripts/check-coverage-thresholds.sh — consumes coverage.out
    • .github/coverage-thresholds.yml

Adding a new guard

  1. Drop a new <id>.sh in this directory with the head-comment block describing the audit finding it closes.
  2. Make it executable: chmod +x scripts/ci-guards/<id>.sh.
  3. Verify it fails on a deliberate regression and passes on clean repo.
  4. CI auto-picks up new scripts via the for g in scripts/ci-guards/*.sh loop in the Regression guards step — no ci.yml change required.

Guards in this directory

Count: re-derive on demand via ls scripts/ci-guards/*.sh | wc -l. The table below names each one — keep it in sync as guards are added.

Per-finding regression guards

ID Finding Catches
G-1-jwt-auth-literal G-1 JWT silent auth downgrade "jwt" literal in additive auth-type surfaces
L-001-insecure-skip-verify L-001 unjustified InsecureSkipVerify InsecureSkipVerify: true without //nolint:gosec
H-001-bare-from H-001 (CWE-829) tag-swap attack Bare FROM line without @sha256 digest pin
M-012-no-root-user M-012 (CWE-250) container-as-root Dockerfile missing terminal USER <non-root>
H-009-readme-jwt H-009 README JWT advertising README.md re-introducing JWT-as-supported claim
G-2-api-key-hash-json G-2 cat-s5-apikey_leak api_key_hash in JSON-emitting surface
U-2-plaintext-healthcheck U-2 healthcheck protocol mismatch Plaintext http:// in HEALTHCHECK directive
U-3-migration-mount U-3 seed initdb schema drift Migration file mounted into postgres initdb
D-1-D-2-statusbadge-phantom D-1 + D-2 dead keys + TS phantoms StatusBadge dead keys + 5 Certificate / 5 Agent / 1 Issuer / 1 Notification phantom fields
L-1-bulk-action-loop L-1 client-side bulk loops for ... await triggerRenewal/updateCertificate in CertificatesPage
B-1-orphan-crud B-1 orphan-CRUD client fns 8 update/create/delete fns lose their page consumer
S-2-strings-contains-err S-2 brittle error-dispatch strings.Contains(err.Error(), "not found"|"violates foreign key") in handlers
G-3-env-docs-drift G-3 env-var docs drift CERTCTL_* env var defined OR documented but not both
test-naming-convention I-001-extended func TestXxx (lowercase first letter) — Go silently skips
S-1-hardcoded-source-counts S-1 stale numeric prose Hardcoded "N issuer connectors" / "N MCP tools" in README + docs
P-1-documented-orphan-fns P-1 documented orphans 16 read-fn names removed from client.ts exports
T-1-frontend-page-coverage T-1 untested frontend pages New page in web/src/pages/ without sibling .test.tsx and not on the deferred allowlist
bundle-8-L-015-target-blank-rel-noopener L-015 (CWE-1022) reverse-tabnabbing target="_blank" without rel="noopener noreferrer"
bundle-8-L-019-dangerously-set-inner-html L-019 (CWE-79) XSS dangerouslySetInnerHTML outside safeHtml.ts
bundle-8-M-009-bare-usemutation M-009 + M-029 mutation contract Bare useMutation() outside useTrackedMutation wrapper
H-1-encryption-key-min-length H-1 closure follow-up (post-Phase-5 surfacing) CERTCTL_CONFIG_ENCRYPTION_KEY literal in any deploy/docker-compose*.yml shorter than the 32-byte floor enforced by internal/config/config.go::Validate()
test-compose-scep-coherence post-Phase-5 surfacing of dead SCEP test config CERTCTL_SCEP_ENABLED=true in test compose without (a) a CI job that runs the SCEP integration test, (b) the ra.crt + ra.key + intune_trust_anchor.pem fixtures committed to deploy/test/fixtures/, AND (c) the matching volume mount
openapi-handler-parity ARCH-H1 OpenAPI ↔ handler drift Router routes vs OpenAPI operations vs documented exceptions (wire-protocol vs rest-deferred buckets). Supports --bucket=wire-protocol|rest-deferred subcommand for sibling guards.
openapi-rest-deferred-monotonic ARCH-H1 Phase 13 Sprint 13.1 — rest-deferred bucket monotonic-decrease category: rest-deferred count growing vs the checked-in baseline at api/openapi-handler-exceptions-baseline.txt. Sprints 13.4-13.6 drive this to zero; Sprint 13.7 tightens to a zero-exact pin.

Forward-looking guards (Auditable Codebase Bundle, post-v2.1.0 anti-rot)

These guards catch defect classes BEFORE they get audit findings — they pin invariants on the codebase that the v2.0 audit history showed are easy to lose.

ID Item Catches
complete-path-config-coverage post-v2.1.0 / item-1 "Lying field" — CERTCTL_* env var defined in internal/config/config.go that no consumer outside internal/config/ actually reads. Operator-facing config that the docs claim works but the code never honors. Companion Go test at internal/config/coverage_test.go.
doc-rot-detector post-v2.1.0 / item-5 Docs older than 90 days warn (yellow), older than 120 days fail (red). Uses HEAD commit timestamp for reproducibility. docs/archive/ allowlisted in bulk.

The cold-DB compose smoke (post-v2.1.0 / item-6) is NOT a script in this directory — it is inlined directly into .github/workflows/ci.yml::cold-db-compose-smoke because there is no value in a developer running it locally (the whole point of the gate is that CI owns the cold-DB state). To inspect or modify the smoke logic, read that workflow job; there is intentionally no scripts/ci-guards/cold-db-compose-smoke.sh.

The fourth Bundle artifact (internal/ciparity/) is Go tests, not shell guards — runs under the standard Go test step. Pins the MCP tool catalogue floor + naming convention; reports CLI/MCP/OpenAPI surface counts as a trend metric.

Running the full set locally

for g in scripts/ci-guards/*.sh; do
  echo "=== $(basename "$g") ==="
  bash "$g" || echo "  FAILED"
done

ARCH-H1 OpenAPI exception two-bucket contract (Phase 13 Sprint 13.1)

api/openapi-handler-exceptions.yaml lists every router route that is intentionally NOT in api/openapi.yaml. Each entry carries a required category: field with one of two values:

  • category: wire-protocol — the route's wire shape is dictated by an IETF RFC (SCEP RFC 8894, ACME RFC 8555, ACME ARI RFC 9773, EST RFC 7030) or it's a sibling/shorthand variant of one. The canonical reference for these endpoints lives in docs/acme-server.md + docs/operator/scep.md + docs/operator/est.md — duplicating their wire contract in openapi.yaml would add no information. Wire-protocol entries never burn down.

  • category: rest-deferred — the route is REST-shaped (resource CRUD, JSON request/response, RBAC-gated) but its OpenAPI operation was deferred when the handler shipped. Rest-deferred entries must monotonically decrease to zero. Authoring an OpenAPI op for a deferred route + deleting the corresponding exception entry + decrementing api/openapi-handler-exceptions-baseline.txt in the same PR is the canonical close path.

Adding a new exception entry

The default category for new entries is rest-deferred. Only set wire-protocol when:

  1. The why: field cites a specific RFC anchor (e.g. "RFC 8555 §7.1.1 directory"), AND
  2. The route's wire shape is dictated by the RFC (not a REST resource that happens to live alongside one).

When in doubt, default to rest-deferred and author the OpenAPI op. The two guards in this directory enforce both buckets:

  • openapi-handler-parity.sh reports bucket counts + fails on missing/unknown category: fields + fails on stale exceptions / undocumented router routes.
  • openapi-rest-deferred-monotonic.sh fails if rest-deferred grows vs the baseline file at api/openapi-handler-exceptions-baseline.txt.

Inspecting bucket counts

# Full report.
bash scripts/ci-guards/openapi-handler-parity.sh

# Just one bucket count (used by sibling guards).
bash scripts/ci-guards/openapi-handler-parity.sh --bucket=wire-protocol
bash scripts/ci-guards/openapi-handler-parity.sh --bucket=rest-deferred