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fix(ci): catch fork PRs whose required CI never ran, and close the v0.75.0 ledger - #821
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A fork PR whose CI is awaiting approval renders as fully green.
GitHub holds `pull_request` workflows from forks at conclusion
`action_required` until a maintainer clicks "Approve and run" — and such a run
does **not appear in the PR's statusCheckRollup at all**. Branch protection
evaluates that rollup, and so does every human glancing at the checks list, so
the PR presents as passing with zero test evidence behind it.
Measured on 2026-09-15 across three open fork PRs, identical labels, all three
cross-repository — so "it's a fork" is not the discriminator, the approval click
is:
#781 CI conclusion=success -> 16 checks shown, all green
#793 CI conclusion=action_required -> 2 checks shown, both green
#787 no pull_request run at all -> 2 checks shown, both green
#793 had already shipped broken tests and a ruff-format failure through exactly
this gap with nothing red anywhere.
check_fork_pr_ci.py reports only the states the rollup hides. An outright
failure is already visible and an in-progress run shows as pending, so neither
is flagged — a gate that cries wolf is a gate people learn to ignore. A passing
`External PR Triage` never counts as coverage either: it runs on
pull_request_target, which executes for forks regardless of approval, and
treating it as evidence would restate the bug.
Wired into pr-council-review step 0.6, whose existing fallback was blind here:
it inspects `gh pr checks`, which returns all-green for exactly these PRs.
Verified against the three real PRs it was built from: #781 exits 0, #793 and
#787 exit 1 with distinct reasons.
Two rows were honestly marked "only observable after upload". v0.75.0 is now on PyPI, so they are closed with evidence rather than left as permanent question marks — which is what the ledger asked for. Row 6, PyPI metadata -> verified: version 0.75.0, the rewritten summary, 18 classifiers and the Documentation/Repository/Changelog/Homepage/Funding sidebar links, read back from the PyPI JSON API. Row 7, MCP Registry -> unblocked, not done. The ownership token in the *published* README reads `io.github.ffroliva/gflow-cli` and matches server.json exactly, which was the whole blocker. What remains is tooling, not this release: mcp-publisher is not installed and its `login github` is an interactive device-code flow. Also recorded: `mcp-publisher init` would OVERWRITE the existing server.json — use `validate`. DISTRIBUTION.md's Glama row said `submitted`, which stopped being true hours later. It is listed, claimed and rated A, with a passing container build. The section now also records what the channel actually is: Glama generates the Dockerfile from a web form and clones the repo at the default branch's head, so it never touches PyPI; two builds failed on `spawn gflow ENOENT` because `uv sync` puts console scripts in /app/.venv/bin, which is never on PATH; and the admin panel's percentage is profile completeness, not the public letter grade that awesome-mcp-servers asks for.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe pull request adds fork pull-request CI validation and updates release verification documentation for Glama, PyPI, and the MCP Registry. ChangesFork CI validation
Release verification updates
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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Reviewer->>check_fork_pr_ci.py: Run with pull request number
check_fork_pr_ci.py->>gh: Fetch PR head SHA and workflow runs
gh->>GitHub Actions: Query pull_request runs
GitHub Actions-->>gh: Return workflow run conclusions
gh-->>check_fork_pr_ci.py: Return run data
check_fork_pr_ci.py-->>Reviewer: Report trusted or untrustworthy coverage
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The release documentation simultaneously reports a successful Glama build and an unverified image. Correct the stale status to keep distribution verification records reliable. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
✅ Passed checks (4 passed)
Full details: Docstring CoverageExplanation Docstring coverage is 66.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 12 functions across 2 files. (3 skipped: 3 unsupported.)
✨ Finishing Touches 💡 1📝 Generate docstrings 💡
🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)
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In `@docs/DISTRIBUTION.md`:
- Around line 155-157: Update the Glama section in DISTRIBUTION.md to remove the
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Remove the stale UNVERIFIED status.
The Glama section records a successful build and 15-tool response, but the later paragraph still says “Not yet built” and “UNVERIFIED” for the same container. Update or remove that paragraph so the release record has one current status.
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In `@docs/DISTRIBUTION.md` around lines 155 - 157, Update the Glama section in
DISTRIBUTION.md to remove the stale “Not yet built” and “UNVERIFIED” paragraph,
leaving the documented successful build and current 15-tool response as the
single release status.
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Two post-release loose ends, both found by this session's own verification rather than by reading.
1. A fork PR whose CI never ran renders as fully green
Found with
superpowers:systematic-debugging. The first hypothesis — "it's because they're forks"— was refuted: all three open contributor PRs are cross-repository with identical labels. The
actual discriminator is a human click.
GitHub holds
pull_requestworkflows from forks atconclusion=action_requireduntil a maintainerclicks Approve and run. Such a run does not appear in the PR's
statusCheckRollupat all —which is what branch protection evaluates and what a reviewer reads:
pull_requestrunssuccess(approved)action_requiredConfirmed directly — the run exists, and the rollup omits it:
#793 had already shipped broken tests and a ruff-format failure through exactly this gap with
nothing red anywhere.
The fix reports only what the rollup hides. An outright
failureis already visible; anin_progressrun shows as pending. Flagging those would train people to ignore the gate. A greenExternal PR Triagenever counts as coverage either — it runs onpull_request_target, whichexecutes for forks regardless of approval, so accepting it would restate the bug.
Wired into
pr-council-reviewstep 0.6, whose existing fallback was blind here: it inspectsgh pr checks, which returns all-green for precisely these PRs.Test-first, verified against the real PRs
8 tests written before the module existed (collection error → feature missing), each encoding one
of the three measured shapes. Then run against live data:
with distinct reasons — "awaiting maintainer approval" vs "no run for this head SHA". The exit
codes were checked separately, because the first run reported
exit=0for all three: that wassed's exit code through a pipe, not the script's. A gate that prints a complaint and exits 0 isdecorative.
2. Closing the v0.75.0 ledger rows that needed the upload to exist
Two rows were honestly marked "only observable after upload". v0.75.0 is on PyPI, so they close
with evidence instead of staying permanent question marks:
classifiers, and the Documentation/Repository/Changelog/Homepage/Funding sidebar links.
io.github.ffroliva/gflow-cliand matchesserver.jsonexactly — that was the entire blocker.What remains is tooling, not this release:
mcp-publisherisn't installed and itslogin githubis an interactive device-code flow. Recorded too:
mcp-publisher initwould overwrite ourserver.json— usevalidate.DISTRIBUTION.md's Glama row saidsubmitted, which stopped being true hours later. It is nowlisted, claimed, rated A, with a passing container build — and the section records what the
channel actually is: Glama generates the Dockerfile from a web form and clones the repo at the
default branch head (it never touches PyPI), and its admin percentage is profile completeness, not
the public letter grade that
awesome-mcp-serversasks for.Non-breaking contract
src/change. No CLI flag, exit code or output schema touched.Test plan
tests/scripts— 331 passed (up 8), each new test watched to fail firstcheck_repo_hygiene.py1118 ·check_doc_links.py187 · mirror 21 · PII 26 · council-memory 49ruff check+ruff format --checkcleanSummary by CodeRabbit
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