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Feature Pull Request

Linked issues

Closes #3822

Relates to spec 008 tasks T062, T062b, T062c, T065 and T065a, and to #3734, which records the private-repository decision of 2026-10-04.

What this adds

scripts/automation/label-consolidate.js, the Stage 3 and Stage 4 tool from spec 008, built from small modules in scripts/automation/includes/:

• consolidation-plan.js: pure planning. Stage 3 renames in place, creates, updates and relabels; Stage 4 lists every label outside the approved set with a full snapshot and a migrate_to. It also builds dry-run records and decides whether an approved dry run is stale, applying the run's own done records first so a resumed run does not see its own deletions as drift.
• consolidation-run.js: the run lock (run-lock.json, exclusive create, run_id, epoch), --resume and --abandon-run, and the append-only JSON Lines log with an intended record flushed before each call and a done record after. A cut-off last line is trimmed to its last newline, with the removed bytes kept in a .partial file. A holder with a stale epoch cannot append.
• consolidation-github.js: paged reads (no label missed), and writes through the existing rate-limited write queue.
• consolidation-engine.js: dry run, Stage 3 apply, gated Stage 4 apply, reconciliation of unmatched records on resume, the record step for work done by hand, and gate comments.
• private-evidence.js: where evidence may live, and approval verification.

How it keeps changes safe

• Dry run is the default and changes nothing on GitHub. --apply needs --confirm-gate <open issue>, and the apply functions refuse to write without it even when called directly.
• Stage 4 deletes only when the dry run's approval verifies: the comment is by ashleyshaw, reads Approved: <repo> dry run <generated_at> exactly, and is on the right gate. A regenerated dry run resets the approval.
• Just before deleting, the repository is re-read. Any difference from the dry run (beyond the run's own done records) or a change to labels.yml on develop marks it stale: nothing is deleted and the reason is posted on the gate.
• Migration targets must already exist, because GitHub creates a missing label when it is added to an item, which would put an unapproved label back.
• Re-runs are idempotent: a finished repository makes no write and adds no log record; a Stage 3 finish does not hide a repository from Stage 4.

Private repositories (decision of 2026-10-04)

A private repository's dry run and log go to .private-evidence/ (git-ignored; the tool refuses to write there if Git would not ignore it). Its summary, approval and stale notices go only to the private report repository (PRIVATE_REPORT_REPO, --private-gate-issue). Approval cited from the public gate issue is refused, a look-alike file in the public evidence directory is never read, and console output does not name a private repository.

Verification

• 83 new tests in consolidation-run.test.js and label-consolidate.test.js, covering the T062c cases (re-run makes no write, resume, failed call leaves intended, cut-off log, case-only variants, same-second run ids, lock refusal, kill and --resume with epoch and resumed_from, stale epoch, --abandon-run needing the gate confirmation, foreign intended records ignored), the T065a stale and resumed-run cases, and the private-repository rules.
• scripts/automation, scripts/validation and tests/js together: 139 suites, 3420 tests passed.
• ESLint, Prettier and Semgrep (p/security-audit, p/secrets: 61 rules, 0 findings) are clean.
• The tool has not been run with --apply against any repository.

Deliberate differences from the spec text

• Node has no flock, so "the operating system has released the lock" is checked by probing the holder's process on the same host. A lock written on another host cannot be resumed, only abandoned with the gate-issue confirmation.
• Discussions have no label filter in GraphQL, so they are read once per repository and filtered in the tool.

Not in this pull request

Running the tool (T063, T064, T066, T067), the Linear stages, and ticking the tasks in spec 008, which waits for #3734 to merge so the edits to T065 to T067 do not conflict.

Changelog

Added

• Added the Stage 3 and Stage 4 label consolidation tool.

Changed

Fixed

Removed

Checklist (Global DoD / PR)

• Tests added
• Lint, format and Semgrep clean
• No secrets or personal data
• Nothing run with --apply

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added a label consolidation tool with dry-run previews of proposed label changes. Applying changes requires approval; removing labels also requires an approved, current preview.
  • Consolidation runs can resume after interruptions, with safeguards against conflicting or outdated runs. Public and private repository evidence is kept separate.
• Documentation
  • Added an unreleased changelog entry describing the tool and its approval safeguards.

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Walkthrough

This pull request adds a CLI and supporting modules for label consolidation stages 3 and 4. The tool plans label changes, creates dry runs, verifies approvals, and applies changes through resumable runs with append-only logs. It also separates private-repository evidence from public evidence.

Changes

Label consolidation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Label plans and stale-run checks scripts/automation/includes/consolidation-plan.js, scripts/automation/__tests__/consolidation-run.test.js	Planning helpers create and validate Stage 3 and Stage 4 records, resolve migration targets, and detect stale dry runs. Tests cover planning, validation, and input changes.
Run ownership and evidence handling scripts/automation/includes/consolidation-run.js, scripts/automation/includes/private-evidence.js, scripts/automation/__tests__/consolidation-run.test.js, .gitignore	Run locks, epochs, and JSON Lines logs support resume and recovery. Evidence paths and approval gates depend on repository visibility. Private evidence is excluded from Git.
GitHub client and CLI setup scripts/automation/includes/consolidation-github.js, scripts/automation/label-consolidate.js	The GitHub client adds paginated reads and queued writes. The CLI validates options and gate configuration, loads the approved label set, and selects eligible repositories.
Dry runs and approval scripts/automation/includes/consolidation-engine.js, scripts/automation/label-consolidate.js, scripts/automation/__tests__/label-consolidate.test.js	The engine generates dry runs, posts summaries, and records verified approvals. Tests cover dry-run behavior, approval gates, and private-repository evidence.
Stage execution and reconciliation scripts/automation/includes/consolidation-engine.js, scripts/automation/label-consolidate.js, scripts/automation/__tests__/label-consolidate.test.js, .github/specs/008-label-audit-consolidation/tasks.md, CHANGELOG.md, tests/js/label-consolidation-post-merge-docs.test.js	Stage 3 applies planned label changes, and Stage 4 migrates items before deleting labels when approval and freshness checks pass. The engine records intended and completed operations and reconciles interrupted work. The CLI handles run commands and outcomes. The spec tasks and changelog are updated, and the task-count test expects 64 completed rows.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI as label-consolidate CLI
  participant Engine as consolidation-engine
  participant Run as consolidation-run
  participant GitHub as consolidation-github
  CLI->>Engine: runStage(ctx, repos, stage)
  Engine->>Run: append intended operation
  Engine->>GitHub: apply label or item change
  GitHub-->>Engine: return API result
  Engine->>Run: append done operation

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Suggested reviewers: ashleyshaw, lightspeedwp

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to a93f5

The new label consolidation tool can delete labels permanently. Several gaps could cause unintended deletions or lost label migrations: concurrent resumes, a missing mapping file, and an edited dry-run file. Fix these before running the tool with --apply. It has not yet been run against any repository.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟠 High · up to a93f5

The new workflow can replay destructive changes before rechecking approval and freshness. A misconfigured reporting destination can also expose private repository information. Recovery has additional gaps in exclusive ownership and operation identity.

Retained concerns

• High · security · observed: Recovery retries unmatched intended operations before Stage 4 approval and freshness checks. After a failed deletion leaves an intended record, resuming can delete the label even if approval was removed, the dry run was regenerated, or new items acquired the source label during interruption. Reconciliation checks whether the operation already happened, but does not re-establish its destructive preconditions before retrying.
• High · security · inferred: The private reporting boundary depends on configuration naming rather than destination visibility. A private source repository can post its repository name and consolidation summary to any configured reporting repository other than the public gate repository, including another public repository. Local private-evidence isolation does not prevent this conditional disclosure. The optional private token also falls back to the main client; actual credential scopes and destination visibility are unknown.
• Medium · security · observed: The approval check verifies the gate issue number in a caller-supplied URL, but the GitHub adapter fetches by repository and comment ID without verifying the returned comment's actual issue. Rewriting the URL's issue number can therefore make a matching approver comment from another issue in the same repository satisfy the selected gate. The genuine approver identity and exact repository/timestamp text are still required, limiting this bypass to gate-location binding rather than arbitrary approval forgery.
• Medium · reliability · observed: Recovery ownership is not exclusive across all transitions. Two concurrent resume processes can read the same stopped holder and install the same next epoch; holder checks compare only run ID and epoch, so both handles can remain valid. Separately, ownership is checked when appending records rather than when queued GitHub requests execute, allowing an already queued write to proceed after abandonment. Exclusive initial creation and live-process checks protect ordinary starts and sequential resumes, but not these overlap cases.
• Medium · reliability · observed: The manual-record CLI attaches a new handle whose operation sequence starts at zero without loading existing records. Its default operation ID can therefore collide with an earlier operation in the same run. Since reconciliation pairs records solely by operation ID, an unrelated done record can suppress recovery of a later intended operation, undermining the audit trail and restoration state. Normal resume numbering and explicitly supplied unique IDs do not protect this default manual path.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — Without a repository filter, the workflow processes every enumerated non-archived, non-fork repository in the selected organization that its credentials can access. Independently affected assets include repository labels, issue/PR/Discussion associations, and reporting comments. Actual organization coverage and write authority depend on unavailable token permissions.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• observed — An interrupted destructive operation becomes a replay instruction. On resume, live-state reconciliation can execute that instruction before current approval, dry-run identity, or freshness is checked, allowing deletion under changed conditions rather than merely recording previously completed work.
• inferred — A configuration actor or mistaken operator can select a public reporting repository that passes the private-gate name checks. Posting a private repository's summary then discloses its identity and consolidation details to that destination's readers, provided the selected credential can post there.
• observed — A caller-supplied approval URL crosses into a credential-bearing comment fetch. Verification constrains author and exact approval text, but not the fetched comment's actual issue membership. This permits gate-location substitution using an otherwise matching genuine approver comment.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The evidenced entrypoint is an operator CLI using environment-provided credentials, not an unauthenticated network service. The CLI checks that the public confirmation gate is an open issue. Normal Stage 4 execution fetches the approval again and requires the designated approver and exact repository/timestamp text before its live-state check.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Recovery takeover uses an unconditional lock-file replacement rather than an exclusive transition. Concurrent resumes can obtain the same authority tuple, and queued writes have no execution-time holder check. These gaps weaken containment of overlapping or abandoned privileged runs despite the normal liveness and stale-epoch checks.
• observed — Manual attachment resets operation numbering, while recovery pairs records by operation ID alone. Collisions can obscure unfinished work and corrupt the evidence used to establish completion or restore associations.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Use one destructive-operation authorization path for both fresh execution and recovery: establish current approval, selected repository identity, expected live state, and run ownership before retrying an unapplied operation. Preserve the ability to record an already completed operation without repeating it.
• proposed — Verify reporting-destination visibility before posting private summaries, make credential-boundary expectations explicit, and validate approval-comment issue membership from the returned comment or selected issue's comments rather than the supplied URL alone.
• proposed — If evidence files can be modified outside the trusted operator boundary, bind approval to immutable plan contents and explicitly require the persisted repository to equal the selected mutation target. A fingerprint helper exists but is not part of the approval text or verifier; the filesystem trust model must be established before treating this as an exploitable integrity defect.

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Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	#3822 requires a dry run by default, gated writes, resumable locking and logging, idempotent reruns, approval and stale-state checks for Stage 4, and private evidence and gate handling. The PR summary…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The reported changes support #3822. The .gitignore entry protects private evidence, the task-plan and test updates document completed work, and the changelog describes the tool. The PR excludes runn…
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Review comments at @CHANGELOG.md:
- Line 31: Update the Label Consolidation Tool changelog summary to use parallel
wording for label renames and creations, and explicitly state that deletions
require per-repository approval.

Review comments at @scripts/automation/includes/consolidation-engine.js:
- Around line 688-692: Check every `record.to_delete` entry against
`ctx.approved` before the first write in Stage 4; if any entry’s name is
approved, throw a `ConsolidationError` identifying the protected labels and
requiring the dry run to be regenerated. Keep the existing deletion loop
unchanged for unapproved entries.
- Around line 419-424: Update the Stage 3 reconciliation check in isApplied:
after confirming the target label is present, also verify that an item with the
same kind and number carries record.after.concept_label when it is set. Return
false if it is missing, before the stage-specific success return, so the relabel
can be retried.
- Line 141: Update `repoScope` to keep `scope.client` bound to `ctx.client` for
source-repository label and item operations, and add a `gateClient` that uses
`ctx.privateClient` when available, falling back to `ctx.client`. Route gate
comment posting and approval/comment reads through `scope.gateClient`, including
the calls used by `verifyApproval`; preserve source-repository operations on
`scope.client`.

Review comments at @scripts/automation/includes/consolidation-run.js:
- Around line 285-301: Update resumeRun to claim the next epoch with an
exclusive create before replacing the lock, so only one concurrent resumer can
proceed; convert an existing claim into a RunLockError and propagate other
filesystem errors. Leave assertHolder unchanged so attachRun can still use
handles at the same epoch.

Review comments at @scripts/automation/label-consolidate.js:
- Around line 225-231: Update the mapping-file load around mappingFile and
values.mapping so a missing explicit --mapping causes an error instead of
silently creating an empty mapping; for a missing default mapping file, emit a
prominent warning rather than proceeding silently. Keep JSON parsing unchanged
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