docs: stop the test steps when dependency preparation fails

[ryanbarlow97]

Summary

Follow-up to #27, so BarterShops matches the review fixes in BirdMessenger and InteractibleFurniture:

• Chain the installer, the download and mvn clean verify with &&, so Maven does not run after a failed preparation step.
• Keep the ServerAssets token inside a subshell, so it never stays in the interactive session or reaches Maven.

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• Documentation
  • Updated the README’s test instructions so plugin installation, release preparation and Maven verification run in sequence, with each step proceeding only if the previous one succeeds.
  • Clarified that the installer is provided by a separate TLibs checkout and that CI supplies the token through DEPS_TOKEN.
  • Scoped the exported GitHub token to the subshell running the preparation script, rather than the broader shell session or Maven verification.

Walkthrough

The README test instructions now chain plugin installation, release preparation and Maven verification with &&. They scope GH_TOKEN to a subshell and describe the separate TLibs checkout and CI token source.

Changes

Test instructions

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Test command and instructions README.md	The instructions chain plugin installation, release preparation and Maven verification with &&. They read and export GH_TOKEN only within a subshell for release preparation, and describe the separate TLibs checkout and CI token source.

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The test steps are mergeable with a documentation correction: clarify that the prompted token stays out of the final build, but reaches Maven during preparation.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 52680

The change improves failure handling and keeps the newly entered token out of the final verification command. Preparation-time Maven processes still inherit the token, but that exposure already existed. No increased credential authority or exposure was identified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The identified exposure concerns code executing in credential-bearing preparation process trees, locally or during CI preparation. Reading and transmitting the inherited token would require execution in that context. Token permissions, accessible repositories, and actual exfiltration are not established, so the maximum downstream credential scope cannot be quantified.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• observed — Both retained sensitive-data-exposure findings concern token inheritance into preparation-time Maven processes. The base command already supplied the same token to the same descendant process chain. These remain reportable Security findings, but the comparison does not establish an introduced or worsened PR architecture concern or two independent exposure scopes.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The strongest counterevidence to widened exposure is that final verification runs outside the new subshell and later CI Maven steps lack the preparation-step token binding. This protects against inheritance of the newly supplied token, not against a GH_TOKEN already present in the user's parent environment, which neither README version clears.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — As a separate hardening change, remove GH_TOKEN from the preparation environment after the last authenticated download and before invoking dependency installation. This would narrow credential lifetime without relying on callers to isolate every descendant process.

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Review comments at @README.md:
- Around line 32-33: Update the prepare-release.sh flow to clear GH_TOKEN before
invoking install-local-dependencies.sh, so its Maven processes do not inherit
the token; leave the token available for the release steps that require it.

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Changing when prepare-release.sh clears GH_TOKEN would alter the shared preparation script that every plugin repository uses (TF-Minecraft/Docs PIPELINES.md). That is outside this README-only PR; the README already confines the token to a subshell that ends after preparation. Added a note on where the TLibs installer comes from. @coderabbitai review

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@ryanbarlow97 Thanks for clarifying the scope. This matches the retrieved guidance that shared preparation-script changes belong outside #28.

The && chain and TLibs checkout note look correct. I will review the updated PR.

One README correction remains: the subshell keeps the prompted token out of the later mvn clean verify, but not every Maven process. .github/scripts/install-local-dependencies.sh runs four Maven commands before the subshell exits. Those commands inherit GH_TOKEN.

No script change is needed in this PR. At Line 40, use more precise wording:

subshell keeps the prompted token out of your session and the subsequent
`mvn clean verify` command, and Maven only runs if both
preparation steps succeed.

Would you like a separate issue for clearing the token before the internal Maven calls?

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Learnt from: ryanbarlow97
URL: https://github.com/TF-Minecraft/BarterShops/pull/28

Timestamp: 2026-10-03T23:34:38.274Z
Learning: In TF-Minecraft plugin repositories, `.github/scripts/prepare-release.sh` follows the shared preparation flow documented in TF-Minecraft/Docs `PIPELINES.md`. Changes to when it clears `GH_TOKEN` affect that shared flow and are outside the scope of BarterShops README-only PR #28. Keep documentation corrections separate from shared preparation-script changes.

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