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feat: implement issue #836 — Make initiative-driver / pr-auto-review / feature-ideation standard deployable shims (+ canonical-PAT migration) - #837

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Closes #836

Implemented by dev-lead agent. Please review.

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  • New Features

    • Expanded standard workflow deployment support.
    • Existing feature-ideation customizations are preserved during workflow updates.
    • Missing feature-ideation workflows are seeded automatically, while compliant workflows remain unchanged.
    • Dry-run results now indicate whether workflows will be seeded or updated in place.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Workflow automation now prefers the canonical credential and falls back to the existing credential when needed.
    • Updated credential handling across feature ideation, initiative driver, and pull request review workflows.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for workflow deployment, customization preservation, credential fallback, and pinning behavior.

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  • .github/workflows/initiative-driver-tests.yml
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  • test/workflows/feature-ideation/stub-secrets.bats
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The deployment script adds three standard workflow stubs, preserves existing feature-ideation.yml bodies during re-pinning, and updates all three workflow templates to use canonical-first PAT fallback expressions. New Bats tests cover deployment modes, pinning, body preservation, and secret wiring.

Changes

Standard workflow deployment and credential migration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Deployable workflow modes
scripts/deploy-standard-workflows.sh
Adds the three workflows to deployment, tracks per-workflow modes, seeds missing feature-ideation stubs, and re-pins existing bodies without replacing project_context.
Canonical-first workflow credentials
standards/workflows/feature-ideation.yml, standards/workflows/initiative-driver.yml, standards/workflows/pr-auto-review.yml
Uses GH_PAT_DON_PETRY with fallback to GH_PAT_WORKFLOWS, while preserving the reusable workflow secret name and existing secret blocks.
Deployment and credential tests
test/scripts/deploy-standard-workflows/feature-ideation-seed-repin.bats, test/workflows/*/stub-secrets.bats
Tests seed, in-place re-pin, compliant stubs, tier pinning, and canonical-first secret wiring.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

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  participant deploy-standard-workflows.sh
  participant GitHub API
  participant Target repository
  deploy-standard-workflows.sh->>GitHub API: Query workflow contents and release tags
  GitHub API-->>deploy-standard-workflows.sh: Existing body or missing stub plus tier ref
  deploy-standard-workflows.sh->>Target repository: Seed template or re-pin existing body
  Target repository-->>deploy-standard-workflows.sh: PR creation result
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This pull request adds three new deployable workflows (initiative-driver.yml, pr-auto-review.yml, and feature-ideation.yml) to the deployment script, introducing a body-preserving mechanism for workflows with per-repo configurations, updating credential fallbacks to use GH_PAT_DON_PETRY, and adding BATS tests. The review feedback highlights potential script failures under set -e due to grep commands running on templates without uses: lines, recommends implementing a global cleanup array with an EXIT trap for temporary files, and suggests replacing the while loop assertions in the BATS tests with grep -v to prevent false positives.

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Pull request overview

Promotes initiative-driver, pr-auto-review, and feature-ideation into standard deployable workflow stubs and migrates their PAT wiring to a canonical-first secret fallback, with deploy-script logic to avoid clobbering feature-ideation’s per-repo project_context.

Changes:

  • Migrates PAT usage in the three workflow templates to ${{ secrets.GH_PAT_DON_PETRY || secrets.GH_PAT_WORKFLOWS }} (with the by-name secret pass preserved for pr-auto-review).
  • Adds the three workflows to DEPLOYABLE_WORKFLOWS, and implements “seed-if-absent + re-pin-in-place” handling for feature-ideation.yml to preserve per-repo tuned bodies.
  • Adds Bats tests covering the new secret wiring and the deploy-script’s feature-ideation seed/repin behavior.

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standards/workflows/pr-auto-review.yml Updates the reusable secret pass to canonical-first fallback while keeping the passed secret key name GH_PAT_WORKFLOWS.
standards/workflows/initiative-driver.yml Updates GH_TOKEN env wiring to canonical-first PAT fallback in guard + dispatch steps.
standards/workflows/feature-ideation.yml Updates redispatch guard + redispatch step GH_TOKEN wiring to canonical-first PAT fallback.
scripts/deploy-standard-workflows.sh Adds the three workflows to the deploy sweep and introduces body-preserving workflow handling for feature-ideation.
test/workflows/pr-auto-review/stub-secrets.bats Tests canonical-first fallback and ensures the reusable secret pass remains keyed as GH_PAT_WORKFLOWS.
test/workflows/initiative-driver/stub-secrets.bats Tests canonical-first fallback wiring for initiative-driver’s runtime GH_TOKEN env.
test/workflows/feature-ideation/stub-secrets.bats Tests canonical-first fallback wiring for feature-ideation redispatch GH_TOKEN env without altering reusable secrets.
test/scripts/deploy-standard-workflows/feature-ideation-seed-repin.bats Tests the deploy script’s seed-if-absent vs repin-in-place behavior (and pin emission) for feature-ideation, plus coverage for the new workflows’ dry-run outputs.

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Automated review — APPROVED ✓

Risk: MEDIUM
Reviewed commit: 195ffc45208744fec00040975eb60dbbc7706e37
Cascade: triage → audit (triage: haiku 4.5 → deep: opus 4.8 + duck: o4-mini → audit: fable 5)

Summary

PR #837 migrates three fleet-wide workflow templates from bare secrets.GH_PAT_WORKFLOWS to the canonical-first chain secrets.GH_PAT_DON_PETRY || secrets.GH_PAT_WORKFLOWS and makes them standard-deployable. The migration is explicitly authorized by issue #836 as part of the documented org-wide PAT retirement (.github-private#1326); both secret names carry the same underlying PAT, so behavior and blast radius are unchanged until the legacy secret is deleted. No injection vectors, the new CI workflow's checkout SHA pin was verified against the GitHub API as genuine v7.0.0, lockfile diffs are name-field-only with zero dependency changes, all security scans (gitleaks, CodeQL, npm audit, SonarCloud, AgentShield) pass at head SHA, and the CODEOWNERS human-review gate remains in force.

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  • INFO: Canonical-PAT migration is value-identical (issue #836 states GH_PAT_DON_PETRY is the same don-petry PAT already provisioned org-wide as GH_PAT_WORKFLOWS). The || fallback prevents breakage on repos lacking the canonical secret. New bats suites pin the exact wiring, including the by-name-pass footgun in pr-auto-review.yml where only the VALUE changes and the passed key stays GH_PAT_WORKFLOWS. (standards/workflows/pr-auto-review.yml line 58)
  • MINOR: Fleet-wide privileged workflow_dispatch routes through a person-named PAT (GH_PAT_DON_PETRY). This concentration/rotation risk is pre-existing org policy (same PAT previously named GH_PAT_WORKFLOWS), not introduced by this PR, but the org should track migrating to a GitHub App or org-owned machine credential to decouple automation from an individual account. (standards/workflows/initiative-driver.yml line 76)
  • MINOR: Guard error messages still read '::error::GH_PAT_WORKFLOWS is required' after GH_PAT_DON_PETRY became the preferred secret — slightly misleading during incident response once the legacy secret is deleted. Cosmetic; fix in a follow-up. (standards/workflows/initiative-driver.yml line 79)
  • INFO: New initiative-driver-tests.yml is sound: pull_request trigger (not pull_request_target), permissions: contents: read, timeout + concurrency set, and actions/checkout pinned to 9c091bb21b7c1c1d1991bb908d89e4e9dddfe3e0 — verified via the GitHub API to be the authentic v7.0.0 tag commit. (.github/workflows/initiative-driver-tests.yml line 47)
  • INFO: Only raw run-block interpolation is ${{ github.repository }} in initiative-driver.yml (non-attacker-controlled, constrained charset, pre-existing line unchanged by this PR). Event-derived values (discussion.number, dispatch inputs) use env-var indirection. The discussion:created redispatch bridge is gated to non-bot authors in the Ideas category. (standards/workflows/initiative-driver.yml line 89)
  • INFO: package-lock.json and node_modules/.package-lock.json diffs change only the top-level name field (pr-834 -> pr-837); no packages added, removed, or re-versioned. gitleaks and npm audit green at head SHA 195ffc4. (package-lock.json line 2)

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