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Stacked on #5557. Its base is paulo/baml-version-output; retarget it to canary after #5557 merges.

Problem

BoundaryML/setup-baml and BoundaryML/baml-action are read-only mirrors of packaging/github-actions/* (#5537). sync-github-actions-mirror.yml publishes them on pushes to canary and moves v1, but only after the actions CI passes.

baml-action hard-codes BoundaryML/setup-baml@01c5b25, the August code. The pinning itself was deliberate: the original baml-action README said "The action pins setup-baml to a full commit SHA". The mirror's Dependabot bumped the pin monthly. #5537 moved CI and Dependabot into this repo and listed the pin as a known limit; since then nothing updates it.

Wrapper 0.3 broke the pinned setup-baml (error: no baml.toml found, from toolchain use without --global). That causes a deadlock:

1. baml-action's CI jobs fail because of the old pin.
2. Those failures block the mirror sync.
3. So the setup-baml fix in Fix release docs job and setup-baml for wrapper 0.3 output #5557 never reaches the mirror.
4. So no fixed setup-baml commit exists to pin.

baml-action users are broken today for the same reason.

Design

• Test together. In this repo, baml-action/action.yml uses ./packaging/github-actions/setup-baml, so every PR tests baml-action against the setup-baml next to it. A breaking setup-baml change now fails baml-action's tests in the same PR, instead of stranding the published baml-action later.
• Publish pinned. packaging/github-actions/mirror/sync.sh publishes one action. For baml-action it rewrites that one uses: line, by exact line match, to BoundaryML/setup-baml@<sha> # v1. <sha> is the setup-baml mirror commit published from the same source commit, or the existing mirror HEAD if setup-baml was already up to date. Either way, that commit's tree is the setup-baml baml-action was tested with.
  • This keeps the original SHA-pin policy, so a user who pins baml-action by SHA gets a reproducible setup-baml.
  • An independent review checked this pin design and found no blockers.
• One gate for both mirrors. The sync runs the full actions CI once: test, then sync-setup-baml, then sync-baml-action. baml-action's jobs are also integration tests of setup-baml, so a setup-baml change that only they catch must not reach setup-baml@v1.
• Only canary publishes. Both sync jobs have if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/canary'. A manual run from another branch tests but publishes nothing.
• No rollbacks. sync.sh reads the source commit the mirror was last synced from, using its Sync from BoundaryML/baml@<sha> commit message, and refuses to publish an ancestor of it.
  • The case it covers: run X fails in sync-baml-action, a newer run Y publishes, and then X's failed jobs are re-run. GitHub reuses X's sync-setup-baml output, so without this, @v1 would roll back to X's content and pin.
  • The checkout is shallow, so sync.sh fetches the published commit's history (commits only, --filter=tree:0) and walks back from it. An equal source is a no-op.
• What gets published. The committed tree at the source commit (git archive) plus the root LICENSE, added with --force. Files force-added past an action's .gitignore ship, and untracked files in the checkout don't.
• Guards. sync.sh refuses a missing or malformed SHA, a bad major tag, and any uses: ./… (quoted or not) in any published action.yml. It moves v1 whenever it doesn't point at the mirror's HEAD (compared peeled, for annotated tags). It pushes the branch and tag with --atomic.

Alternatives considered:

• Bot commits the pin back to canary. That needs write access to the protected branch, and CI would still test the stale pin.
• Vendor setup-baml into baml-action. That duplicates the composite setup steps and hides the dependency.
• Use @v1 instead of a SHA. That drops the reproducibility the action promised.
• Gate each action only on its own tests. I tried this first and reverted it after review, for the reason above.

Changes

• packaging/github-actions/baml-action/action.yml: uses the local setup-baml, with a comment explaining the rewrite.
• packaging/github-actions/baml-action/scripts/step.sh: run_fmt captures baml fmt --help instead of piping it into grep -q under pipefail. If grep exits early, the pipeline can fail with SIGPIPE, and wrapper 0.3.1 errors on a broken pipe.
• packaging/github-actions/mirror/sync.sh (new): replaces the inline sync steps.
• packaging/github-actions/mirror/test.sh (new). It builds a local source repository with real history (A, then B, then C on main, and a side-branch commit E) and runs every sync from a shallow, blobless checkout of one commit, the way the workflow does. It covers:
  • publishing and the commit message, including stale-file removal, a force-added ignored file, and an untracked file left out;
  • an unchanged source adds no commit, and a stale v1 gets repaired;
  • the pin goes to the just-published setup-baml and moves when setup-baml changes;
  • re-running an older source (B after C) is refused for both actions, and neither main nor v1 moves;
  • argument refusals, and a nested action.yml with a quoted uses: "./…";
  • a push where only the branch update is rejected leaves both the branch and v1 unmoved.
• .github/workflows/github-actions-ci.yml: runs the mirror test in the setup-baml lint job, and shellcheck now covers mirror/*.sh.
• .github/workflows/sync-github-actions-mirror.yml: jobs are test, then sync-setup-baml (outputs sha), then sync-baml-action. Both syncs only run on canary.

Testing

• mirror/test.sh passes, and so do shellcheck and actionlint.
• Mutation check on sync.sh. Each of these makes the suite fail: removing the rollback check, adding without --force, the guard ignoring quotes, the guard checking only the top-level file, a non-atomic push, and disabling the pin rewrite.
• The rollback check against the real repository: from a depth-1 blobless checkout of c02edfc, fetching 6a3eb3d with --filter=tree:0 takes about 0.4 s. Ancestry then comes out right in both directions: an older source is refused, a newer one is published.
• I simulated the composite locally against wrapper 0.3.1, running the in-repo setup-baml with toolchain: nightly and step.sh on every CI fixture:
  • failing fails test, invalid fails check, empty passes with the "no tests" notice.
  • PR-mode codequality measured the base and rendered the comment.
• This PR's actions CI runs the four baml-action … jobs against wrapper 0.3.1 through ./packaging/github-actions/setup-baml, including Windows.

After merge

On the first push to canary that contains this PR:

1. test runs.
2. sync-setup-baml diffs the mirror (main and v1 at 0bbe3f4, last synced from c02edfc, an ancestor). It commits Fix release docs job and setup-baml for wrapper 0.3 output #5557's setup-baml changes as Sync from BoundaryML/baml@<merge sha> and moves main and v1 to the new commit (call it S).
3. sync-baml-action rewrites the pin from 01c5b25 to S and adds the step.sh changes. It commits and moves main and v1.

Users on BoundaryML/setup-baml@v1 get the wrapper 0.3 fixes. Users on BoundaryML/baml-action@v1 get a baml-action pinned to S. No manual step.

If #5557 merges first, its push runs the old sync workflow. baml-action's tests fail on the old pin, so neither mirror changes. That's the same state as today and harmless.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved BAML setup actions’ handling of toolchain selection and manifest configuration across supported platforms.
  • Improved compatibility with current and legacy BAML CLI version output, helping version checks and generated documentation work across wrapper versions.
• Improvements
  • Updated CLI help capture to support newer toolchains and commands without a Usage: line.
  • Improved synchronization of published GitHub Actions mirrors, including protection against publishing older source versions.

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The pull request updates GitHub Action setup and mirror publishing, including sequential synchronization of the two action mirrors. It also updates wrapper and toolchain version parsing and changes how developer documentation generation selects and parses CLI help.

Changes: GitHub Actions Setup and Mirror Publishing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Action setup and toolchain selection packaging/github-actions/setup-baml/*, packaging/github-actions/baml-action/*, .github/workflows/github-actions-ci.yml	Setup scripts use BAML_TOOLCHAIN, set the manifest URL, and select toolchains globally. Version parsing supports newer and legacy output. baml-action uses the local setup action, and its scripts update toolchain handling.
Mirror sync behavior and validation packaging/github-actions/mirror/*	The new sync script publishes action trees, rewrites the baml-action setup pin, and updates mirror refs. Integration tests cover successful syncs, unchanged syncs, invalid or older inputs, and push failures.
Publishing workflow and CI checks .github/workflows/sync-github-actions-mirror.yml, .github/workflows/github-actions-ci.yml	The canary workflow syncs setup-baml before baml-action and passes the published setup commit to the second sync. CI runs the sync test and lints the mirror scripts.

CLI Version Parsing and Documentation Generation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Wrapper and toolchain identity parsing typescript2/app-developer-docs/lib/generated-content/baml-binary.ts, typescript2/app-developer-docs/tests/generated-content.test.ts, .github/workflows/release-baml-language.yml	Version parsing accepts baml-cli output and the legacy baml toolchain form. Tests cover missing or invalid identities, and the release check accepts both formats.
CLI help selection and parsing typescript2/app-developer-docs/lib/generated-content/cli-generator.ts, typescript2/app-developer-docs/tests/generated-content.test.ts	The generator selects the toolchain binary for wrapper 0.3 and later, supports fallback usage text, and keeps wrapper-owned help on the wrapper binary. Tests cover parsing, selection, and version mismatches.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Workflow as GitHub Actions workflow
  participant Sync as sync.sh
  participant SetupMirror as setup-baml mirror
  participant ActionMirror as baml-action mirror
  Workflow->>Sync: Invoke setup-baml sync
  Sync->>SetupMirror: Publish action tree and update refs
  Workflow->>Sync: Invoke baml-action sync with setup-baml SHA
  Sync->>ActionMirror: Publish action tree and update refs

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Generator as cli-generator
  participant Wrapper as wrapper binary
  participant Toolchain as toolchain binary
  Generator->>Wrapper: Query toolchain status
  Wrapper-->>Generator: Return resolved toolchain details
  Generator->>Toolchain: Request CLI help
  Generator->>Wrapper: Request wrapper-owned toolchain and self-update help

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Possibly related issues

• baml --project <dir> uses the cwd's toolchain pin instead of the target project's pin #5074: The action changes how it clears BAML_TOOLCHAIN before running the codequality renderer, but the summaries do not show a change to how --project selects a toolchain.

Possibly related PRs

• BoundaryML/baml#5537: This PR updates the monorepo action and mirror-sync implementation by testing the local setup-baml action and pinning the published baml-action to the synchronized mirror commit.
• BoundaryML/baml#5557: Both PRs update setup-baml, wrapper version parsing, developer-docs generation, and action scripts to use BAML_TOOLCHAIN.

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Merge Risk: Low · previous review 52bf1

The change is mergeable. Wrapping the toolchain status parse errors with the command name would make failures in developer documentation generation easier to diagnose, but this is not required for correct behavior.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 52bf1

Publishing now pins baml-action to the setup-baml code tested alongside it, with sequential publication and safeguards against inconsistent updates. No introduced exploitable path was established. Residual uncertainty concerns interrupted releases and deployment-side credential controls.

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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — Compromise of the publication authority could affect both public action mirrors and downstream consumers of their moving major tags. Existing full-commit consumers would not automatically follow those tag updates. This publication authority predates the PR.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The publishing jobs require successful action CI and a canary branch reference. Mirror destinations are fixed in the workflow, and the setup commit passed to baml-action comes from the preceding publishing job rather than PR text or an action input.
• observed — Setup accepts restricted channel or version selectors and invokes commands with quoted arguments. Documentation execution requires absolute executable paths and uses shell:false. Setup's downloaded-installer execution remains an existing trust boundary at the same official endpoint, not a newly introduced attacker-controlled source.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Global selection moves configuration ownership to the action's BAML_HOME under the runner tool cache rather than editing the checked-out project manifest. The wrapper prepares the selected toolchain before atomically replacing configuration; setup checks the resolved executable before exporting workflow environment and outputs. Concurrent global writers are not serialized by these setup scripts.

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typescript2/app-developer-docs/lib/generated-content/cli-generator.ts: 1

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Wrap the toolchain status parse errors with context.

JSON.parse(status.stdout) throws a bare SyntaxError if the wrapper prints non-JSON. toolchainStatusSchema.parse throws a raw ZodError on a schema mismatch. Neither error names the failing command. A release publish failure would be harder to diagnose.

Use safeParse and throw a message that names baml toolchain status --json.

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-  const resolved = toolchainStatusSchema.parse(JSON.parse(status.stdout));
+  let resolved: z.infer<typeof toolchainStatusSchema>;
+  try {
+    resolved = toolchainStatusSchema.parse(JSON.parse(status.stdout));
+  } catch (error) {
+    throw new Error(
+      `Unexpected output from baml toolchain status --json: ${String(error)}`,
+    );
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