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Dependabot with a weekly cooldown, a semgrep scan whose verdict is a script
rather than an exit code, dependency review in both halves, and the NuGet audit
settings written down. Then four more things after the owner asked what else
belonged in CI, and one real defect the first run of this pull request found.

What is here

File What it does
.github/dependabot.yml Actions, NuGet and the pinned scanner. Weekly, cooldown: default-days: 7
.github/workflows/security.yml Security / Semgrep and Security / Dependency review
.github/workflows/codeql.yml Code scanning as a file instead of a dialog
.github/workflows/integration-on-a-runner.yml The integration instrument, dispatch only
.github/scripts/semgrep_gate.py Blocks on ERROR, HIGH, CRITICAL, on a scan error, and on a report that read no files
.github/scripts/dependency_gate.py The licence half, which the GitHub action documents that it will not do
.github/requirements-semgrep.txt semgrep==1.177.0, in a file a bot can read
SupplyChainGuards.cs, WorkflowGuards.cs Four guards: the audit settings, and every action named by a commit
Directory.Build.props The three NuGet audit properties, and EnableWindowsTargeting
build.yml, pages.yml Concurrency, no persisted credentials, and one job lighter

Three things that were already broken and nobody knew

A blocking gate against vulnerable packages already existed. NuGet reports an
advisory as NU1901 to NU1904, those are restore warnings, and
TreatWarningsAsErrors covers NU codes. Measured with two throwaway projects
differing by that one line:

with TreatWarningsAsErrors:   error NU1903    restore exits 1
without it:                   warning NU1903  restore exits 0

The three properties steering it were SDK defaults, and the mode was direct
before .NET 9. They are stated explicitly now although they change nothing.

Automatic dependency submission had never once succeeded. It was already
switched on, and its entire history was one failed run: it restores every
project on a Linux runner, and a project targeting Windows refuses there with
NETSDK1100. That is why the dependency graph held 13 entries. One property fixes
it, and submit-nuget now passes in 55s carrying "relationship": "indirect".
A submission that never ran looks exactly like a project with no transitive
dependencies.

Every action was pinned to a commit and nothing said so. Replacing one SHA
with @v4 passed the whole pipeline. It also pays for a skip made elsewhere:
dependency_gate.py passes over the actions ecosystem when checking licences.

What did not change, deliberately

CodeQL moved out of default setup into a file. Default setup was already
running the extended suite - the API said "query_suite": "extended", and a
live job said "build-mode": "none" - so every dial in the new file is set to
the measured value of the old configuration. This is not a widening of the
analysis. What it buys is pinned actions, a configuration that can be read and
diffed, and one that travels with a clone. Analyse csharp takes 2m11s against
default setup's 2m21s.

Two dials worth trying later and not tried here: a Windows runner for C#, and a
real build instead of build-mode: none. Both plausible, neither measured.

Measured before and during

  • semgrep p/default 1.177.0 locally through Docker: 0 findings, 374 rules, 306 files. CI reported 306 file(s) scanned - the same number
  • dotnet list package --vulnerable --include-transitive: 0 vulnerable packages across ten projects
  • All four guards shown red by their own mutation, then green again. A tag reddens both workflow guards, a bare SHA reddens only the comment one
  • Both gate scripts run against fourteen crafted reports, including a HIGH finding that --severity ERROR would miss and a scan that read nothing
  • The licence gate did real work on its first run: allowed (1): semgrep 1.177.0 (LGPL-2.1-or-later)
  • Bws.Architecture.Tests 68, Bws.Site.Tests 21, Bws.Core.Tests 635, all green locally

The window and integration projects were not run locally: that session had no
administrator rights, where seven of those tests fail for reasons unrelated to
this change. build on this pull request answers that on a different machine.

What this still does not do

  • Nothing checks that a pinned SHA belongs to the version in the comment beside
    it. That needs the network, so it cannot live in a unit test.
  • Nothing checks that GitHub accepted dependabot.yml. An invalid file creates
    no pull requests and says nothing.
  • semgrep does not read tests/. That is its own default, not a setting here.
  • Meziantou.Analyzer is declared in Directory.Build.props and in no csproj,
    so the dependency graph does not carry it at all.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Security

    • Added automated CodeQL, Semgrep, dependency license, and vulnerability checks.
    • Enabled NuGet auditing for low-severity vulnerabilities.
  • Testing

    • Added manually triggered Windows integration testing with retained results.
    • Added safeguards for workflow, dependency, and supply-chain security configurations.
  • Maintenance

    • Added weekly dependency update automation.
    • Improved CI run management and checkout credential handling.
    • Updated third-party dependency notices.
  • New Features

    • Added on-demand publishing of Windows CLI and GUI executables with checksums.

Dependabot, a semgrep scan, dependency review in both halves, and the NuGet
audit settings written down.

The audit settings are the surprise. A package with a published advisory has
been failing every restore here since the day warnings became errors: NuGet
reports an advisory as NU1901 to NU1904, those are restore warnings, and
TreatWarningsAsErrors covers NU codes. Measured with two throwaway projects
differing by that one line - error NU1903 and exit 1 with it, warning NU1903
and exit 0 without it. The three properties that steer it were the SDK's
defaults, which is somebody else's decision, and one of them has moved once
already. They are now stated explicitly although they change nothing today,
and SupplyChainGuards holds them there.

Neither gate script trusts the tool's exit code. A semgrep whose core fails
exits zero and writes bytes that are not JSON, and a semgrep pointed at a
config that does not exist exits zero and writes a valid report saying nothing
was found. Both scripts read the report, and a report that scanned no files
blocks. --severity is not used either: it knows INFO, WARNING and ERROR only,
while registry rules also carry HIGH and CRITICAL, so a gate built on it
ignores exactly the severities it is asked to block.

PublicSurfaceGuards now sweeps *.py and *.txt. Without that, the two new
scripts would have been the only published files in this repository that no
privacy sweep reads.

Measured before opening this: semgrep p/default 1.177.0 over the tree reports
zero findings across 374 rules and 306 files, and ten projects report zero
vulnerable packages. Both new guards were shown red by their own mutation, and
the two gate scripts were run against fourteen crafted reports.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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The change adds dependency automation, Semgrep and licence gates, CodeQL analysis, workflow safeguards, executable publishing, NuGet audit enforcement, and architecture tests.

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Security and supply-chain controls

Layer / File(s) Summary
Dependency update and scanner policy
.github/dependabot.yml, .github/requirements-semgrep.txt
Dependabot adds weekly updates for Actions, NuGet, and pip. Semgrep is pinned to 1.177.0.
Security gate evaluation
.github/scripts/dependency_gate.py, .github/scripts/semgrep_gate.py
Python gates classify dependency licences and Semgrep reports, print results, and return enforcement status codes.
Security workflow integration
.github/workflows/security.yml
The Security workflow runs Semgrep, dependency review, and pull-request licence checks with pinned tooling and read-only permissions.
NuGet audit enforcement and repository guards
Directory.Build.props, tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/SupplyChainGuards.cs, tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/LicenceNoticeGuards.cs, tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/PublicSurfaceGuards.cs, THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md
NuGet auditing is enabled at low severity. Architecture tests reject advisory suppression, validate published files, require notices for shipped transitive assets, and detect copied licence headers.
Workflow execution, publishing, and action safeguards
.github/workflows/build.yml, .github/workflows/codeql.yml, .github/workflows/integration-on-a-runner.yml, .github/workflows/pages.yml, .github/workflows/executables.yml, tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/WorkflowGuards.cs, .gitignore
Workflows add concurrency controls, disable persisted checkout credentials, add CodeQL, integration testing, and executable publishing, remove the old live-machine job, and validate pinned external actions.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Other

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sequenceDiagram
  participant SecurityWorkflow
  participant Semgrep
  participant semgrep_gate.py
  participant GitHubDependencyGraph
  participant dependency_gate.py
  SecurityWorkflow->>Semgrep: Generate JSON scan report
  SecurityWorkflow->>semgrep_gate.py: Evaluate findings and scan status
  semgrep_gate.py-->>SecurityWorkflow: Return gate status
  SecurityWorkflow->>GitHubDependencyGraph: Request base and head dependency data
  SecurityWorkflow->>dependency_gate.py: Evaluate added dependency licences
  dependency_gate.py-->>SecurityWorkflow: Return gate status
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 04fc9

The new safeguards contain material coverage gaps and a nondeterministic scanner dependency. Correct these controls before relying on them for merge enforcement.

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Safe File Parsing ⚠️ Warning New file readers do not safely handle malformed or oversized input. .github/scripts/dependency_gate.py:239 and semgrep_gate.py:211 call json.load() without a size limit. Their later code calls `… Use bounded readers. Before Python parsing, check the input file size and reject oversized files; validate the top-level value and every nested collection member with isinstance(..., dict/list) before calling .get(), and return the exis…
Clear User-Facing Text ⚠️ Warning The PR adds user-visible CI error messages with two defects. .github/scripts/dependency_gate.py:244 and .github/scripts/semgrep_gate.py:216 interpolate exc, exposing raw OSError or JSON parser… Replace the exception interpolation with fixed, actionable text. For example: dependency gate: could not read deps.json as valid JSON. Verify that the GitHub API response was downloaded, then rerun the workflow. and `semgrep gate: could n…
Scope, Duplication And Docs ⚠️ Warning The PR adds a new user-facing build workflow without updating the repository documentation. .github/workflows/executables.yml introduces a manual flavour input, downloadable ZIP artifacts, SHA-256… Update README or CONTRIBUTING with the executable workflow name, dispatch steps, self-contained and framework-dependent options, .NET 10 requirement, artifact download and retention rules, checksum file, and unsigned SmartScreen warning…
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Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the pull request's main supply-chain gate work and notes the existing gate. It is specific enough for release notes and is within the character limit, although it does not…
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Tests For Changed Behavior ✅ Passed The PR does not change product runtime code. The authoritative diff changes CI workflows/scripts, build metadata, documentation, and architecture-test code. It adds or updates tests in `SupplyChainGua…
No Secrets Or Debug Leftovers ✅ Passed The authoritative diff adds no CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, .claude/, or .env paths. Added-line scans found no credentials, tokens, API keys, emails, private URLs, absolute local paths, private hostnames, or…
No Hardcoded Ui Styling ✅ Passed The pull request does not add or change GUI code. The authoritative diff contains no changes under src/Bws.Gui or tests/Bws.Gui.Tests, and no .xaml or .slint files. The changed C# files are ar…
No Obvious Performance Problems ✅ Passed No clear performance problem is introduced. The PR changes CI, scripts, and architecture tests, not UI-thread code or UI lists. The added file and JSON scans use fixed-size pattern loops and linear re…
Desktop Robustness ✅ Passed The PR changes CI workflows, build metadata, Python gate scripts, documentation, and architecture tests. It changes no src/ or site/ desktop implementation files, so it introduces no desktop asset…
System Changes Are Reversible ✅ Passed The PR does not add or change code that modifies the system state listed by this check. The changed files are CI workflows, dependency scripts, build properties, and architecture tests. The new integr…
No Resource Leaks ✅ Passed PASS. The reviewed range changes CI, scripts, configuration, documentation, and architecture tests; it does not change desktop application runtime code. The changed C# code has no event subscriptions,…
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Explanation

New file readers do not safely handle malformed or oversized input. .github/scripts/dependency_gate.py:239 and semgrep_gate.py:211 call json.load() without a size limit. Their later code calls .get() on every dependency, result, error, and nested report value without validating that each value is a dictionary. Valid JSON such as [null] or {"results":[null]} can raise an uncaught AttributeError. Large reports are fully materialized. LicenceNoticeGuards.cs:183 calls File.ReadAllText() followed by JsonDocument.Parse() with no size limit or exception handling. Wrong JSON shapes can make EnumerateObject(), GetString(), or JsonException abort the test. The new source and workflow sweeps also use unbounded File.ReadAllText() and File.ReadAllLines() on PR-controlled XAML, source, MSBuild, and YAML files.

Resolution

Use bounded readers. Before Python parsing, check the input file size and reject oversized files; validate the top-level value and every nested collection member with isinstance(..., dict/list) before calling .get(), and return the existing code 2 for schema errors. For C#, open a bounded FileStream and pass it to JsonDocument.Parse(stream, new JsonDocumentOptions { MaxDepth = ... }); enforce a byte limit because MaxDepth does not limit total size. Check each JsonValueKind before EnumerateObject() and GetString(), and catch JsonException, InvalidOperationException, and I/O errors so the guard reports a controlled failure. Replace unbounded ReadAllText() and ReadAllLines() in the new sweeps with capped StreamReader processing or reject files above a documented limit.

Full details: Clear User-Facing Text

Explanation

The PR adds user-visible CI error messages with two defects. .github/scripts/dependency_gate.py:244 and .github/scripts/semgrep_gate.py:216 interpolate exc, exposing raw OSError or JSON parser exception text. Their invalid-input messages at lines 249 and 221 state the expected type but do not tell the user what to do. The workflows invoke these scripts in .github/workflows/security.yml, so users see the messages in failed runs.

Resolution

Replace the exception interpolation with fixed, actionable text. For example: dependency gate: could not read deps.json as valid JSON. Verify that the GitHub API response was downloaded, then rerun the workflow. and semgrep gate: could not read semgrep.json as valid JSON. Verify that the scan produced the report, then rerun the workflow. Also update the type checks to say: dependency gate: the dependency-review API returned an unexpected JSON shape. Verify the API response, then rerun the workflow. and the equivalent Semgrep message. Do not print exc directly.

Full details: Scope, Duplication And Docs

Explanation

The PR adds a new user-facing build workflow without updating the repository documentation. .github/workflows/executables.yml introduces a manual flavour input, downloadable ZIP artifacts, SHA-256 files, 30-day retention, framework-dependent runtime requirements, and unsigned SmartScreen behavior. .github/workflows/integration-on-a-runner.yml also changes how contributors dispatch integration tests. README.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, and CHANGELOG.md have no PR changes and do not mention these workflows, inputs, artifact names, or access rules. The existing README only documents direct self-contained dotnet publish commands and release ZIPs.

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Update README or CONTRIBUTING with the executable workflow name, dispatch steps, self-contained and framework-dependent options, .NET 10 requirement, artifact download and retention rules, checksum file, and unsigned SmartScreen warning. Document the dispatch-only integration workflow and its non-gating purpose. Add a CHANGELOG entry if this project records CI/build workflow changes there.

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…erty is why

GitHub's automatic dependency submission was already switched on for this
repository. Its entire history is one run, and that run failed: it restores
every project on a Linux runner, and a project targeting Windows refuses there
with NETSDK1100 unless EnableWindowsTargeting is set.

So the dependency graph held 13 entries - the direct packages GitHub parses out
of the csproj files - while the resolved tree behind them is an order of
magnitude larger. Nothing reported this, because a submission that never ran
looks exactly like a project with no transitive dependencies.

The property permits a restore to fetch Windows reference packs on a non-Windows
host. It does not change the target framework and nothing builds or runs off
Windows because of it. On Windows it does nothing: restore and the 66
architecture guards are unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
…and let the instrument be dispatched on its own

Four small things, none of which changes what any gate decides.

A guard now refuses an action named by anything a stranger can move. Every
action here was already pinned by hand and nothing said so: replacing one SHA
with @v4 passed the build, the tests, the scanner and the licence gate, because
none of them reads workflow files for this. It also pays for a skip made
elsewhere - dependency_gate.py passes over the actions ecosystem when it checks
licences, which leaves actions checked by nothing unless something asks a
stricter question. A second test holds the version comment beside each pin,
because forty hex characters are not a version to a person reading the file.
Both were shown red: a tag reddens both tests, a bare SHA reddens only the
second.

build.yml had no concurrency rule while pages.yml did, so three pushes to a
branch were three twelve-minute Windows runs side by side. Superseded runs are
now cancelled, except on main, where the run is the record against the commit
that gets deployed.

Checkout no longer persists credentials in build.yml and pages.yml. Neither
pushes anything, and a token in .git/config is a token every later step
inherits.

The integration instrument moved out of build.yml into its own dispatch-only
workflow. It was a job with an event condition, so it appeared on every pull
request as a permanently skipped check, and it could not be dispatched without
running twelve minutes of build to reach it. It now uploads its results on
every run rather than only on failure, because here the run is the thing
somebody asked for.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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…ing it looks for

Default setup here was already running the extended query suite, so this is not
a widening of the analysis and nothing about what is looked for changes. Every
dial in the file is set to what default setup was measured to be doing: actions
and csharp, security-extended, build-mode none for both, weekly, threat model
remote. Leaving any of them out would have quietly narrowed the analysis while
looking like a pure move.

What it buys is that the actions it runs are pinned to a commit - the one
exception left in this repository, and invisible rather than argued, because
WorkflowGuards cannot read a configuration that lives in a web page - and that
which suite, which languages and which schedule are now reviewable, diffable and
carried by a clone.

Two dials worth trying later and deliberately not tried here: a Windows runner
for the C# job, and a real build instead of build-mode none. Both are plausible,
neither is measured, and neither belongs in a change whose claim is that it
changes nothing. Comparing alert counts is the measurement when somebody wants
it.

The default setup was disabled first. The two are mutually exclusive: GitHub
rejects results from an advanced configuration while the default one is on.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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In @.github/scripts/dependency_gate.py:
- Line 119: Update the license validation around parts_of(licence) to reject
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require the collection to be non-empty, and retain the existing ALLOWED
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<title>Result 1</title> https://docs.semgrep.dev/semgrep-code/editor ### Group Registry rules ... By default, Semgrep Registry rules are grouped by directory. Most of these directories correspond to languages. The Library can also be grouped by rulesets, which are rules sorted by category, such as security, best practices, and frameworks. ... To group by ruleset, right-click on the empty space ... the registry&`#39`;s name entry and select Group by ruleset. ... To quickly learn Semgrep patterns and syntax, explore the Editor&`#39`;s library of rules from the public Rule Registry. Rules from the Registry can detect OWASP vulnerabilities, best practice violations, and security issues for a wide variety of languages and frameworks. Semgrep Editor enables you to adapt these rules for your own organization&`#39`;s use by forking them. ... ## Semgrep Registry rules ... The Semgrep Registry is a community-driven repository of rules. These rules can detect OWASP vulnerabilities, best practice violations, and security issues for various languages and frameworks. You can fork an existing rule to use as a starting point for writing your own. ... ### Write a new rule by forking an existing rule ... One way to create new rules is to fork an existing rule in the Semgrep Registry and modify it to meet your software and business requirements. ... For example, Semgrep&`#39`;s Java `crypto` ruleset prohibits the use of weak hashing algorithms `SHA-1` and `MD5`. However, your organization also prohibits the use of other hash functions as part of its standards or security compliance. The following steps illustrate the process of forking an existing `use-of-sha1` rule and changing it to forbid MD2 hashes. ... Use the search bar to find relevant rules. For this example, you can search for rules using `SHA1`. ... Under java > lang > security > audit > crypto, click use-of-sha1 to load the rule. You cannot directly edit the rules in Semgrep Registry, so click Fork to make a copy. ... Alternatively, you can right-click the rule&`#39`;s name and select Fork rule. ... Semgrep copies the rule to your organization&`#39`;s set of rules. ... Edit the rule. ... Update your test cases. ... Click Run to test and validate your rule. ... When you finish your changes, click Save. ... The following example shows how the original rule, identifying uses of `SHA-1` and `MD5`, has been modified to find uses of MD2 and the severity of such findings is increased from `WARNING` to `ERROR`. ... When you fork a rule, the copy is independent from the original. To run your new rule in your scans, add it to a policy. If you want your copy to replace the rule you forked, add it to a policy, then disable the original in your detection policy. <title>Result 2</title> https://docs.semgrep.dev/kb/rules/changing-rule-severity-and-other-metadata > ## Documentation Index > > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.semgrep.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Change rule severity and other metadata by forking rules To alter the severity or other metadata of a Semgrep rule, it must be forked and then updated. Forking means to copy or duplicate the rule, thereby creating your own custom version of it. Once this custom version is created, it can then be modified as needed. NOTE Only Semgrep Code and Secrets rules can be forked. ## Fork a rule One way to create new rules is to fork an existing rule in the Semgrep Registry and modify it to meet your software and business requirements. For example, Semgrep’s Java `crypto` ruleset prohibits the use of weak hashing algorithms `SHA-1` and `MD5`. However, your organization also prohibits the use of other hash functions as part of its standards or security compliance. The following steps illustrate the process of forking an existing `use-of-sha1` rule and changing it to forbid MD2 hashes. Use the search bar to find relevant rules. For this example, you can search for rules using `SHA1`. Under java > lang > security > audit > crypto, click use-of-sha1 to load the rule. You cannot directly edit the rules in Semgrep Registry, so click Fork to make a copy. Semgrep copies the rule to your organization&`#39`;s set of rules. Edit the rule. Update your test cases. Click Run to test and validate your rule. When you finish your changes, click Save. The following example shows how the original rule, identifying uses of `SHA-1` and `MD5`, has been modified to find uses of MD2 and the severity of such findings is increased from `WARNING` to `ERROR`. When you fork a rule, the copy is independent from the original. To run your new rule in your scans, add it to a policy. If you want your copy to replace the rule you forked, add it to a policy, then disable the original on the Policies page. ## Changing the severity Once you have forked the rule, you can change the severity or other metadata to your liking. Then, save this custom version of the rule to your organization&`#39`;s rules, making it available to use within your policy as defined in Semgrep AppSec Platform. By default, saving the rule also enables you to search for it in the Semgrep Registry, with visibility limited to your organization. <title>Manage rules and policies</title> https://docs.semgrep.dev/semgrep-code/policies - Add rules button that takes you to the Semgrep Registry where you can add rules to the Policies page and assign their initial modes. ... ## Add rules ... On the Policies page, ... Add Rules. ... You are redirected to the Semgrep Registry page. Explore the page, open cards of individual rules, and then click Add to Policy. ... ### Add rulesets to your Policies from the Registry ... Instead of adding individual rules to your Policies, you can add rulesets, which are groups of rules related through a programming language, OWASP category, or framework. The Semgrep team curates the rulesets. ... On the Policies page, click Add Rules. ... You are redirected to the Semgrep Registry page. Explore the page to find the ruleset you&`#39`;re interested in adding. ... Click the ruleset to open its Explore page. This page lets you view the included rules and provides instructions for testing and running the ruleset locally before adding it to your policies. ... Click Add to Policy. ... pecify the workflow action for the rules that you are adding by selecting one of these options: ... If Semgrep adds rules to the ruleset in the future, they will automatically be added to your Policies in the same mode that you select. You can change the default mode for the current and future rules by re-adding the ruleset through the Registry and choosing a different mode. You cannot change the mode of all existing rules associated with the ruleset using the Policies page, since this only makes every rule that you changed an exception to the default. ... Semgrep Code provides first-time users with the Default ruleset. These rules are initially placed in the Monitor column. As you develop confidence in these rules, you are able to change their modes to Comment or Block, ensuring that developers remain free of friction from false positives. <title>Result 4</title> https://docs.semgrep.dev/kb/rules/ruleset-default-mode > ## Documentation Index > > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.semgrep.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Why do new rules keep appearing in Comment or Block mode? Semgrep AppSec Platform Policies can contain both individual rules and rulesets, which are curated groups of rules recommended for particular purposes. All organizations start with two rulesets: the `default` ruleset, which is a good starter pack for security teams, and the `comment` ruleset, which is a good starter pack for developers. As Semgrep adds new rules to improve coverage, some of these rules are also added to rulesets. If you add a ruleset to your organization&`#39`;s policies, any new rules added to the ruleset automatically become a part of your policies as well. The `default` and `comment` rulesets are initially added in Monitor mode, where the findings generated by the rules are primarily intended for security teams to review. You can also add new rulesets to your policies from the Semgrep Registry. When you add a ruleset through the registry, you can add it in any policy mode: Monitor, Comment, or Block. The mode you choose will determine the mode for future rules that are added to that ruleset. Even if you later change some or all rules from a ruleset to a different mode, the default mode for the ruleset does not change. Therefore, when you add new rules to the ruleset, they are added in the original mode. ## Change the default mode for a ruleset To change the default mode for a ruleset, follow the same process as for adding a new ruleset to your policies and select the desired default mode. After adding the ruleset in the default mode, you can then change any individual rule modes for rules that you prefer to keep in a different mode. <title>february-2025</title> https://docs.semgrep.dev/release-notes/february-2025 > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.semgrep.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # February 2025 > February 28, 2025 · 5 min read ## 🌐 Semgrep AppSec Platform ### Added * Semgrep Managed Scans for repositories hosted by **Bitbucket Cloud** is now in public beta. * You can now manage your projects&`#39`; enrollment in Semgrep Managed Scans through the Semgrep API&`#39`;s `/project` and `/project/managed-scan` endpoints. * A new **My teams** view for managers is now in private beta. To join this beta, reach out to [email protected]. This view enables managers to view all the teams they are a manager of. ### Changed * The Semgrep AppSec Platform-specific metadata fields `semgrep.dev:` and `semgrep.policy:` are now filtered from the JSON output if you aren&`#39`;t signed into your Semgrep account. See Semgrep JSON and SARIF fields for more information. * The Semgrep Docker image has been updated to use Python 3.12 and OCaml 5.2.1. * **CLI**: The output generated from running `semgrep ci --help` no longer includes information about experimental features and flags. * **Jira**: Jira tickets for Supply Chain findings now display recommended versions of packages in the description. ### Fixed * Fixed an issue in Semgrep Editor&`#39`;s Structure Mode where some of the larger language icons overlapped due to limited space. * Fixed an issue where the instruction links for adding a CI job all lead to GitHub-specific instructions. * Fixed an issue where the Median Open Age chart didn&`#39`;t display all relevant findings. * Fixed an issue where Semgrep scans did not complete if there were failures involving `git worktree remove`; instead of erring out, Semgrep completes the scan but logs the error. ## 💻 Semgrep Code ### Added * Added support for **Critical** severity level to denote the highest severity level for a Code finding. You can now filter by Critical severity level in Semgrep AppSec Platform, and you can filter for and identify rules that generate critical severity findings in the Semgrep Registry. {/* Copied this over from Secrets since these two notes are almost identical. */} * Semgrep Pro rules, which are included in `p/default`, have been updated to use this new severity level. * New rules for JavaScript and TypeScript have been added to Semgrep&`#39`;s default ruleset, `p/default`. The new rules cover the OWASP Top 10 and the most popular server-side frameworks, like Express, NestJS, Hapi, and Koa. * Cross-file (interfile) analysis now processes JavaScript and TypeScript files together, so that dataflow can be tracked across both languages. ### Changed * Improved detection for JavaScript and TypeScript dependency injection, import resolution, and dataflow through callbacks. * Upgrade from OCaml 4.14.0 to OCaml 5.2.1 for Semgrep PyPI and Homebrew distributions. Note that Docker images have been built with OCaml 5.2.1 since Semgrep 1.107.0. ## ⛓️ Semgrep Supply Chain ### Added * You can now configure policies for Supply Chain findings. These policies let you set certain conditions by which developers are notified of findings through a PR or MR comment, or potentially blocked from merging a PR or MR. * For example, you can create a policy to block a PR or MR from merging when a reachable finding with an available fix (upgrade) is detected. * Policies can have different scopes, which are the projects or project tags the policies are applied to. * Updated `Package.swift` parser to support the following: * The URL value in a `.package` entry doesn&`#39`;t have to end with `.git` * You can have an exact field that looks like `exact: "1.0.0"` instead of `.exact("1.0.0")` * The exact version can be an object like `Version(1,2,3)` instead of a string * You can have `.package` values with no URL, like this: `.package(name: "package", path: "foo/bar")` * Semgrep can now dynamically resolve …[truncated]

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<title>Semgrep in production: five failure patterns</title> https://perun.au/insights/semgrep-production/ ## Pattern 05 Semgrep scan results differ between developer local runs and CI because the developer&`#39`;s cached ruleset version diverges from the pinned version in the pipeline, causing findings to appear and disappear unpredictably across environments ... Semgrep automatically caches downloaded rulesets in `~/.semgrep/cache/` on developer machines. When a developer runs `semgrep --config p/security-audit`, Semgrep checks the cache first and only fetches a fresh copy of the ruleset if the local cache is older than 24 hours. The CI pipeline, however, typically runs `semgrep --config p/security-audit` without any caching layer, fetching the latest ruleset on every run. As the `p/security-audit` ruleset evolves — rules are added, removed, severity levels changed, and regex patterns updated — the version a developer runs locally diverges from what CI runs. ... The divergence produces two ... modes. The first is a finding that appears in CI but not locally: a new rule was added to `p/security-audit` since the developer last cleared their cache, CI fails on the finding ... but the developer cannot reproduce it locally because their cached rules ... predates the rule addition. The developer adds a `# nosemgrep` comment to suppress a finding they have never seen ... without understanding what they are suppressing. The ... : a finding disappears from CI after a ... is removed or downgraded ... ERROR to WARNING ... and the developer&`#39`;s local cache still shows it as ... causing confusion about which findings are real. ... Diagnose the version drift by comparing ruleset hashes: `semgrep --config p/security-audit --version` shows the Semgrep CLI version but not the ruleset version. To identify the exact ruleset content: `ls -la ~/.semgrep/cache/` shows when each pack was last downloaded. Compare rulesets between environments by dumping the rule IDs: `semgrep --config p/security-audit --dump-engine-version 2>/dev/null; semgrep --config p/security-audit --json /dev/null 2>&1 | jq &`#39`;.rules | length&`#39`;` counts the rules in the currently loaded configuration. Run the same command in CI and compare counts. ... The fix requires pinning rulesets to specific versions or using a local copy committed to the repository. Semgrep supports rule pinning via the `--config` flag with a Git commit hash when using `r/` rules: `semgrep --config r/python.flask.security.injection@abc123def`. For `p/` rulesets, download the ruleset at a specific point in time, commit it to your repository, and reference it by path: `semgrep --config .semgrep/rulesets/security-audit-2026-07-17.yml`. Update the committed ruleset on a scheduled basis (weekly or monthly) as a deliberate upgrade process rather than silently absorbing changes. ... For teams using Semgrep CI (the managed service), use `semgrep ci` with a `semgrep.yml` configuration file that specifies exact rule versions. Add a weekly automated PR that updates the pinned rulesets by running `semgrep --config p/security-audit --json /dev/null > /dev/null && cp ~/.semgrep/cache/p_security-audit .semgrep/rulesets/` and committing the result. This creates an explicit audit trail for ruleset changes. Also ensure all developers clear their local cache when upgrading the pinned ruleset: add `rm -rf ~/.semgrep/cache/` to the repository&`#39`;s `make setup` target to ensure fresh rulesets on environment setup. 23 675 106 546 675 106 546 <title>Result 2</title> https://docs.semgrep.dev/running-rules > ## Documentation Index > > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.semgrep.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Run rules > This document explains how to use local Semgrep rules when scanning your project. ## About rules Rules define the code patterns Semgrep looks for when scanning your project. When a rule matches code, Semgrep creates a finding. The finding can be related to security, performance, or correctness issues, or it can be used to enforce best practices. Local rules are those that are present in your local environment and accessible to you when running Semgrep using the command line. ## Types of local rules There are two types of local rules: - Ephemeral rules: Ephemeral rules are those that you use once. You can pass the rule to Semgrep through the command line as part of your `semgrep scan` command. - YAML-defined rules: YAML-defined rules are configured in YAML files and conform to Semgrep&`#39`;s rule syntax schema. ## Ephemeral rules Use the `-e` or `--pattern` flags for ephemeral rules that are used once: ```bash semgrep scan -e &`#39`;RULE_DEFINITION&`#39`; ``` For example, to check for the Python `==` operator where the left and right sides are the same, which is often indicative of a bug, run the following command: ```bash # ensure that you substitute the placeholder with the path to your project semgrep scan -e &`#39`;$X == $X&`#39`; --lang=py PATH/TO/PROJECT ``` ## YAML-defined rules ### Use the Semgrep default ruleset To run a Semgrep scan in your local environment with the default Semgrep ruleset, use: ```bash semgrep scan --config=auto ``` ### Use a Semgrep Registry rule The Semgrep Registry makes available public rules that you can use to scan your project. Semgrep organizes registry rules into rulesets. Rulesets group related rules by features such as programming language, OWASP category, or framework. The Semgrep team curates rulesets, which are updated as new rules are added to the Semgrep Registry. To run rules from the Semgrep Registry locally: Go to Semgrep Registry. Select a ruleset and choose a rule. Click Expand rule > Run locally. Copy the snippet for local install, and add the path to the source code you want to scan in your terminal: ```bash semgrep scan --config="RULESET-ID" PATH/TO/SRC ``` Optional: run the Semgrep Registry rules simultaneously with local rules: ```bash semgrep scan --config="RULESET-ID" --config=PATH/TO/MYRULE.YAML PATH/TO/SRC ``` RULE IDS OF LOCAL RULES Semgrep adds custom prefixes to IDs of local rules using these steps: 1. Get the relative path from the process&`#39`;s current working directory to the directory containing the rules file. 2. Replace the directory separators of the relative path with dots. 3. Remove any characters not allowed in a rule ID from the relative path. ### Use a custom rule CUSTOM RULES See Write rules for more information on defining custom rules. Create a `RULE_NAME.yaml` file, and save it in a location accessible to the CLI you&`#39`;re using to run Semgrep. The rule file looks similar to the following sample: ```yaml rules: - id: is-comparison languages: - python message: The operator &`#39`;is&`#39`; is for reference equality, not value equality! Use `==` instead! pattern: $SOMEVAR is "..." severity: HIGH ``` Run the following command to scan with a local rule file: ```bash semgrep scan --config PATH/TO/RULE_NAME.YAML ``` Semgrep processes rules from hidden directories, such as `dir/.hidden/RULE_NAME.yml`, when you use the `--config` flag. ### Use multiple rules and rulesets simultaneously You can use the `--config` flag multiple times to run a scan using multiple rules and rulesets. For example, to scan using Semgrep&`#39`;s Python ruleset and a rule that you defined and saved to `RULE_NAME.YAML`: ```bash semgrep scan --config p/python --config PATH/TO/RULE_NAME.YAML ``` Ensure that you update the placeholder values in the sam…[truncated] <title>Cache rulesets for offline use · Issue `#3147` · semgrep/semgrep</title> GitHub issue 3147 in semgrep/semgrep (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference) **Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** Semgrep rulesets from the registry are not cached locally and always downloaded at run-time. This precludes offline use which is especially relevant if configured to run via a pre-commit hook. ... **Describe the solution you&`#39`;d like** Semgrep should be able to run offline with the most recently downloaded version of the ruleset. ... the error message I get when ... config offline. ... ``` Failed to download config from https://semgrep.dev/p/ci: HTTPSConnectionPool(host=&`#39`;semgrep.dev&`#39`;, port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /p/ci (Caused by NewConnectionError(&`#39`;<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7f830d386790>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution&`#39`;)) no valid configuration file found (1 configs were invalid) ``` ... anking that might be a UX issue where we don&`#39`;t print out when rules downloaded are done being downloaded and ... parsed. > ... `semgrep scan --config r ... semgrep.dev/ ... /all` ... seconds to download all the rules ( ... fast network) > ... We do want to improve ... parse time! ... > What would be even better is if rulesets were just published as packages we could install directly. This way they can be versioned, and upgrades that may contain new rules can happen in a controlled manner. ... > It would be great if `rulesets` could be binary packed, compressed, heck maybe even pre-processed for the parsing / execution to be faster. It&`#39`;s kind of crazy the it pulls megabytes worth of YAML and parses from ASCII files everytime. > > And that&`#39`;s not to mention that there&`#39`;s no way to cryptographically assert the rules you are running, would be nice to be able to pin / lock to a hash for a ruleset and/or simple versioning with minor / major > > And ideally, this would be supported in a local flow as well, i.e. where you point `--config` to a local compressed bundle (not just where the `~/.cache` or whatever is pre-seeded. ... > you can download a ruleset with curl. just prefix the registry address with c/ (for curl), so semgrep.dev/c/ ... > I was just answering to the original question. > > you can download for examples the p/ci ruleset with `curl https://semgrep.dev/c/p/ci > cache.yml` > and then use those rules with `semgrep --config cache.yml /path/to/project` ... > This is partially solved by https://github.com/semgrep/semgrep/pull/7762 ... > `@aryx` It seems the registry cache has been removed again, hasn&`#39`;t it? Is there another way to avoid the re-parsing of all yaml files everytime we execute semgrep? > > We already pass the yaml files directly to semgrep with the `--config` parameter. It seems the vast majority of the execution time is spend with parsing those files. Analyzing a single files needs 2.5 seconds, analyzing 1.000 files needs 3.0 seconds. So semgrep is actually really fast, but this long start-up times ruins it all. If there would be some way to avoid this, this would be really great! ... > you can try --experimental which should use a faster parser. <title>Cache rulesets for offline use</title> GitHub issue 3147 in returntocorp/semgrep (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference) # Cache rulesets for offline use - State: open - Author: raghavkhanna - Created: 2021-05-19T12:26:51Z - Updated: 2024-12-12T18:51:52Z - Repository: semgrep/semgrep - Number: `#3147` ## Labels - documentation - enhancement - priority:medium - performance - feature:registry - jsonnet - planned-project - osemgrep --- **Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** Semgrep rulesets from the registry are not cached locally and always downloaded at run-time. This precludes offline use which is especially relevant if configured to run via a pre-commit hook. **Describe the solution you&`#39`;d like** Semgrep should be able to run offline with the most recently downloaded version of the ruleset. **Describe alternatives you&`#39`;ve considered** **Additional context** This is the error message I get when trying to use a registry config offline. ``` Failed to download config from https://semgrep.dev/p/ci: HTTPSConnectionPool(host=&`#39`;semgrep.dev&`#39`;, port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /p/ci (Caused by NewConnectionError(&`#39`;<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7f830d386790>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution&`#39`;)) no valid configuration file found (1 configs were invalid) ``` ## Timeline - brendongo added label "enhancement" - brendongo added label "feature:registry" - brendongo added label "priority:medium" **stale[bot]** commented on 2021-08-17T17:13:20Z: > This issue is being marked `stale` because there hasn&`#39`;t been any activity in 30 days. Please leave a comment if you think this issue is still relevant and should be prioritized, otherwise it will be automatically closed in 7 days (you can always reopen it later). - stale[bot] added label "stale" **emjin** commented on 2021-08-17T17:14:24Z: > 👋 - stale[bot] removed label "stale" **stale[bot]** commented on 2021-11-15T22:46:13Z: > This issue is being marked `stale` because there hasn&`#39`;t been any activity in 30 days. Please leave a comment if you think this issue is still relevant and should be prioritized, otherwise it will be automatically closed in 7 days (you can always reopen it later). - stale[bot] added label "stale" **stale[bot]** commented on 2021-11-23T03:17:59Z: > Stale-bot has closed this stale item. Please reopen it if this is in error. - stale[bot] closed **ievans** commented on 2022-02-04T20:41:41Z: > Re-opening, this is a planned feature (part of "semgrep runs on an airplane") - ievans reopened - stale[bot] removed label "stale" - ievans added label "planned-project" - Referenced by issue `#4620`: Semgrep tries to pull registry when `--validate` is on **ryanking** commented on 2022-05-11T17:01:58Z: > I would like to add that in addition to airgapped runs, this is also a performance issue for me. I don&`#39`;t have data, but running with about 50 rules takes > 1 minute to download the rules. **brendongo** commented on 2022-05-11T18:02:23Z: > `@ryanking` that might be a UX issue where we don&`#39`;t print out when rules downloaded are done being downloaded and are just being parsed. > > `semgrep scan --config r/all` spends a while on the "Fetching rules step" but `curl -L semgrep.dev/c/r/all` takes 4 seconds to download all the rules (at least on decently fast network) > > We do want to improve that parse time! - ryanking mentioned - ryanking subscribed **djmattyg007** commented on 2022-05-13T23:28:14Z: > What would be even better is if rulesets were just published as packages we could install directly. This way they can be versioned, and upgrades that may contain new rules can happen in a controlled manner. **fproulx-boostsecurity** commented on 2022-05-19T16:58:49Z: > It would be great if `rulesets` could be binary packed, compressed, heck maybe even pre-processed for the parsing / execution to be faster. It&`#39`;s kind of crazy…[truncated] <title>cli/src/semgrep/config_resolver.py at develop · semgrep/semgrep</title> https://github.com/semgrep/semgrep/blob/develop/cli/src/semgrep/config_resolver.py class ConfigType(Enum): # e.g p/<packname>, supply-chain, ... REGISTRY = auto() SEMGREP_CLOUD_PLATFORM = auto() # 3rd party config sites (e.g https://mywebsite.com/rules.yaml) REMOTE = auto() LOCAL = auto() ... class ConfigLoader: _origin = ConfigType.LOCAL _config_path = "" _project_url = None def __init__( self, config_str: str, project_url: Optional[str] = None, ) -> None: """ Mutates Metrics state! Takes a user&`#39`;s inputted config_str and transforms it into the appropriate path, checking whether the config string is a registry url or not. If it is, also set the appropriate Metrics flag """ state = get_state() self._project_url = project_url self._origin = ConfigType.REMOTE self._supports_fallback_config = False if config_str == "r2c": # Hardcoded Registry rule pack state.metrics.add_feature("config", "r2c") state.metrics.is_using_registry = True self._config_path = "https://semgrep.dev/c/p/r2c" self._origin = ConfigType.REGISTRY elif is_url(config_str): # This could still be either a 3rd party REMOTE rule pack or a url # to semgrep.dev state.metrics.add_feature("config", "url") self._config_path = config_str elif is_product_names(config_str): self._origin = ConfigType.SEMGREP_CLOUD_PLATFORM add_metrics_for_products(config_str) self._config_path = config_str self._supports_fallback_config = True elif is_registry_id(config_str): state.metrics.add_feature("config", f"registry:prefix-{config_str[0]}") state.metrics.is_using_registry = True self._config_path = registry_id_to_url(config_str) elif config_str == AUTO_CONFIG_KEY: state.metrics.add_feature("config", "auto") state.metrics.is_using_registry = True self._config_path = f"{state.env.semgrep_url}/{AUTO_CONFIG_LOCATION}" else: state.metrics.add_feature("config", "local") self._origin = ConfigType.LOCAL self._config_path = str(Path(config_str).expanduser()) # We still have to modify metrics metadata in case the config was a # registry URL if is_semgrep_url(config_str, state.env.semgrep_url): state.metrics.is_using_registry = True state.metrics.add_registry_url(self._config_path) self._origin = ConfigType.REGISTRY ... List[ConfigFile ... # TODO(sal): Abstract the use of ... pool with a context-aware wrapper ... # to prevent this issue from recurring ... () as executor ... for config_id, ... , config_path in loaded ... if not config ... id: # registry rules don ... config ids # Note: we must disambiguate registry sourced remote rules from # non-registry sourced ones for security purposes. Namely, we # want to avoid running postprocessors from untrusted remote # sources (unless a local flag disabiling the relevant check is # used). config ... id = ( REGISTRY_CONFIG_ID if is ... semgrep_url(config ... path, configured_semgrep_url) else NON_REGISTRY_REMOTE_CONFIG_ID ) filename = f"{config_ ... [:20 ... filename = ... future] = config_id, config_path ... .futures.as_completed ... future_ ... _config_id_and_path # ... . Once ... . # ... `@telemetry.trace`() def resolve_config( config_str: str, project_url: Optional[str] = None, force_jsonschema: bool = False, validation_mode: RuleValidationMode = RuleValidationMode.FULL, ) -> Tuple[Dict[str, List[Rule]], List[SemgrepError], int]: """resolves if config arg is a registry entry, a url, or a file, folder, or loads from defaults if None""" start_t = time.time() config_loader = ConfigLoader(config_str, project_url) config, errors, missed_rule_count = parse_config_files( config_loader.load_config(), force_jsonschema=force_jsonschema, validation_mode=validation_mode, ) if config: logger.debug( f"loaded {len(config)} configs in {time.time() - start_t} with {len(errors)} errors and {missed_rule_count} missed rules" ) return config, errors, missed_rule_count ... CONFIG_ID ... rule. ... `@telemetry.trace`() ..…[truncated]

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Security Misconfiguration

Reachability: External
Exploitability: Difficult
CWE: CWE-494 — Download of Code Without Integrity Check

Pin the Semgrep ruleset, not only the executable.

semgrep==1.177.0 pins the executable, but --config p/default resolves a registry ruleset whose contents can change between runs. This can change merge-gate findings without a repository change.

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…ocumentation it cited revealed

The licence gate allowed a vacuous truth. `parts_of("()")` returns an empty
list, `all()` over an empty list is True, and a licence of "()" - not null, not
blank, carrying no identifier at all - came back "ok" while nothing had been
checked. Measured before fixing: "()" and "( )" both passed. The REST schema
promises "string or null" and promises nothing about SPDX syntax, so this is the
API behaving as documented.

The semgrep gate's own prose promised more than its code did. It said a collapse
from three hundred files to a handful is the same failure arriving quietly, and
then refused only zero. A pull request could add a `.semgrepignore`, exclude the
source tree, leave one harmless file and collect a green verdict. There is a
floor now, low rather than exact, because the file count tracks the tree and a
gate that reddens for a legitimate reason is a gate people bypass.

The ruleset behind `--config p/default` still cannot be pinned: the Semgrep
Rules License, read today, says it does not allow distributing the rules, and
this repository is public. What can be done is done - `--time` fills the rule
list in the report, so a ruleset that collapses now reddens instead of passing
quietly. A ruleset REPLACED by a different set of the same size is still
invisible here, and the file says so rather than implying otherwise.

The audit guard covered three warning-code elements and missed three other
documented routes. `NuGetAuditSuppress` is an item that names one advisory by
URL and carries no warning code, so no pattern here could have seen it. And
`NuGetAudit`, `NuGetAuditMode` and `NuGetAuditLevel` set in any project win over
the shared file, so one csproj could disable auditing while the test reading
Directory.Build.props stayed green. That second hole was nobody's suggestion: it
came from reading the documentation the suggestion cited. All three are shown
red by their own mutation.

`$/path/to/action` is a valid action reference and the guard rejected it. The
first reaction here was that it had been invented; the workflow syntax reference
calls it the self repository reference and presents it as the recommended form.
There are no local actions here today, so this would have been wrong in a way
nothing caught until the first one was added.

Still open and written down rather than left: NuGet reads `NuGetAudit` from an
environment variable too, which its own documentation suggests as a way to turn
auditing off on a build server. That value lives in a workflow, not a build
file, so no guard reading csproj and props will find it.

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The build already happened and nothing collected it. build.yml has published
bws.exe self-contained and single-file on every push since it was written - the
step exists to catch a publish that quietly stops working - and then threw the
file away with the runner. The window was published nowhere at all.

So this is the one missing step plus the window, on workflow_dispatch and
nothing else: an artifact nobody asked for, produced on every commit, is a
quarter of a gigabyte of storage spent so somebody can ignore it.

Measured with these exact commands before committing, because workflow_dispatch
cannot be run from a branch - GitHub's documentation is explicit that the
workflow must be on the default branch:

  self-contained         bws.exe  98 377 672   window 171 411 007   pair ~270 MB
  framework-dependent    bws.exe  25 023 723   window  31 877 671   pair  ~57 MB

Two of the sizes first written into that header came from older documents and
were wrong - 93.5 MB from a backlog row, and a window figure from 2026-09-09
that has since grown about 122 KB. The correction is left visible in the file,
because a size copied from a two-week-old comment reads exactly like a size
somebody checked.

A file that exists is not a file that runs, and publish exits zero either way,
so the workflow runs `bws.exe --version` and fails on a non-zero code. It
answered "bws 0.1.0 / snapshot schema 4" in both flavours. The window is not
run: it would open a window on a machine nobody is looking at and not come back.

Restore is a separate step because that is where NuGet audits the packages, and
a build server that hands out executables is exactly where a vulnerable package
should stop the run before a file exists to download.

Executables only, no debugging symbols. The artifact is a ZIP, downloadable only
by somebody signed in with read access, and the files are unsigned - all three
of which are in the header, because a permanent anonymous download is a release,
and that is a different piece of work.

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🟡 Minor · Scan .yaml workflow files. · WorkflowGuards.cs:155

tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/WorkflowGuards.cs:155
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Scan .yaml workflow files.

GitHub Actions accepts both .yml and .yaml workflow files. A workflow added with the .yaml extension bypasses both action-pin guards because this enumeration only scans *.yml. (docs.github.com)

Proposed fix
-        foreach (var file in Directory.EnumerateFiles(workflows, "*.yml").Order(StringComparer.Ordinal))
+        foreach (var file in Directory.EnumerateFiles(workflows)
+            .Where(file =>
+                string.Equals(Path.GetExtension(file), ".yml", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
+                || string.Equals(Path.GetExtension(file), ".yaml", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
+            .Order(StringComparer.Ordinal))

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- Line 131: Update the validation around parts_of and the ALLOWED check to
reject malformed license expressions such as empty terms, unmatched parentheses,
or otherwise unparsed tokens; only return “ok” after the complete expression
grammar has been successfully validated and every parsed identifier is
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- Line 206: Add "TreatWarningsAsErrors" to the property-name collection iterated
by Excuses in SupplyChainGuards, alongside the existing NuGetAudit properties,
so local project or targets overrides are rejected and the Required audit gate
cannot be bypassed.

In `@tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/WorkflowGuards.cs`:
- Around line 63-64: Update IsLocal so bare "$/" and "$/..." actions containing
"@" are rejected before reference validation, while valid "$/<path>" actions
remain accepted; preserve the existing repository-prefix and ordinal matching
behavior.

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- Line 155: Update the workflow file enumeration in WorkflowGuards to include
both .yml and .yaml extensions, using case-insensitive extension checks before
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…ection the new gate found in the new workflow

The semgrep gate added in this pull request blocked the workflow added in this
pull request, on its first run, for run-shell-injection: `${{ github.sha }}`
expanded inside a `run:` block is pasted into the script before the shell sees
it. Neither value there can carry anything hostile today - a choice input with
two options and a commit hash - but the rule is about the shape, and the shape
is one edit from taking something a stranger controls. Everything now goes
through `env:`, including the two the scanner did not object to, because one
idea should not have two spellings in one file.

Three licence routes nothing was watching, measured before each was closed:

A package that ships without being referenced was never required to have a
notice. The forward check read project files only, so WPF-UI.Abstractions -
which arrives through WPF-UI and travels in the output - was in the notices
because a person put it there. It now reads what actually carries an assembly.
Getting that right needed two corrections: a naive read reported four packages
with no notice and all four were false, and the placeholder is written as a path
so it has to be matched by its ending rather than compared whole. Checked
against a real publish: exactly four third-party assemblies land beside ours,
two from these packages and two from the targeting pack, and all four have
sections already.

Copied source code is not a dependency, so neither the licence gate nor the
notices could see it - and that is the route that actually gets GPL projects
into trouble. A sweep now looks for the marks such a file arrives with. It
cannot see a snippet pasted without its header, which is most of the risk, and
it says so rather than implying otherwise. Measured before switching on: 468
files, zero hits.

PSF-2.0 and Python-2.0 were missing from the allowed list, which was written
from a C# dependency graph before this repository had a pip ecosystem. A
dependency under either would have been reported as denied rather than allowed,
and a false alarm is the one failure that teaches people to bypass a gate.

Both new guards were shown red by their own mutation. Two self-inflicted
failures are recorded where they happened: the header sweep reported itself,
because a guard looking for a shape has to contain that shape, and a copyright
sign written as a C# escape inside a verbatim string became a real character
that the ASCII sweep caught.

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…take this branch keeps making

An expression that is half empty passed the licence gate. parts_of dropped
terms carrying no identifier, so "MIT OR ()" came back as ["MIT"] and was
allowed with half the expression silently discarded. Measured before the fix:
"MIT OR ()", "MIT AND ()" and "() OR MIT" all returned ok. Empty terms are kept
now, an empty term is in no allowed list, and the expression is refused. The
fix for the all-empty case an hour ago was one character short of this one.

The audit guard could not read through MSBuild. <NoWarn>$(AuditWarnings)</NoWarn>
silences NU1903 whenever something else defines that property, and a scan for
the literal code sees nothing. Evaluating MSBuild in a unit test is not an
option, so the indirection itself is refused: in a repository that has never
needed one, a property reference inside a warning-control element is either a
mistake or the thing this guard exists to stop.

TreatWarningsAsErrors was missing from the override list, and that is the
second time on this branch that a comment promised more than the code did. The
class summary says in as many words that these four settings are ONE GATE and
that removing any of them leaves a build that looks identical and checks
nothing - and the override check covered three of the four. A project setting it
to false leaves the advisory warnings as warnings and both tests stayed green.

The pinning guard accepted a bare $/ and a self reference carrying a ref. Both
are nonsense, and both were skipped before the pinning check looked at them, so
the guard was admitting exactly the shapes it should have complained about.

All three C# changes shown red by their own mutation. The fifth comment in that
review was already fixed in the previous commit and needed nothing.

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Importing one of the gate scripts locally to test it writes a __pycache__
directory beside it, and one of those .pyc files went in with an earlier commit
on this branch. Machine-specific bytes, from a language this project does not
ship, in a public repository.

Nothing caught it, and that is the part worth recording: PublicSurfaceGuards
sweeps by extension and .pyc is not one of them, so the privacy and ASCII checks
never looked at it. It was found by reading the output of git add, not by any
guard.

Untracked and ignored, both directory and extension.

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…e and asked four fair questions

Not a regression. The EnableWindowsTargeting fix earlier on this branch made
dependency submission succeed, so this branch's graph carries the resolved tree
while main still carries the thirteen names GitHub parses out of project files.
The compare therefore reported 129 added dependencies, of which 126 have been in
this tree all along.

Four of them had no recorded licence decision, and that is the gate working
rather than failing: three CsWin32 metadata packages and the Windows projection
reference pack, none of which anything in this repository had ever said anything
about.

Each licence was read from the package on disk rather than from a listing. Two
carry sdk_license.txt, which is the Microsoft Windows SDK licence terms, and one
points at the same terms by URL. Those terms license using the SDK to build
software for Windows and do not license redistributing it - which this project
does not do: all three contribute build-time inputs only, their package entries
carry the empty placeholder where an assembly would be, and a publish puts none
of them anywhere. THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md now says so in the table that exists to
tell a reader which side of the line each dependency falls on.

The fourth is different and the difference is recorded rather than flattened.
Microsoft.Windows.SDK.NET.Ref does put two assemblies into the build output, and
that question was already answered at length in the notices - including the
reading of GPLv3 section 1 and the plain statement that nobody qualified to give
legal advice has been asked. The exception points there instead of restating it
in one line.

Exceptions are by package name, so the same unresolved licence under a different
name still blocks. Checked.

The gate's own output is also shorter now. The endpoint reports a dependency
once per manifest that resolves it, so a healthy run printed 126 entries of
which 25 were distinct - xunit nine times over, several thousand characters
wide. This file argues in four places that a gate nobody reads is worth nothing.

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160-160: Reject unbalanced SPDX parentheses.

parts_of("((MIT") returns ["MIT"]. Line 188 accepts the value. The expression is not valid SPDX. Validate the complete grammar, or reject unmatched parentheses before allowlisting terms.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject malformed self-repository references before pin validation.

$/path@<40-character-sha> makes IsLocal return false, then passes PinnedToACommit. The guard reports success although GitHub rejects every $/ reference with an @ref suffix. Reject malformed $/ references explicitly before the generic pin check. (docs.github.com)

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         foreach (var (file, line, action, _) in Uses())
         {
+            if (action.StartsWith("$/", StringComparison.Ordinal) && !IsLocal(action))
+            {
+                loose.Add($"  {file}:{line}  {action}");
+                continue;
+            }
+
             if (IsLocal(action))
             {
                 continue;
             }
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In `@tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/WorkflowGuards.cs` at line 77, Update the Uses()
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Comment on lines +105 to +118
**The last three are not open source and that is worth stating rather than leaving to be
assumed.** Read from the packages on disk on 2026-09-22 rather than from a listing: two of them
carry `sdk_license.txt`, which is `MICROSOFT SOFTWARE LICENSE TERMS - MICROSOFT WINDOWS SOFTWARE
DEVELOPMENT KIT (SDK) FOR WINDOWS 10`, and the third points at the same terms through
<https://aka.ms/WinSDKLicenseURL>. Those terms license the use of the SDK for building software
for Windows. They do not license redistributing the SDK, and this project does not redistribute
it: all three contribute build-time inputs only, their package entries carry the empty
placeholder `_._` where an assembly would be, and a publish of either program puts none of them
anywhere. The same question for the two files that DO ship is answered in the section above.

**They are here because the gate asked.** `.github/scripts/dependency_gate.py` blocked them on
2026-09-22, the first time it ever saw this repository's full dependency graph, and nothing in
this file said which side of the line they fell on. That was a fair question and this table is
the answer to it.

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Move this explanation outside the package table.

These paragraphs terminate the table that starts at Line 98. Lines 119-123 then render as plain pipe-delimited text instead of table rows.

Move this explanation before the table or after its final row.

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| Microsoft.Windows.SDK.Win32Docs 0.1.42-alpha | Windows SDK licence terms | The documentation text CsWin32 copies into the generated declarations, so that hovering a generated method shows what Microsoft says about it |

**The last three are not open source and that is worth stating rather than leaving to be
assumed.** Read from the packages on disk on 2026-09-22 rather than from a listing: two of them

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Update the document-wide verification date.

Line 12 says the notices were last checked on August 4, 2026. This entry says the packages were checked on September 22, 2026.

Change Line 12 to Last checked against the versions named here on 2026-09-22.

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In `@THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md` at line 106, Update the document-wide verification
date near the top of THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md to 2026-09-22, using the exact
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…oke in a file the world reads

The worst one is not code. Three rows were added to the build-time table in
THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md with the explanation directly after them - in the middle
of the table, because five rows followed. Everything after the blank line
stopped being a table, so Meziantou, xunit, the test SDK, coverlet and CsCheck
rendered as raw pipe-delimited text in a public file. The rows are at the end of
the table now and the prose after it. Checked by parsing every pipe row in the
file and asserting each one sits in a block that has a separator: zero orphans.

The document-wide date was not changed to today, and that is deliberate against
what the review asked for. It said the notices were last checked on 2026-08-04
while the new entry says 2026-09-22. Moving the earlier date forward would claim
the whole file was re-read today, which nobody did. Both dates are stated now.

A licence exception was keyed by package name, so any ecosystem inherited it.
Measured: a pip package called Microsoft.Windows.SDK.NET.Ref carrying
GPL-2.0-only came back ok, on a decision made about a NuGet package. Keyed by
(ecosystem, name) now, and the pip case blocks.

The shipping check read only the runtime section. Native assets and
runtimeTargets reach a published program too, so a package contributing only
those was never required to have a notice. No package here uses them today,
which is why this changes nothing now and is the difference between a guard that
works and one that happens to.

It also failed open: a missing project.assets.json returned an empty sequence
and the caller read that as nothing missing. Every other sweep in this
repository refuses that, and this one had a comment admitting it. It asserts
now.

The audit settings test read the first match of each property. MSBuild takes the
last, and the override scan exempts the shared file by design, so a second
NuGetAudit further down it would win while both tests stayed green. Exactly one
declaration is required.

And the pinning guard reported success on $/path@<sha>. Tightening the local
check last round pushed that shape through to the pin check, where the SHA
matched - a fix that moves a bad input into a check that happens to like it is
not a fix. Malformed self references are reported in their own words now.

All three C# changes shown red by their own mutation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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