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Several workflow dependencies still use mutable version tags. Pin the 11 remaining version-tag references for checkout v7, create-github-app-token v3, stale v11 and repository-dispatch v4 to their current official upstream commits. Add an explicit contents: read default to the cross-job output example.

Recover this narrow scope from #2084 on current main. Dependency Review is already supplied by merged #2252, and GitHub CodeQL default setup is already configured.

Preserve existing CI/publishing permissions, GitHub App token scopes, secrets, release logic, action inputs and job matrices. Keep the deliberate self-repository gittools/actions/...@main checkout-path checks and @v4.7.0 usage examples; pinning those would freeze what the examples exercise and prevent the existing version-update workflow from advancing their implementations.

Validation:

  • Verified all four newly pinned SHAs against official upstream tag refs.
  • YAML semantic comparison across all eight changed files confirms that action pins and the explicit read-only default are the only behavior/configuration differences.
  • Full Actionlint 1.7.12 has exactly the same three diagnostics as current main: prefixed GitVersion output recognition in ci.yml, plus two output-name diagnostics in output-example-2.yml. No new diagnostics were introduced.
  • Changed workflows pass scoped Actionlint with only the two known output-name diagnostics excluded.
  • Staged git diff --check passes.
  • No shipped source or generated bundles change; no release/publication jobs were executed locally.

Checkout credential remediation: all six reviewed checkout steps now set persist-credentials: false. Their checkout paths, full-history settings, explicit tokens and release/App permission scopes are unchanged.

Additional validation:

  • GitVersion 6.8.2 calculated the real v4.7.0 release with full-history public refs and no persisted Git credentials. A prerelease fixture also completed with its remote offline.
  • Both test and production publish-vsix flows passed with npm publishing calls mocked, verifying the explicit Marketplace token, mode and VSIX output.
  • Release notes/assets/closure, repository dispatch and version-update PR steps retain their explicit tokens; this is confirmed by source inspection and parsed YAML comparison.
  • Scoped Actionlint and whitespace checks passed; full Actionlint still reports only the same three baseline output-name diagnostics.

Live Marketplace publishing and GitHub release writes were not executed during validation.

Supersedes #2084 for this initial scope. Harden-Runner, Scorecard and pre-commit are deferred; no duplicate CodeQL workflow or additional Dependabot ecosystem entry is introduced.

Codex here, responding on behalf of @arturcic.

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  • Chores
    • Updated project automation to use fixed revisions of its workflow actions and to avoid persisting checkout credentials.
    • One workflow now has read-only access to repository contents.
    • These updates affect project automation only; application features and behavior are unchanged.

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The test action and GitHub workflows now reference actions by commit SHA instead of version tags. The output example workflow also declares workflow-level contents: read permission.

Changes: Workflow action pins

Layer / File(s) Summary
Pin actions in automation workflows
.github/actions/trigger-action-test/action.yml, .github/workflows/*
The action references for repository dispatch, checkout, GitHub App tokens, and stale issue handling now use commit SHAs. output-example-2.yml also declares workflow-level contents: read permission.

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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~8 minutes

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Merge Risk: Minimal · up to a5d0e

The workflow hardening changes preserve existing CI and release behavior and are ready to merge with normal checks.

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Review comments at @.github/workflows/checkout-path.yml:
- Line 28: Set persist-credentials to false in the actions/checkout step in this
workflow, while preserving its existing checkout path configuration.

Review comments at @.github/workflows/gitversion-published.yml:
- Line 38: Set persist-credentials to false on the actions/checkout step so
later workflow steps cannot reuse the checkout token; retain the existing token
and fetch-depth settings.

Review comments at @.github/workflows/output-example-1.yml:
- Line 20: Set persist-credentials to false in the actions/checkout step so the
action does not retain credentials; leave the existing pinned action version
unchanged.

Review comments at @.github/workflows/output-example-2.yml:
- Around line 10-12: Set persist-credentials to false in the actions/checkout
step of this example workflow so checkout does not retain the token in Git
configuration.

Review comments at @.github/workflows/prerelease.yml:
- Line 22: Set persist-credentials to false in the actions/checkout step while
preserving its existing fetch-depth setting.

Review comments at @.github/workflows/release.yml:
- Line 23: Update the Checkout step using actions/checkout to disable persisted
credentials by setting persist-credentials to false, while preserving
fetch-depth: 0 and the existing checkout behavior.

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@arturcic arturcic changed the title ci: recover action pinning and permission defaults from #2084 ci: recover workflow security hardening from #2084 Oct 26, 2026
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