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Summary

Pass workflow_run PR lookup inputs through step env: in the coverage and leaderboard comment workflows, instead of embedding GitHub expressions in the shell script body.

This is a small future-proofing change so those values are treated as data by the runner, not as part of the generated bash text. PR lookup behavior is unchanged: same-repo vs fork gh pr view queries still work the same way, and job permissions are unchanged.

Changes

  • .github/workflows/coverage-comment.ymlHEAD_REPO, HEAD_BRANCH, and TARGET_REPO come from env:
  • .github/workflows/leaderboard-comment.yml — same pattern

Test plan

  • Confirm the two workflow YAML files parse and the pr_info step still uses quoted shell variables
  • actionlint on the updated workflows when available
  • Existing unit smoke tests still pass locally (111 passed, 3 skipped on tests/unit/cli/test_main.py and tests/unit/test_models.py)

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  • Chores
    • Improved the reliability and security of automated coverage and leaderboard comments.
    • Preserved existing pull request, branch, and repository lookup behavior.
    • Automated comment workflows now use more consistent configuration and securely verified actions.
    • No changes were made to the content or behavior of generated comments.

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The coverage and leaderboard comment workflows now pass pull request repository and branch values through step-level environment variables. They also pin artifact download and GitHub Script actions to commit SHAs.

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Workflow hardening

Layer / File(s) Summary
Inject PR metadata through step environments
.github/workflows/coverage-comment.yml, .github/workflows/leaderboard-comment.yml
The workflows provide HEAD_REPO, HEAD_BRANCH, and TARGET_REPO through step-level env blocks instead of assigning them inside shell scripts.
Pin workflow actions to commit SHAs
.github/workflows/coverage-comment.yml, .github/workflows/leaderboard-comment.yml
The workflows pin actions/download-artifact and actions/github-script to specific commit SHAs instead of version tags.

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to cd226

The workflows now pass PR lookup values through step environment variables while preserving lookup behavior; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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In @.github/workflows/coverage-comment.yml:
- Around line 29-31: Pin every actions/download-artifact reference (v7 and v4)
and both actions/github-script v9 references to their full immutable commit
SHAs. Apply this in .github/workflows/coverage-comment.yml lines 29-31 and
.github/workflows/leaderboard-comment.yml lines 26-28; both sites require the
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Comment thread .github/workflows/coverage-comment.yml
Keep the current major versions, but reference download-artifact and
github-script by commit SHA so those versions cannot drift under the
floating tags.

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@jwm4 please take a look at this PR.

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Full disclosure: I knew basically nothing about this topic when I started reviewing this PR, so I went and learned as I went.

A few things I picked up along the way that helped me understand what this fix is doing:

  • The ${{ ... }} expressions in a workflow aren't like normal variables. The runner pastes their value straight into the shell script text before bash runs it. So the value becomes part of the script itself, not just data the script reads.
  • A branch name (head_branch) is chosen by whoever opens the PR, including someone from a fork, and git allows characters like ` and $( ) in branch names. So a branch named something like $(...) gets pasted into the script and executed. That's the code injection.
  • It's especially risky here because these workflow_run jobs run in the upstream repo's context with write permissions, so injected code would run with real access.

The fix moves those untrusted values into the step's env: block instead. That way bash reads them as plain environment variables (already quoted in the script), so a malicious branch name is just treated as text and never runs as code. From what I read, that's the standard recommended way to handle this.

I also ran actionlint and a YAML parse check on both files locally and they pass, and I confirmed the shell steps only use the quoted variables now. I also see CodeRabbit's suggestion to pin the actions to commit SHAs was already addressed in the branch.

So while I'm definitely not an expert on this, this fix looks good to me and I think it will solve the problem. Thanks for the clear write-up.

(This comment is from Bill Murdock, with assistance from Claude Code.)

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