Gate autopublish on the pushed commit's own CI (rainix-static ci-gate)

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Closes #326.

What

rainix-autopublish publishes the moment its change gates say "changed" — concurrently with the caller repo's test workflows, which trigger on the same push. Nothing orders publish after green, so a red merge to main ships an immutable Soldeer revision (and crates.io/npm versions) while — or before — its own CI reports. Independently re-derived by the rain.string whole-repo audit as rainlanguage/rain.string#72 (AUD-002).

This PR adds a commit-CI gate between the change gates and everything that bumps, tags, or publishes: the job polls the repository's workflow runs for github.sha — every trigger event, excluding every run of the caller's own release workflow (resolved live from GITHUB_RUN_ID → workflow_id, so the gate never waits on itself, its re-run attempts, or a concurrent dispatch of the same release workflow) — and proceeds only when all of them have completed green.

Per the repo's "tooling is Rust" rule, the gate logic is a new rainix-static ci-gate subcommand (poll loop, JSON parsing, verdicts, HTTP-status routing — all decisions in unit-tested pure functions); the workflow step only orchestrates it. Follow-up commits: a fix for the conditional rustfmt pre-commit hook, which failed every --all-files run in this repo (pre-existing on clean main, reproduced in a main worktree — it detected a crate via the */Cargo.toml glob but ran cargo-fmt from the manifest-less repo root; it now formats each detected manifest via --manifest-path), a fold-in of the three review findings (bounded curl transfers, green defers to the discovery grace, --poll-secs 0 refused), and an extraction of the poll loop's per-snapshot decision (Pass/NoOtherCi/red/pending resolution including the grace deferral) into a pure decide(verdict, elapsed, grace) -> Decision so that glue is unit-sequence-tested and mutant-covered — run() now only performs the side effects per Decision; behavior unchanged. The final commit bumps RAINIX_SHA in all 13 workflow files to the last code commit so the pinned flake carries the new subcommand, per bump convention.

Why this mechanism (option space from #326/#322)

• rainix-autopublish runs no test before a Soldeer publish, so a red suite still ships an immutable revision #322's in-workflow forge test covers only the test job, re-runs the suite a second time, and would need per-toolchain variants (sol vs rs vs wasm). Rejected in rainix-autopublish publishes a Soldeer package without running the repo Solidity tests, so a red main ships an immutable revision #326's follow-up comment.
• Per-consumer workflow_run rewiring is ~28 copies of the same gate (all callers surveyed below). The reusable is the right place.
• Same-commit run polling (this PR) inherits the caller's full matrix (rainix-sol.yaml = static + legal + test; rs repos their own lanes) at zero extra compute, with zero caller changes.

Verdict semantics

• Green: success, skipped (workflow deliberately did not apply — observed conclusion for all-jobs-skipped runs, e.g. https://github.com/rainlanguage/rain.math.float/actions/runs/30340389219), neutral.
• Red — immediate loud failure naming the run: failure, cancelled, timed_out, action_required, stale, startup_failure. Red wins over pending: one failed run already forbids the publish.
• A conclusion the gate does not recognize is a loud error, never a pass (fail-closed against GitHub adding conclusion values).
• An all-green set observed before the discovery grace elapses (120s default, measured from gate start) is re-checked until it does, then passes — run registration lags the trigger, so an early green snapshot could miss a late-registering run. Costs at most the grace on a fully-green publish; red stays immediate.
• Pending runs poll every 30s up to 2h, then loud timeout naming what was still pending. Transient API failures (5xx, rate limits, transport) retry until the deadline; a token that cannot read runs is an immediate error naming the fix.
• On any gate failure nothing has been published or pushed (the gate runs before every mutating step), so the retry is free: fix/rerun the red workflow, then re-run the release job — or just push the next commit.

Edge policy: commit with NO other CI — fail-closed. Ledger:

All 28 repos currently calling rainix-autopublish (code search, workflow files read at HEAD 2026-08-25) run at least one non-release workflow on push covering main, with no paths: filters anywhere: 27 have on: [push] lanes (rainix.yaml / rainix-sol / rainix-rs / legal / git-clean / subgraph-test), rain.solmem has on: push: branches: [main]. So "no other run exists for the pushed commit" describes no existing caller — it describes a repo publishing immutable revisions with zero CI, which is exactly the defect class #326 exists to kill.

• Fail-closed (chosen): cost today = zero (no caller can hit it, short of a race — see grace below). Cost tomorrow = a hypothetical CI-less repo gets a loud, actionable failure ("add a workflow that runs the repo's checks on push") instead of an untested immutable publish. That failure is the correct pressure.
• Fail-open + warning (rejected): preserves the hole for precisely the repos most at risk (zero CI), and converts the run-creation race window into silent unverified publishes. A warning nobody watches on an autonomous publish path is not a control.
• Race guard: sibling runs of the same push are created near-simultaneously (observed live), but the gate still waits out the same 120s discovery grace before concluding "no other CI exists" AND before accepting an all-green set, so a slow run-creation can neither slip a publish through as "no CI" nor hide a late-registering run behind an early green snapshot; the wrong outcome of losing that race is a loud failure or a re-check, never a silent publish.

Backward compatibility (reusable consumed @main by ~28 repos)

• No new inputs at all; no existing input changed. Callers change nothing.
• New behavior (publish waits for green) is the point of rainix-autopublish publishes a Soldeer package without running the repo Solidity tests, so a red main ships an immutable revision #326 and applies to every caller uniformly.
• Token: the job's permissions block now also requests actions: read. 27 of 28 callers pass no explicit permissions: on the calling job, so the called block simply narrows the full token they hand over — same mechanism that already grants this job id-token: write and contents: write today (empirically green: e.g. rain.string Package Release run https://github.com/rainlanguage/rain.string/actions/runs/32835741741, success 2026-08-25, after id-token: write landed in ef4abbf with no caller grant).
• The one exception: rain.tofu.erc20-decimals sets an explicit permissions: {contents: write, id-token: write} block on its calling job, which a called workflow cannot widen. Companion one-liner adding actions: read there: ci: grant actions: read for the autopublish commit-CI gate rain.tofu.erc20-decimals#38 — merge it before this PR (it is inert until this lands).
• Known limitation, stated: the gate reads GitHub Actions workflow runs, not third-party commit statuses/check runs (no org consumer gates releases on an external app today). And in a flow that pushes the identical commit sha to a PR branch and to main, PR-event runs on that sha are (correctly) waited on too.

QA

• Discriminating tests: 29 unit tests in rainix-static/src/ci_gate.rs::tests (classify_, verdict_, parse_runs_, parse_workflow_id_live_shape, api_status_, curl_config_* incl. transfer bounds, grace_defers_early_snapshots_and_ends_exactly_on_time, zero_poll_interval_is_refused, env_inputs_are_validated, curl_output_splits_into_status_and_body, plus four sequence_* tests driving verdict()+decide() across successive snapshots: sequence_late_registering_failure_within_grace_fails, sequence_late_pending_run_defers_pass_until_it_resolves, sequence_green_through_grace_expiry_passes, sequence_no_other_ci_defers_within_grace_then_fails_closed) — each fails on base by construction (the module does not exist on base; every asserted decision — skipped=green, cancelled=red, unknown-conclusion=error, red-beats-pending, self-exclusion by workflow_id, fail-closed NoOtherCi, green-defers-to-grace, pending-never-passes-on-grace-expiry, bounded transfers, poll>=1 — is pinned with exact values).

• Mutations applied: 23 targeted mutants, one per decision in ci_gate.rs (mutants file .mutation-test/mutants.toml, git-excluded), run with nix run github:rainlanguage/adversarial-mutation-test#mutation-probe: baseline green (203 passed), 23/23 KILLED, 0 survived, 0 no-run, 0 harness errors, probe exit 0. Named killers for the four decide() glue mutants (each re-proven individually on the final head): M20 and M21 killed by sequence_late_registering_failure_within_grace_fails + sequence_late_pending_run_defers_pass_until_it_resolves + sequence_green_through_grace_expiry_passes; M22 killed by sequence_late_pending_run_defers_pass_until_it_resolves; M23 killed by sequence_no_other_ci_defers_within_grace_then_fails_closed.

  Mutant (behavior broken)	Verdict
  M01 classify treats non-completed runs as completed	KILLED
  M02 classify drops skipped from green	KILLED
  M03 classify treats cancelled as green	KILLED
  M04 classify passes unknown conclusions	KILLED
  M05 verdict stops excluding the release workflow's own runs	KILLED
  M06 verdict lets pending win over red	KILLED
  M07 verdict passes a commit with zero other runs	KILLED
  M08 parse_runs defaults a missing total_count to zero	KILLED
  M09 parse_runs defaults a missing workflow_id instead of erroring	KILLED
  M10 api_status makes the permission refusal transient	KILLED
  M11 api_status makes rate-limited 403s fatal	KILLED
  M12 curl_config accepts unquotable tokens	KILLED
  M13 validate_sha accepts any-length hex	KILLED
  M14 split_status_body splits on the first newline	KILLED
  M15 curl_config unbounds the connect phase	KILLED
  M16 curl_config unbounds the transfer deadline	KILLED
  M17 grace period never applies	KILLED
  M18 grace period never ends	KILLED
  M19 validate accepts a zero poll interval	KILLED
  M20 decide skips the late-run re-check (green publishes inside the grace)	KILLED
  M21 decide passes before the grace and defers after it (arms swapped)	KILLED
  M22 decide drops the pending defer (pending runs publish)	KILLED
  M23 decide never fails closed on a commit with no other CI	KILLED

• Oracle: GitHub Actions REST API semantics pinned from live captures against rainlanguage repos (runs list + single-run lookup for rain.string sha 256c6244, statuses observed while queued and after completion; skipped conclusion from all-jobs-skipped run 30340389219), not from the implementation. Verdict/edge policy from the caller survey (28 repos' workflow files at HEAD).

• Category check: rainix-autopublish publishes a Soldeer package without running the repo Solidity tests, so a red main ships an immutable revision #326 asks the publish to depend on the same commit's checks with the gate in the reusable; covered — gate in rainix-autopublish.yaml before all mutating steps, caller-matrix inherited, plus the no-CI, red, timeout, permission and rate-limit eventualities.

Verification evidence (live, binary run against real GitHub data)

Five cases against real GitHub data (compiled binary, token from gh auth token, read-only API use). Case 3 was run with --grace-secs 8 --poll-secs 2 --timeout-secs 30 to exercise the fail-closed path quickly; production defaults are 120s grace / 30s poll / 2h timeout.

=========== CASE: pass-green-after-grace   (rain.string main commit; only other run green; own Package Release run excluded; green defers until the grace elapses, then passes)
ci-gate: all 1 observed run(s) on 256c62449bcf4678638c6a21695f70269d2b2bef are green, but still within the 8s grace period for late-registering runs; re-checking
ci-gate: all 1 observed run(s) on 256c62449bcf4678638c6a21695f70269d2b2bef are green, but still within the 8s grace period for late-registering runs; re-checking
ci-gate: all 1 other workflow run(s) on 256c62449bcf4678638c6a21695f70269d2b2bef completed green
EXIT=0
=========== CASE: red-failure   (rain.erc commit with a failed rainix-rs run)
::error::ci-gate: refusing to publish 953ec76639872fbb3a623fd4e248791a4b47c689 — 1 workflow run(s) on this commit failed: rainix-rs (.github/workflows/rainix-rs.yaml) concluded failure: https://github.com/rainlanguage/rain.erc/actions/runs/26329024584
EXIT=1
=========== CASE: no-other-ci   (rain.solmem sha whose only runs are the release workflow's own)
ci-gate: no other workflow runs for 30b26e2eca5639be266d405645c0bcc19a28ab12 yet; within the 8s grace period for them to appear
::error::ci-gate: no workflow run besides this release workflow exists for 30b26e2eca5639be266d405645c0bcc19a28ab12 after 8s — refusing to publish a commit nothing has tested. Add a workflow that runs the repo's checks on push (every rainix consumer has one), then re-run this job.
EXIT=1
=========== CASE: bad-token   (invalid token)
::error::ci-gate: look up own workflow run: GitHub API returned 401 — GITHUB_TOKEN is missing or invalid: { "message": "Bad credentials", ... }
EXIT=1
=========== CASE: bad-sha-validation   (GITHUB_SHA=main refused before any API call)
::error::ci-gate: GITHUB_SHA ("main") is not a 40-hex commit sha
EXIT=1

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The changes add a fail-closed commit-CI gate to rainix-static, run it before autopublishing, update Rainix workflow pins, and extend conditional Cargo formatting to nested manifests.

Changes

Release CI gate

Layer / File(s)	Summary
CI gate validation and polling rainix-static/src/ci_gate.rs	Adds workflow-run parsing, validation, API error classification, secure curl handling, polling, verdict calculation, and unit tests.
CI gate command and autopublish integration rainix-static/src/main.rs, .github/workflows/rainix-autopublish.yaml	Adds the ci-gate subcommand and runs it before publication when Cargo, npm, or Soldeer content changes.
Rainix workflow revision pins .github/workflows/rainix-copy-artifacts.yaml, .github/workflows/rainix-manual-sol-artifacts.yaml, .github/workflows/rainix-manual-sol-verify.yaml, .github/workflows/rainix-rs-static.yaml, .github/workflows/rainix-rs-test.yaml, .github/workflows/rainix-rs-wasm-test.yaml, .github/workflows/rainix-rs-wasm.yaml, .github/workflows/rainix-sol-legal.yaml, .github/workflows/rainix-sol-static.yaml, .github/workflows/rainix-sol-test.yaml, .github/workflows/rainix-subgraph-test.yaml, .github/workflows/rainix-tag-release.yaml	Changes the pinned Rainix revision to 2455992d1a8300447daae66979a50a47cb2b9756.
Conditional Cargo formatting flake.nix	Formats existing root and one-level-deep Cargo manifests with explicit --manifest-path arguments and returns a combined failure status.

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

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 8c9af

The gate can publish a commit after an early green snapshot even if another CI workflow for that same commit appears later and fails, undermining the required publish-after-green behavior. It can also exceed its configured timeout on a stalled network response and spin aggressively with a zero poll interval, so the PR is not merge-ready until these bounded execution and release-safety issues are addressed.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Autopublish as rainix-autopublish
  participant RainixStatic as rainix-static ci-gate
  participant GitHubAPI as GitHub Actions API
  participant WorkflowRuns as Commit workflow runs
  Autopublish->>RainixStatic: invoke ci-gate
  RainixStatic->>GitHubAPI: resolve current workflow ID
  GitHubAPI-->>RainixStatic: return workflow ID
  RainixStatic->>GitHubAPI: query runs for GITHUB_SHA
  GitHubAPI-->>WorkflowRuns: return run states
  WorkflowRuns-->>RainixStatic: provide conclusions
  RainixStatic-->>Autopublish: permit or reject publication

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In `@rainix-static/src/ci_gate.rs`:
- Around line 282-308: Update curl_api and its caller run so the remaining gate
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