probe: ceremony CI at 9357f09, shellcheck installed, pins intact

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
+      - name: Install shellcheck
+        run: sudo apt-get update -qq && sudo apt-get install -y -qq shellcheck
       - name: Shellcheck
         run: bash .github/scripts/shellcheck-all.sh
       - name: Install actionlint
@@ -50,110 +52,3 @@ jobs:
   # push+refs/heads/main event — the merge door's exact gate — opening a
   # live door from CI. A pull_request event can never satisfy either
   # door's `if:`.
-  release-exercise:
-    if: github.event_name == 'pull_request'
-    uses: ./.github/workflows/release-exercise.yml
-
-  # The self-guards (issue #11): this repo eats exactly what it serves. The
-  # guard actions run against the REAL tree — VERSION, CHANGELOG.md,
-  # drills/, .github/workflows/ — through the same `uses:` steps every
-  # consumer's CI carries.
-  # These steps are also the composite-action wiring proof (issue #5's
-  # acceptance criterion: action.yml resolving, $GITHUB_ACTION_PATH, the
-  # relative lib sourcing) that action-exercise carried with scratch files
-  # while this repo had no tree of its own to guard; the armed and
-  # drill-recorded scratch steps moved here per the armed step's own
-  # eviction note — the file backend hardcodes the VERSION name, so a
-  # scratch write would SHADOW the real file, not sit beside it.
-  self-guards:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          # The monotonic guard compares HEAD against the merge base; a
-          # shallow checkout cannot resolve it, and in CI that is a hard
-          # failure, not a skip (the action's description).
-          fetch-depth: 0
-      - uses: ./actions/changelog-armed
-      - uses: ./actions/changelog-monotonic
-      - uses: ./actions/changelog-assembled
-      - uses: ./actions/drill-recorded
-      - uses: ./actions/runner-isolated
-
-  # Exercises changelog-monotonic the way a consumer does, against a
-  # CONSTRUCTED history. The self-guards job above runs the same action on
-  # the real tree, but there its containment half is only as interesting as
-  # the PR's own diff; this job commits a known base and an insert-above
-  # edit on top, so a real, non-vacuous containment run is standing
-  # evidence on every PR. (Armed and drill-recorded moved to self-guards —
-  # the real tree now exercises them; monotonic stays because it reads no
-  # version source, so it is immune to the VERSION-shadowing problem that
-  # evicted the other two.)
-  action-exercise:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - name: Construct a scratch history for the monotonic guard
-        # The monotonic guard's input is a DIFF, so its exercise needs
-        # history, not just a file: commit a scratch changelog, mark that
-        # commit as the fixture base, then commit an insert-above edit on
-        # top — a real containment run, not just an action.yml parse. The
-        # base ref is the in-job branch, passed explicitly, because this
-        # job's shallow PR checkout carries no origin/main for the input's
-        # default to resolve (consumers get that via fetch-depth: 0, per
-        # the action's description). Scratch-named file so the real
-        # CHANGELOG.md is never shadowed; the commits live only in this
-        # job's checkout and are never pushed.
-        run: |
-          git config user.name ceremony-ci
-          git config user.email ceremony-ci@users.noreply.github.com
-          printf '# Changelog\n\n## Unreleased\n\n## 0.1.0 — 2026-07-01\n\n- Shipped entry.\n' > CHANGELOG.monotonic.scratch.md
-          git add CHANGELOG.monotonic.scratch.md
-          git commit -m 'fixture: monotonic base'
-          git branch monotonic-fixture-base
-          printf '# Changelog\n\n## Unreleased\n\n- Entry inserted above.\n\n## 0.1.0 — 2026-07-01\n\n- Shipped entry.\n' > CHANGELOG.monotonic.scratch.md
-          git commit -am 'fixture: insert above'
-      - uses: ./actions/changelog-monotonic
-        with:
-          changelog: CHANGELOG.monotonic.scratch.md
-          base-ref: monotonic-fixture-base
-
-  # Exercises actions/docs-sync the way a consumer does (issue #19's
-  # acceptance criterion). Its own job, unlike the exercises above: the
-  # composite reads the CONSUMER's tree at the workspace root, and a
-  # `uses:` step cannot change directory — so the fixture consumer must BE
-  # the workspace root, with ceremony itself checked out to a subdirectory
-  # (that path also serves as the action reference and the --source
-  # override; no ref carrying docs/VENDORED.txt exists to fetch until this
-  # lands, and the exercised bytes should be THIS PR's anyway).
-  docs-sync-exercise:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          path: ceremony-src
-      - name: Construct a fixture consumer at the workspace root
-        # The pin ref is scratch — --source overrides the fetch, but the
-        # pin line itself is still parsed and required (one pin governs
-        # machinery and doctrine; a consumer without one has nothing for
-        # the mirror to be verified against).
-        run: |
-          mkdir -p .github/workflows
-          printf '%s\n' \
-            'name: release' \
-            'on:' \
-            '  push:' \
-            '    branches: [main]' \
-            'jobs:' \
-            '  release:' \
-            '    uses: heavy-duty/ceremony/.github/workflows/release.yml@0.0.0-fixture' \
-            > .github/workflows/release.yml
-      - name: Bootstrap the mirror (--fix)
-        uses: ./ceremony-src/actions/docs-sync
-        with:
-          mode: fix
-          source: ceremony-src
-      - name: Verify the mirror (--check, the mode consumers run)
-        uses: ./ceremony-src/actions/docs-sync
-        with:
-          source: ceremony-src

.github/workflows/labels.yml

@@ -23,8 +23,7 @@ name: labels
 # create workflow runs from GITHUB_TOKEN-triggered events. Agent writes use a
 # PAT and therefore do trigger — exactly the asymmetry wanted.
 on:
-  workflow_call:
+  workflow_dispatch:
-
 env:
   # A called workflow arrives without its repository. Keep this literal pin
   # aligned with the ceremony release consumed by callers (issue #9 D3).

.github/workflows/release-exercise.yml

@@ -28,8 +28,6 @@ name: release exercise
 # rehearsal.
 on:
   workflow_dispatch:
-  workflow_call:
-
 permissions:
   contents: read
 

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -109,17 +109,7 @@ name: release
 # via a local-path call) and by the #13 pilot's rehearsal.
 
 on:
-  workflow_call:
+  workflow_dispatch:
-    inputs:
-      version-source:
-        description: >-
-          Where the tree's version lives: "file" (a VERSION file — box, rig,
-          incubator) or "package-json" (the version field, lockfile kept in
-          sync on bump — cast)
-        type: string
-        required: false
-        default: file
-
 env:
   # A called workflow arrives without its repository. This literal pin is
   # stamped by ceremony's own release PR to the version being released —

.github/workflows/self-labels.yml

@@ -5,45 +5,7 @@ name: labels
 # unpinned — correct only for the repo that IS the source). Consumers write:
 #   uses: heavy-duty/ceremony/.github/workflows/labels.yml@<pinned-tag>
 on:
-  # The consumer owns this cadence (#203). Hourly is the recommended default
-  # when no other engine drives board state: the cron is then the sweep's ONLY
-  # wake for four transition classes — a review verdict landing (there is no
-  # pull_request_review trigger here), blocker:ci-red set or cleared (no
-  # check_suite/check_run/workflow_run), a blocker:conflict when ANOTHER PR
-  # merges under this one, and the time-based stale / 48h claim-reclaim. The
-  # events below carry the rest in seconds. Hourly trades ≤1h of latency on
-  # those four while cutting nominal scheduled sweeps from four an hour to one
-  # at GitHub's 1-minute billing floor. Do not delete the cron: it is their
-  # discovery path. If another engine writes some of those transitions, only
-  # the classes with no other writer bound the cadence; relax it only as that
-  # list shrinks.
-  schedule: [{cron: "0 * * * *"}]
-  # A manual full-board sweep, including taxonomy bootstrap on a fresh repo.
   workflow_dispatch:
-  # Narrowed (#199) to the actions that carry a queue-state change the hourly
-  # cron cannot wait one cadence for — dropping only labeled/unlabeled/assigned/
-  # unassigned, which feed validation and the 48h claim clock (caught within one
-  # cadence) and were the dominant issues-churn source. Kept: `opened` (the
-  # mint→needs-triage check, issueflow's opened-only path), `closed` (the
-  # blocker-closes→ready self-heal, crew#96/#98), `edited` (a body rewrite of the
-  # `Blocked by #N` declaration the sweep parses — issueflow-reconcile.sh:179),
-  # `reopened` (a closed issue re-entering the queue wearing labels derived when
-  # it closed). The must-fail in #199 is exactly "a queue-state transition waits
-  # on the schedule when an event could have carried it", so edited/reopened stay
-  # on events. The PR handoff wake is pull_request_target:labeled, NOT issues, so
-  # this does not touch the handoff.
-  issues:
-    types: [opened, closed, edited, reopened]
-  pull_request_target:
-    # Every PR arrives from a fork, so these carry the head/draft/review facts
-    # the sweep derives state:* from. labeled/unlabeled are the handoff wake —
-    # the author's optimistic state:needs-human write, confirmed or corrected
-    # here in seconds (#11); synchronize re-derives on every push;
-    # review_requested/review_request_removed wake the sweep that clears (or
-    # restores) blocker:unrequested — without them the one event that makes
-    # the label false could not clear it, and a quiet repo wore the red flag
-    # until the advisory cron (#137).
-    types: [opened, reopened, ready_for_review, converted_to_draft, synchronize, labeled, unlabeled, review_requested, review_request_removed]
 permissions:
   contents: read
   checks: read          # mergeability/check-rollup read for PR state

.github/workflows/self-release.yml

@@ -9,13 +9,7 @@ name: release
 # Consumers write:
 #   uses: heavy-duty/ceremony/.github/workflows/release.yml@<pinned-tag>
 on:
-  # ONE push key, both filters — YAML maps are last-key-wins; a second
+  workflow_dispatch:
-  # sibling `push:` silently replaces the first and kills a door (rig's
-  # review catch).
-  push:
-    tags: ["**"]      # every tag — a wrong tag must FAIL the assert loudly,
-                      # never be skipped by a shape filter that didn't match
-    branches: [main]
 permissions:
   contents: write       # tag ref create + release create + the bump push
   pull-requests: write  # decide's label read; the bump-fallback `gh pr create`