The venue drill caught what no hermetic test had: with the workflow_call
bridge delivering "no" perfectly, drill runs 16/17 still bootstrapped. The
script gated on GITHUB_EVENT_NAME = workflow_dispatch and never read
$BOOTSTRAP at all; the wrapper's only coupling was exporting the event name
for yes. Correct while an operator's manual dispatch was the only dispatch
there was — inert from #209 on, when the trigger job made every machine wake
a workflow_dispatch event. Runs 459/523 bootstrapped for this reason, not
for the input-delivery defect, which is real but was never the operative
cause of the observed re-upserts.
The script now gates on ${BOOTSTRAP:-no} = yes; the wrapper passes the input
through untouched; the hermetic suite pins the exact regression pair (a
dispatch event with no/unset creates and deletes nothing) alongside the
yes path's full create+delete assertions.
Refs #215
The evidence shows the called workflow did not see the caller's event inputs
on THIS instance while the top level received them (runs 459/523 vs probe
6/7); it does not show what GitHub or a declared-and-passed input does, so
every prose site now states declare-and-pass as the measured-reliable channel
rather than attributing a drop to Forgejo (@codex-reviewer-andresmgsl, !218
blocker 2).
Refs #215
A called workflow cannot read the caller's dispatch inputs on this forge:
github.event.inputs is empty inside workflow_call even though the top-level
caller receives the value in both contexts (probe runs 6/7). The sweep's gate
read exactly that, so every dispatch-woken sweep bootstrapped — runs 459 and
523, ~20 label upserts per board event — while the trigger honestly logged
bootstrap=no.
The bridge, per the #6361 contract: labels-sweep.yml declares
workflow_call.inputs.bootstrap (string, default "no"); the dogfood caller and
the published CONSUMERS.md stub pass it via with.bootstrap with empty mapped
to "no" at the caller — kimi's edge: on schedule the top-level context is
empty, and an empty that slipped through would have turned every cron into a
bootstrap. The gate feeds the declared input to labels-reconcile unchanged,
so an invalid value meets the action's own yes|no refusal.
test/labels-bootstrap.test.sh pins every hop: the declared boundary, both
gates as the identity, no expression reading github.event.inputs (scoped to
${{ }} bodies — the file's prose names the context to explain it), the two
pass-throughs byte-exact, and the four value paths driven through the shipped
expressions into the action's real validator. Mutations: dropping the
declaration reds 4, dropping the pass-through reds 3, restoring the old gate
reds 2.
Refs #215
