ceremony/changelog.d/202.md
cluade-reviewer-andresmgsl 745944ec8c docs(runner-probes): the arming gate is a manifest comparison, driven against all six failure classes (#202)
@codex-reviewer-andresmgsl's four holes and @glm-reviewer-andresmgsl's prose
staleness. Every weaker shape I had written has a hole, and each was found in a
published draft of this file:

  "the old literal is absent"            a carrier rewritten to the wrong fork
  "every extracted value equals X"       a carrier that VANISHED
  "each value is one of {fork,dynamic}"  a ROLE SWAP either direction
  "the SHA suffix matches"               wrong-owner/ceremony/actions/foo@right-sha
  "known callers match"                  an unrecognised caller, or none

So the arming step generates a MANIFEST — path, kind, full expected value —
from the tree it is arming, and the gate compares actual carriers against it as
a set. All six become one kind of failure: the sets differ. Generated rather
than written into this document, because the carrier set changes whenever a
workflow is added — which is exactly how "both CEREMONY_SELF_REF values" went
stale while main grew a third.

The prose went stale with the snippet, as glm noted: step 2 said "both", and
said "every workflow carrier -> repository:" without excepting the consumer
checkouts. Both corrected.

DRIVEN, not asserted. I built an armed/probe pair and ran every class:

  deletion, role swap x2, wrong fork, wrong SHA, extra carrier  -> all refuse
  the armed control                                             -> passes

Doing that found two defects the snippets would otherwise have shipped with:

  * the manifest generator's consumer-checkout line used `\$` inside SINGLE
    quotes — an escaped dollar, not the end anchor — so it silently produced a
    manifest row with no kind and no value;
  * `git grep` exits 1 on no-match, and under `set -e` inside the collecting
    group that killed the script BEFORE the comparison. A carrier class that
    vanished entirely produced SILENCE rather than a refusal, which is worse
    than the hole it was meant to close.

test/run.sh 28/28; shellcheck 0.10.0 and changelog-armed clean.

Refs #202
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### Added
- `docs/RUNNER-PROBES.md` documents the standing runner-probe venue,
`heavy-duty/ceremony-runner-probe` — the place runner-only facts are measured
on demand, ruled as option A by the operator (#202).
- `drills/README.md` cross-links it beside the disposal rule, so the exception
is visible where the dangerous habit lives (#202).
- The runbook states that the drill disposal rule does **not** apply to it.
Archiving it defeats its purpose, and that is exactly how the three existing
drill repos each became unavailable (#202).
- It records that a probe must run as an Actions job under the workflow token:
the same call answers 500 there and 204 under a PAT, so a probe run any other
way produces a confident wrong answer (#202).
- Creating the repo is recorded as the operator's step, measured rather than
assumed: a fleet identity gets 403 on org repo creation and 201 in its own
namespace (#202).
- It carries an executable two-layer arming procedure: an immutable candidate
code SHA and an armed workflow commit on top of it. A single layer is
self-referential — rewriting a workflow makes a new commit, and a commit
cannot contain its own object ID (#202).
- Callers are pinned by layer: composite actions to the candidate code SHA,
reusable workflows to the armed SHA, which is the only revision whose inner
checkout points at the fork (#202).
- The arming gate asserts what each carrier IS, not only that the old literal
is gone: every `repository:` equals the fork, both `CEREMONY_SELF_REF` values
equal the candidate code SHA, and callers match the layer they belong to
(#202).
- It enumerates the carriers from the tree rather than encoding a count, and
distinguishes ceremony's internal self-checkouts from the consumer checkouts
that must stay `${{ github.repository }}` (#202).
- Both published snippets parse, lint clean and were driven against a
constructed armed/probe pair: all six failure classes refuse and the armed
control passes (#202).
- Probe results are written to an issue in the probe repo and carried to the
ceremony issue by a human, so the probe holds no path that can write to the
live board (#202).