fix: catch a deleted or duplicated release heading in CHANGELOG.md (#98)

The arming rule (#66) guards ONE heading — does the top section agree with
VERSION? — and is silent about the rest of the file. The failure that lives
there is an author adding an entry under `## Unreleased` who replaces the
shipped heading below it instead of inserting above it. git merges the
one-line edit cleanly, `changelog_armed()` stays green (correctly: the top
section is still right), and the shipped release loses its section entirely.
It surfaces a whole release later, when release.yml refuses to publish a
section `changelog_section()` can no longer find by heading.

"A heading disappeared" is a property of a DIFF, not of a tree, so this is
its own script rather than a clause in the arming check — which is also
driven from test/release.sh against constructed non-git VERSION + CHANGELOG
pairs that could not express it. The rule needs no tuning: release headings
are append-only, so SUPERSET is exact, and the ceremony's stamp passes by
construction because `Unreleased` fails the version shape.

Ported from heavy-duty/box#122, with box's second half intact: containment
cannot catch a DUPLICATED heading, since the duplicate is head-side surplus
and `comm -23` is blind to extras there — so uniqueness on HEAD is asserted
alongside it. rig's symptom differs from box's and the comments say so:
box's extractor re-arms on every `## ` line and ABSORBS what sits between
the copies, while rig's `changelog_section()` has `if (found) exit` and
TRUNCATES at the second copy, dropping the release's real body.

Wired on pull requests only (on a push to main the merge base is HEAD, so
the assert is vacuous), with CHANGELOG_MONOTONIC_STRICT=1 and fetch-depth: 0
so a checkout that cannot reach the base ref fails rather than skipping
quietly forever.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail
# changelog-monotonic.sh [<base-ref>] [<changelog>] — assert that no SHIPPED
# release heading was DELETED by this branch: the set of '^## X.Y.Z' headings
# on HEAD must be a SUPERSET of the set at the merge base.
#
# The failure it exists to catch (#98; ported from heavy-duty/box#122, which
# was caught in review of box#118) leaves no trace. An author adding an entry
# under '## Unreleased' REPLACES the line below it instead of inserting above
# it:
#
# -## 0.2.0 — 2026-07-19
# +## Unreleased
# +
# +### Fixed
# +
# +- **An entry**
#
# git merges that cleanly — it is a one-line edit inside a file nobody has
# touched concurrently — so there is no conflict and no signal. 0.2.0's whole
# body is now sitting under '## Unreleased', and 0.2.0 has no section at all.
#
# The arming rule is green on exactly that tree, correctly. changelog_armed()
# in test/release.sh asks only whether the TOP section agrees with VERSION,
# and deleting '## 0.2.0' leaves '## Unreleased' on top. It is not wrong, it
# is narrow — it guards ONE heading, the one a PR is about to write under.
# This guards the REST of the file, the part no single tree can be asked
# about at all, because "a heading disappeared" is not a property of a tree —
# it is a property of a DIFF.
#
# The damage surfaces at the next release, in changelog_section()
# (.github/scripts/release-lib.sh), which anchors on the heading:
#
# awk -v ver="$2" '
# /^## / { if (found) exit; found = ($2 == ver); next }
# ...
#
# No heading, no section — and release.yml's "refusing to publish an empty
# release" assert is the first thing that notices, one whole release too late.
#
# The rule, and why it needs no tuning: release headings are APPEND-ONLY. The
# ceremony (CONTRIBUTING, "Releases") adds one and never removes one; nothing
# else in the documented flow touches them. So SUPERSET is exact — it has no
# legitimate violation to carve an exception for. The stamp is covered for
# free: rewriting '## Unreleased' -> '## X.Y.Z — DATE' ADDS X.Y.Z and removes
# no X.Y.Z heading, because 'Unreleased' is not one. '## Unreleased' is
# deliberately NOT in the set this guards — the arming rule owns that heading,
# keyed on VERSION, and the ceremony legitimately consumes it.
#
# A file of its own, NOT a clause inside test/release.sh's arming check, for
# three reasons. Its input is different (a git history, not two files). Its
# degradation is different (no base ref is a SKIP, not a failure). And the
# arming rule is driven by test/release.sh against constructed VERSION +
# CHANGELOG.md trees that are not git repos at all — folding a git-dependent
# assert into it would make every one of those cases either skip or lie.
# Same discipline as release-lib.sh: its own file so a test can drive it.
base_ref="${1:-${CHANGELOG_MONOTONIC_BASE:-origin/main}}"
changelog="${2:-CHANGELOG.md}"
# Fail-closed switch: CI sets it, so a SKIP that would be a sensible local
# degradation becomes a red run there instead. A guard that can silently
# stop guarding is the failure shape this whole family of checks exists to
# refuse, so the skip path is loud and CI refuses to take it at all.
strict="${CHANGELOG_MONOTONIC_STRICT:-0}"
skip() {
if [ "$strict" = "1" ]; then
echo "changelog-monotonic: $* — and CHANGELOG_MONOTONIC_STRICT=1, so this is a FAILURE, not a skip." >&2
echo " CI sets STRICT because a guard that quietly stops guarding is worse than no guard." >&2
echo " Fix the checkout, not this script: the base ref must be fetched (fetch-depth: 0)." >&2
exit 1
fi
echo "changelog-monotonic: SKIPPED — $*"
echo " (Nothing was checked. In CI this same condition is a hard failure.)"
exit 0
}
[ -f "$changelog" ] || { echo "changelog-monotonic: no such file: $changelog" >&2; exit 1; }
git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree >/dev/null 2>&1 \
|| skip "not inside a git work tree, so there is no history to compare against"
git rev-parse --verify --quiet "$base_ref^{commit}" >/dev/null \
|| skip "base ref '$base_ref' does not resolve here (a shallow clone, or a fork checkout without the upstream remote)"
merge_base="$(git merge-base "$base_ref" HEAD 2>/dev/null || true)"
[ -n "$merge_base" ] \
|| skip "no merge base between '$base_ref' and HEAD (unrelated histories, or a clone too shallow to reach one)"
# The set of RELEASE headings: '## <token> ...' where <token> looks like a
# version. Field $2, the same split changelog_section() uses, so the two
# cannot disagree about what a section header is. 'Unreleased' fails the
# shape and is excluded by construction.
headings_raw() {
awk '
/^## / && $2 ~ /^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+/ { print $2 }
'
}
headings() { headings_raw | sort -u; }
# The changelog may not exist at the merge base at all (the commit that adds
# it). Nothing to have deleted, so nothing to assert.
base_file="$(git show "$merge_base:$changelog" 2>/dev/null || true)"
[ -n "$base_file" ] || {
echo "changelog-monotonic: $changelog does not exist at the merge base ($(git rev-parse --short "$merge_base")) — nothing could have been deleted."
exit 0
}
# --- uniqueness on HEAD (the box#118 class) ----------------------------------
# Containment catches a DELETED heading. It cannot catch a DUPLICATED one: the
# duplicate is head-side SURPLUS, and `comm -23` (base minus head) is blind to
# extras on the head side — with or without `sort -u`, base {0.2.0} minus head
# {0.2.0, 0.2.0} is empty. Multiset comparison does not close it either, for
# the same reason. The assert that does is uniqueness of version headings ON
# HEAD, kept alongside containment rather than replacing it.
#
# This is the shape box#118's bad rebase produced: two `## 0.2.0 — 2026-07-19`
# headings with an incoming entry between them. Every other guard stays green
# — conflict markers absent, the arming rule happy (the top section is still
# right), tests and shellcheck clean.
#
# rig's symptom differs from box's, and the difference matters. box's
# release-notes.sh RE-ARMS its grab on every matching '## ' line, so a
# duplicate makes it ABSORB whatever sits between the copies. rig's
# changelog_section() has `if (found) exit`, so it stops dead at the second
# copy instead: a duplicate TRUNCATES. The published body is only what sits
# BETWEEN the two headings, and everything under the second copy — the real
# body of that release — is silently dropped. Different symptom, same class:
# no conflict, no red run, discovered only by a human reading the published
# notes.
#
# Nothing legitimate repeats a version heading: the ceremony stamps a NEW
# version, and 'Unreleased' fails the version shape and never reaches here.
dupes="$(headings_raw < "$changelog" | sort | uniq -d)"
if [ -n "$dupes" ]; then
{
echo "changelog-monotonic: $changelog has DUPLICATE release heading(s):"
echo
printf '%s\n' "$dupes" | sed 's/^/ ## /'
echo
cat <<EOF
Each version heading must appear exactly once. A repeat splits one release
into two same-named sections, and changelog_section() stops at the FIRST
'## ' line after the one it matched — so the published body for that version
is only what sits BETWEEN the copies, and the real body under the second
copy is dropped from the release notes entirely.
This is the box#118 shape: an entry meant for '## Unreleased' was inserted
after a shipped heading, and the heading re-added below it. The fix is one
heading, with the entry above it under '## Unreleased':
## Unreleased
### Fixed
- **Your entry**
## $(printf '%s\n' "$dupes" | head -1) — DATE <- exactly once
Quick check on any changelog-touching rebase:
diff <(git show origin/main:$changelog | grep '^## ') <(grep '^## ' $changelog)
EOF
} >&2
exit 1
fi
base_headings="$(printf '%s\n' "$base_file" | headings)"
head_headings="$(headings < "$changelog")"
# comm -23: lines in the base set that are NOT in the head set — exactly the
# headings this branch removed.
missing="$(comm -23 <(printf '%s\n' "$base_headings") <(printf '%s\n' "$head_headings"))"
if [ -n "$missing" ]; then
{
echo "changelog-monotonic: this branch DELETES release heading(s) from $changelog:"
echo
printf '%s\n' "$missing" | sed 's/^/ ## /'
echo
cat <<EOF
Present at the merge base ($(git rev-parse --short "$merge_base")), absent on HEAD.
Release headings are APPEND-ONLY. The ceremony adds one (CONTRIBUTING,
"Releases"); nothing ever legitimately removes one. So this is not a
judgement call — it is a defect, and almost always the same one (#98): an
entry written under '## Unreleased' REPLACED the heading below it instead of
being inserted ABOVE it. The shipped section's body is now sitting under
'## Unreleased', and the version it belonged to has no section at all.
Nothing else will say so. git merges that edit cleanly — no conflict, no
signal — and the arming rule stays green, because the TOP section is still
the right one for this VERSION. The damage surfaces at the NEXT release,
when changelog_section() cannot find the section it extracts by heading and
release.yml refuses to publish an empty release — one whole release late.
The fix is to put the heading back and INSERT above it, never over it:
## Unreleased
### Fixed
- **Your entry**
## $(printf '%s\n' "$missing" | head -1) — DATE <- untouched, still here
If you are genuinely renaming a released version, that is a rewrite of
history this guard is meant to stop; say so in the PR and change the guard
deliberately, in its own commit.
EOF
} >&2
exit 1
fi
count="$(printf '%s\n' "$base_headings" | grep -c . || true)"
echo "changelog-monotonic: all $count release heading(s) at the merge base ($(git rev-parse --short "$merge_base")) are still present in $changelog"

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runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
with:
# fetch-depth: 0, for the changelog-monotonic step below and only
# for it. That check is about a DIFF — which release headings the
# merge base had — so it needs the base branch's history present,
# and the default depth-1 checkout has none of it. An explicit
# `git fetch origin <base>` would be narrower, but it has to be
# right on both event types and on fork PRs, and getting it subtly
# wrong degrades to a SKIP (a guard that silently stops guarding —
# the exact failure this repo keeps refusing). Full history on a
# pure-bash tree costs a second; the STRICT flag below turns any
# remaining skip red rather than green.
fetch-depth: 0
- name: shellcheck
# -x follows the `source=SCRIPTDIR/...` directives into commands/lib/.
# globstar so a script in a new subdirectory is linted without anyone
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run: bash test/labels-reconcile.sh
- name: release-flow tests
run: bash test/release.sh
# No SHIPPED release heading was deleted (#98). Its own step rather than
# a line inside test/release.sh: that suite drives the arming rule
# against constructed VERSION + CHANGELOG.md trees that are not git
# repos, and this assert needs a git history — folding it in would make
# those cases skip or lie. It is also a DIFFERENT invariant: arming is a
# fact about this tree, monotonicity is a fact about this tree versus
# its merge base. Pull requests only: on a push to main the merge base
# IS HEAD, so the assert is vacuous and would only add a green step that
# proves nothing. STRICT=1 so a checkout that cannot reach the base ref
# fails here instead of skipping quietly forever.
- name: no shipped changelog heading was deleted
if: github.event_name == 'pull_request'
env:
CHANGELOG_MONOTONIC_STRICT: '1'
run: bash .github/scripts/changelog-monotonic.sh "origin/${{ github.base_ref }}"
# Kept SEPARATE from `check` on purpose: this job pulls a Postgres image and
# stands up throwaway containers, and a slow image pull must never delay the

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### Fixed
- **Deleting a shipped release heading from `CHANGELOG.md` is now caught, on
every PR** (#98, heavy-duty/box#122) — the arming rule (#66) asks one
question about **one** heading: does the top section agree with `VERSION`?
It says nothing about the rest of the file, and the failure that lives there
is an author adding an entry under `## Unreleased` who *replaces* the line
`## 0.2.0 — 2026-07-19` below it instead of inserting above it. git merges
that cleanly — a one-line edit in a file nobody touched concurrently, so no
conflict and no signal — and `changelog_armed()` stays green on that exact
tree, correctly: `## Unreleased` is still on top and still right for
`VERSION`. Verified here rather than assumed: the arming rule was run
against a deliberately mangled copy of this repo's real tree and passed,
while `changelog_section()` extracted `0.2.0` to zero lines. The damage
would have surfaced a whole release later, when `release.yml` refused to
publish an empty section it could no longer find by heading.
`.github/scripts/changelog-monotonic.sh` asserts the complementary
invariant: release headings are **append-only**, so the set of `## X.Y.Z`
headings on a branch must be a **superset** of the set at its merge base.
Its own script, not a clause in the arming check, because "a heading
disappeared" is a property of a DIFF, not of a tree — and because the arming
rule is driven from `test/release.sh` against constructed `VERSION` +
`CHANGELOG.md` pairs that are not git repos and could not express it. The
ceremony's stamp passes by construction (it *adds* `X.Y.Z` and removes none;
`Unreleased` fails the version shape and is deliberately outside the guarded
set), and no reachable base ref is a loud SKIP locally but a hard failure in
CI, which sets `CHANGELOG_MONOTONIC_STRICT=1` and now checks out with
`fetch-depth: 0` so the guard can never quietly stop guarding.
It carries box's second half too: containment catches a **deleted** heading
but cannot catch a **duplicated** one, since the duplicate is head-side
surplus and `comm -23` (base minus head) is blind to extras on the head side
— with or without `sort -u`, and multiset comparison does not close it for
the same reason. So version headings are also asserted **unique on HEAD**.
rig's symptom there is not box's, and the guard says so in its own words:
box's extractor re-arms on every matching `## ` line and *absorbs* whatever
sits between the copies, while rig's `changelog_section()` has
`if (found) exit` and stops dead at the second copy — a duplicate
**truncates**, publishing only what sits between the two headings and
silently dropping the release's real body underneath. Different symptom,
same class: no conflict, no red run, found only by a human reading the
published notes.
- **An unreadable check rollup no longer reads as "nothing is failing"** (#90)
— when `gh pr view` failed, the fallback left the `statusCheckRollup` key
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@ -190,6 +190,154 @@ check "arming: a bare VERSION whose section was never stamped FAILS" 1 "" armed
T="$(armtree headless 0.2.1-dev '# Changelog' '' 'no sections here')"
check "arming: a changelog with no sections FAILS" 1 "" armed "$T"
# --- the monotonicity rule: was a SHIPPED heading deleted? -------------------
# #98. Arming asks about ONE heading — does the top section agree with
# VERSION? — so it is silent about the rest of the file. The failure it cannot
# see is an entry written under '## Unreleased' that REPLACES the heading
# below it instead of inserting above it: git merges the one-line edit
# cleanly, arming stays green (the top section is still right), and the
# shipped release loses its section entirely. "A heading disappeared" is not a
# property of a tree, it is a property of a DIFF — so unlike every check
# above, these cases need real git repos, which is why the guard is its own
# script rather than a function sourced here.
MONO="$ROOT/.github/scripts/changelog-monotonic.sh"
check "changelog-monotonic.sh: exists and is the guard under test" 0 "" test -f "$MONO"
# The stock changelog every case below starts from: an Unreleased section and
# two shipped releases, committed on branch 'base' — which plays origin/main.
# The caller then rewrites CHANGELOG.md on 'work' and commits.
MONO_BASE=('# Changelog' '' '## Unreleased' '' '## 0.2.0 — 2026-07-19' '' \
'- **A shipped thing** (#1) — prose.' '' '## 0.1.0 — 2026-07-01' '' \
'- **The first thing** (#0) — prose.')
monorepo() { # monorepo <name> -> prints the dir, left checked out on 'work'
local d="$WORK/mono-$1"; mkdir -p "$d"
git -C "$d" init -q -b base
git -C "$d" config user.email harness@example.invalid
git -C "$d" config user.name harness
printf '%s\n' "${MONO_BASE[@]}" > "$d/CHANGELOG.md"
git -C "$d" add CHANGELOG.md
git -C "$d" commit -qm 'base: two shipped releases'
git -C "$d" checkout -q -b work
printf '%s' "$d"
}
monowrite() { # monowrite <dir> <line...> — rewrite CHANGELOG.md and commit
local d="$1"; shift
printf '%s\n' "$@" > "$d/CHANGELOG.md"
git -C "$d" commit -qam 'work: edit the changelog'
}
mono() { # mono <dir> [VAR=val ...] — run the guard there, base ref 'base'
local d="$1"; shift
( cd "$d" && env "$@" bash "$MONO" base 2>&1 )
}
# An untouched branch: the head heading-set equals the base's, so containment
# holds trivially. The green message names the count it checked, because a
# guard that prints nothing is indistinguishable from one that did nothing.
T="$(monorepo clean)"
check "monotonic: an untouched branch passes" 0 "all 2 release heading(s)" mono "$T"
# The legitimate edit this guard must never object to: a new entry INSERTED
# above the shipped heading, which is left alone.
T="$(monorepo insert)"
monowrite "$T" '# Changelog' '' '## Unreleased' '' '### Fixed' '' \
'- **A pending thing** (#2) — prose.' '' '## 0.2.0 — 2026-07-19' '' \
'- **A shipped thing** (#1) — prose.' '' '## 0.1.0 — 2026-07-01' '' \
'- **The first thing** (#0) — prose.'
check "monotonic: an entry inserted ABOVE the shipped heading passes" 0 "" mono "$T"
# ...and the bug itself: the same entry typed OVER '## 0.2.0'. 0.2.0's body is
# now under '## Unreleased' and 0.2.0 has no section. RED, naming the version.
T="$(monorepo deleted)"
monowrite "$T" '# Changelog' '' '## Unreleased' '' '### Fixed' '' \
'- **A pending thing** (#2) — prose.' '' \
'- **A shipped thing** (#1) — prose.' '' '## 0.1.0 — 2026-07-01' '' \
'- **The first thing** (#0) — prose.'
check "monotonic: a DELETED shipped heading FAILS (#98)" 1 "DELETES release heading" mono "$T"
check "monotonic: ...and the failure names the version that vanished" 1 "## 0.2.0" mono "$T"
# Deleting the OLDEST release is the same defect, not a lesser one — the set
# is a set, position in the file buys no leniency.
T="$(monorepo deleted-old)"
monowrite "$T" '# Changelog' '' '## Unreleased' '' '## 0.2.0 — 2026-07-19' '' \
'- **A shipped thing** (#1) — prose.'
check "monotonic: deleting an OLDER release heading fails too" 1 "## 0.1.0" mono "$T"
# The duplicate half. Containment cannot catch this: the second copy is
# head-side SURPLUS and `comm -23` (base minus head) is blind to extras on the
# head side, so uniqueness-on-HEAD is a separate assert. rig's symptom is not
# box's — changelog_section() has `if (found) exit`, so it stops at the second
# copy and TRUNCATES rather than absorbing.
T="$(monorepo dupe)"
monowrite "$T" '# Changelog' '' '## Unreleased' '' '## 0.2.0 — 2026-07-19' '' \
'- **A pending thing** (#2) — prose.' '' '## 0.2.0 — 2026-07-19' '' \
'- **A shipped thing** (#1) — prose.' '' '## 0.1.0 — 2026-07-01' '' \
'- **The first thing** (#0) — prose.'
check "monotonic: a DUPLICATED version heading FAILS" 1 "DUPLICATE release heading" mono "$T"
check "monotonic: ...and the failure names the repeated version" 1 "## 0.2.0" mono "$T"
# ...and that the duplicate really does truncate, so the assert above is
# guarding a live defect rather than a stylistic preference: extraction stops
# at the second copy, dropping the body that sits under it.
check "monotonic: the duplicate TRUNCATES extraction (rig's symptom, not box's)" 0 \
"A pending thing" changelog_section "$T/CHANGELOG.md" 0.2.0
check "monotonic: ...the real body under the second copy is dropped" 1 "" \
sect_has "$T/CHANGELOG.md" 0.2.0 "A shipped thing"
# '## Unreleased' is deliberately OUTSIDE the guarded set: it fails the
# version shape, so the ceremony stamping it away — the one edit that legally
# removes a top heading — is invisible here. This is the case that would make
# every release PR unshippable if the set were "all '## ' headings".
T="$(monorepo stamp)"
monowrite "$T" '# Changelog' '' '## 0.3.0 — 2026-07-20' '' \
'- **A pending thing** (#2) — prose.' '' '## 0.2.0 — 2026-07-19' '' \
'- **A shipped thing** (#1) — prose.' '' '## 0.1.0 — 2026-07-01' '' \
'- **The first thing** (#0) — prose.'
check "monotonic: stamping '## Unreleased' into a release passes (not guarded)" 0 "" mono "$T"
# ...and the ceremony's re-arm — a fresh empty Unreleased above the stamp —
# is equally fine, which is CONTRIBUTING step 1's tree.
T="$(monorepo stamp-rearmed)"
monowrite "$T" '# Changelog' '' '## Unreleased' '' '## 0.3.0 — 2026-07-20' '' \
'- **A pending thing** (#2) — prose.' '' '## 0.2.0 — 2026-07-19' '' \
'- **A shipped thing** (#1) — prose.' '' '## 0.1.0 — 2026-07-01' '' \
'- **The first thing** (#0) — prose.'
check "monotonic: the re-armed ceremony tree passes too" 0 "" mono "$T"
# The skip path, both halves. A base ref that does not resolve is a sensible
# local degradation — and a silent one, which is the failure shape this family
# of checks exists to refuse. So STRICT flips exactly that case red.
mono_noref() { local d="$1"; shift; ( cd "$d" && env "$@" bash "$MONO" no/such/ref 2>&1 ); }
T="$(monorepo noref)"
check "monotonic: an unresolvable base ref SKIPS locally" 0 "SKIPPED" mono_noref "$T"
check "monotonic: ...and the skip says nothing was checked" 0 "Nothing was checked" mono_noref "$T"
check "monotonic: ...but is a FAILURE under STRICT=1 (what CI sets)" 1 "STRICT=1" \
mono_noref "$T" CHANGELOG_MONOTONIC_STRICT=1
check "monotonic: ...and the STRICT failure blames the checkout, not the script" 1 \
"fetch-depth: 0" mono_noref "$T" CHANGELOG_MONOTONIC_STRICT=1
# A missing changelog is an error on any setting — it is not a degradation,
# it is a wrong invocation.
T="$(monorepo nofile)"
# shellcheck disable=SC2016 # the $-refs are the inner bash -c's, deliberately
check "monotonic: a missing changelog file is an error, never a skip" 1 "no such file" \
bash -c 'cd "$1" && bash "$2" base nope.md 2>&1' _ "$T" "$MONO"
# --- ci.yml: the monotonic step is actually wired (#98) ----------------------
# The guard runs from ci.yml, not from this suite, so pin the wiring the same
# way release.yml's is pinned — a script nothing invokes is not a check.
CIY="$ROOT/.github/workflows/ci.yml"
check "ci.yml: runs the monotonic guard" 0 "" \
grep -q "changelog-monotonic.sh" "$CIY"
check "ci.yml: ...on pull requests only (on a push to main it is vacuous)" 0 "" \
grep -qF "github.event_name == 'pull_request'" "$CIY"
check "ci.yml: ...with STRICT=1, so a skip is red rather than quietly green" 0 "" \
grep -qF "CHANGELOG_MONOTONIC_STRICT: '1'" "$CIY"
# shellcheck disable=SC2016 # the $-string is a literal in the target file
check "ci.yml: ...against the PR's base branch" 0 "" \
grep -qF 'origin/${{ github.base_ref }}' "$CIY"
# Without full history the base ref does not resolve, and STRICT turns that
# into a red run — so the fetch depth is load-bearing, not incidental.
check "ci.yml: the checkout has full history (the base ref must resolve)" 0 "" \
grep -qF "fetch-depth: 0" "$CIY"
# --- release.yml: the pins ---------------------------------------------------
# The workflow itself runs only on a tag push upstream, so pin its
# load-bearing pieces the way the harness pins root-only paths (repo