BUILDER.md

@@ -200,6 +200,13 @@ triage bug, and the move is to say so on the issue, not to guess.
   guard still refuses anything that deletes a shipped heading.
 - Follow the repo's conventions file and match the code you touch. Tests are
   not optional: the issue's test plan is the floor, not the ceiling.
+- **A write-capable job gets a repo-owned script, not a third-party action.**
+  If the job's token can write (`packages: write`, `contents: write`,
+  `id-token: write`, deploy secrets), default to a script in the repo that a
+  test can drive; a third-party action there needs an established publisher
+  and a full-commit-SHA pin. Read-only jobs still SHA-pin. The full rule and
+  the red-flag profile a reviewer will apply are in REVIEWER.md §What you
+  review against, item 2 (incubator#53/#54; #216).
 - **Scope discipline: the PR does the issue — whole, and nothing else.**
   Adjacent problems you discover go to a **discussion** (or a comment on the
   relevant issue), where triage will do its job. You do not mint issues —

REVIEWER.md

@@ -49,6 +49,19 @@ In order of authority:
      `0.1.0`'s `load_config` rejected `triage-actors=...` with
      `malformed label row` and `exit=1`. CI green on a conversion PR proves
      nothing about the new config: the base branch's workflow is what ran.
+   - **Third-party actions never hold a write-capable token by default.** In
+     any job whose token is write-capable (`packages: write`,
+     `contents: write`, `id-token: write`, or one carrying deploy secrets),
+     the default is a repo-owned script a test can drive. A third-party
+     action may hold that token only if it comes from an **established
+     publisher** — a real organization with maintenance history and more
+     than one maintainer, not a memberless shell or a lone account shipping
+     an unauditable `dist/` blob — and is **pinned by full commit SHA**. An
+     action matching the incubator red-flag profile never holds a write
+     token, however well it works. Read-only jobs: ordinary dependency
+     judgement, SHA-pinning still required. This is bot-run infrastructure —
+     no human watches runtime logs, so a compromised action's window is
+     unbounded (incubator#53/#54; #216).
 3. **The code itself** — correctness first, then tests (does the test plan's
    floor exist? do the failure cases actually fail?), then conventions.
    Changelog line present for behavior changes; comments carry why, not

changelog.d/216.md

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+### Changed
+
+- Doctrine: third-party actions never hold a write-capable token by default —
+  repo-owned scripts in write-capable jobs, established publisher plus
+  full-SHA pin for the exception, SHA pins everywhere. Canonical in
+  REVIEWER.md, short form in BUILDER.md; consumers adopt at the pin bump
+  (#216).