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Grant issues: write to sync-device-links so its publish job can start - #147
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In @.github/workflows/sync-device-links.yml:
- Line 25: Remove workflow-level issues write permission and scope it to the
publish job, granting publish contents read and issues write while preserving
the sync job’s contents write permission for catalog commits and pushes.
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The hourly device-links sync has failed at startup on every run since 2026-09-08 -- 10 days of msh.to link changes never reaching production. The published deviceLinks is still stamped generatedAt 2026-09-04T17:22:29Z. Cause is a reusable-workflow permissions mismatch. The `publish` job calls deploy.yml, which declares `issues: write` for its failure-reporting step. A called workflow cannot request a permission its caller does not hold, so GitHub rejected the run before any job started -- conclusion `startup_failure`, with no job log and no annotation explaining it, which is why this sat unnoticed while every other workflow stayed green. Rather than grant `issues: write` at workflow level, each job now declares exactly what it needs and the workflow floor drops to read-only: floor contents: read sync contents: write -- commits and pushes the catalog publish contents: read, issues: write -- exactly what deploy.yml declares This keeps issue-write away from `sync`, which is the job that fetches an external URL and pushes a commit, and it is also what zizmor's excessive-permissions audit wants: the file went from 4 findings to 0. Granting rather than removing is the right direction. Dropping `issues: write` from deploy.yml would have silenced the startup error by disabling its failure notification, which deploy.yml's own comment explains is load-bearing -- without it a failed deploy produces two failures and no alert, at the one moment an alert matters. This was latent rather than newly written. sync-device-links.yml only calls deploy.yml on the v2 side; the pre-merge master version did not (`git show 797c024:.github/workflows/sync-device-links.yml` has no such call). On v2 the schedule never ran, because GitHub fires `schedule:` only from the default branch -- so the pair first executed when v2 merged to master, and failed on its first scheduled run. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The hourly device-links sync has failed at startup on every run since 2026-09-08 — 10 days of msh.to link changes never reaching production. The published
deviceLinksis still stampedgeneratedAt: 2026-09-04T17:22:29Z.Cause
A reusable-workflow permissions mismatch. The
publishjob callsdeploy.yml, which declaresissues: writefor its failure-reporting step. A called workflow cannot request a permission its caller doesn't hold, so GitHub rejected the run before any job started — conclusionstartup_failure, with no job log and no annotation explaining why. That's why it sat unnoticed while every other workflow stayed green andDeploykept succeeding on pushes.Fix
Each job declares exactly what it needs; the workflow floor drops to read-only:
contents: readsynccontents: write— commits and pushes the catalogpublishcontents: read,issues: write— exactly whatdeploy.ymldeclaresThis keeps issue-write away from
sync, which is the job that fetches an external URL and pushes a commit. Per review feedback it's scoped per-job rather than granted at workflow level; that also clears the adjacentcontents: writefinding, taking the file from 4excessive-permissionsfindings to 0 under zizmor.Why grant rather than remove
Dropping
issues: writefromdeploy.ymlwould have silenced the startup error by disabling its failure notification — whichdeploy.yml's own comment explains is load-bearing: "a failed deploy produced TWO failures and no notification, which is the one moment the notification actually matters."Why it wasn't caught
Latent rather than newly written.
sync-device-links.ymlonly callsdeploy.ymlon the v2 side — the pre-merge master version had no such call:On
v2the schedule never ran, because GitHub firesschedule:only from the default branch. So the caller/callee pair first executed when v2 merged to master, and failed on its first scheduled run.Verified
deploy.ymlrequests{contents: read, issues: write};publishgrants exactly that — every requested permission held at an equal or greater level. Only one workflow in the repo callsdeploy.yml, so this is the only affected caller.The real check is the next scheduled run actually starting, and
generatedAtadvancing past 2026-09-04.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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