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One caller stanza gives a translated documentation repository the translation
report, the pull request comment, the site build, the anchor check and a gate
that fails the run when a translation is behind its English source. The checkers
come from halos-org/docs-tools, which
the caller pins in its own pyproject.toml, so the same commands run in CI and
on a laptop.

Implements halos-org/halos#145.
The first consumer is hatlabs/halpi2, which is blocked until
hatlabs/halpi2#47 merges.

Verification

Reusable workflows are not unit-testable, so this was exercised on a throwaway
branch carrying a two-page, one-locale mkdocs-static-i18n tree. Runs, since
deleted along with the branch:

Scenario Run Outcome
Everything current, anchors clean 31698745203 green; comment reports all current
Broken anchor, translations current 31699012592 gate passes, Fail on broken anchors turns it red and reprints the listing
Stale translation on top of the broken anchor 31699186427 comment patched in place naming the stale page with its English diff, then the gate fails
Caller grants only contents: read 31699379459 comment step gets HTTP 403 and is tolerated; the run reaches the gate and fails there

Two things the runs changed

No permissions: block in the reusable workflow. An earlier revision
declared pull-requests: write. A permissions block in a called workflow sets
the complete permission set for its job, so it cannot be satisfied by a caller
granting less — the run ends in startup_failure before a single step, and the
only message GitHub gives is "This run likely failed because of a workflow file
issue". Observed on
31699261108.
Inheriting the caller's token instead means a repository still gets its gate
when it cannot comment, which is also what a fork pull request needs.

The anchor check is tolerated and re-raised at the end. A broken anchor and
a stale translation are both content faults, and an author would rather fix them
in one pass than in two. continue-on-error renders as a green check, so the
final step repeats the anchor listing rather than pointing back at a step that
looks like it passed.

Related

The anchor step's value is smaller than it looks: mkdocs 1.6 validates anchors
itself, and both consuming repos are on 1.6.1. Measured and written up in
halos-org/docs-tools#13
worth resolving before halpi2 is wired.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added automated translation-status checks for documentation changes, including translation reporting, site builds, and anchor validation.
    • Added pull-request status updates and safeguards to surface translation or documentation issues.
    • Added a reusable workflow that can be applied across documentation repositories.
    • Added an example configuration supporting pull requests, main-branch updates, and manual runs.
  • Documentation

    • Updated repository guidance for shared workflows, configuration, prerequisites, security, and applicability.

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Walkthrough

The pull request adds a reusable translation-status workflow, a caller workflow for documentation repositories, and README documentation for configuration, permissions, prerequisites, status checks, and repository scope.

Changes

Translation status automation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Reusable workflow contract and setup
.github/workflows/translation-status.yml
The workflow accepts a configurable runner, checks out full history without persisted credentials, installs uv, and synchronizes locked dependencies.
Reporting, comments, and validation gates
.github/workflows/translation-status.yml
The job publishes translation reports, updates or creates marked pull-request comments, builds the MkDocs site, checks anchors, and enforces translation and anchor status.
Documentation caller and repository guidance
examples/docs-repo/.github/workflows/translation-status.yml, README.md
The example workflow delegates pull-request, push, and manual triggers to the reusable workflow. The README documents its interface, permissions, prerequisites, status checks, and scope.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to fb801

The PR adds a reusable translation-status workflow, but mutable action and workflow references can change upstream without a caller commit, creating a bounded supply-chain and reproducibility risk across the workflow and examples. Merge should wait for SHA pinning or explicit owner acceptance; the markdown spacing issue is minor.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant DocsRepository
  participant SharedWorkflow
  participant TranslationReporter
  participant GitHubPullRequestAPI
  participant MkDocs
  participant AnchorChecker

  DocsRepository->>SharedWorkflow: invoke translation-status workflow
  SharedWorkflow->>TranslationReporter: generate translation report
  TranslationReporter-->>SharedWorkflow: return report and exit status
  SharedWorkflow->>GitHubPullRequestAPI: update or create pull-request comment
  SharedWorkflow->>MkDocs: build site strictly
  SharedWorkflow->>AnchorChecker: check site anchors
  AnchorChecker-->>SharedWorkflow: return anchor status
  SharedWorkflow-->>DocsRepository: enforce workflow status
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Code review — 8 personas

Scope: feat/translation-status-workflow against main, 231 lines across 3 files.
Reviewers: correctness, testing, maintainability, project-standards (always-on),
plus security (a job token and a comment body built from repo filenames),
api-contract (workflow_call inputs other repos pin), reliability (the change is
mostly failure-path ordering), adversarial (194 changed lines of gating machinery
whose failure mode is a silent pass).

Two claims were checked directly rather than taken on trust, because the fixes
turn on them:

  • check-anchors exit 2 writes only to stderr. Ran against an empty directory:
    anchors.txt came out 0 bytes; with 2>&1 it captured
    No built pages found under 'emptysite' — nothing to check.
  • GitHub's default run shell is bash -e with no pipefail. Measured:
    bash -e -c 'false | tee /dev/null' exits 0; bash -eo pipefail exits 1.

P1 — fixed in this PR

# Where Issue Reviewers Conf
1 translation-status.yml anchors step check-anchors exit 2 printed nothing. Both exit-2 messages go to stderr, so | tee anchors.txt captured an empty file, the summary got an empty fenced block, and Fail on broken anchors cat'd nothing. A red run with no stated cause — the one thing the step order exists to prevent. Fixed with 2>&1. correctness, reliability, testing, api-contract 0.85
2 translation-status.yml report step The pipe into tee discarded the reporter's exit status, so a crash (an mkdocs.yml with no i18n plugin raises SystemExit) passed green with an empty summary. Fixed with PIPESTATUS and 2>&1, matching the anchors step. correctness, reliability 0.85
3 translation-status.yml comment step The comment lookup matched on the marker alone. Anyone able to comment on the PR could post <!-- translation-status --> first and have every later run PATCH their text instead — the bot's explanation replaced by attacker-chosen prose, including "everything is current". Now filtered on .user.login == "github-actions[bot]"; verified against this repo's API that it selects the bot's comment and skips a spoofed one. security 0.70
4 translation-status.yml comment step existing=$(gh api ... | head -1) took head's status, so a failed listing read as "no comment yet" and POSTed a duplicate — one transient error converted into permanent state. Now assigned without a pipe, so set -e fails the step instead; verified ids=$(false) aborts under bash -e. reliability, correctness 0.80

P2 — fixed in this PR

# Where Issue Reviewers Conf
5 Fail on broken anchors if: steps.anchors.outcome == 'failure' carries an implicit success(), so a failing gate skipped it — and the both-broken case is exactly what the tolerance was built for. Now always() && .... maintainability, reliability 0.82
6 uv sync No --locked, so a drifted lock silently re-resolved to a different version of the checkers. The gate's meaning is their exit statuses. Now uv sync --locked. reliability, security 0.65
7 checkout persist-credentials defaults true, leaving the job token in .git/config where dependency build backends and mkdocs plugins can read it. Nothing after the clone needs it. Now false. security 0.60
8 job No timeout-minutes, so a hung step held a runner for GitHub's 6-hour default. Now 20. reliability 0.70
9 README.md "Repository Requirements — each repository using these workflows must have" a VERSION file, debian/ and APT_REPO_PAT, stated directly below a section for docs repos that need none of them. Heading now scoped to the package workflows, and the repo's framing says it serves two consumer classes. project-standards, maintainability, api-contract 0.78

P3 — fixed in this PR

Header comment restated the README (project-standards, maintainability) — trimmed
to a pointer. README snippet had already drifted from examples/docs-repo/
(maintainability, 0.85) — the README now points at the example rather than
duplicating it. mkdocs and mkdocs-static-i18n were missing from the
requirements although uv run mkdocs build needs them from the caller's own
environment (correctness). The job id is half the status-check name every
consumer enters into branch protection (api-contract) — noted in the file and the
README, along with the paths: filter's interaction with required checks. The
cross-org question (project-standards): stated in the README that hatlabs docs
repos call this copy deliberately, since the one-copy-per-org rule exists to keep
APT inputs straight and this workflow has none.

Filed rather than fixed

  • #40 — the verification
    fixture is not in the repo. Three reviewers raised it. The probe was deleted and
    Actions logs expire, so the next editor cannot re-run any of it.
  • #41 — nothing lints
    this repo's own workflow files.
  • halos-org/docs-tools#14
    this workflow now hard-codes four package CLI invocations with no version floor,
    and the package's consumer list does not mention it.
  • halos-org/docs-tools#9
    check-anchors should read site_dir from mkdocs.yml rather than the
    workflow hard-coding site. Four reviewers reached this from different angles.

Considered and not acted on

Splitting the site build and anchor check into their own workflow
(maintainability, 0.68). The argument is fair: neither is translation status, and
a monolingual repo has to write the anchor check by hand. But that is a second
consumer class this repo does not have yet, and the split is additive later.

One reviewer claim is wrong. Security's testing gap asserts the step runs
under bash -eo pipefail, so a multi-match jq | head would SIGPIPE and fail.
Measured above: pipefail is off by default, which is why finding 2 exists at
all. The two cannot both be true.

Coverage

Unexercised paths, all fail-closed: the missing, unstamped and orphaned
gate states (the gate branches on non-zero, not on which state, so the observed
stale run generalizes); all three translation-status --check exit-2
conditions; a push-event run; the comment size fallback past 60000 characters
and the 1 MiB job-summary cap at the real consumer's 180 entries.

Verdict

Ready to merge. Every P1 and P2 is fixed and pushed. The one thing worth deciding
before halpi2 is wired is not in this diff:
halos-org/docs-tools#13
mkdocs 1.6 validates anchors itself, and a second reviewer reproduced it
independently on halos-org/docs.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In @.github/workflows/translation-status.yml:
- Line 35: Pin every mutable uses reference to a reviewed 40-character commit
SHA, including the action at .github/workflows/translation-status.yml lines 35
and 48, the corresponding reference in
examples/docs-repo/.github/workflows/translation-status.yml line 27, and the
README.md example at line 163; update all other mutable action tags and `@main`
reusable-workflow references in these files similarly.

In `@README.md`:
- Around line 166-169: Insert a blank line immediately after the “**Inputs:**”
label and before the inputs table to satisfy Markdownlint MD058.
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail

# List workflow references that are not pinned to a 40-character commit SHA.
rg -nP --glob '*.yml' --glob '*.yaml' \
  '^\s*uses:\s+\S+@(?![0-9a-fA-F]{40}(?:\s|$))' \
  .github/workflows examples/docs-repo/.github/workflows

Repository: halos-org/shared-workflows

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
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printf '%s\n' '--- listed files ---'
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         examples/docs-repo/.github/workflows/translation-status.yml \
         README.md; do
  if [ -f "$f" ]; then
    printf '\n### %s\n' "$f"
    case "$f" in
      README.md) sed -n '150,170p' "$f" ;;
      *) cat -n "$f" ;;
    esac
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rg -n --glob '*.yml' --glob '*.yaml' --glob 'README.md' '^\s*uses:\s+\S+@\S+' \
  .github examples README.md || true

printf '%s\n' '--- repository status and tracked paths ---'
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Length of output: 10487


Pin every mutable uses reference to a reviewed 40-character commit SHA.

Mutable action tags and @main reusable-workflow references also occur in the other workflow files and README templates. Update every occurrence, including the examples, so upstream changes require a caller commit.

📍 Affects 3 files
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In @.github/workflows/translation-status.yml at line 35, Pin every mutable uses
reference to a reviewed 40-character commit SHA, including the action at
.github/workflows/translation-status.yml lines 35 and 48, the corresponding
reference in examples/docs-repo/.github/workflows/translation-status.yml line
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and `@main` reusable-workflow references in these files similarly.

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**Inputs:**
| Input | Default | Description |
|-------|---------|-------------|
| `runs-on` | `ubuntu-latest` | Runner to use |

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Add a blank line before the Inputs table.

Markdownlint reports MD058 at line 167. Add an empty line after **Inputs:**.

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**Inputs:**
| Input | Default | Description |
|-------|---------|-------------|
| `runs-on` | `ubuntu-latest` | Runner to use |
**Inputs:**
| Input | Default | Description |
|-------|---------|-------------|
| `runs-on` | `ubuntu-latest` | Runner to use |
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Adversarial review — the eighth reviewer, and the sharpest

It ran longest and landed after the synthesis above. Seven findings, four applied
here, three filed. It also re-read the tree after the earlier fixes and confirmed
they closed the attacks it had constructed against the first revision (the
report-pipe mask, the marker hijack, the credential in .git/config).

The finding that matters most

The gate enforces that a stamp was updated, not that a translation is
current
— and the bot comment prints the hash needed to silence it. Its
"Stamp to record" column is the exact translated_from value, so the cheapest
route to green is to paste nine hashes and change no translated text. Every later
run then agrees, which makes that page's staleness permanently invisible: worse
than the advisory check this replaces, which at least kept reporting.

Confirmed against the probe comment, which printed
| fi | `index.md` | stale | `df1bfea27a4b31d30ab8d608d382e948ad25efae` |.

stamp_translation.py's own docstring names this as "the one gap the status
check cannot close". Neither the workflow nor the README said so, and this PR's
description stated the gate unconditionally. Both now carry the boundary. It is
a reviewer's job to catch a stamp-only diff, and reviewers can only do that if
they know it is theirs.

Also applied

cancel-in-progress: true cancelled the backstop. On push, github.ref is
refs/heads/main for every merge, so a second merge landing while the first run
was still cloning cancelled it — and a cancelled run is grey, not red, so nobody
is told. Now scoped to pull requests.

This matters because of the cascade the reviewer traced: the gate is a
whole-repository property evaluated on the merge commit as it stood when the run
started, and GitHub does not re-run PR checks when the base moves. PR A adding
locale pt and PR B adding an English page with its nine existing translations
are each green and touch disjoint files; merged, main has pt configured with
no docs/pt/new-page.md. The push run is the only thing that would catch it. The
README now says this gate needs "require branches to be up to date" or a merge
queue to mean anything.

A pull_request_target caller would have passed unconditionally. Checkout
with no ref takes the base branch on that event, so the gate would grade main
— green, because the last merge gated it — and never look at the PR. The
plausible route there is a maintainer reaching for pull_request_target to make
the comment work on fork PRs, which it does not. A prose prohibition in this
repo's README does not reach that person. There is now a first step that refuses
any event other than pull_request, push and workflow_dispatch, naming
pull_request_target and why.

Verified on a throwaway branch rather than reasoned about, because a guard that
misfires on pull_request would break every consumer: the step skipped and the
job proceeded.

Dropped the paths filter from the example. A required check that never runs
on a PR touching none of the filtered paths leaves that PR Pending forever, and
the cheapest exit is to un-require the check — which disables the gate. The cost
is a full-history clone on every PR, which is real on a repo with binaries under
docs/.

Filed

  • #43 — a wide English
    edit empties both explanation channels at once. The 1 MiB job-summary cap drops
    the diff report while the step stays green, and the comment's size fallback
    then points the reader at that dropped summary.
  • #44 — a
    generated-page plugin pins the job red with no input to escape it, and because
    the anchor check and the gate share one job, the cheapest remedy disables both.
    Carries the maintainability reviewer's split suggestion as the second option.
  • halos-org/halos#148 — the
    accidental form of "the PR supplies the checker that judges it": uv installs
    the project after its dependencies, so a [project.scripts] entry named
    translation-status shadows the pinned one. halpi2 still carries
    scripts/translation_status.py, so a shim left behind during Unit 9 would
    silently reinstate the advisory-only checker while --locked stays satisfied.

Verdict unchanged

Ready to merge. The three filed items are about scale and consumer
configuration, none reachable by the first consumer, and all additive.

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