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TL;DR

• CI reuses checksum-verified tool archives and retries transient downloads within finite budgets.

Tier: internal

Background

Build jobs repeatedly stopped before tests when release endpoints returned temporary errors or invalid archive bodies. Retrying the entire workflow downloaded the same dependencies again. The verified oracle archive cache addressed one acquisition path, but other build tools still downloaded independently.

What changes

Library and CLI behavior is unchanged.

• Covered: cargo-deny, actionlint, Binaryen, maturin and JM acquisition in current CI, including the JM intermediate certificate and Python wheel build environments.
• Not covered: frozen installers and registrations, Rust toolchain and package-manager bootstraps, or permanent mirrors. A cold cache still fails closed when a pinned artifact is unavailable.

After merging: none.

Decisions

• Cache archives by tool, pinned version and SHA256 rather than trusting loose executables. Every use verifies staged bytes; Binaryen extracts fresh and JM rebuilds fresh. Cache publication failures remain advisory.
• Keep existing installer and pin bytes unchanged, using separate CI entry points where source identities are recorded. JM retains its pinned canonical certificate, root-chain validation and reconstructed single-certificate bundle.
• Replace the maturin action's unconditional GitHub release fetch with verified official PyPI wheels for its currently resolved version, 1.16.0. The verified executable is mounted read-only into the same manylinux build environments; targets and build flags are retained, without credential mounts.
• Keep workspace, fuzz-project and standalone dependency policy checks intact, including fresh advisory checks on reused merge groups. Only executable acquisition changes.

Evidence

Verification run: 40 focused download and workflow regressions cover transient HTTP failures, verified cache hits, corrupt caches, digest refusal, advisory cache failures, certificate trust, Python build-path wiring, retained MIT attribution and refusal to ship CI glue in wheels. Existing workflow and installer checks are run before publication. Full deny runs in CI, not local Docker. Final-head CI execution logs and similarity evidence follow in comments.

Links: follows coreav-dev/coreav#522.

• Every commit is signed off (git commit -s, DCO).
• I copied nothing from other implementations.

CI build glue ported from PyO3/maturin-action at e83996d129638aa358a18fbd1dfb82f0b0fb5d3b, MIT, attributed in the file header.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• CI Improvements
  • Build and validation workflows now use pinned tool versions and verify downloaded archives against their checksums before use.
  • Verified archives can be reused from a cache; invalid cached files are rejected.
  • CI now builds Python wheels across supported platforms and installs the required validation and video-decoding tools through consistent workflows.
• Documentation
  • Updated CI, codec, and WebAssembly guidance to describe download verification and archive-cache behavior.

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Walkthrough

The pull request adds digest-verified archive caching and CI-specific installers for check tools, Binaryen, the JM decoder, and maturin. It updates CI workflows to use these installers and adds tests for downloads, cache behavior, platform builds, and workflow wiring.

Changes: CI archive caching and check tools

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Verified archive caching and check tools .github/actions/ci-archive-cache/action.yml, .github/actions/ci-check-tool/action.yml, .github/workflows/deny.yml, .github/workflows/videotoolbox.yml, scripts/ci-tools.env, scripts/fetch-ci-archive.sh, scripts/install-ci-check-tool.sh, scripts/tests/test_ci_downloads.py	The new archive action validates inputs and sets a cache path and key. The fetch script verifies cached or downloaded archives. Pinned actionlint and cargo-deny installers replace workflow download steps, with tests for archive handling and workflow wiring.

Binaryen and JM reference installers

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Binaryen and JM reference installers scripts/install-ci-binaryen.sh, scripts/install-ci-jm-decoder.sh, .github/workflows/npm.yml, .github/workflows/wasm.yml, .github/workflows/h264-encoder.yml, scripts/tests/test_ci_reference_downloads.py, docs/agents/codecs.md, docs/agents/wasm.md	CI workflows use pinned Binaryen and JM archives with the new installers. The JM installer verifies its certificate and archive. Tests cover digest checks, caching, trust validation, and workflow wiring. The documentation describes the CI installer behavior.

Pinned maturin builds

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Pinned maturin builds scripts/maturin.env, scripts/install-ci-maturin.sh, .github/workflows/python.yml, scripts/tests/test_maturin_downloads.py, docs/agents/ci.md	The CI-only maturin installer provides pinned platform metadata, verified installation, Linux and macOS build modes, and wheel checks. Python workflow jobs use these modes. Tests cover downloads, builds, artifact checks, and workflow wiring.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to b14f6

This change makes CI tool downloads cached and digest-verified, with bounded retries. No concrete merge-blocking problem was found, so it is ready to merge after normal CI.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to b14f6

Cached archives remain subject to pinned checksum verification before use, and the reviewed workflows add no explicit publishing credentials. No introduced security vulnerability was established. Risk remains low rather than minimal because the previous wheel-build action’s internal credential and environment handling could not be compared completely.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — A compromised build executable could alter the CI workspace and generated wheels. The inspected Python jobs declare read-only repository and Actions permissions and disable persisted checkout credentials; no explicit publishing credential is supplied to their build steps.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The cache does not authorize executable identity: independently staged archive bytes must match the repository pin before extraction. Maturin extracts only the expected versioned executable member. Linux forwards selected environment prefixes, including ACTIONS_, GITHUB_, and MATURIN_*, so the read-only executable mount does not itself establish a credential-free container boundary.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — The helper’s final output copy is not atomic, but identified production callers place that output in fresh temporary directories and consume it only after successful acquisition. Shared cache publication races therefore do not establish a verification bypass, and interrupted acquisition does not provide these callers with a successful path to extraction or execution.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title "fix(ci): cache verified build tool downloads" follows Conventional Commits and names the main change: CI now caches checksum-verified build tool archives. The changeset adds archive-cache a…
Description check		The description follows the repository template. It has a TL;DR with one bullet, Background, What changes (with covered and not-covered scope and a post-merge note), Decisions, and Evidence with a ver…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

Full details: Title check

Explanation

The title "fix(ci): cache verified build tool downloads" follows Conventional Commits and names the main change: CI now caches checksum-verified build tool archives. The changeset adds archive-cache and fetch scripts, pinned tool metadata, and workflow wiring for cargo-deny, actionlint, Binaryen, maturin, and JM, which the title covers. It is 44 characters, under the 50-character guideline in the template, and it names one outcome.

Full details: Description check

Explanation

The description follows the repository template. It has a TL;DR with one bullet, Background, What changes (with covered and not-covered scope and a post-merge note), Decisions, and Evidence with a verification run summary and links. The Scenario diagram section is omitted, which the template allows because the diff stays within CI and the user-visible behavior does not change. The Needs the maintainer section is also omitted, which is correct since no item applies. The Evidence section lists 40 regressions and says the final-head CI logs will follow in comments. The description has some gaps: the TL;DR bullet mixes in tier information, the Decisions section includes a note about similarity evidence that is pending, and the Background does not name the specific symptoms or dates. Overall the description is mostly complete and passes.

Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 26 functions across 10 files. (11 skipped: 11 unsupported.)

Resolution

Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Finishing Touches

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Review info

Run configuration

• Source mode: Auto
• Repository: coreav-dev/coreav
• Branch: main
• File: .coderabbit.yaml
• Commit: 0fc9f53
• Layers: Repository YAML
• Review profile: CHILL
• Plan: Advanced
• Run ID: e2d1a14a-d86d-45c0-996f-7c8d73836b37

Commits

Reviewing files that changed from the base of the PR and between 0fc9f53 and b14f6a2.

Files selected for processing: 21

• .github/actions/ci-archive-cache/action.yml
• .github/actions/ci-check-tool/action.yml
• .github/workflows/deny.yml
• .github/workflows/h264-encoder.yml
• .github/workflows/npm.yml
• .github/workflows/python.yml
• .github/workflows/videotoolbox.yml
• .github/workflows/wasm.yml
• docs/agents/ci.md
• docs/agents/codecs.md
• docs/agents/wasm.md
• scripts/ci-tools.env
• scripts/fetch-ci-archive.sh
• scripts/install-ci-binaryen.sh
• scripts/install-ci-check-tool.sh
• scripts/install-ci-jm-decoder.sh
• scripts/install-ci-maturin.sh
• scripts/maturin.env
• scripts/tests/test_ci_downloads.py
• scripts/tests/test_ci_reference_downloads.py
• scripts/tests/test_maturin_downloads.py

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Review: no blocking issue

Reviewed head b14f6a284f25b4b2258819e55a2dec567c976030 (base main at 0fc9f53, which is also the merge base).

Checked

• Verification on every path: fetch-ci-archive.sh copies a cache hit into a staging directory and runs the SHA256 check before use; a rejected hit falls through to a download, which is checked again, and a mismatch exits non-zero. Only verified bytes are published to the cache, and a publish failure is advisory after verification. Binaryen extracts fresh from the verified archive every run, cargo-deny and actionlint install from the verified archive, maturin is read out of the verified wheel, and JM rebuilds from the verified zip. The JM intermediate is digest-checked as DER on both the hit and the miss path, then chain-verified against the system roots before it enters the bundle. I found no fallback that runs an unverified copy of any of the five tools.
• Bounded retries: every curl uses --retry 8 --retry-max-time 360 --max-time 300 --connect-timeout 20 with a speed floor. There are no shell retry loops.
• Cache keys: ci-tool-archive-<tool>-<version>-<sha256>, with inputs validated by regex and no restore-keys. Every installer's cache file name matches the action's path for its tool (maturin-wheel, binaryen, jm, jm-ca, cargo-deny, actionlint).
• Frozen and registered inputs: git diff origin/main...b14f6a2 -- scripts/oracle-ffmpeg.env scripts/install-oracle-ffmpeg.sh judging bench is empty. install-jm-decoder.sh, install-binaryen.sh, jm-decoder.env and binaryen.env are also unchanged. The new paths are separate CI entry points.
• Credentials: every touched workflow keeps permissions: contents: read, has no secrets. reference and checks out with persist-credentials: false. The manylinux container mounts only the workspace and the verified maturin directory read-only.
• Attribution: the header of scripts/install-ci-maturin.sh matches the upstream LICENSE at e83996d129638aa358a18fbd1dfb82f0b0fb5d3b byte for byte, and names the upstream URL, the revision, what is ported and what is new. The root Cargo.toml is a virtual workspace, and scripts/ is outside the coreav-py crate, so the glue cannot reach a wheel or a .crate. verify-artifacts runs after each of the three wheel builds. The PR body leaves "I copied nothing" unchecked and explains it in one accurate line.
• Regressions in CI by name: deny.yml runs test_ci_downloads.py, test_ci_reference_downloads.py and test_maturin_downloads.py explicitly. At this head, wasm-contract and h264-encoder-conformance each logged test_ci_reference_downloads.py: Ran 18 tests, OK. Locally on macOS, the reference suite (18) and the maturin suite (10) pass. test_ci_downloads.py errors locally only because the macOS system Ruby 2.6 YAML loader does not accept aliases:, which is an environment limit and not a defect in the PR.

Non-blocking

1. deny-checks and the three wheel jobs are still queued at this head. Before merge, the deny-checks log should show all three suites passing (12, 18 and 10 tests) and each wheel job should pass verify-artifacts.
2. npm-report and python-report show failures at this head from runs 42491514090 and 42491514021. Their *-changes job was cancelled, apparently superseded by runs 42491514478 and 42491514538, so this is not a code failure. Confirm that the newer runs' report checks replace them, or rerun.
3. The Linux wheel container still bootstraps rustup and uv through curl | sh when the image lacks them, uses :latest image tags, and the macOS path installs cffi unpinned. This is ported upstream behaviour and is listed under Not covered, so it is not a regression. Pinning it is a reasonable follow-up.
4. verify-artifacts matches the glue by file name only. That is enough here given the packaging boundary above.

CodeRabbit: no inline findings at review time (its review was still in progress). CodeRabbit: 0 confirmed, 0 minor, 0 false positive.

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Verification at b14f6a284f25b4b2258819e55a2dec567c976030:

• CI has 34 successful checks, no failures or pending checks, and 14 skipped checks. The replacement npm-report and python-report both passed on their first attempt.
• Linux deny logged all 40 new tests by name as passed: test_ci_downloads 12/12, test_ci_reference_downloads 18/18 and test_maturin_downloads 10/10. These include test_full_upstream_license_and_source_provenance_are_retained and test_built_wheels_refuse_ci_glue_and_missing_artifacts.
• The x86 manylinux, arm64 cross and macOS arm64 jobs each built a wheel and passed verify-artifacts.
• Similarity passed at the exact checkout above against the main allowlist: 112 spans, 0 unallowlisted, 0 problems and 0 stale entries.

The independent review's pending CI items are now satisfied. CodeRabbit completed its review of this head with approval and no open inline threads. Its docstring-coverage warning is non-blocking; no code change is needed for that advisory check.