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Issue for this PR

Closes #1432

Type of change

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  • Refactor / code improvement
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What does this PR do?

ci.yml gets a top-level permissions block (contents: read, pull-requests: read) and all 12 checkouts set persist-credentials: false (10 added here; tracker-leaks and typecheck already had it).

PR jobs run code from the pull request: tests, and install scripts during bun install. I read every job in ci.yml; none uses the token to write (no push, no gh, no API write). pull-requests: read is there because the changes job uses dorny/paths-filter, which lists the PR's files through the API. marker-guard fetches origin main and the upstream repo, which are both public, so it does not need the stored credentials.

Why now: we are about to let an automated agent open draft PRs here, and a same-repo branch gets the repository token. With a write token, code in a new test file could push or approve. The repository default is already read-only as of today; this keeps that true even if the setting changes.

How did you verify your code works?

Locally: actionlint reports no syntax errors on ci.yml, and a strict YAML parse (duplicate keys rejected) confirms the top-level permissions and that all 12 checkouts are non-persisting. The first push of this PR had duplicate persist-credentials keys in two checkouts, which made the workflow invalid; the reviewers caught it and the second commit removes them. This PR's own CI run is the end-to-end test: every job in ci.yml has to pass with the read-only token.

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  • I have not included unrelated changes in this PR

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Low Risk
Workflow-only change that tightens token scope and checkout credential handling; no application or release logic is modified.

Overview
Hardens the CI workflow so pull-request jobs cannot abuse the GitHub token when they run untrusted PR code (tests and bun install scripts).

Adds a workflow-level permissions block (contents: read, pull-requests: read) and sets persist-credentials: false on every actions/checkout step so the token is not left in .git/config. pull-requests: read is scoped for dorny/paths-filter in the changes job; no job behavior otherwise changes.

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Hardens the ci workflow: PR jobs now run with a read-only GitHub token, and checkouts no longer persist credentials into .git/config.

  • Adds a top-level permissions block (contents: read, pull-requests: read) so PR jobs running PR code (tests, install scripts) have no write access. pull-requests: read covers dorny/paths-filter in the changes job.
  • Sets persist-credentials: false on all 12 checkouts; a follow-up commit removed duplicate keys in tracker-leaks and typecheck, which already had the setting, that made the workflow invalid.
  • This keeps the repo read-only by default once an automated agent starts opening draft PRs from same-repo branches, where a write token could let test code push or approve.

Written for commit a5f2172. Summary will update on new commits.

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Closes #1432

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The CI workflow now declares read-only permissions for repository contents and pull requests. Checkout steps across the listed jobs disable persisted credentials.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Workflow permissions and checkout settings
.github/workflows/ci.yml
The workflow sets read-only permissions for contents and pull requests. Checkout steps across the listed jobs disable persisted credentials. The marker-guard checkout retains its full-history setting.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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Change: Refactor · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to a5f21

This change pins the CI workflow to read-only token permissions and stops checkout from persisting credentials. It does not change application behavior, and no concrete merge-blocking risk was found.

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #1432 requires workflow-level contents: read and pull-requests: read, plus persist-credentials: false on every checkout in .github/workflows/ci.yml. The whole-PR diff adds both permissio…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The whole-PR diff changes only .github/workflows/ci.yml. The changes add the permissions and checkout configuration required by issue #1432. The explanatory comment supports the same CI security obj…
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.github/workflows/ci.yml 116 Duplicate persist-credentials keys in the tracker-leaks and typecheck checkout steps can invalidate the workflow.
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- Line 116: Remove the duplicate persist-credentials entries from both checkout
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Two checkouts (tracker-leaks, typecheck) already set persist-credentials: false; the previous
commit added it again, and duplicate mapping keys make the workflow invalid.

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