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fix(create-issues-from-todos): remove mutable scanner image - #876

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Motivation

  • A composite action executed the mutable container tag ghcr.io/alstr/todo-to-issue-action:v5.1.15 with the workflow GITHUB_TOKEN, an App PROJECTS_SECRET, and a writable workspace, creating a supply-chain risk if the tag is retagged upstream.
  • The change pins execution to an immutable, reviewed upstream commit to prevent remote image retag attacks while preserving existing behavior.

Description

  • Replaced the direct docker run of ghcr.io/alstr/todo-to-issue-action:v5.1.15 in create-issues-from-todos/action.yaml with a commit-pinned invocation uses: alstr/todo-to-issue-action@37bb7b56e58569ef273b60678048030a7f0c261a # v5.1.15 and preserved the AUTO_ASSIGN, CLOSE_ISSUES, PROJECT, and PROJECTS_SECRET inputs.
  • Removed the mutable image floor and local docker run wrapper so the reviewed action code runs under the normal GitHub Actions runner isolation.
  • Tightened the CI invariant in .github/workflows/ci.yaml to fail if a mutable GHCR tag is used and to require the upstream action be pinned to the reviewed commit SHA string.
  • Added an automated check that the changed composite action uses full commit SHAs for remote uses: refs.

Testing

  • Parsed the modified YAMLs with ruby -e "require 'yaml'; ARGV.each { |p| YAML.parse_file(p) }" create-issues-from-todos/action.yaml .github/workflows/ci.yaml which succeeded.
  • Verified the composite action no longer contains ghcr.io/alstr/todo-to-issue-action: and does contain alstr/todo-to-issue-action@37bb7b56e58569ef273b60678048030a7f0c261a # v5.1.15 using grep checks which passed.
  • Ran a remote-action SHA validation script (regex check for 40-char SHAs) against create-issues-from-todos/action.yaml which passed.
  • Ran git diff --check to ensure no whitespace/merge issues and noted that actionlint, yamllint, and zizmor are not installed in this environment.

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MegaLinter analysis: Success

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✅ REPOSITORY betterleaks yes no no 0.39s
✅ REPOSITORY checkov yes no no 14.09s
✅ REPOSITORY gitleaks yes no no 0.1s
✅ REPOSITORY git_diff yes no no 0.01s
✅ REPOSITORY osv-scanner yes no no 0.4s
✅ REPOSITORY secretlint yes no no 0.55s
✅ REPOSITORY syft yes no no 1.59s
✅ REPOSITORY trivy yes no no 7.59s
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Exact-head static review — changes needed at 290aa873a5324b34286c45425aef491acea0788b

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[P1] Preserve the retry hardening guarded by #483

The current action deliberately copies .scripts/retry.sh outside the checkout and wraps the TODO container because the upstream action performs unauthenticated raw.githubusercontent.com fetches and aborts on the first transient 429/5xx. Actions #483 records repeated failures across KSail, Homebrew tap, and platform-template, and its acceptance criteria require retry without changing inputs or permissions. This patch deletes that retry path and replaces the CI assertion that protects it, so the known first-attempt failure mode returns across every consumer even though the mutable-tag risk is removed. Keep execution immutable without removing the bounded retry—for example, pin the container by digest and retain the existing wrapper—and keep a negative contract check that fails when retry coverage disappears.

[P1] Preserve automatic Project placement

The existing invocation explicitly exports INPUT_AUTO_P=true; the new with: block passes PROJECT and PROJECTS_SECRET but omits AUTO_P. That changes the action input contract while the PR says behavior is preserved, and the new tests only grep YAML rather than proving that discovered TODOs are still added to the configured Project. Restore the explicit opt-in and add a consumer-path assertion covering Project placement.

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