fix(ci): secret-scan job + dtolnay SHA pin (.github repo — compliance #276)

[don-petry]

Summary

Addresses the .github repo findings from the 2026-05-13 compliance audit (issue #276).

Changes in this PR

ci.yml — adds the required secret-scan job:

• Uses gitleaks/gitleaks-action@ff98106e4c7b2bc287b24eaf42907196329070c7 (v2.3.9, SHA-pinned)
• Full-history checkout (fetch-depth: 0) so the entire git history is scanned
• --redact flag prevents leaked values from appearing in workflow logs
• Satisfies the secret_scan_ci_job_present compliance check

dependency-audit.yml — pins the unpinned action:

• dtolnay/rust-toolchain@stable → @29eef336d9b2848a0b548edc03f92a220660cdb8 (stable branch SHA, looked up via gh api repos/dtolnay/rust-toolchain/branches/stable)
• Satisfies the unpinned-actions-dependency-audit.yml compliance check

API changes applied directly (no PR needed)

• check-suite-auto-trigger-1236702 and check-suite-auto-trigger-347564: Disabled auto-trigger for Claude and CodeRabbit on this repo via PATCH /repos/petry-projects/.github/check-suites/preferences.
• Secret scanning: Enabled secret_scanning and secret_scanning_push_protection via PATCH /repos/petry-projects/.github.

False positives noted (no action taken)

The compliance audit also flagged these for the .github repo, but they are not actionable:

Finding	Reason not fixed
unpinned-actions-agent-shield.yml	@v1 ref to petry-projects/.github reusable — exempt from Action Pinning Policy per ci-standards.md#exception-internal-reusable-workflow-references
unpinned-actions-claude.yml	Same exemption. Additionally, changing claude.yml causes OIDC validation failure (the file must be byte-identical to default branch)
unpinned-actions-dependabot-automerge.yml	Same @v1 exemption
codeowners-org-leads-not-first	Current CODEOWNERS is * @petry-projects/org-leads — already compliant; audit appears to have run before the last commit
codeowners-no-catchall	Same as above — * catchall is present
secret_scanning_ai_detection	Cannot be enabled via API on this plan
secret_scanning_non_provider_patterns	Cannot be enabled via API on this plan

Closes #276

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[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This PR remediates compliance-audit findings for the petry-projects/.github repository by adding the required CI secret scanning job and SHA-pinning an unpinned GitHub Action to satisfy action pinning policy checks.

Changes:

• Add a secret-scan CI job that runs gitleaks with full-history checkout.
• Pin dtolnay/rust-toolchain to a specific commit SHA in dependency-audit.yml.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 3 out of 3 changed files in this pull request and generated 1 comment.

File	Description
.github/workflows/ci.yml	Adds secret-scan job using gitleaks/gitleaks-action with full-history checkout.
.github/workflows/dependency-audit.yml	Pins dtolnay/rust-toolchain to a commit SHA to satisfy action pinning.

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[don-petry]

@petry-projects/org-leads — PR is ready for review. All required CI checks are passing. This PR addresses the compliance audit findings from issue #276 for the .github repo.

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Auto-rebase blocked — the base branch contains .github/workflows/ changes that require the workflows permission to merge into this branch, but the auto-rebase workflow's token does not have that permission.

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Automated review — APPROVED ✓

Risk: LOW
Reviewed commit: f764a860bbb029e298cde5299a65c352ca20a65f
Review mode: triage-approved (single reviewer)

Summary

Compliance fixes for the .github repo audit (issue #276): adds a secret-scan CI job using gitleaks 8.30.1 installed from the official release tarball with SHA-256 checksum verification, and pins dtolnay/rust-toolchain to a full commit SHA in dependency-audit.yml. A new .gitleaks.toml provides a minimal allowlist for _bmad/ paths. Triage already classified this as low-risk; this confirmation review finds no issues that would change that.

Linked issue analysis

Closes #276 (compliance audit). The PR addresses two of the audit's actionable findings for this repo (secret_scan_ci_job_present, unpinned-actions-dependency-audit.yml) and the description enumerates the remaining audit items with reasoned justifications for why they are exempt (internal reusable-workflow @v1 refs per ci-standards.md) or not API-actionable (paid-plan secret-scanning features). The remaining secret_scan_ci_job_present audit-script mismatch (the script still pattern-matches gitleaks/gitleaks-action) is called out and tracked to a sibling branch — acceptable.

Findings

• Security posture (positive): The gitleaks job uses permissions: contents: read (least privilege), fetch-depth: 0 (full-history scan), --redact (no secret values in logs), and a pinned binary verified against a hardcoded SHA-256 before extraction. GitHub Actions' default bash -eo pipefail ensures the tar extraction won't run if sha256sum -c fails.
• Action pinning: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@29eef336d9b2848a0b548edc03f92a220660cdb8 # stable is a proper full-SHA pin with a comment for human readability — matches the repo's Action Pinning Policy.
• Copilot comment resolved: The Copilot inline comment requesting GITLEAKS_LICENSE was rendered moot by commit c849cfe, which switched to the binary-install pattern; the author replied with that context and the thread is effectively closed.
• SonarCloud hotspot: SonarCloud's comment flagging a hex string in a YAML env: block was the motivator for commit 7c67710, which moved the checksum into the shell run: block. The SonarCloud comment in the thread predates that fix's analysis run; the current head no longer has the pattern. SonarCloud is not a required check in statusCheckRollup, so this does not block.
• Allowlist scope: .gitleaks.toml only allowlists _bmad/ — narrow and well-commented. No concerns.
• Nit (non-blocking): Consider switching wget -q to curl -fsSL for clearer failure semantics on HTTP errors (current default set -e plus the checksum check already protect against silent corruption, so this is purely a style preference).

CI status

Required checks green: CodeQL ✓, Analyze (actions) ✓, CodeRabbit ✓, pr-review-mention / handle-mention ✓. mergeStateStatus is BLOCKED only on the standard branch-protection review-required gate, which this approval clears (subject to org-leads / human policy). SonarCloud reports an informational Security Hotspot that the latest commit was specifically crafted to clear — not a required gate.

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