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Summary

  • Split the yarn install cache actions/cache@v4 step in main.yml into explicit actions/cache/restore@v4 (upfront) and actions/cache/save@v4 (end of job, if: always(), timeout-minutes: 5, continue-on-error: true). This fixes the root cause of the documented cache-save hang instead of just band-aiding it with the job-level timeout — the path/key/restore-keys values are unchanged.
  • Added a "Verify dist is up to date" step after yarn build that fails if dist/ differs from what a fresh build produces, using git status --porcelain dist (the repo's .gitattributes marks dist files -diff, so git diff --exit-code alone would silently miss real changes — confirmed this locally). Modeled on the equivalent step in game-ci/cli's tests.yml.
  • Bonus: added timeout-minutes: 5 to the checkEnv job (main.yml) and the updateMajorTag job (versioning.yml), which previously had none.

Test plan

  • yarn install --immutable and yarn build run cleanly
  • Confirmed the dist-verify logic correctly flags a diff when dist doesn't match a fresh build (own Windows-built dist differed from committed Linux-built dist due to platform differences in ncc's license-comment ordering — discarded that local build, since CI runs on ubuntu-latest matching the original build)
  • git status --porcelain dist is clean against the original committed dist/
  • actionlint .github/workflows/main.yml .github/workflows/versioning.yml passes with no errors

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  • Chores
    • Improved automated build reliability by verifying generated distribution files remain up to date.
    • Added safeguards to prevent build, environment-check, and version-update jobs from running indefinitely.
    • Enhanced caching behavior to save resources safely without affecting workflow results.
    • Removed temporary build artifact uploads from automated test workflows.
    • Improved deployment workflow reliability and API access during automated version resolution.
    • Updated the action runtime to Node.js 24.

Split the yarn install cache actions/cache@v4 step into explicit
restore/save steps so a hung post-run cache-save can no longer block
the job. The save step now runs at the end with a 5-minute timeout
and continue-on-error so it can never fail or hang the job.

Also add a "Verify dist is up to date" step so committed dist/
(built via tsc && ncc build) can't silently drift from src/, modeled
on the equivalent check in game-ci/cli's tests.yml.

Bonus: add timeout-minutes to the checkEnv and updateMajorTag jobs,
which previously had none.
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The GitHub Actions workflows now separate cache restore and save operations, verify that dist is current, authenticate deployment steps, limit selected jobs to five minutes, and run the action on Node 24.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Dist validation and cache lifecycle
.github/workflows/main.yml
The tests job restores and saves the Yarn cache with separate actions. It verifies that dist is clean, removes the temporary artifact upload, and uses bounded, non-fatal cache saving.
Deployment API authentication
.github/workflows/main.yml
Both deployment steps set GITHUB_TOKEN to github.token when resolving the game-ci CLI version.
Workflow job timeouts
.github/workflows/main.yml, .github/workflows/versioning.yml
The checkEnv and updateMajorTag jobs now have five-minute timeouts. The related timeout comment is shorter.
Action runtime update
action.yml
The action runtime changes from Node 20 to Node 24.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to b61b2

Deployment steps now receive a GitHub token for API authentication, but its permissions are not explicitly restricted. Limit the job token to the required read scope before merging to reduce the impact of unintended action behavior.

Suggested reviewers: davidmfinol

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the primary CI changes: fixing cache-save hangs and adding a dist drift check.
Description check ✅ Passed The description is complete and directly related to the pull request. It explains the cache, dist verification, timeout changes, and test results. It uses Summary and Test plan headings instead of the…
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
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In @.github/workflows/main.yml:
- Line 69: Update the cache-save step’s condition from always() to the GitHub
Actions expression !cancelled(), preserving execution after ordinary step
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frostebite and others added 4 commits August 31, 2026 22:08
The new "Verify dist is up to date" check (added earlier in this PR)
correctly caught this: the committed dist/index.js was stale relative
to the current yarn.lock (a tslib helper-block difference from ncc's
bundling), predating this PR. Rebuilt with the exact node/yarn
versions pinned in mise.toml (node 20.18.0, yarn 4.14.1 via corepack)
to match what CI actually produces.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ncc/esbuild's platform-specific binaries produce a genuinely different
bundle on Windows vs the linux-x64 CI runner, even with matching
node/yarn versions - the previous commit's Windows-built dist still
didn't match what CI itself produces. Downloaded the actual CI-built
dist/ via a temporary artifact-upload step and committed it byte-exact
instead, then removed that temporary step.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
if: always() runs the cache-save step even after a cancelled workflow
run, which actions/cache/save@v4 doesn't handle cleanly. Use
!cancelled() instead - still saves after an ordinary step failure,
just not after cancellation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
frostebite and others added 2 commits September 9, 2026 07:07
GitHub is deprecating Node.js 20 on Actions runners and force-running
node20 actions on Node 24 anyway in the meantime. Matches the same
one-line bump already shipped in the sibling actions: game-ci/unity-
test-runner#304 and game-ci/unity-builder#827.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Without a token, this step's `game-ci` CLI download resolves
cliVersion "latest" via an unauthenticated GitHub API call.
GitHub-hosted runners share IPs across many concurrent jobs from
unrelated repos/orgs, so the 60 req/hour anonymous rate limit gets
exhausted by traffic this job never generated - hit live on this PR's
own CI just now: "Failed to resolve the latest game-ci CLI release:
GitHub API returned 403."

download-cli.ts already reads GITHUB_TOKEN/GH_TOKEN and adds an
Authorization header when present (lifting the limit to 5000
req/hour) - it just never receives one from this workflow. Passing
github.token through fixes it without touching the action's own code.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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In @.github/workflows/main.yml:
- Line 122: Add job-level contents: read permissions to the testDeploy job
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# req/hour and is already read by download-cli.ts when present -
# it just needs to actually be in this step's environment.
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}

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#!/bin/bash
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printf '%s\n' '--- testDeploy permissions and token forwarding ---'
sed -n '90,155p' .github/workflows/main.yml

printf '%s\n' '--- action token consumers and GitHub API calls ---'
fd -a '^action\.yml$|download-cli\.(ts|js)$' . | while IFS= read -r file; do
  printf '\n--- %s ---\n' "$file"
  rg -n -C 4 'GITHUB_TOKEN|github\.token|api\.github\.com|octokit|releases' "$file" || true
done

Repository: game-ci/steam-deploy

Length of output: 3751


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site:docs.github.com GitHub Actions GITHUB_TOKEN permissions contents read workflow default permissions

💡 Result:

In GitHub Actions, the GITHUB_TOKEN is a unique authentication token created for each workflow job [1]. Its default permissions are determined by settings configured at the organization or repository level, which administrators can set to either read or write [2]. When you define a permissions key within your workflow file, you explicitly control the access granted to the GITHUB_TOKEN [3][4]. It is important to note that if you specify any permission within the permissions block, all other unspecified permissions are automatically set to none [4][5]. For example, if you wish to set contents to read access while leaving other permissions as none, you must explicitly declare it: permissions: contents: read If you do not include a permissions key in your workflow, the GITHUB_TOKEN defaults to the permissions level (read or write) configured in your organization or repository settings [2]. Because of this, GitHub recommends adopting the principle of least privilege by explicitly defining the minimum required permissions for every workflow to mitigate security risks [3][6]. If your workflow requires multiple permissions, you must list all of them, as omitting any will set them to none [4][5].

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rg -n -C 3 '^(permissions:|  permissions:|    permissions:|testDeploy:|GITHUB_TOKEN:|uses: \./)' .github/workflows/main.yml
printf '%s\n' '--- token consumer implementation ---'
sed -n '1,70p' src/download-cli.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- action metadata ---'
sed -n '1,120p' action.yml

Repository: game-ci/steam-deploy

Length of output: 219


Security Misconfiguration

Reachability: Internal
Exploitability: Difficult
CWE: CWE-250

Restrict the token before passing it to the action.

testDeploy has no explicit permissions: policy, so github.token uses repository or organization defaults. Add job-level contents: read permissions before exposing the token at both action steps.

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[warning] 1-154: overly broad permissions (excessive-permissions): default permissions used due to no permissions: block

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[warning] 93-154: overly broad permissions (excessive-permissions): default permissions used due to no permissions: block

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permissions to the testDeploy job before both action steps that expose
GITHUB_TOKEN, ensuring the token is restricted to repository content read
access.

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