ci(fat): gc.auto=0 in section clones (Refs #5917; stacked on #5850)

.flow009/batcher.pub

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+ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAINna9SBgvdA0Te1LhyTa6jXbDu8SgJmiDDPhHkLmljw7 flow009-batcher

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -474,8 +474,62 @@ jobs:
   # The workspace tests, one shard per job (nextest hash partition N/12 plus the
   # explicit runner's round-robin N/12), in parallel on the X64 clean-room pool.
   # The section body is ci/sections.yml `workspace-test-shard`, unchanged.
+  # #5798: the receipt judge. A PR cannot forge a receipt: this job checks out the BASE only
+  # and fetches the PR merge commit as data (a --no-checkout worktree that is read, never
+  # executed), on a dedicated self-hosted ephemeral runner (label receipt-judge) that no PR-code job ever shares, and runs the
+  # verifier under `env -i` with absolute tools. What it does NOT cover: a PR that edits the CI
+  # files or the judge itself. merge_group ignores --receipt-ok but runs only the QUICK tier
+  # (full only on tag/release, scripts/ci_test_tier.sh merge_group case), from the PR's own
+  # CI files, so it does not re-judge such an edit with a trusted copy; CI-edit review is the
+  # only backstop. scripts/check_receipt_gate.sh (W16-W32) turns RED if
+  # this job gains a step that runs PR-tree code or checks the PR out as code.
+  # Fail closed: the job runs only once the repo variable RECEIPT_JUDGE_RUNNER_READY is 'true' (set
+  # after the label has a runner). Until then it is skipped, the shard gets ok=0 and the PR runs the
+  # tier its diff selects, so a judge with no runner never queues and never blocks a PR.
+  # It always exits 0; the shard job reads `ok` as 1 only on a literal 1.
+  receipt-judge:
+    if: github.event_name == 'pull_request' && vars.RECEIPT_JUDGE_RUNNER_READY == 'true'
+    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, X64, receipt-judge]
+    timeout-minutes: 10
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+    outputs:
+      ok: ${{ steps.judge.outputs.ok }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
+        with:
+          ref: ${{ github.base_ref }}
+          persist-credentials: false
+      - name: Judge the receipt in the PR body
+        id: judge
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
+          PR_BODY: ${{ github.event.pull_request.body }}
+          PR_NUMBER: ${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}
+        run: |
+          export GIT_NO_REPLACE_OBJECTS=1
+          ok=0
+          printf '%s' "${PR_BODY:-}" > "$RUNNER_TEMP/pr-body.md"
+          export GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0 GIT_CONFIG_COUNT=1 GIT_CONFIG_KEY_0=http.https://github.com/.extraheader
+          GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_0="AUTHORIZATION: basic $(printf 'x-access-token:%s' "$GH_TOKEN" | base64 | tr -d '\n')"
+          export GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_0
+          if git fetch -q --no-tags --depth=1 origin "refs/pull/${PR_NUMBER}/merge" &&
+             [ "$(git rev-parse FETCH_HEAD)" = "${GITHUB_SHA}" ] &&
+             unset GIT_CONFIG_COUNT GIT_CONFIG_KEY_0 GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_0 GH_TOKEN &&
+             git -c core.hooksPath=/dev/null worktree add -q --no-checkout --detach "$RUNNER_TEMP/prtree" FETCH_HEAD &&
+             git show HEAD:scripts/ci/receipt_ok_arg.sh > "$RUNNER_TEMP/rok.sh"; then
+            # --no-checkout: the PR tree has no files, so no PR executable can sit in the verifier's
+            # cwd, and no filter or hook runs. The wrapper is read from the base object database.
+            ok="$(cd "$RUNNER_TEMP/prtree" && env -i HOME="$HOME" PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin /usr/bin/bash "$RUNNER_TEMP/rok.sh" "$RUNNER_TEMP/pr-body.md" "$GITHUB_WORKSPACE" "${GITHUB_SHA}")" || ok=0
+          fi
+          [ "$ok" = 1 ] || ok=0
+          printf 'ok=%s\n' "$ok" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+
   workspace-test-shard:
-    if: ${{ github.event.pull_request.draft != true }}
+    needs: [receipt-judge]
+    # draft PRs skip; the judge is skipped off a pull_request and fails closed: !cancelled() runs the shard
+    # whatever the judge did, and RECEIPT_OK is 1 only on the judge's literal 1.
+    if: ${{ !cancelled() && github.event.pull_request.draft != true }}
     # same lanes as x86-main: clean-room for pull_request/push, mq for a merge_group entry
     runs-on: ${{ github.event_name == 'merge_group' && fromJSON('["self-hosted","Linux","X64","mq"]') || fromJSON('["self-hosted","Linux","X64","clean-room"]') }}
     timeout-minutes: 180
@@ -487,6 +541,7 @@ jobs:
     outputs:
       results: ${{ steps.run.outputs.results }}
     env:
+      RECEIPT_OK: ${{ needs.receipt-judge.outputs.ok || '0' }}
       GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
       FAT_VARS_JSON: ${{ toJSON(vars) }}
     steps:

.github/workflows/guards-nightly.yml

@@ -174,6 +174,8 @@ jobs:
       # ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
       - name: "Test-tier decision case table (BSE-17): quick/full/reuse, drift is ENV"
         run: bash scripts/ci_test_tier.sh --self-test
+      - name: Receipt gate case table and mutants (#5797, LAB)
+        run: setsid --wait bash scripts/check_receipt_gate.sh
       - name: Fleet-cells gate case table and mutants (#5064, LAB)
         run: setsid --wait bash scripts/release/fleet_cells_gate.sh --self-test
       - name: compute row zero-tests case table and mutants (#5048, LAB)

ci/sections.yml

@@ -379,9 +379,24 @@ jobs:
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
           MG_BASE_SHA: ${{ github.event.merge_group.base_sha }}
+          PR_BODY: ${{ github.event.pull_request.body }}
         run: |
           set -euo pipefail
+          # #5850: every helper below runs with a SCRATCH GITHUB_OUTPUT/GITHUB_ENV; only the last line of this step writes
+          # the real file, so no helper can plant tier=/cite= lines or a heredoc in front of ours.
+          real_out="$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          GITHUB_OUTPUT="$(mktemp)"; GITHUB_ENV="$(mktemp)"; export GITHUB_OUTPUT GITHUB_ENV
           args=(--event "${GITHUB_EVENT_NAME}")
+          # #5797: a signed batch receipt in the PR body (signature, tree hash == this
+          # merge tree, toolchain hash) lets the PR run check/fmt/clippy instead of the
+          # suite. The verdict is NOT computed here: the `receipt-judge` job in ci.yml
+          # computes it in a job that never checks out or runs the PR tree (it checks out
+          # the base, reads the PR merge commit as data), and the shard job hands it in as
+          # RECEIPT_OK. Anything but a literal 1 -- unset, 0, a skipped or failed judge -- is
+          # 0, and 0 leaves the tier exactly as it was. Only a pull_request can carry one.
+          rok=0
+          if [ "${GITHUB_EVENT_NAME}" = pull_request ] && [ "${RECEIPT_OK:-0}" = 1 ]; then rok=1; fi
+          args+=(--receipt-ok "${rok:-0}")
           # PMAT-1098 67-E2: the queue and a push to main re-derive their own
           # diff from HEAD's FIRST PARENT (HEAD^1..HEAD is the PR's diff on the
           # new base). actions/checkout is shallow, so that parent is not in the
@@ -439,7 +454,7 @@ jobs:
               ;;
           esac
           bash scripts/ci_test_tier.sh "${args[@]}" | tee "$RUNNER_TEMP/tier.txt"
-          grep -E '^(tier|crates|targets|check_workspace|reason|cite)=' "$RUNNER_TEMP/tier.txt" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          grep -E '^(tier|crates|targets|check_workspace|reason|cite)=' "$RUNNER_TEMP/tier.txt" >> "$real_out"
       # #4502 row 2: lint_passes_on_real_contracts (aprender-contracts) requires the
       # refinement gate to RUN whenever CI is set, and that gate compares HEAD with
       # merge-base(HEAD, origin/main), else the origin/main tip. This section clones at
@@ -1075,7 +1090,7 @@ jobs:
           python3 scripts/ci/sigma_executed.py nextest --kind "quick tree readers" --junit "$sig/quick-tree.junit.xml" --list-json "$sig/quick-tree.list.json" || rc=1
           exit "$rc"
       - name: "Quick tier: cargo check --workspace (over-the-cap integration, BSE-17 rule (i))"
-        if: steps.tier.outputs.tier == 'quick' && steps.tier.outputs.check_workspace == '1' && matrix.shard == matrix.shards
+        if: ((steps.tier.outputs.tier == 'quick' && steps.tier.outputs.check_workspace == '1') || (steps.tier.outputs.tier == 'reuse' && steps.tier.outputs.cite == 'receipt')) && matrix.shard == matrix.shards
         timeout-minutes: 20
         env:
           REASON: ${{ steps.tier.outputs.reason }}

docs/roadmaps/entries/PMAT-5797.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+- id: PMAT-5797
+  github_issue: 5797
+  item_type: task
+  title: 'PR gate: signed batch receipt verify (sig, tree, toolchain) as tier=reuse extension'
+  status: planned
+  priority: high
+  assigned_to: null
+  created: 2026-10-20T14:55:28Z
+  updated: 2026-10-20T14:55:28Z
+  spec: null
+  acceptance_criteria: []
+  phases: []
+  subtasks: []
+  estimated_effort: null
+  labels:
+  - kind:code
+  notes: null
+  epic: 5510

docs/roadmaps/entries/PMAT-5917.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+- id: PMAT-5917
+  github_issue: 5917
+  item_type: task
+  title: 'GH-5917: gc.auto=0 in fat_driver section clones'
+  status: planned
+  priority: high
+  assigned_to: null
+  created: 2026-10-22T07:46:41Z
+  updated: 2026-10-22T07:46:41Z
+  spec: null
+  acceptance_criteria: []
+  phases: []
+  subtasks: []
+  estimated_effort: null
+  labels:
+  - kind:code
+  notes: null
+  epic: 5510

docs/roadmaps/roadmap.yaml

@@ -25359,6 +25359,24 @@ Not done, pending the ruling: moving the 31 fixture files to an obviously synthe
   - kind:code
   notes: null
   epic: 3863
+- id: PMAT-5797
+  github_issue: 5797
+  item_type: task
+  title: 'PR gate: signed batch receipt verify (sig, tree, toolchain) as tier=reuse extension'
+  status: planned
+  priority: high
+  assigned_to: null
+  created: 2026-10-20T14:55:28Z
+  updated: 2026-10-20T14:55:28Z
+  spec: null
+  acceptance_criteria: []
+  phases: []
+  subtasks: []
+  estimated_effort: null
+  labels:
+  - kind:code
+  notes: null
+  epic: 5510
 - id: PMAT-5817
   github_issue: 5817
   item_type: task
@@ -25454,3 +25472,21 @@ Not done, pending the ruling: moving the 31 fixture files to an obviously synthe
   - kind:code
   notes: null
   epic: 5510
+- id: PMAT-5917
+  github_issue: 5917
+  item_type: task
+  title: 'GH-5917: gc.auto=0 in fat_driver section clones'
+  status: planned
+  priority: high
+  assigned_to: null
+  created: 2026-10-22T07:46:41Z
+  updated: 2026-10-22T07:46:41Z
+  spec: null
+  acceptance_criteria: []
+  phases: []
+  subtasks: []
+  estimated_effort: null
+  labels:
+  - kind:code
+  notes: null
+  epic: 5510