sec(ci): delete only the ECR repo each staging state owns (#1820)

[cristim]

Closes #1820

Problem

cleanup-staging.yml selected ECR repositories to force-delete by the
cudly-staging prefix. That prefix is not unique to the repository the job
owns: it also matches cudly-staging-prod-mirror, cudly-staging-<hex>-backup,
and, because the lambda and fargate staging jobs each create their own
repository, the sibling job's repository. Each match was force-deleted along
with every image in it.

This is the same shape issue 1592 rejected for destroy-fargate-dev.yml. The
fix for 1592 landed the exact-match selector and wired the dev workflow, but not
its staging sibling, so the bug survived in cleanup-staging.yml. A guard that
lands in one workflow and not the other is the recurrence mode here.

Change

Both cleanup-staging.yml delete sites now select the repository by exact name
through scripts/select-ecr-repos-to-delete.sh (already on main from 1592),
which prints back only names byte-for-byte equal to the owned name. The owned
name comes from terraform output -json on the state the job is about to
destroy, so it is the name that state actually created rather than a pattern
someone hopes only matches it. The repository carries a random suffix, so no
literal list can be hardcoded and no prefix describes it uniquely.

The two staging jobs init the same module directory against different backend
keys (github-staging/ and github-fargate-staging/) on separate runners, so
each resolves its own state's repository and, under exact equality, neither can
delete the other's.

Error swallowing is removed from these steps. They previously ended
... --force 2>/dev/null || echo "may already be gone", which reported success
after a failed listing or a failed delete; a failed listing is indistinguishable
from an empty account, so cleanup silently did nothing and terraform destroy
then failed on the images still present. Nothing is suppressed now. "Already
gone" needs no swallowing: the repository is simply absent from the listing, the
selector prints nothing and exits 0, and the loop body never runs.

One deletion body, three call sites

The cleanup body was 15 lines under a 30-line comment, and wiring the two
staging jobs would have made three byte-identical copies of it across
destroy-fargate-dev.yml and cleanup-staging.yml. Landing a change to how the
repository is chosen in one workflow and not its sibling is literally how 1592
became 1820; three copies is that failure mode with more places to forget.

So the body lives once, in scripts/force-delete-owned-ecr-repo.sh, and each of
the three destroy steps is a one-line call to it. Behaviour is unchanged: same
output -json handling, same exact-equality selection, same absence of error
swallowing. The state directory stays an explicit argument at each call site
rather than a constant inside the script, because which state the owned name is
read from is what decides which repository may be deleted, and that belongs in
view at the call site.

output -json rather than output -raw: on a state with no outputs at all,
output -raw <name> exits 0 and writes its "No outputs found" warning to
STDOUT, so the name would become that warning text and re-dispatching the
cleanup after a completed one would fail before terraform destroy ever ran.
output -json returns {} for that state and the two cases separate cleanly:
no outputs at all means already destroyed and the cleanup is skipped; outputs
but not this one means jq -e exits 1 and the script fails loudly.

The wiring assertions

The suite already covered the selector standalone. Those cases all stay green if
a consumer loses its selector stage, which is exactly how 1592 became 1820, so
the wiring is asserted separately. With the body extracted, that splits in two:

• assert_step_wiring -- each named step still calls the shared script against
  terraform/environments/aws, with the step count pinned per file so a run
  where one of the two staging steps keeps the call and the other drops it
  cannot satisfy a per-file flag.
• assert_script_wiring -- the shared script still reads the owned name from
  terraform output, still feeds it to the selector, still has the delete loop
  reading the selector's output, and still deletes exactly the repository that
  loop read. Five counts, each pinned to exactly one, so a second unguarded
  delete added beside the guarded one is caught rather than absorbed.

Asserting only the first would pass a shared script that had quietly gone back
to a prefix filter. Asserting only the second would pass a workflow that had
stopped calling it.

A sweep keyed on the dangerous call rather than on a name backstops both, for
delete sites nobody has named. It now covers the two production scripts
alongside .github/workflows: moving the delete out of the workflow steps moved
it out of the sweep's reach, and a sweep still looking only at
.github/workflows would have reported a clean result for a directory that no
longer contains the call it looks for. scripts/ is swept file by file rather
than globbed, because this suite lives there and quotes both the command and the
selector as fixture data.

Why the sweep matches code rather than text

The sweep has to tell code that runs aws ecr delete-repository from prose
that only mentions it. ci.yml's own comment describing this assertion names
the command, and an echo may quote it; neither deletes anything. Matching
those would constrain what may be written about the command, which is the same
"the string is present somewhere" mistake the selector exists to remove, one
level up. So three awk helpers match the shell code on a line:

• code_of() drops a trailing comment at a word-start #, the one rule YAML and
  shell already share.
• invokes_delete() additionally empties quoted string literals, so a command
  named inside "..." or '...' is prose.
• pipes_to_selector() runs on code_of() alone, because it asserts the literal
  text of the selector's quoted argument and emptying literals would erase it.
  Running it on the raw line would let a commented-out selector stage mask an
  unguarded delete in the same step, which fails open. Its path matches both call
  forms, the workflows' relative ./scripts/select-... and the shared script's
  "${SCRIPT_DIR}/select-...", while requiring the slash immediately before the
  file name so | cat select-ecr-repos-to-delete.sh "$X" does not count.

Recognition is itself exercised over fixtures in both directions: prose alone is
not a delete site, a wired delete beside prose is not flagged, an unwired delete
is flagged past a commented-out selector stage, a script with no step names is
flagged as a whole file, and a directory holding no workflow file or a swept
file that does not exist is reported rather than passed, since an empty file set
satisfies every negative predicate.

A reporting bug the multi-file sweep surfaced

The sweep flushes a site's state when the next file's first line arrives, by
which point awk's FILENAME has already advanced, so a finding that ran to the
end of its file was reported against whichever innocent file happened to be
swept next. Every fixture swept a single file, so none of them could catch it.
Findings are now reported from the file the site came from, pinned by a two-file
fixture with the unwired file first. That fixture fails against the previous
sweep, naming b-innocent.yml for a finding in a-unwired.yml.

Verification

Suite: 46 passed, 0 failed, exit 0. Runs in the existing
ecr-delete-selection CI job (shell only, always runs).

Delete sites across .github/workflows and the two production scripts: 1
invocation, 1 guarded. Mentions elsewhere are prose.

The wiring assertions were proved to bite. Because stripping a guard from a
tracked workflow is not something to do in the working tree, the suite was run
against a copy of scripts/ + .github/workflows/ (it derives its root from
BASH_SOURCE). Control on the unmutated copy: exit 0, 46/0. Each mutation below
exits 1 with the assertion it targets naming the offending site:

Mutation	Result
lambda staging call site removed	45/1, step assertion
fargate staging call site removed	45/1, step assertion
lambda staging call site reverted to a starts_with prefix match	44/2, step assertion + sweep naming the step
destroy-fargate-dev.yml call site removed	45/1, step assertion
shared script drops its selector stage	44/2, script assertion + sweep naming the script
selector kept as a live call but moved out of the pipeline, delete driven by the raw listing	44/2, script assertion + sweep naming the script

Both directions at both staging sites, probed against the selector directly: the
owned repository is still selected, and the sibling state's repository, the bare
prefix, the -backup suffix and backup--prefixed near-misses are all refused.

Fail-closed probes on the deletion path: empty owned name, whitespace-only, an
embedded space, a tab, a trailing newline, a trailing CR and wrong arity all
exit 2; a failing listing fails the pipeline with 0 deletes attempted. Glob
metacharacters in the owned name (*, ?, cudly-staging-*,
cudly-staging-[0-9a-f]*) select nothing rather than everything, since the
right-hand side of [[ ]] is quoted. The shared script exits 2 on wrong arity
or a state directory that does not exist, rather than handing an empty string to
terraform -chdir=.

bash -n and shellcheck clean on the new script; actionlint clean on
cleanup-staging.yml and destroy-fargate-dev.yml; all three workflow YAMLs
parse. pre-commit passes on every changed file. ci.yml's four pre-existing
actionlint findings are unchanged in count and sit in an untouched job.

Least privilege on the guard job

ci.yml declares no workflow-level permissions, so every job without its own
block is minted a GITHUB_TOKEN at the repository default, which this repo has
set to read/write. ecr-delete-selection checks out the tree and runs a shell
script over it, so it now declares contents: read and nothing more, matching
the shape security-scan already uses in the same file.

Out of scope

cleanup-staging.yml still has || true and 2>/dev/null on its RDS and GCP
paths. That is issue 1821 and is untouched here: this diff adds and removes no
RDS or GCP line.

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Walkthrough

The workflows now use Terraform state to identify the exact ECR repository to delete. A shared script handles validation, empty state, selection, and deletion. Tests verify workflow wiring and detect unguarded deletion commands.

Changes

ECR cleanup hardening

Layer / File(s)	Summary
State-scoped cleanup .github/workflows/destroy-fargate-dev.yml, .github/workflows/cleanup-staging.yml, scripts/force-delete-owned-ecr-repo.sh	Cleanup jobs pass Terraform environment paths to a shared script. The script reads ecr_repository_name, handles empty outputs, selects the exact repository, and propagates command failures.
Workflow enforcement tests scripts/test-select-ecr-repos-to-delete.sh	Tests cover staging repository selection, named workflow steps, shared-script wiring, comment-aware parsing, repository-wide sweeps, and fixture attribution.
CI guard documentation and permissions .github/workflows/ci.yml	CI comments document selector ownership and all ECR deletion paths. The selection job receives contents: read permission.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 94625

The change makes staging cleanup target only the exact repository owned by each state and exposes listing or deletion failures instead of masking them. It is mergeable with owner awareness because duplicated workflow logic still leaves a bounded drift risk, and the guard job retains default token permissions rather than least-privilege access.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CleanupWorkflow
  participant TerraformState
  participant CleanupScript
  participant SelectorScript
  participant AWSECR
  CleanupWorkflow->>CleanupScript: Pass Terraform environment path
  CleanupScript->>TerraformState: Read ecr_repository_name
  CleanupScript->>SelectorScript: Pass repository listing and exact name
  SelectorScript-->>CleanupScript: Return exact repository match
  CleanupScript->>AWSECR: Force-delete selected repository

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Possibly related PRs

• LeanerCloud/CUDly#1815: Added the exact ECR repository selection work that this PR centralizes and applies to the remaining workflows.
• LeanerCloud/CUDly#1219: Modified the CI workflow with a separate validation job, but implemented unrelated checks.

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Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes address issue #1820 by using Terraform-owned exact repository names, shared selection, failure propagation, and positive and negative tests for both cleanup sites.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The workflow refactor, shared deletion script, documentation, and wiring tests support the stated ECR deletion-scope and fail-closed objectives.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%.
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.github/workflows/cleanup-staging.yml (1)

173-189: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Duplicated ECR cleanup body in both staging jobs. Both jobs inline the same 15-line step body and the same comment block, so every future change must land twice. Move the body to a shared script under scripts/.

• .github/workflows/cleanup-staging.yml#L173-L189: replace the inline body with a call to the new shared script.
• .github/workflows/cleanup-staging.yml#L288-L304: replace the identical inline body with the same call.

If you move the body, update assert_step_wiring in scripts/test-select-ecr-repos-to-delete.sh, because it asserts the selector pipe stage inside the workflow step.

As per coding guidelines: "Place utility scripts under scripts/".

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In @.github/workflows/cleanup-staging.yml around lines 173 - 189, Extract the
duplicated ECR cleanup body into a shared utility script under scripts/, then
replace both cleanup-staging.yml sites (.github/workflows/cleanup-staging.yml
lines 173-189 and 288-304) with calls to that script. Update assert_step_wiring
in scripts/test-select-ecr-repos-to-delete.sh to validate the new workflow
wiring rather than the moved selector pipeline.

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.github/workflows/ci.yml (1)

751-758: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a least-privilege permissions block to this job.

The ecr-delete-selection job has no permissions: block, so it inherits the default token scope. The job only checks out code and runs a shell script, so contents: read is enough.

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   ecr-delete-selection:
     name: ECR delete selection scope
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      contents: read

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In @.github/workflows/ci.yml around lines 751 - 758, Add a job-level permissions
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In @.github/workflows/ci.yml:
- Around line 751-758: Add a job-level permissions block to ecr-delete-selection
granting only contents: read, preserving its checkout and shell-script behavior
without inheriting broader token permissions.

In @.github/workflows/cleanup-staging.yml:
- Around line 173-189: Extract the duplicated ECR cleanup body into a shared
utility script under scripts/, then replace both cleanup-staging.yml sites
(.github/workflows/cleanup-staging.yml lines 173-189 and 288-304) with calls to
that script. Update assert_step_wiring in
scripts/test-select-ecr-repos-to-delete.sh to validate the new workflow wiring
rather than the moved selector pipeline.

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