ci(provisioning): add the provisioning-check reusable gate (re-land #1106 onto main)

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Re-land of #1106 onto main. #1106 merged at 15:32Z into its stacked base feat/provisioning-canon, but #1096 (that base) was closed unmerged. Its content reached main as #1112 instead, so the gate never reached main. .github/workflows/provisioning-check-reusable.yml is absent on main at 1b6e19ea.

This is #1106's single commit replayed onto main (signed). The workflow and canon.lock are byte-identical to #1106's merged head a6649bca. The only conflict was .github/workflows/actions.lock: #1084 added harden-runner under propagate-hooks.yml next to where this PR adds its section, and both are kept. gh actions-lock --no-fix passes 56 of 57 workflows. The one failure is the signed-push-smoke.yml local-action error, which #1084 records as already failing before this change.

A diff of the 3-practice/provisioning tree between feat/provisioning-canon and main shows that only this gate was stranded. The template differences there are newer hypatia:ignore annotations that main has and the dead base lacks.

KYAML for this workflow follows in a separate PR. That PR first moves the grep-reading workflow gates (lock-selfcheck, validate-actions-lock, governance permissions check, duplicate-keys) to yq (YAML-POLICY Y-1), because each of them would falsely fail a flow-style file.

What

.github/workflows/provisioning-check-reusable.yml, the CI gate from 3-practice/provisioning. It checks the caller against the canon at the workflow's own commit (job.workflow_sha), in two steps that report separately:

Step	Fails when
Engine files match the canon	any build/just/{provision.just,provision-lib.sh,provision-modes.sh,provision-check.sh} is missing or differs byte-for-byte
Provisioning set conforms	the canon provision-check.sh, run without --dev, reports FAIL. It loads provision-lib.sh from its own directory, so a drifted caller copy cannot vouch for itself

• channels.scm is deliberately not compared byte-for-byte: toolchain-refresh re-pins it per repository. provision-check.sh checks its pin instead.
• just 1.56.0 comes from the release tarball, pinned by sha256 (the same pin as launch-scaffolder#67). No new uses: is added.
• actions.lock gains the section by hand (checkout only). canon.lock lists the reusable as provisioning under [canon.workflows].

Evidence (local dry run of both steps; the CI proof follows on a throwaway caller)

Case	cmp step	provision-check
rsr-template-repo #213 head (control)	pass	pass
mutant: fmt-check recipe removed	pass	FAIL
mutant: python added to mise.toml	pass	FAIL (banned tool + unpinned)
mutant: provision-lib.sh changed	FAIL	pass
mutant reverted	pass	pass

The third mutant is why there are two steps: an engine edit that leaves conformance intact is caught only by the byte comparison.

Known, not new

• actionlint does not know the job.workflow_sha context. It reports the same thing 4 times on allowlist-preflight-reusable.yml.
• gh actions-lock gives this file the same sha-as-ref advisory that every SHA-pinned workflow here carries (94 on the base, 95 with this one).

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• Chores
  • Added an automated workflow to check that key provisioning files match the canonical versions and that repositories conform to the provisioning checks.
  • The workflow runs both checks independently unless cancelled, verifies the integrity of its required tool before installation, and includes conformance results in the run summary.

Walkthrough

This pull request adds a reusable GitHub Actions workflow. It compares four provisioning engine files with the standards canon and runs the canon's conformance checker against the caller repository.

Changes

Provisioning checks

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Workflow setup and tool installation .github/workflows/provisioning-check-reusable.yml	Defines the reusable workflow, checks out the caller and canon, stages provisioning templates, and installs just after verifying its SHA-256.
Engine and conformance checks .github/workflows/provisioning-check-reusable.yml	Checks four engine files for missing or differing content. Runs the canon's conformance checker against the caller repository and records its log in the step summary.

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CallerRepository
  participant ReusableWorkflow
  participant StandardsCanon
  participant ProvisionChecker
  CallerRepository->>ReusableWorkflow: Calls workflow
  ReusableWorkflow->>StandardsCanon: Checks out canon at workflow_sha
  StandardsCanon-->>ReusableWorkflow: Supplies provisioning templates and checker
  ReusableWorkflow->>CallerRepository: Compares four engine files
  ReusableWorkflow->>ProvisionChecker: Runs checker against caller repository
  ProvisionChecker-->>ReusableWorkflow: Returns status and log

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Description check	✅ Passed	The description clearly explains the re-land and the provisioning-check workflow, including its checks, configuration, and validation evidence.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the addition of the provisioning-check reusable gate and its re-land onto main.
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.github/workflows/provisioning-check-reusable.yml

[warning] 38-42: credential persistence through GitHub Actions artifacts (artipacked): does not set persist-credentials: false

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[warning] 44-52: credential persistence through GitHub Actions artifacts (artipacked): does not set persist-credentials: false

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[info] 94-94: code injection via template expansion (template-injection): may expand into attacker-controllable code

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.github/workflows/provisioning-check-reusable.yml (2)

94-94: No change needed for the job.workflow_sha expansion.

job.workflow_sha is a 40-character commit SHA set by GitHub. A caller cannot inject shell code through it. The zizmor template-injection hint is a false positive here.

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44-52: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🛡️ Detected with Advanced Tier

Disable credential persistence for the canon checkout. The checkout uses the default credential persistence. Set persist-credentials: false to prevent the checked-out canon job from retaining credentials.

Proposed fix

           sparse-checkout-cone-mode: false
+          persist-credentials: false