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Why

The reviewed isolated-chart authorization exemption proved that the HelmRelease and immutable OCIRepository were namespace-local, but it did not prove the same property for the chart children. A pinned chart could therefore render a workload into a foreign privileged namespace while the source-level guard and existing non-RBAC CEL paths stayed green.

What

  • Add a path-scoped CEL rule that accepts only the reviewed data-product-controller Namespace and cluster-scoped RBAC shapes, and requires every namespaced child to declare data-product-controller.
  • Helm-render the exact staged-off OCI digest through KSail without adding the component to any deploy overlay.
  • Gate pull requests, merge groups, direct pushes to main, and manual CD on the check, each with a 10-minute bound.
  • Parse the workflows in Go so removing the command, moving it before KSail setup, splitting setup into another runner job, or dropping the timeout fails the contract.
  • Refuse runtime value sources on the reviewed HelmRelease. The component sits outside every deploy overlay, so admission never re-checks it and this render is the only control standing over it; a value resolved in the cluster would mean Flux installs something the render never saw.
  • Re-check the chart on the recovery path's own revision. The failure-path job that restores production republishes the current tip of main, which can differ from what was scanned, and the previous check was satisfied by any job in the workflow rather than the one doing the deploying.

Kyverno admission does not back this check. The final child object does not retain reliable HelmRelease provenance, so a cluster-wide admission rule could not safely distinguish this reviewed chart from unrelated workloads. The static gate keeps that provenance by validating only the exact component path and immutable chart digest; the existing production CEL suite continues to validate rendered RBAC.

Proof

  • RED: the permissive rule admitted the foreign-namespace Deployment and the focused test failed for that exact reason.
  • GREEN: namespace-local control accepted; foreign Deployment, foreign Namespace, and namespace-omitted workload rejected by the named rule; exact chart digest sha256:dd1bfb808253f9a52fdd383f95290215fdc14b6ecc959f7d507a03def8921bc7 rendered cleanly.
  • Workflow RED/GREEN: the parsed contract failed independently for all three missing routes, then passed after wiring; removal, ordering, separate-job, and unbounded-render ablations remain covered.
  • go test ./scripts/validate-eks-ci-role-policy passed.
  • ShellCheck, Actionlint, and git diff --check passed.
  • ksail workload validate and ksail --config ksail.prod.yaml workload validate passed: 117 kustomizations and 597 files in each mode.
  • The standalone Go CLI reached its intentional renderer-version guard locally (kubectl v1.36.1 vs required v1.36.2); hosted workflows install the pinned v1.36.2 before invoking it.
  • Commit 844787a080e537f3bb833369d85dcb3e0378b9a7 has a verified good signature.

Fixes #3497

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CodeRabbit did not deliver at this head. Recording the outcome and advancing the lane.

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Codex findings verified independently at 844787a0 — 3 of 4 CONFIRMED, reproduced locally

Assessed on merit against the real tree, not taken on the reviewer's word. Checked out 844787a0
(clean detach, status/clean -ndx/ls-files -v all empty) and exercised the guard with ksail
7.181.2.

Baseline — the guard does work for what it targets. The PR's own suite passes:

PASS: isolated chart children are namespace-local and the exact pinned chart renders cleanly   (exit 0)

and a foreign-namespace fixture is correctly refused by the named rule:

✗ rule "restrict-data-product-controller-rendered-child-namespaces" violated by
  Deployment/kube-system/evil                                                       (exit 1)

CONFIRMED (P1) — rendered RBAC subjects are unconstrained

Not a reading of the expression; it is reproducible. Same rules file, same command:

kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata: {name: dpc-escalation}
roleRef: {kind: ClusterRole, name: cluster-admin, apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io}
subjects: [{kind: ServiceAccount, name: kustomize-controller, namespace: flux-system}]
ksail --config ksail.prod.yaml workload validate <fixture> --skip-helm-render \
  --rules scripts/tests/isolated-chart-namespace-rules.yaml
→ exit 0   (ACCEPTED)

cluster-admin granted to a flux-system service account passes the isolation guard. Lines 14–15
accept any namespace-less ClusterRole/ClusterRoleBinding unconditionally, with no constraint on
subjects[].namespace or on roleRef. The guard constrains namespace placement but not RBAC grant
scope
— which is the privilege half of the threat the PR describes.

CONFIRMED (P1) — production rules cannot compensate

k8s/bases/apps/kustomization.yaml:17 has # - data-product-controller/ (staged off 2026-09-01,
lines 12–13). So the rendered children never reach production-authorization-rules.yaml, and the
isolated render is validated only against a rules file that permits all cluster-scoped RBAC. The
two findings compound: the permissive branch is also the only one applied.

CONFIRMED (P1) — dr-rebuild.yaml is an ungated deployment route

Consistent with the coverage list in this PR; the DR path can publish and reconcile a revision without
running the new validator.

NOT independently verified (P2) — strings.Contains accepts inert mentions

Reads correct on inspection; I did not build a fixture for it. Flagging as unverified rather than
confirmed.

Status

Staying a draft — this is NEEDS-FIX, not a review-gate formality. The pentad is otherwise clear
(21 SUCCESS / 6 SKIPPED, 0 unresolved threads, CLEAN), but a security guard that admits a
cluster-admin escalation should not promote on the strength of the namespace half working.

Recording the reproduction so the fix can be validated against it: the RBAC fixture above must exit
non-zero, and the existing suite must still pass unmodified — the real pinned chart renders
cluster-scoped RBAC of its own, so a naive "reject all ClusterRoleBinding" would break the accepted
case rather than fix the gap.

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Validated fix for the RBAC-subject P1 — RED/GREEN proven locally

Not a suggestion: this was exercised at 844787a0 with ksail 7.181.2 and meets all three
conditions. Posting it rather than pushing, because three findings remain open and a push now
would spend a review round on a still-incomplete head.

Replace the expression: in scripts/tests/isolated-chart-namespace-rules.yaml with:

    expression: >-
      has(object.metadata) &&
      ((has(object.metadata.namespace) &&
        object.metadata.namespace == 'data-product-controller') ||
       (!has(object.metadata.namespace) &&
        ((has(object.kind) &&
          object.kind == 'ClusterRole' &&
          has(object.metadata.name) &&
          object.metadata.name == 'data-product-controller') ||
         (has(object.kind) &&
          object.kind == 'ClusterRoleBinding' &&
          has(object.metadata.name) &&
          object.metadata.name == 'data-product-controller' &&
          has(object.roleRef) &&
          has(object.roleRef.kind) &&
          object.roleRef.kind == 'ClusterRole' &&
          has(object.roleRef.name) &&
          object.roleRef.name == 'data-product-controller' &&
          has(object.subjects) &&
          object.subjects.all(s,
            has(s.namespace) && s.namespace == 'data-product-controller')) ||
         (has(object.kind) &&
          object.kind == 'Namespace' &&
          has(object.metadata.name) &&
          object.metadata.name == 'data-product-controller'))))

It splits the previously unconditional kind in [ClusterRole, ClusterRoleBinding] branch into two
name-pinned shapes, and additionally requires a ClusterRoleBinding to bind the reviewed
ClusterRole and to carry only subjects in data-product-controller. A binding with no
subjects fails closed.

Evidence

# Condition Result
1 Reviewed pinned chart still renders clean (no regression) exit 0
2 cluster-admin -> flux-system/kustomize-controller exit 1, refused by the named rule
3 The PR suite, unmodified, against the fixed rules exit 0 (PASS: ... renders cleanly)

Condition 3 matters most: the reviewed chart really does render ClusterRole/data-product-controller
and ClusterRoleBinding/data-product-controller (enumerated with a probe rule), so a blunter
"reject all cluster-scoped RBAC" would have broken the accepted case rather than closed the gap.

Still open on this PR

  • P1 isolated render is validated only against this rules file, and the component is commented
    out at k8s/bases/apps/kustomization.yaml:17, so production rules cannot compensate.
  • P1 dr-rebuild.yaml is an ungated deployment route.
  • P2 strings.Contains accepts inert shell mentions of the validator.

Applying all four together, then restarting the review loop at CodeRabbit, is the cheaper path.

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Added a namespace admission rule for rendered data-product-controller chart children. Added tests for local, foreign, missing, and invalid namespace values, plus validation of the pinned chart. Added the test to CI, main, production authorization, and disaster-rebuild workflows with a 10-minute timeout. Added coverage checks for workflow setup, ordering, job placement, command detection, and timeout requirements. Updated isolation documentation comments.

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes address issue #3497. They render the pinned chart digest, reject foreign namespaces, include positive and negative tests, document the verified property, record the Kyverno decision, and a…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The workflow changes, namespace fixtures, validation script, Go coverage tests, and documentation updates all support the linked issue objectives. No unrelated code changes are evident.
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In `@scripts/tests/isolated-chart-namespace-rules.yaml`:
- Line 15: Restrict the ClusterRole and ClusterRoleBinding exception in the
namespace rules to explicitly approved resource names, roleRef values, and
binding subjects rather than accepting every object of those kinds. Update the
rule to reject privileged roles and external subjects, and add fixtures covering
those rejection cases.

In `@scripts/validate-eks-ci-role-policy/coverage_test.go`:
- Line 128: Update the step matching logic in coverage_test.go so the check in
the test path around strings.Contains(step.Run,
".github/scripts/setup-ksail.sh") only counts executable workflow commands, not
inert mentions in echoes or comments. Adjust the command detection to inspect
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@devantler Review complete. I found three issues.

  1. P1 — Restrict the accepted cluster-scoped RBAC shapes.
    scripts/tests/isolated-chart-namespace-rules.yaml, Line 15, accepts every namespace-less ClusterRole and ClusterRoleBinding. A rendered chart can therefore bind cluster-admin to a service account in flux-system and pass this gate. The production authorization rules do not compensate because this chart is staged off. Allow only the reviewed ClusterRole and ClusterRoleBinding names. Require the binding to reference that ClusterRole. Require every binding subject namespace to be data-product-controller. Add a negative fixture for a foreign subject with cluster-admin.

  2. P1 — Gate .github/workflows/dr-rebuild.yaml before it reconciles production.
    The rebuild job in .github/workflows/dr-rebuild.yaml, Line 123, creates the cluster and then runs workload reconcile. It does not run scripts/tests/test-isolated-chart-namespace-rules.sh. This route can deploy a revision that enables or changes the staged-off chart without the rendered-child check. Run the isolated-chart validation after KSail setup and before cluster create or manifest publication. Extend TestIsolatedChartNamespaceGateCoversEveryDeploymentRoute to require this workflow.

  3. P2 — Match the validator command as an executable command.
    runsIsolatedChartNamespaceValidator in scripts/validate-eks-ci-role-policy/coverage_test.go, Line 131, uses strings.Contains. A workflow step such as echo "bash scripts/tests/test-isolated-chart-namespace-rules.sh" or a comment can satisfy the contract without running the validator. Parse the shell command or use a line-anchored expression that accepts the intended invocation only. Add negative controls for an inert mention and a commented invocation.

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Three findings from the Codex and CodeRabbit reviews at 844787a.

The namespace rule accepted every ClusterRole and ClusterRoleBinding the chart
could render, because the cluster-scoped branch tested `kind` alone. A revision
granting cluster-admin to a subject in another namespace satisfied it — the
exact property the rule exists to deny. Both shapes are now pinned by name, and
a binding must reference the reviewed ClusterRole and carry only subjects in the
release namespace; one with no subjects fails closed. Six fixtures cover those
rejections, each individually verified to be accepted by the previous rule.

While the component is staged off it sits in no deploy overlay, so cluster
admission never evaluates it and that one rule was the only control standing
over these manifests. The suite now also renders the same pinned artifact
through the production authorization rules.

The workflow-coverage guards matched their gate with strings.Contains, which
also matches a path that is echoed, commented out, or handed to another tool as
an argument — `shellcheck .github/scripts/setup-ksail.sh` in this repository's
own ci.yaml is a live instance. A guard built on it reports a gate as covered
when nothing runs it. Matching is now positional: the invocation must begin at a
command word, which admits every executable spelling without enumerating the
text-emitting builtins, and is strict in the direction that fails the build
loudly rather than passing an absent gate silently.

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The isolated-chart coverage guard is named CoversEveryDeploymentRoute but
listed three workflows, and dr-rebuild.yaml is a fourth: it publishes a mutable
tag and reconciles the selected revision, so an operator could recover a
revision whose chart renders a child into a foreign namespace without that
render ever being checked.

The gate runs directly after the KSail install it needs and before cluster
creation, so a bad render is refused while nothing has been provisioned. It adds
no new dependency class to recovery — the workflow already gates on registry
reachability through the nested RGD template scan and the Flux GHCR preflight.

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I found no new actionable issues.

The update addresses the prior findings:

  • The isolated-chart rule restricts cluster-scoped RBAC to the reviewed role and binding shape.
  • The rule rejects foreign, mixed, cluster-scoped, and missing binding subjects.
  • The DR rebuild workflow runs the validator after KSail setup and before cluster creation.
  • The workflow contract includes dr-rebuild.yaml.
  • The contract now distinguishes executable commands from comments, echo, tool arguments, and heredoc content.

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User evaluation at 122e67f35945662eccb8d003b2371969abf6a531 — exercised, not reasoned

The previous evaluation record was at 844787a080, which the heredoc fix superseded, so this
re-establishes the third readiness condition at the current head. Exercised in an isolated
worktree detached at 122e67f3 (status, clean -ndx and ls-files -v all clear before running).

Both test surfaces this PR actually changes:

Surface Result
scripts/tests/test-isolated-chart-namespace-rules.sh rc=0"isolated chart children are namespace-local, and the exact pinned chart renders cleanly under both the namespace rule and the production authorization suite"
go test ./scripts/validate-eks-ci-role-policy/... rc=0 (5.46s)

Non-vacuity of the central new guard — the part that matters. Passing tests only show the rule
accepts the good tree; they do not show it denies anything. So I ablated the one clause the rule's
own comment says is load-bearing — the subject-namespace constraint on the reviewed
ClusterRoleBinding — rewriting has(s.namespace) && s.namespace == 'data-product-controller' to
true, and asserted the mutation applied by diffing the file rather than trusting the edit:

-            has(s.namespace) && s.namespace == 'data-product-controller')) ||
+            true)) ||

The suite then failed for the right reason, naming the exact fixture rather than erroring
incidentally:

FAIL: foreign-namespace fixture external-subject-binding passed isolated-chart validation

So the rule demonstrably denies a ClusterRoleBinding whose subject sits outside the release
namespace — the precise property the PR exists to enforce, and the one a bare
kind in ['ClusterRole', 'ClusterRoleBinding'] branch would have let through.

The rule file was restored from git and verified byte-identical to its pre-mutation copy; the
worktree is clean.

As a user: the guard fails closed, and its message names the offending fixture, so a chart
revision that widened cluster-scoped RBAC would stop CI with a diagnosis rather than a bare
rejection. Judged ready on that basis.

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In `@scripts/tests/isolated-chart-namespace-rules.yaml`:
- Around line 20-22: Update the namespaced branch of the namespace rules to
require object.kind and exclude cluster-scoped kinds, preventing cluster-scoped
resources such as ClusterRoleBinding from bypassing the pinned name, roleRef,
and subject checks. Add a rejecting fixture covering a namespaced
ClusterRoleBinding.

In `@scripts/validate-eks-ci-role-policy/coverage_test.go`:
- Around line 314-321: Update runsIsolatedChartNamespaceValidator to reject any
job or step with an if condition before accepting the setup and
isolatedChartNamespaceValidatorInvocation sequence. Extend the coverage model
parsing to inspect both job-level and step-level conditions, and add ablation
tests covering conditional setup and gate steps.
- Line 48: Update the workflow model used by loadWorkflows so
Step.TimeoutMinutes accepts GitHub Actions expression scalars by changing its
type from int to yaml.Node or string; preserve successful unmarshalling without
t.Fatalf for valid expression-valued timeout-minutes.

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scripts/tests/test-isolated-chart-namespace-rules.sh (1)

1-251: LGTM!

scripts/validate-eks-ci-role-policy/main.go (1)

2143-2146: LGTM!

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334-335: LGTM!


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The namespaced branch of the rendered-child rule accepted any object declaring
metadata.namespace: data-product-controller. The API server discards that field
on a cluster-scoped object, so a ClusterRoleBinding could declare the release
namespace, satisfy that branch, and never reach the pinned name, roleRef and
subject checks. Reproduced: a binding granting cluster-admin to
system:serviceaccount:flux-system:kustomize-controller was accepted, and the
same object with only the namespace line removed was rejected.

The branch is now chosen by kind, so a cluster-scoped object can never reach the
namespaced branch, and one carrying a namespace field is rejected outright
rather than accepted on a field that does not survive apply.

Also harden the shared workflow loader the coverage guards use. timeout-minutes
was decoded straight into an int, so an expression-valued one would fail to
decode and abort every guard in the file at once rather than failing the single
contract it touches; it now decodes as a literal-or-expression and satisfies no
numeric contract when templated. The isolated-chart gate additionally requires
its step to be unconditional, so a step-level if: can no longer count as
coverage.

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User evaluation re-recorded at 48ae244cbf761f27ac7f2ede3e86f5fcd40c089c

The earlier record at 122e67f3 was superseded by this push, so it is re-established against the
content actually at this head. Exercised in an isolated worktree; tree verified clean before and
after every mutation below, and each mutation asserted applied by diff before its result was read.

Surface Result at this head
scripts/tests/test-isolated-chart-namespace-rules.sh rc=0 — full suite, real pinned chart included
go test ./scripts/validate-eks-ci-role-policy/... rc=0
go test ./scripts/validate-dr-signing/... rc=0
go run ./scripts/validate-dr-signing .github/workflows/dr-rebuild.yaml ksail.prod.yaml rc=0DR publication contract passed

Each of the three changes was proven to actually bite, not merely to pass:

  1. Kind-first dispatch. The escalation fixture — cluster-admin bound to
    system:serviceaccount:flux-system:kustomize-controller, declaring the release namespace — is now
    rejected by the named rule. Against the old rule the suite fails naming exactly the new
    fixture: FAIL: foreign-namespace fixture namespaced-clusterrolebinding passed isolated-chart validation.
  2. templatableInt. With timeout-minutes: ${{ fromJSON(inputs.t) }} on a non-gate step, the
    old loader failed two unrelated guards (cannot unmarshal !!str into int); the new one runs every
    guard with rc=0.
  3. Unconditional gate step. Adding if: false to the gate step makes coverage fail with
    ci.yaml must install KSail and then run "bash scripts/tests/test-isolated-chart-namespace-rules.sh" in the same job.

As a user: the rule now refuses the escalation it previously accepted, and refuses it with a
message naming the offending object; the coverage guards survive a workflow they cannot model instead
of switching themselves off. Judged ready on that basis.

Not yet promotable: 🧪 Validate Manifests is still running at this head, and the green-review
gate has to be re-secured here — every earlier review is stale on this push.

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Learning: In `scripts/validate-eks-ci-role-policy/coverage_test.go`, the isolated-chart namespace gate can run in deliberately conditional jobs: `ci.yaml` excludes fork pull requests and `dr-rebuild.yaml` excludes superseded rebuilds. The coverage model must not reject these job-level `if:` conditions outright. GitHub issue `#3512` tracks pinning each gate-bearing job condition to a reviewed literal. Step-level `if:` conditions on the isolated-chart namespace gate must remain rejected.
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In `@scripts/validate-eks-ci-role-policy/coverage_test.go`:
- Line 359: Update the test cases around runsCommand and
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true” and assert that it is rejected, while preserving acceptance of the
validator command shape that propagates its failure status.

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@devantler I found one actionable issue at 0e11def1848ed025e9f37307c7e80bfeebde0170.

  1. P1 — Treat aliases as unsafe before a gate.
    errexitDisabledAt in scripts/validate-eks-ci-role-policy/coverage_test.go, Line 260, does not model alias or shopt -s expand_aliases.

    This valid Bash block disables errexit, but the current model counts the validator as an enforcing gate:

    run: |
      shopt -s expand_aliases
      alias disable_errexit="set +e"
      disable_errexit
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      echo continued

    I verified the shell behavior with bash -e. The block printed continued and exited with status 0 after false replaced the validator.

    The scanner skips the quoted alias body. It does not recognize disable_errexit as a set invocation. errexitDisabledAt therefore returns false, and runsGate returns true.

    Treat alias and shopt before a gate as unsafe unless the model can prove that alias expansion cannot affect the gate. Add this form to TestRunsGateRequiresFailurePropagation. The test must keep runsCommand true and require runsGate to return false.

I applied the existing guidance for the reviewed job-level conditions in .github/workflows/ci.yaml and .github/workflows/dr-rebuild.yaml.


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@devantler I found one actionable issue at 0e11def1848ed025e9f37307c7e80bfeebde0170.

  1. P1 — Treat aliases as unsafe before a gate.
    errexitDisabledAt in scripts/validate-eks-ci-role-policy/coverage_test.go, Line 260, does not model alias or shopt -s expand_aliases.

    This Bash block disables errexit, but the current model counts the validator as an enforcing gate:

    run: |
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      alias disable_errexit="set +e"
      disable_errexit
      bash scripts/tests/test-isolated-chart-namespace-rules.sh
      echo continued

    The alias expands to set +e. The validator can fail. echo continued then returns success. The workflow step exits with status 0.

    The scanner skips the quoted alias body. It does not resolve disable_errexit to set +e. Therefore, errexitDisabledAt returns false and runsGate returns true.

    Treat alias and shopt before a gate as unsafe unless the model can prove that alias expansion cannot affect the gate. Add this case to TestRunsGateRequiresFailurePropagation. Keep the runsCommand precondition. Require runsGate to return false.

I applied the existing guidance for the deliberate job-level conditions in .github/workflows/ci.yaml and .github/workflows/dr-rebuild.yaml.


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Timestamp: 2026-09-01T20:22:11.836Z
Learning: In `scripts/validate-eks-ci-role-policy/coverage_test.go`, the isolated-chart namespace gate can run in deliberately conditional jobs: `ci.yaml` excludes fork pull requests and `dr-rebuild.yaml` excludes superseded rebuilds. The coverage model must not reject these job-level `if:` conditions outright. GitHub issue `#3512` tracks pinning each gate-bearing job condition to a reviewed literal. Step-level `if:` conditions on the isolated-chart namespace gate must remain rejected.

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…rexit

Fourth round of findings on this model, each a different way to switch errexit
off before the gate: a literal `set +e`, a quoted or expanded operand,
`builtin`/`command`/`eval` wrappers, and now an alias under
`shopt -s expand_aliases`. Shell functions and indirect expansion were still
open. Whether errexit survives to a given point is not decidable from the
script text, so a model built on answering that question has no closing move —
each round buys one spelling.

The question is now avoided rather than answered. A block's exit status is the
status of its LAST command, so a gate that is last cannot be defused by
anything preceding it, whatever it did to shell options. Measured under
`bash -e`: `set +e; false` exits 1, and so do the `eval "set +e"`,
`builtin set +e` and aliased forms — every one of them, because `false` is
last. Add a single `echo` after and all of them exit 0.

So `runsGate` requires the gate to be the final command, and the ~180 lines
that tracked errexit are gone. Both directions of the table move:

  * a gate followed by ANY later command is now refused, because its status is
    replaced by that command's and only errexit could have saved it. That
    refusal is loud and recoverable, unlike passing a defused gate in silence.
  * `set +e` immediately before a gate that is last is now correctly ACCEPTED.
    The previous model refused it, which was over-strict — it was answering a
    question the structure makes moot.

Every gate step in this repository already runs the gate as its last command,
so the coverage assertions over the real workflows pass unchanged.

Reported by CodeRabbit at 0e11def.

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Resolution — P1 aliases, fixed in 3845427d by removing the question

The alias bypass is real. Verified in a real script file, not -c:

alias + trailing echo   exit=0   output=continued

This is the fourth round on one mechanism, and the fourth different spelling of
"switch errexit off before the gate"
— a literal set +e, a quoted or expanded
operand, builtin/command/eval, now an alias under shopt -s expand_aliases.
Shell functions and indirect expansion are still open. Whether errexit survives to
a given point is not decidable from the script text, so a model built on
answering it has no closing move; each round buys exactly one spelling. Patching a
fifth time would be the wrong response to a correct fourth finding.

So the question is avoided rather than answered. A block's exit status is the
status of its last command, so a gate that is last cannot be defused by
anything before it, whatever it did to shell options:

set +e; false            exit=1
eval "set +e"; false     exit=1
builtin set +e; false    exit=1
alias d="set +e"; d; false   exit=1

Add one echo after any of them and all exit 0. runsGate now requires the gate
to be the final command, and the ~180 lines that tracked errexit are deleted —
isFinalCommand replaces errexitDisabledAt, setTogglesErrexit and
wrappedTogglesErrexit. Net −108/+97 lines on the file since ac941844.

Both directions of the table moved, and the second one is a correction of my
own earlier rounds:

  • a gate followed by any later command is now refused — its status is replaced
    by that command's, and only errexit could have saved it. Loud and recoverable.
  • set +e immediately before a gate that is last is now correctly accepted.
    The model I shipped in ac9418440e11def1 refused it, which was over-strict:
    it answered a question the structure makes moot.

Proof. Ablating isFinalCommand fails all 14 defused cases — including all
four rounds' bypasses — with zero enforcing regressions. Restored,
go test ./... is green, which is also the control that every gate step in this
repository already runs the gate as its last command
, so the real-workflow
coverage assertions pass unchanged.

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@devantler I found one actionable issue at 3845427da13a793440e0ce31ac65114bb68162db.

  1. P1 — Reject status-overriding traps before a final gate.
    isFinalCommand in scripts/validate-eks-ci-role-policy/coverage_test.go, Line 262, accepts a validator invocation when it is the last lexical command. A prior trap can still replace that command’s failure status.

    This step passes the current coverage model:

    run: |
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      bash scripts/tests/test-isolated-chart-namespace-rules.sh

    Under bash -e, a failing final command invokes the ERR trap. exit 0 then makes the step exit with status 0. The equivalent trap 'exit 0' EXIT form also exits with status 0.

    The final command is therefore not sufficient to prove that the step preserves the validator status. Treat a trap before the gate as unsafe unless the model proves that it cannot change the exit status. Add both ERR and EXIT trap forms to TestRunsGateRequiresFailurePropagation. Each case must keep runsCommand true and require runsGate to return false.

I applied the existing guidance for the deliberate job-level if: conditions in .github/workflows/ci.yaml and .github/workflows/dr-rebuild.yaml.


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Learnt from: devantler
Repo: devantler-tech/platform

Timestamp: 2026-09-01T20:22:11.836Z
Learning: In `scripts/validate-eks-ci-role-policy/coverage_test.go`, the isolated-chart namespace gate can run in deliberately conditional jobs: `ci.yaml` excludes fork pull requests and `dr-rebuild.yaml` excludes superseded rebuilds. The coverage model must not reject these job-level `if:` conditions outright. GitHub issue `#3512` tracks pinning each gate-bearing job condition to a reviewed literal. Step-level `if:` conditions on the isolated-chart namespace gate must remain rejected.

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`isFinalCommand` fixes WHICH command decides the step's status, but not that
nothing else overrides it. A `trap` on ERR or EXIT runs `exit 0` after the last
command has already failed, so the gate really is last and its failure is still
discarded. Measured under `bash -e` with the gate failing and last:
`trap 'exit 0' ERR` exits 0, `trap 'exit 0' EXIT` exits 0, and a preceding
`exit 0` exits 0 — against a control with no prefix, which exits 1.

This is a different mechanism from the previous four rounds, not a fifth
spelling of one. Those all switched errexit off, which is why answering them one
at a time never converged. This one assigns an exit status, and that set is
CLOSED: `exit` sets it, `trap` can set it after the fact, and `exec` replaces
the shell. Nothing else in bash makes a block's status differ from its last
command's, so refusing those three is a complete argument rather than another
pattern.

`eval`, `source` and `.` are refused with them because they can run any of the
three without naming it. `builtin` and `command` are resolved through instead,
so `command -v ksail` stays enforcing.

One case moved from enforcing to defused as a result: `eval "set +e"` with the
gate last does exit 1, but the model cannot read an `eval` body and the same
construct carries `trap 'exit 0' ERR` just as easily. Precision lost in the
direction that fails loudly.

Reported by CodeRabbit at 3845427.

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Resolution — P1 status-overriding traps, fixed in aaa66c23

Valid, and a real gap in the property I shipped last round. Verified with the
gate last and failing, against a control:

trap 'exit 0' ERR   exit=0
trap 'exit 0' EXIT  exit=0
exit 0              exit=0
(no prefix)         exit=1   <- control

isFinalCommand fixes which command decides the status; it does not ensure
nothing else overrides it. Those are complementary, and I only had the first.

This one is a different mechanism, not a fifth spelling — which is why it gets
an answer rather than another reframe.
The previous four rounds all switched
errexit off, an open-ended feature space where answering one spelling at a time
never converged. This assigns an exit status, and that set is closed: exit
sets it, trap can set it after the fact, and exec replaces the shell. Nothing
else in bash makes a block's status differ from its last command's, so refusing
those three is a complete argument rather than another pattern.

eval, source and . are refused alongside them because they can run any of
the three without naming it. builtin and command are resolved through
instead, so command -v ksail stays enforcing — the over-breadth controls from
the last round still hold.

One case moved from enforcing to defused, and I want to be explicit about it:
eval "set +e" with the gate last genuinely exits 1, so refusing it loses real
precision. But the model cannot read an eval body, and the same construct
carries trap 'exit 0' ERR just as easily. Unreadable means unsafe — the loss is
in the direction that fails loudly.

Proof. Ablating prefixPreservesStatus fails exactly the 7 new defused cases
with zero enforcing regressions; restored, go test ./... is green, which is also
the control that the real gate steps — none of which use trap — still satisfy
the model.

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@devantler I found one actionable issue at aaa66c231017eddde7e1c227ee417e6b11c31532.

  1. P1 — Treat aliases as unsafe before a final gate.
    prefixPreservesStatus in scripts/validate-eks-ci-role-policy/coverage_test.go, Line 269, detects literal trap commands but does not resolve aliases. scanCommandRuns skips the quoted alias body.

    This step passes the current coverage model:

    run: |
      shopt -s expand_aliases
      alias set_success_trap="trap 'exit 0' ERR"
      set_success_trap
      bash scripts/tests/test-isolated-chart-namespace-rules.sh

    The alias installs an ERR trap before the final validator. If the validator fails, trap 'exit 0' ERR changes the step result to success.

    I verified the equivalent standalone Bash script. It exited with status 0 after its final false command.

    Treat alias and shopt before a gate as status-opaque. Alternatively, reject all alias definitions before a gate. Add this case to TestRunsGateRequiresFailurePropagation. The test must keep the runsCommand precondition and require runsGate to return false.

I applied the existing guidance that permits the reviewed job-level conditions in .github/workflows/ci.yaml and .github/workflows/dr-rebuild.yaml.


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Timestamp: 2026-09-01T20:22:11.836Z
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You are interacting with an AI system.

An alias can install the trap: `alias t="trap 'exit 0' ERR"; t` puts the trap in
place while the walker skips the quoted body, so the gate ran last, failed, and
the step still exited 0. A one-line function does the same, and was invisible for
a second reason — `{` did not re-arm the command position, so the `trap` in
`f() { trap 'exit 0' ERR; }` was not at a command word for any scan built on that
walker.

Both are name bindings: the construct hides an arbitrary command behind an
identifier. `alias`, `shopt` and `function` therefore join the status-opaque set,
and `{`/`}` now re-arm the command position, which fixes the walker for every
caller rather than only this one.

Two measurably-enforcing cases move to defused as a result, and the reason is the
binding rather than the body: `alias d="set +e"; d` and `eval "set +e"` both do
exit 1 with the gate last, but neither body is readable here and the same shape
carries `trap 'exit 0' ERR`, which does not.

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Resolution — P1 alias-installed traps, fixed in c829bc39

Both real, verified with the gate last and failing (control with no prefix
exits 1):

alias t="trap 'exit 0' ERR"; t      exit=0
f() { trap 'exit 0' ERR; }; f       exit=0   <- found while checking the above

The second was not reported and is the same class: a name binding hiding an
arbitrary command behind an identifier. It was invisible for an extra reason —
{ did not re-arm the command position, so the trap in a one-line function body
was not at a command word for any scan built on that walker. Fixed at the
walker, which corrects every caller rather than this one.

alias, shopt and function join the status-opaque set. Ablations isolate one
conjunct each: reverting the names fails exactly the two alias cases; reverting
the { re-arm fails exactly the function case; go test ./... green restored.

Two measurably-enforcing cases moved to defused, and the reason is the binding
rather than the body:
alias d="set +e"; d and eval "set +e" both genuinely
exit 1 with the gate last, but neither body is readable here, and the same shape
carries trap 'exit 0' ERR, which does not.

Where I am stopping, and why

This is the sixth round on this property, and the residual is structural rather
than a missing pattern.
Name binding plus indirect expansion is unbounded —
x="trap 'exit 0' ERR"; $x, a function sourced from another file, ${!var}
none of which this walker can resolve. A seventh round is available and would not
be the last.

The threat model bounds how much that matters. This test catches a gate being
accidentally defused: a || true added while debugging, a command appended
after the gate, a stray set +e. All of those are caught, and each round made it
stricter. It is not a defence against a hostile author — anyone who can write the
run: block can delete the gate step outright — so no amount of shell analysis
buys security against that party.

The real fix is to stop analysing arbitrary shell and constrain the input: a
narrow reviewed grammar for gate steps, with anything outside it UNCOVERED by
default. That is decidable and closed by construction, and all four real gate
steps already satisfy it. Filed as #3526 with the full round-by-round evidence
and acceptance criteria, rather than continuing to grow this PR — whose actual
subject, the CEL namespace rule, has been stable since ebcfd02e.

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@devantler I found one actionable issue at c829bc39011a6e9d32019cb700e9994475de25b3.

  1. P1 — Recognize redirection-prefixed status setters.
    scanCommandRuns in scripts/validate-eks-ci-role-policy/coverage_test.go, Line 505, clears atCommandStart when it reaches >. It does not skip redirections that precede a command name. Therefore, prefixPreservesStatus does not detect this trap:

    run: |
      > /dev/null trap 'exit 0' ERR
      bash scripts/tests/test-isolated-chart-namespace-rules.sh

    I verified the equivalent standalone Bash script with bash -e. The final failing command exited with status 0, because the ERR trap runs exit 0.

    The scanner sees > before trap, clears the command position, and misses the status-overriding builtin. runsGate can then count the final validator as enforcing.

    Skip leading redirections while preserving the command position. Add this form to TestRunsGateRequiresFailurePropagation. The test must keep the runsCommand precondition and require runsGate to return false.


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Timestamp: 2026-09-01T20:22:11.836Z
Learning: In `scripts/validate-eks-ci-role-policy/coverage_test.go`, the isolated-chart namespace gate can run in deliberately conditional jobs: `ci.yaml` excludes fork pull requests and `dr-rebuild.yaml` excludes superseded rebuilds. The coverage model must not reject these job-level `if:` conditions outright. GitHub issue `#3512` tracks pinning each gate-bearing job condition to a reviewed literal. Step-level `if:` conditions on the isolated-chart namespace gate must remain rejected.

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A redirection may precede the command name, so `> /dev/null trap 'exit 0' ERR`
and `2>/dev/null trap 'exit 0' ERR` are ordinary bash that install the trap while
the walker treated `>` as ending the command position. Both verified under
`bash -e` with the gate last and failing: each exits 0, against a control with no
prefix that exits 1.

The file-descriptor digits are the half that is easy to miss. `2>` consumes `2`
as an ordinary word first, which clears the command position before the operator
is ever reached — so handling only the operator fixes `>` and leaves `2>` open.
`redirectionPrefix` reads the optional digits and the operator together.

Fixed at the walker rather than at the caller, so every scan built on it sees
these command words, as with the `{` re-arm.

Reported by CodeRabbit at c829bc3.

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Resolution — P1 redirection-prefixed status setters, fixed in c37556c8

Verified with the gate last and failing (control with no prefix exits 1):

> /dev/null trap 'exit 0' ERR    exit=0
2>/dev/null trap 'exit 0' ERR    exit=0

My first attempt at this fix was wrong, and the table caught it. Handling only
the operator fixes > and leaves 2> open: the file-descriptor digits are
consumed as an ordinary word first, which clears the command position before the
operator is ever reached. redirectionPrefix now reads the optional digits and
the operator together. Ablating it fails exactly both cases; go test ./...
green restored.

Fixed at the walker, not the caller — as with the { re-arm last round — so
every scan built on it sees these command words rather than just this check.

Scope note

This round and the last are scanner correctness defects (a leading
redirection, a one-line function body), not new defusing mechanisms. Those are
bounded and worth fixing here. The unbounded part — name binding with indirect
expansion, x="trap 'exit 0' ERR"; $x, functions sourced from another file — is
tracked in #3526, which proposes replacing this analysis with a narrow
grammar for gate steps: decidable, closed by construction, and already satisfied
by all four real gate steps.

I am not going to keep growing this PR past the scanner fixes. Its subject — the
CEL rule closing three cluster-scope escapes — has been unchanged since
ebcfd02e, and the gate model is already strictly stronger than at PR open.

Re-requesting review at the new head.

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@devantler I found one actionable issue at c37556c8e3946b2ebe4aefb562965c5b7c207c94.

  1. P1 — Treat shell compound commands as status-opaque before the gate.
    scanCommandRuns in scripts/validate-eks-ci-role-policy/coverage_test.go, Line 505, does not restore the command position after the then reserved word. Therefore, prefixPreservesStatus misses a trap that runs in the current shell:

    run: |
      if true; then trap 'exit 0' ERR; fi
      bash scripts/tests/test-isolated-chart-namespace-rules.sh

    I verified the equivalent Bash script with bash -e. Its final failing command exited with status 0.

    The scanner treats then as the command word after the semicolon. It then treats trap as an argument. prefixPreservesStatus does not detect the ERR trap. runsGate can therefore count the final validator as enforcing even though the trap changes its failure status to success.

    Treat compound commands such as if, case, for, while, until, select, and function bodies as status-opaque before a gate. Alternatively, replace the general shell scan with the restricted gate-step grammar tracked in #3526. Add this case to TestRunsGateRequiresFailurePropagation. Keep the runsCommand precondition. Require runsGate to return false.

I applied the existing guidance for the reviewed job-level conditions in .github/workflows/ci.yaml and .github/workflows/dr-rebuild.yaml.


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Timestamp: 2026-09-01T20:22:11.836Z
Learning: In `scripts/validate-eks-ci-role-policy/coverage_test.go`, the isolated-chart namespace gate can run in deliberately conditional jobs: `ci.yaml` excludes fork pull requests and `dr-rebuild.yaml` excludes superseded rebuilds. The coverage model must not reject these job-level `if:` conditions outright. GitHub issue `#3512` tracks pinning each gate-bearing job condition to a reviewed literal. Step-level `if:` conditions on the isolated-chart namespace gate must remain rejected.

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Eighth round, and the eighth mechanism: `if true; then trap 'exit 0' ERR; fi`
hides the trap after a reserved word the walker does not restore a command
position for. Verified under `bash -e`: the final failing command exits 0.

Every one of the eight findings was real and every fix was correct, but the
search cannot be won. Shell offers unbounded ways to bind a name to a command or
hide one from a lexical scan — `set +e`, a quoted or expanded operand,
`builtin`/`command`/`eval`, an alias, `trap`/`exit`/`exec`, a one-line function
body, a leading redirection, a compound command — and each answer bought exactly
one spelling. CodeRabbit's own last review proposed the alternative: the
restricted grammar tracked in #3526.

So runsGate now admits a positive shape instead. A block qualifies only when
every line is a simple command drawn from a restricted character set, with a
leading word that is not reserved and cannot bind a name or set an exit status,
and the LAST such line is the gate. Soundness rests on one fact: a block's exit
status is its last command's status, and nothing inside this grammar can
reassign it.

The property the previous seven rounds could not have is that a shell feature
nobody has thought of yet fails the same way, because it needs a metacharacter
or a refused word to express.

Both gate steps in this repository already satisfy the grammar — each is two
plain command lines — so the workflow coverage assertions pass unchanged and no
workflow needed editing.

The cost is stated rather than hidden: `set -e`, `command -v ksail` and a
trailing `;` or comment are all genuinely enforcing and all refused. Admitting
them means resolving operands, wrappers and lookups, which is exactly the
special-casing that accumulated over seven rounds without finishing.

Implements #3526. Reported by CodeRabbit at c37556c.

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Resolution — P1 compound commands, fixed in fb88a0d7 by taking your alternative

Verified: if true; then trap 'exit 0' ERR; fi with the gate last and failing
exits 0 (control with no prefix exits 1). Real, and the eighth distinct mechanism.

I took the second option you offered — the restricted grammar from #3526
rather than adding reserved words to the walker.
Eight rounds, eight real
findings, eight correct fixes, and each bought exactly one spelling. Shell has
unbounded ways to bind a name to a command or hide one from a lexical scan; the
next round after reserved words would have been $(...), backticks, process
substitution or [[ ]].

What runsGate does now: a block qualifies only when every line is a simple
command drawn from a restricted character set, with a leading word that is
neither reserved nor able to bind a name or set an exit status, and the last
such line is the gate. Soundness rests on one fact — a block's exit status is its
last command's status — and nothing inside this grammar can reassign it.

The property the previous seven rounds could not have: a shell feature nobody
has thought of yet fails the same way, because expressing it needs a
metacharacter or a refused word. Every bypass from rounds 1–8 is in the defused
table, and none is matched by a rule naming it — each falls out of the
grammar.

Cost, stated rather than hidden. set -e, command -v ksail, a trailing ;
and a trailing comment are all genuinely enforcing and all now refused. Admitting
them means resolving operands, wrappers and lookups — precisely the special-casing
that accumulated over seven rounds without finishing. Both real gate steps are two
plain command lines and satisfy the grammar unchanged, so the workflow coverage
assertions pass and no workflow needed editing.

Proof. Both halves are load-bearing under ablation: neutralising the character
set fails 13 defused cases, emptying the refused-word list fails 5. Restored,
go test ./... green.

Thank you for the eight rounds — the accumulated bypasses became the regression
table, and your pointing at #3526 is what made the reframe obviously right rather
than a judgement call.

Re-requesting review at the new head.

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@devantler I completed the review of #3508 at fb88a0d7b4bc37c6c5ccd84c30627fd3fbc1e42d.

I found no actionable issue.

The restricted grammar in scripts/validate-eks-ci-role-policy/coverage_test.go rejects shell syntax that can alter execution or exit status. The deployed gate steps use only accepted simple command lines. The validator invocation is the final executable command.

The namespace rule constrains namespaced children, reviewed cluster-scoped RBAC, indirect emitters, runtime value sources, and the rendered Namespace enforcement label. The test script includes positive and negative controls for these constraints.

The workflow coverage checks require KSail setup, a literal 10-minute timeout, no gate-step if:, and coverage for all four deployment routes.

I used the existing guidance for the deliberate job-level conditions in .github/workflows/ci.yaml and .github/workflows/dr-rebuild.yaml.


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Readiness — promoting on all three conditions

1. Programmatically tested. Every change this round shipped RED first and GREEN
after, each with an ablation isolating one conjunct:

  • CEL rule: three attack shapes accepted before the fix (CustomResourceDefinition
    and MutatingWebhookConfiguration carrying the release namespace; a privileged
    rendered Namespace), all rejected after — with a foreign-namespace Deployment
    rejected throughout as the discriminating control, and
    reviewed-restricted-namespace as the control against over-tightening.
  • Gate grammar: ablating the character set fails 13 defused cases; emptying the
    refused-word list fails 5. All eight rounds' bypasses are regression cases.
  • Hygiene pentad clear at fb88a0d7: 16 checks green / 6 skipped / 0 failing,
    0 unresolved threads of 23 (fetched == totalCount), CLEAN, and a
    current-head green review.

2. Reviewed. CodeRabbit at fb88a0d7b4bc37c6c5ccd84c30627fd3fbc1e42d — the exact
current head — "I found no actionable issue", with substantive analysis of both the
grammar and the namespace rule.

3. Tried and evaluated as a user. Exercised the real behaviour rather than
reasoning about it:

  • Ran ksail workload validate against the real pinned chart repeatedly; the
    end-of-file control renders the actual digest-pinned artifact and evaluates every
    child, which is what proves the kind allowlist is complete rather than plausible.
    The allowlist itself was derived by enumerating that render (20 objects) with a
    one-line always-false rule, not guessed.
  • Injected the refused valuesFrom shape into the real component manifest and
    watched the guard fire — that was checking one of my own claims, and it refuted
    it: I had inferred from the render enumeration that the guard was unreachable
    outside fixture mode. ksail validates the source manifest separately from the
    rendered children.
  • Ran every one of the eight gate bypasses under real bash -e in script files
    (not -c, which changes alias behaviour) and recorded the exit statuses, with a
    no-prefix control exiting 1 each time.

Scope note for the reviewer of record. This PR's subject — the CEL rule — has
been unchanged since ebcfd02e. The gate-model work arrived via a review finding
and grew to eight rounds; platform#3526 tracks its remaining context and is
implemented here.

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