fix(ci): unblock dependabot PRs — drop broken escript binaries + duplicate auto-merge workflow

[hyperpolymath]

Summary

Two unrelated CI breakages were combining to block every Dependabot PR (e.g. #235, #236):

1. Broken committed escript binary — the tracked hypatia (and stale hypatia-v2) escript fails immediately with escript: exception error: undefined function nil_escript:main/1. The hypatia-scan workflow guards the build step with [ ! -f hypatia ], so the broken binary is used as-is and the scan step exits 1 before producing valid JSON. Deleting the binaries causes the workflow to build a fresh escript on every run (the existing build step already handles this path); added /hypatia to .gitignore so it stays untracked.

2. Duplicate auto-merge workflow with non-existent action SHA — dependabot-auto-merge.yml pinned dependabot/fetch-metadata to d7267f607e9d3fb96fc2fbe83e0af444e2d3ffac which does not exist (real v2.4.0 is 08eff52bf64351f401fb50d4972fa95b9f2c2d1b). The repo already has dependabot-automerge.yml (note missing hyphen) with a valid SHA and a stricter security-only policy gate. Deleted the duplicate.

Test plan

• Reproduced the binary failure locally: `./hypatia-cli.sh scan .` exits 127 with `nil_escript:main/1`
• CI on this branch builds fresh escript and Hypatia scan passes
• Once merged, chore(deps): bump bandit from 1.11.0 to 1.11.1 in the elixir-minor group #235 and chore(deps): bump the rust-minor group with 3 updates #236 unblock

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🔍 Hypatia Security Scan

Findings: 225 issues detected

Severity	Count
🔴 Critical	34
🟠 High	43
🟡 Medium	148

⚠️ Action Required: Critical security issues found!

View findings

[
  {
    "reason": "Issue in codeql.yml",
    "type": "missing_workflow",
    "file": "codeql.yml",
    "action": "create",
    "rule_module": "workflow_audit",
    "severity": "high"
  },
  {
    "reason": "Action actions/checkout needs attention",
    "type": "wrong_sha_pin",
    "file": "cflite_batch.yml",
    "action": "update_pin",
    "rule_module": "workflow_audit",
    "severity": "medium"
  },
  {
    "reason": "Action actions/checkout needs attention",
    "type": "wrong_sha_pin",
    "file": "rust-ci.yml",
    "action": "update_pin",
    "rule_module": "workflow_audit",
    "severity": "medium"
  },
  {
    "reason": "Action actions/checkout needs attention",
    "type": "wrong_sha_pin",
    "file": "rust-ci.yml",
    "action": "update_pin",
    "rule_module": "workflow_audit",
    "severity": "medium"
  },
  {
    "reason": "Action actions/checkout needs attention",
    "type": "wrong_sha_pin",
    "file": "scorecard-enforcer.yml",
    "action": "update_pin",
    "rule_module": "workflow_audit",
    "severity": "medium"
  },
  {
    "reason": "Action ossf/scorecard-action needs attention",
    "type": "wrong_sha_pin",
    "file": "scorecard-enforcer.yml",
    "action": "update_pin",
    "rule_module": "workflow_audit",
    "severity": "medium"
  },
  {
    "reason": "Action actions/checkout needs attention",
    "type": "wrong_sha_pin",
    "file": "scorecard-enforcer.yml",
    "action": "update_pin",
    "rule_module": "workflow_audit",
    "severity": "medium"
  },
  {
    "reason": "Action actions/checkout needs attention",
    "type": "wrong_sha_pin",
    "file": "bench.yml",
    "action": "update_pin",
    "rule_module": "workflow_audit",
    "severity": "medium"
  },
  {
    "reason": "Action dtolnay/rust-toolchain needs attention",
    "type": "wrong_sha_pin",
    "file": "bench.yml",
    "action": "update_pin",
    "rule_module": "workflow_audit",
    "severity": "medium"
  },
  {
    "reason": "Action Swatinem/rust-cache needs attention",
    "type": "wrong_sha_pin",
    "file": "bench.yml",
    "action": "update_pin",
    "rule_module": "workflow_audit",
    "severity": "medium"
  }
]

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[hyperpolymath]

Triage of the 225 self-scan findings

The scanner now runs successfully (was blocked before by a broken committed escript binary) and the baseline-aware gate accepts every existing finding. So this comment is informational: what's actually here, and what's noise.

34 critical — categorised

Module / type	Count	Verdict
security_errors/secret_detected	11	Mostly false positives. Hits include .audittraining/security-errors/echidnabot.md (training docs describing example secrets), scripts/fix-scripts/fix-hardcoded-secrets.sh (the remediation script, references example patterns), test assertions (password: "test123"), and ${{ secrets.PASSWORD }} GHA refs in integration.yml. Could either be silenced via per-file scanner directives or split into a documented "training-corpus / fixture" exemption category.
code_safety/unwrap_dangerous_default	10	Real Rust .unwrap() calls in CLI / scan command paths. Acceptable as panic-on-bad-input for CLI but worth migrating to .unwrap_or_else(|e| { eprintln!(...); process::exit(2) }) over time.
code_safety/elixir_system_cmd_interpolation	5	System.cmd with interpolation in lib/direct_github_pr.ex, lib/hypatia/cli.ex, lib/mix/tasks/hypatia.audit_repos.ex. Inputs are git refs / repo names from already-validated sources, so practical risk is low — but rewriting to use the args list form is cheap and removes the finding.
workflow_audit/actions_expression_injection	4	In quality.yml, mirror.yml, boj-build.yml, hypatia-scan.yml. All current interpolations are github.repository / github.sha / github.ref_name / github.event.repository.name / vars.GITEA_HOST — every one of those is GitHub-controlled or repo-config-controlled, not actor-controlled. Not exploitable today; rule fires on the shape rather than the threat. Safe to keep in baseline; revisit if any rule starts interpolating github.head_ref, event.issue.title, event.comment.body, etc. (those are actor-injectable).
cicd_rules/banned_language_file	2	scripts/update-bench-baselines.py, scripts/check-bench-regression.py. Org RSR policy bans Python except for SaltStack. These are bench-data helpers; either migrate to Rust/shell or document as scoped exemption (mirrors the .claude/CLAUDE.md "TypeScript Exemptions" pattern used elsewhere).
code_safety/believe_me	1	src/abi/RuleEngine.idr — intentional Idris2 proof bypass. Should ship a per-file scanner annotation marking this as accepted.
structural_drift/SD008	1	Same file as above. Likely the same root cause counted by a second module.

43 high — quick read

• code_safety/unwrap_without_check (28) — Rust .unwrap()s across cli/, adapters/, cli/src/commands/. Same character as the critical unwrap_dangerous_default — mostly CLI panic-on-bad-input. Could batch-migrate later.
• workflow_audit/download_then_run (2) + unsafe_curl_payload (2) — curl | sh-style or curl-with-untrusted-payload. Worth a real look — these are the highest practical risk in the whole sweep.
• cicd_rules/missing_requirement (3) — One of these is "missing codeql.yml" (sibling repos do have one). Adding codeql.yml would close it.
• Singletons (elixir_send_unsanitised, from_raw, lock_unwrap, etc.) — case-by-case.

148 medium

Almost entirely workflow_audit/wrong_sha_pin — the scanner flags every action SHA pin it can't independently verify against the latest tag on the upstream. Not security risks; signal-to-noise is low. Would suggest either (a) tightening the rule to only flag pins that are behind a known-vulnerable upstream, or (b) accepting them all in baseline by default.

What this means for #237

Nothing on this PR's diff caused any of these — they're inherent to hypatia's current main. The PR itself only deletes the broken binaries + duplicate workflow + adds the baseline. The baseline file pins the current state so future PRs can be measured against it, surfacing only new critical/high.

Concrete next steps (if you want a follow-up PR)

1. Quick wins — add codeql.yml, fix the 2 curl | sh workflow steps, add scanner-directive comments to believe_me and the audit-training docs.
2. Org-level decisions — Python script policy, secret-detection exemption category for training corpora / fixtures.
3. Style migration — batch-replace CLI .unwrap() with structured exit (28 + 10 sites).

[hyperpolymath]

Followed up at #243 — addresses the root causes the triage above identified, rather than expanding the baseline.

Net effect on the 225 findings, assuming a re-scan after merge:

Category	Before	After	Mechanism
security_errors/secret_detected	11	0	path exemption (.audittraining/, test/, tests/, scripts/fix-scripts/, lib/rules/security_errors.ex, integration/run-tests.sh, integration/fixtures/) + line-level context-safety (GHA ${{ secrets.X }}, shell ${VAR}/$VAR/$(cmd) expansion, Rust test-/dummy-/fake- prefix fixtures)
workflow_audit/actions_expression_injection	4	0	rule split: only fires on actor-controllable context (github.head_ref, event.{pull_request,issue,comment,review}.*, etc.); admin-controlled refs (github.repository, github.sha, vars.*) no longer match
workflow_audit/wrong_sha_pin	148	0 (at medium threshold)	downgraded to :info — absence from local table is unverified, not wrong
code_safety/elixir_system_cmd_interpolation	5	0	replaced with three correctly-scoped rules; args-list System.cmd("gh", ["api", "repos/#{x}"]) doesn't shell out, so doesn't match
code_safety/believe_me + structural_drift/SD008	1 + 1	0 + 0	the literal "Zero believe_me." comment was the only token in src/; SD008's @unsound_patterns emptied (every entry was a code_safety duplicate)
cicd_rules/missing_requirement	3	0	now resolves nested paths (.github/dependabot.yml, scorecard.yml) against repo_path; permissions: read-all tagged as content-rule, not a missing file
workflow_audit/download_then_run	2	0	comment-stripping before pattern match; both hits were inside `# safer than curl
workflow_audit/unsafe_curl_payload	2	0	narrowed context list (admin-controlled refs no longer fire); boj-build.yml was already using jq --arg correctly
CLI/test-context unwrap* / panic_macro	~38 (at critical/high)	~38 (at low)	severity downgrade for cli/, main.rs, bin/, tools/, fixer/, tests/, _test.rs — library code under adapters/src/, data/src/ unaffected

Plus prevention codified in .claude/CLAUDE.md ("Scanner Hygiene" section) and an inline-directive mechanism (# hypatia: allow <module>/<type> -- reason) so individual sites can self-document without re-baselining.

Left explicitly out: codeql.yml (org-policy call — hypatia has 2 JS files; minor value) and regenerating .hypatia-baseline.json (recommended after #243 merges so the baseline reflects only true residual risk).