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Fixes #839. Clears canary blocker #825 (feature-ideation ring1→stable, REGRESSION) once a channel carries this commit.

What broke

feature-ideation-reusable.yml checks out its own scripts into .feature-ideation-tooling at inputs.tooling_ref, which defaulted to the floating v1 tag. v1 (6432e9ae, a rename-only patch of the 2026-05-13 d3d768da) has no scripts/feature-ideation-requirements.txt. Every feature-ideation/v1-* channel now runs pip install … -r .feature-ideation-tooling/scripts/feature-ideation-requirements.txt. No caller stub sets tooling_ref, so every consumer has failed at Install Python jsonschema since 2026-10-09 (TalkTerm, markets, broodly, incubator on 10-09 and 10-16; .github, TalkTerm and bmad-bgreat-suite in #825's window).

ref	sha	pip step	requirements file
feature-ideation/v1-next	43ec2a1f	yes	— (tooling comes from v1)
feature-ideation/v1-ring0 / v1-ring1	bc27529e	yes	—
feature-ideation/v1-stable	364427f6	yes	—
v1 (old tooling_ref default)	6432e9ae	—	missing

Fix

• tooling_ref now defaults to '', and both tooling checkouts use ${{ inputs.tooling_ref || job.workflow_sha }}. The scripts, schema and requirements file then come from the same commit as the reusable the caller pinned, so the channel moves the reusable and its tooling together (the channel-skew rule in Codify org-wide: caller-stub input forwarding across channel pins (channel-skew prevention) #736, applied to the tooling checkout).

• Why job.workflow_sha, not github.job_workflow_sha: github.job_workflow_sha is empty at step level. With an empty ref, actions/checkout silently checks out main. A probe pinned a reusable at a different commit from its caller (run 39688303975; probe branch since deleted):

  GH_JWS=[]                                        # github.job_workflow_sha
  GH_WSHA=[d95847c53e94d4a314f87dd85844b03345744c0c]  # caller commit
  JOB_WREF=[combsmith/.github/.github/workflows/probe-839-reusable.yml@8fb1a135…]
  JOB_WSHA=[8fb1a13584847b872304e1fd4b3d27533ddf98ee]  # reusable's pinned commit ✓
  OIDC job_workflow_sha = 8fb1a13584847b872304e1fd4b3d27533ddf98ee
  

• ci.yml: actionlint 1.7.7 doesn't know job.workflow_sha yet, so this adds an ignore next to the existing job_workflow_sha one.

Regression guard

New test/workflows/feature-ideation/tooling-ref.bats (6 tests, run by Feature Ideation Tests). It fails if:

• the tooling_ref default is anything but empty;
• any .feature-ideation-tooling checkout uses a ref other than inputs.tooling_ref || job.workflow_sha, or a repository other than combsmith/.github;
• the reusable references github.job_workflow_sha;
• any .feature-ideation-tooling/… file the reusable reads is missing from the same commit (the feature-ideation v1-next: pip step fails — tooling_ref default 'v1' skews from reusable (blocks .github-private, will break fleet on promotion) #839 failure itself);
• the canonical stub or this repo's own caller forwards tooling_ref.

Against origin/main's reusable, the default and checkout-ref tests fail as expected. Locally the full feature-ideation suite passes 150/150, and yamllint and actionlint (the CI ignore set) are clean.

Consumer verification: not possible before the channel moves

Every consumer stub pins @feature-ideation/v1-stable and forwards no tooling_ref, and the fix lives inside the reusable. So no consumer runs this code until the canary-rollout cuts a channel tag at a commit that contains it. I did not move any tags. The first v1-next/ring0 run after the next cut is the end-to-end check: Gather Project Signals → Install Python jsonschema should pass, and the checkout log should show the channel commit instead of refs/heads/main.

Related

• .github#1213 ("[Phase 4] Release the reusable feature-ideation change via its channel tag") waits on this. Releasing a channel before this lands ships the same broken pip step.
• Follow-up, not fixed here: auto-rebase-reusable.yml, persona-mention-reusable.yml, pr-auto-review-reusable.yml and pr-review-mention-reusable.yml use github.job_workflow_sha for their own tooling checkouts. Live runs show it is empty there too, so they check out main instead of their pinned channel commit (TalkTerm auto-rebase 39534038888 and pr-auto-review 39534665548 both fetch +refs/heads/main). They don't fail today, but they bypass the canary rings.

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Problem

See the linked issue.

Risk

Medium — changes GitHub Actions workflow behavior, which is exercised only post-merge; verify via the affected workflow runs.

Test plan

Tests added/updated: test/workflows/feature-ideation/tooling-ref.bats. Verification: bash scripts/dev-lead-lint.sh (shellcheck --severity=warning) ran pre-commit; the bats suite runs in CI.

Rollback

Revert this PR. No non-revertible side effects (no tags, migrations, or external state).

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- Around line 31-33: Update the tooling checkout assertions in the test to
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Re-read the current CodeRabbit summary (edited after f43d220): it reports no actionable comments, no outside-diff or nitpick items, and Merge Risk Minimal. The earlier per-job tooling-ref assertion finding is already handled by f43d220 in test/workflows/feature-ideation/tooling-ref.bats. The one inconclusive pre-merge check is a post-release rollout verification step (run the v1-next consumer after a channel is cut), not a code change. Acknowledged, no action needed.

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Summary

Fixes #839: the feature-ideation reusable's tooling checkout defaulted to the floating v1 tag, which lacks scripts/feature-ideation-requirements.txt, so every channel run failed at Install Python jsonschema. The PR changes the tooling_ref default to '' and both .feature-ideation-tooling checkouts to ${{ inputs.tooling_ref || job.workflow_sha }}. The tooling now comes from the same commit as the pinned reusable. It also adds an actionlint ignore for job.workflow_sha and a 6-test bats regression guard. The triage-approved low-risk assessment holds. I rate it MEDIUM rather than LOW because it changes reusable-workflow behavior for every feature-ideation consumer. That change also tightens supply-chain posture: the checkout moves from a floating tag to an immutable SHA.

Linked issue analysis

#839 asks for the tooling checkout to track the reusable's own resolved SHA, plus a regression test so the skew can't recur. Both are delivered:

• The default is now empty, and both checkouts fall back to job.workflow_sha.
• tooling-ref.bats asserts the empty default and the per-job checkout ref for gather-signals and analyze. It checks that the repository is combsmith/.github, that github.job_workflow_sha is not used, that every .feature-ideation-tooling/… file the reusable reads exists in the same commit, and that neither caller forwards tooling_ref.

The PR deliberately uses job.workflow_sha instead of the issue's suggested github.job_workflow_sha, which is empty at step level and would make checkout fall back to main. Probe run 39688303975 (probe-839, success) backs this up.

The issue's end-to-end acceptance criterion (a live v1-next run passes the pip step) can only be checked after a channel tag is cut at this commit. The PR states this explicitly, and that is the expected rollout path.

Findings

No blocking findings.

Non-blocking notes:

• ci.yml: the new actionlint ignore property "workflow_sha" is not defined in object type is somewhat broad. It would also hide a genuine workflow_sha typo on another object (e.g. steps.x.outputs). That is acceptable until actionlint learns job.workflow_sha; consider removing it when actionlint is bumped.
• job.workflow_sha fails silently. If it ever evaluates empty, actions/checkout checks out main without erroring. The bats tests cover the static contract, so the first v1-next/ring0 run after the next channel cut should confirm the checkout log shows the channel SHA.
• The author already flagged the follow-up: four other reusables (auto-rebase, persona-mention, pr-auto-review, pr-review-mention) still use github.job_workflow_sha and so bypass canary rings. Worth tracking in its own issue.

Prior bot feedback: CodeRabbit's per-job assertion comment was addressed in ec70be6/f43d220. Its thread is resolved, and CodeRabbit has since approved. No unresolved review threads and no unanswered human questions.

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