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Render changelog subjects as literal text - #475
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Rendering subjects as literal Markdown moved the work into node, and the script reached for it on PATH. That holds on hosted runners but not in a container job: the runner mounts its own node at /__e/node<version>/bin/node and never adds it to the container's PATH, so images without a system node failed the whole action with a bare exit 127. index.js now passes process.execPath as ACTION_NODE -- the interpreter already running the bundle -- and the script falls back to PATH when invoked standalone, as the tests do. The regression test pins ACTION_NODE to an unusable path, so a script that quietly went back to PATH would fail it; asserting only that a stripped PATH works would pass on any image carrying a system node in /usr/bin. Document the output change while we are here. Wrapping subjects in code spans is what stops a commit message from contributing links, mentions, or extra entries to a release, and it costs #123 and bare-SHA autolinking inside the subject. That is worth stating in the README rather than leaving users to discover it from their next release notes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015EmepbnR2nSdk8q8DBsrsD
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The existing assertions compare changelog.sh against literalMarkdownSubject in the test helper, which is a second copy of the same logic. That catches a bug in the script alone, but not one written into both. Add a table of hand-derived input/output pairs that never touches the helper, covering the fence-widening cases and control-character normalization. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015EmepbnR2nSdk8q8DBsrsD
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…#477) bump:workflow rewrote every vX.Y.Z in .github/workflows to this project's new version. Its one real target was the self-reference in release.yml, and #475 replaced that with `uses: ./` -- so the script now has no legitimate target and only collateral damage. Cutting a release today would rewrite actions/setup-node@8207627... # was: actions/setup-node@v7.0.0 to `# was: actions/setup-node@v4.9.0`, a release of setup-node that does not exist. gh-refme maintains those comments so a reviewer can tell what upstream release a pinned SHA corresponds to; corrupting them defeats the pinning the README recommends. It is cosmetic to the runtime and misleading to a human, which is the worse half. Anchor the substitution to the self-reference. It is a no-op while the workflows use `uses: ./`, and correct again if the pin ever returns. The test covered the old behaviour, so it asserted the corruption; it now proves a third-party provenance comment survives a bump. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015EmepbnR2nSdk8q8DBsrsD Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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actionlint flagged SC2086 on the unquoted $GITHUB_OUTPUT. Quoting it alone would have polished a snippet that does not work. The example percent-encodes newlines as %0A, which the removed ::set-output command used to decode. $GITHUB_OUTPUT does not, so the step has been emitting one line with literal %0A in it. The latest end-to-end run shows exactly that: %0A- [c74bcf9](...) - ` Fix README example spacing. `%0A- [8ea6bc3](...) Use the heredoc form, which is how a multiline value is returned now. The delimiter is random rather than fixed because the value is built from commit subjects: a fixed marker is a string a commit subject could contain in order to write further keys into $GITHUB_OUTPUT, which is the same class of problem as the Markdown injection fixed in #475. README carried the same broken snippet, so it is fixed there too, along with the prose explaining the escaping and its dead github.community link. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015EmepbnR2nSdk8q8DBsrsD Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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actionlint flagged SC2086 on the unquoted $GITHUB_OUTPUT. Quoting it alone would have polished a snippet that does not work. The example percent-encodes newlines as %0A, which the removed ::set-output command used to decode. $GITHUB_OUTPUT does not, so the step has been emitting one line with literal %0A in it. The latest end-to-end run shows exactly that: %0A- [c74bcf9](...) - ` Fix README example spacing. `%0A- [8ea6bc3](...) Use the heredoc form, which is how a multiline value is returned now. The delimiter is random rather than fixed because the value is built from commit subjects: a fixed marker is a string a commit subject could contain in order to write further keys into $GITHUB_OUTPUT, which is the same class of problem as the Markdown injection fixed in #475. README carried the same broken snippet, so it is fixed there too, along with the prose explaining the escaping and its dead github.community link. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015EmepbnR2nSdk8q8DBsrsD Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> (cherry picked from commit 0bee5ad)
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Summary
Security invariant
Commit subjects remain visible as literal text but cannot create links, images, mentions, issue/commit references, emoji, raw HTML, or additional changelog entries. The generated commit link remains active.
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npm test— 32/32npm run lintnpm run format-checknpm run buildactionlint(excluding the existing major-tag quoting warning handled in a separate branch)git diff --check