ci: pin actions to SHA and run full test suite on PRs

[zeevmoney]

• What kind of change does this PR introduce?

  CI / build hardening (chore). No SDK source changes. PR#1 of a 3-PR stack (next: AVA→Vitest migration with event-based waits; then comprehensive unit + e2e coverage).

  Linear: PER-15306

• What is the current behavior?

  • GitHub Actions float on mutable major tags (@v4).
  • The backend-dependent tests (integration + e2e) only run for real in the release/publish workflow. The PR/push CI runs yarn test with a dummy PDP_API_KEY=test and no backend, so they can't actually pass on PRs.
  • CI node matrix is 18/20 (18 is EOL).

• What is the new behavior?

  • Actions pinned to full commit SHAs at latest stable, with version comments, in both workflows:
    • actions/checkout@9c091bb…0e0 # v7.0.0
    • actions/setup-node@48b55a0…41e # v6.4.0
    • persist-credentials: false on every checkout (verified safe in the publish workflow — it only makes local commits, nothing is pushed).
  • Full test suite runs on PRs/pushes, not only on release. The test job branches:
    • Same-repo PRs / pushes: provision a throwaway Permit env via the PROJECT_API_KEY secret, run a dockerized permitio/pdp-v2 (with -e PDP_API_KEY/-e PERMIT_API_KEY and a /healthy readiness wait), run test:ci:full (unit + integration + module-imports + e2e rbac/rebac/local_facts) against API_TIER=prod, and delete the env on always().
    • Fork PRs / secret-less runs (e.g. Dependabot): fall back to test:ci:unit (unit + module-imports — genuinely no backend needed).
  • A same-repo run that is missing PROJECT_API_KEY now fails fast instead of silently downgrading to unit-only and reporting a misleading green.
  • Concurrency (cancel-in-progress per ref), least-privilege permissions: contents: read, and a lint-and-build → matrix test (20/22) job split.
  • New scripts: test:ci:unit, test:ci:full.

• Other information:

  How it was tested

  • actionlint clean on both workflows (also fixed a pre-existing unquoted $GITHUB_ENV in the publish workflow).
  • SHAs re-resolved live against the GitHub API; yarn build + package.json JSON validity confirmed.
  • The new test job's full path can only be exercised once merged to a branch with the secret — review the workflow logic accordingly.

  Known risk (resolved by the next stacked PR)

  • The e2e suites still use hardcoded sleep(10s) waits for cloud→PDP propagation. This PR is the first to run them in CI (against a cold, freshly-provisioned env), so they may be intermittently flaky until PR#2 replaces the timers with event/poll-based waits. AVA's failFast: true means one flake aborts the suite — expect possible re-runs until PR#2 lands.

  Deliberately deferred to PR#2 (the test-quality / Vitest migration PR)

  • Two orphaned specs run in no path today: src/tests/bulk_test.spec.ts and src/tests/e2e/lists.e2e.spec.ts. They're kept (valuable bulk-API and list-pagination coverage), not deleted. Vitest's *.spec.ts auto-discovery will pick them up, and lists.e2e's absolute-count assertions (which collide in a shared env) will be reworked there.
  • Quoting the ** globs in test:integration / test:module-imports (moot after the Vitest migration).

  Deferred follow-ups (noted, not in this PR)

  • Factor the temp-env provisioning into a shared composite action used by both ci.yaml and the publish workflow.
  • Add -e PDP_API_KEY/-e PERMIT_API_KEY to the publish workflow's PDP (it never runs e2e today, so it isn't broken).
  • A scheduled sweeper to delete any leaked node-sdk-ci-* envs from cancelled runs.

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[linear-code]

PER-15306

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This PR hardens CI for the Node SDK by pinning GitHub Actions to immutable SHAs and expanding PR/push validation to run the full backend-dependent test suite when secrets are available, while falling back to unit-only checks for forked PRs/secret-less runs.

Changes:

• Add CI-focused scripts (test:ci:unit, test:ci:full) to support running either unit-only or full (backend + e2e) suites.
• Update the main CI workflow to split lint-and-build from a Node matrix test job, provision a temporary Permit environment + local PDP for same-repo runs, and enforce least-privilege permissions + concurrency cancellation.
• Pin Actions used in CI and publish workflows to full commit SHAs and harden checkout settings (persist-credentials: false), plus fix quoting of $GITHUB_ENV writes in publish.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 3 out of 3 changed files in this pull request and generated 3 comments.

File	Description
package.json	Adds CI-specific test scripts used by the updated workflow.
.github/workflows/ci.yaml	Runs full backend test suite for same-repo PRs/pushes (with temp env + PDP), unit-only for forks; adds concurrency, permissions, and pinned actions.
.github/workflows/node_sdk_publish.yaml	Pins actions to SHAs, disables persisted credentials on checkout, and fixes $GITHUB_ENV quoting.

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[dshoen619]

Review summary

Solid hardening overall — SHA pins verified correct (checkout@9c091bb… = v7.0.0, setup-node@48b55a0… = v6.4.0), secret masking is ordered correctly (::add-mask:: runs before the $GITHUB_ENV write and before the PDP starts), fork-PR safety is right (pull_request, not pull_request_target; the gating expression semantics check out), and the least-privilege permissions, per-ref concurrency, the lint-and-build → test split, dropping EOL Node 18, and the $GITHUB_ENV quoting fix are all good.

One blocking issue (inline on package.json): test:ci:full → run-s test:* does not match the test:e2e:* scripts — npm-run-all treats : as a path separator and a single * doesn't cross it — so the e2e suites silently never run, which is this PR's headline goal. Verified empirically against this repo's npm-run-all@4.1.5. As a side effect, the PDP machinery in ci.yaml is currently unexercised by the suites that actually run.

Inline comments cover: the e2e wiring (blocking), the Dependabot gate (latent), the :latest PDP tag, the misleading IPv4 diagnostic, swallowed curl errors, and the env-leak window.

Pre-existing items in node_sdk_publish.yaml (out of scope for this PR, noted for a follow-up):

• Lines 99/106 — github.event.release.tag_name is interpolated straight into the run: shell; a crafted tag name is code-exec (requires release-create access). Pass it through an env: var.
• Lines 74–79 — the publish PDP gets no -e PDP_API_KEY/-e PERMIT_API_KEY and no readiness wait. Harmless today (as the PR notes — yarn test there doesn't exercise the PDP either), but fix when e2e actually runs.
• Line 31 — npm install -g npm@latest is unpinned.

Reasoning cross-checked with the javascript-typescript and backend-development review agents. Leaving as comments (not a formal block); happy to convert any of these to issues or apply the fixes if useful.

[dshoen619]

🔴 Blocking — test:ci:full never runs the e2e suites (the PR's headline goal).

run-s test → run-s test:*, and npm-run-all treats : as a path separator: a single * does not cross it. Verified empirically with this repo's npm-run-all@4.1.5:

run-s test:*  →  test:unit, test:integration, test:module-imports     # test:e2e:* NOT matched

So test:ci:full runs unit + integration + module-imports only — test:e2e:rbac/rebac/local_facts silently never execute, and the "flaky e2e sleeps" risk is moot because they don't run. Enumerate explicitly:

Suggested change

	"test:ci:full": "run-s test",
	"test:ci:full": "run-s test:unit test:integration test:module-imports test:e2e:rbac test:e2e:rebac test:e2e:local_facts",

⚠️ Do not "fix" this with run-s test:** — ** does cross :, so it would match test:ci:full/test:ci:unit and infinite-loop.

Two adjacent notes (lines 34–35, outside this hunk): test:integration and test:module-imports pass their ** globs unquoted, unlike test:unit — works only because those dirs are flat today; add a subdirectory and the shell pre-expands the glob and silently drops the top-level spec. Quote them like test:unit. Also, each test:* re-runs build, so test:ci:full rebuilds 3×.

[dshoen619]

🟡 This gate will block Dependabot (latent today).

Dependabot PRs are same-repo (head.repo.full_name == github.repository → true) but get no access to regular secrets, so RUN_BACKEND evaluates to false and the "Require backend secret" step (line 67) hits exit 1. There's no .github/dependabot.yml yet, so it's unreachable today — but it breaks the moment Dependabot (or any same-repo bot without the secret) is enabled. Exempt the actor:

Suggested change

	RUN_BACKEND: ${{ (github.event_name == 'push' || github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name == github.repository) && secrets.PROJECT_API_KEY != '' }}
	RUN_BACKEND: ${{ (github.event_name == 'push' || (github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name == github.repository && github.actor != 'dependabot[bot]')) && secrets.PROJECT_API_KEY != '' }}

Apply the same && github.actor != 'dependabot[bot]' to the gate if: on line 67.

[dshoen619]

Low — error responses are swallowed. curl -sS exits 0 on HTTP 4xx/5xx and only .id presence is checked, so a 401/429 surfaces as a bare "Failed to create env" with no context. Echo the response (safe — PROJECT_API_KEY is in the request header, not the body):

Suggested change

	echo "Failed to create env (key=${ENV_KEY})." >&2
	echo "Failed to create env (key=${ENV_KEY}). Response: ${response}" >&2

Same applies to the "Fetch env API key" step (line 106).

[dshoen619]

🟡 permitio/pdp-v2:latest is a mutable tag — inconsistent with the SHA-pinning discipline this PR otherwise applies. A silent PDP image update changes CI behavior with no code change, and a compromised image would receive ENV_API_KEY at runtime. Pin to a digest (permitio/pdp-v2@sha256:<digest>) and bump it intentionally. (The publish workflow uses the same mutable tag.)

[dshoen619]

Tied to the package.json comment: because test:ci:full doesn't include the e2e suites, this step runs unit + integration + module-imports only. The integration/endpoints suite (src/tests/endpoints/test-environments.spec.ts) makes control-plane API calls only and never calls permit.check() — so the dockerized PDP, the /healthy wait, and the IPv4 PDP_URL pin above are provisioned but never actually queried by anything that runs here. Once the e2e wiring is fixed in package.json, this all becomes load-bearing.

[dshoen619]

🟡 Diagnostic uses localhost, defeating the IPv4 workaround. The readiness loop deliberately uses 127.0.0.1 (the whole point of the PDP_URL pin), but this on-failure diagnostic uses localhost → resolves to ::1 → reports connection-refused even when the PDP is healthy on IPv4, i.e. it misleads exactly when you need it.

Suggested change

	curl -sv http://localhost:7766/healthy || true
	curl -sv http://127.0.0.1:7766/healthy || true

[dshoen619]

Note (acknowledged in the PR): cleanup keys off steps.provision.outputs.env_id, so if cancel-in-progress kills the provision step after the env is created server-side but before env_id is written to $GITHUB_OUTPUT, the env leaks (up to 2/run with the matrix). The deferred sweeper is the right fix — worth prioritizing since the leak rate scales with PR/push volume.

[dshoen619]

persist-credentials: false ✅ — confirmed safe: this workflow makes only local commits and never git pushes. One pre-existing corollary (out of scope, just noting): because nothing is pushed, the git commit -m "update tsdoc" on line 43 has always been discarded at job end — a dead write. Either add a push or drop the commit step.