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Nothing held the IDs this server hands a model to the catalog that resolves them. cmd/audit_action_ids reads all three sites a model is invited to call next, and it reported; this turns it into a gate, which is what the class needs, because every one of the fixes that preceded it is one rename away from coming back.

The demand is the canonical ID and not mere resolvability. A registered alias now fails too, and that half is the whole point: runners and runnercontrollers spelled sixty of their RelatedActions entries as individual tool names (gitlab_runner_get for runner.get), which gitlab_execute_action resolves through the alias each spec declares, so every one of those cross-links worked when a model followed it and could be found in no listing, since gitlab_find_action publishes IDs. A gate asking only that an ID resolve would have left all sixty in place. Both packages already had the right constants in markdown.go, where the hints name canonical IDs; the two sets existed side by side in two files and only one of them named IDs, which is what made the split easy to miss. The constants move to action_specs.go and the related lists read them.

Two more things fail it. A declaration that excuses nothing, on the terms every declaration table here is held to. And a site the type checker could not fold: it is the audit's own blind spot rather than a defect of the tree, and failing on it is what stops a future site stepping into that silence, since an ID assembled at run time would otherwise be reported unreadable and pass. That rule caught its first case inside this change: the generated reset-token entries took their siblings as a struct, and the two IDs inside it stopped folding.

The one shape the canonical demand is wrong for is a sentence whose subject is the alias, and the gitlab_issue_update usage line is that sentence: it exists to tell a model that dynamic execute accepts issue.close. Those are declared, and only a prose site consults the table, so a cross-link naming one is still a finding. Both tables are judged only by a whole-tree run, because over one package every entry excuses nothing and reporting them all stale would answer about the patterns rather than the declarations.

The documentation gate could not see an action ID at all: its one token regex is gitlab_[a-z0-9_]+ and an ID carries no such prefix. Eight IDs across five pages were wrong that way, a whole pipeline_schedule. family among them, each paired with the right tool name, which is why that gate was green over all of them. It reads both halves now, through cmd/internal/actionids, the oracle both gates share so a spelling cannot be a cross-link in the code and prose in the docs. Three shapes pass the dotted test and are not IDs: a file name whose stem is a catalog domain, judged by its tail rather than one entry at a time (the first report was 75 tokens and about fifty were issue.rb and project.svg); a meta-surface manifest entry, whose left half the tool rule already checks; and a short table of attributes, document paths and other software's names.

audit_discovery_completeness loses the sibling matcher's substring fallback. It was written to be defensive about RelatedActions values that did not conform, and with a sibling named list it counted every related ID carrying those four letters; the gate is what makes those values conform now, so the tolerance could only report a package complete on the strength of a substring. Removing it changes no count in the report.

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  • New Features

    • Added validation for documented action IDs, ensuring they resolve to published canonical actions.
    • Added CI enforcement for canonical action IDs used in published metadata and documentation.
    • Added broader documentation checks covering both tool names and dotted action IDs.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved sibling-action matching to prevent false positives from partial name matches.
    • Corrected action ID examples and validation behavior across development documentation.
  • Documentation

    • Updated command references, audit guidance, and project documentation to reflect the expanded checks.

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The pull request adds a shared canonical action ID catalog, applies it to action and documentation audits, converts action ID checks into CI gates, and updates related-action declarations, tests, workflow wiring, and documentation.

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Action ID validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared action catalog
cmd/internal/actionids/*
Adds canonical ID and alias indexes, candidate extraction, normalization, nearest-ID suggestions, catalog construction, and tests.
Published action ID gate
cmd/audit_action_ids/*
Uses the shared catalog, rejects unresolved or alias IDs under -check, tracks stale declarations, and updates report output and tests.
Documentation action ID gate
cmd/audit_doc_tool_names/*
Scans dotted action IDs, excludes known non-ID shapes, reports missing IDs and aliases, and fails on findings or stale declarations.
Canonical related-action declarations
internal/tools/runners/*, internal/tools/runnercontrollers/*, cmd/audit_discovery_completeness/*
Defines canonical runner IDs and validates related actions against those IDs instead of individual tool names or substring matches.
CI and documentation wiring
.github/workflows/ci.yml, Makefile, CLAUDE.md, docs/development/*
Adds make check-action-ids to CI, expands documentation for both audits, and adds an e2e coverage check to make analyze.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant CI
  participant Makefile
  participant AuditActionIDs
  participant AuditDocToolNames
  participant ActionIDs
  CI->>Makefile: Run validation targets
  Makefile->>AuditActionIDs: Run check-action-ids
  Makefile->>AuditDocToolNames: Run check-doc-tool-names
  AuditActionIDs->>ActionIDs: Validate published IDs
  AuditDocToolNames->>ActionIDs: Validate documented IDs
  ActionIDs-->>AuditActionIDs: Canonical and alias results
  ActionIDs-->>AuditDocToolNames: Canonical and alias results
  AuditActionIDs-->>CI: Exit status
  AuditDocToolNames-->>CI: Exit status
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Nothing held the IDs this server hands a model to the catalog that
resolves them. `cmd/audit_action_ids` reads all three sites a model is
invited to call next, and it reported; this turns it into a gate, which
is what the class needs, because every one of the fixes that preceded it
is one rename away from coming back.

The demand is the canonical ID and not mere resolvability. A registered
alias now fails too, and that half is the whole point: `runners` and
`runnercontrollers` spelled sixty of their `RelatedActions` entries as
individual tool names (`gitlab_runner_get` for `runner.get`), which
`gitlab_execute_action` resolves through the alias each spec declares,
so every one of those cross-links worked when a model followed it and
could be found in no listing, since `gitlab_find_action` publishes IDs.
A gate asking only that an ID resolve would have left all sixty in
place. Both packages already had the right constants in `markdown.go`,
where the hints name canonical IDs; the two sets existed side by side in
two files and only one of them named IDs, which is what made the split
easy to miss. The constants move to `action_specs.go` and the related
lists read them.

Two more things fail it. A declaration that excuses nothing, on the
terms every declaration table here is held to. And a site the type
checker could not fold: it is the audit's own blind spot rather than a
defect of the tree, and failing on it is what stops a future site
stepping into that silence, since an ID assembled at run time would
otherwise be reported unreadable and pass. That rule caught its first
case inside this change: the generated reset-token entries took their
siblings as a struct, and the two IDs inside it stopped folding.

The one shape the canonical demand is wrong for is a sentence whose
subject is the alias, and the `gitlab_issue_update` usage line is that
sentence: it exists to tell a model that dynamic execute accepts
`issue.close`. Those are declared, and only a prose site consults the
table, so a cross-link naming one is still a finding. Both tables are
judged only by a whole-tree run, because over one package every entry
excuses nothing and reporting them all stale would answer about the
patterns rather than the declarations.

The documentation gate could not see an action ID at all: its one token
regex is `gitlab_[a-z0-9_]+` and an ID carries no such prefix. Eight IDs
across five pages were wrong that way, a whole `pipeline_schedule.`
family among them, each paired with the right tool name, which is why
that gate was green over all of them. It reads both halves now, through
`cmd/internal/actionids`, the oracle both gates share so a spelling
cannot be a cross-link in the code and prose in the docs. Three shapes
pass the dotted test and are not IDs: a file name whose stem is a
catalog domain, judged by its tail rather than one entry at a time (the
first report was 75 tokens and about fifty were `issue.rb` and
`project.svg`); a meta-surface manifest entry, whose left half the tool
rule already checks; and a short table of attributes, document paths and
other software's names.

`audit_discovery_completeness` loses the sibling matcher's substring
fallback. It was written to be defensive about `RelatedActions` values
that did not conform, and with a sibling named `list` it counted every
related ID carrying those four letters; the gate is what makes those
values conform now, so the tolerance could only report a package
complete on the strength of a substring. Removing it changes no count in
the report.

(cherry picked from commit 57209a7ded0710b294202ad432e432269ae65479)
This layer gave run an overlay and a check flag, which took it to eight
parameters and past what SonarCloud accepts (S107, seven), so the
quality gate on this pull request failed. They are one run's
configuration and are grouped as one now, which is the shape the sibling
commands already use: cmd/audit_dead_consts has the same auditConfig
beside the same run(cfg, check, stdout, stderr).

No behaviour changes: every field carries the value its parameter did,
and the seven test call sites name the ones they set.

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🟡 Minor · Align both scope paragraphs with canonical-ID validation. · doc.go:64-68

cmd/audit_action_ids/doc.go:64-68
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Align both scope paragraphs with canonical-ID validation.

cmd/audit_action_ids/doc.go already states that registered aliases are refused, but this paragraph incorrectly limits the audit to IDs that cannot work. State that it checks resolution and canonical spelling, while retaining the limitation that it cannot determine whether a valid canonical ID targets the intended action.

Apply the same distinction in cmd/audit_doc_tool_names/doc.go. Its scanner records registered aliases as action findings, and --check returns 1 when findings exist.

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In `@cmd/audit_action_ids/doc.go` around lines 64 - 68, Update the scope
paragraphs in the audit action-ID and documentation-tool-name command
descriptions to state that validation checks both ID/name resolution and
canonical spelling, including registered aliases as findings and making --check
return 1 when findings exist. Retain the limitation that validation cannot
determine whether a valid canonical identifier targets the intended action.

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Inline comments:
In `@cmd/audit_action_ids/main.go`:
- Line 30: Update the -check help text in cmd/audit_action_ids/main.go at lines
30-30 to mention aliases, unfolded sites, and stale declarations in addition to
non-canonical catalog IDs; update the corresponding -check help text in
cmd/audit_doc_tool_names/main.go at lines 66-66 to mention invalid action IDs
and stale allowedIDs declarations alongside its existing failure condition.

In `@docs/development/cmd-utilities.md`:
- Line 404: Update the documentation entry for make check-action-ids to state
that it is step 11 of make analyze, matching the Makefile sequence; leave the CI
gate description unchanged.

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In `@cmd/audit_action_ids/doc.go`:
- Around line 64-68: Update the scope paragraphs in the audit action-ID and
documentation-tool-name command descriptions to state that validation checks
both ID/name resolution and canonical spelling, including registered aliases as
findings and making --check return 1 when findings exist. Retain the limitation
that validation cannot determine whether a valid canonical identifier targets
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Every corrective hint a handler hands a model named an individual tool.
The default dynamic surface registers no such tool at all, and the meta
surface registers only the bare domain tools, so `verify project_id with
gitlab_project_get` was right for one surface of three: a model that
follows it is told the tool is unknown and concludes the capability is
absent rather than that the sentence is wrong. The canonical action ID
is the portable form here for the reason it is the portable form in a
documentation example.

**785 findings in 137 packages, over the 1327 hints this tree writes.
Zero now, and the rule gates.**

## The fixer

`cmd/audit_action_ids -fix-hints` closed 712 of them. The individual
surface is one tool per action, so the catalog resolves
`gitlab_project_get` to `project.get` and the substitution is exact.
What makes it safe is not the substitution but what it is applied to,
and both rules were found by running without them:

- A literal is rewritten only when its text is part of a hint the walk
folded. That keeps an individual tool's `Description` out, where the
same token is correct, in the same file and often the same declaration
block.
- A literal with no space in it is a name rather than a sentence.
Without that rule the first run rewrote 48 lines of
`internal/tools/projects/action_specs.go` and renamed the tools
themselves.

`-fix-hints-tests` moves an assertion that pins a hint with the hint,
and has to run in the same pass: once the production text is rewritten,
no test literal spelling the old name is part of any hint any more. It
uses the same prose rule. The narrower rule that suggests itself,
admitting any test literal that spells a tool name the package's own
hints had just stopped spelling, looks exact and is not: a test asserts
an individual tool's name as often as it asserts a hint, in the same
file and with the same literal, and measured on this tree that rule
turned 98 failing assertions into 351. The suite caught it, which is the
argument for running it rather than for keeping the rule.

## The 73 the fixer did not close

Fifteen were the meta tool name, usually beside the canonical ID
already: `use gitlab_attestation action 'list' or attestation.list`. The
fixer reports those rather than guessing, since the individual surface
publishes no such tool and the catalog has no answer to substitute. Each
names the ID once now.

The rest were the test assertions, which eight agents fixed in parallel,
and they turned up three shapes the rule cannot see at all:

- `internal/tools/branches` builds eight corrective hints with
`errors.New` and `fmt.Errorf` rather than through a `toolutil.WrapErr*`
helper, so the walk never folded them. One was pinned green by a test,
which is the shape of the problem: the hint was wrong, the test agreed
with it, and nothing could tell.
- `internal/tools/attestations/markdown.go` writes tool names into a
card's next-steps lines and a list footer.
- Three `ValueSource` entries in
`internal/tools/runners/action_specs.go` do the same in parameter
guidance.

All are fixed here. Widening the reader to see them is a separate
change, and until it lands those three shapes are where the class can
reform.

## The gate

With the count at zero, `-check` refuses a hint that names a tool and
the failure line names that rule beside the other four. Its unfoldable
sites still fail nothing, which is a deliberate departure from how the
gate treats its own: a published ID nobody can read is unreadable, while
an unfoldable hint is a sentence a reader still reads, and the three in
the tree build one from a function call or a format string and carry no
tool name between them.

The golden snapshots and the token footprint move, because the runners
parameter guidance is part of the served surface. The card and hint text
is not: it reaches a model in a result rather than in a listing.

## The gates

Measured through `rgo` on the packages this branch touches:

| Gate | Package | Result |
| --- | --- | --- |
| gremlins | `fix_hints.go`, the new file | **31 killed, 0 lived, 0 not
covered** |
| gremlins | `cmd/internal/actionids` | **40 killed, 0 lived, 0 not
covered** |
| gremlins | `cmd/audit_action_ids`, whole | 200 killed, 13 lived, 0 not
covered (23 before this branch) |
| gobco | `internal/resources` | **436 of 436 conditions** |
| gobco | `cmd/internal/actionids` | 47 of 52, the five open ones older
than this branch |
| SonarCloud | new code | coverage **99.5%**, duplication 0.8%, zero
bugs, smells and vulnerabilities |

Both gates changed the code rather than the tests, which is the part
worth reading:

**gobco found two conditions no input reached, and they were mine**, in
the manifest alias. The answer was the caller: the alias is asked of
every surface now, so the dynamic surface meets every ID already filed
and the guard is exercised on every run instead of standing there
defensively.

**gremlins found five survivors in the new file, and four were one
defect.** The walk's record was filtered twice, once to choose the
packages and once to collect their values, and both applied the same
four terms; the second hid the first, so a site the package filter
should have rejected was let through by a flipped operator, collected no
values, and was skipped a line later for having none. One pass now, one
filter, and a case per term that fails only that term. The fifth was an
edit order where two edits never share an offset, so `<` and `<=` are
the same function.

**Ten more went with them**, all one family: a `<` inside an `if` that
has already established the two values differ. `lessPosition` and the
four comparators repeating its shape are one `comparePosition` returning
a comparison, which has no boundary to get wrong. The package went from
23 survivors to 13, and the thirteen that remain came with #860, #880
and the sweep this package has outgrown; they are listed site by site in
#889.

The coverage of the new file was also the reason Sonar refused the first
push: `fix_hints.go` was at 0.0%, since the pass had been run by hand
and nothing held it. The tests state what it decides, not that it runs.

## Is the ID valid on all three surfaces

It is now, and it was not when this branch opened. The question is the
right one to ask of the premise, so here is the measurement, over the
1084 actions the catalog builds at Ultimate:

| Surface | `project.get` |
| --- | --- |
| dynamic | the `action` argument `gitlab_execute_action` takes |
| meta | 1084 of 1084 split into `gitlab_<domain>` plus `action=<name>`
|
| individual | 338 of 1084 match `gitlab_<domain>_<action>`; **746 do
not** |

The individual tool name is declared per action rather than computed, so
`access.deploy_key_add` is served by `gitlab_deploy_key_add` and no rule
takes one to the other. The manifest did not close that, since
`gitlab://tools/{id}` keys its entries per surface: the same action is
filed under `gitlab_project.get` on meta and `gitlab_project_get` on
individual, so `gitlab://tools/project.get` answered on the dynamic
surface alone.

The last commit fixes it. The entries stay keyed per surface, because a
listing should name the call its reader can make; what is added is a
second way to look one up. The canonical ID resolves to the surface's
own entry, so what comes back is the translation a session needs. A test
drives the same ID on all three surfaces against a catalog whose
individual name is deliberately underivable, and a second test holds the
listing to one row, because an alias that became a second entry would
tell a model there are two capabilities where there is one.

Worth saying plainly: this is what makes true a sentence forty-seven
comments in this tree already make, that the canonical ID is the one
form every surface resolves. Forty-five of them predate this branch.

Closes #883.
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`cmd/audit_action_ids` was swept in #871 and has roughly doubled since:
#860 added the gate, #880 the hint rule, #888 the fixer. A run over the
package reported 200 killed and 13 lived, every one of them in code that
arrived after the sweep. It now reports 204 killed, 0 lived and 0 not
covered, at 100% efficacy.

Reading the thirteen moved two of them out of the class issue #889 filed
them under, and the difference is what decides the fix.

`fold.go` carried a depth bound in `foldCall` that no depth can reach.
The bound that works is `foldExpr`'s, and every way into `foldCall` has
been through it already: a site enters at zero, and a nested call is
reached only by folding an expression, which refuses past the bound
before it looks at what the expression is. So the copy in `foldCall`
read as the bound while the one enforcing it sat a function away. It is
gone, and the two tests that hold the limit from either side are
unchanged, because they were always testing the other one.

`recordArguments` is the reverse. Its `param.index >= len(args)` looked
like a guard against a variadic call with no elements, which the loop
below handles anyway; what it actually guards is a shape no other
fixture here produces. Go lets a call of a multi-valued function stand
for the whole argument list, so `takesTwoHints(pairOfHints())` compiles
and the second parameter has no argument of its own. Reading it would
index past the list. The guard stays and a test now writes that call.

Two guards no program that compiles can reach are deleted rather than
tested, which is this tree's answer for that shape. `HintAction`
declares its ID as a required first parameter, so a call has one; Go
demands one element per field of a positional struct literal, so no
element sits past the last field. Each site says so where it reads the
value. The whole-tree run is the evidence: 3912 published IDs and 1327
hints, no refusal and no crash.

The rest were gaps and have tests. A verbose report announced a section
and printed nothing under it whenever the list was empty, which reads as
rows that were lost; both headings are now constants and both are
asserted absent. The per-package heading of the row listing is asserted
from both directions, since a report that got the comparison backwards
is readable either way. And three shapes of hint call had never been
written: a conversion, whose callee resolves to a type and not a
function; a method of the universe scope, whose function has no package;
and an append that spreads a slice, which is a list and not one hint.

Three mutants time out rather than dying, all in the list-copy rule and
all untouched by this change: inverting those conditions makes the walk
follow every call it sees, which is slow rather than wrong. They were
there before, on a package that measured 216 mutants against today's
207: the three deleted guards carried three mutators each.
jmrplens added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 22, 2026
Closes #889.

`cmd/audit_action_ids` was swept in #871 and has roughly doubled since:
#860 added the gate, #880 the hint rule, #888 the fixer. A run over the
package reported 200 killed and 13 lived, every one of them in code that
arrived after the sweep. It now reports **204 killed, 0 lived, 0 not
covered**, at 100% efficacy.

Reading the thirteen moved two of them out of the class I filed them
under in the issue, and the difference is what decides the fix.

**`fold.go` carried a depth bound no depth can reach.** The bound that
works is `foldExpr`'s, and every way into `foldCall` has been through it
already: a site enters at zero, and a nested call is reached only by
folding an expression, which refuses past the bound before it looks at
what the expression is. So the copy in `foldCall` read as the bound
while the one enforcing it sat a function away. It is gone, and the two
tests that hold the limit from either side are unchanged, because they
were always testing the other one.

**`recordArguments` is the reverse.** Its `param.index >= len(args)`
looked like a guard against a variadic call with no elements, which the
loop below handles anyway; what it actually guards is a shape no other
fixture here produces. Go lets a call of a multi-valued function stand
for the whole argument list, so `takesTwoHints(pairOfHints())` compiles
and the second parameter has no argument of its own. Reading it would
index past the list. The guard stays and a test now writes that call.

**Two guards no program that compiles can reach are deleted rather than
tested**, which is this tree's answer for that shape. `HintAction`
declares its ID as a required first parameter, so a call has one; Go
demands one element per field of a positional struct literal, so no
element sits past the last field. Each site says so where it reads the
value. The whole-tree run is the evidence: 3912 published IDs and 1327
hints, no refusal and no crash.

**The rest were gaps and have tests.** A verbose report announced a
section and printed nothing under it whenever the list was empty, which
reads as rows that were lost; both headings are now constants and both
are asserted absent. The per-package heading of the row listing is
asserted from both directions, since a report that got the comparison
backwards is readable either way. And three shapes of hint call had
never been written: a conversion, whose callee resolves to a type and
not a function; a method of the universe scope, whose function has no
package; and an append that spreads a slice, which is a list and not one
hint.

Three mutants time out rather than dying, all in the list-copy rule and
all untouched by this change: inverting those conditions makes the walk
follow every call it sees, which is slow rather than wrong. They were
there before, on a package that measured 216 mutants against today's
207, since the three deleted guards carried three mutators each.
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