feat(rules): wire ResearchExtensions (RE001-RE010) into the scan path by hyperpolymath · Pull Request #763 · hyperpolymath/hypatia

hyperpolymath · 2026-09-08T06:43:46Z

RE001-RE010 merged in PR #325 on 2026-05-26 with 27 passing tests and no
caller anywhere in lib/. rules.ex:32 still carried

# alias Hypatia.Rules.ResearchExtensions  # wired in follow-up after PR #325 merges

and rules.ex:690 a matching "delegate added in follow-up once PR #325
lands on main". That precondition was met 105 days ago. Ten working
security rules had never run against a repository.

This is the connection, not new rules. Four wiring points:

rules.ex:31 uncomment the alias
rules.ex:706 @doc + defdelegate scan_research_extensions/2
rules.ex:729 add to scan_all_estate_policies/2's parts list
cli.ex:48 :research_extensions in @all_rule_modules, plus a
normalization branch in collect_findings/2

Only the cli.ex path executes today: scan_all_estate_policies/2 has no
caller in lib/ or test/, and its four sibling families (BaselineHealth,
WorkflowHardening, SupplyChain, BranchProtection) appear nowhere in
cli.ex. Adding RE to the facade alone would have reproduced the exact
defect this commit fixes. Both surfaces are wired.

Two seam defects had to be fixed or the wiring would have been cosmetic.

The :warn tier was discarded after the rules ran. Six of the ten RE
rules emit severity: :warn. "warn" was absent from cli.ex's
@severity_order, so Map.get(@severity_order, "warn", 5) gave it rank
5, and the filter rank <= threshold at the default --severity medium (3) dropped every one of them. Measured on this repository: 22
of 23 findings are warn-tier, so 96% of the new output would have
evaporated one function after being computed. "warn" is now ranked
with medium, and SARIF maps it to the "warning" level rather than the
"note" catch-all. This also un-drops workflow_audit's one warn
finding, which had the same fate.
:line was dropped at the normalization seam. RE004, RE005 and RE008
compute real line numbers but nest them under :detail, so a plain
Map.get(f, :line) returns nil and SARIF falls back to startLine 1.
The branch reads get_in(f, [:detail, :line]) || Map.get(f, :line),
which tolerates the seven rules that carry no line at all.

Gates, all re-run after rebasing onto 0e91342:

mix compile --force rc=0, 0 warnings tree-wide,
0 attributable to cli.ex,
sarif.ex or rules/rules.ex
mix test research_extensions_test 27 tests, 0 failures (unchanged)
mix test (new wiring test) 8 tests, 0 failures
mix test (full) 1481 tests, 1 failure, 242 excluded

The single failure is ActionsLockTest:277 "parses the repository's
authoritative generated lockfile", which arrived with #741. Controlled:
a clean detached checkout of origin/main 0e91342 without this commit runs
that file at 13 tests, 1 failure - identical. Pre-existing, and untouched
by this branch, which changes no file under lib/rules/actions_lock.ex.

End-to-end against this repository at default severity:

./hypatia scan . --rules research_extensions --format json
23 findings, rule_module: research_extensions on all 23
RE001 x13, RE004 x4, RE005 x5, RE008 x1
severity: 22 warn, 1 critical
10 carry a real line; SARIF startLines span 11 distinct values to 701

That the module filter holds is itself the proof of @all_rule_modules
membership: parse_rules/1 silently falls back to every rule when a name
does not resolve, so a mis-wired atom would have returned all modules.

The critical finding is real: RE008 flags
.github/workflows/dependabot-automerge.yml:56 gating on
github.actor == 'dependabot[bot]', which an attacker controls on
pull_request_target from a fork.

C1/C2 triage, since two RE rules touch pinning. RE004 concerns docker://
image tags and sha256 digests, outside actions.lock's remit entirely.
RE006 advises replacing an unpinned nested uses: inside a composite
action's action.yml with a 40-char SHA - the same shape of advice
rejected from Codacy under C1. It is wired because composite action.yml
files are not covered by actions.lock, and because it is advisory only:
severity :warn gives it dispatch confidence 0.75, below the 0.80
propose-PR threshold, so it can alert but never open a pinning PR. RE006
did not fire on this repository.

Expect RE001 to fire broadly across the estate - it flags any workflow
touching secrets.* without step-security/harden-runner.

Also adds research_extensions to both --rules help listings in
cli.ex. The parser fails open - an unrecognised rule name filters to
an empty list and silently runs every rule - so an undocumented
module is not merely a docs gap: a user guessing the name gets a full
scan and no error.

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RE001-RE010 merged in PR #325 on 2026-05-26 with 27 passing tests and no caller anywhere in lib/. rules.ex:32 still carried # alias Hypatia.Rules.ResearchExtensions # wired in follow-up after PR #325 merges and rules.ex:690 a matching "delegate added in follow-up once PR #325 lands on main". That precondition was met 105 days ago. Ten working security rules had never run against a repository. This is the connection, not new rules. Four wiring points: rules.ex:31 uncomment the alias rules.ex:706 @doc + defdelegate scan_research_extensions/2 rules.ex:729 add to scan_all_estate_policies/2's parts list cli.ex:48 :research_extensions in @all_rule_modules, plus a normalization branch in collect_findings/2 Only the cli.ex path executes today: scan_all_estate_policies/2 has no caller in lib/ or test/, and its four sibling families (BaselineHealth, WorkflowHardening, SupplyChain, BranchProtection) appear nowhere in cli.ex. Adding RE to the facade alone would have reproduced the exact defect this commit fixes. Both surfaces are wired. Two seam defects had to be fixed or the wiring would have been cosmetic. 1. The :warn tier was discarded after the rules ran. Six of the ten RE rules emit `severity: :warn`. "warn" was absent from cli.ex's @severity_order, so `Map.get(@severity_order, "warn", 5)` gave it rank 5, and the filter `rank <= threshold` at the default `--severity medium` (3) dropped every one of them. Measured on this repository: 22 of 23 findings are warn-tier, so 96% of the new output would have evaporated one function after being computed. "warn" is now ranked with medium, and SARIF maps it to the "warning" level rather than the "note" catch-all. This also un-drops workflow_audit's one warn finding, which had the same fate. 2. :line was dropped at the normalization seam. RE004, RE005 and RE008 compute real line numbers but nest them under `:detail`, so a plain `Map.get(f, :line)` returns nil and SARIF falls back to startLine 1. The branch reads `get_in(f, [:detail, :line]) || Map.get(f, :line)`, which tolerates the seven rules that carry no line at all. Gates, all re-run after rebasing onto 0e91342: mix compile --force rc=0, 0 warnings tree-wide, 0 attributable to cli.ex, sarif.ex or rules/rules.ex mix test research_extensions_test 27 tests, 0 failures (unchanged) mix test (new wiring test) 8 tests, 0 failures mix test (full) 1481 tests, 1 failure, 242 excluded The single failure is ActionsLockTest:277 "parses the repository's authoritative generated lockfile", which arrived with #741. Controlled: a clean detached checkout of origin/main 0e91342 without this commit runs that file at 13 tests, 1 failure - identical. Pre-existing, and untouched by this branch, which changes no file under lib/rules/actions_lock.ex. End-to-end against this repository at default severity: ./hypatia scan . --rules research_extensions --format json 23 findings, rule_module: research_extensions on all 23 RE001 x13, RE004 x4, RE005 x5, RE008 x1 severity: 22 warn, 1 critical 10 carry a real line; SARIF startLines span 11 distinct values to 701 That the module filter holds is itself the proof of @all_rule_modules membership: parse_rules/1 silently falls back to every rule when a name does not resolve, so a mis-wired atom would have returned all modules. The critical finding is real: RE008 flags .github/workflows/dependabot-automerge.yml:56 gating on `github.actor == 'dependabot[bot]'`, which an attacker controls on pull_request_target from a fork. C1/C2 triage, since two RE rules touch pinning. RE004 concerns docker:// image tags and sha256 digests, outside actions.lock's remit entirely. RE006 advises replacing an unpinned nested `uses:` inside a composite action's action.yml with a 40-char SHA - the same shape of advice rejected from Codacy under C1. It is wired because composite action.yml files are not covered by actions.lock, and because it is advisory only: severity :warn gives it dispatch confidence 0.75, below the 0.80 propose-PR threshold, so it can alert but never open a pinning PR. RE006 did not fire on this repository. Expect RE001 to fire broadly across the estate - it flags any workflow touching secrets.* without step-security/harden-runner. Also adds `research_extensions` to both `--rules` help listings in cli.ex. The parser fails open - an unrecognised rule name filters to an empty list and silently runs *every* rule - so an undocumented module is not merely a docs gap: a user guessing the name gets a full scan and no error. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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New Features
- Added Research Extensions checks to the supported rule modules and estate policy scans.
- Findings from Research Extensions are now included in command-line results and can be accessed through the rules interface.
- Added Research Extensions to the --rules help information.
Bug Fixes
- Warning-level findings are now retained when using the default medium severity threshold.
- Warning findings are correctly represented as warnings in SARIF output.
- Improved reporting of nested finding line locations.

Walkthrough

ResearchExtensions is added to CLI rule selection and default scanning. Its findings are normalised, filtered, and rendered in SARIF. The Rules facade exposes direct scanning and includes ResearchExtensions in estate-policy aggregation.

Changes

ResearchExtensions integration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Rules facade integration `lib/rules/rules.ex`, `test/research_extensions_wiring_test.exs`	The Rules facade exposes `scan_research_extensions/2` and merges ResearchExtensions findings into estate-policy scans.
CLI collection and output `lib/hypatia/cli.ex`, `lib/hypatia/sarif.ex`, `test/research_extensions_wiring_test.exs`	The CLI supports ResearchExtensions selection, normalises findings, retains `warn` findings at the medium threshold, and maps them to SARIF `warning` levels. Tests cover rule selection, nested lines, empty repositories, and output rendering.

Priority: ⬇️ Low — Impact reflects low issue severity.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Low

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to bd05f

ResearchExtensions warnings can be scanned and exported correctly to SARIF, but GitHub output may display them as notices and the CLI summary may omit their count. This is a bounded reporting inconsistency that should be corrected before relying on warning-level output.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI
  participant ResearchExtensions
  participant SARIF
  CLI->>ResearchExtensions: scan repository
  ResearchExtensions-->>CLI: return findings
  CLI->>CLI: normalise and filter findings
  CLI->>SARIF: render warn findings
  SARIF-->>CLI: emit warning level

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1100-1104: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Render "warn" consistently in all CLI outputs.

Line 70 classifies "warn" as medium-tier. The GitHub renderer still emits it as a "notice", and the summary omits its count. A scan can therefore fail at the medium threshold while GitHub displays notices and stderr reports no warning count.

lib/hypatia/cli.ex#L1100-L1104: map "warn" to "warning".

lib/hypatia/cli.ex#L275-L278: include "warn" in the severity breakdown.
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In `@lib/hypatia/cli.ex` around lines 1100 - 1104, Update the severity handling in
lib/hypatia/cli.ex at lines 1100-1104 to map "warn" to "warning" in the GitHub
renderer, and include "warn" in the severity breakdown at lines 275-278 so its
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- Around line 1100-1104: Update the severity handling in lib/hypatia/cli.ex at
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"warn" in the severity breakdown at lines 275-278 so its count is reported
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