🏗️✨：check the runtime pins still agree - #901
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change centralizes Node and pnpm version validation in ChangesRuntime verification
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The runtime check can pass while pnpm no longer enforces the declared runtime versions, allowing inconsistent developer and CI environments. Add engineStrict validation before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant PostCreate as post-create.sh
participant PackageScripts as package-scripts.yml
participant VerifyTask as verify-runtimes.mts
participant RuntimeFiles as .nvmrc and package.json
PostCreate->>PackageScripts: invoke verify.runtimes
PackageScripts->>VerifyTask: run runtime verification
VerifyTask->>RuntimeFiles: read Node and pnpm declarations
RuntimeFiles-->>VerifyTask: return configured versions
VerifyTask-->>PostCreate: report success or set failure exit code
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Three files name a version and all three have to say the same thing: .nvmrc is what nvm reads for a bare `nvm use`, `engines` is what pnpm enforces and what setup-node is pointed at, and `packageManager` is the version pnpm fetches to run as. Only one of those pairs was guarded, and only in the dev container. post-create.sh compares .nvmrc against `engines.node` and stops if they differ, but it runs when somebody builds a container and nowhere else. CI reads package.json alone, so a change that moved one and left the other would pass every check and then fail for the next person to open the container. The `packageManager` and `engines.pnpm` pair had nothing watching it at all, and it is the worse of the two: pnpm fetches the version the first names and then holds itself to the second, so a disagreement fails every install rather than one shell. Both are checked now, and so is the shape of the pins: `engineStrict` turns `engines` into a requirement, and a range would let two files drift apart while still technically agreeing. post-create.sh calls the task rather than repeating it. Stated twice it would be two rules, and the one nobody runs is the one that rots. Signed-off-by: Derek Lewis <DerekNonGeneric@inf.is> Assisted-by: Claude-Code:claude-opus-5
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In `@build/tasks/verify/verify-runtimes.mts`:
- Around line 41-43: Update the runtime verification task to read
pnpm-workspace.yaml and validate the root engineStrict setting before
completing. Fail unless engineStrict is exactly true, so the task also detects
when the setting is removed or set to false; preserve the existing exact
engine-version validation.
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Validate engineStrict in this task.
Line 41 assumes that engineStrict enforces the exact engine versions. This task never reads pnpm-workspace.yaml, so it passes if engineStrict is removed or set to false. Read that file and fail unless the root setting is exactly engineStrict: true.
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In `@build/tasks/verify/verify-runtimes.mts` around lines 41 - 43, Update the
runtime verification task to read pnpm-workspace.yaml and validate the root
engineStrict setting before completing. Fail unless engineStrict is exactly
true, so the task also detects when the setting is removed or set to false;
preserve the existing exact engine-version validation.
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Three files pin a runtime version and all three must agree:
.nvmrcnvm useengines.node/engines.pnpmengineStrict), andsetup-nodein every workflowpackageManagerWhat was guarded, and what was not
Only
.nvmrcagainstengines.node, and only inpost-create.sh—which runs when somebody builds the dev container and nowhere else. CI
points
setup-nodeatpackage.jsonand never reads.nvmrc:So a change moving one and not the other passes every check, then fails
for the next person to open the container.
packageManageragainstengines.pnpmhad nothing watching it, andit is the worse pair: pnpm fetches the version the first names and then
holds itself to the second, so a disagreement fails every install
rather than one shell. Renovate touches all three fields; this time it
moved them together.
What the task checks
Both pairs, plus the shape of the pins —
engineStrictmakesenginesarequirement, and a range would let two files drift while still
technically agreeing. Verified against each failure mode:
One rule, not two
post-create.shnow calls the task instead of repeating the comparison.Stated twice it would be two rules, and the one nobody runs is the one
that rots. The task reads only what node ships with, so it works there
before anything is installed.
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