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Follow-up to #670. Each finding was checked against current main; every one was a real defect. Each fix has a test that fails on main and passes here.

# Finding (#670 comment) Fix Test
1 panicbot kills only panic-attack on timeout, descendants survive and hold pipes (4562836920, 4562749115) own process group (CommandExt::process_group(0)), killpg on timeout / wait error / lingering pipes; pipe reads bounded by the same deadline. libc was already in each crate's lockfile (now a direct dep, same version); no new crate timeout_kills_descendants_and_returns_within_the_timeout
2 same in ponsbot (4562749136) same timeout_kills_the_descendants_and_returns_promptly, a_descendant_holding_the_pipes_after_exit_is_an_error_not_a_hang
3 relative PATH entry resolved after current_dir (4562836884) panic-attack path canonicalised when located a_relative_path_entry_is_resolved_before_the_cwd_changes (panicbot)
4 text mode prints "No issues found." on exit 3/4 (4562836926) prints Scan INCOMPLETE: ... / Scan NOT RUN: ...; "No issues found." only for a complete run text_mode_never_says_no_issues_for_an_incomplete_run, text_mode_says_no_issues_for_a_clean_complete_run
5 --version + diagnostics each get a full timeout (4562836910, 4562749094) one shared deadline; fleet.rs reuses the suite's diagnostics version (SuiteRun::diagnostics_version) instead of a second diagnostics run version_and_diagnostics_share_one_deadline
6 --pons SHA not checked against the pin (4562749147) fleet-report-back-build.sh installs nothing (warning, ponsbot reads not_run) when --pons differs from bots/ponsbot/canon/pin.toml or the pin is unreadable; docs/REPORT-BACK.adoc updated cases in tests/fleet-report-back-build-test.sh

Checks: cargo fmt --check, cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings, cargo test in panicbot and ponsbot; tests/fleet-report-back-test.sh (223 passed) and tests/fleet-report-back-build-test.sh (69 passed).

The #669 jsonc comment finding went onto that PR's own branch.


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  • Bug Fixes
    • Scan timeouts now apply across the full run, including diagnostics, and prevent lingering subprocesses from causing scans to hang.
    • Text results distinguish incomplete or unrun scans from complete scans with no findings.
    • Pons installation is skipped with a warning when the requested commit does not match the pinned version or the pin cannot be read.

HoTT-stuff and others added 3 commits November 13, 2026 11:56
…joins

Child::kill reaches only pons, so a descendant could outlive the timeout and
hold the output pipes open. Run pons in its own process group, SIGKILL the
group on timeout and wait error, and bound the pipe reads by the same deadline.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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… one preflight deadline

- run each panic-attack in its own process group and kill the group on timeout
  and wait error; bound pipe reads by the same deadline
- canonicalise the located executable before any current_dir change
- text mode no longer prints 'No issues found.' for a part error or an empty run
- --version and diagnostics share one deadline; fleet reuses the suite's
  diagnostics version instead of running diagnostics a second time

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0136P7ZkERqsQWMogHRpM2z8
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Panicbot now shares deadlines across diagnostics calls, validates adjudication exit codes against verdicts, supervises subprocess groups, and reports incomplete or unrun scans distinctly. Ponsbot adds process-group supervision. The build script installs Pons only when the requested commit matches the canonical pin.

Changes: Panicbot scanning and reporting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Diagnostics deadlines and adjudication results
bots/panicbot/src/scanner.rs, bots/panicbot/tests/diagnostics_deadline_test.rs, bots/panicbot/tests/envelope_parity_test.rs
Diagnostics calls share one timeout budget. Adjudication accepts exits 0 and 1 only when the parsed verdict matches the exit code, and rejects error verdicts. Regression tests cover these cases.
Panic-attack process supervision
bots/panicbot/Cargo.toml, bots/panicbot/src/scanner.rs, bots/panicbot/tests/envelope_parity_test.rs
Panicbot resolves the executable to a canonical path and runs it in a process group. Timeout and output collection share a deadline. Failure handling terminates and reaps the child and, where applicable, its process group.
Suite metadata and text scan status
bots/panicbot/src/fleet.rs, bots/panicbot/src/main.rs, bots/panicbot/src/suite.rs, bots/panicbot/tests/envelope_parity_test.rs
A2ML metadata uses the diagnostics version recorded in the suite, or unknown when unavailable. Text output distinguishes incomplete and not-run scans from clean completed scans.

Ponsbot pin validation and process supervision

Layer / File(s) Summary
Validate the Pons commit before installation
scripts/fleet-report-back-build.sh, docs/REPORT-BACK.adoc, tests/fleet-report-back-build-test.sh
The build script checks the requested commit against the canonical pin. It skips installation with a warning when the pin is unreadable or does not match. Documentation and tests describe and verify these outcomes.
Pons process-group supervision
bots/ponsbot/Cargo.toml, bots/ponsbot/src/scanner.rs, bots/ponsbot/tests/adapter_test.rs
Ponsbot collects output through channels and bounds output reads by the original deadline. It terminates the process group on timeout or related failures. Tests cover descendants that keep running or hold output pipes open.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: Low · up to db616

The subprocess timeout and pin-validation changes look safe to merge. The red secret-scan check comes from an unrelated example key in another branch's history and needs to be resolved by the owner. Optionally, add descendant-termination assertions to the post-exit pipe tests in ponsbot.

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Comment thread bots/panicbot/src/scanner.rs Fixed
Comment thread bots/ponsbot/src/scanner.rs Fixed
HoTT-stuff and others added 2 commits November 13, 2026 12:27
…error are errors

panic-attack #292 (unreleased) makes adjudicate exit 0 for pass/warn, 1 for
fail and 2 for an incomplete run, and adds an 'error' verdict. Accept exit 0
and 1 as complete runs and still read the report; exit 2 and verdict 'error'
are error parts; exit 1 must carry verdict 'fail'. The completeness check is
unchanged, and the pinned 410a8f82 (exit 0 for every verdict) still works.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0136P7ZkERqsQWMogHRpM2z8
Replace the unsafe libc::killpg in kill_pgid with rustix's safe
kill_process_group (Pid::from_raw, Signal::KILL). An invalid pid is now
reported as an error; ESRCH stays a non-error. Drops the direct libc dep.
Resolves code-scanning alerts 860/861 (code_safety/unsafe_block).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0136P7ZkERqsQWMogHRpM2z8
Comment thread bots/panicbot/src/scanner.rs Fixed
Comment thread bots/ponsbot/src/scanner.rs Fixed
Hypatia's code_safety/from_raw rule flagged rustix's safe Pid::from_raw.
Taking the pid from the Child itself also removes the u32->i32 conversion
and its unreachable error path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0136P7ZkERqsQWMogHRpM2z8

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The scan / gitleaks failure on 79a3f08 doesn't come from this PR. The one finding (generic-api-key, bots/finishingbot/src/analyzers/release.rs:575) is in commit a739744, which is on #669's branch and isn't in this PR's history. git merge-base --is-ancestor confirms that. The reusable secret scanner's full-history pass covers that commit too.

The flagged value is AWS's published documentation example key, not a live credential. The fix belongs in #669, where the fixture has to be built from string fragments. Because the scan reads the full history, a follow-up commit alone won't clear it. Either a739744 gets rewritten out of #669's branch, or this check stays red until #669 is squash-merged and its branch is deleted. Which way to go is waiting on the owner. No allowlist or baseline entry will be added.


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Comment thread bots/panicbot/src/scanner.rs Resolved
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#	bots/panicbot/tests/envelope_parity_test.rs
The stdout and stderr reads both waited for the time remaining before the
first one started, so staggered pipe holders could block a scan for nearly
twice its timeout. Each read now waits only for what is left of the
deadline. New tests take ~7.5s before the fix and ~4s after (4s timeout).

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Nitpick comments: 1

bots/ponsbot/tests/adapter_test.rs: 1

409-409: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Check descendant termination after the parent exits.

Both tests would still pass if kill_pgid at Line 180 in bots/ponsbot/src/scanner.rs were removed. The bounded receives would return an error, but the descendants could continue running.

Record the descendant PIDs and check their termination after ponsbot returns, as the preceding test does. This covers cleanup after the process-group leader has exited.

Based on learnings, process-group timeout tests must verify descendant termination, not only a timeout error.

Also applies to: 429-429

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Review comment at @bots/ponsbot/tests/adapter_test.rs at line 409:
Update the process-group timeout tests around the exit-status assertion to record descendant PIDs and verify those descendants have terminated after ponsbot returns. Follow the preceding test’s termination-check approach so the tests detect missing cleanup by kill_pgid after the process-group leader exits.

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Review comments at @bots/ponsbot/tests/adapter_test.rs:
- Line 409: Update the process-group timeout tests around the exit-status
assertion to record descendant PIDs and verify those descendants have terminated
after ponsbot returns. Follow the preceding test’s termination-check approach so
the tests detect missing cleanup by kill_pgid after the process-group leader
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