feat: Various improvements

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Requested Updatecli versions already available in the runner’s tool cache are reused instead of downloaded.
  • Downloaded release archives are checked against the release’s SHA-256 checksum file when available. Installation stops if a checksum doesn’t match or the requested archive isn’t listed.
• Documentation
  • Clarified that checksum verification is skipped with a warning for older releases.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The action reuses cached Updatecli versions and verifies downloaded archives against release checksums when available. The repository replaces its ESLint configuration, updates package metadata and dependencies, and adds an Updatecli pipeline to update bundled npm dependencies.

Changes

Archive download and verification

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Download, verify, and cache src/main.js, tests/main.test.js, README.md	The download path checks for a cached version first. On a cache miss, it downloads and extracts a supported archive, checks its checksum when available, and caches the executable. Tests cover cache reuse and checksum outcomes. The README describes these behaviors.

Lint and package setup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Flat ESLint configuration and package setup .eslintignore, .eslintrc.json, eslint.config.js, package.json	The repository replaces the legacy ESLint files with a flat configuration. Package metadata and dependency declarations change.

Bundled dependency automation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Discover and update bundled dependencies updatecli-compose.yaml, updatecli/updatecli.d/npm-dist.yaml	NPM autodiscovery excludes five packages handled by the new pipeline. The pipeline discovers versions, rebuilds dist/, detects manifest and generated-file changes, and configures squash pull requests with auto-merge.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant UpdatecliAction
  participant ToolCache
  participant ReleaseServer
  participant ChecksumVerification
  participant ArchiveExtraction
  UpdatecliAction->>ToolCache: Check for cached version
  ToolCache-->>UpdatecliAction: Return cached path or cache miss
  UpdatecliAction->>ReleaseServer: Download archive on cache miss
  UpdatecliAction->>ReleaseServer: Request checksums.txt
  ReleaseServer-->>UpdatecliAction: Return checksum file or HTTP 404
  UpdatecliAction->>ChecksumVerification: Verify archive when checksum is available
  UpdatecliAction->>ArchiveExtraction: Extract archive
  UpdatecliAction->>ToolCache: Cache extracted executable

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to e9f3b

Installation behavior is not shown to be broken, but the checksum guidance is inaccurate and a regression test does not isolate the case it intends to protect. These are bounded fixes before merge.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to e9f3b

Fresh downloads gain integrity checks before installation. Cached installations bypass those checks, so security depends on who can populate or modify the runner cache. Exploitation would require cache write access; isolation of shared runners and safeguards for automated dependency updates remain unverified.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: The new cache-hit path trusts completed tool-cache entries without checking their content or producer. If a less-trusted job can write to a persistent shared cache, it can seed an Updatecli binary that a later workflow executes with that workflow's permissions. The base installation path instead downloaded and replaced the entry. Cache isolation is unresolved, so this is a conditional attack path rather than a verified deployment vulnerability.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — A poisoned cache entry would execute with the consuming job's authority, exposing whatever credentials, workspace data, and network access that job grants. Cross-job exposure requires cache persistence and write access across trust levels; repository-wide, tenant-wide, or fleet-wide exposure is not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — The conditional attack sequence is cache write access, creation or modification of a matching tool entry and completion marker, cache-hit PATH publication, then executable invocation. The cache-hit test demonstrates acceptance of an independently created entry, but does not establish that an attacker can write a production runner's cache.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Fresh downloads enforce SHA-256 before installation. Cache reuse instead relies on the runner cache namespace and completion marker, with no content or producer validation on that path.
• inferred — The new update policy connects npm package selection and installation scripts to repository publication of the executable bundle. Named package sources and failure-stop ordering bound this flow, but its credential isolation and effective automatic-merge protections remain unverified.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Executable permissions are set before cache publication, and the cache provider writes its completion marker after copying. This supports sequential completion ordering, but publication is an in-place delete-and-copy operation rather than an atomic directory replacement; the inspected implementation supplies no cross-process locking or rollback guarantee.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — For persistent runners, isolate tool caches across workflow trust levels and define which producers may populate them. If verified-cache provenance is required, invalidate older entries and protect any validation metadata from the same writers that could alter the executable. Serialize same-key publication where concurrent jobs share a cache.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 1 | ❓ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning, 1 inconclusive)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 66.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 6 functions across 3 files. (1 skipped: 1…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Title check	❓ Inconclusive	The title is vague. “Various improvements” does not identify the main changes, which include checksum verification and cached binary reuse.	Replace it with a specific title, such as “feat: Verify Updatecli release checksums and reuse cached binaries.”

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Explanation

Docstring coverage is 66.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 6 functions across 3 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @src/main.js:
- Around line 52-59: Update getExpectedChecksum to allow a missing checksums.txt
only for releases older than v0.60.0; for v0.60.0 and later, propagate the 404
error so updatecliDownload cannot extract or cache an unverified archive.

Review comments at @updatecli/updatecli.d/npm-dist.yaml:
- Around line 80-81: Update the shell command in the npm distribution
configuration to stop on the first failure by enabling shell exit-on-error
before npm ci, so a failed npm install or npm ci cannot be masked by a later
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🟡 Minor · Use v0.40.2 as the checksum cutoff. · README.md:22-25

README.md:22-25
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use v0.40.2 as the checksum cutoff.

For a release between v0.40.2 and v0.60.0 that publishes checksums.txt, an uncached installation fetches the file and verifies the archive. The current text incorrectly says verification is skipped for all releases before v0.60.0.

Suggested fix

-Releases older than v0.60.0 don't publish that file, so verification is skipped with a warning.
+Releases older than v0.40.2 don't publish that file, so verification is skipped with a warning.

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Review comment at @README.md around lines 22 - 25:
Update the checksum cutoff in the README release-verification description from
v0.60.0 to v0.40.2, so releases from v0.40.2 onward are described as publishing
checksums.txt.

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tests/main.test.js (1)

219-219: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Mock the checksum-file 404 for a supported release.

The v99.0.0 test makes the real download request and accepts any error containing 404. It can therefore pass when the release itself is absent. Mock tool.downloadTool to reject with a 404 only for the v0.122.1/checksums.txt URL, then assert that getExpectedChecksum rejects.

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Review comment at @tests/main.test.js at line 219:
Update the `getExpectedChecksum` test to use a supported release and mock
`tool.downloadTool` to reject with a 404 specifically for the
`v0.122.1/checksums.txt` URL. Assert that `getExpectedChecksum` rejects,
ensuring the test exercises the checksum-file failure rather than an unavailable
release.

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Outside diff comments:
Review comments at @README.md:
- Around line 22-25: Update the checksum cutoff in the README
release-verification description from v0.60.0 to v0.40.2, so releases from
v0.40.2 onward are described as publishing checksums.txt.

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @tests/main.test.js:
- Line 219: Update the `getExpectedChecksum` test to use a supported release and
mock `tool.downloadTool` to reject with a 404 specifically for the
`v0.122.1/checksums.txt` URL. Assert that `getExpectedChecksum` rejects,
ensuring the test exercises the checksum-file failure rather than an unavailable
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