fix(ci): rewrite auto-sync main→staging for Gitea direct push

Root cause of `Auto-sync main → staging / sync-staging (push)`
failing every push to main since the GitHub→Gitea migration:

The workflow assumed a GitHub `merge_queue` ruleset on staging
(blocking direct push) and used `gh pr create` + `gh pr merge
--auto` to land sync via the queue. On Gitea this fails at the
`gh pr create` step with `HTTP 405 Method Not Allowed
(https://git.moleculesai.app/api/graphql)` — Gitea exposes no
GraphQL endpoint, and the GitHub-CLI cannot ship PRs against
Gitea.

Verified failure mode in run 1117/job 0 (token logs at
/tmp/log2.txt, run target /molecule-ai/molecule-core/actions/
runs/1117/jobs/0). The merge step succeeded and pushed
auto-sync/main-1e1f4d63; the PR step failed with the 405. So
every main push left an orphan auto-sync/* branch and a red CI
status, with no PR to land it.

Fix: the staging branch protection on Gitea
(`enable_push: true`, `push_whitelist_usernames:
[devops-engineer]`) already permits direct push from the
devops-engineer persona. Drop the entire merge-queue PR
architecture and replace with:

  1. Checkout staging with secrets.AUTO_SYNC_TOKEN
     (devops-engineer persona token, NOT founder PAT —
     `feedback_per_agent_gitea_identity_default`).
  2. `git fetch origin main` + ff-merge or no-ff merge.
  3. `git push origin staging` directly.

The AUTO_SYNC_TOKEN repo secret already exists (created
2026-05-07 14:00 alongside the staging push_whitelist update).
Workflow name + job name unchanged → required-check name
`Auto-sync main → staging / sync-staging (push)` keeps the
same context, no branch-protection edits needed.

Rejected alternatives (documented in workflow header):
- Reuse PR architecture via Gitea REST: ~80 LOC of API
  plumbing for no benefit; direct push works.
- GH_HOST=git.moleculesai.app: still calls /api/graphql,
  same 405; doesn't fix the root issue.
- Custom JS action: external dep for a 5-line `git push`.

Header comment in the workflow now documents:
- What this workflow does (SSOT for staging advancing).
- Why direct push (GitHub merge_queue → Gitea push_whitelist).
- Identity and token (anti-bot-ring per saved memory).
- Failure modes A–D with operator runbook for each.
- Loop safety (push to staging doesn't fire push:main → no
  recursion).

Verification plan: this fix-PR's merge to main is itself the
trigger; watch the workflow run on the merge commit and on
one follow-up trigger commit, expect both green.

Refs: failing run https://git.moleculesai.app/molecule-ai/
molecule-core/actions/runs/1117/jobs/0

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@ -3,85 +3,138 @@ name: Auto-sync main → staging
# Reflects every push to `main` back onto `staging` so the
# staging-as-superset-of-main invariant holds.
#
# Background:
# ============================================================
# What this workflow does
# ============================================================
#
# `auto-promote-staging.yml` advances main via `git merge --ff-only`
# + `git push origin main` — that's a clean fast-forward, no merge
# commit. But manual merges of `staging → main` PRs through the
# GitHub UI / API create a merge commit on main that staging
# doesn't have. The next `staging → main` PR then evaluates as
# "BEHIND" because staging is missing that merge commit, requiring
# a manual `gh pr update-branch` round-trip.
# On every push to `main`:
# 1. Checks if staging already contains main → no-op.
# 2. Fetches both branches, merges main into staging in the
# runner workspace (fast-forward if possible, else
# `--no-ff` merge commit).
# 3. Pushes staging directly to origin via the
# `devops-engineer` persona's `AUTO_SYNC_TOKEN`.
#
# This happened twice on 2026-04-28 (PRs #2202, #2205, both manual
# bridges). Each time the bridge needed update-branch + a re-CI
# round before merging. Operationally annoying and avoidable.
# Authoritative path: a single `git push origin staging` from
# inside this workflow is the SSOT for advancing staging after
# a main push. No PR, no merge queue, no human approval —
# staging is mechanically maintained as a superset of main.
#
# Architecture:
# `auto-promote-staging.yml` is the reverse-direction
# counterpart (staging → main, gated on green CI). Together
# they keep the staging-superset-of-main invariant tight.
#
# This repo's `staging` branch is protected by a `merge_queue`
# ruleset (id 15500102) that blocks ALL direct pushes — no bypass
# even for org admins or the GitHub Actions integration. Direct
# `git push origin staging` returns GH013. So instead of pushing
# directly, this workflow:
# ============================================================
# Why direct push (and not "open a PR")
# ============================================================
#
# 1. Checks if main is already in staging's ancestry → no-op.
# 2. Creates an `auto-sync/main-<sha>` branch from staging.
# 3. Tries `git merge --ff-only origin/main` → if staging hasn't
# diverged this is a clean ff.
# 4. Otherwise `git merge --no-ff origin/main` to absorb main's
# tip while keeping staging's history.
# 5. Pushes the auto-sync branch.
# 6. Opens a PR (base=staging, head=auto-sync/main-<sha>) and
# enables auto-merge so the merge queue lands it.
# Pre-2026-05-06 the canonical SCM was GitHub.com, where:
# - The `staging` branch had a `merge_queue` ruleset that
# blocked ALL direct pushes (no bypass even for org
# admins or the GitHub Actions integration).
# - Therefore this workflow opened a PR via `gh pr create`
# and let auto-merge land it through the queue.
#
# This mirrors the path human PRs take through staging — same
# rules, same gates, no special-case bypass.
# Post-2026-05-06 the canonical SCM is Gitea
# (`git.moleculesai.app/molecule-ai/molecule-core`). Gitea:
# - Has no `merge_queue` concept.
# - Allows direct push to protected branches via per-user
# `push_whitelist_usernames` on the branch protection.
# - Does not expose a GraphQL endpoint, so `gh pr create`
# returns `HTTP 405 Method Not Allowed
# (https://git.moleculesai.app/api/graphql)` — the
# pre-suspension architecture cannot work on Gitea.
#
# Loop safety:
# The molecule-ai/molecule-core staging branch protection
# (verified via `GET /api/v1/repos/.../branch_protections`)
# whitelists `devops-engineer` for direct push. So the
# correct Gitea-shape architecture is: authenticate as
# `devops-engineer`, merge locally, push staging directly.
#
# `GITHUB_TOKEN`-authored merges (including the merge queue's land
# of the auto-sync PR) do NOT trigger downstream workflow runs
# (GitHub Actions safety). So when the auto-sync PR lands on
# staging, `auto-promote-staging.yml` is NOT triggered by that
# push. The next developer push to staging triggers auto-promote
# normally. No loop possible.
# This is structurally simpler than the GitHub-era PR dance
# and removes the dependence on `gh` CLI / GraphQL entirely.
#
# Concurrency:
# ============================================================
# Identity + token (anti-bot-ring per saved-memory
# `feedback_per_agent_gitea_identity_default`)
# ============================================================
#
# Two pushes to main in quick succession (e.g., manual UI merge
# immediately followed by auto-promote-staging's ff-merge) could
# otherwise open two overlapping auto-sync PRs. The concurrency
# group serializes runs; the second waits for the first to exit.
# (The first run exits after opening + auto-merge-queueing the PR,
# not after the merge actually completes — so multiple PRs can be
# open simultaneously, but the merge queue handles them serially.)
# This workflow uses `secrets.AUTO_SYNC_TOKEN`, which is a
# personal access token issued to the `devops-engineer`
# persona on Gitea — NOT the founder PAT. The bot-ring
# fingerprint that triggered the GitHub org suspension on
# 2026-05-06 was characterised by founder PAT acting as CI
# at machine speed; per-persona identities split the
# attribution honestly.
#
# Token scope on Gitea: repo write. Push target restricted
# to `staging` (this workflow is the only writer; main is
# untouched). Compromise blast radius: bounded to staging
# branch + this repo's read surface.
#
# Commits are authored by the persona email
# `devops-engineer@agents.moleculesai.app` so commit history
# reflects which automation produced the merge.
#
# ============================================================
# Failure modes & operational notes
# ============================================================
#
# A — staging has commits main doesn't, and the merge
# conflicts:
# - The `--no-ff` merge step exits non-zero. Workflow
# fails red. Operator (devops-engineer or human)
# resolves manually:
# git fetch origin
# git checkout staging
# git merge --no-ff origin/main
# # resolve conflicts
# git push origin staging
# - Step summary surfaces the conflict so the failed run
# is self-explanatory.
#
# B — `AUTO_SYNC_TOKEN` rotated / wrong scope:
# - `git push` step exits non-zero with `HTTP 401` /
# `403`. Step summary surfaces the failed push.
# - Re-issue the token from `~/.molecule-ai/personas/`
# on the operator host and update the repo Actions
# secret. Re-run the workflow.
#
# C — staging branch protection no longer whitelists
# `devops-engineer`:
# - `git push` exits non-zero with a Gitea protected-
# branch rejection. Step summary surfaces it.
# - Re-add `devops-engineer` to
# `push_whitelist_usernames` on the staging
# protection (Settings → Branches → staging).
#
# D — concurrent push to main while a sync is in flight:
# - The `concurrency` group below serialises runs.
# The second waits for the first; if main advances
# again while we're syncing, the second run picks
# up the new tip on its own fetch.
#
# ============================================================
# Loop safety
# ============================================================
#
# The push to staging from this workflow does NOT itself
# fire a `push: branches: [main]` event (different branch),
# so there's no risk of self-recursion. `auto-promote-staging.yml`
# fires on `workflow_run` of CI etc. — it sees the new
# staging tip on its next gate-completion event, NOT on this
# push directly. No loop.
on:
push:
branches: [main]
# workflow_dispatch lets:
# 1. Operators manually backfill a missed sync (e.g. after a manual
# UI merge that the runner missed).
# 2. auto-promote-staging.yml's polling tail explicitly invoke us
# after the promote PR lands. This is load-bearing: when the
# merge queue lands a promote-PR merge, the resulting push to
# `main` is "by GITHUB_TOKEN", and per GitHub's no-recursion
# rule (https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/triggering-a-workflow#triggering-a-workflow-from-a-workflow)
# that push event does NOT fire any downstream workflows. The
# `on: push` trigger above is silently dead for the very pattern
# we exist to handle. Verified empirically 2026-05-02 against
# SHA 76c604fb (PR #2437 staging→main): only ONE workflow fired
# (publish-workspace-server-image, dispatched explicitly by
# auto-promote's polling tail with an App token). Every other
# `on: push: branches: [main]` workflow — including this one —
# was suppressed. Until the underlying merge call moves to an
# App token, an explicit dispatch is the only reliable path.
# workflow_dispatch lets operators manually backfill a
# missed sync (e.g. if AUTO_SYNC_TOKEN was rotated and a
# main push slipped through while the secret was stale).
workflow_dispatch:
permissions:
contents: write
pull-requests: write
concurrency:
group: auto-sync-main-to-staging
@ -89,26 +142,25 @@ concurrency:
jobs:
sync-staging:
# ubuntu-latest matches every other workflow in this repo. The
# earlier `[self-hosted, macos, arm64]` was a copy-paste artefact
# from the molecule-controlplane repo (which IS private and uses a
# Mac runner) — molecule-core has no Mac runner registered, so the
# job sat unassigned whenever the trigger fired. Verified 2026-05-02:
# this is the ONLY workflow in molecule-core/.github/workflows/ with
# a non-ubuntu runs-on.
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Checkout staging
- name: Checkout staging (with devops-engineer push token)
uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
with:
fetch-depth: 0
ref: staging
token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
# AUTO_SYNC_TOKEN authenticates as the
# `devops-engineer` Gitea persona — the only
# identity whitelisted for direct push to
# staging. See header comment for context.
token: ${{ secrets.AUTO_SYNC_TOKEN }}
- name: Configure git author
run: |
git config user.name "github-actions[bot]"
git config user.email "41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
# Per-persona identity, NOT founder PAT.
# `feedback_per_agent_gitea_identity_default`.
git config user.name "devops-engineer"
git config user.email "devops-engineer@agents.moleculesai.app"
- name: Check if staging already contains main
id: check
@ -118,7 +170,7 @@ jobs:
if git merge-base --is-ancestor origin/main HEAD; then
echo "needs_sync=false" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
{
echo "## No-op"
echo "## No-op"
echo
echo "staging already contains \`origin/main\` ($(git rev-parse --short=8 origin/main))."
} >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
@ -126,112 +178,78 @@ jobs:
echo "needs_sync=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
MAIN_SHORT=$(git rev-parse --short=8 origin/main)
echo "main_short=${MAIN_SHORT}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "branch=auto-sync/main-${MAIN_SHORT}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "::notice::staging is missing main's tip (${MAIN_SHORT}) — opening sync PR"
echo "::notice::staging is missing main's tip (${MAIN_SHORT}) — merging in-runner and pushing"
fi
- name: Create auto-sync branch + merge main
- name: Merge main into staging (in-runner)
if: steps.check.outputs.needs_sync == 'true'
id: prep
id: merge
run: |
set -euo pipefail
BRANCH="${{ steps.check.outputs.branch }}"
# If a previous auto-sync run already opened a branch for the
# same main sha, prefer reusing it (idempotent behavior on
# workflow restart). Force-update from latest staging anyway
# so it absorbs any staging-side commits that landed since.
git checkout -B "$BRANCH"
# Already on staging from checkout. Try fast-forward
# first (cleanest history); fall back to merge commit
# if staging has commits main doesn't.
if git merge --ff-only origin/main; then
echo "did_ff=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "::notice::Fast-forwarded ${BRANCH} to origin/main"
echo "::notice::Fast-forwarded staging to origin/main"
else
echo "did_ff=false" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
if ! git merge --no-ff origin/main -m "chore: sync main → staging (auto)"; then
if ! git merge --no-ff origin/main \
-m "chore: sync main → staging (auto, ${{ steps.check.outputs.main_short }})"; then
# Hygiene: leave the work tree clean before failing.
git merge --abort || true
{
echo "## Conflict"
echo "## Conflict"
echo
echo "Auto-merge \`main → staging\` failed with conflicts."
echo "A human needs to resolve manually."
echo "A human (or devops-engineer persona) needs to resolve manually:"
echo
echo '```'
echo "git fetch origin"
echo "git checkout staging"
echo "git merge --no-ff origin/main"
echo "# resolve conflicts"
echo "git push origin staging"
echo '```'
} >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
exit 1
fi
fi
- name: Push auto-sync branch
- name: Push staging to origin
if: steps.check.outputs.needs_sync == 'true'
run: |
set -euo pipefail
# Force-with-lease so a concurrent auto-sync run can't
# silently clobber an in-flight branch we just updated. If a
# different writer touched the branch, we abort and the next
# run picks up the latest state.
git push --force-with-lease origin "${{ steps.check.outputs.branch }}"
- name: Open auto-sync PR + enable auto-merge
if: steps.check.outputs.needs_sync == 'true'
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
BRANCH: ${{ steps.check.outputs.branch }}
MAIN_SHORT: ${{ steps.check.outputs.main_short }}
DID_FF: ${{ steps.prep.outputs.did_ff }}
run: |
set -euo pipefail
# Find existing PR for this branch (idempotent on workflow
# restart) before creating a new one.
PR_NUM=$(gh pr list --head "$BRANCH" --base staging --state open --json number --jq '.[0].number // ""')
if [ -z "$PR_NUM" ]; then
# Body lives in a temp file to keep the multi-line content
# out of the YAML block scalar (un-indented newlines inside
# an inline shell string break YAML parsing).
BODY_FILE=$(mktemp)
if [ "$DID_FF" = "true" ]; then
TITLE="chore: sync main → staging (auto, ff to ${MAIN_SHORT})"
cat > "$BODY_FILE" <<EOFBODY
Automated fast-forward of \`staging\` to \`origin/main\` (\`${MAIN_SHORT}\`). Staging has no in-flight commits that diverge from main. Merge queue lands this; no human action needed.
This PR is auto-generated by \`.github/workflows/auto-sync-main-to-staging.yml\` on every push to \`main\`. It exists because this repo's \`staging\` branch has a \`merge_queue\` ruleset that blocks direct pushes — even from the GitHub Actions integration.
EOFBODY
else
TITLE="chore: sync main → staging (auto, merge ${MAIN_SHORT})"
cat > "$BODY_FILE" <<EOFBODY
Automated merge of \`origin/main\` (\`${MAIN_SHORT}\`) into \`staging\`. Staging has commits main doesn't, so this is a non-ff merge that absorbs main's tip. Merge queue lands this.
This PR is auto-generated by \`.github/workflows/auto-sync-main-to-staging.yml\` on every push to \`main\`.
EOFBODY
fi
# gh pr create prints the URL on stdout; extract the PR number.
PR_URL=$(gh pr create \
--base staging \
--head "$BRANCH" \
--title "$TITLE" \
--body-file "$BODY_FILE")
PR_NUM=$(echo "$PR_URL" | grep -oE '[0-9]+$' | tail -1)
rm -f "$BODY_FILE"
echo "::notice::Opened PR #${PR_NUM}"
else
echo "::notice::Re-using existing PR #${PR_NUM} for ${BRANCH}"
fi
# Enable auto-merge — the merge queue picks it up once
# required gates are green. Use --merge for merge commits
# (matches the rest of this repo's PR convention).
if ! gh pr merge "$PR_NUM" --auto --merge 2>&1; then
echo "::warning::Failed to enable auto-merge on PR #${PR_NUM} — operator may need to merge manually."
# Direct push to staging. devops-engineer persona is
# whitelisted for direct push on the staging branch
# protection (Settings → Branches → staging).
#
# No --force / --force-with-lease: a fast-forward or
# legitimate merge commit on top of current staging
# is the only thing we'd ever push. If origin/staging
# advanced under us (concurrent merge), the push
# legitimately rejects and the next run picks up the
# new state.
if ! git push origin staging; then
{
echo "## Push rejected"
echo
echo "Direct push to \`staging\` failed. Likely causes:"
echo "- \`AUTO_SYNC_TOKEN\` rotated / wrong scope (HTTP 401/403)"
echo "- \`devops-engineer\` no longer in"
echo " \`push_whitelist_usernames\` on the staging"
echo " branch protection (HTTP 422)"
echo "- staging advanced concurrently — re-running this"
echo " workflow on the new main tip will pick it up"
} >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
exit 1
fi
{
echo "## ✅ Auto-sync PR opened"
echo "## Auto-sync succeeded"
echo
echo "- Branch: \`$BRANCH\`"
echo "- PR: #$PR_NUM"
echo "- Strategy: $([ "$DID_FF" = "true" ] && echo "ff" || echo "merge commit")"
echo
echo "Merge queue lands the PR once required gates are green; no human action needed unless gates fail."
echo "- staging advanced to: \`$(git rev-parse --short=8 HEAD)\`"
echo "- main tip: \`${{ steps.check.outputs.main_short }}\`"
echo "- Strategy: $([ "${{ steps.merge.outputs.did_ff }}" = "true" ] && echo "fast-forward" || echo "merge commit")"
echo "- Pushed by: \`devops-engineer\` (per-agent persona, anti-bot-ring)"
} >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"