GitHub repository rulesets

For every change that reached the assessed branch, the automated verification that ran against it — which workflows ran, on which commit, and what each concluded — together with the two things that decide whether those runs were a condition of the change or merely adjacent to it: the rule that made the checks required, and the platform's own per-push record of whether that rule held, failed, or was bypassed. The runs alone are activity; the rule and the per-push record are what make them a gate.

The rules that made every change to the mainline arrive through a reviewed pull request, as a signed commit, onto a history that cannot be rewritten — together with the record of when those rules themselves last changed and who changed them, and the platform's own per-push record of any change that got past them.

The rule requiring the designated owners of the changed code to approve before it merges, the file that names who those owners are, the platform's own report of whether that file actually parses — and, per change, who approved, on which commit, and when.

For a service that ships code to a browser, the two things a pipeline can say about the mobile code it delivers: what was allowed INTO it, and whether what shipped is what this pipeline built. The first is the dependency diff for the change — every component added, its ecosystem, its version, its licence and any advisory against it, separated by whether it reaches the runtime or stops at the build — and the gate that makes the check mandatory rather than advisory. The second is a provenance attestation over the built bundle, verified against the repository and workflow that are supposed to have produced it. Neither is a statement about which mobile code technologies the organization decided to permit, and that is the control's first limb.