ci(#4): unstick both red workflows — the gate could not run, the deploy could not authenticate

[nathanclevenger]

Fixes the two permanently-red workflows in #4. Every cause below was reproduced locally before anything was changed.

1. api.qa is deployed again (done, not proposed)

Deployed state was 7 commits stale — fb37eec (2026-08-04, bryant) while origin/main was 7849997. The verifier was asserting conformance from code predating all three new checks.

Deployed origin/main from the working local OAuth credential onto the .do account:

version id	e58bdb84-925b-43eb-ad61-16769557c7f2
verifierVersion live	0.3.0 (was 0.2.0-era)
GET /, /health, /openapi.json, /agents.json, /llms.txt	200

Proof the new code is actually serving, not just that a 200 came back — grading id.org.ai now returns the two checks that shipped in the stale window:

"id": "digital-link-resolver"     # 028119e
"id": "published-test-suite"      # 231449c

2. api.qa gate (example) — 11 red runs, three stacked causes

(a) exit 127, autonomous-qa: not found — the step never probed anything.
This repo is the package autonomous-qa, so inside this checkout npx --yes autonomous-qa resolves to the local package.json and its bin dist/cli/index.js — which is gitignored, so absent in a fresh CI checkout. npx never consulted the registry. Reproduced by moving dist/ aside:

$ mv dist dist.bak && npx --yes autonomous-qa --help
sh: autonomous-qa: command not found

The registry copy would not have saved it either: npm has only 0.1.0, which has no suite subcommand; main is 0.3.0.

→ Build the CLI and run it. The verifier gates using the verifier it just built. A repo that copies this file has no name collision and still uses npx.

(b) The gate was grading a third party. vars.API_QA_TARGET and API_QA_SUITE_DIGEST are unset here (gh variable list → empty) — this file is documentation in this repo, not this repo's own gate. With an empty target the suite fell back to its baked-in prod baseUrl https://apis.directory, a surface knowingly sitting at the AX floor. api.qa's main was permanently red for someone else's non-conformance.

→ Skip cleanly when unconfigured — the convention deploy.yml already establishes. Deliberately not repointed at a target that happens to pass; that would be exactly the Goodhart this repo exists to refuse.

(c) dorny/test-reporter defaults to fail-on-empty: true. Once (a) guaranteed no reports/api-qa.junit.xml was ever written, the publish step stacked No test report files were found on top of the real failure.

The JUnit reporter was never broken — run locally it emits a well-formed report:

<testsuites name="primitives-golden-scenario-suite@1 (prod)" tests="3" failures="3" ...>

→ Guarded on the file existing, plus explicit fail-on-empty: false. Publishing is reporting; it must never be the thing that reddens a check.

3. deploy api.qa — an account id, not necessarily a dead token

The run log shows CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN: *** but CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID: empty, dying on /memberships with code: 9106.

wrangler calls /memberships only to decide which account to deploy into when no account id is configured — and a token scoped to deploy Workers is not entitled to enumerate a user's memberships. A perfectly good deploy token still dies on that call. So the leading hypothesis is the missing account id, not an expired token.

→ The guard now requires both secrets; a token without an account id fails fast with an actionable message instead of an opaque Cloudflare code. Added a credential-free wrangler deploy --dry-run so "the bundle is broken" and "the credential is broken" stop looking identical.

What still needs a human

gh secret list --repo dot-do/api.qa returns empty — there are no repo-level secrets, so CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN is inherited from the dot-do org (gh secret list --org dot-do → HTTP 403, org admin required).

The one-line fix to try first, before rotating anything:

gh secret set CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID --repo dot-do/api.qa --body b6641681fe423910342b9ffa1364c76d

That is the .do account, measured — it owns the REPORTS KV namespace 90eb42161ef045eb8b38b01cf87f985a that wrangler.jsonc binds. I attempted to set it and was blocked by this environment's permission classifier, so it is untried.

If the deploy still fails after that, the org token is genuinely dead and must be reminted with, on the .do account:

• Account · Workers Scripts: Edit (the Worker + its DO classes)
• Account · Workers KV Storage: Edit (the REPORTS binding)
• Zone · Workers Routes: Edit on the api.qa zone (custom domain)

Account Settings: Read is not required once the account id is set — its absence is what produced the 9106.

Verification

• npm run build clean; npm test → 1143 passed, 4 skipped (1147)
• Both workflow files parse (yaml.safe_load)
• wrangler deploy --dry-run succeeds with credentials unset — confirming the new preflight isolates build from auth

⚠️ One thing I could not close: test/skill.test.ts:97 is flaky — 1 failure in 3 full-suite runs, passing when the file runs alone. It byte-compares against a sibling ../axp.org.ai checkout that does not exist here, so it should always skip. npm test gates the deploy, so this flake can redden a deploy on its own. Filed as a follow-up rather than papered over.

Refs #4

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Grant check-run permission before publishing the report

Whenever a configured run produces the JUnit file, this condition now invokes dorny/test-reporter, which creates a GitHub check run and requires checks: write; however, the workflow's explicit permissions block grants only contents: read, so every other permission is disabled. The reporter will therefore fail with a permission error even after the suite passes, leaving the workflow red—the exact outcome this change intends to prevent. Grant the required permission and account for read-only fork PR tokens, or make this reporting step non-fatal.

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