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Retained provider runs

The provider lanes are tested against local HTTP fixtures, and those fixtures are regression tests rather than evidence. A fixture answers the way its author expected the provider to answer. This page retains runs against provider software instead, where the answers come from the provider.

One row is one published verdict: a real instance, a real dedicated reviewer or App, a protected target branch, and a candidate that reached the sealed bootstrap. The provider evidence column names what the provider itself recorded, not what the controller believed.

July 2026

Controller 2dbb0b6, action tree pinned at commit ca5b2b24f3c349553964387ceba62db5b3e87f5e on every instance. The Gitea and Forgejo instances are self-hosted, which is how nearly every deployment of either runs.

ProviderVersionControlProvider evidenceGate commit
GitHubgithub.comruleset activeCheck Run success, conclusion: pass6dbc7eb8c17b
GitHubgithub.comruleset enforcement disabledCheck Run failure, unavailable / authorization-revoked2d584f289f50
Gitea1.27.0protection rule intactreview APPROVED, conclusion: pass4cf4fd91e3e2
Gitea1.27.0direct push re-enabledreview REQUEST_CHANGES, unavailable / authorization-revokedd9496a77e2f5
Forgejo16.0.1protection rule intactreview APPROVED, conclusion: passca697bd509d9
Forgejo16.0.1apply_to_admins: falsereview REQUEST_CHANGES, unavailable / authorization-revoked4fa69ed7d4c5

Each pair of rows holds the candidate content fixed and changes only the control, so the verdict can flip for one reason. Every revocation was restored afterwards and the lane returned to passing the same content.

Drift verdicts from the same instances, where the candidate broke a documented reference and the control stayed intact, are recorded in pull request 131. Both families blocked the drift, refused the merge, and approved the correction.

In July GitLab had no row: the lane’s floor is 19.3 with Ultimate, 19.2.0 was the newest release, and a live 19.2.0-ee confirmed only that the floor refuses the instance.

August 2026

Controller d6d42de, action tree pinned at commit b4b576da872c2e5b7243264919a324e39b7276ad. The instance is gitlab.com itself, running 19.3.0-pre (revision 6ec80fea941) ahead of the self-managed 19.3 release, under an Ultimate trial namespace. The candidate content is held fixed across the pair and only the enforcement control moves.

ProviderVersionControlProvider evidenceGate commit
GitLabgitlab.com 19.3.0-pretrain enforced for all userspolicy job success, train merged73da3cdf0319
GitLabgitlab.com 19.3.0-premerge_train_enforcement: allow_bypasspolicy job failed on 412, train dropped the car270b65505c42

The revocation was restored afterwards and the restored train merged the same content. Drift verdicts from the same instance, where the candidate broke a documented reference and the control stayed intact, are recorded in pull request 332: the drift refused, the completed move approved. Running the lane live found two defects every fixture had agreed with, keeping the July pattern: the documented policy job wrapped its script across YAML lines that policy injection preserves literally, so the book now keeps the command on one physical line, and gitlab.com answers the jobs API with a null source for the policy job, so the adapter now accepts an absent REST source while the signed OIDC job_source claim and the pinned job_config binding continue to state the provenance.

What a row must be

A row enters this page only from a verdict the provider published and still holds: the provider version as the provider reports it, the controller commit that produced the run, the gate commit the verdict names, and the provider’s own record of the verdict. A positive row and a revoked-control row must differ in the control alone. A run against a local HTTP fixture never becomes a row, however faithful the fixture looks.

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