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Add the Test Companion action

Adds test-companion/, a composite action that lets a team ask BrowserStack
Test Companion for test work from a pull request comment.

Someone comments @browserstack test this PR. It reads the change, posts the
tests it would write, and writes them once a person replies go. The result
comes back as one comment and one check.

Why this repository

It is public and MIT, which is what customers need in order to reference the
action at all. Today it lives in a private repository, so nobody outside
BrowserStack can use it.

What is in here

• test-companion/action.yml — the action
• test-companion/src/ — 15 files, ~3,300 lines
• test-companion/test/ — 653 tests, no network and no credentials needed
• test-companion/README.md — customer-facing setup
• test-companion/starter-workflow.yml — the file customers copy

It differs from the actions already here, in one good way

The four existing sub-actions are JavaScript actions with dist/ bundles
committed by hand at 8–15MB. This one is a composite action with zero
dependencies and no bundle. What you see in src/ is what runs, and there is
nothing to rebuild on release.

Two things this PR needs from maintainers

1. A v1.1.0 release after this merges. The starter and README point
customers at @v1.1.0. Version tags here cover every action in the
repository, so a floating v1 would also move setup-env and setup-local;
a fixed release avoids that. Turning on immutable releases (or tag protection)
would stop the tag from ever being moved.

2. Review ownership. This PR adds a CODEOWNERS entry giving
/test-companion/ to @browserstack/test-companion, which owns and releases
it. Please say if you would rather keep @browserstack/automate-public-repos
as a required reviewer as well.

What this does not do

It does not get a Marketplace listing. Marketplace needs a single
action.yml at the repository root, and that is setup-env. Every sub-action
here is currently unlisted (checked: all three 404). If a Marketplace entry is
a requirement, it needs a separate single-action repository.

Nothing proprietary is published here. The agent itself is in the tc CLI,
which the action downloads at runtime and which stays private. This is the
adapter between GitHub and that CLI.

Testing

cd test-companion && node --test

653 passing, and CI runs them on every change to this folder. Beyond that,
the action has been exercised on real GitHub runs against a live repository:
the comment flow, the approval gate, closing a pull request mid-run, the oversized-change warning, writing tests and
committing them to the branch, and refusing a settings file planted on a pull
request branch.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added a GitHub Action for running Test Companion workflows from pull requests, comments, pushes, scheduled events, and manual dispatches.
  • View run summaries and results in pull request comments and checks, with preview and approval options.
  • Eligible generated changes can be committed to a branch.
• Documentation
  • Added setup guidance, configuration details, and a starter workflow.
• Tests
  • Added automated coverage for action behavior and workflow handling.

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Walkthrough

This pull request adds a Test Companion GitHub Action, its event routing and run-reporting code, and a starter workflow. It also adds unit tests, a test workflow for pull requests and master pushes, and documentation for configuring and running the Action.

Changes: Test Companion Action

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Route and authorize requests test-companion/src/access.mjs, intent.mjs, gate.mjs, plan-run.mjs, test-companion/test/*	Adds event planning, comment intent parsing, access checks, approval decisions, and context filtering. Tests cover event routing, comment approvals, and gate decisions.
Orchestrate runs and publish results test-companion/src/main.mjs, app-auth.mjs, report.mjs, runs.mjs, framework.mjs, starter.mjs, ticket.mjs, test-companion/test/*	Adds the Action entry point and helpers for App authentication, proposals, reports, run selection, framework detection, starter configuration, and ticket lookup.
Capture results and constrain generated work test-companion/src/answer.mjs, child-env.mjs, outcome.mjs, annotations.mjs, push-work.mjs, test-companion/test/*	Adds subprocess answer capture, environment filtering, outcome mapping, failure annotations, and checks that limit when and how generated work can be pushed.
Package and test the Action test-companion/action.yml, starter-workflow.yml, README.md, package.json, .github/workflows/test-companion-tests.yml, test-companion/test/*	Adds the composite Action configuration, setup and test workflows, package manifest, usage documentation, and workflow-focused tests.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Workflow as GitHub workflow
  participant Action as Test Companion Action
  participant Planner as Event planner
  participant CLI as tc CLI
  participant GitHub as GitHub API
  Workflow->>Action: Pass inputs and event
  Action->>Planner: Build and authorize run plan
  Planner-->>Action: Return plan or skip
  Action->>CLI: Run selected workflow
  CLI-->>Action: Return status and report
  Action->>GitHub: Publish checks and comments

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Suggested reviewers: 07souravkunda

Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review c8591

A comment that merely mentions "go" or "approve" can approve a waiting plan and start a live run that may push to the branch. Marker handling can also be spoofed in some configurations. Fix the approval parsing and neutralise borrowed text before merging. The README quick-start needs correcting so customers do not copy a broken workflow.

Security architecture risk: High · up to c8591

The new action connects pull-request content to an agent running with customer credentials. Important safeguards restrict who can request work and where the action pushes, but stored GitHub credentials remain accessible to the execution process, and approval provenance and interpretation have weaknesses. These issues warrant design-level review before adoption.

Retained concerns

• High · security · observed: The credential boundary is reopened through stored gh authentication. The action provisions the workflow token in a configuration directory and enables Git to use it, then passes that directory and HOME to the agent process. Removing token environment variables therefore does not prevent that process from obtaining GitHub authority, including during preview execution. Checkout credential protection and later cleanup do not remove this authority while the run is active; additional isolation inside the private CLI is unverified.
• Medium · security · observed: Proposal authority is attributed to a bot login rather than its producing workflow or run. In the default workflow-token mode, another workflow able to post as github-actions[bot] can supply a current-SHA proposal marker and body that an authorized person's GO turns into live work. Exact bot-type checks, SHA matching, expiry, and human authorization constrain the path but do not distinguish the two producers. App mode provides a more distinct identity.
• Low · security · observed: Push-note filenames and error text enter bot-authored reports without marker neutralization, while later proposal and spent-state readers recognize markers anywhere in those comments. An attacker-influenced changed path or error can therefore cross from report data into approval bookkeeping. Other report fields are sanitized, but workNote is not. Exploitation requires the affected save-and-report path; this is not direct execution by an arbitrary commenter.
• Medium · security · observed: The approval transition accepts an unanchored occurrence of go or approve when a proposal waits, including addressed text that negates approval. A write-authorized person's message such as “don't go ahead yet” can consequently be classified as GO and select live execution rather than preserving the approval hold. This weakens consent semantics without bypassing the separate identity check.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — With the starter permissions, a compromised execution can affect the current repository's writable contents, pull requests, checks, and workflow actions, plus runner-readable files and supplied BrowserStack credentials. Broader exposure depends on custom tokens, pre-existing runner credentials, and BrowserStack account permissions; installation-wide compromise is not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• observed — The two retained findings concern proposal provenance and report data becoming control markers. Their paths are constrained by bot identity, SHA and expiry checks, authorized approval, and the availability of an attacker-influenced comment-producing or save-and-report path; they do not establish unauthenticated execution by any public commenter.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The action's own Git persistence path checks checkout identity and configuration, stages selected paths, and constructs the push target from the repository identity rather than the mutable remote. These controls protect that persistence path but do not mediate commands independently executed by the credential-bearing agent process.
• observed — Preview is not a general no-side-effects boundary: the report explicitly states that shell commands remain outside its write-tool restriction, and the same filtered subprocess environment is used for preview and live execution.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Serialization and spent markers address ordinary sequential reuse, but interruption after external effects or failure to persist completion can leave an approval reusable. Broken runs are intentionally not marked spent. Whether replay duplicates external writes depends on the unavailable CLI deduplication and recovery contract.
• observed — The action tracks ownership of its temporary gh configuration and added Git helper, then performs always-run cleanup without deleting credentials it did not provision. This limits normal credential persistence but does not isolate credentials during execution or prove cleanup after runner interruption.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Separate agent execution from GitHub write credentials and stored credential helpers, including during preview. Expose narrowly scoped operations through a trusted mediator rather than relying on environment filtering alone.
• proposed — Bind approval state to an authenticated producer, repository, PR, SHA, workflow, and proposal identity; keep authoritative state separate from rendered report text. Require explicit approval syntax and couple execution reservations with an idempotency and recovery contract.

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Thanks — six findings from code scanning, all addressed in bc2c3ea. Two were real, two were false positives worth acting on anyway, and two I've deliberately left. Reasoning for each:

Fixed: actions/upload-artifact@v4 in action.yml (findings 6, 7)

Pinned to ea165f8d65b6e75b540449e92b4886f43607fa02, which is v4.6.2. This one matters more than the usual version-pinning argument: the step runs inside the customer's job with the customer's token, so a repointed tag is their supply chain, not ours to be relaxed about.

Fixed: dynamic RegExp in report.mjs (finding 9)

The ReDoS reading is a false positive — both callers already escaped their input, and the pattern is linear. But the scanner pointed at something real next to it. The escaping lived in the callers, and "every caller remembers" is not a property anyone can verify. An unescaped sha also doesn't fail loudly; it quietly matches other commits, because a.c*d+ matches abcccd too — so a proposal for one commit could be approved against another.

The escaping now lives in markerPattern itself, so it can't be skipped from a call site. Two tests pin it: a sha full of metacharacters matches itself and not a lookalike, and a 50,000-character run returns immediately.

Not changed: dynamic RegExp in intent.mjs (finding 8)

Already escaped one line up, via the same escapeRe helper, and matched against a comment body of bounded length. The pattern is \\b<literal>\\b — no nested quantifier, so there's nothing to backtrack on.

Not changed: tags in starter-workflow.yml (findings 10, 11)

This file is a template customers copy into their own repository and then own, which makes it a different case from action.yml:

• browserstack/github-actions/test-companion@v1 — pinning our own action to a commit is precisely what a floating major tag exists to avoid. Customers follow @v1 to get fixes; a commit would freeze every one of them on whatever we shipped that day.
• actions/checkout@v4 — a pinned SHA in a starter goes stale in the customer's repo, where nothing will ever update it. A major tag from GitHub's own first-party action is the usual practice for templates.

Happy to pin actions/checkout if the team would rather be consistent — it's a one-line change. The @v1 on our own action I'd argue to keep either way.

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Finding 12 is the same line again — escaping the input doesn't satisfy the rule, only not interpolating does. Fair enough, so I've removed both dynamic patterns rather than argue it twice. Pushed in 0bbda92.

The proposal marker is now one literal pattern that captures the sha, compared with ===. This is better than the escaped version, not just quieter: building the pattern per search meant the sha had to be escaped or it would silently match other commits — a.c*d+ also finds abcccd, so a plan written for one commit could be approved against another. String equality removes the rule instead of restating it.

Naming a job (finding 8) now compares words instead of building \b<name>\b per name. One deliberate behaviour change, documented at the call site: punctuation inside a name is now a word break, so a job called a.c is also found in the words "a c". Job names come from the repository's own pipeline file and are ordinary words in practice, and being slightly more willing to recognise one is the safe direction — the alternative is telling someone their own job name isn't a job.

Both escape helpers are deleted, because nothing needs escaping now.

There is one new RegExp left, in plan-run.mjs: it builds from a module constant (@test-companion), not from input. I kept it so the mention has a single spelling rather than a string and a pattern that can drift apart. Happy to split it if you'd rather see zero.

460 tests pass, including six added before the change — four pinning that a name is matched on whole words (regenerated is not a request to run generate), and two pinning that a sha full of metacharacters matches itself and not a lookalike.

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Review comments at @test-companion/README.md:
- Line 70: Update the `build-effect` row in the README settings table to
document the current behavior defined by `action.yml` and `outcome.mjs`: state
that `fail-on-break` is the default and reddens the step only when the run
itself breaks, `report` never reddens it, and `fail` also reddens it on test
failures. Remove the obsolete `off` option.
- Around line 15-42: The quick-start workflow in the “Test Companion” README
example is invalidly indented and differs from the shipped starter workflow.
Replace the example with the starter workflow’s contents, preserving valid YAML
nesting, the credential safeguards, comment filter, and current stop behavior.

Review comments at @test-companion/src/intent.mjs:
- Line 88: Update the GO approval matcher and its checks in the
intent-classification flow so approval only matches when the instruction begins
with “go” or “approve,” after politeness is stripped. Preserve approval for
instructions that begin with those words, while mentions or negations later in
the comment do not approve a waiting plan or suppress the capability-list
response when nothing is waiting.

Review comments at @test-companion/src/main.mjs:
- Line 144: Update findProposal and the approval path so the github-actions[bot]
login alone cannot establish that Test Companion authored a proposal. Bind
proposal markers to a signing secret unavailable to other workflows, or require
the active Test Companion App identity before accepting and executing an
approved body with --yolo.

Review comments at @test-companion/src/report.mjs:
- Around line 228-230: In renderComment, neutralize marker-like text in the
borrowed workNote, approvalNote, and each warning with inertMarkers before
adding them to the output, while preserving their existing formatting and
blank-line behavior.

Review comments at @test-companion/test/intent.test.mjs:
- Around line 218-240: Update the jobs fixture used by readIntent in these tests
to pass the workflows property in the expected options object, so the bound-job
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[warning] 127-127: Semgrep Finding: yaml.github-actions.security.github-actions-mutable-action-tag.github-actions-mutable-action-tag
GitHub Actions step uses a mutable tag or branch reference. Tags and branch names can be silently repointed by the action owner, enabling supply-chain attacks — as seen in the trivy-action and kics-github-action compromises. Pin the reference to a full 40-character commit SHA instead, e.g. uses: actions/checkout@8ade135a41bc03ea155e62e844d188df1ea18608.

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Thanks for the review. Where things stand:

• Five findings fixed: the anchored go (2fdb6f9), the marker neutralising in the saved-work note, approver note and warnings (b6872e3), the README quick start and build-effect row (7fd120e), and the intent.test.mjs fixture (2fdb6f9).
• The shared github-actions[bot] identity: documented in the README, with the App as the real fix. The approval condition you set out is agreed in that thread.
• zizmor on the new test workflow: all three addressed in ddb0f30 (persist-credentials: false, a concurrency group, a job name).
• The Semgrep mutable-tag finding on the starter's @v1: unchanged and deliberate, as explained in that thread on 2 Nov.

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Review: not ready to merge yet, needs fixes first

The engineering is careful and well tested. All 639 tests pass locally (the "374" in the description is out of date) and CI is green. But this ships publicly as an action that runs an AI agent with a write token, and a few gaps matter for that.

Blockers: security

1. The agent can read the GitHub token. The "Sign gh in" step writes github-token into GH_CONFIG_DIR, and child-env.mjs:36 passes that to the --yolo agent. A prompt injection through build logs, a Jira ticket or app content could then run gh auth token and push to branches or trigger workflows with contents/actions:write. Worse, starter-workflow.yml:101 says the permissions: block "can be deleted" when the App is installed. That falls back to the repo or org default token, possibly write-all, and that is the token stored in gh's config. Please drop that advice. The real fix is to keep the token out of the agent's environment.
2. Approval markers can be forged. readMarker (report.mjs:442) takes the first <!-- test-companion-proposal … workflow=X --> match, and renderProposalBody renders the agent's plan body unescaped above the real marker. Injected plan text can therefore change which workflow a go actually runs. Any <!-- --> in the plan is also invisible to the person approving it, but still reaches the live run. workflow= also appears to go into argv unvalidated. Suggested fix: escape the plan body with inertMarkers, read the last marker, and check workflow against the enabled workflows.
3. The App-token retry drops the permission scope. At main.mjs:246-249, if the scoped mint fails, the retry asks for everything the App installation holds (which may include workflows or administration). It should fall back to the workflow token instead, or retry with a smaller explicit set.
4. The push can commit any path. splitPushable (push-work.mjs:162) only refuses .env, logs and report directories. .github/workflows/**, symlinks and arbitrary source files all get pushed. Combined with item 3, this is a path to a persistent workflow change on a branch whose runs carry secrets. Please refuse .github/** and symlinks, or limit the push to the test paths the plan named.
5. The CLI install isn't pinned. curl … install.sh | sh (action.yml:124) fetches the latest installer, with no checksum checked in the action itself, in every customer job. Either pin it and verify a sha256 in action.yml, or record that risk as accepted.

Blockers: repo and release

6. @v1 doesn't exist. The repo only has tags v1.0.0–v1.0.6. Tags cover the whole repo, so a floating v1 would also move setup-env and setup-local, and a breaking change here would force a v2 for everything. A prefixed tag such as test-companion-v1 is safer. A floating tag on a public repo also needs tag protection or immutable releases.
7. Concurrency bug. In starter-workflow.yml:65-67, any comment containing "stop" goes into a separate -control group. stop is no longer a command (intent.mjs:21), so a comment like "@browserstack test the stop button" runs in parallel with the run already going on that PR, which breaks "one run per PR". Keep only action == 'closed'.
8. Missing ownership and docs. There's no CODEOWNERS entry for /test-companion/ (suggest @browserstack/test-companion), and the root README doesn't list the new action.

Should fix

• Without the App, the bot login is github-actions[bot], which every workflow in the repo shares. isOurs can't tell this action's comments from another workflow's, so another workflow could plant a proposal or spent marker. Consider an HMAC on the marker, or keeping that state in the check run.
• It only works on Linux (it uses GNU timeout, curl | sh and $HOME/.local/bin) and on whatever node is on PATH, while package.json requires Node 20 or later. Please document "Ubuntu runners, Node ≥20", or add a version check.
• Internal leftovers in public code: review labels such as (B1)/(M5)/(M7) and "item 5/7" (for example main.mjs:146,149,183,1437); "live run" incident IDs (action.yml:201,216,255, report.mjs:760, main.mjs:1102); orphaned comment fragments (main.mjs:155,1444). Two commit messages name a private repo, so please squash-merge with a clean message.
• main.mjs is 1,600 lines with no unit tests. Check-run and Actions-run listings use per_page=100 with no paging, and there are no retries on GitHub API calls.
• A setup failure (action.yml:371) puts steps.run.outputs.outcome straight into a run: script. That's safe today, but zizmor will flag it, so pass it through env:.
• Typos in the starter: line 1 "to.github" and line 17 "@browserstack.". The description still says @test-companion, while everything else uses @browserstack.

Process

• francisf's review was dismissed, with no message, 5 seconds after a push. Could francisf take another look?
• One Semgrep alert (mutable tag @v1, starter-workflow.yml:127) is still open.

What it does well

• Refuses fork PRs on every trigger.
• Checks write access on every comment, including a bare go.
• Ties approval to the head SHA.
• Reads the settings file from the default branch.
• Hardens git thoroughly: hooks off, config allowlist, auth header limited to one URL.
• Builds the child environment from an allowlist.
• Pins third-party actions by SHA.
• Has no dependencies, and its pure decision modules are tested on real behaviour.

[mdjakkariya]

Re-review at 3ff27d0: critical blockers only

Thanks for the quick turnaround. Most of the earlier review is addressed: marker forgery, the App-token retry, the stop/concurrency bug, the Linux-only docs and the ${{ }} step are all closed, and the separate tc-agent user is a real improvement. These four still block merge:

1. The relay's GraphQL read-only check can be bypassed, so the agent gets write access. isReadOnlyGraphql (sandbox-policy.mjs:199-202) strips quoted strings before # comments. A " inside a comment opens a fake string that runs across the newline and hides a mutation from the check. For example:

   query Q { viewer { login } } # "
   mutation M { addComment(...) { ... } } # "
   

   with operationName: "M" gets relayDecision → { allow: true, auth: true }, so the real token is attached. That token can call createCommitOnBranch, which writes to any branch and skips the push filter. It can also approve or merge PRs and post comments. This reopens item 1 from the earlier review. Fix: strip comments and strings in a single left-to-right lexer pass. Better, only allow the fixed set of query shapes gh actually sends.

2. The starter still tells customers to delete the permissions block (starter-workflow.yml:150-151: "uncomment these and delete the permissions block above"). It contradicts the "Keep this block" note at :106. Deleting the block falls back to the repo or org default token, which may be write-all. Please remove the line.

3. @v1.1.0 doesn't exist yet (starter-workflow.yml:135, README). The newest tag is v1.0.6, so any customer who copies the starter today gets "unable to resolve action". Cut the tag before or with the merge, and protect it, since tags in this public repo are mutable.

4. The new .github/CODEOWNERS drops ownership of the rest of the repo. GitHub reads .github/CODEOWNERS before the root CODEOWNERS. Once this file lands, * @browserstack/automate-public-repos no longer applies anywhere, and setup-env, setup-local and the other actions have no owner. Add the two test-companion lines to the root CODEOWNERS instead, and delete the new file.

Also, francisf's review is still dismissed. Please get a fresh approval from a code owner once the four items above are fixed.