feat(rules): activate the content-pattern engine and add a scanner-derived rule

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Activates a rule engine that was already written and had no caller in lib/.

The finding

Hypatia.Rules.CicdRules.scan_content_patterns/1 (lib/rules/cicd_rules.ex:793) is a complete glob + regex, per-line content-rule engine over a @blocked_patterns table. It supports applies_to globs, path_allow_prefixes, exception / exception_repos, negative: true absence rules and inline # hypatia:ignore <rule_id> pragmas, and it emits line-anchored findings.

Its only reference anywhere was its own test file. Verified with a control: check_repo_requirements, found by the same grep style, is wired at cli.ex:478.

The consequence is that authoring a new rule meant writing a module. With this wired, it means adding a table row.

What changed

H1 — wiring. :content_patterns added to @all_rule_modules, with a normalization branch in Hypatia.CLI.collect_findings/2. The branch carries line: through, so Hypatia.SARIF.render/2 gets a real startLine instead of the degenerate fallback of 1.

H2 — first rule, as data. --frozen-lockfile enforcement in CI files — the single piece of advice flagged independently by both CodeRabbit and Codacy across the estate, mechanical to fix and consistent with estate lockfile doctrine. Matching runs over comment-stripped content.

H3 — tests. Positive case; explicit negative proving the canonical fix is not flagged; comment-only case proving a commented-out install line does not fire.

Deliberately not encoded

Codacy posts 🔴 HIGH RISK: switch to a commit SHA to ensure the action is immutable. That contradicts the standing ruling that sha_pinning_required is off and actions.lock is the pin. Encoding it would automate a ruling violation across the estate. Scanner advice is input to triage, not a rule.

Gates

Gate	Result
mix test test/rules/cicd_rules_content_scanner_test.exs	14 passed / 0 failed
mix test (full)	1447 tests, 2 failures — both pre-existing, reproduced by control on a branch without these changes
mix compile --warnings-as-errors	fails on 26 warnings across 9 modules — 0 from the 3 files this branch touches; pre-existing debt on main

⚠ Separate defect found while running the gates

The 2 failing tests and 5 of the warnings share one cause: Hypatia.MergeOrchestration.Strategist.symbolic_vetoes/1 (lib/merge_orchestration/strategist.ex:126-147) rebinds vetoes = [... | vetoes] inside if blocks. Elixir scopes that binding to the block, so all five vetoes are discarded and the function returns its input unchanged — a DO NOT MERGE title, a hold label, a litmus/ branch and draft state all fail to veto, and safety arms :arm_auto where it should :flag. Live fake gate in the auto-merge arming path. Reported separately, not fixed here.

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• New Features

  • Added content-pattern scanning to the default rule set and made it selectable through the rules option.
  • Added detection for CI workflow commands using bun install without --frozen-lockfile.
  • Findings now include severity and accurate line numbers for easier investigation.

• Bug Fixes

  • CI workflow files in dot-prefixed directories, including .github, are now scanned correctly.
  • Comment-only lines are ignored, while commands followed by trailing comments remain detectable.

Walkthrough

The change enables content_patterns in the CLI, scans hidden workflow paths, detects unfrozen bun install commands, skips leading-comment lines, adds finding severity, and reports line numbers. Tests cover workflow discovery and matching behaviour.

Changes

Content pattern scanning

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Scanner matching and finding normalisation lib/rules/cicd_rules.ex	The scanner detects bun install without --frozen-lockfile, includes hidden paths, skips comment-only lines, and adds "medium" severity to findings.
CLI rule selection and finding collection lib/hypatia/cli.ex	The CLI includes :content_patterns in the available and default rules. It converts scanner results into findings with file, line, severity, reason, and action fields.
Content scanner regression coverage test/rules/cicd_rules_content_scanner_test.exs	Tests cover .github workflow discovery, lockfile exceptions, leading comments, trailing comments, and line numbers.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 4f5a1

The new CI scanner can misreport or miss unfrozen Bun installs when trailing YAML comments are present, weakening the policy it introduces. The scanner is also not documented as selectable through the CLI.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI
  participant CicdRules
  participant WorkflowFiles
  participant SuppressionPass
  CLI->>CicdRules: scan_content_patterns(repo_path)
  CicdRules->>WorkflowFiles: read hidden workflow files
  WorkflowFiles-->>CicdRules: workflow content
  CicdRules-->>CLI: line-based content findings
  CLI->>SuppressionPass: process normalised findings

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In `@lib/hypatia/cli.ex`:
- Line 58: Document the registered content_patterns rule in both the module
documentation’s available-rule list and print_usage/0’s available-rule list,
while leaving the existing rule registration and other entries unchanged.

In `@lib/rules/cicd_rules.ex`:
- Line 713: Update the pattern-matching flow for the bun install rule around the
regex at line 713 to remove YAML comments before evaluating commands, while
preserving # characters inside quoted scalars. Ensure trailing comments cannot
satisfy the frozen-lockfile check or create false bun install matches, and add
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