Zuke is a build-automation framework, so it runs inside other people's pipelines and publishes itself to a public registry. Supply-chain integrity is therefore the primary concern, and this document describes how the project is hardened and how to report problems.

Zuke is largely AI-written (see the README). Review before you rely on it. Every package is 1.x on full semver; depend on the caret range (jsr:@zuke/core@^1) rather than an exact version, so patch fixes reach you — see Versioning & compatibility.

Please report security issues privately — do not open a public issue.

• Use GitHub's "Report a vulnerability" button under the repository's Security tab (Private Vulnerability Reporting). This opens a private advisory visible only to you and the maintainers.
• Include affected version(s), reproduction steps, and impact. A minimal proof of concept helps us triage quickly.

We aim to acknowledge a report within a few days and to coordinate a fix and disclosure timeline with you. Fixes ship in a new release; the advisory is published once a patched version is available.

Credit: reporters are credited by name in the published advisory (and in the release notes of the fix) unless they ask to remain anonymous.

Only the latest published version of each @zuke/* package receives security fixes. Depending on the caret range keeps you on it.

What the project does to keep releases trustworthy. The security assurance case justifies why these measures meet the project's security requirements — the threat model, the trust boundaries, and the design-principle arguments behind the list below:

• Zero runtime dependencies. Every published package declares no dependency but @zuke/core, so nothing third-party is shipped to consumers. The build layer is separate and does have them: @std/yaml for build/, cspell and release-please installed from npm on demand, and four checksum-verified binaries (the Codecov CLI, zizmor, actionlint, gitleaks) provisioned by the build's toolchain(). All of it is dev/release-time only.
• Injection-free command execution. All process execution goes through Deno.Command with a discrete argv array — there is no shell string, so interpolated values can never be reinterpreted as shell syntax.
• Trusted publishing via OIDC. Packages publish to JSR with a short-lived OIDC token (id-token: write); no long-lived registry tokens or secrets are stored. JSR records build provenance for each published version.
• Least-privilege CI. The default workflow token is contents: read. The release pipeline is split so the release job (contents / pull-requests: write) and the publishJsr job (id-token: write) never hold each other's privileges.
• Pinned, monitored Actions. Every GitHub Action is pinned to a full commit SHA, with a version comment kept current by Dependabot. Every job that holds a write-scoped token runs step-security/harden-runner with an egress-policy: block allowlist, so outbound access is enforced rather than merely audited. The test job in ci.yml is the exception: it holds no token and only runs the test suite.
• Pinned toolchain. The ./zuke launcher bootstraps a pinned Deno version, so CI and local builds install a known version rather than a moving latest. Dependencies are resolved against a committed deno.lock, enforced with --frozen. The scanner CLIs are pinned and checksum-verified in build/scanners.ts and provisioned by the build itself, so the security workflow needs no install step and nothing has to be present on PATH.
• Scanning via Zuke. The supply-chain scanners run as a typed Zuke build target — ./zuke security drives zizmor (Actions SAST), actionlint, and gitleaks (secrets) through @zuke/security, failing the build on findings. (The package also wraps osv-scanner, semgrep, and Trivy for consumers whose projects have lockfiles/manifests those tools support.) Code-level SARIF for the GitHub Security tab comes from CodeQL, run by the committed codeql.yml workflow on every pull request, push to master, and a weekly schedule — analyzing the TypeScript sources and, via the actions query pack, the workflow YAML itself — and from OpenSSF Scorecard, which runs as a native action workflow.

• Bootstrap launchers. ./zuke and ./zuke.ps1 install Deno on first use by downloading the pinned release archive from GitHub and verifying it against a per-platform SHA-256 baked into the launcher. No install script is fetched or executed. DENO_VERSION=latest is refused — a moving target has no checksum to pin — and overriding the version requires supplying a matching DENO_SHA256, so the launcher never runs an unverified binary. To skip the bootstrap entirely, install Deno yourself so the launcher finds it on PATH.
• deno publish --allow-dirty. The publish step currently allows a dirty tree as a backstop. The merged release tree should already be clean; once a real release confirms this, drop the flag for the strongest "published == committed source" guarantee.
• contents: write + persist-credentials on the ci job. The ci job in ci.yml runs on pull_request with contents: write and actions/checkout's persist-credentials: true, because the AI lint fixer may push a fix commit back to the PR branch. This is a deliberate trade-off, and it is fork-safe: pull_request (not pull_request_target) runs with the base repository's read-only GITHUB_TOKEN for a fork PR, so the elevated write and persisted credential apply only to same-repository branches, never to code a fork controls. Workflow egress is audited by step-security/harden-runner.

Every published @zuke/* version can be verified against this repository:

• Provenance (signature). Packages are published to JSR via OIDC trusted publishing, and JSR records a Sigstore provenance attestation for each version — signed by the release workflow's short-lived OIDC identity, so there is no long-lived private key anywhere, let alone on the distribution site. To verify, open the version on jsr.io and check its provenance panel: it names this repository, the exact commit, and the workflow run that published it. A version without provenance, or with provenance naming another repository, should be treated as compromised and reported (see above).
• Source equality. The published artifacts are the committed source files (there is no build/compile step), so a version's contents can be diffed directly against its provenance-named commit.
• Launcher downloads. The ./zuke / zuke.ps1 launchers verify the Deno archive they bootstrap against a per-platform SHA-256 baked into the launcher, as described under "Known trade-offs".

Git tags are created by release-please through the GitHub API and are not GPG-signed; the provenance attestation above is the release signature to rely on.

The same scanners are exposed as Zuke tasks via @zuke/security, so any consumer can run them in their own pipeline:

import { SecurityTasks } from "jsr:@zuke/security";

await SecurityTasks.zizmor((s) => s.paths(".github/workflows"));
await SecurityTasks.osvScanner((s) => s.lockfile("package-lock.json"));

In this repository, deno task zuke security runs the bundled set (zizmor, actionlint, gitleaks); the target provisions each one itself, so nothing needs to be installed on PATH first.

These cannot be set from files in the repo; configure them in GitHub settings:

• Branch protection on master: require a pull request with at least one review, require CODEOWNER review, require status checks (CI, CodeQL) to pass, dismiss stale approvals on new commits, and disallow force-pushes.
• Restrict release-PR merges to maintainers.
• Keep CodeQL code scanning default setup OFF. The committed codeql.yml is the advanced configuration and the single source of code-scanning analysis; enabling default setup for the same language makes GitHub reject the workflow's SARIF uploads. The GitHub-managed Code Quality analysis is a separate feature and can stay enabled alongside it.
• Enable secret scanning and push protection (free for public repos).
• Require 2FA for all maintainers, on both GitHub and JSR.
• Scope the JSR ↔ repo OIDC link so publishing is allowed only from this repository's release workflow.