# Verify Report: CI path filtering for artifact-only commits

**Result:** PASS
**Created by:** AnaVerify
**Date:** 2026-05-07
**Spec:** .ana/plans/active/ci-artifact-path-ignore/spec.md
**Branch:** feature/ci-artifact-path-ignore

## Pre-Check Results
```
=== CONTRACT COMPLIANCE ===
  Contract: .ana/plans/active/ci-artifact-path-ignore/contract.yaml
  Seal: INTACT (hash sha256:f5e79bcdd55d93d6a6d80b70304fbf78a3d95d5d36c3f827d58203da0046f934)
```
Seal status: **INTACT**

## Contract Compliance
| ID   | Says                                                          | Status        | Evidence |
|------|---------------------------------------------------------------|---------------|----------|
| A001 | Artifact-only pushes to main skip the CI test suite           | SATISFIED | `.github/workflows/test.yml:7` — `paths-ignore` list contains `'.ana/**'` under `push` trigger |
| A002 | Agent metadata pushes to main skip the CI test suite          | SATISFIED | `.github/workflows/test.yml:8` — `paths-ignore` list contains `'.claude/**'` under `push` trigger |
| A003 | Artifact-only pull requests skip the CI test suite            | SATISFIED | `.github/workflows/test.yml:12` — `paths-ignore` list contains `'.ana/**'` under `pull_request` trigger |
| A004 | Agent metadata pull requests skip the CI test suite           | SATISFIED | `.github/workflows/test.yml:13` — `paths-ignore` list contains `'.claude/**'` under `pull_request` trigger |
| A005 | The push trigger still targets main and staging branches      | SATISFIED | `.github/workflows/test.yml:5` — `branches: [main, staging]` preserved under `push` |
| A006 | The pull request trigger still targets main and staging       | SATISFIED | `.github/workflows/test.yml:10` — `branches: [main, staging]` preserved under `pull_request` |
| A007 | Website changes are not ignored by CI                         | SATISFIED | `.github/workflows/test.yml:6-8` — `paths-ignore` contains only `.ana/**` and `.claude/**`, no `website/**` present |
| A008 | The release workflow is untouched                             | SATISFIED | `git diff main -- .github/workflows/release.yml` produced empty output — file unchanged |

All 8 assertions verified by source inspection. No tagged tests expected — spec explicitly states "No TypeScript code is modified" and testing strategy is "None."

## Independent Findings

Predictions made before reading the implementation:
1. **YAML indentation inconsistency** — Not found. 2-space indent consistent throughout.
2. **Push vs PR formatting difference** — Not found. Both blocks identically structured.
3. **No tests written** — Confirmed expected. Spec mandates no tests for CI config.
4. **Website job skips with workflow** — Confirmed. `paths-ignore` is workflow-level, so both `test` and `website` jobs skip together on `.ana/`-only commits. Spec explicitly accepts this (Gotchas line 80).
5. **Branch protection risk** — Spec documents as accepted risk (lines 13-14). Pipeline workflow makes `.ana/`-only PRs extremely unlikely.

**What I didn't predict:** The diff is exactly 6 lines added, zero lines removed, zero other files touched. The builder executed this with surgical precision — no scope creep, no over-building, no gold plating.

**Over-building check:** No extra paths added to `paths-ignore`. No new workflow files. No conditional logic. No external actions. No YAGNI violations — there's nothing to export or abstract in a 6-line YAML addition.

**YAML validity:** Parsed via `python3 yaml.safe_load()` — structure is correct. Both triggers have `branches` and `paths-ignore` at the correct nesting level.

## AC Walkthrough

- **AC1:** Pushing a commit that only modifies `.ana/` does not trigger Test Suite
  ⚠️ PARTIAL — `paths-ignore` includes `.ana/**` (line 7), which is the correct GitHub Actions mechanism. Cannot verify runtime behavior without an actual push to the remote. YAML structure is correct.

- **AC2:** Pushing a commit that only modifies `.claude/` does not trigger Test Suite
  ⚠️ PARTIAL — `paths-ignore` includes `.claude/**` (line 8). Same as AC1 — structure verified, runtime unverifiable locally.

- **AC3:** Pushing a commit with files outside `.ana/` and `.claude/` triggers full Test Suite
  ⚠️ PARTIAL — This is GitHub Actions default behavior: when ANY changed file doesn't match `paths-ignore`, the workflow runs. Verified by GitHub Actions documentation semantics. Cannot test locally.

- **AC4:** Pull requests with code changes continue to trigger full Test Suite
  ⚠️ PARTIAL — `pull_request` trigger (line 9-13) preserves `branches: [main, staging]` and adds `paths-ignore` only for `.ana/**` and `.claude/**`. Any PR with code changes will trigger. Verified structurally.

- **AC5:** `release.yml` workflow is unchanged
  ✅ PASS — `git diff main -- .github/workflows/release.yml` is empty. File exists at `.github/workflows/release.yml`, scoped to `v*` tags.

- **AC6:** No other workflow files created or modified
  ✅ PASS — `ls .github/workflows/` shows only `test.yml` and `release.yml`. `git diff main --stat` shows only `test.yml` modified (plus `.ana/` build artifacts).

- **AC7:** The `website:` job is not affected — website-only changes still trigger it
  ⚠️ PARTIAL — `website/**` is not in `paths-ignore`, so website changes will trigger the workflow (and thus the `website:` job). However, `paths-ignore` is workflow-level — if a commit touches ONLY `.ana/` files, the entire workflow (including the `website:` job) is skipped. This is correct behavior per the spec: "there's no point running the website check for artifact changes either."

## Blockers

No blockers. All 8 contract assertions satisfied. The change is a 6-line YAML addition with no scope creep. Checked: no paths beyond `.ana/**` and `.claude/**` added, no other workflow files created or modified, no `website/**` in paths-ignore, release.yml unchanged (zero diff), YAML parses correctly. The 4 PARTIAL AC items reflect that CI behavior can only be fully verified after merge — the structural implementation is correct.

## Findings

- **Upstream — `paths-ignore` is workflow-level, not per-job:** `.github/workflows/test.yml:6` — When only `.ana/` or `.claude/` files change, both the `test` matrix AND `website` job are skipped. This is correct (no reason to run website checks for artifact commits) but worth documenting for the next engineer who wonders why a `.ana/`-only commit didn't trigger the website job. Spec acknowledges this in Gotchas.

- **Upstream — Branch protection required checks may block `.ana/`-only PRs:** When `paths-ignore` causes the workflow to skip, the 6 required status checks never report, blocking merge. Spec accepts this risk — the pipeline never creates `.ana/`-only PRs (artifacts push directly to main, feature branches always contain code). A manually-created `.ana/`-only PR is the only scenario, and workaround is trivial (include any source file change).

- **Code — `staging` branch in trigger list is a no-op:** `.github/workflows/test.yml:5` — Both `push` and `pull_request` triggers reference `staging`, which doesn't exist on the remote. Pre-existing condition, not introduced by this build. Harmless but adds noise to the trigger config. Out of scope for this build, but worth a cleanup pass.

## Deployer Handoff

Merge normally. After merge, validate by pushing an artifact-only commit (e.g., `ana artifact save scope {any-slug}`) and confirming the Test Suite workflow does NOT appear in GitHub Actions. Then push a code change and confirm it DOES trigger. The 6 required status checks on `main` branch protection remain unchanged — the only risk is a manually-created PR with only `.ana/` or `.claude/` files, which the pipeline doesn't produce.

## Verdict
**Shippable:** YES
All 8 contract assertions satisfied by source inspection. Implementation is a surgical 6-line YAML addition matching the spec's output mockup exactly. No scope creep, no over-building, no regressions possible (no source code modified). The PARTIAL AC items are inherent to CI config verification — structural correctness is confirmed, runtime behavior verifiable only after merge.
