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Closes #153, along the line the issue's own survey landed on: record the surface as unscanned, do not wrap checkov.

What the run now says

== zizmor -- workflow security
   .circleci/config.yml is CI configuration no scanner here reads -- a declared gap, not a scanner that failed
   1 workflow directories

Said in the zizmor section because that is the section whose edge it is: zizmor is the workflow-security scanner, and the boundary of what it parses is the boundary of what the whole set covers. Printed before that section's early returns, so a missing zizmor and a repository with no Actions workflow still get the declaration.

A statement, not a verdict. Neither failed nor unread moves and the exit code does not change. Nothing failed and nothing was prevented from looking; the tools this command carries do not cover the file, which was already true before the run started. A .circleci/ directory must not turn every push into exit 2 forever.

Why checkov is named and not run

The issue's survey, in code form. checkov is the only scanner found that reads a CircleCI config, and it fails open: a YAML parse error is logged at debug level, the parser returns no model, and the run exits 0 with "parsing_errors": 0. A config it could not read is indistinguishable from a clean one -- this command's third verdict imported as a silent pass, which is the defect the crate exists to refuse. It is cited in the module header and in docs/REFERENCE.md, with the thin check set and the misspelled @volitile orb tag, so the next reader does not re-survey the field.

The one behaviour change outside the print

interesting() (src/supply.rs) now admits these paths -- precisely BECAUSE nothing scans them. A push changing only a .circleci/config.yml would otherwise leave an empty range and be told "nothing in this range that a scanner reads", which is true of that file in a way the sentence does not mean. Nothing downstream is handed it: every section selects its own inputs by name or by is_workflow, so zizmor is never given a file it cannot parse. The issue's warning about is_workflow and find_workflow_dirs naming zizmor's input domain still holds -- neither is touched.

The surface: anything under a .circleci/ directory at any depth, plus .gitlab-ci.yml, .gitlab-ci.yaml, azure-pipelines.yml and Jenkinsfile by name. A list rather than a pattern, because *.yml at a repository root is a config file for anything.

Tests

  • ci_configuration_no_scanner_reads_is_in_scope_so_the_run_can_say_so -- the filter admits the five shapes and refuses config.yml, deny.toml and the bare directory.
  • unscanned_ci_configuration_is_found_at_any_depth_and_not_inside_a_pruned_tree.
  • an_unreadable_directory_fails_the_enumeration_rather_than_shrinking_it extended: the new walk poisons like the other two.
  • a_range_holding_only_a_ci_config_says_the_file_is_unscanned_not_that_there_was_nothing -- exit 0, the declaration printed, "nothing in this range" absent, and the stub journal empty, so no scanner was handed the file.
  • a_whole_tree_sweep_declares_the_ci_configuration_it_did_not_scan.

cargo test, cargo clippy --all-targets, cargo fmt --check and cargo run -- scan all green. clippy.toml gains doc-valid-idents = ["CircleCI", ".."] so the proper noun does not have to be written in backticks in prose.

If a CircleCI equivalent of zizmor appears, the change is interesting() and a sixth entry in the section array. The missing piece is the scanner, not the plumbing.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vxjh3qKGTu2jqqnakw87qd

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  • New Features

    • Supply-chain scans now identify CI configuration files that are not inspected by available scanners, including CircleCI, GitLab CI, Azure Pipelines, and Jenkins configurations.
    • These files are explicitly reported as unscanned rather than omitted.
    • Ranges containing only unscanned CI configuration are no longer reported as empty.
    • Full-tree scans continue scanning supported files while clearly identifying unscanned CI configurations.
  • Documentation

    • Updated reference documentation to describe unscanned CI configuration reporting and its effect on scan results.

…er list

`uphold supply-chain` runs five scanners, and between them they cover
manifests, locks and GitHub Actions workflows. A `.circleci/config.yml` is
read by none of them -- zizmor, the one shaped for the job, parses Actions
only -- and nothing in the output said so. Five green sections over a
repository whose pipeline definition no scanner opened read exactly like six.

So the run says it. Where a range or a tree holds CI configuration this set
does not read, the zizmor section names each file first: it is the section
whose edge the gap is. It is a statement and not a verdict -- neither count
moves and the exit code does not change, because nothing failed and nothing
was prevented from looking; the tools carried here do not cover the file,
which was true before the run started.

`interesting()` now admits those paths, precisely BECAUSE nothing scans them:
a push carrying one CircleCI edit would otherwise leave an empty range and be
told there was nothing here a scanner reads. No section is handed the file --
each selects its own inputs by name or by `is_workflow` -- so zizmor is never
given something it cannot parse.

Not filled with checkov, which is the only scanner found that reads a CircleCI
config. It logs a YAML parse error at debug level, returns no model and exits
0, so a config it could not read is indistinguishable from a clean one. That
is this command's third verdict imported as a silent pass, which is the defect
the crate exists to refuse. It is named in the module header and in REFERENCE,
and not run.

Closes #153.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vxjh3qKGTu2jqqnakw87qd
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The supply-chain command now identifies unsupported CI configuration, reports declared unscanned gaps, and preserves scanner counts and exit status. Tests cover path detection, tree enumeration, scoped changes, whole-tree scans, and unreadable directories.

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Unscanned CI reporting

Layer / File(s) Summary
CI surface detection
src/supply.rs
The module recognizes .circleci directories and named GitLab CI, Azure Pipelines, and Jenkins files. It includes these paths in scope and enumerates them for changed or whole-tree scans.
CI gap reporting and scanner wiring
src/supply.rs, docs/REFERENCE.md
The command reports unsupported CI files as declared gaps. zizmor performs this reporting before early returns. Documentation describes the supported paths and unchanged scanner counts and exit status.
Behavior validation and lint configuration
src/supply.rs, tests/supply_chain_cli.rs, clippy.toml
Unit and CLI tests validate detection, enumeration, error handling, scoped reporting, and whole-tree reporting. Clippy accepts CircleCI as a valid documentation identifier.

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This change reports unsupported CI configuration without altering scanner inputs or exit semantics, but the new reference documentation contains a fenced block that needs a language identifier to avoid lint failure.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant SupplyChainCommand
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  participant declare_unscanned_ci
  participant zizmor
  SupplyChainCommand->>unscanned_ci: enumerate CI paths in scope
  unscanned_ci-->>declare_unscanned_ci: return unsupported paths
  declare_unscanned_ci-->>SupplyChainCommand: print declared gap
  SupplyChainCommand->>zizmor: continue scanner flow
  zizmor-->>SupplyChainCommand: preserve counts and exit status
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Comment thread docs/REFERENCE.md Outdated
The declaration was general in code and CircleCI-shaped in prose: eleven
mentions of one vendor for a rule that covers every CI system except GitHub
Actions. A reader would take CircleCI for a special case and the mechanism for
a patch aimed at it.

So the prose is written at the class, and the asymmetry that does exist is
named rather than left to be inferred. GitHub Actions is not the CI system
this crate favours; it is the CI system somebody wrote a scanner for. A job
that mints a token, pulls an unpinned action or orb, or runs a command over
untrusted input is the same defect whichever vendor's file it lives in. What
separates the vendors here is that exactly one of them has a scanner worth
running, and the rest are enumerated by name because their file names are what
identifies them.

CircleCI survives in the three places where it is evidence rather than
example: checkov's fail-open parser is a CircleCI parser, and its check set is
a CircleCI check set. Naming another vendor there would be a claim nobody
tested.

The whole-tree CLI test now plants a `.gitlab-ci.yml` where it planted a
`.circleci/config.yml`. Two tests over one vendor left every other name in the
list resting on the unit test alone.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vxjh3qKGTu2jqqnakw87qd
The prose said each thing about three times: the asymmetry in the module
header and again in REFERENCE and again in a const, the "five green sections
read like six" line in a function doc and in REFERENCE, and every test doc
restating the argument the code above it already carries.

Nothing is dropped that a reader needs -- the gap, the fail-open evidence for
checkov, why `interesting()` admits paths nothing scans, and why the list is a
list rather than `*.yml` all survive. 133 lines of documentation become 81.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vxjh3qKGTu2jqqnakw87qd
MD040 on the block added in this branch: the run's output was fenced with no
language, where the seven other output blocks in REFERENCE carry `text`.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vxjh3qKGTu2jqqnakw87qd
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