protect-ci-workflows

{
  "$schema": "https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json",
  "name": "protect-ci-workflows",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "description": "Guard against an agent weakening the automated checks that review its own work. CI/CD workflow files (.github/workflows/), the composite actions they call (.github/actions/) and the dependency-update automation (.github/dependabot.yml) define what must pass before a change lands -- so a shell command that rewrites or deletes them is the agent removing the gate that would catch it. The guard refuses shell write-commands targeting those paths; reads pass, and tool-driven regeneration (chock sync) passes because it writes through the tool, not shell editing. Best-effort and deliberately coarse: a compound command that both reads a protected file and writes elsewhere may be refused -- rewrite it in two steps. The 'chock: approved-config-change' escape marker is friction plus an audit trail, not authentication -- the agent can write it too; the check an agent cannot self-approve is branch protection and required-status-checks enforced server-side.",
  "author": {
    "name": "chock-core"
  },
  "repository": "https://github.com/open-coder-ai/chock",
  "license": "Apache-2.0",
  "keywords": [
    "chock",
    "policy-as-code",
    "rule",
    "advise",
    "{'control': 'asi02', 'coverage': 'partial', 'note': 'blocks shell self-modification of ci workflow, action and dependency-automation files; server-side branch protection and required-status-checks remain the backstop an agent cannot self-approve'}"
  ],
  "extensions": {
    "io.github.open-coder-ai": {
      "manifest": "manifest.yaml",
      "artifact": "rule",
      "enforcement": "advise",
      "coverage_without_chock": "advisory"
    }
  }
}