Mark superseded commits honestly instead of skipped (closes #152 )

Gitea cancels an in-flight run when a newer commit lands on the same branch and records the cancellation as `failure` / "Has been cancelled". The workflow rewrote that to `skipped`, but Gitea's Combine() folds `skipped` into `success`, so the combined-status API returned green for a commit nothing had ever tested. Rewrite it to `failure` / "Superseded by a newer commit; never tested" instead: red-but-honest, and never `pending`, which would block the commit forever. Re-running the superseded commit would have been better still, but is not reachable on this Gitea (1.25.4): its API exposes no rerun endpoint, workflow dispatch takes a ref rather than a SHA, and every replay would be a full uncached build with no bound on how many pile up behind a burst of merges. The step also stops hardcoding its status context: the logic moves into script/ci-mark-superseded, which derives the context from the workflow name, job id and event, and fails loudly when no status on the commit being built carries that context, so renaming the workflow or the job cannot silently disable the rewrite. The derivation is not byte-exact with Gitea's own rule -- Gitea uses the job's display `name:` where the runner exports the job id -- so adding a `name:` to the job turns every push red rather than quietly doing nothing; the script header says so, because that loud failure is the point. That is item 2 of #147; item 1 there is untouched. Nothing about the walk may fail quietly, since the script exists to stop CI lying quietly. An ANCESTOR_LIMIT that is set but not a positive integer aborts instead of passing an unusable value to git and discarding the error; the root-commit case is detected explicitly so every other rev-list failure aborts too; and per-ancestor status reads carry the same `--retry 3 --max-time 30` as the head-commit read and abort on failure rather than losing curl's exit status through a pipe. Tests drive the script against a fake Gitea covering the cancelled, laundered-skipped, genuinely-failed, passing and renamed cases, an unparseable ANCESTOR_LIMIT and an ancestor whose status read answers HTTP 500, so jq joins the builder image to run them.
Correct release-blocking README and startup-warning inaccuracies (closes #151 )
2026-08-17 21:49:35 +00:00 · 2026-08-17 23:44:59 +02:00
12 changed files with 1068 additions and 174 deletions
--- a/.gitea/workflows/check.yml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/check.yml
@@ -13,39 +13,19 @@ jobs:
        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2 2024-10-23
        with:
          # The fingerprint step below needs history to find the last commit
-          # that touched the Docker build context.
+          # that touched the Docker build context, and the superseded-status
+          # step needs it to walk ancestors (it aborts on a shallow clone).
          fetch-depth: 0

-      - name: Neutralize superseded run statuses
+      - name: Mark superseded run statuses
        # Gitea cancels the in-flight run when another commit is pushed to the
        # same branch and records the cancellation as `failure`, so a commit
-        # that was never tested reads red. The cancellation is unconditional
-        # server-side for push events and cannot be disabled from a workflow
-        # file, so the superseding run rewrites those statuses to `skipped`.
-        # Only the exact cancellation status is touched; a real failure is
-        # left alone.
+        # that was never tested reads as a test result. The script rewrites
+        # those statuses to say what happened. See its header for why the
+        # state stays `failure` and not `skipped`.
        env:
          GITEA_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITEA_TOKEN }}
-        run: |
-          set -eu
-          api="${GITHUB_API_URL}/repos/${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}"
-          ctx='check / check (push)'
-          for sha in $(git rev-list --max-count=20 "${GITHUB_SHA}^" || true); do
-            latest="$(curl -sf "${api}/commits/${sha}/status" | jq -r \
-              --arg c "$ctx" \
-              '[.statuses[] | select(.context == $c)][0] // empty
-               | "\(.status)|\(.description)"')" || continue
-            [ "$latest" = 'failure|Has been cancelled' ] || continue
-            curl -sf -X POST "${api}/statuses/${sha}" \
-              -H "Authorization: token ${GITEA_TOKEN}" \
-              -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-              -d "$(jq -nc --arg c "$ctx" '{
-                context: $c,
-                state: "skipped",
-                description: "Superseded by a newer commit; never tested"
-              }')" >/dev/null
-            echo "neutralized superseded status on ${sha}"
-          done
+        run: script/ci-mark-superseded

      - name: Fingerprint the build context
        # `.dockerignore` keeps docs out of the build context, so a docs-only
--- a/4
+++ b/4
@@ -32,7 +32,9 @@ FROM golang:1.26.1-bookworm@sha256:4465644228bc2857a954b092167e12aa59c006a349228
 # Depend on lint stage passing
 COPY --from=lint /src/go.sum /dev/null

-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends make curl ca-certificates && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+# jq is a runtime dependency of script/ci-mark-superseded, which the test
+# suite executes.
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends make curl ca-certificates jq && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

 WORKDIR /build

--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -11,9 +11,14 @@ with retry support, logging, and observability. Category: infrastructure

 ### Prerequisites

- Go 1.26+
- golangci-lint v2.11+
- Docker (for containerized deployment)
+- Go 1.26.1+ (the version in `go.mod`)
+- golangci-lint v2.12.2 (the version pinned in `script/bootstrap` and
+  in the `Dockerfile`'s lint stage; `make bootstrap` installs it)
+- Docker (for containerized deployment, and for the lint and test
+  stages of the CI gate)
+- `curl`, used by `script/fetch-assets` to download the third-party
+  browser assets, which are not committed (`make bootstrap` installs
+  it if missing)

 ### Quick Start

@@ -22,14 +27,18 @@ with retry support, logging, and observability. Category: infrastructure
 git clone https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/webhooker.git
 cd webhooker

-# Install Go dependencies
-make deps
+# Install Go dependencies, the pinned linter, and the third-party
+# browser assets. `make deps` alone is not enough: it only runs
+# go mod download/tidy, and the checks below need the fetched assets.
+make bootstrap

-# Run all checks (format, lint, test, build)
+# Run all checks (test, lint, format check)
 make check

-# Run in development mode (uses SQLite in current directory)
-make dev
+# Run in development mode. DATA_DIR defaults to /var/lib/webhooker in
+# every environment, so set it (in .env or the shell) to a writable
+# directory when running from a clone.
+DATA_DIR=./data make dev

 # Build Docker image
 make docker
@@ -42,13 +51,18 @@ make bootstrap  # Install all dependencies (idempotent)
 make setup      # Bootstrap + install git pre-commit hook
 make assets     # Fetch + verify third-party browser assets
 make fmt        # Format code (gofmt + goimports)
+make fmt-check  # Fail if gofmt would change anything (writes nothing)
 make lint       # Run golangci-lint
 make test       # Run tests with race detection
 make check      # test + lint + fmt-check (CI gate)
 make build      # Build binary to bin/webhooker
+make run        # build, then run ./bin/webhooker
 make dev        # go run ./cmd/webhooker
+make deps       # go mod download + go mod tidy
 make docker     # Build Docker image
 make hooks      # Install git pre-commit hook that runs script/precommit
+make css        # Regenerate static/css/tailwind.css (needs tailwindcss)
+make clean      # Remove bin/
 ```

 ### Configuration
@@ -90,7 +104,7 @@ TTY detection, and security headers are always applied.
 | `PORT`                  | HTTP listen port                    | `8080`   |
 | `DATA_DIR`              | Directory for all SQLite databases  | `/var/lib/webhooker` |
 | `DEBUG`                 | Enable debug logging                | `false`  |
-| `MAINTENANCE_MODE`      | Serve the maintenance page          | `false`  |
+| `MAINTENANCE_MODE`      | Report `maintenanceMode: true` in the healthcheck JSON. It does not change how any request is served — no maintenance page exists | `false`  |
 | `METRICS_USERNAME`      | Basic auth username for `/metrics`  | `""`     |
 | `METRICS_PASSWORD`      | Basic auth password for `/metrics`  | `""`     |
 | `SENTRY_DSN`            | Sentry error reporting DSN          | `""`     |
@@ -130,8 +144,13 @@ sustained trickle re-locks them immediately.

 The remedy is to set `TRUSTED_PROXIES` to your reverse proxy's
 address, which restores per-client buckets. webhooker logs a warning
-at startup when `WEBHOOKER_ENVIRONMENT=prod` and `TRUSTED_PROXIES` is
-empty. See [Rate Limiting](#rate-limiting) for what each limit shares.
+at startup whenever `TRUSTED_PROXIES` is empty, in every environment —
+not only when `WEBHOOKER_ENVIRONMENT=prod`, because that variable
+defaults to `dev` and an operator who never set it is precisely the
+one at risk. The warning is informational when nothing proxies to the
+process: with no proxy in front, the peer address is the client's own
+and the buckets are already per-client. See
+[Rate Limiting](#rate-limiting) for what each limit shares.

 `X-Real-IP` and `True-Client-IP` are **never** read, from any peer.
 Reverse proxies append to `X-Forwarded-For` but forward other client
@@ -163,6 +182,8 @@ Two operator requirements follow:
  makes all three limits, including the unauthenticated webhook
  receiver, silently bypassable by every client in the block.

+#### Sessions
+
 Sessions are bounded by two independent clocks, and end at whichever
 one runs out first:

@@ -232,17 +253,20 @@ docker run -d \
 The container runs as a non-root user (`webhooker`, UID 1000), exposes
 port 8080, and includes a health check against
 `/.well-known/healthcheck`. The `/var/lib/webhooker` volume holds all
-SQLite databases: the main application database (`webhooker.db`) and
-the per-webhook event databases (`events-{uuid}.db`). Mount this as a
-persistent volume to preserve data across container restarts.
+SQLite databases: the main application database (`webhooker.db`), the
+per-webhook event databases (`events-{uuid}.db`), and any archive
+databases written by `database` targets (`archive-{uuid}.db`). Mount
+this as a persistent volume to preserve data across container
+restarts.

 ## Entrypoints

 This repository adheres to the
 [Scripts to Rule Them All](https://github.com/github/scripts-to-rule-them-all)
 standard: normalized scripts in `script/` are the entrypoints for the
-development workflow, and the Makefile targets are thin shims that call
-them. We provide:
+development workflow. Ten of the Makefile's sixteen targets are thin
+shims that call them; `build`, `run`, `dev`, `deps`, `clean` and `css`
+are inline commands with no script behind them. We provide:

 - `script/bootstrap` — install all dependencies (idempotent)
 - `script/setup` — make a fresh clone ready for development
@@ -258,6 +282,8 @@ them. We provide:
 - `script/docker` — build the Docker image tagged via `script/projectname`
 - `script/cibuild` — CI entrypoint: `docker build .` (the Dockerfile
  runs the checks, so a green build implies a green repo)
+- `script/ci-mark-superseded` — CI helper: mark the commits whose run a
+  newer push cancelled (see [CI gate honesty](#ci-gate-honesty))
 - `script/precommit` — pre-commit checks (`go mod tidy` guard, then
  `script/check`)
 - `script/install-precommit` — install the git pre-commit hook that
@@ -354,7 +380,11 @@ It uses:
 - **[gorilla/csrf](https://github.com/gorilla/csrf)** for CSRF
  protection (cookie-based double-submit tokens)
 - **[go-chi/httprate](https://github.com/go-chi/httprate)** for
-  per-IP login rate limiting (sliding window counter)
+  sliding-window rate limiting of the login, password-change and
+  webhook receiver endpoints. The bucket is per client IP only when
+  `TRUSTED_PROXIES` names the reverse proxy; unset, every client
+  behind that proxy shares one bucket per limit (see
+  [Rate Limiting](#rate-limiting))
 - **[Prometheus](https://prometheus.io)** for metrics, served at
  `/metrics` behind basic auth
 - **[Sentry](https://sentry.io)** for optional error reporting
@@ -372,7 +402,7 @@ The codebase uses consistent naming throughout (rename completed in

 ### Data Model

-webhooker's data model has eight entities organized into two tiers: the
+webhooker's data model has nine entities organized into two tiers: the
 **application tier** (user and webhook configuration) and the **event
 tier** (event ingestion, delivery, and logging).

@@ -464,9 +494,25 @@ days (`database.RetentionForeverDays`). The retention reaper recognises
 that sentinel and skips the webhook entirely, and the web UI displays
 such a webhook's retention as "forever" rather than as a day count.

-A *finite* retention is capped at `database.MaxFiniteRetentionDays`
-(106751 days, about 292 years), and a larger one is rejected with a
-400. The cap is not arbitrary: the reaper computes its cutoff as a
+Submitted `retention_days` values therefore fall into three bands, not
+two:
+
+- `1` up to `database.MaxFiniteRetentionDays` (106751 days, about 292
+  years) is accepted as a finite retention.
+- Above that ceiling but below the retain-forever sentinel of 365000
+  (`database.RetentionForeverDays`) is rejected with a 400. This is the
+  band the cap exists for.
+- `0`, and `365000` or above, are accepted and mean retain forever,
+  collapsing to the sentinel — `0` in `Webhook.BeforeSave`, the large
+  values in `parseRetentionDays`. The large values are not out of
+  range: the edit form pre-fills the sentinel for a retain-forever
+  webhook, so submitting that form back unchanged has to keep meaning
+  "forever".
+
+A negative value is in none of the three: `parseRetentionDays` rejects
+it with a 400 before `BeforeSave` ever sees it.
+
+The cap is not arbitrary: the reaper computes its cutoff as a
 `time.Duration`, an int64 nanosecond count, and a longer period
 overflows it. An overflowed cutoff lands in the future, where it
 matches every row, so the sweep would delete every event the webhook
@@ -484,7 +530,7 @@ the full request and creates an Event.
 | -------------- | ------- | ----------- |
 | `id`           | UUID    | Primary key |
 | `webhook_id`   | UUID    | Foreign key → Webhook |
-| `path`         | string  | Unique URL path (UUID-based, e.g. `/webhook/{uuid}`) |
+| `path`         | string  | Unique bare UUID, generated at creation. The `/webhook/` prefix is route only and is not stored: the receiver matches this column against the raw `{uuid}` path segment |
 | `description`  | string  | Optional description |
 | `active`       | boolean | Whether this entrypoint accepts events (default: true) |

@@ -508,8 +554,8 @@ events should be forwarded.
 | `type`           | TargetType | One of: `http`, `slack`, `database`, `log` |
 | `active`         | boolean    | Whether deliveries are enabled (default: true) |
 | `config`         | JSON text  | Type-specific configuration |
-| `max_retries`    | integer    | Maximum retry attempts for HTTP targets (0 = fire-and-forget, >0 = retries with backoff) |
-| `max_queue_size` | integer    | Maximum queued deliveries (for HTTP targets with retries) |
+| `max_retries`    | integer    | Maximum retry attempts for `http` and `slack` targets (0 = fire-and-forget, >0 = retries with backoff and a circuit breaker). Ignored by `database` and `log` targets |
+| `max_queue_size` | integer    | Stored and shown on the target's detail view, but not enforced anywhere yet: nothing in the delivery engine consults it. Queue depth is set by the two fixed 10,000-entry channels |

 **Relations:** Belongs to Webhook. Has many Deliveries.

@@ -522,6 +568,11 @@ events should be forwarded.
  greater than 0, failed deliveries are retried with exponential backoff
  up to `max_retries` attempts, protected by a per-target circuit
  breaker.
+- **`slack`** — Post the event as a formatted message to a
+  Slack-compatible incoming webhook URL (`webhookUrl` in `config`). It
+  is built on the same HTTP core as `http` and honours `max_retries`
+  identically, circuit breaker included. See the Slack target section
+  under "Per-Webhook Event Databases" for the message format.
 - **`database`** — Archive the full event as a row into a separate
  per-webhook archive database (`archive-{webhookID}.db`) for long-term
  retention, with an optional creation-validated expiry (default: keep
@@ -558,7 +609,7 @@ data for auditing and for the planned replay capability.
 | `id`             | UUID   | Primary key |
 | `webhook_id`     | UUID   | Foreign key → Webhook |
 | `entrypoint_id`  | UUID   | Foreign key → Entrypoint |
-| `method`       | string | HTTP method (POST, PUT, etc.) |
+| `method`       | string | HTTP method of the captured request. Always `POST`: the receiver answers every other method with 405 before an Event is created |
 | `headers`      | JSON   | Complete request headers |
 | `body`         | text   | Raw request body |
 | `content_type` | string | Content-Type header value |
@@ -613,7 +664,9 @@ retries) is individually logged for full observability.

 #### Common Fields

-All entities include these fields from `BaseModel`:
+Every entity except `Setting` includes these fields from `BaseModel`.
+`Setting` is a bare key-value row with no `id`, no timestamps and no
+soft delete:

 | Field        | Type      | Description |
 | ------------ | --------- | ----------- |
@@ -659,7 +712,7 @@ handles connection pooling, lazy opening, migrations, and cleanup.
 This separation provides:

 - **Isolation** — a high-volume webhook won't cause lock contention or
-  WAL bloat affecting the main application or other webhooks.
+  journal growth affecting the main application or other webhooks.
 - **Independent lifecycle** — event databases can be independently
  backed up, archived, rotated, or size-limited without impacting the
  application.
@@ -669,9 +722,12 @@ This separation provides:
 - **Per-webhook retention** — the `retention_days` field on each webhook
  controls automatic cleanup of old events in that webhook's database
  only, or disables cleanup entirely when set to `0` (retain forever).
- **Performance** — each webhook's database has its own WAL, its own
-  page cache, and its own lock, so concurrent event ingestion across
-  webhooks won't contend.
+- **Performance** — each webhook's database has its own page cache and
+  its own lock, so concurrent event ingestion across webhooks won't
+  contend. No write-ahead log is involved: both DSNs are
+  `file:{path}?cache=shared&mode=rwc` and no `journal_mode` pragma is
+  ever issued, so every database runs on SQLite's default rollback
+  journal.

 The **database target type** builds on this architecture to provide
 long-term archiving, separate from the per-webhook event database (which
@@ -727,8 +783,9 @@ and other compatible services). Each message includes event metadata
 pretty-printed in a code block. JSON payloads are automatically
 formatted with indentation for readability; non-JSON payloads are shown
 as raw text. Large payloads are truncated to keep messages reasonable.
-Config stores `webhook_url` — the Slack/Mattermost incoming webhook
-endpoint.
+Config stores `webhookUrl` — the Slack/Mattermost incoming webhook
+endpoint. That is the JSON key; the error text for a missing one reads
+`webhook_url is required`, which is the message, not the key.

 The database uses the
 [modernc.org/sqlite](https://pkg.go.dev/modernc.org/sqlite) driver at
@@ -750,8 +807,9 @@ External Service
                     1. Look up Entrypoint by UUID
                     2. Capture full request as Event
                     3. Create Delivery records for each active Target
-                     4. Build self-contained DeliveryTask structs
-                        (target config + event data inline for ≤16KB)
+                     4. Build self-contained delivery.Task structs
+                        (target config + event data inline for
+                         bodies < 16 KiB)
                     5. Notify Engine via channel (no DB read needed)
                                                │
                                                ▼
@@ -786,7 +844,7 @@ at any time, preventing goroutine explosions regardless of queue depth.
  a delivery channel (new tasks from the webhook handler) and a retry
  channel (tasks from backoff timers). Both are buffered to 10,000.
 - **Fan-out via channel, not goroutines:** When an event arrives with
-  multiple targets, each `DeliveryTask` is sent to the delivery channel.
+  multiple targets, each `delivery.Task` is sent to the delivery channel.
  Workers pick them up and process them — no goroutine-per-target.
 - **Worker goroutines:** A fixed number of worker goroutines select from
  both channels. Each worker processes one task at a time, then picks up
@@ -810,7 +868,12 @@ This means:
 - **Independent results** — each worker records its own delivery result
  in the per-webhook database without coordination.
 - **Graceful shutdown** — cancel the context, workers finish their
-  current task and exit. `WaitGroup.Wait()` ensures clean shutdown.
+  current task and exit. The stop hook waits for the pool via
+  `lifecycle.WaitForShutdown`, which bounds that wait by fx's stop
+  timeout rather than blocking forever on a wedged worker. On timeout
+  it logs at `ERROR` and returns an error, and the goroutines that
+  did not finish are still running — an unclean shutdown is reported
+  rather than hidden.

 **Recovery paths:**

@@ -838,12 +901,13 @@ remains stored in the per-webhook event database, there is no way to
 redeliver it: manual redelivery is planned, not implemented (see
 [TODO.md](TODO.md)).

-### Circuit Breaker (HTTP Targets with Retries)
+### Circuit Breaker (HTTP and Slack Targets with Retries)

-HTTP targets with `max_retries` > 0 are protected by a **per-target circuit breaker** that
-prevents hammering a down target with repeated failed delivery attempts.
-The circuit breaker is in-memory only and resets on restart (which is
-fine — startup recovery rescans the database anyway).
+`http` and `slack` targets with `max_retries` > 0 are protected by a
+**per-target circuit breaker** that prevents hammering a down target
+with repeated failed delivery attempts. The circuit breaker is
+in-memory only and resets on restart (which is fine — startup recovery
+rescans the database anyway).

 **States:**

@@ -879,10 +943,12 @@ fine — startup recovery rescans the database anyway).
 - **Failure threshold:** 5 consecutive failures before opening
 - **Cooldown:** 30 seconds in open state before probing

-**Scope:** Circuit breakers only apply to **HTTP targets with
-`max_retries` > 0**. Fire-and-forget HTTP targets (`max_retries` == 0),
-Slack targets, database targets (local operations), and log
-targets (stdout) do not use circuit breakers.
+**Scope:** Circuit breakers apply to **`http` and `slack` targets with
+`max_retries` > 0**. The Slack target is built on the same HTTP core
+and hands its own `max_retries` to the same retry path, so it gets a
+breaker with the same 5-failure / 30-second defaults. Fire-and-forget
+targets of either type (`max_retries` == 0), database targets (local
+operations), and log targets (stdout) do not use circuit breakers.

 When a circuit is open and a new delivery arrives, the engine marks the
 delivery as `retrying` and schedules a retry timer for after the
@@ -898,9 +964,11 @@ unpredictable rates, and blanket limits shared with other routes would
 cause legitimate deliveries to be dropped.

 The receiver instead has its own dedicated abuse limit, scoped to the
-`/webhook/{uuid}` route only and keyed per client IP per entrypoint: one
-misbehaving sender is throttled without affecting other senders of the
-same entrypoint or the same sender's other entrypoints. The limit is
+`/webhook/{uuid}` route only and keyed per client IP per request path
+(`httprate.KeyByEndpoint`): one misbehaving sender is throttled without
+affecting other senders of the same entrypoint or the same sender's
+other entrypoints. Keying on the path rather than on the entrypoint
+matters — see the aggregate limit below. The limit is
 `RECEIVER_RATE_LIMIT` requests per minute (default 120, generous for
 legitimate webhook senders). Requests over the limit receive HTTP 429
 with a `Retry-After` header. A set-but-invalid `RECEIVER_RATE_LIMIT`
@@ -958,8 +1026,8 @@ opposite directions:
  login bucket full, and the operator's own login returns HTTP 429 for
  as long as that trickle continues. A restart clears the in-memory
  buckets and a resumed trickle re-locks them. Production deployments
-  must set `TRUSTED_PROXIES`; webhooker warns at startup when it is
-  empty in `prod`.
+  must set `TRUSTED_PROXIES`; webhooker warns at startup whenever it is
+  empty, in any environment.

 Finer-grained per-webhook rate limits (configured in the web UI and
 enforced in the webhook handler) can layer on top of this env-level
@@ -971,17 +1039,17 @@ abuse limit later; they are tracked as future work.

 | Method | Path                        | Description |
 | ------ | --------------------------- | ----------- |
-| `GET`  | `/`                         | Root redirect (authenticated → `/sources`, unauthenticated → `/pages/login`) |
-| `GET`  | `/.well-known/healthcheck`  | Health check (JSON: status, uptime, version) |
-| `GET`  | `/s/*`                      | Static file serving (embedded CSS, JS) |
-| `ANY`  | `/webhook/{uuid}`           | Webhook receiver endpoint (accepts all methods) |
+| `GET`  | `/`                         | Root redirect, 303 (authenticated → `/sources`, unauthenticated → `/pages/login`) |
+| `GET`  | `/.well-known/healthcheck`  | Health check (JSON: `status`, `now`, `uptimeSeconds`, `uptimeHuman`, `version`, `appname`, `maintenanceMode`) |
+| any    | `/s/*`                      | Static file serving (embedded CSS, JS). Mounted for every method, not just `GET`/`HEAD`: chi's `Mount` registers all methods and `http.FileServer` special-cases only `HEAD` (by omitting the body), so a `POST` or `DELETE` to an asset is answered `200` with the file. Pinned by `TestStaticServesEveryMethod` |
+| `POST` | `/webhook/{uuid}`           | Webhook receiver endpoint. `POST` only — every other method is answered `405 Method Not Allowed` with `Allow: POST`. Rate limited (see [Rate Limiting](#rate-limiting)) |

 #### Authentication Endpoints

 | Method | Path            | Description |
 | ------ | --------------- | ----------- |
-| `GET`  | `/pages/login`  | Login page |
-| `POST` | `/pages/login`  | Login form submission |
+| `GET`  | `/pages/login`  | Login page (not rate limited; the limiter applies to POST only) |
+| `POST` | `/pages/login`  | Login form submission (5 per minute per bucket, then 429) |
 | `POST` | `/pages/logout` | Logout (destroys session) |

 #### Authenticated Endpoints
@@ -989,6 +1057,7 @@ abuse limit later; they are tracked as future work.
 | Method | Path                     | Description |
 | ------ | ------------------------ | ----------- |
 | `GET`  | `/user/{username}`       | User profile page |
+| `POST` | `/user/{username}/password` | Change the user's password (5 per minute per bucket, then 429) |
 | `GET`  | `/sources`               | List user's webhooks |
 | `GET`  | `/sources/new`           | Create webhook form |
 | `POST` | `/sources/new`           | Create webhook submission |
@@ -998,13 +1067,17 @@ abuse limit later; they are tracked as future work.
 | `POST` | `/source/{id}/delete`    | Delete webhook |
 | `GET`  | `/source/{id}/logs`      | Webhook event logs |
 | `POST` | `/source/{id}/entrypoints` | Add entrypoint to webhook |
+| `POST` | `/source/{id}/entrypoints/{entrypointID}/delete` | Delete an entrypoint |
+| `POST` | `/source/{id}/entrypoints/{entrypointID}/toggle` | Enable or disable an entrypoint |
 | `POST` | `/source/{id}/targets`   | Add target to webhook |
+| `POST` | `/source/{id}/targets/{targetID}/delete` | Delete a target |
+| `POST` | `/source/{id}/targets/{targetID}/toggle` | Enable or disable a target |

 #### Infrastructure Endpoints

 | Method | Path       | Description |
 | ------ | ---------- | ----------- |
-| `GET`  | `/metrics` | Prometheus metrics (requires basic auth) |
+| `GET`  | `/metrics` | Prometheus metrics, behind basic auth. The route is registered only when `METRICS_USERNAME` is set; otherwise it does not exist and returns 404 |

 #### API (Planned)

@@ -1018,8 +1091,10 @@ abuse limit later; they are tracked as future work.
 | `GET`    | `/api/v1/webhooks/{id}/events` | List events for webhook |
 | `POST`   | `/api/v1/events/{id}/redeliver`| Redeliver an event |

-API authentication will use API keys passed via `Authorization: Bearer
-<key>` header.
+None of these exist yet. `/api/v1` is mounted with no routes, so every
+path under it returns 404 today. API authentication will use API keys
+passed via `Authorization: Bearer <key>` header; no Bearer middleware
+is implemented either.

 ### Package Layout

@@ -1047,16 +1122,30 @@ webhooker/
 │   │   ├── model_delivery_result.go  # DeliveryResult entity (per-webhook DB)
 │   │   ├── model_apikey.go    # APIKey entity
 │   │   ├── password.go        # Argon2id hashing and verification
+│   │   ├── retention.go       # Retention reaper (per-webhook event expiry)
+│   │   ├── testing.go         # NewTestDatabase: wrapper for tests, no fx lifecycle
 │   │   └── webhook_db_manager.go  # Per-webhook DB lifecycle manager
 │   ├── globals/
 │   │   └── globals.go         # Build-time variables (appname, version, arch)
 │   ├── delivery/
 │   │   ├── engine.go          # Event-driven delivery engine (channel + timer based)
-│   │   ├── circuit_breaker.go # Per-target circuit breaker for HTTP targets with retries
+│   │   ├── circuit_breaker.go # Per-target circuit breaker for http/slack targets with retries
+│   │   ├── target.go          # Target interface, Task, Scheduler
+│   │   ├── target_http.go     # HTTP target (retries, circuit breaker)
+│   │   ├── target_slack.go    # Slack/Mattermost incoming-webhook target
+│   │   ├── target_database.go # Database archive target
+│   │   ├── target_database_archive.go  # Archive file lifecycle and pruning
+│   │   ├── target_log.go      # Log target (stdout)
+│   │   ├── target_config_view.go  # Masked target config for templates
+│   │   ├── archive_sweeper.go # Periodic pruning of idle archives
+│   │   ├── url_mask.go        # Strips credentials from *url.Error
 │   │   └── ssrf.go            # SSRF prevention (IP validation, safe HTTP transport)
+│   ├── lifecycle/
+│   │   └── lifecycle.go       # Shared fx start/stop hook helpers
 │   ├── handlers/
 │   │   ├── handlers.go        # Base handler struct, JSON helpers, template rendering
 │   │   ├── auth.go            # Login, logout handlers
+│   │   ├── event_log_view.go  # Event log projection, byte-capped in SQL
 │   │   ├── healthcheck.go     # Health check handler
 │   │   ├── index.go           # Index page handler
 │   │   ├── profile.go         # User profile handler
@@ -1069,20 +1158,27 @@ webhooker/
 │   ├── middleware/
 │   │   ├── middleware.go      # Logging, CORS, Auth, Metrics, MetricsAuth, SecurityHeaders, MaxBodySize
 │   │   ├── csrf.go            # CSRF protection middleware (gorilla/csrf)
-│   │   └── ratelimit.go       # Per-IP rate limiting middleware (go-chi/httprate)
+│   │   ├── ratelimit.go       # Per-IP rate limiting middleware (go-chi/httprate)
+│   │   └── testing.go         # NewForTest: Middleware without the fx lifecycle
 │   ├── server/
 │   │   ├── server.go          # Server struct, fx lifecycle, signal handling
 │   │   ├── http.go            # HTTP server setup with timeouts
 │   │   └── routes.go          # All route definitions
 │   └── session/
-│       └── session.go         # Cookie-based session management
+│       ├── session.go         # Cookie-based session management
+│       └── testing.go         # NewForTest: Session without the fx lifecycle
 ├── static/
 │   ├── static.go              # //go:embed directive
-│   ├── css/style.css          # Custom stylesheet (system font stack, card effects, layout)
-│   └── js/app.js              # Client-side JavaScript (minimal bootstrap)
-├── templates/                 # Go HTML templates (base, index, login, etc.)
-├── Dockerfile                 # Multi-stage: lint, build+test, then Alpine runtime
-├── Makefile                   # fmt, lint, test, check, build, docker targets
+│   ├── css/input.css          # Tailwind input, source for tailwind.css (make css)
+│   ├── css/tailwind.css       # Generated stylesheet the pages load
+│   ├── css/style.css          # Older hand-written stylesheet, no longer loaded
+│   ├── js/app.js              # Progressive-enhancement copy-to-clipboard
+│   ├── js/alpine.min.js       # Alpine.js, fetched by script/fetch-assets, not committed
+│   └── vendor.sha256          # Pinned hashes the fetched assets are verified against
+├── templates/                 # Go HTML templates (base, login, sources, etc.)
+├── script/                    # Scripts to Rule Them All entrypoints
+├── Dockerfile                 # Three stages: lint, test+build, Alpine runtime
+├── Makefile                   # 10 of 16 targets shim script/; 6 are inline
 ├── go.mod / go.sum
 └── .golangci.yml              # Linter configuration
 ```
@@ -1098,21 +1194,27 @@ Components are wired via Uber fx in this order:
   user seed
 5. `database.NewWebhookDBManager` — Per-webhook event database
   lifecycle manager
-6. `healthcheck.New` — Health check service
-7. `session.New` — Cookie-based session manager (key from database)
-8. `handlers.New` — HTTP handlers
-9. `middleware.New` — HTTP middleware
-10. `delivery.New` — Event-driven delivery engine
-11. `delivery.Engine` → `handlers.DeliveryNotifier` — interface bridge
-12. `server.New` — HTTP server and router
+6. `database.NewRetentionReaper` — Per-webhook event retention sweep
+7. `healthcheck.New` — Health check service
+8. `session.New` — Cookie-based session manager (key from database)
+9. `handlers.New` — HTTP handlers
+10. `middleware.New` — HTTP middleware
+11. `delivery.New` — Event-driven delivery engine
+12. `delivery.NewArchiveSweeper` — Periodic pruning of idle archives
+13. `delivery.Engine` → `delivery.Notifier` — interface bridge
+14. `delivery.Engine` → `delivery.WebhookEvictor` — interface bridge so
+    deleting a webhook releases its archive writer
+15. `server.New` — HTTP server and router

-The server starts via `fx.Invoke(func(*server.Server, *delivery.Engine)
-{})` which triggers the fx lifecycle hooks in dependency order. The
-`DeliveryNotifier` interface allows the webhook handler to send
-self-contained `DeliveryTask` slices to the engine without a direct
+The server starts via `fx.Invoke(func(*server.Server, *delivery.Engine,
+*database.RetentionReaper, *delivery.ArchiveSweeper) {})`, which
+triggers the fx lifecycle hooks in dependency order. The
+`delivery.Notifier` interface allows the webhook handler to send
+self-contained `delivery.Task` slices to the engine without a direct
 package dependency. Each task carries all target config and event data
-inline (for bodies ≤16KB), so the engine can deliver without reading
-from any database — it only writes to record results.
+inline (for bodies under 16 KiB, `delivery.MaxInlineBodySize`), so the
+engine can deliver without reading from any database — it only writes
+to record results.

 ### Middleware Stack

@@ -1138,16 +1240,32 @@ CSRF middleware in every one of those route groups, because
 gorilla/csrf parses the form; if the cap were installed after it, form
 parsing would run under net/http's 10 MB default and the 1 MB limit
 would never apply. A request that declares a `Content-Length` over the
-limit is answered with `413 Request Entity Too Large` before any other
-middleware or handler runs; a chunked request, or one that lies about
-its length, is hard-capped by `http.MaxBytesReader` and fails
-downstream at form-parse time.
+limit is answered with `413 Request Entity Too Large` without its body
+being read and without reaching CSRF, the route group's remaining
+middleware, or the handler. It is not rejected before *any* other
+middleware, though: the global entries listed above all run first, so
+such a request is still logged and given the security headers — and
+counted in the metrics, on a deployment where `METRICS_USERNAME` is
+set and the Metrics middleware is therefore registered at all. The
+rejection itself is logged at `WARN` with the method, path and
+declared length. A chunked request, or
+one that lies about its length, is hard-capped by
+`http.MaxBytesReader` and fails downstream at form-parse time.
+
+Those same four route groups then apply **CSRF** and **NoCache**
+(`Cache-Control: no-store`, `Pragma: no-cache`), and every group except
+`/pages` applies **RequireAuth**. The rate limiters are per-route
+rather than global: **LoginRateLimit** on `/pages/login`,
+**PasswordChangeRateLimit** on `/user/{username}/password`, and
+**ReceiverRateLimit** on `/webhook/{uuid}`.

 ### Authentication

 - **Web UI:** Cookie-based sessions using gorilla/sessions with
  encrypted cookies. Sessions are configured with HttpOnly, SameSite
-  Lax, and Secure (in production). Session lifetime is 7 days.
+  Lax, and Secure (in production). Absolute session lifetime is 7 days,
+  with a sliding idle timeout on top of it (see
+  [Sessions](#sessions)).
 - **API (planned):** API key authentication via `Authorization: Bearer`
  header. API keys are stored per-user with usage tracking
  (`last_used_at`).
@@ -1179,33 +1297,53 @@ downstream at form-parse time.
  IPs before connecting, preventing DNS rebinding attacks)
 - **Login rate limiting** via [go-chi/httprate](https://github.com/go-chi/httprate):
  sliding-window rate limiter on the login endpoint, 5 POST attempts
-  per minute per bucket, to slow brute-force attacks. The bucket is per
-  client IP only when `TRUSTED_PROXIES` names the reverse proxy;
-  unset, every client shares one bucket and the login becomes remotely
-  deniable (see [Rate Limiting](#rate-limiting))
+  per minute per bucket, to slow brute-force attacks. GET requests to
+  the login page are not limited. The password-change endpoint carries
+  the same 5-per-minute limit. The bucket is per client IP only when
+  `TRUSTED_PROXIES` names the reverse proxy; unset, every client
+  shares one bucket and the login becomes remotely deniable (see
+  [Rate Limiting](#rate-limiting)). webhooker warns at startup
+  whenever `TRUSTED_PROXIES` is empty
 - Prometheus metrics behind basic auth
 - Static assets embedded in binary (no filesystem access needed at
  runtime)
 - Container runs as non-root user (UID 1000)
- GORM soft deletes on all entities (data preserved for audit)
+- GORM soft deletes on every entity that carries `BaseModel`, which is
+  all of them but `Setting` (data preserved for audit)

 ### Docker

-The Dockerfile uses a multi-stage build:
+The Dockerfile uses a three-stage build. Each stage is pinned by
+digest, and the two check stages are separate images so the linter's
+version is fixed independently of the compiler's:

-1. **Builder stage** (Debian-based `golang:1.24`) — installs
-   golangci-lint, downloads dependencies, copies source, runs `make
-   check` (format verification, linting, tests, compilation).
-2. **Runtime stage** (`alpine:3.21`) — copies the binary, creates the
-   `/var/lib/webhooker` directory for all SQLite databases, runs as
-   non-root user, exposes port 8080, includes a health check.
+1. **Lint stage** (`golangci/golangci-lint:v2.12.2`, Debian-based) —
+   installs `make`, downloads dependencies, copies the source, and runs
+   `make fmt-check` then `make lint`.
+2. **Builder stage** (`golang:1.26.1-bookworm`) — depends on the lint
+   stage passing (it copies a file from it), runs `script/fetch-assets`
+   to download and verify the third-party browser assets, then runs
+   `make test` and `make build`, and finally rebuilds the binary with
+   `CGO_ENABLED=1` and static linking so it runs on musl.
+3. **Runtime stage** (`alpine:3.21`) — copies the static binary,
+   creates the `/var/lib/webhooker` directory for all SQLite databases,
+   runs as the non-root `webhooker` user (UID 1000), exposes port 8080,
+   and includes a health check against `/.well-known/healthcheck`.

-The builder uses Debian rather than Alpine because GORM's SQLite
-dialect pulls in CGO-dependent headers at compile time. The runtime
-binary is statically linked and runs on Alpine.
+Both check stages use Debian rather than Alpine because
+`gorm.io/driver/sqlite` pulls in `mattn/go-sqlite3`, which needs CGO
+and does not compile against musl. Only the final binary is statically
+linked, which is what lets it run on the Alpine runtime image.

-`docker build .` is the CI gate — if it passes, the code is formatted,
-linted, tested, and compiled.
+`script/cibuild` — `docker build .` — is the CI gate: the four check
+targets run inside the image, so a build that succeeds is a repo that
+is formatted, linted, tested and compiled. Only `script/cibuild` and
+`script/docker` involve Docker. `script/lint`, and therefore
+`make lint` and `make check`, run whatever `golangci-lint` is on the
+host, which can be a different version from the pinned one — so the
+container is the authoritative lint result
+([issue #109](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/webhooker/issues/109) tracks
+routing local linting through it as well).

 #### CI gate honesty

@@ -1221,19 +1359,41 @@ the hash of the last commit that touched the build context, so:
  `make fmt-check`, `make lint`, `make test`, and `make build`. A run
  that reports success ran them.
 - A docs-only commit leaves the fingerprint unchanged — `.dockerignore`
-  excludes `*.md` and `LICENSE` from the context anyway — so the image
-  replays from cache and costs seconds.
+  excludes `*.md`, `LICENSE` and `.editorconfig` from the context
+  anyway — so the image replays from cache and costs seconds.

 The module download layer sits above `COPY . .` and stays cached either
 way.

-The workflow's first step covers a second way the gate lied: Gitea
-cancels an in-flight run when a newer commit lands on the same branch
-and records that cancellation as a `failure` status, marking a commit
-red that was never tested. Cancellation is unconditional server-side for
-push events, so the superseding run rewrites the exact
-`Has been cancelled` status to `skipped`. Genuine failures are never
-touched.
+A separate workflow step, run before the fingerprint is written, covers
+a second way the gate lied: Gitea cancels an in-flight run when a newer
+commit lands on the same branch and records that cancellation as a
+`failure` status, so a commit nothing ever tested reads as a test
+result. Cancellation is unconditional server-side for push events, so
+the superseding run calls `script/ci-mark-superseded`, which rewrites
+that exact status to `failure` /
+`Superseded by a newer commit; never tested`.
+
+The state stays `failure` on purpose: Gitea's combined status folds
+`skipped` into `success`, so marking a never-tested commit `skipped`
+made the status API report green for it, indistinguishable from a commit
+that passed. Reading a commit's status on this repo therefore goes:
+
+- `success` / `Successful in ...` — the checks ran and passed.
+- `failure` / `Failing after ...` — the checks ran and failed.
+- `failure` / `Superseded by a newer commit; never tested` — the run was
+  cancelled, by a newer push or by hand, and nothing was verified about
+  this commit. Test the commit itself before concluding anything about
+  it.
+
+Genuine failures and successes are never touched, and no status is left
+`pending`, which would block the commit indefinitely. The step derives
+its context string from the workflow name, the job **id** and the event.
+That is deliberately not byte-identical to Gitea's own rule, which uses
+the job's display `name:` where the runner exports the id, so giving the
+job a `name:` — or renaming the workflow — makes the derived context
+stop matching. The step fails loudly when no status on the commit
+carries that context, so no rename can silently disable the rewrite.

 ## TODO

--- a/TODO.md
+++ b/TODO.md
@@ -25,13 +25,17 @@ password change flow (#65), policy compliance (#6), pinned lint tooling
 (#55), and fail-loud configuration parsing (#80).

 `next` holds the completed 1.0.0 milestone: every issue in it is closed,
-and it is verified green both by CI and by cache-defeated container
-runs. The two were only made to mean the same thing this cycle — before
-#119, a warm layer cache let the gate report success without executing
-anything, and replayed the previous build's console log so the lie
-looked like a real run. Note: TODO.md was deliberately deleted from this
-repo in f9a9569 (2026-03-01, #6); its content was folded into the README
-TODO section, which this draft reconstructs as of 2026-07-06.
+and it is verified green by cache-defeated container runs
+(`docker build --no-cache-filter=lint --no-cache-filter=builder`). The
+CI status is not independently claimed here: a superseded run is
+recorded as `skipped` and still rolls up green, so a commit status on
+`next` does not by itself evidence an executed check (#152). Before
+#119, a warm layer cache also let the gate report success without
+executing anything, and replayed the previous build's console log so
+the lie looked like a real run. Note: `TODO.md` was deliberately
+deleted from this repo in f9a9569 (2026-03-01, #6); its content was
+folded into the README TODO section, which this draft reconstructs as
+of 2026-07-06.

 # Next Step

@@ -190,7 +194,9 @@ rate-limit keys should bucket by `/64`).
    - OpenAPI specification
 - Analytics dashboard: success rates, response times, volume
 - A remember-me option at login
- Password change and reset flow
+- Password reset flow for a forgotten password. The authenticated
+  password *change* flow already landed on `main` (#65); reset does not
+  exist
 - Later, nice to have
    - email delivery target type
    - SNS and S3 delivery targets
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.8.4
 	go.uber.org/fx v1.20.1
 	golang.org/x/crypto v0.38.0
+	gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1
 	gorm.io/driver/sqlite v1.5.4
 	gorm.io/gorm v1.25.5
 	modernc.org/sqlite v1.28.0
@@ -52,7 +53,6 @@ require (
 	golang.org/x/text v0.25.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/tools v0.21.1-0.20240508182429-e35e4ccd0d2d // indirect
 	google.golang.org/protobuf v1.31.0 // indirect
-	gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1 // indirect
 	lukechampine.com/uint128 v1.2.0 // indirect
 	modernc.org/cc/v3 v3.40.0 // indirect
 	modernc.org/ccgo/v3 v3.16.13 // indirect
--- a/internal/ciscript/ci_mark_superseded_test.go
+++ b/internal/ciscript/ci_mark_superseded_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,349 @@
+package ciscript_test
+
+import (
+	"maps"
+	"os"
+	"os/exec"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"slices"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+	"gopkg.in/yaml.v3"
+)
+
+const (
+	// supersededDesc is the description script/ci-mark-superseded
+	// writes, and the one an earlier revision of it wrote alongside a
+	// `skipped` state.
+	supersededDesc = "Superseded by a newer commit; never tested"
+
+	// liveContext is the commit-status context Gitea uses for this
+	// repository's runs, as seen in its API. The script derives it from
+	// the workflow and job names rather than hardcoding it; the
+	// derivation is checked against this value below.
+	liveContext = "check / check (push)"
+
+	scriptPath = "../../script/ci-mark-superseded"
+	workflow   = "../../.gitea/workflows/check.yml"
+
+	// failure is the only state that neither folds into a combined
+	// `success` (as `skipped` does) nor blocks the commit forever (as
+	// `pending` does).
+	failure = "failure"
+)
+
+// repo is a throwaway git history: parent is the commit a run would be
+// cancelled on, head the commit that superseded it.
+type repo struct {
+	dir    string
+	head   string
+	parent string
+}
+
+// scriptEnv is the run identity the Gitea runner exports and the script
+// builds its context string from.
+type scriptEnv struct {
+	workflow string
+	job      string
+	event    string
+}
+
+func defaultEnv() scriptEnv {
+	return scriptEnv{workflow: "check", job: "check", event: "push"}
+}
+
+func cancelled() commitStatus {
+	return commitStatus{
+		Context:     liveContext,
+		Status:      failure,
+		Description: "Has been cancelled",
+	}
+}
+
+func running() commitStatus {
+	return commitStatus{
+		Context:     liveContext,
+		Status:      "pending",
+		Description: "Has started running",
+	}
+}
+
+func TestMarkSuperseded(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	cases := map[string]struct {
+		parent   commitStatus
+		wantMark bool
+	}{
+		"a cancelled run is marked": {
+			parent:   cancelled(),
+			wantMark: true,
+		},
+		"a laundered skipped status is marked": {
+			parent: commitStatus{
+				Context:     liveContext,
+				Status:      "skipped",
+				Description: supersededDesc,
+			},
+			wantMark: true,
+		},
+		"a genuine failure is left alone": {
+			parent: commitStatus{
+				Context:     liveContext,
+				Status:      failure,
+				Description: "Failing after 3m1s",
+			},
+			wantMark: false,
+		},
+		"a passing run is left alone": {
+			parent: commitStatus{
+				Context:     liveContext,
+				Status:      "success",
+				Description: "Successful in 2m52s",
+			},
+			wantMark: false,
+		},
+		"another context is left alone": {
+			parent: commitStatus{
+				Context:     "other / other (push)",
+				Status:      failure,
+				Description: "Has been cancelled",
+			},
+			wantMark: false,
+		},
+	}
+
+	for name, tc := range cases {
+		t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			t.Parallel()
+			requireTools(t)
+
+			history := newRepo(t)
+			fake, api := newFakeGitea(t)
+			fake.setStatus(history.head, running())
+			fake.setStatus(history.parent, tc.parent)
+
+			out, err := runScript(t, history, api, defaultEnv())
+			require.NoError(t, err, out)
+
+			posted := fake.postedFor(history.parent)
+			if !tc.wantMark {
+				require.Empty(t, posted)
+
+				return
+			}
+
+			require.Equal(t, []postedStatus{{
+				Context: liveContext,
+				// Not `skipped`: Gitea's combined status folds
+				// that into `success`, which is what made a
+				// never-tested commit read green.
+				State:       failure,
+				Description: supersededDesc,
+			}}, posted)
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// A second run must not rewrite what the first one wrote, or every
+// later push would post a duplicate status.
+func TestMarkSupersededIsIdempotent(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	requireTools(t)
+
+	history := newRepo(t)
+	fake, api := newFakeGitea(t)
+	fake.setStatus(history.head, running())
+	fake.setStatus(history.parent, cancelled())
+
+	for range 2 {
+		out, err := runScript(t, history, api, defaultEnv())
+		require.NoError(t, err, out)
+	}
+
+	require.Len(t, fake.postedFor(history.parent), 1)
+}
+
+// Renaming the workflow or the job changes the context string Gitea
+// uses. The script must say so instead of quietly matching nothing.
+func TestMarkSupersededRejectsAnUnknownContext(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	requireTools(t)
+
+	history := newRepo(t)
+	fake, api := newFakeGitea(t)
+	fake.setStatus(history.head, running())
+	fake.setStatus(history.parent, cancelled())
+
+	env := defaultEnv()
+	env.job = "renamed"
+
+	out, err := runScript(t, history, api, env)
+	require.Error(t, err)
+	require.Contains(t, out, "renamed")
+	require.Contains(t, out, liveContext)
+	require.Empty(t, fake.postedFor(history.parent))
+}
+
+// ANCESTOR_LIMIT is a documented knob. A value that is set but unusable
+// must abort: handing it to git and discarding the exit status left the
+// walk empty and the step green, marking nothing.
+func TestMarkSupersededRejectsAnUnparseableAncestorLimit(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	requireTools(t)
+
+	history := newRepo(t)
+	fake, api := newFakeGitea(t)
+	fake.setStatus(history.head, running())
+	fake.setStatus(history.parent, cancelled())
+
+	out, err := runScript(
+		t, history, api, defaultEnv(), "ANCESTOR_LIMIT=twenty",
+	)
+	require.Error(t, err)
+	require.Contains(t, out, "ANCESTOR_LIMIT")
+	require.Contains(t, out, "twenty")
+	require.Empty(t, fake.postedFor(history.parent))
+}
+
+// A status read that fails is not the same as a commit with nothing to
+// do. Losing curl's exit status through a pipe made the two identical
+// and left a laundered commit laundered with no signal.
+func TestMarkSupersededFailsOnAnUnreadableAncestorStatus(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	requireTools(t)
+
+	history := newRepo(t)
+	fake, api := newFakeGitea(t)
+	fake.setStatus(history.head, running())
+	fake.setStatus(history.parent, cancelled())
+	fake.failStatusRead(history.parent)
+
+	out, err := runScript(t, history, api, defaultEnv())
+	require.Error(t, err)
+	require.Contains(t, out, history.parent)
+	require.Contains(t, out, "cannot read commit statuses")
+	require.Empty(t, fake.postedFor(history.parent))
+}
+
+// The derived context must equal the one Gitea actually uses, which is
+// built from the same workflow and job names.
+func TestDerivedContextMatchesGitea(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	requireTools(t)
+
+	name, job := workflowIdentity(t)
+
+	history := newRepo(t)
+	fake, api := newFakeGitea(t)
+	fake.setStatus(history.head, running())
+	fake.setStatus(history.parent, cancelled())
+
+	out, err := runScript(t, history, api, scriptEnv{
+		workflow: name,
+		job:      job,
+		event:    "push",
+	})
+	require.NoError(t, err, out)
+
+	posted := fake.postedFor(history.parent)
+	require.Len(t, posted, 1)
+	require.Equal(t, liveContext, posted[0].Context)
+}
+
+// workflowIdentity reads the workflow name and its single job id out of
+// the checked-in workflow file.
+func workflowIdentity(t *testing.T) (string, string) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	raw, err := os.ReadFile(workflow)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	var parsed struct {
+		Name string         `yaml:"name"`
+		Jobs map[string]any `yaml:"jobs"`
+	}
+
+	require.NoError(t, yaml.Unmarshal(raw, &parsed))
+
+	jobs := slices.Collect(maps.Keys(parsed.Jobs))
+	require.Len(t, jobs, 1)
+
+	return parsed.Name, jobs[0]
+}
+
+func runScript(
+	t *testing.T, history repo, api string, env scriptEnv,
+	extra ...string,
+) (string, error) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	script, err := filepath.Abs(scriptPath)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	//nolint:gosec // fixed argv, repo-local script under test
+	cmd := exec.CommandContext(t.Context(), "sh", script)
+	cmd.Dir = history.dir
+	cmd.Env = append(os.Environ(),
+		"GITHUB_API_URL="+api,
+		"GITHUB_REPOSITORY=sneak/webhooker",
+		"GITHUB_SHA="+history.head,
+		"GITHUB_WORKFLOW="+env.workflow,
+		"GITHUB_JOB="+env.job,
+		"GITHUB_EVENT_NAME="+env.event,
+		"GITEA_TOKEN=test-token",
+	)
+	cmd.Env = append(cmd.Env, extra...)
+
+	out, err := cmd.CombinedOutput()
+
+	return string(out), err
+}
+
+func newRepo(t *testing.T) repo {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+
+	git := func(args ...string) string {
+		//nolint:gosec // fixed argv, arguments are test constants
+		cmd := exec.CommandContext(t.Context(), "git", args...)
+		cmd.Dir = dir
+
+		out, err := cmd.CombinedOutput()
+		require.NoError(t, err, string(out))
+
+		return strings.TrimSpace(string(out))
+	}
+
+	commit := func(message string) string {
+		git(
+			"-c", "user.email=ci@example.invalid",
+			"-c", "user.name=ci",
+			"-c", "commit.gpgsign=false",
+			"commit", "-q", "--allow-empty", "-m", message,
+		)
+
+		return git("rev-parse", "HEAD")
+	}
+
+	git("init", "-q", "-b", "main")
+
+	parent := commit("parent")
+	head := commit("head")
+
+	return repo{dir: dir, head: head, parent: parent}
+}
+
+func requireTools(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	for _, tool := range []string{"sh", "git", "curl", "jq"} {
+		_, err := exec.LookPath(tool)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Skipf("%s is not installed: %v", tool, err)
+		}
+	}
+}
--- a/internal/ciscript/doc.go
+++ b/internal/ciscript/doc.go
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+// Package ciscript holds the tests for the repository's CI shell
+// scripts in script/. It carries no runtime code: the scripts run on
+// the CI runner, not inside the binary, but their behaviour still has
+// to be verified by the test suite.
+package ciscript
--- a/internal/ciscript/fakegitea_test.go
+++ b/internal/ciscript/fakegitea_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,162 @@
+package ciscript_test
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"sync"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// commitStatus is the part of an entry in Gitea's combined-status
+// response that script/ci-mark-superseded reads.
+type commitStatus struct {
+	Context     string `json:"context"`
+	Status      string `json:"status"`
+	Description string `json:"description"`
+}
+
+// postedStatus is the part of a create-status request body the script
+// writes.
+type postedStatus struct {
+	Context     string `json:"context"`
+	State       string `json:"state"`
+	Description string `json:"description"`
+}
+
+// fakeGitea serves the two endpoints the script talks to. Like Gitea,
+// the newest status for a context replaces the previous one, so a
+// second run of the script sees what the first one wrote.
+type fakeGitea struct {
+	mu       sync.Mutex
+	statuses map[string][]commitStatus
+	posted   map[string][]postedStatus
+	// failRead is a commit whose combined-status read answers HTTP
+	// 500, standing in for a status API that is down.
+	failRead string
+}
+
+// newFakeGitea returns the fake and the base URL to hand the script as
+// GITHUB_API_URL.
+func newFakeGitea(t *testing.T) (*fakeGitea, string) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	fake := &fakeGitea{
+		mu:       sync.Mutex{},
+		statuses: map[string][]commitStatus{},
+		posted:   map[string][]postedStatus{},
+		failRead: "",
+	}
+
+	srv := httptest.NewServer(fake.routes())
+	t.Cleanup(srv.Close)
+
+	return fake, srv.URL
+}
+
+func (f *fakeGitea) routes() http.Handler {
+	mux := http.NewServeMux()
+
+	mux.HandleFunc(
+		"GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/commits/{sha}/status",
+		f.handleCombined,
+	)
+	mux.HandleFunc(
+		"POST /repos/{owner}/{repo}/statuses/{sha}",
+		f.handleCreate,
+	)
+
+	return mux
+}
+
+func (f *fakeGitea) handleCombined(
+	w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request,
+) {
+	f.mu.Lock()
+	defer f.mu.Unlock()
+
+	sha := r.PathValue("sha")
+	if f.failRead != "" && f.failRead == sha {
+		http.Error(w, "boom", http.StatusInternalServerError)
+
+		return
+	}
+
+	body := struct {
+		Statuses []commitStatus `json:"statuses"`
+	}{Statuses: f.statuses[sha]}
+
+	payload, err := json.Marshal(body)
+	if err != nil {
+		http.Error(w, err.Error(), http.StatusInternalServerError)
+
+		return
+	}
+
+	w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+
+	_, _ = w.Write(payload)
+}
+
+func (f *fakeGitea) handleCreate(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+	var got postedStatus
+
+	err := json.NewDecoder(r.Body).Decode(&got)
+	if err != nil {
+		http.Error(w, err.Error(), http.StatusBadRequest)
+
+		return
+	}
+
+	sha := r.PathValue("sha")
+
+	f.mu.Lock()
+	defer f.mu.Unlock()
+
+	f.posted[sha] = append(f.posted[sha], got)
+	f.replaceLocked(sha, commitStatus{
+		Context:     got.Context,
+		Status:      got.State,
+		Description: got.Description,
+	})
+
+	w.WriteHeader(http.StatusCreated)
+}
+
+// failStatusRead makes the combined-status read for one commit answer
+// HTTP 500.
+func (f *fakeGitea) failStatusRead(sha string) {
+	f.mu.Lock()
+	defer f.mu.Unlock()
+
+	f.failRead = sha
+}
+
+// setStatus gives a commit its latest status for a context.
+func (f *fakeGitea) setStatus(sha string, status commitStatus) {
+	f.mu.Lock()
+	defer f.mu.Unlock()
+
+	f.replaceLocked(sha, status)
+}
+
+// postedFor returns the statuses the script created for a commit.
+func (f *fakeGitea) postedFor(sha string) []postedStatus {
+	f.mu.Lock()
+	defer f.mu.Unlock()
+
+	return append([]postedStatus(nil), f.posted[sha]...)
+}
+
+// replaceLocked requires f.mu.
+func (f *fakeGitea) replaceLocked(sha string, status commitStatus) {
+	for i, existing := range f.statuses[sha] {
+		if existing.Context == status.Context {
+			f.statuses[sha][i] = status
+
+			return
+		}
+	}
+
+	f.statuses[sha] = append(f.statuses[sha], status)
+}
--- a/internal/config/config.go
+++ b/internal/config/config.go
@@ -422,33 +422,43 @@ func loadFromEnv() (*Config, error) {
 	}, nil
 }

-// warnSharedRateLimitBucket logs a startup warning when a production
-// deployment leaves TRUSTED_PROXIES empty.
+// warnSharedRateLimitBucket logs a startup warning whenever
+// TRUSTED_PROXIES is empty, in any environment.
 //
 // With no trusted proxies every rate limiter keys on the connecting
-// peer's address. A production deployment is required to run behind a
-// TLS-terminating reverse proxy, and the peer is then that proxy for
-// every request, so all clients share one bucket per limiter. The
+// peer's address. Whether that is harmless or dangerous depends on
+// what is in front of the process, which this code cannot observe:
+// with nothing in front, the peer is the client and the limits are
+// per-client as intended; behind a reverse proxy the peer is the proxy
+// for every request, so all clients share one bucket per limiter. The
 // login limiter's bucket is the dangerous one: any remote client can
-// keep it full, which denies the only administrative login to
-// everyone until the process restarts.
+// keep it full, which denies the only administrative login to everyone
+// until the process restarts.
+//
+// The warning is deliberately not gated on WEBHOOKER_ENVIRONMENT. That
+// variable defaults to dev, so gating on it would silence the warning
+// for exactly the operator who forgot to configure the deployment —
+// the case it exists to catch.
 //
 // The default of trusting nobody is deliberate — trusting forwarded
 // headers from arbitrary peers lets any client choose its own bucket —
 // so this warns rather than failing startup or changing the key.
 func (c *Config) warnSharedRateLimitBucket(log *slog.Logger) {
-	if !c.IsProd() || len(c.TrustedProxies) > 0 {
+	if len(c.TrustedProxies) > 0 {
 		return
 	}

 	log.Warn(
-		"TRUSTED_PROXIES is empty: rate limits key on the "+
-			"connecting peer, so behind the reverse proxy a "+
-			"production deployment runs behind, every client "+
-			"shares one bucket per limit. Any remote client can "+
-			"then keep the login limit full and deny the admin "+
-			"login, the only administrative path, until restart. "+
-			"Set TRUSTED_PROXIES to your reverse proxy's address.",
+		"TRUSTED_PROXIES is empty: every rate limit keys on the "+
+			"connecting peer's address. With nothing proxying to "+
+			"this process that is the client itself and the limits "+
+			"are per-client as intended. Behind a reverse proxy the "+
+			"peer is the proxy on every request, so all clients "+
+			"share one bucket per limit and any remote client can "+
+			"keep the login limit full, denying the admin login — "+
+			"the only administrative path — until restart. If "+
+			"anything proxies to this process, set TRUSTED_PROXIES "+
+			"to its address.",
 		"environment", c.Environment,
 		"trustedProxies", len(c.TrustedProxies),
 	)
@@ -491,6 +501,10 @@ func New(lc fx.Lifecycle, params ConfigParams) (*Config, error) {
 		"maintenanceMode", s.MaintenanceMode,
 		"dataDir", s.DataDir,
 		"retentionSweepInterval", s.RetentionSweepInterval.String(),
+		// Logged because a perfectly valid non-positive value here
+		// disables idle expiry entirely, and that is worth showing
+		// back to the operator.
+		"sessionIdleTimeout", s.SessionIdleTimeout.String(),
 		"receiverRateLimit", s.ReceiverRateLimit,
 		"trustedProxies", len(s.TrustedProxies),
 		"hasSentryDSN", s.SentryDSN != "",
--- a/internal/config/config_test.go
+++ b/internal/config/config_test.go
@@ -628,10 +628,12 @@ func testTrustedProxiesSuccess(
 }

 // TestSharedRateLimitBucketWarning covers the startup warning that
-// tells an operator their production deployment shares one rate-limit
-// bucket between every client, which makes the admin login remotely
-// deniable. It must fire when TRUSTED_PROXIES is empty in production
-// and stay quiet otherwise.
+// tells an operator a deployment behind a reverse proxy shares one
+// rate-limit bucket between every client, which makes the admin login
+// remotely deniable. It must fire whenever TRUSTED_PROXIES is empty,
+// in any environment: WEBHOOKER_ENVIRONMENT defaults to dev, so gating
+// on it would silence the warning for exactly the operator who never
+// configured the deployment. It stays quiet once proxies are named.
 func TestSharedRateLimitBucketWarning(t *testing.T) {
 	tests := []struct {
 		name           string
@@ -651,12 +653,19 @@ func TestSharedRateLimitBucketWarning(t *testing.T) {
 			expectWarning:  false,
 		},
 		{
-			// Development is not required to run behind a
-			// reverse proxy, so the shared bucket the warning
-			// describes is not the expected shape there.
-			name:          "dev without trusted proxies is quiet",
+			// The default environment. An internet-exposed
+			// deployment whose operator never set
+			// WEBHOOKER_ENVIRONMENT lands here and has exactly
+			// the exposure the warning announces.
+			name:          "dev without trusted proxies warns",
 			environment:   config.EnvironmentDev,
-			expectWarning: false,
+			expectWarning: true,
+		},
+		{
+			name:           "dev with trusted proxies is quiet",
+			environment:    config.EnvironmentDev,
+			trustedProxies: cidrPrivateV4,
+			expectWarning:  false,
 		},
 	}

@@ -697,8 +706,14 @@ func TestSharedRateLimitBucketWarning(t *testing.T) {

 			assert.Contains(t, logged, `"level":"WARN"`)
 			assert.Contains(t, logged, "TRUSTED_PROXIES")
-			assert.Contains(t, logged, "shares one bucket")
-			assert.Contains(t, logged, "deny the admin login")
+			assert.Contains(t, logged, "share one bucket")
+			assert.Contains(t, logged, "denying the admin login")
+			// The text must stay accurate for a developer with
+			// nothing in front of the process, where an empty
+			// list costs nothing.
+			assert.Contains(
+				t, logged, "nothing proxying to this process",
+			)
 		})
 	}
 }
--- a/internal/server/routes_test.go
+++ b/internal/server/routes_test.go
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import (
 	"sneak.berlin/go/webhooker/internal/middleware"
 	"sneak.berlin/go/webhooker/internal/server"
 	"sneak.berlin/go/webhooker/internal/session"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/webhooker/static"
 )

 // csrfCookieName is the cookie gorilla/csrf issues when it runs. Its
@@ -246,6 +247,56 @@ func (e *testEnv) storedHash(t *testing.T, username string) string {
 	return user.Password
 }

+// --- /s static group ---
+
+// TestStaticServesEveryMethod pins what the static mount actually
+// answers. chi's Mount registers the handler for all methods and
+// http.FileServer only special-cases HEAD (by suppressing the body),
+// so a POST or a DELETE to an asset is served the file rather than
+// refused. The README documents this; the test is what keeps the two
+// from drifting.
+func TestStaticServesEveryMethod(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	env := newTestEnv(t)
+
+	body, err := static.Static.ReadFile("js/app.js")
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.NotEmpty(t, body)
+
+	for _, method := range []string{
+		http.MethodGet,
+		http.MethodHead,
+		http.MethodPost,
+		http.MethodPut,
+		http.MethodDelete,
+	} {
+		t.Run(method, func(t *testing.T) {
+			t.Parallel()
+
+			req := httptest.NewRequestWithContext(
+				context.Background(), method,
+				"/s/js/app.js", nil,
+			)
+			w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+			env.router.ServeHTTP(w, req)
+
+			assert.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, w.Code,
+				"static mount answers every method")
+
+			if method == http.MethodHead {
+				assert.Empty(t, w.Body.Bytes(),
+					"HEAD must not carry a body")
+
+				return
+			}
+
+			assert.Equal(t, body, w.Body.Bytes(),
+				"the asset itself is returned")
+		})
+	}
+}
+
 // --- /pages group ---

 // TestPagesLogin_OversizeBody_RejectedBeforeCSRF proves the cap runs
--- a/script/ci-mark-superseded
+++ b/script/ci-mark-superseded
@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# script/ci-mark-superseded: record an honest status on commits whose CI
+# run Gitea cancelled because a newer commit landed on the same branch.
+# Gitea writes `failure` / "Has been cancelled" for such a run, which
+# reads as a test result on a commit nothing ever tested. Cancellation is
+# unconditional server-side for push events, so the superseding run
+# rewrites those statuses to `failure` with a description that says the
+# commit was never tested. `skipped` cannot be used: Gitea's combined
+# status folds `skipped` into `success`, so a never-tested commit would
+# report green. Genuine failures and successes are never touched.
+#
+# Called by the Gitea Actions workflow, which supplies GITHUB_API_URL,
+# GITHUB_REPOSITORY, GITHUB_SHA, GITHUB_WORKFLOW, GITHUB_JOB,
+# GITHUB_EVENT_NAME and GITEA_TOKEN. ANCESTOR_LIMIT (default 20) caps how
+# far back the walk looks; a value that is set but not a positive integer
+# aborts rather than silently disabling the walk.
+set -eu
+
+SUPERSEDED_DESC='Superseded by a newer commit; never tested'
+
+# Gitea builds the commit-status context as
+# "<workflow name> / <job name> (<event>)", so derive it rather than
+# hardcoding the result.
+#
+# The derivation is deliberately not byte-exact with Gitea's own rule and
+# must not be "fixed" into a silent fallback. Gitea uses the job's `name:`
+# (falling back to the job id) and the workflow's `name:` (falling back to
+# the workflow filename), while the runner exports GITHUB_JOB as the job
+# *id* and GITHUB_WORKFLOW as the parsed workflow `name:`. So giving the
+# job a display `name:`, or dropping the workflow's `name:`, makes the
+# derived context stop matching --- and require_own_context below then
+# turns every push red with a message. That loud failure is the point
+# (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/webhooker/issues/147 item 2); guessing at a
+# fallback would restore the silent no-op it replaced.
+context() {
+    printf '%s / %s (%s)' \
+        "$GITHUB_WORKFLOW" "$GITHUB_JOB" "$GITHUB_EVENT_NAME"
+}
+
+# ANCESTOR_LIMIT is a documented knob, so a value that is set but
+# unusable must fail loudly instead of defaulting
+# (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/webhooker/issues/80). Passing it straight to
+# git would print `fatal: not an integer` into a discarded exit status
+# and mark nothing.
+ancestor_limit() {
+    # `-` and not `:-`: an explicitly empty value is set-but-unusable
+    # config, so it aborts like any other bad value rather than silently
+    # running at the default.
+    _limit="${ANCESTOR_LIMIT-20}"
+    case "$_limit" in
+    '' | *[!0-9]* | 0*)
+        echo "ANCESTOR_LIMIT must be a positive integer," \
+            "got '${_limit}'" >&2
+
+        return 1
+        ;;
+    esac
+    printf '%s' "$_limit"
+}
+
+# The status Gitea created for this very job proves which context string
+# it uses. If the derived one is missing, the workflow or the job was
+# renamed and the match below would silently stop firing, restoring the
+# false-red bug with no signal. Fail loudly instead.
+require_own_context() {
+    if ! _body="$(curl -sf --retry 3 --retry-delay 2 --max-time 30 \
+        "${1}/commits/${GITHUB_SHA}/status")"; then
+        echo "cannot read commit statuses for ${GITHUB_SHA}" >&2
+        return 1
+    fi
+    _found="$(printf '%s' "$_body" | jq -r '(.statuses // [])[].context')"
+    if printf '%s\n' "$_found" | grep -qxF "$2"; then
+        return 0
+    fi
+    echo "no commit status with context '${2}' on ${GITHUB_SHA}:" >&2
+    echo "workflow or job renamed? contexts present:" >&2
+    printf '%s\n' "$_found" >&2
+    return 1
+}
+
+# Latest status for our context on a commit, as "state|description".
+# The read is retried and bounded, and a read that still fails aborts the
+# step: a laundered commit that cannot be read is not the same as one
+# with nothing to do, and piping curl into jq would discard the
+# difference.
+status_of() {
+    if ! _sbody="$(curl -sf --retry 3 --retry-delay 2 --max-time 30 \
+        "${1}/commits/${2}/status")"; then
+        echo "cannot read commit statuses for ${2}" >&2
+
+        return 1
+    fi
+    printf '%s' "$_sbody" | jq -r --arg c "$3" \
+        '[(.statuses // [])[] | select(.context == $c)][0] // empty
+         | "\(.status)|\(.description)"'
+}
+
+mark_superseded() {
+    curl -sf -X POST "${1}/statuses/${2}" \
+        -H "Authorization: token ${GITEA_TOKEN}" \
+        -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
+        -d "$(jq -nc --arg c "$3" --arg d "$SUPERSEDED_DESC" \
+            '{context: $c, state: "failure", description: $d}')" \
+        >/dev/null
+}
+
+main() {
+    _api="${GITHUB_API_URL}/repos/${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}"
+    _ctx="$(context)"
+
+    _limit="$(ancestor_limit)"
+
+    require_own_context "$_api" "$_ctx"
+
+    # A shallow clone cannot resolve the parent, so it looks exactly like
+    # a root commit to rev-parse below and would exit 0 having walked
+    # nothing (or, at depth > 1, only the ancestors that happen to be
+    # present). The workflow checks out with `fetch-depth: 0`; verify
+    # that here rather than depend on it silently.
+    if [ "$(git rev-parse --is-shallow-repository)" = 'true' ]; then
+        echo "shallow repository: the ancestor walk needs full history" >&2
+
+        return 1
+    fi
+
+    # A root commit legitimately has no ancestors and is not an error;
+    # every other rev-list failure (an unknown SHA) must abort, so the
+    # walk itself carries no `|| true`.
+    if ! git rev-parse -q --verify "${GITHUB_SHA}^" >/dev/null; then
+        echo "no ancestor of ${GITHUB_SHA} to check"
+
+        return 0
+    fi
+
+    _walk="$(git rev-list --max-count="$_limit" "${GITHUB_SHA}^")"
+
+    for _sha in $_walk; do
+        _latest="$(status_of "$_api" "$_sha" "$_ctx")"
+        # A run that was cancelled, or one an earlier revision of this
+        # script laundered into `skipped`. Anything else stands.
+        case "$_latest" in
+        'failure|Has been cancelled' | "skipped|${SUPERSEDED_DESC}") ;;
+        *) continue ;;
+        esac
+        mark_superseded "$_api" "$_sha" "$_ctx"
+        echo "marked superseded: ${_sha}"
+    done
+}
+
+main "$@"