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-# Generated by tend 0.0.25. Regenerate with: uvx tend@latest init
-#
-# Do not edit this file directly — it will be overwritten on regeneration.
-# To customize behavior, edit the relevant skill (for example,
-# `running-tend`) in this repo's .claude/skills/ directory, or open an issue at
-# https://github.com/max-sixty/tend/issues for changes that need to
-# happen upstream in the tend-ci-runner plugin.
-
-name: tend-install-test
-on:
-  pull_request:
-    paths:
-      - .github/workflows/tend-*.yaml
-      - .config/tend.yaml
-
-jobs:
-  install-test:
-    # Same-repo PRs only. Fork PRs don't carry secrets and the workflow
-    # is short-lived (removed on the next nightly regen), so cross-fork
-    # validation isn't worth special-casing.
-    if: github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name == github.repository
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
-    permissions:
-      contents: read
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
-      - uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v6
-      - name: Verify required secrets are set
-        env:
-          BOT_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.TEND_BOT_TOKEN }}
-          CLAUDE_OAUTH: ${{ secrets.CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN }}
-          ANTHROPIC_KEY: ${{ secrets.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY }}
-        run: |
-          missing=""
-          [ -n "$BOT_TOKEN" ] || missing="$missing TEND_BOT_TOKEN"
-          if [ -z "$CLAUDE_OAUTH$ANTHROPIC_KEY" ]; then
-            missing="$missing harness-auth(set CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN or ANTHROPIC_API_KEY)"
-          fi
-          if [ -n "$missing" ]; then
-            echo "::error::Missing repo secrets:$missing"
-            exit 1
-          fi
-      - name: Verify generator output matches committed files
-        env:
-          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
-        run: |
-          # actions/checkout's default shallow clone leaves
-          # refs/remotes/origin/<default-branch> unfetched, so
-          # `git remote set-head origin --auto` errors with
-          # "Not a valid ref: refs/remotes/origin/main" before any
-          # default-branch detection runs (tend issue #582). Query the
-          # API and set the symbolic-ref directly.
-          DEFAULT_BRANCH=$(gh api "repos/$GITHUB_REPOSITORY" --jq .default_branch)
-          git fetch origin --depth 1 "+refs/heads/$DEFAULT_BRANCH:refs/remotes/origin/$DEFAULT_BRANCH"
-          git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD "refs/remotes/origin/$DEFAULT_BRANCH"
-          # Pin the regen to the version in the committed header so a tend
-          # release between local `init` and this CI run doesn't fail the
-          # drift check for an irrelevant reason.
-          HEADER=$(head -1 .github/workflows/tend-install-test.yaml)
-          HEADER="${HEADER#'# Generated by tend '}"
-          TEND_VERSION="${HEADER%%'. Regenerate'*}"
-          uvx "tend@$TEND_VERSION" init --with-install-test
-          # Exclude this file from the drift comparison: it's locally
-          # patched to work around tend issue #582, so it diverges from
-          # generator output by design until upstream lands a fix. The
-          # file is removed on the next nightly regen anyway.
-          if ! git diff --quiet -- ':!.github/workflows/tend-install-test.yaml' .github/workflows/; then
-            echo "::error::Committed workflows differ from 'uvx tend@$TEND_VERSION init --with-install-test' output. Run it locally and commit the result."
-            git --no-pager diff -- ':!.github/workflows/tend-install-test.yaml' .github/workflows/
-            exit 1
-          fi