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Closes #191

Summary

Adds an AttestationService to the Forge interface, so evidence collectors and pin can find and fetch artifact attestations by repository and digest without their own forge-specific code. Discovery and bundle download are separate steps, and verification stays with the caller.

type AttestationService interface {
	List(ctx context.Context, owner, repo, digest string, opts ListAttestationOpts) ([]Attestation, error)
	Download(ctx context.Context, owner, repo string, att Attestation) (json.RawMessage, error)
}

• List returns metadata for every attestation the repository holds for a sha256:<hex> digest and follows pagination. An empty result with a nil error means the lookup worked and found nothing. Request failures, including auth and rate limit errors, come back as errors and never as an empty result.
• Download returns the original Sigstore bundle JSON for an attestation from List. If the listing already included the bundle, it is returned without a request.
• Attestation has ID, SubjectDigest, PredicateType, Status, BundleURL, Bundle, CreatedAt and ExpiresAt. ListAttestationOpts has PredicateType and Limit.
• ParseSHA256Digest checks the digest before any request is sent and returns ErrInvalidDigest for anything else (bare hex, other algorithms, wrong length, non-hex).
• Client.ListAttestations and Client.DownloadAttestation route by repository URL, the same way Client.ResolveCommit does.

Per-backend behaviour

Backend	List	Download
GitHub	GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/attestations/sha256:{hex}, following the after cursor	Inline bundle if present, otherwise bundle_url (snappy-compressed JSON in blob storage)
GitLab	GET /projects/:id/attestations/:hex, following offset pagination	GET /projects/:id/attestations/:iid/download
Gitea/Forgejo, Bitbucket, Gerrit, Tangled, Radicle	ErrNotSupported	ErrNotSupported
GitLab under TinyGo	the existing TinyGo ErrNotSupported error	the existing TinyGo ErrNotSupported error

Design notes

• GitHub no longer inlines bundles. Responses now carry "bundle": null and a bundle_url pointing at a .json.sn blob, so reading bundle (as pin's fetchGitHubAttestation does) finds nothing. Download fetches the URL and decodes it with github.com/golang/snappy, the block format gh attestation uses. That is the one new dependency. It is pure Go on js/wasm and wasip1.
• The bundle URL is a signed blob storage link. go-github's token transport adds Authorization to every request, whatever the host, so the download uses the caller's *http.Client without the token. The backend now stores that client. Errors give the HTTP status but never the URL, and *url.Error is unwrapped so the signature can't leak through it. The download is capped at 32 MiB compressed and decompressed, and the result must be valid JSON.
• GitHub pagination is cursor-based. go-github's ListAttestations only takes page numbers, so List builds the request itself and follows resp.After.
• GitHub only reports the predicate type inside the bundle, so PredicateType is left empty there and ID is empty because GitHub has no attestation ID. GitLab fills in the IID, predicate type, status, download URL and creation and expiry times.
• Predicate type filter. On GitHub it goes to the predicate_type parameter, which takes a full URI or a short name such as provenance or sbom. GitLab has no such parameter, so the filter runs client-side, matching the URI against predicate_type and the short names against predicate_kind.
• GitLab feature flag. GitLab returns 404 when slsa_provenance_statement is off (not_found! in lib/api/supply_chain/attestations.rb), so List reports ErrNotFound there rather than an empty result. This is in the doc comment and the README.

Not included

• A CLI command. This PR covers only the library API the issue asks for.
• The fremforge release attestation endpoint the issue lists as follow-up.
• Org-level lookups (/orgs/{org}/attestations/{digest} on GitHub).

Compatibility

This adds a method to the Forge interface, so code outside this repo that implements Forge needs to add it, the same as when Commits() and GetAuthenticatedUser were added. The in-repo mocks in forges_test.go and internal/cli/pr_checkout_test.go are updated.

Tests

• GitHub: pagination across two pages through the Link header's after cursor, inline, null and missing bundles, the predicate_type and per_page parameters, stopping at Limit, an empty successful response, 404 to ErrNotFound, a 401 ErrorResponse, a RateLimitError and an invalid digest sending no request. Download tests cover a snappy bundle from bundle_url with no Authorization header even when the forge has a token, an inline bundle with no request, and failures (403, data that isn't snappy, JSON that isn't valid, an oversized bundle), checking that the signed query never appears in the error.
• GitLab: offset pagination with provenance and SBOM predicates and every mapped field, filtering by short name and URI, Limit, an empty response, the feature-disabled 404 as ErrNotFound, 401/403/429 as errors, an invalid digest, list followed by download, failed downloads (404, 403, 500, a body that isn't JSON) and invalid IDs sending no request.
• Root package: ParseSHA256Digest table tests, plus Client.ListAttestations and Client.DownloadAttestation routing.
• Unsupported backends: Gitea, Bitbucket, Gerrit, Tangled, Radicle and the TinyGo fallback (TestTinyGoServicesReturnUnsupported) all return ErrNotSupported.
• go test -race ./..., go test -tags=tinygo ./gitlab, the js/wasm and wasip1 builds and golangci-lint (v2.12.2) pass locally.
• I also ran the GitHub backend against the live API for cli/cli release assets. With per_page forced to 1, a digest with two attestations came back across two pages, and both bundles downloaded, decompressed and parsed as Sigstore v0.3 bundles. An unknown digest gave an empty result with no error, a missing repository gave ErrNotFound, and predicate_type worked with both the release URI and release. I couldn't test GitLab live because I have no project with the feature flag enabled, so those routes are tested against the documented API and GitLab's route source only.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added attestation listing and Sigstore bundle downloads for GitHub and GitLab repositories, with pagination, predicate-type filtering, and result limits.
  • Added SHA-256 digest validation and clear handling of missing attestations.
• Documentation
  • Documented how to list and download attestations, including GitLab’s feature-flagged API.
• Limitations
  • Attestation operations are unsupported on Bitbucket, Gerrit, Gitea, Radicle, Tangled, and TinyGo GitLab backends.

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Walkthrough

The pull request adds a shared API to list and download repository attestations. GitHub and GitLab provide implementations, while other backends return unsupported errors. The README documents the API and backend behavior.

Changes: Artifact attestations

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared attestation contract and client routing attestations.go, forge.go, forges_test.go, attestations_test.go, internal/cli/pr_checkout_test.go, README.md	Adds attestation metadata and listing options, validates SHA-256 digests, and routes listing and download calls to the forge for a repository URL. Tests cover digest parsing and client routing.
GitHub listing and bundle downloads github/attestations.go, github/github.go, github/attestations_test.go, go.mod	Adds paginated listing with predicate filtering and result limits. Downloads inline or URL-hosted bundles, decompresses Snappy data, and checks response, JSON, and size limits.
GitLab listing and bundle downloads gitlab/attestations.go, gitlab/attestations_test.go, gitlab/gitlab_tinygo.go, gitlab/gitlab_tinygo_test.go	Adds paginated listing, predicate filtering, and bundle downloads. Maps 404 responses to ErrNotFound; the TinyGo backend returns its unsupported-operation error.
Unsupported backend services and tests bitbucket/*, gerrit/*, gitea/*, radicle/*, tangled/*	Adds unsupported attestation services and tests for backends without implementations.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant gitHubAttestationService
  participant GitHubAPI
  participant BundleURL
  Client->>gitHubAttestationService: List attestations for repository and digest
  gitHubAttestationService->>GitHubAPI: Request attestation pages
  GitHubAPI-->>gitHubAttestationService: Return metadata and bundle references
  gitHubAttestationService-->>Client: Return attestations
  Client->>gitHubAttestationService: Download an attestation bundle
  gitHubAttestationService->>BundleURL: Fetch bundle when no inline bundle exists
  BundleURL-->>gitHubAttestationService: Return compressed bundle
  gitHubAttestationService-->>Client: Return decoded JSON bundle

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Possibly related PRs

• git-pkgs/forge#205: Adds error classifications used by attestation requests.
• git-pkgs/forge#199: Introduces the Radicle backend that this pull request extends with an attestation service.
• git-pkgs/forge#200: Changes the shared HTTP client redirect policy used for GitHub bundle downloads.

Suggested reviewers: pigam, andrew, abhinavgautam01

Merge Risk: Low · up to 10650

Attestation listing and download are added for GitHub and GitLab, and other backends report unsupported. Signed bundle URLs are now required to use HTTPS. Bundle downloads reuse the caller-supplied HTTP client, so authentication added by that client's own transport is also sent to the external bundle host. This is documented, but callers should be aware. The remaining risk is limited and does not block merging.

Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to 10650

GitHub bundle downloads expand where a caller-supplied HTTP client is used. Clients that attach credentials through their transport can consequently send those credentials to external storage hosts. The normal token parameter is deliberately separated from this download path, and no affected production consumer was established. Digest validation, explicit request errors, and GitHub download-size limits reduce other risks.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: The new GitHub bundle path executes the caller’s HTTP transport against external storage URLs. For consumers whose transport attaches host-unscoped credentials, this expands credential authority beyond the API host. Separating the token parameter does not isolate credentials injected by that transport. The behavior is documented, and no affected production consumer was established, so the security impact remains conditional.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The conditional credential exposure is scoped to consumers that supply a credential-injecting HTTP transport and invoke GitHub bundle downloads. A receiving bundle host could obtain whatever authority that transport attaches; its repository, tenant, service, or environment scope cannot be determined without the downstream client configuration. The inspected internal client attaches User-Agent, not credentials.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — The conditional attack path is an external bundle URL followed by Download through a caller transport that adds credentials to every request. Those credentials can reach the bundle host independently of the token parameter. An attacker would need to receive such a request, for example through control of a supplied URL or the relevant endpoint. Untrusted production input reaching this API was not established, so arbitrary-target SSRF is not retained as a finding.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The implementation separates the token-wrapped API client from the stored caller client, and a test asserts that token-parameter usage sends no Authorization header to bundle storage. Constructor documentation explicitly warns that credentials added by the caller’s transport still reach external hosts. The test source was inspected, not executed.
• observed — GitHub rejects an initial non-HTTPS bundle URL unless the API itself uses HTTP. It does not impose a redirect policy on the download client. The internal resolver’s client rejects HTTPS-to-HTTP redirects, but nil-client downloads fall back to http.DefaultClient, so the initial scheme check is not a library-wide per-hop guarantee.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — GitHub blob downloads cap both compressed and declared decompressed data at 32 MiB, reject decoding and JSON errors, and close obtained response bodies. HTTP failures are classified without including the signed URL, and the request-error path removes the outer URL-bearing error wrapper. These controls bound resource consumption and reduce signed-link disclosure on the inspected path.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Consider a separately configured bundle-download client so API authentication transports are not implicitly reused across hosts. Preserve required proxy and TLS configuration explicitly, and apply the HTTPS policy to redirect hops as well as the initial URL.

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Title check		The title "Add an attestation service for discovering artifact attestations" matches the main change. The PR adds an AttestationService to the Forge interface, with List and Download operations. It al…
Linked Issues check		Issue #191 coding requirements are met by the reviewed changes, based on the change summaries and PR description. (1) Public API: AttestationService with List and Download is added to Forge vi…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changed files support the attestation API in #191. The Forge interface addition, per-backend accessors, unsupported-service stubs, test-double updates in forges_test.go and `internal/cli/pr_ch…

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The title "Add an attestation service for discovering artifact attestations" matches the main change. The PR adds an AttestationService to the Forge interface, with List and Download operations. It also adds Client.ListAttestations and Client.DownloadAttestation, with GitHub and GitLab implementations and unsupported-backend stubs for the other forges. The title is specific and short, and it does not list files.

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Issue #191 coding requirements are met by the reviewed changes, based on the change summaries and PR description. (1) Public API: AttestationService with List and Download is added to Forge via Attestations(), and Client.ListAttestations and Client.DownloadAttestation route by repository URL. (2) Discovery and download are separate steps, and verification is not performed. (3) GitHub: List follows the after cursor, supports predicate_type and Limit, and maps 404 to ErrNotFound. Auth and rate-limit errors return as errors, not empty results. Download returns inline bundles or fetches bundle_url and decodes snappy data, keeping the bundle JSON. (4) GitLab: List uses offset pagination, maps IID, predicate type, status, download URL and timestamps, and filters predicates client-side. Download fetches the bundle by IID. The feature-disabled 404 maps to ErrNotFound, so it is not an empty success. (5) Digest validation via ParseSHA256Digest returns ErrInvalidDigest before any request. (6) Unsupported backends (Gitea/Forgejo, Bitbucket, Gerrit, Tangled, Radicle, TinyGo GitLab) return ErrNotSupported. (7) Tests cover pagination, multiple predicates, empty results, auth and rate-limit errors, GitLab metadata-to-download flow, failed downloads, and unsupported backends. The live enabled-GitLab-project check in the issue is a manual verification task and is not counted as a coding requirement. Limitation: source files were not inspected directly in this assessment; the verdict relies on the supplied summaries and PR description.

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The changed files support the attestation API in #191. The Forge interface addition, per-backend accessors, unsupported-service stubs, test-double updates in forges_test.go and internal/cli/pr_checkout_test.go, README updates, and the github/github.go HTTP client retention all serve the new API. The github.com/golang/snappy dependency is needed to decode GitHub bundle_url blobs. The GitHub download restrictions (no Authorization header on the signed URL, 32 MiB cap, HTTPS-only unless the API base is HTTP, redacted errors) are hardening of the new download path. The PR excludes the CLI command, GitHub org-level lookup, and fremforge endpoint, as the issue directs. No unrelated change is shown in the supplied summaries. Limitation: diffs were not read directly; the verdict relies on the change summaries.

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Use bundle in the example.

The example declares bundle but never uses it. Go rejects the copied example with an unused-variable error. Pass bundle to a verifier in the example, or mark the verification step as a placeholder that uses the value.

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Reject a cursor that does not advance.

If a response repeats the current nonempty after cursor and Limit is zero, List requests the same page again and appends it again. The call can continue until cancellation or resource exhaustion. Return a pagination error when the next cursor equals the requested cursor. The v82 response parser copies the next link’s after value without a progress check. (github.com) Based on learnings, cursor pagination must reject an unchanged end cursor.

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Review comments at @github/attestations.go:
- Around line 107-115: Update the request flow using att.BundleURL and hc.Do to
reject non-HTTPS bundle URLs before sending them, and prevent redirects from
following an HTTPS request to HTTP before issuing the next request. Preserve the
existing request behavior for HTTPS URLs and update any affected download test
fixture to use HTTPS.

Review comments at @github/github.go:
- Around line 17-19: Update the `httpClient` setup used by `Download` so
external blob requests use a separate transport that cannot attach API
credentials, rather than retaining a caller-provided credential-bearing
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Sensitive Data Exposure

Reachability: External
Exploitability: Moderate
CWE: CWE-319 — Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

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Require HTTPS for every signed bundle request.

If BundleURL uses HTTP, hc.Do sends its signed query string without transport encryption. A network observer can obtain the short-lived download link. The download test explicitly uses an HTTP URL; checking for an empty Authorization header does not protect the signed URL. Reject HTTP URLs and HTTPS-to-HTTP redirects before sending the next request. GitHub’s documented bundle URL carries its signature in the query string. (docs.github.com)

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Update the request flow using att.BundleURL and hc.Do to reject non-HTTPS bundle URLs before sending them, and prevent redirects from following an HTTPS request to HTTP before issuing the next request. Preserve the existing request behavior for HTTPS URLs and update any affected download test fixture to use HTTPS.

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Do not reuse a credential-bearing API client for blob downloads.

If the caller supplies an HTTP client whose transport adds authentication, this field retains that transport. Download then sends a request to the external blob host through it. The blob host receives those credentials. WithAuthToken protects only the token added by go-github itself; go-github v82 also explicitly supports caller-provided clients that authenticate requests. (github.com) Use a separate download transport that cannot attach API credentials.

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Update the `httpClient` setup used by `Download` so external blob requests use a separate transport that cannot attach API credentials, rather than retaining a caller-provided credential-bearing transport. Preserve the caller’s authenticated client for API requests and keep the existing token-authentication safeguards intact.

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[andrew]

Thanks for this, the shape matches what #191 asks for: list and download are separate, an empty result is distinct from a failed lookup, and unsupported backends say so. I checked the GitHub side against the live API and the bundle: null plus bundle_url behaviour is as described. A few things to change before it goes in.

Error normalization. The branch is based on a commit from before #205 merged. It merges cleanly, but the attestation calls would be the only ones returning raw SDK errors, so a 401, 429 or 5xx would not match forge.ErrUnauthorized, forge.ErrRateLimited or forge.ErrServerError. Please rebase onto main and:

• wrap the fall-through return nil, err with wrapErr(err) in List in github/attestations.go, and in List and Download in gitlab/attestations.go
• return the non-2xx case in the GitHub Download through forge.ClassifyStatus(resp.StatusCode, ...), as GetJobLog does on main
• change the error tests to assert the sentinels with errors.Is. TestGitHubListAttestationsErrors currently asserts the raw *github.ErrorResponse and *github.RateLimitError

Bundle URL scheme. The GitHub Download fetches whatever att.BundleURL holds, including plain http://. Attestation is a public struct with JSON tags, so the URL may not come straight from List, and over http the signed query string travels in cleartext. Please reject a BundleURL that is not https unless the forge's own API base is http. The download tests will need httptest.NewTLSServer and its client.

Client used for the blob download. Download uses the caller's *http.Client. That keeps the User-Agent and the redirect check, which is what we want, but a caller who authenticates through the transport would send that credential to the blob host. Please add a line to the New and NewWithBase doc comments saying the client is also used for requests that leave the API host.

SHA256DigestLength. Please unexport it. Only ParseSHA256Digest uses it, and an exported constant is public API we can't remove later.

gitHubAttestation comment. "GitHub now leaves bundle null" dates itself. Something like "bundle is null when GitHub links the bundle with bundle_url, which go-github's Attestation type lacks" stays true.

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Rebased onto main and pushed 10650d0. List and Download now go through wrapErr/ClassifyStatus with errors.Is tests, the GitHub Download rejects non-https bundle URLs unless the API base is http (tests use TLS servers), the New/NewWithBase docs mention the client is used off-host, SHA256DigestLength is unexported and the gitHubAttestation comment is reworded.