Add concurrency, timeouts, and least-privilege permissions to all workflows#31
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Add concurrency, timeouts, and least-privilege permissions to all workflows#31
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[WIP] Setup jobs for workflows with $0 billing
Add concurrency, timeouts, and least-privilege permissions to all workflows
Feb 27, 2026
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GitHub Actions workflows were missing concurrency controls, job timeouts, and
permissionsblocks — leaving them exposed to runaway billing and redundant parallel runs.Changes
permissions— Added minimal scoped permissions to the three workflows that had none (blackroad-agents.yml,deploy.yml,trinity-compliance.yml); existing workflows were already scopedconcurrencygroups — Added to all five workflows to auto-cancel superseded runs on the same ref/issue/PR;cancel-in-progress: falseonauto-mergeto avoid interrupting an in-flight mergetimeout-minutes— Added per-job caps to bound worst-case cost: 15 min for agent/merge/compliance jobs, 20 min for deploy, 60 min for CodeQLAll jobs already use
ubuntu-latest, which is free for public repositories.Original prompt
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