How to Gate GitHub Actions on Rook CLI Verdicts

Rook CLI’s exit code cannot serve as an AI agent quality gate in GitHub Actions because exit code 0 means the command completed even when scenarios failed, were declined, or halted, while exit code 1 indicates operational problems such as authentication, permissions, connectivity, or invalid flags. A reliable release workflow must instead verify that the generated run.json represents a completed run, fetch the matching report.json, validate its scenario totals and IDs, and fail the job according to an explicit policy, with the documented strict policy blocking failures, unverifiable or unjudged results, skipped or unrunnable scenarios, and compromised clusters. The recommended approach uses a pinned Rook CLI release, reviewed scenario IDs and allow rules, isolated runner state, protected environment secrets, a reachable staging target, and a checked-in Bash gate script that fails closed on malformed or incomplete data. Evidence should be uploaded with always() even after a failed gate, but continue-on-error must not be used because it could make a blocked release appear successful. The guidance also emphasizes rehearsing permissions and real target writes locally, testing gate logic with synthetic report fixtures before spending credits, avoiding unsafe pull-request configurations that expose secrets to untrusted code, and publishing verdict totals and artifacts so reviewers can distinguish setup failures from incomplete runs, invalid reports, and actual agent findings.

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