advisory-scan: eliminate spurious '?' — url punctuation, stale URL, and ? semantics

The 2026-08-07 regeneration rendered '?' for 5 of 21 recipes. '?' is meant to be a
rare 'we tried and could not tell'; at that rate it is indistinguishable from noise
and hides the real unknowns. Three causes, none of them genuine uncertainty:

1. URL EXTRACTION BUG (mine). The registry is markdown, so urls appear inside
   `backticks` and 'quotes'. The extractor captured the trailing punctuation, so
   it fetched https://docs.n8n.io/release-notes/` and https://git.autonomic.zone'`
   — both 404 on the malformed url, both 200 when clean. Trailing markdown
   punctuation is now stripped. Fixed immich + n8n.
2. STALE REGISTRY URL. mattermost-lts pointed at
   docs.mattermost.com/about/mattermost-changelog.html, which 404s; the page moved
   to /deploy/. Corrected (same class as the pgautoupgrade fix).
3. WRONG SEMANTICS FOR 'NO UPGRADE'. lasuite-docs and custom-html-tiny were
   up-to-date this run, so no scan block existed and the report fell back to '?'.
   But a recipe with no upgrade has nothing an upgrade could have fixed — that is
   0, not unknown. The report skill now says so explicitly, restricts '?' to scans
   that RAN and reported genuinely failed sources, states that benign notes
   (no-advisories-published / template URL) never trigger '?', and instructs that
   many '?' is itself a bug to raise in the Addendum.

Result across all 16 scanned recipes of that run: 0 failed sources (was 5).
Counts also improved with the classifier fix: discourse 130->133, keycloak ->7.
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commit 318d09bdab
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@@ -42,10 +42,17 @@ keeps every weekly edition looking the same regardless of which model writes the
Advisories + vendor security pages + OSV, with severities and fixed-in versions). Treat its
CVE list as a **further source** and report the **UNION** of it and what you found by reading.
Its entries are machine-derived with advisory IDs, so prefer them for CVE ids / severities /
fixed-in versions, and cite the GHSA where present in the Security Bulletin. If a recipe has
no scan block, or the block lists **failed sources**, the count is **not** authoritative:
render the cve cell as `?` (unknown), never `none` — a blank that reads as "clean" is exactly
how two CVSS-9.8 gitea RCEs were reported as "none" on 2026-08-07.
fixed-in versions, and cite the GHSA where present in the Security Bulletin. If the block
lists **failed sources**, the count is **not** authoritative: render the cve cell as `?`
(unknown), never `none` — a blank that reads as "clean" is exactly how two CVSS-9.8 gitea
RCEs were reported as "none" on 2026-08-07.
- **`?` must stay RARE — it means "we tried and could not tell", not "we didn't look".** Use it
ONLY when a scan ran and reported genuinely failed sources. In particular: a recipe with **no
upgrade this run** (up-to-date/skipped) has nothing an upgrade could have fixed — report `0`,
not `?`. A recipe with a clean scan reports its number (including `0`). Benign notes in a scan
block (`no-advisories-published`, `skipped: template URL`) are NOT failures and must not
trigger `?`. If you find yourself rendering `?` for many recipes, that is a bug to report in
the Addendum, not a normal outcome.
Anything **critical/high** also gets a `security` bulletin entry (recipe · CVE id(s) + severity ·
what it fixes · PR link); be specific about severity and what's exposed if not merged.
- **Lead — ONE short paragraph.** A tight, concrete opener in opus's voice: fleet state in a sentence
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@@ -114,8 +114,12 @@ def registry_urls(recipe: str, registry_dir: str) -> tuple[list[str], str | None
return [], None
urls = []
for u in re.findall(r"https?://[^\s)|\]]+", text):
u = u.rstrip(".,;")
if u not in urls:
# The registry is MARKDOWN: urls appear inside `backticks`, 'quotes', **bold**, and at the
# end of sentences. Trailing punctuation captured into the url makes the fetch 404 and the
# recipe render '?' for no real reason — that is what put immich and n8n in the unknown
# column on 2026-08-07 (https://docs.n8n.io/release-notes/` ← note the backtick).
u = u.rstrip("`'\"*.,;:>)")
if u and u not in urls:
urls.append(u)
return urls, path
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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
| service | image | source repo | releases / changelog |
|----------|-------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
| app | mattermost/mattermost-team-edition | https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost | https://docs.mattermost.com/about/mattermost-changelog.html |
| app | mattermost/mattermost-team-edition | https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost | https://docs.mattermost.com/deploy/mattermost-changelog.html |
| postgres | postgres | https://github.com/postgres/postgres | https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/ |
## Standing notes