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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@@ -42,10 +42,17 @@ keeps every weekly edition looking the same regardless of which model writes the
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Advisories + vendor security pages + OSV, with severities and fixed-in versions). Treat its
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CVE list as a **further source** and report the **UNION** of it and what you found by reading.
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Its entries are machine-derived with advisory IDs, so prefer them for CVE ids / severities /
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fixed-in versions, and cite the GHSA where present in the Security Bulletin. If a recipe has
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no scan block, or the block lists **failed sources**, the count is **not** authoritative:
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render the cve cell as `?` (unknown), never `none` — a blank that reads as "clean" is exactly
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how two CVSS-9.8 gitea RCEs were reported as "none" on 2026-08-07.
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fixed-in versions, and cite the GHSA where present in the Security Bulletin. If the block
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lists **failed sources**, the count is **not** authoritative: render the cve cell as `?`
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(unknown), never `none` — a blank that reads as "clean" is exactly how two CVSS-9.8 gitea
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RCEs were reported as "none" on 2026-08-07.
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- **`?` must stay RARE — it means "we tried and could not tell", not "we didn't look".** Use it
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ONLY when a scan ran and reported genuinely failed sources. In particular: a recipe with **no
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upgrade this run** (up-to-date/skipped) has nothing an upgrade could have fixed — report `0`,
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not `?`. A recipe with a clean scan reports its number (including `0`). Benign notes in a scan
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block (`no-advisories-published`, `skipped: template URL`) are NOT failures and must not
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trigger `?`. If you find yourself rendering `?` for many recipes, that is a bug to report in
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the Addendum, not a normal outcome.
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Anything **critical/high** also gets a `security` bulletin entry (recipe · CVE id(s) + severity ·
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what it fixes · PR link); be specific about severity and what's exposed if not merged.
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- **Lead — ONE short paragraph.** A tight, concrete opener in opus's voice: fleet state in a sentence
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