`githubwebhook` attestor

Verifies a GitHub webhook payload's HMAC-SHA256 signature against a configured shared secret and records the parsed payload plus event name so a verifier can prove which webhook delivery triggered the pipeline.

Name	`githubwebhook`
Predicate type	`https://aflock.ai/attestations/githubwebhook/v0.1`
Lifecycle	`postproduct`
Default binary?	No
Recommended trace	off — no syscall tracing needed
Auto-attaches when	Not auto-detected — attach explicitly with `-a`.

The facts in this box are generated from the cilock binary's own catalog (cilock tools list). Do not hand-edit — run npm run gen:catalog.

What it captures

The attestor struct has two JSON-tagged fields written into the predicate:

payload (map[string]interface{}) — the full webhook body parsed as JSON.
event (string) — the GitHub event name (push, pull_request, pull_request_review, or any other delivered event).

For known events, the attestor also derives subjects and back-references from the parsed payload:

Always: event:<name>, plus reponame: / repourl: (from repository.name / repository.html_url) and sender: (from sender.login) when present.
push: one commit:<sha> subject per entry in commits[], plus author username/email hashes.
pull_request / pull_request_review: pullrequest:<html_url>, pullrequestheadref:, pullrequestheadsha:<sha>, and (when set) mergecommitsha:<sha>. Head SHA and merge SHA are also emitted as back-refs so the webhook attestation can be chained to downstream git/build attestations.

Neither the raw body bytes nor the received HMAC signature are written into the predicate — they are consumed only to validate the delivery.

When to use

For self-hosted CI (Jenkins, Tekton, custom runners) that receives GitHub webhook deliveries directly and needs to prove "this build was triggered by a webhook GitHub actually signed." Not needed inside GitHub Actions itself — use the github and github-action attestors there.

Flags

None. The attestor has no CLI surface in cilock today; it is configured in-process via Go options (WithBody, WithSecret, WithRecievedSignature, WithEvent) by an embedding application that has already received the webhook.

Output shape

{
  "payload": {
    "repository": { "name": "rookery", "html_url": "https://github.com/aflock-ai/rookery" },
    "sender":     { "login": "octocat" },
    "pull_request": {
      "html_url":         "https://github.com/aflock-ai/rookery/pull/42",
      "merge_commit_sha": "deadbeef...",
      "head": { "sha": "cafef00d...", "ref": "feature/x" }
    }
  },
  "event": "pull_request"
}

Gotchas

HMAC verification is mandatory and fail-closed. Attest() returns an error if any of body, secret, or receivedSig is empty, and computes HMAC-SHA256(body, secret) and compares it (constant-time) against the hex value after stripping the sha256= prefix from the X-Hub-Signature-256 header. A mismatch aborts attestation; no partial record is emitted.
Secret comes from the embedder, not a flag. Because there is no CLI wiring, the shared secret must be supplied by whatever component invokes the attestor in-process. Do not pass it on the command line.
Payload bytes must be the exact bytes GitHub signed. Any re-serialization (pretty-printing, key reordering) before passing to WithBody will fail HMAC verification.
Unknown event types still attest. If event is not push, pull_request, or pull_request_review, the payload and event are still recorded, but no event-specific subjects or back-refs are derived (a debug log is emitted).
cilock-native. This attestor exists only in rookery/cilock; there is no upstream witness equivalent.

CLI example

See the constraint summary + reproduction recipe at https://github.com/aflock-ai/attestor-compliance-examples/tree/main/21-githubwebhook. This attestor is currently blocked or doc-only — the linked example explains why and shows the recipe to validate once the constraint is removed.

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