fix(ci): code-block-aware MDX sanitization in Fern workflows - #2319
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Blind sed escaping of {, }, < corrupts content inside fenced code
blocks — bash scripts with ${VAR}, Go templates with {{.Field}}, and
JSON all render with visible backslash escapes on the published site.
Replace with awk that tracks fence state and skips inline code spans.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 12 included reviews per hour; 11 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughBoth Fern documentation workflows replace global Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The workflows now avoid blind escaping, but the duplicated Markdown sanitizers can still rewrite valid code content in published documentation when fences or delimiter runs are handled incorrectly. Merge should wait for a shared, tested sanitizer or an equivalent correction. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4✅ Passed checks (4 passed)
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In @.github/workflows/fern-docs-preview-build.yml:
- Around line 73-89: Update the awk sanitizer in
.github/workflows/fern-docs-preview-build.yml lines 73-89 to track fenced marker
type and length, support permitted indentation, and close fences only on
matching sufficient runs; tokenize full inline backtick runs while preserving
inline-span state across lines so code content is not escaped. Apply the
identical corrected sanitizer implementation in
.github/workflows/publish-fern-docs.yml lines 189-205.
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📋 Multi-persona review — PR #2319
▎ Method: 3 persona passes (Correctness, CI-DX/Operability, Domain·MDX/Fern), each finding independently
▎ re-derived by a senior meta-reviewer against the resolved code — the awk was run on the runner's actual
▎ awk (mawk in ubuntu:24.04) and replayed over all 3 published tags (~59k lines). Line links pinned to head bfbe8d40.
▎ Tier legend: 🔴 Blocker · 🟠 Major · 🟡 Minor · 🔵 Nitpick · ✅ Confirmed non-issue
Overall assessment — Approve with comments
This is a legitimate, correct bug fix: the old blind sed escaped { } < on every line including code blocks, visibly corrupting ${VAR}, {{.Field}}, and generics on the live versioned docs; the new awk correctly escapes only prose and leaves fenced blocks and inline code literal. The escaping model is sound (verified empirically), and nothing is broken in any currently-published content — all three sanitized tags (v0.16.0/v0.17.0/v0.19.0) scan clean.
The one thing keeping it from a clean approve: the awk is a crude, untested markdown parser and its gaps fail in the dangerous (under-escape) direction, which can abort the versioned publish on a future release doc — while a tested, frozen-content-capable MDX tool (tools/check-docs-mdx-parse) already exists on main to prevent exactly that. Safe to merge as a strict improvement; please land the fail-closed net before the next tag relies on it.
Duplicate-work note: @pdmack (author) already replied to and resolved CodeRabbit's bot finding as "theoretical … tighten later." I largely agree with that ship-it conclusion — but this review reframes the risk (under-escape, not over-escape) and adds a concrete fix using tooling already in the repo that neither the bot nor the thread mentioned. One factual nit on the rebuttal below.
Inline comments follow (🟠 ×1, 🟡 ×1, 🔵 ×2). Each 🟠/🟡 spans both workflows — the awk body is byte-identical; the inline lands on publish-fern-docs.yml and names the sibling fern-docs-preview-build.yml line.
✅ Confirmed non-issues (checked and cleared)
- mawk
\{portability (a natural suspicion): refuted — the exact awk was run onmawkinubuntu:24.04;\{,\},<all produced correctly, matching gawk/BWK.\<correctly guards gsub's&metachar. Not a risk. <escaping breaking a real MDX/JSX component: refuted — zero real components (<Card>,<Tabs>,<Frame>, …) in any published doc; every capitalized<X>is a placeholder token inside a code fence.- Escape set
{ } <is correct and sufficient;>is correctly left alone (escaping it would break blockquote>prefixes). - Balanced single-backtick spans — including multiple spans per line with braces between them — are handled correctly; the happy path works.
- Coherence with the non-frozen "Latest" path: current docs are gated at PR time by the real parser; frozen tags (which can't be edited retroactively) are auto-sanitized. Complementary, not redundant.
- No drift today: the awk body is byte-identical across both workflows; the warning-vs-error divergence on a missing tag is intentional and preserved.
- @pdmack's rebuttal conclusion holds (nothing broken in published tags) — but the specific claim "no docs use indented fence openers" is factually off:
docs/design/{015,007}do use them. Harmless (not Fern-published, no escapable chars inside), but it's the premise of the "theoretical" argument, so worth noting.
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| Tier | Count | Items |
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| 🔴 Blocker | 0 | — |
| 🟠 Major | 1 | Fail-open under-escape can abort versioned publish; gate with existing check-docs-mdx-parse |
| 🟡 Minor | 1 | Cruder untested duplicate of on-main tested MDX model (absorbs the over-escape residuals) |
| 🔵 Nitpick | 2 | awk error fails open + stale .tmp; HTML comments render visible |
Recommendation: Approve with comments. Merge is fine — this strictly improves on the corrupting sed. Before the next release tag leans on it, add the one-line tools/check-docs-mdx-parse "fern/versions/${version}-content" fail-closed gate (🟠); the extract-to-tested-script (🟡) is the durable follow-up that also collapses the two nitpicks.
Run tools/check-docs-mdx-parse on each version's sanitized content so any escaping gap is caught before publish rather than at fern generate. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Fixes #2318
Blind
sedescaping of{,},<in the frozen version content checkout step corrupts content inside fenced code blocks on the published Fern docs site. Replaces withawkthat tracks fence state and skips inline code spans.Motivation / Context
The blind sed turns
${VAR}into$\{VAR\},{{.Field}}into\{\{.Field\}\}, etc. inside code blocks. The awk fix only escapes in prose where MDX parsing applies.Fixes: #2318
Related: N/A
Type of Change
Component(s) Affected
cmd/aicr,pkg/cli)cmd/aicrd,pkg/server)pkg/recipe)pkg/bundler,pkg/component/*)pkg/collector,pkg/snapshotter)pkg/validator)pkg/errors,pkg/k8s)docs/,examples/)Testing
Tested locally: ran blind sed vs awk on sample markdown with bash/JSON/Go code blocks. Blind sed corrupts code blocks; awk leaves them untouched. Re-publish will fix the live site.
Risk Assessment
Rollout notes: Next publish will regenerate frozen content with the awk sanitizer.
Checklist
make testwith-race)make lint)git commit -S)