fix(security): scope gitleaks sweep to the mainline via --log-opts=HEAD (#721)

[scottschreckengaust]

Summary

Implements Part 1 of #721 — the Option 2 decision ratified in #723. One-line change to security:secrets: scope the sweep to HEAD instead of leaving it bare.

Bare gitleaks git . walks every fetched ref, so a secret in an unmerged, no-PR branch reddens the scheduled sweep and blocks unrelated local pushes. It never reached main, but it trains reviewers to ignore a red security gate.

HEAD, not main — this is load-bearing

#721 offers --first-parent main or HEAD as equivalent. On the scheduled run they are (the runner checks out main, so HEAD is main). On pre-push they are not, because this same task backs hooks:pre-push:security. Measured with a detectable account id planted in a feature-branch commit, running the real task:

--log-opts	secret in your own unpushed commit
"HEAD"	leaks found: 1, exit 1 — blocks the push
"main"	no leaks found, exit 0 — push proceeds

main walks mainline only, skipping the commits being pushed — the pre-push hook becomes a no-op exactly when it should fire. HEAD is relative and covers both surfaces correctly.

The task comment also records the --remotes=origin/main fail-open trap documented in #723: it matches no ref in a plain worktree, walks 0 commits, and silently turns the scan green.

Part 2 needs no change

#721 warns "do not land Part 1 without Part 2." Part 2 is already satisfied — the range-scoped scan is already a required check on the main ruleset (14980587):

build (agentcore)
Secrets, deps, and workflow scan

So secrets introduced by a PR are still caught at merge time, on the actual diff.

Test plan

• mise run security:secrets on this branch → 270 commits scanned. no leaks found (exit 0) — acceptance criterion 1: the 4 unmerged-branch findings no longer fail it
• Fail-close verified against the real task (not a bare gitleaks call): planted account id in a local commit → exit 1; probe commit + file removed afterward
• --remotes=origin/main reproduces the fail-open trap → 0 commits scanned, exit 0
• security:secrets:range (what CI runs) → clean; :staged and :range behavior unchanged
• security:deps (osv) clean · security:gh-actions (zizmor) clean · //cdk:compile clean

Pre-existing failures on main — not from this diff

Pushed with --no-verify after running each gate individually. Two gates are red on main independently of this change (this PR touches only mise.toml):

• security:sast — 2 semgrep findings (detect-non-literal-regexp in cdk/src/handlers/shared/orchestration-comment-trigger.ts:221, dynamic-urllib-use-detected in scripts/linear_epic.py:89). Both lines are verbatim on main from feat(orchestration): land the carved orchestration arc on main (S2–S8) #695. Reproduced identically on a near-main branch. SAST is not a required check, so CI does not gate on it. Likely the --config auto registry drift that feat(ci): pin Semgrep + rule packs (semgrep = "latest" + --config auto lets registry changes break CI) #540/chore(ci): pin scanner toolchain + mise + mise-action to exact versions across all surfaces (reproducible security suite) #722 track (semgrep unpinned, currently 1.172.0). Filing separately.
• security:sast:masking — the known bug: security:sast:masking fails on main — 6 silent-success-masking findings (unrelated to #532) #542 failure.

Closes #721 (Part 1; Part 2 already in place). Resolves the decision in #723.

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[theagenticguy]

Verified independently before approving, rather than taking the PR body on faith:

• Part 2 really is in place. Ruleset 14980587 on main lists Secrets, deps, and workflow scan as a required status check, and security-pr.yml runs the range-scoped gitleaks scan on both pull_request and merge_group, so #721's "do not land Part 1 without Part 2" caveat is satisfied.
• The shared-task claim is real. On main, hooks:pre-push:security → mise run security → security:secrets, so this one task does back both the scheduled sweep and pre-push — the HEAD-not-main argument is load-bearing exactly as described.
• Decision provenance checks out. Option 2 ratified on #723 by the repo owner, and the task comment records both the rationale and the --remotes=origin/main fail-open trap, satisfying #721's docs acceptance criterion.

The in-code comment is long, but every paragraph is a distinct trap someone would otherwise re-discover the hard way (the main no-op, the --remotes fail-open). Keeping it is the right call.

One narrow, non-blocking coverage note inline on the run line.