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Evan JarrettandClaude Opus 5 61deadc124 hold: reuse stored scan blobs when a rescan finds nothing new
The stale-scan loop rescans an image on a schedule and handleResult uploaded
both artifacts every time, so each pass wrote a fresh SBOM blob and orphaned
the one before it. Nothing reclaims those, because GC walks only the OCI blob
prefix and scan artifacts live under /repos.

Keep the stored blobs when the record already on file was written by this same
scanner version and carries a vulnerability-report reference equal to the one
this report would be stored under, then keep each blob individually and only if
it is still in S3.

The report reference alone is not quite enough evidence on its own: the report
lists matched packages, not every package, so an SBOM could gain a package with
no known CVEs and leave the report byte-identical. Content is pinned by the
manifest digest, so that can only happen across a scanner or Syft change, which
is what the version clause closes. It is inert until that constant moves, and
one comparison is cheaper than remembering to add it at the moment it first
matters.

Every failure path declines to reuse, which costs an upload and never costs
correctness, including the reuse check's own timeout, which is carved out of
the upload budget rather than given its own so a slow read cannot eat the
deadline it stands in for. A record whose earlier upload failed heals on the
next rescan, keeping the report and rewriting only the missing SBOM.

scannedAt still advances. runStalePass selects on it, so freezing it would make
every deduplicated record permanently stale and rescanned forever, which costs
far more than the bytes saved.

A scanner running with vulnerability scanning off sends no report, so there is
no stable digest to compare and its SBOM still churns. Closing that means
either parsing SPDX in the hold to normalise a timestamp and a UUID, or a
lexicon change; a test pins the gap rather than leaving it to be rediscovered.

Note for anyone extending GC to /repos later: a live SBOM object used to be
rewritten on every rescan and so was always young. It now keeps its original
mtime for the life of the content, so an age-based rule there would delete
referenced blobs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01U1Km3N3uUmeGaj7VbaM8PF
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