ci: close Android/Gradle dependency scanning gap and add release-candidate assessment

[mattinannt]

Summary

Closes the dependency-scanning gap from ENG-3869. GitHub's dependency graph sees Pub packages from pubspec.lock but not the Maven artifacts and build plugins Gradle resolves for apps/playground/android, so Dependabot alerts never covered them.

• dependency-submission.yml (push to main, weekly, manual): a read-only collect job resolves the Gradle build, validates the snapshot and uploads evidence. A separate contents: write job runs no repo code, re-checks the snapshot is bound to this SHA/ref, and submits it. Dispatch from a non-default branch is a dry run.
• tool/dependency_inventory.dart: fail-closed validation (stale SHA, empty/partial snapshot, plugin Android deps missing from the graph, mismatch with Gradle's own :app runtime classpath), then OSV lookup over Gradle + Pub components. Incomplete results are never reported as clean (exit 2, "cleanResult": false).
• release-dependency-assessment.yml (manual, takes a ref/SHA): assesses the exact release candidate independent of default-branch alert counts; fails on incomplete inventory or unexcepted High/Critical/unrated findings.
• .github/dependency-exceptions.json: empty, human-only exception register (approver + expiry ≤180 days required). Nothing is dismissed or accepted automatically.
• Dependabot gradle entry, a Dependency Review check (Pub changes on PRs), make test-tools (wired into the Tests workflow), and docs/DEPENDENCY_SECURITY.md (inventory, release relevance, triage process, limitations).

All new actions are pinned to commit SHAs (≥2 weeks old), with minimal permissions.

Coverage evidence (main @ 7345fa5, resolved locally with Flutter 3.47.7)

Pub packages	86 hosted, 0 advisories
Gradle components in snapshot	731 (115 on app debug/release runtime classpath, 616 build tooling)
Snapshot vs Gradle :app runtime classpath	no gaps
Advisories	58 total; 24 blocking (3 Critical, 21 High), all build tooling (AGP-internal netty/bouncycastle/protobuf/jdom2/jose4j), none on the app runtime classpath
App-runtime findings	3, non-blocking (guava 28.1-android ×2, junit 4.12; debug classpath)

The published formbricks package is Dart-only (no android//ios/); the playground is publish_to: none and its builds don't gate the release.

Expect alerts: once the first snapshot is submitted, Dependabot will likely open alerts for those 24 build-tooling High/Critical advisories. They need a human fix or an explicit exception (see the doc); this PR does not triage or dismiss them.

Validation

• Local: dart format, flutter analyze --fatal-infos --fatal-warnings, SDK tests (372), playground tests (6), tool tests (43), pub publish --dry-run, prettier check all pass; debug APK builds.
• Negative cases exit 2: wrong SHA, truncated snapshot, missing snapshot.
• actionlint clean on new workflows.
• Not yet verified: the new workflows on GitHub Actions, the iOS build (Linux sandbox), and whether Dependabot can evaluate the Gradle project without local.properties.

Residual gaps (documented)

• No Gradle snapshots for PRs. Safe support needs a privileged workflow_run job that verifies the artifact's SHA/ref against the PR head; otherwise a forged snapshot could overwrite the default-branch graph. Not shipped untested.
• iOS has no third-party native deps (all four plugins use SwiftPM); the CI CocoaPods cache step is vestigial (left untouched).
• Not scanned: Flutter SDK, pana, prettier's npm tree, Gradle distribution, JDK/Android SDK/Xcode, runner images.
• OSV is the assessment's advisory source and may differ from Dependabot's view.

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Walkthrough

The change adds a Dart tool that combines Pub and Gradle dependency data, checks inventory coverage, queries OSV, and writes assessment evidence. A composite action collects and assesses Gradle snapshots. GitHub Actions workflows run dependency review, snapshot submission, and release assessment. The change also adds Dependabot configuration, tool tests, and dependency security documentation.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to d2dd3

The dependency assessment tool could hang for up to 45 minutes if OSV stalls after sending headers, instead of retrying and reporting an incomplete result. This affects CI only, and the fix is small. The change is otherwise mergeable.

Pre-merge checks | 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly identifies the main changes: closing the Android/Gradle dependency scanning gap and adding release-candidate assessment.
Description check		The description directly explains the dependency scanning workflows, inventory tooling, release assessment, validation, and documented limitations.
Docstring Coverage		No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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📒 Files selected for processing (12)

• .github/actions/gradle-dependency-snapshot/action.yml
• .github/dependabot.yml
• .github/dependency-exceptions.json
• .github/workflows/dependency-review.yml
• .github/workflows/dependency-submission.yml
• .github/workflows/release-dependency-assessment.yml
• .github/workflows/test.yml
• .gitignore
• Makefile
• docs/DEPENDENCY_SECURITY.md
• tool/dependency_inventory.dart
• tool/dependency_inventory_test.dart

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[mattinannt]

Closed in favor of #63.

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