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 This project has two different provenance stories:
 
 For a concise reviewer-facing overview, start with [docs/reviewer-brief.md](docs/reviewer-brief.md). For reproducible review evidence and verification commands, use [docs/reviewer-evidence-pack.md](docs/reviewer-evidence-pack.md). For machine-readable JSON output shape, see [docs/report-schema.md](docs/report-schema.md). For CI consumption of summary-only output, see [docs/summary-json-ci-cookbook.md](docs/summary-json-ci-cookbook.md).
+For a consumer-facing GitHub Actions example, see [docs/github-actions-consumer-example.md](docs/github-actions-consumer-example.md).
 
 1. If you want to verify `sbom-diff-and-risk` itself, start with [docs/verification.md](docs/verification.md).
 2. If you want to use `sbom-diff-and-risk` to analyze third-party dependency provenance, start with [Dependency provenance analysis](#dependency-provenance-analysis-opt-in) and [Dependency provenance reporting](#dependency-provenance-reporting).
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+# GitHub Actions consumer example
+
+This page shows how another repository could run `sbom-diff-risk` from GitHub
+Actions and upload the generated review artifacts.
+
+It is documentation only. It is not a workflow for this repository, and it does
+not change the `sbom-diff-risk` CLI or publishing model.
+
+Production PyPI publishing is intentionally deferred, so consumers should not
+install `sbom-diff-and-risk` from production PyPI. Use a GitHub Release asset or
+a local checkout instead.
+
+## Example workflow
+
+This example downloads the released wheel from the public GitHub Release, runs a
+local comparison, writes JSON, Markdown, summary JSON, and SARIF outputs, applies
+an explicit local threshold to `summary.json`, and uploads the outputs as CI
+artifacts.
+
+Replace the placeholder input paths with files from the consumer repository.
+
+```yaml
+name: Dependency diff review
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  dependency-diff:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Check out consumer repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v6
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.x"
+
+      - name: Download sbom-diff-and-risk release wheel
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
+        run: |
+          mkdir -p .tooling/sbom-diff-risk
+          gh release download v0.6.0 \
+            --repo stacknil/scientific-computing-toolkit \
+            --pattern "sbom_diff_and_risk-0.6.0-py3-none-any.whl" \
+            --dir .tooling/sbom-diff-risk
+
+      - name: Install sbom-diff-risk
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install .tooling/sbom-diff-risk/sbom_diff_and_risk-0.6.0-py3-none-any.whl
+
+      - name: Compare dependency evidence
+        run: |
+          mkdir -p outputs
+          sbom-diff-risk compare \
+            --before path/to/before-sbom.json \
+            --after path/to/after-sbom.json \
+            --format auto \
+            --out-json outputs/report.json \
+            --out-md outputs/report.md \
+            --summary-json outputs/summary.json \
+            --out-sarif outputs/report.sarif
+
+      - name: Apply local summary threshold
+        run: |
+          python - <<'PY'
+          import json
+          from pathlib import Path
+
+          summary = json.loads(Path("outputs/summary.json").read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
+          risk_counts = summary["risk_counts"]
+
+          max_new_packages = 2
+          new_package_count = risk_counts.get("new_package", 0)
+          print(f"new_package={new_package_count}")
+
+          if new_package_count > max_new_packages:
+              raise SystemExit(
+                  f"new_package count exceeds local threshold: {max_new_packages}"
+              )
+          PY
+
+      - name: Upload dependency diff outputs
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
+        with:
+          name: dependency-diff-outputs
+          path: |
+            outputs/report.json
+            outputs/report.md
+            outputs/summary.json
+            outputs/report.sarif
+```
+
+## Local checkout variant
+
+If the consumer repository vendors or checks out this toolkit repository, install
+from that local checkout instead of downloading a release wheel:
+
+```yaml
+- name: Install sbom-diff-risk from local checkout
+  run: |
+    python -m pip install path/to/scientific-computing-toolkit/tools/sbom-diff-and-risk
+```
+
+## What the example proves
+
+- The consumer workflow runs deterministic local diff analysis over files the
+  consumer repository provides.
+- `outputs/report.json` contains the full machine-readable report.
+- `outputs/report.md` contains the human-readable review report.
+- `outputs/summary.json` contains the same object as `report.json["summary"]`.
+- `outputs/report.sarif` can be uploaded or inspected by consumers that want
+  SARIF output.
+- The threshold step is a local consumer policy choice, not a built-in security
+  verdict.
+
+## Boundaries
+
+- The example does not use production PyPI.
+- Production PyPI publishing remains intentionally deferred.
+- The example does not require secrets.
+- Default `sbom-diff-risk` runs do not perform hidden network access.
+- Downloading the GitHub Release wheel is explicit network access by the
+  workflow.
+- `sbom-diff-risk` is not a CVE scanner.
+- The output is not a dependency safety oracle.
+- Replace all placeholder input paths with non-private paths from the consumer
+  repository.
+
+For compact summary consumption patterns, see
+[summary-json-ci-cookbook.md](summary-json-ci-cookbook.md).