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feat(release): add pre-tag recovery for stranded proven candidates - #43
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A release cancelled after proof but before tag creation left the candidate proven, merged, and untagged. Release Please then aborted every later run with "There are untagged, merged release PRs outstanding", and `repair` could not help because it requires an existing immutable tag. Recovery depended on rerunning the original run before its artifacts expired. Root cause: the workflow had no operation for the merged-and-proven-but- untagged state, and maintenance treated that state as silence. Add `operation=resume`, which publishes one exact candidate SHA: - Recover the publication-candidate record the original run persisted before proof; never mint a fresh admission. - Revalidate PR identity, base branch, merge binding, two-parent topology, projection digest, and manifest version against that record. - Require the target tag to be absent; a tagged candidate belongs to repair. - Repeat packaging, four-platform compatibility, and candidate proof, then enter the same protected `release` environment. - Fail closed when the record is missing or expired. Reconstructing it would admit a candidate no run ever proved. Make maintenance fail loudly with the exact resume command, including the candidate SHA, when it detects a merged release PR whose tag never existed. Also verify hosted-canary credential lifecycle rather than secret names alone: a private key whose registered public half was deleted kept every name-based check green while SSH admission failed. Readiness now requires a registered public half and surfaces a rotation action. Closes #17
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe release workflow adds resume support for retained, merged, proven candidates whose immutable tags do not exist. It revalidates candidate provenance and policy, detects stranded candidates during maintenance, and routes valid candidates through protected publication. ChangesRelease candidate resume
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Mergeability Score: ⚪ Minimal · up to The PR adds recovery for stranded release candidates and loud maintenance detection; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains at the current head beyond normal checks and review. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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Maintainer->>ReleaseWorkflow: dispatch resume with candidate_sha
ReleaseWorkflow->>CandidateArtifact: load retained candidate
ReleaseWorkflow->>ReleasePlease: verify identity and merge provenance
ReleaseWorkflow->>ProtectedRelease: run compatibility, packaging, proof, and release jobs
ProtectedRelease->>ImmutableTag: create tag when absence is confirmed
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scripts/release-validate.test.ts (1)
590-604: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winStrengthen two assertions that cannot fail.
Line 590 asserts the workflow does not contain
git tag -a "$RELEASE_TAG" "$RESUME_SHA". The tag step uses$CANDIDATE_SHA, andRESUME_SHAexists only in the resolve step, so this string can never appear. The assertion passes even if resume gains an ad hoc tag path.Line 604 asserts
strandedStepis not"". WhenindexOfreturns-1,slice(-1)returns the last character rather than"", so a removed detection step does not trigger this guard.Assert the invariants directly instead.
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- // Resume must never create an ad hoc tag outside the admitted record. - expect(workflow).not.toContain('git tag -a "$RELEASE_TAG" "$RESUME_SHA"') + // Resume must never create an ad hoc tag outside the admitted record. + expect(resumeBranch).not.toContain("git tag") + expect(resumeBranch).not.toContain("git push") + expect(workflow.match(/tag -a "\$RELEASE_TAG"/g)).toHaveLength(1) + expect(workflow).toContain('tag -a "$RELEASE_TAG" "$CANDIDATE_SHA" -F persisted-candidate.json')- const strandedStep = maintainJob.slice( - maintainJob.indexOf(" - name: Detect a merged release candidate stranded before its tag\n"), - ) + const strandedStepStart = maintainJob.indexOf( + " - name: Detect a merged release candidate stranded before its tag\n", + ) + expect(strandedStepStart).toBeGreaterThan(-1) + const strandedStep = maintainJob.slice(strandedStepStart)🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@scripts/repository-readiness.ts`:
- Around line 618-621: Update the canary readiness check around
CanaryKeyRegistration to derive the expected public key from
CANARY_SSH_PRIVATE_KEY in the trusted protected-environment workflow, fetch
every page of /repos/${repository}/keys, and compare normalized fingerprints
rather than raw entry.key values. Treat malformed deploy-key entries or
derivation failures as unavailable, and only report ready when the actual canary
key matches; update tests to reject unrelated keys and accept the matching key.
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In `@scripts/release-validate.test.ts`:
- Around line 590-604: Strengthen the assertions in the release workflow
validation test: make the tag-path check target the actual candidate-tag command
and directly verify the resume path does not introduce an ad hoc tag operation,
and replace the stranded-step slice check with an explicit index assertion that
fails when the detection step is absent. Update the assertions around the
existing workflow parsing in the test covering stranded release candidates.
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💡 Codex Review Verify the canary actor key instead of source-repo deploy keys
The documented canary SSH credential belongs to AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L32-L32  Fail closed when stranded-candidate discovery fails
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Bind canary readiness to the exact registered deploy key. A non-empty deploy-key list only proved that some key existed, so an unrelated key could report ready after the canary key was deleted -- the exact failure this check exists to catch. Readiness now matches the deploy-key title against a new CANARY_SSH_KEY_TITLE variable, paginates the deploy-key list, and fails closed on a truncated or malformed response. Bound by title rather than by deriving the public half from CANARY_SSH_PRIVATE_KEY: readiness must never read secret values (docs/release-setup.md), and derivation would breach that boundary. Replace two assertions that could not fail: - The ad hoc tag guard matched a string the workflow never contains, since the tag step uses $CANDIDATE_SHA. It now asserts the resume branch runs no git tag/push and that exactly one tag -a call exists. - The stranded-step guard compared slice(-1) against "", which returns the last character, never "". It now asserts the index directly.
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Both correct, and both were mine — a dead assertion is worse than no assertion, so this mattered more than "nitpick" suggests. Fixed in 5a44456, essentially as proposed. The ad hoc tag guard now asserts the resume branch contains no I verified both are live rather than vacuous: |
Read the canary credential from the account that owns it. The canary SSH
key belongs to plugin.config.json's canary.actor and authenticates against
the separate canary repositories, but the check read this template repo's
deploy keys -- a different object that never carries it. Against the live
repository the actor has 3 registered keys and this repo has 0 deploy keys,
so the check reported missing on a correctly configured setup while an
unrelated deploy key could still have reported ready.
Readiness now reads /users/{canary.actor}/keys and matches the public half
against a CANARY_SSH_PUBLIC_KEY variable, comparing key type and material
so a differing comment or spacing does not cause a false mismatch. A public
key is not a secret, so readiness still never reads secret values. A
regression test pins the endpoint, since the defect was the endpoint itself.
Fail closed when stranded-candidate discovery fails. `|| true` turned an
outage or authorization change into an empty candidate list, letting
maintenance proceed and stop silently on an untagged merged PR -- exactly
the failure this detection exists to prevent. The API failure now
propagates, and the step assertion is bounded so it cannot pass on an
unrelated later step.
Both correct, and the P1 was the more serious of the two — thank you. Fixed in P1 — wrong endpoint. You're right that these are different objects, and the live data makes it stark: Readiness now reads P2 — fail-open discovery. Also correct, and it defeated the check entirely: One follow-up for the maintainer rather than the code: Suite: 701 pass / 5 skip / 0 fail (706 tests). |
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gh exits 1 for every failure, so `if gh api .../git/ref/tags/X` treated a transient error, auth problem, or rate limit exactly like a 404. Resume would then continue past its absent-tag contract, and the later tag step accepts an existing matching tag and proceeds to assets -- so resume could silently act as repair. Four sites shared the invariant, so all four now route through one tag_absent helper that inspects the response status and continues only on a confirmed not-found. Every other failure propagates with the response text. The publish replay had the mirror-image bug: a failed probe set publish_tag_exists=false, admitting publication against a tag that may exist. Verified against the live API: v0.1.0 reports present, an unused tag reports absent, and a non-404 transport failure exits 1 instead of reading as absent. Reported by Codex review on bef052b.
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The hosted-canary credential work is unrelated to issue #17's pre-tag recovery objectives, as CodeRabbit's out-of-scope check flagged. It also attracted three of the five review findings on this PR, so it deserves its own review rather than riding along with the release recovery contract. Continues in fix/canary-credential-lifecycle. This PR is now purely the resume operation, stranded-candidate detection, and tag-absence proof.
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) Four review findings across #43 and #44 were the same mistake: treating "the check failed" as "the thing is absent". An || true turning an API outage into an empty candidate list, a gh exit code standing in for a 404, this repository's deploy keys answering for the canary actor's, and a discarded malformed page reporting a variable as missing. Every one appeared in code whose only job is fail-closed verification, and every one reported healthy while the thing it guarded was broken. Record it under Proof Boundaries so the next person extending these checks has the pattern named rather than rediscovering it in review.
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) * fix(readiness): bind canary readiness to the registered public half A protected hosted-canary environment retained CANARY_SSH_PRIVATE_KEY after its public half was deleted from GitHub. Secret-name checks stayed green and readiness reported READY, but SSH admission failed, so publication could strand on a credential the checks called healthy. Readiness now proves the credential's registered public half still exists: - Read /users/{canary.actor}/keys. The credential belongs to the actor and authenticates against the canary repositories; this repository's deploy keys are a different object that never carries it. - Match against a new CANARY_SSH_PUBLIC_KEY variable, comparing key type and material so a differing comment or spacing is not a false mismatch. - Paginate, and fail closed on a truncated or malformed response, because a short list cannot prove absence. - Surface a rotation repair naming the register-public-half-first order. A public key is not a secret, so readiness still never reads secret values. A regression test pins the endpoint. Split from #43, where this work was out of scope for issue #17's pre-tag release recovery. * Fail closed on unreadable repository variable metadata (#44) Malformed variable pages and entries were discarded, so unreadable GitHub metadata reported the canary binding as missing and told the user to add CANARY_SSH_PUBLIC_KEY -- a variable that may already exist. The keys path four lines above already distinguished unreadable from absent; this path did not. Extract readRepositoryVariable so the distinction is testable at a real seam rather than buried in the API caller: it returns the value, "" when a fully readable response lacks the variable, and undefined when any page, entry, or value is unreadable. The caller maps undefined to unavailable. Reported by CodeRabbit review on 5fc8b1d. --------- Co-authored-by: Nathan Vale <hi@nathanvale.com>
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The previous fix parsed `gh api ... 2>&1` with jq, but gh writes its error diagnostic into that same stream: a 404 emits the JSON body immediately followed by `gh: Not Found (HTTP 404)`. jq prints the status and *then* errors on the trailing text, so the value survived only because `|| true` swallowed the failure. Reversed ordering yields no status at all, and tag_absent would then block every publication whose tag is correctly absent -- turning a fail-open bug into a fail-shut one. Take the status from the explicit `--include` status line instead, and accept only 200 or 404; anything else stays unprovable and fails closed. Verified live: an existing tag reports present, an unused tag reports absent, and a transport failure exits 1. Also stop reinterpreting a stranded candidate's projection with current path policy. The candidate's first parent already executed its historical policy, and repair deliberately passes false for that reason; resume passed true, so a candidate stranded across a change to RELEASE_PROJECTION_PATH_SET would be rejected -- the exact case resume exists to rescue. The persisted digest still binds the projection. Both reported by Codex review on 0f48843.
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Closes #17
Problem
A release cancelled after proof but before tag creation left the candidate proven, merged, and untagged. Release Please then aborted every later run with
There are untagged, merged release PRs outstanding - aborting, andrepaircould not help because it requires an existing immutable tag. Recovery depended on rerunning the original run before its artifacts expired.Root cause: the workflow had no operation for the merged-and-proven-but-untagged state, and maintenance treated that state as silence.
Change
operation=resumePublishes one exact candidate SHA through the normal protected path:
repair.releaseenvironment.Resume fails closed when the record is missing, expired, rebound, mismatched, already tagged, or not a Release Please PR. An expired record is not reconstructed: rebuilding it would admit a candidate no run ever proved.
Loud maintenance
Maintenance now detects a merged release PR whose tag never existed and fails with the exact recovery command, including the candidate SHA, instead of stopping quietly. Detection runs before Release Please, whose own abort message is silent. A failed discovery API call propagates rather than reading as "nothing stranded".
Tag absence proved from a 404
ghexits 1 for every failure, so an exit-code probe let a transient error, auth problem, or rate limit read as "tag absent" — which would let resume silently act as repair. All four tag probes now route through one helper that continues only on a confirmed 404 and propagates every other failure. The publish replay had the mirror-image bug: a failed probe admitted publication against a tag that may exist.Verification
bun run release:validatepasses;bun run generate:checkcurrentresumeoption, renaming the detection step, and restoring the old exit-code probe each turn their guard redtag_absentverified against the live API: existing tag reports present, unused tag reports absent, non-404 transport failure exits 1 instead of reading as absentWhat this does not prove
The contract and admission logic are proved; hosted delivery is not. Issue #17 asks to test cancellation immediately before tag creation and resume through to a real tag — that needs a live release rehearsal. The workflow-source assertions bind text and ordering, not a real cancelled run. Treat the first real resume as the acceptance test.
Release Please's own post-reconciliation behaviour is also not executed here; this proves the stranded state is detected and reported, not that Release Please then proceeds.
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The hosted-canary credential work originally included here moved to #44 — it was unrelated to issue #17's objectives, as CodeRabbit's out-of-scope check flagged, and attracted three of the five review findings on this PR.
The lineage-label fix from the first issue comment already landed in #23/#27; this adds guard coverage rather than reimplementing it.
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