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142 changes: 92 additions & 50 deletions .github/workflows/dev-version-bump.yml
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name: Dev version bump

# When a release publishes, open a pull request that moves `dev` past the published
# version. Without this, `dev` keeps carrying a version that is at or behind a released
# one, and `tests/release-version-line.test.ts` fails on `dev` and on every pull request
# opened against it - inherited red a contributor cannot fix from their own diff.
# Before a release publishes, open a pull request that moves `dev` past the intended
# version. Merge that pull request before promoting and publishing so `dev` and pull
# requests based on it never inherit a version-line failure from the new tag.
#
# That has been repaired by hand four times: 32529c2b2, e4a85d134, 076ad3036, befcac3e1.
# The second of those ADDED the detector and two more repairs followed it, so more
# visibility was never the missing piece; a prepared change was.
# The workflow now prepares the move before publication. Explicit repair mode retains
# the old catch-up capability if a release somehow publishes without the pre-move.
#
# WHAT THIS DOES NOT DO. It does not push to `dev`. It opens a pull request and a human
# merges it, because ruleset `Protect dev` requires an approving review and code-owner
# sign-off that a bot cannot supply. Until that merge the red persists. This converts a
# forgotten chore into a queued, reviewable change - not into an automatic repair.
# sign-off that a bot cannot supply. `release.yml` independently refuses publication
# until `dev` already outranks the intended version.
#
# WHY THIS IS CALLED, NOT TRIGGERED. It used to listen for `release: published`, and in
# that form it ran ZERO times across v2.37.0, v2.38.0 and v2.39.0 - every one of those
# bumps was still opened by hand (#3045, #3076, #3127). The workflow was not broken; the
# event never existed. `release.yml` creates the GitHub release with
# `GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}`, and GitHub does not start workflow runs from events
# raised by the default `GITHUB_TOKEN`. A `release: published` listener therefore cannot
# observe a release this repository publishes itself, no matter which branch it sits on.
# WHY THIS IS DISPATCHED. The intended version is known before publication, and this
# workflow's purpose is to queue the reviewed `dev` move first. It is not called by the
# release workflow after an irreversible publish, and it does not react to release events.
#
# The fix keeps the credential surface unchanged: no PAT, no app token, no
# `contents: write` on the release job. `release.yml` CALLS this workflow directly after
# a successful publish, so the run is a child of the release run instead of a reaction to
# an event that is never delivered.
#
# A `workflow_call` body resolves from the CALLER's ref, and `release.yml` only ever runs
# on `main` or `preview` (its own branch gate). So this file must be on `main` to take
# effect - the same promotion requirement the old comment described, now for a different
# reason.
#
# There is deliberately no `workflow_dispatch`: a branch-selected manual run executes
# THAT branch body with `contents: write`. Re-drive a missed run by running
# `bun scripts/bump-dev-version.ts <released> package.json` locally and opening the pull
# request normally.
# A branch-selected dispatch executes that branch's workflow body with write permission.
# The in-job guard therefore rejects accidental non-default-ref dispatches. It is an early
# warning, not a security boundary: a writer could remove it on their branch. Protected
# release branches and the required review on `dev` remain the enforcement boundaries.
on:
workflow_call:
workflow_dispatch:
inputs:
released-version:
description: "The tag that just published, e.g. v2.39.0"
intended-version:
description: "Version about to be released (pre-move), or one already published (repair)"
required: true
type: string
mode:
description: "pre-move (default) or repair — repair allows an already-published version"
required: false
default: pre-move
type: choice
options:
- pre-move
- repair

permissions: {}

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- name: Install dependencies
run: bun install --frozen-lockfile

- name: Refuse a dispatch from a non-default ref
run: |
test "$GITHUB_REF" = "refs/heads/${{ github.event.repository.default_branch }}" || {
echo "::error::this workflow may only be dispatched from the default branch"
exit 1
}

- name: Resolve the target version
id: target
env:
INTENDED: ${{ inputs.intended-version }}
MODE: ${{ inputs.mode }}
run: |
set -euo pipefail
target="${INTENDED:-}"
if [ -z "$target" ]; then
echo "::error::intended-version was not supplied"
exit 1
fi
echo "version=${target}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
if [ "${MODE:-pre-move}" = "repair" ]; then
echo "mode=repair" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
else
echo "mode=pre-move" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
fi

- name: Decide the version dev should carry
id: decide
env:
RELEASED_VERSION: ${{ inputs.released-version }}
RELEASED_VERSION: ${{ steps.target.outputs.version }}
run: |
set -euo pipefail
bun scripts/bump-dev-version.ts "${RELEASED_VERSION}" package.json

- name: Prove the intended version is not already released
if: ${{ steps.target.outputs.mode == 'pre-move' }}
env:
INTENDED: ${{ steps.target.outputs.version }}
run: |
set -euo pipefail
git fetch --force --tags origin
if git rev-parse -q --verify "refs/tags/v${INTENDED#v}" >/dev/null; then
echo "::error::v${INTENDED#v} already exists; this is a catch-up, not a pre-move"
exit 1
fi
if npm view "@bitkyc08/opencodex@${INTENDED#v}" version >/dev/null 2>&1; then
echo "::error::${INTENDED#v} is already on npm"
exit 1
fi

- name: Prove the chosen version is unused
if: ${{ steps.decide.outputs.changed == 'true' }}
# The script decides the candidate from the released version SHAPE, which is all
# The script decides the candidate from the target version SHAPE, which is all
# a pure function can see. Whether that candidate is actually FREE is a property
# of the tag set, so it is settled here by the detector that already owns the
# question. If this fails, no pull request is opened and the job goes red asking
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if: ${{ steps.decide.outputs.changed == 'true' }}
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
MODE: ${{ steps.target.outputs.mode }}
NEXT_VERSION: ${{ steps.decide.outputs.version }}
RELEASED_VERSION: ${{ inputs.released-version }}
TARGET_VERSION: ${{ steps.target.outputs.version }}
run: |
set -euo pipefail

branch="codex/dev-version-${NEXT_VERSION}"
if [ "${MODE}" = "repair" ]; then
subject="fix(release): move dev to ${NEXT_VERSION} after ${TARGET_VERSION}"
reason="\`${TARGET_VERSION}\` has published, so \`dev\` is carrying a version at or behind a released one and \`tests/release-version-line.test.ts\` fails on \`dev\` and on every pull request opened against it. This is the post-publish repair."
freeness="\`bun test tests/release-version-line.test.ts\` proved the chosen development version is unused."
else
subject="chore(release): open dev at ${NEXT_VERSION} before releasing ${TARGET_VERSION}"
reason="\`${TARGET_VERSION}\` is about to be released. Merging this first means \`dev\` already outranks the new tag when it lands, so neither \`dev\` nor any open pull request ever inherits the version-line failure. \`release.yml\` refuses to publish until this has merged."
freeness="The workflow proved \`${TARGET_VERSION}\` has neither a Git tag nor an npm publication, and \`bun test tests/release-version-line.test.ts\` proved the chosen development version is unused."
fi

# Idempotent: a second publish, a re-run, or a manual repair must not turn a
# successful release into a red job.
# Idempotent: a repeated dispatch, a re-run, or a manual repair must not turn
# an already-queued version move into a red job.
#
# Check the PULL REQUEST as well as the branch, not just the branch. A security
# review caught that: an open bump pull request whose head branch was deleted
# leaves the branch check passing, so the job would recreate the branch and then
# fail on `gh pr create` with "already exists" — turning a successful release red
# for a repair that was already queued.
# fail on `gh pr create` with "already exists" — turning a successful run red
# for a move that was already queued.
open_prs="$(gh pr list --base dev --head "${branch}" --state open --json number --jq 'length')"
if [ "${open_prs}" != "0" ]; then
echo "::notice::a bump pull request for ${branch} is already open; nothing to do"
exit 0
fi

# An existing branch is NOT terminal. If a previous run pushed the branch and then
# failed at `gh pr create`, exiting here would leave the repair permanently unqueued
# failed at `gh pr create`, exiting here would leave the move permanently unqueued
# while every rerun reports success - the exact failure mode a reviewer caught. So
# reuse the branch and fall through to pull-request creation instead.
if git ls-remote --exit-code --heads origin "${branch}" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
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git config user.email "41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
git checkout -b "${branch}"
git add package.json
git commit -m "fix(release): move dev to ${NEXT_VERSION} after ${RELEASED_VERSION}"
git commit -m "${subject}"
git push origin "${branch}"
fi

gh pr create \
--base dev \
--head "${branch}" \
--title "fix(release): move dev to ${NEXT_VERSION} after ${RELEASED_VERSION}" \
--title "${subject}" \
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P1 Badge Start CI for the generated pre-move PR

When dev does not already outrank a stable release target, this generated PR must merge before release.yml can proceed. It is still created with GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}, however, so GitHub suppresses the resulting pull_request and pull_request_target workflow runs; the PR therefore receives none of the required CI checks and cannot be merged under the documented policy without an undocumented manual retrigger. Dispatch the required checks for the new head or use an approved credential/event path that causes them to run.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L325-L327

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--body "$(cat <<BODY
## Summary

\`${RELEASED_VERSION}\` published, so \`dev\` would otherwise keep a version at or
behind a released one and \`tests/release-version-line.test.ts\` would fail on
\`dev\` and on every pull request opened against it. This moves \`dev\` to
\`${NEXT_VERSION}\`.
${reason}

This moves \`dev\` to \`${NEXT_VERSION}\`.

Opened automatically by \`.github/workflows/dev-version-bump.yml\`. The same
repair was previously done by hand in 32529c2b2, e4a85d134, 076ad3036, and
version-line move was previously done by hand in 32529c2b2, e4a85d134, 076ad3036, and
befcac3e1.

## Verification

\`bun test tests/release-version-line.test.ts\` ran against this exact tree
before the pull request was opened; the workflow refuses to open one if the
chosen version collides with a published release.
${freeness}

## Checklist

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cancel-in-progress: false

jobs:
# Move `dev` past the version that just published.
#
# This is a CALL, not a `release: published` listener. The release is created with
# `github.token`, and GitHub does not start workflow runs from events that token
# raises - so a listener cannot observe a release this repository publishes itself. In
# that form it ran ZERO times across v2.37.0, v2.38.0 and v2.39.0 while every one of
# those bumps was opened by hand (#3045, #3076, #3127).
#
# `needs: publish` means this is skipped unless the publish job succeeded, so a failed
# publish or a failed release creation never opens a bump pull request; the explicit
# condition only adds the dry-run case. The called workflow declares its own
# `contents: write` / `pull-requests: write` for its own job, so nothing here gains
# write access.
#
# Both channels call this, and the double-call is safe because `bump-dev-version.ts`
# compares against what `dev` already carries. In the usual train `dev` is already at
# the stable core when the preview publishes, so that call returns `changed=false`
# ("dev already carries 2.40.0, which is ahead of the published 2.40.0-preview.*") and
# every later step is gated on that output. The stable call returns `changed=true` and
# opens the one pull request. A preview publishing while `dev` is genuinely behind
# still bumps it, which is the point.
#
# It is declared FIRST in this file, ahead of the jobs it depends on, because
# tests/ci-workflows.test.ts splits the workflow on `- name:` and reads each `run:`
# block to the start of the next one when it checks that dispatch inputs never
# interpolate into shell source. A job declared between two steps lands inside that
# window and reads as shell. Job order in YAML carries no execution meaning - `needs`
# does - so declaring it before its own dependency costs nothing.
bump-dev-version:
needs: publish
if: ${{ inputs.dry-run != true }}
# A reusable-workflow CALL cannot grant the callee more than the calling job holds,
# and GitHub refuses the whole run at startup when the called workflow's own job
# declares permissions the caller did not pass down ("startup_failure", runs
# 33615174183 / 33615177849 — the first dispatches since #3129 wired this call).
# The callee's job declares exactly these two; nothing else in this file gains them.
permissions:
contents: write
pull-requests: write
uses: ./.github/workflows/dev-version-bump.yml
with:
released-version: v${{ inputs.version }}

validate-dispatch:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
permissions:
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echo "Service lifecycle passed for ${GITHUB_SHA}: ${service_url}"
fi

- name: Require dev to be ready for this release
env:
RELEASE_VERSION: ${{ inputs.version }}
run: |
set -euo pipefail
git fetch --force --tags origin +refs/heads/dev:refs/remotes/origin/dev
dev_version="$(git show origin/dev:package.json | bun -e 'console.log(JSON.parse(await Bun.stdin.text()).version)')"
bun scripts/version-line.ts assert-ahead "$dev_version" "$RELEASE_VERSION"

# Tokenless publish via Trusted Publishing (OIDC) — NO NPM_TOKEN secret. npm auto-detects the
# OIDC environment (`id-token: write` above) and generates provenance automatically, so neither a
# token nor `--provenance` is needed. `npm publish` runs prepublishOnly first (typecheck + build
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fi
fi

- name: Refuse a release the current tag set already outranks
env:
RELEASE_VERSION: ${{ inputs.version }}
DRY_RUN: ${{ inputs.dry-run }}
run: |
set -euo pipefail
allow=""
existing_tag_sha="$(git rev-parse -q --verify "refs/tags/v${RELEASE_VERSION}^{commit}" || true)"
if [ "$DRY_RUN" = "true" ] && [ -n "$existing_tag_sha" ] && [ "$existing_tag_sha" = "$GITHUB_SHA" ]; then
allow="--allow-existing-tag-at-head"
fi
git tag --list 'v*' | bun scripts/version-line.ts assert-releasable "$RELEASE_VERSION" $allow
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Require the selected npm channel to move forward.

The manual workflow checks only Git tags at .github/workflows/release.yml:304-315. Its npm check at lines 295-301 rejects only an existing exact version. scripts/release.ts performs the channel check, but the workflow does not invoke it. An unused version lower than the selected npm dist-tag can therefore pass, and npm publish --tag "$NPM_DIST_TAG" can move that channel backward. Add the equivalent check before publication.

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In @.github/workflows/release.yml around lines 304 - 315, Update the release
workflow’s pre-publication validation near the existing git tag check to also
verify that RELEASE_VERSION advances the selected NPM_DIST_TAG channel. Invoke
the existing channel-validation logic from scripts/release.ts, passing the
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- name: Build and validate release changelog
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
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- Direct pushes are reserved for maintainer-owned integration work, urgent repairs, or incident
recovery. The same CI and documentation requirements still apply.
- Promotion from `dev` to `main` and npm releases is maintainer-controlled.
- **Closing out a release includes moving `dev`'s version line forward.** A published
release leaves `dev` carrying a version at or behind it, and
`tests/release-version-line.test.ts` then fails on `dev` and on every pull request
opened against it — red that contributors inherit and cannot fix from their own diff.
This was repaired by hand four times (`32529c2b2`, `e4a85d134`, `076ad3036`,
`befcac3e1`) before it was automated.

`.github/workflows/dev-version-bump.yml` now opens that bump as a pull request when a
release publishes. Merging it is part of closing the release; a bot cannot, because
`Protect dev` requires an approving review and code-owner sign-off. Two caveats worth
knowing: the workflow runs from the DEFAULT branch, so it only fires once it has been
promoted to `main`; and a pull request opened with `GITHUB_TOKEN` does not start
`pull_request` workflows, so the bump pull request arrives without CI. To re-drive a
missed run by hand: `bun scripts/bump-dev-version.ts <released-version> package.json`,
then open the pull request normally.
- **Opening a release starts by moving `dev`'s version line forward.** Before cutting
a release, `dev` must already outrank the version being released; `release.yml`
asserts this and refuses to publish otherwise. Dispatch
`.github/workflows/dev-version-bump.yml` with the intended version, merge the pull
request it opens, then promote and release. When `dev` already outranks the target
— a preview cut, or a stable hotfix below `dev`'s line — no move is needed and the
workflow reports `changed=false`.

Opening a preview for the next core ends the current patch line. After
`vX.Y.0-preview.*` is tagged, a fix ships as part of `X.Y.0`, not as
`X.(Y-1).(Z+1)`. The release helper refuses such a bump rather than producing a
version the repository would reject. This is a deliberate policy restriction, not
a claim that lower stable patches were historically unused.

Done after the publish, as this repository did for ten releases (`32529c2b2`,
`e4a85d134`, `076ad3036`, `befcac3e1`, then #3045, #3076, #3127, #3265, #3354,
#3434), it leaves `dev` and every open pull request carrying a failure contributors
cannot fix from their own diff. The pull request itself does not go away — `Protect
dev` requires a reviewed merge. If the pre-move is missed and publication somehow
succeeds, dispatch `dev-version-bump.yml` from the default branch with the released
version and `mode=repair`, then merge the repair pull request. Design:
`devlog/_plan/260904_release_version_line/`.

## The retired `dev2-go` line

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