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Devin FoleyandPaperclip	8ee8f1fd6e	ci: retire recurring public cloud image builds (#13827 ) ## Thinking Path > - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for work. > - Core publishes standard images and source verification for downstream services. > - Managed services can now compose private images from the signed standard image. > - Core still builds a second public cloud image on every master push and release. > - That duplicate producer consumes build capacity and retains an obsolete readiness contract. > - This pull request retires recurring cloud publication while preserving the standard producer and rollback artifacts. ## Linked Issues or Issue Description Refs #13797 and #13789. Related: #12856 changes image dependency packaging; it does not retire this producer. What existing behavior does this improve? Core's recurring Docker publication and Cloud readiness workflow. Current behavior Master pushes call the legacy cloud publisher from Cloud readiness. Release tags and manual Docker runs call it too. Canary promotion also requires the legacy image. Proposed behavior Publish standard Core images and retain `Cloud source verified v1`. Let downstream services build their managed image. Keep explicit commit previews and existing images available. ## What Changed - Remove `docker-cloud.yml`, its master and release callers, and its unused cache selector. - Remove the legacy image/migrator wait and `Cloud deployable v1` job. Keep the full source verification workflow and exact source-proof name. - Make canary promotion inspect and promote the standard image only. - Preserve signed standard-image publication, direct migrator publication, and explicit `release.yml` previews. The preview path still uses the Dockerfile `cloud` target. - Update workflow, preview, build-stamp, and packaging tests. Exercise the promotion shell with mocked registry commands, including missing-image and missing-tag cases. - Document frozen legacy aliases, consumer requirements, preview compatibility, and rollback retention. ## Verification - All 377 workflow tests pass: `node --test .github/scripts/tests/.test.mjs`. - All 129 release-registry tests pass: `pnpm test:release-registry`. - Focused source-proof, standard-image, preview, and workflow tests pass: 256 tests. - Focused image packaging/build-stamp tests pass: 16 tests. - Actionlint passes on all three changed workflow files. `git diff --check` passes. - Full local `pnpm build` and `pnpm -r typecheck` pass. - The policy follow-up updates an old assertion that required the removed readiness job. All 37 source-proof/release-workflow tests pass locally. - Full local `pnpm test:run` did not complete successfully while the Mac ran out of disk space. No full-suite pass is claimed. Removed 1.2 GiB of generated Cargo output from this isolated worktree with `cargo clean`. GitHub CI passed on the final head: 52 successful checks and 2 optional skips. - Fresh Greptile review for `4f5fe1951f0bd7f7739cf6655d395ff78f1ed944`: 5/5, successful current-head check, zero review threads. - September 23 refresh: the unchanged PR head merges cleanly with current master `db8f8fe5b73a2697684a30261b0d306a9c631aba`. In an isolated temporary worktree, all 377 workflow tests and 29 release/preview tests pass on the combined tree. `git diff --cached --check` passes. - Refreshed Actionlint workflow validation passes with ShellCheck disabled. Full Actionlint reports the same 10 existing ShellCheck diagnostics as master, with no added diagnostics. No source changes or new PR commits were needed. - The full local build/typecheck and current-head Linux CI results above remain the verification for the unchanged PR head. They were not rerun for this metadata-only refresh. No image publication or tenant deployment was initiated for this refresh. ## Risks Deployment prerequisite satisfied (September 23):* The combined cleanup release is deployed to staging and production, and production Support is verified. Active managed-fleet automation uses standard-image composition. Explicit immutable previews remain supported by the retained preview publisher. This PR is ready for maintainer review; keep auto-merge disabled and wait for explicit merge authorization. - A consumer still selecting `Cloud deployable v1` will stop advancing at the last legacy-ready commit. Confirm active automatic consumers use the standard-image composition contract before merge. - Legacy cloud release-channel aliases stop advancing. Standard self-hosted aliases continue. - This PR deletes no registry images, cache tags, migrators, credentials, or runner infrastructure. Existing immutable releases remain usable for rollback. - Explicit legacy previews remain for commit-specific operator deployments. Retiring that compatibility path requires a separate consumer migration. - These changes affect CI publication, not database schema or application behavior. ## Model Used OpenAI Codex, GPT-6. The runtime does not expose a more specific model identifier or context-window size. Used repository inspection, reasoning, code editing, shell tools, and test execution. ## Checklist - [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context to this change - [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability details) - [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate planned core work - [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked them above - [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes #` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant issue template - [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip` URLs) - [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`) and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details - [x] I have run tests locally and they pass - [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable - [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes - [x] I have considered and documented any risks above - [x] All Paperclip CI gates are green - [x] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups - [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before requesting merge --------- Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>	2026-09-23 19:35:19 -07:00
Devin Foley	664052f8ea	feat(release): draft stable notes at beta publish, read them from master at promotion (#11567 ) ## Thinking Path > - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for work > - The release channel system promotes builds canary → nightly → beta → stable, and stable releases publish a GitHub Release from `releases/vYYYY.MDD.P.md` > - The stable lane requires that notes file to exist inside the promoted source commit, but the file is named for the promotion date, which is unknown when the source commit is created > - A promoted beta can therefore never pass the notes check: every happy-path stable is forced through the candidate-branch fix path, with a soak-gate justification, for a notes-only change > - This pull request drafts the notes automatically when the beta is published and lets the stable promotion read them from `master` > - The benefit is a walkable stable happy path: the soak gate stays exact, notes get a real review window during the soak, and the justification path returns to its real purpose (cherry-picked fixes) ## Linked Issues or Issue Description What existing behavior does this improve? The stable promotion path in the release channel system (`release.yml`, `scripts/release.sh`). Current behavior `release.sh stable` requires `releases/vYYYY.MDD.P.md` in the checked-out source tree, and `publish_stable` checks out the exact promoted SHA. The soak gate requires a `beta/v` tag to point at that same SHA. No commit can satisfy both for a promoted beta, so a stable promotion must cut a candidate branch with a notes-only commit and bypass the soak gate with a written justification. Release notes are also written at promotion time, under time pressure, with no review window. Proposed behavior* When a beta publishes, a `draft_stable_notes` job generates a grouped notes skeleton at `releases/beta/v<beta-version>.md` and pushes it to a machine-owned branch; a human opens the PR and edits it during the 3-day soak. The stable preflight resolves notes before the `npm-stable` approval gate: source-tree notes first (the candidate fix path, unchanged), then the merged beta-keyed file on `master`; it fails early with the missing path named when neither exists. After the stable ships, a canonicalization job pushes a branch that moves the file to `releases/vYYYY.MDD.P.md`. Related (not duplicates): #11006 and #11008 introduced the nightly and beta lanes this builds on; older changelog PRs (for example #10669) authored notes manually at promotion time, which is the flow this replaces. Reason and benefit The happy path becomes: promote the exact soaked SHA, no justification, notes reviewed during the soak instead of written at the gate. The `releases/vYYYY.MDD.P.md` invariant still holds durably via the canonicalization PR. ## What Changed - `scripts/release.sh`: new `--notes-file PATH` (stable only) overrides where the pre-publish notes check looks, so notes can live outside the source checkout without dirtying the worktree. - `scripts/create-github-release.sh`: same `--notes-file` override for the GitHub Release body. - `scripts/draft-stable-notes.sh` (new): deterministic skeleton generator — commit subjects from the newest stable tag (falling back to the previous beta, then full history) to the beta's source commit, grouped into Features / Fixes / Other. - `.github/workflows/release.yml`: - `draft_stable_notes` job after `publish_beta`: runs the generator and force-pushes `release-notes/v<beta-version>`; the job summary links the compare page. It recreates the beta tag locally if the tag push was rejected (the known workflows-permission case), so drafting is not blocked on manual tag recovery. - `preflight_stable`: computes the target stable version (`release.sh stable --print-version`) and resolves the notes source (`source_tree` → `master_beta` → fail early / warn on dry run); new outputs. - `publish_stable`: materializes `master`-side notes into `RUNNER_TEMP` and passes `--notes-file` to both scripts; outputs the published stable version. - `canonicalize_stable_notes` job: pushes the `git mv` branch after a stable that used `master`-side notes. - `doc/RELEASING.md`, `doc/RELEASE-CHECKLIST.md`: document the drafted-notes flow, the preflight resolution order, and the canonicalization step; the LLM changelog flow now targets the draft branch during the soak. - `.agents/skills/release-changelog/SKILL.md`, `.agents/skills/release-changelog-discord-message/SKILL.md`: the notes-authoring skills now describe this flow — range ends at the beta source commit (not `HEAD`), the file is beta-keyed on the `release-notes/v<beta-version>` branch (seeded with `scripts/draft-stable-notes.sh` for betas that predate the automation), and the canonicalization link caveat is called out for announcements. ## Verification - `node --test scripts/draft-stable-notes.test.mjs` — 6 tests, temp git-repo fixtures: grouping, stable-tag range, previous-beta and full-history fallbacks, default output path, malformed version, missing tag. - `node --test scripts/release-lib.test.mjs` — unchanged suite still green. - `bash -n` on both changed shell scripts; `release.yml` re-parsed as YAML. - `./scripts/release.sh stable --print-version` unchanged (prints the next stable version); `--notes-file` on a non-stable channel fails with a clear error. - Not exercised end-to-end: the new workflow jobs need a real beta publish to run. The first beta after merge is the live test; the draft job is additive and cannot affect the publish result (it runs after `publish_beta` completes). ## Risks - Low risk to publishing itself: `--notes-file` defaults preserve today's behavior everywhere; the draft and canonicalization jobs are additive and run after the publishes succeed. - The preflight now fails a real stable run when no notes are found. That is the intended fail-early behavior (it previously failed later, inside `publish_stable`, after the `npm-stable` approval). - `draft_stable_notes` force-pushes only the machine-owned `release-notes/v<beta-version>` branch; a beta re-cut regenerates it cleanly. - The stable version computed at preflight could differ from the published one if a run crosses UTC midnight between the two jobs; the materialized notes are passed by path, so the publish still succeeds, and the canonicalization job uses the actually-published version. ## Model Used Claude Fable 5 (Claude Code) ## Pre-submission checklist - [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context to this change - [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability details) - [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate planned core work - [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked them above - [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes #` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant issue template	2026-08-17 20:47:23 -07:00
Devin Foley	71e9d6bb0b	feat(release): candidate-branch beta builds and the release checklist (#11209 ) > Follow-up to #11208 (merged): rebased onto master and ready for review. ## Thinking Path > - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for work > - The release channels promote artifacts along canary → nightly → beta → stable, with the happy path being promotion of an existing build > - When one or two targeted fixes are needed before a beta or stable, the only options today are waiting for the next nightly or absorbing a whole day of unrelated master changes > - The channel model was designed with an escape hatch for exactly this: short-lived candidate branches carrying only cherry-picked fixes > - This pull request implements candidate-branch beta builds with full verification, documents the stable fix path through the soak-justification gate, and adds the release captain's checklist > - The benefit is that a surgical fix can ship forward without either delay or blast radius, with its provenance recorded ## Linked Issues or Issue Description Refs #11008 — completes the fix-path half of the channel model introduced there. Subsystem affected Release automation: `scripts/release.sh`, `.github/workflows/release.yml`, `doc/RELEASING.md`, new `doc/RELEASE-CHECKLIST.md`, tests. Problem or motivation Beta promotion only accepts commits that already shipped as a nightly, and stable promotion expects a soaked beta. There is no supported way to ship one or two cherry-picked fixes between lanes: an urgent fix must wait for the nightly cycle or pull in every unrelated master change from the day. The original channel design called for candidate branches to cover this, and they were deferred from the initial implementation. Proposed solution Candidate-branch beta builds: cut `candidate/beta-<target>` from a nightly's source commit, cherry-pick the fixes, and dispatch `channel: beta` with the new `candidate_branch` input. Selection enforces the naming convention, rejects heads that already shipped as a beta or predate the candidate tooling, and records the cherry-picked commits in the job summary. Because candidate heads never went through a canary or nightly, publication is gated on a full `release-verify` run (promoted nightlies keep skipping re-verification). The stable fix path (`candidate/release-<target>` as `source_ref`) works through the existing soak gate: the justification requirement is the deliberate, recorded trade-off for shipping unsoaked bits, and is now documented as such. ## What Changed - `scripts/release.sh`: `--from-candidate` flag (beta only) waives the shipped-a-nightly requirement while keeping the duplicate-beta guard - `.github/workflows/release.yml`: `candidate_branch` dispatch input; candidate mode in `select_beta` (naming validation, duplicate and tooling-era rejection, cherry-pick recording); new `verify_beta_candidate` job gating candidate publishes on full verification - `doc/RELEASING.md`: beta fix-path and stable fix-path sections - `doc/RELEASE-CHECKLIST.md` (new): the release captain's checklist for all four lanes as built - Tests: dry-run fixture coverage for `--from-candidate` (waives the nightly guard, keeps the duplicate guard, rejected outside beta) and wiring tests for candidate validation plus the verification gate ## Verification - `node --test` on the four affected suites: 42 pass in total (17 + 25 across the two runs), including the 5 new tests - `bash -n` on `release.sh`; YAML parse of the workflow - After merge: exercise the path end to end the first time a real cherry-picked beta is needed — dispatch with a `candidate/beta-*` branch and confirm the summary records the picks and verification runs ## Risks - Candidate builds bypass the smoke-tested-nightly provenance by design; the compensating controls are full verification before publish, the post-publish beta smoke, the human `npm-beta` gate, and recorded cherry-picks - The stable fix path rides the existing justification mechanism rather than adding a second bypass — one recorded escape hatch, not two ## Model Used Claude Fable 5 (`claude-fable-5`, Anthropic) in Claude Code, with extended thinking and full tool use. All changes model-authored under human direction. ## Checklist - [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context to this change - [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability details) - [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate planned core work - [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked them above - [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes #` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant issue template - [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip` URLs) - [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`) and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details - [x] I have run tests locally and they pass - [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable - [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes - [x] I have considered and documented any risks above - [ ] All Paperclip CI gates are green (pending — will confirm before merge) - [ ] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups (pending — will confirm before merge) - [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before requesting merge	2026-08-11 10:05:13 -07:00

Author

SHA1

Message

Date

Devin FoleyandPaperclip

8ee8f1fd6e

ci: retire recurring public cloud image builds (#13827 )

## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Core publishes standard images and source verification for
downstream services.
> - Managed services can now compose private images from the signed
standard image.
> - Core still builds a second public cloud image on every master push
and release.
> - That duplicate producer consumes build capacity and retains an
obsolete readiness contract.
> - This pull request retires recurring cloud publication while
preserving the standard producer and rollback artifacts.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #13797 and #13789. Related: #12856 changes image dependency
packaging; it does not retire this producer.

**What existing behavior does this improve?**

Core's recurring Docker publication and Cloud readiness workflow.

**Current behavior**

Master pushes call the legacy cloud publisher from Cloud readiness.
Release tags and manual Docker runs call it too. Canary promotion also
requires the legacy image.

**Proposed behavior**

Publish standard Core images and retain `Cloud source verified v1`. Let
downstream services build their managed image. Keep explicit commit
previews and existing images available.

## What Changed

- Remove `docker-cloud.yml`, its master and release callers, and its
unused cache selector.
- Remove the legacy image/migrator wait and `Cloud deployable v1` job.
Keep the full source verification workflow and exact source-proof name.
- Make canary promotion inspect and promote the standard image only.
- Preserve signed standard-image publication, direct migrator
publication, and explicit `release.yml` previews. The preview path still
uses the Dockerfile `cloud` target.
- Update workflow, preview, build-stamp, and packaging tests. Exercise
the promotion shell with mocked registry commands, including
missing-image and missing-tag cases.
- Document frozen legacy aliases, consumer requirements, preview
compatibility, and rollback retention.

## Verification

- All 377 workflow tests pass: `node --test
.github/scripts/tests/*.test.mjs`.
- All 129 release-registry tests pass: `pnpm test:release-registry`.
- Focused source-proof, standard-image, preview, and workflow tests
pass: 256 tests.
- Focused image packaging/build-stamp tests pass: 16 tests.
- Actionlint passes on all three changed workflow files. `git diff
--check` passes.
- Full local `pnpm build` and `pnpm -r typecheck` pass.
- The policy follow-up updates an old assertion that required the
removed readiness job. All 37 source-proof/release-workflow tests pass
locally.
- Full local `pnpm test:run` did not complete successfully while the Mac
ran out of disk space. No full-suite pass is claimed. Removed 1.2 GiB of
generated Cargo output from this isolated worktree with `cargo clean`.
GitHub CI passed on the final head: 52 successful checks and 2 optional
skips.
- Fresh Greptile review for `4f5fe1951f0bd7f7739cf6655d395ff78f1ed944`:
**5/5**, successful current-head check, zero review threads.
- September 23 refresh: the unchanged PR head merges cleanly with
current master `db8f8fe5b73a2697684a30261b0d306a9c631aba`. In an
isolated temporary worktree, all 377 workflow tests and 29
release/preview tests pass on the combined tree. `git diff --cached
--check` passes.
- Refreshed Actionlint workflow validation passes with ShellCheck
disabled. Full Actionlint reports the same 10 existing ShellCheck
diagnostics as master, with no added diagnostics. No source changes or
new PR commits were needed.
- The full local build/typecheck and current-head Linux CI results above
remain the verification for the unchanged PR head. They were not rerun
for this metadata-only refresh. No image publication or tenant
deployment was initiated for this refresh.

## Risks

**Deployment prerequisite satisfied (September 23):** The combined
cleanup release is deployed to staging and production, and production
Support is verified. Active managed-fleet automation uses standard-image
composition. Explicit immutable previews remain supported by the
retained preview publisher. This PR is ready for maintainer review; keep
auto-merge disabled and wait for explicit merge authorization.

- A consumer still selecting `Cloud deployable v1` will stop advancing
at the last legacy-ready commit. Confirm active automatic consumers use
the standard-image composition contract before merge.
- Legacy cloud release-channel aliases stop advancing. Standard
self-hosted aliases continue.
- This PR deletes no registry images, cache tags, migrators,
credentials, or runner infrastructure. Existing immutable releases
remain usable for rollback.
- Explicit legacy previews remain for commit-specific operator
deployments. Retiring that compatibility path requires a separate
consumer migration.
- These changes affect CI publication, not database schema or
application behavior.

## Model Used

OpenAI Codex, GPT-6. The runtime does not expose a more specific model
identifier or context-window size. Used repository inspection,
reasoning, code editing, shell tools, and test execution.

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [x] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [x] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
requesting merge

---------

Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>

2026-09-23 19:35:19 -07:00

Devin Foley

664052f8ea

feat(release): draft stable notes at beta publish, read them from master at promotion (#11567 )

## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - The release channel system promotes builds canary → nightly → beta →
stable, and stable releases publish a GitHub Release from
`releases/vYYYY.MDD.P.md`
> - The stable lane requires that notes file to exist inside the
promoted source commit, but the file is named for the promotion date,
which is unknown when the source commit is created
> - A promoted beta can therefore never pass the notes check: every
happy-path stable is forced through the candidate-branch fix path, with
a soak-gate justification, for a notes-only change
> - This pull request drafts the notes automatically when the beta is
published and lets the stable promotion read them from `master`
> - The benefit is a walkable stable happy path: the soak gate stays
exact, notes get a real review window during the soak, and the
justification path returns to its real purpose (cherry-picked fixes)

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What existing behavior does this improve?**

The stable promotion path in the release channel system (`release.yml`,
`scripts/release.sh`).

**Current behavior**

`release.sh stable` requires `releases/vYYYY.MDD.P.md` in the
checked-out source tree, and `publish_stable` checks out the exact
promoted SHA. The soak gate requires a `beta/v*` tag to point at that
same SHA. No commit can satisfy both for a promoted beta, so a stable
promotion must cut a candidate branch with a notes-only commit and
bypass the soak gate with a written justification. Release notes are
also written at promotion time, under time pressure, with no review
window.

**Proposed behavior**

When a beta publishes, a `draft_stable_notes` job generates a grouped
notes skeleton at `releases/beta/v<beta-version>.md` and pushes it to a
machine-owned branch; a human opens the PR and edits it during the 3-day
soak. The stable preflight resolves notes before the `npm-stable`
approval gate: source-tree notes first (the candidate fix path,
unchanged), then the merged beta-keyed file on `master`; it fails early
with the missing path named when neither exists. After the stable ships,
a canonicalization job pushes a branch that moves the file to
`releases/vYYYY.MDD.P.md`.

Related (not duplicates): #11006 and #11008 introduced the nightly and
beta lanes this builds on; older changelog PRs (for example #10669)
authored notes manually at promotion time, which is the flow this
replaces.

**Reason and benefit**

The happy path becomes: promote the exact soaked SHA, no justification,
notes reviewed during the soak instead of written at the gate. The
`releases/vYYYY.MDD.P.md` invariant still holds durably via the
canonicalization PR.

## What Changed

- `scripts/release.sh`: new `--notes-file PATH` (stable only) overrides
where the pre-publish notes check looks, so notes can live outside the
source checkout without dirtying the worktree.
- `scripts/create-github-release.sh`: same `--notes-file` override for
the GitHub Release body.
- `scripts/draft-stable-notes.sh` (new): deterministic skeleton
generator — commit subjects from the newest stable tag (falling back to
the previous beta, then full history) to the beta's source commit,
grouped into Features / Fixes / Other.
- `.github/workflows/release.yml`:
- `draft_stable_notes` job after `publish_beta`: runs the generator and
force-pushes `release-notes/v<beta-version>`; the job summary links the
compare page. It recreates the beta tag locally if the tag push was
rejected (the known workflows-permission case), so drafting is not
blocked on manual tag recovery.
- `preflight_stable`: computes the target stable version (`release.sh
stable --print-version`) and resolves the notes source (`source_tree` →
`master_beta` → fail early / warn on dry run); new outputs.
- `publish_stable`: materializes `master`-side notes into `RUNNER_TEMP`
and passes `--notes-file` to both scripts; outputs the published stable
version.
- `canonicalize_stable_notes` job: pushes the `git mv` branch after a
stable that used `master`-side notes.
- `doc/RELEASING.md`, `doc/RELEASE-CHECKLIST.md`: document the
drafted-notes flow, the preflight resolution order, and the
canonicalization step; the LLM changelog flow now targets the draft
branch during the soak.
- `.agents/skills/release-changelog/SKILL.md`,
`.agents/skills/release-changelog-discord-message/SKILL.md`: the
notes-authoring skills now describe this flow — range ends at the beta
source commit (not `HEAD`), the file is beta-keyed on the
`release-notes/v<beta-version>` branch (seeded with
`scripts/draft-stable-notes.sh` for betas that predate the automation),
and the canonicalization link caveat is called out for announcements.

## Verification

- `node --test scripts/draft-stable-notes.test.mjs` — 6 tests, temp
git-repo fixtures: grouping, stable-tag range, previous-beta and
full-history fallbacks, default output path, malformed version, missing
tag.
- `node --test scripts/release-lib.test.mjs` — unchanged suite still
green.
- `bash -n` on both changed shell scripts; `release.yml` re-parsed as
YAML.
- `./scripts/release.sh stable --print-version` unchanged (prints the
next stable version); `--notes-file` on a non-stable channel fails with
a clear error.
- Not exercised end-to-end: the new workflow jobs need a real beta
publish to run. The first beta after merge is the live test; the draft
job is additive and cannot affect the publish result (it runs after
`publish_beta` completes).

## Risks

- Low risk to publishing itself: `--notes-file` defaults preserve
today's behavior everywhere; the draft and canonicalization jobs are
additive and run after the publishes succeed.
- The preflight now fails a real stable run when no notes are found.
That is the intended fail-early behavior (it previously failed later,
inside `publish_stable`, after the `npm-stable` approval).
- `draft_stable_notes` force-pushes only the machine-owned
`release-notes/v<beta-version>` branch; a beta re-cut regenerates it
cleanly.
- The stable version computed at preflight could differ from the
published one if a run crosses UTC midnight between the two jobs; the
materialized notes are passed by path, so the publish still succeeds,
and the canonicalization job uses the actually-published version.

## Model Used

Claude Fable 5 (Claude Code)



## Pre-submission checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template

2026-08-17 20:47:23 -07:00

Devin Foley

71e9d6bb0b

feat(release): candidate-branch beta builds and the release checklist (#11209 )

> Follow-up to #11208 (merged): rebased onto master and ready for
review.

## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - The release channels promote artifacts along canary → nightly → beta
→ stable, with the happy path being promotion of an existing build
> - When one or two targeted fixes are needed before a beta or stable,
the only options today are waiting for the next nightly or absorbing a
whole day of unrelated master changes
> - The channel model was designed with an escape hatch for exactly
this: short-lived candidate branches carrying only cherry-picked fixes
> - This pull request implements candidate-branch beta builds with full
verification, documents the stable fix path through the
soak-justification gate, and adds the release captain's checklist
> - The benefit is that a surgical fix can ship forward without either
delay or blast radius, with its provenance recorded

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #11008 — completes the fix-path half of the channel model
introduced there.

**Subsystem affected**

Release automation: `scripts/release.sh`,
`.github/workflows/release.yml`, `doc/RELEASING.md`, new
`doc/RELEASE-CHECKLIST.md`, tests.

**Problem or motivation**

Beta promotion only accepts commits that already shipped as a nightly,
and stable promotion expects a soaked beta. There is no supported way to
ship one or two cherry-picked fixes between lanes: an urgent fix must
wait for the nightly cycle or pull in every unrelated master change from
the day. The original channel design called for candidate branches to
cover this, and they were deferred from the initial implementation.

**Proposed solution**

Candidate-branch beta builds: cut `candidate/beta-<target>` from a
nightly's source commit, cherry-pick the fixes, and dispatch `channel:
beta` with the new `candidate_branch` input. Selection enforces the
naming convention, rejects heads that already shipped as a beta or
predate the candidate tooling, and records the cherry-picked commits in
the job summary. Because candidate heads never went through a canary or
nightly, publication is gated on a full `release-verify` run (promoted
nightlies keep skipping re-verification). The stable fix path
(`candidate/release-<target>` as `source_ref`) works through the
existing soak gate: the justification requirement is the deliberate,
recorded trade-off for shipping unsoaked bits, and is now documented as
such.

## What Changed

- `scripts/release.sh`: `--from-candidate` flag (beta only) waives the
shipped-a-nightly requirement while keeping the duplicate-beta guard
- `.github/workflows/release.yml`: `candidate_branch` dispatch input;
candidate mode in `select_beta` (naming validation, duplicate and
tooling-era rejection, cherry-pick recording); new
`verify_beta_candidate` job gating candidate publishes on full
verification
- `doc/RELEASING.md`: beta fix-path and stable fix-path sections
- `doc/RELEASE-CHECKLIST.md` (new): the release captain's checklist for
all four lanes as built
- Tests: dry-run fixture coverage for `--from-candidate` (waives the
nightly guard, keeps the duplicate guard, rejected outside beta) and
wiring tests for candidate validation plus the verification gate

## Verification

- `node --test` on the four affected suites: 42 pass in total (17 + 25
across the two runs), including the 5 new tests
- `bash -n` on `release.sh`; YAML parse of the workflow
- After merge: exercise the path end to end the first time a real
cherry-picked beta is needed — dispatch with a `candidate/beta-*` branch
and confirm the summary records the picks and verification runs

## Risks

- Candidate builds bypass the smoke-tested-nightly provenance by design;
the compensating controls are full verification before publish, the
post-publish beta smoke, the human `npm-beta` gate, and recorded
cherry-picks
- The stable fix path rides the existing justification mechanism rather
than adding a second bypass — one recorded escape hatch, not two

## Model Used

Claude Fable 5 (`claude-fable-5`, Anthropic) in Claude Code, with
extended thinking and full tool use. All changes model-authored under
human direction.

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [ ] All Paperclip CI gates are green (pending — will confirm before
merge)
- [ ] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
(pending — will confirm before merge)
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
requesting merge

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