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Devin Foley 8f7b8b3fda feat(release): add human-gated beta channel with stable soak enforcement (#11008)
> Follow-up to #11006 (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 subsystem now publishes canary (every master push),
nightly (scheduled, smoke-gated, added in #11006), and stable (manual)
> - There is still no human-approved release-candidate lane between
nightly and stable, and nothing enforces that a stable actually soaked
anywhere before shipping
> - Betas need a real approval gate, and stables need a soak policy that
is data, not prose
> - This pull request adds the beta channel: a manual promotion of a
chosen nightly behind the `npm-beta` environment gate, re-smoked after
publish, plus a stable preflight that enforces a 3-day beta soak with a
written-justification bypass
> - The benefit is a complete canary → nightly → beta → stable train
where every stable shipped as a beta first, and emergencies leave a
written trace

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**Subsystem affected**

Release automation: `scripts/release.sh`, `scripts/release-lib.sh`,
`.github/workflows/release.yml`, `.github/workflows/docker.yml`,
`.github/workflows/release-smoke.yml`.

**Problem or motivation**

After #11006 the project has canary and nightly prerelease lanes, but no
release-candidate lane. Stable promotion has no enforced soak: any ref
can ship as stable directly. There is no approval boundary for a
broader-audience prerelease, and no structured way to record why an
emergency release skipped validation.

**Proposed solution**

Add a `beta` channel: a manual dispatch that promotes a chosen nightly's
source commit, publishes behind the `npm-beta` GitHub environment
(required reviewers are the gate), re-smokes the published beta, and
tags `beta/vX`. Enforce in the stable path that the source commit
shipped as a beta at least 3 days earlier (measured from the beta's npm
publish time), with a `skip_soak_justification` input as the recorded
emergency bypass.

**Alternatives considered**

Codifying the soak policy in docs only. Rejected: an unenforced policy
decays; the preflight makes the policy executable while the
justification input keeps the emergency path usable and auditable.

## What Changed

- `scripts/release.sh` + `scripts/release-lib.sh`: `beta` channel —
requires HEAD to carry a `nightly/v*` tag, publishes the package set as
`YYYY.MDD.P-beta.N` under dist-tag `beta`, tags
`beta/vYYYY.MDD.P-beta.N`
- `.github/workflows/release.yml`:
- `channel: beta` dispatch path: `select_beta` resolves the newest (or
an explicit `source_version`) nightly and fails loudly on selection
problems; `publish_beta` runs behind the `npm-beta` environment, pushes
the tag, and dispatches `docker.yml`; `smoke_beta` re-runs the release
smoke suite against the exact published beta version
- stable path: new `preflight_stable` job enforces the 3-day beta soak
from the beta's npm publish time; `skip_soak_justification` bypasses
with the reason echoed into the job summary; dry runs report without
blocking
- `.github/workflows/docker.yml`: `beta/v*` tags publish `:beta` on both
images, with exact version stamping
- `.github/workflows/release-smoke.yml`: `beta` added to the dispatch
choice list
- Docs: `CHANNELS.md` beta entries; `RELEASING.md` beta lane, soak gate,
and failure playbook; `RELEASE-AUTOMATION-SETUP.md` `npm-beta`
environment setup, including the warning to create the environment
before the first beta dispatch (GitHub auto-creates unprotected
environments on first reference)
- Tests: beta version-counting coverage in
`scripts/release-registry-versions.test.mjs`; beta identity and
nightly-tag guard coverage in
`scripts/__tests__/release-dry-run-notes.test.mjs`

## Verification

- `node --test` on the two touched suites: 17 pass, including the 3 new
beta tests
- `bash -n` on both shell scripts and YAML parse of all three workflows
- After merge, in order: create the `npm-beta` environment, dispatch
`channel: beta` with `dry_run: true` to preview, then a real promotion
of a published nightly through the approval gate, then a stable dry-run
against a young beta to see the soak gate report

## Risks

- If the `npm-beta` environment does not exist when the first beta
dispatch runs, GitHub creates it with no protection rules and the beta
publishes without approval. Mitigated by documentation and by creating
the environment before merge (operator step)
- Until the first beta exists, every stable dispatch requires
`skip_soak_justification`. This is deliberate — the first beta ships
immediately after this merges — but it is a behavior change to the
stable dispatch
- The soak clock reads the beta's npm publish time from the registry; a
registry outage makes the preflight fall back to requiring justification
(fail-closed)

## Model Used

Claude Fable 5 (`claude-fable-5`, Anthropic) in Claude Code, with
extended thinking and full tool use (repository exploration, local test
execution, live registry and git verification). All code, tests, and
docs in this PR were 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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name: Release
on:
push:
branches:
- master
schedule:
# Nightly cut at 09:00 UTC, after the workday's merges have settled.
- cron: "0 9 * * *"
workflow_dispatch:
inputs:
channel:
description: Release channel to publish
required: true
type: choice
options:
- stable
- beta
- nightly
default: stable
source_ref:
description: (stable) Commit SHA, branch, or tag to publish as stable
required: true
type: string
default: master
stable_date:
description: Enter a UTC date in YYYY-MM-DD format, for example 2026-03-18. Do not enter a version string. The workflow will resolve that date to a stable version such as 2026.318.0, then 2026.318.1 for the next same-day stable.
required: false
type: string
source_version:
description: For nightly, the explicit canary version to promote (empty selects the newest canary on master). For beta, the explicit nightly version to promote (empty selects the newest nightly on master).
required: false
type: string
skip_soak_justification:
description: (stable) Written justification for publishing a stable whose source has not soaked as a beta for 3 days. Leave empty for normal releases.
required: false
type: string
dry_run:
description: Preview the release without publishing
required: true
type: boolean
default: false
concurrency:
group: release-${{ github.event_name }}-${{ github.ref }}
cancel-in-progress: false
jobs:
verify_canary:
if: github.event_name == 'push'
uses: ./.github/workflows/release-verify.yml
with:
ref: ${{ github.sha }}
publish_canary:
if: github.event_name == 'push'
needs: verify_canary
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
timeout-minutes: 45
environment: npm-canary
permissions:
contents: write
id-token: write
steps:
- name: Checkout repository
uses: actions/checkout@v7
with:
fetch-depth: 0
- name: Setup pnpm
uses: pnpm/action-setup@v6
with:
version: 9.15.4
- name: Setup Node.js
uses: actions/setup-node@v7
with:
node-version: 24
cache: pnpm
- name: Validate release package manifest
run: node ./scripts/release-package-map.mjs check
- name: Install dependencies
run: pnpm install --no-frozen-lockfile
- name: Restore tracked install-time changes
run: git checkout -- pnpm-lock.yaml
- name: Configure git author
run: |
git config user.name "github-actions[bot]"
git config user.email "41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
- name: Publish canary
env:
GITHUB_ACTIONS: "true"
run: ./scripts/release.sh canary --skip-verify
- name: Dump npm debug logs
if: failure()
run: |
shopt -s nullglob
for f in "$HOME"/.npm/_logs/*.log; do
echo "===== $f ====="
tail -n 300 "$f" | sed -E \
-e 's#((authorization|_authToken|_auth|node_auth_token|npm_token)"?[[:space:]]*[:=][[:space:]]*"?)(Bearer[[:space:]]+)?[^",[:space:]]+#\1***REDACTED***#Ig'
done
- name: Push canary tag
run: |
tag="$(git tag --points-at HEAD | grep '^canary/v' | head -1)"
if [ -z "$tag" ]; then
echo "Error: no canary tag points at HEAD after release." >&2
exit 1
fi
git push origin "refs/tags/${tag}"
# ----- Nightly lane -----------------------------------------------------
# Once a night (or on a forced nightly dispatch), promote the newest master
# commit that already shipped a green canary: smoke-test that exact
# published canary first, then republish the same commit under the nightly
# identity. The candidate commit already passed release-verify during its
# canary publish, so the nightly publish skips re-verification.
select_nightly:
if: github.event_name == 'schedule' || (github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && inputs.channel == 'nightly')
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
timeout-minutes: 10
permissions:
contents: read
outputs:
proceed: ${{ steps.select.outputs.proceed }}
sha: ${{ steps.select.outputs.sha }}
canary_version: ${{ steps.select.outputs.canary_version }}
steps:
- name: Checkout repository
uses: actions/checkout@v7
with:
ref: master
fetch-depth: 0
- name: Select nightly candidate
id: select
env:
EXPLICIT_CANARY_VERSION: ${{ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && inputs.source_version || '' }}
run: |
set -euo pipefail
git fetch origin --tags --prune --quiet
skip() {
echo "proceed=false" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
{
echo "## Nightly skipped"
echo ""
echo "$1"
} >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
echo "Nightly skipped: $1"
}
if [ -n "${EXPLICIT_CANARY_VERSION:-}" ]; then
tag="canary/v${EXPLICIT_CANARY_VERSION}"
sha="$(git rev-list -n 1 "$tag" 2>/dev/null || true)"
if [ -z "$sha" ]; then
echo "Error: tag $tag does not exist." >&2
exit 1
fi
else
# Newest canary-tagged commit on master. Canary tags are pushed
# only after a successful canary publish, so tag presence is the
# green-publish signal. Walk master newest-first and stop at the
# first commit that carries a canary tag.
sha="$(grep -m1 -F \
-f <(git for-each-ref 'refs/tags/canary/v*' --format='%(objectname)') \
<(git rev-list origin/master -n 500) || true)"
if [ -z "$sha" ]; then
skip "No canary/v* tag found on the last 500 commits of master."
exit 0
fi
tag="$(git tag --points-at "$sha" | grep '^canary/v' | sort -V | tail -1)"
fi
canary_version="${tag#canary/v}"
existing_nightly="$(git tag --points-at "$sha" | grep '^nightly/v' | head -1 || true)"
if [ -n "$existing_nightly" ]; then
skip "Candidate \`$sha\` (canary \`$canary_version\`) already shipped as \`$existing_nightly\`."
exit 0
fi
echo "proceed=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "sha=$sha" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "canary_version=$canary_version" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
{
echo "## Nightly candidate"
echo ""
echo "- Source SHA: \`$sha\`"
echo "- Source canary: \`$canary_version\`"
} >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
# Gate the promotion on the release smoke suite, run against the exact
# published canary artifact that would become tonight's nightly. Red smoke
# means no nightly tonight. Skipped for dry-run dispatches.
smoke_nightly:
needs: select_nightly
if: needs.select_nightly.outputs.proceed == 'true' && !(github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && inputs.dry_run)
uses: ./.github/workflows/release-smoke.yml
with:
paperclip_version: ${{ needs.select_nightly.outputs.canary_version }}
artifact_name: nightly-release-smoke
publish_nightly:
needs: [select_nightly, smoke_nightly]
# Publish when smoke passed, or when smoke was deliberately skipped by a
# dry-run dispatch (the publish itself is a dry-run in that case).
if: >-
!cancelled() &&
needs.select_nightly.outputs.proceed == 'true' &&
(needs.smoke_nightly.result == 'success' ||
(needs.smoke_nightly.result == 'skipped' && github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && inputs.dry_run))
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
timeout-minutes: 45
environment: npm-canary
# The workflow-level concurrency group is per event, so a forced dispatch
# nightly could otherwise overlap the scheduled one and race it to the
# same next -nightly.N version. Serialize actual nightly publishes across
# events here; release.sh additionally refuses to double-publish a commit
# that already carries a nightly tag.
concurrency:
group: release-publish-nightly
cancel-in-progress: false
permissions:
contents: write
id-token: write
actions: write
steps:
- name: Checkout repository
uses: actions/checkout@v7
with:
ref: ${{ needs.select_nightly.outputs.sha }}
fetch-depth: 0
- name: Setup pnpm
uses: pnpm/action-setup@v6
with:
version: 9.15.4
- name: Setup Node.js
uses: actions/setup-node@v7
with:
node-version: 24
cache: pnpm
- name: Validate release package manifest
run: node ./scripts/release-package-map.mjs check
- name: Install dependencies
run: pnpm install --no-frozen-lockfile
- name: Restore tracked install-time changes
run: git checkout -- pnpm-lock.yaml
- name: Configure git author
run: |
git config user.name "github-actions[bot]"
git config user.email "41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
- name: Publish nightly
env:
GITHUB_ACTIONS: "true"
run: |
args=(nightly --skip-verify)
if [ "${{ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && inputs.dry_run }}" = "true" ]; then
args+=(--dry-run)
fi
./scripts/release.sh "${args[@]}"
- name: Dump npm debug logs
if: failure()
run: |
shopt -s nullglob
for f in "$HOME"/.npm/_logs/*.log; do
echo "===== $f ====="
tail -n 300 "$f" | sed -E \
-e 's#((authorization|_authToken|_auth|node_auth_token|npm_token)"?[[:space:]]*[:=][[:space:]]*"?)(Bearer[[:space:]]+)?[^",[:space:]]+#\1***REDACTED***#Ig'
done
- name: Push nightly tag
if: ${{ !(github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && inputs.dry_run) }}
run: |
tag="$(git tag --points-at HEAD | grep '^nightly/v' | head -1)"
if [ -z "$tag" ]; then
echo "Error: no nightly tag points at HEAD after release." >&2
exit 1
fi
git push origin "refs/tags/${tag}"
# Tag pushes made with GITHUB_TOKEN do not fire docker.yml's tag
# trigger (GitHub suppresses workflow runs caused by GITHUB_TOKEN
# pushes), so dispatch the image build at the new tag explicitly.
- name: Build Docker images for the nightly tag
if: ${{ !(github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && inputs.dry_run) }}
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
run: |
tag="$(git tag --points-at HEAD | grep '^nightly/v' | head -1)"
{
echo "## Nightly published"
echo ""
echo "- Source SHA: \`${{ needs.select_nightly.outputs.sha }}\`"
echo "- Source canary: \`${{ needs.select_nightly.outputs.canary_version }}\`"
echo "- Published nightly: \`${tag#nightly/v}\`"
echo "- Docker build dispatched at \`${tag}\`"
} >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
gh workflow run docker.yml --ref "refs/tags/${tag}" --repo "$GITHUB_REPOSITORY"
# ----- Beta lane --------------------------------------------------------
# Beta is a manual, human-approved promotion of a nightly. Unlike the
# scheduled nightly lane, a beta dispatch is explicit operator intent, so
# selection problems fail the run loudly instead of skipping quietly. The
# publish runs behind the npm-beta environment, whose required reviewers
# are the approval gate.
select_beta:
if: github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && inputs.channel == 'beta'
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
timeout-minutes: 10
permissions:
contents: read
outputs:
sha: ${{ steps.select.outputs.sha }}
nightly_version: ${{ steps.select.outputs.nightly_version }}
steps:
- name: Checkout repository
uses: actions/checkout@v7
with:
ref: master
fetch-depth: 0
- name: Select beta candidate
id: select
env:
EXPLICIT_NIGHTLY_VERSION: ${{ inputs.source_version }}
run: |
set -euo pipefail
git fetch origin --tags --prune --quiet
if [ -n "${EXPLICIT_NIGHTLY_VERSION:-}" ]; then
tag="nightly/v${EXPLICIT_NIGHTLY_VERSION}"
sha="$(git rev-list -n 1 "$tag" 2>/dev/null || true)"
if [ -z "$sha" ]; then
echo "Error: tag $tag does not exist." >&2
exit 1
fi
else
# Newest nightly-tagged commit on master.
sha="$(grep -m1 -F \
-f <(git for-each-ref 'refs/tags/nightly/v*' --format='%(objectname)') \
<(git rev-list origin/master -n 2000) || true)"
if [ -z "$sha" ]; then
echo "Error: no nightly/v* tag found on the last 2000 commits of master. Publish a nightly first, or pass source_version." >&2
exit 1
fi
tag="$(git tag --points-at "$sha" | grep '^nightly/v' | sort -V | tail -1)"
fi
nightly_version="${tag#nightly/v}"
existing_beta="$(git tag --points-at "$sha" | grep '^beta/v' | head -1 || true)"
if [ -n "$existing_beta" ]; then
echo "Error: candidate $sha (nightly $nightly_version) already shipped as $existing_beta." >&2
exit 1
fi
echo "sha=$sha" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "nightly_version=$nightly_version" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
{
echo "## Beta candidate"
echo ""
echo "- Source SHA: \`$sha\`"
echo "- Source nightly: \`$nightly_version\`"
} >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
publish_beta:
needs: select_beta
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
timeout-minutes: 45
environment: npm-beta
# Serialize beta publishes so two dispatches cannot race to the same next
# -beta.N version; release.sh additionally refuses to double-publish a
# commit that already carries a beta tag.
concurrency:
group: release-publish-beta
cancel-in-progress: false
permissions:
contents: write
id-token: write
actions: write
outputs:
beta_version: ${{ steps.result.outputs.beta_version }}
steps:
- name: Checkout repository
uses: actions/checkout@v7
with:
ref: ${{ needs.select_beta.outputs.sha }}
fetch-depth: 0
- name: Setup pnpm
uses: pnpm/action-setup@v6
with:
version: 9.15.4
- name: Setup Node.js
uses: actions/setup-node@v7
with:
node-version: 24
cache: pnpm
- name: Validate release package manifest
run: node ./scripts/release-package-map.mjs check
- name: Install dependencies
run: pnpm install --no-frozen-lockfile
- name: Restore tracked install-time changes
run: git checkout -- pnpm-lock.yaml
- name: Configure git author
run: |
git config user.name "github-actions[bot]"
git config user.email "41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
- name: Publish beta
env:
GITHUB_ACTIONS: "true"
run: |
args=(beta --skip-verify)
if [ "${{ inputs.dry_run }}" = "true" ]; then
args+=(--dry-run)
fi
./scripts/release.sh "${args[@]}"
- name: Dump npm debug logs
if: failure()
run: |
shopt -s nullglob
for f in "$HOME"/.npm/_logs/*.log; do
echo "===== $f ====="
tail -n 300 "$f" | sed -E \
-e 's#((authorization|_authToken|_auth|node_auth_token|npm_token)"?[[:space:]]*[:=][[:space:]]*"?)(Bearer[[:space:]]+)?[^",[:space:]]+#\1***REDACTED***#Ig'
done
- name: Push beta tag
if: ${{ !inputs.dry_run }}
run: |
tag="$(git tag --points-at HEAD | grep '^beta/v' | head -1)"
if [ -z "$tag" ]; then
echo "Error: no beta tag points at HEAD after release." >&2
exit 1
fi
git push origin "refs/tags/${tag}"
# Tag pushes made with GITHUB_TOKEN do not fire docker.yml's tag
# trigger (GitHub suppresses workflow runs caused by GITHUB_TOKEN
# pushes), so dispatch the image build at the new tag explicitly.
- name: Build Docker images for the beta tag
id: result
if: ${{ !inputs.dry_run }}
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
run: |
tag="$(git tag --points-at HEAD | grep '^beta/v' | head -1)"
echo "beta_version=${tag#beta/v}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
{
echo "## Beta published"
echo ""
echo "- Source SHA: \`${{ needs.select_beta.outputs.sha }}\`"
echo "- Source nightly: \`${{ needs.select_beta.outputs.nightly_version }}\`"
echo "- Published beta: \`${tag#beta/v}\`"
echo "- Docker build dispatched at \`${tag}\`"
} >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
gh workflow run docker.yml --ref "refs/tags/${tag}" --repo "$GITHUB_REPOSITORY"
# Post-publish verification: run the release smoke suite against the exact
# beta version that was just published.
smoke_beta:
needs: publish_beta
if: ${{ !inputs.dry_run }}
uses: ./.github/workflows/release-smoke.yml
with:
paperclip_version: ${{ needs.publish_beta.outputs.beta_version }}
artifact_name: beta-release-smoke
# ----- Stable lane ------------------------------------------------------
# Stable releases promote a soaked beta. The preflight enforces that the
# source commit shipped as a beta at least 3 days ago (measured from the
# npm publish time of that beta version), unless a written justification
# is provided. Dry runs report soak state without blocking.
# Resolves source_ref to an immutable commit exactly once; every downstream
# stable job consumes that SHA. Otherwise a branch or movable tag that
# advances mid-run could be soak-checked at one commit and verified or
# published at another.
preflight_stable:
if: github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && inputs.channel == 'stable'
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
timeout-minutes: 10
permissions:
contents: read
outputs:
sha: ${{ steps.soak.outputs.sha }}
steps:
- name: Checkout repository
uses: actions/checkout@v7
with:
ref: master
fetch-depth: 0
- name: Check beta soak
id: soak
env:
SOURCE_REF: ${{ inputs.source_ref }}
JUSTIFICATION: ${{ inputs.skip_soak_justification }}
DRY_RUN: ${{ inputs.dry_run }}
run: |
set -euo pipefail
git fetch origin --tags --prune --quiet
sha="$(git rev-parse --verify "${SOURCE_REF}^{commit}" 2>/dev/null || true)"
if [ -z "$sha" ]; then
git fetch origin "$SOURCE_REF" --quiet || true
sha="$(git rev-parse --verify "FETCH_HEAD^{commit}" 2>/dev/null || true)"
fi
if [ -z "$sha" ]; then
echo "Error: could not resolve source_ref '$SOURCE_REF' to a commit." >&2
exit 1
fi
echo "sha=$sha" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
{
echo "## Stable source pinned"
echo ""
echo "- source_ref: \`${SOURCE_REF}\` -> \`$sha\`"
} >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
fail_or_justify() {
if [ -n "${JUSTIFICATION:-}" ]; then
{
echo "## Stable soak gate bypassed"
echo ""
echo "$1"
echo ""
echo "Justification: ${JUSTIFICATION}"
} >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
echo "::warning::Soak gate bypassed: $1"
return 0
fi
if [ "${DRY_RUN}" = "true" ]; then
echo "::warning::Soak gate would block a real release: $1"
{
echo "## Stable soak gate (dry run)"
echo ""
echo "A real release would be blocked: $1"
} >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
return 0
fi
echo "Error: $1" >&2
echo "Pass skip_soak_justification with a written reason to release anyway." >&2
exit 1
}
beta_tag="$(git tag --points-at "$sha" | grep '^beta/v' | sort -V | tail -1 || true)"
if [ -z "$beta_tag" ]; then
fail_or_justify "source commit $sha never shipped as a beta (no beta/v* tag)."
exit 0
fi
beta_version="${beta_tag#beta/v}"
publish_time="$(npm view "paperclipai@${beta_version}" time --json 2>/dev/null \
| node -e 'let d="";process.stdin.on("data",c=>d+=c).on("end",()=>{const t=JSON.parse(d);process.stdout.write(typeof t === "string" ? t : (t[process.argv[1]] ?? ""))})' "$beta_version" || true)"
if [ -z "$publish_time" ]; then
fail_or_justify "could not determine the npm publish time of beta ${beta_version}."
exit 0
fi
age_seconds="$(node -e 'process.stdout.write(String(Math.floor((Date.now() - Date.parse(process.argv[1])) / 1000)))' "$publish_time")"
min_seconds=$((3 * 24 * 60 * 60))
age_days="$(node -e 'process.stdout.write((Number(process.argv[1]) / 86400).toFixed(1))' "$age_seconds")"
if [ "$age_seconds" -lt "$min_seconds" ]; then
fail_or_justify "beta ${beta_version} has only soaked ${age_days} days (minimum is 3)."
exit 0
fi
{
echo "## Stable soak gate passed"
echo ""
echo "- Source beta: \`${beta_version}\`"
echo "- Soak time: ${age_days} days"
} >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
verify_stable:
if: github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && inputs.channel == 'stable'
needs: preflight_stable
uses: ./.github/workflows/release-verify.yml
with:
ref: ${{ needs.preflight_stable.outputs.sha }}
preview_stable:
if: github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && inputs.channel == 'stable' && inputs.dry_run
needs: [preflight_stable, verify_stable]
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
timeout-minutes: 45
permissions:
contents: read
steps:
- name: Checkout repository
uses: actions/checkout@v7
with:
fetch-depth: 0
ref: ${{ needs.preflight_stable.outputs.sha }}
- name: Setup pnpm
uses: pnpm/action-setup@v6
with:
version: 9.15.4
- name: Setup Node.js
uses: actions/setup-node@v7
with:
node-version: 24
cache: pnpm
- name: Validate release package manifest
run: node ./scripts/release-package-map.mjs check
- name: Install dependencies
run: pnpm install --no-frozen-lockfile
- name: Dry-run stable release
env:
GITHUB_ACTIONS: "true"
run: |
args=(stable --skip-verify --dry-run)
if [ -n "${{ inputs.stable_date }}" ]; then
args+=(--date "${{ inputs.stable_date }}")
fi
./scripts/release.sh "${args[@]}"
publish_stable:
if: github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && inputs.channel == 'stable' && !inputs.dry_run
needs: [preflight_stable, verify_stable]
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
timeout-minutes: 45
environment: npm-stable
permissions:
contents: write
id-token: write
actions: write
steps:
- name: Checkout repository
uses: actions/checkout@v7
with:
fetch-depth: 0
ref: ${{ needs.preflight_stable.outputs.sha }}
- name: Setup pnpm
uses: pnpm/action-setup@v6
with:
version: 9.15.4
- name: Setup Node.js
uses: actions/setup-node@v7
with:
node-version: 24
cache: pnpm
- name: Install dependencies
run: pnpm install --no-frozen-lockfile
- name: Restore tracked install-time changes
run: git checkout -- pnpm-lock.yaml
- name: Configure git author
run: |
git config user.name "github-actions[bot]"
git config user.email "41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
- name: Publish stable
env:
GITHUB_ACTIONS: "true"
run: |
args=(stable --skip-verify)
if [ -n "${{ inputs.stable_date }}" ]; then
args+=(--date "${{ inputs.stable_date }}")
fi
./scripts/release.sh "${args[@]}"
- name: Dump npm debug logs
if: failure()
run: |
shopt -s nullglob
for f in "$HOME"/.npm/_logs/*.log; do
echo "===== $f ====="
tail -n 300 "$f" | sed -E \
-e 's#((authorization|_authToken|_auth|node_auth_token|npm_token)"?[[:space:]]*[:=][[:space:]]*"?)(Bearer[[:space:]]+)?[^",[:space:]]+#\1***REDACTED***#Ig'
done
- name: Push stable tag
run: |
tag="$(git tag --points-at HEAD | grep '^v' | head -1)"
if [ -z "$tag" ]; then
echo "Error: no stable tag points at HEAD after release." >&2
exit 1
fi
git push origin "refs/tags/${tag}"
# Tag pushes made with GITHUB_TOKEN do not fire docker.yml's tag
# trigger (GitHub suppresses workflow runs caused by GITHUB_TOKEN
# pushes), so dispatch the image build at the new tag explicitly. This
# is what moves Docker `:latest` and publishes the versioned stable
# image tags.
- name: Build Docker images for the stable tag
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
run: |
tag="$(git tag --points-at HEAD | grep '^v' | head -1)"
if gh workflow run docker.yml --ref "refs/tags/${tag}" --repo "$GITHUB_REPOSITORY"; then
echo "Dispatched docker.yml at ${tag}."
else
# Older source commits may predate docker.yml's workflow_dispatch
# trigger; the dispatch then fails while the npm release is
# already complete and correct.
echo "::warning::Could not dispatch docker.yml at ${tag}. Run docker.yml manually at that tag to publish the stable images."
fi
- name: Create GitHub Release
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
PUBLISH_REMOTE: origin
run: |
version="$(git tag --points-at HEAD | grep '^v' | head -1 | sed 's/^v//')"
if [ -z "$version" ]; then
echo "Error: no v* tag points at HEAD after stable release." >&2
exit 1
fi
./scripts/create-github-release.sh "$version"