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Devin Foley f9173782cd feat(release): add smoke-gated nightly channel and lane-separated Docker tags (#11006)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - The release subsystem publishes the `paperclipai` npm package set
and the Docker images on two lanes: canary on every master push, and
stable on manual promotion
> - There is no middle ground between those lanes. Users must track
every merge or wait weeks for a stable. Docker `:latest` also tracks
master, so Docker users have no stable image at all
> - A calm prerelease lane needs to exist, and it must never ship a
build that failed its checks
> - This pull request adds the nightly channel: a scheduled job that
selects the newest master commit with a green canary publish, runs the
full release smoke suite against that exact published canary, and only
then republishes it as the nightly. It also separates Docker tags by
lane, so `:latest` finally means stable
> - The benefit is that users can follow prereleases at a nightly
cadence with a smoke-tested guarantee, and Docker users get real
`:canary`, `:nightly`, and stable image tags

## 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**

The project publishes only `canary` (every master push) and `latest`
(manual stable). Users who want prereleases without per-merge churn have
no option. Docker has a second problem: master builds overwrite
`:latest`, and CI-published stables never produced Docker images,
because tags pushed with `GITHUB_TOKEN` do not fire the `v*` tag trigger
in `docker.yml`. No stable-versioned image exists in ghcr today.

**Proposed solution**

Add a `nightly` channel. A scheduled job selects the newest
canary-tagged master commit, smoke-tests that exact published canary,
and republishes the same commit as `YYYY.MDD.P-nightly.N` under the
`nightly` dist-tag. Separate Docker tags by lane (`:canary` for master,
`:nightly` for nightly tags, `:latest` plus version tags for stable tags
only), and have the release jobs dispatch `docker.yml` at the new tag so
lane images actually build.

**Alternatives considered**

Moving the `nightly` dist-tag to the existing canary version without a
republish. Rejected: the version string would say `canary` while the
user is on nightly, which breaks at-a-glance lane identification in bug
reports and `--version` output.

## What Changed

- `scripts/release-lib.sh`: channel-parameterized
`next_prerelease_version` and `prerelease_tag_name` helpers (canary
helpers delegate to them), a `require_channel_tag_at_head` guard, and
the no-provenance retry for Sigstore transparency-log duplicates now
covers the `nightly` dist-tag as well as `canary`
- `scripts/release.sh`: new `nightly` channel. It requires HEAD to carry
a `canary/v*` tag, publishes the full public package set as
`YYYY.MDD.P-nightly.N` under dist-tag `nightly`, and tags the source
commit `nightly/vYYYY.MDD.P-nightly.N`
- `.github/workflows/release.yml`: scheduled nightly chain (09:00 UTC) —
select candidate, smoke it via `release-smoke.yml`, publish on green
under the existing `npm-canary` environment, push the tag, dispatch
`docker.yml`. New `channel` dispatch input (default `stable`, so
existing stable dispatches are unchanged) with `nightly_source_version`
and `dry_run` support for forced runs. The stable path now also
dispatches `docker.yml` at the new `v*` tag
- `.github/workflows/docker.yml`: lane tag mapping for both image jobs —
master pushes publish `:canary` and no longer move `:latest`;
`nightly/v*` tags publish `:nightly`; only stable `v*` tags publish
`:latest` and the versioned tags. New `workflow_dispatch` trigger for
the release-job dispatches. Build-version stamping uses the exact
nightly version on nightly tag builds
- `.github/workflows/release-smoke.yml`: `nightly` added to the dispatch
choice list
- `doc/CHANNELS.md` (new): user-facing guide to the channels
- `doc/RELEASING.md`: nightly lane documentation, Docker tag mapping
table, and a nightly failure playbook
- `doc/RELEASE-AUTOMATION-SETUP.md`: note that nightly reuses
`npm-canary` and needs no npm trusted-publisher changes
- Tests: channel-parameterized version helper coverage in
`scripts/release-registry-versions.test.mjs`, and nightly flow coverage
(publish identity, notes not required, canary-tag guard) in
`scripts/__tests__/release-dry-run-notes.test.mjs`

## Verification

- `node --test` on the release script suites: 68 pass, including 6 new
tests. The only failure, `acpx-patch-packaging.test.mjs`, needs
installed `node_modules` and fails identically on a pristine checkout of
master in the same environment
- `bash -n` on both shell scripts and YAML parse of all three workflows
- Live fail-path check: `./scripts/release.sh nightly --print-version`
from a master tip with no canary tag fails with `HEAD has no canary/v*
tag`
- Live success-path check: the same command from the
`canary/v2026.806.0-canary.7` commit prints `2026.806.0-nightly.0`
- Live selection check: the candidate-selection shell logic run against
the real repository selects the commit of `canary/v2026.806.0-canary.7`,
which matches the current npm `canary` dist-tag exactly
- After merge: dispatch `release.yml` with `channel: nightly` and
`dry_run: true` to preview, then a real forced run to validate end to
end before the first scheduled run

## Risks

- Docker `:latest` changes meaning from "latest master build" to "latest
stable release". This is deliberate and will be announced. Users who
want the old behavior pull `:canary`. Until the first stable release
after this change, `:latest` stays at its current (master-built) image
- The nightly is a rebuild of the same source commit, not the
byte-identical canary artifact that was smoked. The lockfile pins
dependencies, and the publish path's registry-visibility and
clean-prefix install gates still run on the nightly artifacts
- All npm publishing must stay inside `release.yml` because npm trusted
publishing pins that workflow file per package. The nightly jobs were
added to `release.yml` for exactly that reason; this constraint is now
documented in `RELEASING.md`
- The stable-lane Docker dispatch fails gracefully (a warning with
manual instructions) when the source ref predates `docker.yml`'s
`workflow_dispatch` trigger

## 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: Docker
on:
push:
branches:
- "master"
tags:
- "v*"
- "nightly/v*"
# Release workflows push lane tags with GITHUB_TOKEN, and GitHub suppresses
# push-triggered runs for those, so release.yml dispatches this workflow at
# the new tag ref instead. The tag mapping below keys off github.ref either
# way.
workflow_dispatch:
permissions:
contents: read
packages: write
# Serialise builds per ref without killing an in-flight one: a newer push
# supersedes only the pending slot, so the image build that is already
# running always finishes and publishes.
concurrency:
group: docker-${{ github.ref }}
cancel-in-progress: false
jobs:
build-and-push:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
timeout-minutes: 60
steps:
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v7
with:
# Full history and tags so `git describe` below can compute the
# release version to stamp into the image.
fetch-depth: 0
# `.git` is dockerignored, so a running image cannot derive its own
# version and otherwise reports the source package.json placeholder in
# analytics and the debug panel. Compute it here from the pristine
# checkout (real CalVer drift from the nearest release tag) and pass it
# into both builds. Empty when no release tag is reachable — the server
# then keeps its existing fallbacks.
- name: Compute build version
id: build-version
run: |
set -euo pipefail
case "${GITHUB_REF}" in
refs/tags/nightly/v*)
# Lane tags carry the exact published version; stamp it verbatim
# instead of describing drift from the nearest stable tag.
version="${GITHUB_REF#refs/tags/nightly/v}"
;;
*)
version="$(git describe --tags --match 'v*' --long --dirty 2>/dev/null || true)"
;;
esac
echo "version=${version}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "Stamping build version: ${version:-<none>}"
# ISO week stamp for the Dockerfile's tool layer: the layer caches
# across commits and re-pulls the @latest CLI tools when the week rolls
# over, instead of on every build.
- name: Compute tool cache epoch
id: tools-epoch
run: echo "epoch=$(date -u +%G-W%V)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
- name: Setup pnpm
uses: pnpm/action-setup@v6
with:
version: 9.15.4
run_install: false
# No dependency cache here: this workflow publishes release images, and
# restoring a shared Actions cache into the build inputs would let a
# poisoned cache entry reach the published artifact.
- name: Setup Node.js
uses: actions/setup-node@v7
with:
node-version: 20
- name: Refresh lockfile for Docker build context
run: |
set -euo pipefail
pnpm install --lockfile-only --ignore-scripts --no-frozen-lockfile
changed="$(git status --porcelain)"
if [ -z "$changed" ]; then
echo "Lockfile already matches package metadata."
exit 0
fi
if printf '%s\n' "$changed" | grep -Fvq ' pnpm-lock.yaml'; then
echo "Unexpected files changed during lockfile refresh:"
echo "$changed"
exit 1
fi
echo "Using refreshed pnpm-lock.yaml in the Docker build context."
- name: Free runner disk
run: |
set -euo pipefail
echo "Disk before cleanup:"
df -h
pnpm store prune || true
sudo apt-get clean || true
sudo rm -rf \
/usr/share/dotnet \
/usr/share/swift \
/usr/local/lib/android \
/usr/local/share/boost \
/usr/local/share/powershell \
/opt/ghc \
/opt/hostedtoolcache/CodeQL \
/opt/hostedtoolcache/PyPy \
/opt/hostedtoolcache/Ruby || true
docker system prune -af || true
echo "Disk after cleanup:"
df -h
- name: Login to GitHub Container Registry
uses: docker/login-action@v4
with:
registry: ghcr.io
username: ${{ github.repository_owner }}
password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
- name: Set up Docker Buildx
uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v4
# Deployment tooling reads these labels from the registry to verify an
# image's schema expectations against a migrator before deploying it,
# without pulling the image. The server refuses to start when the
# database is missing bundled migrations, so orchestrators need a cheap
# way to check image/migrator compatibility up front.
- name: Compute schema migration labels
id: schema
run: |
set -euo pipefail
last=$(ls packages/db/src/migrations/*.sql | sed 's|.*/||' | LC_ALL=C sort | tail -1)
count=$(ls packages/db/src/migrations/*.sql | wc -l | tr -d ' ')
echo "last=${last}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "count=${count}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
# Lane tag mapping: master pushes publish `:canary`, nightly/v* tags
# publish `:nightly`, and only stable v* tags move `:latest` and the
# versioned tags. `:sha-<short>` is published on every build.
- name: Docker meta
id: meta
uses: docker/metadata-action@v6
with:
images: ghcr.io/${{ github.repository }}
tags: |
type=raw,value=canary,enable=${{ github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
type=raw,value=nightly,enable=${{ startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/nightly/v') }}
type=raw,value=latest,enable=${{ startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v') }}
type=semver,pattern={{version}},enable=${{ startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v') }}
type=semver,pattern={{major}}.{{minor}},enable=${{ startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v') }}
type=sha
labels: |
io.github.paperclipai.schema.last-migration=${{ steps.schema.outputs.last }}
io.github.paperclipai.schema.migration-count=${{ steps.schema.outputs.count }}
- name: Build and push
uses: docker/build-push-action@v7
with:
context: .
# Pin the self-hosted image to the production stage explicitly:
# the Dockerfile now declares a later `cloud` stage, and without a
# target the default would silently become that stage.
target: production
build-args: |
PAPERCLIP_BUILD_VERSION=${{ steps.build-version.outputs.version }}
PAPERCLIP_BUILD_COMMIT=${{ github.sha }}
CLI_TOOLS_CACHE_EPOCH=${{ steps.tools-epoch.outputs.epoch }}
platforms: linux/amd64,linux/arm64
push: true
# Registry-backed BuildKit cache instead of type=gha: the Actions
# cache is capped at 10GB per repo, and two multi-arch mode=max jobs
# evict each other, so most builds ran effectively cold. The cache
# ref lives in ghcr next to the image and is written only by this
# workflow (docker.yml runs on master/tag pushes, never on PRs).
cache-from: type=registry,ref=ghcr.io/${{ github.repository }}:buildcache
cache-to: type=registry,ref=ghcr.io/${{ github.repository }}:buildcache,mode=max
tags: ${{ steps.meta.outputs.tags }}
labels: ${{ steps.meta.outputs.labels }}
# The cloud variant carries built bundled plugins for managed deployments
# (see the `cloud` stage in the Dockerfile). It runs as its own job with no
# `needs:` on the stock publish above, so the two builds run in parallel and
# a failure or slow build in one never gates, delays, or skips the other.
# Both jobs share only the single top-level concurrency slot. Each job is a
# separate runner, so this one carries its own copy of the prep steps
# (checkout through schema labels) — the accepted cost of that isolation.
build-and-push-cloud:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
timeout-minutes: 60
steps:
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v7
with:
# Full history and tags so `git describe` below can compute the
# release version to stamp into the image.
fetch-depth: 0
# `.git` is dockerignored, so a running image cannot derive its own
# version and otherwise reports the source package.json placeholder in
# analytics and the debug panel. Compute it here from the pristine
# checkout (real CalVer drift from the nearest release tag) and pass it
# into the build. Empty when no release tag is reachable — the server
# then keeps its existing fallbacks.
- name: Compute build version
id: build-version
run: |
set -euo pipefail
case "${GITHUB_REF}" in
refs/tags/nightly/v*)
# Lane tags carry the exact published version; stamp it verbatim
# instead of describing drift from the nearest stable tag.
version="${GITHUB_REF#refs/tags/nightly/v}"
;;
*)
version="$(git describe --tags --match 'v*' --long --dirty 2>/dev/null || true)"
;;
esac
echo "version=${version}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "Stamping build version: ${version:-<none>}"
# ISO week stamp for the Dockerfile's tool layer: the layer caches
# across commits and re-pulls the @latest CLI tools when the week rolls
# over, instead of on every build.
- name: Compute tool cache epoch
id: tools-epoch
run: echo "epoch=$(date -u +%G-W%V)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
- name: Setup pnpm
uses: pnpm/action-setup@v6
with:
version: 9.15.4
run_install: false
# No dependency cache here: this workflow publishes release images, and
# restoring a shared Actions cache into the build inputs would let a
# poisoned cache entry reach the published artifact.
- name: Setup Node.js
uses: actions/setup-node@v7
with:
node-version: 20
- name: Refresh lockfile for Docker build context
run: |
set -euo pipefail
pnpm install --lockfile-only --ignore-scripts --no-frozen-lockfile
changed="$(git status --porcelain)"
if [ -z "$changed" ]; then
echo "Lockfile already matches package metadata."
exit 0
fi
if printf '%s\n' "$changed" | grep -Fvq ' pnpm-lock.yaml'; then
echo "Unexpected files changed during lockfile refresh:"
echo "$changed"
exit 1
fi
echo "Using refreshed pnpm-lock.yaml in the Docker build context."
- name: Free runner disk
run: |
set -euo pipefail
echo "Disk before cleanup:"
df -h
pnpm store prune || true
sudo apt-get clean || true
sudo rm -rf \
/usr/share/dotnet \
/usr/share/swift \
/usr/local/lib/android \
/usr/local/share/boost \
/usr/local/share/powershell \
/opt/ghc \
/opt/hostedtoolcache/CodeQL \
/opt/hostedtoolcache/PyPy \
/opt/hostedtoolcache/Ruby || true
docker system prune -af || true
echo "Disk after cleanup:"
df -h
- name: Login to GitHub Container Registry
uses: docker/login-action@v4
with:
registry: ghcr.io
username: ${{ github.repository_owner }}
password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
- name: Set up Docker Buildx
uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v4
# Deployment tooling reads these labels from the registry to verify an
# image's schema expectations against a migrator before deploying it,
# without pulling the image. The server refuses to start when the
# database is missing bundled migrations, so orchestrators need a cheap
# way to check image/migrator compatibility up front.
- name: Compute schema migration labels
id: schema
run: |
set -euo pipefail
last=$(ls packages/db/src/migrations/*.sql | sed 's|.*/||' | LC_ALL=C sort | tail -1)
count=$(ls packages/db/src/migrations/*.sql | wc -l | tr -d ' ')
echo "last=${last}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "count=${count}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
# Published under the same lane tag set as the self-hosted image, with a
# `-cloud` suffix (canary-cloud, nightly-cloud, latest-cloud,
# <version>-cloud, sha-<short>-cloud).
- name: Docker meta (cloud)
id: meta-cloud
uses: docker/metadata-action@v6
with:
images: ghcr.io/${{ github.repository }}
flavor: |
suffix=-cloud,onlatest=true
tags: |
type=raw,value=canary,enable=${{ github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
type=raw,value=nightly,enable=${{ startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/nightly/v') }}
type=raw,value=latest,enable=${{ startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v') }}
type=semver,pattern={{version}},enable=${{ startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v') }}
type=semver,pattern={{major}}.{{minor}},enable=${{ startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v') }}
type=sha
labels: |
io.github.paperclipai.schema.last-migration=${{ steps.schema.outputs.last }}
io.github.paperclipai.schema.migration-count=${{ steps.schema.outputs.count }}
- name: Build and push (cloud)
uses: docker/build-push-action@v7
with:
context: .
target: cloud
# Space-separated sandbox-provider directory names to build into
# the variant; add here when managed deployments need another.
build-args: |
CLOUD_BUNDLED_PLUGINS=daytona
PAPERCLIP_BUILD_VERSION=${{ steps.build-version.outputs.version }}
PAPERCLIP_BUILD_COMMIT=${{ github.sha }}
CLI_TOOLS_CACHE_EPOCH=${{ steps.tools-epoch.outputs.epoch }}
# amd64 only, unlike the self-hosted image above: the cloud variant
# is consumed exclusively by managed-deployment hosts, which run
# amd64. The QEMU-emulated arm64 half dominated this job's wall
# clock, and dropping it roughly halves time-to-deployable-image.
platforms: linux/amd64
push: true
# Registry-backed BuildKit cache, separate ref from the self-hosted
# job so the two parallel builds never clobber each other's cache
# manifest (see the rationale on the job above).
cache-from: type=registry,ref=ghcr.io/${{ github.repository }}:buildcache-cloud
cache-to: type=registry,ref=ghcr.io/${{ github.repository }}:buildcache-cloud,mode=max
tags: ${{ steps.meta-cloud.outputs.tags }}
labels: ${{ steps.meta-cloud.outputs.labels }}