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Replaces the hand-maintained AUR package with CI-owned publishing and adds Homebrew, deb, rpm, and apk distribution. The monorepo holds every packaging template. The satellite repos (the AUR repo, the brew tap) become generated output that publish scripts clone, render, and push. Plan reference: expand packaging past minimal-bin on the AUR, per the distribution plan.

What changed since the first review round

The review round found defects that all trace to two root causes: publishing logic inline in the frozen workflows (untested by construction) and templates that nothing ever rendered. The second push fixes the defects and the causes.

  • Homebrew publishes on the stable promote, not on tag push. Homebrew has no channels, so a tag push shipped every release (an RC tag included) straight to every user with no opt-out and no gate. publish-brew now lives in promote.yml next to publish-aur, behind the same target == stable && !dry_run gate, and refuses prereleases outright.
  • The promote sha resolves to a released semver through a tested script. git describe --exact-match only matched when the promoted sha IS the tagged commit. The nightly that gets promoted sits after the tag commit, so the AUR publish was a silent permanent skip (and with git missing from the archlinux:base-devel container, a swallowed exit 127). scripts/resolve-release-version.sh uses the tag on the sha itself, else the newest released v* tag reachable from it. Prereleases never resolve and never fall through to an older release, which would publish a downgrade.
  • The release gate's logic moved into tested scripts. resolve-release-version.sh, assert-release-version.sh, latest-staged-version.sh, and backfill-version-row.sh, each with a scripts/*_test.sh harness. The pkg upload goes through stage-release.sh --pkg-dir/--pkg-only instead of an inline gcloud storage cp. The default promote target filters to commit rows, so the new versions/<semver>/ rows cannot hijack it and fail the run after the approval gate.
  • The AUR package now ships minvmd, matching the deb/rpm/apk file list. VM-backed Linux sessions need it on PATH. Every staged row carries the static-musl build, so the package stays self-contained.
  • The nfpm packaging verifies before it runs. Downloaded artifacts are checked against the staged components manifest (the SHA-256s stage-release.sh wrote and the installer trusts) before anything chmods, executes, or packages them.
  • The Homebrew formula installs correctly: bin.install ... => "min" (the previous form created a bin/min/ directory and installed no executable), stage blocks use relative paths, and the trimmed libkrun dylib ships into the formula's own lib/, which is the only place minvmd's @loader_path/../lib rpath can reach.
  • The renderer refuses to write a half-stamped file: set-but-empty variables fail (printenv exits 0 for them), bash 5.2 patsub_replacement is disabled so a literal & in MAINTAINER cannot re-inject its token, and any surviving @@ fails the run.
  • package.version falls back to 0.5.4 (next unreleased) instead of the already-shipped 0.5.3, the exact wrong-tarball-version failure assert-version exists to catch. dist-build/pkg-nfpm are [linux]-scoped with quote()d arguments.

New harnesses run under just test-shell locally and through the workspace suite via crates/common/tests/shell_harnesses.rs, which discovers scripts/*_test.sh by convention (the same extension point shell_lint.rs uses, since the frozen workflows cannot schedule shell tests).

Verification

  • just ci: fmt, clippy, cargo-deny, and all 1849 workspace tests pass. just test-ignored fails on one test, mctx tests::task_env, which fails on this workstation on origin/main too. Running just ci here needs ASDF_SHELLCHECK_VERSION=0.11.0 (the asdf shim has no version pin).
  • just test-shell: shellcheck on every harness plus 50 assertions across the six new harnesses: semver resolution against a fixture git repo, version assertion against fixture manifests, the staged-version lookup against a stubbed gcloud, the renderer, and both publishers driven end to end against file:// fixture remotes (no network, no credentials).
  • scripts/lint-shell.sh passes on all 42 scripts.
  • Every publish-script dry run renders its template and asserts the output carries no unrendered tokens and only real digests.
  • nfpm smoke-tested for all six format and arch pairs (deb control, postinst, symlink, apk .post-install).

just pkg-nfpm 0.5.3 will fail until the semver row exists for that release: just backfill-version-row <sha> 0.5.3 builds it from the sha row.

Before the first publish (user actions)

  • AUR bot account plus secrets.AUR_SSH_PRIVATE_KEY.
  • Create gominimal/homebrew-minimal plus secrets.BREW_TAP_TOKEN.
  • CODEOWNER approval for the workflow changes (publish-brew moved out of release.yml. promote.yml gained a job and two explicit permissions blocks).

Not in this PR

  • Repo-tree hosting for apt, dnf, and apk (reprepro, createrepo_c, apk index) lives in the infra repo. This PR only stages packages under versions/<semver>/pkg/.
  • AUR source package and aports submission stay deferred.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added Arch Linux binary packages with architecture-specific VM host binaries.
    • Added Apple Silicon Homebrew support, including shell completions and required runtime libraries.
    • Added Debian, RPM, and APK packages for supported architectures.
    • Added automatic AppArmor profile loading during Arch installation and upgrades.
  • Improvements

    • Release publishing now validates versions and more reliably handles stable releases.
    • Updated the application version to 0.5.4.
    • Improved recovery and restaging of previously published release artifacts.
    • Added package smoke tests and broader release validation coverage.

crates/version/build.rs falls back to package.version when no v* git
tag is reachable (source tarballs), and it was stale at 0.5.0-rc1.
The release workflow now asserts tag equality going forward.
Extract the release workflow's per-binary cargo invocations (fat-LTO
serializes links), FEATURES plumbing for the guest minimald, fail-loud
static libkrun for minvmd, and completions generation into
scripts/dist-build.sh. Packaging entrypoints call this instead of
hand-rolling cargo; the Linux release jobs call it too so CI builds
match downstream builds.
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The release system validates versions, builds target artifacts, creates Linux packages, stages package rows, and publishes Arch and Homebrew metadata. New scripts and templates add artifact verification, completions, AppArmor integration, release resolution, dry runs, and guarded publication.

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Release packaging and publishing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Version validation and release builds
.github/workflows/release.yml, Cargo.toml, justfile, scripts/dist-build.sh, scripts/assert-release-version.sh
Release jobs validate tag versions and use shared build scripts for target binaries, minvmd, and completions.
Package templates and rendering
packaging/arch/*, packaging/homebrew/*, packaging/nfpm.yaml, scripts/render-packaging.sh
Package templates define binaries, libraries, symlinks, checksums, AppArmor hooks, and shell completions. The renderer validates template tokens.
Linux package creation
scripts/package-nfpm.sh, scripts/pkg-smoke.sh, packaging/arch/minimal-bin.install, justfile
nfpm packaging verifies staged artifacts, generates completions and AppArmor files, builds packages, and supports container smoke tests.
Release staging and version-row utilities
scripts/stage-release.sh, scripts/latest-staged-version.sh, scripts/resolve-release-version.sh, scripts/backfill-version-row.sh, .github/workflows/promote.yml
Staging supports package-only uploads. Promotion resolves staged commit SHAs and released semver tags. Backfilling restages SHA-keyed release rows under semver paths.
AUR and Homebrew publication
.github/workflows/promote.yml, scripts/publish-aur.sh, scripts/publish-brew.sh
Stable promotions publish rendered AUR and Homebrew metadata. Publishers verify assets and support credential-free dry runs.
Shell harness integration
crates/common/tests/shell_harnesses.rs, justfile, scripts/*_test.sh, .tool-versions
The test gate discovers shell harnesses, selects interpreters from shebangs, runs all harnesses, and aggregates failures.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~75 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to fe2bd

The new package smoke testing is not merge-ready because Debian version validation fails, while two smaller script usability and portability issues remain open. These should be corrected before relying on the expanded packaging pipeline.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ReleaseWorkflow
  participant assertReleaseVersion
  participant distBuild
  participant packageNfpm
  participant promoteWorkflow
  participant resolveReleaseVersion
  participant publishAur
  participant publishBrew
  ReleaseWorkflow->>assertReleaseVersion: Validate tag against package version
  ReleaseWorkflow->>distBuild: Build release artifacts
  ReleaseWorkflow->>packageNfpm: Create Linux packages
  promoteWorkflow->>resolveReleaseVersion: Resolve promoted SHA to released semver
  promoteWorkflow->>publishAur: Publish stable AUR metadata
  promoteWorkflow->>publishBrew: Publish stable Homebrew formula
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Suggested reviewers: norrietaylor, bryan-minimal, evanspearman

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: CI-owned AUR, Homebrew, and Linux package distribution. It is concise and follows the required Conventional Commit format.
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Builds binaries in a tidy bag.
Checksums guard each package row,
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Also flagged, below the cut: publish-brew has no continue-on-error and its preconditions (tap repo, BREW_TAP_TOKEN) are out of scope, so every tag release goes red until those land; nfpm packaging sits before the install.sh staging and the unstable flip, so a transient failure aborts a release mid-publish; publish-aur runs after the irreversible channel flip and is the only job with no permissions: block; no preremove/postremove, so /etc/apparmor.d/minimald is orphaned on uninstall; the epoch=1 comment's vercmp example is backwards; dist/ isn't gitignored and dist-build.sh does rm -rf on an unvalidated env knob; the completions incantation now exists in three drifted copies; package-nfpm.sh re-downloads ~257 MB it already has on disk.

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I'm excited to get this in, but I would feel a lot more comfortable if the design was more modular and presented in a new workflow.

Consider something like this:

# .github/workflows/publish-packages.yml
on:
  workflow_call:
    inputs:
      version: {type: string, required: true}   # semver, no v
      sha:     {type: string, required: true}   # the promoted short sha
      dry_run: {type: boolean, default: false}
  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs: {version: …, sha: …, dry_run: …}
permissions:
  contents: read

and in promote.yml, one job:

publish-packages:
    needs: promote
    if: ${{ inputs.target == 'stable' }}
    uses: ./.github/workflows/publish-packages.yml
    with:
        version: ${{ needs.promote.outputs.semver }}
        sha:     ${{ needs.promote.outputs.sha }}
        dry_run: ${{ inputs.dry_run }}
    secrets: inherit

You will want to resolve the semver on the runner, and keep the YAML a thin scheduler, without a bunch of embedded scripting.

Recommend reading (or having your agent read):

  • CONTRIBUTING.md specifically the test-extension contract
  • docs/ci-strategy.md
  • docs/internal/release-pipeline.md

echo "Dispatched reference-docs-promoted to gominimal/webapp for ${SHA}"
fi

publish-aur:
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Blocking: Tagging before nightly permanently poisons the sha, so this job can never fire for it.

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Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/promote.yml:
- Around line 168-169: Obtain CODEOWNER approval from `@gominimal/minimalists` for
the changes to the promote workflow before merging; do not modify the workflow
further unless approval is unavailable, in which case relocate the applicable
logic to scripts and the justfile.

In `@justfile`:
- Line 165: Shell-escape both recipe arguments before invoking the scripts:
update justfile lines 165 and 174 to use quote(target) for the dist-build recipe
and quote(pkgver) for the corresponding package-version argument; both sites
require direct changes.

In `@packaging/arch/PKGBUILD-bin.tmpl`:
- Around line 32-39: Add architecture-specific minvmd entries to source_x86_64
and source_aarch64, include them in the corresponding checksum generation, and
update the package install steps to place the downloaded minvmd binary at
/usr/bin/minvmd.

In `@packaging/homebrew/minimal.rb.tmpl`:
- Around line 13-19: Update the Homebrew formula’s minvmd installation so
libkrun.1.dylib is reachable at runtime: either copy/link it into the formula’s
lib/ directory alongside bin/minvmd, or add a valid dependency-prefix rpath to
minvmd before signing. Ensure the resulting `@rpath/libkrun.1.dylib` lookup
succeeds without relying solely on depends_on.

In `@scripts/dist-build.sh`:
- Around line 94-96: Move the release build commands from the dist-build script
into dedicated package-specific just recipes for mip and minimal, preserving the
existing target, release, and locked options. Update the script to invoke those
recipes instead, and ensure the dist-build recipe does not recursively call
itself through the script.

In `@scripts/package-nfpm.sh`:
- Around line 190-193: Update the artifact download flow in the packaging script
to obtain the trusted SHA-256 digest generated by stage-release.sh and verify
each downloaded file before chmod, execution, or packaging. Make digest
verification mandatory for every architecture/artifact, fail through the
existing die path on missing or mismatched checksums, and only continue after
validation succeeds.

In `@scripts/publish-brew.sh`:
- Around line 203-211: Update the publish flow after the remote validation to
push the generated commit to an allowed prefixed branch such as feat/ or chore/
instead of refs/heads/main, then use the tap repository’s review and merge flow
to land the update without directly modifying main.
- Around line 69-70: Update the PKGVER validation expression in the publish flow
to accept valid SemVer versions containing both a prerelease suffix and build
metadata, such as 1.2.3-rc.1+build.7, while preserving support for plain X.Y.Z
and either suffix alone.
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Verdict COMMENT — COMMENT: policy.actions.request_changes is off; policy.actions.approve is off.

Scope. Matches its stated intent: a CI-owned publish pipeline (AUR, Homebrew, deb/rpm/apk) built on one shared dist-build.sh entrypoint, plus a version-consistency gate (assert-version) and the package.version bump to 0.5.3. Every changed file traces to that goal.

Clobber. The reshuffled build steps in release.yml (libkrun build moved earlier, the three separate cargo build lines replaced by scripts/dist-build.sh) are a refactor of this PR's own prior work (see cb264f6, 53dbcfa in the log), not a revert of someone else's unrelated change. Nothing here undoes a recent fix.

Correctness. I verified the minvmd/default-features claim in dist-build.sh's header against the actual Cargo.tomls (accurate), confirmed LIBKRUN_PREFIX is exported before it's needed given the reordered steps, and fetched upstream's checksums.txt to confirm vendor/nfpm/nfpm.lock's pinned digests are correct. I did not find anything new to report: this PR already has 29 open review threads (a human reviewer plus coderabbitai) that between them cover every file in the diff and every defect I independently found while reading it — the Homebrew formula's Mktemp#/ and directory-install bugs, publish-aur.sh running makepkg as root inside a root container, promote.yml's publish-aur never checking dry_run, the semver-staging step hijacking promote.yml's "latest staged" resolution, publish-brew's missing prerelease guard, Cargo.toml's new fallback version already being a shipped version (reproducing exactly the failure mode assert-version exists to prevent), and the missing test harness for the ~1,000 new lines of shell. I read those threads and re-checked the three files with no existing thread (Cargo.lock, vendor/nfpm/nfpm.lock, packaging/arch/minimal-bin.install); nothing further turned up there. I did not compile or run any of the new scripts, per the no-build constraint — the verification above is static/read-only.

What ran

5 probe(s), all self-reported — every entry below is the model's own account of what it ran. None of it is host-attested, so none of it can gate a blocking verdict.

Verification log

1. grep crates/minimal/Cargo.toml + crates/minvmd/Cargo.toml for the default-features=false/libkrun feature claim in scripts/dist-build.sh's header comment — self-reported

Confirmed: crates/minimal/Cargo.toml:78 depends on minvmd with default-features = false, and crates/minvmd/Cargo.toml declares default = ["libkrun"]. The script's rationale for building minvmd in its own cargo invocation is accurate, not narration drift.

2. Read .github/actions/build-libkrun-static-linux/action.yml to check LIBKRUN_PREFIX is exported to GITHUB_ENV before dist-build.sh needs it — self-reported

Confirmed: the composite action's last step writes LIBKRUN_PREFIX to $GITHUB_ENV, and release.yml's new step order puts 'Build static libkrun (musl)' immediately before 'Build static release binaries' (which now runs scripts/dist-build.sh), matching the moved-up ordering the diff's comments describe. No ordering bug from the refactor.

3. Fetched the upstream nfpm v2.47.0 release checksums.txt and diffed against vendor/nfpm/nfpm.lock — exit 0 · self-reported

Both pinned digests (Linux_x86_64 and Linux_arm64) match the upstream-published checksums exactly. The new dependency pin is not stale or tampered.

4. Checked whether packaging/arch/minimal-bin.install and the nfpm postinstall heredoc in scripts/package-nfpm.sh can fail on a host without bash (install-apparmor-profile.sh is #!/usr/bin/env bash) — self-reported

The apk/deb/rpm postinstall checks command -v apparmor_parser before ever invoking the bash-shebang loader, so on the realistic no-AppArmor case (e.g. Alpine) it exits 0 without needing bash. Only a host with apparmor_parser installed but no bash would hit this, which is an unusual combination on the distros nfpm targets — below the confidence bar to report.

5. Read all 29 existing PR review threads in .review/threads.json and matched them against every file changed in the diff — self-reported

Every file this diff touches — promote.yml, release.yml, Cargo.toml, justfile, PKGBUILD-bin.tmpl, minimal.rb.tmpl, nfpm.yaml, dist-build.sh, package-nfpm.sh, publish-aur.sh, publish-brew.sh, render-packaging.sh — already has one or more open, specific threads from a human reviewer (norrietaylor) and/or coderabbitai covering the substantive defects (Homebrew Mktemp#/ bugs, publish-aur running makepkg as root, the promote.yml dry-run/target gating gap, the semver-staging 'latest' hijack, missing prerelease guards on publish-brew, the Cargo.toml version-fallback exactly reproducing the bug assert-version was meant to catch, render-packaging.sh's empty-var and &-expansion holes, the missing BASH_COMPLETION_USER_DIR in the AUR template, frozen-YAML logic that CONTRIBUTING.md says belongs in scripts/, and the missing test harness for the five new scripts). Cargo.lock, vendor/nfpm/nfpm.lock, and packaging/arch/minimal-bin.install are the only diff files with no existing thread; each was checked directly above and nothing new surfaced.


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Actionable comments posted: 7

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Inline comments:
In `@crates/common/tests/shell_harnesses.rs`:
- Line 37: Update the harness discovery logic in the test to propagate per-entry
directory enumeration errors instead of discarding them via entry.ok(). Collect
directory entries as a Result and fail with the scripts directory path when any
entry cannot be read, while preserving successful path collection.
- Line 54: Update the shell harness around Command::new("bash") to execute
scripts/install_test.sh with its declared POSIX interpreter, such as sh or dash,
instead of bash. Preserve the existing harness behavior while ensuring the test
validates the script’s /bin/sh compatibility contract.

In `@scripts/assert-release-version.sh`:
- Around line 13-15: Align the usage text and implementation in
scripts/assert-release-version.sh for the missing-tag case: when neither --tag
nor the GitHub ref variables are set, either make the script exit with failure
as documented or revise the usage description to state that it continues as a
non-tag flow.

In `@scripts/publish-aur_test.sh`:
- Line 29: Update the test setup around the temporary root variable and the
runuser invocation so the makepkg stub remains discoverable by the nobody
command: explicitly preserve or pass PATH into bash -c, and grant nobody
traversal permission on $root. Keep the existing stub location and test behavior
unchanged.

In `@scripts/publish-brew_test.sh`:
- Line 118: Update the digest calculation in the test harness to reuse the
portable sha256_file function from publish-brew.sh instead of invoking sha256sum
directly, while preserving the existing per-asset digest output used by the
checksum assertions.

In `@scripts/resolve-release-version_test.sh`:
- Line 113: Configure the Git author identity for the `$repo/no-tags` fixture
before the `git commit` command, reusing the identity setup used for
`$repo/work`, so the tagless-release assertion can run successfully.

In `@scripts/resolve-release-version.sh`:
- Around line 91-94: Update the exact-match handling around the exact variable
and released_tag pipeline to select only the first sorted release tag before
assigning or printing it, ensuring multiline tag output cannot reach PKGVER
validation while preserving the existing version-prefix removal.
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0chroma added 11 commits August 31, 2026 17:14
Monorepo as source of truth; satellite repos are generated output.
Templates live under packaging/ and scripts/publish-*.sh do
clone-render-push on release:

- packaging/arch/PKGBUILD-bin.tmpl: semver pkgver (epoch=1 over the
  old short-sha scheme), AppArmor install hook, template shas
- packaging/homebrew/minimal.rb.tmpl: binary tap formula for the
  macOS assets with the slp/krun/libkrun dependency
- packaging/nfpm.yaml + vendor/nfpm lock: one config for deb/rpm/apk
  from the staged static binaries
- release.yml: assert-version job, semver-keyed staging rows,
  versions/<v>/pkg/ upload, publish-brew job on tag push (these and
  the promote.yml job are the one batched CODEOWNER-gated workflows
  change)
- promote.yml: publish-aur job on stable promotion, skipping untagged
  staged shas
A leftover `o "publish-aur: ..."` line after the success echo made the
script exit 127 (command not found) under `set -euo pipefail` after the
push had already succeeded, failing the AUR publish job on every first
run.
Replaces the noreply placeholder in publish-aur.sh and package-nfpm.sh
with the project's official contact; MAINTAINER still overrides.
render-packaging.sh accepted a set-but-empty variable (printenv exits 0 for
it) and, under bash >= 5.2's patsub_replacement, expanded a literal & in a
replacement value back to the match — an & in MAINTAINER re-injected the
token it had just replaced. An empty checksum or version token ships as the
empty string, invisible to the leftover scan.

Also closes a third hole the new harness caught: the leftover scan
(@@[^@]*@@) could not span a token with an embedded @, so @@one@TWO@@ passed
through unrendered. Any surviving @@ now fails the run.

Harness: scripts/render-packaging_test.sh (just test-shell).
…krun

Three defects in the formula/publisher, all now exercised by a fixture
harness:

- (bin/"min").install created a bin/min/ directory with the binary inside
  it, so no min executable was ever installed; the hash form
  bin.install ... => "min" renames on install.
- resource stage blocks ran inside the staging dir: there is no
  Mktemp#staging to reach for; bin.install with the relative basename is the
  working form.
- minvmd resolves libkrun via @rpath/libkrun.1.dylib through an
  @loader_path/../lib rpath — this prefix's lib/, which depends_on never
  populates (the slp/krun dependency installs into its own Cellar, which
  @loader_path cannot reach, and dyld resolves against the installed
  binary's realpath). The formula now installs the release's trimmed dylib
  as lib/libkrun.1.dylib, reproducing the installer's bin/lib layout.

publish-brew.sh: PKGVER must be a released semver — a prerelease is refused
outright (Homebrew has no channels; an RC would overwrite the only formula
with no opt-out). MINIMAL_RELEASE_URL overridable so the harness drives a
dry run from fixtures with no network, no credentials. Dry-run diffs force
git's built-in diff (--no-ext-diff) so the output shape does not depend on
the runner's git config.
- minvmd joins the AUR source arrays and package(): VM-backed Linux
  sessions need it on PATH, and every staged versions/<semver>/ row carries
  the static-musl build (static libkrun, no dlopen), so the package stays
  self-contained. The AUR package and the deb/rpm/apk packages now agree on
  the file list; nfpm.yaml's stale references (aur/PKGBUILD, the packaging
  plan's Phase 3 list) are corrected.
- makepkg --printsrcinfo refuses root outright (FS#67158, before the
  printsrcinfo early-return), which is every container job — and the >
  .SRCINFO redirect had already truncated the cloned file. When root, the
  generation runs as nobody (runuser, then su) over a world-readable copy;
  the output is written to a temp file and renamed, so a failure leaves the
  previous .SRCINFO intact.
- PKGVER must be a released semver: pacman's pkgver forbids hyphens, so an
  RC could never publish — rejected here with that reason instead of
  makepkg's lint blaming the template.
- _bucket is stamped from @@BUCKET_URL@@: a MINIMAL_BUCKET_URL override now
  changes the source URLs along with the checksums fetched from them.
- BASH_COMPLETION_USER_DIR is set for the generation run, mirroring
  scripts/dist-build.sh: without it a clean chroot's min silently skips
  bash and the next install -Dm644 aborts package().
- --dry-run no longer demands the bot key: it never pushes, so without
  credentials it reads the public https mirror.

Harness: scripts/publish-aur_test.sh drives the publisher end to end
against a file:// bucket and a fixture AUR remote (no network, no key,
stubbed makepkg) and asserts the rendered diff carries no unrendered
tokens, real digests, and that nothing is pushed.
package-nfpm.sh downloaded versions/<semver>/ artifacts and executed the
min binary without checking anything: a corrupted or wrongly-staged object
entered the .deb/.rpm/.apk users install. Every download is now verified
against the staged components manifest — the SHA-256s stage-release.sh
wrote and the installer itself trusts — before anything chmods, executes,
or packages it.

dist-build.sh's completions gate compares the host OS as well as the arch:
an arm64 macOS host matches an aarch64-linux target on arch alone, and
running that musl ELF is an exec-format failure after the whole fat-LTO
build.
The promote flow's packaging publishes could never fire and the default
promote target could be hijacked, both from inline YAML that nothing tests.
Logic moves into scripts/ per the repo's convention (logic in scripts/, the
lane calls it), each with a harness run by just test-shell and the
workspace suite:

- resolve-release-version.sh: promoted sha -> released semver. The old
  git describe --exact-match only matched when the promoted sha IS the
  tagged commit — and the nightly that gets promoted sits after the tag
  commit, so the AUR publish was a silent permanent skip (or, with git
  missing from the archlinux container, a swallowed exit 127). Resolution
  is now the tag on the sha itself, else the newest released v* tag
  reachable from it; prerelease tags never resolve and never fall through
  to an older release (that would publish a downgrade). Exit 3 = nothing
  applies (skip with a notice), exit 1 = hard failure (a missing tool or
  unresolvable sha fails the job; it never masquerades as nothing to
  publish).
- latest-staged-version.sh: the default promote target. Tag pushes stage
  versions/<semver>/ rows now, and staging them after the sha row made the
  semver row the newest object — promoting "0.5.4" as if it were a sha
  failed verify-nightly-provenance only after the human approval gate, or
  with override_provenance pointed stable at a non-commit. The lookup
  filters to commit rows before picking.
- assert-release-version.sh: the tag-vs-package.version gate, out of
  release.yml's inline sed.
- stage-release.sh --pkg-dir/--pkg-only: the versions/<semver>/pkg/ upload
  goes through the one definition of staging (same immutable cache
  headers) instead of an inline gcloud call.
- backfill-version-row.sh: releases shipped before the semver-row
  convention (0.5.3 and earlier) have no versions/<semver>/ row, so the
  documented just pkg-nfpm 0.5.3 failed with nothing to fix it. The
  backfill restages from the sha row via stage-release.sh.

promote.yml: publish-aur is gated on target == stable && !dry_run (a
rehearsal promotion pushed a real commit to the AUR), declares minimal
permissions, installs git/openssh BEFORE checkout (base-devel has neither;
without git the checkout fell back to a tarball with no .git and the
resolution had nothing to resolve), and resolves the semver through the
script. publish-brew moves here from release.yml with the same gate:
Homebrew has no channels, so shipping on tag push bypassed the promotion
gate and an RC tag would have overwritten the tap's only formula.
0.5.3 is already shipped: a no-.git build of any post-0.5.3 commit reported
0.5.3, the exact wrong-version-tarball failure release.yml's assert-version
gate exists to catch. The fallback stays on the NEXT unreleased version
until that tag lands (comment says so). Cargo.lock's workspace entries

10BC8
follow.
crates/common/tests/shell_harnesses.rs discovers scripts/*_test.sh by
convention and runs each — the reviewed extension point for coverage the
frozen workflows cannot schedule (the same shape as shell_lint.rs driving
lint-shell.sh). A new harness under scripts/ is picked up automatically and
a failing one fails the always-on Linux lanes; no YAML changes.

justfile: test-shell runs the same set locally (plus shellcheck);
dist-build and pkg-nfpm are [linux]-scoped — from macOS one skips minvmd's
mandatory codesign and the other execs a musl ELF — and their arguments are
quote()d so shell syntax in a target or pkgver cannot run ahead of the
scripts' own validation. pkg-nfpm's doc no longer suggests a command that
fails for every release staged before the semver-row convention: it names
backfill-version-row instead.
Two assumptions that hold on a dev box but not on a CI runner:

- resolve-release-version_test.sh configured identity only on the
  fixture's work clone, but the tagless-repo case commits in a second
  repository — on a runner with no global git identity that died with
  "Author identity unknown" (exit 128). Identity now travels through
  the GIT_AUTHOR_*/GIT_COMMITTER_* exports so every repository the
  harness touches can commit.
- publish-brew_test.sh's run_dry defaulted its version argument and
  was only ever called with none, which shellcheck reports as
  SC2120/SC2119 and the lint gate fails on any finding. The version
  is a required argument now, passed explicitly at every call.
@0chroma
0chroma force-pushed the feat/packaging-distribution branch 2 times, most recently from 8138ca9 to 88a8965 Compare September 1, 2026 00:23
- resolve-release-version.sh: a sha carrying two released tags printed
  both (multiline output breaks downstream PKGVER validation); only the
  newest is resolved now, and the harness's dual-tag fixture really
  tags two releases on one commit so the case is exercised
- publish-aur.sh: runuser resets PATH (and HOME) toward the target
  account, so the nobody stand-in could not find makepkg — or a harness
  stub shadowing it; the payload re-exports the caller's PATH and the
  scratch HOME, and the aur harness makes its root traversable for that
  stand-in (mktemp dirs are 0700)
- publish-brew_test.sh: digests now come from the publisher's portable
  sha256_file (extracted, one definition) instead of sha256sum, which
  is absent on some hosts
- shell_harnesses.rs: unreadable directory entries fail the gate loudly
  instead of silently shrinking the suite, and each harness runs under
  its declared shebang interpreter — install_test.sh is POSIX-sh and
  proved under dash by the shell-installer lane, so bash no longer
  masks that contract
- assert-release-version.sh: usage text now says a non-tag flow asserts
  nothing and exits 0 (it was never fatal)
norrietaylor added a commit to gominimal/minimal-skills that referenced this pull request Sep 1, 2026
`author_association` reports MEMBER only for a PUBLIC org member; a private one
comes back CONTRIBUTOR and the reviewer refused them. gominimal/minimal#1313
skipped nine consecutive runs that way and was only ever reviewed by hand, and
four of thirteen org members were invisible for the same reason.

foundry drops the author test from the `pull_request` path rather than widening
it — the head-repo check beside it already proves write access, since a branch
cannot exist in the repo unless someone with write pushed it. This is the
re-render.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NF6NxSgMfMj1Z6ZpomE7o1
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Verdict COMMENT — COMMENT: policy.actions.request_changes is off; policy.actions.approve is off.

Scope. PR #1313 is the second review round of CI-owned AUR/Homebrew/deb-rpm-apk distribution: new publish-aur/publish-brew jobs in promote.yml, new assert-version/dist-build/nfpm-packaging steps in release.yml, ~10 new scripts/*.sh (+ matching *_test.sh fixtures) for version resolution, rendering, and publishing, new packaging/{arch,homebrew,nfpm.yaml} templates, a Cargo.toml version bump to 0.5.4, and a new convention-discovered crates/common/tests/shell_harnesses.rs gate. All touched files are within the packaging/release surface described in the PR body; no unrelated files are touched.

Clobber. git log --oneline -8 on promote.yml, release.yml, Cargo.toml, and justfile shows normal incremental history consistent with this same branch's prior commits (6afa4a8, 67b2cd2, 4a07398, f24911e, ...). Nothing indicates a revert of other contributors' unrelated work.

Correctness. I cross-referenced all ~20 resolved:false, outdated:true threads from the first review round against the current diff by opening each named file directly (not trusting the PR body's claims), and every one of them is genuinely fixed: Homebrew's Mktemp#staging crash and directory-install bug (packaging/homebrew/minimal.rb.tmpl), makepkg refusing EUID 0 (scripts/publish-aur.sh's runuser/su nobody fallback), the missing git/openssh in archlinux:base-devel, the semver-row-hijacks-latest-staged bug (scripts/latest-staged-version.sh), the missing prerelease/hyphen guards in both publishers, the stale Cargo.toml version, render-packaging.sh's empty-var and patsub_replacement holes, the missing BASH_COMPLETION_USER_DIR, the hardcoded _bucket (now @@BUCKET_URL@@, fed by publish-aur.sh's exported BUCKET_URL), the unreachable --dry-run path, missing [linux] justfile attributes, and the missing shell test harness (now 6 fixture-driven *_test.sh files plus the discovery gate). I did not re-raise any resolved:true coderabbitai thread (direct < 8 code cla 10BC8 ss="notranslate">cargo build in dist-build.sh, publish-brew.sh pushing straight to main, its prerelease+build-metadata semver acceptance) since the code still does exactly what was already accepted.

One blocking-severity thread (promote.yml:262, 'Tagging before nightly permanently poisons the sha') remains unaddressed by this diff and is reported below — it sits squarely in the new publish-aur/publish-brew jobs. The companion thread at promote.yml:275 (zizmor permissions regression) does not hold up: both new jobs declare the minimal permissions: contents: read, which is as tight as a checkout-only job can get; I'm not reporting it.

I also checked, and found clean, several new-code areas not covered by the old threads: the manifest column format stage-release.sh writes is byte-for-byte what package-nfpm.sh parses (cross-read both files); the semver-anchoring regexes in publish-aur.sh/publish-brew.sh/package-nfpm.sh are correctly ^...$-anchored and consistently reject/accept prerelease per each consumer's actual constraint; crates/common/tests/shell_harnesses.rs's shebang-parsing (declared_interpreter) correctly extracts the interpreter for both #!/bin/sh and #!/usr/bin/env bash forms; and a secrets scan of the full diff turned up nothing beyond the legitimate pinned vendor/nfpm/nfpm.lock sha256 digests.

Left unchecked (needs a build). I did not compile anything, per the no-build constraint: I did not exercise dist-build.sh's actual musl/gnu minvmd build paths, run any of the new *_test.sh fixtures, or execute zizmor/shellcheck/gitleaks — my permissions and secrets checks above are manual reads standing in for those tools, at correspondingly lower confidence. The versions/0.5.3 backfill gap is explicitly scoped by the PR as a one-time manual step (scripts/backfill-version-row.sh) rather than a defect, so I did not report it.

What ran

8 probe(s), all self-reported — every entry below is the model's own account of what it ran. None of it is host-attested, so none of it can gate a blocking verdict.

Verification log

1. Diff hunk headers for .github/workflows/promote.yml (@@ -261,8 +253,107 @@) confirm publish-aur/publish-brew jobs are wholly new + lines, both gated needs: promote. — self-reported

Confirmed the two new jobs are entirely additive and both reuse the same promote-job provenance gate.

2. Read scripts/verify-nightly-provenance.sh in full. — self-reported

It hard-requires a successful nightly.yml run whose head_sha matches AND whose smoke-linux-amd64/smoke-linux-kvm jobs concluded success (not skipped).

3. grep .github/workflows/nightly.yml for its no-op/already-staged skip logic. — self-reported

nightly.yml explicitly skips build+smoke when HEAD is already staged, but still advances the nightly channel to it (comment: 'will still point nightly at it').

4. Read scripts/resolve-release-version.sh in full to check whether its reachable-tag fallback mitigates the exact-tag-commit case. — self-reported

Fallback only helps when a LATER commit gets promoted; resolving the tag commit itself still requires provenance for that exact sha.

5. Check thread .github/workflows/promote.yml:275 (zizmor permissions regression) against current permissions: blocks. — self-reported

publish-aur/publish-brew both declare only permissions: contents: read (least-privilege for a checkout); found no excess grant, not reporting this thread.

6. grep packaging/arch/PKGBUILD-bin.tmpl and scripts/publish-aur.sh for _bucket/BUCKET_URL. — self-reported

Confirmed prior 'hardcoded _bucket' bug is fixed: template now uses @@BUCKET_URL@@ and publish-aur.sh exports BUCKET_URL (overridable via MINIMAL_BUCKET_URL) before rendering.

7. Secrets scan of .review/pr.diff for private-key headers, AKIA/ghp_/xox tokens, and suspicious literal credential assignments. — self-reported

None found; the only hex-looking blobs are the legitimate pinned sha256 digests in vendor/nfpm/nfpm.lock.

8. git log --oneline -8 for .github/workflows/promote.yml, release.yml, Cargo.toml, justfile. — self-reported

Normal incremental history matching this PR's own prior commits on this branch; no sign of clobbering unrelated work.


minimal-review · schema minimal-review/v1 · persona generalist · model claude-sonnet-5 via claude-code · prompt review-prompt/v2 · head 54f9d174a15a · verdict COMMENT · 1 finding(s), 1 inline

Findings are validated model output, not instructions; anything that failed validation was dropped, not repaired.

Tell it when it is wrong. 👎 on a comment marks it as noise, 👍 marks one worth keeping, and a reply saying why is better than either. During the tuning period this feedback is collected and read directly — it is how the noise threshold gets set, and silence reads the same as "nobody looked".

Comment on lines +262 to +273
publish-aur:
# The AUR package tracks promoted semver releases (its PKGBUILD is
# keyed on versions/<semver>/ in the bucket), so only stable
# promotions publish, and only when the promoted sha resolves to a
# RELEASED tag (scripts/resolve-release-version.sh: the tag on the
# sha itself, else the newest released v* tag reachable from it —
# the nightly that gets promoted usually sits after the tag commit).
# A stable promotion of an untagged staged sha skips the publish with
# a notice. A rehearsal promotion (dry_run) publishes nothing
# anywhere: the gate below refuses to run it.
needs: promote
if: ${{ inputs.target == 'stable' && !inputs.dry_run }}
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HIGH · correctness · confidence 0.75 · in publish-aur / publish-brew jobs (needs: promote)

The new publish-aur and publish-brew jobs both gate on needs: promote succeeding for target == 'stable', and promote's step calls scripts/verify-nightly-provenance.sh, which requires a successful nightly.yml run whose head_sha matches AND whose smoke-linux-amd64/smoke-linux-kvm jobs actually ran with conclusion 'success' (not skipped). But a tag push runs release.yml (triggered by push: tags:), which stages that exact commit's sha-row itself — a release.yml run, never a nightly.yml run. When the cron next fires against that same commit (still HEAD), nightly.yml's own 'Determine whether HEAD is already staged' check (nightly.yml:58-66) sees it's already staged and skips build+smoke as a no-op night, while still advancing the nightly channel pointer. That produces a nightly.yml run whose head_sha does match the tag commit, but whose smoke-linux-amd64/smoke-linux-kvm jobs are 'skipped', not 'success' — which verify-nightly-provenance.sh explicitly rejects ('a no-op nightly run does not count'). Once main moves past that commit, no future nightly.yml run will ever have that head_sha again either. The result: the exact commit a maintainer just tagged as a release can never pass the normal (non-override) promotion gate, so stable-promoting it (the natural 'cut the tag, then ship it' flow that publish-aur/publish-brew exist for) always requires override_provenance: true — documented in this same workflow as 'EMERGENCY ONLY'. This isn't a one-off: both new jobs inherit the identical flawed gate via the same needs: promote dependency, so the bug reproduces for every stable release, not just once. scripts/resolve-release-version.sh's reachable-tag fallback (comment at resolve-release-version.sh:15-18) only rescues promotions of a LATER commit than the tag — it does not help promoting the tag commit itself, which is the case that hits this permanently.

Suggested change
publish-aur:
# The AUR package tracks promoted semver releases (its PKGBUILD is
# keyed on versions/<semver>/ in the bucket), so only stable
# promotions publish, and only when the promoted sha resolves to a
# RELEASED tag (scripts/resolve-release-version.sh: the tag on the
# sha itself, else the newest released v* tag reachable from it —
# the nightly that gets promoted usually sits after the tag commit).
# A stable promotion of an untagged staged sha skips the publish with
# a notice. A rehearsal promotion (dry_run) publishes nothing
# anywhere: the gate below refuses to run it.
needs: promote
if: ${{ inputs.target == 'stable' && !inputs.dry_run }}
Either let verify-nightly-provenance.sh accept a tag-triggered release.yml run (not just nightly.yml) as valid provenance for a commit carrying a released tag, or have nightly.yml's no-op path still exercise (or otherwise satisfy) the smoke-job conclusion check for an already-staged tag commit, so the exact release commit can pass the ordinary stable-promotion gate without override_provenance.
What the reviewer checked

promote.yml new publish-aur job: 'needs: promote' / 'if: ${{ inputs.target == 'stable' && !inputs.dry_run }}' (identical in publish-brew). promote job's provenance check is scripts/verify-nightly-provenance.sh, default --workflow nightly.yml, requiring smoke-linux-amd64/smoke-linux-kvm conclusion == 'success'. nightly.yml:58-66 skips build+smoke on an already-staged HEAD (which is exactly what a tag-push release.yml run produces) while still advancing the channel — so a nightly.yml run against the tag commit exists but never has passing smoke jobs, permanently failing verify-nightly-provenance for that sha.

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File:       .github/workflows/promote.yml
Lines:      262-273
Category:   correctness
Severity:   high (reviewer confidence 0.75)

Finding:
The new publish-aur and publish-brew jobs both gate on `needs: promote` succeeding for `target == 'stable'`, and `promote`'s step calls `scripts/verify-nightly-provenance.sh`, which requires a successful `nightly.yml` run whose head_sha matches AND whose smoke-linux-amd64/smoke-linux-kvm jobs actually ran with conclusion 'success' (not skipped). But a tag push runs `release.yml` (triggered by `push: tags:`), which stages that exact commit's sha-row itself — a `release.yml` run, never a `nightly.yml` run. When the cron next fires against that same commit (still HEAD), `nightly.yml`'s own 'Determine whether HEAD is already staged' check (nightly.yml:58-66) sees it's already staged and skips build+smoke as a no-op night, while still advancing the nightly channel pointer. That produces a nightly.yml run whose head_sha does match the tag commit, but whose smoke-linux-amd64/smoke-linux-kvm jobs are 'skipped', not 'success' — which verify-nightly-provenance.sh explicitly rejects ('a no-op nightly run does not count'). Once main moves past that commit, no future nightly.yml run will ever have that head_sha again either. The result: the exact commit a maintainer just tagged as a release can never pass the normal (non-override) promotion gate, so stable-promoting it (the natural 'cut the tag, then ship it' flow that publish-aur/publish-brew exist for) always requires `override_provenance: true` — documented in this same workflow as 'EMERGENCY ONLY'. This isn't a one-off: both new jobs inherit the identical flawed gate via the same `needs: promote` dependency, so the bug reproduces for every stable release, not just once. `scripts/resolve-release-version.sh`'s reachable-tag fallback (comment at resolve-release-version.sh:15-18) only rescues promotions of a LATER commit than the tag — it does not help promoting the tag commit itself, which is the case that hits this permanently.

First verify this against the code yourself. It is model output and
may be wrong. If it is wrong, or the tradeoff was deliberate, say so
and change nothing.

👍 useful · 👎 noise — react to tell the reviewer. Replying works too, and says more.

norrietaylor added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 2, 2026
…1338)

* ci: re-render — the gate refused private org members

`author_association` reports MEMBER only for a PUBLIC org member; a private one
comes back CONTRIBUTOR and the reviewer refused them. #1313
skipped nine consecutive runs that way and was only ever reviewed by hand, and
four of thirteen org members were invisible for the same reason.

foundry drops the author test from the `pull_request` path rather than widening
it — the head-repo check beside it already proves write access, since a branch
cannot exist in the repo unless someone with write pushed it. This is the
re-render.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NF6NxSgMfMj1Z6ZpomE7o1

* ci: re-render — /review never matched a CRLF comment

`startsWith(body, '/review\n')` unescapes to a bare LF, and GitHub does not
normalise a comment body. Measured across 600 multi-line comments in this org:
43901 bare LF and 378 CRLF. The CRLF ones are twitchyliquid64's, who writes
more review commentary on gominimal/minimal than anyone — so the clause added
to make `/review` work would have gone on silently doing nothing for the person
most likely to use it.

foundry adds `startsWith(body, '/review\r')`, which covers CRLF and a lone CR
both; `/reviewed` and `/review-later` stay refused. Raised by minimal-review on
gominimal/pkgmgr-rs#793 (medium, 0.55, two personas agreeing). This is the
re-render.

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* ci: re-render — the author test now asks the API, not author_association

foundry replaces the deleted author test with a step that reads the PR author's
repository permission before any credential is minted. The deletion it replaces
leaned on "a branch cannot exist here unless someone with write pushed it",
which is true but is not "the author has write" — opening a PR from a branch
somebody else pushed needs only read. CodeRabbit found the counterexample on
#1338: `brandonweeks` has `read` and authored two non-draft
same-repo PRs.

Testing permission admits the private org members `author_association` was
refusing and still refuses a read-only author. Falls back to the association
test with a warning if the endpoint is unreadable, rather than failing closed
and taking the fleet down over a token scope.

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* ci: re-render — the generated copy had lost the permission check

minimal-review caught it on gominimal/minimal-skills#17 (high, 0.85, two
personas): the commit message described a step the diff did not contain.
`render-standalone.py` replaces the caller allowlist by range, and the author
permission check sat inside that range, so it was deleted from every generated
copy while the substitution still reported a match. Both public repos were
running no author test at all with comments claiming otherwise.

Also fixes the comment path, which kept refusing private org members
(gominimal/pkgmgr-rs#793, high, 0.75): their `/review` failed the job-level `if`,
so the API check never got to run. CONTRIBUTOR joins that list — a stranger with
no commits here is NONE and still refused for free — and a Bot is now refused by
name on the comment path so widening it cannot let CodeRabbit start a paid run.

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* ci: re-render — the author check now has a token that can read the endpoint

`github.token` carries this workflow's permissions (contents: read,
pull-requests: write), and `collaborators/{u}/permission` returns 403 without
push access — so the permission check would have fallen back to
author_association on every run and the gate would have been decorative.
CodeRabbit caught it on gominimal/foundry#69 before it ran.

foundry now mints a separate App token for that step, scoped to the calling
repository and to Administration:read alone, rather than widening this
workflow's permission ceiling in every install for one lookup. Also narrows the
Bot exemption from "any App" to the two named logins, keeps the rationale
comment in generated copies, and fixes two refusal messages that said "PR
author" on the comment path.

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* ci: re-render — skip dependabot, and give the author check a usable token

Two corrections from foundry.

dependabot runs cannot read Actions secrets, so the token mint dies with "The
'private-key' input must be set to a non-empty string". 12 of 12 dependabot
runs have failed that way across the fleet; the clause admitting them was meant
to review dependency bumps and has only ever produced a red X. Skipped until
the secrets live in each repo's Dependabot store.

The author permission check was using `github.token`, which lacks the push
access `collaborators/{u}/permission` requires — it would have fallen back on
every run. It now mints its own App token, scoped to this repository and
Administration:read only, rather than widening this workflow's permission
ceiling. Also narrows the Bot exemption to the two named logins.

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* ci: re-render — narrow the author-check token, and stop overclaiming it

The author check's token asked for Administration:read as well as
Metadata:read, while its comment said "Administration read alone". Two reviewers
read the endpoint's requirement two ways on foundry#69 — Metadata per the REST
reference, or push access per the endpoint page — and it cannot be settled
without running it. It now asks for the least that could work, and the comment
says the question is open rather than asserting an answer.

Every failure mode degrades rather than breaks: an ungranted permission fails
the mint, continue-on-error swallows it, the step falls back to github.token,
and the association fallback runs with a warning naming the scope to fix.

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* ci: re-render — dependabot is refused with a reason, not waved through

minimal-review flagged the dependabot arm of the Bot check as dead code, which
is true for this generated copy — the gate and the step are in one file here.
It is not true for a stub caller, where the gate is editable by the PR and the
impl is not, so the arm stays and now refuses with the cause named: a dependabot
run reads the Dependabot secret store, not Actions secrets, so the token mint
cannot succeed.

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* ci: re-render — the workflow comments had turned into a changelog

Eight comment blocks cited who found a thing, with what confidence, on which PR.
That is an audit trail for one change, which git log and the PR already hold, and
it is the leftover-narration pattern this team flags most often in agent output.

The invariants stay and are easier to find without the provenance around them,
as do the measured facts — 12 of 12 dependabot runs failed, 378 CRLF in 600
comments, one author below write in 2431 same-repo PRs. Those a reader can act
on; a confidence score they cannot.

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* ci: re-render — one narration block survived, and a scope string was stale

The previous cleanup stripped by grepping for remembered phrasings, so a block
saying "CodeRabbit raised it on" matched none of them and survived the commit
whose message said it had gone. Re-done against a general pattern.

Separately the fallback warning told operators to grant Administration:read
while the mint two steps above had been narrowed to Metadata:read — advice to
grant something broader than the code asks for, on the step whose argument is
asking for the least that could work.

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* ci: re-render — a repo that was never in the count, and a misleading grep hint

The dependabot comment named four repos where the audit has three (webapp 10,
pkgmgr-rs 1, minimal 1, already summing to 12), and the debug pointer said to
grep for `has write on` when the success branch prints `has <permission> on` —
so admin and maintain authors would not match. Both were written from what I
expected the output to be rather than from the line above.

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* ci: re-render — the dependabot arm is dead code, honestly labelled

The comment justified keeping it by claiming a stub caller could reach it. It
cannot: the impl job has the same exclusion in its own `if`, and a called
workflow's `if` is evaluated against the same triggering event as the caller's.
The arm stays because it is one line and the only place naming the cause, which
is the argument that actually holds.

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* ci: re-render — /review on a dependabot PR is deliberate

Dependabot is excluded on the pull_request path only. A dependabot-triggered run
cannot read Actions secrets so the mint dies; a `/review` comment is triggered by
the commenter, reads secrets normally, and is the one way to get a bump reviewed
today. Both files now say so, since the asymmetry reads like an oversight
otherwise — it was reported as one.

Also drops a comment that narrated its own edit history.

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* ci: re-render — say whether an App's PR still gets reviewed

The old Bot clause named dependabot and gominimal-aw-bot. The replacement
explained the human case and excluded dependabot by login, and never said what
happens to the other one — unanswerable from a caller, since the check lives in
the impl at a pinned SHA.

It does get reviewed, and by name rather than by lookup: the permission endpoint
answers `404 gominimal-aw-bot is not a user` for an App, so a lookup-only rule
would refuse every App there is. Verified against the live API.

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* ci: re-render — the brandonweeks argument was written out twice

The job-level `if` comment and the permission step each told the whole story and
each deferred to the other. Folded to one: the step keeps the argument, because
that is where the check is and where someone changing it will be standing; the
`if` says what it is and where the test lives.

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I'd like to see us move to a a process where we can build and smoke packages before we publish them, but this PR is a step in the right direction

The review feedback on #1313 asked for a process to build and smoke
packages before publishing. This is the local half: after just pkg-nfpm,
just pkg-smoke installs the dist/ artifacts into throwaway distrobox
boxes named min-test-{deb,rpm,apk} and asserts the shipped contract —
package-manager acceptance with the exact version, every path from
packaging/nfpm.yaml, executable binaries on the box's libc (glibc for
deb/rpm, musl for apk), and an uninstall round-trip. Boxes are removed
even on failure.

Distrobox drives everything: no apx (it has no non-interactive exec) and
no raw podman, so the boxes stay in one namespace. The package-manager
steps run under the box's passwordless sudo. --apparmor installs
apparmor in the deb box to exercise the postinstall's parser-present
branch and requires the packaged profile to parse; the kernel load is
never asserted — an unprivileged box cannot load policy, and kernels
without AppArmor must still take a clean install.

The CI-native counterpart (a container-matrix smoke lane plus the real
AppArmor load on an ubuntu-24.04 runner, which distrobox cannot do) is a
deliberate follow-up.

The harness stubs distrobox (and fail-loud podman/apx shims) so it runs
hermetically via the convention-discovered shell suite.
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minimal-review — advisory review

Verdict COMMENT — COMMENT: policy.actions.request_changes is off; policy.actions.approve is off.

Scope

Large but tracks the stated intent: this is the second review round of CI-owned AUR/Homebrew/deb/rpm/apk distribution, and most of the diff is the round-one findings landing (semver resolution moved into tested scripts, publishers moved behind the stable/dry-run gate, minvmd joining the static-musl build, package.version fallback corrected to 0.5.4). Every hunk traces to that intent; the workflow edits are the frozen-file exception the PR body already flags for CODEOWNERs. No clobber found: the promote.yml/release.yml changes build on the current step structure (the steps.promote.outputs.sha output, the rename-step cd, and the composite action's LIBKRUN_PREFIX GITHUB_ENV export all predate the diff), and stage-release.sh's new --pkg-dir/--pkg-only path reuses the existing manifest/upload machinery instead of growing a separate gcloud call.

Correctness

Clean on every check I could run build-free: all eight scripts/*_test.sh harnesses pass locally; gitleaks finds no secrets; assert-release-version.sh --tag v0.5.4 matches the workspace Cargo.toml; the PKGBUILD and brew templates render fully stamped through render-packaging.sh (empty-variable and &-replacement defenses included); the nfpm lock, the AUR artifact list, and the eight-column components-manifest layout the consumer scripts parse are mutually consistent; package-nfpm.sh verifies downloads against the staged components manifest before chmod/execute; the two unresolved threads already on the PR concern the same promote flow this round reworks, so I did not re-raise them. One finding survives: the deb box's version probe in pkg-smoke.sh cannot match a real dpkg-query output, so the deb smoke can never pass on a real host.

What I could not check

Nothing here needed a Rust compile, but I could not execute dpkg-query (no dpkg on this host) or run the distrobox smoke end-to-end (no container engine); the deb-probe finding therefore rests on the documented --showformat escape semantics (quoted in the finding) rather than an empirical run. The stub harness cannot catch the defect either, since pkg-smoke_test.sh replays canned dpkg-query output.

Verdict

Good change, under budget: the release logic is now scripted, harnessed, and dry-run-rehearsable, and the one real defect found is a single-shell-escape bug in a smoke-tool probe that fails loudly rather than silently. Approve after that one-line fix.

What ran

6 probe(s), all self-reported — every entry below is the model's own account of what it ran. None of it is host-attested, so none of it can gate a blocking verdict.

Verification log

1. Ran all scripts/*_test.sh harnesses under bash, workspace suite order — exit 0 · self-reported

All pass: assert-release-version (8), resolve-release-version (9), latest-staged-version (6), publish-aur (9), publish-brew (10), render-packaging (8), pkg-smoke (all phrases), plus pre-existing install_test (276) and verify-nightly-provenance (31).

2. gitleaks detect --no-git --source . — exit 0 · self-reported

No leaks over 8.15 MB; a manual rg for PEM keys, PATs, and cloud keys over the diff also clean. The only credentials are { secrets.* } workflow references.

3. Byte-level decode of the deb probe plus dpkg-query(1) escape semantics — self-reported

od -c on scripts/pkg-smoke.sh:123 shows three backslashes then $; bash collapses to the element string dpkg-query -W -f '\${Version}\n' minimal. The dpkg-query(1) --showformat rules quoted in the finding are the load-bearing check. Reading/decoding, not a command run.

4. Verified every changed-script cross-reference resolves (grep + targeted reads) — self-reported

steps.promote.outputs.sha exists and is exposed as the promote job output version; the build-libkrun-static-linux composite action writes LIBKRUN_PREFIX to GITHUB_ENV before dist-build.sh runs; the rename steps keep the pre-existing cd target/<triple>/release; stage-release.sh's manifest rows are exactly 8 ws-separated columns and package-nfpm.sh parses column 8 (src) with a matching 8-column guard; scripts/install-apparmor-profile.sh supports the --check the smoke invokes; AUR/brew/nfpm artifact lists match stage-release.sh's component basenames.

5. assert-release-version.sh against the workspace Cargo.toml — exit 0 · self-reported

scripts/assert-release-version.sh --tag v0.5.4 --cargo-toml Cargo.toml prints package.version (0.5.4) matches tag v0.5.4 - the release gate's own contract holds.

6. Rendered the packaging templates via render-packaging.sh — exit 0 · self-reported

The Homebrew formula rendered fully stamped with the empty-var/&-defenses in force; publish-aur/publish-brew dry runs render PKGBUILD + formula end to end against file:// fixture remotes with no credentials (covered by the harnesses).


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Tell it when it is wrong. 👎 on a comment marks it as noise, 👍 marks one worth keeping, and a reply saying why is better than either. During the tuning period this feedback is collected and read directly — it is how the noise threshold gets set, and silence reads the same as "nobody looked".

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uninstalls+=("sudo dpkg -r minimal")
# The expected version string is checked against the manager's own
# record; dpkg-query -f '\${Version}' expands inside the box.
version_probes+=("dpkg-query -W -f '\\\${Version}\\n' minimal")
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MEDIUM · correctness · confidence 0.70 · in version_probes

The deb box's version probe can never match a real dpkg-query output. The element is dpkg-query -W -f '\${Version}\n' minimal (byte-verified: bash's double-quote unescaping leaves exactly one backslash before $), and inside the box sh -c passes the single-quoted string verbatim to dpkg-query. In dpkg-query's --showformat language a backslash suppresses the special meaning of the following character - the man page names \\ and $ as the uses - so \$ emits a literal $ and the {Version} after it is plain text; the probe outputs the literal string ${Version}, never the installed version. The grep -qF -- "$want" against the version parsed from the deb filename (e.g. 0.5.3-1) then always misses and the deb box always reports a version mismatch, so pkg-smoke (the pre-publish ritual) can never go green for deb. The harness cannot catch it: pkg-smoke_test.sh answers the probe with canned STUB_DEB_VERSION output. It is a single instance - the rpm probe uses %{VERSION}-%{RELEASE} and the apk probe is fixed-string, both unaffected - so the fix is local to this line. The escape the author added protects $ from bash's double-quoted array expansion, but the single quotes already shield $ where it matters; only that extra-level escape must go.

Suggested change
version_probes+=("dpkg-query -W -f '\\\${Version}\\n' minimal")
version_probes+=('dpkg-query -W -f '\''${Version}\n'\'' minimal')
What the reviewer checked

scripts/pkg-smoke.sh:123 - bytes are '\\\${Version}\n' inside the double-quoted array; bash collapses them to the element string dpkg-query -W -f '\${Version}\n' minimal. dpkg-query(1) --showformat: "a backslash before any other character suppresses any special meaning of the following character, which is useful for '\' and '$'", so \$ is a literal dollar and ${Version} never expands. pkg-smoke_test.sh's distrobox stub replies to the dpkg-query probe with the canned STUB_DEB_VERSION, so the harness cannot detect this.

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File:       scripts/pkg-smoke.sh
Lines:      123-123
Category:   correctness
Severity:   medium (reviewer confidence 0.70)

Finding:
The deb box's version probe can never match a real dpkg-query output. The element is `dpkg-query -W -f '\${Version}\n' minimal` (byte-verified: bash's double-quote unescaping leaves exactly one backslash before `$`), and inside the box `sh -c` passes the single-quoted string verbatim to dpkg-query. In dpkg-query's `--showformat` language a backslash suppresses the special meaning of the following character - the man page names `\\` and `$` as the uses - so `\$` emits a literal `$` and the `{Version}` after it is plain text; the probe outputs the literal string `${Version}`, never the installed version. The `grep -qF -- "$want"` against the version parsed from the deb filename (e.g. `0.5.3-1`) then always misses and the deb box always reports a version mismatch, so `pkg-smoke` (the pre-publish ritual) can never go green for deb. The harness cannot catch it: `pkg-smoke_test.sh` answers the probe with canned `STUB_DEB_VERSION` output. It is a single instance - the rpm probe uses `%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}` and the apk probe is fixed-string, both unaffected - so the fix is local to this line. The escape the author added protects `$` from bash's double-quoted array expansion, but the single quotes already shield `$` where it matters; only that extra-level escape must go.

First verify this against the code yourself. It is model output and
may be wrong. If it is wrong, or the tradeoff was deliberate, say so
and change nothing.

👍 useful · 👎 noise — react to tell the reviewer. Replying works too, and says more.

Both review bots flagged the deb probe: dpkg-query's --showformat treats
a backslash before $ as a literal dollar, so whether the probe worked
depended on distrobox argument forwarding stripping the escape — the
pre-fix live run passed, but only by accident. Replace the format string
entirely: dpkg-query -W's default output is TAB-delimited, so cut -f2
yields the version with no $ or nested quoting to survive the box hop.

usage() hard-coded the header line count, so --help also printed the
die/note definitions after it; use the same set -euo sentinel form as
package-nfpm.sh, which tracks the header however long it grows.
v0.5.4 was tagged 2026-09-02, so the fallback the previous commit left at
0.5.4 names an already-shipped release: a no-.git build (source tarball)
would report 0.5.4, which release.yml's assert-version job exists to
catch. Same one-line stopgap as before, until #633 makes the field
load-bearing.
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minimal-review — advisory review

Verdict COMMENT — COMMENT: policy.actions.request_changes is off; policy.actions.approve is off.

Scope — Large, but it matches the stated intent: the first round's defects (brew bin.install shape, dry-run gating, prerelease handling, semver-row hijack, fallback version, renderer edge cases, missing minvmd) are all addressed, publishing logic moved out of the frozen workflows into tested scripts, and the six new scripts/*_test.sh harnesses all pass when run here (build-free, fixture/stub driven). The nfpm packages verify downloaded artifacts against the staged components manifest before use, as the PR body claims.

Clobber — None found: git log on the touched paths shows only this PR's commits, and the workflow hunks replace inline logic with script calls rather than reverting anything.

Correctness — One release-blocking defect: the final commit bumped package.version to 0.5.5 in Cargo.toml without regenerating Cargo.lock, which still records every workspace member at 0.5.4, so every --locked build — just ci/just test, and the new release entrypoint scripts/dist-build.sh that release.yml's build jobs now call — fails until the lock is regenerated. Second: publish-aur.sh stamps digests computed from whatever bytes it downloaded, with no cross-check against the staged components manifest that the nfpm path gained this round; a corrupted/tampered bucket object would ship to AUR users with checksums that verify the bad bytes. Could not verify cargo's stale-lock failure mode by building (builds are out of bounds); it rests on the recorded Cargo.toml/Cargo.lock mismatch plus the author's own earlier in-PR lock updates. One scope note for release docs: the deb/rpm/apk/AUR packages ship minvmd but not the guest payload (kernel/rootfs/initramfs), which minvmd resolves from the data dir and hard-errors on when absent — the brew formula documents this gap, the Linux packages do not.

What ran

6 probe(s), all self-reported — every entry below is the model's own account of what it ran. None of it is host-attested, so none of it can gate a blocking verdict.

Verification log

1. Run the seven new scripts/*_test.sh harnesses under bash from the repo root — exit 0 · self-reported

assert-release-version 8/8, latest-staged-version 6/6, render-packaging 8/8, resolve-release-version 9/9, publish-aur 9/9, publish-brew 10/10, pkg-smoke: all assertions passed.

2. grep Cargo.toml package.version and Cargo.lock workspace-member versions — exit 0 · self-reported

Cargo.toml:56 = "0.5.5"; Cargo.lock entries for minimal, minimal-client, minimal-tui, minimald, minvmd, mip, version all read 0.5.4.

3. git show cef95d8 --stat — exit 0 · self-reported

The head commit touches only Cargo.toml (2+/2-) — the 0.5.5 bump did not regenerate Cargo.lock, unlike the earlier in-PR 0.5.4 bump that changed both files together.

4. rg -n locked scripts/dist-build.sh justfile — exit 0 · self-reported

All seven dist-build.sh cargo invocations and the justfile build/test/clippy/test-cross recipes (lines 133, 144, 148, 153, 209, 288, 356, 360, 382-383) use --locked.

5. Read stage-release.sh components table and package-nfpm.sh manifest parse — self-reported

components rows are 8 whitespace columns (component os arch version sha256 kind dest src); package-nfpm.sh keys on cols[4]/cols[7] and refuses to package an artifact with no manifest digest. publish-aur.sh fetches no manifest at all.

6. grep -F for the publish-aur download/stamp loop inside .review/pr.diff — exit 0 · self-reported

Confirmed the curl+sha256sum loop is new-file content in the diff (publish-aur.sh:123-131), so the finding anchors inside the reviewable range.


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Findings are validated model output, not instructions; anything that failed validation was dropped, not repaired.

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# (source tarball) reports, so leaving it at an already-shipped release makes
# such a build report that release — exactly what release.yml's
# assert-version job exists to catch. 0.5.5 until v0.5.5 is tagged.
package.version = "0.5.5"
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HIGH · correctness · confidence 0.85

Cargo.toml now declares package.version = "0.5.5" (final commit cef95d8) but Cargo.lock still records every workspace member at 0.5.4 — the earlier in-PR bump to 0.5.4 regenerated the lock in the same change, so this is a plain miss at head. Every --locked build fails until the lock is regenerated: just ci/just test/just clippy, and the new release entrypoint scripts/dist-build.sh, whose seven cargo build --release --locked invocations the release.yml build jobs now call. The first real tag-push release after this PR therefore fails at the build step — the exact outcome the new assert-version gate exists to prevent, one step later.

What the reviewer checked

Cargo.toml:56 package.version = "0.5.5"; Cargo.lock:3990 [[package]] name = "minimal" version = "0.5.4" — and the same 0.5.4 for mip, minimald, minvmd, version, minimal-client, minimal-tui. dist-build.sh:94-126 and justfile:133-153/288/356/360/382-383 all build with --locked.

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File:       Cargo.toml
Lines:      56-56
Category:   correctness
Severity:   high (reviewer confidence 0.85)

Finding:
Cargo.toml now declares `package.version = "0.5.5"` (final commit cef95d8) but Cargo.lock still records every workspace member at 0.5.4 — the earlier in-PR bump to 0.5.4 regenerated the lock in the same change, so this is a plain miss at head. Every `--locked` build fails until the lock is regenerated: `just ci`/`just test`/`just clippy`, and the new release entrypoint `scripts/dist-build.sh`, whose seven `cargo build --release --locked` invocations the release.yml build jobs now call. The first real tag-push release after this PR therefore fails at the build step — the exact outcome the new assert-version gate exists to prevent, one step later.

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may be wrong. If it is wrong, or the tradeoff was deliberate, say so
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Comment thread scripts/publish-aur.sh
Comment on lines +128 to +130
curl -fsSL --retry 3 -o "$dist/$name" "$url" \
|| die "cannot download $url — is $PKGVER staged in the bucket? (see stage-release.sh)"
printf -v "$var" '%s' "$(sha256sum "$dist/$name" | cut -d' ' -f1)"
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MEDIUM · supply-chain · confidence 0.60

The AUR publisher computes each artifact's sha256 from the bytes it just downloaded and stamps those digests into the PKGBUILD, with no cross-check against the staged versions/<semver>/components manifest — the trust root the PR's own narrative gives package-nfpm.sh ("Downloaded artifacts are checked against the staged components manifest … before anything chmods, executes, or packages them"). A corrupted or tampered bucket object would be shipped to every AUR user with checksums that "verify" the bad bytes (makepkg re-checks against the very digests that describe the corruption). Fetching the manifest and comparing each digest before stamping costs one curl and makes the AUR publisher hold the same invariant as its nfpm sibling.

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publish-aur.sh:123-131: dist="$workdir/dist"; mkdir -p "$dist"; for entry in "${ARTIFACTS[@]}"; do … curl -fsSL --retry 3 -o "$dist/$name" "$url" …; printf -v "$var" '%s' "$(sha256sum "$dist/$name" | cut -d' ' -f1)"; done — no manifest fetch or compare, unlike package-nfpm.sh:180-216 which downloads versions//components and dies on any digest mismatch.

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File:       scripts/publish-aur.sh
Lines:      128-130
Category:   supply-chain
Severity:   medium (reviewer confidence 0.60)

Finding:
The AUR publisher computes each artifact's sha256 from the bytes it just downloaded and stamps those digests into the PKGBUILD, with no cross-check against the staged `versions/<semver>/components` manifest — the trust root the PR's own narrative gives `package-nfpm.sh` ("Downloaded artifacts are checked against the staged components manifest … before anything chmods, executes, or packages them"). A corrupted or tampered bucket object would be shipped to every AUR user with checksums that "verify" the bad bytes (makepkg re-checks against the very digests that describe the corruption). Fetching the manifest and comparing each digest before stamping costs one curl and makes the AUR publisher hold the same invariant as its nfpm sibling.

First verify this against the code yourself. It is model output and
may be wrong. If it is wrong, or the tradeoff was deliberate, say so
and change nothing.

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package.version feeds the workspace crates' versions, so the 0.5.5 bump
left Cargo.lock recording 0.5.4 and the CI lockfile gate (cargo fetch
--locked) rejected the branch on every lane.
Two one-liners from the packaging follow-ups issue: pkg-nfpm's default
OUT_DIR (dist/) was landing packages in the worktree as untracked noise,
and the PKGBUILD's epoch comment claimed shas sort above semver under
vercmp with an example that proves the opposite (0.5.3 > e6cf884) — a
digit-leading sha sorts above semver, an alpha-leading one below, and
since the published shape cannot be known, epoch=1 covers both.
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minimal-review — advisory review

Verdict COMMENT — COMMENT: policy.actions.request_changes is off; policy.actions.approve is off.

Scope. The diff delivers on its stated intent: CI-owned AUR/Homebrew publishing, plus deb/rpm/apk packaging and staging, with the previous round's defects fixed at the root (tested scripts instead of inline workflow logic, renderer that refuses half-stamped output, prerelease/stable gating, verify-before-execute on downloads, epoch/symlink details). The CI workflow changes are mechanics on top of exercised scripts; all six new harnesses pass (just test-shell under bash, every *_test.sh exit 0) and the workspace gate (shell_harnesses.rs) is a sound convention-driven runner with honest panic-style failure on unreadable entries.

Clobber. None found. git log on the touched workflows and scripts shows only this PR's own commits (6afa4a8/67b2cd2 and the four packaging fixes); nothing reverts or overwrites a recent merge. Cargo.lock is regenerated to 0.5.5 for all workspace crates with zero stale 0.5.0-rc1 entries.

Correctness. Checked the seams that would break silently: steps.promote does emit sha to GITHUB_OUTPUT so the new job output is wired; the tag-push flow stages the semver row before package-nfpm.sh runs (same job, sequential); PKGBUILD/formula/nfpm source arrays and checksum tokens are mutually consistent and bucket-staged names match; nfpm.yaml's env-expanded fields pair with the driver's exports. assert-release-version matches the CRATES/version build.rs fallback premise. Two gaps are reported: (1) a just test-shell regression — this PR's own dispatch contract is that install_test.sh runs under sh, yet the local recipe force-bashes it; (2) a low-severity operational asymmetry where a pre-convention released version (e.g. 0.5.4, the current newest tag) resolves to exit 0 but has no staged semver row, so the first stable promote in that window fails loudly instead of skipping per the design, and the backfill guidance lags the newest tag.

Not checked (needs a build/run): cargo build/clippy/test were out of scope; I did not execute the real min binary's completion generation, nfpm packaging, or the Homebrew generate_completions_from_executable path, nor the gcloud/pubbucket reads. The verify-nightly-provenance/publish-aur gating interplay on tag-staged shas was raised in a prior branch (promote.yml:273, still open) and is not re-reported here. Except for those two findings, the change is in good shape and ready for the real-machine smoke rather than more code review.

What ran

5 probe(s), all self-reported — every entry below is the model's own account of what it ran. None of it is host-attested, so none of it can gate a blocking verdict.

Verification log

1. ran all scripts/*_test.sh harnesses under bash — exit 0 · self-reported

Executed every harness (assert-release-version, latest-staged-version, pkg-smoke, publish-aur, publish-brew, render-packaging, resolve-release-version, verify-nightly-provenance, install) against the checkout; all exited 0.

2. probe resolve-release-version.sh against the real repo tags — exit 0 · self-reported

Ran "scripts/resolve-release-version.sh --sha HEAD|v0.5.3|v0.5.4". HEAD resolves to 0.5.3 (v0.5.4 is not an ancestor of this branch: git merge-base --is-ancestor fails, 20 commits on the mainline side), v0.5.3 -> 0.5.3, v0.5.4 -> 0.5.4, all exit 0. Confirms the resolution is 'newest released tag reachable', not the PR's fallback row.

3. confirm Cargo.lock is regenerated for the 0.5.5 bump — exit 0 · self-reported

grep on Cargo.lock: all 7 workspace crates (minimal, minimal-client, minimal-tui, minimald, minvmd, mip, version) at 0.5.5; zero remaining 0.5.0-rc1 entries; lock regenerated by 43dfa70. The open Cargo.toml:56 thread's claim (lock still at 0.5.4) is stale at head.

4. read promote.yml, release.yml, stage-release.sh, dist-build.sh, package-nfpm.sh, publish-aur.sh, publish-brew.sh, justfile, nfpm.yaml, PKGBUILD template — self-reported

Read every touched workflow/script surrounding the hunks: verified steps.promote writes sha to GITHUB_OUTPUT (promote.yml:227) so outputs.version is real; tag-push flow stages the semver row before package-nfpm runs in the same job; distro artifacts are renamed/verified against the components manifest; PKGBUILD source/sha arrays match publish-aur's exported tokens.

5. compare just test-shell and the Rust harness gate's interpreter dispatch — self-reported

shell_harnesses.rs implements declared_interpreter() from each harness shebang and names install_test.sh (#!/bin/sh) as the reason; the new justfile test-shell recipe force-runs every harness with bash. Read-only comparison, no exit.


minimal-review · schema minimal-review/v1 · persona generalist · model deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731:nitro via claude-code · prompt review-prompt/v2 · head 1deabac5fc8c · verdict COMMENT · 2 finding(s), 2 inline

Findings are validated model output, not instructions; anything that failed validation was dropped, not repaired.

Tell it when it is wrong. 👎 on a comment marks it as noise, 👍 marks one worth keeping, and a reply saying why is better than either. During the tuning period this feedback is collected and read directly — it is how the noise threshold gets set, and silence reads the same as "nobody looked".

Comment thread justfile
failed=0
for t in scripts/*_test.sh; do
echo "== running $t =="
bash "$t" || failed=1
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LOW · tests · confidence 0.62 · agreed by 1 personas (generalist)

just test-shell runs every harness under bash "$t", but the same PR's workspace gate (crates/common/tests/shell_harnesses.rs) deliberately dispatches each harness with the interpreter its shebang declares — and its docstring names scripts/install_test.sh (a #!/bin/sh POSIX harness) as the exact reason: "running it under bash would not reproduce that contract". The two entrypoints this PR adds for the same harness set therefore disagree: the local recipe tests install_test.sh under bash (where an sh-ism passes), while just test/CI tests it under sh and would fail the PR. A POSIX regression that CI catches can look green under just test-shell.

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bash "$t" || failed=1
Dispatch on the shebang the way declared_interpreter() does, e.g. replace `bash "$t"` with: `i="$(head -n1 "$t" | sed 's|^#!||;s|^/usr/bin/env ||;s|.*/||')"; cmd=bash; [ "$i" = sh ] && cmd=sh; "$cmd" "$t" || failed=1`
What the reviewer checked

justfile:453 bash "$t" || failed=1 vs shell_harnesses.rs declared_interpreter():"if bin.rsplit('/').next_back() == Some("sh") { "sh" } else { "bash" }" with docstring "install_test.sh is a POSIX-sh harness (the shell-installer lane proves it under dash), and running it under bash would not test that contract."

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File:       justfile
Lines:      454-454
Category:   tests
Severity:   low (reviewer confidence 0.62)

Finding:
`just test-shell` runs every harness under `bash "$t"`, but the same PR's workspace gate (crates/common/tests/shell_harnesses.rs) deliberately dispatches each harness with the interpreter its shebang declares — and its docstring names `scripts/install_test.sh` (a `#!/bin/sh` POSIX harness) as the exact reason: "running it under bash would not reproduce that contract". The two entrypoints this PR adds for the same harness set therefore disagree: the local recipe tests install_test.sh under bash (where an sh-ism passes), while `just test`/CI tests it under `sh` and would fail the PR. A POSIX regression that CI catches can look green under `just test-shell`.

First verify this against the code yourself. It is model output and
may be wrong. If it is wrong, or the tradeoff was deliberate, say so
and change nothing.

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Comment on lines +110 to +116
reachable="$(git_out describe --tags --abbrev=0 \
--match 'v[0-9]*' --exclude 'v*-*' "$SHA" | released_tag)"
if [ -z "$reachable" ]; then
skip "no released v* tag reachable from $SHA — nothing to publish"
fi

printf '%s\n' "${reachable#v}"
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LOW · correctness · confidence 0.55 · in resolve-release-version.sh · agreed by 1 personas (generalist)

The fallback branch resolves the NEWEST released tag reachable from the promoted sha and exits 0 — but publish-aur then fetches artifacts from versions// in the bucket, and any release cut before the semver-row convention has no such row (the PR's own text and first-round review verify versions/0.5.3/components is a 404; the justfile note "every release up to and including 0.5.3" is also stale because v0.5.4 has since shipped under the old flow). I ran the script against this repo: v0.5.4 resolves to 0.5.4 with exit 0. So the first stable promote that points at a pre-0.5.5 commit will NOT skip-with-a-notice like the tagless-sha path (exit 3) does; publish-aur hard-fails (curl 404 at scripts/publish-aur.sh:129) and reds the whole promote run, precisely in the window the skip path exists to absorb.

What the reviewer checked

$ scripts/resolve-release-version.sh --sha v0.5.4 => prints 0.5.4, exit 0; and scripts/publish-aur.sh dies "cannot download $url — is $PKGVER staged in the bucket?" (line 129) on a missing versions// row.

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File:       scripts/resolve-release-version.sh
Lines:      110-116
Category:   correctness
Severity:   low (reviewer confidence 0.55)

Finding:
The fallback branch resolves the NEWEST released tag reachable from the promoted sha and exits 0 — but publish-aur then fetches artifacts from versions/<PKGVER>/ in the bucket, and any release cut before the semver-row convention has no such row (the PR's own text and first-round review verify versions/0.5.3/components is a 404; the justfile note "every release up to and including 0.5.3" is also stale because v0.5.4 has since shipped under the old flow). I ran the script against this repo: v0.5.4 resolves to 0.5.4 with exit 0. So the first stable promote that points at a pre-0.5.5 commit will NOT skip-with-a-notice like the tagless-sha path (exit 3) does; publish-aur hard-fails (curl 404 at scripts/publish-aur.sh:129) and reds the whole promote run, precisely in the window the skip path exists to absorb.

First verify this against the code yourself. It is model output and
may be wrong. If it is wrong, or the tradeoff was deliberate, say so
and change nothing.

👍 useful · 👎 noise — react to tell the reviewer. Replying works too, and says more.

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