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Rewrites docs/internal/release-pipeline.md so a person can cut a stable release by reading it top to bottom.

What changes

  • First section: "Cut a stable release". Ordered steps with copy-paste commands: choose the commit and check the version, give the commit a branch (manual runs start on a branch or tag, not a commit hash), rehearse with dry_run, stage with versioned: true, test the staged build, promote with a second approver, publish in a separate opt-in run, clean up, and roll back. Also covered:
    • staging moves unstable with no approval
    • a version number is permanent once staged
    • the channel moves before publishing, so a publish failure needs Re-run failed jobs, not a full re-run
    • the AUR/Homebrew secrets must exist before promoting
  • "We test every artifact we release". States the policy and adds a table of what the release run tests today. Rows that don't meet the policy yet are marked gap: Linux arm64 host binaries, arm64 .deb/.rpm/.apk, an end-to-end install.sh run against the staged folder, installing the published Homebrew/AUR packages, completions, and the legacy bundle. The macOS smoke is also marked, because it skips and counts as a pass when RUN_MACOS_CI=false.
  • "Pipeline reference". The same facts as before in shorter sentences, plus a nightly-vs-versioned comparison table and a section for publish-packages.yml.
  • The front-matter description is quoted so it parses as YAML. #1352 makes the same fix, so the two PRs merge cleanly on that line.

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Testing

  • vale --no-global using the .vale.ini and styles/ from #1352 (ai-tells v1.31.0, ste v0.1.1, inventory, Minimal vocabulary). Result: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 suggestions. Before this change the file stopped Vale with an E201 YAML front-matter error.
  • I checked every factual claim against main: release.yml smoke jobs and RUN_M 8000 ACOS_CI gating, publish-packages.yml, verify-smoked.sh, install.sh target resolution, and go.minimal.dev/<channel> injecting MINIMAL_INSTALL_TARGET_OVERRIDE.

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  • Documentation
    • Expanded the stable-release guide with steps for rehearsal, staging and restaging, artifact testing, approval-gated promotion, publishing issues, cleanup, and rollback.
    • Added a pipeline reference covering release and nightly workflows, promotion and package publishing, release pruning, installer behavior, and artifact-test coverage.
    • Clarified that both workflow dispatches require a branch pinned to the selected commit, including when it is the tip of main.
    • Added a manual recovery path for releases already published without AUR and Homebrew jobs, and clarified when installer-test coverage applies.

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Walkthrough

The release pipeline guide updates branch requirements for workflow dispatches, adds recovery steps for incomplete AUR and Homebrew publishing, and clarifies which pull requests run installer tests.

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Release Pipeline Documentation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Release dispatch and publishing guidance
docs/internal/release-pipeline.md
The runbook requires a release/X.Y.Z branch pinned to the selected commit for both dispatches. It adds manual recovery steps for AUR and Homebrew publishing and limits the installer-test coverage claim to pull requests that change the relevant scripts.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

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Suggested reviewers: 0chroma

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 0bd02

The runbook can stage a commit different from the one rehearsed and can make a release public before the documented publishing step. Resolve both mismatches before using or merging this release procedure.

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In `@docs/internal/release-pipeline.md`:
- Line 68: Update both release workflow commands in the release instructions to
use the same --ref value selected in step 2: use main when step 2 uses main,
otherwise use release/X.Y.Z. Ensure neither command always assumes the release
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minimal-review — approved

Verdict APPROVE — No findings.

@minimal-foundry minimal-foundry Bot added the review:approved minimal-review approved the current head label Sep 25, 2026
Put the stable release sequence first, state the artifact test policy
with a coverage table, and rewrite the reference sections in short,
Vale-clean prose.
Steps 3 and 4 dispatch on the branch step 2 chose, main or release/X.Y.Z,
and step 8 deletes the release branch only when one was pushed. The test
table gives mip its own gap row, since no smoke runs it, and names the
macOS switch gvproxy-min as it installs.
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  • 🪄 Fix CodeRabbit comments on this PR
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Inline comments:
In `@docs/internal/release-pipeline.md`:
- Line 209: Update the installer-lane coverage claim in the table to say the
checks run when relevant files change, rather than on every PR; leave the
release-job gap description unchanged.
- Around line 167-169: Update the recovery guidance for publish-release to cover
a partial publish where the release is already public but tag lookup fails;
document how to resume the skipped AUR and Homebrew jobs without retrying the
guarded release publish step.
- Around line 48-49: Update the release instructions so both workflow dispatches
use a branch pinned to the selected commit, even when that commit is currently
at the tip of main; remove the guidance to dispatch from main.

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…overy

Step 2 always pushes release/X.Y.Z, since a dispatch on main builds
whatever main points at when each run starts. Step 7 covers a publish job
that fails after making the release public, where a re-run cannot get
8BD0

past the already-public check. The installer row says the lane runs on
PRs that change the scripts, not every PR.
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🟠 Major · Pin the staging dispatch to the rehearsed commit. · release-pipeline.md:54-79

docs/internal/release-pipeline.md:54-79
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Pin the staging dispatch to the rehearsed commit.

The dry-run and staging commands dispatch separate runs from release/X.Y.Z. If that branch advances after the dry run, the staging run checks out the new branch tip and can stage a different commit. Use an immutable tag or add a SHA check before staging.

Suggested fix
-git push origin <commit>:refs/heads/release/X.Y.Z
+git push origin <commit>:refs/tags/release/X.Y.Z-rehearsed
...
-gh workflow run release.yml --ref release/X.Y.Z -f versioned=true -f dry_run=true
+gh workflow run release.yml --ref release/X.Y.Z-rehearsed -f versioned=true -f dry_run=true
...
-gh workflow run release.yml --ref release/X.Y.Z -f versioned=true -f dry_run=false
+gh workflow run release.yml --ref release/X.Y.Z-rehearsed -f versioned=true -f dry_run=false
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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In `@docs/internal/release-pipeline.md` around lines 54 - 79, Update the release
instructions so the rehearsal and staging dispatches use the same immutable ref.
Replace the mutable release branch ref in the push and both `gh workflow run`
commands with a tag pointing to the rehearsed commit, ensuring staging cannot
check out a different commit if a branch advances.

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In `@docs/internal/release-pipeline.md`:
- Around line 54-79: Update the release instructions so the rehearsal and
staging dispatches use the same immutable ref. Replace the mutable release
branch ref in the push and both `gh workflow run` commands with a tag pointing
to the rehearsed commit, ensuring staging cannot check out a different commit if
a branch advances.

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minimal-review — approved

Verdict APPROVE — No findings.

The stable promotion publishes the draft GitHub Release and creates the
vX.Y.Z tag. Only the AUR and Homebrew publishers wait for
publish_packages, matching the reworked input in #1695. Step 7 runs them
by hand until both have worked for a real release.
A re-run with publish_packages=true now leaves the public GitHub
Release as it is and publishes the AUR and Homebrew packages, per #1695.
Step 7 uses that, with the manual publishers kept as the fallback. The
rollback section warns to keep publish_packages off.
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Verdict COMMENT — 1 finding, 1 inline.

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minimal-review — advisory review

Verdict COMMENT — 1 finding, 1 inline.

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