The arming rule (#66) guards ONE heading — does the top section agree with
VERSION? — and is silent about the rest of the file. The failure that lives
there is an author adding an entry under `## Unreleased` who replaces the
shipped heading below it instead of inserting above it. git merges the
one-line edit cleanly, `changelog_armed()` stays green (correctly: the top
section is still right), and the shipped release loses its section entirely.
It surfaces a whole release later, when release.yml refuses to publish a
section `changelog_section()` can no longer find by heading.
"A heading disappeared" is a property of a DIFF, not of a tree, so this is
its own script rather than a clause in the arming check — which is also
driven from test/release.sh against constructed non-git VERSION + CHANGELOG
pairs that could not express it. The rule needs no tuning: release headings
are append-only, so SUPERSET is exact, and the ceremony's stamp passes by
construction because `Unreleased` fails the version shape.
Ported from heavy-duty/box#122, with box's second half intact: containment
cannot catch a DUPLICATED heading, since the duplicate is head-side surplus
and `comm -23` is blind to extras there — so uniqueness on HEAD is asserted
alongside it. rig's symptom differs from box's and the comments say so:
box's extractor re-arms on every `## ` line and ABSORBS what sits between
the copies, while rig's `changelog_section()` has `if (found) exit` and
TRUNCATES at the second copy, dropping the release's real body.
Wired on pull requests only (on a push to main the merge base is HEAD, so
the assert is vacuous), with CHANGELOG_MONOTONIC_STRICT=1 and fetch-depth: 0
so a checkout that cannot reach the base ref fails rather than skipping
quietly forever.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Operator decision: the post-release bump PR is ceremony debris — a
derivable one-liner with no judgment for a review to add. After tag +
publish, the same job computes X.Y.(Z+1)-dev and pushes it to main
directly (a GITHUB_TOKEN push fires no workflows, so no recursion and no
red run); if branch protection refuses, the step opens the bump PR
itself, loudly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Round-1 blocker (grok, claude on box#97's twin): a pull_request run from
a public fork gets a read-only GITHUB_TOKEN — permissions: cannot raise
it — and every ceremony PR this org merges is cross-repo from the bot
fork, so the tag create would 403 after green asserts, red on main per
release. The door now triggers on push to main (in-repo event, full
token): the decide step reads the version transition from event.before
(first-parent fallback for the all-zeros edge), and the release label —
still the operator's declared intent — is read via the API off the merge
commit's PR. A transition with no labeled PR behind it refuses. The two
doors now split on the pushed ref: tags to the tag door, main to this one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The four-state table called '-dev but changed' half a ceremony and
refused — but that state IS the mandatory post-release bump PR
(bare -> X.Y.(Z+1)-dev after every release), a red run on main once per
release, forever. A tree that ends -dev is by definition not a release:
every such merge is work, green NOTICE no-op. Red now guards only bare
endstates.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
LABELS.md gives 'release' to release-flow WORK as well as to the ceremony
PR — including every PR that improves this very workflow. The old assert
pair turned each of those merges into a red run on main. The fused decide
step reads the version against the PR base and answers all four states:
-dev unchanged = work, green NOTICE no-op; bare unchanged but already
released = work in the post-release window, same no-op; -dev-but-changed
and bare-unchanged-never-released = half-ceremonies, refused loudly;
bare-and-changed = the ceremony. Later steps gate on its output.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The rig twin of heavy-duty/box#96, from the release-ceremony retro: the
tag was a separate, manual, silent-when-forgotten step, and a forgotten
tag produces no red X — the worst failure shape. The ship decision
already lives in the release PR; merging it is "ship". After that,
tagging is transcription, and transcription belongs to machines.
release.yml now also fires on pull_request closed into main, gated on
merged AND the `release` label. The job asserts in order, each fail-loud
and creating nothing: VERSION at the merge commit is non--dev; VERSION
changed in THIS PR (base vs merge — the interlock that fails a
mislabeled ordinary PR); the changelog section for that version extracts
non-empty via the existing changelog_section from release-lib.sh; and no
tag or release exists yet. Then, in the same job, it API-creates the tag
at the merge commit and publishes the release with the extracted notes.
Same-job is load-bearing: a GITHUB_TOKEN-created tag does not fire the
tag-push trigger, so the publish must live next to the tag and the
fallback job cannot double-publish; the nothing-exists assert covers a
manual race. The tag-push path survives verbatim as the documented
manual fallback and backfill, and CONTRIBUTING's Releasing section now
reads merge-is-ship with the manual tag as fallback.
test/release.sh pins the merge path in the house grep-pin style: the
merged+labeled gate, the four asserts, the same-job tag+publish (awk
from release-on-merge: to EOF), the asserts-precede-the-tag ordering,
and the surviving tag-push trigger.
Fixes#47
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
test/release.sh demanded a literal '## Unreleased' heading extracting
non-empty with '#32' in it — all false by construction on the very tree
the release PR produces, so the first real 'release: 0.1.0' PR turned CI
red and the ceremony blocked itself. Both fork rehearsals missed it: they
tag a branch, which runs release.yml and never ci.yml. The guard now
asserts its actual purpose — the TOP section, whatever its name, extracts
non-empty via the exact function release.yml runs — and passes on both
legitimate tree states (verified on main's shape and on a stamped copy).
Fixes#44
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The PR-then-tag half of box#83's flow, rig's side. CHANGELOG.md starts
with an Unreleased section (feature PRs land their entry as part of the
PR — box's convention, now written into CONTRIBUTING alongside the
release ritual). On a tag push, release.yml asserts the bare tag equals
the tree's own VERSION — a mismatch fails loudly and creates nothing —
then creates the GitHub release with that version's changelog section as
the body, extracted by changelog_section in .github/scripts/release-lib.sh:
one function, sourced by the workflow and driven by test/release.sh
against fixtures and the shipped CHANGELOG.md itself. No assets — for a
pure-bash tree, the tag's source tarball IS the package.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
