Found live in the 2026-07-19 release drill: a manifest declaring only
databases (applications: {}) rendered its plan of two creates and then
died in preflight on "no GitHub App bound" — over a binding nothing in
the run would ever have used. A GitHub App exists to clone application
source, and cast reads it in exactly one call, the application create
(POST /applications/private-github-app); databases and services never
touch it. Resolving it unconditionally gated infra-only projects — the
databases a fleet's other projects share — behind the GitHub-App
browser-registration ceremony for no reason.
apply now resolves the App (binding lookup and uuid resolution both)
only when the desired state contains at least one application. The
executor's githubAppUuid field is typed string | null, and its single
consumer guards the null with cast's own internal error — unreachable
by construction, since a plan can only create resources the desired
state holds, but a null slipping onto the wire would otherwise surface
as a Coolify 422 about somebody else's field.
Keyed off desired rather than the plan's changes, deliberately: a
manifest that declares an application keeps the missing-binding refusal
even on a clean plan, byte-identical to before — that binding is state
the next create will need, and the operator should hear about it now,
not mid-bootstrap.
Fixes #103
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Changelog
History before 0.1.0 lives in git — cast has said 0.1.0 in package.json
since its first commit, but grew its release surface (this file,
cast --version, tagged releases with a prebuilt asset) on the way to
actually cutting it, and this file starts there.
Unreleased
Fixed
applyno longer demands a GitHub App for a manifest that declares no applications (#103) — found live in the 2026-07-19 release drill, where a databases-only manifest (applications: {}) rendered its plan of two creates and then died in preflight onno GitHub App bound, over a binding nothing in the run would ever have used: a GitHub App exists to clone application source, cast reads it in exactly one call (the application create), and databases and services never touch it. That unconditional resolution gated infra-only projects — the databases a fleet's other projects share — behind the GitHub-App browser-registration ceremony for no reason.applynow resolves the App only when the desired state actually contains an application; a manifest that does declare one still refuses on a missing binding exactly as before, clean plan or not, because that binding is state the next create will need.
Added
- Tagged releases with a prebuilt dist asset, and an installer that
installs them (#96) — the cast half of the flow designed in
heavy-duty/box#83, plus the piece unique to cast: a prebuilt asset,
because cast is the one repo where the source tarball is not the
package. A release is a PR, then a tag: the
release: X.Y.ZPR bumpspackage.json(andpackage-lock.json) and stamps this file's Unreleased section with version + date; the merge commit is tagged bareX.Y.Z(box's tag scheme — novprefix).release.ymlturns the tag into the GitHub release — after asserting tag ==package.jsonversion (a mismatch fails loudly and creates nothing) — with that version's section of this file as the body, extracted by the same.github/scripts/release-notes.shthe test harness drives, and with the runnable tree attached ascast-X.Y.Z.tgz:bin/, compileddist/, productionnode_modules/,package.json, built once in CI (npm ci && npm run build && npm prune --omit=dev).install.shnow defaults to the latest release: the tag is resolved by following thereleases/latestredirect and reading theLocationheader — no API, no token — and the download is that release's asset, so nonpm ci, notsc, no devDependencies ever run on the operator's machine.CAST_REFpicks the other two channels: a tag pins a release (its asset first, source as the fallback for a ref that has none —refs/tagsoutranks a same-named branch), a branch (CAST_REF=main) tracks the development tree and is the one channel that still builds from source, the only placenpmis required. Until 0.1.0 is cut the default channel has nothing to resolve and dies saying exactly that, namingCAST_REF=mainas the way to install today — it never falls back to main silently, because "I installed the latest release" must not quietly mean "I installed whatever main was that second". The channel only decides which tree arrives and whether it is built here — whatever it fetched lands in the versioned layout (versions/<package.json version>,currentflipped atomically) like any other install.