cast gets the family's release flow (box#83's shape), plus the piece
unique to cast: because cast compiles, the source tarball is not the
package — so release.yml builds ONCE in CI and attaches cast-X.Y.Z.tgz,
and the installer's default channel extracts that asset instead of
running npm ci + tsc on the operator's machine.
- cast --version: package.json is the single source of truth (no VERSION
file); prints the install root too, rig-style.
- CHANGELOG.md with Unreleased; release notes are the curated section
(scripts/changelog-section.sh), never the auto-generated PR list.
- release.yml on a bare X.Y.Z tag: assert tag == package.json version,
check + build + test, prune, tar the runnable tree, gh release create.
- install.sh channels: unset → latest release asset (resolved via the
releases/latest redirect — no API, no token); CAST_REF=X.Y.Z → that
tag's asset; CAST_REF=<branch> → build-from-source, the old path.
- Tests drive the REAL install.sh offline via curl/npm PATH shims (all
three channels, plus the broken-asset and no-release refusals), and
the real changelog-section.sh against fixture changelogs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
d992f1833d