The previous commit's test and README described a freshly bootstrapped
machine as lacking converged_* and rendering 'not recorded'. That pins the
wrong contract: #61 states plainly that "on a fresh machine both pairs are
written with equal values", and rule 2 only suppresses converged_* churn on
a later same-version re-run.
So two identical lines mean bootstrapped-and-never-re-converged, and a
manifest missing the pair is partial or hand-edited rather than fresh --
no writer produces it. The graceful degradation stays for that case, still
without backfilling from birth, which would invent a convergence that never
happened.
The reader itself was already correct; this fixes the fixture and the prose
that claimed otherwise.
Found in review of #74.
Refs #64
The reader asked for `version` and `bootstrapped`. #61 specifies `schema`,
`bootstrapped_by`/`bootstrapped_at` and `converged_by`/`converged_at` — so
no writer would ever have produced the keys being read, and the day #61
landed this command would have rendered 'unknown' with the timestamp
omitted, forever, with nothing to say why.
Keyed to #61's spelling, with fixtures carrying that schema verbatim so
the contract is pinned rather than assumed. Birth and latest are reported
separately and neither is inferred from the other: under #61 rule 2
converged_* is written only when the version differs, so its absence is a
legitimate state on a freshly bootstrapped box, printed 'not recorded'
rather than backfilled from birth. A manifest whose schema this rig does
not know is named as such instead of being half-read in silence.
Found in review of #74.
Refs #64
`while IFS='=' read -r k v` drops an unterminated final line: read returns
1 at EOF even having filled k and v. A manifest ending `bootstrapped=...Z`
with no trailing \n rendered `RIG 1.2.3` with the timestamp silently gone
— the version read fine, so nothing looked wrong.
Guarded with `|| [ -n "$k" ]`, the same shape parse_users_file already
uses (lib/users-config.sh:47). #61's writer should not have to know
whether this reader tolerates a missing newline.
Also make human_b fall back like human_kb. With numfmt absent, memory
degraded to a raw number while disk printed 'unknown' beside it, from data
already in hand.
Both found in review of #74.
Refs #64
rig read no hardware at all. The single exception was `uname -m` in
runner-install.sh, used to pick a runner tarball and then discarded — so
"is this the 32GB one, or the M900?" was a question you answered by
logging in and running free -h, nproc, df -h and uname -r by hand, four
commands deep, on a machine you were already unsure about.
`rig platform` prints hostname, OS, kernel, CPU, memory, disk and
virtualization, then a provenance block: which rig, when, and the role
marker's traits.
It COMPUTES rather than stores, and that is the design rather than an
implementation detail. Specs change without rig doing anything — RAM
added, root disk resized, the unattended-upgrades bootstrap itself
enables patching the kernel — so a stored spec is stale the moment the
machine changes, and refreshing one on every run would collide with
bootstrap's "safe to re-run; a second run changes nothing" contract.
Nothing is written, so nothing can go stale.
The corollary is deliberate: reading only /proc, uname, /etc/os-release,
df and systemd-detect-virt means no root, no network, and it runs on a
pristine Debian box rig has never bootstrapped — useful for deciding
what to converge a machine into, not only for auditing it afterwards.
That also makes it the rare rig command the harness can RUN for real
rather than grep: the tests assert the answer describes the actual test
machine (kernel and hostname compared against independently computed
values), and assert it writes nothing.
Both known traps are handled explicitly. /etc/os-release is sourced in a
SUBSHELL — it defines VERSION, NAME and ID and would otherwise clobber
same-named script variables, the form every other site in this tree uses
and test/cli.sh already greps for. systemd-detect-virt exits non-zero on
bare metal while printing 'none', a normal answer that set -e would
otherwise turn into a failed run, so it is wrapped in `|| true`.
Provenance is read, never written, and degrades per file.
/etc/rig/manifest is #61 and does not exist yet, so that line reads
'not bootstrapped' on every machine today; the command ships complete
without it and neither blocks the other.
Named `platform` and not `status`: `users status` and `runner status`
cross-check recorded against live state and print DRIFT, and a command
that records nothing cannot drift, so calling it status would borrow a
promise it structurally cannot make. It also leaves `rig status` free
for the machine-wide roll-up it will eventually want to be.
Refs #64
The #43 sweep (test/cli.sh:705) matched the literal `-rsp` spelling and
scanned commands/ only. #68 was a plain `read -r reply` in bin/rig, so it
missed on BOTH axes — the spelling and the path — and the bug survived
until a drill hit it.
The class is the shape, not the flags: any `read` run as a plain statement
under `set -euo pipefail` kills the shell at EOF, before the `case` that
would have printed the abort. The failure is silent and exits 1, which is
also what a normal refusal exits, so an exit-code assertion passes against
it.
The new sweep anchors `read` at the start of a statement across bin/ and
commands/, whatever its flags or arity, and subtracts only the two shapes
that are safe by construction: a `||` guard (the cure itself) and a `<<<`
here-string (which cannot return non-zero). `while`/`if ! ` heads need no
subtraction — the anchor already excludes them.
Guard against reintroduction, not a live fix: the tree is clean once #68's
one-token fix lands. Mutation-verified — a bare `read -r foo` planted in
bin/rig gives 404 passed, 1 failed, and the old #43 sweep stays green on
the same tree, which is precisely the gap being closed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
uninstall_confirm() read the operator's answer unguarded:
read -r reply
case "$reply" in y|Y|yes|YES|Yes) return 0 ;; *) die "aborted." ;; esac
bin/rig runs under `set -euo pipefail`, and both call sites (the
single-version and the --all confirms) invoke the function as a plain
statement — nothing suppresses errexit. Ctrl-D makes `read` return
non-zero, so the shell died AT THE READ and the case on the next line
was never evaluated: `die "aborted."` could not fire. The operator saw
the question, pressed Ctrl-D, and got nothing — no message, exit 1, at
exactly the moment the tool had asked whether to delete their install.
It failed closed, so nothing was ever wrongly removed; the damage was
that rig went silent at the one moment silence is unreadable.
The fix is `read -r reply || reply=""` — commands/db.sh:152's spelling
for the identical [y/N] confirm one file away. Empty routes through the
existing `*)` arm, so EOF aborts through the same path a bare Enter
already does: exactly one "aborted." message, no second die to keep in
sync.
test/cli.sh gains the first drills of the interactive path, which was
structurally untested (every existing uninstall check goes through
--force or RIG_YES, which is why this survived): `y` and Ctrl-D driven
through a real pty via util-linux `script`, guarded by a command -v
skip. They assert the MESSAGE, never the exit code — the unfixed code
also exits 1, so an exit-code assertion is green against the bug.
Mutation-verified: with `|| reply=""` reverted, 403 passed / 1 failed,
the single failure being `output missing 'aborted.'`; restored, 404
passed / 0 failed.
Refs #68
CI's shellcheck step set `globstar` and globbed `bin/* **/*.sh`. Globs do
not match dot-prefixed names without `dotglob`, so `**/` never descended
into `.github/` and two tracked scripts were linted by nothing:
`.github/scripts/labels-reconcile.sh` and `.github/scripts/release-lib.sh`.
release-lib.sh is the one that matters: it holds `changelog_section`, which
release.yml sources to build the published release body and which
test/release.sh's `changelog_armed` guard calls to decide whether main is
armed. The script that decides both what ships and whether the changelog is
safe was the script CI never read.
Measured rather than assumed: `dotglob` adds exactly those two files to
rig's line and nothing else, and `**` descending into `.git/` matches no
`.sh` on a checkout. Both files already pass `shellcheck -x`, so this
closes a hole in the net rather than fixing a defect behind it.
Paired with a class check — `comm` against `git ls-files '*.sh'` — that
fails the step naming any tracked script outside the globbed set, so the
gap cannot reopen quietly. It also covers an escape `dotglob` does not:
`globstar` declines to traverse symlinked directories.
Refs #70
Caught in review. root_door_of matched unanchored substrings, so any value
that EXTENDS a real one resolved as that value: `root-door=closedish` read as
`closed` and PASSED close-root's gate -- the one arm in this repo that
authorizes an irreversible act -- and `class=humanoid` did the same through
the compat arm. Both contradicted the function's own header, which promises a
value outside the set resolves empty and fails closed.
Only reachable by hand-editing a marker, so it was never a live incident. It
gets fixed anyway because this is the single function every consumer trusts --
close-root's gate, apply's root-SSH note, and bootstrap-tenant's machine
guard all ask it -- and a resolver that is nearly right about a root door is
the wrong kind of nearly.
The marker is one line of space-separated key=value fields (bootstrap writes
it with a single printf), so padding both ends and matching on field
boundaries is exact rather than heuristic. Whitespace is normalised first so a
hand-edit using tabs still reads correctly -- anchoring must not trade one
silent misread for another.
BOTH vocabularies are anchored. Fixing only the current spelling would have
left the hole open on every box bootstrapped before #77, which is precisely
the population the compat arm exists to serve.
Tests pin the resolver and the end-to-end refusal, since the resolver
returning "" is only safe because consumers treat it as one. Reverting the
anchoring turns the suite red (447/4); restoring it returns 451/0. The
original compat proof still holds: removing the class= arm gives 441/10.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The trait was named for who lives on a box; what it decides is whether
root SSH stays open as the control plane's automation door. Those are
different questions, and `dev-server` proved it: an unattended VM-host
appliance nobody lives on, correctly class=human because its root door
must close. After #76 gave `-server` the job of naming the machine
family, that box carried a suffix saying server and a trait saying
human. `dev-server --root-door closed` says what is true, once.
Unlike #76's role rename this field is read back on live machines, so
the compat read is mandatory rather than courteous: one resolver,
root_door_of, reads both vocabularies and every consumer goes through
it — close-root's gate, apply's note, and bootstrap-tenant's
machine-marker guard, which used the presence of `class=` as its "is
this a real fleet machine?" test and would otherwise have let a tenant
converge clobber a live box. New markers are written as `root-door=`
only. Markers carrying both fields in disagreement, or neither, fail
closed with a re-run-bootstrap repair.
Fixture markers are kept deliberately at the retired spelling (the
convention #76's pre-rename-cp fixture established) and pinned at both
consumers; deleting the compat arm turns ten checks red.
Closes#77
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The other half of #76. claude -> claude-box, codex -> codex-box, grok ->
grok-box, staging -> staging-box, so a role name always says which family it
belongs to: -server builds a fleet machine, -box converges a guest a box
minted. With both halves in, the two families can no longer collide on a
word the way `staging` did.
The role carries the suffix; nothing inside the guest does. A tenant user is
the account the box SEED created (BOX_USER) and each agent CLI reads its own
dotdir, so claude-box still converges the `claude` user and still writes
~/.claude/CLAUDE.md. Every rename here is a $ROLE comparison or a case arm --
no CLI binary name, no dotdir path, and no account moved. README's tenant
table now shows role and user in adjacent columns, because that distinction
stopped being cosmetic the moment they differed.
Hard cut, no aliases. The old names are refused as unknown at BOTH
entrypoints -- `rig bootstrap <name>` and bootstrap-tenant.sh directly -- and
the suite asserts each of the four at each, because bootstrap.sh keeps its
own dispatch list and a name could survive in one and not the other. An alias
left in for a single tenant is the shape that survives review: the taxonomy
reads complete while one old name still quietly converges.
The consequence is cross-repo. A seed carrying BOX_BOOTSTRAP_ROLE="claude"
now fails its own mint-time bootstrap, so heavy-duty/box#123 updates the
seeds and must land after this.
Closes#76 (tenant half)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two review findings from the bot round on this stack.
BLOCKING (codex-bot, claude-bot -- both, independently). bootstrap-tenant.sh
emits the staging guest's tailnet-join next step at the end of a converge
("box shell -> sudo rig bootstrap workload"), repeats it in usage, and two of
its refusals recite the old machine-role list. Fixed here rather than on the
stacked tenant PR because THIS is the branch that removes the `workload` role
-- shipping it alone would print a next step naming a role that no longer
exists.
None of those four sites is code that ACCEPTS a role, which is why the rename
missed them, and is also what makes them the worse failure. A stale flag dies
immediately with a usage error. A stale next-step is copy-pasted by a human
onto a DIFFERENT box, minutes after the run that printed it reported success,
and dies there with no thread back to the cause.
So test/cli.sh sweeps every shipped script under bin/ and commands/ for
`rig bootstrap <pre-#76 name>` rather than pinning the four known sites: the
next instance of this class will be somewhere else. Proven non-vacuous --
reintroducing the bare `workload` next-step turns the suite red (412/1),
restoring it turns it green (413/0).
NON-BLOCKING (claude-bot). The migration story was documented and untested:
every marker fixture was renamed alongside the code, so nothing asserted what
a real pre-rename box does. A `role=control-plane` fixture now pins both
halves of the promise -- such a box WARNS on the coolify verbs (its marker no
longer names a role that exists) and is never REFUSED. Both halves matter: a
rename that turned this into a refusal would break the exact boxes the
CHANGELOG promises keep working, on the command that installs the control
plane.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
rig builds two kinds of thing on opposite sides of a trust boundary --
tailnet machines it converges, and guests a box mints -- and both families
lived in one flat namespace with nothing in a role name saying which you
meant. `staging` is where that stopped being cosmetic: the word names the
metal that hosts guests and the guests on it, only one could have it, and
#31 gave it to the guests. The VM-host shape was left nameless, spelled
`custom --class server --host yes --join authkey`, which is what every
refusal recited at an operator who had confused the two.
The suffix now names the family: control-plane-server, workload-server,
runner-server, dev-server, plus the restored staging-server (class=server
host=yes join=authkey). host=yes already installs the box CLI and runs box's
setup-host, so staging-server is a table row, not new machinery. It stays
OUT of the tag:server allow-list deliberately -- a host is never managed by
the control plane, its guests are -- so its key is minted tag:local.
custom and workstation keep bare names as the rule, not an exception to it:
custom presets nothing and can be any shape including a guest, so a family
claim is one it cannot make; a workstation is somebody's own device, joined
by interactive login, user-owned and untagged, never tailnet-managed.
Hard cut, no aliases -- old names are refused as unknown. Two consequences
this reaches beyond the CLI surface. TS_HOSTNAME defaults to the role name,
so a box taking the default now comes up control-plane-server. And the two
coolify commands match the ROLE NAME in /etc/rig/role, not the traits, so
they now look for role=control-plane-server; a pre-rename control plane
takes their warning branch, which is advisory and never a gate, so the run
proceeds and the message names the repair.
dev-server is class=human, which reads like a contradiction and is not: the
suffix names the family, the class names the root-SSH door policy. The two
axes share the word "server", which is a real wart -- #77 renames the class
trait to what it controls, kept separate because it reaches markers on live
machines that guard root SSH.
Tests cover both directions of the cut: every new name resolves, every old
name is refused as unknown, and the two deliberately-bare roles are proven
NOT to have been swept up -- the inverse error, which would otherwise only
surface at somebody's laptop.
Closes#76 (machine-role half)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bump VERSION 0.1.1-dev -> 0.2.0 and stamp CHANGELOG.md's Unreleased
section as `## 0.2.0 — 2026-07-19`. Minor, not patch: the section carries
an explicit `### Changed` / BREAKING entry (#51 — `rig bootstrap` takes
the users file, and requires it) alongside an `### Added` (#49), and a
patch release would misrepresent a documented breaking change.
Re-armed in the same PR per CONTRIBUTING step 1 (#66): a fresh, empty
`## Unreleased` sits immediately above the stamped section, so a PR
authored before this release and merged after it files its entry under
Unreleased rather than silently inside the release that already shipped.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The inserted sentences left the pre-existing "And on `host=yes` with
`RIG_SKIP_BOX_INSTALL=1`" sentence appended to a line that ran to 124
columns, against the 75-78 band the rest of the file wraps in. Reflowed
the paragraph at 76. Prose only — no behavior, no code, no test change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
An empty, comments-only or whitespace-only users file is not a parse error,
so it walked straight through the requirement #51 built: pre-flight passed,
apply converged nothing, and the box came up root-only — the exact outcome
--no-users exists to make explicit, reached by the flag added to guarantee
the opposite. `--users ./empty` and `--no-users` produced the identical box
and only one of them said so.
Catch the zero-user parse in bootstrap's pre-flight, where the file is
already parsed for validation and before apt, the hostname change, or a
spent pre-auth key. The refusal names --no-users: the root-only box is
reachable, it just has to be asked for out loud.
Deliberately narrow. This is bootstrap's contract, not the parser's and not
apply's: zero users is a legal file, and a standalone `rig users apply`
against an emptied file is a real de-provisioning operation that must stay
possible. Negative-grep tests pin both.
Closes#57
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`rig bootstrap` already knew everything else about what a box is — class,
host, join, hostname — and wrote /etc/rig/role to say so. The users file was
the last piece of that answer it did not take, so bring-up was two commands
and the second one was the forgettable one.
--users <path> now runs the `users apply` convergence as bootstrap's final
phase: after the traits, after the verified tailnet join, after the role
marker (apply reads that marker), and after the host=yes box install (so
box-role users find the incus group box's own setup-host built). One
command, and the box has its people on it.
BREAKING: --users is required on every machine role, with --no-users as the
explicit opt-out. Omitting both is a usage error naming both flags; passing
both is a usage error too. class=server is required as well: a machine
nobody logs into routinely is exactly where shared-root access rots, and
per-human accounts keep attribution intact for the times someone does go in.
The file is never persisted — passed per invocation, read once through
apply, copied nowhere. `--users -` is refused: bootstrap's stdin belongs to
the pre-auth key prompt. The box TENANT roles take neither flag; a guest is
minted non-interactively, never joins the tailnet, and has no SSH door of
its own.
rig still never installs Incus and never calls `box setup-host` itself. The
host=yes box-role precondition refuses early only where the outcome is
already proven (RIG_SKIP_BOX_INSTALL=1); every other way that step can fail
lands in `users apply`'s existing refusal, unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Role `box` resolved to exactly one action, `usermod -aG incus`. That is
the socket — step 1 of the five `box grant` performs. Without the other
four (the user-<uid> project, its narrowing to boxnet and only boxnet,
the snapshot and backup allowances clone and `box export` ride, and the
shipped box-net profile installed into that project) the user's first
`box new` refuses for want of a box-net profile, so apply's promise —
the users file is the fleet's source of truth — was not kept for this
role. Worse, until an admin arrived by hand the user held an `incus`
membership with no converged project, and incus-user would lazily hand
them a stock unhardened NAT bridge: a state box's own contract forbids.
On host=yes apply now calls `box grant <user>` per box-role user. rig
calls box's grant rather than reimplementing four fifths of it — the
"rig never installs Incus" boundary is about installation, not
invocation, and grant is already script-callable: idempotent,
root-or-sudo, stdin-pinned, with its own run-as-the-user touch.
Three decisions the code carries in comment form:
- Ordering. The call sits after `useradd` (grant opens with a getent
passwd and refuses an unknown account) and after the other groups, so
a user whose grant fails still lands with everything rig owns outright.
- Failure granularity, split the way the host= guard beside it already
splits. A missing box CLI on host=yes dies, like the missing incus
group: a broken VM host, not a per-user accident. A per-user grant
failure warns and continues — one box-role user somewhere in the fleet
must not stop apply everywhere VMs don't live. host=no and marker-less
boxes keep their existing skip-with-warning untouched.
- The group ADD is deferred to grant, while `incus` stays in the wanted
set so the exact-convergence loop never strips a box-role user's
socket. Grant's rollback only reaches a membership that run added, so
rig opening the socket first would leave a failed grant unable to
close it. And grant is the authority on whether the group belongs at
all: for an incus-admin member it deliberately does not add `incus`.
An incus-admin member is warned, never fatal: box grant refuses them
today, which heavy-duty/box#99 fixes box-side with no rig change needed.
Closes#49
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`users apply` converged group `incus` with a bare `gpasswd -d`, the same
move it makes for `rig-admin` and `rig`. Those two are rig's. `incus` is
box's, and `box revoke` does strictly more with it: it says out loud that
supplementary groups are read AT LOGIN, so a session the dropped operator
already holds keeps the Incus socket until that session dies, and it hands
over `loginctl terminate-user <user>` as the remedy.
rig logged "removed <user> from incus" and moved on. An operator who
dropped someone from the users file and watched apply succeed believed the
VM access was gone — and was wrong for as long as that user held a session.
Both removal paths — the per-user convergence loop and the dropped-user
sweep — now route the incus group through one `drop_incus` helper that
calls `box revoke`, keeping a single owner for the group. Never `--purge`:
that deletes the user's boxes, images and project, and destroying someone's
running machines is not a convergence step; it stays an explicit admin act.
The exit code is not trusted (the #12 lesson bootstrap already applies to
box's installer): a revoke that returns 0 with the membership still
standing has not closed the socket, so the effective state is checked and
rig falls back to removing the group itself — as it also does on a host
where box is not installed. Every fallback path carries the session warning
in rig's own voice, because the silence was the bug. The absent-group case
needs no new guard: `id -nG` cannot report a group that does not exist, so
the existing `in_group` test at both call sites is already false on a
host=no box or one where `box setup-host` never ran.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#58 inverted the section's central claim — the host= trait now decides in
both directions and the incus group never overrides it — but README still
read "when the `incus` group is absent, the `host=` trait decides". That
qualifier is precisely the bypass the change removes, so the operator
reference asserted the bug as the contract.
It also omitted the behavior an operator most needs to know before running
apply on a repurposed box: on a host=no box carrying a stray incus group,
apply warns about the marker/reality mismatch and STRIPS box-role users out
of the group. Discovering that from a diff of your own fleet is the wrong
way to learn it.
Rewritten so the trait gates the role, the group only distinguishes
ready-vs-die once the trait already said yes, and the mismatch names both
its hazard and `rig bootstrap --host yes` as the repair. Pinned in both
directions — current sentences present, superseded one absent — following
the same grep-the-prose-stays-honest discipline the file already uses.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both reviewers caught it: #41 merged after the changelog convention
landed (#40) and skipped its entry; the release PR is the last gate
before the section becomes the permanent release body.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
rig's first release: VERSION leaves 0.1.0-dev and the Unreleased section
is stamped with today's date. The surface was drilled twice on 2026-07-19
(offline suites, tenant guests on real incus via box, db round-trip, a
real GitHub runner lifecycle, coolify install) and the ceremony itself
rehearsed end to end on a scratch fork — including the guard that made
this very PR possible (#44).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
users apply consulted the host= trait only when group incus was ABSENT,
so a host=no or marker-less box that nonetheless carried the group handed
box-role users a bare `usermod -aG incus` — the socket with no tier, which
incus-user answers by lazily building an unhardened project under whoever
opens it.
The marker now decides in both directions through one pure gate,
assert_marker_hosts_vms, so the verdict is identical whether or not the
group exists. The marker wins over the machine deliberately — it is the
box's declared identity and every other host= decision already treats it
as authoritative — but not silently: when the group exists and the trait
disagrees, the skip names the contradiction and rig bootstrap as the fix.
Closes#58
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The cast-twin blocker (claude-bot): a declared permissions: block zeroes
unspecified scopes, so the label read and the bump fallback's gh pr
create could only 403 — every genuine ceremony would end red at the
label check. pull-requests: write added, consumers named. CONTRIBUTING
step 3 and the changelog entry now tell the shipped story: push-to-main
door, event.before interlock, self-re-arm, manual-path bump stays the
operator's.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
grok's round-2 catch: two sibling push: maps under on: leave only the
second (branches: [main]) alive — the tag-push fallback stopped
triggering entirely. Both filters now live under one push key, the jobs
still split on the pushed ref, and a pin counts exactly one on.push.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <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>
