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The v0.4.0 release failed at npm publish (run 36589872965): the NPM_TOKEN secret has expired. Docker Hub got 0.4.0, npm still serves 0.3.5, and the GitHub release job was skipped. Every future release would fail the same way.

The npm job now uses npm trusted publishing: GitHub's OIDC token proves the publish comes from this workflow, so there is no token to expire.

• The npm job gets id-token: write and installs npm 11.5.1 or newer (Node 22 ships npm 10, which cannot do the exchange).
• NODE_AUTH_TOKEN is gone; --loglevel verbose puts the OIDC exchange in the log.
• New workflow_dispatch with a tag input, so a failed release can be re-run from main for an existing tag. Re-running the old failed run would reuse the old workflow file, token and all. Every job checks out that tag and the Docker builds use context: ., so what ships matches the tag, not main. If npm already has the version, the npm job skips the publish so a re-run can still finish Docker and the GitHub release.

npm side: a trusted publisher for GeiserX/ghost-github-portfolio, workflow release.yml, with "Allow npm publish" ticked.

After merge: gh workflow run release.yml -f tag=v0.4.0 publishes 0.4.0 to npm, re-pushes the same Docker tags and creates the GitHub release.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Releases can now be started manually for an existing tag, alongside the existing automatic release trigger when a version tag is pushed.
• Documentation
  • Release instructions now explain how to recover from a failed run by fixing the issue on the main branch and starting a new run with the original tag. Rerunning the failed run itself continues to use the workflow version from that run.

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Walkthrough

The release workflow now supports tag pushes and manual runs with an existing tag. It uses the selected tag for npm and Docker checkouts, image version extraction, and GitHub Release creation. Release documentation describes the manual run and recovery procedure.

Changes

Release workflow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Tag selection and manual trigger .github/workflows/release.yml, CLAUDE.md	The workflow adds a required manual tag input and resolves the selected tag from that input or the pushed ref. The documentation describes manual runs and reruns after failures.
Tagged release jobs .github/workflows/release.yml	The npm, Docker, manifest, and GitHub Release jobs use the selected tag for checkouts, image versions, or release metadata. The npm job upgrades npm and publishes without the former NPM_TOKEN environment variable.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c8d49

Manual releases can publish Docker images built from main under an older release tag. A recovery run after a partial failure can also fail at npm and never create the GitHub release. Fix both before relying on the manual release path.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c8d49

Trusted publishing removes reliance on an expiring npm token. However, manual recovery can build Docker images from main while labeling them as an existing tagged release. The recovery path also repeats completed publications rather than safely resuming partial failures.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: The documented recovery dispatch from main can publish main's Docker contents under an existing release tag. Both Docker jobs check out TAG, but docker/build-push-action uses its default trigger-derived Git context because no context is supplied. npm builds the selected checkout, so the same release can distribute artifacts from different source revisions and overwrite previously published Docker tags. This mismatch is newly exposed by separating the manual workflow ref from the selected release tag.
• Medium · reliability · inferred: The new documented recovery path cannot reliably complete a release after npm publication succeeds but another job fails. A fresh dispatch unconditionally republishes the same npm version, which the registry rejects, blocking GitHub Release creation while independent Docker jobs can still overwrite published images. The underlying lack of cross-provider atomicity existed before this PR; the new recovery procedure repeats completed mutations instead of preserving and resuming publication state.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The repository-visible publication targets are the public npm package, both Docker architecture tags and their manifest, and GitHub release metadata. Incorrect Docker source binding affects consumers pulling the republished release tags. The credential's authority over other Docker repositories and the number or privileges of downstream consumers are not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — An actor able to dispatch the release workflow can select an existing version while the documented main-triggered Docker build publishes main's contents under that version. This is an artifact-integrity failure, not evidence of unauthenticated publishing or a demonstrated privilege escalation. The explicit Docker checkout does not control the build action's default Git context.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The workflow grants the npm job permission to request a GitHub OIDC token. Registry acceptance remains a separate control: the supplied package relationship evidence explicitly does not establish trusted-publisher registration, and the PR's claimed npm configuration was not independently verified.
• observed — The manual input is required but is not checked to be an existing version tag, pinned to a shared commit, or compared with the package version. Selected source content is installed, built, and tested inside the OIDC-enabled npm job. Whether external repository protections sufficiently constrain that source selection is unknown.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — The final dependency gates contain release finalization failures but not already-published artifacts. Recovery must account for immutable npm versions and mutable Docker tags independently; treating the entire workflow as a repeatable transaction does not preserve those guarantees.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Resolve and validate the selected release tag once, bind every artifact producer to the same immutable commit, and explicitly configure Docker's build context to use that source. Check that the tag and package version agree before granting publication a successful path.
• proposed — Make recovery aware of completed publications: verify existing artifact identity before skipping or replacing outputs, serialize publication for each release version, and resume failed transitions rather than blindly repeating every external write.
• proposed — Verify the registry-side trusted publisher's repository, workflow and environment constraints against both tag-push and manual-recovery identities before relying on the new credential path.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the primary change: replacing the expired npm token flow with trusted publishing. It is concise and directly related to the release workflow updates.

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- Line 42: Update the npm publish step to check whether the selected package
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other registry or publishing errors fatal.
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Both findings are addressed in e98c9e7: the Docker builds use context: ., and the npm job skips the publish when the version is already on npm.

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Both findings are fixed in e98c9e7 (context: . on both Docker builds; npm publish skipped when the version already exists). CodeRabbit declined to re-review an already reviewed PR.