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114 changes: 99 additions & 15 deletions .github/workflows/npm-stage-publish.yml
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Expand Up @@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ name: npm stage publish
# as a trusted publisher on npmjs.com (same one-time setup npm/README.md
# describes for release-packages.yml). The auth-posture gate in
# scripts/publish/auth-posture.mts refuses any long-lived token present here.
#
# Guardrails: dispatches for the same dist-tag are serialized (concurrency:
# below); a caller-supplied build-run-id is verified (workflow identity,
# success, exact commit) before its artifacts are trusted; and the stage
# step is idempotent — it skips packages a prior partial run already staged
# instead of re-attempting all 9.

on:
workflow_dispatch:
Expand All @@ -42,6 +48,14 @@ on:
permissions:
contents: read

# Serialize staged publishes for the same dist-tag — two concurrent dispatches
# could otherwise both pass resolve-build's run-matching and both attempt
# `npm stage publish` for the same version. `cancel-in-progress: false` so a
# real staged publish already in flight is never cancelled out from under it.
concurrency:
group: npm-stage-publish-${{ inputs.dist-tag }}
cancel-in-progress: false

jobs:
# Resolve the build run to stage from: either a caller-supplied build-run-id
# (re-use), or dispatch release-packages.yml in stage mode and capture its
Expand All @@ -64,34 +78,69 @@ jobs:
EXISTING: ${{ inputs.build-run-id }}
run: |
set -euo pipefail
# The commit THIS workflow run is dispatching from — every downstream
# check (reused-run headSha match, or the fresh dispatch's --ref and
# run-selection below) pins to this, never to "whatever the default
# branch happens to be at the moment we call gh".
CUR_SHA=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
if [ -n "$EXISTING" ]; then
RUN_ID="$EXISTING"
echo "Reusing build run $RUN_ID."
# Validate the reused run before trusting its artifacts: it must
# actually be a release-packages.yml run, it must have succeeded,
# and it must have built the commit we're dispatching from — a
# stale or wrong-workflow run-id would otherwise stage old/wrong
# binaries under today's version and dist-tag with no error.
RUN_JSON=$(gh run view "$RUN_ID" -R "$REPO" --json workflowName,conclusion,status,headSha)
RUN_WORKFLOW=$(echo "$RUN_JSON" | jq -r '.workflowName')
RUN_STATUS=$(echo "$RUN_JSON" | jq -r '.status')
RUN_CONCLUSION=$(echo "$RUN_JSON" | jq -r '.conclusion')
RUN_SHA=$(echo "$RUN_JSON" | jq -r '.headSha')
if [ "$RUN_WORKFLOW" != "Release Packages" ]; then
echo "::error::build-run-id $RUN_ID is a '$RUN_WORKFLOW' run, not Release Packages — refusing to stage its artifacts." >&2
exit 1
fi
if [ "$RUN_STATUS" != "completed" ] || [ "$RUN_CONCLUSION" != "success" ]; then
echo "::error::build-run-id $RUN_ID is status=$RUN_STATUS conclusion=$RUN_CONCLUSION, not a successful completed run." >&2
exit 1
fi
if [ "$RUN_SHA" != "$CUR_SHA" ]; then
echo "::error::build-run-id $RUN_ID built $RUN_SHA, but this dispatch is at $CUR_SHA — refusing to stage a build of a different commit." >&2
exit 1
fi
echo "Reusing build run $RUN_ID (verified: Release Packages, success, sha $RUN_SHA)."
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# Dispatch release-packages.yml in stage mode. Stage mode is the
# Dispatch release-packages.yml in stage mode, pinned to OUR exact
# commit via --ref. Without this, `gh workflow run` dispatches
# against the repo's default branch tip at call time — which can
# differ from the commit this npm-stage-publish.yml run itself
# checked out (a different ref triggered it, or main advanced in
# the gap between the two dispatches) — and would build/stage the
# wrong commit's binaries under today's version. Stage mode is the
# DEFAULT workflow_dispatch (no inputs = build-only smoke run; the
# preflight job's else-branch sets MODE=stage), so no input is needed.
# preflight job's else-branch sets MODE=stage), so no other input
# is needed.
DISPATCHED_AT=$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ)
gh workflow run release-packages.yml -R "$REPO"
gh workflow run release-packages.yml -R "$REPO" --ref "$CUR_SHA"
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔴 Critical | 🏗️ Heavy lift

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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

# Confirm the CLI contract for workflow dispatch refs.
gh workflow run --help | rg -n -C 2 -- '--ref|Branch or tag'

# Inspect whether the release workflow has an input and validation path for an expected SHA.
rg -n -C 4 'workflow_dispatch|inputs:|expected.*sha|checkout-ref|actions/checkout' \
  .github/workflows/release-packages.yml

Repository: PerryTS/perry

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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

printf '%s\n' '--- npm-stage-publish.yml ---'
sed -n '70,155p' .github/workflows/npm-stage-publish.yml

printf '%s\n' '--- release workflow dispatch and preflight ---'
sed -n '1,145p' .github/workflows/release-packages.yml

Repository: PerryTS/perry

Length of output: 12538

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GitHub REST create workflow dispatch ref commit SHA supported branch tag name

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When using the GitHub REST API to create a workflow dispatch event (POST /repos/{owner}/{repo}/actions/workflows/{workflow_id}/dispatches), the ref body parameter is required [1][2]. According to official GitHub documentation, this parameter accepts only a branch or tag name [1][3]. The GitHub REST API does not support providing a commit SHA directly as the ref value [4][5]. Attempts to use a commit SHA in this parameter will result in a "No ref found" error from the API [4][5]. While some third-party GitHub Actions (available on the GitHub Marketplace) may describe their own ref inputs as accepting a commit SHA [6], these actions typically perform their own logic to resolve that SHA to a valid branch or tag before invoking the GitHub API, or they simply encapsulate the API call which remains restricted to branches and tags [5]. If you need to run a workflow at a specific commit, you must identify a branch or tag that points to that commit and provide that reference name to the API [5].

Citations:

🌐 Web query:

GitHub Actions workflow_dispatch dispatch workflow at commit SHA --ref

💡 Result:

When triggering a workflow using workflow_dispatch, the ref parameter is limited to branches or tags [1][2]. The GitHub Actions API for creating a workflow dispatch event does not support providing a specific commit SHA directly as the ref [1][2][3]. If you attempt to pass a commit SHA as the ref in the API request, the request will fail with an error indicating that the reference could not be found [1][2]. To work around this limitation, you can follow these approaches: 1. Use a branch or tag: The standard way to trigger a workflow is to point ref to an existing branch or tag [1][4]. 2. Pass the SHA as an input: If you need your workflow to process a specific commit, define an input in your workflow's workflow_dispatch configuration to accept the SHA [2][5]. Your workflow can then use this input during its checkout step (e.g., using actions/checkout@v4 with the ref parameter set to the input value) [2][5]. Example workflow configuration: on: workflow_dispatch: inputs: target_sha: description: 'The commit SHA to checkout' required: true jobs: build: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v4 with: ref: ${{ inputs.target_sha }} - run: echo "Running on commit ${{ github.sha }}"

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Dispatch with a supported workflow ref.

gh workflow run --ref accepts a branch or tag name, not a raw commit SHA. The fresh-build path can fail before it creates a build run. Dispatch a supported ref, pass CUR_SHA as an input, and make release-packages.yml check out and validate that SHA before building.

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In @.github/workflows/npm-stage-publish.yml around lines 112 - 123, Update the
dispatch in the npm-stage workflow to use a supported branch or tag ref instead
of CUR_SHA, pass CUR_SHA as a workflow input, and update release-packages.yml to
receive that input, check out the specified commit, and validate it before
building.

# Poll for the workflow_dispatch run we just created. Match by
# event + createdAt after the dispatch timestamp — NOT just the
# newest run, which could be a concurrent or unrelated dispatch and
# would stage the wrong artifacts.
# event + createdAt AFTER the dispatch timestamp AND headSha ==
# our commit — createdAt alone could still match a concurrent
# dispatch of the SAME workflow from a different ref that happened
# to land in the same window, which would stage the wrong commit.
sleep 5
RUN_ID=""
for i in $(seq 1 20); do
RUN_ID=$(gh run list --workflow release-packages.yml -R "$REPO" \
--event workflow_dispatch --limit 5 \
--json databaseId,createdAt \
--jq "[.[] | select(.createdAt >= \"$DISPATCHED_AT\")][0].databaseId" 2>/dev/null || true)
--json databaseId,createdAt,headSha \
--jq "[.[] | select(.createdAt >= \"$DISPATCHED_AT\" and .headSha == \"$CUR_SHA\")][0].databaseId" 2>/dev/null || true)
if [ -n "$RUN_ID" ]; then break; fi
sleep 3
done
if [ -z "$RUN_ID" ]; then
echo "::error::could not resolve a release-packages.yml run id after dispatch." >&2
echo "::error::could not resolve a release-packages.yml run id (dispatched at $CUR_SHA) after dispatch." >&2
exit 1
fi
echo "Dispatched release-packages.yml stage build: run $RUN_ID."
echo "Dispatched release-packages.yml stage build: run $RUN_ID (sha $CUR_SHA)."
fi
echo "build-run-id=$RUN_ID" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
- name: Await the stage-mode build
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -123,6 +172,7 @@ jobs:
DIST_TAG: ${{ inputs.dist-tag }}
BUILD_RUN_ID: ${{ needs.resolve-build.outputs.build-run-id }}
PUBLISH: ${{ inputs.publish }}
SOCKET_API_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SOCKET_API_TOKEN }}
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v7

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -191,10 +241,30 @@ jobs:
exit 1
fi
done
# Snapshot what's already staged ONCE so a re-run after a partial
# failure skips the packages that made it through last time instead
# of re-attempting all 9 (npm rejects a re-stage of an already-staged
# version, which used to surface as "N failures" for a single
# genuine failure).
already_staged() {
node -e '
const raw = require("fs").readFileSync(0, "utf8")
let list
try { list = JSON.parse(raw) } catch { list = [] }
const arr = Array.isArray(list) ? list : Object.values(list || {})
const [n, v] = process.argv.slice(1)
process.exit(arr.some(e => (e.name || e.packageName) === n && e.version === v) ? 0 : 1)
' "$1" "$2" <<<"$STAGED_JSON"
}
STAGED_JSON=$(npm stage list --json 2>/dev/null || echo '[]')
failed=""
for pkg in ./npm/perry-*; do
name=$(node -p "require('$pkg/package.json').name")
ver=$(node -p "require('$pkg/package.json').version")
if already_staged "$name" "$ver"; then
echo "=== $name@$ver already staged — skipping ==="
continue
fi
echo "=== staging $name@$ver ==="
if ! npm stage publish "$pkg" --access public --tag "$DIST_TAG" --ignore-scripts --provenance; then
echo "::error::npm stage publish failed for $name@$ver — continuing" >&2
Expand All @@ -204,13 +274,27 @@ jobs:
# Wrapper LAST (optionalDependencies must be staged first).
name=$(node -p "require('./npm/perry/package.json').name")
ver=$(node -p "require('./npm/perry/package.json').version")
echo "=== staging $name@$ver (wrapper, last) ==="
if ! npm stage publish ./npm/perry --access public --tag "$DIST_TAG" --ignore-scripts --provenance; then
echo "::error::npm stage publish failed for $name@$ver" >&2
failed="$failed $name@$ver"
if already_staged "$name" "$ver"; then
echo "=== $name@$ver (wrapper) already staged — skipping ==="
else
echo "=== staging $name@$ver (wrapper, last) ==="
if ! npm stage publish ./npm/perry --access public --tag "$DIST_TAG" --ignore-scripts --provenance; then
echo "::error::npm stage publish failed for $name@$ver" >&2
failed="$failed $name@$ver"
fi
fi
if [ -n "$failed" ]; then
echo "::error::staging failures:$failed" >&2
exit 1
fi
echo "All 9 packages staged (not public). Next: npm run publish:approve locally."

- name: Socket scan the staged tarballs
# Mandatory, same as the local pipeline — CI scans what it just staged
# immediately, rather than leaving the ONLY scan gate to whichever
# human later remembers to run `publish:approve` correctly. Reuses
# pipeline.mts's --scan-only path (list staged entries, sha1-verify,
# Socket full scan) instead of duplicating that logic here — same
# code, same gate, whether it runs in CI or locally.
if: env.PUBLISH == 'true'
run: node scripts/publish/pipeline.mts --scan-only
49 changes: 47 additions & 2 deletions .github/workflows/release-packages.yml
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Expand Up @@ -27,6 +27,17 @@ permissions:
# push event, so those must be fired explicitly.
actions: write

# Serialize runs that target the same tag/version, so two dispatches can't
# race npm-publish's `npm view` idempotency check (a TOCTOU otherwise: both
# can pass the check before either publishes) or create-release's tag
# creation. A plain stage-mode dispatch (build-only, no publish) has no tag
# to key on and falls back to its own run id, so unrelated stage builds are
# never blocked. `cancel-in-progress: false` — never cancel a release/publish
# leg that's already running.
concurrency:
group: release-packages-${{ github.event.release.tag_name || inputs.existing_tag || (inputs.cut_release && 'cut-release-in-flight') || github.run_id }}
cancel-in-progress: false

jobs:
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Resolve the run mode + release tag ONCE, up front. Every downstream job
Expand All @@ -53,8 +64,17 @@ jobs:
mode: ${{ steps.resolve.outputs.mode }}
tag: ${{ steps.resolve.outputs.tag }}
version: ${{ steps.resolve.outputs.version }}
# Pinned commit every downstream job must check out. Empty for
# release/cut-release/stage (the triggering ref is already correct —
# cut-release in particular has NO tag yet to pin to); set to the tag
# for republish, so a `main` that has drifted since the tag was cut
# cannot silently republish a different version under the old tag's
# label (#confirmed republish version-drift finding).
checkout-ref: ${{ steps.resolve.outputs.checkout-ref }}
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v7
with:
fetch-depth: 0 # republish mode needs `git show <tag>:Cargo.toml` below

- name: Resolve run mode + tag
id: resolve
Expand All @@ -67,6 +87,7 @@ jobs:
EXISTING_TAG: ${{ inputs.existing_tag }}
run: |
set -euo pipefail
CHECKOUT_REF=""
if [ "$EVENT" = "release" ]; then
MODE=release
TAG="$RELEASE_TAG"
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -99,6 +120,19 @@ jobs:
echo "::error::existing_tag=$TAG has no published GitHub release."
exit 1
fi
git fetch --quiet --force origin "refs/tags/$TAG:refs/tags/$TAG"
TAG_CARGO_VERSION=$(git show "$TAG:Cargo.toml" | grep -m1 '^version' | sed -E 's/.*"([^"]+)".*/\1/')
if [ "$TAG_CARGO_VERSION" != "${TAG#v}" ]; then
echo "::error::Cargo.toml at $TAG reads version $TAG_CARGO_VERSION, but the tag name implies ${TAG#v} — refusing to republish a mistagged version." >&2
exit 1
fi
# Pin every downstream checkout to the tag's exact commit. Without
# this, every job checks out whatever ref the dispatch ran on —
# if `main` has advanced past the tag, the rebuild silently
# compiles a DIFFERENT Cargo.toml version than the tag/release
# label says, and npm (which reads the version from Cargo.toml on
# disk) publishes that drifted version attributed to this tag.
CHECKOUT_REF="$TAG"
else
MODE=stage
TAG=""
Expand All @@ -108,8 +142,9 @@ jobs:
echo "mode=$MODE"
echo "tag=$TAG"
echo "version=$VERSION"
echo "checkout-ref=$CHECKOUT_REF"
} >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "mode=$MODE tag=${TAG:-<none — stage-only build>}"
echo "mode=$MODE tag=${TAG:-<none — stage-only build>} checkout-ref=${CHECKOUT_REF:-<default>}"

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Gate: wait for Tests + Simulator Tests to pass on this commit before we
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -355,6 +390,8 @@ jobs:
MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET: "13.0"
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v7
with:
ref: ${{ needs.preflight.outputs.checkout-ref }}

- name: Install Rust toolchain
uses: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@stable
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1102,7 +1139,7 @@ jobs:
# this workflow.
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
build-cross:
needs: await-tests
needs: [preflight, await-tests]
strategy:
# Each leg is independent; let one Tier-3 failure not cancel the
# other targets so we still ship the bundles that did build.
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1210,6 +1247,8 @@ jobs:
MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET: "13.0"
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v7
with:
ref: ${{ needs.preflight.outputs.checkout-ref }}

- name: Install Rust stable + cross target
uses: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@stable
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -2156,6 +2195,12 @@ jobs:
id-token: write # REQUIRED for OIDC + npm --provenance
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v7
with:
# republish mode pins this to the tag's exact commit (see
# preflight's checkout-ref) — without it, npm publishes whatever
# Cargo.toml reads on the dispatch ref, which can have drifted past
# the tag being republished.
ref: ${{ needs.preflight.outputs.checkout-ref }}

# DELIBERATE EXEMPTION from the repo-wide .node-version pin: this Node is a
# *publishing* toolchain (npm registry auth), not a test oracle — it never
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Hardened the npm staged-publish pipeline after an end-to-end adversarial review: the Socket scan gate can no longer be skipped (`--no-scan` removed, missing/invalid `SOCKET_API_TOKEN` now fails closed and reports `BLOCKED` instead of looking like a clean scan); `scripts/publish/pipeline.mts` no longer silently dispatches a real staged publish when run with no arguments (a mode flag is now required, unknown flags are rejected); `release-packages.yml`'s `republish` mode now pins every checkout to the tag being republished and cross-checks the tag's `Cargo.toml` before proceeding, closing a version-drift path where a `main` that advanced past the tag could silently publish a different version under the old tag's label; `npm-stage-publish.yml`'s `build-run-id` reuse is now verified (workflow identity, success, exact commit) before its artifacts are trusted; both workflows gained a `concurrency:` group keyed on tag/dist-tag; and the stage-upload step is now actually idempotent, skipping packages a prior partial run already staged instead of re-attempting all 9.
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