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+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 The RISE Project
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+---
+# This workflow is based on the `linux` job of
+# https://github.com/ast-grep/ast-grep/blob/main/.github/workflows/pypi.yml
+name: Build ast-grep-cli wheels (riscv64)
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      version:
+        description: 'ast-grep-cli version to build (git tag, e.g. 0.45.3)'
+        required: true
+        default: '0.45.3'
+  pull_request:
+    paths:
+      - '.github/workflows/build-ast-grep-cli.yml'
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ inputs.version || '0.45.3' }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read  # to fetch code (actions/checkout)
+
+env:
+  # `inputs.version` is empty on pull_request events; default to 0.45.3 there.
+  AST_GREP_CLI_VERSION: ${{ inputs.version || '0.45.3' }}
+
+jobs:
+  setup:
+    uses: $/.github/workflows/_setup.yml
+
+  build_wheel:
+    needs: [setup]
+    name: Build ast-grep-cli ${{ inputs.version || '0.45.3' }} manylinux_riscv64
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04-riscv
+    timeout-minutes: 360
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout ast-grep v${{ env.AST_GREP_CLI_VERSION }}
+        uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1  # v7.0.1
+        with:
+          repository: ast-grep/ast-grep
+          ref: ${{ env.AST_GREP_CLI_VERSION }}
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      # `[tool.maturin] bindings = "bin"`, manifest-path = crates/cli/Cargo.toml:
+      # the wheel is one compiled executable (actually two: ast-grep and its sg
+      # alias) with no ABI tag, so a single native build covers every interpreter.
+      - name: Build wheel
+        uses: PyO3/maturin-action@e83996d129638aa358a18fbd1dfb82f0b0fb5d3b  # v1.51.0
+        with:
+          command: build
+          target: riscv64gc-unknown-linux-gnu
+          args: --release --locked --out dist
+          manylinux: '2_39'
+          before-script-linux: git config --global --add safe.directory "*"
+
+      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@043fb46d1a93c77aae656e7c1c64a875d1fc6a0a  # v7.0.1
+        with:
+          name: ast-grep-cli-${{ env.AST_GREP_CLI_VERSION }}-manylinux_riscv64
+          path: dist/*.whl
+          if-no-files-found: error
+
+  test_wheel:
+    name: Test ast-grep-cli ${{ inputs.version || '0.45.3' }} on Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+    needs: [setup, build_wheel]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04-riscv
+    timeout-minutes: 30
+    env:
+      # Without this uv would reuse the runner image's system CPython for 3.12
+      # and download a standalone build for the others.
+      UV_PYTHON_PREFERENCE: only-managed
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        # This repo's default interpreter matrix (gotcha in workflow-anatomy.md);
+        # the wheel is interpreter-agnostic (bindings = "bin"), so every
+        # interpreter -- including free-threaded -- exercises the same binary.
+        python-version: ['3.12', '3.13', '3.14', '3.14t']
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Download wheel
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@3e5f45b2cfb9172054b4087a40e8e0b5a5461e7c  # v8.0.1
+        with:
+          name: ast-grep-cli-${{ env.AST_GREP_CLI_VERSION }}-manylinux_riscv64
+
+      - name: Install Python
+        uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@20cfd1bf945f4377ade1205e4dbc17946fc9a30d  # v10.0.1
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+          activate-environment: true
+          enable-cache: false
+
+      - name: Install wheel
+        run: uv pip install --reinstall --no-index --find-links . ast-grep-cli
+
+      # No wheel-level test suite ships in the sdist (gotcha 187): crates/cli's
+      # tests/*.rs are Rust integration tests run by upstream's own `cargo test`,
+      # never packaged. Mirror upstream's own README search/rewrite example
+      # instead of settling for a bare --version check; `sg` is a thin launcher
+      # that execs `ast-grep` off PATH (crates/cli/src/bin/alias.rs), so it only
+      # proves anything once both console scripts are actually installed.
+      - name: Test wheel
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          ast-grep --version
+          ast-grep --help >/dev/null
+          sg --version
+
+          work=$(mktemp -d)
+          cat > "$work/a.js" <<'JS'
+          console.log(123)
+          alert(1)
+          JS
+
+          # $A is ast-grep's own pattern metavariable syntax, not a shell var.
+          # shellcheck disable=SC2016
+          ast-grep -p 'console.log($A)' "$work/a.js" | grep -q 'console.log(123)'
+
+          # shellcheck disable=SC2016
+          ast-grep -p 'alert($A)' -r 'alert(456)' -U "$work/a.js"
+          grep -q 'alert(456)' "$work/a.js"
+
+          ! ast-grep -p 'this-pattern-matches-nothing' "$work/a.js"
+
+  publish:
+    name: Publish ast-grep-cli ${{ inputs.version || '0.45.3' }}
+    needs: [setup, build_wheel, test_wheel]
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+      pull-requests: write
+    uses: $/.github/workflows/_publish-wheel.yml
+    with:
+      artifact-pattern: ast-grep-cli-${{ inputs.version || '0.45.3' }}-manylinux_riscv64