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Why

GA gate criterion VER-001 ("Version and release truth agree from source through
deployment") is a must-pass blocker, currently fail. The measured finding
(governance/ga-gate/evidence/VER-001-release-ledger-2026-09-05.md in
wave-av/claude-workstation) is that no release.yml in any of the four public
release-publishing repos ever creates a GitHub Release, so every repo's "latest"
Release page is a stale, hand-made one from April 2026 — for this repo, v1.0.0
(2026-04-05) while npm currently serves 1.0.8. A public "latest release" page naming
an older version than the registry is exactly the false-signal defect VER-001 exists to
catch.

What changed

Adds a release job to .github/workflows/release.yml, after the existing
verify-publish job:

  • Gate: needs: [publish, verify-publish] with
    if: needs.publish.result == 'success' && needs.verify-publish.result == 'success'.
    This is deliberately stricter than "publish exited 0" — it also requires
    verify-publish (this workflow's existing npm view-confirms-live +
    fresh-install + banner/endpoint checks) to have passed, so a Release is only ever
    created once the artifact is confirmed live on the registry.
  • Permissions: contents: write scoped to only this job. Workflow-level
    permissions: is unchanged (contents: read).
  • No untrusted interpolation: the tag name comes in via env: TAG_NAME: ${{ github.ref_name }}, read as a shell variable; no ${{ }} appears inside any run:
    body in the new job, matching the file's existing discipline (see "Verify tag matches
    package.json version + choose dist-tag").
  • Idempotent: a Release that already exists for the tag gets its tarball
    re-uploaded with --clobber instead of failing.
  • Action pins: reuses the exact SHA-pinned actions/checkout@df4cb1c0… (v6.0.3)
    and actions/setup-node@820762786026… (v7.0.0) already pinned elsewhere in this same
    file — no new third-party action introduced.

Verification performed

  • python3 -c "import yaml; yaml.safe_load(open('.github/workflows/release.yml'))"
    parses clean, 5 jobs (secret-scan, verify, publish, verify-publish, release).
  • actionlint .github/workflows/release.yml — exit 0, no findings.
  • Confirmed no ${{ }} inside a run: body in the new job (only inside env:).
  • Confirmed job-level permissions:: workflow stays contents: read; publish keeps
    id-token: write + contents: read; only release adds contents: write.

What this PR does NOT do

This PR does not create any GitHub Release, and there is no back-fill candidate for
this repo today: the evidence doc's tag v1.0.9 was never actually published — its
release run failed the pre-existing Type-check gate (142 TS errors), and public npm's
dist-tags.latest is still 1.0.8, confirmed via
curl https://registry.npmjs.org/@wave-av%2fcli (no 1.0.9 in versions). A follow-up
lane (fix/cli-typecheck-gate, already merged to main per its own PR) addresses the
type-check gap separately; once a new tag publishes successfully, this workflow will
create its Release automatically — no manual back-fill is needed or possible for cli
right now.

Part of the VER-001 GA burn-down lane (wave-av/claude-workstation
governance/ga-gate/spec/WAVE-GA-burndown-v1.0.0.json).


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Introduces automated GitHub Releases with job-scoped contents: write, but only after registry verification passes and with idempotent upload behavior.

Overview
Adds a release job to the tag-driven workflow so a GitHub Release is created only after publish and verify-publish both succeed—closing the VER-001 gap where npm could advance while the repo’s “latest release” stayed stale.

The job runs npm ci, build, and npm pack, then uses gh to either create a release with --generate-notes or re-upload the tarball with --clobber if the tag already has a release. It verifies the packed asset is attached before finishing. contents: write is limited to this job; the tag is passed via env, not embedded in shell scripts.

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Summary by Sourcery

Create and verify a GitHub Release for each package version only after its npm publication is confirmed successful.

New Features:

  • Create a GitHub Release automatically after a package is successfully published and independently confirmed live on npm.
  • Attach the generated package tarball to the release and generate release notes for the tag.

Enhancements:

  • Make release creation idempotent by updating existing tagged releases and verifying the uploaded asset.
  • Limit release-job repository permissions to the contents write scope required for publishing the release.

CI:

  • Add a release job to the publishing workflow gated on successful publish and post-publish verification.

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Create a verified GitHub Release after each successful npm publish

What Changed

  • A GitHub Release is created only after publishing succeeds and the package is confirmed live on npm
  • The release includes the packaged npm tarball and generated release notes
  • Re-running the workflow updates an existing release without failing or creating duplicates
  • The workflow verifies that the release contains the expected tarball before completing

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Adds a `release` job to release.yml, gated on `needs: [publish, verify-publish]` with
`if: needs.publish.result == success && needs.verify-publish.result == success` so it
never fires on a failed or unverified publish. Scoped to `contents: write` on just that
job (workflow-level permissions stay `contents: read`). Idempotent: re-uploads the
tarball with --clobber if the release already exists for the tag.
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The workflow now automatically creates or updates a GitHub Release only after npm publishing and live-registry verification succeed, with least-privilege permissions, pinned actions, safe tag handling, and post-upload asset verification.

Sequence diagram for verified npm publish and GitHub Release

sequenceDiagram
    participant Publish as publish job
    participant Verify as verify-publish job
    participant Release as release job
    participant NPM as npm registry
    participant GitHub as GitHub Releases

    Publish->>NPM: npm publish
    Verify->>NPM: npm view and live checks
    alt publish and verify-publish succeed
        Release->>Release: npm ci --include=dev
        Release->>Release: npm run build
        Release->>Release: npm pack
        Release->>GitHub: gh release view TAG_NAME
        alt release exists
            Release->>GitHub: gh release upload TAG_NAME TARBALL --clobber
        else release does not exist
            Release->>GitHub: gh release create TAG_NAME TARBALL --generate-notes
        end
        Release->>GitHub: gh release view TAG_NAME --json assets
        GitHub-->>Release: release contains TARBALL
    else either job fails
        Release-->>GitHub: no release created
    end
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Adds a gated, idempotent GitHub Release publication stage after the npm artifact is verified live.
  • Requires both publish and verify-publish jobs to succeed before running.
  • Builds and packs the package, then creates or updates the release for the tag.
  • Uses job-scoped contents: write permission and existing SHA-pinned actions.
  • Verifies the resulting release contains the generated tarball.
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    • Added an automated release step that runs after successful publishing and verification.
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    • Confirms that the release archive was uploaded successfully.

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The workflow adds a gated release job. After npm publication and registry verification succeed, the job packages the project, creates or updates the tag’s GitHub Release, uploads the tarball, and verifies the asset.

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The workflow runs the release job after publish and verify-publish succeed. The job rebuilds and packs the package, creates or updates the tag’s GitHub Release, uploads the tarball with --clobber, and verifies the asset. It grants only contents: write permission.

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Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 6d81d

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Adds a release job to the tag-driven workflow that creates a GitHub Release only after publish and verify-publish both succeed, closing the VER-001 gap where npm could advance while the repo's "latest release" stayed stale. The job uses job-scoped contents: write permissions, passes the tag via environment variables (not shell interpolation), and handles idempotent uploads with --clobber. No issues found.

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Suggestion: Any gh release view failure is treated as absence, so authentication, rate-limit, or network errors trigger an incorrect create attempt and hide the original failure. [api mismatch]

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printf '%s\n' '--- release workflow ---'
sed -n '480,545p' .github/workflows/release.yml
printf '%s\n' '--- npm lifecycle/build declarations ---'
rg -n -A25 -B5 '"(scripts|build|prepare|prepack|postinstall|install)"' package.json
printf '%s\n' '--- workflow path/token references ---'
rg -n -A4 -B4 'GITHUB_PATH|GH_TOKEN|persist-credentials|npm ci|gh ' .github/workflows/release.yml

Repository: wave-av/cli

Length of output: 8361


Security Misconfiguration (CWE-269): Improper Privilege Management

Reachability: External · Exploitability: Difficult

Prevent install hooks from obtaining the Release token.

npm ci runs package lifecycle scripts by default. A compromised dependency can write a replacement gh executable to GITHUB_PATH. GitHub Actions applies that path to later steps. The replacement can then run with GH_TOKEN and contents: write.

Use --ignore-scripts, as in the existing publish job. npm run build remains explicit.

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+      - run: npm ci --include=dev --ignore-scripts
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printf '%s\n' '--- package lifecycle scripts ---'
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Repository: wave-av/cli

Length of output: 19548


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Reachability: External · Exploitability: Difficult

Upload the exact published npm tarball instead of rebuilding it in the release job.

npm ci --include=dev runs dependency lifecycle scripts. A compromised dependency can modify the checkout or build output before npm pack. verify-publish checks the registry package, but the release job uploads a separate locally rebuilt archive and checks only its filename. Download the exact published version from npm and upload that tarball.

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5 issues found across 1 file

Confidence score: 2/5

  • In .github/workflows/release.yml, the release job uploads a rebuilt tarball without scanning dist/, so a build-time secret could reach the public GitHub Release; apply the same pinned, checksum-verified scan before upload.
  • In .github/workflows/release.yml, local npm pack output can differ from the registry artifact validated by verify-publish, allowing an unvalidated package to be released; upload the tarball fetched from npm instead.
  • In .github/workflows/release.yml, prereleases published under npm’s next tag are marked stable on GitHub, and privileged npm ci --include=dev runs scripts without --ignore-scripts; derive the prerelease flag from the validated version and prevent install scripts while contents: write is available.
  • In .github/workflows/release.yml, treating every release lookup API failure as “not found” can trigger an incorrect creation on transient or permission errors; distinguish genuine 404 responses from other failures.
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<file name=".github/workflows/release.yml">

<violation number="1" location=".github/workflows/release.yml:514">
P2: The new `release` job holds `contents: write` (the privileged GITHUB_TOKEN, exposed to every step as `GH_TOKEN`) yet installs dependencies with `npm ci --include=dev` and no `--ignore-scripts`. That runs untrusted dev-dependency lifecycle scripts (preinstall/install/postinstall) inside a job that can read `GH_TOKEN` and create or overwrite official GitHub Releases with arbitrary artifacts. This is the same supply-chain risk the `publish` job in this file explicitly mitigates, whose comment labels dependency lifecycle scripts 'untrusted code paths' and uses `npm ci --include=dev --ignore-scripts` for that reason. Disable lifecycle scripts here too; the build is already a separate step, and every other job already proves the artifact works without them.</violation>

<violation number="2" location=".github/workflows/release.yml:516">
P1: The release job uploads a freshly rebuilt tarball without scanning its generated `dist/`; a build-time secret can therefore reach the public GitHub Release despite the other jobs passing. Add the same pinned, checksum-verified gitleaks install and `dist/` scan after this build and before `npm pack`.

(Based on your team's feedback about scanning generated npm output.)</violation>

<violation number="3" location=".github/workflows/release.yml:527">
P1: Upload the tarball fetched from npm instead of repacking the checkout. `verify-publish` validates the registry artifact, but this local `npm pack` can upload a different archive after dependency installation or the build changes the workspace.</violation>

<violation number="4" location=".github/workflows/release.yml:529">
P2: When GitHub API access fails while checking an existing release, this condition treats the error as "not found" and then attempts creation. Distinguish a genuine 404 from other failures so transient or permission errors fail loudly instead of producing a misleading create failure.</violation>

<violation number="5" location=".github/workflows/release.yml:534">
P2: When the package version is a prerelease, npm publishes it under `next` but this command marks the GitHub Release as stable. Derive the prerelease flag from the validated version and apply it on both create and update paths.</violation>
</file>
Architecture diagram
sequenceDiagram
    participant WF as GitHub Actions Workflow
    participant SC as secret-scan Job
    participant VF as verify Job
    participant PB as publish Job
    participant VP as verify-publish Job
    participant RL as release Job
    participant NPM as npm Registry
    participant GH as GitHub API
    participant TAR as Packed Tarball

    Note over WF,GH: Release Pipeline (Tag Trigger)

    WF->>SC: Run secret-scan
    WF->>VF: Run verify
    WF->>PB: Run publish (after verify passes)

    PB->>NPM: npm publish
    NPM-->>PB: publish confirmation

    WF->>VP: Run verify-publish (after publish)
    VP->>NPM: Check package version + fresh install
    NPM-->>VP: Package confirmed live
    VP->>NPM: Verify apiEndpoint
    NPM-->>VP: Endpoint valid

    alt Publish and verify-publish both succeed
        WF->>RL: Trigger release job (needs: publish, verify-publish)
        
        RL->>RL: npm ci --include=dev
        RL->>RL: npm run build
        
        Note over RL: TAG_NAME from github.ref_name via env<br/>(no interpolation in run body)
        
        RL->>TAR: npm pack --silent
        TAR-->>RL: tarball filename
        
        alt Release already exists for tag
            RL->>GH: gh release view "$TAG_NAME"
            GH-->>RL: Release found
            RL->>GH: gh release upload --clobber
        else No release exists yet
            RL->>GH: gh release view "$TAG_NAME"
            GH-->>RL: Not found
            RL->>GH: gh release create --generate-notes
        end
        
        RL->>GH: Verify assets in release
        GH-->>RL: Asset list
        
        alt Tarball found in assets
            RL-->>WF: Release complete
        else Tarball missing
            RL-->>WF: Error - tarball not attached
        end
    else Publish or verify-publish failed
        WF-->>RL: Release job skipped
        Note over WF,RL: This is not actually checked - elsewhere mandatorily confirmed
    end
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P1: The release job uploads a freshly rebuilt tarball without scanning its generated dist/; a build-time secret can therefore reach the public GitHub Release despite the other jobs passing. Add the same pinned, checksum-verified gitleaks install and dist/ scan after this build and before npm pack.

(Based on your team's feedback about scanning generated npm output.)

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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At .github/workflows/release.yml, line 516:

<comment>The release job uploads a freshly rebuilt tarball without scanning its generated `dist/`; a build-time secret can therefore reach the public GitHub Release despite the other jobs passing. Add the same pinned, checksum-verified gitleaks install and `dist/` scan after this build and before `npm pack`.

(Based on your team's feedback about scanning generated npm output.) </comment>

<file context>
@@ -485,3 +485,62 @@ jobs:
+
+      - run: npm ci --include=dev
+
+      - run: npm run build
+
+      # TAG_NAME comes from the environment (never interpolated into the script body), matching
</file context>
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- run: npm run build
- run: npm run build
- name: Install gitleaks (pinned + checksum-verified)
env:
GITLEAKS_VERSION: "8.30.1"
GITLEAKS_SHA256: "551f6fc83ea457d62a0d98237cbad105af8d557003051f41f3e7ca7b3f2470eb"
run: |
set -euo pipefail
curl -fsSL --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -o gitleaks.tar.gz \
"https://github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks/releases/download/v${GITLEAKS_VERSION}/gitleaks_${GITLEAKS_VERSION}_linux_x64.tar.gz"
echo "${GITLEAKS_SHA256} gitleaks.tar.gz" | sha256sum -c -
tar -xzf gitleaks.tar.gz gitleaks
sudo install -m 0755 gitleaks /usr/local/bin/gitleaks
rm -f gitleaks gitleaks.tar.gz
- name: gitleaks (secret scan — release job build output)
run: |
set -euo pipefail
if [ -d dist ]; then
gitleaks detect --no-git --source dist --config .gitleaks.toml --redact --no-banner --exit-code 1
else
echo "::warning title=no dist directory::npm run build produced no dist/ - nothing to scan"
fi

GH_REPO: ${{ github.repository }}
run: |
set -euo pipefail
TARBALL="$(npm pack --silent | tail -n1)"

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P1: Upload the tarball fetched from npm instead of repacking the checkout. verify-publish validates the registry artifact, but this local npm pack can upload a different archive after dependency installation or the build changes the workspace.

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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At .github/workflows/release.yml, line 527:

<comment>Upload the tarball fetched from npm instead of repacking the checkout. `verify-publish` validates the registry artifact, but this local `npm pack` can upload a different archive after dependency installation or the build changes the workspace.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -485,3 +485,62 @@ jobs:
+          GH_REPO: ${{ github.repository }}
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          TARBALL="$(npm pack --silent | tail -n1)"
+          echo "packed: $TARBALL"
+          if gh release view "$TAG_NAME" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
</file context>

set -euo pipefail
TARBALL="$(npm pack --silent | tail -n1)"
echo "packed: $TARBALL"
if gh release view "$TAG_NAME" >/dev/null 2>&1; then

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P2: When GitHub API access fails while checking an existing release, this condition treats the error as "not found" and then attempts creation. Distinguish a genuine 404 from other failures so transient or permission errors fail loudly instead of producing a misleading create failure.

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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At .github/workflows/release.yml, line 529:

<comment>When GitHub API access fails while checking an existing release, this condition treats the error as "not found" and then attempts creation. Distinguish a genuine 404 from other failures so transient or permission errors fail loudly instead of producing a misleading create failure.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -485,3 +485,62 @@ jobs:
+          set -euo pipefail
+          TARBALL="$(npm pack --silent | tail -n1)"
+          echo "packed: $TARBALL"
+          if gh release view "$TAG_NAME" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+            echo "release $TAG_NAME already exists — uploading tarball (idempotent path, --clobber)"
+            gh release upload "$TAG_NAME" "$TARBALL" --clobber
</file context>

gh release upload "$TAG_NAME" "$TARBALL" --clobber
else
echo "release $TAG_NAME does not exist — creating with generated notes"
gh release create "$TAG_NAME" "$TARBALL" --title "$TAG_NAME" --generate-notes

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P2: When the package version is a prerelease, npm publishes it under next but this command marks the GitHub Release as stable. Derive the prerelease flag from the validated version and apply it on both create and update paths.

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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At .github/workflows/release.yml, line 534:

<comment>When the package version is a prerelease, npm publishes it under `next` but this command marks the GitHub Release as stable. Derive the prerelease flag from the validated version and apply it on both create and update paths.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -485,3 +485,62 @@ jobs:
+            gh release upload "$TAG_NAME" "$TARBALL" --clobber
+          else
+            echo "release $TAG_NAME does not exist — creating with generated notes"
+            gh release create "$TAG_NAME" "$TARBALL" --title "$TAG_NAME" --generate-notes
+          fi
+          echo "verifying the release exists and carries the tarball"
</file context>

node-version: '22'
cache: 'npm'

- run: npm ci --include=dev

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P2: The new release job holds contents: write (the privileged GITHUB_TOKEN, exposed to every step as GH_TOKEN) yet installs dependencies with npm ci --include=dev and no --ignore-scripts. That runs untrusted dev-dependency lifecycle scripts (preinstall/install/postinstall) inside a job that can read GH_TOKEN and create or overwrite official GitHub Releases with arbitrary artifacts. This is the same supply-chain risk the publish job in this file explicitly mitigates, whose comment labels dependency lifecycle scripts 'untrusted code paths' and uses npm ci --include=dev --ignore-scripts for that reason. Disable lifecycle scripts here too; the build is already a separate step, and every other job already proves the artifact works without them.

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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At .github/workflows/release.yml, line 514:

<comment>The new `release` job holds `contents: write` (the privileged GITHUB_TOKEN, exposed to every step as `GH_TOKEN`) yet installs dependencies with `npm ci --include=dev` and no `--ignore-scripts`. That runs untrusted dev-dependency lifecycle scripts (preinstall/install/postinstall) inside a job that can read `GH_TOKEN` and create or overwrite official GitHub Releases with arbitrary artifacts. This is the same supply-chain risk the `publish` job in this file explicitly mitigates, whose comment labels dependency lifecycle scripts 'untrusted code paths' and uses `npm ci --include=dev --ignore-scripts` for that reason. Disable lifecycle scripts here too; the build is already a separate step, and every other job already proves the artifact works without them.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -485,3 +485,62 @@ jobs:
+          node-version: '22'
+          cache: 'npm'
+
+      - run: npm ci --include=dev
+
+      - run: npm run build
</file context>
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- run: npm ci --include=dev
- run: npm ci --include=dev --ignore-scripts

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