ci: make every release lane fail closed and observable

[elkaix]

Related Issue

No tracking issue — this comes out of a review of the release pipeline itself.

Problem

Every downstream release lane hung off one signal, packages_published, or off the commit message. That produced three quiet failures:

• A private-workspace bump shipped nothing. Desktop and VS Code are private packages, so they never appear in changesets' publishedPackages. Desktop 0.2.0 sat unreleased behind 0.1.6 with a green run to show for it.
• HEAD^ missed bumps in a multi-commit push. The extension gate compared the last commit only.
• Missing credentials warned instead of failing.DOKPLOY_CDN_DEPLOY_WEBHOOK, TAP_GITHUB_TOKEN, VSCE_PAT, OVSX_PAT and the Apple signing secrets each had a "skip with a warning" path, so a release could complete green having published to one place and nowhere else.

The worst instance: _native-build.yml read APPLE_CERTIFICATE_P12 / APPLE_CERTIFICATE_PASSWORD / APPLE_NOTARIZATION_*. None of those secrets exist on this repository. The names that do exist — MAC_CSC_LINK, MAC_CSC_KEY_PASSWORD, APPLE_API_KEY_P8, APPLE_API_KEY_ID, APPLE_API_ISSUER — are the ones desktop-release.yml reads, which is why the desktop app ships notarized from the same repo and the same runners while every darwin CLI bundle shipped ad-hoc signed. Release run 32793170842 carries the warning; the 1.3.0 artifact reports Signature=adhoc.

What changed

Per-lane triggers from the push boundary.scripts/release/detect-lane-bumps.mjs reads the CLI, desktop and extension versions at github.event.before and github.sha and emits one bumped/version pair per lane. Each downstream job gates on its own lane.

Isolated lanes. Desktop tagging moves out of the release job into cut-desktop-tag, so a tag failure is red instead of continue-on-error. The VS Code publish becomes vscode-release.yml, callable from the release and dispatchable by hand with a version check for recovery.

Fail closed, with a deliberate opt-out. Absent credentials are errors. RELEASE_LANE_DESKTOP, RELEASE_LANE_VSCODE, RELEASE_LANE_CDN and RELEASE_LANE_BREW set to exactly disabled are the conscious way to turn a lane off.

macOS signing actually wired. The native build now reads the Apple secrets this repository has. Verified before opening this PR by dispatching manual-native-bundle.yml on this branch (run 32799066233, all six targets green) and checking the downloaded darwin-arm64 binary:

Authority=Developer ID Application: Mohamed Elkholy (M2973RBA67)
TeamIdentifier=M2973RBA67
spctl: accepted source=Notarized Developer ID

Notarization returned status: Accepted for both darwin targets.

Provenance. Native zips and VSIX files get actions/attest build provenance. All action pins in the touched workflows moved to full SHAs.

Observability.release-summary renders one lane table per run and fails when an expected, enabled lane did not succeed. pnpm release:status queries npm, GitHub Releases, the CDN, the Marketplace and Open VSX; nightly runs it and keeps exactly one drift issue open.

Two defects found while reviewing the branch and fixed here:

• pythinker_native_release gained || cli_version_bumped for the rerun path, but pythinker_release_tag only exists when changesets reports a publish — the exact case that || covers. publish-native-assets would have run six builds and then gh release view "". The tag now falls back to the same string resolve-release.mjs builds.
• Nothing collected scripts/release/*.test.mjs: vitest projects are packages/* and apps/*. Added pnpm test:release and a CI step.

Verification

• pnpm test:release — 12/12; both new guards mutation-checked (revert either fix, the test goes red)
• Full pre-push suite — 20303 passed, 1215 files
• All six pinned SHAs resolved against upstream tags; artifact-metadata: write confirmed as the permission actions/attest@v4 requires, and this repo is public so attestations are not gated behind GHEC
• pnpm release:status against live endpoints — all five lanes PASS

Checklist

• I have read the CONTRIBUTING document.
• I have linked a related issue — none; this is maintainer-side release infrastructure.
• I have added tests that prove my feature works.
• Ran gen-changesets — no changeset. Workflows, scripts/release/, a skill doc and one root script are all user-imperceptible, and an ignore-only changeset would block the next release outright.
• Ran gen-docs — no user-facing docs change; .agents/skills/release/SKILL.md is updated in this PR.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added automated VS Code extension publishing to Visual Studio Marketplace and Open VSX.
  • Added release status reporting across CLI, desktop, extension, CDN, Homebrew, and native artifacts.
  • Added release summaries showing lane outcomes, verification results, and required actions.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved macOS signing, notarization, artifact validation, and release configuration checks.
  • Added recovery and drift detection for incomplete or inconsistent releases.

• Tests

  • Expanded coverage for release detection, publishing workflows, artifact attestations, and failure handling.

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The release system detects independent release lanes, separates Desktop and VS Code publishing, enforces signing and artifact attestations, validates provider state, reconciles nightly drift, and renders lane outcomes.

Changes

Release lane orchestration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Lane detection and version boundaries scripts/release/detect-lane-bumps.mjs, scripts/release/detect-lane-bumps.test.mjs, .github/workflows/release.yml, package.json	The release flow compares exact push boundaries and exposes validated CLI, Desktop, and extension lane changes.
Publishing lanes and artifact provenance .github/workflows/release.yml, .github/workflows/_native-build.yml, .github/workflows/manual-native-bundle.yml, .github/workflows/vscode-release.yml, .agents/skills/release/SKILL.md	Desktop and VS Code publishing use isolated lanes. Native signing requires complete secrets. Native and VSIX artifacts receive attestations. CDN and Homebrew jobs use lane-specific conditions.
Release status and drift reconciliation scripts/release/release-status.mjs, scripts/release/release-status.test.mjs, scripts/release/render-summary.mjs, scripts/release/render-summary.test.mjs, .github/workflows/nightly.yml	Release status checks versions, assets, and provider responses. Release summaries report lane outcomes. Nightly runs reconcile release-drift issues.
Release validation wiring .github/workflows/ci.yml, scripts/release/release-workflows.test.mjs	CI runs release tests. Regression tests validate workflow wiring, signing, attestations, recovery behavior, and drift reconciliation.

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Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
participant ReleaseWorkflow
participant NativeBuild
participant VSCodeRelease
participant ReleaseStatus
participant ReleaseSummary
ReleaseWorkflow->>NativeBuild: build and attest native artifacts
ReleaseWorkflow->>VSCodeRelease: publish expected VS Code version
ReleaseStatus->>ReleaseStatus: validate provider versions and assets
ReleaseWorkflow->>ReleaseSummary: provide lane expectations and results
ReleaseSummary-->>ReleaseWorkflow: report required lane outcome

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In @.github/workflows/_native-build.yml:
- Around line 67-68: Update the actions/checkout step in the native build
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All actionable findings addressed in 06991c0: exact URL-host routing, non-persisted checkout credentials, and a contents-only desktop App token. The docstring coverage warning is advisory: this repository's lint policy does not require docstrings for internal release scripts, so no unrelated documentation churn was added.