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Myasnikov Daniil f49d54a689 ci(release): fix review findings; keep website docs at tag time
Dual-model review (Claude + Codex) of the previous two commits found seven
substantive defects, two of them destructive. Both models independently
reached three of them; the split is noted per item.

Descope the website half (Claude, verified by reproduction). The docs job
was moved to promote time, but the website Makefile pins the fetch ref
with `override BRANCH := $(RELEASE_TAG)`, which defeats the command-line
BRANCH assignment. `make -p` resolves BRANCH to v1.6.0 — a tag that
cannot exist at promote time, since promote's own validate step hard-fails
if it does. update_apps.sh logs the failed fetch and exits 0 AFTER
truncating each destination file, so every app doc would become a stub,
`changed=true` would open the PR, and the new auto-merge would land it
unreviewed. Not fixable from this repo. update-website-docs returns to
tags.yaml where RELEASE_TAG resolves to a real tag, and the finalize
auto-merge is dropped. Opening it earlier needs a cozystack/website change
first and is left as a follow-up. This also removes the unordered-sibling
race Codex found, where the release PR could merge before the docs job
opened its PR, leaving finalize nothing to merge and no retry.

Fix the non-blocking guarantee (both models). Only the AI step carried
continue-on-error; the changelog JOB did not, so a flaky `npm i -g
@github/copilot` failed it and `needs` skipped open-pr entirely — staging
branch pushed, release drafted, no promote PR. Gate open-pr on promote
alone.

Generate from a checkout the contract permits (both models). The job
checked out the rc staging branch, which docs/agents/changelog.md §2
rejects — a compliant agent stops and writes nothing, so the normal path
produced no changelog at all. Check out the rc tag detached and document
that configuration in §2. The checkout ref now comes from the validated
parse output rather than raw dispatch input.

Port, don't regenerate, in the backstop (both models). For a patch release
promoted onto release-X.Y the changelog never reaches main, so the
backstop fired and ran a second AI pass; once its PR merged,
update-releasenotes.yaml overwrote the published body with unreviewed
text. Detect the file at the tag and port it verbatim; the AI runs only
when it is absent from both main and the tag.

Survive re-dispatch (Codex). promote force-pushes the staging branch,
erasing a hand-written changelog — the documented recovery when generation
fails. Preserve an existing one across the rebuild, and stop open-pr
overwriting it with generated output.

Validate structurally, not by size (Codex). A truncated or whitespace-only
AI run passed `[ -s ]`, was committed, advertised as valid in the PR body,
and published verbatim as release notes. Assert the header, the compare
link and a plausible line count; finalize additionally refuses
whitespace-only content rather than blanking the notes.

Add hack/release-changelog-contract.bats — nine tests pinning each link in
the chain, mutation-checked: removing open-pr's if:, breaking finalize's
body read, and restoring paths-ignore each fail the suite.

Update docs/release.md (~10 sites) and docs/agents/changelog.md §2, which
described the old flow throughout.

Signed-off-by: Myasnikov Daniil <myasnikovdaniil2001@gmail.com>
2026-07-24 11:34:16 +05:00
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