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rainix-tag-release's determinism check rm -rf'd src/generated/<tag>/ and re-ran
the repo's freezing generator (cutRelease()) to prove the frozen snapshot was a
fresh regeneration. In a deploy repo whose generated released-suites lib IMPORTS that
directory, the removal makes the tree uncompilable, so the generator that was meant to
re-create it cannot run at all — and no such repo can ever release.

Observed at rain.factory.deploy sol-v0.1.9: LibCloneFactoryReleased.sol imports
../generated/0_1_9/CloneFactory.sol, so deleting the directory fails the compile
before the generator starts. Not repo-specific — every deploy repo on the Option A
model with a generated released-suites lib inherits it.

The fix removes nothing

The check no longer mutates the tree at all, and the guarantee is unchanged — checked
more directly, against the bytes rather than by re-running the copy that produced them.

  • The workflow runs the NON-freezing run() entry pointforge script ./script/Build.sol && forge fmt. That is the exact regeneration
    rainix-copy-artifacts currency-checks every PR with, so the release-time and
    PR-time checks now prove the same thing about the same command.
  • The guard compares src/generated/<version>/ byte-for-byte against the freshly
    regenerated src/generated/candidate/.
    A freeze COPIES the rolling snapshot
    verbatim, so "the record equals the candidate" is "a freeze run right now would
    write these bytes". Stale, hand-edited and never-cut all fail here. Both directions
    are compared, and an empty record or empty regeneration is flagged rather than
    matching vacuously.
  • A monotonicity check preserves what cutRelease() used to enforce at tag time
    (NonMonotonicRelease): no LATER release may already be frozen beside this one.
    Dropping the freezing generator would otherwise have retired that invariant
    silently. Ordering is numeric per component and tolerates components longer than a
    fixed-width integer, so a publish guard cannot panic on overflow.

The decisions live in small pure functions (tag_dirs, newer_tags,
record_mismatches, foundry_version, dirty_offenders) so they are unit-tested and
mutation-covered; run only wires git and the filesystem to them.

Also fixed, per the issue's "adjacent" note: the frozen-snapshots-append-only gate
globbed src/generated/*/*.pointers.sol. No repo in the org writes that name today
(records are src/generated/<tag>/<Name>.sol), so the gate skips in exactly the repos
it exists for and is a silent no-op org-wide — but only since 2026-08-20, and the
history is the sharper argument. rain.factory.deploy carried
src/generated/0_1_{3,4,5}/CloneFactory.pointers.sol from its genesis commit until
39d1cfd renamed the scheme, and that PR deleted all three while the gate reported
success: the skip test reads the HEAD tree, so a branch removing every snapshot
switches off the check that exists to catch the removal. The predicate is now a
presence test on src/generated/, with which entries count as releases left to the
same is_tag the release guard uses; the residual delete-everything form is documented
in place as a deliberate narrow limit.

BREAKING — five caller repos must drop snapshot-generate-cmd

The snapshot-generate-cmd input is REMOVED, deliberately: a per-repo override is
precisely how the freezing form got wired in, and the release-time regeneration must be
the same command the PR-time currency check uses. It is no longer a caller input.

All five callers pass it explicitly today, and all five reference this workflow at
@main:

repo value passed today
rain.factory.deploy forge script ./script/Build.sol --sig "cutRelease()" && forge fmt
rain.metadata.deploy forge script ./script/Build.sol --sig "cutRelease()" && forge fmt
rain.deploy forge script ./script/Build.sol --sig "cutRelease()" && forge fmt
rain.extrospection.deploy forge script ./script/Build.sol --sig "cutRelease()" && forge fmt
rain.math.float.deploy forge script ./script/Build.sol && forge fmt

Each must delete that line from .github/workflows/package-release.yaml. GitHub
rejects an input a reusable workflow does not declare (Invalid input, … is not defined in the referenced workflow), so because they track @main these break on
merge until the line is gone. Sequence the caller PRs accordingly.

Note rain.math.float.deploy already passes the non-freezing form — identical to what
the workflow now hardcodes, so dropping the line is behaviour-neutral there; the line
must still go, since the input no longer exists.

Follow-up required after merge: bump RAINIX_SHA

The workflow runs rainix-static release-guard out of the pinned
RAINIX_SHA (864816f), not out of this branch. That pinned build predates this
change: its guard has no newer_tags and no record comparison. So on merge the
crash in #341 is fixed (nothing is removed any more) but the byte-comparison and
monotonicity checks stay inert until RAINIX_SHA is bumped to the merge commit. That
bump is a separate commit, as it was for the previous guard fixes.

Residual hole, stated rather than hidden

A branch that deletes the entire src/generated/ tree still skips the append-only
gate. Distinguishing that from a repo that never had a record needs the BASE branch,
which is what the fetch exists to get — so closing it means fetching in every sol repo
in the org, including those whose default branch is not main. Measured today:
20 non-archived rainlanguage repos have a default branch other than main (16 of
them master); 33 counting archived. Left as is, narrowly and on purpose: deleting one
frozen snapshot, or the tag dir holding it, is caught.

QA

  • Discriminating tests: frozen-snapshots-append-only.test.bats — "a deploy repo's
    real record shape reaches the check instead of skipping", "a repo with no generated
    record skips without fetching or checking", "a record holding only the rolling
    candidate still reaches the check", "the pull_request base ref is the ref the check is
    pointed at", "a src/generated FILE rather than a directory is not mistaken for a
    record" — each fails on base (verified by running the new test file against base
    commit d2b3518 in a worktree carrying the base action.yml: 5 of 6 not ok, exit
    1; on this branch 6 of 6 ok). The 6th, "the legacy pointers filename is still
    checked, not newly skipped", passes on base by design — it is the non-regression
    guard that the new predicate must not newly skip what the old glob did catch.
    release_guard::tests::{newer_tags_*, record_mismatches_*, tag_dirs_*} fail on base
    by not compiling: newer_tags, record_mismatches and tag_dirs do not exist there
    (the base guard exposes only is_semver, version_dir, foundry_version,
    dir_present, dirty_offenders). End-to-end, the tampered-record case PASSES the
    base guard and FAILS this one, verified live (item 3 below).
  • Mutations applied: 16 applied, 16 killed, 0 survived, 0 no-run.
    a.len().cmp(&b.len()).then_with(…)a.cmp(b) → killed by
    newer_tags_orders_components_numerically_not_lexically;
    trim_start_matches('0') → identity → newer_tags_ignores_leading_zeros_when_comparing;
    ap.iter().zip(bp.iter()).rev().zip(.rev())newer_tags_compares_the_most_significant_component_first;
    tag_cmp(t, dir) == Greater== Less, and → false
    newer_tags_flags_a_release_that_does_not_follow_the_record;
    if !is_tag(entry)if falsetag_dirs_lists_only_release_tags_directly_under_root;
    strip_prefix(root)?.strip_prefix('/')?line.trim()tag_dirs_decides_whether_the_release_being_published_is_present;
    fresh != bytes&& falserecord_mismatches_flags_a_frozen_file_whose_content_drifted;
    for (name, bytes) in frozenin candidaterecord_mismatches_flags_a_file_only_the_frozen_record_holds;
    if candidate.is_empty() and if frozen.is_empty()if falserecord_mismatches_flags_an_empty_candidate_rather_than_matching_an_empty_record;
    if !frozen.contains_key(name)if falserecord_mismatches_flags_a_file_only_a_fresh_regeneration_produces.
    On the gate predicate [ ! -d src/generated ] → the shipped ! ls src/generated/*/*.pointers.sol glob (the original bug), → [ -d … ] (inverted), →
    [ ! -e … ] (file counts as record), and BASE_REF="${GITHUB_BASE_REF:-main}"
    "main" (ignores the PR base) — all four killed by the bats file above.
  • Oracle: expected behaviour is derived independently of this implementation — from
    issue rainix-tag-release's determinism check rm's the frozen snapshot dir its generated released-suites lib imports, so no such repo can release #341's reported compile error at rain.factory.deploy sol-v0.1.9
    (Source "src/generated/0_1_9/CloneFactory.sol" not found in
    LibCloneFactoryReleased.sol); from rain.deploy's freeze semantics, which copy the
    rolling candidate/ verbatim and read back off disk, and so define what "freshly
    cut" means; from cutRelease()'s NonMonotonicRelease revert, which defines the
    release ordering this guard now carries; and from the real on-disk record shape deploy
    repos carry (src/generated/<tag>/<Name>.sol), which is what showed the shipped glob
    matched nothing.
  • Category check: issue asks (A) stop the determinism check removing
    src/generated/<tag>/, so a repo whose generated released-suites lib imports it can
    release, and (B) the adjacent finding that the append-only gate's glob matches no
    deploy repo and is a silent no-op org-wide. Covered A and B. The issue's fix-shape (1)
    ("do the check without mutating the working tree") is the shape taken.

Everything below was run on this branch; commands and configs are in the QA scratch,
not committed.

Unit + mutation. The mutants each break one behaviour the fix depends on.

  • cargo test (rainix-static): 164 passed, 0 failed.
  • Rust mutation probe over the guard's decisions: 12/12 KILLED, 0 survived, 0
    no-run
    — covering digit-run ordering, leading-zero stripping, most-significant-first
    comparison, newer_tags inversion/silencing, tag_dirs release-filtering and
    record-root anchoring, and all five record_mismatches behaviours (byte comparison,
    comparing the record rather than the candidate against itself, empty candidate, empty
    record, files only a fresh regeneration produces).
  • Bats mutation probe over the gate's SKIP predicate: 4/4 KILLED, 0 survived, 0
    no-run
    — including A01, the shipped *.pointers.sol glob itself, so the regression
    that made the gate a no-op is now held down by a test.

Instrument note: the bats probe first reported A03/A04 as NO-RUN. That was the
probe's proof regex requiring N failures while bats prints the singular 1 failure; the run tails showed the mutants genuinely failing the suite. Relaxing the
regex to failure (a measurement fix, no test touched) gives the 4/4 above.

Gate.

  • nix flake check --impureall checks passed.
  • default-shell-test — the 6 new gate tests all pass. 3 pre-existing failures in
    prettier-bundle.test.bats (status 127, $prettier_entry unset in this sandbox);
    confirmed identical on an unmodified HEAD worktree, so unrelated to this change.
    Worth noting separately: mkTask bodies carry no set -e, so default-shell-test
    exits on its last bats file only and masked these three — the full log has to be
    read, not the exit code.
  • reuse lint — compliant, 112/112 files carry copyright and licence.

End-to-end against the real failing release (rain.factory.deploy at sol-v0.1.9,
the tag in the issue):

  1. New flow, positive — non-freezing regenerate exits 0, git status clean,
    release-guard exits 0: "clean — foundry.toml version, src/generated/0_1_9/
    present and newest, tree regenerates unchanged, frozen release matches
    src/generated/candidate/".
  2. Old flow, reproduces rainix-tag-release's determinism check rm's the frozen snapshot dir its generated released-suites lib imports, so no such repo can release #341rm -rf src/generated/0_1_9 + cutRelease() exits
    1 with the issue's exact error: Source "src/generated/0_1_9/CloneFactory.sol" not found at src/lib/LibCloneFactoryReleased.sol:9.
  3. Tampered record is caught — one byte of BYTECODE_HASH hand-edited in the frozen
    record and committed so the tree is clean. The non-freezing regeneration leaves
    the tree clean, so the old clean-tree check alone would have PASSED this; the new
    guard exits 1, naming src/generated/0_1_9/CloneFactory.sol differs from the freshly regenerated src/generated/candidate/CloneFactory.sol. This is the case the
    byte comparison exists for.

Closes #341

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  • New Features

    • Release validation now verifies version alignment, snapshot presence, append-only ordering, and byte-for-byte consistency between frozen and regenerated snapshots.
    • Snapshot generation is standardized through the project build script during releases.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Snapshot checks no longer silently skip when individual records or tag directories are deleted.
    • Release generation preserves required frozen snapshots and detects mismatched or empty records.
  • Documentation

    • Updated guidance explains snapshot generation, release verification, and frozen snapshot requirements.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for snapshot integrity checks and release validation scenarios.

The check rm -rf'd src/generated/<tag>/ and re-ran the FREEZING generator
(cutRelease()) to prove the frozen snapshot was a fresh regeneration. A deploy
repo's generated released-suites lib IMPORTS that directory, so the removal
makes the tree uncompilable and the generator meant to re-create it cannot run
at all — no such repo can ever release.

Regenerate with the NON-freezing run() entry point instead, removing nothing,
and prove the same guarantee more directly: the guard compares
src/generated/<version>/ byte-for-byte against the freshly regenerated
src/generated/candidate/. A freeze copies the rolling snapshot verbatim, so an
equal record is exactly what freezing now would write; stale, hand-edited and
never-cut all fail. A monotonicity check preserves what cutRelease() enforced
at tag time, which dropping the freezing generator would otherwise have retired
silently.

snapshot-generate-cmd is removed: a per-repo override is how the freezing form
got wired in, and the release-time regeneration must be the command the PR-time
currency check already uses. All five callers must drop that line.

Also fix the frozen-snapshots-append-only gate, which globbed a filename no
deploy repo has ever written and so was a silent no-op org-wide, and cover its
skip predicate with bats.

Closes #341

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rainix-static/src/main.rs, rainix-static/src/release_guard.rs
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The comment claimed no deploy repo has ever written
`src/generated/<tag>/<Name>.pointers.sol`. rain.factory.deploy carried three
such files from its genesis commit until 39d1cfd (2026-08-20) renamed the
scheme, so the old glob did match there for four weeks.

The no-op conclusion is unchanged and the history strengthens it: that same
PR deleted all three snapshots while the gate reported success, because the
skip test reads the HEAD tree. A branch that removes every snapshot disables
the check that exists to catch the removal — the narrower residual form of
which the paragraph below already documents.

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244-275: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

read_record follows directory symlinks without a visited set, so a symlink cycle hangs the publish guard.

path.is_dir() follows symlinks. A symlinked directory inside the record is pushed onto stack, and a cycle (for example src/generated/candidate/self -> .) makes the loop run forever. The guard has no timeout of its own, so the release job would hang until the runner timeout instead of failing loud.

A secondary point on the same loop: to_string_lossy() maps a non-UTF-8 name lossily, so two distinct names can collapse to one key and hide a difference.

Both are avoidable by reading the entry's own file type instead of following the link.

🛡️ Proposed fix: do not follow symlinks during traversal
         for entry in entries {
-            let path = entry
+            let entry = entry
                 .unwrap_or_else(|e| fail(&format!("release-guard: cannot read {}: {e}", current.display())))
-                .path();
-            if path.is_dir() {
+            let path = entry.path();
+            let file_type = std::fs::symlink_metadata(&path)
+                .unwrap_or_else(|e| fail(&format!("release-guard: cannot stat {}: {e}", path.display())))
+                .file_type();
+            if file_type.is_symlink() {
+                fail(&format!(
+                    "release-guard: {} is a symlink — a generated record must hold regular files only",
+                    path.display()
+                ));
+            }
+            if file_type.is_dir() {
                 stack.push(path);
                 continue;
             }
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In `@rainix-static/src/release_guard.rs` around lines 244 - 275, Update
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Inline comments:
In @.github/actions/frozen-snapshots-append-only/action.yml:
- Around line 34-35: Update the frozen-snapshots append-only action and its
caller configuration to use the caller’s base or default branch instead of
hard-coding origin/main, including push-triggered workflow_call runs where
GITHUB_BASE_REF is unavailable. Pass the resolved branch through an explicit
action input and use it for fetching, while preserving the existing skip
behavior when src/generated is absent.

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In `@rainix-static/src/release_guard.rs`:
- Around line 244-275: Update read_record to inspect each directory entry’s own
file type rather than using path.is_dir(), so symlinked directories are not
traversed and cycles cannot hang the guard. Preserve symlinks as file entries by
reading their link metadata/content as appropriate, and replace lossy path-key
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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The environment variable GITHUB_BASE_REF is not available when a workflow is triggered by a push event, nor is it automatically available in a reusable workflow triggered via workflow_call unless explicitly passed [1][2][3]. Key technical constraints and behavior: 1. GITHUB_BASE_REF Availability: The GITHUB_BASE_REF variable and the github.base_ref context are strictly reserved for pull_request and pull_request_target events [1][2][3]. They are not set for push events [4]. 2. Reusable Workflow Context (workflow_call): When a workflow is triggered by workflow_call, it inherits the context of the caller workflow [5][6][7]. If the caller workflow is triggered by a push event, the reusable workflow will see its event_name as push, not workflow_call [5]. However, because the push event itself does not contain GITHUB_BASE_REF, the reusable workflow will also not have access to it [1][3]. 3. Recommended Workaround: If you need to access information about a target or base branch in a reusable workflow triggered by a push, you must explicitly pass this information from the caller workflow to the reusable workflow using the inputs parameter [5][8]: Caller Workflow Example: jobs: call-workflow: uses:./.github/workflows/reusable.yml with: base_ref: ${{ github.event.base_ref || github.ref }} # Or pass the branch name explicitly Reusable Workflow Configuration: on: workflow_call: inputs: base_ref: required: false type: string By passing the value explicitly through the with keyword, the reusable workflow gains access to the data as an input context, circumventing the limitations of the standard GitHub context variables in this scenario [5][8].

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Use the caller’s base or default branch instead of hard-coding main.

rainix-sol-static.yaml is reusable through workflow_call, so downstream callers can run it on push, where GITHUB_BASE_REF is unset. If src/generated exists, this action then fetches origin/main and fails when the caller uses another default branch. Pass the branch as an input or restrict callers to pull requests.

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In @.github/actions/frozen-snapshots-append-only/action.yml around lines 34 -
35, Update the frozen-snapshots append-only action and its caller configuration
to use the caller’s base or default branch instead of hard-coding origin/main,
including push-triggered workflow_call runs where GITHUB_BASE_REF is
unavailable. Pass the resolved branch through an explicit action input and use
it for fetching, while preserving the existing skip behavior when src/generated
is absent.

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Every positive frozen-snapshot fixture asserted against
`src/generated/<tag>/<Name>.pointers.sol` — the name this same PR establishes
no repo has written since 2026-08-20 — so nothing exercised the current
`<tag>/<Name>.sol` shape on those paths.

`is_snapshot` reads only whether the first segment under the root is a tag and
ignores the filename, so this changes no verdict today. It changes what the
tests would catch tomorrow: reintroduce a filename predicate and the obsolete
fixtures keep passing while the real shape goes untested.

Also normalises a `src/generated/0.1.0/` fixture in the soldeer gate to the
underscore form `is_tag` actually accepts.

Fixture strings only; 164 tests pass unchanged.

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thedavidmeister pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 21, 2026
Merging main brought #343's Rust under the new crate-scoped job, and it does
not pass: 11 clippy errors and a dirty `cargo fmt`. Neither was ever visible,
because nothing has run either tool against this crate.

- 10 x `doc_overindented_list_items` in `release_guard.rs`'s module doc. `a.`
  and `b.` are not markdown list markers — markdown ordered lists are digits
  only — so the block is a continuation paragraph of item 4 and belongs at
  item 4's content indent, not a nested one. Flattened to that, with a blank
  `//!` between the two so they still render apart. The labels stay: line 371
  refers to "4a." in a code comment.
- `frozen_tags.iter().any(|t| *t == dir)` -> `frozen_tags.contains(&dir)`, from
  `cargo clippy --fix`. Same `PartialEq` comparison over the same `Vec<String>`;
  no behaviour change.
- `cargo fmt` over the crate, which is what the job now enforces.

Verified in the dev shell on this tree: `cargo fmt --all -- --check` clean,
`cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings -D clippy::all` zero
errors, 174 tests pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
thedavidmeister pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 21, 2026
#346 landed the crate-scoped rustfmt/clippy/test job after this branch was cut,
so 833e8a7 would have shipped #343's checks and left #346's inert — a second
bump behind the first. Merging main and repointing at its tip makes one bump
cover both.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
thedavidmeister added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 21, 2026
ci: bump RAINIX_SHA to 833e8a7 so #343's checks actually run
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rainix-tag-release's determinism check rm's the frozen snapshot dir its generated released-suites lib imports, so no such repo can release

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