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Summary

Replaces a 2,408-line gate that parsed shell and Rust source as text with a 78-line structured diff over the build matrices, plus outcome checks at the points the old gate could only predict: the preview publish job holds its upload list to the contract, and the release job holds both the artifacts it built and the desktop's exact download names to it. The five properties it asserted are preserved; one moves from PR time to tag time, where it is still fail-closed before any release.

Files changed

  • packaging/desktop-platforms.txt — new: the os arch triple list every consumer is held to
  • scripts/check_desktop_platform_matrix.py — new: compares that file against the build matrices of shell-release.yml:build-shell, preview-server.yml:build and release.yml:build-server
  • scripts/check_desktop_platform_matrix_tests.py — new: eight legs, each driving the checker against a mutated tree
  • scripts/check_shell_platform_mapping.py — deleted (−1001)
  • scripts/check_shell_platform_mapping_tests.py — deleted (−1407)
  • .github/workflows/ci.yml — run the new checker and its tests; correct a comment that claimed the Rust half runs at PR time, and a second that no longer described what the preview data wait tests cover
  • .github/workflows/preview-server.yml — new pre-upload step holding the publish job's binaries=() array to the platform file; the publish checkout now pins ref: ${{ inputs.commit }} so it reads that file from the commit it publishes
  • scripts/preview_data_wait_tests.py — tests in PublishWiringTests driving the publish step's own shell over a stubbed checkout, both mismatch directions, plus a wiring assertion on the publish checkout's ref
  • scripts/release_dispatch_guard_tests.py — DesktopDownloadNameTests, driving the release step's own shell: a renamed pair the upload list agrees with is rejected, the shipped list passes
  • .github/workflows/release.yml — new pre-publish step asserting every built slim server appears in the release asset list, and that the contract-derived canonical download names are all published; one comment recording why nullglob must not be enabled there
  • client/src-tauri/src/native_engine.rs — the enum test reads the platform file and compares sets rather than counts; doc comment no longer names the deleted script

Where each property is checked now

The deleted gate had no platform list to work from — it read ServerPlatform out of native_engine.rs as text and held the workflows against that. The rows below name what it asserted, not a mapping onto the new file.

Property Deleted gate asserted Now
Desktop enum ↔ its own consumers read ServerPlatform three times over (ALL, os_arch, target_triple) and required the three to name the same variants the enum's own test, comparing sets against desktop-platforms.txt — tag time, in shell-release.yml's shell-preflight, which gates build-shell
Enum ↔ build-shell matrix yes, by parsing both as text checker, PR time, from parsed YAML
Enum ↔ preview provisioning yes, and extensively — the preview build job, the publish step's binaries=(…) array, the manifest block and its url/sig_url expressions (63 references in the deleted file) checker, PR time — the build matrix only (the publish side is the row below)
Preview publish side ↔ preview build matrix yes — the deleted gate held four publish-side spellings besides the build matrix: the four Download … binary steps, the binaries=() sign/upload array, the manifest keys, and the signed url/sig_url pair the publish job itself, at run time — it holds binaries=() to desktop-platforms.txt and fails closed before the first upload
Enum ↔ release publication yes, statically — read twice, from the signing loop and from the asset-list heredoc, with the two required to agree checker holds the list to build-server's matrix at PR time; the new release.yml step checks the artifacts that were actually built against the asset list at publish time

tauri-check carries if: ${{ false }}, so nothing at PR time compiles the Rust test; shell-preflight runs it before build-shell, so a mismatch cannot reach a published shell.

The preview publish side is held at run time rather than at PR time. preview-server.yml's publish job diffs the triple column of desktop-platforms.txt against the platform keys derived from its binaries=() array and fails closed before the first upload, so a triple listed with no binary behind it publishes nothing rather than a manifest key that 404s. The job's own key-set check cannot see that case, because it compares that array against manifest keys derived from the same array. Closing it inside the checker would have meant parsing a shell array out of a workflow, which is the instrument this PR removes.

The release-side change is where the approach differs most. The deleted gate compared two static readings of release.yml and refused when they disagreed; the new step compares the asset list against the artifacts the run actually produced, so it also catches a build that silently stopped emitting one. It complements fail_on_unmatched_files, which fires only when a listed path is missing — that action never sees a built artifact absent from the list, because it only ever receives the list.

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Developer

LLM

Model: claude-opus-5
Tier: Frontier
Thinking: high

Implementation method (required)

Method: /engine-implementer

CR references

None — no game logic changed.

Verification

  • Required checks ran clean, or the exact CI-owned alternative is stated below.

  • Gate A output below is for the current committed head.

  • Final review-impl below is clean for the current committed head.

  • Both anchors cite existing analogous code at the same seam.

  • python3 scripts/check_desktop_platform_matrix.py — exit 0; emits the platform list, the build-shell pairs, and the preview and release triple sets

  • python3 scripts/check_desktop_platform_matrix_tests.py — exit 0; ok: agreement, grown matrix, dropped platform, missing list, free axis, grown preview matrix, unreleased platform, malformed row

  • Release-matrix leg, driven by hand — platform file and both shell matrices gain riscv64-unknown-linux-musl while release.yml is left untouched: exit 1, ::error::desktop-platforms.txt lists riscv64-unknown-linux-musl, which release build-server does not build; the desktop's download URL 404s. Unmodified tree through the identical command: exit 0.

  • Preview-matrix leg, driven by hand — preview matrix gains a triple the platform file does not list: exit 1, ::error::preview-server build has a row for riscv64-unknown-linux-musl, which desktop-platforms.txt does not list. Unmodified tree through the identical command: exit 0.

  • release.yml pre-publish step, extracted from the workflow and driven against fabricated artifacts/ trees — green on the four real platforms; exit 1 on a fifth built platform, a dropped .minisig line, a dropped .exe line, no slim artifacts, an absent artifacts/, and an empty slim directory.

Gate A

Gate A PASS head=6fa8c3554fc82dcb2702f04ad9dbcd4131ae876c base=e1e0bf554acee8540f5db6496c0436f6a5808c60

Reported as Gate A SKIPPED (no files under crates/engine/src/parser changed) — this PR touches no parser file, so the PASS is vacuous rather than a scan result.

Anchored on

  • .github/workflows/ci.yml:151 — check_media_plugin_packaging_tests.py / check_media_plugin_packaging.py, the existing checker-plus-tests pair invoked from CI at the same seam
  • .github/workflows/preview-server.yml:484 — verify_published(), the existing pre-publish runtime verification this PR's release-side check mirrors

Final review-impl

Final review-impl PASS head=6fa8c3554fc82dcb2702f04ad9dbcd4131ae876c

Reviewed clean at 2eacbd8fd, where an independent pass built eighteen adversarial fixtures against the release step's own shell and could not construct a published name the check should refuse but admits; every one fails closed. This head adds one comment-only commit above the publish checkout, recording that the job reads its contract from the published commit while the surrounding YAML comes from the workflow ref, that the sign step's diff refuses the mismatched pair rather than publishing a partial set, and that the next deploy heals it. Comment-only, so it was checked directly: the diff carries four changed lines and none of them is a non-comment line.

Claimed parse impact

None.

Scope Expansion

The original item was to replace the static gate. Two additions go beyond a like-for-like replacement, both closing properties the replacement would otherwise have lost:

  • the pre-publish asset check in release.yml. The deleted gate covered this statically, by parsing the workflow's hard-coded lists; checking the artifacts a run actually built is a different and stronger check, and it is new
  • holding the platform file to release.yml's build-server matrix — the deleted gate's own stated 404 property ("A name resolved but never published is a desktop requesting a URL that 404s"), which the first replacement did not carry

Validation Failures

None.

CI Failures

None.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added a centralized desktop platform list to align shell, preview, and release builds.
    • Added validation to ensure listed platforms correspond to built and published assets.
    • Added pre-release checks for missing server binaries or signatures.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented preview publishing when platform listings and uploaded binaries do not match.
    • Improved platform validation to detect missing, extra, or malformed platform entries.
  • Chores

    • Replaced the previous platform mapping checker and its tests with matrix-based validation.

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The change adds a shared desktop platform contract, replaces the shell mapping checker with matrix validation, updates Rust tests, blocks mismatched preview uploads, and validates slim server release assets and signatures.

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Desktop platform validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared platform contract
packaging/desktop-platforms.txt, client/src-tauri/src/native_engine.rs
The new list defines four published target triples. The Rust test parses the list and validates each mapping against ServerPlatform.
Workflow matrix checker
scripts/check_desktop_platform_matrix.py, scripts/check_desktop_platform_matrix_tests.py, .github/workflows/ci.yml, scripts/check_shell_platform_mapping.py, scripts/check_shell_platform_mapping_tests.py
CI checks agreement between the platform list and the shell, preview, and release matrices. Tests cover mismatches, missing or malformed data, and free matrix axes. The previous checker and tests are removed.
Publishing and release validation
.github/workflows/preview-server.yml, scripts/preview_data_wait_tests.py, .github/workflows/release.yml, scripts/release_dispatch_guard_tests.py
Preview publishing checks the contract from the published commit and stops before upload when triples differ. Release validation checks binary, signature, and canonical desktop download names.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant CI
  participant PlatformContract
  participant PreviewPublish
  participant ReleaseValidation
  CI->>PlatformContract: validate platform rows and workflow matrices
  PlatformContract-->>CI: return validation status
  PreviewPublish->>PlatformContract: read triples from published commit
  PreviewPublish-->>PreviewPublish: stop before upload on mismatch
  ReleaseValidation->>PlatformContract: derive canonical asset names
  ReleaseValidation-->>ReleaseValidation: stop before release on missing assets
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Changes requested: protected CI/release workflow changes require a dedicated maintainer decision at head d3b4e1cc5752f488117112cce6084c428282a20f.

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.github/workflows/ci.yml:161 replaces the platform-mapping gate and its test entry point; .github/workflows/release.yml:1246 adds executable validation in the release publication job. Both paths match .agents/pr-review-policy.toml's workflow hard-stop policy, and release infrastructure is explicitly outside routine handler rescue. The current PR discussion contains no explicit maintainer authorization for these protected workflow changes. This finding concerns review authority, not an allegation of malicious intent.

Next step: obtain a dedicated maintainer review of the CI gate replacement and release-publication change, or split/remove those workflow edits before ordinary handling resumes. That review should also reconcile the existing preview-publication completeness finding in the security review and the asset-file check suggestion; this security-boundary pass has not independently adjudicated those implementation findings. No implementation approval, branch modification, or enqueue was performed.

@matthewevans matthewevans added the enhancement New feature or request label Sep 18, 2026
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Changes requested: the new platform-contract gate still permits a preview build that is never published.

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scripts/check_desktop_platform_matrix.py:22-25,60-73 compares the contract only with preview-server.yml's build matrix and release.yml's build-server matrix. It no longer validates preview publication, while .github/workflows/preview-server.yml:290-316 has a separately enumerated download set, :338-343 has a separately enumerated binaries set, and :411-431 has separately enumerated manifest keys. The later runtime check at :456-497 only proves that those existing binaries and manifest entries agree with each other; it never compares either of them to the checked-out packaging/desktop-platforms.txt triples. A new listed/build triple omitted from all publish-side lists therefore passes this PR's equality gate and self-consistent publication check, but its desktop gets no preview URL.

The deleted scripts/check_shell_platform_mapping.py:766-907 deliberately held preview builds, downloads, signing inputs, manifest keys, and signed URL pairs as distinct sets for this exact drift class. Please restore that guarantee at the publication authority: before the manifest is written, compare the checked-out contract's triple set with the publish-side binaries platform keys and fail closed on a difference. Add a discriminating fixture that adds a contract/preview-build triple while leaving the publish lists unchanged; it must fail.

✅ Confirmed scope

The existing test -s "$binary" pre-sign check at .github/workflows/release.yml:1257-1263 already rejects a missing or empty built binary before release-asset membership is evaluated, so no separate file-existence change is requested here.

Recommendation: keep the contract consolidation, but restore publish-completeness coverage before approval.

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…ctured diff

`scripts/check_shell_platform_mapping.py` recovered the set of desktop
platforms by reading two workflows and `native_engine.rs` as text -- 1,001
lines of pattern matching, with 1,407 lines of tests holding it in place, to
answer a question both sides already state literally.

Its own docstring names the one property it exists for: `native_engine.rs`'s
`server_target_triple_maps_every_published_desktop_platform` already pins the
four (os, arch) -> triple pairs and four negatives, and "what it cannot see is
the matrix growing past them: nothing there refers to the workflow. This gate
is that tie."

So make it a tie between two lists instead of a reading of three files.
`packaging/desktop-platforms.txt` holds the pairs; the Rust test iterates it
rather than a literal array, and additionally asserts the file covers every
`ServerPlatform::ALL` variant, so the enum cannot grow past the file either;
a CI step loads `shell-release.yml`'s `build-shell` matrix with `yaml.safe_load`
and diffs the two sets in both directions. No regex, no comment stripping, and
no dependency on either side -- the list is whitespace-delimited, read with
`.split()` and `split_whitespace`.

The checker emits both sets it compared, so a green run proves it ran, and it
refuses loudly when the list file is absent rather than soft-failing to an
empty set and reporting success.

The gate's other two properties are publish outcomes rather than text
properties, and are observed as outcomes: the preview half fetches every URL
its manifest names and compares sha256 before publishing the manifest, and on
the release side `fail_on_unmatched_files` over a list naming all four slim
binaries and all four signatures fails the upload before it happens.
Review of the replacement found the structured diff covered one of the gate's
properties and left three uncovered, plus a blind spot of its own.

`release.yml` names the four slim binaries and their signatures in a
hand-written list. `fail_on_unmatched_files` cannot hold that list to reality:
it fails when a listed path is missing, never when a built artifact is absent
from the list, because the action only ever receives the list. A fifth platform
added to the matrix and forgotten here would ship a desktop whose engine
download 404s, with every check green. A step between building the list and
creating the release now walks the slim artifact directories that actually
arrived and fails unless each one's binary and signature appear in the list
text. It runs before the release exists, because an immutable release cannot
accept a late asset upload. Enumerating each directory's real contents is also
what handles the Windows `.exe` without naming a platform twice.

The checker read only a matrix's `include` entries, so a matrix that also
carried free product axes built platforms the checker could not see while it
printed a pass -- a green run indistinguishable from one that never happened.
Any key outside `include`/`exclude` is now refused, in the one helper both
matrix readers go through.

Nothing tied `preview-server.yml`'s build matrix to the platform file, so the
same drift could reach preview provisioning. It is now diffed in both
directions through that same helper, and a row missing its triple column is
refused rather than silently read as a pair.

The Rust test compared how many rows it read against how many variants exist,
which a duplicated row satisfies while a variant goes unmapped. It compares the
sets.

A comment here claimed `native_engine.rs`'s test holds the enum to the file at
pull-request time. It does not: that test lives in `tauri-check`, which is
disabled, so the enum half is held at tag time by `shell-release.yml`'s
preflight. The comment says so now.
The matrix checker tied packaging/desktop-platforms.txt to shell-release.yml's
build-shell and preview-server.yml's build, but nothing tied it to release.yml's
build-server. A platform listed in the file and built by both shell halves but
absent from build-server produced a desktop resolving a download URL that 404s —
the property the deleted mapping gate asserted and its replacement did not.

The two triple comparisons differed only in their source, so they become one
loop over a source table rather than a third copy. The existing include() reader
and its free-axis guard cover the new source unchanged.

Also name every consumer in the platform file's header, and record in the
release verify step that the unmatched glob iterating literally is what makes an
absent or empty artifacts/ fail the list check, so nullglob must not be enabled
there.
… now covers

Three comments justified the unreadable-list refusal with "an empty set is a
subset of any matrix, so a checker that understood nothing would report a clean
pass." There is no subset comparison in the checker -- every comparison is
equality -- and under equality an empty list against a populated matrix already
fails, naming each built platform. The rationale described an earlier design and
vouched for a property this one does not rely on.

The refusal is still right, for a different reason: a missing file raises and
names the file, where soft-failing to an empty list would blame every built
platform instead. The three sites now say that.

The coverage comment also named only preview-server.yml, omitting release.yml's
build-server, which is the second triple source; and nothing recorded that the
triple comparison is an equality, so a slim server published for no listed
desktop is an error rather than a harmless extra. The deleted gate allowed that
superset. Both are now stated where a contributor reads what the gate covers.

Comment-only: normalizing each file through ast.parse (Python) or yaml.safe_load
(YAML) and comparing against the parent is byte-identical, while a planted
non-comment change in each file differs.
The coverage comment read "preview-server.yml's and release.yml's
build-server triples", which distributes build-server across both
possessives. preview-server.yml's jobs are build, gate and publish; the
build-server name exists only in release.yml, so a contributor following
the comment would grep for it there and find nothing.
The equality gate gives desktop-platforms.txt authority over the preview and
release build matrices, but the publish job's upload list was held only to
itself: its manifest key check derives both sides from the same binaries
array, so it agrees by construction. A triple listed in the contract with no
binary above it published no URL, and that desktop silently never saw a
preview.

The publish job now diffs the contract's triple column against the platform
keys derived from binaries. It runs before the first upload rather than
before the manifest write, so a mismatch publishes nothing at all instead of
binaries with no manifest entry pointing at them.

sort -u on the listed side matches the checker's set comparison. Without it a
duplicated contract row passes the PR-time gate and then fails the publish
job at run time.

The fixture in PublishWiringTests runs the publish step's own shell over a
stubbed checkout rather than a copy of it: a contract triple the publish list
does not carry exits nonzero with zero objects uploaded, which is what shows
the check runs before publication rather than after it. Against the
pre-change workflow that same fixture exits 0 and uploads every object
including the manifest.
The publish step's error text says a listed triple with no binary and a
published triple with no row are both failures, but only the first had a
fixture. diff is symmetric so the behaviour was already structural; the
guarantee was pinned at one end.

The new leg drops a contract row and asserts the job stops with nothing
uploaded, naming the triple on the published side. The two red legs assert on
distinguishable output -- "> aarch64-apple-darwin" against
"< riscv64gc-unknown-linux-musl" -- so neither passes on the other's failure.

The module docstring claimed "the last two tests" run the publish step. That
was false about definition order, and unittest orders alphabetically in any
case. It now names the helper, which stays true as legs are added.
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Done. The publish job now holds the checked-out contract to the list it actually publishes: it reads
the triple column of packaging/desktop-platforms.txt and diffs it against the platform keys derived
from the publish-side binaries array, failing closed on any difference in either direction. The
error names which side is missing what.

One deliberate difference from the literal ask: the check is held before the first upload rather
than before the manifest write, so a mismatch publishes nothing at all instead of binaries with no
manifest entry pointing at them.

The discriminating fixture ships in scripts/preview_data_wait_tests.py, which CI already runs. It
extracts the publish step's own shell out of the workflow and drives it over a stubbed bucket, so the
shell under test is the shipped text rather than a copy. The red leg is your case — contract and the
preview build matrix gain a triple, the publish lists left alone — and it asserts both a nonzero
exit and that zero objects were uploaded, which is what shows the check runs before publication
rather than after it. Against the pre-change workflow that same fixture exits 0 and uploads
every object including the manifest, so the test fails there.

The equality gate this PR keeps agrees with that fixture, which is the gap you described: it sees the
contract and both build matrices carrying the new triple and exits 0, while the publish side ships
nothing for it. That gate now has an outcome check underneath it.

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Changes requested: the preview completeness fix is verified; one existing release-filename guarantee is still lost at head 9d4c9eda83893c8e2ff2930f95b4a9ec0b70d136.

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[MED] Preserve the desktop's exact release-asset names, not only agreement between produced files and the upload list. .github/workflows/release.yml:1257-1261 accepts every artifact whose path appears in RELEASE_FILES, while scripts/check_desktop_platform_matrix.py:64-67 checks only target triples. The desktop constructs the exact binary URL phase-server-slim-{triple}{executable_suffix} and its .minisig URL in client/src-tauri/src/native_engine.rs:1180-1192. The deleted checker's slim_asset and resolved - attached check explicitly joined those consumer names to publication.

I exercised the actual new workflow step against four nonempty binary/signature pairs. The canonical fixture passes. Renaming the macOS binary/signature pair to phase-server-slim-aarch64-apple-darwin-renamed[.minisig], with the upload list agreeing, also exits 0 although the canonical desktop URL is absent. Against a matching signing-list/asset-list rename, the deleted checker exits 1 and names both missing canonical URLs. This demonstrates a lost guarded failure class; it does not claim today's unmodified release produces wrongly named files.

Please extend the publication check to compare the contract-derived canonical binary/signature filename set against the assets being published, retaining the existing actual-artifact/list check. Derive the Windows suffix from the contract's OS field, following the desktop naming authority. Add a discriminating renamed-file fixture with a passing canonical control; agreement between two publisher-side spellings must not satisfy a consumer filename contract.

✅ Clean

The new preview-server.yml:358-370 contract-vs-published-platform check runs before the first upload and closes the earlier preview completeness finding. The checked-in matrix checker, all eight matrix mutation legs, and all 14 preview data/publish tests pass in an isolated worktree at this head. The preview tests execute the shipped shell with stubbed publication commands; both mismatch directions stop before uploads. The external security review now acknowledges that fix.

🟡 Non-blocking

The existing fail_on_unmatched_files: true setting at release.yml:1271 covers listed-but-absent assets; the external suggestion to duplicate that existence check in the new preflight is not the blocker above. It cannot detect a consistently renamed, present asset whose canonical consumer name is missing.

Recommendation: keep the contract consolidation and restore exact release-filename coverage before approval. This was a full implementation review under pr:approved-for-review; the label remains. No branch changes, direct builds, approval, or enqueue were performed.

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The pre-sign check accepted any artifact whose path appeared in the upload
list, and the platform checker compares only target triples. Renaming a
binary and its signature together, with the upload list agreeing, therefore
passed: two publisher-side spellings agreeing does not satisfy a consumer
filename contract, and the desktop's download URL is built from the exact
name.

The check now derives the canonical set from the platform contract --
phase-server-slim-<triple>, plus .exe when that row's OS column is windows,
and the same again with .minisig -- and holds the published asset basenames
to it. The suffix follows the contract's OS column rather than a hardcoded
rule, mirroring the desktop's own cfg-gated derivation. An empty or
comment-only contract exits 1 rather than iterating zero times and passing.
The existing actual-artifact and upload-list check is unchanged.

The preview publish job now checks out the commit it publishes. Its build
job already pinned that ref; the publish job's checkout was added later only
as a vehicle for the data-wait script, so it read the workflow ref and could
hold the binaries to a different commit's contract than they were built
from. That contract is also what the release-side check above derives from.
The data-wait script now likewise comes from the published commit.
Pinning the checkout to `commit` makes the job read the platform contract
from the commit it publishes, while the YAML around it -- the binaries array
and the build matrix -- still comes from the workflow ref, because a
workflow_run run uses the workflow file from the default branch.

A deploy one commit behind therefore pairs an older contract with a newer
binaries list. That is not a hole: the sign step's own diff refuses the pair
and publishes nothing rather than a partial set, and the next deploy heals
it. Recorded so the split reads as known rather than as an oversight.

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Superagent found 2 security concern(s).

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The publication check now derives the canonical download names from the contract —
phase-server-slim-{triple}, plus .exe when that row's OS column is windows, and the same again
with .minisig — and holds the published asset basenames to that set. The existing actual-artifact
and upload-list check is unchanged and still runs alongside it.

Your renamed-pair case now exits 1 and names both absences: ::error::no release asset is published as phase-server-slim-aarch64-apple-darwin, which the desktop shell downloads by that exact name, and
the same line for the .minisig. The shipped asset list exits 0 and prints the derived set, so a
pass cannot be a check that never ran. Driven against the step shell at 9d4c9eda8, that same
fixture exits 0 with no output — the guarantee is absent there and present here.

One sibling spelling is still hand-typed and stays that way: the signing loop's own triple list.
An omission there leaves that platform's .minisig listed but absent, which is the case
fail_on_unmatched_files: true stops before the release object exists, per your note.

The suffix follows the contract's OS column rather than a hardcoded rule: flipping the macos row to
windows moves the .exe, and the check then demands phase-server-slim-aarch64-apple-darwin.exe
and its signature. An all-comment contract exits 1 rather than iterating zero times and passing. The
fixture ships in scripts/release_dispatch_guard_tests.py, which CI already runs, and executes the
step's own shell extracted from the workflow rather than a copy of it.

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Reviewed at 6fa8c3554fc82dcb2702f04ad9dbcd4131ae876c: prior substantive findings are resolved; held for the dedicated protected-workflow maintainer decision.

✅ Clean

The canonical download-name check at .github/workflows/release.yml:1269-1278 closes the previous release-filename finding. The shipped renamed-file regression rejects the wrong name; removing only that canonical check in memory makes the same fixture pass. The preview contract check at .github/workflows/preview-server.yml:363-374 closes the earlier publish-completeness finding. The matrix checker and its eight mutation legs, all eight release guard tests, and all fifteen preview tests pass at this head. Required GitHub checks are green; no direct builds were run.

The current security bot findings about executing workflow shell in tests do not establish a new privileged execution boundary: .github/workflows/ci.yml:21-30 already runs pull-request code with contents: read, including repository scripts. scripts/preview_data_wait_tests.py:344-349 supplies fabricated environment values rather than inheriting the parent environment; scripts/release_dispatch_guard_tests.py:127-129 supplies only PATH and RELEASE_FILES. The stubs are not a security sandbox, but a separate PR-controlled helper would have the same CI authority. The earlier preview finding and checkout-provenance finding are addressed in this head.

🟡 Maintainer hold

The final diff still changes .github/workflows/ci.yml, .github/workflows/preview-server.yml, and .github/workflows/release.yml. These are protected paths under the repository review policy and the handler's explicit no-workflow-edits enqueue gate. The review-routing label authorizes this implementation review, but does not waive that gate. This is an external maintainer authorization condition, not a request for another contributor fix. The old substantive changes requests are satisfied by the current head.

Next step: a dedicated maintainer decision authorizing these CI and release-publication changes, then resume approval/enqueue handling. No approval or enqueue was performed. The review-routing label remains. Confidence is high for the reviewed fixes; a different privileged CI trigger or actual inherited secrets would require revisiting the security assessment.

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Follow-up reviewed at 6fa8c3554fc82dcb2702f04ad9dbcd4131ae876c: the security explanations are confirmed; the protected-workflow hold remains.

The preview-test reply and release-test reply match the explicit environments at scripts/preview_data_wait_tests.py:344-349 and scripts/release_dispatch_guard_tests.py:127-129, under the read-only PR CI boundary at .github/workflows/ci.yml:21-30. The security bot has acknowledged the preview finding and the release finding. This confirms the earlier assessment; PATH stubs and temporary directories themselves are not a security sandbox.

Next step remains the dedicated maintainer decision authorizing the protected CI/release workflow changes, as explained in the current-head hold. No additional contributor fix is requested. The review-routing label remains; no approval or enqueue was performed.

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