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fix(release): binary copy was always a self-copy — every release run would have failed - #364
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The v0.6.0 release run failed all four Build Binaries jobs with:
cp: 'packages/cli/dist/tps-linux-x64' and 'packages/cli/dist/tps-linux-x64'
are the same file
build-portable.ts writes dist/tps-<platform>, deriving the name by stripping
the target's 'bun-' prefix. Every matrix row sets artifact to exactly that
name, so SRC and DST are identical by construction for all four targets and
the unconditional cp could never succeed.
This would have broken every release since the output path settled. Nobody
found it because nobody cut a release for seven months — the shipping gap hid
its own cause, and the first attempt to close it is what surfaced this.
Copies only when the paths genuinely differ, so a future matrix row that names
them apart still works, and adds a guard that names a missing binary instead
of leaving the next reader to decode cp's error. Verified against all three
cases before commit: same-path skips and succeeds, different-path copies,
absent-binary fails with ::error::.
Refs #362
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe release workflow now avoids copying when source and destination paths match. It verifies the destination artifact before generating its checksum. ChangesRelease artifact staging
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The release workflow cannot attach its platform binaries, so the staging mismatch should be fixed before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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🟠 Major · Stage the architecture-named binary for the GitHub release. · release.yml:101
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winStage the architecture-named binary for the GitHub release.
Line 101 creates only
/tmp/release/${PKG}/tps. The artifact upload and download steps preserve those filenames, while thegithub-releasejob requests/tmp/release/${PKG}/${ART}. No later step creates the${ART}binary, so the release cannot attach those binary assets.Keep
tpsfor npm packaging. Also stage a copy as${ART}before uploading the artifact:Proposed fix
mkdir -p /tmp/release/${PKG} cp packages/cli/dist/${ART} /tmp/release/${PKG}/tps + cp packages/cli/dist/${ART} /tmp/release/${PKG}/${ART} cp packages/cli/dist/${ART}.sha256 /tmp/release/${PKG}/${ART}.sha256🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In @.github/workflows/release.yml:
- Line 101: Update the release staging step to preserve the existing tps copy
for npm packaging and also copy the architecture-specific artifact to
/tmp/release/${PKG}/${ART} before artifact upload, so the github-release job can
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APPROVE — root cause and fix both verified against the real run
Reviewed at a5bb176 (base main @ fc95c5c, one file: .github/workflows/release.yml, +11/−3). CI green.
The diagnosis checks out against the actual failed run
I pulled the real log from the v0.6.0 release run (35189300914, triggered by push of tag v0.6.0 at fc95c5c). The failure is exactly as described, in the Build ${TARGET} step:
Portable binary: /home/runner/work/cli/cli/packages/cli/dist/tps-darwin-arm64
cp: 'packages/cli/dist/tps-darwin-arm64' and 'packages/cli/dist/tps-darwin-arm64' are the same file
##[error]Process completed with exit code 1.
All four Build Binaries jobs failed; Publish npm packages and GitHub release checksums were skipped; the registry is untouched — npm view for @tpsdev-ai/cli, @tpsdev-ai/agent, @tpsdev-ai/cli-linux-x64 all still return 0.5.4.
The self-copy arithmetic is real. build-portable.ts writes resolve(pkgRoot, "dist", \tps-${target.replace("bun-", "")}`), and every matrix row sets artifact: tps-— soSRC == DSTfor all four rows. Confirmedartifact == tps-${target#bun-}` across the matrix.
"Would have failed every release since the output path settled" — true
I traced it: both the build:binary:${TARGET#bun-} call and the cp packages/cli/dist/tps-${TARGET#bun-} packages/cli/dist/${ART} line entered together in f5bf721 (PR #336, 2026-08-07). At v0.5.4 the step had no cp at all — it wrote the artifact directly with --outfile=packages/cli/dist/${ART}. So there was no successful release shape after that commit, and the next attempted release is the one that surfaced it. The statement is accurate.
The fix is correct — verified in all three cases
I reproduced the new run body under bash -e (GitHub's default shell) locally:
- same path (today's matrix):
[ "$SRC" = "$DST" ] || cp …short-circuits, exit 0,sha256sumwrites — confirmed. - different path (a future row naming them apart):
cpruns, exit 0 — confirmed. - binary absent:
::error::expected binary missing at …+ exit 1 — confirmed. This matters, and keeping it is the right call: the old line at least failed loudly when the build produced nothing.
Under set -e, a true [ yields exit 0 so the || is safe; a failing cp still fails the step. Correct.
actionlint reports no new issue classes (13 findings on the head vs 16 on the base; the classes present are the same pre-existing SC2086/SC2155, unchanged in kind and not gated in CI) — no new violation introduced.
Required follow-up — merging this PR alone will not let v0.6.0 release
This is the part to action, because the tag is already pushed:
v0.6.0is an annotated tag (c5d3f9fc…) that dereferences to commitfc95c5c.fc95c5cdoes not containa5bb176(git merge-base --is-ancestor a5bb176 fc95c5c→ false).- GitHub Actions runs the workflow file from the ref that triggered it, and a re-run (
gh run rerun) re-uses the same commitfc95c5c. So re-running the failed run, or re-pushing the existing tag unchanged, replays the brokenrelease.ymland fails identically. release.ymlalso has noworkflow_dispatchtrigger — the only way in ison: push: tags: ['v*'].
So after merging #364, the tag must be re-created on a commit that includes the fix (the merged main head) and pushed, e.g. git tag -f v0.6.0 <new-main-sha> && git push -f origin v0.6.0. Preflight's merge-base --is-ancestor tag-on-main check will still pass, and the publish steps' npm view …@<tag> skip-paths are idempotent, so a re-run is safe. Without this step the release still cannot ship, and it will look like #364 "didn't work".
Everything else — the fix, the guard, the comment explaining the coupling — is right. Approving the change; just don't expect the tag to pick it up on its own.
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APPROVE — root cause confirmed from the failed run's own logs; the fix keeps every fail-closed property the old line had
My brief: the fail-closed exit and the harness as a control. Verified on a5bb176 against the actual failed run (35189300914).
Diagnosis — independently confirmed
Pulled the Build ${TARGET} step log from the failed run myself:
Portable binary: /home/runner/work/cli/cli/packages/cli/dist/tps-linux-x64
cp: 'packages/cli/dist/tps-linux-x64' and 'packages/cli/dist/tps-linux-x64' are the same file
And in the source: build-portable.ts writes dist/tps-${target.replace("bun-","")} while every matrix row sets artifact to exactly that name — SRC == DST by construction for all four rows. All four Build Binaries jobs failed, Publish and checksums skipped. The arithmetic was never going to add up any other way.
The fail-closed properties — checked, all preserved
The old unconditional cp had exactly one virtue: if the build produced nothing, the step still failed. The replacement keeps that and improves it:
- Guard tests the thing the pipeline consumes.
test -f "$DST"—$DSTis what Stage binary copies, what the checksum covers, what lands in the platform package. The guard fires with a named::error::, notcp's decode puzzle. A missing binary cannot flow downstream. set -esemantics are correct in all three branches. Same-path:[exits 0,cpskipped, checksum written — this is today's matrix, verified. Different-path:cpruns and its failure still fails the step (the left operand of||doesn't trip-e). Absent binary: the guard exits 1 beforesha256sumcan pass vacuously. I reproduced the branch logic locally underbash -e.- The checksum is no longer conditional on the copy.
sha256sum "$DST"runs post-guard in every surviving path — the.sha256sidecar can't be missing or stale relative to the binary it names.
Harness/control view
smoke-compiled-binary couldn't have caught this class and shouldn't be expected to — it builds its own binary through the same build-portable entry point and never exercises the matrix cp. The defect was workflow-shell logic diverging from the build script's output contract, and the fix documents the coupling (build-portable.ts writes dist/tps-<platform>) in a comment at exactly the point where the two must agree, with the guard as the enforcement. That's the proportionate control for a release workflow — a source-level assertion test would be ceremony here.
The follow-up that actually ships the release — merge is step one of two
Echoing and confirming Sherlock's required follow-up, because without it this PR will look like it didn't work:
v0.6.0is an annotated tag dereferencing tofc95c5c, which does not containa5bb176(verified:merge-base --is-ancestorfails).release.ymlhas noworkflow_dispatch— the only entry ison: push: tags. A re-run re-uses the original commit's workflow file, so re-running or re-pushing the unchanged tag replays the brokencpidentically.- After merge: re-create the tag on the merged main head and force-push it. Preflight still passes both checks (
merge-base --is-ancestoragainst main; tag ==packages/cliversion 0.6.0), and the publish steps'npm viewguards make re-runs idempotent — nothing published the first time, so the registry is clean.
Approving the fix. The release is one git tag -f away once this lands.
What broke
The
v0.6.0release run failed all four Build Binaries jobs:Publish npm packagesandGitHub release checksumswere skipped, so nothing was published and the registry is untouched.Why it could never have worked
packages/cli/scripts/build-portable.ts:So the build writes
dist/tps-<platform>. Every matrix row then sets:bun-darwin-arm64tps-darwin-arm64bun-darwin-x64tps-darwin-x64bun-linux-arm64tps-linux-arm64bun-linux-x64tps-linux-x64artifactis exactlytps-${target#bun-}, socp $SRC $DSTis a self-copy for all four targets and exits 1 every time.This would have failed every release since the output path settled. It went unnoticed because no release was cut for seven months — the shipping gap concealed its own cause, and the first attempt to close it is what surfaced this.
The fix
Copy only when the paths genuinely differ, so a future matrix row naming them apart still works, plus a guard that names a missing binary rather than leaving the next person to decode
cp's error message.Verified against all three cases before commit:
::error::expected binary missing at …That third case is why this isn't simply deleting the
cp: the old line did at least fail when the build produced nothing. The guard keeps that property and says something useful.Refs #362
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