Maka CLI npm release operations

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This runbook is the operational authority for publishing the maka-agent npm installation channels. The root package.json remains the sole Maka product-version authority, and packages/cli/package.json must match it. Every public npm version must come from an exact tarball validated by the shared package workflow.

The IPMC-approved source archive on ASF distribution infrastructure is the Apache release. npm, Desktop installers, and GitHub Release assets are convenience packages built from that approved source identity; they are not additional ASF release artifacts.

The source-RC npm preflight is an earlier, credential-free compatibility check. Its tarball is not carried into publication. After source approval, Stage rebuilds from the final product tag at the same approved commit and becomes the byte authority for npm staging and registry verification. This matches Apache OpenDAL's incubating practice while retaining Maka's stronger protected-Environment, staged-publishing, 2FA, and Finalize controls.

Release invariants

Dispatch the product Release workflow only from the exact approved ASF source candidate tag. Dispatch both npm Stage and product Finalize from main; Stage accepts the resulting product v<version> tag only as verified release data.
Publish approved stable versions under latest. Publish developer snapshots under nightly. There is no next channel, and nightly must never modify latest.
Do not create an npm-specific Git tag or GitHub Release. The Release workflow creates the product v<version> tag and Draft before npm staging; Finalize is the sole publisher of that Draft.
Keep that GitHub Release in Draft until npm Finalize and Desktop remote Runtime Host acceptance succeed. The Draft supplies npm's product identity; its publication is the final product action.
Formal publication may only run npm stage publish; a human package maintainer approves the staged package with npm 2FA. Product Nightly alone may run npm publish --tag nightly directly.
Do not rebuild between validation, staging, approval, and finalization.
Never reuse a public version. Formal product fixes require a new patch, minor, or major version.

The workflow boundaries are:

npm publication is the only Trusted Publisher caller. It runs exclusively from main, routes formal publication for an exact product tag supplied as data, and publishes npm Nightly.
Stage CLI npm release resolves the existing product tag and GitHub Release. Jobs without OIDC build and validate one immutable tarball from that product commit. The OIDC job executes only reviewed main publisher code, records the separate product-source and publisher identities, and submits the validated bytes to npm staging.
Desktop Nightly starts only after a successful npm Nightly run, consumes only its immutable version file, and takes the source commit and upstream run identity from the authenticated workflow_run event.
Finalize product release accepts only the exact successful Stage run, Release build run, and self-contained publication record. The current reviewed verifier on main checks the public registry bytes, signature, provenance, dist-tag, immutable build artifacts, and live Draft digests, then waits at the protected product-release Environment. After independent Desktop acceptance, approval attests the exact convenience artifacts with the protected workflow identity, publishes the GitHub Release, and applies its Stable/Latest classification in one operation.

One-time control-plane configuration

GitHub Environment

The checked-in .asf.yaml is the authority for the npm-publication, nightly, and product-release Environments. After it reaches main, confirm ASF reconciliation produced:

a selected main branch rule for npm-publication, with no approval gate so the scheduled Nightly can publish automatically;
a selected main branch rule for nightly, with no approval gate so Desktop Nightly can publish automatically;
a selected main branch rule for product-release, with M4n5ter as required reviewer and self-review disabled;
administrator bypass disabled where repository policy permits it.

Repository administration permission is required to inspect or repair reconciliation. Do not maintain a second manual Environment policy in GitHub. Finalize uses GitHub Actions OIDC to create Sigstore provenance for the exact convenience artifacts and stores the offline verification bundle beside them. It requires no repository-administration credential, signing key, or npm token.

npm Trusted Publisher

In the maka-agent package settings, configure one GitHub Actions trusted publisher:

Field	Value
Organization or user	`apache`
Repository	`maka`
Workflow filename	`npm-publication.yml`
Environment name	`npm-publication`
Allowed actions	`npm publish` and `npm stage publish`

The workflow filename is case-sensitive and contains no .github/workflows/ prefix. Both formal staging and direct Nightly publication use the same npm-publication Environment. Its deployment rules admit only main. It has no GitHub approval gate because the scheduled Nightly is automatic; formal publication still requires human npm 2FA approval after staging. Do not configure a second publisher or npm token.

After the first OIDC Stage succeeds, set package publishing access to Require two-factor authentication and disallow tokens, then revoke obsolete publish tokens. Do not remove the human package owner or recovery access as part of that change.

Keep the repository variable NPM_NIGHTLY_ENABLED unset until .asf.yaml has reconciled the Environment and the Trusted Publisher matches it. Then set it to true and run one manual Nightly before relying on the schedule. This variable controls npm only; Desktop has its own independent DESKTOP_NIGHTLY_ENABLED rollout gate.

Product Nightly

The scheduled npm-publication.yml run creates one immutable version such as 0.2.0-dev.42.20260829 from the exact scheduled main commit, validates the four-platform maka-agent tarball, and publishes it under nightly. Only after the exact version and dist-tag are public does the successful workflow trigger desktop-nightly.yml. Desktop consumes only that version; the authenticated upstream event supplies the exact source commit. The packaged Desktop records the exact Runtime Host setup specifier, for example maka-agent@0.2.0-dev.42.20260829; it never installs the mutable nightly tag.

The two workflows publish in this order:

require the candidate npm run number to be newer than the current nightly tag;
publish the exact npm tarball with provenance under nightly;
require both the exact version and nightly tag to be readable from the public registry;
build, verify, and attest the exact Desktop packages and GitHub dev metadata;
bind a protected v<version> tag to the exact source commit and verify all nine draft assets;
publish the GitHub prerelease with Latest disabled only after the draft is complete.

This ordering prevents Desktop from advertising a Runtime Host version that npm does not have and keeps npm Nightly independent from Desktop packaging. A failed npm or Desktop run is never rerun in place because each attempt has an immutable npm version; start a fresh npm Nightly run instead:

gh workflow run npm-publication.yml --ref main -f channel=nightly

Nightly is a developer snapshot, not an Apache release. Do not promote it from end-user download pages. Developers may install the moving channel explicitly with maka-agent@nightly; product automation must use the exact version recorded by Desktop.

Prepare a release

Merge all intended package, documentation, and release changes to main, prepare the ASF source candidate, and complete both the podling and Incubator PMC votes.
Confirm the root product version, apps/desktop/package.json, and packages/cli/package.json have the same unused stable target version at the approved source commit. Formal npm publication only advances latest.
Dispatch the product Release workflow from the exact approved v<version>-incubating-rc<rc> tag, supplying that same tag as source_reference_tag. Confirm its Draft v<version> Release points to the approved commit. npm staging consumes this identity and cannot precede it.
Confirm the target version is absent from both public and staged package state:
```
version=0.2.0
npm view "maka-agent@$version" version --registry https://registry.npmjs.org/
npm stage list maka-agent --registry https://registry.npmjs.org/
```
The first command should report that the target version is not present. Resolve any existing stage instead of submitting the same version again.
Confirm the npm-publication Environment and Trusted Publisher still match the values above and the approving npm account has 2FA enabled.

Stage the candidate

Dispatch the workflow from reviewed main, supplying the exact product version:

version=0.2.0
gh workflow run npm-publication.yml --ref main \
  -f channel=formal \
  -f version="$version"

Confirm the created run uses main. The workflow resolves v<version> and its Draft as data, requires that tag commit to remain an ancestor of main, builds the candidate without OIDC, and binds npm provenance to the reviewed main publisher workflow and exact run.
Wait for the reusable package validation jobs to pass. They build one tarball and validate the installed CLI on Linux x64/arm64, macOS arm64, and Windows x64, plus real Harbor and Pier Docker cells on Linux x64.
Record the successful Stage workflow run ID, run attempt, source commit, version, and staged artifact checksum from the run summary and cli-staged-release-<attempt> artifact.

Do not approve anything on npm if the Stage workflow did not finish successfully.

Inspect and approve on npm

Use Node.js 22.14.0 or newer and npm 11.15.0 or newer for the inspection and approval commands below. The Stage workflow uses its own reviewed toolchain: the Node.js version pinned in the workflow and the exact npm version pinned in the repository's packageManager.

npm stage list maka-agent --registry https://registry.npmjs.org/
stage_id=replace-with-reviewed-stage-id
npm stage view "$stage_id" --registry https://registry.npmjs.org/
npm stage download "$stage_id" --registry https://registry.npmjs.org/

Before approval:

require the package name, version, dist-tag, provenance, and source repository to match the Stage run;
compare the downloaded staged tarball's SHA-256 with the workflow artifact's .tgz.sha256;
inspect the file inventory and the packaged README.md;
confirm the tarball belongs to the recorded Stage run and source commit.

Immediately before approval, recheck the live product authority recorded by the Stage run:

set -eu
source_commit=replace-with-stage-recorded-commit
node scripts/product-release-authority.mjs verify-draft \
  "v$version" "$source_commit" apache/maka

The verifier must succeed. Stop if the tag is absent, moved, no longer on main, the matching GitHub Release is no longer a stable Draft, or is marked as a prerelease.

Approve only that stage ID. npm requires 2FA and makes the package public as part of approval:

npm stage approve "$stage_id" --registry https://registry.npmjs.org/

The same review and approval can be performed from the package's Staged Packages page on npmjs.com.

Inspect the public tags after approval:

version=0.1.0
npm view maka-agent dist-tags --json --registry https://registry.npmjs.org/

latest must identify the approved version. nightly, when present, remains independent.

Finalize the product release

After npm reports the version as public:

Open Actions → Finalize product release → Run workflow on main.
Enter the successful Stage run ID and attempt, the successful Release build run ID and attempt, and the version.
Let the inspection job verify the public tarball bytes, checksum, inventory, npm signature, Trusted Publishing provenance, and the exact latest dist-tag.
While the publication job waits for product-release approval, complete the product checklist's cross-machine acceptance against the Draft.
Approve the Environment. Confirm the workflow matches every live Draft digest to the exact Release attempt's publication record, creates and uploads Maka-<version>-attestation.sigstore.json, publishes the convenience Release, and makes a stable release Latest without a separate manual action.

Check the resulting registry state:

version=0.2.0
npm view "maka-agent@$version" version dist.tarball dist.integrity --json
npm view maka-agent dist-tags --json

Finally, install the exact public version on each release platform and complete one real TUI/model turn. On the supported Eval host, complete at least one real experiment cell and inspect score, usage, cost, and artifacts.

The product release checklist remains the authority for the acceptance evidence required before approving publication.

Failure recovery

Before npm staging

If a transient failure occurs before npm stage publish, rerun Stage from the same product tag. If code or workflow changes are required, fix them on main, increment the product version, create a new product tag and Draft, and Stage that new version. No npm version has been consumed.

Stage workflow failed but npm contains a stage

The submission is the Stage workflow's final business step, so a lost response can leave npm with a stage even when the workflow is not successful. Do not approve that orphan: Finalize accepts only a successful Stage run attempt.

Inspect it, then reject the exact stage ID with 2FA before starting a new Stage run:

stage_id=replace-with-reviewed-stage-id
npm stage view "$stage_id" --registry https://registry.npmjs.org/
npm stage reject "$stage_id" --registry https://registry.npmjs.org/

Never reject a stage based only on version text; bind the action to the inspected stage ID.

Stage succeeded but review found a problem

Reject the stage, fix the problem on main, increment the product version, create a new product tag and Draft, and Stage that new version. Do not approve a candidate merely to clear the staging area.

npm approval succeeded but Finalize failed

The npm version is already immutable. Do not publish or approve it again. Preserve the Stage run ID, attempt, version, and the Release run ID, attempt, publication record, and artifacts. If those bytes and provenance are valid, fix the Finalize verifier on main and rerun it against the same immutable Stage and Release evidence.

The inspection job is read-only. Only the protected publication job may perform the single Draft-to-published transition and attest its bytes. If npm identity, build evidence, or the Draft differs, stop and investigate; do not modify the product tag or GitHub Release to make verification pass. If failure is reported after the publication request, inspect the exact Release first: a successful publication must not be repeated.

The public version is defective

First move the affected dist-tag back to a previously verified version:

known_good=0.2.0
npm dist-tag add "maka-agent@$known_good" latest

Then deprecate only the defective version and direct users to the recovered dist-tag, which already points to the verified version:

bad_version=0.2.1
recovery_tag=latest
npm deprecate "maka-agent@$bad_version" "Known issue; install maka-agent@$recovery_tag."

Verify the tags, fix the defect, and release a new version through the complete Stage and Finalize flow. Do not use npm unpublish as routine rollback: removing immutable dependency bytes can break existing installations and does not restore the reviewed release chain.

For a defective Nightly, dispatch a fresh run so a new immutable version advances nightly. If an immediate rollback is required, a human package owner may move nightly to a previously verified Nightly version and deprecate only the defective exact version. Never point latest at a Nightly.

Ownership and emergency recovery

GitHub repository admins own the npm-publication Environment configuration. The release maintainer owns dispatch, staged-package inspection, npm 2FA approval, and final acceptance.
npm package owners own Trusted Publisher, publishing-access, maintainer, and dist-tag recovery.
Keep at least one 2FA-protected human owner while trusted publishing is active. Before removing the current direct owner, add the intended npm organization publishing team and another direct human recovery maintainer, then verify both paths.
The workflows must not gain a long-lived npm token. If OIDC, the Environment, or the trust relationship is broken, pause releases and repair that control plane instead of bypassing staging with npm publish.
If an npm account is lost, use its account recovery methods or another verified package owner. Until a second owner is established, recovery depends on the current owner's npm recovery credentials; treat completing that ownership follow-up as operational debt.
If repository or npm publisher settings change unexpectedly, remove or disable the trust relationship, preserve workflow and npm audit evidence, restore the reviewed configuration, and use a new version for any candidate whose integrity is uncertain.

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Maka CLI npm release operations

Release invariants

One-time control-plane configuration

GitHub Environment

npm Trusted Publisher

Product Nightly

Prepare a release

Stage the candidate

Inspect and approve on npm

Finalize the product release

Failure recovery

Before npm staging

Stage workflow failed but npm contains a stage

Stage succeeded but review found a problem

npm approval succeeded but Finalize failed

The public version is defective

Ownership and emergency recovery

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Product Nightly

Prepare a release

Stage the candidate

Inspect and approve on npm

Finalize the product release

Failure recovery

Before npm staging

Stage workflow failed but npm contains a stage

Stage succeeded but review found a problem

npm approval succeeded but Finalize failed

The public version is defective

Ownership and emergency recovery

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