fix(release,ci): promote ## [Unreleased] at release time instead of authoring beside it - #582
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… authoring beside it CHANGELOG.md declares Keep a Changelog 1.1.0 and AGENTS.md tells every dev session to file entries under `## [Unreleased]`, but the release driver told the curator to author a brand-new `## [X.Y.Z]` section from the git log. Nothing ever promoted Unreleased into it, so it grew to 1192 lines while `## [0.9.1]` duplicated much of it under different issue numbers. Nothing in release.py mentioned `Unreleased` at all. - `prepare` now refuses a still-populated `## [Unreleased]`. Paired with the existing "`## [X.Y.Z]` must be non-empty" precondition, the two together are what prove a *promotion* happened rather than a second section being authored alongside. - `ensure_link_ref` re-points `[Unreleased]:` at `compare/v<new>...HEAD`. Its base had no writer, so it went stale at every bump. The version-ref insert and the Unreleased rewrite are now independent: a present `[X.Y.Z]:` ref no longer short-circuits the rewrite, which is exactly what a re-run of `prepare` looks like. - `check` holds what promote-and-reopen leaves behind — the heading was reopened and its compare link tracks the current version — and CI's `version-sync` job runs it. It calls `sync_version.check()` in-process so it stays stdlib-only under `--no-project`. Emptiness stays a prepare-only precondition: between releases a populated Unreleased is the correct state. - AGENTS.md states the contract in tracked text; the skill that drives the release is gitignored, so this is what stops it drifting again. The lint job's checkout gains `persist-credentials: false`, matching the five other checkouts in the file — a pre-existing zizmor/artipacked finding that blocks the gate once the file is touched.
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WalkthroughThe release tooling now enforces CHANGELOG promotion, empty ChangesRelease contract and CI validation
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In `@scripts/release.py`:
- Around line 149-151: Update UNRELEASED_COMPARE_RE and the cmd_check validation
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| # the notes left `## [Unreleased]` and arrived under `## [X.Y.Z]`. A populated | ||
| # Unreleased alongside a populated version section means a new section was | ||
| # authored beside it instead, which is how the two drift apart. | ||
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When the curator renames ## [Unreleased] to the target version but forgets to reopen the heading, has_curated_section(..., "Unreleased") returns false just as it does for a correctly empty section, so prepare commits the release. On a release/* branch, .github/workflows/release.yml publishes directly on push without waiting for the separate CI check, allowing the tag and GitHub release to be created before CI reports the missing heading. Distinguish a missing section from an empty one here, and also verify that the reopened heading precedes the promoted version.
AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L69-L69
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Codex review, P1. `has_curated_section` reports False both for a correctly emptied `## [Unreleased]` and for one that was renamed and never reopened, so a curator who skips the reopen sailed past `prepare`. That matters because `release.yml` fires on a push to `main`/`release/*` with no dependency on the CI workflow — it can tag and publish while `version-sync` is still running, so `check` catching the missing heading afterwards is too late. `prepare` is the last gate before that irreversible step. Split the two failures apart via `extract_section`'s None, and add the ordering check the same distinction makes cheap: a reopened Unreleased must sit above the section it was promoted into. Also drop the ci.yml explainer comment: it pushed the lint job's checkout down six lines, which made trunk report that job's pre-existing zizmor/artipacked finding as new and blocked the push. The step is now a two-line swap that shifts nothing, and the rationale lives in `cmd_check`'s docstring instead. The persist-credentials fix that finding wants is out of this PR entirely — it belongs on its own.
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| # fires on a push to `main`/`release/*` with no dependency on the CI workflow, so | ||
| # it can tag and publish while `version-sync` is still running — this precondition | ||
| # is the last gate before that irreversible step, not a duplicate of `check`. | ||
| unreleased = extract_section(changelog, "Unreleased") |
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When a curator adds the fresh empty heading above the target release but accidentally leaves the original populated ## [Unreleased] farther down, extract_section returns only the first empty match and the ordering check compares that same match, so prepare succeeds even though unreleased bullets were never promoted. Require exactly one Unreleased heading or inspect every matching section before allowing the release, otherwise those bullets remain behind and can be duplicated into a later release.
AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L69-L69
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Codex review round 2, P2. `extract_section` searches, so it answers for the FIRST `## [Unreleased]` only. A curator who inserts the fresh empty heading above the target release but never renames the original leaves two: the guards read the empty one, both pass, and the real entries sit below unshipped — then get duplicated into a later release, which is the exact drift this PR exists to stop. Scan every match instead of searching for one, and refuse more than a single heading. Uniqueness stays a prepare-time precondition for the same reason the emptiness check does: it describes the promotion, not the state a released CHANGELOG sits in between releases.
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| problems.append(f"{version} is not greater than the current version {canonical}") | ||
| if not has_curated_section(CHANGELOG.read_text(), version): | ||
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When the curator renames the section to ## [X.Y.Z] but omits the date—or writes arbitrary trailing text such as — not-a-date—has_curated_section still returns true because section_re accepts any suffix after ]; with an empty, correctly ordered Unreleased section, prepare therefore commits and CI also accepts a release that violates the newly documented promotion format. Validate the version heading as exactly ## [X.Y.Z] — <ISO date> before preparing.
AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L69-L69
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The lint job was the only one of six checkouts leaving the credential helper configured, and it does so with `fetch-depth: 0` — zizmor/artipacked. trunk-action only reads local history, so the token is not needed. Pre-existing on `main`; fixed here at the user's request rather than split out.
Codex review round 3, P2. `section_re` matches `## [X.Y.Z]` followed by any suffix, so a heading renamed without its date — or with arbitrary trailing text — reads as a clean promotion to every other guard. AGENTS.md now states `## [X.Y.Z] — <ISO date>` as the contract, and an unenforced documented format is what let the release path drift from the CHANGELOG in the first place. Prepare-time only, and conditioned on the heading existing so a missing section is still reported once. Every release heading in CHANGELOG.md already matches; the sole exception is the pre-dating `## [0.1.0]`, which no release re-prepares.
Review round 3Codex P2 — promoted heading without an ISO date: ACCEPTED, fixed in Correct on the mechanism: Taking it because it is this PR's own thesis rather than adjacent scope: the root cause here was a documented-but-unenforced contract, and I had just written Checked the enforcement against real data before adding it — every versioned heading in CHANGELOG.md is Scoped deliberately:
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| RELEASE_HEADING_RE = re.compile( | ||
| r"(?m)^##\s+\[(?P<version>[^\]]+)\]\s+—\s+(?P<date>\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})\s*$" | ||
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When a curator enters an impossible date such as 2026-99-99 or 2026-02-31, this regex still matches because it validates only digit widths, so prepare accepts and commits a malformed release heading. Validate the captured value as an actual calendar date before treating the promotion as complete.
AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L69-L69
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… day Codex review round 4, P2. `RELEASE_HEADING_RE` pins digit widths only, so `2026-02-31` and `2026-99-99` are correctly shaped and the round-3 guard accepted them. Rather than grow the regex, hand the captured value to `date.fromisoformat` — the stdlib parser is what makes "ISO date" mean a calendar day instead of a digit pattern. Still stdlib-only, so `release.py check` stays runnable under `--no-project`.
Review round 4Codex P2 — impossible ISO dates: ACCEPTED, fixed in Correct: Taken because the fix is a subtraction, not another layer: instead of growing the regex toward a calendar, the captured value now goes to Ablated: dropping the Gates: 5410 passed / 44 skipped / 5 xfailed, pyright 0 errors, On convergence. Four rounds, four accepted findings, and I want to name the trajectory rather than keep grinding: rounds 1–2 were real data-loss defects (entries silently lost before an irreversible publish; entries stranded behind a duplicate heading). Rounds 3–4 have been successive refinements of the heading-format check, at cosmetic severity. That is a converging severity curve, and this round closes the date axis completely — If round 5 raises another refinement on the same axis (a future-dated release, a date disagreeing with the commit, ordering between versioned headings), I'm going to hand it to the maintainer as a follow-up issue rather than widen @codex review |
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CodeRabbit finding, previously declined — reversed. Its check went green only because the account hit the free-OSS rate limit; the verdict it edited into the walkthrough still reads "merge should wait for canonical-repository validation or explicit owner acceptance", so the finding was never withdrawn. `UNRELEASED_COMPARE_RE` matched any URL prefix, so a link naming another repository passed `check` as long as its version was current. Capture the repo and compare it with `repo_url()`. Reconsidering the objections I raised when declining: `--no-project` governs Python project syncing, not subprocesses, so reading `origin` does not weaken it; and `actions/checkout` sets `origin` to the base repo even for a fork PR, so CI cannot false-red. On a fork clone the arm names the fork, which is accurate. The historical `bmad-auto` refs are untouched — only the Unreleased line is bound.
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CHANGELOG.md:3-6declares Keep a Changelog 1.1.0 andAGENTS.mdtells every dev session to file entries under## [Unreleased]. The release driver did the opposite:.claude/skills/bmad-release/SKILL.mdstep 3 told the curator to author a brand-new## [X.Y.Z]section fromrelease.py commits(git log). Nothing ever promoted Unreleased into it.git grep -n "Unreleased"returned exactly three tracked hits —AGENTS.md:67, the heading atCHANGELOG.md:8, and the compare link atCHANGELOG.md:3086. Nothing inscripts/release.pymentionedUnreleasedat all. Consequences:## [Unreleased]grew to 1192 lines / 149 bullets, and## [0.9.1]duplicates much of it under different issue numbers.ensure_link_refmatched only numeric[X.Y.Z]:refs, so[Unreleased]:had no writer and its compare base went stale at every bump.cmd_check's help string "local mirror of the CI release guards" was false — CI'sversion-syncjob ran onlysync_version.py --checkand never looked at the CHANGELOG.What changed
preparerefuses an unpromoted changelog. Reuseshas_curated_section(text, "Unreleased")—section_realready escapes its argument, so no new section regex. Paired with the existing "## [X.Y.Z]must be non-empty" precondition, the two together are what prove a promotion happened: content left Unreleased and arrived under the version heading.ensure_link_refre-points[Unreleased]:atcompare/v<new>...HEAD. The version-ref insert and the Unreleased rewrite are now independent — the old shared early return meant a present[X.Y.Z]:ref would skip the rewrite, which is exactly what a re-run ofpreparelooks like. The rewrite is deliberately shape-blind so a hand-mangled line is repaired in place rather than duplicated by an insert.checkholds the promote-and-reopen result, and CI runs it. It callssync_version.check()in-process rather than spawninguv run python, so it stays stdlib-only and theversion-syncjob can invoke it under--no-projectwithout syncing the project. The job name is unchanged (branch protection); only the command moved.AGENTS.mdstates the contract in tracked text. The skill that drives the release lives in gitignored.claude/, so this is what stops it drifting again.Design note:
checkdoes not mirror the emptiness guardCanonical
__version__is0.9.0and Unreleased currently holds 1192 lines, so a literal mirror would go red on this PR and stay red until the changelog is drained. It would also be semantically wrong: between releases a populated## [Unreleased]is the correct state.checktherefore asserts the always-true results of promote-and-reopen — the heading was reopened, and its compare link tracks the current version — while emptiness stays aprepare-only precondition. Verified green on today's tree:Ablation
Per the AGENTS.md testing rule, every new guard was deleted and the matching row confirmed to redden — six axes, each ablated singly, with
__pycache__cleared between rows and the file restored from acpbackup (notgit checkout). The harness aborted if an ablation patch matched nothing, so no row could pass as a fake green.prepareUnreleased-emptiness guardtest_prepare_refuses_a_still_populated_unreleasedensure_link_refUnreleased rewrite..._repoints_/_inserts_unreleased_...rowscheckheading probetest_check_flags_a_consumed_unreleased_headingcheckmissing-compare-ref armtest_check_flags_a_missing_unreleased_compare_refcheckstale-compare-base armtest_check_flags_a_stale_unreleased_compare_basetest_ensure_link_ref_repairs_a_malformed_unreleased_ref_in_placeEach
checkfixture derives from a promoted baseline by breaking exactly one thing, so a sharedrc == 1cannot pass for the wrong reason; the rows assert the specific message.test_prepare_accepts_a_promoted_changelogis the positive control proving the guard is not simply always-failing.Not in this PR
bmad-releaseskill edit is invisible in this diff..claude/is gitignored (.gitignore:8), andbmad-releaseis dev-only with no canonical copy undersrc/bmad_loop/data/skills/, so editing it in place is correct andseed_skills.pywas not run. Its step 3 now says: rename## [Unreleased]to## [X.Y.Z] — <ISO date>in place, reopen an empty## [Unreleased]above it, and userelease.py commitsonly as a gap cross-check after curating.CHANGELOG.mdcontent is untouched — draining Unreleased is a follow-up. No edit was needed for CI to pass: canonical is0.9.0and the compare link already readscompare/v0.9.0...HEAD.### Docs(2×) and### Migration(1×); enforcement would fail on it. AGENTS.md states the forward contract only.Also in this PR (requested)
The lint job's checkout gains
persist-credentials: false— it was the only one of six in the file leaving the credential helper configured, and it does so withfetch-depth: 0(zizmor/artipacked). trunk-action only reads local history, so the token is not needed. Pre-existing onmain; included here at the maintainer's request rather than split out.Verification
uv run pytest -q -n auto→ 5403 passed, 44 skipped, 5 xfaileduv run pyright→ 0 errorstrunk check --no-fix(no path filter) → No issuesuv run --no-project python scripts/release.py check→ rc 0Summary by CodeRabbit
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