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Closes LAB-1387 — the three release-workflow items parked from the #96 panel review, plus one panel finding from this PR's own review.

release-please.yml is the only publisher for @cachekit-io/cachekit and @cachekit-io/cachekit-core-wasm since #97; auth is pnpm 11's native OIDC exchange.

What changed

  1. registry-url removed from both setup-node steps. It wrote a .npmrc whose _authToken=${NODE_AUTH_TOKEN} placeholder has had nothing to resolve since #96 (pnpm envReplaceLossy → empty + [WARN] Failed to replace env in config). Checked against pnpm 11.8.0 source (releasing/commands/src/publish/publishPackedPkg.ts): the publish registry comes from registries.default (built-in registry.npmjs.org), and a successful OIDC exchange overwrites any static token. The file contributed nothing but the warning.
  2. persist-credentials: false on publish-cachekit's checkout, matching the wasm job.
  3. pnpm install --frozen-lockfile --ignore-scripts in both id-token: write jobs. --ignore-scripts closes the install-time lifecycle-script vector including the allowBuilds allowlist (cpu-features, ssh2, protobufjs, esbuild, workerd) — none are needed here: esbuild loads its binary from @esbuild/linux-x64, the others only serve the integration/workers test lanes, and build.sh is pure cargo/wasm-bindgen/wasm-opt.
  4. Test step dropped from publish-cachekit (panel finding, see below). ci.yml runs build+test on the identical commit — it triggers on push to main, "CI Success" is the required check, and main is squash-only — so the step only executed the entire devDependency tree beside the OIDC token.

Not changed: the publish invocation (--access public --provenance --no-git-checks), the wasm job's build steps, trusted-publisher config.

Job separation — evaluated, deferred

--ignore-scripts narrows the exposure; it does not close it. pnpm build (turbo/tsc/napi, cargo build.rs) still runs dependency code in the token-holding job. The structural fix is build in a no-id-token job → tarball artifact → pnpm publish <tarball>. Not in this PR because it changes the publish invocation (out of scope), cannot be smoke-tested without a real publish, and the prebuilt-tarball provenance path is unverified for this repo. Filed as LAB-2731 (security, Size M).

Verification

  • Local, same flags: pnpm install --frozen-lockfile --ignore-scriptspnpm build --force (napi native build with rustc 1.97.1) → pnpm test: 44 files, 766 passed, 1 skipped.
  • actionlint, check-yaml via prek: clean.
  • AC 4 (real publish) is pending by construction: this touches runtime-visible npm config and can only be proven by the next release. Release PR #105 (cachekit 0.1.6) is open — merge this first, then that; the publish log should show no [WARN] Failed to replace env in config and the usual 📦 @cachekit-io/cachekit@0.1.6 → https://registry.npmjs.org/.

Expert panel (high stakes)

bug-hunter: no findings. security-specialist: one [MAJ] — the test step ran the auto-merged devDep tree beside the token (applied: step removed; residual filed as LAB-2731). code-craftsman / catchphrase: install comment overclaimed "no dependency code" (applied: reworded to name the residual), duplicated registry-url rationale in the wasm job (applied: collapsed to a pointer). Rejected: rewording the wasm Publish step's pre-existing ENEEDAUTH history — it describes the deleted token steps, a different mechanism, and is accurate.

Docs gate

No docs needed: no README, docs.cachekit.io page, or protocol doc describes the publish job internals; the WHY lives in the workflow comments.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Chores
    • Improved the package publishing workflow with additional validation for forced releases.
    • Strengthened release security by refining credential handling and continuing to use secure publishing authentication.
    • Streamlined release dependency installation for more consistent package builds.
    • Removed unnecessary release-time configuration and testing steps.
    • No changes were made to the public API or end-user functionality.

… shrink OIDC exposure (LAB-1387)

release-please.yml is the only npm publisher for @cachekit-io/cachekit and
@cachekit-io/cachekit-core-wasm; auth is pnpm 11's native OIDC exchange.

- Remove `registry-url` from both setup-node steps. It wrote a .npmrc with
  an `_authToken=${NODE_AUTH_TOKEN}` placeholder that has had no env to
  resolve since #96 (pnpm envReplaceLossy -> empty + `[WARN] Failed to
  replace env in config`). pnpm resolves the publish registry from its own
  default (registry.npmjs.org) and a successful OIDC exchange overrides any
  static token, so the file contributed nothing but the warning.
- `persist-credentials: false` on publish-cachekit's checkout, matching the
  wasm job: publish-only jobs don't leave the GitHub token on disk.
- `pnpm install --frozen-lockfile --ignore-scripts` in both id-token:write
  jobs. --ignore-scripts closes the install-time lifecycle-script vector,
  including pnpm-workspace.yaml's allowBuilds allowlist (cpu-features, ssh2,
  protobufjs, esbuild, workerd) - none are needed: esbuild loads its binary
  from @esbuild/linux-x64, the rest only serve the integration/workers
  lanes, and build.sh is pure cargo/wasm-bindgen/wasm-opt.
- Drop the Test step from publish-cachekit. ci.yml runs build+test on the
  same commit (required "CI Success" check, squash-only main), so the step
  only executed the whole devDependency tree beside the OIDC token.

Build still runs dependency code in the token-holding job; that residual
is LAB-2731 (build/publish job separation).

Verified locally with the same flags: install, `pnpm build --force`
(napi native build), `pnpm test` -> 766 passed. actionlint clean.
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The release workflow validates forced cachekit publishes against the latest CI Success check. It also removes registry configuration, limits checkout credential persistence, skips lifecycle scripts during installation, and removes the cachekit test step.

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Publish workflow hardening

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Forced publish validation
.github/workflows/release-please.yml
Forced cachekit publishes now query the selected commit's latest CI Success check. The job fails when the check is missing or unsuccessful.
Secure publish installation
.github/workflows/release-please.yml
The cachekit job disables checkout credential persistence, removes npm registry configuration, installs dependencies with --frozen-lockfile --ignore-scripts, and removes its test step. The wasm job removes npm registry configuration and adds --ignore-scripts to dependency installation.

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to fd03e

The workflow removes stale registry authentication configuration, disables checkout credential persistence, and skips install lifecycle scripts while preserving the existing publish path; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks.

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In @.github/workflows/release-please.yml:
- Around line 106-108: Update the forced-publish path in the release workflow to
validate the commit selected by publish-cachekit, including the github.sha
fallback used when force_release is true. Retain a CI Success validation gate
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Comment thread .github/workflows/release-please.yml Outdated
Removing the inline `pnpm test` step narrowed the safety envelope on a
path its justifying comment did not cover. `publish-cachekit` admits
`force_release == 'true'`, and with no release created the checkout ref
falls back to `github.sha` — the tip of whatever branch or tag was
selected at dispatch. The comment claimed "ci.yml already ran build+test
on this exact commit (required CI Success check on main)", which is true
of the release-please tag path and false of a dispatch against any other
ref. Before this PR the inline test step was that path's only gate;
after it, a forced dispatch published untested code.

Verify the "CI Success" check-run for the commit instead of re-running
the suite: it enforces the invariant the comment already asserted, and
being an API query it runs no dependency code beside the OIDC token,
which is the reason the test step was dropped. Placed first so it fails
before install/build can execute anything.

Gated on an empty `cachekit--tag_name` rather than on `force_release`,
because those differ when a dispatch coincides with a real release — the
tag path resolves to a main commit and is safe, and keying off the empty
tag targets exactly the `|| github.sha` fallback.

`publish-cachekit-core-wasm` is deliberately untouched: its forced path
takes an explicitly named existing tag, not `github.sha`.

CodeRabbit-Resolved: release-please.yml:108:Retain a validation gate
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Comment thread .github/workflows/release-please.yml Outdated
Kody flagged that the check-runs query reads only the default first page of
30, so on a commit with more check-runs than that the "CI Success" run can
fall outside the page, $conclusion becomes "missing", and the step refuses a
legitimate forced publish. Real on main, where 5 workflows plus the ci.yml
node matrix plus re-runs clear 30 easily.

Fixed differently from the suggestion, because the suggested form has its own
bug: `gh api --paginate --jq` applies the filter once per page and
concatenates, so a multi-page result yields a multi-line $conclusion that can
never equal "success" — the same false refusal, just later. --slurp merges the
pages into one array first, and since gh rejects --slurp alongside --jq the
filter runs in a piped jq (preinstalled on ubuntu-latest).

Also filters by check_name server-side so pagination rarely engages at all.

Verified against a real commit: returns exactly one line, "success".

Kody-Resolved: .github/workflows/release-please.yml:96:check-runs call has no --paginate
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