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Jordan Ritter 5f00cb9771 ci(release): one-click canary publish orchestrator + release-pipeline lint guards (#5370)
## Summary

Ports
[ag-ui-protocol/ag-ui#1914](https://github.com/ag-ui-protocol/ag-ui/pull/1914)
to CopilotKit — plus the two supporting guard files ag-ui already had:

- **`.github/workflows/canary.yml`** — discoverable **`canary /
publish`** `workflow_dispatch` orchestrator. Any maintainer can publish
a prerelease of the branch they're on straight from the Actions tab. It
is a thin orchestrator — it does **not** publish to npm itself:
  1. Guards against `main` and non-branch refs.
2. Mints the devops-bot App token (app-id `1108748`,
`DEVOPS_BOT_PRIVATE_KEY`) with scoped `contents:write` +
`actions:write`.
3. Mirrors the dispatched ref to a unique
`canary/<slug>-<run_id>-<attempt>` branch via the GitHub API (no
checkout).
4. Dispatches **`publish-release.yml --ref canary/<slug> -f
mode=prerelease …`**, locates the run, and waits (`gh run watch
--exit-status` + explicit conclusion check).
5. Deletes the canary ref — status-gated (never yanks the ref under a
still-running delegated run) with a fresh cleanup token (90-min job
ceiling exceeds the 1h App-token TTL).
- **`scripts/release/verify-release-scope-dropdowns.sh`** — drift guard:
the hand-maintained `scope` dropdowns in `publish-release.yml` /
`stable-release.yml` / `canary.yml` must exactly match
`release.config.json`'s `.scopes` keys. Parsers fail loud and distinct
on structural changes instead of silently passing.
- **`.github/workflows/lint-release-workflows.yml`** — actionlint +
shellcheck + the dropdown-sync job over the release pipelines.

### Why a separate orchestrator (and not a flag in publish-release.yml)
- A GitHub Environment's deployment-branch policy is evaluated against
the ref a run is **triggered on** — not branches created mid-run. The
orchestrator exists to get the publish run *onto* a `canary/*` ref.
- `publish-release.yml` holds the **single npm OIDC trusted-publisher
binding**; a second publishing entry point would break OIDC for every
`@copilotkit/*` package. The orchestrator never touches npm.
- The cross-workflow dispatch uses the **App token, not `GITHUB_TOKEN`**
— `GITHUB_TOKEN`-authenticated events never start new workflow runs.

**Note:** the `npm` environment currently has *no* deployment-branch
policy, so the orchestrator is a convenience wrapper today. Tightening
the policy to `main` + `canary/*` + `release/publish/*` (matching
ag-ui's security posture) is being applied as repo configuration
alongside this PR — requires admin. This PR includes the prerequisite:
`publish-commit.yml` (pkg-pr-new) is removed from the `npm` environment,
since it runs on every PR and would be blocked by the policy (it
publishes to pkg.pr.new, not npm, and uses no environment secrets).

## Testing done
- Drift guard: positive run against all three real workflows; negative
tests (scope removed → drift FAIL with diff; bogus scope → FAIL; `case
"${SCOPE}"` quoting refactor → loud parser-degradation FAIL; whole case
block deleted → loud zero-block FAIL; quoted arm `"angular")` →
accepted; blank/comment lines inside `options:` → still parsed; prose
comments mentioning case/SCOPE/in → no false positive).
- `shellcheck` clean at all severities; `bash -n` on every workflow
`run:` block; YAML parses.
- 3 rounds of 7-agent code review converged to zero load-bearing
findings.

## ⚠️ Still to verify before first real use
- [ ] devops-bot App (id 1108748) has **Actions: write** — required for
the in-workflow `gh workflow run`. Safe first test: dispatch once with
`dry_run=true`.
- [ ] First `dry_run=false` run clears the `npm` environment end-to-end
via the App token once the deployment-branch policy is tightened.

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## Post-merge follow-ups (maintainer action required)

These need repo **admin** rights and must happen **in this order**:

1. **Merge this PR first.** `main`'s current `publish-commit.yml`
(pkg-pr-new) still sits in the `npm` environment and runs on every PR
touching `packages/**` — applying the branch policy before this PR lands
would block every snapshot publish. This PR removes that environment
association.

2. **Tighten the `npm` environment's deployment-branch policy** to
`main` + `canary/*` + `release/publish/*` (matching ag-ui). With an
admin-scoped token:

   ```bash
   gh api --method PUT repos/CopilotKit/CopilotKit/environments/npm \
     -F "deployment_branch_policy[protected_branches]=false" \
     -F "deployment_branch_policy[custom_branch_policies]=true"
gh api --method POST
repos/CopilotKit/CopilotKit/environments/npm/deployment-branch-policies
-f name="main" -f type=branch
gh api --method POST
repos/CopilotKit/CopilotKit/environments/npm/deployment-branch-policies
-f name="canary/*" -f type=branch
gh api --method POST
repos/CopilotKit/CopilotKit/environments/npm/deployment-branch-policies
-f name="release/publish/*" -f type=branch
   ```

Or via UI: Settings → Environments → npm → Deployment branches and tags
→ "Selected branches and tags" → add the three patterns above.

Why these three: `main` covers stable `workflow_dispatch` retries and
`stable-release.yml`; `release/publish/*` covers the merged-release-PR
runs (the run's head branch is the release PR branch); `canary/*` covers
the orchestrator's delegated prerelease runs. After this, direct
`mode=prerelease` dispatches from arbitrary feature branches stop
working — the `canary / publish` orchestrator becomes the one-click path
(by design).

3. **Verify the devops-bot App (id `1108748`) has `Actions: write`**
(org/App settings). The orchestrator's `gh workflow run` dispatch 403s
without it. Safe end-to-end test, after step 2: Actions tab → **canary /
publish** → pick any feature branch, any scope, **`dry_run=true`** →
confirm the delegated `release / publish` run is created, watched, and
the `canary/*` ref is deleted afterward.

4. **First real canary** (`dry_run=false`) confirms the npm OIDC publish
clears the environment gate end-to-end on a `canary/*` ref.
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