ci(release): validate prepared release records

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Summary

• validate exact-HEAD Monochange release records when a prepared release PR has consumed its changesets
• preserve dry-run previews for ordinary source pull requests
• fail closed when neither changesets nor a valid prepared release record exist
• disable checkout credential persistence in the preview job

Validation

• actionlint .github/workflows/release-preview.yml
• zizmor .github/workflows/release-preview.yml
• source changeset preview path
• exact prepared-release record path against PR chore(release): prepare release #184
• full repository pre-push gate, including deterministic Rust, JavaScript, and Dart client generation

Created on behalf of Ifiok Jr. (@ifiokjr) using Codex (GPT-5.6-sol, high reasoning).

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved release preview handling when no changesets are present.
  • Automatically validates and records exact-commit release information when possible.
  • Added clearer release error reporting when preview generation fails.
• Chores
  • Release previews now display relevant release metadata in the workflow summary.

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Configuration used: defaults

Review profile: CHILL

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Run ID: b1de6b5a-11c5-44eb-98b5-9b917177c685

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• .github/workflows/release-preview.yml

📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The release preview workflow disables persisted checkout credentials. It lists existing changesets and generates, validates, and summarizes an exact-HEAD release record when no changesets exist.

Changes

Release preview workflow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Release record fallback and summary .github/workflows/release-preview.yml	The workflow disables persisted Git credentials. When changesets are missing, it generates and validates an exact-HEAD release record, summarizes valid metadata, and reports errors with status 1. When changesets exist, it lists them without the previous empty-state message.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~15–30 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 5f17d

Release-record validation failures may be reported without a useful explanation, making CI failures harder to diagnose. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness or follow-up to improve failure reporting.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GitHubActions as GitHub Actions workflow
  participant Monochange as monochange
  participant Summary as GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
  GitHubActions->>GitHubActions: Check for changesets
  GitHubActions->>Monochange: Generate and validate exact-HEAD release record
  Monochange-->>GitHubActions: Release metadata or error
  GitHubActions->>Summary: Write release metadata or error

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🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title uses Conventional Commits format and clearly identifies validation of prepared release records in the release preview workflow.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the workflow changes and lists validation steps, but it omits the optional Linked issues section.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

✨ Finishing Touches

🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)

• Create PR with unit tests
• Commit unit tests in branch ci/release-preview-record-validation

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Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/release-preview.yml:
- Around line 39-61: The release-record step currently conflates generation
failures with validation failures. In the workflow block invoking monochange and
jq, separate generation from validation, preserve the generated record, and
report whether exact-HEAD matching or the non-empty release-target condition
failed when jq returns false; only print release_record_error for monochange
generation failures.

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