codexU Release SOP

Scope

Run this skill from the repository root. Treat the release as a real public publish: verify the current remote state first, keep unrelated user changes out of release commits, and report exactly what was built, pushed, and released.

Do not trust a remembered "latest" version. Always confirm the current tag and release state with GitHub before choosing the next version.

Preflight

1. Inspect the worktree and branch:

git status --short
git branch --show-current
git remote -v

If unrelated files are dirty, do not stage or revert them. Either keep the release scoped to known release files or ask before mixing them into the release commit.

2. Confirm GitHub access and current releases:

gh --version
gh auth status
gh repo view --json nameWithOwner,url
gh release list --limit 10
git fetch origin --tags

3. Verify that the target v<version> tag and GitHub Release do not already exist unless the task is explicitly to repair or replace them.

Mandatory Global Memory-Risk Gate

Run this gate before changing release metadata, packaging, committing, tagging, pushing, or creating a GitHub Release:

make memory-risk-check
sed -n '1,240p' build/memory-risk/report.md

The scan covers the entire production source tree, not only the release diff. Treat any non-zero exit as a hard release blocker. There is no override flag: fix or explicitly bound the risky lifecycle before continuing.

Do not accept the PASS line without reviewing the generated global inventory. Inspect every reported risk category and the related release diff, with particular attention to:

• Process and Pipe: bounded stdout reads with partial-response semantics for long-lived pipes, drained or redirected stderr, EOF handling, timeout, termination, and forced cleanup.
• Timer, notification/KVO observers, event monitors, and Combine subscriptions: weak captures and matching invalidation/removal/cancellation.
• buffers, caches, samples, pending request maps, and static mutable collections: byte/count limits, eviction, timeout, and working-set release.
• Data(contentsOf:) and transcript/session readers: trusted input boundaries, file-size checks, streaming behavior, and oversized-record handling.
• recursive and parent-path traversal: explicit root/base termination, visited-node/path cycle guards, and regression coverage for platform-specific Foundation behavior.

If a reviewer finds a plausible unbounded growth path that the script does not catch, stop the release, fix the risk, and extend scripts/check-memory-risks.sh so the same class of regression becomes automatically blocking.

make release-package and make release-check rerun this gate. Do not bypass the repository wrappers by calling packaging scripts or lower-level release targets directly. The release package must also run the Claude Skill path resolver self-test so the macOS 13 root-parent regression is exercised before artifacts are produced.

Versioning

Use these conventions unless the user specifies otherwise:

• Version string: <major>.<minor>.<patch> or <major>.<minor>.<patch>-betaNN.
• Git tag: v<version>.
• Release title: codexU v<version>.
• Release commit: chore(release): prepare v<version>.
• Beta releases use gh release create --prerelease.

Update Resources/Info.plist:

• CFBundleShortVersionString to <version>.
• CFBundleVersion to the next build number.

Validate the plist after editing:

plutil -lint Resources/Info.plist
plutil -p Resources/Info.plist | rg "CFBundleShortVersionString|CFBundleVersion" -C 2

Documentation Updates

Update only the release-relevant files unless the user asks for broader docs:

• CHANGELOG.md: add the new release section and date.
• README.md: update current version, download links, and visible release notes in Chinese.
• README.en.md: update current version, download links, and visible release notes in English.
• docs/release-notes-*.md: update the release notes used by gh release create --notes-file.

For beta trains, prefer the existing train note file when present, such as docs/release-notes-v1.0.0-beta.md; otherwise create a version-specific notes file. Leave checksum placeholders until after packaging, then fill them with the actual SHA-256 values.

Run:

git diff --check

Package

Run the deterministic repository wrapper:

make release-package

It reruns the global memory-risk gate, runs the self-tests, builds both architectures, checks the DMGs and checksums, mounts both images, verifies Mach-O architecture, and verifies codesign. Do not manually repeat those steps unless debugging the wrapper.

Expect these assets for <version>:

dist/codexU-<version>-mac-arm64.dmg
dist/codexU-<version>-mac-arm64.dmg.sha256
dist/codexU-<version>-mac-x86_64.dmg
dist/codexU-<version>-mac-x86_64.dmg.sha256

Verify checksums and copy the values into release notes:

cat dist/codexU-<version>-mac-arm64.dmg.sha256
cat dist/codexU-<version>-mac-x86_64.dmg.sha256

After filling release notes, run the metadata gate:

make release-check

Do not create the release commit or tag until this command passes.

Do not claim Apple notarization unless a notarization step was actually run. The current Makefile release flow uses the signing behavior configured in the repository.

Commit, Tag, And Push

Stage release metadata and documentation, not generated DMGs unless repository policy changes:

git add Resources/Info.plist CHANGELOG.md README.md README.en.md docs/release-notes-*.md
git status --short
git commit -m "chore(release): prepare v<version>"

Before pushing, fetch and inspect divergence:

git fetch origin --tags
git log --oneline --left-right --cherry-pick origin/main...HEAD

If the remote contains the same logical commits with different hashes, rebase onto origin/main, then recreate any local tag that pointed to the pre-rebase commit:

git rebase origin/main
git tag -d v<version>  # only if the local tag points at the old commit
git tag -a v<version> -m "codexU v<version>"

Do not force-push main or delete remote tags without explicit user approval. After the branch and tag are correct:

git push origin main
git push origin v<version>

Create GitHub Release

Create the GitHub Release with the exact packaged assets:

gh release create v<version> \
  dist/codexU-<version>-mac-arm64.dmg \
  dist/codexU-<version>-mac-arm64.dmg.sha256 \
  dist/codexU-<version>-mac-x86_64.dmg \
  dist/codexU-<version>-mac-x86_64.dmg.sha256 \
  --title "codexU v<version>" \
  --notes-file docs/release-notes-<notes>.md \
  --prerelease

Omit --prerelease only for stable releases. If a release already exists, inspect it first and use gh release edit only when the user intends an update.

Verify And Report

Verify the published release:

gh release view v<version> --json tagName,name,isPrerelease,isDraft,url,assets,publishedAt,targetCommitish
git status --short

Some gh versions do not support isLatest; remove unsupported JSON fields rather than treating that as a release failure.

Report these facts to the user:

• Version, build number, tag, and release URL.
• Commit hash pushed to main.
• Uploaded asset names and SHA-256 values.
• Validation/build commands that ran.
• Any limitation, such as ad-hoc signing or no notarization.

Recovery Notes

• Push rejected: run git fetch origin, inspect divergence with git log --left-right --cherry-pick, rebase if the remote has equivalent commits, recreate the local tag if needed, then push again.
• Local stale tag: delete and recreate only the local tag after confirming it points to an old pre-rebase commit.
• Remote tag or release conflict: stop and inspect with git ls-remote --tags origin v<version> and gh release view v<version>. Do not overwrite remote state without explicit user approval.
• Build failure: fix the underlying source or packaging issue, rerun make release-all, then regenerate checksums before publishing.
• Memory-risk gate failure: stop before versioning or packaging, inspect build/memory-risk/report.md, fix the unbounded lifecycle, extend the gate when needed, and rerun make memory-risk-check. Never suppress or bypass the failure.