NO VERSION BUMP and nothing built: no Go code changed. The agent stays v0.120.0.
scripts/release-agent.sh — THE way to release. build -> tag -> publish -> verify
by INDEPENDENT download. Publishing was a separate remembered step and was
forgotten three times in five days (R-111's 17 stranded releases, 0.114.0, and
0.120.0 — deployed to both demo hosts and undownloadable, so a documented-path
reinstall would have silently downgraded them WHILE REPORTING SUCCESS). R-111's
own closing line named this leg and closed SHIPPED without it; it recurred the
same afternoon, which is the evidence that a note is not a mechanism.
It tags because felhom-host-install.sh now fetches the sixteen agent config
files from raw/tag/v<version>/ (R-183): a released version with no tag 404s a
box mid-install, as root, on a virgin machine. It verifies by downloading what
it just published and comparing the sha to what it built — the publish step's
own success is a report on its own write; a fetch returning the right bytes is
a different claim. It refuses a dirty/unpushed tree and refuses to re-release an
existing version. It does NOT vouch: that points machines at a version and stays
the operator's act.
scripts/check-published-versions.py — the gate. Every v<semver> tag must have a
downloadable package AND a tag tree serving the agent's configs. Registered as
NOT --fast (needs network; a push must not fail because Gitea blinked), and the
CI workflow now runs the FULL gate set instead of --fast — otherwise the gate
would have been registered and never run, the built-but-never-wired failure this
project has shipped four times.
The invariant is not the one specified, and the reason was measured, not assumed:
the hub artifact manifest is 401 without a per-customer passphrase and Gitea's
package LISTING api is 401 without a token, while the package DOWNLOAD url and
the git TAGS api are anonymous. So CI cannot ask "what is vouched" without an
operator credential — whose addition is the operator's call. The tag-based
invariant needs none and catches all three recorded instances. What it does not
catch (the hub vouching a version never released at all) is filed as R-184.
A census of all thirteen gate scripts across the four felhom repos on 2026-08-02 found that
every check a CLAUDE.md names was passing and two of the four nobody is told to run were
failing. This repo was the extreme case: nothing ran against it at all, and its REUSE.md — 90
cited paths — was checked by no one.
agent_gates.py exists at ONE gate on purpose, so the agent is not the one repo with nowhere to
put a check and so the pre-push hook has the same entry point in all four repos. It grows when
the agent grows a second gate. The shared reuse checker stays in felhom.eu/scripts/ and is
invoked across the workspace — never copied here; an absent sibling clone FAILS the gate and
prints the path tried, which test_agent_gates.py pins by running the entry point from a lone
directory with no sibling.
.githooks/pre-push runs it with --fast and refuses the push. Per-clone and --no-verify-able,
both stated in the hook itself; a manual run WARNS when the clone is unarmed.
Tooling only: no Go change, no build, no deploy, no version bump.
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