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Ship one production artifact per platform. Remove dev variants from the release matrix and publishing checks, and remove the shell installer’s nightly option so it only installs production releases.

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Ships one production artifact per platform by removing the development and nightly release distributions.

  • The release workflow no longer builds or publishes -dev bottles, and dev console endpoints are no longer baked.
  • install.sh now fails with an error when passed nightly or --nightly instead of installing a dev build.
  • Release asset verification rejects any -dev-suffixed asset name so stale dev artifacts cannot land in a release.

Written for commit 31f0331. Summary will update on new commits.

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  • Changes
    • Production-only releases are now published for macOS, Windows ARM64, Windows x64, and Linux.
    • Nightly/development installation requests are rejected instead of falling back to production.
    • Release verification now rejects development-suffixed assets and validates production artifact names only.
    • Release checks and publishing workflows target unsuffixed production archives.
  • Tests
    • Added coverage confirming nightly installs fail clearly and development artifacts cannot pass release verification.

Siddhesh2377 and others added 5 commits September 20, 2026 09:48
* fix: Stage the MSVC runtime beside wally.exe so the Windows zip is self-contained

* ci: Run the shipped Windows zip on a clean PATH to catch missing runtime DLLs

* fix: Bundle the OpenSSL DLLs the Windows exe imports so the zip is self-contained

* fix: Bundle runtime and OpenSSL DLLs for the product exe only, not the racing test binaries

* fix: Harden Windows DLL bundling and clean-room guard per review (arch match, drop x86 fallback, NO_CACHE, empty-runtime warning, assert DLLs in zip)
…catalog (#123)

* feat: LLM-only command surface with a flat help tree

* feat: Filter the built-in model catalog to language models only

* feat: LLM-only CLI surface — account/models grammar, nested help with examples, no dev flags

* feat: Refresh the on-device catalog to the latest LLMs (LFM2.5, Granite 4.2, SmolLM2)

* docs: Trim docs and skills to the LLM-only surface

* test: catch up CI to the LLM-only cut and models-only grammar

* feat: Collapse model list to one row per model (mlx/llama.cpp), minimize names, gate MLX/ANE to Apple

* refactor: Tidy every command's --help — usage lines, aligned options, tighter examples

* docs: Refresh MODELS.md for merged catalog rows and mlx-/ane- pull ids

* test: Guard MLX/ANE catalog assertions behind __APPLE__ so the non-Apple unit build stays green

* review: address all 40 review comments on the offline LLM-only cut

Fixes every open review comment on PR #123, plus several stale call sites the
review did not reach. Build, ctest (13/13), smoke, cross-shell installer test
and check-agents-sync are all green.

The ones that could bite a user:

- `-u`/`-U` could hijack an unrelated command. `fallthrough(true)` is inherited
  by every subcommand, so `wally models list -u` climbed back to the root and
  fired the update/uninstall callback -- replacing the requested command and
  skipping shutdown(). The flags are no longer registered at all; run() honours
  them only when the shortcut is the entire command line.
- Three live "you are not signed in" messages in the harness still told people
  to run `wally login`, which now exits 2. Those, docs/EDITORS.md and the
  model-recovery demo move to `wally account login`. EDITORS.md also pointed at
  `wally auth login`, which is unregistered too.
- The catalog offered models the build cannot run. platform_supports() now gates
  llama.cpp on WALLY_HAS_LLAMACPP and QHexRT on WALLY_HAS_QHEXRT, matching the
  macros bootstrap.cpp already guards on, instead of inferring from the OS.
- A collapsed `models list` row printed the merge key, which always resolves to
  the llama.cpp variant -- so a row could read "downloaded: yes" while
  `models show/rm` acted on something else. A downloaded variant's own id now
  wins. `local_path`, dropped from --json by the grouping rewrite, is back.
- "You typed it wrong..!" was printed for arguments that were merely omitted.
  CLI11's own message is used instead: `wally models pull` now says
  "model is required".
- Disabled tests reported green while asserting nothing, behind `/* */` blocks
  that cannot nest. Each file gets one WALLY_LLM_ONLY_CUT switch; preserved
  bodies sit in #if/#else, disabled tests are unregistered rather than passing,
  and a half-done revert now fails to compile. Confirmed the reviewer's point:
  an unknown subcommand and a missing required argument both exit 2, so the
  diarize/rerank exit-2 tests were passing for the wrong reason.
- The cross-shell installer fixture matched on $1, which is now `account`, so it
  exited 0 and every run skipped the sign-in branches it exists to test. It now
  dispatches the nested grammar and errors on anything it does not know.

Also: REQUIRED marker restored in help, child footers restored under
--help-all, dead make_subcommand override removed, serve/run/pull help
corrected, account and usage Examples footers restored, configure-time
get_subcommand lookups guarded against an unhandled throw at startup, --home
and the color/progress flags visible again, and README/AGENTS.md/MODELS.md/
device-e2e skill brought in line with the surface this release ships.

Two reviewer claims were stale (the unit tests they said would fail were
already fixed) and are documented rather than "fixed". One test change was not
requested by anyone: applying the backend gate turned overlay_catalog red,
because the engine macros are PRIVATE to wally_core and the test could not see
which backends the kit shipped. tests/CMakeLists.txt now passes them to
test_wally_unit, and the hiding is pinned in both directions.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WpRbLvoGVTuNgfnQajAf9Z

* test: Size overlay_catalog row table explicitly so Windows kits without overlay rows stop hitting MSVC C2466

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* test: Gate catalog_lookup size floor and llama.cpp probes on the kit's engine macros

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* test: Expect an empty LLM catalog on kits with no LLM backend

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* review: hide non-LLM models from list, fix rag default id, note CORS default, correct test comment

* Add CODEOWNERS file for merge approval process

* catalog: Cut the ANE rows and refuse --engine ane on kits without NeuRT

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* help: Group commands by intent, list namespaces as full paths, color on a tty

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* about: List only engines that serve generate_text while the LLM-only cut holds

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* backends: restore full backend listing, move llm-only filter off collect_backend_rows

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* about: Filter the LLM engines in about/info, not in the shared backends collector

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* harness: Serve MLX locally, size context from RAM, gate coding tools to 20B+ non-1-bit models that fit

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* harness: Always give dsh a key reference so a local model gets a turn; log the requested model in the shim

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* catalog: qwen3.8-27b's context window is 262144, not 4096

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* harness: Coding tools run on hosted models only; refuse a local model outright

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

---------

Co-authored-by: Sanchit Monga <sanchitmonga22@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Bump the product version for the LLM-only command surface and stamp the Homebrew formula to match, including caveats that no longer point at unregistered verbs.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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The release workflow now builds and publishes production artifacts only. The installer rejects nightly options, and asset verification rejects -dev archive names. Tests cover production naming and nightly rejection.

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Production release flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Production asset contract
scripts/release/verify-release-assets.py, tests/test_release_assets.py
Asset verification now rejects archives with a -dev suffix. The release asset test validates the rejection.
Installer channel handling
install.sh, scripts/test/test-install-cross-shell.sh
The installer supports production releases only. nightly and --nightly now fail with an error, and downloads use unsuffixed archive names. Cross-shell tests validate the exit status and error output.
Production publishing workflow
.github/workflows/release.yml
The workflow builds one production artifact per platform, verifies unsuffixed archives, and publishes one archive and checksum per platform.

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Suggested reviewers: sanchitmonga22

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A manually triggered workflow can publish a production release without the intended tag-push restriction, creating a material release-integrity risk that should be resolved before merging.

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Siddhesh2377 changed the base branch from main to dev September 22, 2026 07:58
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@Siddhesh2377 Siddhesh2377 added P1 High priority: customer correctness or Monday release acceptance. improvement Real and worth doing, but not required before serving real users labels Sep 22, 2026
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@shubhammalhotra28 bro can you merge this
this pr, stops the ci-cd from shipping the *-dev artifacts
Thanks

also please delete the dev branch, it will cause more confusion

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Siddhesh2377 changed the base branch from dev to main September 22, 2026 08:14

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🟠 Major · Restrict production publishing to tag pushes. · release.yml:323

.github/workflows/release.yml:323
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Restrict production publishing to tag pushes.

workflow_dispatch supplies github.event.inputs.version, and the publish job has no job-level guard. A manual run can reach softprops/action-gh-release@v2 and publish a production release. Add the tag-push condition. Configure publish to use a protected production environment with required reviewers. Keep build and verification jobs available for manual runs.

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   publish:
     needs: [macos, windows, windows-arm64, linux]
+    if: github.event_name == 'push' && startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
     runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
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In @.github/workflows/release.yml at line 323, Update the publish job containing
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Release order:

  • Merge this production-only distribution change before the next Wally release.
  • Keep the existing green macOS/Linux/Windows/distribution checks as the baseline; rerun if the branch changes.
  • After harness PR fix: restore local coding harnesses and polish CLI help #127 and the new SDK/kit pins land, cut a separate v0.6.1 release PR.
  • Verify the release asset set contains one production bottle per platform and no -dev or nightly artifacts.

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is the base correct - this is gping to main ?

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is the base correct - this is gping to main ?

yaa i believe letting go of dev is the right choice for now, later we can figure it out

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