`pnpm run release` (scripts/release.mjs, zx + enquirer + commander) replaces
the hand sequence of bump, changelog, gate, tag, push. It picks packages from a
list annotated with what npmjs already has, computes versions from the manifest,
collects notes in $EDITOR seeded with the commits since the package's last tag,
and prepends them to CHANGELOG.md in the format release.yml's parser expects.
The gate (lint:ci -> typecheck -> test:coverage -> build -> verify-pack) runs
against the bumped tree *before* the commit, so a failure leaves nothing to
unpick -- it offers to restore instead. Tags go out dependency-first, and each
version is polled on npmjs before the next tag is pushed.
That polling is what lets release.yml lose its `check linked deps are released`
step: the ordering is now enforced before CI ever sees a tag, rather than after.
linked-deps.mjs stays as a hand-check. The accepted cost is that a tag pushed
some other way is no longer caught.
Three things found by running it rather than reading it:
- Tags are annotated (`-a -m`). A lightweight tag is rejected outright under
tag.forceSignAnnotated, which is set on the machine this was written on.
- pnpm 11 forwards the `--` in `pnpm run release -- --dry-run` literally, and
commander reads a bare `--` as "the rest are positionals". The script takes no
positionals, so it strips it and both spellings work.
- Prompts refuse with a message naming the flag that avoids them when stdin is
not a TTY, instead of hanging as an unsettled top-level await.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DCzYTAm9QUhvLNr2EpdagJ
