Verify Release

Extended-stable checks

Extended-stable has a GitHub Release with shared release evidence but no native or ClawHub artifacts. Verify it alongside the live tag, workflow, registry, provenance, and image state.

1. Identity: require final v<VERSION> at patch 33+, with no suffix, contained in extended-stable/YYYY.M.33. Only an active candidate must equal the tip. Root and every publishable official plugin must declare <VERSION>. Require the Git tag and a public, non-prerelease GitHub Release whose title and canonical body match the tag. Require isLatest=false, the dependency evidence, immutable Full Release Validation manifest, postpublish evidence, and their checksums. Require no native or ClawHub assets.
2. Workflow chain: find the successful parent release run plus its preflight, complete validation, plugin npm, and core publish children. Require a protected release-publish/* parent and canonical release-ci/* validation producer with verified workflow SHA provenance. Validation must use rerun_group=all, release_profile=stable, blocking soak/performance, and the saved attempt. Core publish must reference all three run IDs and bind its manifest, workflow ref, and tarball digest to the release SHA.
3. Registry: require exact and extended-stable selectors to return <VERSION> for root, every preflight corePackageTarballs entry, and every publishToNpm === true official plugin derived from the tag. Compare the plugin plan, jobs, and complete readback; never infer inventory from diffs.
4. Provenance: from trusted current tooling, run node --import tsx scripts/openclaw-npm-postpublish-verify.ts <VERSION>. Require signatures, canonical-branch provenance, and publish/preflight digest binding to the release SHA. Preserve output and workflow URLs.
5. Docker: verify exact default, slim, browser, and architecture images and attestations in both registries. Only the three extended-stable* aliases may resolve to those digests. Require the successful OpenClaw Release Publish parent run and its completed Docker verification. The normal route finalizes afterward; an explicitly requested fast path may activate GitHub first. Repair aliases through current-main Docker Channel Promotion for the exact tag, without rebuilding.
6. Recovery: never republish. Use promote_extended_stable in the openclaw/releases dist-tag workflow for the root selector (an unsuffixed final patch 33+) and approved credential-isolated tooling for others, then repeat complete readback. Do not require ClawHub, native/mobile apps, website, private dist-tags, or regular latest. Require shared release evidence, but do not require regular native or ClawHub assets.

Shared live smoke

After the track-specific publication checks pass:

1. Published package smoke:
   • In /tmp, isolated HOME: npm exec --yes --package openclaw@<VERSION> -- openclaw --version.
   • Run at least one harmless command that touches the published CLI surface, for example plugins --help or gateway --help.
2. Dev Gateway live model smoke:
   • Use temp HOME/workspace, not the user's normal state: HOME=/tmp/openclaw-release-smoke/home OPENCLAW_WORKSPACE=/tmp/openclaw-release-smoke/work pnpm openclaw --dev gateway run --auth none --force --verbose.
   • Resolve the launched Gateway's bound port from its startup output or log.
   • For --auth none, require unauthenticated GET http://127.0.0.1:<PORT>/healthz to return HTTP 200 with the exact JSON object {"ok":true,"status":"live"}.
   • Reserve gateway health --json for intentionally credentialed or device-paired smoke, passing the explicit credential required by that Gateway.
   • Run one Gateway-backed agent turn with inherited OPENAI_API_KEY, short prompt, explicit session key, JSON output, and a known-available model.
   • If the configured default model fails as unavailable, record that caveat and retry with the newest known-good OpenAI model instead of declaring the release failed.
   • Stop the gateway and verify the port is not listening.

Caveats To Report

• Dist-tag caveat: stable latest is release truth; if optional beta mirrors still point at a beta version, report it as a caveat, not a stable-release blocker, unless the user asked to verify beta promotion.
• Track caveat: name the track and intentionally absent surfaces. Do not call missing regular-release artifacts an extended-stable failure.
• Divergent checkout caveat: say when local source SHA differs from release tag or origin and which live sources were used instead.
• Smoke caveat: distinguish Gateway-backed agent success from local embedded fallback. A valid auth-none live smoke has the exact /healthz result plus a successful Gateway-backed agent turn and the Gateway log/run id for that call.