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ci: run release-please with an app token so release PRs get CI #16

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33 changes: 28 additions & 5 deletions .github/workflows/release-please.yml
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name: release-please

# Maintains a release PR from Conventional Commits; on merge it tags v<version>
# and creates the GitHub release.
#
# Runs with a GitHub App token rather than the default GITHUB_TOKEN so that CI
# actually runs on the release PR. This repository requires workflow approval
# for first-time contributors, and github-actions[bot] never becomes one, so a
# GITHUB_TOKEN-authored release PR left every CI run parked at
# `action_required` — the PR looked green (only GitHub Apps such as CodeQL and
# SonarCloud report on it) while `check` and `smoke` had never executed.
#
# The token comes from pleaseai-release-bot, installed org-wide:
# RELEASE_GITHUB_APP_CLIENT_ID is an org variable and
# RELEASE_GITHUB_APP_PRIVATE_KEY an org secret. This matches the pattern used by
# pleaseai/shunt and pleaseai/code-intelligence.
#
# GITHUB_TOKEN itself needs no permissions here: every write goes through the
# app token below.
on:
push:
branches: [main]
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jobs:
release-please:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
permissions:
contents: write
pull-requests: write
steps:
# Maintains a release PR from Conventional Commits; on merge it tags and
# creates the GitHub release. Pinned to a full commit SHA (OSS policy).
- name: Create app token
id: app-token
uses: actions/create-github-app-token@bcd2ba49218906704ab6c1aa796996da409d3eb1 # v3.2.0
with:
# client-id supersedes the legacy app-id input. It is a public
# identifier, so it lives in a variable rather than a secret.
client-id: ${{ vars.RELEASE_GITHUB_APP_CLIENT_ID }}
private-key: ${{ secrets.RELEASE_GITHUB_APP_PRIVATE_KEY }}

# Pinned to a full commit SHA (OSS policy).
- uses: googleapis/release-please-action@45996ed1f6d02564a971a2fa1b5860e934307cf7 # v5.0.0
with:
token: ${{ steps.app-token.outputs.token }}
config-file: release-please-config.json
manifest-file: .release-please-manifest.json
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