ci: migrate releases to release-please and lint PR titles

[Snuffy2]

Summary

Replace manual release handling with Release Please and enforce Conventional Commit PR titles, following the local places repository.

What Changed

• Copy the Release Please workflow, release configuration, and PR title lint from places, adapting the package name and initializing version tracking to the existing v0.2.6 release.
• Keep Docker publishing for main pushes (edge) and published releases (version tags, plus latest only for GitHub’s current latest stable release), including amd64/arm64 images, provenance, and SBOMs.
• Remove the publisher's manual dispatch input, legacy release SHA validation, OCI archive/registry guard machinery, and obsolete tests.
• Use deps: titles for prek hook updates and Dependabot updates; require Conventional Commit titles in AGENTS.md.

Setup

Add the RELEASE_PLEASE_TOKEN repository secret with access to create release PRs and GitHub releases. A PAT is needed so release PRs and published releases trigger the existing CI and Docker publishing workflows.

Validation

prek run --all-files passed with Go 1.26.8, including actionlint, YAML/JSON checks, ESLint, the existing frontend and Go race tests, Go vet, and module tidy. No new tests added.

Confirmed the latest published release is v0.2.6.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Release Management
  • Added automated release pull requests and GitHub releases when changes are pushed to the main branch.
  • Release publishing now builds and pushes Docker images directly. Releases receive version tags; only GitHub’s current latest stable release updates latest. Main-branch pushes publish edge.
  • Manual workflow-dispatch publishing is no longer available.
• Workflow Improvements
  • Pull request titles are now checked against Conventional Commit formats.
  • Automated dependency-update commits use a deps prefix.
• Version
  • Initialized release version tracking to 0.2.6.

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Walkthrough

The PR adds Release Please automation and pull request title validation. It updates dependency commit messages and changes container publishing to build and push images directly. It removes the previous provenance and registry guard scripts and their tests.

Changes

Release automation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configure release management release-please-config.json, .release-please-manifest.json, version.txt, .github/workflows/release-please.yml, AGENTS.md	Adds Release Please configuration and a workflow triggered by pushes to main. Sets the root package version to 0.2.6 and documents the release process.
Set commit conventions .github/dependabot.yml, .github/workflows/prek_autoupdate.yml, .github/workflows/semantic-pull-request.yml, AGENTS.md	Adds pull request title validation for the listed Conventional Commit types. Sets dependency update commit messages to use the deps prefix and documents the title format.
Build and publish container images .github/workflows/release.yml, .github/scripts/release-provenance.mjs, .github/scripts/release-registry-guard.mjs, ui/release_provenance_test.js	The release workflow builds and pushes images directly for amd64 and arm64. It enables latest for non-prerelease releases. The change removes manual publishing, the prior provenance and registry validation scripts, and their test suite.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to aff52

Automated hook-update PRs will fail the new title check. Correct their generated title before merging; the release job also retains unnecessary default-token permissions.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

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Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the two main changes: migrating releases to Release Please and enforcing Conventional Commit pull request titles.

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[High risk] Migrates release automation to release-please and adds PR title linting.

The PR should not merge until release image integrity and latest ordering are restored and prek PR titles pass the new check.

Findings

1.   Off-main releases can publish images ▶
2.  Reruns can replace versioned images ▶
3.  Older releases can replace latest ▶
4.  Prek PR titles fail lint ▶

Fix with agent prompt

### Issue 1
.github/workflows/release.yml:30
If a published release points to a commit outside `main`, this checkout builds that tag without the previous check that the commit belongs to the main-branch history. The build then pushes that source as a versioned image and, for a stable release, as `latest`. **How this was verified:** The release tag controls checkout, and the checked-out tree is built and pushed without a source-validation step.

### Issue 2
.github/workflows/release.yml:49-56
If a release run is rerun after a build dependency changes, this step rebuilds and pushes its version tag without checking the digest already published under that tag. Because the Dockerfile installs an unpinned external package, the rebuilt image can differ and silently replace the previously published versioned image. The removed registry guard refused such an overwrite.

### Issue 3
.github/workflows/release.yml:43
If an older stable release run is rerun after a newer release has published, this condition still enables `latest`. The build then points `ghcr.io/snuffy2/shellport:latest` at the older image. The previous workflow checked that the release was GitHub’s current latest release before writing that tag.

### Issue 4
.github/workflows/prek_autoupdate.yml:32
`commit-message` does not change this action’s separate PR title. Hook-update PRs retain the default title `Bump prek Hooks`, which fails the new Conventional Commit title check. If that check is required for merging, these PRs cannot auto-merge. Set a matching `pr-title` input too.

```suggestion
          commit-message: "deps: update prek hooks"
          pr-title: "deps: update prek hooks"
```

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Summary

This PR introduces Release Please and PR-title linting while replacing the guarded Docker publication pipeline with a direct build-and-push workflow.

• Release publication loses source-history validation and immutable-version protection.
• Older stable release runs can overwrite latest.
• Prek update PR titles are not made compatible with the new lint check.

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Off-main releases can publish images

If a published release points to a commit outside main, this checkout builds that tag without the previous check that the commit belongs to the main-branch history. The build then pushes that source as a versioned image and, for a stable release, as latest. How this was verified: The release tag controls checkout, and the checked-out tree is built and pushed without a source-validation step.

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Path: .github/workflows/release.yml
Line: 30

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**Off-main releases can publish images**

If a published release points to a commit outside `main`, this checkout builds that tag without the previous check that the commit belongs to the main-branch history. The build then pushes that source as a versioned image and, for a stable release, as `latest`. **How this was verified:** The release tag controls checkout, and the checked-out tree is built and pushed without a source-validation step.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @.github/workflows/prek_autoupdate.yml:
- Line 32: Add the separate pr-title input to the prek-autoupdate action
configuration alongside commit-message, setting it to the same “deps: update
prek hooks” title so generated pull requests pass title validation.

Review comments at @.github/workflows/release-please.yml:
- Around line 9-10: Remove the contents and pull-requests write grants from the
workflow permissions so GITHUB_TOKEN has no unnecessary write access. Set
permissions to empty unless another workflow step requires a specific
permission; keep release writes on RELEASE_PLEASE_TOKEN.

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📒 Files selected for processing (12)

• .github/dependabot.yml
• .github/scripts/release-provenance.mjs
• .github/scripts/release-registry-guard.mjs
• .github/workflows/prek_autoupdate.yml
• .github/workflows/release-please.yml
• .github/workflows/release.yml
• .github/workflows/semantic-pull-request.yml
• .release-please-manifest.json
• AGENTS.md
• release-please-config.json
• ui/release_provenance_test.js
• version.txt

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• ui/release_provenance_test.js
• .github/scripts/release-registry-guard.mjs
• .github/scripts/release-provenance.mjs

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