Drop snapshot-generate-cmd: rainix owns the release freeze

[thedavidmeister]

Drops snapshot-generate-cmd from the rainix-tag-release call. The freeze it
named — bash script/cut-release.sh — is now rainix-static cut-release inside
the reusable, which owns the regenerate -> forge fmt -> freeze order rather
than taking it as a shell string (rainlanguage/rainix#301, implemented in
rainlanguage/rainix#302).

This repo generates its pins with forge script ./script/BuildPointers.sol,
which is the reusable's default, so nothing replaces the removed line.

This repo's script/cut-release.sh has the ordering backwards

Worth being explicit, because it is the reason rainix took the freeze over.
script/cut-release.sh on main today does:

cp -r src/generated/candidate "src/generated/${TAG}"   # freeze
forge script ./script/BuildPointers.sol                # …then regenerate
forge fmt

If the committed candidate has drifted from source, that freezes the stale
bytes into a dir the frozen-snapshots-append-only gate then protects forever,
while the regeneration moves candidate on to the real ones — the release
publishes one address and permanently records another. Nothing downstream
catches it: the self-consistency test checks the regenerated candidate against
source, and no test compares a numbered dir to candidate.

rainix-static cut-release runs the generate command first, formats, then
copies, and asserts the frozen dir is byte-identical to candidate afterwards.
The order is not expressible any other way — the consumer supplies a generate
command, and a generate command that creates the numbered dir itself is refused.

script/cut-release.sh is dead once this lands. I have deliberately not deleted
it in this PR: this one is a single line in the release call, and deleting the
script is a separate change to make once #302 is on main.

Merge AFTER rainlanguage/rainix#302, not before

This is not a no-op today, and merging it first breaks the release path. On
rainlanguage/rainix@main right now snapshot-generate-cmd is
required: true. A caller that omits a required input fails at workflow_call
startup ("Input is required, but not provided while calling"), so between this
merging and #302 merging, a sol-v* tag here would fail immediately.

The reverse order is safe: #302 deletes the input, and until this lands the call
passes an input the reusable no longer declares, which also fails at startup —
so the two are a coordinated set either way. #302 first is the better order
because the dependency then runs from a finished, reviewed PR to a one-line
follow-up that merges in seconds, rather than from a merged one-liner to a large
PR that might still be sent back for changes.

Neither failure can corrupt a release: both are input-validation errors raised
before any step runs, so nothing is generated, published or committed. The only
real precaution is not to push a sol-v* tag between the two merges.

Unlike rain.factory.deploy, this repo is already on the rolling-candidate
model (src/generated/candidate/ exists alongside the frozen 0_1_1/), so once
#302 lands its releases work with no further change — and get the corrected
ordering.

QA

• Discriminating tests: none exist for a workflow-call input list, and none can
  — GitHub validates with: against the reusable's declared inputs at run
  startup, so the only oracle is the reusable's own on: workflow_call: inputs:
  block. Checked directly: pointers-generate-cmd (optional, defaults to this
  repo's exact generate command) and no snapshot-generate-cmd on
  rainix owns the deploy-repo release freeze: rainix-static cut-release rainlanguage/rainix#302's branch; soldeer-package and tag-prefix unchanged
  and still declared. The remaining with: keys and all eleven secrets:
  entries were matched one by one against that block, since this caller passes
  secrets explicitly rather than by inherit.
• Mutations applied: none — this is a one-line deletion in a workflow call with
  no executable logic to mutate. The failure modes were instead enumerated from
  GitHub's validation semantics and stated above: input present but undeclared
  (fails at startup), input absent but required (fails at startup), input absent
  and optional-or-undeclared (correct). The merge order follows from which of
  those the window lands in.
• Oracle: rainlanguage/rainix#302's rainix-tag-release.yaml read directly for
  the post-merge input set, and rainlanguage/rainix@main's read for the
  pre-merge one. This repo's script/cut-release.sh and script/BuildPointers.sol
  read directly for the ordering claim above and to confirm the removed command's
  replacement default matches what this repo actually runs.
• Category check: the ask is to stop passing an input rainix is deleting.
  Covered: the line is gone, nothing replaces it because the default already
  matches, the stale comment above the call describing cut-release.sh as the
  thing that freezes is corrected, and the ordering constraint the deletion
  creates is stated rather than left for a release to discover. Deleting the now
  dead script/cut-release.sh is called out as follow-up, not folded in.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores
  • Streamlined the release process by relying on the standard automated workflow for candidate regeneration, formatting, and versioned snapshot creation.
  • Updated release workflow documentation to clarify these automated steps.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The package release workflow now delegates snapshot regeneration, formatting, and versioned snapshot creation to the reusable tag-release workflow.

Changes

Release workflow update

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Delegate snapshot freezing .github/workflows/package-release.yaml	The workflow documentation assigns snapshot handling to the reusable workflow. The snapshot-generate-cmd input is removed.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~2 minutes

Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to 19ee7

This change must merge only after rainlanguage/rainix#302 because the current reusable workflow still requires the removed input; merging first would make tagged release workflows fail at startup. Once that dependency lands, the PR is otherwise localized and mergeable.

Possibly related PRs

• S01-Issuer/st0x.deploy#249: Both changes remove deprecated snapshot or generation command inputs from the release workflow.

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The reusable workflow now freezes snapshots right.
No extra command trails behind,
Clean versioned snapshots are easy to find.
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In @.github/workflows/package-release.yaml:
- Around line 23-25: Restore the required snapshot-generate-cmd input in the
release workflow caller so it remains compatible with
rainix-tag-release.yaml@main. Preserve the existing release-freeze behavior and
provide the command expected by the reusable workflow until the referenced
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[thedavidmeister]

HELD — do not merge. Sequenced behind rainlanguage/rainix#302, which is itself held pending rainlanguage/rainix#304 (pointer generation belongs in build, so the input this PR drops may be replaced by nothing at all rather than by pointers-generate-cmd) and rainlanguage/rainix#303 (release-time verify asserts nothing about the snapshot it publishes).

This PR is NOT a no-op in the meantime: snapshot-generate-cmd is required: true on rainix@main today, so merging this before #302 makes every release run here fail at workflow_call startup with "Input is required, but not provided". Do not push a sol-v* tag between the two merges whenever they do happen.