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Summary

Related: #4150, #4218, #4224

The Publish to npm job keeps failing, and the safety-net step added to recover from it has never recovered a release on master. This fixes the safety net so a transient npm failure no longer ends in a red job.

What was going wrong (three layers)

1. Trigger (not fixable here): some packages fail mid-publish with a Sigstore TLOG_CREATE_ENTRY_ERROR (409) (seen in 7 of 9 failed runs since 15 Oct), or once a GitHub OIDC 504 that npm reports as E404. Lerna carries on and exits non-zero. Provenance stays on.

2. The registry lags its own publishes. A publish is accepted immediately, but every read path (npm view, the per-version endpoint, lerna's own lookup) can still say "missing" for 1 to 13 minutes. Measured on 29 Oct from tarball Last-Modified against lerna's success published lines:

   Package	Lerna said published	Visible on npm	Lag
   styling	16:36:32	16:37:54	1.4 min
   react	16:36:41	16:42:59	6.3 min
   preview-react	16:37:01	16:46:21	9.3 min
   mcp (earlier run)	15:21:31	15:34:06	12.6 min

   The write path is authoritative: the registry answered "already published" for preview-react 8.5 minutes before it was readable.

3. The safety net trusted those reads and mishandled failures:

   • A failed lerna publish leaves every package.json modified (gitHead, resolved deps) because lerna only resets them after a fully successful publish. lerna publish from-package then refuses to run with EUNCOMMIT (confirmed in the lerna 9.0.1 source). Hidden until fix: Remove generated package.json files after packing #4224 by the Nx duplicate-project error.
   • The retry loop used registry reads to decide what was "still missing". Run 40912333768 published all 6 remaining packages in attempt 1 and exited 0. The script was then told all 12 were still missing, retried, re-published styling (already on npm), hit a Rekor 409, and died with EUNCOMMIT. The release was complete after attempt 1.

What changed

• utils/publish-packages.mjs
  • Decides what to publish once, at the start, from registry reads.
  • restoreLernaManifests(): before every lerna attempt, git checkout -- on modified package.json files. The release commit is already in HEAD, so this only discards lerna's temporary edits. Other dirty files are left alone so lerna still reports them.
  • parseConfirmedPackages(): records which packages lerna confirmed (success published or Package is already published) and never un-confirms them. Succeeds when lerna exits 0 or every package is confirmed; retries only the rest.
  • Treats a 5xx from GitHub's OIDC token endpoint as transient.
  • The main guard now compares real paths. It used to compare process.argv[1] with the already-resolved import.meta.url, so running the script through a symlinked path silently did nothing and exited 0.
• utils/spec/publish-packages.spec.ts: 12 tests. The manifest restore runs in a real temp git repo. The retry logic runs the whole script against a fake yarn/npm, replaying the real sequences (stale reads after a full publish; a 409 that leaves manifests dirty; a failed re-publish of an already-published package; an OIDC 504; permanent errors fail fast; attempts are capped). I confirmed against the previous loop that 5 of the scenarios fail there.
• parsePublishedPackageLines stays exported. utils/publish-canary.mjs imports it, so removing it would have broken every canary publish at load time. A spec now fails whenever publish-canary.mjs imports a name that publish-packages.mjs does not export.

No workflow, tsconfig, or other shared config files are touched.

Release Category

Infrastructure

Release Note

Fixes the release safety-net step so a partial or failed npm publish is recovered correctly. No change to published packages.

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Checklist

• MDX documentation adheres to Canvas Kit's Documentation Guidelines
• Label ready for review has been added to PR

Where Should the Reviewer Start?

utils/publish-packages.mjs (parseConfirmedPackages and the loop in publishFromPackage), then the scenarios in utils/spec/publish-packages.spec.ts, which replay the real failed runs (40899439848, 40912333768, 40349815957).

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• Is "lerna exit 0, or every package confirmed" the right success rule? Exit 0 means lerna published or saw on npm everything it believed was missing. A non-zero exit with every package confirmed is a failed re-publish of a package that is already there.

• Is resetting package.json files safe in every flow that calls this script? In the release flow the bump is committed before the build and publish, so HEAD has the right versions. complete-unpublished.yml starts from a clean checkout, so it is a no-op there. Please sanity-check the support flow.

Testing Manually

• yarn vitest run utils/spec and yarn typecheck:specs pass locally (22 tests).
• Not verified end-to-end: this has not run in CI against a real Sigstore 409. I did not run lerna publish locally because it would publish. The next release that hits a 409 is the real test: Publish remaining packages should go green and all 13 packages should appear on npm (allow ~15 minutes for reads to catch up). Please note the result on this PR.

Known gaps (not in this PR)

canvas-kit-actions/release@v2 publishes once. When that fails, this safety net publishes the rest and the job goes green, but the action's later steps (Publish Storybook and Update Chromatic Baseline) are skipped and never re-run. Verified skipped in run 40899439848. Fixing it needs a change in that repo and is deliberately not part of this PR.

utils/publish-canary.mjs has its own recovery path that also decides what is "missing" from registry reads right after a publish, so it can have the same stale-read problem. It is unchanged here and I have not seen it fail (all recent canary runs passed).

Notes

• This targets support so it forward-merges to master and the prerelease/* branches (same route as chore: Fix npm publish failures in support #4218 and fix: Remove generated package.json files after packing #4224).

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• Chores
  • Package publishing now handles temporary service failures and incomplete publishing attempts more reliably.
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  • Added coverage for publishing retries, already-published packages, and recovery from modified package manifests.

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Walkthrough

The publish recovery script now tracks package versions confirmed by Lerna, restores modified package manifests before retry attempts, and recognizes additional retryable failures. Tests cover publish outcomes, retries, and manifest restoration.

Changes: Package publish recovery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Retry controls and invocation utils/publish-packages.mjs, utils/spec/publish-packages.spec.ts	The retry delay can be set with PUBLISH_RETRY_BASE_MS, and OIDC endpoint 5xx failures are retryable. Direct invocation detection compares real paths. A test checks that imports from publish-canary.mjs exist as exports.
Publish confirmation and manifest restoration utils/publish-packages.mjs, utils/spec/publish-packages.spec.ts	The script parses Lerna’s published and already-published output, restores modified manifests before attempts, and bases remaining work on unconfirmed packages. Tests cover restoration, registry visibility, retry outcomes, and retry exhaustion.

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Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant publishFromPackage
  participant restoreLernaManifests
  participant Git
  participant Lerna
  publishFromPackage->>restoreLernaManifests: Restore modified package manifests
  restoreLernaManifests->>Git: Find and restore modified manifests
  publishFromPackage->>Lerna: Run publish attempt
  Lerna-->>publishFromPackage: Return output and status
  publishFromPackage->>publishFromPackage: Accumulate confirmed package versions

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Possibly related PRs

• Workday/canvas-kit#4218: Introduces the publish recovery workflow that this change extends.
• Workday/canvas-kit#4216: Carries the same partial npm publish recovery flow.
• Workday/canvas-kit#4224: Removes generated package manifests that can affect Lerna publish recovery.

Suggested reviewers: alanbsmith, sheelah

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A local publish can discard unrelated unstaged manifest edits. Release jobs use fresh checkouts, and the limitation has been acknowledged.

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333-333: Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win

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Isolate Git commands from inherited repository variables.

If GIT_DIR or GIT_WORK_TREE points to another repository, cwd does not reliably select the intended repository. The diff and subsequent checkout can then inspect or alter that other worktree. Remove Git repository-location variables from both child-process environments. Apply the same isolation to Git calls in utils/spec/publish-packages.spec.ts, which target temporary repositories. (git-scm.com) Based on learnings, Git subprocesses that target a selected cwd must clear inherited Git repository-location variables, including in temporary-repository tests.

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utils/publish-packages.mjs:342-351
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Save a recoverable manifest diff before restoreLernaManifests() runs git checkout.

restoreLernaManifests() runs git checkout -- on every unstaged package.json. A local yarn publish:from-package run that starts with an unrelated manifest edit discards that edit. Git cannot recover it, because the edit was never committed. Write a patch of the manifest diff to the OS temp directory before the checkout, and log its path. Keep the restore itself unchanged. Do not reject dirty manifests on entry. Lerna-modified manifests are present at entry during same-checkout recovery and on retries, so rejection would block that path.

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   console.log(`Restoring ${manifests.length} package.json file(s) left modified by lerna publish.`);
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+  const {stdout: patch} = await execFileAsync('git', ['diff', '--relative', '--', ...manifests], {cwd});
+  const backupDir = await mkdtemp(path.join(tmpdir(), 'manifest-backup-'));
+  const backupPath = path.join(backupDir, 'package.json.patch');
+  await writeFile(backupPath, patch);
+  console.log(`Saved manifest diff to ${backupPath}. Restore with: git apply ${backupPath}`);
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   await execFileAsync('git', ['checkout', '--', ...manifests], {cwd});

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import {mkdtemp, writeFile} from 'node:fs/promises';
import {tmpdir} from 'node:os';

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Review comment at @utils/publish-packages.mjs around lines 342 - 351:
Update restoreLernaManifests to save the unstaged diff for the identified
package.json manifests to a patch file in the OS temporary directory and log the
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134-145: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Heavy lift

Add a test that runs publishFromPackage and checks manifest restoration before the retry.

The new restoration tests call restoreLernaManifests directly. No test calls publishFromPackage. If the restoreLernaManifests() call is removed from publishFromPackage, or moved after the Lerna attempt, every listed spec still passes. The recovery workflows reach publishFromPackage through yarn publish:from-package, so this path runs in real releases.

A useful test would run publishFromPackage with a stubbed Lerna command that fails on the first attempt. It would then assert that the modified manifests are restored before the second attempt. The current code does restore before each attempt, so this is a coverage gap, not a current failure. I did not confirm whether the Lerna command is injectable, so I have no safe patch.

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Add a test for publishFromPackage that stubs the Lerna command to fail on its
first attempt and verifies the modified manifests are restored before the retry;
retain the direct restoreLernaManifests tests as separate coverage.

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Replies to the two review-body findings that have no thread:

• Save a patch before restoreLernaManifests() runs git checkout: not changing this. The script runs in release jobs on a fresh checkout, and lerna publish from-package refuses a dirty tree anyway, so the data-loss case needs someone to run it locally with an unrelated, uncommitted package.json edit. I'd rather not add temp-file writes to the release path for that.
• Isolate git from GIT_DIR / GIT_WORK_TREE: not changing this. The review marks it unverified, and none of the places this script and its spec run (the release workflows, yarn vitest) set those variables.

Both are small to add if a maintainer wants them.