[rossirpaulo]

Wrapper 0.3 changed what baml --version prints. Two gaps let that reach users before anyone noticed:

• Release dry runs skip the developer docs job. It only runs after publishing, so 0.25.1 published every package and then failed there, one step before promoting the canary channel.
• The setup-baml and baml-action tests only run on PRs that touch the actions. They install the published wrapper, so a wrapper release that broke them changed none of their files. Users' CI broke first.

#5557 and #5558 fixed the breakage itself. This PR closes the two gaps.

Changes

Dry runs generate the developer docs. A new dry-run-developer-docs job runs in dry runs only:

• It unpacks this run's own wrapper and x86_64 Linux toolchain, and points the wrapper at that baml-cli with BAML_TOOLCHAIN. Nothing is downloaded.
• It runs the same snippet validation and content generation as publish-developer-docs, with --dry-run, so nothing is written.
• dry-run-summary needs it, so verify-release waits for it too.

One version check, before anything is written. populate-generated-content.ts takes an optional --expect-version. It compares that with the version the generator already reads from the binary's baml --version (the parser fixed and tested in #5557).

• Both docs jobs pass it.
• It replaces the separate sed parse in publish-developer-docs, which is the check that failed for 0.25.1. That leaves one parser instead of two.
• Generation runs before publishing, so a mismatch still stops the job before any database write.

The actions tests run daily. A new github-actions-nightly.yml runs on a schedule at 11:37 UTC, after the nightly release, and can also be started by hand.

• It calls the existing github-actions-ci.yml tests.
• On failure it notifies #general through tools/notify-release-failure.py, the way the nightly dispatcher does, but only from canary.
• It's a separate workflow because sync-github-actions-mirror.yml also calls those tests, and a called workflow can't ask for more permissions than its caller grants.
• The notifier takes an optional SUBJECT and DOCS for this. Release messages are unchanged.

Testing

• Dry-run job steps, run locally against the real 0.25.1 aarch64-apple-darwin toolchain and wrapper 0.3.1 archives, with a clean environment:
  • The wrapper ran the local toolchain without downloading anything.
  • Snippet validation passed.
  • Generation produced 40 CLI commands and 1,317 routes.
  • --expect-version 0.25.2 failed with "The selected baml binary runs toolchain 0.25.1, expected 0.25.2."
• Notifier: run with Slack and GitHub stubbed. The release message is byte-for-byte the same as before, and the new subject and docs line render.
• Static checks: actionlint passes on all three workflows. The docs app's typecheck, lint and unit tests pass.
• A real dry run of release-baml-language.yml on this branch is linked in a comment below.
• Not tested: the scheduled workflow's Slack step against real Slack. It only runs on a failure from canary.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation

  • Documentation updates now verify that generated content matches the expected release version.
  • A dry-run check validates documentation snippets and previews generated content before release.

• Chores

  • Added a scheduled nightly check, with notifications for failed or cancelled runs in the release channel.
  • Release notifications now support configurable headings and documentation references.

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Walkthrough

The changes add a scheduled workflow for GitHub Actions tests with conditional Slack notifications. The release workflow now validates the generated documentation version and runs documentation generation during dry runs.

Changes: Nightly GitHub Actions checks

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Schedule and reusable action tests .github/workflows/github-actions-nightly.yml	Adds a daily schedule and manual trigger. The workflow calls the reusable GitHub Actions CI workflow with job-level permissions.
Conditional failure notification .github/workflows/github-actions-nightly.yml, tools/notify-release-failure.py	Adds a Slack notification job for test failures or cancellations on canary in BoundaryML/baml. The notification script accepts configurable subject and documentation values. Failure and success headings use the configured subject.

Release documentation validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Generated documentation version check typescript2/app-developer-docs/scripts/populate-generated-content.ts, .github/workflows/release-baml-language.yml	The content-generation script checks an optional expected version. The production job passes the requested version and prints the installed BAML version without comparing it.
Dry-run documentation generation .github/workflows/release-baml-language.yml	Adds a dry-run job that installs the wrapper and toolchain from artifacts, validates snippets, and generates documentation without publishing. The dry-run summary waits for the job.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Other

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant NightlyWorkflow
  participant GithubActionsCI as github-actions-ci.yml
  participant NotifyScript as notify-release-failure.py
  participant Slack
  NightlyWorkflow->>GithubActionsCI: Run reusable action tests
  alt Test fails or is cancelled on canary in BoundaryML/baml
    NightlyWorkflow->>NotifyScript: Invoke with Slack and release metadata
    NotifyScript->>Slack: Send release failure notification
  end

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Possibly related PRs

• BoundaryML/baml#5537: Adds the reusable CI workflow that the nightly workflow calls.
• BoundaryML/baml#5483: Builds wrapper artifacts used by the release dry-run documentation job.
• BoundaryML/baml#5422: Adds the BAML-native wrapper and release build tested by the nightly and documentation workflows.

Suggested labels: github_actions

Suggested reviewers: hellovai, sxlijin, codeshaunted

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 5cf27

The new checks appear to gate the intended workflows without publishing mismatched documentation. Merge after normal checks.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 5cf27

Documentation dry runs remain separated from publication credentials, and version validation still precedes database publication. The new nightly workflow adds routine execution of tests with pull-request write permission and a separate Slack notification credential. No introduced exploitable path was established, but branch protection and environment approval settings were unavailable.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• observed — The new routine caller grants pull-request write permission to the reusable tests, whose passing-project jobs execute the nightly toolchain. Slack access is isolated in another job. The existing mirror workflow already invokes these tests with the same requested GitHub permissions; the PR adds execution occasions rather than a new permission category.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The new notifier inputs are fixed workflow strings used to construct Slack message text, not executable commands. VERSION comes from the workflow commit SHA. Source gates restrict notification to canary, but repository branch protection and environment approval policy were not available to establish the administrative trust boundary fully.

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Resolution

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Binary size checks failed

❌ 2 violations · ✅ 1 passed

⚠️ Please fix the size gate issues or acknowledge them by updating baselines.

	Artifact	Platform	File	Gzip	Gated on	Baseline	Delta	Status
✅	baml-cli	Linux	🔒 64.7 MB	27.5 MB	file	73.1 MB	-8.4 MB (-11.5%)	OK
❌	packed-program	Linux	🔒 39.1 MB	16.1 MB	file	29.2 MB	+10.0 MB (+34.3%)	FAIL
❌	bridge_wasm	WASM	26.0 MB	🔒 7.7 MB	gzip	5.7 MB	+2.0 MB (+35.7%)	FAIL

🔒 = the size this artifact is GATED on (ceiling + delta). Binaries gate on file size (installed binary); WASM gates on gzip (download size). The other size is shown for information only.

Details & how to fix

Violations:

• packed-program (Linux) file_bytes: 39.1 MB exceeds limit of 30.1 MB (exceeded by +9.0 MB, policy: max_file_bytes)
• packed-program (Linux) file_delta_pct: +34.3% exceeds limit of 3.0% (exceeded by +31.3pp, policy: max_delta_pct)
• bridge_wasm (WASM) gzip_bytes: 7.7 MB exceeds limit of 5.9 MB (exceeded by +1.8 MB, policy: max_gzip_bytes)
• bridge_wasm (WASM) gzip_delta_pct: +35.7% exceeds limit of 3.0% (exceeded by +32.7pp, policy: max_delta_pct)

Add/update baselines:

.ci/size-gate/wasm32-unknown-unknown.toml:

[artifacts.bridge_wasm]
file_bytes = 26012758
gzip_bytes = 7684779

.ci/size-gate/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.toml:

[artifacts.packed-program]
file_bytes = 39141528
gzip_bytes = 16087443

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Generated by cargo size-gate · workflow run

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A release dry run on this branch passed: run 42191684262 (nightly channel, dry run).

The new Generate developer documentation (dry run) job:

• installed this run's own wrapper and toolchain, with nothing downloaded: baml wrapper 0.3.1 / baml-cli 0.25.2-nightly.20261105.a;
• validated 62 snippets;
• generated 40 CLI commands and 1,317 routes, --expect-version matched the plan's version, and writes_performed: false.

Dry-run summary and every Verify release artifacts job also passed.