Say what is inside the file you ship: a register, an SBOM, an attestation, and a release ritual - #5
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There was no release mechanism at all - no tag, no workflow, no checksums, no
signature - while README already promised a download carrying an Authenticode
signature. That is RELEASE-002 from the pre-release audit, the last P0 it left
open, and backlog row 386. Owner's decision to build all three at once.
THE MEASUREMENT THAT DECIDED THE DESIGN. Both halves publish as a SINGLE
self-contained file: the window carries 5 third-party components and 243
assemblies, the command line 2 and 189, and every one of them is INSIDE the
executable. There is no Wpf.Ui.dll on disk, no .deps.json beside the binary and
no package metadata anywhere in what a user downloads. A scanner over the
release would report two executables and assign a licence to neither.
So the list comes from packaging/components.json, a register maintained by hand,
and the job of a scan is to police it rather than replace it. One register, three
renderings: the SPDX 2.3 document published beside each archive, the full licence
texts in THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md, and `bws license --components` printed from
inside the executable for a machine with no internet. They cannot disagree while
they are one file, and two guards hold that: ComponentRegisterGuards checks the
register against the resolved package graph and against the notices in both
directions, and packaging/sbom.ps1 checks it against the .deps.json a real
publish produced, also in both directions.
Two kinds of version, deliberately. A component we reference states its version,
because we chose it and a bump has to be noticed. One the SDK resolves does not,
because its version is whatever .NET built the file. The document is exact either
way - it reads the resolved version out of the build manifest.
Pinned bytes only where nobody else signs. Wpf.Ui.dll and Wpf.Ui.Abstractions.dll
carry a sha256 in the register and a guard; the other 241 assemblies are
Microsoft's and carry Microsoft's own Authenticode, which is a stronger statement
than a hash of ours. The price is stated in the register: every WPF-UI bump turns
that guard red until the hashes move. Loud rather than quiet.
THE RITUAL, four phases, because the signing key lives on a card that cannot be
exported and no GitHub-hosted runner will ever reach it:
A .github/workflows/release.yml on a v* tag. Refuses to build unless the test
workflow was green on this exact commit, the tag matches the version file and
the changelog is closed. Attests provenance of the UNSIGNED archive, opens an
EMPTY draft, hands the build over as a workflow artifact. It publishes
nothing: an unsigned executable on a public release page, even for a quarter
of an hour, is a file somebody downloads.
B packaging/sign-release.ps1, at the machine with the card. Verifies A's
attestation before touching anything, signs with an RFC 3161 timestamp, reads
the certificate back OUT of the signed file and refuses unless it hashes to
the pin, repacks, writes the documents and sums over the SIGNED bytes, and
waits for phase C to confirm the draft is complete.
C .github/workflows/attest-signed.yml. Downloads from the RELEASE rather than
trusting a digest it was handed, and attests the bill of materials - never
provenance. A person produced those bytes on their own machine; an
attestation saying a workflow did would be the one lie it must not carry.
D .github/workflows/verify-release.yml, on publish, read-only. Checks the
release PAGE the way a user does, and runs the four verification commands out
of README.md VERBATIM, so a command that stops working turns red instead of
sitting in a document.
`bws license [--components]` is the ninth verb and the first that reads nothing at
all - no service manager, no disk, no network. It is answered before the manager
is opened but only when the line parsed cleanly, so a switch belonging to another
verb is refused rather than swallowed; LicenceCommandTests walks the whole option
surface and proves it. The verb and --components are frozen contract surface, so
docs/02 gained the column and the row, the README and both language versions of
the CLI reference gained the verb, and the document-to-code bridge passes.
Two guards were repaired on the way, both found by instruments rather than by
reading. PublicSurfaceGuards was reading dist/, so it reported the staged copy of
the notices file it can never fix. And a mutation entry anchored on a line that
the review of #4 split across three had been dead since that commit with nothing
saying so.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds an offline CLI license command backed by a shared component register. It also adds scripts and workflows to build packages, generate SPDX documents, sign archives, create attestations, and verify published release assets. ChangesComponent Inventory and Release Pipeline
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant SignRelease as packaging/sign-release.ps1
participant GitHubRelease as GitHub Release
participant AttestSigned as .github/workflows/attest-signed.yml
SignRelease->>GitHubRelease: Upload signed archives, SPDX files, and SHA256SUMS
SignRelease->>AttestSigned: Dispatch with tag and archive digests
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AttestSigned->>GitHubRelease: Upload .sigstore.json bundles
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winRemove the hand-maintained command lists from both descriptions.
Both descriptions omit
license, although the CLI exposes it and both reference pages list it. The discrepancy affects metadata only; the page bodies include the command. The website rules require content to match the app and prohibit hand-typed copies of program-owned names. Use general descriptions instead of adding another command name.Suggested fix
-<meta name="description" content="Every command, switch and exit code of the bws command line: list, show, stop, start, restart, kill, start-type and snapshot, with where each flag works."> +<meta name="description" content="Reference for bws commands, switches and exit codes, including where each flag works.">-<meta name="description" content="Każda komenda, przełącznik i kod wyjścia programu bws: list, show, stop, start, restart, kill, start-type i snapshot, razem z tym, gdzie każda flaga działa."> +<meta name="description" content="Informacje o komendach, przełącznikach i kodach wyjścia programu bws, wraz z informacją, gdzie działa każda flaga.">🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In @.github/workflows/attest-signed.yml:
- Around line 68-89: Update the digest cross-check step after its DIGESTS loop
to require a matching DIGESTS entry for every assets/*.zip archive, and fail if
any archive has no entry. Ensure empty or comma-only DIGESTS values cannot let
the step pass without checking each archive.
In `@packaging/components.json`:
- Around line 8-10: The measurement date stated in the register and matching
notices and CLI documentation is in the future; replace it with the verified
date the measurements actually occurred. Update the date claim associated with
the "//measured" entry and keep all corresponding references consistent, without
assuming a date not established by the measurements.
In `@packaging/sbom.ps1`:
- Around line 256-260: Update the `files` handling that builds `$entry` so
hashes of inner files are not written to the package-level `checksums` field.
Preserve the pinned file hashes in `$entry.comment`, including each file’s
`package_path` and `sha256`, rather than claiming they hash the package itself.
In `@packaging/sign-release.ps1`:
- Around line 386-405: Before uploading the new files in the release handoff,
remove any existing .sigstore.json assets for the current release so the wait
loop only observes bundles generated by the new attestation run. Locate the
upload flow around Invoke-Step and use the existing release asset names;
preserve the upload and subsequent wait behavior.
- Around line 375-376: Before the Phase B `sbom.ps1` invocation, validate that
the commit at `HEAD` matches the commit resolved from `$Tag` and that
`packaging` and `Directory.Build.props` have no local changes; stop release
processing with a clear error if either check fails.
- Around line 244-253: Bind the archive download in the signing flow to the
exact workflow run triggered by the tag push; do not select a run using only the
tag as a branch. In the `Invoke-Step` calls for `gh run download` and `gh
attestation verify`, constrain provenance to the release workflow and
`refs/tags/$Tag`, and reject self-hosted runner attestations.
- Line 400: Quote the comma-separated field list in the `gh release view` call
in the release asset-wait flow, so PowerShell passes `assets,isDraft` as one
argument after `--json`. Keep the change scoped to this call.
In `@README.md`:
- Around line 80-81: Update the checksum checks in the README so each computed
digest matches a complete SHA256SUMS line that also names its corresponding
archive. Keep BetterWindowsServices-win-x64.zip and bws-cli-win-x64.zip bound to
their own entries, allowing the checksum file’s supported filename format
without accepting a digest assigned to another archive.
In `@tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/PublicSurfaceGuards.cs`:
- Around line 387-388: Update NotBuildOutput to exclude paths containing a build
directory, alongside its existing bin and dist exclusions. Add a build/ case to
The_surfaces_left_out_of_the_sweep_are_the_ones_that_are_outside_git so the
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In `@site/pages/cli-reference/en.html`:
- Line 2: Replace the hand-maintained command lists in the English and Polish
CLI reference meta descriptions with general descriptions of the commands,
switches, and exit codes, retaining the flag-coverage context without naming
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Replace the future measurement dates with the actual measurement date.
The register and matching notice and CLI text say measurements occurred on 2026-09-23. The review timestamp is 2026-09-22 23:45 UTC, so that date is still in the future. Run the publish and package checks, then update the date claims in the register, notices, and CLI documentation.
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In `@packaging/components.json` around lines 8 - 10, The measurement date stated
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…tested a lie The review of #5 found eight things. Seven were real, and the three worst all had the same shape: a check that passes while describing something other than what shipped. VERIFYING THE BUILD BY --repo ALONE WAS NOT VERIFYING IT. It proves only that some workflow in this repository attested those bytes. release.yml also answers workflow_dispatch, and a dispatch from a BRANCH skips every tag-only check in it while still uploading an artifact called unsigned-build-<ref name> - so a branch named like the tag produces an artifact that reaches the card. Phase B now names the workflow and the source ref and denies self-hosted runners. Each flag was read out of `gh attestation verify --help` on gh 2.101.0 rather than taken from the suggestion. PHASE B BUILT THE DOCUMENTS FROM THE WORKING TREE AND THE ARCHIVE FROM THE TAG. sbom.ps1 reads the version from Directory.Build.props and the components from the register, and the signing list comes from that same register - all out of whatever is checked out. If main has moved since the tag, the document states the wrong version, the wrong download URL or the wrong licences for bytes that do not have them, and phase C attests exactly that. The check against deps.json cannot see any of it. It now refuses unless HEAD is the tagged commit and the tree is clean. A RE-RUN WOULD HAVE PRINTED PASS OVER STALE ATTESTATIONS. Step 8 waits for phase C by counting .sigstore.json assets on the draft, and on a second run the bundles from the first are still there - so the wait ends before the new run starts, and the bundles describe archives that were replaced a minute earlier. Phase D would then fail the README's own --bundle command, after publication. The old bundles are now deleted before the upload. The other four: * attest-signed.yml checked only the digests it was handed, so an empty or partial dispatch input attested archives nobody cross-checked. Every assets/*.zip must now be named in it. * The SPDX documents put the hash of a DLL in a component's `checksums`, where SPDX means the hash of the package file itself - a false statement anybody could catch against the .nupkg, and one phase C signed. It is a comment now. Not an SPDX File element: that wants a SHA1 this register does not carry, and inventing a hash to satisfy a schema is a worse answer than a sentence. * The README's checksum commands matched the digest anywhere in SHA256SUMS, so a sums file listing your digest under another name passed. They match a whole line now - checked both ways, on the real archives. * PublicSurfaceGuards was about to meet the dist/ failure again from build/signing, where phase B unpacks. Nobody had met it because nobody has signed a release yet. THE ONE NOT TAKEN: that the 2026-09-23 measurement dates are in the future. They are in UTC and this machine is UTC+02:00 - the work was done after midnight local time, and every date in this repository is written in local time. Also in this commit: four mutation registry entries for the guards this branch added, all four proved to catch; a certificate check that closed a backlog row - the pinned fingerprint is the one in this machine's store, with a reachable private key and 331 days left; and a first-run message for sign-release.ps1 that says what to do rather than "gh failed with exit 1". Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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The review's ninth finding, and it is the shape this repository spends most of
its rules on: a check that fails silently reads exactly like one that passed.
`--json assets, isDraft` is not one argument in PowerShell. A space ends a token
in argument mode, so gh receives `assets,` and `isDraft` and answers "accepts at
most 1 arg(s), received 2" with exit 1. Measured against a real release on
gh 2.101.0 rather than taken from the suggestion: unquoted exits 1, quoted exits
0 with the document.
Nothing read that exit code, and in sign-release.ps1 stderr went to $null as
well. So:
* the wait for phase C saw no assets at all, and would have sat there until the
timeout and then blamed phase C for a draft that was in fact complete;
* in verify-release.yml, the draft and pre-release checks were being SKIPPED.
That step is the one that refuses to call a release verified while it is
still a draft, and the one that checks "latest" points at it.
Every field list with a comma is quoted now, and every one of these reads checks
its exit code and refuses rather than continuing with nothing - including the two
single-field calls, where a failed read and an empty release look identical from
the caller.
Swept the rest of the repository for the same shape: no other occurrence.
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Invoke-Expressionfrom README verification.The workflow reads
README.md, extracts command text, and executes it withInvoke-Expression. A malicious verification block can run arbitrary PowerShell on the runner and use its network access andGH_TOKEN.Run fixed command arrays in the workflow. Compare the extracted README lines with the expected command text. Do not execute Markdown content.
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Fail when the clean-tree check cannot run.
git status --porcelain is a native command. A nonzero exit with no stdout makes this condition false. The script can then sign archives while it cannot establish that the local files used for the SBOM and signing list are clean.
Use Invoke-Step before testing the output.
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In `@packaging/sign-release.ps1` at line 255, Update the clean-tree check around
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There was no release mechanism at all - no tag, no workflow, no checksums, no signature - while
README.mdalready promised a download that carries an Authenticode signature. This isRELEASE-002from the pre-release audit, the last P0 it left open, and backlog row 386. Owner's decision: build all three pieces at once - the bill of materials, the attestation and the signing ritual.The measurement that decided the design
Both halves publish as a single self-contained file. Measured on a real publish of both projects: the window carries 5 third-party components and 243 assemblies, the command line 2 and 189, and every one of them is inside the executable. There is no
Wpf.Ui.dllon disk, no.deps.jsonbeside the binary, and no package metadata anywhere in what a user downloads.So a scanner run over the release would report two executables and assign a licence to neither. The list has to come from a register maintained by hand, and the job of a scan is to police that register rather than replace it.
One register, three renderings
packaging/components.jsonholds each component's name, version, SPDX licence identifier, supplier and source. From it:THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.mdbws license --componentsThey cannot disagree while they are one file. Two guards hold that:
ComponentRegisterGuardschecks the register against the resolved package graph and against the notices in both directions, andpackaging/sbom.ps1checks it against the.deps.jsona real publish produced, also in both directions.Two kinds of version, deliberately. A component we reference states its version, because we chose it and a bump has to be noticed. One the SDK resolves does not, because its version is whatever .NET built the file - a literal there would be true on one machine and false on the next. The document is exact either way: it reads the resolved version out of the build manifest.
Pinned bytes only where nobody else signs.
Wpf.Ui.dllandWpf.Ui.Abstractions.dllcarry a sha256 and a guard. The other 241 assemblies are Microsoft's and carry Microsoft's own Authenticode, which is a stronger statement than a hash of ours and is checked by Windows rather than by us. The price is stated in the register: every WPF-UI bump turns that guard red until the hashes move. Loud rather than quiet.The ritual, four phases
The signing key lives on a card that cannot be exported - that is the whole value of it - so no GitHub-hosted runner will ever reach it, and a self-hosted runner on a public repository is a machine strangers can aim a pull request at.
release.ymlon av*tag. Refuses unless the test workflow was green on this exact commit, the tag matches the version file, and the changelog is closed. Attests provenance of the unsigned archive, opens an empty draft, hands the build over as an artifact. It publishes nothing: an unsigned executable on a public release page, even for a quarter of an hour, is a file somebody downloads.packaging/sign-release.ps1, at the machine with the card. Verifies A's attestation before touching anything, signs with an RFC 3161 timestamp, reads the certificate back out of the signed file and refuses unless it hashes to the pin, repacks, writes the documents and sums over the signed bytes, then waits for C and confirms the draft is complete.attest-signed.yml. Downloads from the release rather than trusting a digest it was handed, and attests the bill of materials - never provenance. A person produced those bytes on their own machine; an attestation saying a workflow did would be the one lie it must not carry.verify-release.yml, on publish, read-only. Checks the release page the way a user does, and runs the four verification commands out ofREADME.mdverbatim - so a command that stops working turns red instead of sitting in a document.The new verb
bws license [--components]is the ninth verb and the first that reads nothing at all - no service manager, no disk, no network. It is answered before the manager is opened, but only when the line parsed cleanly, so a switch belonging to another verb is refused rather than swallowed.LicenceCommandTestswalks the whole option surface and proves no option can be dropped in silence.The verb and
--componentsare frozen contract surface, sodocs/02gained the column and the row,README.mdand both language versions of the CLI reference gained the verb, and the document-to-code bridge passes.What was measured, and what was not
Measured end to end locally: the whole path from publish to SPDX document, on both packages - window 66.7 MB archive from a 171 MB executable, command line 37.8 MB from 98 MB, with the pinned hashes checked and the packaged program run and asked what it carries. The archive layout was read back out of the zip:
bws/bws.exe,bws/LICENSE,bws/THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md- exactly what phases B and D reach for.Not measured: the three workflow files have never run.
workflow_dispatchonly works from the default branch, so the first tag will be their first measurement. The certificate fingerprint was copied from the owner's other project on his statement that the same card signs both, and has not been checked against the card -sign-release.ps1 -ListCertificatesdoes that, and until then nothing can be signed by the wrong certificate because the script refuses.No release, no tag, version stays 0.1.0. Closing the changelog and cutting the first release is the owner's decision, and phase A refuses a tag until the changelog carries a dated section.
Two guards repaired on the way
PublicSurfaceGuardswas readingdist/, so it reported the staged copy of the notices file - a file it can never fix, because a script writes it on every run. And a mutation entry anchored on a line that the review of #4 split across three had been dead since that commit, with nothing saying so until the registry was evaluated against the code.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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bws licenseto display licence information, with--componentsfor a detailed list of bundled components, versions, licences, and sources. The command works offline.