feat: prepare the stable release

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Run offline unit and contract tests
         run: uv run pytest -m "not live"
       - name: Check release version agreement
-        run: uv run python scripts/check_version.py --expected 0.1.0a1 --require-changelog
+        run: uv run python scripts/check_version.py --require-changelog
       - name: Check canonical public content and identity
         run: uv run python scripts/check_version.py --require-public-preview-docs
       - name: Scan for credentials and scope mistakes

.github/workflows/publish.yml

@@ -1,9 +1,17 @@
 name: Publish immutable release
 
 on:
-  release:
-    types:
-      - published
+  workflow_call:
+    inputs:
+      release-tag:
+        required: true
+        type: string
+      release-sha:
+        required: true
+        type: string
+      default-branch:
+        required: true
+        type: string
 
 permissions:
   contents: read
@@ -29,15 +37,16 @@ jobs:
       - name: Check out the published release tag
         uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
         with:
-          ref: refs/tags/${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}
+          ref: refs/tags/${{ inputs.release-tag }}
           fetch-depth: 0
           persist-credentials: false
       - name: Reject an untrusted release target
         id: trust
         env:
-          DEFAULT_BRANCH: ${{ github.event.repository.default_branch }}
-          RELEASE_IMMUTABLE: ${{ github.event.release.immutable }}
-          RELEASE_TAG: ${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}
+          DEFAULT_BRANCH: ${{ inputs.default-branch }}
+          EXPECTED_RELEASE_SHA: ${{ inputs.release-sha }}
+          RELEASE_IMMUTABLE: "true"
+          RELEASE_TAG: ${{ inputs.release-tag }}
         run: bash scripts/verify_release_trust.sh
       - name: Set up Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@5fda3b95a4ea91299a34e894583c3862153e4b97 # v7.0.0
@@ -50,7 +59,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Verify project, manifest, changelog, release docs, and tag agreement
         id: version
         env:
-          RELEASE_TAG: ${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}
+          RELEASE_TAG: ${{ inputs.release-tag }}
         run: |
           version=$(uv run python scripts/check_version.py --tag "$RELEASE_TAG" --require-changelog --require-releasable-docs --print-version)
           echo "version=$version" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
@@ -62,7 +71,7 @@ jobs:
         run: uv build
       - name: Verify artifact versions against the tag
         env:
-          RELEASE_TAG: ${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}
+          RELEASE_TAG: ${{ inputs.release-tag }}
         run: uv run python scripts/check_version.py --tag "$RELEASE_TAG" --require-changelog --require-releasable-docs dist/*
       - name: Check package metadata rendering
         run: uv run twine check dist/*

.github/workflows/release-please.yml

@@ -17,13 +17,74 @@ jobs:
     name: Maintain the reviewed release PR and release
     if: vars.RELEASE_PLEASE_ENABLED == 'true'
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    timeout-minutes: 10
+    timeout-minutes: 15
+    outputs:
+      release-created: ${{ steps.release.outputs.release_created }}
+      release-sha: ${{ steps.verify-release.outputs.release-sha }}
+      release-tag: ${{ steps.verify-release.outputs.release-tag }}
+      release-verified: ${{ steps.verify-release.outputs.release-verified }}
     permissions:
       contents: write
       pull-requests: write
     steps:
       - name: Open or update the release PR, or create its approved release
+        id: release
         uses: googleapis/release-please-action@5c625bfb5d1ff62eadeeb3772007f7f66fdcf071 # v4.4.1
         with:
           config-file: release-please-config.json
           manifest-file: .release-please-manifest.json
+      - name: Verify the immutable release created by Release Please
+        id: verify-release
+        if: steps.release.outputs.release_created == 'true'
+        env:
+          EXPECTED_SHA: ${{ steps.release.outputs.sha }}
+          EXPECTED_TAG: ${{ steps.release.outputs.tag_name }}
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
+        run: |
+          test -n "$EXPECTED_TAG"
+          test -n "$EXPECTED_SHA"
+          release=""
+          for attempt in $(seq 1 12); do
+            release=$(gh api "repos/${{ github.repository }}/releases/tags/$EXPECTED_TAG") || true
+            if test -n "$release" && test "$(jq -r .immutable <<<"$release")" = "true"; then
+              break
+            fi
+            if test "$attempt" -ge 12; then
+              echo "release did not become immutable" >&2
+              exit 1
+            fi
+            sleep 5
+          done
+          test "$(jq -r .tag_name <<<"$release")" = "$EXPECTED_TAG"
+          test "$(jq -r .draft <<<"$release")" = "false"
+          test "$(jq -r .prerelease <<<"$release")" = "false"
+          test "$(jq -r .immutable <<<"$release")" = "true"
+          ref=$(gh api "repos/${{ github.repository }}/git/ref/tags/$EXPECTED_TAG")
+          tag_type=$(jq -r .object.type <<<"$ref")
+          tag_sha=$(jq -r .object.sha <<<"$ref")
+          if test "$tag_type" = "tag"; then
+            tag_sha=$(gh api "repos/${{ github.repository }}/git/tags/$tag_sha" --jq .object.sha)
+          else
+            test "$tag_type" = "commit"
+          fi
+          test "$tag_sha" = "$EXPECTED_SHA"
+          {
+            echo "release-tag=$EXPECTED_TAG"
+            echo "release-sha=$EXPECTED_SHA"
+            echo "release-verified=true"
+          } >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+
+  publish-release:
+    name: Run the protected publication chain
+    needs: release-please
+    if: >-
+      needs.release-please.outputs.release-created == 'true' &&
+      needs.release-please.outputs.release-verified == 'true'
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+      id-token: write
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/publish.yml
+    with:
+      release-tag: ${{ needs.release-please.outputs.release-tag }}
+      release-sha: ${{ needs.release-please.outputs.release-sha }}
+      default-branch: ${{ github.event.repository.default_branch }}

AGENTS.md

@@ -96,9 +96,10 @@ Post-alpha invariants:
    authorizes that work, without reopening completed dispositions.
 2. Keep `.github/CODEOWNERS` absent until a real multi-maintainer model exists.
 3. Keep scheduled and manually dispatched live smoke fail-closed behind
-   `LIVE_SMOKE_ENABLED=true`, and keep `RELEASE_PLEASE_ENABLED` disabled until
-   a separate reviewed and tested `last-release-sha` bridge establishes the
-   recovery alpha as Release Please's previous-release boundary.
+   `LIVE_SMOKE_ENABLED=true`, and keep `RELEASE_PLEASE_ENABLED` disabled outside
+   an explicitly authorized release sequence. The stable-readiness
+   configuration establishes the recovery alpha boundary with a reviewed and
+   tested `last-release-sha` bridge.
 4. Treat the recorded public rules, security reporting, immutable releases, and
    protected environments as readiness invariants. Any drift invalidates the
    readiness claim until it is explicitly authorized, restored, and verified.
@@ -205,7 +206,7 @@ uv run ruff check src tests scripts
 uv run ruff format --check src tests scripts
 uv run pyright
 uv run pytest -m "not live"
-uv run python scripts/check_version.py --expected 0.1.0a1 --require-changelog
+uv run python scripts/check_version.py --require-changelog
 uv run python scripts/check_secrets.py
 uv run python scripts/check_workflows.py
 rm -rf dist
@@ -242,8 +243,11 @@ committed.
 - Publication uses a reviewed immutable tag, a protected `pypi` environment,
   and PyPI OIDC Trusted Publishing.
 - The release commit must equal the tag target and belong to the protected
-  default branch. A protected live-smoke job must check out that exact commit
-  and succeed before the protected PyPI job can become eligible.
+  default branch. Release Please must independently confirm that the exact tag
+  and commit are immutable before directly calling the protected publication
+  workflow; do not rely on workflow-token release events to trigger it. A
+  protected live-smoke job must check out that exact commit and succeed before
+  the protected PyPI job can become eligible.
 - Scheduled/default-branch live smoke is monitoring evidence only and cannot
   satisfy the exact-release live gate.
 - Missing identity, credentials, environments, reviewers, protection,
@@ -260,12 +264,16 @@ committed.
   accepted. The sole approved recovery tag is
   `v0.1.0-alpha.1+recovery.1`, which maps to package version `0.1.0a1`.
   Later releases must use their ordinary canonical tag spelling.
-- Keep Release Please disabled after the recovery alpha. Its manifest cannot
-  infer the previous-release boundary from the recovery tag's build metadata;
-  enabling it requires a separate reviewed and tested `last-release-sha`
-  bridge.
-- Keep third-party Actions pinned to full commit SHAs and grant
-  `id-token: write` only to the publishing job.
+- Keep Release Please disabled outside an explicitly authorized release
+  sequence. Its stable-readiness configuration uses the reviewed and tested
+  `last-release-sha` bridge because the recovery tag's build metadata cannot be
+  inferred from the manifest. Remove the one-time bridge and prerelease
+  versioning controls in the human-finalized stable release PR before it is
+  merged.
+- Keep third-party Actions pinned to full commit SHAs. Grant `id-token: write`
+  only to the reusable publication caller and the protected publishing job;
+  the caller passes this maximum permission and only the publishing job uses
+  the OIDC token.
 - Keep README, roadmap, compatibility matrix, examples, and changelog aligned
   with shipped behavior. Use currently supported model IDs.
 - All repository documentation is written in English.

ARCHITECTURE.md

@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ Release evidence is intentionally ordered:
 ```text
 local mocked/package evidence
     -> immutable tag commit equals checkout and belongs to protected default branch
+    -> release API and tag ref confirm the exact immutable identity
     -> protected live-smoke job checks that exact commit
     -> protected PyPI OIDC job publishes the previously verified artifact
     -> public registry digest, provenance, install, import, and mocked smoke
@@ -139,10 +140,10 @@ recovery release uses SemVer build metadata in
 `v0.1.0-alpha.1+recovery.1`. The build suffix does not change the package
 artifact identity: the PyPI version remains `0.1.0a1`.
 
-Release Please remains disabled after this recovery release because its
-manifest version does not include the recovery build metadata. A later,
-separately reviewed change must establish the previous-release boundary with a
-tested `last-release-sha` bridge before enabling automated release PRs.
+Release Please remains disabled outside an explicitly authorized release
+sequence. The stable-readiness configuration establishes the recovery commit
+as the previous-release boundary with a tested `last-release-sha` bridge, so
+the one-time build-metadata recovery tag cannot replay earlier history.
 
 ## Rejected 0.1 approaches
 

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ uv run ruff check src tests scripts
 uv run ruff format --check src tests scripts
 uv run pyright
 uv run pytest -m "not live"
-uv run python scripts/check_version.py --expected 0.1.0a1 --require-changelog
+uv run python scripts/check_version.py --require-changelog
 uv run python scripts/check_secrets.py
 uv run python scripts/check_workflows.py
 rm -rf dist

README.md

@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ variable, then the default:
 
 ### Chat Completions
 
+<!-- cometapi-readme-example: sync-chat -->
 ```python
 from cometapi import CometAPI
 
@@ -78,6 +79,7 @@ with CometAPI() as client:
 
 Streaming uses the official OpenAI stream type:
 
+<!-- cometapi-readme-example: sync-chat-stream -->
 ```python
 from cometapi import CometAPI
 
@@ -93,6 +95,7 @@ with CometAPI() as client:
 
 ### Responses and Models
 
+<!-- cometapi-readme-example: sync-responses-models -->
 ```python
 from cometapi import CometAPI
 
@@ -109,6 +112,7 @@ print(models.data[0].id if models.data else "No models returned")
 
 ### Async client
 
+<!-- cometapi-readme-example: async-response -->
 ```python
 import asyncio
 
@@ -171,7 +175,7 @@ uv run ruff check src tests scripts
 uv run ruff format --check src tests scripts
 uv run pyright
 uv run pytest -m "not live"
-uv run python scripts/check_version.py --expected 0.1.0a1 --require-changelog
+uv run python scripts/check_version.py --require-changelog
 uv run python scripts/check_secrets.py
 uv run python scripts/check_workflows.py
 rm -rf dist

RELEASING.md

@@ -45,10 +45,11 @@ one active maintainer.
 
 Before the historical first push, scheduled and manually dispatched live
 execution was required to fail closed unless `LIVE_SMOKE_ENABLED=true`.
-`RELEASE_PLEASE_ENABLED` was kept disabled and remains disabled until a
-separately reviewed and tested `last-release-sha` bridge establishes the
-recovery alpha as the previous-release boundary. An unset or non-true value
-prevents the corresponding gated job from executing.
+`RELEASE_PLEASE_ENABLED` was kept disabled. The reviewed stable-readiness
+configuration now uses an explicit `last-release-sha` bridge to establish the
+recovery alpha as the previous-release boundary; the repository variable stays
+disabled until maintainers intentionally start the stable release sequence. An
+unset or non-true value prevents the corresponding gated job from executing.
 The release live-model configuration resolves an unset or empty
 `COMETAPI_LIVE_MODEL` to `gpt-5.4`.
 
@@ -78,7 +79,7 @@ uv run ruff check src tests scripts
 uv run ruff format --check src tests scripts
 uv run pyright
 uv run pytest -m "not live"
-uv run python scripts/check_version.py --expected 0.1.0a1 --require-changelog
+uv run python scripts/check_version.py --require-changelog
 uv run python scripts/check_secrets.py
 uv run python scripts/check_workflows.py
 rm -rf dist
@@ -181,14 +182,18 @@ violations in one run and still returns non-zero when any violation exists.
   `LIVE_SMOKE_ENABLED=true`.
 - `release-please.yml` maintains a human-reviewed version and changelog pull
   request from Conventional Commits after maintainers enable the
-  `RELEASE_PLEASE_ENABLED` repository variable. Keep it disabled after the
-  initial `v0.1.0-alpha.1+recovery.1` release: the checked-in manifest version
-  lacks the recovery tag's build metadata and cannot safely infer the previous
-  release boundary. Enable it only after a separate reviewed change configures
-  and tests an explicit `last-release-sha` bridge.
-- `publish.yml` runs only for a published immutable GitHub release. It resolves
-  the tag to the checked-out commit, fetches the protected default branch, and
-  rejects a commit that is not reachable from that branch. A protected
+  `RELEASE_PLEASE_ENABLED` repository variable. The checked-in stable-readiness
+  configuration establishes the recovery release boundary with the reviewed
+  `last-release-sha` bridge. Keep the variable disabled except while executing
+  an explicitly authorized release sequence. When it creates an approved
+  release with the GitHub workflow token, it polls the GitHub API until that
+  exact tag and commit are independently reported as immutable, then invokes
+  the protected publication chain directly; workflow-token release events do
+  not trigger a second workflow run.
+- `publish.yml` is called only with the independently verified immutable tag,
+  commit, and default branch. It resolves the tag to the checked-out commit,
+  fetches the protected default branch, and rejects a commit that is not
+  reachable from that branch. A protected
   `live-smoke` job then checks out that exact verified commit and must succeed
   before the protected `pypi` job becomes eligible. The workflow publishes the
   previously verified artifacts with OIDC, then checks the public package
@@ -197,7 +202,9 @@ violations in one run and still returns non-zero when any violation exists.
   or empty live-model repository variable resolves to `gpt-5.4`.
 
 Third-party Actions are pinned to full commit SHAs. Workflow permissions are
-read-only by default; only the publishing job receives `id-token: write`.
+read-only by default. The reusable publication caller and protected publishing
+job declare `id-token: write`; the caller passes the maximum permission and
+only the publishing job requests the OIDC token.
 Publishing uses a protected `pypi` environment and concurrency control.
 Arbitrary-branch and manual publication are forbidden.
 
@@ -272,8 +279,9 @@ changelog, GitHub release, wheel, and source distribution.
   SHA256 `a6820347317943ca22f7632acbe354dd992f31a122a6172dfe45b57960e3a093`
   and source-distribution SHA256
   `98d86829ef14771e8b7ec180d452c6638289f49c14a39b7207be5c47cb64cde7`.
-- `LIVE_SMOKE_ENABLED=false`. Release Please remains disabled until a separate
-  reviewed and tested `last-release-sha` bridge is merged.
+- `LIVE_SMOKE_ENABLED=false`. Release Please remains disabled outside an
+  explicitly authorized release sequence; the reviewed `last-release-sha`
+  bridge is configured for the alpha-to-stable transition.
 
 ## Stable release sequence
 
@@ -282,8 +290,11 @@ feature or fix pull request
     -> required offline CI
     -> merge to the default branch
     -> automated release pull request
-    -> human review and merge
+    -> human finalization of stable docs, metadata, and one-time bridge cleanup
+    -> required release-PR CI, review, and merge
     -> immutable tag and GitHub release
+    -> bounded API verification of immutable tag and commit identity
+    -> direct call to the protected publication workflow
     -> verify immutable tag commit and protected-default-branch ancestry
     -> rebuild and verify exact artifacts
     -> protected live smoke against that exact commit
@@ -295,4 +306,11 @@ feature or fix pull request
 
 Stable `0.1.0` additionally requires the complete blocking Python matrix,
 executed README examples against the built package, trusted live evidence, and
-reviewed release-PR and changelog agreement.
+reviewed release-PR and changelog agreement. Before the stable release PR is
+merged, its finalization commit must state that `0.1.0` is approved for PyPI
+publication, use the stable installation command and classifier, and remove the
+one-time `last-release-sha` plus prerelease-versioning controls. The manifest,
+project metadata, lock file, and changelog must remain at the exact generated
+`0.1.0` version. If GitHub requires approval before checks run on the automated
+pull request, approve only that reviewed workflow execution and wait for every
+blocking check.