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Release metadata previously recorded a planned schedule through November even though the eleven releases were tagged in June. This PR aligns those dates with annotated Git tags in UTC and adds a tag-aware CI gate. It rejects contradictory dates, missing published tags, missing covered surfaces, and lightweight tags using structured findings. [claim:release-reconciliation, confidence:1.00]

Release preparation now accepts a canonical explicit date or derives one from a clock supplied by the CLI. Its shared structural guard preserves historical release identities while allowing the next completed release block. [claim:preparation, confidence:1.00]

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The policy, changelog, and release notes are written from one scaffold date. Comparing those copies with each other cannot establish when a release was tagged. The replacement reads annotated tagger dates in UTC and passes the already-read tag inventory and recorded surfaces to a pure comparison. GitHub Release publication timestamps remain separate from the recorded tag date. For example, v0.4's tag timestamp is June 24 in PDT and June 25 in UTC; its recorded date is June 25.

The comparison checks coverage in both directions. Every present tag must have its covered policy, changelog, and notes surfaces; every published policy block must have its tag. Removing one tag from a nonempty inventory therefore fails. Untagged prep and planned blocks remain valid before publication. The only absent historical surface allowed as advisory is v0.1's policy block, which predates the policy. A tagged prep block also reports pending publication as advisory, but its dates must already match the tag. [claim:coverage, confidence:1.00]

This diagram shows the authority input and the boundary between structured comparison and command output.

flowchart LR
    G[Annotated tag dates in UTC] --> R{Pure reconciliation}
    P[Release policy blocks] --> R
    C[Changelog dates] --> R
    N[Release notes dates] --> R
    R --> F[Structured findings]
    F --> E[Missing or contradictory evidence: fail]
    F --> A[Allowlisted legacy omission or pending publication: advisory]
    E --> CLI[CLI renders findings]
    A --> CLI
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Caption: Tag authority, recorded evidence, and reconciliation outcomes
  1. Git tag dates provide the reference independently of the date-writing scaffold.
  2. The comparison checks dates and coverage, including published policy blocks whose tags are absent.
  3. Findings identify a stable kind, tag, surface, and expected/actual values.
  4. Only the explicit legacy omission and pending publication status are advisory; the CLI renders the result after comparison.

Tests inspect the structured findings rather than parsing diagnostic prose. The dedicated release-dates CI job fetches complete history and tags, and cargo xtask verify runs the same command locally. No tag is created, moved, or deleted by this checker. [claim:ci-boundary, confidence:0.95]

The previous fixed policy-block count rejected the next valid release. The replacement preserves the ten historical identities from v0.2 through v0.11 without limiting future blocks. Regressions cover both an additional completed prep block and replacing a historical block with a new one while retaining the total count. The shared structural guard rejects placeholders for every status. Policy-block values are parsed as TOML; required scope/non-goal fields must be actual string arrays. Comments, multiline strings, and scalar strings cannot impersonate these lists, and ordinary TOML assignment spacing is accepted. Both reconciliation and the structural guard consume the same parsed field evidence. [claim:parsed-policy-fields, confidence:1.00] Per-release scope and non-goal meaning remains a human review contract; the removed generated Rust tests did not establish that the claimed scope actually shipped. [claim:history, confidence:1.00]

release-prep --date accepts only valid fixed-width ASCII YYYY-MM-DD dates. The prior input 2026-1-001 is now InvalidIsoDate. Without an explicit date, the CLI reads the clock once and injects it into the scaffold helper. Fixed tests cover epoch/day rollover, leap day, the last four-digit year, pre-epoch and out-of-range errors, and explicit-date precedence. The command leaves Rust test sources unchanged and scaffolds the mechanical release surfaces and planned evidence rows. A prep branch can still outlive its scaffold date; when its tag appears, reconciliation requires the recorded dates to match. [claim:date-input, confidence:1.00]

Verification

The review repairs were made as separate signed forward commits after a regular merge of current main. RED failures were observed before each behavior repair:

Repair RED command and observed failure GREEN evidence
Historical identity coverage cargo test -p xtask tests::release_policy_structure_accepts_additional_completed_prep -- --exact --nocapture: an eleventh completed block failed the old exact-ten assertion Same test passes; historical replacement regression also passes
Structured findings cargo test -p xtask release_date_: new field/kind assertions failed to compile against Vec<String> Ten reconciliation tests inspect structured findings
Canonical date input cargo test -p xtask release_prep_rejects_noncanonical_iso_date -- --nocapture: 2026-1-001 incorrectly returned success Same regression and invalid-calendar/grammar matrix pass
Injected clock cargo test -p xtask release_prep_default_date_uses_supplied_utc_clock -- --nocapture: the helper could not accept a clock or return structured clock failures Seven focused release-prep tests pass
Parsed policy fields cargo test -p xtask release_policy_list: comment-only fields produced zero findings; valid alternate assignment spacing was rejected Actual-field rejection and valid-spacing regressions pass
Missing published tag cargo test -p xtask release_date_reconciliation_rejects_missing_published_tags -- --nocapture: removing v0.10 left zero findings Each published tag's removal yields MissingSurface on Surface::Tag; untagged prep/planned cases pass

Documentation-only corrections needed no behavior RED/GREEN cycle; Markdown and contract checks passed.

Exact committed head: e4fa81dd772a88fa50b5272da627716e7ea56214.

  • cargo test -p xtask: 88 passed.
  • cargo clippy -p xtask --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings: passed.
  • cargo xtask release-dates --check: 11 tags reconciled, one documented legacy advisory.
  • cargo xtask contract-check: 26 topic shelves validated.
  • cargo xtask verify: 890 tests passed, all goldens/provider checks, strict workspace Clippy, and 26 topic shelves passed at this exact head.
  • Root and nested fixture-guest cargo deny check advisories bans licenses sources: all four gates passed for both manifests.
  • Hosted exact-head CI run 34152121431: all five jobs passed.
  • The prescribed exact-head Codex fallback review found no major issues and explicitly identifies reviewed commit e4fa81dd77. CodeRabbit had reached its review limit. Historical formal review submissions and the stricter maintainer approval gate remain pending disposition.

Compatibility and documentation impact

No library API, Core/Target wire shape, golden artifact, package version, release tag, or publication setting changes. The xtask command's date input and reconciliation contract change as described above. Release-process documentation, evidence rows, historical dates, CI, and changelog are updated together. The private xtask tool adds toml with default features disabled and only parse/serde/std enabled (resolved 1.1.5). This replaces substring-based field evidence with parsed values without building another TOML lexer; it adds no dependency to the public/runtime crates. The fixture inventory source digest is regenerated because Cargo.lock is an input; all component byte hashes remain unchanged. No issue is intended to be closed by this PR.

Appendix: Citations
Claim Evidence Confidence Notes
claim:release-reconciliation xtask/src/release_dates.rs#359@e4fa81dd772a88fa50b5272da627716e7ea56214; release_date_reconciliation_reports_internally_consistent_wrong_dates in xtask/src/tests.rs#2949@e4fa81dd772a88fa50b5272da627716e7ea56214 1.00 Structured rejection of matching recorded copies that contradict their tag.
claim:coverage release_date_reconciliation_rejects_missing_published_tags at xtask/src/tests.rs#4336@e4fa81dd772a88fa50b5272da627716e7ea56214; covered-surface, legacy, lightweight, and prep-status cases at xtask/src/tests.rs#3052@e4fa81dd772a88fa50b5272da627716e7ea56214 1.00 Both inventory directions and advisory boundaries have executable witnesses.
claim:ci-boundary .github/workflows/ci.yml#46@e4fa81dd772a88fa50b5272da627716e7ea56214; xtask/src/release_dates.rs#449@e4fa81dd772a88fa50b5272da627716e7ea56214; xtask/src/main.rs#238@e4fa81dd772a88fa50b5272da627716e7ea56214 0.95 Workflow and command source; hosted status reported separately.
claim:history xtask/src/tests.rs#2780@e4fa81dd772a88fa50b5272da627716e7ea56214; release_policy_history_cannot_be_replaced_by_a_new_release at xtask/src/tests.rs#2862@e4fa81dd772a88fa50b5272da627716e7ea56214; release_policy_structure_accepts_additional_completed_prep at xtask/src/tests.rs#2881@e4fa81dd772a88fa50b5272da627716e7ea56214 1.00 Historical identity coverage permits future completed blocks.
claim:parsed-policy-fields xtask/src/release_dates.rs#133@e4fa81dd772a88fa50b5272da627716e7ea56214; release_policy_list_presence_requires_actual_assignments and release_policy_lists_accept_toml_assignment_spacing in xtask/src/tests.rs#4398@e4fa81dd772a88fa50b5272da627716e7ea56214; xtask/Cargo.toml#20@e4fa81dd772a88fa50b5272da627716e7ea56214 1.00 Comments/string impostors reject; parsed arrays serve both judgments.
claim:preparation and claim:date-input xtask/src/main.rs#135@e4fa81dd772a88fa50b5272da627716e7ea56214; xtask/src/release_prep.rs#390@e4fa81dd772a88fa50b5272da627716e7ea56214; date tests at xtask/src/release_prep.rs#489@e4fa81dd772a88fa50b5272da627716e7ea56214; scaffold artifact test at xtask/src/tests.rs#1717@e4fa81dd772a88fa50b5272da627716e7ea56214 1.00 Fixed clock, canonical date grammar, and artifact assertions.

CHANGELOG release headings recorded a planned biweekly schedule running
2026-06-24 through 2026-11-04, while every tag was actually cut between
2026-06-21 and 2026-06-30. The dates were never a typo: release-prep
writes "## [{tag}] - {target_date}" at scaffold time from
next_release_target_date(), and nothing back-filled the real date after
tagging. Keep a Changelog, which this file claims to follow, defines that
heading as the release date.

Realigns all four surfaces that carry the dates:

- CHANGELOG.md: 11 release headings
- docs/topics/release-process/policy.toml: 10 target_date fields
- docs/releases/*.md: 11 "Target date" lines
- xtask/src/tests.rs: the alpha_changelog_dates_match_release_policy
  table and the nine release_policy_tracks_v0_N_boundary guards

The synthetic temp-repo fixtures in xtask/src/tests.rs keep their
original dates; their values are load-bearing for the +14 scaffolding
arithmetic and describe no real release.

target_date keeps its field name but now holds the actual publication
date, so RELEASE-REQ-008, its fixture oracle, and RELEASE-TP-004 are
restated to say so rather than describing a planned date.

Known gap, recorded in the release-process test plan:
next_release_target_date still adds 14 days to the last entry, which now
seeds 2026-07-14, already past. release-prep needs an explicit or
clock-derived date before the next release.

docs-impact: documentation and release-guard fixtures only; no library,
schema, or golden artifact change. Verified with cargo xtask verify
(full gate, 52s), 76 xtask tests, contract-check 23 shelves, and
markdownlint 0 errors.
…pies

The release date guards were fragile and largely tautological.

alpha_changelog_dates_match_release_policy asserted that CHANGELOG.md
dates equalled policy.toml target_date values, but release-prep generates
both from that one field. Two copies written from a single source always
agree, including when the source is wrong, so the guard stayed green
through four months of drift across all eleven releases and only failed
once a human corrected one side by hand. It detected intervention, not
incorrectness.

The nine release_policy_tracks_v0_N_boundary tests (plus v0_2) matched
substrings against the whole policy file rather than the release's own
block. Verified: setting v0.3's target_date to 1999-01-01 left
release_policy_tracks_v0_3_boundary passing, because v0.4 carried the same
date string. Releases tagged on the same day share dates, so that is the
normal case. They were also ~250 lines of frozen-history boilerplate,
auto-written by a generator, asserting that a static file still contained
strings someone typed.

Replaces them with:

- `cargo xtask release-dates`, which reconciles policy.toml, CHANGELOG.md,
  and docs/releases/*.md against `git for-each-ref refs/tags` -- the
  independent authority for when a release happened. Wired into
  `xtask verify`. Date contradictions fail; absent surfaces are reported
  as uncovered rather than failing an otherwise-correct history, since the
  earliest releases predate these surfaces. A clone without tags says it
  skipped instead of passing vacuously.
- release_policy_blocks_are_structurally_complete, one data-driven test
  over parsed blocks, replacing eleven near-duplicates.
- release_policy_block_parsing_scopes_fields_to_their_own_release, a
  regression guard pinning the 1999-01-01 false-pass.
- reconcile_release_dates, a pure function over already-read inputs, with
  hermetic tests. cargo test needs no git tags, so CI's shallow checkout
  is unaffected.

release-prep no longer scaffolds Rust test stubs or changelog date guard
entries. Per-release scope and non-goal content is now reviewed rather
than string-tested, matching the repo's own rule in
docs/topics/documentation/test-plan.md that policy detail is not encoded
as a Rust test; the ten affected requirement and test-case rows move to
`policy` status accordingly.

docs-impact: release-process README, test plan, and policy.toml updated
with the new design and two recorded open gaps. Verified with cargo xtask
verify (full gate, 9s), 69 xtask tests, and markdownlint 0 errors.
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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Documentation

    • Updated release dates across changelogs, release notes, and release policy to match publication dates.
    • Clarified release-preparation guidance, date validation, reconciliation behavior, and known limitations.
  • New Features

    • Added release-date reconciliation against Git tags, with structured findings for discrepancies and gaps.
    • Added release-date verification to continuous integration.
  • Improvements

    • Release preparation now supports explicit dates and otherwise uses the current UTC date.
    • Obsolete boundary-test stub generation and validation are no longer performed.

Walkthrough

The release process now synchronizes published dates across policy, changelog, and release notes. A new release-dates xtask reconciles these dates with annotated Git tags. Release preparation no longer generates boundary-test stubs, and CI, tests, and documentation reflect the updated workflow.

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Release process synchronization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Synchronize published release metadata
CHANGELOG.md, docs/releases/*, docs/topics/release-process/policy.toml
Published alpha release dates now use UTC tag dates from June 21–30, 2026. Obsolete scaffold outputs were removed from the policy.
Implement release-date reconciliation
xtask/src/release_dates.rs, xtask/src/main.rs, xtask/src/tests.rs
The new command parses release surfaces, reads annotated Git tag dates, reports gaps and drift, and runs through verify.
Update release preparation
xtask/src/release_prep.rs, xtask/src/main.rs
Release preparation accepts an explicit or current UTC date and no longer generates per-release Rust boundary-test stubs.
Document and validate the release workflow
docs/topics/release-process/README.md, docs/topics/release-process/test-plan.md, xtask/src/tests.rs
Tests and documentation cover structured policy blocks, tag-date reconciliation, date validation, and updated scaffolding.
Run release-date checks in CI
.github/workflows/ci.yml
CI runs cargo xtask release-dates --check with a full Git checkout.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 14898

Malformed release policy blocks can pass required verification, and the documented preservation rule is inaccurate. These release-process safeguards should be corrected before merge.

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Tags set the date,
Policy and notes agree,
Drift meets a hard check.
Stubs leave the release path,
CI guards every tag.

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74-74: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

next_release_target_date now feeds a field whose meaning changed under it, and the next release-prep run will produce a self-contradicting artifact.

This PR redefines target_date from a planned date to the recorded tag date. Every value in policy.toml, CHANGELOG.md, and the release notes now records when a release actually happened. next_release_target_date still computes a plan by adding 14 days to the last entry.

The consequence is deterministic, not speculative:

  1. The last realigned entry is 2026-06-30.
  2. next_release_target_date returns 2026-07-14.
  3. release_prep writes 2026-07-14 into the policy block, the changelog section, and the release-notes stub.
  4. The next tag is created on its real date, which is not 2026-07-14.
  5. The release_dates gate added in this PR reports three drift lines and fails cargo xtask verify.

The PR objectives record this and choose not to resolve it, and docs/topics/release-process/test-plan.md lines 131-137 describe it as failing loudly. That reasoning holds for detection. It does not hold for generation: release_prep now emits a value that is known in advance to be wrong, and the operator must edit three generated surfaces by hand on every release.

Since the field now records a date rather than planning one, the scaffold should write the current UTC date and let the reconciliation confirm it, or require the date as an explicit argument.

Do you want me to open an issue that tracks replacing the 14-day increment with an explicit or clock-derived date, and to draft the RED test for it?

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In `@xtask/src/release_prep.rs` at line 74, The release_prep flow currently uses
next_release_target_date to generate a planned date for a field that now
represents the actual release date. Update the release preparation logic around
release_prep and next_release_target_date to use the current UTC date or require
an explicit date argument, removing the unconditional 14-day projection so
generated policy, changelog, and release-note values reflect the recorded
release date.
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Inline comments:
In `@CHANGELOG.md`:
- Around line 243-249: Update the changelog wording describing target_date to
say it records the actual Git tag date, not the real publication date. Preserve
the distinction between Git tag dates and GitHub Release publication dates,
consistent with release-date validation in release_dates.rs and the
v0.4.0-alpha.1 release documentation.

In `@docs/topics/release-process/README.md`:
- Around line 63-70: Update the release-process README paragraph describing
`cargo xtask release-dates` to explicitly define `policy.toml`’s `target_date`
and each release note’s `Target date:` as the release publication date, not a
planned date. Keep the existing explanation of git tags as the independent
authority and verification behavior, and do not rename the field or modify
parser and release-note files.

In `@docs/topics/release-process/test-plan.md`:
- Line 104: Rename the test at xtask/src/tests.rs around
release_prep_scaffolds_version_policy_changelog_and_test_stub to reflect that
release-prep does not write a Rust test stub, and update RELEASE-TP-019’s
evidence name to match exactly. Preserve the test behavior and all other row
content.
- Line 77: Update the CHANGELOG.md oracle description in the release test plan
to identify the corresponding git tag date as the authority for published alpha
release sections, replacing the reference to the release policy. Keep the
existing release-history scope and align this wording with the rule already
stated on line 89.

In `@xtask/src/release_dates.rs`:
- Around line 98-109: Update the unsuccessful-command branch after
Command::new("git") in the release-date logic to include the captured
output.stderr in the returned error message. Preserve the existing success path
and command-execution error handling while making the failure message retain
git’s diagnostic text.
- Around line 100-102: Update the git ref scan in the release-date collection
logic to restrict tags to the release naming contract: tags beginning with “v”
and matching the version format accepted by ReleasePrepVersion::parse, rather
than enumerating all refs/tags. Preserve the existing creator-date formatting
and downstream verification behavior.
- Around line 167-172: Update the release_dates validation around block.status
so a known pre-publication status such as “prep” with an existing tag is
reported as a gap, not drift; retain drift for statuses outside the known set.
First add a RED test covering this existing-tag/prep case and asserting no
drift, then implement the classification change and update RELEASE-TP-004 in the
release process test plan.
- Around line 209-214: Update release_dates() so the tags.is_empty() branch
treats missing git tags as a failed reconciliation rather than returning Ok(()).
Preserve the diagnostic message or make it clearly indicate failure, and return
the established error type used by release_dates() so release gating fails
closed.
- Around line 99-103: Update the git tag date retrieval in the release-dates
command around the for-each-ref invocation to force UTC and emit raw UTC date
fields with a stable YYYY-MM-DD formatter, replacing the timezone-dependent
creatordate:short format. Keep the existing Published-versus-tag comparison
behavior unchanged.

In `@xtask/src/tests.rs`:
- Around line 2780-2789: The release-notes policy validation does not verify
that each section key matches its tag. In the test block around seen_tags and
target_date, derive the expected section key from tag using the same
transformation as ReleasePrepVersion::parse, assert it equals section, and first
add a mismatched fixture to confirm the test fails before implementing the
assertion.
- Around line 1772-1779: Replace the ineffective absent-substring check in the
release-prep test with an exact artifact comparison: extract the seeded xtask
test file contents into a shared RELEASE_PREP_FIXTURE_XTASK_TESTS constant, use
it when creating the fixture, then assert the file remains byte-for-byte
identical after release_prep. This must detect any modification or deletion of
the seeded file while preserving the existing fixture behavior.
- Around line 2766-2770: Update the block-count assertion in the relevant test
to require exactly 11 entries instead of allowing any count greater than or
equal to 10, preserving the existing assertion message and using the release
fixture count as the expected value.

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In `@xtask/src/release_prep.rs`:
- Line 74: The release_prep flow currently uses next_release_target_date to
generate a planned date for a field that now represents the actual release date.
Update the release preparation logic around release_prep and
next_release_target_date to use the current UTC date or require an explicit date
argument, removing the unconditional 14-day projection so generated policy,
changelog, and release-note values reflect the recorded release date.
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Seventeen review findings on #183, all addressed.

Correctness of the check itself:

- Tag dates are read in UTC. `%(taggerdate)` renders in the reader's
  timezone, so a tag made near midnight resolves to different days for
  different operators. This was not theoretical: v0.4.0-alpha.1 is
  2026-06-24 in PDT and 2026-06-25 in UTC, so the earlier realignment
  recorded a local date that CI, which runs UTC, would have rejected.
  That release is corrected to 2026-06-25 across all three surfaces.
- Release tags must be annotated. `creatordate` falls back to the tagged
  commit's committer date for a lightweight tag, so a tag placed on an
  older commit could report a date that never corresponded to a release.
- The scan is scoped to `refs/tags/v*`, so scratch tags no longer emit
  permanent uncovered lines that train operators to ignore the output.
- `git` stderr is preserved in the failure message.
- No tags now fails closed. A missing independent authority is not
  approval.
- An absent date-bearing surface is drift, not an advisory gap, so
  deleting the evidence cannot make the gate pass. Only the pre-policy
  v0.1.0-alpha.1 omission is allowlisted.
- A tag whose block still reads `prep` reports a gap rather than failing.
  The tag is created before the post-publication change flips the status,
  and failing there would leave `verify` red on `main` for every
  unrelated branch until that second change landed.

Coverage:

- CI gains a `release-dates` job with `fetch-depth: 0`. The reconciliation
  previously ran only in the local gate, which CI never invokes, so a pull
  request could still set policy, changelog, and notes to one wrong date
  and pass every required check.
- Scaffold placeholders are rejected for `prep` blocks, not only
  `published` ones. auto-release-tag publishes from a merged release-prep
  branch, so a surviving TODO would ship.
- The policy block count is exact rather than a lower bound, and each
  block's tag must agree with its section key.
- The release-prep negative assertion compares the whole file against the
  seeded fixture. It previously searched for a stub name the fixture never
  contained, so it could not fail.

Release prep:

- `release-prep` takes `--date YYYY-MM-DD` and otherwise uses today's UTC
  date. Adding fourteen days to the last recorded release assumed
  `target_date` held a planned date; now that it records when a release
  was tagged, that extrapolation produced 2026-07-14, already past.
- The scaffolding test is renamed to match what it proves.

Documentation: the changelog and README now say tag date rather than
publication date and note that the two differ, the README documents the
UTC and annotated-tag rules, and the CHANGELOG oracle names the git tag
rather than policy.toml as the authority.

docs-impact: release-process README and test plan updated; four new
test-case rows and one restated requirement.

Verified with cargo xtask verify (full gate, 25 shelves, 11 tags
reconciled), 75 xtask tests, and markdownlint.
`[Unreleased]` carried two `### Changed` headings with `### Added` between
them, which markdownlint reports as MD024/no-duplicate-heading. The
condition predates this branch: it reproduces against
`origin/main:CHANGELOG.md`.

Entries are merged into the first `### Changed` in their existing order
and `### Added` follows it. No entry text is altered and no release
section moves; all eleven `## [v...]` headings are unchanged.

Kept as a separate commit because it touches a large span of CHANGELOG.md
and will conflict with any concurrent branch adding entries, so it can be
dropped independently of the review fixes.

docs-impact: none; formatting only.
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All 17 findings addressed in 035d60b4, plus one pre-existing lint error in 528dc312.

One finding turned out to be a live bug rather than a hardening suggestion, so it is worth leading with.

The timezone finding was real, and it had already bitten

%(taggerdate) renders in the reading machine's timezone. Comparing the eleven tags both ways:

PDT UTC
v0.4.0-alpha.1 2026-06-24 2026-06-25
other ten tags identical

The earlier realignment in this PR was computed on a machine in PDT, so it recorded 2026-06-24 for that release. The new CI job runs in UTC and would have failed on it. v0.4.0-alpha.1 is now 2026-06-25 across the changelog, policy.toml, and its release notes, and the command forces TZ=UTC so a local run and a CI run agree. Independent corroboration: that release's notes already recorded Published as a prerelease on 2026-06-25.

Correctness of the check

# Finding Resolution
6 Force UTC before parsing TZ=UTC + taggerdate:format-local:%Y-%m-%d; the one affected release corrected as above
17 Lightweight tags report commit dates Reads objecttype; lightweight v* tags now fail with an explicit message. Guard: release_date_reconciliation_rejects_lightweight_release_tags
7 Scan scoped to release tags refs/tags/v*
5 Preserve git stderr Included in the failure message
9 Missing tags must fail closed No v* tags is now an error naming git fetch --tags, not a skip
14 Unexpected gaps must fail Absent surfaces are drift. Only v0.1.0-alpha.1's missing policy block is allowlisted, via a typed Surface list rather than a string match. Guards: ..._fails_when_a_covered_surface_disappears, ..._allowlists_the_prepolicy_release
8 Fresh tag reddens main Took your proposed shape: prep is a lagging surface reported as a gap; any other non-published status is still drift. Guard: ..._tolerates_prep_status_for_a_fresh_tag

Coverage

# Finding Resolution
15 Reconciliation never ran in required CI New release-dates job in ci.yml with fetch-depth: 0. This was the finding that most undercut the PR: the check verified against reality but was wired only into a gate CI does not invoke
16 Placeholders rejected only when published Now rejected for every block regardless of status, since auto-release-tag publishes from a merged release-prep branch
11 >= 10 lower bound assert_eq!(blocks.len(), 10)
12 Section key and tag never compared New policy_section_key; asserted in the structural test and in reconciliation
10 Negative assertion could not fail Now compares the whole file against the seeded fixture, so it fails if release-prep writes anything

Release prep

# Finding Resolution
13 Stop seeding from the last tag date release-prep takes --date YYYY-MM-DD and otherwise uses today's UTC date. next_release_target_date and add_days_to_iso_date are deleted
4 Test name contradicts its purpose Renamed to release_prep_scaffolds_version_policy_changelog_and_notes; RELEASE-TP-019 evidence updated

Documentation

# Finding Resolution
1 "publication date" is wrong Now says the release was tagged, and states that the tag date and the GitHub Release publication timestamp differ
2 README must define the field Added, with the UTC rule and the annotated-tag requirement
3 Oracle still named policy.toml as authority Now names the annotated git tag

RELEASE-REQ-008 is restated to cover fail-closed, annotated-tag, and CI semantics; RELEASE-TP-022 through TP-024 are added.

One thing I did not treat as fixed

The stale-seed open gap is narrowed, not closed. The scaffolded date is still a prediction: a release-prep branch that sits unmerged past its scaffold date records a date earlier than its eventual tag, and reconciliation only catches that once the tag exists. Flipping the block to published is what binds the recorded date to the tag. That is recorded in the release-process test plan rather than claimed as solved.

Out of scope, fixed separately

528dc312 merges the two ### Changed headings inside [Unreleased] (MD024). The condition predates this branch and reproduces against origin/main:CHANGELOG.md. It is a separate commit because it touches a large span of the file and will conflict with any concurrent branch adding entries, so it can be dropped independently.

Verified: cargo xtask verify full gate green (25 shelves, 11 tags reconciled), 75 xtask tests, markdownlint 0 errors.

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In `@docs/topics/release-process/test-plan.md`:
- Around line 134-138: Update the release-date documentation around the
scaffolded release date and status transition to state that
reconcile_release_dates validates prep target_date and binds the recorded date
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presenting 2026-06-24 as the unqualified tag date.

In `@xtask/src/release_prep.rs`:
- Line 75: Update the release-preparation command boundary around target_date
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once and injected into a pure default-date helper instead of calling today_utc
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- Line 75: Update the release-preparation entry point around
scaffold_release_date to enforce canonical ISO date grammar before proceeding:
validate fixed separators and four-, two-, and two-digit component widths at the
required byte positions. Convert all malformed-input cases, including
parse_date_part errors, into the single stable InvalidIsoDate error without
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The Code Lawyer audit found an additional release-preparation regression at the published head 528dc3124018dd05296bc195e37d2e73670305fd:

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P1 The exact global count of ten policy blocks makes the next completed release-prep block fail the structural gate. xtask/src/tests.rs#2775@528dc3124018dd05296bc195e37d2e73670305fd requires blocks.len() == 10, while release_prep appends the next block and deliberately no longer updates Rust test stubs. A valid eleventh block therefore fails even after its scope/non-goal placeholders are replaced. Retain the complete historical set while allowing additional valid release blocks; add a regression proving both acceptance of the next release and rejection when a historical block is lost.

The ten historical blocks are correct for v0.2 through v0.11; v0.1 predates this policy surface. The issue is freezing the total count rather than preserving the historical identities. I will capture executable RED evidence before repairing the guard.

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Fixed total count prevents the next completed release P1 xtask/src/tests.rs 98a031c4 Historical identities retained; future blocks accepted; same-count replacement rejected
Reconciliation exposes only prose P2 xtask/src/release_dates.rs 0e0bb41b Stable kinds, tag/surface identity, expected/actual values; renderer at CLI boundary
Noncanonical date accepted P2 xtask/src/release_prep.rs 616ba5e8 Fixed ASCII date grammar and calendar validation; stable InvalidIsoDate
Default clock cannot be injected P2 xtask/src/release_prep.rs, xtask/src/main.rs 9027f316 CLI supplies clock; deterministic UTC and error tests
UTC/PDT wording contradicts canonical date P3 Release-date module and release-process README 1263ec10 Both locations qualify the date and use UTC for the recorded value
Placeholder evidence row understates status coverage P3 Release-process test plan 5b5ffdd3 All statuses described consistently with the guard
Evidence note binds dates too late P3 Release-process test plan ce536eb5 Date comparison binds when the tag appears, including prep status
A missing published tag escapes a nonempty inventory check P2 xtask/src/release_dates.rs 46a4bca2 Reverse policy-to-tag coverage check; each published tag's removal tested
Changelog claims removed generated outputs P2 CHANGELOG.md 14898edd Current scaffold outputs and shared enforcement described

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- Line 72: Update the release-process documentation wording near the total-count
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57-62: LGTM!

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The new field-presence finding is repaired in signed forward commit e4fa81dd772a88fa50b5272da627716e7ea56214. [claim:field-evidence, confidence:1.00]

Finding Severity Disposition Evidence
Comments and string contents impersonate scope/non-goal fields P2 TOML values supply actual string-array fields to both reconciliation and the structural guard RED: cargo test -p xtask release_policy_list failed both comment rejection and valid-spacing cases; GREEN: both pass
README allegedly permits historical deletion when counts agree P3 Already satisfied; verified evidence reply and resolution, no wording change The paragraph explicitly prohibits hiding a lost historical identity by retaining the count; the same-count replacement regression rejects it

Exact-head cargo xtask verify passed 890 tests, strict workspace Clippy, goldens/provider checks, 26 shelves and reconciliation against all 11 actual tags. Root and fixture-guest dependency-policy checks passed. The new TOML dependency belongs only to private xtask; defaults are disabled and parse/serde/std enabled. Fixture regeneration changed only the inventory source digest; component byte hashes are unchanged. [claim:followup-green, confidence:1.00]

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Review exact head e4fa81dd772a88fa50b5272da627716e7ea56214, with particular attention to the delta from 14898eddcc73811979fa4ecb55935f6a2137de60, parsed policy-field semantics, comments/string impostors, and shared structural/reconciliation enforcement. Please explicitly identify the reviewed commit in the result. This is a review request, not a request to implement changes or open a pull request. The stricter merge gates remain in force pending maintainer disposition.

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Re-audited all three retained CodeRabbit change-request submissions against exact head e4fa81dd772a88fa50b5272da627716e7ea56214, including their inline findings, the outside-diff release-preparation finding, current code, deterministic regressions, and the complete thread ledger. No surviving objection was found. Previously valid findings remain part of the review history; their veto is superseded by the repairs. [claim:review-disposition, confidence:0.99]

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4857686083 / PRR_kwDOS96-Us8AAAABIYpoQw Twelve inline findings plus the outside-diff history-plus-fourteen-days defect Repaired: UTC tag authority and separate publication meaning; Git stderr preservation and v* scan; fail-closed missing tags; advisory tagged-prep status; unchanged test artifact; section/tag identity; historical identities without freezing future release count; explicit or injected-clock scaffold date. The historical baseline is v0.2 through v0.11; v0.1 predates policy and remains explicitly allowlisted.
4858263623 / PRR_kwDOS96-Us8AAAABIZM4Rw Six findings in five inline comments Repaired: structured reconciliation kinds/fields; injected clock with epoch/leap-day/pre-epoch tests; canonical ASCII date grammar; UTC wording; placeholder coverage across all statuses; date binding at tag creation.
5134552088 / PRR_kwDOS96-Us8AAAABMgsMGA Two findings Field-presence bypass repaired with actual TOML string-array parsing and comment/string impersonation regressions. The README objection misread the existing sentence: “An added release cannot hide the loss of a historical block by keeping the total count unchanged.” The surrounding text explicitly preserves historical identities, and the same-count substitution regression proves it.

Fresh verification: cargo test -p xtask release_ passed 39 tests. Exact-head full cargo xtask verify previously passed 890 tests; hosted CI run 34152121431 remains successful at this SHA. The completed independent review explicitly reviewed e4fa81dd77 and found no major issues. Full pagination still shows 28 threads, zero unresolved, with no new finding since that accepted review. [claim:verification, confidence:1.00]

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claim:verification release_policy_history_cannot_be_replaced_by_a_new_release, release_policy_list_presence_requires_actual_assignments, and release-date reconciliation tests in xtask/src/tests.rs#2862@e4fa81dd772a88fa50b5272da627716e7ea56214; date/clock tests in xtask/src/release_prep.rs#489@e4fa81dd772a88fa50b5272da627716e7ea56214; exact commands/results and hosted receipts above 1.00

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Maintainer-authorized Code Lawyer re-audit found no surviving objection at e4fa81d. Previously valid findings were repaired and tested; inapplicable requests have verified dispositions. All threads are resolved, exact-head CI is green, and the independent exact-head review found no major issues. Superseded; no active finding is waived.

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