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Basic explanation

What this does: Dashmate depends, through ssh2, on an optional package called cpu-features that compiles native code when it is installed. We switched it off in 2023 because Apple refuses to notarize an installer with that code in it. A release fix from last week switched it back on by accident. This PR switches it off again and adds a check so that it cannot come back unnoticed.

Value: The macOS installer can be notarized again. The notary login is fixed (#5344), and this file is the one thing Apple rejected in the current package. The same mistake now fails a test on the pull request, and a build that still ends up with unsigned native code stops before signing, with the list of files.

Risks: Low for the fix: one line that restores the behaviour from before #5235. The new package check runs only in the macOS leg of a release build, so its first CI run is the next release; a bug in it would cost that release its macOS installer. It was run locally on real packages (see below). No consensus impact.

Issue being fixed or feature implemented

Closes #5345.

Since #5235 the release builds Dashmate from local npm tarballs. To do that, scripts/pack_dashmate.sh wrote the tarball paths into resolutions, but it started from an empty object, which dropped the entry that replaces cpu-features with @favware/skip-dependency (#985).

Both v5.0.0-beta.3 macOS packages therefore hold node_modules/cpu-features/build/Release/cpufeatures.node with an ad-hoc signature.

Apple's answer is in: the rehearsal from #5348 submitted the v5.0.0-beta.3 arm64 package and got status: Invalid with two issues, both on that file: "The binary is not signed with a valid Developer ID certificate" and "The signature does not include a secure timestamp". Nothing else in the package was reported.

What was done?

• scripts/pack_dashmate.sh: the tarball mode keeps the resolutions the package ships with and adds the tarball entries to them.
• scripts/check_dashmate_macos_pkg.sh (new): expands each .pkg and fails when a native binary does not meet Apple's Developer ID requirement, listing the files with codesign's reason. It also fails when it finds no package, or no native binary at all. Object files are skipped, because Apple did not report the 15 that sit next to cpufeatures.node.
• release.yml, job build-dashmate-packages: the macOS leg runs the check after packing. On a failure the packages are kept as dashmate-macos-rejected-<sha>, a name the release job does not download, so they can be inspected but are not signed.
• .github/scripts/tests/test_dashmate_pack.py (new): runs the tarball block of pack_dashmate.sh on a sample package and fails when its resolutions are dropped. It also checks that Dashmate skips cpu-features the same way the workspace does.

The check does not look inside nested archives, and it leaves the hardened runtime and the timestamp to the notary service.

How Has This Been Tested?

The fix, with the 22 tarballs of the v5.0.0-beta.3 release run (js-build artifact) and the packed dashmate-5.0.0-beta.3.tgz, followed by yarn install --no-immutable --mode=skip-build:

	resolutions entries	node_modules/cpu-features
old line	21, no cpu-features	cpu-features@0.0.10, install script node-gyp rebuild
this PR	22	@favware/skip-dependency@1.2.1, no install script

No full oclif pack macos was run with the fix. The first package built with it is the next release.

The check, locally on macOS with /bin/bash 3.2, about 40 s per package:

• both v5.0.0-beta.3 packages: fails on cpufeatures.node, the file Apple reported
• v4.2.0-beta.4 and v4.2.0-dev.9 (built before ci(release): build dashmate packages from the release's own npm tarballs #5235): passes, bin/node is the only native binary
• a package with an ad-hoc binary whose identifier imitates a Developer ID authority, and one with a binary that has no signature: fails
• a package with no native binary, a directory with no package, a path that does not exist: fails

The tests: python3 -m unittest discover -s .github/scripts/tests passes (65 tests, with v5.0-dev merged in). test_dashmate_pack.py fails with the old line.

actionlint passes on release.yml.

Breaking Changes

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Dashmate packages now preserve existing dependency resolutions when packaged from npm tarballs, improving consistency across package sources.
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  • macOS installer packages are checked for properly signed native binaries before release. Packages that fail the check are retained temporarily for review.

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The tarball packaging path now preserves existing package resolutions. The macOS release workflow checks packaged binaries for valid Developer ID signatures and uploads rejected packages when the check fails.

Changes

Dashmate macOS package validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Preserve tarball package resolutions scripts/pack_dashmate.sh, .github/scripts/tests/test_dashmate_pack.py	The tarball path initializes p.resolutions only when it is absent. Tests check the cpu-features skip and verify that existing resolutions remain alongside the wallet-library tarball resolution.
Check and report macOS package binaries scripts/check_dashmate_macos_pkg.sh, .github/workflows/release.yml	The checker expands packages and validates detected Mach-O binaries against Apple’s Developer ID Application certificate requirement. The release workflow runs the checker and uploads rejected package files if it fails.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ReleaseWorkflow
  participant PackageCheckScript
  participant Pkgutil
  participant Codesign
  ReleaseWorkflow->>PackageCheckScript: Check packaged Dashmate output
  PackageCheckScript->>Pkgutil: Expand each package
  PackageCheckScript->>Codesign: Verify detected Mach-O binaries
  PackageCheckScript-->>ReleaseWorkflow: Return check result
  ReleaseWorkflow->>ReleaseWorkflow: Upload rejected packages if the check fails

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Package rejections remain diagnosable, but missing signature details may slow a release investigation. This is a bounded follow-up, not a merge blocker.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
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✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	#5345 requires the Dashmate macOS package to keep the cpu-features replacement and avoid unsigned native code. scripts/pack_dashmate.sh now preserves the package resolutions before adding tarbal…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes remain within #5345. The resolution test covers the required tarball behavior. The macOS package check and rejected-package artifact prevent an affected package from reaching signing or re…
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: preventing cpu-features from entering the Dashmate macOS package during release packaging.

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scripts/check_dashmate_macos_pkg.sh (1)

65-65: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Separate the codesign failure reasons.

The script treats every codesign --verify failure as "unsigned". The codesign command can also fail for reasons that do not relate to the Developer ID signature, such as a modified or unreadable file. The final message then says "without a valid Developer ID signature", which is still correct. But the log gives no reason for each failure. Capture the codesign output for each failed file. Write it to the log, so the operator can find the cause in the rejected artifact.

The stderr of codesign is discarded here. This slows the diagnosis of a rejected package.

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Review comment at @scripts/check_dashmate_macos_pkg.sh at line 65:
Update the codesign verification failure branch to capture the output from
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Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2

Verified the supplied reviewers' clean assessments against exact head eb84371, including the final-commit changes and their packaging and release-workflow context; no actionable in-scope defects were found. Existing dependency resolutions are preserved, the native-code gate checks the Developer ID certificate requirement directly, and rejected packages are excluded from signing artifacts. This was a static verification: the supplied CI snapshot reports successful runner-contract tests and NPM release build validation, but does not demonstrate execution of the release-only macOS package check; PR Hygiene remains pending.

Review provenance

Source: reviewer 1: muse-spark-1.3-contributor (agent: phase1-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 2: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 3: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: architecture-layering); reviewer 4: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: security-auditor); final verifier: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: sol-verifier, role: final-verifier)

• Triage: normal by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — The resolution fix is small, but the new native-binary validation script and release failure handling add nontrivial build behavior without changing a critical runtime surface.
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• Phase 2 reviewers: gpt-6.1-sol — general (completed, effort high); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — architecture-layering (completed, effort high); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — security-auditor (completed, effort high); agent phase2-reviewer

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Re-review — Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2

Independently reviewed the complete diff at f683283 and verified the supplied reviewers’ assessments; no actionable in-scope defects were found. The packaging fix preserves Dashmate’s existing cpu-features exclusion, and the macOS gate keeps rejected packages out of the normal signing artifact path while retaining them for inspection. Validation was static only: the supplied exact-head CI snapshot reports runner-contract-tests passing, but the release-only macOS gate remains unexercised in CI and other checks are pending or queued.

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Review provenance

Source: reviewer 1: gemini-3.8-flash-high (agent: phase1-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 2: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 3: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: architecture-layering); reviewer 4: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 5: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: architecture-layering); final verifier: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: sol-verifier, role: final-verifier)

• Triage: normal by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — The resolution fix is small, but the new package-scanning script and release failure handling introduce enough build logic to warrant ordinary review without changing a critical runtime surface.
• Phase 1 reviewers: gemini-3.8-flash-high — general (completed, effort high); agent phase1-reviewer
• Phase 1 model: gemini-3.8-flash-high — antigravity quota: weekly 82% left, 5h 86% left
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• Fresh verifier: gpt-6.1-sol — final-verifier; agent sol-verifier
• Phase 2 reviewers: gpt-6.1-sol — general (completed, effort high); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — architecture-layering (completed, effort high); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — general (completed, effort high); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — architecture-layering (completed, effort high); agent phase2-reviewer

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