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What does this PR do?

Replaces the Stainless-generated @formbricks/hub SDK with one generated here from openapi.yaml by @hey-api/openapi-ts, published to npm on a stable Hub release.

Linear: https://linear.app/formbricks/issue/ENG-2092 · Decision doc: Hub SDK after Stainless — why Hey API

Why. Stainless shuts down 1 September 2026. Of six generators tested against this spec, Hey API was the only free one that cleared every requirement — and Stainless was the only one of the six that got our repeated array filters wrong, which is why formbricks/formbricks carries ~440 lines correcting it.

The SDK is a build artifact. The generator config is committed; the output is not. src/generated/ and dist/ are gitignored, produced in CI, and published on release. That is defensible here for three specific reasons, and stops being defensible if any one stops holding:

  1. the generator is deterministic — verified byte-identical across runs, which is what the skip-if-unchanged check depends on;
  2. npm provenance names the exact source commit, so anyone can regenerate and compare;
  3. the tarball ships readable src/ (verified: 30 files, 144 KB packed).

Publishing is credential-free. npm trusted publishing (OIDC) — no token, and unlike the script this replaces, no token fallback. Provenance is automatic for a public package from a public repo.

Two jobs, on purpose. The build job runs the generator and its transitive dependencies and holds no id-token; a separate publish job downloads the publishable package, checks it, and runs npm publish --ignore-scripts. Without that split, one compromised dev dependency could publish arbitrary code as @formbricks/hub — to ~10k downloads/month, carrying genuine provenance, which makes it harder to spot rather than easier. What the publish job checks before it spends the credential is described under Review round below.

Version starts at 0.14.0 and the SDK version line stays independent of the Hub's (they have never matched — npm was at 0.13.0 while the Hub was at 0.9.x). npm caret ranges pin the minor on 0.x, so ^0.13.0 consumers stay on 0.13.x and are not dragged into the method renames.

Also in here: stainless-action.yml deleted, and the three x-stainless-model extensions removed from openapi.yaml — verified they were doing nothing for us (see the commit for what was checked).

The rename, for consumers

Resource methods become one flat function per operation, so bundlers can tree-shake:

- await client.feedbackRecords.list(params)
+ await listFeedbackRecords({ client, query: params })

createHubClient({ apiKey, baseUrl }) is provided as sugar; baseUrl is required rather than defaulted because the Hub is self-hostable. Zod validators for every shape live behind @formbricks/hub/schemas so the default entry pulls in zero dependencies and zod stays an optional peer.

The full 15-method → 32-function mapping is in the job summary of the sdk-preview workflow, and is what ENG-2351 will migrate against.

Review round (2026-09-15)

Bhagya found five issues, all reproduced before fixing. Summarised here because they changed the shape of the pipeline, not just its details:

  • The credential-bearing job could execute artifact-controlled code. npm publish runs lifecycle hooks out of the manifest it is handed, and an injected prepublishOnly was confirmed to execute in the job holding the OIDC token. Now --ignore-scripts, plus a validation step that rejects the manifest on unexpected name, version, any publish lifecycle hook, or any publishConfig key other than access.
  • The release compared only src/, so a change confined to the exports map, peer ranges, engines, bundler output or the README was invisible to the publish decision. It now compares the packed package, manifest field by field, with version the one deliberate exception.
  • The preview's surface diff grepped the source tree, missing export class, default exports, export { } and export *, and ignoring the export map. It now reads the export map and the built entry points through the TypeScript compiler API — and compares per export condition, since unioning them let a name dropped from import but kept in require report as no change.
  • Concurrency was keyed per release, so two releases could compare against the same npm latest and race. One package-wide group now.
  • The provenance check tested an exit status that is 0 with empty output when the field is absent. It parses the attestation and fails if it is not there.

Three things not asked for, added because fixing the above exposed them: the publish job re-packs the artifact and requires the integrity hash the build job recorded, so what reaches npm is what was compared and tested; the packing and npm error handling is shared between both workflows rather than duplicated; and both comparison helpers now have tests, each confirmed to fail when its own fix is reverted.

Review round, 23 Sep

Bhagya confirmed the code findings above are addressed at this head, and asked that npm-publish be created, protected and verified before approval, because nothing yet constrains which refs can reach the publishing identity — and referencing a missing environment creates it unprotected.

The environment itself is admin work (below). What changed in code is that the release refuses to run without it: a guards job, with first-party code and a read-only token, runs scripts/verify-publish-guards.mjs before the publish job can request the environment, and fails the release unless the run is for a tag, the tag's commit is on main, and npm-publish exists with rules that restrict it and still admit a release — "Protected branches only" and branch-only rules both admit no tags, so they'd block every release. Weaker-but-working configurations (no reviewers, admin bypass) are warnings. Publishing is also now tag-only, so a manual run from a branch can dry-run but never publish.

It cannot stop a committer who edits it out of the workflow at their own tag, and says so; that is what required reviewers on the environment are for.

Review round, 30 Sep — toolchain to current, and a full re-review

Versions: pnpm 12.8.1, prettier 3.9.9, zod 4.6.5 and a transitive refresh; actions to the SHAs main already uses (checkout v7.0.1, setup-node v7.0.0, pnpm/action-setup v6.1.0, harden-runner v2.21.1); the pinned npm from 11.6.2 (Oct 2025) to 12.1.0. TypeScript stays on 6.0.3 — 7.0.2 still breaks the generator, re-tested.

The npm bump was not a version string. npm 12 made npm pack --json an object keyed by package name and wraps every npm view --json result in an array. Unadjusted, the integrity gate would have read undefined and blocked every release, and the provenance check would have failed after every successful publish. All three readers now accept both shapes, one NPM_VERSION per workflow keeps the two jobs on the same npm, and sdk-preview pins it too so pull requests exercise it.

Found in re-review and fixed:

  • --tag latest removed. It's the default anyway; passing it explicitly switches off npm's refusal to tag a prerelease or a lower version as latest. Tested: with the flag npm 12 accepted both, without it rejected both.
  • No dependency cache in the release build, and package-manager-cache: false throughout the publish workflow, per setup-node's guidance for publishing workflows — the build's output is what's published and its hash is computed there, so a poisoned cache would slip past the integrity gate.
  • engines.node >=20 → >=22: Node 20 reached end of life on 30 Apr 2026, and 0.14.0 is already breaking.
  • .prettierignore for the lockfile, as docs/ has — pnpm format was rewriting it.
  • The npm configuration can be verified before a publish, with npm trust list; this description and AGENTS.md previously said otherwise.

Prerequisite: npm trusted publishing must be repointed (needs @mattinannt)

@formbricks/hub@0.12.0 was published via OIDC bound to formbricks/hub-typescript + publish-npm.yml. npm allows one trusted publisher per package, matched on repository and workflow filename, case-sensitive. Until it is repointed, the publish job fails with "Unable to authenticate".

On npmjs.com → @formbricks/hub → Settings → Trusted Publisher:

Field Value
Repository formbricks/hub
Workflow filename publish-sdk.yml
Environment npm-publish
Allowed actions npm publish
  • Environment is not optional in practice. The binding does not include a branch or tag, so the npm-publish environment's rules are what decide which runs can publish. It still does not exist, and creating it needs repo admin — which, of the people on this PR, only @mattinannt has. The exact configuration is in AGENTS.md → TypeScript SDK; in short: a tag rule [0-9]*.[0-9]*.[0-9]* (Hub tags are bare semver — v* would reject every release), required reviewers with Prevent self-review, and admin bypass unticked.
  • Allowed actions must be set explicitly — configurations created after 2026-05-20 require it, and ours is new.
  • Repointing removes hub-typescript's ability to publish @formbricks/hub, so do it at cutover. @formbricks/hub-mcp is unaffected (separate config, token-published).
  • Afterwards, set "Require two-factor authentication and disallow tokens" on the package. It does not affect trusted publishers and closes the residual old-token path.

Maintainers are formbricks-com and matthiasnannt; I don't have access.

Order. Merging publishes nothing: publish-sdk.yml triggers only on release: [published] and manual dispatch, and nothing in this repo auto-creates a release. The sequence is:

  1. Create and protect npm-publish (admin).
  2. Repoint npm trusted publishing, and read it back with npm trust list @formbricks/hub (maintainer login) — above all, that the environment is npm-publish.
  3. Verify the environment without a release — anyone with read access can run the guard locally (command in AGENTS.md).
  4. Merge.
  5. Run the workflow manually from the latest release tag with dry_run ticked. workflow_dispatch only reaches workflows on the default branch, so none of the release path can run before merge; this rehearsal runs every check a real release would — environment and CI token included — and publishes nothing.
  6. Cut a release.

Both prerequisites now fail loudly. A wrong npm repoint fails at the publish step with nothing published. npm doesn't validate the configuration when it's saved, but a maintainer can read it back with npm trust list — and should, because the one mistake that doesn't fail loudly is leaving its optional environment field blank: npm then accepts a publish from a workflow that never enters npm-publish, sidestepping every rule on it. A missing or unprotected environment used to be the silent one: GitHub creates a referenced environment on first use with no protection rules, and the publish would have succeeded. The guards job now fails the release first (see Review round, 23 Sep).

How should this be tested?

All of this runs locally from sdks/typescript, with no secrets and no database:

cd sdks/typescript
pnpm install --ignore-scripts
pnpm build          # generate + dual ESM/CJS build
pnpm test           # builds, then runs the wire tests
./node_modules/.bin/tsc --noEmit
  1. 32 operations generated, one per operationId in openapi.yaml, as flat functions with no class. tsc --noEmit reports 0 errors.
  2. The regression test is the point. tests/wire.test.mjs drives the built package (so it covers the exports map) against a local echo server and asserts { source_type: ["survey","review"] } goes out as ?source_type=survey&source_type=review. I confirmed it fails on the old comma-joined output rather than passing regardless — replay ?source_type=survey%2Creview through its assertions and all three reject it.
  3. Determinism: pnpm generate twice and diff -r src/generated — must be byte-identical. Everything else depends on this.
  4. Tarball hygiene: npm pack --dry-run --json — 30 files, nothing outside the files allowlist (dist, src, README.md, LICENSE), and readable src/ present.
  5. Spec cleanup didn't regress anything: after removing the x-stainless-model extensions, still 32 operations, children?: Array<TaxonomyNodeData> intact, TaxonomyRunData and EnrichmentTypeStatus still single shared types. npx @stoplight/spectral-cli@6 lint openapi.yaml → no errors.
  6. The pipeline, without publishing (after merge): run publish-sdk.yml via workflow_dispatch from the latest release tag with dry_run ticked. Build and guards should run, publish should be skipped. From a branch, guards is skipped too.
  7. The skip path: once 0.14.0 is published, a release that doesn't change the spec should report "identical — skipping publish" rather than publishing. Covered by tests/compare-packed.test.mjs without a release.
  8. The version guard: set version to 0.13.0 (on npm) with a changed package — the build must fail with "version 0.13.0 is already on npm. Bump the version". Verified by running the step body locally.
  9. The publish guards: node --test tests/verify-publish-guards.test.mjs — 13 cases against a fake API, each confirmed to fail when its check is removed. Against live data: the guard blocks a real 0.8.7 release on formbricks/hub today (environment missing), blocks this PR's unmerged head (10 commits ahead of main) and a run from main; and gives the expected verdict on four real environments elsewhere — pypa/pip PyPI passes, pydantic/pydantic release passes with a warning, astral-sh/ruff release fails (branch-only rule, admits no tags), psf/black release fails (unprotected).
  10. Workflow syntax and gating: actionlint on all workflows; and a truth table of the three job conditions over every trigger — only a stable release with a changed SDK, or a deliberate non-dry manual run from a tag, publishes, and nothing publishes while the environment is missing.
  11. Toolchain at current versions, and npm 12: frozen install under pnpm 12.8.1 with no supply-chain bypass written; generated code byte-identical to before the refresh; dist deterministic; README examples type-check (with a bad enum value as a negative control). Every publish-job step body was run verbatim under real npm 12.1.0 and 11: the integrity gate passes an untampered artifact and fails a tampered one on both, the provenance check passes on 0.13.0's real attestation on both, and the previous parsers were confirmed to break on npm 12's output.
  12. sdk-preview on this PR should print the surface diff to its job summary and request no write permissions — and, since it now pins the release's npm, run prepare-comparison.mjs under npm 12.

Not testable before the npm change: the real publish. Treat the 0.9.0 Hub release as the cutover and watch the job.

Checklist

Required

  • Filled out the "How to test" section in this PR
  • Read Repository Guidelines
  • Self-reviewed my own code
  • Commented on my code in hard-to-understand bits
  • Ran make build — no Go code changed
  • Ran make tests — not applicable; the SDK has its own suite (pnpm test), which passes 3/3
  • Ran make fmt and make lint; no new warnings — no Go changes; Prettier run over the new TS/JSON/MD
  • Removed debug prints / temporary logging
  • Merged the latest changes from main onto my branch — cut from origin/main, 0 behind
  • If database schema changed — no schema change

Appreciated

  • If API changed: added or updated OpenAPI spec and ran contract tests — openapi.yaml changed only by removing vendor extensions; Spectral clean, no behaviour change
  • If API behavior changed — none
  • Updated docs in docs/ if changes were necessary — AGENTS.md gains a TypeScript SDK section; the npm-facing README is sdks/typescript/README.md
  • Ran make tests-coverage — no Go logic changed

Note on conflicts: #126 (ENG-2369, docs off Stainless) also edits AGENTS.md. I placed this section higher in the file to avoid a conflict, but whichever lands second may still need a trivial rebase.

Replaces the Stainless-generated SDK, whose platform shuts down on 1 Sep 2026.
See ENG-2092 for why Hey API: of six generators tested against this spec, it was
the only free one that cleared every requirement, and Stainless was the only one
that got our repeated array filters wrong.

The SDK is a build artifact: the generator config is committed, its output is
not. src/generated/ and dist/ are gitignored, produced in CI, and published to
npm on release. That is defensible here because the generator is deterministic
(verified byte-identical across runs), npm provenance names the source commit so
anyone can regenerate and compare, and the tarball ships readable src/.

- 31 flat functions, one per operationId in the spec — no class, so consumers can
  tree-shake. tsc --strict clean, dual ESM/CJS with .d.ts for both.
- Zero runtime dependencies. The zod validators live behind a separate
  "@formbricks/hub/schemas" entry so importing the client pulls nothing in, and
  zod stays an optional peer.
- createHubClient({ apiKey, baseUrl }) as sugar over createClient(createConfig()).
  baseUrl is required, not defaulted: the Hub is self-hostable.
- files is an allowlist, not Stainless's "**/*" — generation and packing happen in
  a directory that can hold .env and build scratch. Verified: 30 files, nothing
  outside dist/src/README/LICENSE.
- Generator version pinned exactly, so a bump is a reviewable change.

tests/wire.test.mjs pins the regression that motivated the migration: array
filters must go out as repeated parameters, never comma-joined. It runs against
the built package rather than src/, so it also covers the exports map. Confirmed
it fails on the old comma-joined output rather than passing regardless.

Version starts at 0.13.0. npm caret ranges pin the minor on 0.x, so `^0.12.0`
consumers stay on 0.12.x and are not dragged into the method renames.

Refs ENG-2092
…on PRs

Two workflows, deliberately separate files.

publish-sdk.yml runs on a stable Hub release (prereleases skipped, matching the
Docker builds) and is split into two jobs so the publish credential never
coexists with third-party code execution:

- build: installs with --ignore-scripts, generates, type-checks, runs the wire
  tests, packs, and compares against the published tarball. Holds no id-token.
- publish: downloads only that tarball and runs npm publish. No checkout, no
  install, nothing from the repo or its dependencies executes here.

That split matters because the build job runs the generator and its transitive
dependencies; a single compromised dev dependency in a job holding id-token could
publish arbitrary code as @formbricks/hub with genuine provenance.

The compare step is the artifact model's core, not a nicety: with nothing
committed, the published tarball is the only baseline. Identical output skips the
publish so a Go-only release does not burn a version; changed output against an
already-published version fails loudly rather than overwriting.

Auth is npm trusted publishing (OIDC) — no token, and no token fallback, unlike
the script this replaces. Provenance is automatic for a public package from a
public repo. The publish job runs in an npm-publish environment because npm's
trusted-publisher binding covers repo and workflow filename but NOT the ref, so
the environment's branch protection is what stops any branch publishing.

sdk-preview.yml diffs the exported surface against npm on PRs touching the spec
or sdks/**. It generates PR-controlled code, so it is pull_request (never
pull_request_target), read-only, secret-free, and writes to the job summary
rather than a PR comment — no write token anywhere. Commenting would need the
artifact + workflow_run pattern, and a careless version of that trips Scorecard's
Dangerous-Workflow check, so the summary is the default.

No path-filter changes needed: sdks/** matches none of the Go workflows' patterns
(and sdks/typescript/tests/ does not match their root-anchored tests/**).

Refs ENG-2092
- Deletes .github/workflows/stainless-action.yml. It built the SDK on the
  Stainless platform on every PR and merge; that platform shuts down on 1 Sep
  2026 and publish-sdk.yml replaces it.
- Removes the three x-stainless-model extensions from openapi.yaml along with the
  vendor-specific comments explaining them. Verified they were doing nothing for
  us: after removal the generated client still has all 31 operations, the
  recursive TaxonomyNodeData.children survives, and TaxonomyRunData and
  EnrichmentTypeStatus are still single shared types — named from the spec's own
  component names, which is what the extensions were overriding. Spectral clean.

Refs ENG-2092
#126 (ENG-2369) appends its docs bullets after the same two lines, so both PRs
adding there conflicted regardless of the sections being far apart. Anchors them
against different neighbours so the two land in either order without a conflict.

Refs ENG-2092
… tarball

Two problems found reviewing my own workflow.

The prerelease guard was a step that ran `exit 1`, which marks every prerelease
as a FAILED workflow run rather than skipping it. hub-release.yml sets an output
and gates downstream jobs instead; this now gates the job itself, so a prerelease
is genuinely skipped.

The publish job took a pre-packed .tgz. npm's own docs are inconsistent about
whether provenance is generated when publishing a tarball rather than a package
directory — the trusted-publishing page says no flag is needed, the provenance
page says to pass --provenance and describes the directory flow. A release is not
the moment to discover which is right, so the build job now hands over the
publishable directory (dist, src, package.json, README, LICENSE) and the publish
job runs `npm publish` from it, which is the documented path. --provenance is
passed explicitly for the same reason: harmless if already implied, silent if not.

Smoke-tested locally: npm publish --dry-run from a reconstructed artifact
directory produces the same 30-file, 148 kB tarball as packing in place. The
compare step's three branches were exercised against the real registry —
differs+new version publishes, differs+published version exits 1, and identical
input skips.

Refs ENG-2092
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Marked ready so CodeRabbit actually reviews it — it skips drafts, so its green tick until now meant "didn't look", not "looks fine".

Please don't merge this before the npm trusted-publisher change lands. Nothing here breaks on merge, but the first Hub release after it would try to publish and fail authentication, which is a confusing way to find out. The four values needed are in the description; @mattinannt is doing it since maintainers are formbricks-com and matthiasnannt.

Ordering that works: npm repointed → this merges → next Hub release publishes @formbricks/hub@0.13.0.

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xernobyl enabled auto-merge September 14, 2026 14:43
Resolves the one conflict: .github/workflows/stainless-action.yml was deleted
here and modified on main. Kept the deletion — main's change was the ENG-3213
dependency sweep mechanically bumping the action SHA and a version comment, not
a decision to keep the workflow. The Stainless platform shut down on 1 Sep, so
the workflow cannot succeed regardless.

AGENTS.md and openapi.yaml merged clean: the docs section from #126 and the
TypeScript SDK section from this branch sit apart in the file (deliberately
re-anchored earlier for exactly this), and the spec picked up main's new
retry-tenant-enrichments operation.
**Version.** 0.13.0 is no longer available: Stainless published one final
release under that number from formbricks/hub-typescript on 26 Aug, before the
platform shut down, and it carries the old resource-method export shape. So the
number this branch reserved now means "the old SDK" to consumers, and the
publish workflow's own guard would correctly refuse it. Moved to 0.14.0, which
keeps the reasoning intact: npm caret ranges pin the minor on 0.x, so ^0.13.0
consumers stay on the Stainless shape until they deliberately opt in.

**Toolchain**, matched to what the ENG-3213 sweep chose for the repo:

- pnpm 11.5.0 -> 12.4.1
- tsdown 0.22.14 -> 0.23.0
- zod 4.4.3 -> ^4.6.0 (resolves 4.6.4)
- typescript 5.9.3 -> 6.0.3
- @hey-api/openapi-ts and prettier were already current

**TypeScript stops at 6.** 7.0.2 installs but @hey-api/openapi-ts cannot run on
it: generation dies with `Cannot read properties of undefined (reading
'AnyKeyword')` because the native port changed the compiler-API export shape and
the generator reads ts.SyntaxKind off the default import. Worth recording that
this is a second, independent reason to hold at 6 — the known one is that
@astrojs/check peers ^5 || ^6 for the docs site, which does not apply here. Any
tool embedding the compiler API is affected, not just Volar-based ones.

**zod is a range, not a pin, on purpose.** Pinning 4.6.5 made pnpm 12 write a
`minimumReleaseAgeExclude: [zod@4.6.5]` bypass into a new pnpm-workspace.yaml
rather than failing — 4.6.5 was 15 hours old, inside its cooldown. A range lets
the cooldown do its job: pnpm resolved 4.6.4 and wrote no bypass. That delay is
worth keeping for a dependency of a package we publish.

Verified on the merged spec: 32/32 operations generated including main's new
retry-tenant-enrichments, tsc --strict clean, deterministic across runs
(byte-identical), wire tests 3/3 green, every exports target present on disk,
and a 30-file 154 KB tarball with nothing outside the files allowlist.
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Brought this up to date after three weeks. Conflict resolved, toolchain current, and one thing changed that is worth reading rather than skimming.

The version had to move: 0.13.0 → 0.14.0. Stainless published one final release under 0.13.0 from formbricks/hub-typescript on 26 Aug, just before the platform shut down — provenance confirms the repo and tag, and the tarball carries the old resource-method export shape (./resources/*, api-promise). So the number this branch reserved now means the old SDK to anyone installing it, and this PR's own publish guard would have refused it — which is the guard working as intended rather than a problem.

0.14.0 keeps the original reasoning intact: npm caret ranges pin the minor on 0.x, so ^0.13.0 consumers stay on the Stainless shape until they deliberately opt in.

Conflict. Only one — stainless-action.yml, deleted here and modified on main. Kept the deletion: main's change was the ENG-3213 sweep mechanically bumping the action SHA and a version comment, not a decision to keep it, and the platform it talks to has been down since 1 Sep. AGENTS.md and openapi.yaml merged clean — the docs section from #126 and the SDK section here sit apart in the file, which is why the earlier re-anchoring was worth doing.

The SDK is now 32 operations, not 31 — main added retry-tenant-enrichments (#125/#128 line of work) and the generator picked it up with no changes needed.

Toolchain, matched to what ENG-3213 chose for the repo: pnpm 11.5.0 → 12.4.1, tsdown 0.22.14 → 0.23.0, zod → 4.6.4, TypeScript 5.9.3 → 6.0.3. @hey-api/openapi-ts and prettier were already current.

Two findings from doing it:

  • TypeScript stops at 6, for a second and independent reason. The known blocker is @astrojs/check peering ^5 || ^6 for the docs site, which does not apply to this package. But 7.0.2 fails here too: generation dies with Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'AnyKeyword') because the native port changed the compiler-API export shape and the generator reads ts.SyntaxKind off the default import. So the ceiling is any tool embedding the compiler API, not just Volar-based ones.
  • zod is a range, not a pin, deliberately. Pinning 4.6.5 made pnpm 12 write a minimumReleaseAgeExclude: [zod@4.6.5] bypass into a new pnpm-workspace.yaml instead of failing — 4.6.5 was 15 hours old, inside its own cooldown. A range lets the cooldown work: pnpm resolved 4.6.4 and wrote no bypass. Worth keeping for a dependency of a package we publish.

Re-verified end to end on the merged spec: 32/32 operations, tsc --strict clean, byte-identical across two generate runs (the skip-if-unchanged gate depends on that), wire tests 3/3 including the array-filter regression, every exports target present on disk, and a 30-file / 154 KB tarball with nothing outside the files allowlist. go build and Spectral both still clean after the merge.

The npm prerequisite is unchanged and still the only blocker to releasing — the trusted publisher needs repointing to formbricks/hub + publish-sdk.yml + the npm-publish environment + npm publish. Also worth checking whether hub-typescript is still the configured publisher, since it evidently was on 26 Aug.

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@BhagyaAmarasinghe one infra item that I can't do myself, and it's the part with a sharp edge.

The publish job runs in a GitHub Environment called npm-publish. formbricks/hub currently has zero environments, and creating one needs admin — I only have push. So it's yours or Matti's.

Why it needs to exist before the first release rather than after: npm's trusted-publisher binding covers repo + workflow filename but not the branch or tag. The environment is what adds that constraint. And referencing an environment that doesn't exist auto-creates it with no protection rules — so the first release would publish fine and quietly leave the any-branch hole open. Nothing would look broken, which is the annoying bit.

What it needs: Settings → Environments → npm-publish, plus a deployment branch/tag rule limiting it to tags and the default branch. No secrets or variables — the publish authenticates over OIDC, there's no NPM_TOKEN anywhere and there shouldn't be one.

Ordering overall is: environment → Matti repoints the npm trusted publisher → merge. Happy to be told the branch rule should be shaped differently, that's more your call than mine.

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Requesting changes because the credential-bearing publish job can execute artifact-controlled lifecycle scripts, and the release and preview comparisons do not cover the actual published package/public API. The SDK generation and runtime checks otherwise passed at this exact head.

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Review on #127 found that the publish pipeline's checks did not cover
what their names implied, and that the credential-bearing job could still
execute code carried by the artifact it publishes.

- Publish with --ignore-scripts, and validate the downloaded manifest
  before it reaches the registry: expected name and version, no publish
  lifecycle hooks, and no publishConfig keys beyond `access`, which closes
  registry, tag and provenance overrides as a class rather than one at a
  time. An injected prepublishOnly hook was reproducible in the job
  holding the OIDC token.
- Compare the packed package rather than src/, so a change confined to
  the exports map, peer ranges, engines, bundler output or the README is
  no longer invisible to the release decision. `version` is the single
  deliberate exception: bumping it must not by itself force a publish.
- Derive the preview's surface diff from the export map and the built
  entry points through the TypeScript compiler API instead of grepping
  the source tree. The grep missed `export class`, default exports,
  `export { ... }` and `export *`; against 0.13.0 it missed the public
  FormbricksHub and the default export entirely, and ignored the export
  map going from 31 subpaths to 2.
- Serialize releases in one package-wide concurrency group, so two
  releases cannot both compare against the same npm latest and race to
  publish the same version.
- Parse `npm view dist.attestations` instead of testing its exit status,
  which is 0 with empty output when the field is absent, and fail when no
  verifiable provenance appears rather than warning.

Beyond the review, two things the above made worth doing. The workflows
now share prepare-comparison.mjs rather than duplicating the packing,
fetching and npm error handling, so the release decision and the preview
a reviewer reads measure the same two packages the same way. And the
publish job re-packs the downloaded artifact and requires the integrity
hash the build job recorded, so what reaches npm is the package that was
compared and tested rather than merely something with a plausible
manifest; `npm pack` is reproducible for a given tree and npm version,
which is why both jobs now pin the same npm.

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The failure mode this review turned up is a check that quietly stops
checking, and a suite that passes proves nothing about that on its own.
So these pin the specific cases that were broken — manifest-only changes,
the export shapes a grep cannot see, the export map itself — and each
test was confirmed to fail when its own fix is reverted.

Two behaviours are worth stating because they are easy to regress in
opposite directions: a version bump alone must not count as a package
change, or every release burns a version number; and a bad exports map
must fail the job for our generated package but only warn for the one
already on npm, which no PR can fix.

Fixtures are built in a temp directory, so neither test touches the
network.

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Thanks @BhagyaAmarasinghe — all five were real, and each one I reproduced before fixing it so I knew I was fixing the right thing. Replies are on the individual threads; the short version, plus what re-reviewing my own work turned up.

Your five. npm publish --ignore-scripts plus a validation step that rejects the manifest by name, version and publish lifecycle hooks (I confirmed an injected prepublishOnly executes without it, and doesn't with it). The release now compares packed contents rather than src, manifest field by field. The preview derives its surface from the export map and the built entry points through the TypeScript compiler API, so export class, default, export { } and export * all count — against 0.13.0 it now shows FormbricksHub, default and the 31→2 export-map change. One package-wide concurrency group. And the provenance check parses dist.attestations instead of trusting an exit status that is 0 with empty output.

Three things I changed that you didn't ask for, because fixing yours exposed them:

  1. Nothing tied the published bytes to the compared bytes. A comment claimed the packed tarball was what the publish job sends; nothing enforced it. npm pack turns out to be reproducible for a given tree and npm version, so the publish job now re-packs the artifact and requires the build job's integrity hash. Tampered dist, an injected bin, a dropped README — all fail it. It's an integrity check, not a trust check, and the comment says so: a compromise inside the build job produces both sides.
  2. The fixes duplicated ~25 lines of subtle npm handling across both workflows. That's now prepare-comparison.mjs, shared — so the release decision and the preview you read measure the same two packages the same way, rather than drifting apart the first time one gets patched.
  3. The breaking half of the surface report was the truncated half. Removals cut off at 30 with no way to expand while additions got a full dump. Both expand now. And a broken exports map fails for our package but only notes for the one on npm, since no PR can fix something already published.

Tests. The failure mode here is a check that quietly stops checking, so compare-packed and surface now have coverage — and I verified each test fails when its own fix is reverted, rather than just passing. 14/14 green.

One I deliberately didn't do: both jobs run harden-runner with egress-policy: audit, not block. block is the stronger posture for a job holding an OIDC token, but the allowlist has to cover the registry, Sigstore and GitHub's OIDC/artifact APIs, and getting it wrong breaks the one path we can't rehearse before the npm repoint. Parked as its own change, best done once a first successful publish gives us a real egress log. Happy to be overruled if you'd rather it went in here.

Still not merge-ready for the two reasons in the description — the npm-publish environment doesn't exist yet (needs admin) and npm still points at hub-typescript.

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One known-unknown on the integrity gate, flagged rather than buried, since you'd be the one debugging it.

The CI preview packs 0.14.0 to sha512-RuFFbw…; my laptop packs the same commit to sha512-3FNsy2…. That difference is fine and expected — different npm version and platform — and the gate only ever compares CI to CI, with both jobs pinned to the same npm. But it does mean the property the gate relies on is "npm pack is stable for a fixed tree and a fixed npm", which I verified locally (two packs, plus a re-pack of the extracted tarball, all identical) and cannot fully verify across upload-artifact → download-artifact until a real release runs.

The specific thing that could bite: if the artifact round-trip alters file metadata that ends up in the tarball — modes being the plausible one — a legitimate release would fail the gate. I think that's unlikely (everything we ship is 0644, and the download normalises to that anyway), and the failure direction is the safe one: the release stops with expected-vs-actual printed, nothing gets published. If you see it fail on the first real release with a package that otherwise looks right, that's the cause to check first, not a tamper.

Worth knowing before the first publish rather than during it.

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- Around line 43-44: Update the Checkout steps in
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before acting on it.

- Set `persist-credentials: false` on both SDK checkouts. Both jobs run
  the generator and its dependencies, which can read `.git/config`, and
  neither does an authenticated git operation after checkout. docs-build.yml
  already does this for the same reason; these two were the outliers.
- Clean only the directories prepare-comparison.mjs owns, rather than the
  caller-supplied workdir. Both CI callers pass `.compare`, but removing an
  arbitrary path recursively would delete the package itself if anyone ran
  it with `.`.
- Compare exported names per export condition instead of unioning them per
  subpath. A consumer resolves exactly one condition, so the union let a
  name removed from `import` but kept in `require` read as no change at all
  — a break for every ESM consumer, reported as clean. Conditions that agree
  are merged back together for the report, so the normal case still reads as
  one line and a divergence stands out by failing to merge.

The per-condition comparison then has a gap of its own worth stating: when
the export map is restructured, conditions no longer line up between the two
packages and their names cannot be compared at all. 0.13.0 is exactly that
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@mattinannt I completed the review of #127.

I found no actionable code findings in the inspected SDK, comparison scripts, or workflows.

The two-document pnpm-lock.yaml is valid for pnpm 12. The first document is the environment lockfile. The second document contains the project dependency graph.

The remaining release prerequisite is external to this PR: configure the npm-publish environment restrictions and repoint npm trusted publishing to formbricks/hub and publish-sdk.yml before the first stable release.

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Requesting changes because the live repository still has no GitHub Environments, while the publish job relies on npm-publish to constrain which refs can obtain the npm publishing identity. The earlier code findings are addressed at this head; this external deployment guard must be created, protected, and verified before approval.

# Gates the OIDC token behind branch/tag protection rules. npm's
# trusted-publisher binding does not include a ref, so this environment is
# what stops any branch from publishing.
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[P1] Please create and protect this environment before approving the release path. I rechecked the live repository at this exact head and GET /repos/formbricks/hub/environments still returns total_count: 0. The npm trusted-publisher binding does not constrain the ref, so this job relies on the environment deployment policy to prevent a non-dry run from another selectable ref from obtaining id-token: write and publishing with genuine provenance once npm is repointed. Referencing a missing environment can create it without the intended branch/tag restrictions. Please create npm-publish, restrict it to the default branch and protected release tags, and verify the npm trusted-publisher binding before approval.

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Agreed on all of it, and GitHub's docs confirm the part that makes it worse than a missing setting: "the newly created environment will not have any protection rules". So as things stood, the first release would have created npm-publish unprotected and reported success.

I can't create it, and it turns out you can't either — we both have write on this repo; of the people on this PR only @mattinannt has admin. So the environment itself is his step. What I've done in the meantime is make the release refuse to run without it (b2f137f):

A new guards job runs before publish can request the environment — first-party code only, contents: read + actions: read (exactly what the environments and compare endpoints need per GitHub's App-permissions table). It fails the release unless the run is for a tag, the tag's commit is on main, and npm-publish exists with rules that restrict it and still admit a release. That last part matters more than it sounds: "Protected branches only" admits no tags, and a branch-only rule admits none either — both would block every release. Publishing is also tag-only now, so a manual run from a branch can dry-run but not publish.

Against live data, it blocks a real 0.8.7 release on this repo today (environment missing), this PR's unmerged head, and a run from main; it passes pypa/pip's PyPI, and fails astral-sh/ruff's release (branch-only) and psf/black's release (unprotected).

Configuration I'd suggest — also in AGENTS.md → TypeScript SDK:

  • Selected branches and tags, one tag rule: [0-9]*.[0-9]*.[0-9]*. Our tags are bare semver, so the usual v* would reject every release. No branch rule is needed now that only tags publish — you'd suggested the default branch too, which is harmless if you'd rather have it, just unused.
  • Required reviewers with Prevent self-review. This is what resists a committer rather than a mistake: 11 people can push, and anyone who can push can cut a release tag and edit this workflow at that tag, check included. PyPI's trusted-publishing guidance recommends exactly this, and it's pip's setup. A tag ruleset would do the same, but would change who can cut a release — you and I both have.
  • Untick "Allow administrators to bypass" — UI-only; the REST API can read that flag but not set it.

Verifying it before approval, once it exists — read access is enough:

GITHUB_TOKEN="$(gh auth token)" GITHUB_REPOSITORY=formbricks/hub \
  GITHUB_REF=refs/tags/0.8.7 GITHUB_SHA="$(gh api repos/formbricks/hub/commits/0.8.7 --jq .sha)" \
  PUBLISH_ENVIRONMENT=npm-publish node sdks/typescript/scripts/verify-publish-guards.mjs

Today that exits 1 with "does not exist". It'll pass, and flag anything weak, once the environment is right. After merge, a dry run from the latest release tag runs the same check in CI with the real token.

The npm binding I can't verify ahead of time — nobody can: npm's docs say it "does not verify your trusted publisher configuration when you save it … errors will only appear when you attempt to publish." That one fails safely, though: the build job holds no credentials, so a wrong binding is Unable to authenticate with nothing published. Matti confirming the four values on npmjs.com is as far as pre-verification goes.

Leaving this open, since the environment still doesn't exist.

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A correction to my reply above. I said the npm binding can't be verified ahead of a publish — that's only half right. npm doesn't validate the configuration when it's saved, but a maintainer can read it back:

npm trust list @formbricks/hub

(npm ≥ 11.15, logged in with 2FA — so @mattinannt, since he and formbricks-com are the only maintainers.) That's the verification you asked for on the npm half. The field worth checking hardest is environment = npm-publish: it's optional on npm's side, and if it's blank npm accepts a publish from a workflow that never enters the environment, which would sidestep everything on this thread.

Separately, e501197 brings the toolchain current and fixes what a full re-review turned up. The two worth your eye: the npm pin is now 12.1.0, and npm 12 changed the JSON shape of both npm pack --json and npm view --json, which would have broken the integrity gate and the provenance check — both readers now accept either, verified against the live registry under both npms. And --tag latest is gone from the publish, because passing it explicitly switched off npm's own refusal to tag a prerelease or a lower version as latest. Details in the description.

Still leaving this open — the environment doesn't exist yet.

Review on #127 pointed out that the publish job relies on the npm-publish
environment to decide which refs can obtain the npm publishing identity,
and that the environment does not exist. That is worse than a missing
setting: a job that references a missing environment creates it on the
spot with no protection rules, so the first release would have published
through an unprotected environment and reported success.

A new guards job now runs before the publish job can request the
environment, with first-party code only and a read-only token, and fails
the release unless:

- the run is for a tag. Every release is a tag, so a manual run from a
  branch with dry_run unticked is a mistake, now a loud one;
- the tagged commit is on the default branch, so provenance cannot attest
  a commit that skipped review there;
- npm-publish exists, restricts its use, and still admits a release. That
  last part is not pedantry: "Protected branches only" admits no tags, and
  a branch-only rule admits none either, so both would block every release.

A configuration that works but lets a committer publish alone — no
required reviewers, admins able to bypass — is reported as a warning
rather than accepted silently. The check cannot resist a malicious
committer, who could edit it out of the workflow at their own tag; that is
the environment's job, and AGENTS.md now spells out the configuration that
does it.

Two details found while writing that guidance: Hub tags are bare semver,
so the usual v* tag rule would reject every release; and the REST API can
read but not set "Allow administrators to bypass", so that one is a
settings-UI step.

A dry run from a tag now runs the guards too, which makes it a full
rehearsal of the release path — environment and CI token included — that
publishes nothing. The guard can also be run locally with read access, so
a configuration can be verified before any release.

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Versions, all to current:

- pnpm 12.4.1 -> 12.8.1, prettier 3.9.6 -> 3.9.9, zod 4.6.4 -> 4.6.5, and
  a full transitive refresh (rolldown 1.2.8 -> 1.2.11 and friends, all
  within the tools' own ranges). No supply-chain bypass was written.
  TypeScript stays on 6.0.3, the latest 6.x: 7.0.2 still fails inside
  @hey-api/openapi-ts with the same `AnyKeyword` error, re-tested today.
- Actions to the SHAs main already uses: checkout v7.0.1, setup-node
  v7.0.0, pnpm/action-setup v6.1.0 (the release that adds pnpm 12
  support), harden-runner v2.21.1. None of the majors change an input
  these workflows use.
- The pinned npm 11.6.2 (Oct 2025) -> 12.1.0, now one NPM_VERSION per
  workflow so the build and publish jobs cannot drift apart, and pinned
  in sdk-preview too so every SDK pull request runs the release's npm.

That npm bump was not a version string. npm 12 made `npm pack --json` an
object keyed by package name and wraps every `npm view --json` result in
an array. Unadjusted, the integrity gate would have read `undefined` and
blocked every release, and the provenance check would have failed after
every successful publish — both confirmed against the live registry. All
three readers now accept either shape.

From re-reviewing the whole PR:

- Drop `--tag latest` from the publish. It is the default, and leaving it
  implicit keeps npm's own refusal to tag a prerelease, or a version
  lower than the current latest, as `latest`. Passing it explicitly turns
  that refusal off; npm 12 accepted both with the flag and rejected both
  without it.
- No dependency cache in the release build, and package-manager-cache
  off on every setup-node in the publish workflow, per setup-node's
  guidance for publishing workflows. The build's output is what gets
  published and its hash is computed there, so a poisoned cache would go
  unnoticed by the integrity gate.
- engines.node >=20 -> >=22. Node 20 reached end of life on 2026-04-30,
  and 0.14.0 is already a breaking release, so this is the moment.
- .prettierignore for pnpm-lock.yaml, as docs/ has: `pnpm format` was
  rewriting the lockfile into prettier's style.
- AGENTS.md: the npm trusted-publisher configuration can be read back
  with `npm trust list` — the earlier text said it could not be checked
  ahead of a publish. Stale comments and step names fixed.

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