feat(canon): M1.1 tagged-promote gate — canonical only advances to a published release tag

- should_promote_canonical gains a `tagged` requirement (canon §2.A): a green cold
  latest run promotes only when the tested head version is a published release tag;
  an untagged main commit never becomes a canonical.
- warm_reconcile.is_released_version(recipe, version): release-tag membership (exact or
  by version_key). Caller computes `tagged` so the gate stays pure.
- unit tests: untagged -> no promote; is_released_version cases.
- drive-by (pre-existing reds, unrelated to canon, now green): test_warm_reconcile
  traefik assertion was stale vs the phase-pxgate spec (probes /api/version, no
  health_domain); meta.py UPGRADE_BASE_VERSION KEYS help synced to the prevb doc text.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

runner/harness/meta.py

@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ KEYS: tuple[Key, ...] = (
         "UPGRADE_BASE_VERSION",
         "str",
         None,
-        "Exact published tag overriding the upgrade tier's base (default: `recipe_versions[-2]`).",
+        "Optional explicit override pinning the upgrade tier's base to an exact published tag (rare; for a PR that adds a version *above* the newest tag). When unset (the norm) the base is resolved DYNAMICALLY (phase prevb): last-green (warm canonical) → target-branch (`main`) tip → else skip. See `run_recipe_ci.resolve_upgrade_base` + DECISIONS.",
     ),
     Key(
         "BACKUP_VERIFY",

runner/run_recipe_ci.py

@@ -907,12 +907,18 @@ def run_quick(
     return overall
 
 
-def should_promote_canonical(recipe: str, ref: str | None, overall: int, quick: bool) -> bool:
+def should_promote_canonical(
+    recipe: str, ref: str | None, overall: int, quick: bool, tagged: bool
+) -> bool:
     """WC5 gate (pure): a run advances/seeds the canonical iff the recipe is enrolled
-    (WARM_CANONICAL), the run was GREEN (overall==0), it was COLD (not --quick), and it ran on LATEST
-    (no PR head → `ref` empty: the nightly sweep or a manual `RECIPE=<r>` run). A PR `!testme` carries
-    REF=PR-head and must NOT promote the canonical to a PR's code. Only cold-on-latest advances it."""
-    return canonical.is_enrolled(recipe) and overall == 0 and not quick and not ref
+    (WARM_CANONICAL), the run was GREEN (overall==0), it was COLD (not --quick), it ran on LATEST
+    (no PR head → `ref` empty: the nightly sweep or a manual `RECIPE=<r>` run), AND the tested head
+    version corresponds to a published release TAG (`tagged`, phase canon §2.A). A PR `!testme`
+    carries REF=PR-head and must NOT promote to a PR's code. An UNTAGGED head (a `main` commit with
+    no release tag for its version) must never become a canonical — the canonical is always a real
+    release. `tagged` is computed by the caller via warm_reconcile.is_released_version so this gate
+    stays pure. Only cold-on-latest-and-tagged advances it."""
+    return canonical.is_enrolled(recipe) and overall == 0 and not quick and not ref and tagged
 
 
 def promote_canonical(recipe: str, head_ref: str | None) -> None:
@@ -1482,7 +1488,11 @@ def main() -> int:
     # (WARM_CANONICAL) recipe advances/seeds the canonical. ONLY cold-on-latest advances it (a PR
     # `!testme` carries REF and must NOT promote; `--quick` never promotes — handled in run_quick).
     # Non-fatal: a promote failure leaves the OLD known-good intact (never lose it) and is logged.
-    if should_promote_canonical(recipe, ref, overall, quick=False):
+    # canon §2.A tagged-promote gate: only promote when the tested head version is a published
+    # release tag (never an arbitrary untagged `main` commit). head_version is the compose `version`
+    # label of the code under test; is_released_version checks it against the recipe's release tags.
+    tagged = warm_reconcile.is_released_version(recipe, head_version)
+    if should_promote_canonical(recipe, ref, overall, quick=False, tagged=tagged):
         try:
             promote_canonical(recipe, head_ref)
         except Exception as e:  # noqa: BLE001 — promote is a post-green bonus; never fail a green run

runner/warm_reconcile.py

@@ -185,6 +185,20 @@ def latest_version(tags) -> str | None:
     return s[-1] if s else None
 
 
+def is_released_version(recipe: str, version: str | None) -> bool:
+    """True iff `version` corresponds to a PUBLISHED RELEASE TAG of the recipe (phase canon §2.A:
+    the canonical may only ever advance to a real release — never an arbitrary untagged `main`
+    commit). Match is exact, or by `version_key` so a re-formatted-but-equal version still counts.
+    A recipe with no release tags, or a `version` that matches no tag, is NOT a release."""
+    if not version:
+        return False
+    tags = recipe_tags(recipe)
+    if version in tags:
+        return True
+    vk = version_key(version)
+    return any(is_version_tag(t) and version_key(t) == vk for t in tags)
+
+
 def _major(semver: str) -> int:
     return _numtuple(semver)[0] if semver else 0
 

tests/unit/test_promote.py

@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 
 Pure predicate. The live promote (deploy canonical at latest → snapshot → registry) is proven on
 custom-html (W3). is_enrolled is monkeypatched so the test doesn't depend on which recipes are
-enrolled on disk.
+enrolled on disk. canon §2.A adds the `tagged` requirement: a promote also requires the tested head
+version to be a published release tag (computed by the caller via is_released_version).
 """
 
 from __future__ import annotations
@@ -20,30 +21,40 @@ def _enrolled(monkeypatch, val):
     monkeypatch.setattr(canonical, "is_enrolled", lambda r: val)
 
 
-def test_promote_when_enrolled_green_cold_latest(monkeypatch):
+def test_promote_when_enrolled_green_cold_latest_tagged(monkeypatch):
     _enrolled(monkeypatch, True)
-    # green (overall 0), cold (quick False), latest (ref None) → promote
-    assert rr.should_promote_canonical("custom-html", None, 0, quick=False) is True
-    assert rr.should_promote_canonical("custom-html", "", 0, quick=False) is True
+    # green (overall 0), cold (quick False), latest (ref None), tagged → promote
+    assert rr.should_promote_canonical("custom-html", None, 0, quick=False, tagged=True) is True
+    assert rr.should_promote_canonical("custom-html", "", 0, quick=False, tagged=True) is True
 
 
 def test_no_promote_when_not_enrolled(monkeypatch):
     _enrolled(monkeypatch, False)
-    assert rr.should_promote_canonical("hedgedoc", None, 0, quick=False) is False
+    assert rr.should_promote_canonical("hedgedoc", None, 0, quick=False, tagged=True) is False
 
 
 def test_no_promote_when_red(monkeypatch):
     _enrolled(monkeypatch, True)
-    assert rr.should_promote_canonical("custom-html", None, 1, quick=False) is False
+    assert rr.should_promote_canonical("custom-html", None, 1, quick=False, tagged=True) is False
 
 
 def test_no_promote_when_quick(monkeypatch):
     # --quick never promotes (the canonical advances ONLY via cold)
     _enrolled(monkeypatch, True)
-    assert rr.should_promote_canonical("custom-html", None, 0, quick=True) is False
+    assert rr.should_promote_canonical("custom-html", None, 0, quick=True, tagged=True) is False
 
 
 def test_no_promote_on_pr_head(monkeypatch):
     # a PR `!testme` carries REF=PR-head → must NOT advance the canonical to a PR's code
     _enrolled(monkeypatch, True)
-    assert rr.should_promote_canonical("custom-html", "abc123def", 0, quick=False) is False
+    assert (
+        rr.should_promote_canonical("custom-html", "abc123def", 0, quick=False, tagged=True)
+        is False
+    )
+
+
+def test_no_promote_when_untagged(monkeypatch):
+    # canon §2.A: a green cold latest run on an UNTAGGED state (head version is not a release tag)
+    # must NOT promote — the canonical is always a real release, never an arbitrary main commit.
+    _enrolled(monkeypatch, True)
+    assert rr.should_promote_canonical("custom-html", None, 0, quick=False, tagged=False) is False

tests/unit/test_warm_reconcile.py

@@ -33,6 +33,24 @@ def test_latest_none_when_no_tags():
     assert wr.latest_version(["main", "feature-x"]) is None
 
 
+def test_is_released_version(monkeypatch):
+    # canon §2.A tagged-promote gate. is_released_version(recipe, version) → True iff version is a
+    # published release tag (exact or by version_key). recipe_tags is the only I/O — monkeypatch it.
+    tags = ["1.13.0+1.31.1", "1.12.0+1.30.0", "main", "feature-x"]
+    monkeypatch.setattr(wr, "recipe_tags", lambda r: tags)
+    assert wr.is_released_version("custom-html", "1.13.0+1.31.1") is True  # exact tag
+    assert wr.is_released_version("custom-html", "1.12.0+1.30.0") is True
+    assert wr.is_released_version("custom-html", "9.9.9+9.9.9") is False  # not a tag → untagged
+    assert wr.is_released_version("custom-html", None) is False
+    assert wr.is_released_version("custom-html", "") is False
+
+
+def test_is_released_version_no_tags(monkeypatch):
+    # a recipe that has never cut a release → no version is a release
+    monkeypatch.setattr(wr, "recipe_tags", lambda r: ["main"])
+    assert wr.is_released_version("never-released", "0.1.0") is False
+
+
 def test_minor_patch_bump_not_major():
     # recipe-semver 10.7.0 -> 10.7.1 (patch); app 26.6.1 -> 26.6.2 (patch). Auto-apply.
     assert wr.is_major_bump("10.7.0+26.6.1", "10.7.1+26.6.2") is False
@@ -56,11 +74,14 @@ def test_app_major_bump_held_even_if_no_plus_on_current():
 
 def test_traefik_spec_is_stateless_with_setup():
     # WC1.1 traefik = stateless (version-rollback-only, NO snapshot) + its own cert/file-provider
-    # setup + health probed on a ROUTED host (the dashboard), not traefik's own domain.
+    # setup. Health is probed on traefik's OWN /api/version endpoint (phase pxgate A1: probing the
+    # dashboard host caused a cold-boot deadlock since deploy-dashboard is After=deploy-proxy, so the
+    # spec carries no `health_domain` override and health_code() falls back to the app domain).
     t = wr.SPECS["traefik"]
     assert t["stateful"] is False
     assert callable(t.get("setup"))
-    assert t["health_domain"] == "ci.commoninternet.net"
+    assert "health_domain" not in t  # probes traefik's own domain, not a routed dashboard host
+    assert t["health_path"] == "/api/version"
     assert t["domain"] == "traefik.ci.commoninternet.net"
     # keycloak stays stateful with no custom setup (default path)
     assert wr.SPECS["keycloak"]["stateful"] is True