publish: give every project a stable URL that renders

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The problem

A release directory is named after its content digest, so the same inputs republish to the same URL and different inputs get a new one. That immutability is the point, and it is also why a link to a release rots: a new viewer bundle moves it, since the bundle is part of the digest. latest.json never moves but serves JSON, so there was no link worth handing anyone.

What this adds

publish writes a forwarding page beside the pointer and returns it as entry_url.

The page reads latest.json in the browser rather than naming a release. Its bytes depend only on the target's prefix, so every publish writes the same page and the entry point cannot fall behind the pointer — not when two publishers race, and not when a publish promotes and then fails before finishing. Nothing drifts because nothing is remembered. It needs script, as does the viewer it forwards to, and the no-script path says so rather than linking somewhere equally unusable.

It is written at two keys, <prefix>/index.html and <prefix>/. That is what makes the bare URL portable instead of a property of one CDN: a host that resolves directories looks for index.html, the name every static host agrees on, while an object store serves keys and needs one of exactly that name. Both travel with the bucket, unlike a rewrite rule at whichever CDN is in front of it. A prefix-less target has no directory key, no filesystem allows a file named that way, and a store may reject the key; each of those loses only the tidier form and reports the explicit index.html URL.

It does not take a key that is not ours. An index.html without chainplot's marker is left alone and entry_point_written comes back false, so publishing into a bucket serving a site of its own does not replace its front page. On s3 that refusal is a conditional write and holds against a concurrent writer; on directory it is a check and a rename, which docs/capabilities.md states rather than claiming a guarantee that is not there. A precondition failure is re-read before reporting, so another chainplot publisher is not mistaken for a foreign owner.

The page and the pointer are written no-cache, must-revalidate. A cache serving either without asking would show an older release, which is the one thing the stable URL exists to prevent.

Verification

Live on Cloudflare R2, all four projects in the production bucket:

…/arc-inflows/ and …/arc-inflows/index.html	both 200, text/html, byte-identical
transfer-traffic, protocol-flows, usdc-supply	same, all four verified
Response headers	cache-control: no-cache, must-revalidate on both the page and the pointer

Loaded in a browser, a bare URL forwards to the dashboard with nothing painted in between and no history entry, so Back does not bounce.

Offline suite: 349 passed, 3 skipped. Twenty-five tests cover this feature, including both write races, a store that rejects the directory key, a foreign page at either key, and a prefix carrying a </script>.

Reviewed with Codex across five rounds; findings on TOCTOU ownership, page/pointer drift, cache policy and concurrent-publisher reporting were taken, and a URL-encoding finding was rejected with the schema that constrains a prefix to characters that cannot change a URL's shape.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added stable publish-root links that redirect to the current release.
  • Publish results now report the entry URL and whether the forwarding page was written.
  • Entry pages are written as index.html, with an optional prefix-root alias where supported.
  • Added cache revalidation to keep release pointers current.
  • Preserved existing files and objects when publish-root locations are unavailable or owned externally.

• Documentation

  • Documented stable-link behavior, URL reporting, and best-effort publish-root handling in the README and capabilities guide.

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Walkthrough

publishRelease now creates a stable forwarding page beside latest.json. Directory and S3 targets protect foreign index.html files, apply cache controls, and support aliases where possible. PublishResult reports the entry URL and write status.

Changes

Publish entry point

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Forwarding page generation src/publish/entryPoint.ts, tests/publish/entryPoint.test.ts	Generates deterministic HTML that fetches latest.json without caching, validates the release path, redirects with location.replace, and provides fallback content.
Target storage and ownership src/publish/target.ts, src/publish/directory.ts, src/publish/s3.ts, tests/publish/entryPoint.test.ts	Adds entry-point and alias methods. Directory targets use staged atomic writes. S3 targets use conditional writes and recognize mapped precondition refusals. Foreign pages remain unchanged.
Publish result integration src/publish/publishRelease.ts, README.md, docs/capabilities.md	Publishes the page and best-effort alias, then returns entry_url and entry_point_written. Documentation describes alias failure cases and explicit index.html URLs.

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Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Browser
  participant EntryPoint
  participant latest.json
  participant ReleaseDashboard
  Browser->>EntryPoint: Load stable publish-root URL
  EntryPoint->>latest.json: Fetch with no-store
  latest.json-->>EntryPoint: Current release path
  EntryPoint->>ReleaseDashboard: location.replace(current release)

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In `@README.md`:
- Around line 264-269: Update the README description and the “Publish root”
bullet in capabilities documentation to describe alias creation as best-effort
after the primary prefixed index page is written. State that a failed alias
promotion due to a conflicting foreign object or unsupported
separator-terminated keys makes entry_url use the explicit prefixed index.html
URL, while successful writes preserve the portable bare URL behavior.

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- Around line 241-243: Update the conditional-write handling in
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