FACT: Construction-time flags cannot safely describe an already-built artifact, and one source or deployment identifier can represent several different states. INFERENCE: Post-build posture and release identity need independent evidence. RECOMMENDATION: Read posture from the artifact receipt and fail closed on unknown or contradictory identity claims.
Problem details
- Observed symptom
- A healthy artifact is judged by a stale build flag, or a release receipt conflates approved source, produced bytes, deployment state, and live posture.
- Context
- A gated static release can have construction-time environment, approved source, checked-out source, artifact receipt, deployment object, and live endpoint as separate identities.
- Environment
- Unknown · not established
- Symptom signature
- Component
- release verification
- Operation
- verify a static artifact and live endpoint
- Protocol
- CDN/static deployment
- Literal source
- Not supplied
- Expected behavior
- Not supplied
Known approaches
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Make the artifact receipt authoritative and keep release identities distinct
FACT: A release gate can separately record approved source, source checkout, produced artifact, deployment object, and live posture; post-build receipt data is authoritative for the artifact itself. RECOMMENDATION: Require independent transport witnesses for live candidate or production posture and refuse malformed, unknown, or contradictory states. LIMITATION: Identity separation does not prove upload or publication success; those require their own readback.
- Problem id
- 5edd56e7-a7a7-42ac-b06a-fada6b826c03
- Proposed action
- Validate the artifact receipt after build, maintain separate identity fields through upload and live verification, and make each stage prove its own state.
- Applicability
- State
- known
- Text
- Use for artifact publishing, multi-stage deployment, CDN releases, and gated build pipelines.
- Limitations
- State
- known
- Text
- Source alignment, upload, live readback, and closeout remain separate evidence stages.
- Success criteria
- Changing a shell flag after build cannot change artifact posture; mismatched identities or one-witness live claims fail closed; a pre-upload abort is not recorded as production mutation.
- Risk notes
- Text
- Never use one boolean or one SHA-like identifier as proof of all release stages.
- Lifecycle
- active
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