OpenClaw Mac Release

Use with $release-openclaw-maintainer, $release-openclaw-ci, $one-password, and $release-private if it exists when stable macOS assets, release-ops mac preflight, notarization, appcast promotion, or mac release recovery is involved.

This is a regular stable-release skill. Do not invoke it for extended-stable; that track does not inherit macOS assets, appcast promotion, or a GitHub Release unless the current extended-stable release policy explicitly adds them.

Credentials

• Resolve Peter-owned ASC item refs, key ids, issuer ids, and service-token provenance from $release-private.
• Fields: private_key_p8, key_id, issuer_id.
• Stale/revoked key symptom: xcrun notarytool submit fails with HTTP status code: 401. Unauthenticated.
• Validate candidate ASC credentials with xcrun notarytool history before setting GitHub secrets.

1Password

• Use $one-password: all op work inside one persistent tmux session, no secret output.
• Use the service-token guidance from $release-private when available.
• If a service token fails, run status-only checks: token present/length and op whoami; never print token values.
• If desktop app auth is needed but Touch ID is unavailable, set OP_BIOMETRIC_UNLOCK_ENABLED=false for the manual op account add --signin path.

GitHub Secrets

Target release-ops repo environment: openclaw/releases, env mac-release.

Set only after local notary auth validation:

• APP_STORE_CONNECT_API_KEY_P8
• APP_STORE_CONNECT_KEY_ID
• APP_STORE_CONNECT_ISSUER_ID

Do not update these from mixed sources. All three ASC fields must come from the same 1Password item.

Workflow Shape

• openclaw/openclaw is the public product repo. Its GitHub Releases page is where macOS assets are ultimately attached.
• openclaw/openclaw macos-release.yml is public handoff validation only. It never signs, notarizes, or uploads macOS assets, regardless of preflight_only.
• openclaw/releases is the restricted release-ops repo. Its macOS workflows sign, notarize, validate, and promote assets onto the openclaw/openclaw GitHub release.
• Public release branch may carry mac-only packaging fixes after the stable tag/npm are already live.
• Use source_ref=release/YYYY.M.PATCH for release-ops mac preflight/validation when building that branch variation.
• Keep tag=vYYYY.M.PATCH pointing at the original stable release commit.
• Real mac publish must reuse:
  • a successful release-ops mac preflight run for the same tag/source SHA
  • a successful release-ops mac validation run for the same tag/source SHA
• Release-ops preflight and real publish enter the protected mac-release environment in the build_sign_and_package job. Operators may be able to trigger the workflow while Vincent or another environment reviewer approves the paused deployment before signing/notarization/promotion proceeds.
• If preflight source SHA differs from tag SHA, validation must also use the same source_ref; promotion rejects mismatched proof.

Notarization

• OpenClaw uses scripts/notarize-mac-artifact.sh.
• xcrun notarytool submit should use --no-s3-acceleration; accelerated upload can surface misleading 401s even when notarytool history succeeds.
• If signing succeeds but notarization fails immediately with 401, check ASC key freshness first.
• If notarization stays in progress for several minutes after key-file write, that is normal Apple wait time; do not edit blindly.

Dispatch

The public handoff workflow validates the tag, source, build, and package metadata before publication. It does not require a GitHub release page because it does not upload assets. Keep this validation before the real publish workflow; the publisher owns draft creation and final undraft.

Public handoff validation:

gh workflow run macos-release.yml --repo openclaw/openclaw \
  --ref release/YYYY.M.PATCH \
  -f tag=vYYYY.M.PATCH \
  -f preflight_only=true \
  -f public_release_branch=release/YYYY.M.PATCH

• Use the public release branch as the workflow ref so the Actions list displays release/YYYY.M.PATCH, matching prior stable macOS handoff runs.
• Do not use --ref main or --ref vYYYY.M.PATCH for this public handoff validation. The workflow checks out the tag from the tag input internally.

Release-ops preflight:

gh workflow run openclaw-macos-publish.yml --repo openclaw/releases --ref main \
  -f tag=vYYYY.M.PATCH \
  -f source_ref=release/YYYY.M.PATCH \
  -f preflight_only=true \
  -f smoke_test_only=false \
  -f allow_late_calver_recovery=false \
  -f public_release_branch=release/YYYY.M.PATCH

Wait for the run to reach the mac-release environment approval if GitHub pauses it, then get approval from Vincent or another configured environment reviewer. Record the successful preflight run id.

Release-ops validation for a branch-variation preflight:

gh workflow run openclaw-macos-validate.yml --repo openclaw/releases --ref main \
  -f tag=vYYYY.M.PATCH \
  -f source_ref=release/YYYY.M.PATCH

Record the successful validation run id.

Real publish:

gh workflow run openclaw-macos-publish.yml --repo openclaw/releases --ref main \
  -f tag=vYYYY.M.PATCH \
  -f preflight_only=false \
  -f smoke_test_only=false \
  -f preflight_run_id=<successful-preflight-run> \
  -f validate_run_id=<successful-validation-run> \
  -f allow_late_calver_recovery=false \
  -f public_release_branch=release/YYYY.M.PATCH

Wait for the mac-release environment approval again if GitHub pauses the real publish run before it promotes assets.

• Release-ops openclaw/releases publish/validate workflows run from their own trusted main workflow ref. Real publish has a guard that rejects any other workflow ref. That displayed main ref is expected; the public OpenClaw source is selected by tag and optional source_ref.

Verify

• gh release view vYYYY.M.PATCH --repo openclaw/openclaw shows zip, dmg, dSYM zip, not draft, not prerelease.
• Public main appcast.xml points at OpenClaw-YYYY.M.PATCH.zip.
• Appcast entry has sparkle:version, sparkle:shortVersionString, length, and sparkle:edSignature.