ci(release),ui: the publish-check texts say what the release does today — the dead ui changeset:publish alias goes, its wiring test pins the live path

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -1946,9 +1946,16 @@ jobs:
       # ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
       # The publish itself. `pnpm run release` = build (both scopes; the turbo
       # cache makes it the build above) + console:build (the Console dist into
-      # packages/console) + scripts/release-publish.sh, which is `changeset
-      # publish` followed by ONE atomic `git push origin --tags` (#2191: the action's concurrent per-tag
-      # pushes raced GitHub's ref backend and lost ~half the tags).
+      # packages/console) + scripts/release-publish.sh, which runs, in order:
+      #   1. `node ui/scripts/check-published-dist-tooling.mjs --no-build`, which
+      #      refuses the publish when a published @object-ui package carries
+      #      tooling material (a test, a mock, a `*.tsbuildinfo`) or has no build
+      #      output. `--no-build` because the build above is what gets packed,
+      #      so the scan reads exactly those artifacts;
+      #   2. `changeset publish`, with npm's own per-package answers recorded for
+      #      scripts/release-verify-npm.mjs, which this step runs next;
+      #   3. ONE atomic `git push origin --tags` (#2191: the action's concurrent
+      #      per-tag pushes raced GitHub's ref backend and lost ~half the tags).
       #
       # changesets/action is NOT used here, and that is deliberate: handed a
       # workspace with pending changesets it would take the VERSION path and mint

ui/package.json

@@ -113,7 +113,6 @@
     "changeset:check": "node scripts/check-changeset-fixed.mjs && node scripts/check-changeset-no-major.mjs",
     "changeset": "changeset",
     "changeset:version": "changeset version",
-    "changeset:publish": "node scripts/check-published-dist-tooling.mjs && changeset publish",
     "test:e2e": "playwright test",
     "test:e2e:ui": "playwright test --ui",
     "test:e2e:live": "playwright test --config=playwright.live.config.ts",

ui/scripts/__tests__/check-published-dist-tooling.test.ts

@@ -503,13 +503,23 @@ describe('wiring', () => {
 
   it('runs on the publish path, before anything is published', () => {
     // The ruling (objectui#4846 comment 5307574139) put the gate where the harm
-    // materialises. `changeset:publish` is the command `changesets/action` runs
-    // to push tarballs to npm, so a red gate stops the publish itself rather
-    // than reporting after the fact.
-    expect(manifest.scripts['changeset:publish']).toContain(GATE);
-    expect(manifest.scripts['changeset:publish'].indexOf(GATE)).toBeLessThan(
-      manifest.scripts['changeset:publish'].indexOf('changeset publish'),
-    );
+    // materialises. The release publishes through the workspace root's
+    // `release` script (release.yml's publish step runs `pnpm run release`),
+    // whose last command is `scripts/release-publish.sh`; that script runs the
+    // gate with `--no-build` and refuses to go on when it is red, before
+    // `changeset publish` packs a single tarball. So a red gate stops the
+    // publish itself rather than reporting after the fact. Comment lines are
+    // dropped first: the script's header names `changeset publish` in prose.
+    // `repoRoot` in this file is the objectui root, `ui/` under the monorepo.
+    const workspace = workspaceRoot(repoRoot);
+    const scripts = rootManifest(repoRoot).scripts as Record<string, string>;
+    expect(scripts.release.endsWith(' && bash scripts/release-publish.sh')).toBe(true);
+    const publish = withoutComments(fs.readFileSync(path.join(workspace, 'scripts/release-publish.sh'), 'utf8'));
+    const gate = `node ${path.relative(workspace, path.join(repoRoot, GATE))} --no-build`;
+    expect(publish).toMatch(new RegExp(`^if ! ${gate.replace(/[.*+?^${}()|[\]\\]/g, '\\$&')}; then$`, 'm'));
+    const publishAt = publish.search(/^changeset publish\b/m);
+    expect(publishAt).toBeGreaterThan(-1);
+    expect(publish.indexOf(gate)).toBeLessThan(publishAt);
   });
 
   // The full-battery half (objectstack#26717). objectui scheduled the scan