ci: run dev prerelease nightly

Replace dev push builds with nightly schedule that only runs when dev head advances; still runs on manual dispatch. Plumb a ref input through reusable workflows so scheduled runs build the dev commit.

.github/workflows/build-and-upload.yml

@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@ name: Build and Upload Binaries
 on:
   workflow_call:
     inputs:
+      ref:
+        description: "Git ref (branch, tag, or SHA) to build from"
+        required: false
+        default: ""
+        type: string
       version:
         description: "Version to apply to workspace packages (release builds)"
         required: false
@@ -45,6 +50,8 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          ref: ${{ inputs.ref || github.ref }}
 
       - name: Setup Node
         uses: actions/setup-node@v4
@@ -85,6 +92,8 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          ref: ${{ inputs.ref || github.ref }}
 
       - name: Setup Node
         uses: actions/setup-node@v4
@@ -124,6 +133,8 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          ref: ${{ inputs.ref || github.ref }}
 
       - name: Setup Node
         uses: actions/setup-node@v4
@@ -164,6 +175,8 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          ref: ${{ inputs.ref || github.ref }}
 
       - name: Setup Node
         uses: actions/setup-node@v4
@@ -237,6 +250,8 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          ref: ${{ inputs.ref || github.ref }}
 
       - name: Setup Node
         uses: actions/setup-node@v4
@@ -310,6 +325,8 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          ref: ${{ inputs.ref || github.ref }}
 
       - name: Setup Node
         uses: actions/setup-node@v4
@@ -388,6 +405,8 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          ref: ${{ inputs.ref || github.ref }}
 
       - name: Setup Node
         uses: actions/setup-node@v4
@@ -490,6 +509,8 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          ref: ${{ inputs.ref || github.ref }}
 
       - name: Setup QEMU
         uses: docker/setup-qemu-action@v3
@@ -587,6 +608,8 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          ref: ${{ inputs.ref || github.ref }}
 
       - name: Setup Node
         uses: actions/setup-node@v4

.github/workflows/dev-release.yml

@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 name: Develop Pre-Release
 
 on:
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - dev
+  schedule:
+    # Nightly build of dev (only if dev has new commits)
+    - cron: "0 1 * * *"
   workflow_dispatch:
 
 permissions:
+  actions: read
   id-token: write
   contents: write
 
@@ -15,25 +16,63 @@ concurrency:
   cancel-in-progress: true
 
 jobs:
-  prepare:
+  gate:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     outputs:
-      version_suffix: ${{ steps.vars.outputs.version_suffix }}
+      run: ${{ steps.gate.outputs.run }}
+      dev_sha: ${{ steps.gate.outputs.dev_sha }}
+      version_suffix: ${{ steps.gate.outputs.version_suffix }}
     steps:
-      - name: Compute version suffix
-        id: vars
+      - name: Decide whether to run
+        id: gate
         shell: bash
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
         run: |
           set -euo pipefail
-          SHA8="${GITHUB_SHA::8}"
+
+          api() {
+            curl -sS \
+              -H "Authorization: Bearer ${GH_TOKEN}" \
+              -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
+              -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
+              "$1"
+          }
+
+          DEV_SHA=$(api "https://api.github.com/repos/${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}/git/ref/heads/dev" | jq -r '.object.sha')
+          if [ -z "$DEV_SHA" ] || [ "$DEV_SHA" = "null" ]; then
+            echo "Failed to resolve dev head SHA" >&2
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
           DATE=$(date -u +%Y%m%d)
-          echo "version_suffix=-dev-${DATE}-${SHA8}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          SHA8="${DEV_SHA::8}"
+          VERSION_SUFFIX="-dev-${DATE}-${SHA8}"
+
+          SHOULD_RUN="false"
+          if [ "${GITHUB_EVENT_NAME}" = "workflow_dispatch" ]; then
+            SHOULD_RUN="true"
+          else
+            # Nightly: only run if dev has advanced since last successful dev-release build.
+            LAST_SHA=$(api "https://api.github.com/repos/${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}/actions/workflows/dev-release.yml/runs?branch=dev&status=success&per_page=1" | jq -r '.workflow_runs[0].head_sha // empty')
+            if [ -z "${LAST_SHA}" ]; then
+              SHOULD_RUN="true"
+            elif [ "${LAST_SHA}" != "${DEV_SHA}" ]; then
+              SHOULD_RUN="true"
+            fi
+          fi
+
+          echo "run=${SHOULD_RUN}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          echo "dev_sha=${DEV_SHA}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          echo "version_suffix=${VERSION_SUFFIX}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
 
   prerelease:
-    needs: prepare
+    needs: gate
+    if: ${{ needs.gate.outputs.run == 'true' }}
     uses: ./.github/workflows/reusable-release.yml
     with:
-      version_suffix: ${{ needs.prepare.outputs.version_suffix }}
+      ref: ${{ needs.gate.outputs.dev_sha }}
+      version_suffix: ${{ needs.gate.outputs.version_suffix }}
       npm_package_name: "@neuralnomads/codenomad-dev"
       dist_tag: latest
       prerelease: true

.github/workflows/manual-npm-publish.yml

@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ on:
         type: string
   workflow_call:
     inputs:
+      ref:
+        required: false
+        default: ""
+        type: string
       version:
         required: true
         type: string
@@ -46,6 +50,8 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          ref: ${{ inputs.ref || github.ref }}
 
       - name: Setup Node
         uses: actions/setup-node@v4

.github/workflows/release-ui.yml

@@ -1,7 +1,13 @@
 name: Release UI
 
 on:
-  workflow_call: {}
+  workflow_call:
+    inputs:
+      ref:
+        description: "Git ref (branch, tag, or SHA) to build from"
+        required: false
+        default: ""
+        type: string
   workflow_dispatch: {}
 
 permissions:
@@ -18,6 +24,8 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          ref: ${{ inputs.ref || github.ref }}
 
       - name: Setup Node
         uses: actions/setup-node@v4

.github/workflows/reusable-release.yml

@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@ name: Reusable Release
 on:
   workflow_call:
     inputs:
+      ref:
+        description: "Git ref (branch, tag, or SHA) to build from"
+        required: false
+        default: ""
+        type: string
       version_suffix:
         description: "Suffix appended to package.json version"
         required: false
@@ -46,6 +51,8 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          ref: ${{ inputs.ref || github.ref }}
 
       - name: Setup Node
         uses: actions/setup-node@v4
@@ -84,6 +91,7 @@ jobs:
     needs: prepare-release
     uses: ./.github/workflows/build-and-upload.yml
     with:
+      ref: ${{ inputs.ref || github.ref }}
       version: ${{ needs.prepare-release.outputs.version }}
       tag: ${{ needs.prepare-release.outputs.tag }}
       release_name: ${{ needs.prepare-release.outputs.release_name }}
@@ -95,6 +103,8 @@ jobs:
     permissions:
       contents: read
     uses: ./.github/workflows/release-ui.yml
+    with:
+      ref: ${{ inputs.ref || github.ref }}
     secrets: inherit
 
   publish-server:
@@ -103,6 +113,7 @@ jobs:
       - build-and-upload
     uses: ./.github/workflows/manual-npm-publish.yml
     with:
+      ref: ${{ inputs.ref || github.ref }}
       version: ${{ needs.prepare-release.outputs.version }}
       dist_tag: ${{ inputs.dist_tag }}
       package_name: ${{ inputs.npm_package_name }}