[goosewobbler]

Description

release --json and standing-pr publish --json dropped a failed publish's partial output. Their error envelope had data: null, changed: false, and a message that didn't name the failed stage. publish --json already reported all three, so the commands disagreed on the same failure, and a retry or an agent reading the release envelope couldn't see what had already been published.

• One helper: pipelineErrorEnvelope in @releasekit/publish builds the envelope for a PipelineError. publish uses it, and so does emitError in @releasekit/release, which the release, standing-pr and gate commands share. The envelope can't drift between commands.
• Docs: docs/cli.md says release and standing-pr publish report a failed publish stage the same way, and that data then holds the publish output rather than their usual payload.

Related Issue(s)

Closes #700.

Type of Change

• feat — New feature
• fix — Bug fix
• docs — Documentation change
• refactor — Code refactoring
• test — Adding or updating tests
• chore — Maintenance, dependencies, tooling
• Breaking change — Requires major version bump

Scope

• @releasekit/version
• @releasekit/notes
• @releasekit/publish
• @releasekit/release
• @releasekit/config
• @releasekit/core
• CI / workflows
• Root / monorepo

Checklist

• Lint passes (pnpm lint)
• Tests pass (pnpm test)
• Typecheck passes (pnpm typecheck)
• Documentation updated (if applicable)
• Breaking changes noted in description: none; data and changed only gain values on this failure

Testing Notes

• Command-level tests for release --json and standing-pr publish --json: a PipelineError from the publish stage yields data set to the partial output, changed: true, and a message naming the stage. Both fail against main's emitResult.ts.
• release.ts and standing-pr.ts rethrow the original PipelineError after posting the failure report, so the real commands reach the same envelope as the tests.
• @releasekit/publish (334) and @releasekit/release (857) typecheck and tests pass, and pnpm lint passes.

Made with Cursor

Confidence Score: 5/5

The PR appears safe to merge.

Summary

Shares publish failure reporting through pipelineErrorEnvelope.

• Failed publish commands keep partial results in JSON.

_{Reviews (1) · Last reviewed commit: "fix(release): report publish PipelineErr..." · Reviewed by Greptile}

[github-actions]

Standing release PR: #730 · v0.42.1 queued (4 packages) · open 6h 32m · ✅ ready to merge

Release Preview — v0.42.0 → v0.42.1

Note: Labels on this PR are advisory in standing-pr mode. Bumps come from conventional commits in the standing PR; override by editing labels on the standing PR itself. Add release:immediate to bypass the standing PR and release this PR directly.

These changes will be added to the release PR (#730) when merged:

Changelog

monorepo 0.42.0 → 0.42.1

Changed

• release and standing-pr publish keep a failed publish's output (cli)
• cover jsonOutput when disabled; fix inverted guard test (version) (PR #754 · closes #725)
• drop versionCalculator tests that mocked a missing helper (version) (PR #755 · closes #726)
• link standing-pr.yml comments to published ci-setup URLs (templates) (PR #756 · closes #728)
• cover standing-pr publish's PipelineError envelope (release)

Fixed

• resolve relative --project-dir before loading config (version) (PR #757 · closes #698)
• untagged-package warning matches resolved changelog range (version) (PR #749 · closes #727)
• commit the standing PR's release branch with the PR title (release) (PR #729)
• keep root changelog history when several packages release (notes) (PR #775 · closes #736)
• report publish PipelineError partial output in --json (release)

All packages → 0.42.1 (sync versioning)

• @releasekit/version
• @releasekit/notes
• @releasekit/publish
• @releasekit/release

After merge — predicted release

No version escalation — this PR's changes will be included in the queued release without affecting the projected versions.

Package	Standing PR	This PR	After merge
monorepo	0.42.1	0.42.1	0.42.1

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