The failure that blocked a usable package was not a missing file export. It was structural: no root contract, no compiled output or declarations in the shipped artifact, and an install from the published tarball that could not run. Opening the existing engine barrel would have made the package “work...

Many release pipelines automate everything up to the moment a human says "yes," then quietly hand the rest back to a person. Closing that last gap looks like a small scripting task. It usually isn't. The hard part after human acceptance isn't running one more command — it's deciding who is allowed t...