Distillation

Date: Sep 8, 2026

• 🟡 (18:08) Code change in src/publish/discover-location.js: discoverLocation() now immediately returns { path: "." } when input.path === ".", avoiding workspace discovery for checkout-root publish requests.
• 🟡 (18:08) Tests added in src/publish/__tests__/discover-location.js: "does not discover workspaces for the checkout root" verifies { path: "." } is returned and execFile is never called even if it would throw "workspace list is unavailable"; "fails closed when non-root workspace discovery is unavailable" verifies ./packages/cli propagates that error and calls execFile exactly once.
• 🟡 (18:08) The displayed recent commit history includes 4da4a25 chore: replace deprecated trimRight() with trimEnd() (#9012).
• 🟡 (18:08) Assistant stated the root-release failure was isolated to getsentry/craft:latest lacking workspace list; because a root release cannot select a workspace, the two-file hotfix was covered, passed full verification and a final read-only audit, and would be committed/opened for normal Publish checks before retrying the release.