npm rejects provenance-signed uploads from self-hosted runners:
422 Unprocessable Entity - Error verifying sigstore provenance bundle:
Unsupported GitHub Actions runner environment: "self-hosted".
Only "github-hosted" runners are supported when publishing with provenance.
v3.8.50 learned that at minute 76 of its 10th publish attempt, after the tag,
the GitHub Release and the Docker images were already out. USE_VPS_RUNNER had
routed the job to the .113 pool on 2026-08-02; no release ran between 07-30 and
08-28, so the pairing sat latent for four weeks.
It is pure text — a job whose runs-on resolves to self-hosted and a step whose
run contains --provenance — so the workflow lint now checks it as a hard rule:
reported in plain mode, blocking under --strict and --ratchet (the CI mode),
emitted as provenanceRunnerFindings=<n> next to the other counters.
Against origin/main the rule finds the two real offenders (the staged upload
AND the DIRECT emergency fallback in npm-publish.yml); against the #11877 split
it finds none. --provenance-file is deliberately not matched (different flag,
pre-built bundle) and an opaque runs-on expression with no literal self-hosted
is classified unknown and skipped — the check never guesses.
The unit suite's last case walks the real .github/workflows and asserts zero
findings, so it is red on main until #11877 lands and green after; that is the
regression guard working, not a flake.
Landed with the design call resolved per the owner's pick — **option 1**: the synced store is now endpoint-agnostic (persistDiscoveredModels and managedModelImport no longer drop non-chat models at write time), and chat selectability moved to read time (auto-pool expansion in autoStrategy applies filterChatSelectableModels; the models-route projection already had its chatOnly filter). Your discovery test now passes end-to-end (3/3): /api/show capabilities persist per connection and image/embedding requests route through the advertising host.
Reconciliation notes: conflicted areas merged onto the current tip (adobe discovery import, requestedModel preflight signature, resolvedProvider fast-path coexists with the synced-route override — explicit resolution wins); carried base-red drains (#10055 memoization, #11071 test variants) dropped as already-landed; the managed-model-import exclusion test was propagated to the new contract (image/video models persist; the read filter still hides them from chat pickers — pinned by a new assertion). Full battery: 205/206 focused (the one red is a confirmed periodic-timer timing flake on the loaded devbox — 20/20 isolated), autoCombo vitest 30/30, combo suites 46/46, gates + typecheck clean.
Thank you @yourspraveen — the capability probe + routing design was right; it just needed the store contract opened up. Fixes#11087.
Release v3.8.24 — see CHANGELOG.md [3.8.24] for the full notes and the PR description for the contributors hall. Integration of release/v3.8.24 into main.
