chore(relay): deploy with the Alchemy CLI and publish client config through an Action

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Stacked on #12327. Prompted by the Alchemy maintainers pointing at the Action primitive.

What changes

infra/relay/scripts/deploy.ts (504 lines) reimplemented the Alchemy CLI's bootstrap against internal modules (LoggingCli, ArtifactStore, AlchemyContext, Plan, Apply) in order to add four things around the deploy: a confirm prompt, writing the relay URL and tracing config to the repo-root .env, $GITHUB_OUTPUT entries, and a --read-state mode for the release job. That bootstrap is what broke on rc.113 (#12326) and will break on the next bump. The script and its test are gone.

• Deploy is alchemy deploy. package.json's deploy script is the CLI; every flag the wrapper exposed exists there (--dry-run, --force, --stage, --yes, --adopt, --env-file, --no-input). deploy-relay.yml runs it with --yes --no-input.
• The .env write is an Action. PublishClientConfig in src/clientConfig.ts takes the stack's seven client outputs as input, so Alchemy runs it when one changes and skips it on a no-op deploy. One wrinkle: Alchemy hashes JSON.stringify of the input and Redacted stringifies as <redacted>, so a rotated token alone would never re-run it; a sha256 digest of both tokens rides along in the input (Output.map over Output.all of the two token outputs). T3CODE_RELAY_CLIENT_CONFIG_ENV redirects the write, and CI points it at a temp file so the runner's checkout is untouched.
• Release reads state with the CLI. alchemy state read T3CodeRelay/prod/output prints the persisted outputs as JSON (redacted values as {"__redacted__": "…"}); a jq helper in release.yml picks the three tracing fields, masks the token, and writes the same env file as before. A missing field fails the step with its name.
• Commit status simplified. The CLI does not report applied-vs-no-op, so deploy-relay.yml's status text is now fixed; the job's success is the signal.
• README and connect-setup doc updated.

Net: -504/-230 lines of Effect against Alchemy internals, +75 lines of stack code, +15 lines of workflow shell.

Verification

• src/clientConfig.test.ts deploys the Action through alchemy/Test/Vitest with in-memory state three times: first deploy writes the file and preserves unrelated lines; an identical redeploy is skipped (a manual edit survives); a rotated token re-runs it and replaces the line. Plus three reconcileEnvFile cases. 278 relay tests pass; typecheck, lint, knip clean.
• alchemy.run.ts imports under the CLI's own loader; alchemy plan reaches credential resolution (no Cloudflare credentials on this machine, so it stops there — the first real run is the next main push through deploy-relay.yml).
• encodeState confirmed to persist Redacted as {"__redacted__": value}, which the jq expression unwraps.

Claude Fable 5 via Claude Code.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Deployment now publishes relay client and tracing configuration to the project environment file.
  • Configuration updates preserve unrelated settings, remove duplicate assignments, and refresh when relay or token values change.
  • Deployment validates tracing details and rejects invalid multi-line configuration values before writing files.
  • Automated relay deployments now run without interactive prompts.
  • Release workflows now retrieve and validate production tracing configuration automatically.

• Documentation

  • Updated setup and deployment guidance to clarify configuration publishing and direct Alchemy CLI usage.

• Tests

  • Expanded coverage for environment-file reconciliation and invalid configuration values.

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR changes production relay deployment and release behavior and adds an always-run Action that publishes relay and tracing configuration, including tokens, to environment files. It also introduces static-analysis diagnostic suppressions, so the changes require human review.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

ℹ️ No successful main baseline artifact is available yet. This run establishes the initial measurement.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	—	13.5 KiB	—	15.1 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	—	7.1 KiB	—	7.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	—	6.5 KiB	—	7.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	—	56.3 KiB	—	66.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	—	10	—	21	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	—	13.5 KiB	—	15.1 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	—	7.1 KiB	—	7.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	—	6.4 KiB	—	7.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	—	57.0 KiB	—	66.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	—	9	—	21	✅

Baseline: unavailable · PR result: a38f384 · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 113.9 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 114.6 KiB

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The relay deployment wrapper was removed. The Alchemy stack now publishes relay and tracing configuration through PublishClientConfig. Workflows read persisted state directly and use temporary configuration files.

Changes

Relay deployment configuration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Client configuration publishing infra/relay/src/clientConfig.ts, infra/relay/src/clientConfig.test.ts	Configuration publishing validates single-line values, reconciles duplicate assignments, hashes ingest tokens, and writes relay and tracing configuration. Tests cover reconciliation, unchanged inputs, rotated tokens, missing URLs, and multiline values.
Alchemy deployment entry point infra/relay/alchemy.run.ts, infra/relay/package.json, infra/relay/scripts/deploy.ts, infra/relay/scripts/deploy.test.ts	The stack publishes resolved relay and tracing outputs. The custom deployment script and its tests were removed. The package deploy command now invokes Alchemy directly.
Workflow state and documentation updates .github/workflows/deploy-relay.yml, .github/workflows/release.yml, docs/operations/connect-setup.md, infra/relay/README.md	Deployment uses non-interactive execution and temporary configuration output. Release reads, validates, masks, and writes tracing values from Alchemy state. Documentation describes PublishClientConfig.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Refactor

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant DeployWorkflow
  participant AlchemyCLI
  participant T3CodeRelay
  participant PublishClientConfig
  participant EnvFile
  DeployWorkflow->>AlchemyCLI: Run non-interactive relay deployment
  AlchemyCLI->>T3CodeRelay: Deploy the stack
  T3CodeRelay->>PublishClientConfig: Provide resolved relay and tracing outputs
  PublishClientConfig->>EnvFile: Write reconciled client configuration

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Deploying with a malformed quoted value in the managed environment file can permanently remove unrelated configuration entries. Fix the reconciliation boundary before merging.

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🟡 Minor · Replace the full logical assignment for multiline values. · clientConfig.ts:70-90

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Replace the full logical assignment for multiline values.

parseEnv accepts a quoted multiline assignment such as A="old\ncontinued" as one value. reconcileEnvFile splits the file by physical lines, replaces only A="old, and preserves continued" as separate content. The published file therefore uses the new client value but retains stale continuation data, which can include part of an old secret.

When a managed assignment is quoted and multiline, consume its complete logical record before emitting one canonical assignment. Add a regression test for this case.

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