Use BEFORE preparing or publishing any Hermes Agent CN Desktop release (new installer, version bump, GitHub Release, or pushing a new build to users). This is the release safety gate that prevents in-place overwrite-upgrade regressions for existing users (live users are mainly on v0.3.2 and upgrade by downloading the new installer over the old one). Covers the managed-runtime reconcile traps (silent kernel downgrade via bundled_runtime_tag, schemaVersion re-bootstrap, the load-bearing stable bundle identifier), the China-mirror "artifactUrl-before-signing" rule, the cnb.cool vs GitHub Actions build-location decision, signing / notarization / Authenticode gates, and shipping to a canary channel first. Complements desktop-release-sync-landing (which handles version sync + the landing latest.json) — run this one FIRST.
Use when starting or verifying Hermes Agent CN Desktop with the latest Hermes-CN-Desktop and Hermes-CN-Core branches — dev smoke test (pnpm tauri:dev), packaged beta/release install, runtime badge, WS relay, or regression after merging both repos. Covers syncing both repos, dev-runtime isolation, clean DMG install, and the report table for路线 A/B verification.
Use when working in the Hermes Agent CN Desktop repository on a desktop release, version bump, GitHub Release, installer packaging, release notes, or any task that changes the public desktop version. Ensures the desktop repo version is synchronized and the separate landing repository updates its website version and https://desktop.hermesagent.org.cn/latest.json manifest for the same release.