All three desktop legs died at the download step with an empty REL_TAG. The
resolver passed --exclude-drafts while REL_REPO now defaults to
github.repository, and every desktop-v* release in unslothai/unsloth is a draft:
desktop-v0.1.50-beta and desktop-v0.1.471-beta are both drafts carrying the .dmg,
.deb, .AppImage and setup.exe, while only the non-desktop tags like v0.1.501-beta
are published. Excluding drafts therefore matched nothing and no leg could ever
run against a production bundle.
Drop --exclude-drafts so the newest desktop-v* release is found. A draft has no
tag ref, so releases/tags/<tag> 404s for one, but gh resolves drafts over GraphQL
and gh release download <tag> fetches their assets normally, so the download call
is unchanged. Listing drafts requires push access, which for GITHUB_TOKEN means
contents: write, so the workflow permission is raised from read and annotated.
When nothing resolves the leg still fails hard rather than skipping: with no
bundle to install there is nothing to prove, so a green run would be a lie. The
error now names both causes, no release cut yet or a token that cannot see drafts.
Also stop the restore step swallowing its own failure. `bash
.clean-machine/restore.sh || true` printed "No such file or directory" whenever an
earlier step failed before the toolchain was stripped, and hid a genuinely broken
restore just the same. Skip explicitly when the file is absent and let a real
restore failure surface. Same fix in clean-machine-install-ci.yml, which had the
identical line.