From 634ba615302b918b2e51e74e096861b26d113789 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jackson Hoffart <jackson.hoffart@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2025 11:47:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] ci: gains action to validate contents of `latest` against
 most recent timestamped directory

---
 .github/workflows/validate_latest.yml | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .github/workflows/validate_latest.yml

diff --git a/.github/workflows/validate_latest.yml b/.github/workflows/validate_latest.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a1e147f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/validate_latest.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+name: Validate latest release
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+    paths:
+      - 'releases/**'
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - main
+    paths:
+      - 'releases/**'
+
+jobs:
+  validate-latest-release:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Identify highest version releases directory
+        id: find-version
+        run: |
+          latest_version=$(ls releases/ | grep -E '^[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}$' | sort | tail -n1)
+          echo "latest_version=$latest_version" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          echo "Latest version directory: $latest_version"
+
+      - name: Compare latest to highest version
+        run: |
+          diff_output=$(diff -r releases/latest releases/${{ steps.find-version.outputs.latest_version }}) || (echo "$diff_output"; exit 1)
+          echo "✅ 'latest' releases matches highest version: ${{ steps.find-version.outputs.latest_version }}"

From 4f34819313c2de825301f3f06af0678c0d9e641c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jackson Hoffart <jackson.hoffart@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2025 11:51:51 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] trigger workflow if it is edited

---
 .github/workflows/validate_latest.yml | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/validate_latest.yml b/.github/workflows/validate_latest.yml
index a1e147f..4b948df 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/validate_latest.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/validate_latest.yml
@@ -6,11 +6,14 @@ on:
       - main
     paths:
       - 'releases/**'
+      - '.github/workflows/validate_latest.yml'
   pull_request:
     branches:
       - main
     paths:
       - 'releases/**'
+      - '.github/workflows/validate_latest.yml'
+
 
 jobs:
   validate-latest-release:

From 52e6d1e6634c2a364e9ef89fff9ff4add33f0dc6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jackson Hoffart <jackson.hoffart@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2025 11:52:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] BAD COMMIT: expect failure

---
 releases/2025-07-17/ccdf.json | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/releases/2025-07-17/ccdf.json b/releases/2025-07-17/ccdf.json
index 8c5f57d..cdbfdca 100644
--- a/releases/2025-07-17/ccdf.json
+++ b/releases/2025-07-17/ccdf.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "$framework": "https://github.com/RMI/ccdf/blob/main/releases/2025-07-17/ccdf.json",
   "version": "1.0.0",
-  "name": "ccsf",
+  "name": "BLAH BLAH BLHA",
   "title": "Carbon credit data framework",
   "topic": [
     {