openwork-notary

What this is

A small helper skill for the OpenWork macOS release flow.

It stores the App Store Connect Issuer ID, API Key ID, and .p8 path in the macOS Keychain so you don’t have to keep hunting them.

Keychain locations used by OpenWork release skills:

Notary credentials

• Service: com.differentai.openwork.notary
• Accounts:

- issuer-id - key-id - key-path

Tauri updater signing keys

These are used to sign updater artifacts (required for in-app updates).

• Service: com.differentai.openwork.updater
• Accounts:

- updater-private-key - updater-public-key

Quick usage (Keychain)

Store values

security add-generic-password -a issuer-id -s com.differentai.openwork.notary -w "<ISSUER_UUID>" -U
security add-generic-password -a key-id    -s com.differentai.openwork.notary -w "<KEY_ID>" -U
security add-generic-password -a key-path  -s com.differentai.openwork.notary -w "/path/to/AuthKey_<KEY_ID>.p8" -U

Read values

security find-generic-password -a issuer-id -s com.differentai.openwork.notary -w
security find-generic-password -a key-id    -s com.differentai.openwork.notary -w
security find-generic-password -a key-path  -s com.differentai.openwork.notary -w

Notarize + staple an OpenWork DMG (local)

1) Build a Developer ID signed DMG

APPLE_SIGNING_IDENTITY='Developer ID Application: Different AI inc. (F5DJWB4CCV)' \
  pnpm -C vendor/openwork exec tauri build --bundles dmg

2) Submit to Apple notarization (wait)

bun .opencode/skill/openwork-notary/first-call.ts

3) Staple and verify

DMG_PATH="vendor/openwork/src-tauri/target/release/bundle/dmg/OpenWork_0.1.2_aarch64.dmg"

xcrun stapler staple "$DMG_PATH"
spctl --assess --type open --verbose=4 "$DMG_PATH"

GitHub Actions: updater signing secret

The OpenWork release workflow expects a GitHub Actions secret:

• TAURISIGNINGPRIVATE_KEY

To populate it from Keychain:

security find-generic-password -a updater-private-key -s com.differentai.openwork.updater -w

Then paste that value into the repo secret TAURISIGNINGPRIVATE_KEY.

Notes:

• Do not commit the private key.
• If you rotate/replace the private key, you must also update the embedded pubkey in vendor/openwork/src-tauri/tauri.conf.json to match.

Common gotchas

• spctl saying Unnotarized Developer ID means signing is fine but notarization is missing.
• codesign ... code has no resources but signature indicates they must be present usually means the .app bundle got signed incorrectly (or was modified after signing).
• Apple notarization can take > 1h sometimes; don’t assume it’s broken immediately.