From d3eda47fd3189e5c6829fe079016a7e36a4d71be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Will Anderson <will.anderson@neurontechnologies.ai>
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2026 11:37:28 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] feat(ci): strip debug symbols from soul binary before
 publishing

Add strip -s after gcc compilation to remove symbol table and relocation info.
Reduces binary size and prevents symbol-level reverse engineering of EL runtime internals.
---
 .gitea/workflows/ci.yaml | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/ci.yaml b/.gitea/workflows/ci.yaml
index fed5443..632b4b1 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/ci.yaml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/ci.yaml
@@ -134,6 +134,10 @@ jobs:
             -lssl -lcrypto -lcurl -lpthread -lm \
             -o dist/neuron
 
+          # Strip debug symbols and non-essential symbol table entries.
+          # -s removes the symbol table + relocation info (max size reduction).
+          # Keeps the binary functional; debuggability is preserved via source + CI logs.
+          strip -s dist/neuron
           ls -lh dist/neuron
 
       - name: Smoke test