From bd55c9e8b931c80d04d7953c3220de898da177ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Val Alexander <68980965+BunsDev@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:02:35 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] docs(release): correct optional npm handoff comment

Coven-Harness: Codex / GPT-6
---
 .github/workflows/release.yml | 14 +++-----------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index a318330..f2f3c63 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -346,17 +346,9 @@ jobs:
           body_path: release-notes.md
           files: release/*
 
-      # Explicit hand-off to npm-publish.yml.
-      #
-      # We can't rely solely on the `workflow_run` trigger in npm-publish.yml
-      # because this Release workflow is itself triggered by a workflow
-      # dispatch from auto-release.yml's GITHUB_TOKEN, and GitHub's
-      # automatic-token rules don't list `workflow_run` as an exception to
-      # the "events from GITHUB_TOKEN don't create new workflow runs" rule.
-      # In practice that means the workflow_run chain silently no-ops on
-      # auto-cut releases. Dispatching directly here makes the publish step
-      # deterministic — the workflow_run trigger stays as a manual-release
-      # fallback.
+      # npm-publish.yml is manual-only; there is no workflow_run fallback.
+      # Dispatch it explicitly only when publish_npm is true. The deprecated
+      # npm package is otherwise left untouched; releases ship GitHub binaries.
       - name: Dispatch npm-publish.yml
         if: ${{ inputs.publish_npm }}
         env: