fix(ci): revert to non-draft releases to preserve release notes

semantic-release creates the GitHub release with notes, so making it a
draft and then publishing separately loses the notes. Trigger the release
workflow on the `release: created` event instead of calling it directly
from CI, and remove the draft/publish dance.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: cpcloud

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -253,8 +253,6 @@ jobs:
       cancel-in-progress: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' }}
     permissions:
       contents: write
-    outputs:
-      tag: ${{ steps.release-check.outputs.tag }}
     steps:
       - name: Generate app token
         id: app-token
@@ -275,31 +273,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install semantic-release
         run: npm install -g semantic-release@25.0.3 @semantic-release/exec@7.1.0 @semantic-release/git@10.0.1
 
-      - name: Save pre-release version
-        id: pre
-        run: echo "version=$(cat VERSION 2>/dev/null)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-
       - name: Run semantic-release
         run: npx semantic-release ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' && '--dry-run' || '' }}
         env:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ steps.app-token.outputs.token }}
-
-      - name: Check for new release
-        id: release-check
-        run: |
-          NEW_VERSION=$(cat VERSION)
-          if [ "$NEW_VERSION" != "${{ steps.pre.outputs.version }}" ]; then
-            echo "tag=v${NEW_VERSION}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-          fi
-
-  release:
-    name: Release Artifacts
-    needs: [semantic-release]
-    if: needs.semantic-release.outputs.tag != ''
-    permissions:
-      contents: write
-      packages: write
-    uses: ./.github/workflows/release.yml
-    with:
-      tag: ${{ needs.semantic-release.outputs.tag }}
-    secrets: inherit

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -4,12 +4,8 @@
 name: Release Artifacts
 
 on:
-  workflow_call:
-    inputs:
-      tag:
-        description: "Release tag (e.g. v1.75.0)"
-        required: true
-        type: string
+  release:
+    types: [created]
   workflow_dispatch:
     inputs:
       tag:
@@ -37,7 +33,7 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6
         with:
-          ref: ${{ inputs.tag }}
+          ref: ${{ inputs.tag || github.event.release.tag_name }}
           fetch-depth: 0
           persist-credentials: false
 
@@ -62,11 +58,6 @@ jobs:
         env:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
-      - name: Publish release
-        env:
-          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-        run: gh release edit "${{ inputs.tag }}" --draft=false
-
       - name: Clean up untagged GHCR images
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

.releaserc.json

@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
       "message": "chore(release): ${nextRelease.version} [skip ci]"
     }],
     ["@semantic-release/github", {
-      "draftRelease": true,
       "successComment": false,
       "failComment": false
     }]