A shape-filtered trigger silently skips the tags it doesn't match — a
habitual v0.7.0 would mint nothing and say nothing. rig's release.yml
(heavy-duty/rig#40) already triggers on '**' and lets the tag==VERSION
assert be the loud gate; align box to that.
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On a bare X.Y.Z tag push (the 0.6.0 tag set the no-'v' precedent),
release.yml asserts the tag names the tree's own VERSION — a mismatch
fails loudly and creates NOTHING — then publishes the GitHub release
with that version's CHANGELOG.md section as the body: the curated
prose, not the generated PR list. No assets, because for a pure-bash
tree GitHub's source tarball for the tag IS the package.
The extraction lives in .github/scripts/release-notes.sh, a file of
its own so test/release.sh drives the same code against fixtures and
the real changelog — it refuses a missing or empty section, so a tag
whose release ritual was skipped fails before anything is created.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>