LABELS.md gives 'release' to release-flow WORK as well as to the ceremony
PR — the PR that added the merge door included. The old assert pair turned
every such merge into a red run on main. The fused decide step reads
VERSION against the merge commit's first parent and answers all states:
-dev unchanged = work, green NOTICE no-op; bare unchanged but already
released = work in the post-release window, same no-op; -dev-but-changed
and bare-unchanged-never-released = half-ceremonies, refused loudly;
bare-and-changed = the ceremony. Later steps gate on its output. Five new
pins in test/release.sh cover each verdict and the gating.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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