Operator decision: the post-release bump PR is ceremony debris — a
derivable one-liner (package.json + lock, via npm, never regex) with no
judgment for a review to add. After tag + build + publish, the same job
computes X.Y.(Z+1)-dev and pushes it to main directly (a GITHUB_TOKEN
push fires no workflows: no recursion, no red run); if branch protection
refuses, the step opens the bump PR itself, loudly. Merge-door only —
the manual tag fallback does not rewrite main.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>