trigger release workflow either by tag push or GUI

[grokspawn]

Description of the change:
Allows the release and all payload to be generated either by

1. (existing) pushing a new tag to the main branch
2. (new) generating a new release through the GH GUI

Motivation for the change:
Other o-f repos do things differently, and some are flexible enough to do it correctly either way. op-reg has always required a pushed tag, and not handled the case well where the release was first created in the GUI instead.

Reviewer Checklist

• Implementation matches the proposed design, or proposal is updated to match implementation
• Sufficient unit test coverage
• Sufficient end-to-end test coverage
• Docs updated or added to /docs
• Commit messages sensible and descriptive

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Release Management
  • Release automation now creates releases for new tags and updates existing releases without creating duplicates.
  • Release notes are generated or refreshed automatically during release processing.
  • Release assets are uploaded reliably to the associated release, including when a release already exists.
  • Tag-based releases continue to support automatic note generation and asset publishing.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The GoReleaser workflow grants contents: write. The upload step creates releases when needed, updates existing release notes, and uploads assets with --clobber.

Changes

Release workflow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Release permissions and asset upload .github/workflows/goreleaser.yaml	The release job grants contents: write. The upload step creates a release with --verify-tag and generated notes. If creation fails, it updates the existing release and uploads assets with --clobber.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to e0b53

New tag releases would be published immediately rather than remaining drafts for review. Add --draft before merging.

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Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the main change: triggering the release workflow through either a tag push or the GitHub GUI.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
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Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/goreleaser.yaml:
- Line 47: Add job-level permissions for the release job containing contents:
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read, since downloading artifacts from the current workflow run does not require
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[joelanford]

It is my understanding that creating a release via the UI ends up creating a tag, which then triggers our existing release workflows via that tag push.

And the one thing we've needed to do in the past to make sure that works is allow the GH goreleaser workflow to overwrite/replace the GH release that already exists (since it was pre-created in the UI).

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[grokspawn]

Updated flow to overwrite existing release, with same flow for tag-push releases, and the same results w.r.t. release notes and artifacts.

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🟡 Minor · Create new releases as drafts. · goreleaser.yaml:49-69

.github/workflows/goreleaser.yaml:49-69
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Create new releases as drafts. gh release create publishes by default unless --draft is supplied. This conflicts with the documented draft-release workflow. Add --draft to the create command. The existing-release fallback correctly regenerates notes, updates the title and notes, uploads assets, and preserves the existing draft state.

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In @.github/workflows/goreleaser.yaml around lines 49 - 69, Add the --draft
option to the gh release create command so newly created releases remain drafts,
while leaving the existing-release fallback and its draft-state preservation
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In @.github/workflows/goreleaser.yaml:
- Around line 49-69: Add the --draft option to the gh release create command so
newly created releases remain drafts, while leaving the existing-release
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