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@@ -108,6 +108,10 @@ at a merge boundary.**
  "`TOOL_VERSION` bumped", "no schema change, no migration".  Silence is
  ambiguous; "none" is information.  This repo's changelog is how future-you
  learns whether a deploy costs two hours.
+- **Releases are cut on judgement, not on a schedule or a merge.**  `Unreleased`
+  is the staging area for whatever is going into the next release; when enough
+  has accumulated to be worth shipping, it gets a number and a date.  Nothing
+  about a merge to `dev` triggers a release.
 - **Cutting a release** is its own `chore(release): vX.Y.Z — <theme>` commit on
  `dev`, renaming `## Unreleased` → `## vX.Y.Z — YYYY-MM-DD` and touching:
  `CHANGELOG.md`, `pyproject.toml`, the version line in `CLAUDE.md` and