Thank you, @jahirvidrio — this is a genuinely nice piece of CI plumbing. 🙏 You closed exactly the gap #18 left open: automatic releases were publishing nothing, and folding build-release into release-please.yml (gated on release_created, same run, no downstream-trigger dance) is the clean fix. Deleting release.yml outright instead of leaving two half-wired workflows around is the right call.

I ran a multi-agent review across CI logic, security, and consolidation parity. Findings:

• Trigger matrix — correct on all four paths. push+release → builds; push without a release → skipped; workflow_dispatch → builds while release-please stays skipped (the !cancelled() + needs semantics work because a skipped dependency still lets the if evaluate); release-please failure → no spurious build. The inputs.tag || needs.release-please.outputs.tag_name fallback resolves right on every path.
• Security — actually improved. Moving from a top-level permissions block to per-job least-privilege (build-release gets only contents: write) is a real hardening. RELEASE_TAG is passed via env: and used quoted, so no expression-injection surface. Token handling is carried over verbatim from the old workflow — nothing newly risky.
• Parity — preserved. Every build step (build → strip → tarball → sha256 → upload → Homebrew formula) is intact, and the new Verify release exists pre-flight guard is a thoughtful addition that fails fast on a bad backfill.
• One small note (non-blocking): the old push: tags: v* trigger is gone. That's fine — and arguably correct, since GitHub suppresses runs from GITHUB_TOKEN-created tags anyway (which is why the old auto-build never fired). workflow_dispatch covers the manual/backfill case you documented. No change needed; just flagging it for the record.

Clean, well-scoped, well-described. Merging now — and thanks again for the careful write-up, including the v0.4.1 backfill note. 🚀