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+# release-please.yml — automated Conventional-Commits release PR generator.
+#
+# What this workflow does:
+#   On every push to main, googleapis/release-please-action reads the
+#   commit history since the last release tag (per package, scoped by
+#   release-please-config.json's `packages` map) and either:
+#     - opens a new "chore(main): release <vX.Y.Z>" PR, or
+#     - updates the existing release PR with the latest changelog +
+#       version bump derived from Conventional Commit messages.
+#
+#   When a maintainer merges that PR, the action tags the merge commit
+#   with vX.Y.Z (framework) and/or ayama-vX.Y.Z (ayama). The existing
+#   release.yml / release-ayama.yml workflows fire on those tags and
+#   build/publish the GitHub Release as before.
+#
+# What this workflow does NOT do:
+#   - It does NOT push code. The only artifact is a draft PR + tag.
+#   - It does NOT bypass review. The release-PR still needs a click to
+#     merge.
+#   - It does NOT make calls to any external (Google) service. Everything
+#     runs in this repo's GitHub Actions runner against the GitHub API.
+#
+# Cost: open-source on Apache 2.0, free for public repos (unlimited
+# Actions minutes). For private repos the cost is GitHub Actions runner
+# minutes only — release-please completes in <30 s per run.
+
+name: release-please
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main]
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+  pull-requests: write
+
+# Only one release-please run at a time per branch — otherwise concurrent
+# pushes can race on the release-PR head and one of them wins silently.
+concurrency:
+  group: release-please-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: false   # let in-flight finish; queue subsequent
+
+jobs:
+  release-please:
+    name: release-please
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    steps:
+      - uses: googleapis/release-please-action@v4
+        with:
+          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          config-file: release-please-config.json
+          manifest-file: .release-please-manifest.json
diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
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+{
+  ".": "1.0.3",
+  "apps/ayama": "0.1.3"
+}
diff --git a/release-please-config.json b/release-please-config.json
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+{
+  "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/googleapis/release-please/main/schemas/config.json",
+
+  "release-type": "simple",
+  "include-v-in-tag": true,
+  "bump-minor-pre-major": true,
+  "bump-patch-for-minor-pre-major": true,
+  "draft": false,
+  "prerelease": false,
+
+  "_packages_doc": [
+    "Two release trains in this monorepo:",
+    "  - phyriad framework  → tag prefix 'v'        (matches release.yml on push.tags v*.*.*)",
+    "  - ayama showcase app → tag prefix 'ayama-v'  (matches release-ayama.yml on push.tags ayama-v*.*.*)",
+    "",
+    "Path scoping: changes under apps/ayama/** only bump the ayama package.",
+    "Changes anywhere else (framework/, bench/, docs/, examples/, scripts/, root)",
+    "only bump phyriad. Both can release independently; the existing per-tag",
+    "release workflows (release.yml + release-ayama.yml) fire as before.",
+    "",
+    "Conventional Commit rules in effect:",
+    "  feat:        → minor bump",
+    "  fix:         → patch bump",
+    "  feat!: / BREAKING CHANGE: → major bump (post-1.0; while pre-1.0",
+    "                                          'bump-minor-pre-major' redirects",
+    "                                          it to a minor bump)",
+    "  chore / ci / docs / refactor / test / style / build → no bump"
+  ],
+
+  "packages": {
+    ".": {
+      "component": "phyriad",
+      "package-name": "phyriad",
+      "include-component-in-tag": false,
+      "changelog-path": "CHANGELOG.md",
+      "release-type": "simple",
+      "exclude-paths": [
+        "apps/ayama"
+      ],
+      "extra-files": []
+    },
+    "apps/ayama": {
+      "component": "ayama",
+      "package-name": "ayama",
+      "include-component-in-tag": true,
+      "changelog-path": "CHANGELOG.md",
+      "release-type": "simple",
+      "extra-files": []
+    }
+  }
+}