diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..baff34a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+jobs:
+  publish-release:
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Ensure valid tag reference
+        if: ${{ github.ref_type != 'tag' }} || ${{ !startsWith(github.ref_name, 'v') }}
+        uses: actions/github-script@v7
+        with:
+          script: |
+            core.notice('you can only run the publish workflow from a release tag (vX.Y.Z)')
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          ref: ${{ github.ref }}
+      - name: Set up python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version-file: .python-version
+      - name: Install Poetry
+        uses: snok/install-poetry@v1
+        with:
+          version: "1.6.1"
+          virtualenvs-create: true
+          virtualenvs-in-project: true
+          installer-parallel: true
+      - name: output library version
+        id: output-version
+        # prefix with v to match tag convention
+        run: poetry version -s | awk '{ print "version=v" $1 }' >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+      - name: check library version
+        if: ${{ steps.output-version.outputs.version }} != ${{ github.ref }}
+        id: check-version
+        uses: actions/github-script@v7
+        with:
+          script: |
+            core.notice('library version does not match the github tag')
+      - name: Build release
+        id: build-release
+        run: poetry build
+      - name: Publish version to PyPI
+        id: publish-release
+        run: poetry publish -u __token__ -p ${{ secrets.PYPI_API_TOKEN }} --dry-run
+
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 65b209d..cfdb03c 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "ionic-langchain"
-version = "0.1.2"
+version = "0.1.3"
 description = ""
 authors = ["Owen Sims <owen@ionicapi.com>"]
 readme = "README.md"