diff --git a/.claude/commands/oddyssey-publish.md b/.claude/commands/oddyssey-publish.md
index 85c808a..6a53922 100644
--- a/.claude/commands/oddyssey-publish.md
+++ b/.claude/commands/oddyssey-publish.md
@@ -51,8 +51,10 @@ Steps:
 
 4. **Confirm before firing**: show verbatim the two commands about to
    run -
-   `git tag vX.Y.Z` and `git push origin vX.Y.Z` -
-   and state plainly that the push starts the whole release pipeline
+   `git -c tag.gpgsign=false tag vX.Y.Z` and `git push origin vX.Y.Z` -
+   (a lightweight tag, like every release tag; a `tag.gpgsign` git
+   setting would otherwise demand a tag message and fail) - and state
+   plainly that the push starts the whole release pipeline
    (release PR, CI, merge, GitHub release, then PyPI pending the
    environment approval). Only on explicit confirmation, run both
    commands.
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 5c97f2b..b7fc0ec 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ run-name: "release: ${{ github.ref_name }}"
 
 on:
   # One trigger, one act: pushing a version tag IS the release order.
-  #   git tag v1.7.0 && git push origin v1.7.0
+  #   git -c tag.gpgsign=false tag v1.7.0 && git push origin v1.7.0
   # The workflow then: computes the bumps for exactly that version,
   # opens the release PR with the oddyssey-release App (so pull_request
   # CI runs on it), waits for those checks, squash-merges it, re-points