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ci-validation-gates

Defensive CI/CD patterns: semver validation, token checks, retry logic, draft detection — earned from v0.8.22

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## Context

CI workflows must be defensive. These patterns were learned from the v0.8.22 release disaster where invalid semver, wrong token types, missing retry logic, and draft releases caused a multi-hour outage. Both Drucker (CI/CD) and Trejo (Release Manager) carried this knowledge in their charters — now centralized here.

## Patterns

### Semver Validation Gate
Every publish workflow MUST validate version format before `npm publish`. 4-part versions (e.g., 0.8.21.4) are NOT valid semver — npm mangles them.

```yaml
- name: Validate semver
  run: |
    VERSION="${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}"
    VERSION="${VERSION#v}"
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