diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 7bc5096..061badf 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -4,9 +4,19 @@ name: Release
 # Blacksmith free tier is not consumed by surprise release builds. The
 # workflow stays local-by-default: an operator dispatches it after a manual
 # `cargo publish`. See docs/adr/0001-pr-check-blacksmith-local-release.md.
+#
+# The release matrix runs on GitHub-hosted runners. This repository is public,
+# so those minutes are free, and a rare dispatch-only release then costs the
+# shared Blacksmith pool nothing at all — which is what ADR 0001 set out to
+# protect. PR Check stays on Blacksmith, unchanged.
 
 on:
   workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      tag:
+        description: "Release tag to build and attach assets to (e.g. v0.3.28)"
+        required: true
+        type: string
 
 env:
   CARGO_TERM_COLOR: always
@@ -22,10 +32,15 @@ jobs:
     permissions:
       contents: read
     strategy:
+      # One unavailable runner must not cancel the legs that are healthy.
+      # In the v0.3.26 run, two legs failed to acquire a runner before any
+      # step executed, fail-fast cancelled the three healthy legs, and the
+      # release shipped with no assets at all.
+      fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         include:
           - target: x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
-            runner: blacksmith-4vcpu-windows-2025
+            runner: windows-latest
             ext: .exe
           - target: x86_64-apple-darwin
             runner: macos-latest
@@ -34,15 +49,17 @@ jobs:
             runner: macos-latest
             ext: ""
           - target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
-            runner: blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404
+            runner: ubuntu-latest
             ext: ""
           - target: aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu
-            runner: blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404
+            runner: ubuntu-latest
             ext: ""
             use_cross: true
 
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@34e114876b0b11c390a56381ad16ebd13914f8d5 # v4
+        with:
+          ref: ${{ inputs.tag }}
 
       - name: Install Linux keyring build deps
         if: runner.os == 'Linux' && !matrix.use_cross
@@ -87,7 +104,9 @@ jobs:
     name: Upload Release Assets
     needs: build
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    if: vars.CI_BUDGET_MODE != 'off'
+    # Ship whatever built. A partial asset set beats the empty asset set that
+    # `needs: build` produced whenever any single target failed.
+    if: ${{ !cancelled() && vars.CI_BUDGET_MODE != 'off' }}
     permissions:
       contents: write
 
@@ -95,9 +114,19 @@ jobs:
       - name: Download all artifacts
         uses: actions/download-artifact@d3f86a106a0bac45b974a628896c90dbdf5c8093 # v4
 
+      - name: Verify at least one asset was built
+        run: |
+          count=$(find . -type f -name 'linear-cli-*' | wc -l | tr -d ' ')
+          echo "found $count asset(s)"
+          test "$count" -gt 0
+          find . -type f -name 'linear-cli-*' -exec ls -l {} +
+
       - name: Upload to release
         uses: softprops/action-gh-release@3bb12739c298aeb8a4eeaf626c5b8d85266b0e65 # v2
         with:
+          # Without an explicit tag the action falls back to github.ref, which
+          # is a branch ref whenever the workflow is dispatched from a branch.
+          tag_name: ${{ inputs.tag }}
           files: |
             linear-cli-*/linear-cli-*
 
@@ -111,6 +140,8 @@ jobs:
 
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@34e114876b0b11c390a56381ad16ebd13914f8d5 # v4
+        with:
+          ref: ${{ inputs.tag }}
 
       - name: Install Rust
         uses: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@29eef336d9b2848a0b548edc03f92a220660cdb8 # stable