docs(release): record the continuous-release model and the CI-skip gotcha

[jimCresswell]

What & why

Closeout for #44 (continuous release on merge). Documentation/memory only.

• continuity + program memory + napkin: the release-PR / --auto pattern is retired; releases are now continuous via the Oak Semantic Release Bot pushing the bump to protected main.
• dev-tooling note: records the gotcha that bit feat(release): continuous release on merge via the Oak Semantic Release Bot #44 — a feature commit or PR message that quotes the CI-skip marker in prose makes the squash-merge skip CI, so no release fires. Only the bump commit should carry the marker.

Note

#44's own merge skipped CI for exactly that reason, so the first continuous release never fired and main is still 0.3.0. Merging this PR (its message is clean) is the first clean push to main since #44, so it should trigger the first continuous release — the computed minor v0.4.0 — and live-verify the bot's push to protected main.

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Pull request overview

Documents the post-#44 continuous-release-on-merge process and captures an operational gotcha where including GitHub’s CI-skip token in squash-merge text can prevent CI (and therefore prevent the release workflow from running).

Changes:

• Adds a dev-tooling note warning to keep the CI-skip marker out of feature PR/commit messaging (only the bump commit should include it).
• Updates repo continuity “program memory” to reflect the continuous release model and the fact it hasn’t yet been live-verified due to #44’s skipped CI.
• Updates the active “napkin” session notes with the same continuity/gotcha context.

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File	Description
docs/dev-tooling.md	Documents the CI-skip marker gotcha that can prevent the release workflow_run from firing under squash merge.
.agent/memory/operational/repo-continuity.md	Updates operational continuity memory to record the new continuous release model and expected first release after a clean merge.
.agent/memory/active/napkin.md	Captures session notes for #44’s continuous-release change and the CI-skip surprise for future reference.