create-release.sh builds and commits the manifest BEFORE the signing
step, so the release commit carried an UNSIGNED manifest. Nodes fetch
releases/manifest.json from branch main and refuse to auto-apply an
unsigned one, so publishing without this would have shipped an OTA the
fleet silently declines.
Signature verified against the pinned release root before committing:
signed_by did:key:z6MkkidEnEpo6qHMCNSZoNKWtvQvxq3whnaME9wGgEFhq7ur
Cargo.lock carries the 1.7.120-alpha version bump from the release build.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
