Harden release publishing and document release blockers

tools/build_releases.sh

@@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ set -euo pipefail
 
 GODOT="${GODOT:-godot}"
 VERSION="$(grep -oP 'config/version="\K[^"]+' project.godot)"
+PLAYER_DOCS=(
+  "CREDITS.md"
+  "PRIVACY.md"
+  "docs/accessibility.md"
+  "docs/known-limitations.md"
+)
 mkdir -p build
 # Presets now embed the PCK into a single binary; drop stale .pck leftovers.
 rm -f build/*.pck
@@ -34,6 +40,9 @@ echo "==> Exporting Web (no threads, static-hosting friendly)"
 rm -rf build/web
 mkdir -p build/web
 "$GODOT" --headless --export-release "Web" "build/web/index.html"
+for doc in "${PLAYER_DOCS[@]}"; do
+  cp "$doc" "build/web/$(basename "$doc")"
+done
 # Ship the web build as a single zip so it can be downloaded and served as-is.
 rm -f "build/gig-line-web-${VERSION}.zip"
 if command -v zip >/dev/null 2>&1; then
@@ -58,6 +67,9 @@ cp "build/gig-line-linux-${VERSION}.x86_64" "$HQ_DIR/"
 cp "build/gig-line-windows-${VERSION}.exe" "$HQ_DIR/"
 cp packaging/desktop_hq/override.cfg "$HQ_DIR/"
 cp packaging/desktop_hq/README.txt "$HQ_DIR/"
+for doc in "${PLAYER_DOCS[@]}"; do
+  cp "$doc" "$HQ_DIR/$(basename "$doc")"
+done
 rm -f "build/gig-line-desktop-hq-${VERSION}.zip"
 if command -v zip >/dev/null 2>&1; then
   (cd "$HQ_DIR" && zip -q -r "../gig-line-desktop-hq-${VERSION}.zip" .)

tools/publish_release.sh

@@ -106,6 +106,10 @@ for f in "${all_artifacts[@]}"; do
 done
 echo "==> Checksums written to $checksum_file"
 cat "$checksum_file"
+if [[ "${PUBLISH_DRY_RUN:-0}" == "1" ]]; then
+  echo "DRY RUN: preflight and checksums passed; no release or upload was created."
+  exit 0
+fi
 
 API="$HOST/api/v1/repos/$REPO/releases"
 created_release=0