The "Cutting a release" ritual moved the changelog and bumped pubspec but never mentioned tagging — which is how tags silently lapsed from v2.2.0 through v2.8.0. Add step 6: run `make release` (verify + gate + annotated tag), then push with --follow-tags, and state the rule that every released version must have a matching git tag. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>