[theoephraim]

The release run for the #1264 version merge failed in "Fetch published native helpers", before anything was published: TypeError: {} is not iterable in scripts/fetch-native-helpers.ts.

The release job installs npm@latest, which is now npm 12. npm 12 changed npm pack --json from an array to an object keyed by package name.

• fetch-native-helpers.ts no longer parses that output; it packs and then takes the single .tgz from its own temp dir. Verified staging all four helpers with npm 11.15 and npm 12.2.
• The release job pins npm@^11.15.0 (still new enough for OIDC/provenance) so this release does not also take on an untested npm major in the publish step.

No bump file on purpose: main has no pending bump files and the 1.25.0 versions are unpublished, so bumpy ci plan stays in publish mode and merging this re-runs the publish of the existing version PR. A bump file here would flip it to version-pr.

[pullfrog]

✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes: Reviewed the release workflow and native-helper staging fix, validating all four helpers with npm 11.15.0 and 12.2.0 in isolated fixtures.

• Output-independent packing: fetch-native-helpers.ts extracts the single .tgz from its fresh per-platform directory instead of parsing npm's JSON output.
• npm major constraint: The release job installs npm@^11.15.0, retaining OIDC/provenance support without adopting npm 12.

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