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Release checklist still hand-edits version and draft state into the docs pages #551

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🤖 WIP issue, drafted by Claude during review of #550.

#550 automates release-version and draft-state stamping for the artifacts published to grc.store. The equivalent work for the docs site is still a manual checklist item, and it is what #544/#545 had to clean up after v2026.08.28.

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/release.yaml currently asks a human to:

  • line 27 — change Version: devel to the release number in docs/versions/<VERSION>.md
  • line 29 — remove the "not for production use" warning from the same file
  • line 40 — update the headers in docs/versions/<VERSION>-checklist.md and -crosswalk.md

These are the same class of staleness #550 fixes: a value that tracks devel in-repo and has to become the release version in the published output. Doing it by hand is why a release can ship with the wrong version and warning text still in place.

The compiler already takes --artifact-version (line 23 of the same template) to pin mapping-document links to the release tag, so there is an existing seam to extend rather than a new mechanism to invent.

Suggested scope: have baseline-compiler compile derive the version header and drop the pre-release warning from --artifact-version, and delete the corresponding manual steps from the release template.

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