Add release-please PyPI publishing

[ncrmro]

Summary

• add the AGENTS.md operating manual for this repo
• add release-please manifest/config plus the GitHub Action that opens release PRs from main
• add a release workflow that validates, builds, and publishes the panopticon wheel/sdist to PyPI
• document the required RELEASE_PLEASE_TOKEN secret and PyPI trusted publisher setup

Validation

• python3 -m json.tool release-please-config.json
• python3 -m json.tool .release-please-manifest.json
• uv --cache-dir /private/tmp/panopticon-uv-cache build
• uv --cache-dir /private/tmp/panopticon-uv-cache run mypy --package panopticon
• uv --cache-dir /private/tmp/panopticon-uv-cache run pytest

Follow-up before first release

• create the RELEASE_PLEASE_TOKEN GitHub secret with contents/issues/pull-requests write access
• configure PyPI trusted publishing for Unsupervisedcom/panopticon, workflow .github/workflows/release.yml, environment pypi, package panopticon

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

Adds automated release management and PyPI publishing for the panopticon Python package, integrating release-please version bumping and a GitHub Release–triggered publish workflow.

Changes:

• Introduces release-please configuration/manifest plus a workflow to open/update release PRs on pushes to main.
• Adds a Release workflow that type-checks, tests, builds, and publishes artifacts to PyPI via trusted publishing (OIDC).
• Documents repository setup steps for release automation and adds an AGENTS operating manual.

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
src/panopticon/init.py	Adds release-please version marker on __version__.
release-please-config.json	Configures release-please for Python releases and version bumping across files.
.release-please-manifest.json	Initializes manifest mode version tracking for the root package.
.github/workflows/release-please.yml	Runs release-please on main to manage release PRs and GitHub Releases.
.github/workflows/release.yml	Publishes to PyPI on GitHub Release publication after validation/build.
docs/releasing.md	Documents required secrets and PyPI trusted publisher setup.
AGENTS.md	Adds an agent-facing operating manual for repo conventions and architecture.

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