From a45e64e74a759a2f407542a1daa7321d85f6640e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hadrien David <h@driendavid.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2026 11:16:21 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix(ci): restore direct semantic releases

---
 .github/workflows/release.yml | 10 ++++++----
 pyproject.toml                |  9 ++++++++-
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 59dddb9..425ebbb 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -18,20 +18,22 @@ jobs:
       uses: actions/checkout@v7
       with:
         fetch-depth: 0
+        token: ${{ secrets.GH_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
     - name: 🔧 setup uv
       uses: ./.github/uv
     - name: 📜 semantic release version & publish on PyPI
       run: |
-        RET_CODE=0
-        uv run semantic-release --strict version || RET_CODE=$?
-        if [ $RET_CODE -ne 0 ]; then
+        next_version=$(uv run semantic-release version --print)
+        last_released_version=$(uv run semantic-release version --print-last-released)
+        if [[ "$next_version" == "$last_released_version" ]]; then
           echo "🙅🏽 Nothing to publish"
         else
+          uv run semantic-release --strict version
           echo "🙆🏽 Publishing on PyPI"
           uv build
           uv run twine upload dist/*
         fi
       env:
-        GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GH_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
         TWINE_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.TWINE_USERNAME }}
         TWINE_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.TWINE_PASSWORD }}
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 09bc3ad..a644a77 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -94,9 +94,16 @@ env = "GH_TOKEN"
 [tool.semantic_release]
 version_toml = ["pyproject.toml:project.version"]
 allow_zero_version = true
+commit_message = """\
+chore(release): v{version}
+
+Automatically generated by python-semantic-release
+"""
 
 [tool.semantic_release.commit_parser_options]
-patch_tags = ["fix", "perf", "build"]
+minor_tags = ["feat"]
+patch_tags = ["build", "ci", "docs", "fix", "perf", "refactor", "style", "test"]
+other_allowed_tags = ["chore"]
 
 [tool.semantic_release.changelog]
 mode = "init"