diff --git a/.github/workflows/_publish-dar-packages.yaml b/.github/workflows/_publish-dar-packages.yaml
index 1e0e5d7..02ebc24 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/_publish-dar-packages.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/_publish-dar-packages.yaml
@@ -151,6 +151,22 @@ jobs:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.COUNTERS_TOKEN }}
         run: .github/scripts/fetch-counters.sh
 
+      - name: Seed the local feed with this release's core packages
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          RELEASE_TAG_INPUT: ${{ inputs.release_tag }}
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          FEED="$RUNNER_TEMP/local-feed"
+          TAG="${RELEASE_TAG_INPUT:-v${CODEGEN_CS_VERSION}}"
+          mkdir -p "$FEED"
+          if gh release download "$TAG" --repo "$GITHUB_REPOSITORY" --pattern '*.nupkg' --dir "$FEED" --clobber; then
+            echo "Seeded the local feed from $TAG:"
+            ls -1 "$FEED"
+          else
+            echo "::warning::could not seed the local feed from $TAG; restores fall back to nuget.org, which does not serve a just-pushed version until it finishes indexing"
+          fi
+
       - name: Generate, build, pack (multi-pass) via dpm codegen-cs
         env:
           DOTNET_NOLOGO: 1