diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish-dev-to-testpypi.yml b/.github/workflows/publish-dev-to-testpypi.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 2656b21..0000000
--- a/.github/workflows/publish-dev-to-testpypi.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-name: Publish dev build to Test PyPI
-
-# The continuous dev feed: every push to main lands on Test PyPI as a `.devN`
-# build. Separate from the release flow, which publishes the tagged version to
-# Test PyPI and then PyPI -- both use skip-existing, so they cannot collide.
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch:
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - main
-
-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
-jobs:
-  build:
-    name: Reuse build
-    uses: ./.github/workflows/build.yml
-    permissions:
-      contents: read
-
-  publish-to-test-pypi:
-    needs: build
-    uses: reqstool/.github/.github/workflows/python-publish-to-pypi.yml@main
-    permissions:
-      id-token: write
-    with:
-      target: testpypi
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 86a7409..caefc0b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -95,43 +95,35 @@ jobs:
       version: ${{ needs.prepare.outputs.version }}
       artifact: dist-tagged
 
-  publish-to-testpypi:
-    needs: [prepare, assets]
-    uses: reqstool/.github/.github/workflows/python-publish-to-pypi.yml@main
-    permissions:
-      id-token: write
-    with:
-      target: testpypi
-      artifact: dist-tagged
-
   # PyPI is the only step here that cannot be undone: a version can be yanked but
-  # never replaced. A release candidate stops at Test PyPI -- pip needs --pre to
-  # see a prerelease anyway.
+  # never replaced. Publishes release candidates too, with their pre-release
+  # identifier -- pip ignores them without --pre, so there is nothing unsafe
+  # about it landing on the real index; there is no separate staging index to
+  # route them to instead. Matches npm and Maven Central's existing behavior.
   publish-to-pypi:
-    needs: [prepare, publish-to-testpypi]
-    if: ${{ needs.prepare.outputs.prerelease != 'true' }}
-    uses: reqstool/.github/.github/workflows/python-publish-to-pypi.yml@main
+    needs: [prepare, assets]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    environment:
+      name: stable
+      url: https://pypi.org
     permissions:
       id-token: write
-    with:
-      target: pypi
-      artifact: dist-tagged
+    steps:
+      - uses: reqstool/.github/.github/actions/publish-to-pypi@b10b898cd5a1d552a578dbe4f170f84fb8f98b6c # main 2026-08-23
+        with:
+          artifact: dist-tagged
 
   # Last, deliberately. Everything above can fail, and until this runs nothing
   # resolving "the latest release" can see what was built -- the release is still
   # a prerelease. Promotion itself is one API call against a release that already
   # has its artifacts.
   #
-  # The guard is `no job failed`, not the default `every job succeeded`: a release
-  # candidate deliberately skips the publish jobs that a real release runs, and a
-  # skipped dependency would otherwise cascade and skip this too -- leaving the
-  # candidate unpromoted, which is right, and every *real* release unpromoted the
-  # moment any optional job is skipped, which is not.
-  #
-  # `!inputs.dry-run` has to be spelled out for the same reason: on a dry run
-  # every job above is skipped, and "nothing failed" would otherwise be true.
+  # The guard is `no job failed`, not the default `every job succeeded`: on a dry
+  # run every job above is skipped, which would make plain success() false too --
+  # `!inputs.dry-run` is what actually gates this job then, and `no job failed`
+  # is what confirms nothing above it errored on a real run.
   promote:
-    needs: [prepare, assets, publish-to-testpypi, publish-to-pypi]
+    needs: [prepare, assets, publish-to-pypi]
     if: ${{ !inputs.dry-run && !cancelled() && !contains(needs.*.result, 'failure') && !contains(needs.*.result, 'cancelled') }}
     uses: reqstool/.github/.github/workflows/common-release-promote.yml@main
     permissions: