diff --git a/TASKS.md b/TASKS.md
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@@ -71,6 +71,24 @@
 - **TASK 3** — items 16 (Text source) + 20 (RewardEvent capture → SQLite, Alerts' persistence half) open; **17 (Alerts) is DONE via TASK 43 (2026-09-24) — native six-event alert box**
 - **TASK 9** — item 5 open (webcam identity key reconciliation)
 - **TASK 10** — Velopack update URL pending
+- **Shipping / release build (creator-queued 2026-09-26)** — no publish config exists yet:
+  the csproj has only `OutputType=WinExe` + `TargetFramework`, so a plain `dotnet publish`
+  is **framework-dependent** (customer needs the .NET 8 Desktop Runtime preinstalled).
+  `Distribution.md` targets a self-contained ~80–120MB `LlamaCasty.exe` uploaded to Polar
+  as a File Download benefit. Two deliverables:
+  1. **`scripts/publish.sh`** wrapping
+     `dotnet publish ytLive.csproj -c Release -r win-x64 --self-contained true -o ./publish/win-x64`,
+     and **asserting the output contains no test/xunit artifacts**. (The compile side needs
+     nothing — the tests are a separate project with a one-way reference, plus explicit
+     `<Compile Remove="ytLive.Tests\**" />` in `ytLive.csproj`; the risk is *packaging*:
+     `ytLive.Tests/bin/.../ytLive.exe` exists and would ship a Debug build + test DLLs if
+     anyone ever zips a bin folder by hand. Never copy folders; always publish.)
+  2. **Condition `InternalsVisibleTo("ytLive.Tests")` to Debug only** (`ytLive.csproj:78-82`
+     is unconditional, so it ships in Release) — it hands the test assembly name to anyone
+     decompiling and advertises that `internal` members are externally reachable, which
+     conflicts with the obfuscation posture in `Distribution.md` §1.2.
+  Do **NOT** add `-p:PublishTrimmed=true`: WPF is not trim-compatible and it fails at
+  runtime (BAML/XAML resource resolution), not at build time. `PublishReadyToRun` is safe.
 - **TASK 12** — queued future
 - **TASK 13** — queued post-v1
 - **TASK 14** — Branch 2 shipped; branch 3+ in progress