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 - Consolidated macOS and Windows packaging behind parameterized scripts for version, architecture, edition, and signing mode.
 - Desktop packages now exclude dependency tests, documentation, examples, and coverage files from the runtime payload.
 - Packaged builds now prepare and include the default local embedding model as an application resource.
+
+## Artifact verification
+
+- Before publication, all four signed installers were downloaded again from OSS and matched their published Content-MD5 and object size; both macOS disk images also passed `hdiutil verify`.