diff --git a/.changeset/auto-pr-894.md b/.changeset/auto-pr-894.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f0a29408
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/auto-pr-894.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"@icebreakers/monorepo": patch
+---
+
+fix(release): recover interrupted GitHub responses (#894)
diff --git a/packages/monorepo/src/commands/release/github/client.ts b/packages/monorepo/src/commands/release/github/client.ts
index b64acdfc..5b10bb9c 100644
--- a/packages/monorepo/src/commands/release/github/client.ts
+++ b/packages/monorepo/src/commands/release/github/client.ts
@@ -69,14 +69,30 @@ export class GitHubClient implements GitHubOperations {
         })
       }
       catch (error) {
-        if (attempt < this.retryAttempts) {
+        // A mutating request may have been accepted even when the transport
+        // fails before returning a response. Let the caller reconcile it
+        // before issuing another POST.
+        if (method !== 'POST' && attempt < this.retryAttempts) {
           await this.sleep(this.retryDelay * 2 ** (attempt - 1))
           continue
         }
         const detail = error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error)
         throw new GitHubApiError(`GitHub API request ${method} ${endpoint} failed: ${detail}. Check network access and GITHUB_API_URL.`, 0)
       }
-      const text = await response.text()
+      let text: string
+      try {
+        text = await response.text()
+      }
+      catch (error) {
+        // The server may have committed a POST before the response stream
+        // was interrupted. Reconcile by the resource's idempotency key first.
+        if (method !== 'POST' && attempt < this.retryAttempts) {
+          await this.sleep(this.retryDelay * 2 ** (attempt - 1))
+          continue
+        }
+        const detail = error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error)
+        throw new GitHubApiError(`GitHub API response ${method} ${endpoint} was interrupted: ${detail}`, 0)
+      }
       let data: T | undefined
       if (text) {
         try {
diff --git a/packages/monorepo/test/commands/release-github.test.ts b/packages/monorepo/test/commands/release-github.test.ts
index 0c0722a0..c1c3d94a 100644
--- a/packages/monorepo/test/commands/release-github.test.ts
+++ b/packages/monorepo/test/commands/release-github.test.ts
@@ -9,6 +9,35 @@ function response(body: unknown, status = 200, headers?: Record<string, string>)
 }
 
 describe('GitHub release client', () => {
+  it('retries when a response body is interrupted', async () => {
+    const interrupted = { text: async () => {
+      throw new TypeError('socket closed')
+    } } as unknown as Response
+    const requestFetch = vi.fn()
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce(response(undefined, 404))
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce(interrupted)
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce(response({ id: 1, tag_name: 'repo@1.0.0' }, 201))
+    const client = new GitHubClient({ token: 'token', repository: 'acme/repo', fetch: requestFetch, retryDelay: 0 })
+    await expect(client.ensureRelease({ tag: 'repo@1.0.0', target: 'abc123' })).resolves.toMatchObject({ id: 1 })
+    expect(requestFetch).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(3)
+  })
+
+  it('reconciles a release after an accepted POST response is interrupted', async () => {
+    const interrupted = { text: async () => {
+      throw new TypeError('socket closed')
+    } } as unknown as Response
+    const requestFetch = vi.fn()
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce(response(undefined, 404))
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce(interrupted)
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce(response({ id: 9, tag_name: 'repo@1.0.0' }))
+    const client = new GitHubClient({ token: 'token', repository: 'acme/repo', fetch: requestFetch, retryDelay: 0 })
+
+    await expect(client.ensureRelease({ tag: 'repo@1.0.0', target: 'abc123' })).resolves.toMatchObject({ id: 9 })
+    expect(requestFetch).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(3)
+    expect(requestFetch.mock.calls[1]?.[1]).toMatchObject({ method: 'POST' })
+    expect(requestFetch.mock.calls[2]?.[1]).toMatchObject({ method: 'GET' })
+  })
+
   it('retries transient responses four times and honors Retry-After', async () => {
     const sleeps: number[] = []
     const requestFetch = vi.fn()