diff --git a/adapters/PUBLISHED.toml b/adapters/PUBLISHED.toml
index 2363fb3d..e00bf03f 100644
--- a/adapters/PUBLISHED.toml
+++ b/adapters/PUBLISHED.toml
@@ -37,6 +37,16 @@
 # A record edited to match a claim is not a record. `RECORDED` in `test_packaging.py` freezes the
 # range each published version declares, so raising one without a new version now fails.
 #
+# **And a fourth time, 0.12.0.** Both adapters were tagged and published at 1.3.0 with `<0.13` on
+# 2026-09-15, and this file sat at 1.2.0 / `<0.12` until 2026-09-16, found while checking whether a
+# 0.12.2 kernel needed an adapter release. Same shape as the third: the guard reads a tree ahead of
+# the record as a correct pending release, which is exactly what it looks like, and the upload is
+# the last thing that happens so there is nothing after it to remind anyone. Four for four says the
+# rule is not the fix. What would be: `publish.yml` refusing to upload an adapter whose version and
+# kernel range this file does not already record, which makes the record a precondition of the
+# upload instead of a chore after it. Not built; it reverses the rule above and belongs in its own
+# change.
+#
 # The tag carries NO `v`. `publish.yml` reads an adapter tag as everything after the last hyphen,
 # so `adapters-langgraph-1.1.0` names 1.1.0 and `adapters-langgraph-v1.1.0` names `v1.1.0` and is
 # refused. The `v` prefix belongs to kernel tags, where the workflow strips it. `MAJOR.MINOR` is
@@ -48,9 +58,9 @@
 # that gets skipped in the run that mattered.
 
 [langgraph]
-version = "1.2.0"
-kernel = ">=0.5,<0.12"
+version = "1.3.0"
+kernel = ">=0.5,<0.13"
 
 [openai-agents]
-version = "1.2.0"
-kernel = ">=0.5,<0.12"
+version = "1.3.0"
+kernel = ">=0.5,<0.13"
diff --git a/tests/test_packaging.py b/tests/test_packaging.py
index 9dc0256f..7781c100 100644
--- a/tests/test_packaging.py
+++ b/tests/test_packaging.py
@@ -904,8 +904,18 @@ def test_a_widened_kernel_range_is_not_shipped_without_a_new_version(adapter):
 #:
 #: Checked 2026-09-14, during the 0.11.0 release pass, for both adapters at both versions.
 RECORDED: dict[str, dict[str, str]] = {
-    "langgraph": {"1.0.0": ">=0.5,<0.6", "1.1.0": ">=0.5,<0.11", "1.2.0": ">=0.5,<0.12"},
-    "openai-agents": {"1.0.0": ">=0.5,<0.6", "1.1.0": ">=0.5,<0.11", "1.2.0": ">=0.5,<0.12"},
+    "langgraph": {
+        "1.0.0": ">=0.5,<0.6",
+        "1.1.0": ">=0.5,<0.11",
+        "1.2.0": ">=0.5,<0.12",
+        "1.3.0": ">=0.5,<0.13",
+    },
+    "openai-agents": {
+        "1.0.0": ">=0.5,<0.6",
+        "1.1.0": ">=0.5,<0.11",
+        "1.2.0": ">=0.5,<0.12",
+        "1.3.0": ">=0.5,<0.13",
+    },
 }