diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-prepare.yml b/.github/workflows/release-prepare.yml
index 66b1fdfcf..7c96596dc 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release-prepare.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-prepare.yml
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 ---
 name: Release Prepare
 
-# Prepares, but never publishes, a release for class-2 repositories and the
-# named Zi exception (decisions/0007-release-publication-flow.md). On every
+# Prepares, but never publishes, a release for class-2 repositories
+# (decisions/0007-release-publication-flow.md). On every
 # push to the default branch it computes the next semantic version from
 # Conventional Commits since the last tag, drafts a changelog with GitHub
 # Models (falling back to a grouped commit list), and opens or updates a single
@@ -36,11 +36,6 @@ on:
         required: false
         type: string
         default: "release-proposal"
-      signed_tag:
-        description: Emit a signed annotated tag command in the proposal.
-        required: false
-        type: boolean
-        default: false
     outputs:
       version:
         description: >
@@ -241,18 +236,11 @@ jobs:
           PREVIOUS_TAG: ${{ steps.semver.outputs.previous-tag }}
           TAG_PREFIX: ${{ inputs.tag-prefix || 'v' }}
           PROPOSAL_LABEL: ${{ inputs.proposal-label || 'release-proposal' }}
-          SIGNED_TAG: ${{ inputs.signed_tag }}
           AI_RESPONSE_FILE: ${{ steps.ai.outputs.response-file }}
         run: |
           set -euo pipefail
           dir="${RUNNER_TEMP}/release-prepare"
           tag="${TAG_PREFIX}${VERSION}"
-          tag_flag="-a"
-          tag_kind="annotated"
-          if [ "$SIGNED_TAG" = "true" ]; then
-            tag_flag="-s"
-            tag_kind="signed annotated"
-          fi
 
           changelog="${dir}/fallback.md"
           if [ -n "${AI_RESPONSE_FILE}" ] && [ -s "${AI_RESPONSE_FILE}" ]; then
@@ -278,12 +266,12 @@ jobs:
             echo
             echo "## To publish"
             echo
-            echo "Per [ADR 0007](https://github.com/z-shell/.github/blob/main/decisions/0007-release-publication-flow.md) the ${tag_kind} tag is the publication boundary. Review and adjust the version if needed, then:"
+            echo "Per [ADR 0007](https://github.com/z-shell/.github/blob/main/decisions/0007-release-publication-flow.md) the annotated tag is the publication boundary. Review and adjust the version if needed, then:"
             echo
             echo '```sh'
             echo "git switch ${GITHUB_REF_NAME} && git pull --ff-only"
             echo "# bump any in-repo version metadata first, if this repository has it"
-            echo "git tag ${tag_flag} ${tag} -m ${tag}"
+            echo "git tag -a ${tag} -m ${tag}"
             echo "git push origin ${tag}"
             echo '```'
             echo