diff --git a/skills/github-release/SKILL.md b/skills/github-release/SKILL.md
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@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ These commands are blocked by hooks. GitHub immutable releases (GA Oct 2025) mak
 - `references/ecosystem-detection.md` — version file patterns per ecosystem
 - `references/immutable-releases.md` — GitHub immutable releases and tag burning
 - `references/supply-chain-security.md` — SLSA, Sigstore, SBOMs, attestations
-- `references/recovery-procedures.md` — burned tags, stuck drafts, version drift, release-body clobbering, mis-tagged SemVer releases, branch-protection gotchas
-- `references/ter-republish.md` — TYPO3 Extension Repository re-publish patterns
+- `references/recovery-procedures.md` — burned tags, stuck drafts, version drift, release-body clobbering, branch-protection gotchas
+- `references/ter-republish.md` — TYPO3 TER re-publish patterns
+- `references/typo3-ter-publishing.md` — TYPO3 initial-publish gotchas (tag/`ext_emconf.php` version match, `v`-prefix handling)
 - `references/ci-workflow-templates.md` — CI workflow structure and templates
diff --git a/skills/github-release/references/ter-republish.md b/skills/github-release/references/ter-republish.md
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@@ -187,6 +187,8 @@ reference implementation.
 
 ## Related
 
+- `typo3-ter-publishing.md` — initial-publish gotchas (tag/`ext_emconf.php`
+  version match, `v`-prefix handling in custom workflows)
 - `recovery-procedures.md` — generic release recovery
 - `release-process.md` — the standard release flow
 - `immutable-releases.md` — why we can't just re-tag
diff --git a/skills/github-release/references/typo3-ter-publishing.md b/skills/github-release/references/typo3-ter-publishing.md
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+# TYPO3 TER Publishing Gotchas
+
+This reference covers TYPO3-specific failure modes when publishing an
+extension *for the first time* on a given version (initial publish, not
+re-publish — for re-publishing without re-tagging, see
+`ter-republish.md`).
+
+## Version Match Required Between Tag and `ext_emconf.php`
+
+`tailor ter:publish` validates that the version it is uploading matches
+the `'version'` key in `ext_emconf.php`. If they disagree it aborts
+with:
+
+```
+configured version does not match
+```
+
+`ext_emconf.php` is the **single source of truth** for this validation.
+Bump it before tagging (e.g. `'version' => '0.6.0'` for tag `v0.6.0`).
+
+`Documentation/guides.xml` (`version=` and `release=` attributes on the
+`<project>` element) should also be kept in sync — not because TER
+validates against it, but because docs.typo3.org renders the wrong
+version banner if it drifts. Same release branch, same commit, same PR.
+
+The Git tag (`v0.6.0`) is the second source of truth that must agree
+with `ext_emconf.php` at the moment CI runs `tailor ter:publish`. The
+release-prep PR pattern documented in `release-process.md` (Phase 1)
+already enforces this ordering — bump version files in the release
+branch, merge the PR, *then* tag the merge commit. The reason that
+ordering exists, beyond clean history, is that any other ordering
+produces a tag pointing at commits with stale version files and TER
+refuses the upload.
+
+**Don't tag first, bump second.** A signed tag at the wrong commit is
+not free to fix: deleting and recreating a signed tag burns the GPG
+signature on the new tag (different SHA), invalidates any provenance
+attestation that referenced the old SHA, and on GitHub immutable
+releases (GA Oct 2025) burns the tag name permanently if a release was
+already created against it.
+
+## `v` Prefix Mismatch in Custom Publish Workflows
+
+Git tags conventionally use a `v` prefix (`v0.6.0`); `ext_emconf.php`
+stores the bare version (`0.6.0`). A workflow that compares
+`${GITHUB_REF#refs/tags/}` directly against the `ext_emconf.php` value
+will compare `v0.6.0` against `0.6.0` and silently fail validation.
+
+The fix is to derive the bare version in a `run:` step (GitHub Actions
+`env:` blocks do **not** perform shell parameter expansion — `${TAG#v}`
+in `env:` is taken literally), and pass `github.ref` straight to
+`actions/checkout`:
+
+```yaml
+- uses: actions/checkout@<sha>
+  with:
+    ref: ${{ github.ref }}              # refs/tags/v0.6.0 — finds the tag
+
+- name: Resolve version
+  run: |
+    TAG="${GITHUB_REF#refs/tags/}"      # v0.6.0 — for human-facing logs
+    VERSION="${TAG#v}"                  # 0.6.0  — for ext_emconf.php compare + tailor
+    echo "TAG=$TAG" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+    echo "VERSION=$VERSION" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+
+- name: Publish
+  run: |
+    test "$VERSION" = "$(php -r '$EM_CONF=[]; include "ext_emconf.php"; echo $EM_CONF[basename(__DIR__)]["version"];')" \
+      || { echo "::error::tag $TAG vs ext_emconf.php mismatch"; exit 1; }
+    tailor ter:publish --comment "..." "$VERSION"
+```
+
+`actions/checkout` wants the raw ref so it can find the tag; the
+`ext_emconf.php` comparison and the `tailor ter:publish` argument want
+the bare version. Conflating them produces the same `configured version
+does not match` failure as section 1 above, but for a different reason
+— the comparison is wrong, not the file content.
+
+**If you use the shared reusable workflow you get this for free.**
+`netresearch/typo3-ci-workflows`'s `publish-to-ter.yml` already
+implements the strip pattern (see the regex and `VERSION="${TAG#v}"`
+snippet in `ter-republish.md` § Tag Format Compatibility). Both
+`templates/release-typo3.yml` and `templates/ter-publish.yml` in this
+skill repo wire that workflow up correctly.
+
+This gotcha only bites if you write your own per-project publish
+workflow that bypasses the shared reusable workflow. If you do, mirror
+the three-variable pattern.
+
+## Related
+
+- `ter-republish.md` — re-publishing without re-tagging; tag-format
+  compatibility regex
+- `release-process.md` — the version-bump-then-tag ordering (Phase 1
+  through Phase 3) that prevents the version-match failure
+- `templates/release-typo3.yml` — tag-triggered TYPO3 release caller
+- `templates/ter-publish.yml` — `workflow_dispatch` re-publish caller