diff --git a/scripts/release.py b/scripts/release.py
index de1f0fbec..791558c32 100755
--- a/scripts/release.py
+++ b/scripts/release.py
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ ACP_REGISTRY_MANIFEST = REPO_ROOT / "acp_registry" / "agent.json"
 # Auto-extracted from noreply emails + manual overrides
 AUTHOR_MAP = {
     "cyb3rwr3n@users.noreply.github.com": "cyb3rwr3n",  # PR #11333 salvage (sanitize FTS5 queries for natural-language recall in holographic memory)
+    "9350182+codexGW@users.noreply.github.com": "codexGW",  # PR #12302 salvage (Discord raw <@!ID> mention detection + drop bare mention-only pings)
     "186512915+lEWFkRAD@users.noreply.github.com": "lEWFkRAD",  # PR #53848 salvage (stream the MoA aggregator response to the user)
     "193368749+jimmyjohansson84@users.noreply.github.com": "jimmyjohansson84",  # PR #27123 salvage (Kanban unknown-skill warn-instead-of-crash; #27136)
     "gxalong@gmail.com": "Jeffgithub0029",  # PR #28558 salvage (chunk Telegram text *after* MarkdownV2/HTML formatting so escaping inflation can't push a send over the 4096 UTF-16 limit; #28557)