diff --git a/scripts/release.py b/scripts/release.py
index 13b1103f1..fe9bd043c 100755
--- a/scripts/release.py
+++ b/scripts/release.py
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ ACP_REGISTRY_MANIFEST = REPO_ROOT / "acp_registry" / "agent.json"
 
 # Auto-extracted from noreply emails + manual overrides
 AUTHOR_MAP = {
+    "gary@bitcryptic.com": "bitcryptic-gw",  # PR #53997 salvage (Matrix E2EE: resolve device_id via query_keys({mxid: []}) when whoami returns none; guard verification call sites so query_keys is never sent [null]; reset _device_id_unverified at connect() start; disconnect before reconnect)
     "7698789+abchiaravalle@users.noreply.github.com": "abchiaravalle",  # PR #46997 salvage (recover resume_pending sessions: dual freshness signal + empty-turn safety net so restart auto-resume never sends a blank user turn)
     "swissly@users.noreply.github.com": "swissly",  # PR #47167 salvage (wrap cron delivery thread-pool fallback in its own try/except so a per-target failure can't escape the except-RuntimeError block and crash the multi-target delivery loop; #47163)
     "30854794+YLChen-007@users.noreply.github.com": "YLChen-007",  # PR #27289 salvage (case-insensitive streaming reasoning-tag filter in cli.py _stream_delta + gateway stream_consumer so mixed-case variants like <Think>/<ThInK> are suppressed, not just the hardcoded case literals)