diff --git a/.github/workflows/deploy.yml b/.github/workflows/deploy.yml
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+name: Deploy DataOps Worker
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    types: [closed]
+    branches: [main, 'release/**', 'feature/**']
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+  id-token: write
+  pull-requests: read
+
+jobs:
+  deploy:
+    name: Deploy
+    if: github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' || github.event.pull_request.merged == true
+    uses: Aignosi/github_workflow_templates/.github/workflows/reusable-deploy-dataops.yml@main
+    with:
+      branch_name: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.ref }}
+      project_name: 'laborious'
+      chart_name: 'laborious-worker'
+      # Only the "legacy" runtime, for now (card 13 correction) — laborious-worker has two
+      # Deployments (basic, legacy). basic's GITHUB_BRANCH lives in the chart base (.global.env)
+      # and is deliberately left untouched here. legacy's own override exists ONLY at the profile
+      # level — profiles/gcp.yaml's laborious-worker.runtimes.legacy.env, not the chart base at
+      # all — hence profile/profile_env_list_path below instead of env_list_path.
+      profile: 'gcp'
+      profile_env_list_path: '[".runtimes.legacy.env"]'
+      update_version_in: '["pyproject"]'
+      create_tarball: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' }}
+      mirror: true
+      bump_chart: true
+      deploy: true
+    secrets: inherit
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
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--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
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@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-name: Create Release on Merge to Main
-
-on:
-  pull_request:
-    types: [closed]
-    branches:
-      - main
-  workflow_dispatch:
-    inputs:
-      version:
-        description: 'Version to release'
-        required: false
-        type: string
-
-jobs:
-  release:
-    if: |
-      (github.event_name == 'pull_request' && github.event.pull_request.merged == true) ||
-      github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch'
-    uses: Aignosi/github_workflow_templates/.github/workflows/dataops-module-release.yml@main
-    permissions: write-all
-    with:
-      project_name: 'laborious'
-      release_version: ${{ github.event.inputs.version || '' }}
-    secrets: inherit
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diff --git a/.github/workflows/require-chart-ref-label.yml b/.github/workflows/require-chart-ref-label.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..20f8be3
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+++ b/.github/workflows/require-chart-ref-label.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+name: Require chart-ref label
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened, labeled, unlabeled]
+    branches:
+      - main
+      - 'release/**'
+      - 'feature/**'
+
+permissions:
+  pull-requests: write
+
+jobs:
+  require-chart-ref-label:
+    uses: Aignosi/github_workflow_templates/.github/workflows/require-chart-ref-label.yml@main