diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish.yml b/.github/workflows/publish.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..543ba00
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+name: Publish (staged)
+
+on:
+  release:
+    types: [published]        # cutting a Release creates the tag AND fires this
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read              # workflow default (least privilege); only stage-publish also needs id-token, granted on that job
+
+concurrency:
+  group: publish-${{ github.workflow }}   # serialize publishes; no dist-tag races
+  cancel-in-progress: false               # queue, don't kill an in-flight publish
+
+jobs:
+  verify:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    outputs:
+      sha: ${{ steps.resolve.outputs.sha }}   # ancestry-checked commit, pinned for downstream
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd   # v6.0.2
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+          fetch-depth: 0                   # full history for the ancestry check below
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@48b55a011bda9f5d6aeb4c2d9c7362e8dae4041e # v6.4.0
+        with:
+          node-version-file: '.nvmrc'      # pin >= 22.14.0
+          package-manager-cache: false     # release-triggered: disable auto-cache (zizmor cache-poisoning)
+      - name: Assert Release tag matches package.json version
+        working-directory: ./intercom-plugin   # publishable package lives here; there is no root package.json
+        env:
+          RELEASE_TAG: ${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}
+        run: |
+          PKG="$(node -p "require('./package.json').version")"
+          [ "${RELEASE_TAG#v}" = "$PKG" ] || { echo "tag $RELEASE_TAG != package.json v$PKG"; exit 1; }
+      - name: Refuse releases not on the default branch
+        id: resolve
+        env:
+          RELEASE_TAG: ${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}
+          DEFAULT_BRANCH: ${{ github.event.repository.default_branch }}
+        run: |
+          git merge-base --is-ancestor "$GITHUB_SHA" "origin/$DEFAULT_BRANCH" \
+            || { echo "release $RELEASE_TAG not reachable from $DEFAULT_BRANCH — refusing"; exit 1; }
+          echo "sha=$GITHUB_SHA" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"   # downstream checks out this exact SHA, not the mutable tag
+
+  stage-publish:
+    needs: verify
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 15         # cap a hung publish
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+      id-token: write           # OIDC trusted publishing: only this job mints the token
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd   # v6.0.2
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+          ref: ${{ needs.verify.outputs.sha }}   # the ancestry-checked SHA, immune to tag re-pointing (TOCTOU)
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@48b55a011bda9f5d6aeb4c2d9c7362e8dae4041e # v6.4.0
+        with:
+          node-version-file: '.nvmrc'
+          registry-url: 'https://registry.npmjs.org'
+          package-manager-cache: false
+      # No JS install/build: cordova-plugin-intercom ships its source as-is, has no lockfile and no build/prepare script, so the publishable artifact already exists in the tree (matching the existing CircleCI publish job, which only ran `npm publish`).
+      - run: npm install -g npm@11.15.0    # npm CLI: staged publishing needs npm >= 11.15.0
+      - name: Resolve dist-tag (a prerelease must never go to `latest`)
+        id: disttag
+        working-directory: ./intercom-plugin
+        env:
+          PRERELEASE_TAG: next
+        run: |
+          VERSION="$(node -p "require('./package.json').version")"
+          case "$VERSION" in
+            *-*) TAG="$PRERELEASE_TAG" ;;
+            *)   TAG="latest" ;;
+          esac
+          echo "tag=$TAG" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+      - name: Stage publish
+        working-directory: ./intercom-plugin   # cordova-plugin-intercom lives here, not the repo root
+        env:
+          DIST_TAG: ${{ steps.disttag.outputs.tag }}
+        run: npm stage publish --tag "$DIST_TAG"
diff --git a/.nvmrc b/.nvmrc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7d41c73
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.nvmrc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+22.14.0
diff --git a/circle.yml b/circle.yml
index 05139b3..46668be 100644
--- a/circle.yml
+++ b/circle.yml
@@ -57,19 +57,6 @@ jobs:
           name: Build
           command: cd Example && cordova build android --verbose -- --gradleArg=--stacktrace
 
-  publish:
-    executor:
-      name: android/android-machine
-      resource-class: large
-      tag: default
-    steps:
-      - checkout
-      - run:
-          name: Publish to npm
-          command: |
-            echo "//registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken=$NPM_TOKEN" > intercom-plugin/.npmrc
-            cd intercom-plugin && npm publish
-
 workflows:
   version: 2.1
   ios_and_android:
@@ -82,12 +69,3 @@ workflows:
           filters:
             tags:
               only: /[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)+/
-      - publish:
-          requires:
-            - ios
-            - android
-          filters:
-            tags:
-              only: /[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)+/
-            branches:
-              ignore: /.*/