diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
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+name: Release
+
+on:
+  push:
+    tags:
+      - "v*"
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      version:
+        description: "Version to release (e.g. 0.1.0)"
+        required: true
+        default: "0.1.0"
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+
+jobs:
+  release:
+    name: Create GitHub Release
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - name: Resolve tag name
+        id: tag
+        run: |
+          if [ "${{ github.event_name }}" = "workflow_dispatch" ]; then
+            echo "TAG=v${{ github.event.inputs.version }}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            echo "VERSION=${{ github.event.inputs.version }}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          else
+            TAG="${GITHUB_REF_NAME}"
+            echo "TAG=${TAG}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            echo "VERSION=${TAG#v}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          fi
+
+      - name: Create and push tag (workflow_dispatch only)
+        if: github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch'
+        run: |
+          git config user.name "github-actions[bot]"
+          git config user.email "github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
+          TAG="${{ steps.tag.outputs.TAG }}"
+          if git rev-parse "$TAG" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+            echo "Tag $TAG already exists, skipping creation."
+          else
+            git tag "$TAG"
+            git push origin "$TAG"
+          fi
+
+      - name: Extract changelog for this version
+        id: changelog
+        run: |
+          VERSION="${{ steps.tag.outputs.VERSION }}"
+          # Extract the section for this version from CHANGELOG.md
+          NOTES=$(awk "/^## \[$VERSION\]/{found=1; next} found && /^## \[/{exit} found{print}" CHANGELOG.md)
+          # Use a delimiter to safely pass multiline output
+          {
+            echo "NOTES<<CHANGELOG_EOF"
+            echo "$NOTES"
+            echo "CHANGELOG_EOF"
+          } >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+
+      - name: Create GitHub Release
+        uses: actions/github-script@v7
+        with:
+          script: |
+            const tag = '${{ steps.tag.outputs.TAG }}';
+            const notes = `${{ steps.changelog.outputs.NOTES }}`.trim();
+            await github.rest.repos.createRelease({
+              owner: context.repo.owner,
+              repo: context.repo.repo,
+              tag_name: tag,
+              name: `Release ${tag}`,
+              body: notes || `Release ${tag}`,
+              draft: false,
+              prerelease: false,
+            });
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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+# Changelog
+
+All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
+
+The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
+and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
+
+## [0.1.0] - 2026-03-03
+
+### Added
+- Initial release of `if-curator` — Immich to Frigate training set curator
+- **Face recognition prep**: InsightFace (ArcFace/Buffalo_L) embeddings on face crops for Frigate face recognition training
+- **Object/state classification prep**: SigLIP (Vision Transformer) embeddings with YOLOv9c object detection
+- **Smart diversity selection**: K-Medoids clustering + Farthest Point Sampling (FPS) with hard-example weighting
+- **Adaptive auto-threshold**: Automatically stops selection when adding more images becomes redundant (capped at 80)
+- **Quality filtering**: Automatic rejection of blurry, grayscale/IR, over/underexposed, low-confidence, and too-small images
+- **Face alignment**: Align faces to ArcFace 112×112 format via InsightFace landmarks
+- **Full-resolution downloads**: Downloads originals for final crops (falls back to JPEG preview for HEIC/RAW)
+- **Concurrent downloads**: 8 parallel thumbnail workers for performance
+- **Embedding cache**: Optional disk-based cache for faster re-runs
+- **Multi-person batch mode**: Process multiple people in one session
+- **Interactive CLI**: Rich terminal UI with preview summary table before downloading
+- **GPU support**: Optional CUDA/ROCm/MPS acceleration via `onnxruntime-gpu` extra
+- **Environment variable configuration**: Full control via `.env` or shell environment