ci: auto-publish to npm on every push to master

Replaces tag-based publishing with automatic patch version bump and
publish on every push to master. Uses [skip ci] in the version bump
commit to avoid infinite loops.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: odedha-dr

.github/workflows/publish.yml

@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ name: Publish to npm
 
 on:
   push:
-    tags:
-      - 'v*'
+    branches:
+      - master
 
 jobs:
   test:
@@ -19,8 +19,6 @@ jobs:
   publish:
     needs: test
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    permissions:
-      contents: write
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
@@ -29,10 +27,19 @@ jobs:
           registry-url: https://registry.npmjs.org
       - run: npm ci
       - run: npm run build
-      - run: npm publish --access=public
+      - name: Bump patch version
+        run: |
+          git config user.name "github-actions[bot]"
+          git config user.email "github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
+          npm version patch --no-git-tag-version
+          VERSION=$(node -p "require('./package.json').version")
+          echo "VERSION=$VERSION" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+      - name: Publish to npm
+        run: npm publish --access=public
         env:
           NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}
-      - name: Create GitHub Release
-        run: gh release create ${{ github.ref_name }} --generate-notes
-        env:
-          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
+      - name: Push version bump
+        run: |
+          git add package.json package-lock.json
+          git commit -m "chore: bump version to ${{ env.VERSION }} [skip ci]"
+          git push