diff --git a/packages/ui/scripts/build-manifest.ts b/packages/ui/scripts/build-manifest.ts
index 7460ff72..0b14de0f 100644
--- a/packages/ui/scripts/build-manifest.ts
+++ b/packages/ui/scripts/build-manifest.ts
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
  * `Program` over the entry files and reported with its signature and JSDoc summary.
  */
 import { existsSync, mkdirSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
-import { dirname, join, resolve } from "node:path";
+import { dirname, join, relative, resolve } from "node:path";
 import { loadMigrations, migrationMarkdown } from "../src/cli/migrations.ts";
 import { buildAtlasFile } from "./atlas-markdown.ts";
 import { buildReleaseFile } from "./changelog-markdown.ts";
@@ -61,6 +61,19 @@ const SKILL_API = resolve(ROOT, "../../.agents/skills/codeatlas-ui/API.md");
 const MIGRATION_MD = resolve(ROOT, "MIGRATION.md");
 const SKILL_DEMOS = resolve(ROOT, "../../.agents/skills/codeatlas-ui/DEMOS.md");
 
+/**
+ * What a manifest run writes into the git tree, as repo-relative paths (directories end in `/`). The land gate
+ * (`scripts/generated-paths.sh`, the one list of generated files) must accept every one of them, or a rebase
+ * would take a side of a file the manifest rebuilds; `tests/issue-workflow.test.ts` checks it (#653).
+ */
+export const TREE_OUTPUTS = [
+	relative(resolve(ROOT, "../.."), SKILL_API),
+	relative(resolve(ROOT, "../.."), SKILL_DEMOS),
+	relative(resolve(ROOT, "../.."), MIGRATION_MD),
+	`site/public/${API_DIR}/`,
+	"site/public/gallery/",
+];
+
 if (import.meta.main) {
 	const manifest = buildManifest();
 	const tokens = buildTokens();
diff --git a/packages/ui/tests/issue-workflow.test.ts b/packages/ui/tests/issue-workflow.test.ts
index d3f76c39..5a74b5a6 100644
--- a/packages/ui/tests/issue-workflow.test.ts
+++ b/packages/ui/tests/issue-workflow.test.ts
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import {
 	removeWorktree,
 	worktrees,
 } from "../../../scripts/issue-lib.ts";
+import { API_PATHS } from "../src/cli/agent-guide.ts";
 
 // Real data from #87/#88: a first-time contributor opened PRs from a fork before `issue:start` ran.
 const fork = (number: number, headRefName: string): PrRef => ({
@@ -167,6 +168,19 @@ describe("issue-land.sh", () => {
 			"sh",
 			path,
 		]).exitCode === 0;
+	// One list (#653): every path a manifest run writes into the tree is accepted by `is_generated`, the list the land
+	// reads, so a new generated output cannot be left out of it (and `release.ts` stages whatever the manifest wrote).
+	it("accepts every path the manifest writes into the tree (#653)", async () => {
+		const { TREE_OUTPUTS } = await import("../scripts/build-manifest.ts");
+		for (const out of TREE_OUTPUTS) {
+			// a directory stands for the files under it: probe a file the manifest really writes there
+			const probe = out.endsWith("/")
+				? `${out}${out.includes("gallery") ? "001.md" : API_PATHS.catalog}`
+				: out;
+			expect(generated(probe), probe).toBe(true);
+		}
+	});
+
 	it("rebuilds generated files and never picks a side of hand-written ones (#241)", () => {
 		for (const p of [
 			"bun.lock",
diff --git a/scripts/release-meta.ts b/scripts/release-meta.ts
index 7c01cc30..678efee4 100644
--- a/scripts/release-meta.ts
+++ b/scripts/release-meta.ts
@@ -7,9 +7,10 @@ export const PREFIX = "@codeatlasdev/ui@";
 
 /**
  * Commands `bun run release` runs to turn pending changesets into the release commit. The bump
- * stamps the new version into the generated catalog (API.md, DEMOS.md, site/public/api/v1:
- * "Needs: @codeatlasdev/ui@<version>"), so they are regenerated before `git add -A`; otherwise
- * main keeps the previous stamp until an unrelated PR rebuilds them.
+ * stamps the new version into the generated catalog ("Needs: @codeatlasdev/ui@<version>"), so the
+ * manifest is rebuilt before `git add -A`; otherwise main keeps the previous stamp until an unrelated PR
+ * rebuilds it. Which files that covers is `TREE_OUTPUTS` (packages/ui/scripts/build-manifest.ts), checked
+ * against `scripts/generated-paths.sh`, the one list of generated files.
  */
 export function versionSteps(): string[][] {
 	return [