diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
index 8f630506..5f571455 100644
--- a/.dockerignore
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-.git
 .venv
 .uv_cache
 .ruff_cache
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 835cba95..49a98676 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -48,6 +48,11 @@ jobs:
         with:
           enable-cache: true
           cache-dependency-glob: "uv.lock"
+      - name: Install Temporal CLI
+        run: |
+          curl -sSf https://temporal.download/cli.sh | sh
+          echo "$HOME/.temporalio/bin" >> $GITHUB_PATH
+        shell: bash
 
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish.yml b/.github/workflows/publish.yml
index cde51b49..9b79783a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish.yml
@@ -122,6 +122,9 @@ jobs:
           sudo rm -rf "$AGENT_TOOLSDIRECTORY"
 
       - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+          fetch-tags: true
 
       - name: Set up QEMU
         uses: docker/setup-qemu-action@c7c53464625b32c7a7e944ae62b3e17d2b600130 # v3.7.0
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 89cea237..c83c7eb8 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -6,8 +6,10 @@ COPY --from=ghcr.io/astral-sh/uv:latest /uv /uvx /bin/
 
 # Install build dependencies
 # hadolint ignore=DL3008
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends git && \
-    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+    git \
+    build-essential \
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
 WORKDIR /app
 
@@ -18,7 +20,8 @@ ENV UV_CACHE_DIR=/root/.cache/uv
 COPY pyproject.toml uv.lock ./
 COPY shims/ ./shims/
 # .dockerignore handles excluding .git if it exists, but we copy it if needed for hatch-vcs
-COPY .git/ ./.git/
+# Use a wildcard to make the copy optional if .git doesn't exist in some contexts
+COPY .gi[t] ./.git/
 
 # Install dependencies into a local .venv
 # Use --extra to conditionally install heavy ML dependencies (inference group)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 9d1e9eca..29be8f92 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ name = "coreason_runtime"
 dynamic = ["version"]
 description = "The official zero-trust, high-throughput kinetic execution engine for the coreason-manifest ontology."
 readme = "README.md"
-requires-python = "==3.14.*"
+requires-python = ">=3.14"
 authors = [{ name = "Gowtham A Rao", email = "gowtham.rao@coreason.ai" }]
 dependencies = [
     "aiohttp>=3.13.4",
@@ -139,9 +139,9 @@ required-environments = [
 coreason = "coreason_runtime.cli:app"
 
 [project.urls]
-Homepage = "https://github.com/CoReason-AI/coreason_runtime"
-Repository = "https://github.com/CoReason-AI/coreason_runtime"
-Documentation = "https://github.com/CoReason-AI/coreason_runtime"
+Homepage = "https://github.com/CoReason-AI/coreason-runtime"
+Repository = "https://github.com/CoReason-AI/coreason-runtime"
+Documentation = "https://github.com/CoReason-AI/coreason-runtime"
 
 [tool.ruff]
 line-length = 120