diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 5af17713b..000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,296 +0,0 @@
-# This file was autogenerated by dist: https://axodotdev.github.io/cargo-dist
-#
-# Copyright 2022-2024, axodotdev
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT or Apache-2.0
-#
-# CI that:
-#
-# * checks for a Git Tag that looks like a release
-# * builds artifacts with dist (archives, installers, hashes)
-# * uploads those artifacts to temporary workflow zip
-# * on success, uploads the artifacts to a GitHub Release
-#
-# Note that the GitHub Release will be created with a generated
-# title/body based on your changelogs.
-
-name: Release
-permissions:
-  "contents": "write"
-
-# This task will run whenever you push a git tag that looks like a version
-# like "1.0.0", "v0.1.0-prerelease.1", "my-app/0.1.0", "releases/v1.0.0", etc.
-# Various formats will be parsed into a VERSION and an optional PACKAGE_NAME, where
-# PACKAGE_NAME must be the name of a Cargo package in your workspace, and VERSION
-# must be a Cargo-style SemVer Version (must have at least major.minor.patch).
-#
-# If PACKAGE_NAME is specified, then the announcement will be for that
-# package (erroring out if it doesn't have the given version or isn't dist-able).
-#
-# If PACKAGE_NAME isn't specified, then the announcement will be for all
-# (dist-able) packages in the workspace with that version (this mode is
-# intended for workspaces with only one dist-able package, or with all dist-able
-# packages versioned/released in lockstep).
-#
-# If you push multiple tags at once, separate instances of this workflow will
-# spin up, creating an independent announcement for each one. However, GitHub
-# will hard limit this to 3 tags per commit, as it will assume more tags is a
-# mistake.
-#
-# If there's a prerelease-style suffix to the version, then the release(s)
-# will be marked as a prerelease.
-on:
-  pull_request:
-  push:
-    tags:
-      - '**[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+*'
-
-jobs:
-  # Run 'dist plan' (or host) to determine what tasks we need to do
-  plan:
-    runs-on: "ubuntu-22.04"
-    outputs:
-      val: ${{ steps.plan.outputs.manifest }}
-      tag: ${{ !github.event.pull_request && github.ref_name || '' }}
-      tag-flag: ${{ !github.event.pull_request && format('--tag={0}', github.ref_name) || '' }}
-      publishing: ${{ !github.event.pull_request }}
-    env:
-      GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          persist-credentials: false
-          submodules: recursive
-      - name: Install dist
-        # we specify bash to get pipefail; it guards against the `curl` command
-        # failing. otherwise `sh` won't catch that `curl` returned non-0
-        shell: bash
-        run: "curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist/releases/download/v0.30.2/cargo-dist-installer.sh | sh"
-      - name: Cache dist
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: cargo-dist-cache
-          path: ~/.cargo/bin/dist
-      # sure would be cool if github gave us proper conditionals...
-      # so here's a doubly-nested ternary-via-truthiness to try to provide the best possible
-      # functionality based on whether this is a pull_request, and whether it's from a fork.
-      # (PRs run on the *source* but secrets are usually on the *target* -- that's *good*
-      # but also really annoying to build CI around when it needs secrets to work right.)
-      - id: plan
-        run: |
-          dist ${{ (!github.event.pull_request && format('host --steps=create --tag={0}', github.ref_name)) || 'plan' }} --output-format=json > plan-dist-manifest.json
-          echo "dist ran successfully"
-          cat plan-dist-manifest.json
-          echo "manifest=$(jq -c "." plan-dist-manifest.json)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-      - name: "Upload dist-manifest.json"
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: artifacts-plan-dist-manifest
-          path: plan-dist-manifest.json
-
-  # Build and packages all the platform-specific things
-  build-local-artifacts:
-    name: build-local-artifacts (${{ join(matrix.targets, ', ') }})
-    # Let the initial task tell us to not run (currently very blunt)
-    needs:
-      - plan
-    if: ${{ fromJson(needs.plan.outputs.val).ci.github.artifacts_matrix.include != null && (needs.plan.outputs.publishing == 'true' || fromJson(needs.plan.outputs.val).ci.github.pr_run_mode == 'upload') }}
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      # Target platforms/runners are computed by dist in create-release.
-      # Each member of the matrix has the following arguments:
-      #
-      # - runner: the github runner
-      # - dist-args: cli flags to pass to dist
-      # - install-dist: expression to run to install dist on the runner
-      #
-      # Typically there will be:
-      # - 1 "global" task that builds universal installers
-      # - N "local" tasks that build each platform's binaries and platform-specific installers
-      matrix: ${{ fromJson(needs.plan.outputs.val).ci.github.artifacts_matrix }}
-    runs-on: ${{ matrix.runner }}
-    container: ${{ matrix.container && matrix.container.image || null }}
-    env:
-      GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME: target/distrib/${{ join(matrix.targets, '-') }}-dist-manifest.json
-    steps:
-      - name: enable windows longpaths
-        run: |
-          git config --global core.longpaths true
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          persist-credentials: false
-          submodules: recursive
-      - name: Install Rust non-interactively if not already installed
-        if: ${{ matrix.container }}
-        run: |
-          if ! command -v cargo > /dev/null 2>&1; then
-            curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- -y
-            echo "$HOME/.cargo/bin" >> $GITHUB_PATH
-          fi
-      - name: Install dist
-        run: ${{ matrix.install_dist.run }}
-      # Get the dist-manifest
-      - name: Fetch local artifacts
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          pattern: artifacts-*
-          path: target/distrib/
-          merge-multiple: true
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        run: |
-          ${{ matrix.packages_install }}
-      - name: Build artifacts
-        run: |
-          # Actually do builds and make zips and whatnot
-          dist build ${{ needs.plan.outputs.tag-flag }} --print=linkage --output-format=json ${{ matrix.dist_args }} > dist-manifest.json
-          echo "dist ran successfully"
-      - id: cargo-dist
-        name: Post-build
-        # We force bash here just because github makes it really hard to get values up
-        # to "real" actions without writing to env-vars, and writing to env-vars has
-        # inconsistent syntax between shell and powershell.
-        shell: bash
-        run: |
-          # Parse out what we just built and upload it to scratch storage
-          echo "paths<<EOF" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-          dist print-upload-files-from-manifest --manifest dist-manifest.json >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-          echo "EOF" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-
-          cp dist-manifest.json "$BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME"
-      - name: "Upload artifacts"
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: artifacts-build-local-${{ join(matrix.targets, '_') }}
-          path: |
-            ${{ steps.cargo-dist.outputs.paths }}
-            ${{ env.BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME }}
-
-  # Build and package all the platform-agnostic(ish) things
-  build-global-artifacts:
-    needs:
-      - plan
-      - build-local-artifacts
-    runs-on: "ubuntu-22.04"
-    env:
-      GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME: target/distrib/global-dist-manifest.json
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          persist-credentials: false
-          submodules: recursive
-      - name: Install cached dist
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: cargo-dist-cache
-          path: ~/.cargo/bin/
-      - run: chmod +x ~/.cargo/bin/dist
-      # Get all the local artifacts for the global tasks to use (for e.g. checksums)
-      - name: Fetch local artifacts
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          pattern: artifacts-*
-          path: target/distrib/
-          merge-multiple: true
-      - id: cargo-dist
-        shell: bash
-        run: |
-          dist build ${{ needs.plan.outputs.tag-flag }} --output-format=json "--artifacts=global" > dist-manifest.json
-          echo "dist ran successfully"
-
-          # Parse out what we just built and upload it to scratch storage
-          echo "paths<<EOF" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-          jq --raw-output ".upload_files[]" dist-manifest.json >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-          echo "EOF" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-
-          cp dist-manifest.json "$BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME"
-      - name: "Upload artifacts"
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: artifacts-build-global
-          path: |
-            ${{ steps.cargo-dist.outputs.paths }}
-            ${{ env.BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME }}
-  # Determines if we should publish/announce
-  host:
-    needs:
-      - plan
-      - build-local-artifacts
-      - build-global-artifacts
-    # Only run if we're "publishing", and only if plan, local and global didn't fail (skipped is fine)
-    if: ${{ always() && needs.plan.result == 'success' && needs.plan.outputs.publishing == 'true' && (needs.build-global-artifacts.result == 'skipped' || needs.build-global-artifacts.result == 'success') && (needs.build-local-artifacts.result == 'skipped' || needs.build-local-artifacts.result == 'success') }}
-    env:
-      GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-    runs-on: "ubuntu-22.04"
-    outputs:
-      val: ${{ steps.host.outputs.manifest }}
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          persist-credentials: false
-          submodules: recursive
-      - name: Install cached dist
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: cargo-dist-cache
-          path: ~/.cargo/bin/
-      - run: chmod +x ~/.cargo/bin/dist
-      # Fetch artifacts from scratch-storage
-      - name: Fetch artifacts
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          pattern: artifacts-*
-          path: target/distrib/
-          merge-multiple: true
-      - id: host
-        shell: bash
-        run: |
-          dist host ${{ needs.plan.outputs.tag-flag }} --steps=upload --steps=release --output-format=json > dist-manifest.json
-          echo "artifacts uploaded and released successfully"
-          cat dist-manifest.json
-          echo "manifest=$(jq -c "." dist-manifest.json)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-      - name: "Upload dist-manifest.json"
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          # Overwrite the previous copy
-          name: artifacts-dist-manifest
-          path: dist-manifest.json
-      # Create a GitHub Release while uploading all files to it
-      - name: "Download GitHub Artifacts"
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          pattern: artifacts-*
-          path: artifacts
-          merge-multiple: true
-      - name: Cleanup
-        run: |
-          # Remove the granular manifests
-          rm -f artifacts/*-dist-manifest.json
-      - name: Create GitHub Release
-        env:
-          PRERELEASE_FLAG: "${{ fromJson(steps.host.outputs.manifest).announcement_is_prerelease && '--prerelease' || '' }}"
-          ANNOUNCEMENT_TITLE: "${{ fromJson(steps.host.outputs.manifest).announcement_title }}"
-          ANNOUNCEMENT_BODY: "${{ fromJson(steps.host.outputs.manifest).announcement_github_body }}"
-          RELEASE_COMMIT: "${{ github.sha }}"
-        run: |
-          # Write and read notes from a file to avoid quoting breaking things
-          echo "$ANNOUNCEMENT_BODY" > $RUNNER_TEMP/notes.txt
-
-          gh release create "${{ needs.plan.outputs.tag }}" --target "$RELEASE_COMMIT" $PRERELEASE_FLAG --title "$ANNOUNCEMENT_TITLE" --notes-file "$RUNNER_TEMP/notes.txt" artifacts/*
-
-  announce:
-    needs:
-      - plan
-      - host
-    # use "always() && ..." to allow us to wait for all publish jobs while
-    # still allowing individual publish jobs to skip themselves (for prereleases).
-    # "host" however must run to completion, no skipping allowed!
-    if: ${{ always() && needs.host.result == 'success' }}
-    runs-on: "ubuntu-22.04"
-    env:
-      GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          persist-credentials: false
-          submodules: recursive
diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9c3bb7d77..000000000
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Codex will review your output once you are done.
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 7b39234c7..783498c33 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -28,9 +28,6 @@ lto = false
 strip = false
 inherits = "release"
 
-[profile.dist]
-inherits = "release"
-
 [profile.profiling]
 inherits = "release"
 debug = true
@@ -95,10 +92,3 @@ tag-name = "v{{version}}"
 pre-release-commit-message = "release: v{{version}}"
 tag-message = "release: v{{version}}"
 allow-branch = ["main", "next"]
-
-[workspace.metadata.dist]
-cargo-dist-version = "0.30.2"
-ci = "github"
-allow-dirty = ["ci"]
-installers = []
-targets = ["aarch64-apple-darwin", "aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu", "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"]
diff --git a/crates/brk_cli/Cargo.toml b/crates/brk_cli/Cargo.toml
index cbad968b3..4fade1d3f 100644
--- a/crates/brk_cli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/brk_cli/Cargo.toml
@@ -31,6 +31,3 @@ vecdb = { workspace = true }
 [[bin]]
 name = "brk"
 path = "src/main.rs"
-
-[package.metadata.dist]
-dist = true
diff --git a/crates/brk_cli/README.md b/crates/brk_cli/README.md
index 37af914b7..3940834a0 100644
--- a/crates/brk_cli/README.md
+++ b/crates/brk_cli/README.md
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ Portable build (without native CPU optimizations):
 cargo install --locked brk_cli
 ```
 
+## Update
+
+Updating is the same as installing: re-run the install command above. `cargo install` overwrites the existing binary in place. Indexed data is reused when the on-disk format is unchanged, otherwise it is reset and re-synced automatically on the next run.
+
 ## Run
 
 ```bash
diff --git a/modules/brk-client/index.js b/modules/brk-client/index.js
index 62388d710..599914f75 100644
--- a/modules/brk-client/index.js
+++ b/modules/brk-client/index.js
@@ -7561,7 +7561,7 @@ function createTransferPattern(client, acc) {
  * @extends BrkClientBase
  */
 class BrkClient extends BrkClientBase {
-  VERSION = "v0.3.0-beta.9";
+  VERSION = "v0.3.0-beta.11";
 
   INDEXES = /** @type {const} */ ([
     "minute10",
diff --git a/modules/brk-client/package.json b/modules/brk-client/package.json
index 0f08479c3..a50153a98 100644
--- a/modules/brk-client/package.json
+++ b/modules/brk-client/package.json
@@ -40,5 +40,5 @@
     "url": "git+https://github.com/bitcoinresearchkit/brk.git"
   },
   "type": "module",
-  "version": "0.3.0-beta.9"
+  "version": "0.3.0-beta.11"
 }
diff --git a/packages/brk_client/brk_client/__init__.py b/packages/brk_client/brk_client/__init__.py
index 7be3809db..ee5c70aef 100644
--- a/packages/brk_client/brk_client/__init__.py
+++ b/packages/brk_client/brk_client/__init__.py
@@ -6716,7 +6716,7 @@ class SeriesTree:
 class BrkClient(BrkClientBase):
     """Main BRK client with series tree and API methods."""
 
-    VERSION = "v0.3.0-beta.9"
+    VERSION = "v0.3.0-beta.11"
 
     INDEXES = [
       "minute10",
diff --git a/packages/brk_client/pyproject.toml b/packages/brk_client/pyproject.toml
index 12d389f76..d65678013 100644
--- a/packages/brk_client/pyproject.toml
+++ b/packages/brk_client/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "brk-client"
-version = "0.3.0-beta.9"
+version = "0.3.0-beta.11"
 description = "Bitcoin on-chain analytics client — thousands of metrics, block explorer, and address index"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.9"