diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/ci.yml b/.gitea/workflows/ci.yml
index 98222a3..c0e514f 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -67,6 +67,16 @@ jobs:
       # --no-run: the workflow compiled every test target without running them,
       # which catches a test that no longer builds without paying for the suite.
       - run: cargo test --workspace --locked --no-run
+      # The release profile, on main only. It is the profile the image is
+      # built with, and it fails in ways the dev profile does not: v2026.9.24
+      # was tagged on a commit whose CI was green and whose release build
+      # could not compile the scim crate at all. A few minutes per merge is
+      # cheaper than finding that out from a tag, which throws away a
+      # multi-architecture build and leaves a version half-cut.
+      #
+      # Pull requests stay on the dev profile, where the wait is worth less.
+      - if: github.event_name == 'push'
+        run: cargo build -p inbuxa --locked --release
       # Keep the cache from growing without bound: past 60 GB the target dir
       # is dropped and the next build starts cold. The download cache stays.
       # Two builds (dev + test profiles) already fill ~22 GB, so the limit
diff --git a/crates/scim/src/lib.rs b/crates/scim/src/lib.rs
index 8b113a6..8212811 100644
--- a/crates/scim/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/scim/src/lib.rs
@@ -4,6 +4,14 @@
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
  */
 
+// The release profile computes the layout of this crate's async fn bodies in
+// one go, and the deepest of them -- writable_domain, which awaits through
+// the directory, the store and the JMAP registry -- takes rustc past its
+// default query depth. The dev profile does not get that far, so the failure
+// only appears in a release build: CI was green and the tag that started a
+// release was not.
+#![recursion_limit = "256"]
+
 //! SCIM 2.0 provisioning (`docs/spec/features/scim.md`). inbuxa-server is the
 //! service provider: an identity provider pushes users and groups to
 //! `/scim/v2`, and each request becomes the same `x:Account` reads and