docs: clarify beta game prereleases

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Summary

• Direct users to GitHub Releases for beta game pre-releases and explain the Pre-release badge and ZIP asset.
• Distinguish packaged GitHub pre-releases from temporary GitHub Actions workflow artifacts.
• Clarify that beta pre-releases are GitHub-only and are not published to Nexus Mods, Thunderstore, or NuGet.

Validation

• git diff --check
• Confirmed this branch is based on current origin/stable and changes only documentation files.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Updated installation and release-channel guidance for beta game builds, directing players to matching S1API pre-releases on GitHub.
  • Clarified how to identify and install pre-release ZIPs, and how they differ from temporary workflow artifacts.
  • Explained that beta releases are intended for the matching beta game build, may be unstable, and are not published on Nexus Mods, Thunderstore, or NuGet.
  • Updated developer guidance for using beta release files and recommends stable releases for non-beta game builds.

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• S1API/docs/release-channels.md

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Walkthrough

The documentation replaces instructions for experimental GitHub Actions artifacts with guidance for matching beta game pre-releases. It explains how to identify and install release ZIPs, distinguishes them from workflow artifacts, and states where beta builds are published.

Changes

Beta Release Documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Beta release package and channels S1API/docs/release-channels.md, VERSIONING.md	The guidance identifies beta ZIPs as GitHub Release assets, distinguishes them from workflow artifacts, and describes beta availability and compatibility.
Beta release installation guidance README.md, S1API/docs/getting-started.md, S1API/docs/installation.md	The guides direct players and developers to matching beta pre-releases. The developer guide also directs them to reference DLLs in the ZIP’s Mods folder.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to f9143

Beta users could expect a matching package that has not been published. Clarify that releases are optional; this is a bounded documentation issue.

Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to f9143

The change affects 3 systems.

Changed systems: S1API, README.md, VERSIONING.md

Architecture concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Review details

Systems and components

• observed — S1API (service) was modified; 3 changed files map to changed impact.
• observed — README.md (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.
• observed — VERSIONING.md (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in README.md: The README replaces instructions for downloading experimental IL2CPP and Mono workflow artifacts with guidance for finding and installing beta game pre-releases on GitHub. It clarifies that workflow artifacts are temporary CI outputs, not beta release packages, and that beta builds target matching beta game builds and may be unstable.
• observed — Modified behavior in S1API/docs/getting-started.md: The user installation guidance replaces links to experimental IL2CPP/Mono workflow artifacts with directions to download the matching beta game pre-release ZIP from GitHub Releases, identify it by its Pre-release badge, and not confuse it with workflow artifacts. It states that these releases are GitHub-only and may be unstable, and links to Release Channels.
• observed — Modified behavior in S1API/docs/getting-started.md: The developer guidance replaces instructions for using unreleased workflow artifacts with directions to download the matching beta pre-release ZIP and reference DLLs in its Mods folder instead of the stable NuGet package. It specifies that beta releases target the beta game build, are published only on GitHub, and may be unstable.
• observed — Modified behavior in S1API/docs/installation.md: The installation tip replaces general guidance about experimental builds with instructions for Schedule One beta users to use marked beta pre-releases on GitHub Releases, clarifies these are packaged releases rather than workflow-run artifacts, and links to Release Channels.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Description check	⚠️ Warning	The description accurately summarizes the documentation changes and records basic validation, but it omits the required Compatibility and Documentation sections. It also does not address the template'…	Add the Compatibility section and state that no public or protected APIs, defaults, stable IDs, saves, or network payloads changed. Add the Documentation section and list the changed files. Complete the Mono and IL2CPP validation subsection…

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: clarifying beta game pre-release documentation.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

Full details: Description check

Explanation

The description accurately summarizes the documentation changes and records basic validation, but it omits the required Compatibility and Documentation sections. It also does not address the template's Mono, IL2CPP, or runtime validation subsections.

Resolution

Add the Compatibility section and state that no public or protected APIs, defaults, stable IDs, saves, or network payloads changed. Add the Documentation section and list the changed files. Complete the Mono and IL2CPP validation subsections, or state that they are not applicable because the pull request changes documentation only. State that runtime evidence is not applicable, if appropriate.

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Inline comments:
In @S1API/docs/release-channels.md:
- Line 23: Revise the release-channel wording to avoid implying that every
Schedule One beta-branch update triggers a release; state that when S1API
publishes a matching beta build, it may be available as a GitHub pre-release.
Keep the existing discovery and installation guidance unchanged.

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📒 Files selected for processing (5)

• README.md
• S1API/docs/getting-started.md
• S1API/docs/installation.md
• S1API/docs/release-channels.md
• VERSIONING.md

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