diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index eee261e..d61c742 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -68,6 +68,24 @@ jobs:
             --examples-root=examples/fabric \
             -o configuration-avd-ci.xpkg
 
+      # The Function package's own build, minus the runtime image -- embedding
+      # needs a built tarball, and nothing here depends on it to answer the
+      # question this step asks: does `package/` plus the examples still parse?
+      #
+      # Added after the v0.1.4 release failed on exactly this. `--examples-root`
+      # defaults to ./examples, so this build collected a helm values file that
+      # had just landed under examples/ and rejected it -- a failure reachable
+      # only from the release, i.e. after the tag. The configuration build above
+      # could not have caught it: it names a narrower examples root, so the two
+      # builds disagreed about what "the examples" are.
+      - name: Build the Function package
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          crossplane xpkg build \
+            --package-root=package \
+            --examples-root=examples/fabric \
+            -o function-avd-ci.xpkg
+
   # The offline suite runs on the runner's interpreter, so it says nothing about
   # the image the xpkg actually embeds. Without this job a Dockerfile, uv or
   # Python bump is only exercised by the release build -- i.e. after the tag,
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 34b0175..944ce43 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -128,11 +128,23 @@ jobs:
           sudo mv ./crossplane /usr/local/bin/crossplane
           crossplane version --client
 
+      # --examples-root is stated even though `package/` is the package root,
+      # because it is NOT optional: it defaults to ./examples, so leaving it out
+      # does not mean "no examples" -- it means "every YAML under examples/,
+      # whatever ends up there". That default broke the v0.1.4 release, when
+      # examples/lab/topology.yaml (helm values, no `kind`) landed beside the
+      # fabric examples and this build rejected it with "Object 'Kind' is
+      # missing". --ignore is no help: it does not reach --examples-root.
+      #
+      # examples/fabric is what both packages ship, and it holds Fabric XRs and
+      # nothing else. examples/lab is lab scaffolding, not a demonstration of
+      # the API.
       - name: Build the package
         run: |
           set -euo pipefail
           crossplane xpkg build \
             --package-root=package \
+            --examples-root=examples/fabric \
             --embed-runtime-image-tarball="runtime-${{ matrix.arch }}.tar" \
             -o "function-avd-${{ matrix.arch }}.xpkg"
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 67bccf5..afd3ad0 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "function-avd"
-version = "0.1.4"
+version = "0.1.5"
 description = "Living AVD model driven by Crossplane XRs (Fabric -> Device composite function)"
 readme = "README.md"
 authors = [
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index 04f1d68..dbbba70 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ wheels = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "function-avd"
-version = "0.1.4"
+version = "0.1.5"
 source = { editable = "." }
 dependencies = [
     { name = "crossplane-function-sdk-python" },