diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish-server-image.yml b/.github/workflows/publish-server-image.yml
index 4da8ac5..0d9d3c5 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish-server-image.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish-server-image.yml
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@ name: publish-server-image
 # Release tags publish the source-addressed image used by in-app updates plus the human-readable
 # semver tags. Main publishes `edge`. Pull requests build with a read-only token and an isolated
 # cache, so untrusted code can validate the images without receiving package-publish authority.
+# Self-hosted runners on one host often share ~/.docker; build/publish set DOCKER_CONFIG under
+# RUNNER_TEMP so docker/login-action post-logout cannot evict a concurrent job's GHCR session.
+# `ci-<run>-<image>-<arch>` handoff tags are registry labels on the per-arch digest; publish
+# removes them via the distribution API (tag only, not the digest edge/sha tags reference).
 on:
   push:
     branches: [main]
@@ -182,10 +186,14 @@ jobs:
             context: infra/sandboxes/computer
           - arch: amd64
             runner: [self-hosted, evoo-ci, Linux]
+    env:
+      DOCKER_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/docker-config
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@fbc6f3992d24b796d5a048ff273f7fcc4a7b6c09 # v5.1.0
         with:
           persist-credentials: false
+      - name: Prepare isolated Docker config directory
+        run: mkdir -p "$DOCKER_CONFIG"
       - uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@8d2750c68a42422c14e847fe6c8ac0403b4cbd6f # v3.12.0
       - name: Log in to GHCR
         uses: docker/login-action@c94ce9fb468520275223c153574b00df6fe4bcc9 # v3.7.0
@@ -249,7 +257,11 @@ jobs:
           - name: app
           - name: updater
           - name: computer
+    env:
+      DOCKER_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/docker-config
     steps:
+      - name: Prepare isolated Docker config directory
+        run: mkdir -p "$DOCKER_CONFIG"
       - uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@8d2750c68a42422c14e847fe6c8ac0403b4cbd6f # v3.12.0
       - name: Log in to GHCR
         uses: docker/login-action@c94ce9fb468520275223c153574b00df6fe4bcc9 # v3.7.0
@@ -339,13 +351,22 @@ jobs:
           subject-name: ghcr.io/${{ steps.ns.outputs.repo }}/${{ matrix.name }}
           subject-digest: ${{ steps.manifest.outputs.digest }}
           push-to-registry: true
-      - name: Remove CI handoff tags
-        continue-on-error: true
+      - name: Delete CI handoff tags
         env:
+          GHCR_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           IMAGE: ghcr.io/${{ steps.ns.outputs.repo }}/${{ matrix.name }}
           IMAGE_NAME: ${{ matrix.name }}
         run: |
           set -euo pipefail
+          repository="${IMAGE#ghcr.io/}"
+          token="$(curl -fsSL -u "${GITHUB_ACTOR}:${GHCR_TOKEN}" \
+            "https://ghcr.io/token?service=ghcr.io&scope=repository:${repository}:pull,push" \
+            | jq -er .token)"
           for arch in amd64; do
-            docker buildx imagetools rm "${IMAGE}:ci-${GITHUB_RUN_ID}-${IMAGE_NAME}-${arch}"
+            tag="ci-${GITHUB_RUN_ID}-${IMAGE_NAME}-${arch}"
+            curl -fsSL -o /dev/null -X DELETE \
+              -H "Authorization: Bearer ${token}" \
+              -H "Accept: application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.v2+json, application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.list.v2+json, application/vnd.oci.image.index.v1+json" \
+              "https://ghcr.io/v2/${repository}/manifests/${tag}"
+            echo "Removed handoff tag ${tag} from ${repository}."
           done
diff --git a/infra/updater/src/publish-workflow.test.ts b/infra/updater/src/publish-workflow.test.ts
index 0c4b6b1..f7d4e80 100644
--- a/infra/updater/src/publish-workflow.test.ts
+++ b/infra/updater/src/publish-workflow.test.ts
@@ -62,6 +62,14 @@ describe("server image publish workflow", () => {
     expect(workflowText).toContain("ci-${GITHUB_RUN_ID}-");
   });
 
+  it("isolates Docker registry auth per job and deletes handoff tags without imagetools rm", () => {
+    expect(workflowText).toContain("DOCKER_CONFIG: ${{ runner.temp }}/docker-config");
+    expect(workflowText).toContain("Prepare isolated Docker config directory");
+    expect(workflowText).not.toContain("imagetools rm");
+    expect(workflowText).toContain("Delete CI handoff tags");
+    expect(workflowText).toContain("/v2/${repository}/manifests/${tag}");
+  });
+
   it("names every image under the lowercase repository namespace", () => {
     expect(workflowText).not.toContain(`ghcr.io/\${{ github.repository }}`);
     const references =