diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 56ad344..de29235 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -146,8 +146,8 @@ reusable on every push to `main`, passing the package name explicitly as
 `soldeer-package: rain-sol-codegen`.
 
 That workflow owns both the version and the release tag, so neither is set by
-hand. `[external.package].version` in `foundry.toml` is therefore the next,
-unpublished version rather than the last published one.
+hand. The next version is derived from the Soldeer registry and `next-v*` git
+tags, so this repo's own release version is not recorded in its files (dependency versions still live in `soldeer.lock`).
 
 ## License
 
diff --git a/foundry.toml b/foundry.toml
index afd2488..2cb1fbf 100644
--- a/foundry.toml
+++ b/foundry.toml
@@ -1,13 +1,3 @@
-# Release metadata, not foundry config: `rainix-autopublish` reads `version` as
-# the next, unpublished Soldeer release and rewrites it when it publishes, and
-# neither forge nor soldeer reads anything here. `[external.*]` is the section
-# foundry reserves for another tool's config and ignores; a section it does not
-# reserve is read as a profile, which it warns about on every invocation and
-# `forge config --fix` rewrites into `[profile.*]`.
-[external.package]
-name = "rain-sol-codegen"
-version = "0.1.37"
-
 [profile.default]
 src = 'src'
 out = 'out'