diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-aardwolf.yml b/.github/workflows/build-aardwolf.yml
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+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 The RISE Project
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+---
+# This workflow is based on upstream's own build-wheels.yml (cibuildwheel over a
+# setuptools-rust build), narrowed to riscv64.
+name: Build aardwolf wheels (riscv64)
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      version:
+        description: 'Version glob to (re)build; empty builds every version of docs/packages/aardwolf.yaml not released yet'
+        required: false
+        default: ''
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [main]
+    paths:
+      - '.github/workflows/build-aardwolf.yml'
+      - 'docs/packages/aardwolf.yaml'
+  push:
+    branches: [main]
+    paths:
+      - '.github/workflows/build-aardwolf.yml'
+      - 'docs/packages/aardwolf.yaml'
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read  # to fetch code (actions/checkout)
+
+env:
+  MANYLINUX_RISCV64_IMAGE: quay.io/pypa/manylinux_2_39_riscv64
+
+jobs:
+  setup:
+    uses: $/.github/workflows/_setup.yml
+    with:
+      package: aardwolf
+      version: ${{ inputs.version }}
+
+  build_wheels:
+    needs: [setup]
+    if: needs.setup.outputs.versions != '[]'
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        version: ${{ fromJSON(needs.setup.outputs.versions) }}
+    name: Build aardwolf ${{ matrix.version }} cp311-abi3-manylinux_riscv64
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04-riscv
+    timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    env:
+      AARDWOLF_VERSION: ${{ matrix.version }}
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout aardwolf ${{ env.AARDWOLF_VERSION }}
+        uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1  # v7.0.1
+        with:
+          repository: skelsec/aardwolf
+          ref: ${{ env.AARDWOLF_VERSION }}
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Build wheels
+        uses: pypa/cibuildwheel@1828c10ab37f080699c7b81cea34097c684a7074  # v4.2.0
+        with:
+          output-dir: wheelhouse/
+        env:
+          # Both ext-modules (_rle, _bulk) carry pyo3's abi3-py311 feature
+          # unconditionally, matching upstream's own cp311-only CIBW_BUILD;
+          # musllinux is dropped as rustup.rs ships no riscv64 musl toolchain.
+          CIBW_BUILD: cp311-manylinux_riscv64
+          CIBW_MANYLINUX_RISCV64_IMAGE: ${{ env.MANYLINUX_RISCV64_IMAGE }}
+          CIBW_CONFIG_SETTINGS: --build-option=--py-limited-api=cp311
+          # pyproject.toml declares no [tool.cibuildwheel] rust toolchain; the
+          # Rust toolchain setuptools-rust needs is installed in-container.
+          # aardwolf itself needs neither jpeg nor openssl, but installing the
+          # repaired wheel into the test venv pulls in Pillow and cryptography
+          # as runtime deps, and both lack a riscv64 wheel on public PyPI, so
+          # pip builds them from source here: Pillow's setup.py fails outright
+          # with `RequiredDependencyException: jpeg` (gotcha 422) and
+          # cryptography's openssl-sys build script can't find openssl via
+          # pkg-config. libjpeg-turbo-devel/openssl-devel are this image's
+          # names for those headers (mirrors build-pytango.yml/build-uamqp.yml).
+          CIBW_BEFORE_ALL_LINUX: >-
+            dnf -y install libjpeg-turbo-devel openssl-devel &&
+            curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- -y
+          CIBW_ENVIRONMENT_LINUX: PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.cargo/bin"
+          CIBW_TEST_REQUIRES: pytest pytest-asyncio pytest-randomly pytest-timeout hypothesis PyYAML
+          # tests/unit/compression imports the pure-Python reference codecs from
+          # the repo-root `reference` package, and a packaging test reads
+          # pyproject.toml from the repo root; both are staged alongside `tests`.
+          CIBW_TEST_SOURCES: tests reference pyproject.toml
+          CIBW_TEST_COMMAND: >-
+            python -c "import aardwolf._rle, aardwolf._bulk; assert aardwolf._rle.__file__.endswith('.abi3.so'), aardwolf._rle.__file__; assert aardwolf._bulk.__file__.endswith('.abi3.so'), aardwolf._bulk.__file__" &&
+            python -m pytest -q tests/unit tests/fake_peer tests/component
+
+      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@043fb46d1a93c77aae656e7c1c64a875d1fc6a0a  # v7.0.1
+        with:
+          name: aardwolf-${{ env.AARDWOLF_VERSION }}-cp311-abi3-manylinux_riscv64
+          path: wheelhouse/*.whl
+          if-no-files-found: error
+
+  publish:
+    name: Publish aardwolf ${{ matrix.version }}
+    needs: [setup, build_wheels]
+    if: needs.setup.outputs.versions != '[]'
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        version: ${{ fromJSON(needs.setup.outputs.versions) }}
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+      pull-requests: write
+    uses: $/.github/workflows/_publish-wheel.yml
+    secrets:
+      app-private-key: ${{ secrets.RISEPROJECT_APP_PRIVATE_KEY }}
+    with:
+      artifact-pattern: aardwolf-${{ matrix.version }}-*-manylinux_riscv64
diff --git a/docs/packages/aardwolf.yaml b/docs/packages/aardwolf.yaml
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+package-name: aardwolf
+source-code: https://github.com/skelsec/aardwolf
+license: MIT
+versions:
+- version: 0.2.16