diff --git a/scripts/release.py b/scripts/release.py
index 98fc4c918ac..9b60782a1ee 100755
--- a/scripts/release.py
+++ b/scripts/release.py
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ ACP_REGISTRY_MANIFEST = REPO_ROOT / "acp_registry" / "agent.json"
 # Auto-extracted from noreply emails + manual overrides
 AUTHOR_MAP = {
     "267614622+agt-user@users.noreply.github.com": "agt-user",  # PR #48496 salvage (telegram CLOSE-WAIT polling heartbeat, #48495)
+    "80915+DavidMetcalfe@users.noreply.github.com": "DavidMetcalfe",  # PR #52272 salvage (route reasoning-model thinking-timeouts to timeout not context_overflow + reasoning-specific guidance; #52271)
     "8180647+herbalizer404@users.noreply.github.com": "herbalizer404",  # PR #49076 + #51835 salvage (auxiliary compression fallback: 403/session-usage payment errors + honor fallback chain when aux provider auth unavailable)
     "pyxl-dev@users.noreply.github.com": "pyxl-dev",  # PR #52230 salvage (include rate-limit in auxiliary capacity-error fallback gate; #52228)
     "benbenwyb@gmail.com": "benbenlijie",  # PR #47205 salvage (named custom-provider extra_body + Z.AI Coding overload adaptive backoff; #50663)