diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 0d1bebe..093be7e 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  ".": "1.6.0"
+  ".": "1.6.1"
 }
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index c2219a1..a1bb18b 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "@zenrows/cli",
-  "version": "1.6.0",
+  "version": "1.6.1",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "@zenrows/cli",
-      "version": "1.6.0",
+      "version": "1.6.1",
       "license": "MIT",
       "bin": {
         "zenrows": "dist/bin/zenrows.js"
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 4a4e5c4..f536a79 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@zenrows/cli",
-  "version": "1.6.0",
+  "version": "1.6.1",
   "description": "Open-source CLI, MCP, skills, templates, workflows, recipes, and evals layer for giving AI agents reliable access to protected web data through Zenrows cloud infrastructure.",
   "type": "module",
   "license": "MIT",
diff --git a/src/core/config.ts b/src/core/config.ts
index 2f396cb..88e0cc9 100644
--- a/src/core/config.ts
+++ b/src/core/config.ts
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ export const CONFIG_VERSION = "0.1.0";
  * entrypoint) so core modules — telemetry, signup provenance — can read it
  * without an import cycle. `VERSION` in `cli/index.ts` re-exports this.
  */
-export const CLI_VERSION = "1.6.0"; // x-release-please-version
+export const CLI_VERSION = "1.6.1"; // x-release-please-version
 /** The User-Agent on every request to a Zenrows API. The gateway reads the version from it. */
 export const CLI_USER_AGENT = `zenrows-cli/${CLI_VERSION}`;
 /** Env var to override the Fetch and Extract API base (local/staging testing). */