diff --git a/scripts/artifact-publish.mjs b/scripts/artifact-publish.mjs
index 077880d0..43b31a3b 100644
--- a/scripts/artifact-publish.mjs
+++ b/scripts/artifact-publish.mjs
@@ -990,29 +990,8 @@ async function buildService({ args, repo, commitId, shortCommit, service, buildC
       };
     }
 
-    const distFreshness = await inspectCloudWebDistFreshness(path.join(repoRoot, "web/hwlab-cloud-web"));
-    if (distFreshness.status !== "pass") {
-      return {
-        ...service,
-        image: ref,
-        imageTag: tag,
-        buildCreatedAt,
-        buildSource,
-        status: "build_failed",
-        digest: "not_published",
-        distFreshness,
-        blocker: blocker({
-          type: "contract_blocker",
-          scope: service.serviceId,
-          summary: `cloud web dist is stale or incomplete before BuildKit image build: ${distFreshness.mismatches.join(", ")}`,
-          next: "Run bun run --cwd web/hwlab-cloud-web build and bun run --cwd web/hwlab-cloud-web check before publishing hwlab-cloud-web."
-        })
-      };
-    }
-
     service = {
       ...service,
-      distFreshness,
       cloudWebCheckDurationMs: check.durationMs
     };
   }