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> Update the tags in the parent repository to point to the SHA of the fork

I don't think that's possible.

Forks are a GitHub UI construct.

There would be two .git dirs so for all intents and purposes they're two repos that don't know about each other.

Locally you can't refer to a commit that's in a different dir...

You just set two remotes locally, create a tag and push just the tag to upstream. You can definitely do it locally, and I think GitHub doesn’t prevent such pushes either.

Yes, but:

a) you'd need write permissions for the original remote

b) even if you did, that'd push the commit to the original repo with the tags

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