What problem does it solve? Cutting a release involves many error-prone manual steps: drafting user-facing release notes, running preflight checks, handling CloudKit schema deploy gates, and landing bot-authored baseline-schema PRs whose CI never triggers automatically. This Skill walks you through the documented release runbook step by step while handling the parts that benefit most from analysis and judgment. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Release notes drafting: Gathers merged PRs and commits since the notes base, separates user-facing changes from internal ones, and drafts notes following the brand voice guide. - Runbook-guided execution: Runs each release step via its named just target (preflight, create RC, wait, status, create final) and surfaces failures with recovery paths from the runbook. - Schema deploy gate handling: Detects when the workflow pauses on await-prod-deploy, directs you to approve the CloudKit Console deploy, and manages the follow-up baseline-schema PR. - Baseline-schema PR landing: Verifies the bot PR changes only schema-prod-baseline.ckdb, triggers CI by pushing the exact head commit to an mq-spec-* branch, enables auto-merge, and cleans up branches. - Use Case: You ask to ship version 1.4.0. The Skill drafts release notes from merged PRs, runs the RC pipeline, waits out the schema deploy gate, lands the baseline PR, and hands off TestFlight and Mac zip install instructions. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to cut a release candidate for the next version and draft the release notes for your approval.
