What problem does it solve? Releasing software safely requires coordinating candidate initialization, aggregate review, qualification testing, integration, and publication without losing traceability or falling back to inconsistent tooling. This Skill enforces a complete, auditable LOCAL release lifecycle for a repository, ensuring every release candidate is reviewed, qualified, and integrated against exact commit identities. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Release candidate initialization: Resolves repository release policy, creates or reuses the approved release work surface (such as a release PR), and builds a durable release manifest bound to exact source and target SHAs. - Aggregate review and LOCAL qualification: Reviews the complete release delta, runs repository-declared local qualification commands against a validated CI profile, and emits READY_FOR_RELEASE evidence only when review findings are zero. - Controlled integration and publication: Integrates only through the repository-approved mechanism and delegates formal version/tag/GitHub Release publication to the coferlandia-release-publisher skill. - Use Case: A team finishes several features on a release branch and needs to cut a release. Invoke this Skill to initialize the release PR, run the full local test suite, produce READY_FOR_RELEASE evidence, integrate the exact candidate, and publish the tagged GitHub Release. ## Quick Start Use the local-release skill to initialize, qualify, integrate, and publish the next release of this repository through the local qualification surface.
