release-engineer

What problem does it solve?

This Skill automates the complex and error-prone process of releasing software, ensuring readiness, generating documentation, and managing versioning.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Release Readiness Checks: Verifies code health, documentation, metadata, security, and CI status before release.
• Automated Versioning & Tagging: Bumps versions, creates Git tags, and commits changes according to semantic versioning.
• Changelog Generation: Automatically creates or updates the CHANGELOG.md file based on git history.
• Publishing: Supports publishing to package registries like PyPI, npm, and crates.io.
• Use Case: After successfully merging a new feature, use this Skill to automatically run preflight checks, tag a new minor version, generate the changelog entry, and publish the package to npm.

Quick Start

Use the release engineer skill to perform a preflight check on the repository located at /path/to/my/repo.