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Github Release

  • 15 installs
  • 3 repo stars
  • Updated August 3, 2026
  • netresearch/github-release-skill

Helps with ai & agent building tasks.

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github-release is a Claude Code skill for ai & agent building. It helps solo builders move faster with AI-assisted coding.

  • github-release
  • AI & Agent Building
  • AI-coding skill

Github Release by the numbers

  • 15 all-time installs (skills.sh)
  • +2 installs in the week ending Aug 4, 2026 (Skillselion tracking)
  • Ranked #11,187 of 16,546 AI & Agent Building skills by installs in the Skillselion catalog
  • Data as of Aug 4, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)
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Last updatedAugust 3, 2026
Repositorynetresearch/github-release-skill

What it does

Helps with ai & agent building tasks.

Files

SKILL.mdMarkdownGitHub ↗

GitHub Release Skill

Critical Rules

NEVER run `gh release create` or `gh release delete`.

These commands are blocked by hooks. GitHub immutable releases (GA Oct 2025) make tag names permanent — a lightweight tag created by gh release create burns that tag name forever with no recovery path. CI handles release creation from signed tags.

`gh release edit` is allowed ONLY for `--notes` / `--notes-file` to overhaul the release description after CI publishes. All other gh release edit flags are blocked.

Release Flow

1. Detect ecosystem — identify version files for the project type (see references/ecosystem-detection.md) 2. Determine next version — based on conventional commits or user input (major/minor/patch) 3. Bump version files — update all ecosystem-specific version files consistently 4. Update CHANGELOG.md — add release section with date and changes 5. Create release branch and PRrelease/vX.Y.Z branch, open PR for review (always use a PR; branch protection typically blocks direct pushes anyway, and CI gets one last chance to validate) 6. After PR mergegit checkout main && git pull, then tag main's HEAD: git tag -s vX.Y.Z -m "vX.Y.Z". Tag from main, not from the release/vX.Y.Z branch tip — see references/release-process.md Phase 3. 7. Push taggit push origin vX.Y.Z triggers CI workflow 8. CI publishes release — with artifacts, checksums, and auto-generated release notes 9. Overhaul release description — rewrite auto-generated notes into a narrative summary, apply with gh release edit vX.Y.Z --notes-file notes.md (use --notes-file, not --notes "...", to avoid shell quoting issues with multi-line Markdown) 10. Do NOT re-run the release workflow after step 9 — many workflows (e.g. softprops/action-gh-release) regenerate the body each run and will overwrite the overhaul. For downstream retries (TER publish, artifact upload), use a dedicated dispatcher workflow — see references/ter-republish.md.

Commands

  • /release — full release flow (detect, bump, PR, tag)
  • /release-prepare — bump versions and open PR only (no tag)
  • /release-status — check release health (version drift, unsigned tags, missing workflows)

Delegation

  • Supply chain security (SLSA, SBOMs, attestations): delegate to enterprise-readiness skill
  • Branch strategy and conventional commits: delegate to git-workflow skill

References

  • references/release-process.md — complete flow documentation
  • references/ecosystem-detection.md — version file patterns per ecosystem
  • references/immutable-releases.md — GitHub immutable releases and tag burning
  • references/supply-chain-security.md — SLSA, Sigstore, SBOMs, attestations
  • references/recovery-procedures.md — burned tags, stuck drafts, version drift, release-body clobbering, branch-protection gotchas
  • references/ter-republish.md — TYPO3 TER re-publish patterns
  • references/typo3-ter-publishing.md — TYPO3 initial-publish gotchas (tag/ext_emconf.php version match, v-prefix handling)
  • references/ci-workflow-templates.md — CI workflow structure and templates

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