Release prep
Use when preparing a production release or release candidate - provides a checklist-driven workflow for validation, versioning, build optimization, documentation updates, and deployment readiness.From its SKILL.md
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SKILL.md
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Release Prep
Overview
Standardize release preparation with a safety-first checklist: validate quality and security, update versions and docs, build production artifacts, and prepare rollout/rollback plans.
When to Use
- Preparing a release candidate or production deploy
- Coordinating pre-release validation and documentation
- Ensuring versioning, changelog, and build steps are consistent
Avoid when:
- You only need a quick version bump or doc update
- The release process is owned by a separate automation pipeline
Quick Reference
| Task | Load reference |
|---|---|
| Release preparation | skills/release-prep/references/prepare-release.md |
Workflow
- Confirm release scope and version.
- Load the release preparation reference.
- Run pre-release validation (tests, security, performance).
- Update versions, changelog, and docs.
- Build production artifacts and validate.
- Produce deployment checklist and rollback plan.
Output
- Release readiness checklist
- Validation results and blockers
- Deployment plan with rollback steps
Common Mistakes
- Skipping security or performance checks
- Shipping without updating changelog or docs
- Building artifacts without validating environment parity
What ships with it: 1 file
4.9 KB alongside SKILL.md
references/
- prepare-release.md4.9 KB
Gives 0 of the 12 instructions most ship operate skills give in 248 tokens
Counted across 779 of the 1,178 authors here whose files we hold, read 2026-08-07
- Document a rollback plan before deploymentin 41 of 779, across 22 files
- Update the changelogin 21 of 779, across 19 files
- Run the test suitein 20 of 779
- Create an annotated git tagin 20 of 779
- Clean up feature flags after full rolloutin 18 of 779, across 10 files
- Verify deployment health after launchin 18 of 779, across 10 files
- Test both feature flag statesin 17 of 779, across 9 files
- Verify the working tree is cleanin 17 of 779
- Make database migrations backward-compatiblein 16 of 779, across 8 files
- Set up error monitoring before launchin 15 of 779, across 7 files
- Monitor metrics at each rollout stagein 14 of 779, across 5 files
- Create a GitHub releasein 14 of 779
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- load the release preparation reference
- produce deployment checklist and rollback plan
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