Release Engineering
Use This Skill When
- •Creating release branches, version bumps, and changelogs.
- •Packaging desktop binaries.
- •Running release gates before publish.
Required Inputs
- •Target version and release scope.
- •Target platforms.
- •Required release artifacts.
Workflow
- •Freeze scope and verify all milestone gates are green.
- •Run clean build and full test suite.
- •Produce signed package/binary artifacts.
- •Run smoke tests on clean environment.
- •Publish release notes with known limitations.
Guardrails
- •No release without reproducible artifact checksums.
- •Keep debug symbols and crash diagnostics available.
- •Tag versions only after artifact validation.
Output Contract
- •Release artifacts.
- •Version tag and release notes.
- •Post-release validation checklist status.