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Release Please Configuration

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laurigates·vlatest·devops·MIT

Automates Release Please configuration for streamlined Git workflows, ensuring consistent and reliable releases across your team.

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Showing Claude Code. One command installs this skill into any of the agents below.

  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add laurigates/claude-plugins --skill release-please-configuration -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

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laurigates

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Live repository

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  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No undeclared network calls: passed

    Only contacts known or declared hosts: api.github.com.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

    Hosts contacted

    api.github.comsource host

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

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  • No credential access: passed

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    Scanned laurigates/claude-plugins at 45d1d7dcf6.

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Commit
45d1d7dcf6
Manifest
git-plugin/skills/release-please-configuration/SKILL.md
Scanned
2 files, 350 lines
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About this skill

What it does

This skill configures the release-please tool to automate version management and release creation across your repositories. It allows AI agents to define specific release rules, such as determining how versions are incremented based on commit types or which branches trigger releases.

When to use it

  • Automating semantic versioning updates for multiple projects simultaneously without manual intervention.
  • Enforcing strict release policies where only specific labels (e.g., breaking-change) trigger major version bumps.
  • Managing release trains across different branch strategies, such as mainline development versus feature branches.
  • Generating standardized changelogs that aggregate changes from various commit messages into a single release note.

Key capabilities

  • Defines custom versioning rules for incrementing major, minor, and patch numbers.
  • Configures trigger conditions based on branch names or specific labels attached to commits.
  • Generates release pull requests with formatted changelogs automatically.
  • Supports integration with various package managers and hosting platforms like GitHub and GitLab.

Example prompts

  • "Configure release-please to bump the major version only when a commit contains the label 'breaking-change'."
  • "Set up a release configuration that creates separate release pull requests for each subdirectory in a monorepo."
  • "Generate a release-please config file that triggers releases on every merge to the main branch and formats changelogs using Conventional Commits."

Tips & gotchas

Ensure your repository contains commit messages following the Conventional Commits specification, as release-please relies heavily on these patterns to determine version increments. Always review generated release pull requests before merging to verify that the automated versioning logic aligns with your project's release strategy.