Release Please Standards

What it does

This skill provides standardized configuration for the release-please tool, enabling AI agents to automate semantic versioning and release generation across monorepos. It ensures consistent release workflows by defining specific rules for how versions are calculated and tags are created.

When to use it

• Automating version bumps in large codebases with multiple services or libraries.
• Enforcing strict semantic versioning (SemVer) compliance across different project types.
• Generating standardized changelogs that aggregate changes from various commit messages.
• Integrating release workflows directly into CI/CD pipelines without manual intervention.

Key capabilities

• Standardizes the logic for calculating next versions based on git history.
• Configures specific release triggers and branch patterns for different repositories.
• Manages the creation of version tags and release notes automatically.
• Supports complex monorepo structures with dependency-aware versioning.

Example prompts

• "Configure release-please to detect breaking changes in my Python service and bump the major version."
• "Generate a standardized release manifest for my multi-language monorepo using these specific standards."
• "Set up automated release notes that pull from both commit messages and PR descriptions according to best practices."

Tips & gotchas

Ensure your git history is clean and follows conventional commit formats, as release-please relies heavily on parsing these patterns to determine version increments. Always test the configuration in a staging branch before enabling it for production releases to avoid unintended version jumps.