seasonedcc Release
What a release is depends on what the project ships — a deployed product releases by publishing a GitHub Release that deploys production; a published package releases by versioning packages and publishing them to npm. This project's mode follows the spine below.
The spine
Every release, whatever the mode, rests on three rules:
- Study the span deeply. Enumerate every merged PR between the last release and the release point and read each one: the body, and enough of the diff to describe the change truthfully. This is a deep study, not a skim — never write notes from titles alone. A wide span can fan the reading out to subagents that each return a distilled account of their PRs, but every grouping and judgment is made personally after reading those accounts.
- Trace every sentence. Nothing in the release text may claim anything this study did not establish. Every sentence traces to a merged PR.
- The publish is the deliberate final act. Everything before it — notes, versions, badges, audits — is preparation, and reversible; the publish is not. Run every gate before it, and never publish over an open question or an adjudication the user has not seen.
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