Release Coordination Skill

Run the full Paperclip maintainer release workflow, not just an npm publish.

This skill coordinates:

• stable changelog drafting via release-changelog
• canary verification and publish status from master
• Docker smoke testing via scripts/docker-onboard-smoke.sh
• manual stable promotion from a chosen source ref
• GitHub Release creation
• website / announcement follow-up tasks
• release-content Cases dogfood: a top-level release case with child blog_post and tweet_storm cases, all linked to the release issue/run

Trigger

Use this skill when leadership asks for:

• "do a release"
• "ship the release"
• "promote this canary to stable"
• "cut the stable release"

Preconditions

Before proceeding, verify all of the following:

1. .agents/skills/release-changelog/SKILL.md exists and is usable.
2. The repo working tree is clean, including untracked files.
3. There is at least one canary or candidate commit since the last stable tag.
4. The candidate SHA has passed the verification gate or is about to.
5. If manifests changed, the CI-owned pnpm-lock.yaml refresh is already merged on master.
6. npm publish rights are available thr…