release-please

Overview

release-please automates versioning and releases by analyzing Conventional Commit messages:

1. Push conventional commits to your default branch
2. release-please creates/updates a Release PR with version bump and changelog
3. Merge the Release PR to trigger a GitHub Release
4. Publish step runs when a release is created (npm, PyPI, crates.io, etc.)

release-please handles version determination, changelog generation, and git tagging. You write good commit messages; it does the rest.

Commit Message Assistance

When a user asks for help writing a commit message (not setting up a pipeline):