Release Manager

The agent automates release management by parsing conventional commits into structured changelogs, determining semantic version bumps, and assessing release readiness with checklists, rollback runbooks, and stakeholder communication plans.

Core Capabilities

• Changelog generation — parse conventional commits since the last tag into Keep-a-Changelog Markdown/JSON, grouped by type with breaking-change highlights and issue links.
• Semantic version bumping — determine MAJOR/MINOR/PATCH from commit types, support pre-release tracks (alpha → beta → rc), emit bump commands for npm, Python, Rust, Git, Docker.
• Release readiness — score a release plan across features, quality gates, approvals, and timelines; surface blocking issues.
• Rollback & comms — generate rollback runbooks with triggers and time estimates, plus stakeholder communication plans with timed message templates.
• Workflows — changelog+bump, readiness assessment, and expedited hotfix releases, each with validation checkpoints.

When to Use

• Preparing a release — generate the changelog and determine the next version.
• Validating a release candidate — assess readiness and surface blockers.
• Shipping a hotfix — expedited fix, pre-release versioning, tested rollback.
• Auditing commit hygiene — confirm conventional commits drive clean changelogs.

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