Release Kotlin library

Core principle

Publish the prepared, validated release commit and call the release complete only after verifying its artifacts and Git state.

Prerequisite

This skill relies on gradle-maven-publish-plugin (com.vanniktech.maven.publish) for library publication, whether run locally or through tag-triggered CI. API snapshot support assumes Metalava-generated api/api.txt files; disable snapshots when the repository does not maintain them.

Procedure