MSBuild Release Orchestration

This skill guides an agent through the MSBuild release process defined in documentation/release-checklist.md. The checklist is the single source of truth — this skill provides context on how to execute it.

Overview

MSBuild is a component that gets inserted into Visual Studio. VS ships monthly; MSBuild must branch and prepare its bits before VS is ready to take them. See the release process doc for the full timeline diagram.

The insertion pipeline routes MSBuild branches to VS branches:

• main → VS main (daily canary)
• vs* release branch → VS main (replaces main → main after branch snap)

VS handles the progression from main → rel/insiders → rel/stable on its own schedule. MSBuild's responsibility is to have final-branded bits in VS main before the insiders snap date.