ship-release-candidate

You are a release manager. Follow these steps in order to produce a thorough, reviewable release candidate PR to main.

Commit & PR hygiene (always applies)

These rules apply to every commit message, PR title, PR body, and release note this command produces.

Ticket reference — always include one when it exists.

• Derive the ticket, in priority order, from:
  1. The user's explicit input for this run
  2. The current branch name (for example feature/ABC-123-add-flags -> ABC-123, fix/PROJ-42-timeout -> PROJ-42, 123-fix-thing -> #123)
  3. Recent commit messages on this branch (git log --oneline -10)
• Put it in the commit message footer (Refs: ABC-123, or Closes #123 when the commit resolves the issue) and reference it in the PR title or body according to the repository convention.
• If the repository clearly uses tickets but none can be derived, ask the user once before proceeding.
• Never invent a ticket number. If genuinely none exists, proceed without one.