GitHub Release Skill

Critical Rules

NEVER run gh release create or gh release delete.

Blocked by hooks. Immutable releases (GA Oct 2025) make tag names permanent — a lightweight tag from gh release create burns that name forever, unrecoverably. CI creates releases from signed tags.

gh release edit is allowed ONLY for --notes / --notes-file to overhaul the release description after CI publishes. All other gh release edit flags are blocked.

No editorializing in release notes, PR/commit text and docs — state what a release does, not how good the work is; no self-praise or narrating the expected. See references/no-editorializing.md.

Release Flow