Always provide: specific issue counts with Jira links, team-level breakdown if applicable, actionable recommendations (retriage, escalate, extend timeline), and impact assessment.

</essential_principles>

RHDH Release Management

What would you like to do?

Release Information

Release dates — Current release dates and key milestones
Future release dates — Upcoming release dates from schedule spreadsheet
Release status — Active release status by issue type
Teams — Teams and leads directory

Release Tracking

Team breakdown — Issues by engineering team for a release
Blocker bugs — Open blocker bugs for a release
EPICs — Engineering EPICs not yet complete
CVEs — CVE/vulnerability list for a release
Release notes — Release-note lifecycle (unclassified, proposed, done, with text)

Announcements

Feature Freeze update — Generate Feature Freeze status update for Slack
Feature Freeze announcement — Generate Feature Freeze milestone announcement
Code Freeze update — Generate Code Freeze status update for Slack
Code Freeze announcement — Generate Code Freeze milestone announcement

Rich Filter Operations

Post Code Freeze — Issues requiring attention after Code Freeze
Rich Filter catalog/query — Inspect or run any exported filter, queue, time series, or custom-ratio query

Wait for response before proceeding.

Preferred: Run the release CLI first (python scripts/release.py --json <command>). If the CLI fails, fall back to the workflow's manual steps.

Response	CLI Command	Workflow (fallback)
1, "release dates", "key dates", "freeze dates", "milestone dates"	`python scripts/release.py --json dates`	`workflows/release-dates.md`
2, "future releases", "upcoming releases", "release roadmap", "future dates"	`python scripts/release.py --json future-dates VERSION`	`workflows/future-release-dates.md`
3, "release status", "active releases", "release health", "release overview"	`python scripts/release.py --json status VERSION`	`workflows/release-status.md`
4, "teams", "team leads", "team list", "team contacts", "team directory"	`python scripts/release.py --json teams`	`workflows/teams-and-leads.md`
5, "team breakdown", "issues by team", "team workload", "team counts"	`python scripts/release.py --json team-breakdown VERSION`	`workflows/issues-by-team.md`
6, "blocker bugs", "blockers", "critical issues", "blocking issues"	`python scripts/release.py --json blockers VERSION`	`workflows/blocker-bugs.md`
7, "epics", "engineering epics", "open epics", "active epics"	`python scripts/release.py --json epics VERSION`	`workflows/engineering-epics.md`
8, "cves", "vulnerabilities", "security issues", "security bugs"	`python scripts/release.py --json cves VERSION`	`workflows/cves.md`
9, "release notes", "missing release notes", "release note gaps"	`python scripts/release.py --json notes VERSION`	`workflows/release-notes.md`
10, "feature freeze update", "feature freeze status", "feature freeze progress"	`python scripts/release.py --json slack feature-freeze-update VERSION`	`workflows/announce-feature-freeze-update.md`
11, "feature freeze announcement", "announce feature freeze", "feature freeze reached"	`python scripts/release.py --json slack feature-freeze VERSION`	`workflows/announce-feature-freeze.md`
12, "code freeze update", "code freeze status", "code freeze progress"	`python scripts/release.py --json slack code-freeze-update VERSION`	`workflows/announce-code-freeze-update.md`
13, "code freeze announcement", "announce code freeze", "code freeze reached"	`python scripts/release.py --json slack code-freeze VERSION`	`workflows/announce-code-freeze.md`
14, "post code freeze", "post-freeze", "after code freeze"	`python scripts/release.py --json post-freeze VERSION`	`workflows/post-code-freeze.md`
15, "rich filter", "filter catalog", "smart filter", "rich queue"	`python scripts/release.py --json rich-filter inventory`	`workflows/rich-filter-catalog.md`

<reference_index>

Reference	Purpose	Load when
`references/jql-release.md`	20 release-specific templates (9 inline + 11 Rich Filter)	Any Jira query for release data
`references/rich-filter-coverage.md`	Export coverage, mappings, and intentional exclusions	Auditing or extending Rich Filter integration
`references/slack-templates.md`	4 Slack announcement templates	Generating freeze announcements
`references/config.md`	GDrive IDs, project keys, dashboards, Rich Filter config, gog setup	Looking up config values or links
`gog docs cat 13OkypJ3u_7Jq6kEhKhjEFwHQ12oPFDKXVzFjYW4XLdk`	Release process (live Google Doc)	Release process questions, onboarding
`../../rhdh-jira/references/auth.md`	Jira auth setup	Jira prerequisite fails
`../../rhdh-jira/references/acli-commands.md`	acli command reference	Building acli commands
`../../rhdh/references/private-data.md`	Private data repo setup (Rich Filter JSON)	Rich Filter not found or setup questions

</reference_index>

Run before any workflow:

Requirement	Check	Fix
Jira CLI	`acli jira workitem search --jql "project=RHIDP" --count` succeeds	Load `../../rhdh-jira/SKILL.md` Prerequisites
gog CLI (for Google Sheets/Docs)	`gog sheets metadata 1vQXfvID72qwqvLb17eyGOvnZXrZG7NBzTGv6RP9wvyM --json` succeeds	Install gog and run `gog auth add <email>`

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