Add release-notes, breaking-changes, and bump-version Copilot skills#1328
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Add a new agent skill for preparing release notes for draft GitHub releases. The skill follows the Agent Skills specification from agentskills.io with progressive disclosure across SKILL.md and reference files. The skill automates an 8-step process: - Version detection from Directory.Build.props - PR categorization with co-author attribution from commit trailers - Breaking change audit with impact assessment - Label reconciliation with user confirmation - Acknowledgements for issue reporters and PR reviewers - Draft release creation or update (never publishes) Reference files provide detailed guidance for categorization, breaking change classification, and formatting best practices. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Extract the breaking change audit from the release-notes skill into a new breaking-changes skill that can be invoked independently for any commit range. The release-notes skill now delegates to it. - Add .github/skills/breaking-changes/ with SKILL.md and references/classification.md (moved from release-notes) - Simplify release-notes Steps 3-4 into a single delegation step - Renumber release-notes steps from 8 to 7 Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
- Add compat switch guidance to breaking change classification - Break Test Improvements out of Repository Infrastructure category - PRs touching tests/ must not be categorized as Infrastructure - Conformance test PRs require examination of product code changes - Change reviewer acknowledgement format to '@user reviewed pull requests' Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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Pull request overview
Adds three GitHub Copilot “skills” under .github/skills/ to support the repo’s release workflow: preparing release notes, auditing breaking changes, and bumping the post-release version.
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- Add
release-notesskill plus reference guides for categorization and formatting. - Add
breaking-changesskill plus a breaking-change classification reference. - Add
bump-versionskill to automate version bump PR creation after a release.
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| File | Description |
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| .github/skills/release-notes/SKILL.md | Defines the end-to-end process for generating draft release notes and coordinating the other skills. |
| .github/skills/release-notes/references/categorization.md | Provides rules/examples for categorizing PRs and formatting entries/acknowledgements. |
| .github/skills/release-notes/references/formatting.md | Documents markdown/encoding practices for reliably updating GitHub release bodies. |
| .github/skills/breaking-changes/SKILL.md | Defines a workflow for auditing PRs in a range and reconciling breaking-change labels. |
| .github/skills/breaking-changes/references/classification.md | Documents criteria/buckets for what constitutes a breaking change. |
| .github/skills/bump-version/SKILL.md | Defines steps to bump src/Directory.Build.props and open a PR post-release. |
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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Update the release process documentation to direct maintainers to use the Copilot CLI release-notes skill for preparing releases instead of manually drafting release notes through GitHub.com. This change was made as part of using the new skill to rewrite all past release notes to follow the standardized template with proper categorization, acknowledgements, and formatting. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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- Fix category count: 'three' -> 'four' in SKILL.md - Fix reviewer format in SKILL.md to match canonical style - Remove @dependabot[bot] attribution from infrastructure examples - Add API Deprecation and Removal section to classification guide Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Replace the brief API Deprecation section with a comprehensive SDK Versioning Policy section covering pre-1.0 preview flexibility, Experimental API handling, the three-step obsoletion lifecycle, and spec-driven changes. Reference versioning policies in the skill's Step 1 guidance. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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I have now revised all past release notes (except the original) with versions rewritten and uploaded by this set of skills. This also incorporated a full breaking change audit all the way back, labeling all past breaking changes we've made. Those exercises served as much as a test of the skill as it did for updating the past items. |
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Adds three Copilot agent skills for release management:
src/Directory.Build.propsand creates a PR after publishing a release