Release Please Automation

About

This skill enables Claude to configure and manage automated release pipelines for software projects using Google’s release-please. It streamlines the entire release lifecycle by automating version bumping, CHANGELOG.md updates, and GitHub release creation based on Conventional Commit messages. Supporting both single-package repositories and complex monorepos, it provides standardized patterns for GitHub Actions, manifest files, and language-specific configurations for ecosystems like Node.js, Python, Go, and Helm.

Key Features

• 4 GitHub stars
• Automatic CHANGELOG.md generation and updates
• Support for single-package and multi-package monorepo patterns
• Language-specific versioning for Node.js, Python, Go, and Helm
• Automated version bumping based on Conventional Commits
• GitHub Actions workflow integration for seamless CI/CD

Use Cases

• Setting up automated release pipelines for new open-source libraries
• Managing independent versioning for multiple services within a single monorepo
• Standardizing release workflows across a development team using Conventional Commits