release-management SKILL.md skillA

release-management from higoralves/orc is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add higoralves/orc/release-management@git:20261020.7a1f356

Pins git:20261020.7a1f356 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: higoralves/orc
Path: orc/skills/release-management/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 3
Latest version: git:20261020.7a1f356, committed Oct 20, 2026
First version recorded: Aug 5, 2026
Size: 5,641 bytes
Repository stars: 7
License: MIT

Cut a semver release from conventional commits — bump, grouped changelog, annotated tag, GitHub release.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Release management

## Overview

A release is a mechanical consequence of the commit history, not a judgment call. Conventional commits since the last tag determine the bump; the same commits, grouped, become the changelog; an annotated tag plus a GitHub release publishes it. This skill defines the doctrine — `/orc:release` is the interactive command built on it.

**Announce at start:** "I'm using the release-management skill because this task cuts or prepares a release."

## Hard rule — clean tree, green suite

**Never release from a dirty tree or a red suite.** Before anything else:

```bash
git status --porcelain          # MUST be empty
<project test command>          # MUST pass — run it, read the output
```

If either fails, stop. Do not stash, do not `--no-verify`, do not "tag now, fix later". A tag is a permanent public claim that this exact tree was releasable. There is no override flag for this rule.

## Finding the last tag

```bash
git describe --tags --abbrev=0                       # nearest tag on this branch
git tag --list --sort=-v:refname | head -5           # sanity-check against the full list
```
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add higoralves/orc/release-management@sha256:c324c2f753df52cd

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261020.7a1f356, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_3biz6qstxhpwgf3g.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_3biz6qstxhpwgf3g)

3 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Aug 5, 2026 and Oct 20, 2026, about one every 38 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261020.7a1f356 latest	2026-10-20	7a1f356	5,641 B	A	view · diff
git:20260820.1277cfa	2026-08-20	1277cfa	5,631 B	A	view · diff
git:20260805.600ee50	2026-08-05	600ee50	5,713 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (5641 bytes)
pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
pass: No credential-shaped string
pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
pass: No text hidden with inline styles
pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
pass: No link to a raw IP address
pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

higoralves/orc · 7 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3biz6qstxhpwgf3g
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=higoralves/orc/release-management
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c324c2f753df52cdd1cffb191f98c9fc5945cbb4cc73c3aa5e12730a66146f26

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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