nemoclaw-maintainer-cut-release-tag

What problem does it solve?

This Skill removes manual, error-prone steps when preparing and publishing semver releases by guiding maintainers to bump version strings, create release PRs or perform direct releases, create annotated release and latest tags, and verify tags on the remote repository.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Delegates version updates and build/test automation to the repository bump script invoked via npm run bump:version so all package.json, blueprint, installer defaults, and docs links are consistently updated.
• Supports a dry-run preview, a recommended PR-based workflow that opens a release branch and PR, and an optional direct mode that commits to main and pushes annotated tags.
• Provides step-by-step tagging instructions, explicit confirmation gates, and verification commands to ensure annotated tags and the floating latest tag point to the intended origin main commit.
• Use Case: Maintainers preparing a release after CI has passed can use this Skill to produce a release PR, or skip the PR for urgent direct tagging while preserving safeguards.

Quick Start

Run the skill to bump the patch version, open a release pull request, and prepare annotated and latest tags for origin main.