release

Release

A release is a project-owned operation, not a universal shell recipe. This skill gives Runx one common governance sequence—prepare, describe, approve, publish, and independently verify—while leaving the actual build and provider commands in a versioned profile owned by the project.

Use it when a package or project already knows how to prepare, publish, and verify itself but needs one digest-bound approval and receipt chain around those commands. Do not use it to invent a release process for an unconfigured project or to replace the project's tests, packaging, or registry tooling.

A release profile is the project adapter. It declares exact argv commands that the project already owns; this skill validates their release semantics but does not recreate the project's release implementation.

Runx core owns bounded profile reads, path and symlink containment, command-plan digests, sanitized child environments, process-tree supervision, timeouts, credential redaction, and output evidence. Package JavaScript only validates the release profile and interprets the three release-specific provider states.

Use prepare to execute the profile's preparation command and produce an evidence-bound release brief. Use the default release runner to approve the exact publish plan, execute it without a shell, then run a separate verification command. The publish command is refused if its normalized argv plan drifts after approval. Publication is never inferred from an agent answer or a zero exit code.

Project profile

project_root is resolved inside the current Runx workspace and must be a relative directory (normally . when Runx is invoked from the project root). profile_path must name a JSON file inside that directory:

{
  "schema": "runx/release.profile.v1",
  "id": "my-project/npm",
  "channel": "npm",
  "commands": {
    "prepare": { "argv": ["pnpm", "release:check"], "cwd": ".", "timeout_ms": 300000 },
    "publish": { "argv": ["gh", "workflow", "run", "release.yml"], "cwd": "." },
    "verify": { "argv": ["pnpm", "release:check:live"], "cwd": "." }
  }
}