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name: publish-notes description: "Draft user-facing release notes, store changelogs, and internal publish summaries." metadata: internal: true triggers: keywords: - publish notes - workflow

Publish Notes Skill

[!IMPORTANT] Draft user-facing release notes, store changelogs, and internal publish summaries.

Optional args: slug=, ticket=<id/url>, mode=interactive|autonomous|channel, channel=, auto_continue=true|false, profile=business|hybrid|technical.

Instructions

When the user asks to perform this workflow, execute the following steps:

Publish Notes Workflow

Goal: Convert verified changes into accurate user-facing and internal release notes.

Steps

1. Gather inputs:
   • Merged commits or diff
   • PR description
   • Verification report, UAT signoff
   • Deployment report
   • Product or store constraints
   • Load common-operator-profile; carry the inherited operator_profile from the Handoff Payload without re-inferring it.
2. Triage impact:
   • User-facing change
   • Bug fix
   • Security or privacy note
   • Operational change
   • No-user-impact internal change
3. Draft notes:
   • Use plain language and business outcomes for every tier; operator_profile=business gets Public Notes as the primary artifact, Internal Notes as an appendix.
   • Keep sensitive security details high-level.
   • Respect platform character limits.
4. Verify and persist:
   • Cross-check notes against shipped scope.
   • Remove unshipped claims.
   • Write the run record to artifacts/runs/[slug]/[compactISO]-publish-notes.json when file writes are allowed.
   • Route process lessons to retro-learn.

Runtime Contract

• Use after deploy-release or uat-signoff to draft user-facing and internal release communication.
• Required inputs: shipped diff/commits plus a verification or deployment report to cross-check against.
• Return BLOCKED only when no verified shipped scope exists to draft notes from.

Handoff Payload

• slug, operator_profile, public notes, internal notes, security/privacy notes, verification source, next workflow.

Blocking Questions

• Ask max 3 at a time with a recommended default and 2-3 options.

Output Template

# Release Notes: [Version]

## Public Notes

## Internal Notes

## Security Or Privacy Notes

## Verification Source

## Outcome Report
{schema_version: 1, run_id: "[run-id]", slug: "[slug]", workflow: publish-notes, feature_status: released, started_at: "[timestamp]", completed_at: "[timestamp]", requirement_trace: {brd_objectives: [], requirements: [], acceptance_criteria: [], srs: []}, completed_evidence: [], missing_evidence: [], decision_needed: [], recommended_next_workflow: retro-learn, cost: {source: unavailable}, agent: {identity: "[agent-identity]", model: "[model]"}}

## Next Workflow

retro-learn

## Cost Report
Call `get_session_cost(workflow="publish-notes")` before final handoff.