name: changeset
description: Create changesets for version bump, release notes, changelog, PR description, semver patch/minor/major, breaking changes, and documentation updates after code changes
disable-model-invocation: true
Create Changesets and PR
Overview
Generate changesets, update documentation, draft blog entries, and prepare PR description for user-facing changes.
Steps
-
Analyze changes
- Compare current branch to
master to identify modified packages
- Group changes by impact type (feature, fix, breaking)
- Identify transitive dependencies that expose the change
-
Determine affected packages
- Include directly modified packages
- Add transitive dependents when interfaces/behaviors are exposed:
@data-client/endpoint → also select @data-client/rest, @data-client/graphql
@data-client/core or @data-client/normalizr → also select @data-client/react, @data-client/vue
-
Run changesets
- Run
yarn changeset once per distinct change
- Select all affected packages (direct + transitive)
- Choose appropriate version bump (patch/minor/major)
- For packages under 1.0, use minor for breaking changes
-
Update documentation
- Update primary docs in
docs/ for any changed public APIs
- Search for all usages of changed APIs across
docs/, packages/*/README.md, and root README.md
- Update all found references to reflect new behavior, signatures, or deprecations
- For new exports: add to relevant API reference pages
-
Update release blog
- Find the latest draft blog post in
website/blog/ (has draft: true in frontmatter)
- Add the change following
@website/blog/.cursor/rules/blog-posts.mdc:
- Place in appropriate conceptual category section
- Include code example if applicable
- Link to PR/commit and relevant docs
- For breaking changes: add to summary's Breaking Changes section with anchor link
-
Generate PR description
- Output a PR description for the user to copy/paste using @.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md format
- Fill in the sections based on the analyzed changes
- Link related issues if known
- Summarize motivation from changeset descriptions
- Describe solution at a high level first (not implementation details)
- Include any mermaid diagrams that might help convey key concepts, especially if one was present in a plan.md
- Drop 'Open questions' section if no relevant content
- Keep in mind you are a chat agent talking in markdown, so cannot start a markdown block without escaping the contents.
Changeset Format
- First line: Action verb ("Add", "Fix", "Update", "Remove")
- Breaking: Prefix with
BREAKING CHANGE: or BREAKING:
- Body: 1–3 lines describing outcome, not implementation
- New exports: Use "New exports:" with bullet list
Code Examples in Changesets
- Fixes:
// Before: ... ❌ // After: ... ✓
- Breaking changes: Use
#### Before and #### After headers
- Multiple use cases: Separate with brief labels
Markdown Formatting
Follow @.cursor/rules/markdown-formatting.mdc for all markdown content including the PR desc.