release-updates

name	release_updates
description	Run weekly release docs updates with standalone scripts for changelog, licenses, and telemetry, plus Linux/Oz Warp artifact preparation. Defaults to running all tasks in order, and supports running only selected tasks.

Release updates

Use this skill to update docs for weekly releases.

The scripts are designed for Oz cloud runs (Linux) and local testing. They support the following:

• docs repo checkouts in different locations (/docs, sibling repo, current repo)
• optional channel-versions repo checkouts (/channel-versions, sibling repo)
• running one task or all tasks in the required order

Environment requirements (Oz cloud)

Required

• Repo: docs repo (this repo) containing the release_updates skill.
• Runtime: glibc-based Linux image (Debian/Ubuntu-style image recommended).
• Commands: python3, git.
• Network access: releases.warp.dev (channel versions fallback) and app.warp.dev (Warp AppImage download).

Required for PR mode

• Command: gh CLI
• Auth: gh auth status must be healthy in the run environment.
• GitHub repo write access for branch push + PR create/update.

Required for Slack PR notification

• DOCS_SLACK_BOT_TOKEN environment variable (Oz team secret — add to the docs agent environment).

Recommended

• Local checkout of warpdotdev/channel-versions so changelog updates read local channel_versions.json instead of URL fallback.

Bootstrap/check the environment

Use this helper script before running release updates:

python3 .agents/skills/release_updates/scripts/setup_environment.py \
  --docs-repo /docs \
  --clone-channel-versions-if-missing \
  --require-pr-flow

If you also want automatic reviewer assignment checks:

python3 .agents/skills/release_updates/scripts/setup_environment.py \
  --docs-repo /docs \
  --clone-channel-versions-if-missing \
  --require-pr-flow \
  --require-oncall-reviewer

Scripts

All scripts are in .agents/skills/release_updates/scripts/:

• setup_environment.py - Validate/prepare repos, CLI auth, and reviewer assignment prerequisites before release runs
• resolve_oncall_reviewers.py - Resolve primary/secondary Grafana on-call users to GitHub reviewers
• update_warp_app.py - Download latest stable + preview Linux AppImages and build a manifest for downstream tasks. On Linux, it preflights libasound.so.2 before telemetry usage.
• update_changelog.py - Incrementally update src/content/docs/changelog/{year}.mdx from channel versions
• update_licenses.py - Regenerate src/content/docs/support-and-community/community/open-source-licenses.mdx
• update_telemetry.py - Regenerate src/content/docs/support-and-community/privacy-and-security/privacy.mdx telemetry table
• run_release_updates.py - Orchestrates selected tasks (defaults to all, in order)

Default workflow (all tasks, ordered)

python3 .agents/skills/release_updates/scripts/run_release_updates.py

Default order:

1. warp_app_update
2. changelog
3. licenses
4. telemetry

Run only selected tasks

Changelog-only (useful while rolling out incrementally):

python3 .agents/skills/release_updates/scripts/run_release_updates.py \
  --tasks changelog

Specific subset:

python3 .agents/skills/release_updates/scripts/run_release_updates.py \
  --tasks warp_app_update changelog

Useful options

Local testing

On non-Linux machines, skip AppImage extraction:

python3 .agents/skills/release_updates/scripts/run_release_updates.py \
  --skip-warp-app-extract \
  --tasks changelog

On Linux/Oz, let warp_app_update auto-install a missing ALSA runtime package:

python3 .agents/skills/release_updates/scripts/run_release_updates.py \
  --tasks warp_app_update \
  --auto-install-missing-dependency

If your environment already guarantees dependencies, you can skip the check:

python3 .agents/skills/release_updates/scripts/run_release_updates.py \
  --tasks warp_app_update \
  --skip-dependency-preflight

Dry run:

python3 .agents/skills/release_updates/scripts/run_release_updates.py --dry-run

Create or update a PR at the end

run_release_updates.py can commit generated changes, push the branch, and create/update a PR automatically:

python3 .agents/skills/release_updates/scripts/run_release_updates.py \
  --create-pr \
  --pr-base main

You can customize commit/PR metadata:

python3 .agents/skills/release_updates/scripts/run_release_updates.py \
  --create-pr \
  --commit-message "docs: weekly release updates" \
  --pr-title "docs: weekly release updates" \
  --pr-body-file /tmp/release-pr-body.md

Post Slack notification after creating a PR

After the PR is created, post a notification to the #oncall-client Slack channel (C06MT1NRBFV):

import json, os, subprocess, sys, urllib.request

# Capture the URL of the PR you just created.
# If no PR exists (no-op run with no docs changes), skip silently.
try:
    pr_url = subprocess.check_output(
        ['gh', 'pr', 'view', '--json', 'url', '--jq', '.url'],
        text=True, stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL
    ).strip()
except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
    print('No PR found — skipping Slack notification (no-op run)')
    sys.exit(0)

token = os.environ.get('DOCS_SLACK_BOT_TOKEN')
channel = 'C06MT1NRBFV'  # #oncall-client
if not token:
    print('DOCS_SLACK_BOT_TOKEN not set — skipping Slack notification')
else:
    # Resolve the oncall-client-primary and oncall-client-secondary user group IDs
    req = urllib.request.Request(
        'https://slack.com/api/usergroups.list',
        headers={'Authorization': f'Bearer {token}'}
    )
    with urllib.request.urlopen(req) as resp:
        groups = json.loads(resp.read()).get('usergroups', [])
    primary_id = next((g['id'] for g in groups if g.get('handle') == 'oncall-client-primary'), None)
    secondary_id = next((g['id'] for g  groups  g.get() == ), )
    primary =   primary_id  
    secondary =   secondary_id  

    message = 
    body = json.dumps({: channel, : message, : }).encode()
    req = urllib.request.Request(
        ,
        data=body,
        headers={: , : }
    )
     urllib.request.urlopen(req)  resp:
        result = json.loads(resp.read())
      result.get():
        (, file=sys.stderr)
    :
        ()

The GitHub Actions workflow handles assigning the last human reviewer from recent docs PRs — the agent does not need to assign reviewers.

Explicit repo paths

If auto-detection is not enough:

python3 .agents/skills/release_updates/scripts/run_release_updates.py \
  --docs-repo /docs \
  --channel-versions-repo /channel-versions

Or point directly to a specific channel versions file:

python3 .agents/skills/release_updates/scripts/run_release_updates.py \
  --channel-versions-file /channel-versions/channel_versions.json

Artifact handoff between scripts

update_warp_app.py writes a manifest at:

/tmp/release-updates/warp_artifacts.json (by default)

update_licenses.py and update_telemetry.py read that manifest unless explicit input paths are provided.