// Updates the used Ivy NuGet packages to the latest stable versions in a branch from development, builds/verifies, merges into development, creates a PR into main, merges it, merges main back to development, and triggers the GitHub Actions release workflow.
Comprehensive post-change review of all modified files. Checks for code smells, cleanup opportunities, unnecessary legacy support, missing tests, broken tests, and obsolete tests. Use after a big change to leave the codebase in better health.
Debug a Tendril plan by analyzing its execution logs, session JSONL, verification results, and checking infrastructure. Produces actionable bugfix and improvement recommendations. Use when the user wants to investigate why a plan failed, behaved unexpectedly, or to audit plan execution quality.
| name | tendril-release |
| description | Updates the used Ivy NuGet packages to the latest stable versions in a branch from development, builds/verifies, merges into development, creates a PR into main, merges it, merges main back to development, and triggers the GitHub Actions release workflow. |
This skill automates the release preparation and deployment process for Ivy Tendril. It manages package updates, local branch integration, GitHub PR generation and merging, branch synchronization, and triggers the final release workflow.
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development.development.Directory.Build.props (e.g. 1.0.35 -> 1.0.36).development into main.main (if mergeable).main back into development.publish-tendril.yml) on main.gh) must be installed and authenticated with PR and workflow write access.pwsh) must be installed on the system.Ensure the workspace is clean and up to date, then check out a temporary package update branch from development:
git checkout development
git pull origin development
git checkout -b release/update-packages
Run the PowerShell update script. This script temporarily disables local IvySource references to allow NuGet resolution, finds all package references starting with Ivy or Ivy.* in all project files, runs dotnet add to update them to their latest versions, and restores the original settings when finished:
pwsh src/.releases/UpdateIvyPackages.ps1
Verify that the package updates do not break compilation. Run builds with IvySource set to false to verify NuGet package resolution:
dotnet build src/Ivy.Tendril/Ivy.Tendril.csproj /p:IvySource=false
dotnet build src/Ivy.Tendril.Updater/Ivy.Tendril.Updater.csproj /p:IvySource=false
If the build fails, abort the process and notify the developer. Do not proceed to commit.
If the build succeeds, commit the changes and merge the branch back into development:
git add .
git commit -m "chore: update Ivy NuGet package dependencies to latest stable"
git push origin release/update-packages
# Switch to development and merge
git checkout development
git merge release/update-packages --no-ff -m "Merge branch 'release/update-packages' into development"
git push origin development
# Clean up local and remote release branch
git branch -d release/update-packages
git push origin --delete release/update-packages
# Increment the patch version in Directory.Build.props and commit
pwsh src/.releases/IncrementVersion.ps1
git add src/Directory.Build.props
git commit -m "chore: bump patch version for release"
git push origin development
Generate a Pull Request to merge the updated development branch into main:
gh pr create --base main --head development --title "Release: Merge development into main" --body "Automated release PR created by Tendril Release Skill."
Once the PR is created, wait for/trigger the merge:
gh pr merge --merge --auto
gh pr merge --merge
Keep the branches perfectly in sync by merging main back into development after the PR is merged:
git checkout main
git pull origin main
git checkout development
git merge main --no-ff -m "Merge branch 'main' into development to sync"
git push origin development
Trigger the release Action workflow (publish-tendril.yml) on main:
gh workflow run publish-tendril.yml --ref main
Confirm that the workflow has been dispatched by showing the URL/logs:
gh run list --workflow=publish-tendril.yml --limit 1
gh is not authenticated, authenticate by running gh auth login.main back into development or development into main has conflicts, stop and notify the user to resolve them manually.nuget.config files in the repository.