Make New Release — Development skill for Claude Code
Bump Shepherd's version and push it to main, so CI tags and publishes the release.
How to install Make New Release
Installs to ~/.claude/commands/freethinkel-shepherd-make-new-release.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/freethinkel/shepherd/HEAD/.claude/commands/make-new-release.md -o ~/.claude/commands/freethinkel-shepherd-make-new-release.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Make New Release does
description: Bump Shepherd's version and push it to main, so CI tags and publishes the release argument-hint: "[patch|minor|major|X.Y.Z]"
Release a new Shepherd version. Pushing a new `version` in `Cargo.toml` to `main` is the whole release: `.github/workflows/release.yml` then builds, tags `v` and publishes the zip and dmg, with the commits since the last tag as the notes (`docs:` and `release:` commits left out).
Argument: `$ARGUMENTS`. Empty means `patch`; `minor` and `majo
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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