release-note-captain
Skill17 starsChanged 4 months agoMITView on GitHub
Use this skill when a project is finished, shipped, deployed, published, or released and the user wants a release note created or updated in Obsidian. It covers collecting release facts, choosing the note path, writing a concise release summary, updating existing notes safely, and preserving follow-up actions.
In this repositoryOne other file it gives its agents.
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9 rules. About 0 are common, 6 are distinctive, and 3 are very specific to this project.
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Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
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Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
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Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
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- Distinctive
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- Distinctive: line 8
Create or update an Obsidian release note when a project is deployed, published, or finished.
- Distinctive: line 24
Use vault-relative paths only.
- Very specific: line 44
Use list_notes or get_note to check whether a release note already exists.
- Very specific: line 45
Create the folder Release Notes if missing.
- Distinctive: line 46
Create or update the release note.
- Distinctive: line 47
Keep wording useful for both public release history and private project memory.
- Distinctive: line 53
Prefer bullets for shipped changes and verification.
- Distinctive: line 55
Avoid hype. State what shipped and why it matters.
- Very specific: line 60
Use templates/release-note.md as the base structure when creating a new note.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
Release Note Captain
Create or update an Obsidian release note when a project is deployed, published, or finished.
Destination
Default folder:
Release Notes/Default filename:
YYYY-MM-DD — Project Name.mdUse vault-relative paths only. If the release note already exists, read it first and update it instead of creating a duplicate.
Required Fields
Include these sections unless the user asks for a different format:
- Project
- Date
- Status
- Repo URL
- Live URL, if available
- Summary
- What Shipped
- Verification
- SEO/GEO or Distribution Notes
- Follow-Ups
Workflow
- Gather release facts from the conversation, repo, deploy output, GitHub, or local files.
- Use
list_notesorget_noteto check whether a release note already exists. - Create the folder
Release Notesif missing. - Create or update the release note.
- Keep wording useful for both public release history and private project memory.
- End with the note path and any missing details that still need the user.
Style
- Clear and compact.
- Prefer bullets for shipped changes and verification.
- Include exact URLs and commit hashes when available.
- Avoid hype. State what shipped and why it matters.
- Preserve unfinished follow-ups instead of burying them.
Template
Use templates/release-note.md as the base structure when creating a new note.
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