Simplify release, add agent skill to drive release activities#13408
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JanProvaznik merged 2 commits intodotnet:mainfrom Mar 26, 2026
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Pull request overview
This PR updates MSBuild’s release documentation to align with the monthly Visual Studio cadence, introduces a phase-gated operational checklist, and adds a GitHub Copilot “release” skill to help drive the process interactively.
Changes:
- Expanded
release.mdwith an end-to-end VS insertion flow explanation and timeline diagram, pointing to the checklist as the operational source of truth. - Reworked
release-checklist.mdinto a 6-phase, trigger-based template suitable for copying into a tracking issue. - Added a
.github/skills/releaseskill to guide an agent through the release phases with explicit approval for state-changing actions.
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Copilot reviewed 3 out of 3 changed files in this pull request and generated 2 comments.
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| documentation/release.md | Adds release flow explanation/diagram and clarifies checklist ownership of operational steps. |
| documentation/release-checklist.md | Converts prior ad-hoc checklist into a phased, timeline-gated issue template with batched DARC operations. |
| .github/skills/release/SKILL.md | Adds an agent skill that operationalizes the checklist into an interactive phase-by-phase workflow. |
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In general I'd like to see us moving toward deterministic/scripted automation for a lot of this, rather than relying on a skill, but this looks like a good improvement. I'll poke at that on the side (Copilot has done a pretty bad job in plan mode so it'll need a bit more love).
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Co-authored-by: Copilot Autofix powered by AI <175728472+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Rainer Sigwald <raines@microsoft.com> Co-authored-by: Jan Provazník <janpro@janpro.dev>
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…#13408) updates the process to be aligned with rolling VS updates and provides agent to assist with activities so dev does not have to do the commands --------- Co-authored-by: Copilot Autofix powered by AI <175728472+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Rainer Sigwald <raines@microsoft.com>
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updates the process to be aligned with rolling VS updates and provides agent to assist with activities so dev does not have to do the commands