Release

brooks-lint — Release

Target version comes from $ARGUMENTS (e.g. 1.4.0). If empty, ask the maintainer for the semver bump before doing anything.

Before accepting that version, read the backlog. Run npm run changelog:audit and look at what is actually unreleased — the bump is decided by the whole range, not by the change that prompted the release. If the range contains a feature or a new platform and the maintainer asked for a patch, stop and say so: v1.5.1 was published, then deleted and re-cut as v1.6.0 because twenty unreleased commits (including a new platform) had been swept into a patch.

Execute these steps in order. bump-version.mjs reads the version FROM package.json and does NOT touch the changelog — so the version edit and the CHANGELOG entry are manual; the script only fans the version out to the manifests and every version-bearing text file.

1. Set the source of truth. npm version <version> --no-git-tag-version (the --no-git-tag-version flag is required — plain npm version would create its own commit + tag and collide with the manual commit in step 5).

2. Propagate. npm run bump — writes the version into .claude-plugin/plugin.json, .claude-plugin/marketplace.json, .codex-plugin/plugin.json, gemini-extension.json, and every version-bearing text file discovered by scripts/version-refs.mjs (all six README badges plus the JSON-LD softwareVersion on the docs landing page). Do not maintain a list here — the script's is authoritative.

3. Write the changelog. Add a new section at the top of CHANGELOG.md with categorized notes (Added / Fixed / Changed) summarizing the commits since the last release tag. The heading MUST be ## [<version>] - YYYY-MM-DD — npm run validate parses that exact shape and fails on a bare ## <version>. 3a. Audit the range — every commit, no sampling. Run:

   npm run changelog:audit

   It derives the range from the last release tag, applies the only three exemptions (the release bump, a merge commit whose branch commits are listed separately, and the star-history refresh — a bot commit touching only the chart's own two files) and prints the rest as a checklist. Walk it: each line gets an entry you just wrote, or a reason it needs none. Nothing else is exempt — internal hardening with no user-visible change earns an entry, and so does an outside contributor's maintainer-facing fix, which also earns an @handle credit. A Changelog: trailer on a commit is surfaced as a flag; that commit's entry is the one you are writing now.

   The script exits non-zero on the gap it can prove — a pull request in the range whose #N the section never cites. That same check runs inside npm run validate while a release is in progress, so it cannot be skipped, and validate prints one line whenever it stands down. The rest of the checklist is judgment and is not enforced. A green audit is not proof of a complete changelog: a bare #N anywhere in the section clears the gate, a rebase-merged PR leaves nothing to match, and anything staged into the release bump itself is never audited. See CLAUDE.md's Release Process.

4. Validate. npm run validate — fails if any manifest, any version-bearing text file, or the CHANGELOG entry is out of sync. Fix and re-run until clean. Then npm test.

5. Commit & push. Stage everything npm run bump rewrote plus CHANGELOG.md — read git status rather than naming files, because the version-bearing set is discovered from disk and is more than one README; commit with a conventional message (chore(release): bump version to <version>); push to main (direct-to-main repo — no PR).

6. Tag & publish. Create the GitHub release: gh release create v<version> --title "v<version>" --notes "<changelog section>".