winget-release

The winget-release skill is designed to streamline the release process of GistGet as a WinGet package. It addresses the complexity and manual steps involved in packaging, versioning, and publishing applications to WinGet and GitHub. By providing an automated, scripted workflow, it reduces human error and ensures that releases are consistent, properly tagged, and compatible with the winget-pkgs repository.

The skill's main capabilities include updating the project version, maintaining a changelog, performing quality checks, building the package, generating ZIP and SHA256 hashes, creating Git tags, publishing GitHub releases, synchronizing with winget-pkgs, generating manifests, and automatically creating pull requests. All these steps are consolidated into a single PowerShell Core script, `Publish-WinGet.ps1`, which serves as the sole release pipeline. The script supports both dry-run previews and full releases, ensuring that users can verify their changes before executing the final release.

Typical use cases involve developers and maintainers of GistGet who want to release new versions efficiently. Target users are those familiar with Git, PowerShell, and the WinGet ecosystem, seeking a reliable and automated approach to update manifests, create pull requests, and publish releases without manual intervention. This skill is particularly valuable for teams aiming to maintain accurate versioning, prevent tagging errors, and streamline the overall release process.