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Adds maintainer skills and supporting helpers for creating release tags and verifying tagged release deployments.

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  • I searched existing issues and open pull requests, and this does not duplicate existing work.

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  • Adds dedicated maintainer skills for beta, release-candidate, and stable release tags.
  • Adds a read-only deployment checker for release jobs, tagged Go source, crates.io, PyPI, and npm.
  • Exposes the existing SemVer-to-PEP-440 conversion and published Cargo package list as Just recipes.
  • Adds a machine-readable Node platform listing so deployment checks reuse the package generator's platform metadata.
  • Adds focused coverage for the Node platform-listing interface.
  • Loosely based upon chore: add release workflow skills NeMo-Fabric#294

Validation:

  • python3 scripts/tests/test_package_node_bin.py
  • uv run ruff check scripts/package-node-bin.py scripts/tests/test_package_node_bin.py
  • uv run ruff format --check scripts/package-node-bin.py scripts/tests/test_package_node_bin.py
  • bash -n .agents/skills/check-release-deployments/scripts/check_release_deployments.sh
  • Live read-only deployment checks for 0.9.0 and 0.10.0-alpha.20260921
  • git diff --check upstream/main...HEAD

Not run: full Rust, Python, Node.js, and Go suites; the executable changes are limited to release-maintainer helpers and have focused coverage.

Where should the reviewer start?

Start with .agents/skills/check-release-deployments/scripts/check_release_deployments.sh, then review the tag workflow boundaries in .agents/skills/create-beta-tag/SKILL.md, .agents/skills/create-rc-tag/SKILL.md, and .agents/skills/create-release-tag/SKILL.md.

Related Issues: (use one of the action keywords Closes / Fixes / Resolves / Relates to)

  • Relates to: none

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added release-tag workflows for beta, release-candidate, and stable versions, including validation, signing, approval, and safe publishing steps.
    • Added release-deployment checks covering GitHub Actions and package publication across supported ecosystems.
    • Added commands for SemVer-to-PEP 440 conversion and listing published Cargo packages.
    • Added an option to list Node.js platform package mappings without building artifacts.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for Node.js platform mapping output.

Signed-off-by: David Gardner <dagardner@nvidia.com>
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The pull request adds release-tag skills, package metadata helpers, and a Bash deployment checker. The checker validates release jobs and published Cargo, Go, Python, and Node.js packages.

Changes

Release tooling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Release tag creation skills
.agents/skills/create-beta-tag/SKILL.md, .agents/skills/create-rc-tag/SKILL.md, .agents/skills/create-release-tag/SKILL.md
Adds workflows for validating release branches and versions, creating signed annotated tags, requiring approval, and pushing only specific tag references.
Package metadata discovery
justfile, scripts/package-node-bin.py, scripts/tests/test_package_node_bin.py
Adds SemVer-to-PEP 440 and Cargo package commands. Adds Node.js platform and package-name output with test coverage.
Release deployment verification
.agents/skills/check-release-deployments/SKILL.md, .agents/skills/check-release-deployments/scripts/check_release_deployments.sh
Adds documentation and a checker for release workflows, job statuses, and Cargo, Go, Python, and Node.js publication states. Failed publishing jobs cause the related ecosystem checks to be skipped.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ReleaseTag
  participant check_release_deployments.sh
  participant GitHubActions
  participant PackageRegistries
  ReleaseTag->>check_release_deployments.sh: provide raw SemVer tag
  check_release_deployments.sh->>GitHubActions: discover release workflows and jobs
  GitHubActions-->>check_release_deployments.sh: return job statuses
  check_release_deployments.sh->>PackageRegistries: query published package metadata
  PackageRegistries-->>check_release_deployments.sh: return deployment status
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Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 4968e

Release automation can produce incorrect tags or GitHub drafts, while deployment verification can report misleading results. Correct these release-critical paths before merging.


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@.agents/skills/check-release-deployments/scripts/check_release_deployments.sh:
- Line 24: Add bounded connection and total-request timeouts to both curl
invocations: the status request and the PyPI response request. Use the existing
fallback behavior for timeout failures, preserving the current request options
and response handling.
- Line 35: Initialize check_cargo, check_python, and check_node to false, and
update the publication-job handling so each flag is set to true only when that
job’s result is success; leave flags disabled when workflow, run, job, or
publication-job lookup fails.

In @.agents/skills/create-beta-tag/SKILL.md:
- Around line 36-38: Update the source-branch lookup around SOURCE_BRANCH so it
distinguishes a successful branch match, a documented no-match result, and
authentication/network failures. Set SOURCE_BRANCH to main only for the no-match
status; otherwise preserve the requested release branch or propagate the lookup
error instead of silently falling back.
- Around line 33-34: Normalize two-component BASE_VERSION values to
major.minor.0 before deriving RELEASE_BRANCH or performing version comparisons
in both tag skills. Update the BASE_VERSION handling near RELEASE_BRANCH so
inputs like 0.9 become 0.9.0 while existing three-component versions remain
unchanged.

In @.agents/skills/create-release-tag/SKILL.md:
- Around line 25-26: Update the release creation instructions to pass the
prepared tag, title, and notes file to gh release create, while retaining
--draft and --verify-tag and explicitly avoiding publication. Apply this
consistently wherever the command appears in the release workflow guidance.
- Around line 61-62: Update the gh release create command in the release
workflow to include the explicit repository NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay via --repo, while
preserving the existing version, draft, and verify-tag arguments.

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Learnt from: CR
Repo: NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay

Timestamp: 2026-09-22T15:04:53.131Z
Learning: After a successful push, create a GitHub Release only when the user explicitly
authorizes the draft.
Learnt from: CR
Repo: NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay

Timestamp: 2026-09-22T15:04:53.063Z
Learning: Before the destructive tag push, require explicit approval.
Learnt from: CR
Repo: NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay

Timestamp: 2026-09-22T15:04:51.620Z
Learning: The checker requires Bash, `curl`, `gh`, `jq`, `just`, and `uv`; it does not run
on Windows.
Learnt from: CR
Repo: NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay

Timestamp: 2026-09-22T15:05:00.696Z
Learning: Verify both
local and remote tags are absent, create a signed annotated tag, verify it with
`git tag -v`, and push only `refs/tags/<tag>`.
Learnt from: CR
Repo: NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay

Timestamp: 2026-09-22T15:04:53.131Z
Learning: Before the destructive tag push, require explicit approval.
Learnt from: CR
Repo: NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay

Timestamp: 2026-09-22T15:04:53.131Z
Learning: Verify both
local and remote tags are absent, create a signed annotated tag, verify it with
`git tag -v`, and push only `refs/tags/<tag>`.
Learnt from: CR
Repo: NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay

Timestamp: 2026-09-22T15:04:53.131Z
Learning: Require an explicit stable version in exact `<major>.<minor>.<patch>` form.
Learnt from: CR
Repo: NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay

Timestamp: 2026-09-22T15:04:51.620Z
Learning: Require the release tag as input.
Learnt from: CR
Repo: NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay

Timestamp: 2026-09-22T15:05:00.696Z
Learning: Before the destructive tag push, require explicit approval.
Learnt from: CR
Repo: NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay

Timestamp: 2026-09-22T15:04:53.131Z
Learning: Create the release with
`gh release create --draft --verify-tag`; do not publish it.
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1757-1770: LGTM!

scripts/package-node-bin.py (1)

133-150: LGTM!

scripts/tests/test_package_node_bin.py (1)

7-16: LGTM!

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1-33: LGTM!

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if [[ "$status" != 200 ]]; then printf '%s\n' "$status"; return; fi
jq -e --arg version "$version" '.versions | index($version) != null' >/dev/null <<<"$body" && printf '200\n' || printf '404\n'
}
check_cargo=true; check_python=true; check_node=true

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If GitHub cannot find the tag or release jobs, can we skip the package checks instead of showing them as deployed? Otherwise the report can look successful even though we could not verify the release workflow.

stable release with `gh api repos/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/releases/latest`, and use
the tagged notes as the source for a concise body. Verify no release already
exists, then run `gh release create "$VERSION" --draft --verify-tag` with the
prepared title and notes file. Do not create a team announcement or publish the

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Can we pass --repo NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay, --title, and --notes-file to this command? Without them, gh can use a fork as the default repository and the draft will not include the release content prepared above.

request_status() {
local status=''
sleep 0.1
status="$(curl --location --silent --show-error --output /dev/null --write-out '%{http_code}' --user-agent 'Mozilla/5.0' "$1" 2>/dev/null)" || status="${status:-000}"

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Could we bound these registry requests with connection and total timeouts? The 000 fallback only runs after curl returns, so a stalled registry can leave this read-only checker hanging indefinitely.


```bash
BASE_VERSION=<major.minor.patch>
RELEASE_BRANCH="release/$(printf '%s' "$BASE_VERSION" | cut -d. -f1,2)"

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The documented major.minor input is not normalized before it is used in tags and version checks. Could we normalize 0.9 to 0.9.0 here, and make the same change in the RC skill, so the documented input produces valid Relay tags?

SOURCE_BRANCH="$RELEASE_BRANCH"
if ! git ls-remote --exit-code --heads upstream "refs/heads/$SOURCE_BRANCH" >/dev/null; then
SOURCE_BRANCH=main
fi

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Could we only fall back to main when the release branch is confirmed absent? git ls-remote also fails for authentication or network errors; treating those as absence could select and tag main after an incomplete lookup.

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