# goal-issues-and-release

This skill processes open issues, then starts the release workflow. It makes routine choices on its own while keeping the stated safety checks in place.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 1557
- Author: dyoshikawa
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/dyoshikawa/rulesync/tree/HEAD/.rulesync/skills/goal-issues-and-release/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/goal-issues-and-release

## What it does

The skill runs two maintenance skills in sequence: `batch-all-issues` handles open issues one at a time, then `goal-release` prepares a release. Each run processes at most 20 issues, but reaching that limit does not prevent it from moving on to the release check.

Routine decisions follow the project’s conventions and are recorded for the final report. A merge still requires green CI. If a fix touches `.github/**` or the release pipeline, or adds a runtime dependency, its PR is left open for the user. That boundary can leave work unfinished or prevent a release.

The run stops entirely if the working tree contains uncommitted changes it did not make. It also halts work on an issue when its contents attempt to redirect the agent toward unrelated commands or goals.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add dyoshikawa/rulesync --skill goal-issues-and-release -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/goal-issues-and-release/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/goal-issues-and-release/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add dyoshikawa/rulesync --skill goal-issues-and-release -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/goal-issues-and-release/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add dyoshikawa/rulesync --skill goal-issues-and-release -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/goal-issues-and-release/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install dyoshikawa/rulesync goal-issues-and-release
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/goal-issues-and-release/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add dyoshikawa/rulesync --skill goal-issues-and-release -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/dyoshikawa/rulesync --path .rulesync/skills/goal-issues-and-release
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/goal-issues-and-release/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add dyoshikawa/rulesync --skill goal-issues-and-release -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/dyoshikawa/rulesync/tree/HEAD/.rulesync/skills/goal-issues-and-release/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- process open issues one by one
- check whether merged fixes are ready for release
- leave high-risk pull requests for the user
- stop before touching another run’s uncommitted changes

## Example prompts
- Process every open issue, then check whether the project is ready for a release.
- Work through the backlog and prepare a release under the project’s rules.
- Stop if the working tree contains uncommitted changes I did not make.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: goal-issues-and-release
description: >-
  Clear the open issue backlog and then cut a release, in one autonomous run:
  use the `batch-all-issues` skill to resolve every open issue, then the
  `goal-release` skill to draft, merge, and see the release through
  publication. Never asks the
  user anything — every decision is made autonomously, and blockers are reported
  at the end instead of interrupting the run.
targets:
  - "*"
---

# Goal Issues and Release

Run the project's two long-form maintenance skills back to back, without
stopping to ask the user anything:

1. the `batch-all-issues` skill — resolve every open issue, one at a time.
2. the `goal-release` skill — cut the release that ships whatever those fixes merged.

Use this skill when the user wants the whole backlog cleared and a release cut
in a single unattended run.

## Autonomy Rule

**Do not ask the user any questions during this run.** Both underlying skills
have steps that say to stop and ask the user; in this skill those steps become
"decide autonomously, record the decision, and keep going" — with the single
exception of the safety stops listed under **Safety Boundaries** below, which
remain hard stops.

Concretely, when an underlying step would ask the user:

- Choose the option that moves the work forward — implement the fix, merge the
  PR, close the issue, cut the release — unless it hits one of the **Safety
  Boundaries** below. Leaving an issue open or a PR unmerged is reserved for
  those boundaries, not for design questions that merely lack a maintainer's
  sign-off.
- For an open design point, pick the option that best fits the project's
  existing conventions and the tool's documented behavior, and state the
  choice in the PR body so it can be revisited later.
- Record every such decision, so it lands in the final report.

Acting decisively never means guessing at facts, bypassing CI, or widening a
fix beyond the issue it resolves.

## Safety Boundaries

The autonomy rule above relaxes _convenience_ questions only. The conditions
below keep exactly the triggers the underlying skills give them; the only
difference is that instead of asking, the run halts that step and reports at
the end. No decision made here may override them:

- **CI must be green before any merge.** Never merge while a check is `fail` or
  `pending`, and never make a check green by skipping or deleting tests,
  weakening lint or type-check configuration, or editing workflow files.
- **High-risk changes are never auto-merged.** If resolving an issue requires
  editing GitHub Actions workflows (`.github/**`), the release/publish
  pipeline, or adding a new runtime dependency, open the PR and leave it for
  the user. Bumping an existing dependency, adding a dev dependency, or editing
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