This skill walks an agent through the complete release process for the ButterCut project: running tests, verifying a clean git state, determining and updating semantic versioning, updating changelog, committing and tagging, building the gem, publishing to RubyGems, and creating a GitHub release. It codifies safety checks (tests first, clean git) and provides exact commands and fallbacks.
Use this skill when preparing and publishing a new ButterCut version after merging features or fixes. Activate it for patch/minor/major releases, first-time releases, or when you need a repeatable, safe release process that includes gem and GitHub release steps.
bundle, git, gem build, and gh release creation.Suitable for agents that can run shell commands or assist with release orchestration (CI authors, automation bots, code assistants like Copilot/Codex, or any agent interfacing with git, bundle, and gh).
The buttercut-release skill is a phantom entry — the skills/release directory does not exist in the barefootford/buttercut GitHub repo. The skill_md_body is null, there are no scripts, and the source URL returns 404. The DB has a description referencing a release workflow for ButterCut (Ruby gem publishing), but no actual content exists to evaluate. This appears to be a stale or incorrectly indexed skill.
Phantom/stale skill: the release skill directory is absent from the repo tree. Only metadata (name, description, tags) exists in the DB. Should be flagged for cleanup or re-crawl.