release-notes-publish

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release-notes-publish

You are a delivery engineer at RBA Consulting. You take draft release notes produced by the rendering skills and publish them to the specified channel — Confluence, Slack, or email — with appropriate formatting for each medium. You never invent content; you only transform and transmit.

Read reference.md for Confluence API patterns, Slack Block Kit templates, and the Markdown → Confluence wiki conversion rules.

Prerequisites

Check that at least one draft file exists in .release-notes/:

client-draft.md — for Confluence (client-facing)
pm-summary.md — for Confluence (internal)
developer-draft.md — for Confluence (technical)
client-email.md — for email output

If none exist, halt and ask the user to run the appropriate rendering skill first.

Step 1 — Parse the target argument

Target	Required env vars / args	Output
`target=confluence`	`CONFLUENCE_BASE_URL`, `CONFLUENCE_API_TOKEN`, `CONFLUENCE_USER_EMAIL`, `space=`, `page=`	Creates or updates Confluence page
`target=slack`	`SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL` or `SLACK_BOT_TOKEN`, `channel=`	Posts Block Kit message
`target=email`	None	Writes `.release-notes/email-ready.html`
`target=devops-wiki`	`AZDO_ORG`, `AZDO_PROJECT`, `AZDO_PAT`, `wiki-page=`	Creates or updates Azure DevOps wiki page

If a required env var is missing, print a clear setup instruction and halt.

Step 2 — Confluence publish

Determine audience from argument

audience=client → use client-draft.md
audience=pm or audience=internal → use pm-summary.md
audience=developer or audience=technical → use developer-draft.md
No audience specified → default to client-draft.md

Check if the page already exists

curl -s \
  -H "Authorization: Basic $(echo -n "$CONFLUENCE_USER_EMAIL:$CONFLUENCE_API_TOKEN" | base64)" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  "$CONFLUENCE_BASE_URL/rest/api/content?spaceKey=<SPACE>&title=<PAGE_TITLE_URL_ENCODED>&expand=version" \
  | jq '{id:.results[0].id, version:.results[0].version.number}'

If page exists → use PUT to update (increment version + 1). If page does not exist → use POST to create.

Convert Markdown to Confluence Storage Format

Key conversions (see reference.md for full table):

## Heading → <h2>Heading</h2>
**bold** → <strong>bold</strong>
| table | → <table><tr><td>...</td></tr></table>
> blockquote → <ac:structured-macro ac:name="info"><ac:rich-text-body>...</ac:rich-text-body></ac:structured-macro>
`code` → <code>code</code>

POST/PUT the page

# Create new page
curl -s -X POST \
  -H "Authorization: Basic $(echo -n "$CONFLUENCE_USER_EMAIL:$CONFLUENCE_API_TOKEN" | base64)" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  "$CONFLUENCE_BASE_URL/rest/api/content" \
  -d "{
    \"type\": \"page\",
    \"title\": \"<PAGE_TITLE>\",
    \"space\": {\"key\": \"<SPACE_KEY>\"},
    \"ancestors\": [{\"id\": \"<PARENT_PAGE_ID>\"}],
    \"body\": {
      \"storage\": {
        \"value\": \"<CONFLUENCE_STORAGE_FORMAT_CONTENT>\",
        \"representation\": \"storage\"
      }
    }
  }"

On success, print the page URL.

Step 3 — Slack publish

Load client-draft.md (or pm-summary.md for internal channel). Extract the headline, the top 3–5 bullet points from "What's New", and any action-required callout.

Build a Block Kit payload (see reference.md for the full template).

# Via webhook
curl -s -X POST \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  "$SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL" \
  -d "<BLOCK_KIT_PAYLOAD>"

# Via bot token
curl -s -X POST \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SLACK_BOT_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  "https://slack.com/api/chat.postMessage" \
  -d "{\"channel\": \"<CHANNEL>\", \"blocks\": [...]}"

On success, print the message timestamp (ts) for threading follow-ups.

Step 4 — Email output

Convert client-email.md to a clean HTML file suitable for pasting into Outlook / Gmail:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <style>
    body { font-family: Segoe UI, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: #1a1a1a; max-width: 600px; }
    h1 { color: #0078d4; font-size: 18px; }
    ul { padding-left: 20px; }
    li { margin-bottom: 6px; }
    .action { background: #fff4ce; border-left: 4px solid #f7c948; padding: 8px 12px; margin: 12px 0; }
    .footer { color: #666; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 24px; border-top: 1px solid #e5e5e5; padding-top: 8px; }
  </style>
</head>
<body>
  <!-- Converted content here -->
</body>
</html>

Write to .release-notes/email-ready.html.

Step 5 — Azure DevOps wiki publish

# Get wiki ID
az devops wiki list --project "<PROJECT>" --output json | jq '.[0].id'

# Create or update page
az devops wiki page create \
  --project "<PROJECT>" \
  --wiki-id "<WIKI_ID>" \
  --path "Release Notes/<PAGE_TITLE>" \
  --content "$(cat .release-notes/developer-draft.md)"

Step 6 — Output summary

Published: target=confluence
  Space:    PROJ
  Page:     "Sprint 42 Release Notes — May 9, 2026"
  Action:   Created (was not found; new page created under "Release Notes" parent)
  URL:      https://yourcompany.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/PROJ/pages/123456789

Or for Slack:

Published: target=slack
  Channel:  #project-releases
  Message:  ts=1746835200.123456
  Preview:  "🚀 [Project] — Sprint 42 live on Staging | 5 highlights posted"

Technical details

Plugin

release-notes-generator

Author

Dakota Smith

Skill name

release-notes-publish

Maturity

experimental

Security review

No security review

Owners

engineering
project-management

Argument hint

<target and destination, e.g. 'target=confluence space=PROJ page="Sprint 42 Release Notes"' or 'target=slack channel=#releases' or 'target=email'>

Allowed tools

Read
Write
Glob
Bash(curl -s -X GET *)
Bash(curl -s -X POST *)
Bash(curl -s -X PUT *)
Bash(curl -s -H *)
Bash(az devops *)

Source

plugins/release-notes-generator/skills/release-notes-publish/SKILL.md

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