create_release

Automate GitHub release creation by specifying repository details, tag name, commitish, and release notes. Supports drafts, prereleases, and auto-generating release notes.

Instructions

Create a new release in a GitHub repository

Input Schema

Name	Required	Description
`body`	No	Text describing the release
`draft`	No	true to create a draft (unpublished) release, false to create a published one
`generate_release_notes`	No	Whether to automatically generate the name and body for this release
`name`	No	The name of the release
`owner`	Yes	Repository owner (username or organization)
`prerelease`	No	true to identify the release as a prerelease, false to identify it as a full release
`repo`	Yes	Repository name
`tag_name`	Yes	The name of the tag
`target_commitish`	No	Specifies the commitish value that determines where the Git tag is created from

Input Schema (JSON Schema)

{
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "properties": {
    "body": {
      "description": "Text describing the release",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "draft": {
      "description": "true to create a draft (unpublished) release, false to create a published one",
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "generate_release_notes": {
      "description": "Whether to automatically generate the name and body for this release",
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "name": {
      "description": "The name of the release",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "owner": {
      "description": "Repository owner (username or organization)",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "prerelease": {
      "description": "true to identify the release as a prerelease, false to identify it as a full release",
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "repo": {
      "description": "Repository name",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "tag_name": {
      "description": "The name of the tag",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "target_commitish": {
      "description": "Specifies the commitish value that determines where the Git tag is created from",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "owner",
    "repo",
    "tag_name"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

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create_release

Instructions

Input Schema

Input Schema (JSON Schema)

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