OPS ► RELEASE — one-command plugin publish

Cuts a new published version of the claude-ops plugin: bumps the version in the three manifests, writes the CHANGELOG, opens a release PR, waits for CI, merges it to main, and pushes the vX.Y.Z tag. After it runs, /ops:ops-update pulls the new version down to the box.

ops-release ships it · /ops:ops-update pulls it. Order: merge your fix PR → /ops:ops-release → /ops:ops-update.

⚠️ Run it from the REPO CHECKOUT, not the cache

bin/ops-release resolves its targets relative to its own location: PLUGIN_DIR = <bin>/.., REPO_ROOT = <bin>/../.., and it needs REPO_ROOT/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json. The plugin cache (~/.claude/plugins/cache/ops-marketplace/ops/<ver>/bin/ops-release) has no marketplace.json above it, so running the cache copy fails with not found: …/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json. Always run the copy inside a git checkout of the repo (the dir that has both .claude-plugin/marketplace.json and claude-ops/bin/ops-release).

Resolve it first:

RELEASE=""
for d in ~/Projects/claude-ops-workspace/claude-ops ~/Projects/claude-ops/claude-ops "$HOME"/Projects/*/claude-ops; do
  if [ -f "$d/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json" ] && [ -x "$d/claude-ops/bin/ops-release" ]; then
    RELEASE="$d/claude-ops/bin/ops-release"; REPO="$d"; break
  fi
done
[ -n "$RELEASE" ] || { echo "no claude-ops checkout with marketplace.json found — clone the repo first"; exit 1; }
echo "using: $RELEASE  (repo: $REPO)"

Make sure the checkout's main is up to date and includes the fix you want to publish before releasing (git -C "$REPO" fetch origin && git -C "$REPO" checkout main && git -C "$REPO" pull --ff-only). The release branches from origin/main, so anything not yet on origin/main will NOT be in the release.

How to run it

Steps 3–5 are outward-facing + hard to reverse (open PR → CI-gated squash-merge to main → push a public vX.Y.Z tag), so always dry-run first, show the plan, confirm, then apply (Rule 5).

1. Dry-run and show the plan

"$RELEASE" --type patch --notes "<one-line changelog body>" --dry-run

Present the output: current → target version, which 3 manifests get bumped, the CHANGELOG block, and that it will branch release/vX.Y.Z → PR → wait for CI → merge → tag. Pick the bump type from the change: bug/patch fix → --type patch; new backward-compatible feature → --type minor; breaking change → --type major (or pin exactly with --version X.Y.Z).

2. Confirm

Use AskUserQuestion before applying:

Publish claude-ops <CUR> → <NEW>?  (bumps 3 manifests + CHANGELOG, opens PR, waits for CI, merges to main, tags v<NEW>)
  [Publish release]
  [Dry-run only]
  [Cancel]

3. Apply

"$RELEASE" --type patch --notes "<one-line changelog body>"

Stream the step-by-step output. On success it prints the PR URL, the merge, and the tag. Surface the final line verbatim and then tell the user to pull it down:

Released v<NEW>. Run /ops:ops-update to pull it onto this box.

Flags

What it touches

1. claude-ops/.claude-plugin/plugin.json — .version
2. .claude-plugin/marketplace.json (repo root) — .plugins[name==ops].version
3. claude-ops/package.json — .version (if present)
4. claude-ops/CHANGELOG.md — prepends a ## [X.Y.Z] - <date> block. By default the body is AI-synthesized from the commit range in Keep a Changelog style (### Added/Changed/Fixed/Removed); --notes overrides it, --no-ai falls back to commit subjects.
5. Docs counts — runs bin/ops-sync-docs, which reconciles every skill/agent count, shields.io badge, and version badge across plugin.json, marketplace.json, the READMEs, and docs/*-reference.md to the real tree. Deterministic and idempotent; never touches historical "up from X/Y" prose. Skip with --no-docs. (Run bin/ops-sync-docs standalone any time you add or remove a skill/agent.)
6. GitHub wiki — after merge+tag, clones the wiki, syncs its counts/version, and prepends a Release-Notes.md entry for the new version. Skip with --no-wiki.

It works inside an isolated worktree ($REPO_ROOT/.worktrees/release/vX.Y.Z, branched from origin/main), so a dirty main checkout never leaks unrelated WIP into the release commit. The worktree is removed on exit.

Mobile / SSH (Rule 7)

The bin auto-detects a non-TTY and drops colour; its output is already line-per-fact, so relay it as-is — no tables, no banners.

Notes

• PRs target main (claude-ops convention). The helper waits for the five product CI checks plus any other reported checks to finish, then squash-merges without bypassing them.
• Publish ≠ deploy to the box. The running session won't see the new version until /ops:ops-update (pull) + /reload-plugins (load).
• Sibling: /ops:ops-update (pull a published version locally + prune/rewrite).