ci: add Cut Release workflow for patch/minor/major cuts#87
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Add a workflow_dispatch pipeline that promotes CHANGELOG Unreleased notes, opens a release PR (main is protected), tags after merge, and publishes via GoReleaser + npm. Includes a small Python helper with unit tests.
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Jul 16, 2026
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Summary
workflow_dispatch) to automate a release cut frommainCHANGELOG.md## Unreleased→## vX.Y.Z - <date>, opens a release PR (required by branch protection), tags after merge, then publishes (GitHub release, Homebrew, npm)scripts/cut_release.py(+ unit tests) resolves the next semver and rewrites the changelogGITHUB_TOKENdo not trigger the existing tag-based Release workflowUsage
Test plan
python3 -m unittest cut_release_testinscripts/python3 scripts/cut_release.py --bump patch --dry-runagainst current main