Generate release PRs and changelog updates from Conventional Commits

Use release-please when an agent should turn merged Conventional Commits into structured release PRs, version bumps, and changelog updates before a human reviews and merges. This is a release-management workflow, not a generic package or CI listing.

Prerequisites

GitHub, Conventional Commits

Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:

• make sense when merged in the main branch. For example, you may have

Requirements and caveats from upstream:

• "docs" is a prefix for releasable units in Java and Python.
• | node | A Node.js repository, with a package.json and CHANGELOG.md |
• | python | A Python repository with a pyproject.toml, <project>/__init__.py, CHANGELOG.md or optionally a setup.py, setup.cfg |

Basic usage or getting-started notes:

• Updates your changelog file (for example CHANGELOG.md), along with other language specific files (for example package.json).

• Empty commit example:

• Some languages have their specific releasable unit configuration. For example,

• Source: https://github.com/googleapis/release-please

• Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/googleapis/release-please/HEAD/README.md

Documentation

• https://github.com/googleapis/release-please

Source

• Agent Skill Exchange