subwave-discord-release

SUB/WAVE Discord release announcement

Write one Discord post announcing a SUB/WAVE release. The audience is listeners and operators in the community server, not developers reading a changelog. The job is to turn the release's commits into a short, warm, on-brand post they'll actually read.

Why this skill exists

The raw material is a release-please PR body or a published GitHub release: a list of feat(...) / fix(...) lines with issue numbers. That's changelog-speak. The community post needs the listener-facing version: what each change lets them do, in plain words, with the station's radio-booth personality. The easy things to get wrong are the voice (reads like AI release notes), em-dashes (a hard no), overselling a small maintenance release, and burying the good stuff under internal chores. This skill encodes the house format and the translation step.

Step 1: Pull the release data

Get the grouped changelog. Depending on what the user gives you:

# a release-please PR (the "chore(main): release X.Y.Z" PR)
gh pr view <PR#> --repo perminder-klair/subwave --json title,body,baseRefName

# a published release tag
gh release view v<X.Y.Z> --repo perminder-klair/subwave

# or list recent releases if they only gave a vague "the latest one"
gh release list --repo perminder-klair/subwave --limit 5

The release-please body groups commits under Features and Bug Fixes with issue links. That grouping is your starting skeleton. Note the version and the release URL (https://github.com/perminder-klair/subwave/releases/tag/v<X.Y.Z>) for the sign-off link.

Step 2: Triage the commits

Not every line earns a spot. Read each commit through the ear of a listener/operator:

• Headline features get a bulleted callout with a thematic emoji and a bold lead. These are the user-visible wins: new personas, new stations, new transitions, new controls, new skills.
• Fixes get a compact 🔧 list further down, framed by why they matter ("no more X leaking to air"), not by the code path.
• Drop or fold pure internals: release chores, CI, refactors, dependency bumps, anything a listener would never perceive. Don't pad the post to look bigger than the release.

Translate every kept line out of commit-speak. fix(llm): stop runaway </think> repetition loops leaking to air becomes "No more runaway think-loops leaking to air. Reasoning models used to occasionally spill their inner monologue over the stream. That's plugged." The commit tells you what code changed; you write what the listener will notice.

Step 3: Size the post to the release

A big feature release and a small maintenance drop should not read the same. Say which one it is in the intro, honestly. A five-feature release earns the full treatment; a two-feature-plus-fixes release should say "smaller drop this time, but a good one" and stay short. Overselling a patch release is the fastest way to make the wire feel like marketing.

The format

Output a single fenced ```markdown code block so the user can copy the raw text straight into Discord. The shape:

📻 SUB/WAVE vX.Y.Z is on the airwaves 📻

[Intro: one short paragraph. Name the release's character (big / smaller), say what it's mostly about in plain words, and lead into the list. Radio metaphors welcome (on the dial, in the booth, on air).]

[EMOJI] **Feature lead in bold.** One to three sentences on what it is and what it lets them do. Pick an emoji that fits the feature, not a generic sparkle.

[EMOJI] **Next feature.** ...

[Transition line into the smaller stuff, ending in 👇. e.g. "And a handful of fixes that matter more than they sound 👇"]

🔧 Plain-language fix, framed by why it matters.
🔧 Next fix.

Full notes: https://github.com/perminder-klair/subwave/releases/tag/vX.Y.Z

[Thank-you closer to the people who filed issues and sent PRs, then a fresh sign-off. See "Sign-offs" below.]

@everyone

Notes on the parts:

• Headline: 📻 SUB/WAVE vX.Y.Z is on the airwaves 📻. The 📻 … 📻 bookend is the house opener.
• Feature bullets: emoji + bold lead, then prose. One idea per bullet. Merge related commits (e.g. two new stations) into one bullet rather than listing each.
• Fixes: 🔧 prefix, one line each, benefit-first. Only include fixes a user would feel; fold the rest into a single "plus the usual under-the-hood tidying" line or drop them.
• @everyone goes at the very bottom, after the sign-off. (This is the operator's standing preference. Confirm only if they say otherwise.)

Sign-offs

End with a genuine thank-you to contributors, then a short sign-off. Vary the closing line release to release so it doesn't get stale. Don't reach for the same "go make some noise" every time. Draw on the radio world: See you on the dial. 🎧, Catch you on air. 🎧, Turn it up. 🎧, This one's built on your feedback, so keep it flowing. Match the energy of the release. If the user has used a specific closer before and wants something new, pick a different metaphor rather than a synonym of the last one.

Writing rules

• No em-dashes. Reword with a comma, a colon, parentheses, or a full stop. Hard rule for the wire.
• Warm, plain, a little playful. First person plural ("this one's built on your feedback") reads human and fits a community voice.
• No changelog-speak, no inflated significance, no rule-of-three padding.
• Straight quotes. Emoji are welcome here (unlike the news dispatch) because it's Discord, but each should carry meaning, not decorate.
• Keep it scannable: short intro, bulleted features, compact fixes, link, sign-off. Discord readers skim.

Required: humanize before delivering

Run the finished draft through the humanizer skill and apply its edits before you hand it over. This is where lingering AI tells, any stray em-dash, and rule-of-three habits get caught. It's the same discipline the news dispatch uses, and it's what keeps the post from reading like generated release notes.

Delivering

Hand back the final post inside one ```markdown fenced block (so @everyone, bold, and links survive the copy). Then offer a quick follow-up: alternate sign-offs, a shorter cut, or dropping the fixes section. The operator usually iterates on the closer and the length.

Reference: the house voice

The previous release announcements are the tonal reference. If the user pastes an older post as "here's our old one," match its rhythm and warmth, not its exact wording or emoji. The v0.37.0 post (big feature release: guest co-hosts, programmes, chop transition, community personas) and the v0.39.0 post (smaller: persona fader controls, new personas/stations, LLM fixes) bracket the range from full-treatment to compact-drop.