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Pre-release milestone audit. Confirms there are no open issues or PRs on the release milestone that would mess with the release if merged after prep, and no leftover open baselines PRs (on `linq2db.baselines`) for milestone-merged source PRs — those auto-generate fresh baselines but stay open after the source PR merges and need closing/merging before the release ships. Tick passes only when both lists are clear. Invoked by `/release` step 3 or directly.

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/release-milestone-check

What this skill is (and isn't)

Is: a read-only audit of the release milestone, before the prep PR merges. Surfaces:

  1. Open issues / PRs on the milestone (anything not closed/merged). Each must be closed, merged, or moved off the milestone — leaving them dangling means a late merge after release prep could land changes that need a new public-API / baselines / release-notes pass.
  2. Open baselines PRs on linq2db.baselines for source PRs that already merged to milestone. The baselines repo auto-generates a PR per source PR; when the source PR merges, the baselines PR isn't auto-merged — it needs deliberate action.
  3. Milestone-consistency drift — merged milestone PRs whose closed issues are on a different (or no) milestone. Skews this audit and the release-notes coverage check. Surfaced + offered for assign (step 4b).

Isn't:

  • Not a code review. Doesn't read PR bodies / files.
  • Not authoritative on "is this PR ready to merge" — only flags presence vs. milestone state.
  • Doesn't itself close, merge, or move anything. Surfaces and asks.

When to run

  • During release prep as task 3 (called by /release orchestrator).
  • Manually whenever the user wants a milestone tidiness check (e.g. before bringing a release PR up).

Required reading

Procedure

1. Run the audit

pwsh -NoProfile -File .agents/scripts/release-milestone-audit.ps1 -Milestone <ver> [-PrepPR <n>]

The script:

  • Looks up the milestone number for <ver> via gh api repos/linq2db/linq2db/milestones?state=open.
  • Lists open issues + open PRs on that milestone via gh issue list --milestone <ver> --state open.
  • Lists merged PRs on that milestone for use in step 2.
  • For each merged PR, checks linq2db.baselines for an open PR whose head ref is baselines/pr_<n> (or baselines/pull_<n>) — those are the auto-generated baselines PRs that linger after their source merges.
  • Excludes the release-prep PR itself (the prep PR is on the milestone but is the very thing we're auditing; don't count it as "blocking").

Output: structured JSON with openIssues[], openPRs[], mergedPRs[], staleBaselinesPRs[].

2. Render results

Two lists. Show them as numbered tables, one per category. For each row: ID, title, last-update date, link.

Open milestone items:

#  #5510   issue   Foo bug repro                              opened 2026-05-12   <url>
#  #5520   pr      Fix bar translator                         updated 2026-05-13  <url>

Stale baselines PRs:

#  baselines#420   for source-PR #5510 (merged 2026-05-09)    updated 2026-05-09  <url>

3. Resolve open items

For each open milestone item, ask the user — single batched prompt:

"Each blocks release prep. Choose per row: close <n>, move <n> (drop the milestone), merge <n> (signal the user will merge before release), or wait (leave but acknowledge — release can't proceed)."

User-driven actions only — this skill does not close, edit, or move anything itself. After user replies:

  • close / move / merge: orchestrator may dispatch to /create-issue for follow-up tracking or to direct user actions on GitHub.
  • wait: skill records the row as known-blocking and tells user "release can't tick task 3 until this is resolved".

4. Resolve stale baselines PRs

For each stale baselines PR, ask:

"Merge or close? Merging adds the regenerated baselines to master baselines; closing discards them. For a release, merge is the typical answer — the test results those baselines reflect are now master state."

User can pick merge <n> or close <n>. User runs the action themselves:

  • Merge: baselines PRs are auto-generated as draft and the linq2db.baselines repo rejects merge commits, so the merge sequence is two steps:
    1. gh pr ready <baselines-pr> --repo linq2db/linq2db.baselines (mark draft → ready)
    2. gh pr merge <baselines-pr> --repo linq2db/linq2db.baselines --squash --delete-branch
  • Close + delete branch: gh pr close <baselines-pr> --repo linq2db/linq2db.baselines --delete-branch

4b. Milestone consistency (PR ↔ closed issues)

For each merged milestone PR (the mergedPRs[] from step 1), check that the issues it closes share its milestone:

pwsh -NoProfile -File .agents/scripts/milestone-consistency.ps1 -Action check -Pr <n>

Collect the laggards[] across all merged PRs into one list. Each laggard carries relation + likelyIntentional: a laggard whose issue sits on an earlier or already-closed milestone (likelyIntentional: true) is a legitimate cross-milestone case — the fix shipped in a past release and this PR is a follow-up such as a test-enable (e.g. #5559 closing #4783, fixed back in 6.2.0). Don't reassign those (it would corrupt the historical milestone); assign skips them by default. For the remaining laggards (relation: none/later), propose assigning the PR's milestone and, on user confirmation, run -Action assign -Pr <n> (REST PATCH by numeric milestone id; verifies after; -IncludeReleased overrides the skip if you truly mean to move a released-milestone issue). Milestone is metadata, but the change is visible — propose, then confirm. (Same helper runs from /review-pr on discrepancy and from the on-merge flow in pr-and-push.md.)

4c. Release-notes orphan sweep (handoff)

PRs merged by the user without the agent have no release-notes draft and no wiki entry. Those are backfilled by /release-notes → mode sweep during release task 5 (/release dispatch), not here. If running this skill standalone before a release, note the handoff so task 5 isn't skipped.

5. Tick the checklist

If after user actions both lists are empty:

pwsh -NoProfile -File .agents/scripts/release-state.ps1 -Action update -Version <ver> -TaskId 3 -Status done -Annotation "<N items resolved>"

If anything remains open after the user's intended actions but those actions haven't completed yet (e.g. user said merge but hasn't merged): keep task 3 in-progress, not done. The orchestrator re-runs /release-milestone-check on next dispatch to verify.

Don'ts

  • Do not close issues / PRs on the user's behalf. Always surface + ask + let the user run the action.
  • Do not merge baselines PRs on the user's behalf. Same reason — destructive action on a shared repo.
  • Do not tick task 3 as done while anything's open. The [x] is the gate to the next phase; faking it produces broken release state.