proxy release skill

[eschultink]

Features

• Initial draft of a PR to incorporate a release process as a language model (LLM) skill, aiming to streamline and automate release management.

Change implications

• dependencies added/changed? no
• something important to note in future release notes?
  • NOTE in CHANGELOG.md anything that will show up in terraform plan/apply that isn't obviously a no-op?
  • breaking changes? if in module/example that is NOT marked alpha, requires major version change

[jlorper]

LGTM, guess you will keep it as draft until you test it / release at the same time

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

Adds an initial “release QA” workflow (and LLM skill documentation) to streamline pre-release validation of dev examples and connector smoke tests before merging an rc-vX.Y.Z branch to main.

Changes:

• Introduces a run-release-qa.sh orchestrator plus helper scripts to verify release refs, apply AWS/GCP examples, run generated test-all.sh, summarize results, and optionally post outcomes back to the release PR.
• Adds a release QA runbook (tools/release/release-qa.md) and links it from existing release documentation and agent conventions.
• Adds a Cursor skill document describing the same release QA workflow.

Reviewed changes

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Show a summary per file

File	Description
tools/release/run-release-qa.sh	Orchestrates the end-to-end QA workflow (verify → apply → test → summarize → PR update).
tools/release/release-qa.md	Human runbook describing the sequential QA steps and artifacts.
tools/release/qa/verify-release-refs.sh	Validates branch/ref migration (rc → release) and checks for stale refs/strings.
tools/release/qa/apply-example.sh	Runs terraform plan/apply for aws/gcp dev examples and logs outputs.
tools/release/qa/run-example-tests.sh	Runs the generated test-all.sh for an example and captures output.
tools/release/qa/summarize-connector-tests.sh	Parses test output into markdown summaries + checklist metadata.
tools/release/qa/update-release-pr-results.sh	Posts summaries to a PR and updates test-plan checkboxes in the PR body.
docs/development/releases.md	Adds a pointer/command to run the new release QA workflow.
AGENTS.md	Documents the release QA workflow location/orchestrator for agents.
.cursor/skills/release-qa/SKILL.md	Defines a Cursor skill to guide running the release QA process.

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