Release Draft

release_draft.yml creates or updates a draft GitHub release from merged pull request metadata and .github/release_template.md.

Generated When

Generated only when do_releases is enabled.

Runs On

• Pushes to main
• Manual workflow_dispatch

Calls

uses: athackst/ci/.github/workflows/release_drafter.yml@main

See release_drafter.yml for the reusable workflow contract.

Permissions

The release draft job needs:

• contents: write to create or update draft releases.
• pull-requests: read to resolve changelog and version metadata.

The persist-draft-id job needs:

• actions: write to persist DRAFT_RELEASE_ID as a repository variable.

Behavior

• Passes vars.DRAFT_RELEASE_ID into the reusable Release Draft workflow.
• Creates or updates a draft release from resolved version and changelog data.
• Stores the resulting release ID in the DRAFT_RELEASE_ID repository variable for the next run.
• Uses secrets.CI_BOT_TOKEN for release and variable writes.