releaseguru 0.1.6

AI release assistant CLI for git repositories.

ReleaseGuru

ReleaseGuru is an AI release assistant CLI for git repositories.

Main feature: turn commit history into a release plan that tells the team what changed, what matters, what to test, and what can be published.

Secondary helpers: version bumping, release notes, GitHub Releases, JSON output, and GitHub Actions outputs.

Features

• AI release brief from git commits
• Release summary, highlights, risks, checks, and user-facing notes
• SemVer recommendation: major, minor, or patch
• Auto-version from latest git tag
• Manual version override
• Markdown or JSON output
• Notes-only mode for GitHub release bodies
• Dry-run mode for CI and review
• GitHub Release publish
• Draft and prerelease publish modes
• GitHub repo override with --github-repo
• Optional tag creation and push
• GitHub Actions output support with --ci-output
• Multi-provider support: Groq, Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI

Install

After PyPI publish:

pipx install releaseguru

Or:

pip install releaseguru

During local development:

cd ReleaseGuru
python -m venv venv
pip install -e .
cp .env.example .env

Add one AI provider key to .env.

GROQ_API_KEY=
OPENAI_API_KEY=
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=
GEMINI_API_KEY=
XAI_API_KEY=
GITHUB_TOKEN=

GITHUB_TOKEN is only needed when publishing.

For one global key across all repos, create %USERPROFILE%\.releaseguru.env and put your provider key there. ReleaseGuru loads that file automatically.

Basic Use

Example Output

Generate release plan:

releaseguru

Use custom range:

releaseguru --from v1.2.0 --to HEAD

Save to file:

releaseguru --output RELEASE.md

Generate JSON for automation:

releaseguru --format json --output release.json

Only print release notes:

releaseguru --notes-only

Dry run publish flow:

releaseguru --publish --dry-run --github-repo owner/repo

Publish full release:

releaseguru --publish

Publish only notes body:

releaseguru --publish --notes-only

Publish draft:

releaseguru --publish --draft

Publish prerelease:

releaseguru --publish --prerelease

Publish without creating/pushing a local tag:

releaseguru --publish --skip-tag

GitHub Actions

Use this when you want manual release from Actions.

name: ReleaseGuru

on:
  workflow_dispatch:

permissions:
  contents: write

jobs:
  release:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0

      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
        with:
          python-version: "3.11"

      - name: Install ReleaseGuru
        run: pip install releaseguru
      - name: Create release
        id: releaseguru
        env:
          GROQ_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.GROQ_API_KEY }}
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        run: releaseguru --publish --notes-only --ci-output

      - name: Show result
        run: |
          echo "Version: ${{ steps.releaseguru.outputs.version }}"
          echo "Bump: ${{ steps.releaseguru.outputs.bump_type }}"
          echo "URL: ${{ steps.releaseguru.outputs.release_url }}"

For review before publishing:

- name: Preview release
  env:
    GROQ_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.GROQ_API_KEY }}
  run: releaseguru --dry-run --format json --output release.json

Testing

Syntax check:

python -m py_compile releaseguru/cli.py releaseguru/providers.py

Unit tests:

python -m unittest discover -s tests

CLI dry run with mocked AI response:

releaseguru --mock-response tests/fixtures/ai_response.txt --dry-run

Real AI test:

releaseguru --provider groq --dry-run

Real GitHub publish test:

releaseguru --provider groq --publish --draft

Use --draft first so you can inspect the release before making it public.

Release Ways

• Local preview: releaseguru --dry-run
• Local file: releaseguru --output RELEASE.md
• CI preview: releaseguru --format json --ci-output
• GitHub draft: releaseguru --publish --draft
• GitHub prerelease: releaseguru --publish --prerelease
• GitHub stable release: releaseguru --publish
• Notes-only release body: releaseguru --publish --notes-only
• Existing tag release: releaseguru --publish --skip-tag --version v1.2.3
• Manual version release: releaseguru --version v2.0.0 --publish

Provider Defaults

Provider	Option	Default model
Groq	--provider groq	llama-3.3-70b-versatile
Gemini	--provider gemini	gemini-1.5-flash
OpenAI	--provider openai	gpt-4o-mini
Anthropic	--provider anthropic	claude-3-5-haiku-20241022
xAI	--provider xai	grok-3-mini