Add sprint-check, issue-cleanup, and hotfix-release skills#8217
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Adds three engineering automation skills: - sprint-check: validates sprint readiness, checks labels/milestones/project fields, supports sprint close rollover - issue-cleanup: scans backlog for hygiene gaps, flags customer-reported issues without triage, stale milestones - hotfix-release: creates hotfix branch from release tag, cherry-picks PRs, bumps version files, generates changelog entry Partially addresses #8033 Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
hotfix-release: - Add Triggering the Release section with ADO pipeline link and steps - Add Post-Release section (changelog merge-back, no version file merge) - Fix tags guidance: pipeline creates tags, not manual - Add Go as optional prerequisite (build verification) - Remove changelog from version-files.md (avoid Step 5/6 overlap) - Fix grep -oP to sed for macOS compatibility sprint-check: - Add Step 8: Sprint Close / Rollover with bulk move option - Fix --paginate to manual cursor pagination (tested, doesn't work) - Sync hygiene-rules.md with issue-cleanup (was drifting) issue-cleanup: - Fix hardcoded assignee example to @me - Fix --milestone "" to --search "no:milestone" Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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Pull request overview
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Adds three new GitHub Copilot “workflow skills” to automate sprint readiness checks, backlog hygiene scanning, and hotfix branch/release preparation.
Changes:
- Added new skills:
sprint-check,issue-cleanup, andhotfix-releasewith step-by-step workflows and reference docs. - Documented shared issue hygiene rules and Project V2 GraphQL mutation patterns.
- Updated cspell overrides for newly introduced domain-specific terms in skill docs.
Show a summary per file
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| .vscode/cspell.misc.yaml | Adds cspell allowlist overrides for new skill documentation terms. |
| .github/skills/sprint-check/SKILL.md | Defines sprint readiness workflow, queries, reporting, and interactive fixes. |
| .github/skills/sprint-check/references/hygiene-rules.md | Documents validation rules used by sprint-check (and shared with issue-cleanup). |
| .github/skills/sprint-check/references/project-mutations.md | Provides GraphQL examples for Project V2 field reads/mutations used by sprint-check. |
| .github/skills/issue-cleanup/SKILL.md | Defines backlog hygiene scan workflow, reporting, and interactive fixes. |
| .github/skills/issue-cleanup/references/hygiene-rules.md | Duplicates the shared hygiene rules reference for issue-cleanup consumers. |
| .github/skills/hotfix-release/SKILL.md | Defines hotfix workflow from tag through cherry-picks, version bump, changelog update, and push. |
| .github/skills/hotfix-release/references/version-files.md | Documents which version files to update and how to validate consistency. |
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Three new engineering automation skills -- sprint-check, issue-cleanup, and hotfix-release. Structure follows the existing skill pattern well (frontmatter, references dir, cspell overrides).
Summary of findings (2 medium, 2 low):
- sprint-check body heading still says "issues and PRs" despite the frontmatter fix (incomplete fix from prior feedback)
- hygiene-rules.md duplicated verbatim across sprint-check and issue-cleanup references
- hotfix-release suggests force-push as error recovery on a potentially shared branch
- hotfix-release validates PRs are merged but not that they were merged into main
- Fix sprint-check heading to say 'issues' not 'issues and PRs' - Deduplicate hygiene-rules.md into _shared/ with symlinks - Hotfix-release: prefer git pull --rebase before force-push - Hotfix-release: validate PRs were merged into main, not feature branches Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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Partially addresses #8033
Replaces #8134, #8216 (closed — had overlapping commits from #8099)
What
Three new Copilot skills for engineering automation.
sprint-check
Validates sprint readiness — labels, milestones, project fields (Sprint, Priority, Initiative), assignees. Supports personal/team/single-issue scope. Sprint close rollover with bulk move when sprint is ending.
issue-cleanup
Scans backlog for hygiene gaps — missing labels, missing milestones, stale milestone assignments. Flags customer-reported issues sitting without triage.
hotfix-release
Creates a hotfix branch from a release tag, cherry-picks specified PRs, bumps version files (version.txt, azdext/version.go), updates CHANGELOG.md, pushes branch. Handles cherry-pick conflicts interactively. Includes ADO release pipeline guidance and post-release checklist.
Files
.github/skills/sprint-check/— SKILL.md + 2 reference docs (hygiene-rules, project-mutations).github/skills/issue-cleanup/— SKILL.md + 1 reference doc (hygiene-rules, synced with sprint-check).github/skills/hotfix-release/— SKILL.md + 1 reference doc (version-files).vscode/cspell.misc.yaml— spelling overrides for new files