Preview tags stay as the traceability record for the validated commit, but their GitHub Releases are internal validation state and should not accumulate on the Releases page next to real deliverables.
Add a cleanup-preview-releases job that runs after publish-release succeeds for a release or prerelease tag and deletes every Release whose tag is exactly <target>-preview.<digits>. The tags themselves are kept: the job never passes --cleanup-tag. Tag matching uses jq string operations rather than a regex over the version, so dots in the version cannot widen the match, and the release listing is fetched before filtering so an API failure aborts the job instead of looking like there was nothing to clean up.
Extend the preview release workflow guard with the job condition, the delete invocation, both tag-matching filters, and an absent check for --cleanup-tag.
docs(skills): single-commit release flow — preview and final tags share the validated commit
Version files are bumped once, directly to the final target version; the -preview.N suffix now exists only in tag names. The binary self-reports build::TAG and build.yml derives artifact naming and prerelease classification from the tag, so the preview tag and the final tag can point at the exact same commit — eliminating the post-validation version-bump commit that previously separated the validated hash from the released tag.
rustfs-release-version-bump gains a guard rejecting any -preview. target version.
Remove hard line wrapping from rustfs-release-publish prose (one logical line per sentence/paragraph, soft wrap for display) and link SemVer 2.0.0 spec including spec item 11 for prerelease precedence.
Require explicit target-version confirmation (AskUserQuestion with concrete semver candidates derived from the latest tag) before any release phase runs, and document SemVer 2.0.0 precedence and bump-type rules.
Adds a project skill that orchestrates the full release flow: preview tag first, CI/artifact verification, local run with console checks, rc client command validation, then final version bump and tag cut from the validated preview hash instead of latest main.
Zhengchao An