midudev/autoskills · warning

⚠️ No se pudo crear la release en GitHub (¿tienes gh…

Error message

⚠️  No se pudo crear la release en GitHub (¿tienes gh instalado y autenticado?)

What it means

After pushing, release.mjs creates a GitHub Release via the `gh` CLI (`gh release create v<newVersion> --notes-file .release-notes-tmp.md`). If that command fails, the script catches the error, warns that the GitHub release could not be created, and prints a manual URL. Common root causes: `gh` not installed, not authenticated, network failure, or the tag/release already existing.

Solutions

  1. Install and authenticate the GitHub CLI: `gh auth login`, then re-create the release: `gh release create v<newVersion> --notes-file .release-notes-tmp.md`.
  2. Open the manual URL printed right after the warning (`<repoUrl>/releases/new?tag=v<newVersion>`) and create the release in the browser.
  3. If the release already exists, check `gh release view v<newVersion>` — you may only need `gh release edit` to update notes.

Example fix

// before
$ gh release create v1.2.0 --notes-file .release-notes-tmp.md
gh: To get started with GitHub CLI, please run: gh auth login
// after
$ gh auth login
$ gh release create v1.2.0 --notes-file .release-notes-tmp.md
Defensive patterns

Strategy: fallback

Validate before calling

command -v gh >/dev/null && gh auth status >/dev/null && echo "gh ready" || echo "install/auth gh before releasing"

Try / catch

try {
  run(`gh release create v${version} --notes-file notes.md`);
} catch {
  console.warn(`Create it manually: ${repoUrl}/releases/new?tag=v${version}`);
}

Prevention

When it happens

Trigger: The `gh release create v<newVersion>` command exits non-zero — gh CLI missing from PATH, `gh auth` never run (no token), expired/insufficient-scoped token, tag v<newVersion> already has a release, or no network access.

Common situations: Fresh CI machine or local env without gh; token expired after a GitHub security sweep; re-running a release after a partial failure so the release already exists; corporate proxy blocking api.github.com.

Related errors


AI-assisted analysis of midudev/autoskills@0ec725320d (2026-09-15). Data as JSON: /api/errors/423ec04d8e35c294. Report an issue: GitHub.

Appendix: source

Thrown at packages/autoskills/scripts/release.mjs:403

  rollbackRelease();
  const message = error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error);
  fail(`La release falló y se revirtieron los cambios locales.\n${message}`);
}

// 11. Create GitHub release
console.log("\n🏷️  Creando GitHub Release...");
const releaseNotes = changelogEntry.replace(/^## .*\n\n/, "");
const tempFile = resolve(ROOT, ".release-notes-tmp.md");
writeFileSync(tempFile, releaseNotes);

try {
  run(
    `gh release create v${newVersion} --title "v${newVersion}" --notes-file .release-notes-tmp.md`,
    { cwd: ROOT },
  );
  console.log(`✅ Release v${newVersion} creada en GitHub`);
} catch {
  console.warn(`⚠️  No se pudo crear la release en GitHub (¿tienes gh instalado y autenticado?)`);
  console.warn(`   Puedes crearla manualmente: ${repoUrl}/releases/new?tag=v${newVersion}`);
} finally {
  try {
    run(`rm .release-notes-tmp.md`);
  } catch {}
}

console.log(`\n🎉 ¡Release v${newVersion} completada!\n`);

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