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## Summary of the Pull Request Adds a `Prepare Preview Release` custom agent that autonomously turns a successful PowerToys Azure DevOps release-candidate build into a complete GitHub draft prerelease for final human review. The implementation extends the existing `release-note-generation` skill instead of duplicating it. It adds exact-build metadata resolution, published-release baseline selection, semantic PR deltas across `main` and `stable`, release asset validation, idempotent draft-only release updates, and final draft verification. ## PR Checklist - [x] **Communication:** The autonomous preview-release design was reviewed and approved before implementation - [x] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [x] **Localization:** N/A; no end-user-facing strings were added - [x] **Dev docs:** Added preview scenario, delta, draft safety, and reporting references ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments - Adds `.github/agents/prepare-preview-release.agent.md` with a no-mid-run-decision workflow and a strict prohibition on publishing releases. - Extends `.github/skills/release-note-generation/SKILL.md` with stable/preview scenario routing while preserving the existing stable-release workflow. - Adds canonical scripts under `.github/skills/release-note-generation/scripts/` to: - Resolve and validate ADO build metadata. - Select the latest published stable or preview baseline before build queue time. - Calculate same-lineage or branch-transition PR deltas using PR numbers, cherry-pick provenance, and patch-ID equivalence. - Collect normalized PR metadata and create `release-manifest.json`. - Download and validate installers, symbols, and GPO assets, including hashes, signatures, and ZIP contents. - Create or update draft prereleases while preserving human text outside managed markers. - Verify draft flags, immutable target commit, body markers, and uploaded assets. - Updates `.pipelines/resolveBuildMetadata.ps1` and `.pipelines/v2/release.yml` with explicit `auto`, `preview-release`, and `stable-release` intent handling so preview candidates can be built from either `main` or `stable`. - Adds `.pipelines/writeReleaseMetadata.ps1` so each signed build artifact records its resolved version, channel, intent, source branch, and immutable source commit. - Keeps release publication outside the agent: the automation can only create or update a draft prerelease. ## Validation Steps Performed - `Invoke-Pester` for: - `.pipelines/tests/resolveBuildMetadata.Tests.ps1` - `.pipelines/tests/writeReleaseMetadata.Tests.ps1` - `.github/skills/release-note-generation/tests/preview-release.Tests.ps1` - 37 tests passed, covering stable-branch preview intent, metadata contracts, baseline selection, same-lineage and branch-transition deltas, patch-ID equivalence, managed-body preservation, and published-release refusal. - Parsed all added or modified PowerShell scripts with the PowerShell AST parser. - Parsed the modified pipeline YAML files with `ConvertFrom-Yaml`. --------- Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> Copilot-Session: 8e04a72e-3b0f-4ac4-8156-d04ea9b8bb85 Copilot-Session: e9f79ac2-9a7b-4083-834c-0d87e8c83bfd Copilot-Session: 1ecea747-b313-49a1-9969-543c01ba1be8
Microsoft PowerToys
Microsoft PowerToys is a collection of utilities that help you customize Windows and streamline everyday tasks.
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🔨 Utilities
PowerToys includes over 30 utilities to help you customize and optimize your Windows experience:
Advanced Paste
Always on Top
Awake
Color Picker
Command Not Found
Command Palette
Crop And Lock
Environment Variables
FancyZones
File Explorer Add-ons
File Locksmith
Grab And Move
Hosts File Editor
Image Resizer
Keyboard Manager
Light Switch
Mouse Utilities
Mouse Without Borders
New+
Peek
PowerDisplay
PowerRename
PowerToys Run
Quick Accent
Registry Preview
Screen Ruler
Shortcut Guide
Text Extractor
Workspaces
ZoomIt📦 Installation
For detailed installation instructions and system requirements, visit the installation docs.
But to get started quickly, choose one of the installation methods below:
Download the .exe file from GitHub
Go to the PowerToys GitHub releases, scroll down and select Assets to reveal the installation files, and choose the one that matches your architecture and install scope. For most devices, that would be x64 per-user.
Microsoft Store
You can easily install PowerToys from the Microsoft Store:
WinGet
Download PowerToys from [WinGet](https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli#installing-the-client). Updating PowerToys via winget will respect the current PowerToys installation scope. To install PowerToys, run the following command from the command line / PowerShell:
- User scope installer (default)
winget install Microsoft.PowerToys -s winget
- Machine-wide scope installer
winget install --scope machine Microsoft.PowerToys -s winget
Other methods
There are [community driven install methods](https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/powertoys/install#community-driven-install-tools) such as Chocolatey and Scoop. If these are your preferred install solutions, you can find the install instructions there.
✨ What's new?
To see what's new, check out the release notes.
🛣️ Roadmap
We are planning some nice new features and improvements for the next releases – a brand-new Shortcut Guide experience, ensuring it's easier to find and install Command Palette extensions and so much more! Stay tuned for v0.100!
❤️ PowerToys Community
The PowerToys team is extremely grateful to have the support of an amazing active community. The work you do is incredibly important. PowerToys wouldn't be nearly what it is today without your help filing bugs, updating documentation, guiding the design, or writing features. We want to say thank you and take time to recognize your work. Your contributions and feedback improve PowerToys month after month!
Contributing
This project welcomes contributions of all types. Besides coding features / bug fixes, other ways to assist include spec writing, design, documentation, and finding bugs. We are excited to work with the power user community to build a set of tools for helping you get the most out of Windows. We ask that before you start work on a feature that you would like to contribute, please read our Contributor's Guide. We would be happy to work with you to figure out the best approach, provide guidance and mentorship throughout feature development, and help avoid any wasted or duplicate effort. Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaring that you grant us the rights to use your contribution and that you have permission to do so. For guidance on developing for PowerToys, please read the developer docs for a detailed breakdown. This includes how to setup your computer to compile.
Code of conduct
This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct.
Privacy statement
The application logs basic diagnostic data (telemetry). For more privacy information and what we collect, see our PowerToys Data and Privacy documentation.