skills/docs/releasing-worker.md
dan dcb29c12cd docs: add HQ deployment and worker release documentation
- Add docs/releasing-worker.md with build and release process
- Add pkgs/worker/default.nix template for nix packaging
- Add skills/hq/README.md with installation and deployment guide
- Update skills/hq/SKILL.md with detailed requirements table
- Add hq and review-gate to skills.nix
- Add releases/ to .gitignore

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-01-12 15:36:01 -08:00

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Releasing Worker CLI

How to build and release the worker CLI binary.

Prerequisites

  • Nim 2.2+ (via nix-shell -p nim)
  • Git with push access to this repo

Build

# Enter nix shell with nim
nix-shell -p nim

# Build release binary
cd src
nim c -d:release --mm:orc worker.nim

# Output: src/worker.out (~1MB)

Create Release Tarball

VERSION="0.1.0"  # Update version
mkdir -p releases
tar -czvf "releases/worker_${VERSION}_linux_amd64.tar.gz" \
    -C src worker.out \
    --transform "s/worker.out/worker/"

Release to GitHub

  1. Tag the release:

    git tag -a "worker-v${VERSION}" -m "Worker CLI v${VERSION}"
    git push origin "worker-v${VERSION}"
    
  2. Create GitHub release:

    gh release create "worker-v${VERSION}" \
        --title "Worker CLI v${VERSION}" \
        --notes "Multi-agent worker coordination CLI" \
        "releases/worker_${VERSION}_linux_amd64.tar.gz"
    
  3. Get the SHA256 for nix packaging:

    nix-prefetch-url --unpack \
        "https://github.com/USERNAME/skills/releases/download/worker-v${VERSION}/worker_${VERSION}_linux_amd64.tar.gz"
    

Nix Package

After releasing, update the nix package in dotfiles/pkgs/worker/default.nix:

{ lib, stdenvNoCC, fetchzip, autoPatchelfHook, stdenv }:

stdenvNoCC.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
  pname = "worker";
  version = "0.1.0";  # Update version

  src = fetchzip {
    url = "https://github.com/USERNAME/skills/releases/download/worker-v${finalAttrs.version}/worker_${finalAttrs.version}_linux_amd64.tar.gz";
    sha256 = "sha256-XXXX";  # Update hash from nix-prefetch-url
    stripRoot = false;
  };

  nativeBuildInputs = [ autoPatchelfHook ];
  buildInputs = [ stdenv.cc.cc.lib ];

  dontConfigure = true;
  dontBuild = true;
  dontStrip = true;

  installPhase = ''
    runHook preInstall
    install -Dm755 worker $out/bin/worker
    runHook postInstall
  '';

  meta = with lib; {
    description = "Multi-agent worker coordination CLI";
    homepage = "https://github.com/USERNAME/skills";
    license = licenses.mit;
    platforms = [ "x86_64-linux" ];
    mainProgram = "worker";
  };
})

Version Bumping

  1. Update src/worker.nimble:

    version = "X.Y.Z"
    
  2. Update docs/releasing-worker.md examples

  3. Rebuild and release

Testing the Release

# Extract and test
tar -xzf releases/worker_${VERSION}_linux_amd64.tar.gz
./worker --help
./worker status