By name: release description: Publish the current R Weekly draft as a new weekly post. Use when an editor invokes /release or asks to "release", "publish", or "create the weekly post" from draft.md. Validates the draft before creating the file in _posts/. disable-model-invocation: true allowed-tools: Read, Write, Bash
R Weekly Release
Publish draft.md as a new weekly issue in _posts/. Run pre-flight checks first — stop if any fail.
Pre-flight Checks
Read draft.md and verify all three conditions. Report every failure found before stopping.
Check 1: Non-empty Highlight section
The ### Highlight section must contain at least one content line (a line starting with +, *, or -). If it is empty, report: "FAIL: ### Highlight section is empty. Editors must add content before releasing."
Check 2: No empty sections
Every ### SECTION block must have at least one non-blank line of content before the next ### or end of file. A line is "content" if it is not blank and does not start with ###.
List every empty section found. Report: "FAIL: The following sections are empty: [list]. Remove them or add content before releasing."
Note: sections with only boilerplate HTML (like the CRANberries link in New Packages or the podcast link in Videos and Podcasts) count as non-empty — they have content lines.
Check 3: At least 3 images
Count lines containing either a Markdown image  or an HTML <img tag in the draft body (not the front matter). If fewer than 3, report: "FAIL: Only N image(s) found. At least 3 are required."
If any check fails, stop and show all failures. Do not create the post file.
Creating the Release
If all checks pass, proceed:
Step 1: Compute date and week
Run in Bash:
echo "DATE=$(date +%Y-%m-%d)" && echo "YEARWEEK=$(date +%G-W%V)"
This gives you e.g. DATE=2026-03-09 and YEARWEEK=2026-W11.
Step 2: Summarize the Highlight section in three words
Read the items listed under ### Highlight. Pick three short, descriptive words that capture the key themes — typically package names, tools, or topics. No punctuation between them.
Example: if Highlight links cover tidymodels, a shiny app, and ggplot2 extensions, the summary might be tidymodels shiny ggplot2.
Step 3: Build the filename
_posts/DATE-YEARWEEK.md
Example: _posts/2026-03-09-2026-W11.md
Step 4: Compose the post
The post consists of:
- A new front matter block (do NOT copy the draft's front matter):
---
title: R Weekly YEARWEEK WORD1 WORD2 WORD3
description: Weekly News in the R Community
image: https://rweekly.org/public/facebook.png
---
- The body of
draft.md— everything after the closing---of its front matter, exactly as-is.
Step 5: Write the file
Use the Write tool to create _posts/DATE-YEARWEEK.md with the composed content.
Step 6: Reset the draft
Read for-editor-only-draft.txt and overwrite draft.md with its contents, but update the title with the next week number. For example, if you just released 2026-W15, change the title from R Weekly 2026-W00 to R Weekly 2026-W16 before writing.
Step 7: Confirm
Tell the editor:
- The filename created
- The title used
- A one-line summary of what the Highlight section contains