feat: automated release workflow with conventional commits

✨ Set up standard-version for automated releases
- Auto-generates changelogs from conventional commits
- Version bumping based on commit types
- Beautiful emoji-formatted changelog
- Integrated with npm scripts

🔧 Release Commands:
- npm run release (auto-detect version)
- npm run release:patch/minor/major (force version)
- npm run release:dry (preview changes)

📚 Added comprehensive CLAUDE.md workflow
- Step-by-step release process
- Conventional commit guidelines
- Emergency procedures for bad releases
- Quality checklist for releases

🎯 Benefits:
- Consistent release notes across all releases
- No more manual changelog maintenance
- Semantic versioning enforcement
- GitHub + npm integration ready

.versionrc.json

@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+{
+  "types": {
+    "feat": {
+      "description": "✨ New Features",
+      "title": "✨ Features"
+    },
+    "fix": {
+      "description": "🐛 Bug Fixes",
+      "title": "🐛 Bug Fixes"
+    },
+    "docs": {
+      "description": "📚 Documentation",
+      "title": "📚 Documentation"
+    },
+    "style": {
+      "description": "💄 Code Style",
+      "title": "💄 Styles",
+      "hidden": true
+    },
+    "refactor": {
+      "description": "♻️ Code Refactoring",
+      "title": "♻️ Code Refactoring"
+    },
+    "perf": {
+      "description": "⚡ Performance Improvements",
+      "title": "⚡ Performance Improvements"
+    },
+    "test": {
+      "description": "✅ Tests",
+      "title": "✅ Tests"
+    },
+    "build": {
+      "description": "🔧 Build System",
+      "title": "🔧 Build System"
+    },
+    "ci": {
+      "description": "🔄 CI/CD",
+      "title": "🔄 CI/CD"
+    },
+    "chore": {
+      "description": "🔧 Chores",
+      "title": "🔧 Chores",
+      "hidden": true
+    }
+  },
+  "compareUrlFormat": "https://github.com/soulcraftlabs/brainy/compare/{{previousTag}}...{{currentTag}}",
+  "commitUrlFormat": "https://github.com/soulcraftlabs/brainy/commit/{{hash}}",
+  "issueUrlFormat": "https://github.com/soulcraftlabs/brainy/issues/{{id}}",
+  "userUrlFormat": "https://github.com/{{user}}",
+  "releaseCommitMessageFormat": "chore(release): {{currentTag}}",
+  "issuePrefixes": ["#"],
+  "header": "# Changelog\n\nAll notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. See [standard-version](https://github.com/conventional-changelog/standard-version) for commit guidelines.\n",
+  "scripts": {
+    "postbump": "echo 'Version bumped to' $(node -p \"require('./package.json').version\")",
+    "precommit": "npm run build && npm test",
+    "postcommit": "echo 'Release commit created. Ready to push and publish!'",
+    "pretag": "echo 'Creating tag...'",
+    "posttag": "echo 'Tag created. Use: git push --follow-tags origin main && npm publish'"
+  }
+}

package.json

@@ -77,7 +77,12 @@
     "lint": "eslint --ext .ts,.js src/",
     "lint:fix": "eslint --ext .ts,.js src/ --fix",
     "format": "prettier --write \"src/**/*.{ts,js}\"",
-    "format:check": "prettier --check \"src/**/*.{ts,js}\""
+    "format:check": "prettier --check \"src/**/*.{ts,js}\"",
+    "release": "standard-version",
+    "release:patch": "standard-version --release-as patch",
+    "release:minor": "standard-version --release-as minor",
+    "release:major": "standard-version --release-as major",
+    "release:dry": "standard-version --dry-run"
   },
   "keywords": [
     "ai-database",
@@ -130,6 +135,7 @@
     "@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin": "^8.0.0",
     "@typescript-eslint/parser": "^8.0.0",
     "@vitest/coverage-v8": "^3.2.4",
+    "standard-version": "^9.5.0",
     "tsx": "^4.19.2",
     "typescript": "^5.4.5",
     "vitest": "^3.2.4"