Kotlin Toolchain 0.13.0 has no built-in GitHub release task. This local plugin keeps the existing explicit release capability as a narrow wrapper around the standard gh release create CLI.

It extracts the matching version section from CHANGELOG.md, preserves the legacy tag/title/target conventions, accepts the existing GITHUB_RELEASE_TOKEN variable plus standard GH_TOKEN/GITHUB_TOKEN, and supports a non-network KSLOG_GITHUB_RELEASE_DRY_RUN=true validation mode. It runs the committed release/version consistency preflight before rendering or creating a release. No CI workflow invokes it.

gh release create does not modify local git state, but GitHub may create the remote tag at --target when the requested tag does not already exist. A real invocation therefore mutates both the remote release and potentially the remote tag; dry-run mode performs neither action.