chore: add conventional commits tooling and release-please

- Add commitlint with husky hooks to enforce commit format
- Add release-please GitHub Action for automated releases
- Bootstrap release-please at version 2.2.1
- Document commit types and release workflow in CLAUDE.md

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>

Author: andrewshell

.github/workflows/release-please.yml

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+name: release-please
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+  pull-requests: write
+
+jobs:
+  release-please:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: googleapis/release-please-action@v4
+        with:
+          release-type: node

.husky/commit-msg

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+pnpm exec commitlint --edit $1

.release-please-manifest.json

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+{
+  ".": "2.2.1"
+}

CLAUDE.md

@@ -68,3 +68,39 @@ Uses MongoDB for storing subscriptions and resource state. Connection handled th
 - Unit tests in test/ directory using Mocha/Chai
 - Docker-based API testing with mock endpoints
 - Test fixtures and SSL certificates in test/keys/
+
+## Commits and Releases
+
+This project uses [Conventional Commits](https://www.conventionalcommits.org/) enforced by commitlint via husky git hooks.
+
+### Commit Format
+
+```
+type: description
+
+[optional body]
+```
+
+### Commit Types
+
+**Trigger releases:**
+- `fix:` - Bug fixes → patch release (2.2.1 → 2.2.2)
+- `feat:` - New features → minor release (2.2.1 → 2.3.0)
+- `feat!:` or `BREAKING CHANGE:` → major release (2.2.1 → 3.0.0)
+
+**No release triggered:**
+- `chore:` - Maintenance tasks, dependencies
+- `docs:` - Documentation only
+- `style:` - Code style/formatting
+- `refactor:` - Code refactoring
+- `test:` - Adding/updating tests
+- `ci:` - CI/CD changes
+- `build:` - Build system changes
+
+### Release Workflow
+
+1. Push commits to `main`
+2. release-please automatically creates/updates a Release PR
+3. Review the Release PR (contains changelog and version bump)
+4. Merge the Release PR when ready to release
+5. release-please creates GitHub Release and git tag

commitlint.config.mjs

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+export default { extends: ['@commitlint/config-conventional'] };

package.json

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 {
   "name": "rsscloud-server",
-  "version": "2.2.0",
+  "version": "2.2.1",
   "description": "An rssCloud Server",
   "main": "app.js",
   "scripts": {
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@
     "lint": "eslint --fix controllers/ services/ test/ *.js",
     "format": "prettier --write .",
     "test": "mocha",
-    "test-api": "docker-compose up --build --abort-on-container-exit --attach rsscloud-tests --no-log-prefix"
+    "test-api": "docker-compose up --build --abort-on-container-exit --attach rsscloud-tests --no-log-prefix",
+    "prepare": "husky"
   },
   "engines": {
     "node": ">=22"
@@ -37,12 +38,15 @@
     "url": "https://github.com/andrewshell/rsscloud-server.git"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
+    "@commitlint/cli": "^20.2.0",
+    "@commitlint/config-conventional": "^20.2.0",
     "chai": "^4.3.4",
     "chai-http": "^4.3.0",
     "chai-json": "^1.0.0",
     "chai-xml": "^0.4.1",
     "eslint": "^9.29.0",
     "https": "^1.0.0",
+    "husky": "^9.1.7",
     "mocha": "^11.7.1",
     "mocha-multi": "^1.1.7",
     "nodemon": "3.1.10",