✨ adding initial release workflow

.github/workflows/release.yml

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+name: Release
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - "main"
+      - "release-*"
+
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - "main"
+      - "release-*"
+
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      release_branch:
+        description: 'Branch to release (e.g., main, release-1.0)'
+        default: 'main'
+      architectures:
+        description: 'Arch to build'
+        default: 'linux, macos, windows'
+      run_tests:
+        description: 'Run tests before packaging and releasing'
+        default: 'true'
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        include:
+          - os: ubuntu-latest
+            arch: linux
+      max-parallel: 1
+    if: ${{ contains (github.event.inputs.architectures, matrix.arch ) || github.event_name != 'workflow_dispatch' }}
+    steps:
+      - name: checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          ref: ${{ github.event.inputs.branch || github.ref }}
+
+      - name: Use Node.js from .nvmrc
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+        with:
+          node-version-file: "vscode/.nvmrc"
+
+      - name: Cache extension node_modules
+        uses: actions/cache@v3
+        with:
+          path: vscode/node_modules
+          key: ${{ runner.os }}-node-${{ hashFiles('vscode/package-lock.json') }}
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          cd vscode
+          npm version
+          npm ci
+
+      - name: Lint sources
+        run: |
+          cd vscode 
+          npm run lint
+
+      - name: Build
+        run: |
+          cd vscode
+          npm run package
+
+      - name: Generate .vsix package
+        run: |
+          npm install -g @vscode/vsce
+          cd vscode
+          vsce package
+
+      - name: Upload VSIX artifact
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: vscode-extension-${{ matrix.arch }}-${{ github.run_id }}
+          path: "*.vsix"
+