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+# Maintainer scripts
+
+Repo-level tooling, mostly for releases. Not needed for regular contribution work — see [CONTRIBUTING.md](../CONTRIBUTING.md) for that.
+
+## generate-changelog.mjs
+
+Prints GitHub-release-style markdown for all commits since a tag, with PR links, author handles, and a New Contributors section. Commits are grouped by conventional-commit prefix: `feat` → New Features, `fix`/`perf` → Fixes & Improvements, `refactor` → Refactors, `test` → Tests, `docs`/`chore`/`build`/`ci` → Docs & Chores, and anything else → Other Changes.
+
+```sh
+./scripts/generate-changelog.mjs v0.7.0 | pbcopy          # everything since v0.7.0
+./scripts/generate-changelog.mjs v0.6.0 v0.7.0            # explicit range
+```
+
+Author handles and the New Contributors section are resolved through an authenticated [GitHub CLI](https://cli.github.com/); without it the script falls back to plain commit author names.
+
+## prepare-npm-publish.sh
+
+`prepack`/`postpack` hooks for the library package: swaps the `cpp` symlink for a real copy of `packages/core/cpp` while packing. Run automatically by npm, not by hand.
+
+## fetch-md4c.sh
+
+Syncs `packages/core/cpp/md4c` from upstream [mity/md4c](https://github.com/mity/md4c). Run via `yarn workspace react-native-enriched-markdown sync-md4c`.
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+#!/usr/bin/env node
+// Prints GitHub-release-style markdown for all commits since a tag.
+// Usage: ./scripts/generate-changelog.mjs <from-tag> [to-ref] | pbcopy
+import { execFileSync } from 'node:child_process';
+
+const REPO = 'software-mansion/react-native-enriched-markdown';
+const [OWNER, NAME] = REPO.split('/');
+
+const SECTIONS = [
+  { title: 'New Features', types: ['feat'] },
+  { title: 'Fixes & Improvements', types: ['fix', 'perf'] },
+  { title: 'Refactors', types: ['refactor'] },
+  { title: 'Tests', types: ['test'] },
+  { title: 'Docs & Chores', types: ['docs', 'chore', 'build', 'ci'] },
+  { title: 'Other Changes', types: [] },
+];
+
+function git(...args) {
+  return execFileSync('git', args, { encoding: 'utf8' }).trim();
+}
+
+function ghGraphql(query) {
+  try {
+    const out = execFileSync('gh', ['api', 'graphql', '-f', `query=${query}`], {
+      encoding: 'utf8',
+      stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'pipe'],
+    });
+    return JSON.parse(out);
+  } catch (e) {
+    // gh exits non-zero on partial GraphQL errors but still prints the data
+    if (e.stdout) {
+      try {
+        return JSON.parse(e.stdout);
+      } catch {}
+    }
+    throw e;
+  }
+}
+
+const [from, to = 'HEAD'] = process.argv.slice(2);
+if (!from) {
+  console.error('usage: ./scripts/generate-changelog.mjs <from-tag> [to-ref]');
+  process.exit(1);
+}
+for (const ref of [from, to]) {
+  try {
+    git('rev-parse', '--verify', '--quiet', `${ref}^{commit}`);
+  } catch {
+    console.error(`error: '${ref}' is not a known git ref`);
+    process.exit(1);
+  }
+}
+
+const SEP = '\x1f';
+const log = git('log', '--reverse', `--format=%H${SEP}%an${SEP}%ae${SEP}%s`, `${from}..${to}`);
+const commits = (log ? log.split('\n') : [])
+  .map((line) => {
+    const [hash, name, email, subject] = line.split(SEP);
+    const pr = subject.match(/\(#(\d+)\)\s*$/)?.[1];
+    const title = subject.replace(/\s*\(#\d+\)\s*$/, '');
+    const type = title
+      .match(/^\s*([a-zA-Z]+)\s*(?:\([^)]*\))?\s*!?\s*:/)?.[1]
+      ?.toLowerCase();
+    return { hash, name, email, title, pr, type };
+  })
+  .filter((c) => !/dependabot|github-actions|\[bot\]/i.test(`${c.name} ${c.email}`));
+
+if (!commits.length) {
+  console.error(`no commits in ${from}..${to}`);
+  process.exit(1);
+}
+
+const prNumbers = [...new Set(commits.filter((c) => c.pr).map((c) => c.pr))];
+const loginByPr = new Map();
+try {
+  for (let i = 0; i < prNumbers.length; i += 50) {
+    const chunk = prNumbers.slice(i, i + 50);
+    const fields = chunk
+      .map((n) => `pr${n}: pullRequest(number: ${n}) { author { login } }`)
+      .join(' ');
+    const data = ghGraphql(
+      `query { repository(owner: "${OWNER}", name: "${NAME}") { ${fields} } }`
+    );
+    for (const n of chunk) {
+      const login = data.data?.repository?.[`pr${n}`]?.author?.login;
+      if (login) loginByPr.set(n, login);
+    }
+  }
+} catch {
+  console.error('warning: gh author lookup failed, falling back to commit author names');
+}
+
+function authorRef(c) {
+  const login =
+    (c.pr && loginByPr.get(c.pr)) ||
+    c.email.match(/^(?:\d+\+)?([^@]+)@users\.noreply\.github\.com$/)?.[1];
+  return login ? `[@${login}](https://github.com/${login})` : c.name;
+}
+
+function itemLine(c) {
+  const where = c.pr
+    ? `[#${c.pr}](https://github.com/${REPO}/pull/${c.pr})`
+    : `[\`${c.hash.slice(0, 7)}\`](https://github.com/${REPO}/commit/${c.hash})`;
+  return `* ${c.title} by ${authorRef(c)} in ${where}`;
+}
+
+const typeToTitle = new Map(
+  SECTIONS.flatMap((s) => s.types.map((t) => [t, s.title]))
+);
+const byTitle = new Map(SECTIONS.map((s) => [s.title, []]));
+for (const c of commits) {
+  byTitle.get(typeToTitle.get(c.type) ?? 'Other Changes').push(c);
+}
+
+const out = ["# What's Changed"];
+for (const s of SECTIONS) {
+  const items = byTitle.get(s.title);
+  if (!items.length) continue;
+  out.push('', `## ${s.title}`, '', ...items.map(itemLine));
+}
+
+// first in-range PR per login, then keep only logins with no merged PR before the tag
+const firstPrByLogin = new Map();
+for (const c of commits) {
+  const login = c.pr && loginByPr.get(c.pr);
+  if (login && !firstPrByLogin.has(login)) firstPrByLogin.set(login, c.pr);
+}
+let newContributors = [];
+if (firstPrByLogin.size) {
+  try {
+    const cutoff = git('log', '-1', '--format=%cI', from);
+    const logins = [...firstPrByLogin.keys()];
+    for (let i = 0; i < logins.length; i += 25) {
+      const chunk = logins.slice(i, i + 25);
+      const fields = chunk
+        .map(
+          (l, j) =>
+            `u${j}: search(query: "repo:${REPO} is:pr is:merged author:${l} merged:<${cutoff}", type: ISSUE, first: 1) { issueCount }`
+        )
+        .join(' ');
+      const data = ghGraphql(`query { ${fields} }`);
+      newContributors.push(
+        ...chunk.filter((l, j) => data.data?.[`u${j}`]?.issueCount === 0)
+      );
+    }
+  } catch {
+    console.error('warning: new-contributor lookup failed, skipping that section');
+  }
+}
+if (newContributors.length) {
+  out.push(
+    '',
+    '## New Contributors',
+    '',
+    ...newContributors.map((l) => {
+      const pr = firstPrByLogin.get(l);
+      return `* [@${l}](https://github.com/${l}) made their first contribution in [#${pr}](https://github.com/${REPO}/pull/${pr})`;
+    })
+  );
+}
+
+out.push(
+  '',
+  `**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/${REPO}/compare/${from}...${to === 'HEAD' ? 'main' : to}`
+);
+console.log(out.join('\n'));