CLI: releases

Create, inspect, list, and download versioned release outputs.

Product state behind the command

Project release configuration dialog

CLI release creation operates on the same project-scoped delivery contract. Resolve and record scope before invoking the command.

Outcome: Create, inspect, list, and download versioned release outputs.

unitlab release list --json
unitlab release create PROJECT_ID --export-type UUEF --json
unitlab release detail RELEASE_ID --json
unitlab release download RELEASE_ID --type annotation
unitlab release download RELEASE_ID --type files --dest ./release-files

Confirm the created release’s version, item count, data type, and formats before passing its path to training or evaluation. Do not assume download completion validates downstream schema compatibility.

Operating contract

Concern	Required behavior
Execution surface	Pinned unitlab==3.0.0 command in the intended Python 3.10+ environment.
Machine contract	Use --json; human-readable output is not an automation interface.
Target resolution	Resolve stable IDs with a read command before a state-changing command.
Success evidence	Exit status, JSON result, returned IDs, and a read-after-write state check.

Failure and recovery boundary

Condition	Response
Authentication or authorization fails	Stop, correct the service identity or access model, rotate exposed credentials, and rerun a read-only check.
Validation or entitlement rejects the operation	Correct the input or entitlement; do not retry an unchanged request.
A request times out	Inspect remote state before repeating a mutation because the server may have accepted it.
Asynchronous processing exceeds its deadline	Preserve the Batch Queue or release ID, continue bounded monitoring, and inspect item-level failures.
Only part of a batch succeeds	Keep successful identifiers, isolate failed rows, and retry only the corrected subset.

Pin and test the production SDK version. Use stable IDs, keep secrets out of logs and command history, and record the correlation ID, target IDs, counts, final state, and redacted error details for material state changes.

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Related Unitlab capability guides: multimodal data curation