chore: improve pre-release CI to be able to release more than one release candidate (#1036)

* chore: improve pre-release CI to be able to release more than one release candidate

* chore: implement requested changes from coderabbit

* chore: apply requested changes

.changeset/quiet-rabbits-bathe.md

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+---
+"task-master-ai": patch
+---
+
+Fix max_tokens limits for OpenRouter and Groq models
+
+- Add special handling in config-manager.js for custom OpenRouter models to use a conservative default of 32,768 max_tokens
+- Update qwen/qwen-turbo model max_tokens from 1,000,000 to 32,768 to match OpenRouter's actual limits
+- Fix moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct max_tokens to 16,384 to match Groq's actual limit (fixes #1028)
+- This prevents "maximum context length exceeded" errors when using OpenRouter models not in our supported models list

.github/workflows/pre-release.yml

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
         with:
           node-version: 20
-          cache: 'npm'
+          cache: "npm"
 
       - name: Cache node_modules
         uses: actions/cache@v4
@@ -32,10 +32,13 @@ jobs:
         run: npm ci
         timeout-minutes: 2
 
-      - name: Enter RC mode
+      - name: Enter RC mode (if not already in RC mode)
         run: |
-          npx changeset pre exit || true
+          # ensure we’re in the right pre-mode (tag "rc")
+          if [ ! -f .changeset/pre.json ] \
+            || [ "$(jq -r '.tag' .changeset/pre.json 2>/dev/null || echo '')" != "rc" ]; then
             npx changeset pre enter rc
+          fi
 
       - name: Version RC packages
         run: npx changeset version
@@ -51,12 +54,9 @@ jobs:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           NPM_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}
 
-      - name: Exit RC mode
-        run: npx changeset pre exit
-
       - name: Commit & Push changes
         uses: actions-js/push@master
         with:
           github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           branch: ${{ github.ref }}
-          message: 'chore: rc version bump'
+          message: "chore: rc version bump"

docs/models.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Available Models as of July 22, 2025
+# Available Models as of July 23, 2025
 
 ## Main Models
 

scripts/modules/config-manager.js

@@ -583,12 +583,23 @@ function getParametersForRole(role, explicitRoot = null) {
 					`No valid model-specific max_tokens override found for ${modelId}. Using role default: ${roleMaxTokens}`
 				);
 			}
+		} else {
+			// Special handling for custom OpenRouter models
+			if (providerName === CUSTOM_PROVIDERS.OPENROUTER) {
+				// Use a conservative default for OpenRouter models not in our list
+				const openrouterDefault = 32768;
+				effectiveMaxTokens = Math.min(roleMaxTokens, openrouterDefault);
+				log(
+					'debug',
+					`Custom OpenRouter model ${modelId} detected. Using conservative max_tokens: ${effectiveMaxTokens}`
+				);
 			} else {
 				log(
 					'debug',
 					`No model definitions found for provider ${providerName} in MODEL_MAP. Using role default maxTokens: ${roleMaxTokens}`
 				);
 			}
+		}
 	} catch (lookupError) {
 		log(
 			'warn',

scripts/modules/supported-models.json

@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@
 				"output": 3.0
 			},
 			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback"],
-			"max_tokens": 131072,
+			"max_tokens": 16384,
 			"supported": true
 		},
 		{
@@ -701,7 +701,7 @@
 				"output": 0.2
 			},
 			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback"],
-			"max_tokens": 1000000,
+			"max_tokens": 32768,
 			"supported": true
 		},
 		{