Added base files for intuit auto release

.autorc

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+{
+    "onlyPublishWithReleaseLabel": true,
+    "baseBranch": "master",
+    "author": "DANDI Bot <[email protected]>",
+    "noVersionPrefix": true,
+    "plugins": [
+        "git-tag",
+        [
+            "exec",
+            {
+                  "afterRelease": "python -m build && twine upload dist/*"
+            }
+        ],
+        "released"
+    ]
+}

.github/workflows/release.yml

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+name: Auto-release on PR merge
+
+on:
+  # ATM, this is the closest trigger to a PR merging
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - master
+
+jobs:
+  auto-release:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    if: "!contains(github.event.head_commit.message, 'ci skip') && !contains(github.event.head_commit.message, 'skip ci')"
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout source
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - name: Download latest auto
+        run: |
+          auto_download_url="$(curl -fsSL https://api.github.com/repos/intuit/auto/releases/latest | jq -r '.assets[] | select(.name == "auto-linux.gz") | .browser_download_url')"
+          wget -O- "$auto_download_url" | gunzip > ~/auto
+          chmod a+x ~/auto
+
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: 3.9
+
+      - name: Install build & twine
+        run: python -m pip install build twine
+
+      - name: Create release
+        run: ~/auto shipit -vv
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          TWINE_USERNAME: __token__
+          TWINE_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.PYPI_TOKEN }}
+
+# vim:set sts=2: