diff --git a/.github/actions/create-release/action.yml b/.github/actions/create-release/action.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..0ee01f7f82f1d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/actions/create-release/action.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+name: prepare_release
+description: Prepare React Native release
+runs:
+  using: composite
+  steps:
+    - name: Yarn install
+      shell: bash
+      run: yarn install --non-interactive
+    - name: Creating release commit
+      shell: bash
+      run: |
+        node scripts/releases/create-release-commit.js \
+          --reactNativeVersion "${{ inputs.version }}" \
+          --isLatestOnNpm "${{ inputs.is_latest_on_npm }}" \
+          --dryRun "${{ inputs.dry_run }}"
+        GIT_PAGER=cat git show HEAD
+    - name: Update "latest" tag if needed
+      shell: bash
+      if: ${{ inputs.tag == 'latest' }}
+      run: |
+        git tag -d "latest"
+        git push origin :latest
+        git tag -a "latest" -m "latest"
+    - name: Pushing release commit
+      shell: bash
+      if: ${{ inputs.dry_run == false }}
+      run: |
+        CURR_BRANCH="$(git branch --show-current)"
+        git push origin "$CURR_BRANCH" --follow-tags
diff --git a/.github/actions/prepare_release/action.yml b/.github/actions/prepare_release/action.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index fe0eaeac27a360..00000000000000
--- a/.github/actions/prepare_release/action.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-name: prepare_release
-description: Prepare React Native release
-runs:
-  using: composite
-  steps:
-    - name: Yarn install
-      shell: bash
-      run: yarn install --non-interactive
-    - name: Validate version
-      shell: bash
-      run: node ./scripts/releases/validate-version.js --build-type release --version "${{ inputs.version }}"
-    - name: Versioning workspace packages
-      shell: bash
-      run: |
-        node scripts/releases/set-version "${{ inputs.version }}" --skip-react-native-version
-    - name: Versioning react-native package
-      shell: bash
-      run: |
-        node scripts/releases/set-rn-version.js -v "<< parameters.version >>" --build-type "release"
-    - name: Creating release commit
-      shell: bash
-      run: |
-        BRANCH="$(git branch --show-current)"
-        NPM_TAG="$(node ./scripts/releases/compute-npm-tag.js --version ${{ inputs.version }} --branch $BRANCH)"
-
-        if [[ "${{ inputs.is-latest-on-npm }}" ]]; then
-          NPM_TAG="$(node ./scripts/releases/compute-npm-tag.js --is_latest_on_npm --version ${{ inputs.version }} --branch $BRANCH)"
-        fi
-
-        git commit -a -m "Release ${{ inputs.version }}" -m "#publish-packages-to-npm&$NPM_TAG"
-        git tag -a "v${{ inputs.version }}" -m "v${{ inputs.version }}"
-        GIT_PAGER=cat git show HEAD
-    - name: Update "latest" tag if needed
-      shell: bash
-      if: ${{ inputs.tag == 'latest' }}
-      run: |
-        git tag -d "latest"
-        git push origin :latest
-        git tag -a "latest" -m "latest"
-    - name: Pushing release commit
-      shell: bash
-      if: ${{ inputs.dry_run == false }}
-      run: |
-        CURR_BRANCH="$(git branch --show-current)"
-        git push origin "$CURR_BRANCH" --follow-tags
diff --git a/.github/workflows/prepare-release.yml b/.github/workflows/create-release.yml
similarity index 92%
rename from .github/workflows/prepare-release.yml
rename to .github/workflows/create-release.yml
index b976638a681eff..85e14987843cae 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/prepare-release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/create-release.yml
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
-name: Prepare Release
+name: Create release
 
 on:
   workflow_dispatch:
     inputs:
       version:
-        description: 'The version of React Native we want to release'
+        description: 'The version of React Native we want to release. For example 0.75.0-rc.0'
         required: true
         type: string
-      is-latest-on-npm:
+      is_latest_on_npm:
         description: 'Whether we want to tag this release as latest on NPM'
         required: true
         type: boolean
@@ -45,4 +45,4 @@ jobs:
           fi
       - name: Execute Prepare Release
         if: ${{ steps.check_stable_branch.outputs.ON_STABLE_BRANCH && !steps.check_if_tag_exists.outputs.TAG_EXISTS }}
-        uses: ./.github/actions/prepare_release
+        uses: ./.github/actions/create-release
diff --git a/scripts/releases/README.md b/scripts/releases/README.md
index 98e663a665c2d5..e929d6fea716d4 100644
--- a/scripts/releases/README.md
+++ b/scripts/releases/README.md
@@ -22,11 +22,6 @@ Updates relevant files in the `react-native` package and template to materialize
 
 Updates workspace dependencies in the template app`package.json`
 
-### `validate-version`
+### `create-release-commit`
 
-Takes a version and a build type and validates whether the version passed is valid for the given build type
-It is intended to use in CI
-
-### `compute-npm-tag`
-
-Takes a version, a branch and whether we want to explicitly tag the release as "latest" and outputs the most appropriate NPM tag for the release.
+Creates a release commit to trigger a new release
diff --git a/scripts/releases/compute-npm-tag.js b/scripts/releases/compute-npm-tag.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 79616005b0d760..00000000000000
--- a/scripts/releases/compute-npm-tag.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,64 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
- *
- * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
- * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
- *
- * @flow
- * @format
- * @oncall react_native
- */
-
-const {parseVersion} = require('./utils/version-utils');
-const {parseArgs} = require('@pkgjs/parseargs');
-
-const config = {
-  options: {
-    is_latest_on_npm: {
-      type: 'boolean',
-      short: 'l',
-      default: false,
-    },
-    version: {
-      type: 'string',
-      short: 'v',
-    },
-    branch: {
-      type: 'string',
-      short: 'b',
-    },
-    help: {type: 'boolean'},
-  },
-};
-
-async function main() {
-  const {
-    values: {help, is_latest_on_npm: latest, version: version, branch: branch},
-  } = parseArgs(config);
-
-  if (help) {
-    console.log(`
-        Usage: node ./scripts/releases/compute-npm-tag.js [OPTIONS]
-
-        Validates a version string for a given build type.
-
-        Options:
-        --is-latest-on-npm    Whether we need to publish this as latest on NPM or not. Defaults to false.
-        --version             The new version string.
-        --branch              The branch name.
-        `);
-    return;
-  }
-
-  const {prerelease} = parseVersion(version, 'release');
-
-  const npmTag = latest ? 'latest' : !prerelease ? branch : 'next';
-
-  console.log(npmTag);
-  return;
-}
-
-if (require.main === module) {
-  // eslint-disable-next-line no-void
-  void main();
-}
diff --git a/scripts/releases/create-release-commit.js b/scripts/releases/create-release-commit.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..9c01cf0f234b94
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/releases/create-release-commit.js
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+/**
+ * Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+ *
+ * @flow
+ * @format
+ * @oncall react_native
+ */
+
+const {getBranchName} = require('../scm-utils');
+
+const yargs = require('yargs');
+const {setReactNativeVersion} = require('../releases/set-rn-version');
+const setVersion = require('../releases/set-version');
+const {parseVersion, validateBuildType} = require('./utils/version-utils');
+const {exec} = require('shelljs');
+
+async function main() {
+  const argv = await yargs
+    .option('v', {
+      alias: 'reactNativeVersion',
+      describe: 'The new React Native version.',
+      type: 'string',
+      required: true,
+    })
+    .option('l', {
+      alias: 'isLatestOnNpm',
+      describe:
+        'Whether the version should be published as the latest version on npm.',
+      type: 'boolean',
+      default: false,
+    })
+    .option('d', {
+      alias: 'dryRun',
+      description: 'Whether we should push the commit to github or not',
+      type: 'boolean',
+      default: true,
+    }).argv;
+
+  const buildType = 'release';
+  const version = argv.reactNativeVersion;
+  const latest = argv.isLatestOnNpm;
+  const dryRun = argv.dryRun;
+  const branch = getBranchName();
+  console.info()
+
+  console.info('Validating version', version);
+  const {prerelease} = parseVersion(version, buildType);
+
+  const npmTag = latest ? 'latest' : prerelease ? 'next' : branch;
+  console.info('NPM tag:', npmTag);
+
+  console.info('Setting version for monorepo packages');
+  await setVersion(version, true); // version, skip-react-native
+
+  console.info('Setting React Native version');
+  await setReactNativeVersion(version, {}, buildType); // version, dependencyVersions, build-type
+
+  if (dryRun) {
+    console.info('Running in dry-run mode, skipping git commit');
+    console.info(
+      `git commit -a -m "Release ${version}" -m "#publish-packages-to-npm&${npmTag}"`,
+    );
+    console.info(`git tag -a v${version} -m "v${version}"`);
+    return;
+  }
+
+  console.info('Committing to git');
+  exec(
+    `git commit -a -m "Release ${version}" -m "#publish-packages-to-npm&${npmTag}"`,
+  );
+  exec(`git tag -a v${version} -m "v${version}"`);
+}
+
+if (require.main === module) {
+  // eslint-disable-next-line no-void
+  void main();
+}
diff --git a/scripts/releases/validate-version.js b/scripts/releases/validate-version.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 5c29f5a3c4dde0..00000000000000
--- a/scripts/releases/validate-version.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
- *
- * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
- * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
- *
- * @flow
- * @format
- * @oncall react_native
- */
-
-const {parseVersion, validateBuildType} = require('./utils/version-utils');
-const {parseArgs} = require('@pkgjs/parseargs');
-
-const config = {
-  options: {
-    'build-type': {
-      type: 'string',
-      short: 'b',
-    },
-    version: {
-      type: 'string',
-      short: 'v',
-    },
-    help: {type: 'boolean'},
-  },
-};
-
-async function main() {
-  const {
-    values: {help, 'build-type': buildType, version: version},
-  } = parseArgs(config);
-
-  if (help) {
-    console.log(`
-        Usage: node ./scripts/releases/validate-version.js [OPTIONS]
-
-        Validates a version string for a given build type.
-
-        Options:
-        --build-type       One of ['dry-run', 'nightly', 'release', 'prealpha'].
-        --version       The new version string.
-        `);
-    return;
-  }
-
-  if (!validateBuildType(buildType)) {
-    throw new Error(`Unsupported build type: ${buildType}`);
-  }
-
-  parseVersion(version, 'release');
-
-  console.log(`Version ${version} is valid for ${buildType} build.`);
-  return;
-}
-
-if (require.main === module) {
-  // eslint-disable-next-line no-void
-  void main();
-}