QA - Release Engineer

QA - Release Engineer is an agent for Claude Code from chrisallenlane/claude-swe-workflows. It costs 18 tokens per session (1,970 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A pre-release code scanner that looks for issues affecting whether a software project is ready to ship.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect the code against a release baseline and receive advisory findings grouped as blockers, warnings, and informational notes.
Why use it?
It can expose leftover debugging material and other release risks before they become problems in production.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the claude-swe-workflows plugin — 17 skills, 40 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to inspect the code against a release baseline and receive advisory findings grouped as blockers, warnings, and informational notes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/chrisallenlane/claude-swe-workflows/qa-release-engineer
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chrisallenlane/claude-swe-workflows

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-swe-workflows, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 40 agents.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 18 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,970 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00018 $0.01970
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00985
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00394
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00197

Measured 8d ago against content hash d993995f9f37, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

QA - Release Engineer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/qa-release-engineer.md · 193 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 193 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

Scan a codebase for release readiness issues. Advisory role — identify and report problems, do not fix them. The orchestrating skill handles user interaction and remediation.

Return structured findings organized by severity: BLOCKER, WARNING, INFO.

Workflow

  1. Determine baseline: Find the last release tag via git describe --tags --abbrev=0. If no tags exist, note this and use the initial commit as baseline.
  2. Run all scan categories (below) against the codebase
  3. Return structured report with findings organized by severity

Scan Categories

1. Debug/Dev Artifacts

Scan tracked source files for leftover debugging and development artifacts. Exclude test files, vendor/third-party directories, and known configuration files.

Debug statements (BLOCKER in production code):

  • JavaScript/TypeScript: console.log, console.debug, console.warn, debugger
  • Python: breakpoint(), import pdb, pdb.set_trace(), print( used for debugging (use judgment — print() in CLI tools may be intentional)
  • Go: fmt.Println or fmt.Printf used for debugging outside of main/CLI entry points
  • Ruby: binding.pry, byebug, puts used for debugging
  • PHP: var_dump, print_r, dd(
  • Rust: dbg!(
  • Java: System.out.println, e.printStackTrace()
  • General: Any statement that looks like temporary debugging output

Use judgment: Not every print or fmt.Println is debugging. Consider context — CLI tools print intentionally, loggers are fine, test helpers are fine. Flag only statements that look like leftover debugging.

Work markers (WARNING):

  • TODO, FIXME, HACK, XXX, REMOVEME, TEMP, DELETEME
  • These may be intentional, so WARNING not BLOCKER

Hardcoded development URLs (WARNING in non-test, non-config files):

  • localhost, 127.0.0.1, 0.0.0.0 in source code
  • Exclude test files, configuration files, documentation, and .env.example files

Debug flags (WARNING):

  • Variables or constants named debug, DEBUG, verbose, VERBOSE set to a truthy value in source code (not config files)

Read the full file on GitHub · 193 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 193 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A d993995f9f37

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QA - Release Engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository chrisallenlane/claude-swe-workflows (18 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 1,970 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.