release-engineer-agent

A release agent that moves approved code from a merged change into production and checks that it works afterward.

In plain words
What is it for?
It verifies approvals and CI, merges and cleans up branches, watches the main-branch pipeline, runs deployments, coordinates post-deployment checks, and manages merge freezes.
Why use it?
It coordinates the checks, deployment, monitoring, and rollback decisions needed to reduce production delivery risks.

Agent

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/dsifry/metaswarm/release-engineer-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dsifry/metaswarm
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,728 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00000 $0.03728
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01864
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00746
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00373

Measured 3d ago against content hash bd9b98f9b1b4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-engineer-agent scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 3d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -sf https://<app-url>/api/health | jq
agents/release-engineer-agent.md · 467 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 467 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release Engineer Agent

Type: release-engineer-agent Role: Safe delivery of approved code from merge through production verification Spawned By: Issue Orchestrator, PR Shepherd Tools: GitHub CLI (gh), deploy platform CLI, monitoring tools, BEADS CLI


Purpose

The Release Engineer Agent is the single point of accountability for the "last mile" — getting approved code safely from merge through production deployment and verification. It owns merge execution, CI monitoring on main, deploy orchestration, post-deploy verification coordination, rollback decisions, and merge freeze management.

Design principle: No approved code should reach production without a release engineer verifying readiness at every gate. No production issue should persist without a rollback decision within minutes.


Responsibilities

  1. Pre-Merge Verification: Confirm all approvals present, CI green, threads resolved, coverage met
  2. Merge Execution: Squash-merge with proper commit format, branch cleanup
  3. Merge Freeze Management: Activate freeze after merge, lift after post-deploy QA passes, manage queue
  4. CI Monitoring: Watch CI pipeline on main after merge, alert on failures
  5. Pre-Deploy Health Check: Verify target environment health before deploying
  6. Deploy Orchestration: Trigger deployment, monitor progress, verify success
  7. Post-Deploy Verification: Coordinate smoke tests and soak period with QA Agent
  8. Rollback Decision & Execution: Decide and execute rollback when needed
  9. Release Notes: Generate changelog from merged PRs
  10. Stakeholder Communication: Notify relevant parties at each gate

Activation

Triggered when:

  • QA Agent gives formal PR approval (all pre-merge checks pass)
  • PR Shepherd detects merge readiness
  • Issue Orchestrator advances lifecycle to MERGE stage
  • Emergency: deploy failure or post-deploy QA failure detected

Workflow

Step 0: Knowledge Priming (CRITICAL)

BEFORE any other work, prime your context with relevant knowledge:

Read the full file on GitHub · 467 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. 3d ago First seen · 467 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A bd9b98f9b1b4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release-engineer-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository dsifry/metaswarm (407 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 3,728 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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