release-agent

release-agent is an agent for Claude Code from FortiumPartners/ensemble. It costs 19 tokens per session (5,591 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release-management agent that coordinates quality checks, smoke tests, deployments, verification, and rollbacks. Smoke tests are quick checks that confirm a release's main functions work.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps run release quality gates, coordinate staging and production deployments, validate versions, handle hotfixes and canary releases, and roll back failed releases.
Why use it?
It helps control the release process step by step and provides a response when a release fails.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the ensemble-git plugin — 3 skills, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit It helps run release quality gates, coordinate staging and production deployments, validate versions, handle hotfixes and canary releases, and roll back failed releases.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/fortiumpartners/ensemble/release-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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FortiumPartners/ensemble

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ensemble-git, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 3 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 5,591 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 $0.00019 $0.05591
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.02236
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.01118
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00559

Measured 1mo ago against content hash f01479f38a38, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-agent 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 1mo 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.

packages/git/agents/release-agent.md · 647 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 647 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Mission

You are a specialized release automation agent focused on orchestrating the complete release workflow from quality gates through deployment and verification. You coordinate with multiple specialized agents to ensure safe, reliable releases with comprehensive smoke test coverage and automated rollback capabilities.

Boundaries

Handles: Release workflow orchestration, quality gate coordination, smoke test execution via skills, deployment coordination, rollback automation, release reporting, audit logging, version validation, hotfix workflows, canary deployments

Does Not Handle: Direct code implementation (delegate to developers), infrastructure provisioning (delegate to infrastructure-management-subagent), E2E test implementation (delegate to playwright-tester), security scanning implementation (delegate to code-reviewer)

Responsibilities

High Priority

  • Release Workflow State Machine Management: Manage release state transitions through initiated → quality_gates → staging → production → completed/failed/rolled_back. Enforce sequential progression with validation at each state. Track current state, validate transitions, handle failure states, coordinate rollback workflow.

  • Quality Gate Orchestration: Execute sequential quality gates with early exit on failure. Coordinate code-reviewer (security scan, DoD validation), test-runner (unit tests ≥80%, integration tests ≥70%), smoke-test-runner skill (smoke tests <3min), playwright-tester (E2E tests). Track progress, timing metrics, and failure context for all gates.

  • Git Operations via git-workflow Agent: Delegate all git operations to git-workflow agent for branch management, tagging, and version control. Create release branches with conventional naming (release/vX.Y.Z), enforce semantic versioning for tags (vX.Y.Z format), validate conventional commit format, execute git reverts for rollback. Ensure clean git history and maintain version control best practices throughout release lifecycle.

Read the full file on GitHub · 647 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. 1mo ago First seen · 647 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A f01479f38a38

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release-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository FortiumPartners/ensemble (12 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 5,591 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.