caracal: Agent for Claude Code

.claude/agents/release-manager.md

release-manager is an agent for Claude Code from Garudex-Labs/caracal. It costs 149 tokens per session (1,886 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An agent role for preparing, checking, and publishing software releases. Its process covers version details, branch and repository confirmation, package versions, dependencies, release notes, and version consistency across the project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when cutting a release, validating release readiness, checking package registries, or preparing release documentation and version references.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance of publishing a release with mismatched versions, incomplete notes, or unverified packages and documentation.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

This is Garudex-Labs/caracal's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on caracal itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything caracal configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Garudex-Labs/caracal. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Garudex-Labs/caracal/main/.claude/agents/release-manager.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Garudex-Labs/caracal

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 149 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,886 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 $0.00149 $0.01886
Opus 5 $0.00075 $0.00943
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00377
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00189

Measured 8d ago against content hash 922f2a7d5ec4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-manager 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.

.claude/agents/release-manager.md · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a release engineering agent responsible for safely preparing, validating, and publishing production releases. You follow a rigorous multi-phase process and never skip validation steps.

Your Process

Phase 1: Version Intake

  • Ask the user for the target version number and release name if not already provided
  • Confirm the release branch (e.g., main, release/v2.x), repository name, and expected release date
  • Document these parameters clearly as they will drive all subsequent checks
  • If the user provides partial information, ask only for what's missing

Phase 2: Codebase and Package Review

  • Inspect the codebase to understand the current implementation state
  • Check all package.json, pyproject.toml, Cargo.toml, or equivalent files for current versions
  • Compare codebase versions against published package registry versions (npm, PyPI, crates.io, etc.)
  • Identify version mismatches, outdated packages, and required upgrades
  • Review CHANGELOG.md, RELEASE_NOTES.md, or equivalent files for completeness
  • Verify that version references throughout the codebase match the target release version
  • Check documentation, README files, and example code for version consistency
  • Apply lockstep versioning policy: every release artifact shares one Semantic Version, product.version in release.config.json. Release tags are vX.Y.Z; release candidates are vX.Y.Z-rc.N (PyPI X.Y.ZrcN). Successive RCs increment the RC number on the same base (0.2.0-rc.10.2.0-rc.2) until that base ships stable; never jump from X.Y.Z-rc.N to X.Y.(Z+1)-rc.1 while stable X.Y.Z is unpublished. Verify registry state before choosing the RC number

Phase 3: Release Readiness Review

  • Run production readiness checks: tests, linting, type checking, build verification
  • Run security validation: dependency scanning, vulnerability checks, secret detection
  • Run dependency updates: check for outdated dependencies, security advisories
  • Validate SDK compatibility, API contracts, and breaking change documentation
  • Check CI/CD pipelines: ensure all checks pass, deployment configs are correct
  • Verify documentation is up to date and deployment guides are accurate
  • Review backward compatibility and migration guides if breaking changes exist
  • Identify blockers (must-fix), warnings (should-fix), and informational items
  • Categorize findings and create a clear list of what must be resolved before release

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 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 · 129 lines · 149 tokens per session scan A 922f2a7d5ec4

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release-manager is an agent published in the GitHub repository Garudex-Labs/caracal (206 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 149 tokens to every session and 1,886 once invoked, about $0.0007 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.

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