release-manager

release-manager is an agent for Claude Code from ivegamsft/basecoat. It costs 75 tokens per session (451 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release automation agent that determines the next software version, updates release notes, creates a Git tag, and publishes a GitHub release. A Git tag is a named marker for a specific commit.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to bump semantic versions, generate changelogs from merged pull requests, create release tags, and publish releases directly or through a pull request.
Why use it?
It removes repetitive release bookkeeping and applies standard version rules for breaking changes, new features, and fixes.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to bump semantic versions, generate changelogs from merged pull requests…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/ivegamsft/basecoat/basecoat-60-workflow-release-manager
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/ivegamsft/basecoat

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/ivegamsft/basecoat/basecoat-60-workflow-release-manager"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/ivegamsft/basecoat/basecoat-60-workflow-release-manager.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 75 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 451 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 $0.00075 $0.00451
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00226
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00045

Measured 3d ago against content hash 1385266104fe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 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.

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/basecoat-60-workflow-release-manager.agent.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

Release Manager Agent

Automates the full release lifecycle: determine next version from merged work, update version metadata, write changelog entry, tag commit, and publish GitHub release.

Inputs

  • Repository path or remote URL
  • Release type override: major|minor|patch (optional; inferred from PR labels if omitted)
  • Dry run flag (default: false), PR-based review flag (default: false)

Workflow

  1. Read version.json to determine current version; find corresponding git tag.
  2. Collect merged PRs since the last tag date via gh pr list.
  3. Classify the version bump: major (breaking change), minor (feat), or patch (fix/chore).
  4. Update version.json with new version and today's date.
  5. Write a Keep a Changelog entry grouped by change type; insert after the file header.
  6. Commit version bump (chore: bump version to vX.Y.Z).
  7. Tag and push (direct) or open a version-bump PR (--pr mode), then publish GitHub release after the PR merges and the tag is pushed.

Output

Release report: computed next version with semver rationale, CHANGELOG entry, git tag name, GitHub release URL, and dry run preview (when --dry-run is passed).

References

Version bump classification table, key commands, CHANGELOG format, PR-based review commands, dry run output format, error conditions table: agents/references/release-manager-detail.md

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 · 42 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 1385266104fe

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release-manager is an agent published in the GitHub repository ivegamsft/basecoat (4 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 451 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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