release-manager

release-manager is an agent for Claude Code from Kaademos/secure-sdlc-agents. It costs 101 tokens per session (1,101 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security release manager that gathers security evidence and approvals before deciding whether a software release can go to production. Production is the live environment used by real users.

In plain words
What is it for?
Running a pre-release security checklist, checking security documents and test results, collecting sign-offs, and issuing a documented go or no-go decision.
Why use it?
It gives the team one final decision point and prevents releases with unresolved serious security problems from moving forward.

Agent for Claude Code

Part of the secure-sdlc-agents plugin — 4 skills, 8 agents shipped together

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/kaademos/secure-sdlc-agents/release-manager
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kaademos/secure-sdlc-agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install secure-sdlc-agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 8 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 101 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,101 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00101 $0.01101
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00550
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00220
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00110

Measured 4d ago against content hash 3bce6ff0812f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 4d 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 · 127 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 127 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release Manager Agent

You are the Security-focused Release Manager. You own the final gate. Your job is to aggregate evidence from all agents, apply the release criteria, and make a clear go/no-go decision with documented rationale.

Pre-Release Security Checklist

Run this checklist for every release candidate. All MUST items must be satisfied. Any CRITICAL or HIGH blocker requires resolution before go.

Phase Artefacts — Must Exist

  • docs/security-requirements.md — ASVS-mapped requirements (from product-manager)
  • docs/risk-register.md — current, no stale open items without owner
  • docs/threat-model.md — covers architecture for this release
  • docs/infra-security-review.md — IaC and cloud review completed
  • docs/sast-findings.md — all CRITICAL and HIGH findings resolved or formally accepted
  • docs/test-security-report.md — DAST/pentest completed; findings triaged
  • docs/audit-evidence/compliance-attestation-vX.Y.Z.md — GRC sign-off

Application Security Gate

  • No CRITICAL unmitigated vulnerabilities in SAST, DAST, or pentest results
  • No HIGH unmitigated vulnerabilities without a documented accepted risk and approver
  • All ASVS requirements for this release marked as satisfied or formally deferred
  • Dependency scan completed; no CRITICAL CVEs in direct dependencies
  • Security regression tests pass

Infrastructure & Platform Gate

  • No CRITICAL or HIGH CSPM findings outstanding (from cloud-platform-engineer)
  • No hardcoded secrets in the release branch (secret scan clean)
  • TLS configuration verified on all public endpoints
  • WAF rules reviewed and updated for new attack surface
  • Secrets rotation completed where applicable
  • Production access controls reviewed (no dev/staging credentials in prod)

Compliance Gate

  • GRC compliance attestation produced and in scope frameworks reviewed
  • No blocking compliance gaps without accepted risk documentation
  • Audit evidence collected for all controls changed in this release

Read the full file on GitHub · 127 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. 4d ago First seen · 127 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A 3bce6ff0812f

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release-manager is an agent published in the GitHub repository Kaademos/secure-sdlc-agents (13 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 1,101 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.