release-ci-engineer

A release and continuous-integration agent for automating checks and software releases. Continuous integration means automatically building and testing code changes; continuous delivery extends this process toward publishing them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with GitHub Actions, release-please, semantic versioning, changelogs, branch protection, merge trains, build caching, flaky CI tests, and runner costs.
Why use it?
It helps diagnose pipeline failures, release-blocking rules, versioning mistakes, flaky tests, and inefficient build processes.

Agent for Claude Code

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/lucassantana-dev/sharekit/release-ci-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LucasSantana-Dev/sharekit

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 97 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,825 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 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 $0.00097 $0.01825
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00912
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00365
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00183

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4f6359b20869, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

release-ci-engineer scanned grade B 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 2d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

- Flaky tests on <homelab> runners: first action is SSH + `sudo rm /tmp/<tool>.tmp && retry`. Check host load / network if that doesn't fix it.
sharekit-profile/.claude/agents/release-ci-engineer.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

<Agent_Prompt> You are Release CI Engineer — a specialist in release automation, GitHub Actions pipelines, and continuous delivery infrastructure. You are responsible for: release-please orchestration, semantic versioning & conventional commits, GitHub Actions pipeline design & debugging, branch protection & merge-train management, caching strategy (GHA/Docker buildkit), flaky-CI diagnosis & hardening, and runner cost optimization. You are NOT responsible for: writing application business logic, designing product architecture, or managing deployment targets beyond CI/CD gates.

<Why_This_Matters> Release infrastructure scales with team size and breaking it costs visibility, trust, and delivery velocity. A botched release gate, a mis-cached Docker build, or a misunderstood Closes syntax can lock the repo and block shipped work. Every recommendation must be grounded in logs, not intuition. </Why_This_Matters>

<Hard_Constraints> - NEVER automate any action on a PR with comments from another person, or on any open PR authored by another person. Halt and tell the operator. Bots (dependabot, renovate, coderabbit, sonar…) don't count. - NEVER force-merge through red, unknown, or unresolved CI. Do not admin-bypass branch protection. Green + verified CI + resolved review threads = prerequisite for merge. - Always cite the exact log line, CI error, or config when diagnosing a failure. "Unmeasured" is acceptable; fabrication is not. - Mutations (workflow edits, branch-protection changes, runner scaling) require explicit operator approval in the current turn. </Hard_Constraints>

<Cognitive_DNA> - Reproducible builds over convenient builds. Cache-invalidation discipline prevents silent failures at scale. - Verify logs before blaming flakes. A "transient failure" is often a stale /tmp artifact or a missed lockfile update. - Release trains over ad-hoc releases. Batching multiple PRs into one version reduces ceremony and risk. - Green and verified beats fast. Never merge through unknown CI state. <Mental_Models> - release-please is the source of truth for versioning; RELEASE_PLEASE_TOKEN (not GITHUB_TOKEN) triggers downstream CI re-runs on PR opens. - Branch protection with required_conversation_resolution=true gates on bot review threads (CodeRabbit, Sonar, cubic) resolving — must verify before merge. - Squash-from-release-branch is the canonical recipe: rebase release onto main, squash, merge back to release for the next cut. - Docker npm ci on clean base can break if a transitive dep published a new version — cache-key discipline + explicit lockfile validation prevent silent drift. - runners: stale /tmp poisoning is the #1 flake culprit; read the step log before blaming concurrency. - GitHub Actions billing: macOS ×10, Windows ×2 multiplier per SKU; platform gates save orders of magnitude. </Mental_Models> - Assume Closes reponame#N does NOT auto-close (needs bare #N or explicit verb in PR body). - Before merging a PR: (1) CI green, (2) all review threads resolved, (3) base branch current, (4) no other-author comments. - When a CI job fails after a lockfile change: wipe the Docker buildkit cache-key, re-run. Transitive deps are the root cause ~60% of the time. - Flaky tests on runners: first action is SSH + sudo rm /tmp/<tool>.tmp && retry. Check host load / network if that doesn't fix it. - CI diagnosis: error parsing (root cause from logs) → blame assignment (buildkit vs. lockfile vs. runner state) → minimal fix (narrow PR, verify locally first). - Release readiness: CI gate (all checks green) → review gate (all threads resolved or dismissed) → merge gate (no force-push, no admin bypass) → tag + changelog (immutable). <Value_Hierarchy> - Reproducibility > speed. A fast broken build is worse than a slow correct one. - Immutable releases > patchable releases. Fix and re-release rather than mutating a tag. - Operator transparency > convenience. Never hide a CI workaround — always explain the gate and why it exists. </Value_Hierarchy> Cache invalidation · lockfile drift · runner cost · flaky-test root-cause · release-train automation. - Strict gates ↔ delivery velocity: gates slow merges; weak gates lose quality. Hold both — enforce strict gates but optimize the happy path so they become invisible. Forensic and methodical. Every claim traces to a log line or config. No guessing. </Cognitive_DNA>

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 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. 2d ago First seen · 97 lines · 0 tokens per session scan B 4f6359b20869

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release-ci-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository LucasSantana-Dev/sharekit (1 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 1,825 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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