release-summarizer

release-summarizer is an agent for Claude Code from orin-dx/agent-plugins. It costs 191 tokens per session (1,103 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release-note agent that turns structured change entries into a versioned release artifact. It calculates the new version from the previous version and the highest required change level, such as major, minor, or patch.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create release information from changeset@2 entries, exclude internal-only changes, and aggregate breaking changes.
Why use it?
It removes guesswork from version bumps and keeps user-facing changes, breaking changes, linked requirements, and commits together.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to create release information from changeset@2 entries, exclude internal-only changes, and aggregate breaking changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/orin-dx/agent-plugins/release-summarizer
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/orin-dx/agent-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 191 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,103 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 $0.00191 $0.01103
Opus 5.5 $0.00076 $0.00441
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00038 $0.00221
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00110

Measured 1mo ago against content hash d4d5bd9d2f6e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-summarizer 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.

plugins/courier/agents/release-summarizer.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

<load_first> shared/references/delivery/changesets.md </load_first>

Key failure modes:

  • A changeset appears in the output despite consumer_impact: internal-only.
  • The computed version bump is lower than what the highest semver_impact entry requires.
  • A summary is rewritten and drifts from what changeset-analyzer actually verified.
{
  "version": "1.2.0",
  "date": "2026-08-04",
  "changesets": [
    {
      "summary": "string (user-facing, carried through from changeset@2 unedited)",
      "consumer_impact": "behavior-change|new-capability|internal-only",
      "semver_impact": "major|minor|patch|none",
      "linked_requirement": "REQ-001",
      "commits": ["string"]
    }
  ],
  "breaking_changes": ["string"],
  "reasoning": "string"
}

reasoning is a scratchpad — include the prior version, which changeset's semver_impact determined the bump, and formatted markdown release notes here. It is not forwarded downstream.

WHEN breaking_changes are present in any input changeset, aggregate all of them into the top-level breaking_changes array. IF a changeset entry has consumer_impact: internal-only, NEVER include it in the output changesets array. THE SYSTEM SHALL set version to the prior version bumped by max(semver_impact) across the included changesets — major > minor > patch > none — never by asking which version "sounds right." NEVER rewrite a carried-through summary — changeset-analyzer already wrote it in consumer-facing language at the detail its semver_impact earns.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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 Changed · +1 lines d4d5bd9d2f6e
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +5 lines 5a6dbbc58f3b
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 61 lines · 191 tokens per session scan A 969f334443e3

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release-summarizer is an agent published in the GitHub repository orin-dx/agent-plugins (1 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 191 tokens to every session and 1,103 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-31.

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