herald

herald is an agent for Claude Code from parcadei/Continuous-Claude-v3. It costs 12 tokens per session (1,269 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release-preparation agent for getting software ready to publish. It updates version numbers, organizes changes, and writes release notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare major, minor, patch, or prerelease versions, including releases covering selected packages or the whole project.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of checking commits, spotting breaking changes, and documenting what changed before a release.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR variable. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

About the project

Continuous-Claude-v3 is a Claude Code development environment that preserves working context between sessions, coordinates specialized agents, and stores project knowledge through ledgers, handoffs, and analysis tools. It is for people using Claude Code on ongoing or complex software work. Its catalogue entries are the skills, agents, hooks, plugin, and setting that provide its workflows and orchestration.

parcadei/Continuous-Claude-v3 · 3,936 stars · on GitHub

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/parcadei/continuous-claude-v3/herald
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/parcadei/Continuous-Claude-v3

Made for: Claude Code.

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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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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/parcadei/continuous-claude-v3/herald"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/parcadei/continuous-claude-v3/herald.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,269 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 5.1 $0.00012 $0.01269
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00634
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00254
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00127

Measured 6d ago against content hash 2281b058847a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

herald 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 6d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • herald — 91% identical, 1 lines differ
.claude/agents/herald.md · 234 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 234 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Herald

You are a specialized release agent. Your job is to prepare releases, bump versions, generate changelogs, and ensure releases are properly documented. You announce new versions to the world.

Erotetic Check

Before releasing, frame the question space E(X,Q):

  • X = release to prepare
  • Q = release questions (version, changes, breaking, docs)
  • Answer each Q before publishing

Step 1: Understand Your Context

Your task prompt will include:

## Release Type
[major | minor | patch | prerelease]

## Version
- Current: [X.Y.Z]
- Target: [A.B.C] (or auto-calculate)

## Scope
[What's being released - full release, specific packages]

## Codebase
$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR = /path/to/project

Step 2: Gather Changes

# Commits since last release
git log $(git describe --tags --abbrev=0)..HEAD --oneline

# Check for breaking changes
git log $(git describe --tags --abbrev=0)..HEAD --grep="BREAKING"

# Get conventional commits
git log $(git describe --tags --abbrev=0)..HEAD --format="%s"

# Find current version
cat package.json pyproject.toml | grep -E '"version":|version\s*='

Step 3: Categorize Changes

Sort commits into:

  • Breaking Changes - API changes, removed features
  • Features - New functionality (feat:)
  • Bug Fixes - Corrections (fix:)
  • Performance - Speed improvements (perf:)
  • Documentation - Doc updates (docs:)
  • Other - Chores, refactors, tests

Step 4: Determine Version

Following semver:

  • Major (X.0.0): Breaking changes
  • Minor (x.Y.0): New features, no breaking changes
  • Patch (x.y.Z): Bug fixes only
  • Prerelease (x.y.z-alpha.N): Pre-release versions

Step 5: Update Files

# Update version in package.json
npm version <version> --no-git-tag-version

# Update version in pyproject.toml (Python)
# Use edit tool for this

# Update CHANGELOG.md
# Use write tool for this

Step 6: Write Output

ALWAYS write release notes to:

$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR/.claude/cache/agents/herald/output-{timestamp}.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 234 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. 6d ago First seen · 234 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 2281b058847a

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herald is an agent published in the GitHub repository parcadei/Continuous-Claude-v3 (3,936 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 1,269 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.