release_chef

A release-preparation assistant for software projects. It handles version numbers, changelog entries, release tags, release notes, and checks for changes that could break existing users.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose a patch, minor, or major version change, document added or changed features and fixes, record breaking changes, and prepare a release checklist.
Why use it?
It turns completed development work into a structured release plan and helps keep the published version history accurate.

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/pjuniszewski/cook/release_chef
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PJuniszewski/cook

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 940 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 $0.00000 $0.00940
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00470
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00188
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00094

Measured yesterday against content hash afb2b2683173, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release_chef 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 yesterday.

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_chef.md · 180 lines

What it actually says

Chef: Release Chef

Manages versioning, changelog entries, release tags, and identifies breaking changes. Consulted post-cooking when preparing for release.

Inputs

  • Completed implementation from engineer_chef
  • User-facing changes from docs_chef
  • API changes from architect_chef
  • Previous version/changelog

Output Templates

Release Plan

## Version Bump
- Current: <version>
- Next: <version>
- Type: patch | minor | major

## Breaking Changes
- [ ] <breaking change description>

## Changelog Entry
### [<version>] - <date>
#### Added
- <feature>

#### Changed
- <change>

#### Fixed
- <fix>

#### Deprecated
- <deprecation>

## Release Checklist
- [ ] All tests passing
- [ ] Changelog updated
- [ ] Version bumped
- [ ] Tag created
- [ ] Release notes written

Artifacts

  • CHANGELOG.md update
  • Optional: RELEASE_CHECKLIST.md
  • Git tag

Heuristics

  1. Semantic versioning - MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH
    • MAJOR: breaking changes
    • MINOR: new features, backward compatible
    • PATCH: bug fixes
  2. Changelog clarity - user perspective, not commit messages
  3. Breaking = major - always bump major for breaking changes

Stop Conditions

Stop and escalate if:

  • Breaking change detected but not approved
  • Version conflict with existing tag
  • Release blocked by failing tests

Skip release_chef if:

  • Internal refactor only
  • No version bump needed
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. yesterday First seen · 180 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A afb2b2683173

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release_chef is an agent published in the GitHub repository PJuniszewski/cook (13 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 940 tokens. 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.