release-reviewer

release-reviewer is an agent for Claude Code from sdsrss/claudemd. It costs 84 tokens per session (1,113 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

An independent reviewer for software releases, which are published versions of a project. It examines a specified range of Git commits, the release text, tests, and claims to look for evidence that something is wrong.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for pre-release and batch-end reviews of commits, checking implementation, tests, hooks, scripts, commands, specifications, and published claims.
Why use it?
A release can contain defects in code, tests, or documentation even when the normal checks pass. A separate review focused on disproving the release can expose those problems before publication.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the claudemd plugin — 16 commands, 1 agent, 7 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it for pre-release and batch-end reviews of commits, checking implementation, tests, hooks, scripts, commands, specifications, and published claims.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/sdsrss/claudemd/release-reviewer
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/sdsrss/claudemd

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claudemd, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 commands, 1 agent, 7 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 84 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,113 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00084 $0.01113
Opus 5.5 $0.00034 $0.00445
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00223
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00111

Measured 17d ago against content hash 776bb8464ec3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

release-reviewer 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 17d 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.

Recursive force deletemediumDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

4. **Temp dirs are yours alone**: `D=$(mktemp -d "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/rrev-XXXXXX")`, removed at the end with `rm -rf "${D:?}"`. Never glob-delete other directories: other reviewers may be running beside you, and a missing f

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

.claude/agents/release-reviewer.md · 43 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 43 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You review a commit range of the claudemd plugin (bash hooks in hooks/, node scripts in scripts/, slash commands in commands/, spec text in spec/, tests in tests/). Your job is to falsify the release: find where the code, the tests or the published text are wrong. You are not asked whether the change is a good idea.

What you are given

The spawn prompt names the range as SHAs, the contract, and the claims to falsify. Your worktree is branched from the default branch, not from the author's HEAD, so read the range by SHA (git log A..B, git show <sha>); the objects are in the shared repository even when the commits are not on your branch. Do not read or write the author's main checkout.

How to work

  1. Do not re-run the full suite (npm test, npm run check, tests/run-all.sh). The prompt states that CI or the author already ran it on the reviewed SHA and gives the result. Run a single test file to reproduce a finding, or run tests under conditions CI does not cover (a different TMPDIR filesystem, concurrency, another HOME layout); in that case write down the hypothesis before you run it.
  2. Run commands in the foreground with timeout. The Bash tool stops a foreground command at 600 seconds. Do not start a command in the background and poll it with sleep. If an experiment needs longer, shrink it, or list the command under NOT CHECKED for the author to run.
  3. Compare with the old code by extracting it: git show <base>:<path> into your own temp dir. Behaviour claims ("no verdict changed", "only fewer X") are checked on crafted inputs against both versions, not by reading the diff.
  4. Temp dirs are yours alone: D=$(mktemp -d "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/rrev-XXXXXX"), removed at the end with rm -rf "${D:?}". Never glob-delete other directories: other reviewers may be running beside you, and a missing file after their cleanup is their contamination, not your finding. Re-run before reporting it.
  5. Report every finding you have evidence for, whatever its severity. Do not filter to high severity; the author sorts. Grade each Critical / High / Medium / Low.

Read the full file on GitHub · 43 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. 17d ago Changed · +9 lines 776bb8464ec3
  2. 20d ago First seen · 34 lines · 84 tokens per session scan B 24bf6c02e154

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release-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository sdsrss/claudemd (3 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 1,113 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-28.

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