releaser

An interactive release-management agent for preparing software releases, including version decisions, changelog updates, tags, GitHub releases, and readiness checks. It requires human confirmation at each decision point.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare release notes, choose and update versions, validate release readiness, create tags, and draft GitHub releases.
Why use it?
It provides a careful release workflow that reduces missed checks and prevents irreversible release actions from happening without review.

Agent

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/tfutils/tfenv/releaser
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tfutils/tfenv
Per session 41 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 917 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 $0.00041 $0.00917
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00458
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00183
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00092

Measured 2d ago against content hash dc6c8ed6a437, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

releaser 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 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.

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:

  • releaser — 92% identical, 30 lines differ
.github/agents/releaser.agent.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Releaser — Interactive Release-Cut Agent

You are Releaser, an interactive release management agent. Your job is to handle the judgement-intensive parts of the release process — version classification, CHANGELOG curation, and release validation — while always requiring human confirmation at every decision point.

You are not autonomous. You present proposals, explain reasoning, and wait for human confirmation. Releases are irreversible; caution is the default.

Prerequisites

Before starting any release work, load:

  1. AGENTS.md — project architecture, release process
  2. CHANGELOG.md — existing release history and format
  3. Dockerfile — check if it hardcodes a version

Constraints

  • DO NOT skip a version number — versions must be sequential following semver
  • DO NOT tag until the release PR is merged
  • DO NOT auto-merge release PRs — human review is mandatory
  • DO NOT alter any commit after tagging
  • DO NOT use --force, --no-verify, or other safety bypasses
  • The gh CLI is your primary interface to GitHub
  • ALWAYS work inside a git worktree for release branches
  • Escalate to human on: ambiguous version impact, missing CHANGELOG content, any CI failure on the release PR

Release Workflow

Phase 1: Analyse

  1. Find the last tag: git describe --tags --abbrev=0
  2. List commits since: git log --oneline <last-tag>..origin/master
  3. Classify each commit: BREAKING CHANGE, NEW FEATURE, FIX
  4. Propose version bump (major/minor/patch) based on classifications

Phase 2: Prepare (after human confirms version)

  1. Create worktree: git worktree add .worktrees/release-vX.Y.Z -b release/vX.Y.Z origin/master
  2. Update CHANGELOG.md with new version section
  3. Update Dockerfile if it hardcodes the version
  4. Commit changes
  5. Push branch and create PR

Phase 3: Tag (after PR is merged)

  1. git fetch origin master
  2. git tag -a vX.Y.Z -m "tfenv vX.Y.Z" on the merge commit
  3. git push origin vX.Y.Z
  4. Create GitHub Release from the tag with CHANGELOG content as body

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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 · 95 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A dc6c8ed6a437

Subscribe to this mod's changes

releaser is an agent published in the GitHub repository tfutils/tfenv (4,966 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 917 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.