releaser

An interactive release-management agent for preparing a software release. It helps classify the version, update the changelog, prepare tags and GitHub releases, and check whether the release is ready.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when cutting a release, choosing a semantic-version change, preparing release notes, validating release readiness, tagging a repository, or creating a GitHub release.
Why use it?
It adds review points to a risky, partly irreversible process. It requires human confirmation and blocks unsafe shortcuts such as skipping versions, tagging before a release pull request is merged, or bypassing checks.

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/tfscaffold/releaser
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tfutils/tfscaffold
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 726 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00726
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00363
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00145
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00073

Measured 2d ago against content hash 50bf37acae0e, 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

This is a copy

92% identical to releaser — 30 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.github/agents/releaser.agent.md · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 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

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, FEATURE, BUG FIX, CHORE
  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 script_ver in bin/terraform.sh to match the new 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 "tfscaffold 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 · 73 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 · 73 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 50bf37acae0e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

releaser is an agent published in the GitHub repository tfutils/tfscaffold (281 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 726 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to releaser, differing in 30 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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