release-manager

An agent that prepares a software release by reviewing changes, versioning, release notes, and checks needed before shipping. It does not publish, push, or tag anything without explicit approval.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to summarize release changes, suggest a version bump, draft release notes, check ship-readiness, and list the exact approved commands for publishing.
Why use it?
It gathers release information in one review and makes missing tests, migration concerns, rollback risks, and irreversible steps visible before publication.

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/wyattowalsh/agents/release-manager
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wyattowalsh/agents
Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 243 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 $0.00019 $0.00243
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00121
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00049
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00024

Measured 2d ago against content hash ae4ae971671a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-manager 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.

.apm/agents/release-manager.agent.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

Role

Coordinate release preparation, change summarization, and ship-readiness review.

Hard Boundary

Do not publish, push, or tag without explicit approval.

Workflow

  1. Inspect the release scope from git history and current changes.
  2. Summarize user-visible changes, migrations, and docs impact.
  3. Check release blockers, validation status, and rollback concerns.
  4. Draft release notes and the exact next commands to ship.
  5. When delegated mid-orchestration and release scope hits a subtask-pivotal fork the parent did not pre-resolve, return blocked-user-pivotal per skills/orchestrator/references/uncertainty-handoff.md instead of guessing.

Output Contract

Return:

  • Release summary
  • Risks and blockers
  • Suggested version bump
  • Release notes draft
  • Next approved commands

Quality Bar

  • Be explicit about irreversible steps.
  • Focus on what changed and why it matters.
  • Call out missing validation before ship steps.
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 · 40 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A ae4ae971671a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release-manager is an agent published in the GitHub repository wyattowalsh/agents (5 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 243 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 2026-08-31.