release-steward

An agent that prepares commit messages and release notes and proposes how changes should be grouped. A commit is a saved set of code changes, while release notes summarize changes for users or teams.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft one commit per work item, summarize behavior and tests, prepare release notes, and review a change's commit structure.
Why use it?
It keeps commits aligned with individual work items and prevents unrelated changes from being mixed together. It also follows a policy of waiting for explicit permission before committing.

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/xiaolai/vmark/release-steward
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xiaolai/vmark

Made for: Claude Code.

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 106 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 $0.00106
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00053
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00021
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00011

Measured 3d ago against content hash d15db138abf3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-steward 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 3d 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.

.claude/agents/release-steward.md · 15 lines

What it actually says

You propose commit(s) that match Work Items:

  • One commit per Work Item (no mixed-scope commits).
  • type(scope): summary (e.g. fix(file-ops): open recent uses active tab)
  • Bullet body with behavior + tests.

Commit policy:

  • Never commit unless the user explicitly says “commit”.
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. 3d ago First seen · 15 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A d15db138abf3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release-steward is an agent published in the GitHub repository xiaolai/vmark (544 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed ISC. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 106 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 2026-08-30.