A release-preparation command for the sandvault project. It updates the changelog, increases the version number, gathers project history, and opens a pull request for review.

Use it to create a release branch, choose a version bump, generate release data from commits and pull requests, write the changelog section, and prepare the release pull request.

It organizes the repeated release work into a documented sequence and collects contributor and change information automatically.

How webcoyote/sandvault configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to webcoyote/sandvault. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/webcoyote/sandvault/main/.claude/commands/release.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/webcoyote/sandvault

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/webcoyote/sandvault/release/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/webcoyote/sandvault/release)

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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 1,344 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00000	$0.01344
Opus 5.5	$0.00000	$0.00538
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00000	$0.00269
Haiku 4.5	$0.00000	$0.00134

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c1d11a5e55c2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release 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 1mo 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/commands/release.md · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release

Prepare a new release for sandvault. This command updates the changelog, bumps the version, and creates a PR

Steps

Determine the new version number
- Use .github/scripts/bump-version minor to bump the minor version unless the user specifies otherwise (e.g., 0.12.0 → 0.13.0)
- Get the current version by running ./sv --version
Create a release branch
- Create branch: git checkout -b release/vX.Y.Z
Generate release data
- Run the data-gathering script, which collects commits, PR metadata, issue metadata, and contributors (PR authors, issue reporters, commit authors) into structured JSON:
```
.github/scripts/generate-release-data > /tmp/sv-release-data.json
```
- If the script fails (e.g. gh not authenticated), fix the issue and retry

Generate changelog section via AI agent

Pipe a prompt into sv claude that instructs it to read the release data and write a polished changelog section. The prompt should include the Changelog Guidelines and Contributor Credits rules from this document:

cat <<'PROMPT' | ./sv claude
Read the file /tmp/sv-release-data.json — it contains structured release
data with commits, PR numbers, and contributor information.

Generate a changelog section following these rules:
- Only include end-user visible changes (ignore CI, docs, tests, internal refactoring)
- Categorize into: Added, Changed, Fixed, Removed (omit empty categories)
- Write clear, user-facing descriptions in present tense — not raw commit messages
- Link PRs: ([#N](https://github.com/webcoyote/sandvault/pull/N))
- Credit non-core contributors inline: — thanks @user!
- Credit bug reporters if different from PR author: — thanks @reporter for the report!
- Core team (webcoyote) gets no inline credit
- Add a "### Thanks to N contributors!" section listing all contributors alphabetically, linked to GitHub profiles
- Use the version and date from the JSON for the heading: ## [X.Y.Z] - YYYY-MM-DD

Write the result to /tmp/sv-changelog-section.md — nothing else, no explanation.
If there are no user-facing changes, write a single line: _No user-facing changes._
PROMPT

If the output contains _No user-facing changes._, ask the user if they still want to release

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 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.

1mo ago First seen · 129 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A c1d11a5e55c2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release is a command published in the GitHub repository webcoyote/sandvault (445 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,344 tokens. 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.

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sandvault: Command for Claude Code

Borrowing it

Wrote this? Show the measurements

What it costs to keep this loaded

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

How it starts

Release

Steps

What this file has done since we first saw it

Other commands, from other repositories

changelog

release

release

publish

bump

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