release-management

release-management is a cursor rule for Cursor from Project-VIC-International/Agentic-AI-Development-Course. It costs 2,250 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A release rule requiring an entry in CHANGELOG.md and updated instructions in README.md for every minor or major version. A changelog records what changed between software versions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it while preparing releases and version changes, including feature, fix, and spec-driven implementation work.
Why use it?
It creates a public record of what shipped and how to use it, which helps identify the software version behind a result.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc).

Good fit Use it while preparing releases and version changes, including feature, fix, and spec-driven implementation work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/project-vic-international/agentic-ai-development-course/release-management
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Project-VIC-International/Agentic-AI-Development-Course

Made for: Cursor.

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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.

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README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/project-vic-international/agentic-ai-development-course/release-management.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/rules/project-vic-international/agentic-ai-development-course/release-management)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/project-vic-international/agentic-ai-development-course/release-management"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/project-vic-international/agentic-ai-development-course/release-management.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 2,250 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,250 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.02250 $0.02250
Opus 5 $0.01125 $0.01125
Sonnet 5 $0.00450 $0.00450
Haiku 4.5 $0.00225 $0.00225

Measured 7d ago against content hash b506ce06e34f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-management 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 7d 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.

part-2-lab/exercises/03-spec-driven-dev/example-cursor-rules/release-management.mdc · 167 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 167 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release Management: Changelog and Documentation

Every minor and major release of this tool requires updated CHANGELOG.md and README.md. These files are the public record of what shipped and how to use it. Incomplete release documentation is a release blocker — CI MUST fail a release if the changelog is missing an entry for the version being tagged.

For a CAC mission tool, this is more than good engineering hygiene. It is what lets a peer agency, a NIST CFTT validator, a defense expert, or a future you understand what version of the tool produced a particular piece of evidence. A finding from this tool is only as defensible as the changelog entry for the version that produced it.

CHANGELOG.md Requirements

This project follows Keep a Changelog and Semantic Versioning.

When to Update

  • Every version bump — no version ships without a changelog entry.
  • Update the changelog as features land on the branch, not in a last-minute batch before release. Each PR that adds, changes, or fixes functionality SHOULD include an entry under the [Unreleased] section at the top of the file.
  • Spec-driven features MUST add a changelog entry as part of /speckit.implement — the spec is not "done" until the user-facing change is documented.

Entry Format

Every version entry MUST include:

  • Version number and date in ISO 8601: ## [v1.1.0] - 2026-05-01
  • Sections using standard categories: Added, Changed, Fixed, Removed, Security, Deprecated, Performance
  • Each item MUST be a concrete, user-facing description — not an internal implementation detail
  • Reference the affected module / package in parentheses where helpful: (ingest), (reporting), (mcp)
  • Reference related GitHub issues or PRs: (#42), (#19)
  • For security-relevant changes, include the control family: (NIST AC-7, CJIS 5.6.2) per the security-compliance rule
  • For performance changes, include before / after benchmark numbers and link to the autoresearch run that produced them — per the auto-research rule, the spec floor ratchets to the new baseline

Read the full file on GitHub · 167 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. 7d ago First seen · 167 lines · 2,250 tokens per session scan A b506ce06e34f

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release-management is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository Project-VIC-International/Agentic-AI-Development-Course (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 2,250 tokens to every session, about $0.0112 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.