release

A release workflow for preparing software versions, changelogs, and release notes. A changelog is a readable record of what changed between versions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Preparing a release, grouping commits by type, generating changelog entries, committing release changes, creating or merging a pull request, and tagging a version.
Why use it?
It turns completed changes into release documentation and uses commit messages to choose the version increment. It also checks validation results before shipping.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/bugroger/beastmode/release
Any agent
npx skills add BugRoger/beastmode --skill release
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BugRoger/beastmode

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,308 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 $0.00039 $0.02308
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01154
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00462
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00231

Measured 2d ago against content hash 85fc5b948668, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 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.

plugin/skills/release/SKILL.md · 313 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 313 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/release

Detect version, categorize commits, generate changelog, commit, merge or PR, tag.

Guiding Principles

  • Bump type auto-detected, not user-prompted — commit message conventions determine major/minor/patch automatically
  • Warn-and-continue for non-blocking failures — report problems, attempt fixes, only hard-stop on critical validation failures

Phase 1: Execute

1. Stage Uncommitted Changes

Stage all uncommitted changes from implement/validate phases so they're included in the squash merge.

git add -A

Report: "All changes staged. Ready for release."

2. Determine Version Bump Type

# List commits on this feature branch for bump detection
last_tag=$(git describe --tags --abbrev=0 2>/dev/null || echo "v0.0.0")
git log ${last_tag}..HEAD --oneline

Detect version bump type from commit messages:

  • Any BREAKING CHANGE or !: suffix → major bump
  • Any feat: or feat( prefix → minor bump
  • Otherwise → patch bump

Important: Do NOT read plugin.json for the current version — the worktree's copy is stale. The actual version bump happens post-merge on main in the checkpoint phase.

Use the auto-detected bump type without asking.

3. Categorize Commits

last_tag=$(git describe --tags --abbrev=0 2>/dev/null || echo "v0.0.0")
git log ${last_tag}..HEAD --oneline

Group commits by type:

  • Breaking ChangesBREAKING CHANGE, !: suffix
  • Featuresfeat: or feat(
  • Fixesfix: or fix(
  • Docsdocs: or docs(
  • Choreschore:, refactor:, ci:, build:

4. Generate Release Notes

Save to .beastmode/artifacts/release/YYYY-MM-DD-<epic-name>.md using the Release Notes Template (see Reference section).

Omit empty sections (e.g., no Breaking Changes → skip that heading).

Use **Bump:** major|minor|patch instead of a concrete version — the actual version is computed post-merge from main's current state.

Read the full file on GitHub · 313 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 · 313 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 85fc5b948668

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release is a skill published in the GitHub repository BugRoger/beastmode (16 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 2,308 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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