analyzing-releases

analyzing-releases is a skill for Claude Code from buildinternet/releases-cli. It costs 75 tokens per session (1,227 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for examining release notes from several companies and finding patterns in what they are shipping. Release notes are records of product changes, so this can support comparisons and market research.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare companies, study a market segment, find recent product changes, read full releases, and assess what a company may release next.
Why use it?
It provides a structured way to turn scattered release entries into an overview of competitor activity and industry trends.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the releases plugin — 3 skills shipped together

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/buildinternet/releases-cli/analyzing-releases
Any agent
npx skills add buildinternet/releases-cli --skill analyzing-releases
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/buildinternet/releases-cli

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install releases, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,227 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 5.1 $0.00075 $0.01227
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00613
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00245
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00123

Measured 5d ago against content hash eec73687fd75, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analyzing-releases 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 5d 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.

skills/analyzing-releases/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Analyzing Releases

Turn changelog data into competitive intelligence by analyzing release patterns across a cohort of related companies.

This is a reader workflow — it uses only the public, unauthenticated tools. There is no AI summarize/compare tool on the hosted MCP and no summary/compare command in the CLI; you fetch the raw release data and synthesize the analysis yourself.

Tools for each step

Operation CLI (reader) MCP tool
Find what's indexed for a company releases search <company> --json search (with type: ["orgs","catalog"])
List a company's sources releases list --query <company> --json list_catalog (scope with organization)
Latest releases (source or org) releases tail <slug> --json · releases tail --org <org> --json get_latest_releases (organization / product, since/until)
Keyword/semantic release search releases search <query> --json search with type: ["releases"]
Read one release in full releases get <rel_id> --json get_release
Read a tracked CHANGELOG slice releases admin source changelog <slug> --tokens <n> (key-gated; readers use MCP) get_catalog_entry with changelog_tokens / changelog_offset (keyless)

All releases are indexed already — you don't need to (and as a reader can't) trigger fetches. If a company isn't in the registry at all, say so rather than trying to onboard it; onboarding is an operator task.

Workflow

1. Define the cohort

Pick 3-6 companies in the same competitive space. Good cohorts share a common buyer or technical layer (e.g., developer databases, frontend frameworks, observability tools).

2. See what's indexed

Resolve each company with search (or releases search). For discovery-style cohorts ("find observability vendors with edge offerings"), search with type: ["orgs","catalog"] is vector-backed and matches on description and category — better than a slug-substring list_catalog --query. If a company isn't found, note it as a gap rather than fabricating data.

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 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. 5d ago First seen · 74 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A eec73687fd75

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analyzing-releases is a skill published in the GitHub repository buildinternet/releases-cli (4 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 1,227 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

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