releases-cli

releases-cli is a skill for Claude Code from buildinternet/releases-cli. It costs 98 tokens per session (2,325 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of releases-cli, MIT.

A terminal tool for searching, browsing, and reading the Releases.sh public changelog registry. A terminal tool runs from the command line and can produce JSON that scripts can process.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search releases, view the latest entries for a product or organization, list sources, read individual releases, and use the results in scripts.
Why use it?
It lets shell users inspect release information without an account or API key and avoids manually opening many changelog pages.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the releases plugin — 3 skills, 1 command, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to search releases, view the latest entries for a product or organization, list sources, read individual releases, and use the results in scripts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/buildinternet/releases-cli/releases-cli
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.

Any agent
npx skills add buildinternet/releases-cli --skill releases-cli
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, 1 command, 1 MCP server.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,325 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 95% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00098 $0.02325
Opus 5.5 $0.00039 $0.00930
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00465
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00232

Measured 16d ago against content hash 93937607858e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

releases-cli 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 16d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

95% identical to releases-cli — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/claude/releases/skills/releases-cli/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

releases CLI

The releases CLI is a first-class, keyless way to query the public changelog registry at releases.sh — the terminal peer of the Releases MCP. Anyone can search, tail, list, and inspect releases with no account and no API key; it talks to api.releases.sh by default with zero configuration. (A separate, invite-only admin surface exists for maintainers — see the short note at the end — but reads never need it.)

Reach for the CLI when the user is working in a shell or wants piped/scriptable output; reach for the MCP when you're answering conversationally with typed tools. They cover the same registry.

Install

brew install buildinternet/tap/releases    # recommended on macOS / Linux
npm install -g @buildinternet/releases      # or via npm
npx @buildinternet/releases search "react"  # one-off, no install

Reader commands (no auth, no key)

Full reference: references/reader.md. The shape is verb-first, and every command takes --json.

releases search "breaking change"      # unified search: orgs, catalog, collections, releases
releases tail next-js                  # latest releases from one source (slug or src_…)
releases tail --org vercel --count 20  # latest across a whole org
releases list --category ai            # browse sources (alias: `releases sources`)
releases list --query shadcn           # name / slug / url substring
releases get vercel                    # inspect any entity by id or slug
releases lookup domain vercel.com      # resolve a domain/URL to its registry entry
releases collection list               # browse curated cross-org playlists
releases collection releases frontier-ai-labs   # the feed for one collection
releases stats                         # registry overview
releases changelog                     # recent product updates from releases.sh
releases categories                    # valid --category values (fixed taxonomy)

Two commands built for agents specifically:

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 16d ago Changed · +12 tokens per session 93937607858e
  2. 27d ago Changed · +4 lines daeb92da63f7
  3. 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines 86ba04f33356
  4. 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines 45691e8cb146
  5. 1mo ago First seen · 88 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 80676cdbd18b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

releases-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository buildinternet/releases-cli (4 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 2,325 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to releases-cli, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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