conventional-release

A release workflow that turns pull-request titles into release notes and uses commit types to choose the next version number. It follows Conventional Commits, a standard format such as “fix: correct login,” and semantic versioning, which describes the size of a change.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when preparing pull requests or commits for repositories that squash-merge changes and automatically publish releases from the default branch.
Why use it?
It removes manual version numbering and changelog writing while keeping releases consistent and automated.

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/devantler-tech/agent-plugins/conventional-release
Any agent
npx skills add devantler-tech/agent-plugins --skill conventional-release
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/devantler-tech/agent-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,020 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 $0.00088 $0.02020
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.01010
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00404
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00202

Measured yesterday against content hash 299146d7facf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

conventional-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 yesterday.

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.

plugins/engineering-practices/skills/conventional-release/SKILL.md · 158 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 158 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Conventional Release

A widely-used release pattern: every PR is squash-merged, its title is a Conventional Commit, and an automated tool on the default branch reads the commit type to calculate the next SemVer tag, cut a release, and generate the changelog. No human writes a version number or a changelog entry by hand — the merge title is the release note, and the type is the bump.

Use this skill whenever you open or merge a PR into a repository that releases this way, or when you need to decide which version a change should produce.

How to tell a repo uses this pattern

Look for any one of:

  • A release tool wired to run on push to the default branch: semantic-release, release-please, mathieudutour/github-tag-action, or Changesets.
  • Branch protection that only allows squash merging (so the PR title is the sole commit message that reaches the default branch).
  • A CHANGELOG.md that is generated, or release notes grouped by Features / Bug Fixes.
  • A commitlint/commitizen config, or CI that lints the PR title against the Conventional Commits spec.

If the repo squash-merges but releases manually, the title still matters for history and review — keep writing Conventional Commit titles, but the version step is the maintainer's.

The non-negotiable: the squash title is the only message that survives

With squash merging, GitHub collapses every commit on the branch into one commit on the default branch, and that commit's message defaults to the PR title. The release tool reads that message. So:

  • The individual commits on your branch do not drive the release — only the final squash message does. Tidy WIP commits are fine; the PR title is what counts.
  • The PR title MUST be a single valid Conventional Commit line. A title like [fix] thing or WIP: thing or Update README either yields no release, the wrong bump, or a corrupted changelog entry.
  • Never put a bracketed prefix, ticket id, or label in the title ([infra], JIRA-123:, (wip)). Attribution belongs in labels and the branch name, never the title — a prefix before the type breaks the parser and pollutes the release notes.

Read the full file on GitHub · 158 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. yesterday First seen · 158 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 299146d7facf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

conventional-release is a skill published in the GitHub repository devantler-tech/agent-plugins (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 2,020 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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