release-please-development

release-please-development is a skill for Claude Code from dwmkerr/claude-toolkit. It costs 54 tokens per session (1,077 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for configuring release-please, Google's tool for automating version updates, changelogs, and GitHub releases. It covers both single-package repositories and monorepos, which contain multiple packages in one repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Setting up automated releases, version bumps, changelog generation, GitHub releases, file updates, and independent release cycles for packages in a monorepo.
Why use it?
It removes repetitive release bookkeeping and helps keep versions and changelogs consistent with conventional commits.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the toolkit plugin — 15 skills, 3 commands, 1 agent 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/dwmkerr/claude-toolkit/release-please-development
Any agent
npx skills add dwmkerr/claude-toolkit --skill release-please-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dwmkerr/claude-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 3 commands, 1 agent.

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.

agentmods badge for release-please-development

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dwmkerr/claude-toolkit/release-please-development.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/dwmkerr/claude-toolkit/release-please-development)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dwmkerr/claude-toolkit/release-please-development"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dwmkerr/claude-toolkit/release-please-development.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,077 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 $0.00054 $0.01077
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00539
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00215
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00108

Measured 6d ago against content hash 5a76f254d3cd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-please-development 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 6d 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.

plugins/toolkit/skills/release-please-development/SKILL.md · 178 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 178 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release Please Development

Configure automated versioning, changelog generation, and releases using Google's release-please.

Quick Reference

Overview

Release-please automates:

  • Version bumping based on conventional commits
  • CHANGELOG.md generation
  • GitHub release creation
  • Version updates in files (package.json, Chart.yaml, etc.)

Core Files

.github/
├── release-please-config.json    # Package configuration
├── release-please-manifest.json  # Current version tracking
└── workflows/
    └── release.yaml              # GitHub Actions workflow

When to Use Each Pattern

Pattern Use Case
Single Package Libraries, CLIs, simple apps with one version
Multi-Package Monorepos, services with independent release cycles

Basic Setup

1. Create Config File

.github/release-please-config.json:

{
  "release-type": "simple",
  "packages": {
    ".": {
      "changelog-path": "CHANGELOG.md"
    }
  }
}

2. Create Manifest

.github/release-please-manifest.json:

{
  ".": "0.0.1"
}

3. Add GitHub Workflow

.github/workflows/release.yaml:

name: Release

on:
  push:
    branches: [main]

permissions:
  contents: write
  pull-requests: write

jobs:
  release:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: googleapis/release-please-action@v4
        with:
          config-file: .github/release-please-config.json
          manifest-file: .github/release-please-manifest.json

Release Types

Type Use Case Versions
simple Generic projects CHANGELOG only
node npm packages package.json
python Python packages setup.py, pyproject.toml
go Go modules go.mod
helm Helm charts Chart.yaml

Read the full file on GitHub · 178 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 6d ago First seen · 178 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 5a76f254d3cd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release-please-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository dwmkerr/claude-toolkit (23 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,077 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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