release

release is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hmcts/agentic-plugins-marketplace. It costs 48 tokens per session (1,429 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release assistant for APIM services, where APIM is a system for managing and publishing APIs. It finds relevant merged pull requests, chooses the next version number, and creates a GitHub release with a changelog.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps cut a new release, tag the service, and publish a readable summary of user-facing changes.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of checking recent changes, filtering routine updates, choosing a version, and writing release notes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the hmcts-apim-sdlc-orchestrator plugin — 8 skills, 11 agents, 3 hooks 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/hmcts/agentic-plugins-marketplace/release
Any agent
npx skills add hmcts/agentic-plugins-marketplace --skill release
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hmcts/agentic-plugins-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install hmcts-apim-sdlc-orchestrator, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 11 agents, 3 hooks.

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

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hmcts/agentic-plugins-marketplace/release.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/hmcts/agentic-plugins-marketplace/release)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/hmcts/agentic-plugins-marketplace/release"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hmcts/agentic-plugins-marketplace/release.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,429 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 $0.00048 $0.01429
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00714
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00286
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00143

Measured 5d ago against content hash e77f57f9a9bf, 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 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.

plugins/agents/hmcts-apim-sdlc-orchestrator/skills/release/SKILL.md · 177 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 177 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: Release

Trigger

Invoke this skill when a user asks to:

  • Create a new release
  • Cut a release
  • Tag and release the service
  • Publish a new version

Invocation command: /release


Process

Step 1 — Get the last release tag

gh release list --limit 1 --json tagName,publishedAt,name

Extract:

  • tagName — current version (e.g. v1.2.4)
  • publishedAt — ISO timestamp used to filter PRs

Tell the user: "Last release: <tagName> published on <date>."

Step 2 — Compute the next version

Default: increment the patch number.

Current Next (default)
v1.2.4 v1.2.5
v2.0.0 v2.0.1

Override only if the user explicitly states:

  • minorv1.2.4v1.3.0
  • majorv1.2.4v2.0.0

Step 3 — Collect PRs merged since last release

gh pr list --state merged --limit 50 \
  --json number,title,mergedAt,author,body \
  --jq '.[] | select(.mergedAt > "<publishedAt>") | {number: .number, title: .title, author: .author.login, body: .body}'

Step 4 — Filter and categorise

Exclude entirely — do not mention in release notes:

  • Author is app/dependabot or app/renovate
  • Title starts with chore:, chore(deps):, docs:, ci:
  • Title matches pattern bump <X> from <Y> to <Z>
  • PR configures or migrates dependency management tooling (e.g. Renovate → Dependabot, auto-merge workflow setup)

Categorise what remains:

Category Title signals
Bug Fixes fix:, bugfix:, AMP-NNN bugfix:
New Features feat:, feature:, AMP-NNN Add
Improvements perf:, refactor:, chore(AMP- with JIRA ticket, Decommission, Switch, Replace
Other Changes Anything else functional

Step 5 — Generate release notes

For each included PR:

  1. Read the ## What changed section from the PR body
  2. Read the ## Why it's needed section from the PR body
  3. Write a plain-English summary of what the change does and why it matters — one short paragraph per PR

Read the full file on GitHub · 177 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 · 177 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A e77f57f9a9bf

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release is a skill published in the GitHub repository hmcts/agentic-plugins-marketplace (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 1,429 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 2026-08-31.