release-manager

release-manager is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience. It costs 64 tokens per session (1,425 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for managing software releases using SemVer, a version-numbering system such as 1.2.3, along with tags, release notes, and an agreed decision record.

In plain words
What is it for?
Setting up or repairing a release process, preparing a first public release, maintaining changelogs, and recording the agreed strategy.
Why use it?
It prevents inconsistent version numbers, missing changelog entries, and releases without a documented process or rollback plan.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the join-the-team plugin — 21 skills, 3 commands, 1 hook 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/jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience/release-manager
Any agent
npx skills add jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience --skill release-manager
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install join-the-team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 3 commands, 1 hook.

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,425 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 $0.00064 $0.01425
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00713
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00285
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00143

Measured 4d ago against content hash 4c62d171a8da, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-manager 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 4d 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/release-manager/SKILL.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release Manager

A release without a confirmed process is a deployment. A deployment without a rollback plan is a gamble.

This skill governs the release process itself — not a specific deployment (that is release-readiness) and not the CI infrastructure (that is github-manager). It ensures the team has agreed, documented, and is consistently following a versioning and release strategy, anchored by an ADR.

When to use

  • Setting up the release process for a new repository
  • Before the first public or production release of a project
  • When release practice has become inconsistent: manual uploads, skipped tags, changelog gaps, or no named release owner
  • As part of the bootstrap workflow, when the automation area is being defined
  • When delivery-orchestrator identifies a release-process gap during R2/R3 classification

Operating model context

Three release-adjacent skills exist in this harness with distinct responsibilities:

Skill Responsibility
github-manager CI trigger configuration, runner cost, branch protection, tag-event wiring
release-manager (this skill) Process governance: SemVer discipline, changelog, ADR, deviation authority
release-readiness Go/no-go gate for a specific deployment: failure modes, rollback, monitoring

Use all three in sequence for a new project. Use release-manager alone when auditing or repairing an existing process. Always hand off to release-readiness before the tag is pushed.

Default release strategy

Unless a team ADR explicitly records a different approach, the default is:

  • Versioning: Semantic Versioning — MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH
    • PATCH — backwards-compatible bug fixes
    • MINOR — backwards-compatible new capability
    • MAJOR — breaking changes
  • Tagging: v{MAJOR}.{MINOR}.{PATCH} tags on the default branch trigger release builds in CI. No other event produces a release artifact.
  • Artifacts: produced by CI from the tagged commit — never from a local workstation.
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.md updated before every release; format follows Keep a Changelog.
  • GitHub release: created by the CI pipeline, linked to the tag, with the changelog entry as its body.
  • Release authority: the named release owner (recorded in the operating profile) approves and pushes version tags. No one else pushes v* tags to the default branch.
  • Source of record: this repository's issues, ADRs, and architecture docs are the source of truth unless a team ADR explicitly records otherwise.

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 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. 4d ago First seen · 138 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 4c62d171a8da

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release-manager is a skill published in the GitHub repository jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience (11 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 1,425 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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