release-bumper

release-bumper is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PaulRBerg/agent-skills. It costs 20 tokens per session (1,652 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release workflow for one or more software packages that updates versions, writes changelogs, creates commits, and adds Git tags.

In plain words
What is it for?
Bumping package versions, recording release notes, committing the changes, tagging releases, and creating beta versions.
Why use it?
It organizes the repetitive steps of preparing a release and can preview the planned changes without modifying the repository.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: model in frontmatter; $skill-name invocation.

Good fit Bumping package versions, recording release notes, committing the changes, tagging releases, and creating beta versions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/paulrberg/agent-skills/release-bumper
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 PaulRBerg/agent-skills --skill release-bumper
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PaulRBerg/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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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Your own site
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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,652 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 6
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00020 $0.01652
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00826
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00330
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00165

Measured today against content hash 1995d27bef64, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-bumper 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 today.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/finalize-release-plan.py, scripts/plan-release.ts, scripts/validate-changelog.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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-bumper/SKILL.md · 126 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 126 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release Bumper

If these instructions are already present in the conversation from a slash or dollar invocation, follow them directly; do not invoke this skill again through a skill tool.

Release one package or several packages with version bumps, changelog entries, commits, and tags.

A non-dry-run invocation authorizes the repository-local version edits, changelogs, commits, and annotated tags defined by this workflow. Do not add a generic confirmation gate after the agent derives the release plan. Ask only when an unresolved package selection or dependency-range policy changes the release set or approach; GitHub release creation remains a separate external write governed below.

Arguments

  • packages: optional package names or directories. Omit in a single-package repository.
  • version: optional explicit semver. Valid only for one user-selected package.
  • --beta: create or advance a -beta.X prerelease.
  • --dry-run: preview without modifying files, committing, or tagging.

Helper Interface

Resolve <skill-dir> from this SKILL.md. Keep helper stdout as JSON and diagnostics on stderr.

bun run "<skill-dir>/scripts/plan-release.ts" \
  [--cwd <repo>] [--beta] [--dry-run] [--version <semver>] \
  [--package <name-or-dir>]...

The read-only discovery output has schemaVersion: 2. It reports package identity, complete per-package changedFiles, workspace edges and declared ranges, previous-tag facts, selected targets, and worktree state. changeHints are filename-based, explicitly non-authoritative navigation hints. Never use them to decide release relevance or changelog inclusion.

After the agent decides every stable patch/minor/major version, write discovery JSON to a temporary file and run:

uv run "<skill-dir>/scripts/finalize-release-plan.py" \
  --discovery <discovery.json> \
  [--version <package>=<semver>]...

The finalizer performs beta and explicit-version transitions, stable prerelease promotion, npm-range satisfaction, simple dependency-range suggestions, and dependency ordering. It reports complex ranges, peer ranges, dependency cycles, and stable versions not supplied by the agent as unresolved decisions. When an unsatisfied edge adds a dependent, choose that package's release version and rerun with another --version assignment. The finalizer never chooses a regular release magnitude or dependency policy.

Read the full file on GitHub · 126 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. today Changed · +2 lines 1995d27bef64
  2. 10d ago First seen · 124 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 769ff57e8a23

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release-bumper is a skill published in the GitHub repository PaulRBerg/agent-skills (70 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 1,652 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.