release-manager

A software release-management guide for planning, checking, documenting, and recovering from releases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to generate changelogs, choose version bumps, assess release readiness, plan releases, prepare rollback procedures, manage hotfixes, and coordinate gradual rollouts.
Why use it?
It organizes release work so version changes, changelogs, readiness checks, communication, rollbacks, and urgent fixes are handled consistently.

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/samplexbro/agentsmesh/release-manager
Any agent
npx skills add sampleXbro/agentsmesh --skill release-manager
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sampleXbro/agentsmesh

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 5 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,656 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 $0.00005 $0.03656
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.01828
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00731
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00366

Measured 2d ago against content hash bef37ef3b482, 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (changelog_generator.py, release_planner.py, version_bumper.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.

.agents/skills/release-manager/SKILL.md · 492 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 492 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

Release Manager

Tier: POWERFUL
Category: Engineering
Domain: Software Release Management & DevOps

Overview

The Release Manager skill provides comprehensive tools and knowledge for managing software releases end-to-end. From parsing conventional commits to generating changelogs, determining version bumps, and orchestrating release processes, this skill ensures reliable, predictable, and well-documented software releases.

Core Capabilities

  • Automated Changelog Generation from git history using conventional commits
  • Semantic Version Bumping based on commit analysis and breaking changes
  • Release Readiness Assessment with comprehensive checklists and validation
  • Release Planning & Coordination with stakeholder communication templates
  • Rollback Planning with automated recovery procedures
  • Hotfix Management for emergency releases
  • Feature Flag Integration for progressive rollouts

Key Components

Scripts

  1. changelog_generator.py - Parses git logs and generates structured changelogs
  2. version_bumper.py - Determines correct version bumps from conventional commits
  3. release_planner.py - Assesses release readiness and generates coordination plans

Documentation

  • Comprehensive release management methodology
  • Conventional commits specification and examples
  • Release workflow comparisons (Git Flow, Trunk-based, GitHub Flow)
  • Hotfix procedures and emergency response protocols

Release Management Methodology

Semantic Versioning (SemVer)

Semantic Versioning follows the MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH format where:

  • MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes
  • MINOR version when you add functionality in a backwards compatible manner
  • PATCH version when you make backwards compatible bug fixes
Pre-release Versions

Pre-release versions are denoted by appending a hyphen and identifiers:

  • 1.0.0-alpha.1 - Alpha releases for early testing
  • 1.0.0-beta.2 - Beta releases for wider testing
  • 1.0.0-rc.1 - Release candidates for final validation

Read the full file on GitHub · 492 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. 2d ago First seen · 492 lines · 5 tokens per session scan A bef37ef3b482

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release-manager is a skill published in the GitHub repository sampleXbro/agentsmesh (24 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 5 tokens to every session and 3,656 once invoked, about $0.0000 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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