release

release is a skill for Claude Code from SienkLogic/plan-build-run. It costs 14 tokens per session (1,657 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release helper that turns project history into changelogs and release notes—documents describing what changed in a software version.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft or update version changelogs and release notes from commit history and other project records.
Why use it?
It removes the need to manually collect and rewrite changes from commits and project plans for users and teammates.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is node scripts/clean-changelog.js --write.

Part of the pbr plugin — 44 skills, 71 commands, 18 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SienkLogic/plan-build-run
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sienklogic/plan-build-run/release

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pbr, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 44 skills, 71 commands, 18 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/sienklogic/plan-build-run/release.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/sienklogic/plan-build-run/release)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sienklogic/plan-build-run/release"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sienklogic/plan-build-run/release.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,657 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 $0.00014 $0.01657
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00829
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00331
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00166

Measured 2d ago against content hash dd654df88d18, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 2d 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/pbr/skills/release/SKILL.md · 207 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 207 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

STOP — DO NOT READ THIS FILE. You are already reading it. This prompt was injected into your context by Claude Code's plugin system. Using the Read tool on this SKILL.md file wastes tokens. Begin executing Step 1 immediately.

Step 0 — Immediate Output

Before ANY tool calls, display this banner:

╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║  PLAN-BUILD-RUN ► RELEASE                                    ║
╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝

Then proceed to Step 1.

/pbr:release — Changelog & Release Notes

You are running the release skill. This skill generates polished, user-facing changelog entries from project history — milestone summaries, commit logs, and planning artifacts. It produces Keep a Changelog format with bolded feature names and impact-focused descriptions.

This skill runs inline (no subagents).


Argument Parsing

Parse $ARGUMENTS:

$ARGUMENTS format: [version] [--flag]

Examples:
  ""                 → mode=draft, version=auto-detect from package.json
  "v2.2.0"           → mode=draft, version=v2.2.0
  "--draft"          → mode=draft, version=auto-detect
  "--update v2.1.0"  → mode=update, version=v2.1.0
  "--clean"          → mode=clean, run clean-changelog.js on existing CHANGELOG.md

Modes:

  • draft (default) — Generate a new changelog entry for unreleased work
  • update — Regenerate the entry for an existing version
  • clean — Run the scope-cleaning script on the current CHANGELOG.md

Mode: clean

Run the changelog cleaning script to strip internal scopes from existing entries:

node scripts/clean-changelog.js --write

Display the result and exit.


Mode: draft or update

Step 1 — Gather Context

  1. Determine version:

    • If provided: use it (auto-prefix v if missing)
    • If not: read package.json version field and use that
  2. Read current CHANGELOG.md (if exists):

    • Parse existing version entries to avoid duplicating
    • If update mode: find the section for the target version to replace

Read the full file on GitHub · 207 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 · 207 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A dd654df88d18

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release is a skill published in the GitHub repository SienkLogic/plan-build-run (17 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 1,657 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 2026-09-03.