release

A release workflow that prepares release notes from the changelog, architecture decision records, and Git commits, then creates a version tag and can publish the release with GitHub's command-line tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when cutting a software release: promote the changelog, summarize changes since the previous tag, write RELEASE_NOTES.md, tag the version, and optionally publish it.
Why use it?
It removes the need to assemble release information by hand and still leaves a notes file when GitHub publishing is unavailable.

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/sp-daewoon/chronicle/release
Any agent
npx skills add sp-daewoon/chronicle --skill release
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sp-daewoon/chronicle

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 521 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 $0.00075 $0.00521
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00260
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00104
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00052

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5ceb92462f11, 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 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.

skills/release/SKILL.md · 57 lines

What it actually says

Release Workflow

Cut a release end to end.

1. Promote the changelog

node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/changelog-parse.mjs" release --version <X.Y.Z> --date <today>

2. Gather context for notes

Find the previous tag and the commits/ADRs since then:

PREV=$(git describe --tags --abbrev=0 2>/dev/null || echo "")
COMMITS=$( [ -n "$PREV" ] && git log "$PREV"..HEAD --pretty=format:'%s' || git log --pretty=format:'%s' )

Collect new ADRs by diffing the ADR directory since $PREV (use git diff --name-only --diff-filter=A "$PREV"..HEAD -- <adr.dir>). Build a JSON object { "adrs": [{number,title,file}], "commits": ["..."] }.

3. Synthesize notes

Pipe the JSON into the helper:

echo "$JSON" | node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/release-notes.mjs" --version <X.Y.Z>

This writes RELEASE_NOTES.md and prints the notes. The notes combine the changelog section for this version, new ADRs, and a collapsed commit list.

4. Tag and publish

git tag <tagPrefix><X.Y.Z>     # tagPrefix from config, default "v"

If gh is installed and a remote exists, publish:

gh release create <tagPrefix><X.Y.Z> --notes-file RELEASE_NOTES.md

If gh is unavailable, stop here and tell the user the notes are in RELEASE_NOTES.md for manual upload.

Rules

  • Never tag before the changelog is promoted (step 1 must precede step 4).
  • gh is optional — degrade gracefully to the notes file.
  • Use the real version and date; confirm the version bump with the user if ambiguous.
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 · 57 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 5ceb92462f11

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release is a skill published in the GitHub repository sp-daewoon/chronicle (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 521 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.