release-manager

What This Skill Does

The Release Manager agent is a sophisticated orchestration tool designed to streamline the software delivery lifecycle. Whether you are managing a monolithic codebase or a complex ecosystem of multi-repo microservices, this agent acts as your central release authority. It automates the intricate dance of version alignment, strategy planning, and release candidate (RC) workflows. By integrating directly into your repository environment, it removes the manual toil of tracking dependencies, updating version strings across multiple files, and drafting release notes. Its logic ensures that your versioning follows semantic conventions while keeping your changelogs consistent and transparent for stakeholders.

Installation

To integrate the Release Manager into your current OpenClaw agent configuration, execute the following command in your terminal:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/anton-abyzov/sw-release-manager

Ensure that your environment has the necessary repository permissions configured so the agent can perform read/write operations on your version files and tag your git releases automatically.

Use Cases

• Automated Changelog Generation: Automatically parse pull request summaries and commit histories to generate clean, formatted release notes for production deployment.
• Dependency Synchronization: Update version numbers across multiple linked repositories simultaneously to ensure compatibility before a deployment.
• RC Lifecycle Management: Manage the lifecycle of release candidates, including creating branches, pushing tags, and finalizing merge requests once quality gates are passed.
• Versioning Strategy Enforcement: Enforce strict adherence to SemVer or internal company versioning schemas, preventing invalid release tags from being pushed to your repository.

Example Prompts

1. "Release Manager, initiate a new release candidate for the frontend repo, bump the minor version, and generate the changelog based on the latest commits."
2. "Check all microservices in the mono-repo and align their versions with the core SDK, then draft a summary of changes for the v2.4.0 release."
3. "Prepare the release sequence for next Friday: create the release branch, update the version in package.json, and alert the team once the RC tag is pushed."

Tips & Limitations

To get the best performance, ensure your repository follows standardized git commit conventions (like Conventional Commits), as this allows the agent to parse changes more accurately. While the agent is powerful, it should be treated as an assistant; always review the generated changelog before publishing it to public-facing documentation. The skill currently focuses on repository-level orchestration and requires appropriate CI/CD environment variables to be set if you wish to trigger remote deployments beyond simple git tagging.