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release-plannotator

Prepare and execute a Plannotator release — draft release notes with full contributor credit, bump versions across all package files, build in dependency order, and kick off the tag-driven release pipeline. Use this skill whenever the user mentions preparing a release, bumping versions, writing release notes, tagging a release, or publishing. Also trigger when the user says things like "let's ship", "prep a release", "what's changed since last release", or "time to cut a new version".

Scanned · 1 to knowSkillSource: GitHub

9,522 stars +147 this week Updated 16d ago License Apache-2.0 Context ≈127 tokens always loaded

79popular

Why this score

Stars

21/35

Usage (forks)

8/15

Upkeep

25/25

License

15/15

Owner history

10/10

This repo hosts 10 skills, so its 9,522 stars are split between them (about 952 each) for scoring.

Popularity score: 79/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank

Security

Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit ab5013a38705, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.

What its code does:

Runs shell commands Common for dev tools. Read the commands it runs.references/release-notes-v0.12.0.md:1, references/release-notes-v0.13.0.md:1, references/release-notes-v0.13.1.md:1 and 3 more

A scan lists patterns in the code. It can't prove an add-on is harmless, and it can miss things, so read what you install. How we scan

Alternatives

Other makers' add-ons that do the same job, next to this one.

Name	Score	Stars	Context	Updated
This onerelease-plannotator backnotprop/plannotator · Skill	79	★ 9.5k	≈127 always	16d ago
plannotator-tui plannotator/herdr-annotate · Skill Both about plannotator	72	★ 677	≈63 always	20d ago
release oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix · Skill Both about release and contributor	65	★ 567	≈21 always	19d ago
release-bump jamiepine/voicebox · Skill Both about release and bump	93	★ 58k	≈62 always	29d ago
prepare-release mysticaltech/terraform-hcloud-kube-hetzner · Skill Both about release and prepare	76	★ 3.9k	≈44 always	26d ago
claw-release prompt-security/clawsec · Skill Both about release and bumping	69	★ 1.1k	≈32 always	16d ago

Install

mkdir -p .claude/skills/release-plannotator

curl -sL https://codeload.github.com/backnotprop/plannotator/tar.gz/ab5013a3870511f05b6664f874becc169868b727 | tar -xz -C .claude/skills/release-plannotator --strip-components=4 "plannotator-ab5013a3870511f05b6664f874becc169868b727/.agents/skills/release"

To remove it later:

rm -rf .claude/skills/release-plannotator

npx skills add backnotprop/plannotator --skill release-plannotator

Pinned to commit ab5013a38705 as listed by GitHub.

Context cost: ≈127 tokens loaded every session (name and description), plus ≈4.6k tokens when the skill is used.

The Claude Code command downloads this skill folder at the pinned commit into .claude/skills/. The Skills CLI (npx skills) works with many agents but can't pin a version, so it installs whatever is current.

Facts

Repo: backnotprop/plannotator
Stars: 9,522
Forks: 713
Last push: 2026-10-19 (16d ago)
License: Apache-2.0
Owner: backnotprop · since 2014
Language: TypeScript
Works with: Claude Code, Skills CLI