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release-changelog-harness
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By Arenukvern/skill_steward (GitHub) · coding · 12 stars · scanned at commit ab91839
For Changesets/Melos/release-plz, CHANGELOG hygiene, release CI, install.sh, and binary/GitHub Release distribution for CLIs and meta skill marketplaces. Not for repo quality baselines, ADRs, harness dogfood, or domain app feature work—use repo-quality-system-lifecycle or native product gates.
Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.
What this skill can do
Downloads and installs other software
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- skills/release-changelog-harness/SKILL.md, line 192
npx skills add arenukvern/skill_steward --skill release-changelog-harness - skills/release-changelog-harness/references/binary-release-contract.md, line 5
Meta repos that ship **only** `SKILL.md` + docs use `npx skills`. Skill Steward is the explicit exception: skills still ship through `npx skills`, while the `st - skills/release-changelog-harness/references/binary-release-contract.md, line 13
| Agent skills | `npx skills add owner/repo` | Tarball of entire monorepo for skill-only consumers | - skills/release-changelog-harness/references/binary-release-contract.md, line 15
| Skill Steward `steward` CLI | GitHub Release tarballs + checksums + `install.sh` when release-synchronized | Treating binaries as a replacement for `npx skill - skills/release-changelog-harness/references/binary-release-contract.md, line 42
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OWNER/REPO/main/install.sh | bash - skills/release-changelog-harness/references/binary-release-contract.md, line 44
curl -fsSL .../install.sh | bash -s -- --version vX.Y.Z - skills/release-changelog-harness/references/binary-release-contract.md, line 101
| **Skill-only consumer** | No — `npx skills` already avoids clone; binaries add nothing. | - skills/release-changelog-harness/references/binary-release-contract.md, line 115
| Shipping skills only as release assets | Breaks `npx skills` discovery | - skills/release-changelog-harness/references/binary-release-contract.md, line 131
| **Product MCP** | Release binaries + `npx skills` for skills | - skills/release-changelog-harness/references/binary-release-contract.md, line 133
| **Meta Steward** | `npx skills` for skills; optional release-synchronized CLI binary when the repo owns an executable consumer surface | - skills/release-changelog-harness/references/ecosystem-tooling.md, line 55
| Skills | `npx skills add owner/repo` | vercel-labs/skills | - docs/decisions/0010-binary-releases-for-product-harness-not-meta-steward.mdx, line 22
* **Consumer path** — Skill Steward value is **`SKILL.md` via `npx skills`**, not a long-running server binary. - docs/decisions/0010-binary-releases-for-product-harness-not-meta-steward.mdx, line 30
* **Skills-only distribution (status quo)** — `npx skills add`; maintainers use `pnpm run validate` / `steward` from clone. - docs/decisions/0010-binary-releases-for-product-harness-not-meta-steward.mdx, line 39
| Skills | `npx skills add arenukvern/skill_steward` (GitHub; no full clone required for install) | - docs/decisions/0014-distribute-steward-cli-as-binary.mdx, line 20
* **Global utility behavior:** Users want a single `steward` executable they can install globally (e.g. via `curl | bash`) and run inside any project.
Runs commands on your computer
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Found in 2 places.
Sends data to these websites: raw.githubusercontent.com
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Found in 2 places.
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Install
Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'release-changelog-harness' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'release-changelog-harness' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named release-changelog-harness already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/Arenukvern/skill_steward' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'ab91839b44569fc3d51d3390d8c81c2f825be6fd' -- 'skills/release-changelog-harness' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/release-changelog-harness' ~/.agents/skills/'release-changelog-harness' && rm -rf "$d"; fi
Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'release-changelog-harness' ~/.claude/skills/'release-changelog-harness' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.
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Score history
| Date | Version | Score |
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| 2026-11-08 | ab91839 | 75 |
| 2026-11-06 | ab91839 | 75 |