Cut Release

by microsoft

Cut Release is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by microsoft in apm.

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Install Cut Release

Copy Cut Release into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/microsoft/apm/tree/main/.agents/skills/cut-release ~/.claude/skills/cut-release

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/microsoft/apm.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .agents/skills/cut-release/SKILL.md in microsoft/apm
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/cut-release
Collection: One of 21 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: DevOps — 798 skills

What Cut Release does

Cut Release assesses merged changes since the last tag, picks a patch or minor semver bump, sanitizes the unreleased changelog into a dated version block, bumps pyproject.toml and uv.lock, verifies lint, and opens a release PR.

Cut Release is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Cut Release comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, claude-code, codex-cli, context-engineering and github-copilot.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

cut-release -- assess, sanitize, bump, lint, open PR

This skill drives the release-cut workflow end-to-end on the current worktree. It STOPS at "PR open"; tagging is the human-gated trigger that fires the release workflow.

When to use

Trigger this skill on any of these intents:

"cut a release"
"ship v0.x" / "ship the release"
"release prep" / "prepare the release"
"bump and open the PR"
"open the release PR"
"what kind of release do we need now"
"we have enough merged for a release"
Any phrasing that ends in opening a release PR.

Do NOT trigger on:

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Cut Release

What else does microsoft publish alongside Cut Release?
Cut Release is one of 21 skills that DirSkills catalogs from microsoft/apm, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include APM Issue Autopilot, APM Review Panel and APM Spec Guardian. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Cut Release does, and is maintained by microsoft in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the microsoft/apm page.
How does Cut Release compare to other DevOps skills?
Cut Release ranks #196 by stars among the 798 DevOps skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Backend Patterns, API Connector Builder and Migration. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Cut Release against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.