Release Sidecar

by marcus

Release Sidecar is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by marcus in sidecar.

1K stars79 forkson marcus/sidecarAdded 2026/08/21Repository updated 2026/08/21

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Install Release Sidecar

Copy Release Sidecar 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/marcus/sidecar/tree/main/.claude/skills/release-sidecar ~/.claude/skills/release-sidecar

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/marcus/sidecar.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/release-sidecar/SKILL.md in marcus/sidecar
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/release-sidecar
Collection: One of 16 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: DevOps — 798 skills

What Release Sidecar does

Release Sidecar prepares and publishes new Sidecar versions. It covers semver tagging, dependency and changelog updates, release automation, Homebrew tap publishing, and post-release verification.

Release Sidecar is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Release Sidecar comes from a repository tagged agentic-ai, agentic-workflows, claude-code and tui.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Releasing a New Version

Operator contract: docs/guides/active/releasing.md. Enforcement lives in scripts/ and RELEASE_VERSION=vX.Y.Z make release. Prefer the one-shot command over replaying this checklist by hand.

Prerequisites

Go matching go.mod
Clean working tree; main identical to live origin/main
Tests and Go CI green on the commit you will tag (tests and lint) — check-release-state.sh now checks this itself via gh run list --workflow=go-ci.yml and fails closed if it's red/running/missing, so you don't have to remember to look
GitHub CLI authenticated with push access to marcus/homebrew-tap
No replace directives in go.mod
HOMEBREW_TAP_TOKEN secret present in the GitHub repo (CI tap job)

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

Frequently asked about Release Sidecar

What else does marcus publish alongside Release Sidecar?
Release Sidecar is one of 16 skills that DirSkills catalogs from marcus/sidecar, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Create Adapter, Create Modal and Create Plugin. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Release Sidecar does, and is maintained by marcus in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the marcus/sidecar page.
How does Release Sidecar compare to other DevOps skills?
Release Sidecar ranks #429 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 Release Sidecar against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.