release-skills alternatives

3 skills from other authors that do a similar job to release-skills by JimLiu. The most recently updated is prepare-release (Sep 21, 2026).

Side-by-side comparison

Skill Stars License Agents Last update Category Install
release-skills
by JimLiu · this skill
25,129 MIT Claude Code, Codex Jul 4, 2026 Backend Plugin marketplace
prepare-release
by CherryHQ
52,047 AGPL-3.0-only Claude Code, Codex Sep 21, 2026 Productivity git clone
release-notes
by phuryn
25,392 MIT Claude Code Jul 3, 2026 Productivity Plugin marketplace
deepchat-release
by ThinkInAIXYZ
6,228 Apache-2.0 Codex Aug 18, 2026 Productivity git clone

Alternatives are matched on overlapping names, descriptions, tags and SKILL.md sections, weighted by how rare each term is across the catalog. Data refreshed weekly from GitHub.

The alternatives

Prepare a new release by collecting commits, generating bilingual release notes, updating version files, and creating a release branch. Use when asked to prepare/create a release, bump version, or run `/prepare-release`.

↑ GrowingActive Claude CodeCodex
52k GitHub stars AGPL-3.0-only Updated Sep 21, 2026 Free

Generate user-facing release notes from tickets, PRDs, or changelogs. Creates clear, engaging summaries organized by category (new features, improvements, fixes). Use when writing release notes, creating changelogs, announcing product updates, or summarizing what shipped.

Claude Code
25k GitHub stars MIT Updated Jul 3, 2026 Free

Prepare and publish DeepChat releases in this repository. Use when Codex needs to bump the app version, update CHANGELOG.md, keep release notes bilingual from v1.0.1 onward with English bullets first and Chinese bullets second, run release checks, create or update versioned release branches such as release/v1.0.1, continue a half-finished release, fast-forward main with the documented release flow, create or push version tags, or clean up release branches after publishing.

Codex
6.2k GitHub stars Apache-2.0 Updated Aug 18, 2026 Free

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Frequently asked questions

What are the best alternatives to release-skills?
The closest matches in the catalog are prepare-release by CherryHQ, release-notes by phuryn, deepchat-release by ThinkInAIXYZ. They were picked because their names, descriptions, tags and SKILL.md sections overlap most with release-skills’s, and they come from other repositories.
Which release-skills alternative is most popular?
prepare-release by CherryHQ has the most GitHub stars of the alternatives listed here (52,047). Stars belong to the whole repository, so compare how many skills each repository contains too.
Are these alternatives free?
Yes. All of them are free to install from GitHub, and 3 of the 3 alternatives declare a recognized open-source license.