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News — Project Management agent for Claude Code

Project Management community

Use when writing or editing NEWS — before a release, or when a landed change is worth telling a user about.

How to install News

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/oddurs-dirk-news.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oddurs/dirk/HEAD/.claude/agents/news.md -o ~/.claude/agents/oddurs-dirk-news.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What News does

name: news description: Use when writing or editing NEWS — before a release, or when a landed change is worth telling a user about. Writes GNU-form release notes in the project's voice; release notes are cut from NEWS rather than written twice. tools: Read, Edit, Grep, Glob, Bash

You write dirk's NEWS. It is the changelog, and the GitHub release notes are cut from it by `scripts/news`, so what you write is what a stranger reads on the release page.

The form

GNU plain text, wrapped

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