# sentry-setup-releases

Wires Sentry release tracking and deploy monitoring to connect errors with commit culprits. Useful when issues show an unknown release or lack suspect commits.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1500 installs · ★ 272
- Author: getsentry
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-for-ai/tree/HEAD/src/skills/sentry-setup-releases/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/sentry-setup-releases

## What it does

The skill verifies whether release tags and CI objects match before touching project configuration. Release tracking often fails silently: builds pass even if auth tokens are missing in CI secrets or SDK tags differ from the release name by a single character.

The diagnostic flow checks both halves by querying Sentry resources over MCP. It configures the bundler plugin or pipeline, requires `fetch-depth: 0` for git commit attribution, and validates the result on a live deploy. You must authorize the GitHub or GitLab OAuth connection in the Sentry UI yourself, as the agent cannot do that step for you.

## Requirements
- Works with: Sentry

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add getsentry/sentry-for-ai --skill sentry-setup-releases -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/sentry-setup-releases/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/sentry-setup-releases/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add getsentry/sentry-for-ai --skill sentry-setup-releases -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/sentry-setup-releases/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add getsentry/sentry-for-ai --skill sentry-setup-releases -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/sentry-setup-releases/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install getsentry/sentry-for-ai sentry-setup-releases
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/sentry-setup-releases/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add getsentry/sentry-for-ai --skill sentry-setup-releases -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-for-ai --path src/skills/sentry-setup-releases
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/sentry-setup-releases/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add getsentry/sentry-for-ai --skill sentry-setup-releases -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-for-ai/tree/HEAD/src/skills/sentry-setup-releases/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- connect Sentry errors to specific git commits and authors
- troubleshoot unknown release tags and missing suspect commits
- configure CI release creation and deploy recording
- enforce exact character matches between SDK version tags and CI releases

## Example prompts
- Set up Sentry releases and deploy tracking for this repository
- Diagnose why our Sentry issues show unknown release and no suspect commit
- Configure CI to associate git commits with Sentry releases

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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---
name: sentry-setup-releases
description: Set up Sentry releases and deploy tracking — tag events with a version and environment, create the release in CI with its commits, and wire up suspect commits and code mappings, so Sentry can show which release introduced an issue, which commit is responsible, and release health. Use when asked to set up releases, track deploys, see what changed, or when issues show an unknown release or no suspect commit.
license: Apache-2.0
---
# Set Up Sentry Releases

Without a release, an issue tells you *what* broke but nothing about *when it started*
or *what changed*. This skill wires that up end to end: the version tag on events, the
release created in CI with its commits and deploy, and the suspect-commit path that
turns an issue into a culprit PR.

The whole setup fails **silently** — every piece can be individually correct while
producing nothing visible — so this skill’s real job is to diagnose which piece is
missing before configuring anything.

**Wrong skill?** If Sentry isn’t installed and capturing events yet, start with
`sentry-instrument` — releases decorate events you already receive.
If the complaint is minified or unsymbolicated frames, that’s `sentry-fix-stack-traces`
(readable frames are a prerequisite for suspect commits, so you may come back here
after). If the goal is fixing one specific issue rather than setting up the wiring,
that’s `sentry-debug-issue`. Note that `sentry-get-started` and `sentry-instrument` set
the release *tag* during setup, using the same references — this skill is the entry
point for the CI half and for a release feature that isn’t working.

## Step 1 — Establish which half exists before configuring anything

**Do not start writing CI config.** Most projects arrive here partially set up, and the
fix depends entirely on which half is missing.
Read the diagnosis table in
[`references/releases/index.md`](references/releases/index.md) and answer its two
questions:

- **Are events tagged?** Pull a recent event via the MCP (`search_issues`, then
  `get_sentry_resource`) and read its `release` tag.
  Note the exact value — you will compare it character for character.
- **Does the release object exist under that name?** This is a **different question**,
  and an event search cannot answer it — `release:<value>` only tells you events carry
  the tag, which you already know from the previous bullet.
  Call `get_release_details` with that exact version: it returns the **commits and
  deploys** attached to the release — deploys with their environment, commits with
  author and repository — which is what tells you whether the CI half ran.
  If you don’t have the exact string, `find_releases` lists releases with a `lastCommit`
  / `lastDeploy` summary on each, enough to see at a glance which ones CI touched.
  Both are **catalog tools** and usually aren’t exposed directly — reach them via
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