---
title: "release_look"
description: "Clear the held version so renders follow whatever the designer saved most recently."
canonical: "https://shotops.dev/docs/mcp/reference/release_look"
last_updated: "2026-09-07"
shotops_mcp_version: "0.9.6"
result_contract_version: "2.0.0"
---
# release_look

Clear the held version so renders follow whatever the designer saved most recently.

## What it does

- Writes
- Idempotent
- Account required

The undo for hold_look. Clearing the hold puts the project back on Follow latest, so agents pick up the newest saved version again. A no-op when nothing was held.

You can ask: “Let the Tidebook project follow the latest saved Look again.”

## Input

- `project`stringoptionalat least 1 character Which ShotOps project to target: its id (as returned by read_look/save_project), OR its NAME as the user says it — matched exactly, ignoring case and surrounding spaces. Omit = your most recently edited project. A name that matches none or several is refused with the account's projects listed, never resolved by guessing.

## Result

- `ok`booleanoptional
- `project`objectoptional
  - `id`stringrequired
  - `name`stringrequired
- `heldVersion`nulloptional
- `message`stringoptional

## Example

That request maps to this call:

```
{
  "name": "release_look",
  "arguments": {
    "project": "Tidebook 2.4 launch"
  }
}
```

Confirmation that nothing is held. Safe to call when nothing was held to begin with.

## Access and cost

- Needs an account. Not available to an anonymous hosted caller.
- Free. Releasing spends no cloud credits.

## When it refuses

- **Nothing was held.**
  The call succeeds anyway. This is deliberately idempotent — calling it twice is safe.

## Where this fits

- [Hold and Follow latest, end to end](https://shotops.dev/docs/mcp/workflows/saved-project)

## What the agent is told

The title and description the server publishes on `tools/list` — this is the copy a model chooses between, reproduced verbatim.

Release the held look

Go back to rendering the newest design: clears a project’s held version (undo hold_look), so agents Follow latest and pick up whatever the designer saved most recently. No-op if nothing was held. No store credential.