diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 09466bf8..2249d23e 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 {
-  ".": "0.7.0"
+  ".": "0.8.0"
 }
 
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d747992b..62f9f32a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [0.8.0](https://github.com/runloopai/rl-cli/compare/v0.7.0...v0.8.0) (2026-01-08)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* prepared repo for open source contributions! ([#29](https://github.com/runloopai/rl-cli/issues/29)) ([a6d91c5](https://github.com/runloopai/rl-cli/commit/a6d91c5d4bf8bd737e7bdcec41991e0b817f3f3d))
+
 ## [0.7.0](https://github.com/runloopai/rl-cli-node/compare/v0.6.1...v0.7.0) (2026-01-08)
 
 
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index 65cdc9d8..47c828c0 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "@runloop/rl-cli",
-  "version": "0.7.0",
+  "version": "0.8.0",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "@runloop/rl-cli",
-      "version": "0.7.0",
+      "version": "0.8.0",
       "license": "MIT",
       "dependencies": {
         "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk": "^1.19.1",
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 45714991..bd1d473d 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@runloop/rl-cli",
-  "version": "0.7.0",
+  "version": "0.8.0",
   "description": "Beautiful CLI for the Runloop platform",
   "type": "module",
   "bin": {