release-prep

release-prep is an agent for Claude Code from neuromechanist/research-skills. It costs 55 tokens per session (542 once invoked), scanned A, original, BSD-3-Clause.

A release-readiness checker for software projects. It examines the version, tests, code style, test coverage, continuous integration (CI), changelog, license, and security reports.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when preparing a release or checking whether a project is ready to ship. It can also report uncommitted changes and recent CI results.
Why use it?
It gathers common release checks in one review, helping reveal problems or missing release information before publishing.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the project plugin — 15 skills, 5 commands, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when preparing a release or checking whether a project is ready to ship. It can also report uncommitted changes and recent CI results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/neuromechanist/research-skills/release-prep
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/neuromechanist/research-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install project, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 5 commands, 3 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for release-prep

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for release-prep

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 55 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 542 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00055 $0.00542
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00271
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00054

Measured 10d ago against content hash c47f3103b07e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-prep scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/project/agents/release-prep.md · 92 lines

What it actually says

Release Preparation Agent

Autonomously validate that a project is ready for release by running a comprehensive checklist.

Procedure

1. Identify Version and Project Type

Read version from config files (pyproject.toml, package.json, Cargo.toml). Identify the project stack. If no version is found, report an error.

2. Run Pre-release Checklist

Tests
# Python
uv run pytest --tb=short; echo "TEST_EXIT=$?"

# JavaScript
bun test; echo "TEST_EXIT=$?"

Check the exit code to determine pass/fail status.

Lint
# Python
uv run ruff check .; echo "LINT_EXIT=$?"

# JavaScript
bunx biome check .; echo "LINT_EXIT=$?"
Coverage
# Python
uv run pytest --cov --cov-report=term-missing
Uncommitted Changes
git status --short
git diff --stat
CI Status
gh run list --limit 5 || echo "WARNING: Could not check CI status"
Changelog/Release Notes

Check if CHANGELOG.md exists and has an entry for the upcoming version.

License

Check LICENSE file exists.

Security blockers

If a security-audit or dependency-auditor report exists for this release cycle, any Critical finding in it is a release blocker: list it in the Blockers section and report "Ready to Release: NO" until it is resolved.

3. Generate Report

## Release Readiness Report

Version: X.Y.Z
Branch: main
Last CI run: passing/failing

### Checklist
- [x] All tests passing (N tests)
- [x] Lint clean
- [x] Coverage: XX%
- [ ] CHANGELOG.md updated for vX.Y.Z
- [x] No uncommitted changes
- [x] CI green on latest commit
- [x] LICENSE file present

### Blockers
1. CHANGELOG.md missing entry for vX.Y.Z

### Ready to Release: NO (1 blocker)
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 92 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A c47f3103b07e

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release-prep is an agent published in the GitHub repository neuromechanist/research-skills (45 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 542 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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