board-claim-release

board-claim-release is a command for Claude Code from GhostlyGawd/engineering-board. It costs 65 tokens per session (901 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for releasing a claim on an engineering-board entry, where a claim marks that a worker is currently handling the entry.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for releasing a named claim after checking ownership, with an optional force mode for an ownership mismatch.
Why use it?
It frees an entry when its worker session has gone offline or left the claim stuck.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the engineering-board plugin — 6 skills, 21 commands, 8 agents, 4 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit It is for releasing a named claim after checking ownership, with an optional force mode for an ownership mismatch.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add GhostlyGawd/engineering-board
Claude Code
/plugin install engineering-board

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install engineering-board, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 21 commands, 8 agents, 4 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 65 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 901 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 $0.00065 $0.00901
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00451
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00180
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00090

Measured 6d ago against content hash 56957ff1e4ac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

board-claim-release 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 6d 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.

commands/board-claim-release.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/board-claim-release: manual claim release

Release a stuck or orphaned claim so another worker (or the same user) can re-acquire it. The Stop hook's worker-mode procedure releases claims automatically each turn. this command is the manual fallback for when a worker session has gone offline or a claim is visibly stuck.

What to do

Step 1: Parse arguments

Extract <entry-id> from $ARGUMENTS. The entry-id must match ^[A-Z][0-9]+$ (e.g. B017, F003, Q012).

Also check whether --force appears in $ARGUMENTS.

If no entry-id is found or the pattern does not match, print:

Usage: /board-claim-release <entry-id> (e.g. B017). No action taken.

Then stop.

Step 2: Resolve board directory

Resolve the board router in this order (first hit wins), then extract the board path for the current project:

  1. ${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}/engineering-board/BOARD-ROUTER.md: default since 1.1.0
  2. ${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}/docs/boards/BOARD-ROUTER.md: compat (pre-1.1.0)
  3. ${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}/docs/board/: legacy single-board (no router)

Step 3: Check claim existence

Check whether <board-dir>/_claims/<entry-id>/ exists.

If not, print:

No claim found for <entry-id>. Nothing to release.

Then stop.

Step 4: Read claim owner and current session

Read <board-dir>/_claims/<entry-id>/owner.txt. Extract the session_id: line value (second whitespace-separated token).

Read ${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}/.engineering-board/last-stop-stdin.json if it exists. Extract the session_id field. If the file does not exist or has no session_id, use an empty string "" as the current session_id.

Step 5: Run the release script

Run:

bash $CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/hooks/scripts/board-claim-release.sh <board-dir> <entry-id> <session-id>

Where <session-id> is:

  • Without --force: the current session_id from Step 4.
  • With --force: the owner session_id read from owner.txt in Step 4 (so the script's owner-check passes regardless of who is calling).

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 lines

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. 6d ago First seen · 87 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 56957ff1e4ac

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board-claim-release is a command published in the GitHub repository GhostlyGawd/engineering-board (0 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 901 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 2026-08-31.