release

release is a skill for Claude Code from Abilityai/abilities. It costs 41 tokens per session (1,131 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release preparation workflow for turning completed development work into a versioned release.

In plain words
What is it for?
It runs a pre-release checklist, updates the version and changelog, creates release notes, and prepares and tags a release pull request.
Why use it?
It brings checks, version changes, release notes, and pull-request steps into one process instead of handling them separately.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the dev-methodology plugin — 18 skills, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit It runs a pre-release checklist, updates the version and changelog, creates release notes, and prepares and tags a release pull request.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/abilityai/abilities/release
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.

Any agent
npx skills add Abilityai/abilities --skill release
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abilityai/abilities

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev-methodology, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 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

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/abilityai/abilities/release/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/abilityai/abilities/release)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/abilityai/abilities/release"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/abilityai/abilities/release/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/abilityai/abilities/release"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/abilityai/abilities/release.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,131 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 $0.00041 $0.01131
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00452
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00226
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00113

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ec71ebf54ac0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 1mo 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/dev-methodology/skills/release/SKILL.md · 165 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 165 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release

ℹ️ First, set expectations: before anything else, print one short line with this skill's version and its most recent change — the top entry of metadata.changelog above — e.g. release vX.Y — recent: <summary>. Then proceed.

Automate the release cut process: pre-release checklist, version bump, release notes, PR creation, and tagging.

State Dependencies

Source Location Read Write Description
GitHub Issues GitHub repo ✅ ✅ In-dev issues to close
Git log current branch ✅ Commits since last release
Version file pyproject.toml, package.json, etc. ✅ ✅ Version bump
Changelog docs/memory/changelog.md ✅ ✅ Release notes

Arguments

  • $ARGUMENTS: Version tag (e.g., v1.2.0, cli-v0.4.0). If omitted, suggests next version based on git tags.

Process

Step 1: Determine Version

If no version argument provided:

# Get latest tag
git describe --tags --abbrev=0 2>/dev/null || echo "No tags yet"

Suggest next version following semver. Confirm with user before continuing.

Step 2: Pre-Release Checklist

Run validation gates. Do NOT proceed if any CRITICAL item fails.

# 1. No open P0 issues
gh issue list --label "priority-p0" --state open --json number,title

# 2. No open P1 issues that are blocking
gh issue list --label "priority-p1,status-blocked" --state open --json number,title

# 3. Tests pass
# (invoke test-runner or check CI status)
gh run list --limit 5 --json status,conclusion,name

Present checklist:

## Pre-Release Checklist

- [ ] No open P0 issues
- [ ] No blocked P1 issues  
- [ ] Tests passing (CI green)
- [ ] In-dev issues confirmed shippable

GATE: Ask user to confirm checklist before continuing.

Step 3: Collect In-Dev Issues

gh issue list --label "status-in-dev" --state open --json number,title

These issues will be closed by the release PR via Closes #N.

Read the full file on GitHub · 165 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. 1mo ago First seen · 165 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A ec71ebf54ac0

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release is a skill published in the GitHub repository Abilityai/abilities (12 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,131 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-07.