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.
npx agentmods add skills/afaraha8403/balakit/release-deploynpx skills add afaraha8403/balakit --skill release-deploygit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/afaraha8403/balakitWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/afaraha8403/balakit/release-deploy)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/afaraha8403/balakit/release-deploy"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/afaraha8403/balakit/release-deploy.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00094 | $0.01154 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00047 | $0.00577 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00019 | $0.00231 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00115 |
Grade A, and why
release-deploy 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 4d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Release & Deploy (GitHub Tags)
Leading words: commits ≠ deploys; branch → channel; tag triggers ship; changelog is truth; interview once; never guess channel.
Core model
- Commits ≠ deploys. Only a git tag + GitHub Release triggers deployment (via GitHub Actions or project-specific release jobs).
- Branch → channel
main→ production releasestaging→ beta release
- Tags
- Production:
vMAJOR.MINOR.PATCH(e.g.v1.4.0) - Beta:
vMAJOR.MINOR.PATCH-beta.N(e.g.v1.4.0-beta.1)
- Production:
- Release notes come from the project's maintained
CHANGELOG.md(do not invent a changelog). See references/versioning.md.
Before every release
- Load project config
- Look for
projects/<repo-slug>.mdnext to thisSKILL.md(slug = GitHubowner/repowith/→-, e.g.acme-web-app). - If missing → run the first-time interview in references/interview.md, write the file from references/project.template.md, then continue.
- Look for
- Confirm channel with the user: beta (
staging) or production (main). Never guess. - Verify git state (PowerShell-safe; run as separate commands):
- Correct branch checked out (
stagingormain) - Working tree clean (or user explicitly accepts dirty)
- Branch is up to date with its remote
- HEAD is the commit they intend to ship
- Correct branch checked out (
- Determine next version from existing tags + user intent. Follow references/versioning.md.
- Extract notes from
CHANGELOG.mdfor that version (or[Unreleased]if they are cutting that section into a version). If changelog is missing/ambiguous → stop and ask.
Release workflow
Follow references/gh-release.md. Summary:
- Ensure on the correct branch at the intended commit.
- Create annotated tag locally (optional if
gh release createwill create it). gh release createwith tag, title, notes from changelog, and--targetset to the branch (or SHA).- Watch the project's release/deploy workflow (from project config) until green or report failure.
- Summarize: tag, release URL, channel, deploy target/URL from project config.
What ships with it
8 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- 4d ago First seen · 90 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A 444d0bdf3a86
release-deploy is a skill published in the GitHub repository afaraha8403/balakit (1 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 1,154 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.
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