A release procedure for promoting the dev-beta Git branch to the main branch and adding a date-based version tag. Git is a system for tracking code changes and branches.

Use it when releasing beta code: confirm the change, merge dev-beta into main, create and push the version tag, push main, and return to dev-beta.

It provides a repeatable way to publish a tested beta as a final release while preserving a merge record. It also defines how to handle conflicts and an existing tag.

How akaghef/M3E configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to akaghef/M3E. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/akaghef/M3E/main/.claude/skills/majorupdate/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/akaghef/M3E

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/akaghef/m3e/majorupdate/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/akaghef/m3e/majorupdate)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/akaghef/m3e/majorupdate"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/akaghef/m3e/majorupdate/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.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/akaghef/m3e/majorupdate"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/akaghef/m3e/majorupdate.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 352 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00072	$0.00352
Opus 5.5	$0.00029	$0.00141
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00014	$0.00070
Haiku 4.5	$0.00007	$0.00035

Measured 5d ago against content hash f74fd6c31a00, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

majorupdate 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 5d 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.

.claude/skills/majorupdate/SKILL.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

Major Update Skill

Promote the current dev-beta branch to main (final release) with a date-based version tag.

Version format

Tag name: v + YYMMDD of today's date (e.g. v260402 for 2026-04-02). Derive the date from the current date at the time of execution.

Steps

Execute the following sequence in order:

Confirm with the user before proceeding (this modifies main)
Determine today's version tag: vYYMMDD
git checkout main
git merge dev-beta --no-ff -m "merge: dev-beta → main (beta promotion to final)"
git tag <vYYMMDD> main
git push origin main
git push origin <vYYMMDD>
git checkout dev-beta — return to the working branch

Notes

If there are merge conflicts, stop and report them to the user before proceeding
If the tag already exists (same-day re-launch), ask the user whether to overwrite or use a suffix (e.g. v260402-2)
Report the commit range pushed and the tag name on completion
Do not force-push or rewrite history

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.

5d ago First seen · 34 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A f74fd6c31a00

Subscribe to this mod's changes

majorupdate is a skill published in the GitHub repository akaghef/M3E (11 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 352 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-10-02.

Git and workflow Releases

release-announcement

Write a release announcement — changelog, blog post, in-app note, or social post — that leads with user impact, names the audience, and includes upgrade/migration steps without filler.

paperclipai/paperclip · 42 tokens

release-notes

Generate user-facing release notes from tickets, PRDs, or changelogs. Creates clear, engaging summaries organized by category (new features, improvements, fixes). Use when writing release notes, creating changelogs, announcing product updates, or summarizing what shipped.

phuryn/pm-skills · 57 tokens

M3E: Skill for Claude Code