release

release is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AnthonyPoschen/agent-skills. It costs 53 tokens per session (1,551 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for preparing and recording software releases, including version numbers, changelogs, release notes, and Git tags.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create or update changelogs, GitHub release text, upgrade notes, release summaries, release PR descriptions, tags, and publishing steps.
Why use it?
It keeps release information consistent with the repository's existing versioning rules and separates preparing a release from publishing it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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/anthonyposchen/agent-skills/release.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/anthonyposchen/agent-skills/release)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/anthonyposchen/agent-skills/release"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/anthonyposchen/agent-skills/release.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,551 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00053 $0.01551
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00776
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00310
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00155

Measured 4d ago against content hash 3c116d58186e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 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.

skills/release/SKILL.md · 213 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 213 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release

Use this skill to maintain release records and, when asked, prepare or publish a release. Write release notes for the person deciding whether to upgrade, install, review, or publish.

Activation

Use this skill for:

  • changelogs
  • release notes
  • GitHub release text
  • changes since a tag
  • changes between versions
  • upgrade notes
  • release summaries
  • release PR descriptions
  • release versions, tags, and publishing
  • missing, stale, or incorrect changelog and release-note records

Choose The Release Task

  • Release records: create, update, review, or correct a changelog, release note, GitHub Release draft, or release summary. Do not tag or publish unless the user asks.
  • Prepare a release: determine the version, make required release-record updates, and report the commit that is ready to tag. Do not create or push a tag unless the user asks.
  • Publish a release: complete the release records, create the requested tag, and publish it only with explicit authority.

Convention Detection

Before writing files, inspect existing conventions:

  • CHANGELOG.md
  • CHANGELOG*
  • docs/releases/
  • docs/changelog/
  • releases/
  • .github/releases/
  • previous GitHub release text when available

Follow the existing convention unless the user asks to change it. If no convention exists, prefer producing release notes text instead of creating files automatically. Ask before introducing a new changelog storage convention.

Also inspect existing tags, package manifests, release automation, and release documentation. They establish the repository's versioning convention.

Choose A Version

Follow the repository's established versioning scheme. Existing tags, package metadata, release documents, and automation take priority over this skill.

  • For a repository that uses Semantic Versioning, follow its normal major/minor/patch practice. Ask before choosing a version when the compatibility impact is unclear.
  • When no clear versioning convention exists, use CalVer. Read CalVer details before choosing or creating a CalVer tag.
  • Do not change a repository from one versioning scheme to another as part of a normal release. Ask first.

Read the full file on GitHub · 213 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

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. 4d ago First seen · 213 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 3c116d58186e

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release is a skill published in the GitHub repository AnthonyPoschen/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,551 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.