Azure/setup-azd is a GitHub Action that installs the Azure Developer CLI, a command-line tool for provisioning Azure resources and deploying applications. It supports workflows that choose a specific CLI version or use the latest one.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to Azure/setup-azd. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Azure/setup-azd/main/.github/skills/github-action-release/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Azure/setup-azdWrote this? Show the measurements
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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 | $0.00220 | $0.02449 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00088 | $0.00980 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00044 | $0.00490 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00022 | $0.00245 |
Grade A, and why
github-action-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 yesterday.
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 — 191 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
github-action-release
WORKFLOW SKILL — Cut and publish a new version of a GitHub Action, then validate it in a real consumer pipeline.
INVOKES: git CLI, gh CLI, npm, ask_user, azd CLI.
When to use
- Releasing a new version of a GitHub Action repo (e.g.,
Azure/setup-azd) to GitHub Marketplace. - Any change that requires bumping the action's version tag so downstream workflows (
uses: Org/[email protected]) can consume it. - Post-release validation against a known consumer repo.
Do not use for general PR creation (use pull-request), code review (use code-review), or npm-library releases that are not GitHub Actions.
Workflow
Step 1 — Pre-release smoke test with @main
Before cutting a release, verify main is green end-to-end.
- Confirm all PRs targeting the release are merged into
mainand CI onmainis green (gh run list --branch main --limit 5). - In a consumer pipeline, temporarily pin the action to
@mainto exercise the un-released code:- uses: Azure/setup-azd@main - Trigger the consumer workflow and confirm it succeeds. If it fails, fix forward on
mainbefore proceeding.
Step 2 — Decide the new version
ask_user for the version bump (or infer from the changes):
- Patch (
x.y.Z) — bug fixes, dependency bumps with no behavior change. - Minor (
x.Y.0) — new features, runtime upgrades (e.g., Node 20 → 24) that keep backward compat for most consumers. - Major (
X.0.0) — breaking changes (removed inputs, required runner upgrades, etc.).
Step 3 — Update version-bearing files
Open a PR that updates all four files consistently:
CHANGELOG.md— add a new section at the top following the existing template. Example (fromAzure/setup-azdPR #220):
Omit sections that have no entries.## 2.3.0 (YYYY-MM-DD) ### Features Added - [[PR#]](https://github.com/Org/repo/pull/PR#) Short description. ### Breaking Changes - ... ### Bugs Fixed - ... ### Other 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.
- yesterday First seen · 191 lines · 220 tokens per session scan A b5e2218a541a
github-action-release is a skill published in the GitHub repository Azure/setup-azd (11 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 220 tokens to every session and 2,449 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-11-07.
github-action-release compared with skills from other repositories
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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