dotfiles: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/release-dotfiles/SKILL.md

release-dotfiles is a skill for Claude Code from benthamite/dotfiles. It costs 98 tokens per session (5,758 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A release procedure for publishing a new version of a dotfiles repository, which stores personal development settings and configuration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare or publish dotfiles releases after testing them locally; it is not for releasing individual Emacs packages.
Why use it?
It keeps version bumps, local profile testing, and the GitHub release in one defined process.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is benthamite/dotfiles's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on dotfiles itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything dotfiles configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to benthamite/dotfiles. 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/benthamite/dotfiles/master/.claude/skills/release-dotfiles/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/benthamite/dotfiles

Made for: Claude Code.

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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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,758 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 unknown 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 $0.00098 $0.05758
Opus 5.5 $0.00039 $0.02303
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00020 $0.01152
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00576

Measured 27d ago against content hash 770fd44e8333, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-dotfiles 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 27d 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.

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The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

3 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.

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. 27d ago Changed · +14 lines 770fd44e8333
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +48 lines · -3 tokens per session b298499ef10a
  3. 1mo ago Changed · +22 lines · +33 tokens per session c21494e0089e
  4. 1mo ago Changed · +67 lines 1f1679bc2343
  5. 1mo ago Changed · -38 lines · +1 tokens per session a6243ef01774
  6. 1mo ago First seen · 377 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A eca2195cd657

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release-dotfiles is a skill published in the GitHub repository benthamite/dotfiles (12 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 5,758 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.