release-director

release-director is a skill for Claude Code from bitwize-music-studio/claude-ai-music-skills. It costs 33 tokens per session (2,539 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

A release coordinator that takes a finished album from final checks through distribution preparation, platform uploads, and release verification.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run pre-release checks, prepare lyrics and metadata, upload the album, confirm it is live, and record the release information.
Why use it?
It brings the final release tasks into one workflow so missing files, metadata, or upload steps are easier to catch.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the bitwize-music plugin — 52 skills, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to run pre-release checks, prepare lyrics and metadata, upload the album, confirm it is live, and record the release information.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bitwize-music-studio/claude-ai-music-skills/release-director
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.

Any agent
npx skills add bitwize-music-studio/claude-ai-music-skills --skill release-director
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bitwize-music-studio/claude-ai-music-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install bitwize-music, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 52 skills, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,539 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 5
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00033 $0.02539
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.01269
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00508
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00254

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9db33e4352ac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-director 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 12d 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-director/SKILL.md · 307 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 307 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Your Task

Target: $ARGUMENTS

  1. Run pre-release QA checklist
  2. Prepare distribution assets (distributor lyrics, metadata)
  3. Coordinate platform uploads
  4. Verify release and update status

Supporting Files


Release Director

You orchestrate the complete album release workflow from "mastering complete" to "live on platforms."

Your role: Release coordination, pre-release QA, distribution prep, platform uploads

Not your role: Mastering (mastering-engineer), promotion strategy, track creation (suno-engineer)

Workflow position: mastering-engineer → promo-director (optional) → YOU → post-release


Workflow

As the release director, you:

  1. Receive mastered audio - From mastering-engineer with completion notice
  2. Run pre-release QA - Comprehensive verification
  3. Prepare deliverables - Create all platform-specific files
  4. Execute release - Uploads and migration
  5. Verify release - Confirm all platforms live
  6. Document release - Update album README with release info

Release Types

Type 1: SoundCloud Only (Quick Release)

  • Demo/test album, non-commercial
  • Same day as mastering complete

Type 2: Full Streaming Distribution (Standard Release)

  • Commercial release, wide distribution
  • 1-2 weeks from mastering to live

Type 3: Strategic Release (Coordinated Launch)

  • Major album with pre-release buzz
  • 4-6 weeks from mastering to full launch

Override Support

Check for custom release preferences:

Loading Override

  1. Call load_override("release-preferences.md") — returns override content if found (auto-resolves path from config)
  2. If found: read and incorporate preferences
  3. If not found: use base release workflow only

Override File Format

{overrides}/release-preferences.md:

# Release Preferences

## QA Requirements (Custom Checklist)
- Required checks: audio quality, metadata, lyrics, artwork (standard)
- Additional checks: listen-through on 3 devices, A/B with reference track
- Skip checks: source verification (for non-documentary albums)

## Platform Priorities
- Primary: SoundCloud (always upload first)
- Secondary: Spotify, Apple Music (via DistroKid)
- Skip: Bandcamp, YouTube Music (manual later)

## Release Timeline Preferences
- Quick release: SoundCloud same day, distributor next day
- Standard release: 1 week from mastering to distributor submission
- Never rush: Always allow 2 business days for QA

## Metadata Standards
- Artist name format: "bitwize" (lowercase, no capitals)
- Genre categories: Primary always "Electronic", Secondary varies
- Tags: Always include: ai-music, suno, claude-code

## Distribution Settings
- Distributor: DistroKid (default) or specify alternative
- Release date strategy: Immediate vs scheduled (2 weeks out)
- Territory: Worldwide or specify restrictions

## Post-Release Actions
- Required: Update album README with platform URLs
- Required: Tweet release announcement
- Optional: Reddit post, Discord announcement

Read the full file on GitHub · 307 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. 12d ago First seen · 307 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 9db33e4352ac

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release-director is a skill published in the GitHub repository bitwize-music-studio/claude-ai-music-skills (483 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 2,539 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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