release-readiness

release-readiness is a skill for Claude Code from bradlay/claude-code-recipes. It costs 85 tokens per session (957 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only report that checks whether a dependency upgrade or branch promotion is ready to proceed. It compares branch content, dependency-update pull requests, version freshness, and the project’s own checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before promoting one branch to another or completing a dependency upgrade. It reports whether changes are already present, whether branches diverge, and which actions appear safe.
Why use it?
It distinguishes real code differences from misleading commit counts and gathers the checks needed for a safer go/no-go decision without changing anything.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the agent-fleet plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it before promoting one branch to another or completing a dependency upgrade. It reports whether changes are already present, whether branches diverge, and which actions appear safe.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bradlay/claude-code-recipes/release-readiness
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 bradlay/claude-code-recipes --skill release-readiness
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bradlay/claude-code-recipes

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-fleet, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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-readiness

README.md
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Your own site
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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.

agentmods 80×15 button for release-readiness

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 957 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00085 $0.00957
Opus 5.5 $0.00034 $0.00383
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00191
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00096

Measured 18d ago against content hash 7d42e2219a36, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-readiness 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 18d 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.

plugins/agent-fleet/skills/release-readiness/SKILL.md · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release Readiness

Answer in one auditable pass: is this upgrade or promotion already done, and if not, is it safe to do? This skill is read-only. It never bumps, commits, promotes, or closes PRs; it says which of those is safe.

Arguments: an optional free-text [target-bump] (for example "framework 7 / bundler 8") that turns on the compatibility step. Ask which branches are involved if the repository has more than one long-lived branch (call them <lower> and <upper>, for example develop and main).

Steps: run each, quote the raw result, never assert from memory

  1. Divergence, by content. Ahead/behind commit counts mislead: after squash or rebase merges, a branch can be "behind" while holding all the same content. Compare content instead:
    • git fetch first.
    • git diff --stat <upper>...<lower>: what <lower> would bring.
    • git diff --stat <lower>...<upper>: content on <upper> that <lower> never had. Non-empty means real divergence; investigate it before any promotion.
  2. Dependency-bot PRs (needs gh): gh pr list --state open --author app/dependabot (or your bot). For each, compare the target version with the lockfile on the base branch:
    • SUBSUMED: the base already has the target or newer, so the PR is redundant.
    • PENDING: the bump is still outstanding.
    • OVERRIDE-CONFLICT: a resolution or override rule pins below the target, so the override must change first.
    • UNKNOWN: grouped, lockfile-only, or unparseable. Inspect by hand; never count it as done.
  3. Compatibility, only when [target-bump] is given or step 2 shows PENDING:
    • Outdated check with the ecosystem's tool (see dependency-scan).
    • Peer-dependency and engine constraints for the bump (the package's peerDependencies, required runtime versions, any platform compatibility date your deployment target uses). Cite the release notes you used.
  4. The project's own gates, if it has them. CI status on the branch head (gh run list --branch <lower> --limit 5), open issues labeled as release blockers, any security-scan results. Report what is live; do not assume a clean board.
  5. Environment consistency, if relevant. For multi-service or multi-env repositories, differences in configuration between environments that the promotion would expose.

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 lines

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. 18d ago First seen · 73 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A 7d42e2219a36

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release-readiness is a skill published in the GitHub repository bradlay/claude-code-recipes (2 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 957 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 2026-10-17.

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