creating-releases-json

creating-releases-json is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from buildinternet/releases. It costs 184 tokens per session (3,846 once invoked), scanned C, original, Apache-2.0.

A skill for creating a releases.json file, a small public manifest that tells tools where a company publishes its product release notes. It can point to a changelog, feed, GitHub Releases, app-store listing, or hosted file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when listing a product on Releases, adding a manifest, or getting a changelog indexed. It discovers real release-note locations, writes the manifest, validates it, and helps publish it.
Why use it?
It gives registries and agents an owner-declared source instead of making them guess where updates are published. The file’s location also defines whether it speaks for a whole company or one repository.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when listing a product on Releases, adding a manifest, or getting a changelog indexed. It discovers real release-note locations, writes the manifest, validates it, and helps publish it.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/buildinternet/releases/creating-releases-json
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 buildinternet/releases --skill creating-releases-json
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/buildinternet/releases

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 184 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,846 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 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 $0.00184 $0.03846
Opus 5 $0.00092 $0.01923
Sonnet 5 $0.00037 $0.00769
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00385

Measured 9d ago against content hash a5bffb0dacd9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

creating-releases-json scanned grade C with 2 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate.mjs), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl -fsSL https://{domain}/.well-known/releases.json | node <skill-dir>/scripts/validate.mjs /dev/stdin

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -fsSL https://{domain}/.well-known/releases.json | node <skill-dir>/scripts/validate.mjs /dev/stdin
skills/creating-releases-json/SKILL.md · 273 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 273 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Creating a releases.json manifest

releases.json is a small, owner-declared file that states what products a company ships and where it publishes release notes — a changelog, an updates page, an RSS/Atom feed, GitHub Releases, an App Store listing, or a hosted CHANGELOG file. Any registry or agent that reads the format (starting with releases.sh) learns where the release notes live directly from the owner instead of guessing.

Authority comes from where the file lives, not from what it claims. A file at https://{domain}/.well-known/releases.json speaks for that whole company; a releases.json at a repository root speaks only for that repo. That is the entire trust model — if you can publish the file at the URL, you can declare what it says.

Your job with this skill: figure out which scope applies, discover the locations where release notes actually live (never invent them), model the company's products without over-fragmenting, write a correctly-shaped file, validate it, and help get it published.

How you'll be asked to run this

Most of the time there is no codebase — someone just says "here's our website, make us a releases.json". That's the primary path: you work from the live site (and GitHub org), browsing to find where updates are published, and you hand back a finished file plus instructions on where to host it. You cannot commit it for them.

Less often you're working inside a repo — the one that serves the company's site, or a single product/library repo — in which case you can also read the codebase and write the file into place. Both paths use the same steps below; only Step 1 (scope) and Step 5 (publish) differ.

The one rule that matters most

Only declare locations that really exist and respond. The manifest states plain facts about where updates are published. A guessed or aspirational URL is worse than omitting it — it creates a broken source. Before writing any locator, confirm the URL resolves (fetch it, or check it against the codebase/site). If you cannot verify a location, leave it out and say so.

Read the full file on GitHub · 273 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 9d ago First seen · 273 lines · 184 tokens per session scan C a5bffb0dacd9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

creating-releases-json is a skill published in the GitHub repository buildinternet/releases (6 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 184 tokens to every session and 3,846 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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