release

release is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit. It costs 46 tokens per session (522 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release workflow that turns code changes into a version number, a dated CHANGELOG entry, and a tag. It uses Semantic Versioning, where fixes, new features, and breaking changes determine the version change.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when cutting a release, updating the CHANGELOG, choosing a version, creating a tag, or checking pre-release requirements.
Why use it?
It removes guesswork from version bumps and keeps release notes consistent. It also checks that tests, security checks, and distribution instructions are ready before release.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it when cutting a release, updating the CHANGELOG, choosing a version, creating a tag, or checking pre-release requirements.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit/release
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 byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit --skill release
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit/release/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit/release)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit/release"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit/release/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit/release"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit/release.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 522 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 high

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 →

  • high Prompt Injection · line 11
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
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 $0.00046 $0.00522
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00261
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00104
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00052

Measured 9d ago against content hash 73376f07fc24, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 9d 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.

claude-starter/skills/release/SKILL.md · 44 lines

What it actually says

Release & CHANGELOG

Trigger phrases: "release", "cut a release", "changelog", "version bump", "bump the version", "new version", "tag", "semver"

SemVer mapping (derive from Conventional Commits)

  • fix:PATCH (x.y.Z)
  • feat:MINOR (x.Y.0)
  • BREAKING CHANGE: / feat!:MAJOR (X.0.0)

CHANGELOG (Keep a Changelog)

Headings: Added · Changed · Fixed · Removed · Security · Deprecated. Every version is dated; the Unreleased section can be auto-populated from commits.

Pre-release gates (all must pass)

  • Tests green + sonarqube-check PASSED
  • dependency-audit clean (0 HIGH/CRITICAL)
  • CHANGELOG up to date
  • Version number conforms to SemVer
  • Every distribution channel has a documented way to GET this version. Publishing and reaching users are different events. A channel whose consumers pin at install time — an editor extension, a plugin, a vendored copy — leaves them on the version they installed until they ask for a new one, so a security fix ships and does not arrive. For each channel name the upgrade command in the README, and say plainly where it is not automatic. This was a real gap: three channels documented npm i -g / brew upgrade / a refresh command while the plugin channel documented only how to install.

Tagging

git tag -a vX.Y.Z -m "vX.Y.Z"    # asks for approval (§4.4); push on explicit request (§4.5)

DoD

  • Correct SemVer bump; complete CHANGELOG; tag + rollback plan ready.
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 · 44 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 73376f07fc24

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release is a skill published in the GitHub repository byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit (22 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 522 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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