review-release

review-release is a skill for Claude Code from chrisallenlane/claude-swe-workflows. It costs 48 tokens per session (3,019 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A pre-release checklist that examines a project before a software release. It checks code, tests, builds, documentation, version information, and licensing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review debug files, version mismatches, missing changelog entries, risky code changes, broken builds, failing tests, and license issues.
Why use it?
It gathers release risks in one report before anything is shipped, while leaving decisions and fixes to a person.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the claude-swe-workflows plugin — 17 skills, 40 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to review debug files, version mismatches, missing changelog entries, risky code changes, broken builds, failing tests, and license issues.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/chrisallenlane/claude-swe-workflows/review-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 chrisallenlane/claude-swe-workflows --skill review-release
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chrisallenlane/claude-swe-workflows

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-swe-workflows, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 40 agents.

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 review-release

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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,019 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 $0.00048 $0.03019
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01510
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00604
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00302

Measured 12d ago against content hash 87b9b3c08868, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-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 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/review-release/SKILL.md · 356 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 356 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release Review - Pre-Release Readiness Check

Pre-flight checklist before cutting a release. Spawns a scanner agent for static analysis, runs execution-based checks (tests, build, doc freshness), then presents consolidated findings for human review. Runs all checks without interruption, then presents the full picture for decision-making.

Pairing with /release: This skill is the advisory side of the release seam. The mutator side is /release, which invokes /review-release as preflight before doing anything irreversible. If the intent is to cut the release, invoke /release directly — it runs this skill internally. Use /review-release standalone only when auditing readiness without committing to a cut.

Philosophy

Surface issues, don't silently fix them. A release is a commitment to users. Every issue deserves human review before shipping. The only auto-fixes offered are mechanical debug artifact removals.

Run everything, then report. Run all checks — static analysis, tests, build, doc freshness — without interruption. Present the full picture at the end so the user can make informed decisions with complete information.

Err toward reporting. A false positive costs seconds. A missed issue ships to users.

Workflow Overview

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                     RELEASE REVIEW                       │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  1. Determine release context                            │
│  2. Spawn qa-release-engineer agent (static analysis)    │
│  3. Run test suite                                       │
│  4. Run build verification                               │
│  5. Check documentation freshness                        │
│  6. Present full consolidated report                     │
│  7. User selects which items to address                  │
│  8. Implement selected fixes                             │
│  9. Re-verify affected checks                            │
│ 10. Final summary with release recommendation            │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Read the full file on GitHub · 356 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 · 356 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 87b9b3c08868

Subscribe to this mod's changes

review-release is a skill published in the GitHub repository chrisallenlane/claude-swe-workflows (18 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 3,019 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.