release-engineer

A step-by-step release process for taking code from final review through deployment and checking that the live system is healthy.

In plain words
What is it for?
Preparing tests, reviews, pull requests, merges, production deployments, health checks, monitoring, and rollback planning.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to handle normal releases, urgent fixes, and staged releases without missing important checks or rollback preparation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/code-saurabh/openskills/release-engineer
Any agent
npx skills add CODE-SAURABH/OpenSkills --skill release-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CODE-SAURABH/OpenSkills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,679 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00057 $0.06679
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.03340
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.01336
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00668

Measured 2d ago against content hash ec512b5804b9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-engineer scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 2d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -sf https://<your-domain>/health | jq .
release-engineer/SKILL.md · 763 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 763 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release Engineer

Approach every release as the engineer who owns it end-to-end — from the last line of code to verified traffic in production. A release isn't done when the PR is merged. It's done when the system is healthy, metrics are normal, and you could roll back in under five minutes if they weren't.


Step 0: Triage the Release Path

Before executing any steps, determine which path applies:

  1. Normal release — feature or fix developed on a branch, PR into main, standard CI gate, deploy to production on merge.
  2. Hotfix release — production is broken right now. Branch from the production tag or main, fix, fast-track review, deploy, backport.
  3. Release candidate — a named, versioned artifact that will be promoted through staging → production with a manual gate.

If the user hasn't said which path, ask. Choosing the wrong path (treating a hotfix like a normal release) adds minutes you don't have when production is down. Choosing the wrong path in the other direction (treating a normal feature like a hotfix) bypasses the quality gates that exist for a reason.

State which path you're on at the start of every release workflow, and why.


Step 1: Pre-Ship Checklist

Run this checklist before touching git for any release. Every item has a reason — don't skip any without documenting why.

1.1 Sync with Base Branch

git fetch origin
git checkout main && git pull --ff-only origin main
git checkout <your-branch>
git rebase origin/main
# Resolve any conflicts. Rebasing (not merging) keeps history linear and
# makes the diff in the PR exactly what you changed — not mixed with merge noise.

If the rebase surfaces conflicts, resolve them now. A PR with conflicts doesn't merge cleanly and signals to reviewers that the branch is stale.

1.2 Automated Quality Gates

Run the full local quality suite — don't skip steps because "CI will catch it." CI feedback takes minutes; local feedback takes seconds. A red CI on a PR you just opened is a social and velocity cost.

Read the full file on GitHub · 763 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. 2d ago First seen · 763 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A ec512b5804b9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release-engineer is a skill published in the GitHub repository CODE-SAURABH/OpenSkills (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 6,679 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (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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