instructor-release

A guided workflow for preparing and publishing a new InstructorPHP version, including release notes, checks, and launch communication.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review changes since the last version, run release checks and examples, create release tasks, publish the package, and prepare the announcement.
Why use it?
It keeps release work in a tracked sequence with clear checks and approval points, reducing missed steps before publishing.

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/cognesy/instructor-php/instructor-release
Any agent
npx skills add cognesy/instructor-php --skill instructor-release
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cognesy/instructor-php

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,491 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00068 $0.01491
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00745
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00298
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00149

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2882a2f51e12, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

instructor-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 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.

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.

.codex/skills/instructor-release/SKILL.md · 174 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 174 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Instructor Release

This skill is the repo-local release orchestrator for InstructorPHP. A release is never a loose checklist. It is always a deterministic bd workflow with explicit gates, tracked blockers, and a final approval step before publish.

Treat these files as source of truth:

  • AGENTS.md for repo rules, bd, and git ownership constraints
  • CONTRIBUTING.md for release and package-management workflow
  • QUALITY.md for verification lanes
  • scripts/release/publish-ver.sh for the actual publish path
  • scripts/packages/sync-ver.sh for version synchronization
  • .github/workflows/docs.yml for validated Mintlify and GitHub Pages deployment
  • .github/workflows/php.yml for compatibility matrix coverage
  • .github/workflows/split.yml for post-tag split package publishing
  • docs/release-notes/*.mdx for public release-note shape

Read these references as needed:

  • references/bd-release-template.md
  • references/preflight-checks.md
  • references/examples-policy.md
  • references/release-notes-template.mdx
  • references/post-release.md

When To Use

Use this skill when the user asks to:

  • create or ship a new version release
  • prepare release notes or package-change summaries
  • run release-candidate QA or production-readiness checks
  • decide which tests, examples, docs checks, and CI reproductions are required before publish
  • publish with scripts/release/publish-ver.sh
  • prepare or post the release announcement

Release Rules

  • A release always gets a bd epic and child tasks.
  • Root quality gates must be green before publish unless the user explicitly accepts a waiver.
  • Split-package verification must be green before publish unless the user explicitly accepts a waiver.
  • Live examples are expensive. Run the curated live smoke set once per release cycle, then retry only failed examples after fixes.
  • Do not publish, tag, push, or post to X without explicit approval in the current conversation.
  • Do not hide failing checks. Record them in bd notes and block the release until resolved or explicitly waived.

Read the full file on GitHub · 174 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. 2d ago First seen · 174 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 2882a2f51e12

Subscribe to this mod's changes

instructor-release is a skill published in the GitHub repository cognesy/instructor-php (326 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 1,491 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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