test-release

test-release is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from coleam00/Archon. It costs 145 tokens per session (5,924 once invoked), scanned F, original, MIT.

Verify a released archon binary works end-to-end via a specific install path. Use when: cutting a new release, reproducing a user bug report on the released version, or validating that a hotfix binary actually works after a re-tag. Triggers: "test the release", "test 0.3.1 via brew", "verify the curl install", "smoke…

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/coleam00/archon/test-release
Any agent
npx skills add coleam00/Archon --skill test-release
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/coleam00/Archon

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 145 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,924 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan F 4 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00145 $0.05924
Opus 5 $0.00072 $0.02962
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.01185
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00592

Measured today against content hash 89c306fbc0e2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade F, and why

test-release scanned grade F with 4 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 today.

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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

> checksum, then demands sudo and dies with

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.

> assignment applies only to `cmd1`, so `INSTALL_DIR=… curl … | bash` sets it for

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

rm -rf "$LEAKREPO"

Makes network callslowCapability

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

Triggers: "test the release", "test 0.3.1 via brew", "verify the curl install",
.claude/skills/test-release/SKILL.md · 543 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 543 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Test Release

Automated smoke test for a released archon binary. Covers three install paths:

  • brew — Homebrew tap on macOS (tests the formula and checksums)
  • curl-maccurl install.sh on macOS (tests the install script, sandboxed to a temp dir)
  • curl-vpscurl install.sh on a remote Linux VPS (tests the Linux binary and full install path)

Every path installs the binary, runs a fixed smoke test suite, and cleans up. The dev bun link binary is never touched and remains the default archon on PATH throughout.

When NOT to use this skill:

  • There is no release yet — build a local binary via bash scripts/build-binaries.sh and run it from dist/binaries/ directly
  • You want to test the dev clone — use bun run validate or invoke source directly via bun packages/cli/src/cli.ts
  • You want to test the full server + web UI deploy flow — use the cloud-init from deploy/cloud-init.yml on a real VPS

Local build for pre-release QA

To build a binary locally with the exact same flags and constants that CI uses, invoke scripts/build-binaries.sh directly. The script supports two modes:

# Multi-target mode (builds all 4 local platforms into dist/binaries/)
VERSION=0.3.1 GIT_COMMIT=abc12345 bash scripts/build-binaries.sh

# Single-target mode (matches one CI matrix job)
VERSION=0.3.1 \
GIT_COMMIT=abc12345 \
TARGET=bun-darwin-arm64 \
OUTFILE=dist/test-archon-darwin-arm64 \
bash scripts/build-binaries.sh

# Verify the binary — use the path from the mode you built:
#   multi-target → ./dist/binaries/archon-darwin-arm64
#   single-target → the OUTFILE you passed above
./dist/test-archon-darwin-arm64 version
# Expected: Archon CLI v0.3.1, Build: binary, Git commit: abc12345

Run this before tagging a release to catch build-time-constant issues locally. The script is the canonical entry point — both local dev and the release workflow call it the same way, so a green local build means the CI build will exercise the same code path.

Phase 1 — Determine scope

Read the full file on GitHub · 543 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. today First seen · 543 lines · 145 tokens per session scan F 89c306fbc0e2

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test-release is a skill published in the GitHub repository coleam00/Archon (23,366 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 145 tokens to every session and 5,924 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it F with 4 findings (asks for root, downloads and executes remote code, recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.