cratis-engineering-release-trains

cratis-engineering-release-trains is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Cratis/AI. It costs 106 tokens per session (2,258 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release-planning guide for grouping related completed changes into one release candidate, the version prepared for shipping. It also covers folding replaced pull requests into that candidate and checking whether it meets the release bar.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assemble branches, combine related pull requests, preserve their commits, prepare release notes and issue decisions, and stop for human approval when required.
Why use it?
It helps prevent related changes from being shipped separately or incomplete work from entering a release.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to assemble branches, combine related pull requests, preserve their commits, prepare release notes and issue decisions, and stop for human approval when required.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cratis/ai/cratis-engineering-release-trains
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 Cratis/AI --skill cratis-engineering-release-trains
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Cratis/AI

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 106 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,258 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 $0.00106 $0.02258
Opus 5.5 $0.00042 $0.00903
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00452
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00226

Measured yesterday against content hash cb7fad5fa373, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cratis-engineering-release-trains 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 yesterday.

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.

.cratis/ai/skills/cratis-engineering-release-trains/SKILL.md · 192 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 192 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

One assembled candidate, one release

A candidate is the branch assembling deliveries intended to ship together. A repository includes its main checkout and all its worktrees. Consider their concurrent work together, not as separate releases merely because it has separate branches. One person or session assembles the candidate.

Authority and routing

Read capability-is-not-authority.md and the ship-changes prompt before any external effect. A user's ship request authorizes its ordinary shipping steps; loading this skill does not turn an implementation-only request into shipping. Without that request, prepare the grouping and report the proposed next action.

Read pull-requests.md for release intent, split criteria, release notes, issue dispositions, and the human checkpoint for a major release. A major release is never merged by an agent: a human confirms and merges it. Agent work stops at preparing the PR, even after confirmation. Read git-commits.md before assembling branches. Preserve commits: never squash, rebase, amend, or force-push.

Use cratis-engineering-consolidation-guard when folding existing PRs to prove nothing was dropped. Use cratis-engineering-ci-gates for gate selection and run handling, and cratis-engineering-review-rounds for proportionate review.

Choose the candidate before creating a PR

  1. Inspect the repository's worktrees, finished branches, and open PRs:

    git worktree list
    gh pr list --state open --json number,headRefName,title,author
    
  2. Group related, ready deliveries under one candidate and one PR. Check with the person assembling an existing candidate before changing it. Independent work branches start from origin/main; work that depends on an unmerged candidate may start from that candidate's latest commit (see Replace waits with local work). Ongoing work keeps its branch. Do not edit another session's checkout or include its uncommitted work.

  3. Prefer joining a related open PR that is still accepting deliveries, has no checks running, and is not being merged by another session. Agree on its writer, merge origin/main into its branch, then merge the deliveries and extend its release note. Do not open a competing PR while it is being cut.

  4. If no candidate exists, create a branch from current origin/main and merge ready delivery branches with merge commits. Keep each logical change in its own commits. Return a conflicting or failing delivery for correction rather than guessing its intent in the assembled branch.

  5. Keep one candidate per repository by default. Apply the split criteria in pull-requests.md for unrelated work, different risk, or an urgent fix. Name the exception in the reviewer comment; a major awaiting human confirmation must not silently hold unrelated safe work indefinitely.

Read the full file on GitHub · 192 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. yesterday First seen · 192 lines · 106 tokens per session scan A cb7fad5fa373

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cratis-engineering-release-trains is a skill published in the GitHub repository Cratis/AI (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 106 tokens to every session and 2,258 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-25.

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