release-and-publish

release-and-publish is a skill for Claude Code from cyanheads/pubmed-mcp-server. It costs 155 tokens per session (6,457 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of release-and-publish, Apache-2.0.

A release-publishing workflow for sending a prepared project release to registries and hosting services such as npm, the MCP Registry, GitHub Releases, and GHCR.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after versioning, changelog, commit, tag, and verification work is complete to publish the applicable release artifacts.
Why use it?
Publishing involves several destinations and strict preparation steps; this checks the release is ready and handles the final delivery process.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the pubmed-mcp-server plugin — 33 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it after versioning, changelog, commit, tag, and verification work is complete to publish the applicable release artifacts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cyanheads/pubmed-mcp-server/release-and-publish
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 cyanheads/pubmed-mcp-server --skill release-and-publish
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cyanheads/pubmed-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pubmed-mcp-server, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 33 skills, 1 MCP server.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 155 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,457 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00155 $0.06457
Opus 5.5 $0.00062 $0.02583
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00031 $0.01291
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00646

Measured today against content hash 7dda70fed347, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-and-publish 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 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -sf -m 15 -o /dev/null "https://registry.npmjs.org/<package-name>/<version>" && echo served && break
Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to release-and-publish — 12 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

framework-skills/release-and-publish/SKILL.md · 332 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 332 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Preconditions

This skill runs after git wrapup. By the time it's invoked:

  • Pre-wrapup verification is done (field-test, security-pass, polish-docs-meta as applicable)
  • package.json version is bumped
  • changelog/<major.minor>.x/<version>.md is authored
  • CHANGELOG.md is regenerated
  • README and every version-bearing file is in sync
  • Release commit (chore(release): <version> — <theme>) is at HEAD — or, in gated release PR mode, reachable from HEAD with only the review pass's commits above it
  • No tag exists yet — this skill creates it (step 4)
  • Working tree is clean
  • Release PR mode (see git-wrapup's "Release PR mode"): HEAD is on release/<version>, the branch is pushed, the PR is open, and — in gated mode — the caller has confirmed the review pass is finished. Without that confirmation, halt: this skill never decides on its own that a review is done.

If any are missing, halt and tell the user to finish wrapup first. Do not attempt to redo wrapup work from inside this skill.

Failure Protocol

Steps 5–9 are network-bound. For those, retry transient failures up to 2 times with short backoff (~5 s before the first retry, ~15 s before the second) before halting. All other steps halt on the first non-zero exit — they're deterministic and a second attempt won't change the outcome.

Retry on transient patterns

Match stderr (case-insensitive) against any of these — if matched, the failure is almost always a network blip; retry:

  • integrity check failed / IntegrityCheckFailed — corrupt tarball during download
  • ECONNRESET / EAI_AGAIN / ETIMEDOUT / ENOTFOUND — network layer
  • connection reset / connection refused — transport blip
  • timed out / request timeout — server or network timeout
  • HTTP 502 / 503 / 504 — transient registry error

Docker retries (step 9) preserve shared build caches. Retry the failed build without pruning. If evidence points to a corrupt cached layer, retry that build with --no-cache; never run docker builder prune or other shared-resource cleanup as part of a release.

Read the full file on GitHub · 332 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 Changed · +2 lines 7dda70fed347
  2. 22d ago Changed 94d7430b6fe0
  3. 27d ago Changed · +4 lines 50cced7cae44
  4. 1mo ago Changed · +9 lines 03fb2a0af188
  5. 1mo ago Changed · +3 lines b1e631bb2a28
  6. 1mo ago Changed · +78 lines · +43 tokens per session 7493f2fff09a
  7. 1mo ago Changed · +12 lines 82eed916fa4b
  8. 1mo ago First seen · 224 lines · 112 tokens per session scan A d59a54e65293

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release-and-publish is a skill published in the GitHub repository cyanheads/pubmed-mcp-server (163 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 155 tokens to every session and 6,457 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 92% identical to release-and-publish, differing in 12 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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