release-process

release-process is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from DanWahlin/ai-agent-board. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,251 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of release-process, MIT.

A release checklist for two npm packages, which are reusable JavaScript packages published through npm. It covers validation, the correct publishing commands, failed CI workflows, and checking the result after publishing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before and after releasing the project’s npm packages. It helps with pre-release checks, workflow failures, publishing boundaries, and post-publish verification.
Why use it?
It prevents release mistakes such as publishing the wrong package or skipping important checks. It also makes clear that the project owner, not the coordinating agent, triggers releases.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/danwahlin/ai-agent-board/release-process
Any agent
npx skills add DanWahlin/ai-agent-board --skill release-process
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DanWahlin/ai-agent-board

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Security

Grade A, and why

release-process 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 6d ago.

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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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to release-process — 0 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.

.squad/templates/skills/release-process/SKILL.md · 132 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 132 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release Process

Earned knowledge from the v0.9.0→v0.9.1 incident. Every agent involved in releases MUST read this before starting release work.

SCOPE

✅ THIS SKILL PRODUCES:

  • Pre-release validation checks that prevent broken publishes
  • Correct npm publish commands (never workspace-scoped)
  • Fallback procedures when CI workflows fail
  • Post-publish verification steps

❌ THIS SKILL DOES NOT PRODUCE:

  • Feature implementation or test code
  • Architecture decisions
  • Documentation content

Confidence: high

Established through the v0.9.1 incident (8-hour recovery). Every rule below is battle-tested.

Context

Squad publishes two npm packages: @bradygaster/squad-sdk and @bradygaster/squad-cli. The release pipeline flows: dev → preview → main → GitHub Release → npm publish. Brady (project owner) triggers releases — the coordinator does NOT.

Rules (Non-Negotiable)

1. Coordinator Does NOT Publish

The coordinator routes work and manages agents. It does NOT run npm publish, trigger release workflows, or make release decisions. Brady owns the release trigger. If an agent or the coordinator is asked to publish, escalate to Brady.

2. Pre-Publish Dependency Validation

Before ANY release is tagged, scan every packages/*/package.json for:

  • file: references (workspace leak — the v0.9.0 root cause)
  • link: references
  • Absolute paths in dependency values
  • Non-semver version strings

Command:

grep -r '"file:\|"link:\|"/' packages/*/package.json

If anything matches, STOP. Do not proceed. Fix the reference first.

3. Never Use npm -w for Publishing

npm -w packages/squad-sdk publish hangs silently when 2FA is enabled. Always cd into the package directory:

cd packages/squad-sdk && npm publish --access public
cd packages/squad-cli && npm publish --access public

4. Fallback Protocol

If workflow_dispatch or the publish workflow fails:

  1. Try once more (ONE retry, not four)
  2. If it fails again → local publish immediately
  3. Do NOT attempt GitHub UI file operations to fix workflow indexing
  4. GitHub has a ~15min workflow cache TTL after file renames/deletes — waiting helps, retrying doesn't

Read the full file on GitHub · 132 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. 6d ago First seen · 132 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 39b3438b0a26

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release-process is a skill published in the GitHub repository DanWahlin/ai-agent-board (57 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,251 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to release-process, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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