skills-release

skills-release is a skill for Claude Code from decodingai-magazine/building-a-coding-agent-from-scratch-course. It costs 47 tokens per session (923 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A release checklist for publishing a new version of the kitaru-skills repository. It moves tested changes from the development branch to the distribution branch, adds a version tag, and creates a GitHub Release.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check branch state, review what will ship, fast-forward the distribution branch, bump the plugin version, tag the commit, and publish release notes.
Why use it?
It prevents accidental or unsafe releases, such as overwriting changes on the distribution branch or publishing from an unclean checkout. It also keeps plugin versions separate from Kitaru product versions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: Claude Code plugin machinery. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to check branch state, review what will ship, fast-forward the distribution branch, bump the plugin version, tag the commit, and publish release notes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/decodingai-magazine/building-a-coding-agent-from-scratch-course/skills-release
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 decodingai-magazine/building-a-coding-agent-from-scratch-course --skill skills-release
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/decodingai-magazine/building-a-coding-agent-from-scratch-course

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 923 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 $0.00047 $0.00923
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00462
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00185
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00092

Measured today against content hash 3b20281fdcd7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skills-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 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.

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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.agents/skills/skills-release/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skills Release

Overview

main is the distribution branch: /plugin marketplace add zenml-io/kitaru-skills installs whatever main holds, immediately. develop is the working base. A release moves main forward to develop's current commit as a fast-forward and stamps a plugin version, so main is always an exact snapshot of develop at release time.

The main-release-only ruleset blocks all pushes and PR merges to main except by repository admins. A release is therefore an admin running this checklist — never a PR into main, never a force push.

Versions are this repository's own plugin versions. Do not reuse Kitaru product version numbers; state tested Kitaru compatibility in the release notes instead.

Preconditions

Stop and resolve before releasing if any of these fail:

  • On develop with a clean working tree.
  • git fetch origin done; local develop in sync with origin/develop.
  • Fast-forward is possible: git merge-base --is-ancestor origin/main origin/develop exits 0. A non-zero exit means main has commits develop lacks — investigate how they got there; never force-push over them.

Steps

  1. Review what ships: git log --oneline origin/main..origin/develop. Draft release notes from these commits (what changed, why it matters to installers), plus a "Tested against Kitaru X.Y" line when known.

  2. Agree the next version with the user: minor for new or changed skills, patch for fixes and docs-only changes.

  3. Bump all three version fields to the same value:

    • .claude-plugin/plugin.json.version
    • .claude-plugin/marketplace.json.metadata.version
    • .claude-plugin/marketplace.json.plugins[0].version
  4. Validate: jq . .claude-plugin/plugin.json and jq . .claude-plugin/marketplace.json parse, and all three fields match:

    jq -r .version .claude-plugin/plugin.json
    jq -r '.metadata.version, .plugins[0].version' .claude-plugin/marketplace.json
    
  5. Commit only the two JSON files on develop with subject Release vX.Y.Z, then push develop.

  6. Tag the release commit: git tag vX.Y.Z && git push origin vX.Y.Z.

  7. Fast-forward main: git push origin develop:main. No --force ever — a rejection means the push is not a fast-forward; go back to Preconditions.

  8. Publish the drafted notes via a file, never inline in the command — commit subjects routinely contain backticks, which the shell would execute as command substitution inside a --notes "..." argument. Write the notes to a scratch file with a file-writing tool (or a quoted heredoc, cat > notes.md <<'EOF'), then:

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 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 · 87 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 3b20281fdcd7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skills-release is a skill published in the GitHub repository decodingai-magazine/building-a-coding-agent-from-scratch-course (374 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 923 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-09.

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