A release checklist for GitWand projects and packages. It covers version changes, the changelog, tests, builds, commits, tags, and pushing the release.

Use it to release the whole monorepo, desktop app, npm packages, or VS Code extension, including creating the appropriate Git tag.

It catches uncommitted work, branch problems, failed tests, or build errors before a version is published.

How devlint/GitWand configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to devlint/GitWand. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/devlint/GitWand/main/.claude/skills/release/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/devlint/GitWand

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/devlint/gitwand/release/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/devlint/gitwand/release)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/devlint/gitwand/release"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/devlint/gitwand/release/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/devlint/gitwand/release"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/devlint/gitwand/release.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,013 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. Third-party audits

NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026

How audits are shown

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00064	$0.02013
Opus 5.5	$0.00026	$0.00805
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00013	$0.00403
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00201

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 4df09235eccd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 2mo ago.

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.

.claude/skills/release/SKILL.md · 208 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 208 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release — Guide étape par étape

Étape 0 — Identifier le scope

Demander à l'utilisateur quel scope releaser (sauf si le contexte est évident) :

Scope	Ce qui est publié	Tag git
monorepo (défaut)	Tout : desktop + npm packages	`vX.Y.Z`
vscode	Extension VS Code uniquement	Versioning indépendant

Si l'utilisateur dit "je veux bumper la version", "nouvelle release", "publier le CLI", etc. → scope monorepo par défaut.

Étape 1 — Vérifications pré-release

Exécuter dans l'ordre, stopper si l'une échoue :

# 1. Pas de changements non commités
git status

# 2. Sur main (ou branche de release)
git branch --show-current

# 3. À jour avec le remote
git fetch origin && git log origin/main..HEAD --oneline

# 4. Tests passent
pnpm test

# 5. Build réussit
pnpm build

Bloquer et signaler si une vérification échoue avant de continuer.

Étape 2 — Mettre à jour CHANGELOG.md (racine)

Ouvrir CHANGELOG.md (racine du repo) et :

Renommer ## [Unreleased] en ## [X.Y.Z] - YYYY-MM-DD
Ajouter une nouvelle section ## [Unreleased] vide au-dessus
Vérifier que toutes les features/fixes depuis la dernière release sont documentés
Ajouter le lien de comparaison en bas du fichier : [X.Y.Z]: https://github.com/devlint/GitWand/releases/tag/vX.Y.Z

Format attendu (Keep a Changelog) :

## [Unreleased]

## [2.4.0] - 2026-04-28
### Added
- Support for .prisma resolver
### Fixed
- Context line detection bug in diff parser

Étape 2b — Mettre à jour roadmap.md

Ouvrir roadmap.md et :

Déplacer les items livrés dans cette release depuis leur section actuelle (In Progress / Planned) vers le bloc Shipped correspondant à la version.
Si des follow-ups ou limitations ont été identifiés pendant le dev, les ajouter dans la section planifiée appropriée.

Étape 2c — Mettre à jour website/changelog.md

website/changelog.md est le miroir éditorial public — format narratif (prose et sections thématiques), pas le format Keep a Changelog. Il doit couvrir tout l'historique depuis v0.0.1.

Read the full file on GitHub · 208 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.

2mo ago First seen · 208 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 4df09235eccd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release is a skill published in the GitHub repository devlint/GitWand (194 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 2,013 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

Git and workflow Releases app cli diff mcp merge

release next to 6 skills from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
releasedevlint/GitWand	Skill	194	yesterday	MIT	A	64	Claude Code
rea-changelog-updatemorluto/rea	Skill	435k	today	MIT	A	33	Claude Code
codew-release-qa-sweepHmbown/CodeWhale	Skill	41k	5d ago	MIT	A	31	Claude Code, Codex
hunk-releasemodem-dev/hunk	Skill	9.8k	yesterday	MIT	A	38	Claude Code, Codex
releaseHmbown/CodeWhale	Skill	41k	5d ago	MIT	A	0	Claude Code, Codex
skillshare-changelogrunkids/skillshare	Skill	2.9k	yesterday	MIT	A	134	Claude Code
githubAtomicBot-ai/atomic-agent	Skill	3.4k	8d ago	MIT	A	48	Claude Code, Codex

GitWand: Skill for Claude Code