release

release is a skill for Claude Code from drn/dots. It costs 34 tokens per session (996 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release command for publishing a new version of a software project, including a summary of changes, a Git tag, and a GitHub release.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create major, minor, or patch releases, publish changelogs, tag commits in Git, publish releases on GitHub, or preview the work with a dry run.
Why use it?
It gathers release information and checks the repository state so the versioning and publishing steps follow a repeatable process.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to create major, minor, or patch releases, publish changelogs, tag commits in Git, publish releases on GitHub, or preview the work with a dry run.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/drn/dots/release
View source ↗ drn/dots
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 drn/dots --skill release
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/drn/dots

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.

agentmods badge for release

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/drn/dots/release/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/drn/dots/release)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/drn/dots/release"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/drn/dots/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for release

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 996 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00034 $0.00996
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00398
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00199
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00100

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 2280e880e3c5, 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 1mo 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.

agents/skills/release/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release

Create a versioned release: bump version, generate changelog, create git tag, and publish a GitHub release.

Arguments

  • $ARGUMENTS - Required: version bump type (major, minor, patch) or an explicit version (e.g., v2.1.0). Optional: --dry-run to preview without creating anything.

Context

  • Current branch: !git branch --show-current
  • Git status: !git status --short
  • Latest tag: !git describe --tags --abbrev=0 2>/dev/null | head -1
  • Commits since last tag: !git log --oneline 2>/dev/null | head -30
  • Remotes: !git remote -v 2>/dev/null | head -10
  • Base ref: !git branch -r 2>/dev/null | grep -oE 'origin/(main|master)' | head -1

Instructions

Step 0: Validate state

  • IF git status --short shows uncommitted changes, stop: "Uncommitted changes detected. Commit or stash before releasing."
  • Determine the default branch using git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD 2>/dev/null. Fallback to checking for origin/main, then origin/master.
  • IF the current branch is not the default branch and does not match release/*, warn: "You are on , not the default branch. Releases are typically made from . Proceed anyway?" Wait for confirmation.

Step 1: Determine version

Parse $ARGUMENTS for the version:

  • IF an explicit version is given (e.g., v2.1.0), use it directly.
  • IF a bump type is given (major, minor, patch):
    • Parse the latest tag from context. IF no tags exist, start from v0.0.0.
    • Apply the bump. Examples: v1.2.3 + patch = v1.2.4, + minor = v1.3.0, + major = v2.0.0.
    • Preserve the tag prefix (if existing tags use v, keep v; if bare numbers, use bare numbers).

Report: "Version: -> "

Step 2: Generate changelog

Fetch commits since the last tag (or all commits if no prior tag):

git log <last-tag>..HEAD --format="%H%n%s%n%b%n---END---"

Categorize using the same approach as /changelog:

  • Added — new features, commands, capabilities
  • Changed — modifications to existing behavior
  • Fixed — bug fixes
  • Removed — deleted features, deprecated code
  • Infrastructure — CI/CD, build, dependencies
  • Documentation — docs, README

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 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. 1mo ago First seen · 115 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 2280e880e3c5

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release is a skill published in the GitHub repository drn/dots (23 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 996 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.