docs-stack-release

A release workflow for Elastic Stack documentation, the manuals for Elastic's software products. It separates releases for version 8 and version 9 and tracks the work needed for each one.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check release progress, classify documentation pull requests, update release issues, handle one release replacing another with the same launch date, draft Slack reminders, and monitor documentation deployments.
Why use it?
It prevents documentation changes for different major versions from being mixed up. It also keeps release dates, pull requests, reminders, and deployment checks tied to the correct tracking issue.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/elastic/elastic-docs-skills/docs-stack-release
Any agent
npx skills add elastic/elastic-docs-skills --skill docs-stack-release
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elastic/elastic-docs-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 110 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,896 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00110 $0.06896
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.03448
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.01379
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00690

Measured 2d ago against content hash c428b242d725, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

docs-stack-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 2d 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.

skills/workflow/docs-stack-release/SKILL.md · 386 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 386 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Docs release issue ([Docs release] X.Y.Z in elastic/dev) is the source of truth -- not the eng [Release] issue. Create missing docs issues (§1.1) or collect dates from the user. Missing issue URLs: (issue TBD).

Playbooks: v9 -- v8. Templates: minor -- 9.x patch -- 8.x patch.

Line Repo Config files Deploy watch
9.x+ elastic/docs-builder config/assembler.yml, config/versions.yml docs-internal-workflows bump PRs + prod version-bump (§0.3)
8.x / 7.x elastic/docs shared/versions/stack/*.asciidoc, conf.yaml None -- do not use docs-internal-workflows

Invariants

  • IDs, dates, PR URLs, @mentions: from gh, the docs issue, Slack, or the user. Never invent. Missing → (issue TBD) or [@handle] and ask.
  • Never mix 8.x and 9.x in one PR. 8.x/7.x: elastic/docs only; no docs-internal-workflows.
  • Checklist is the step index. Live-fetch only open work. RN merge is not a checkbox -- always gh pr view blocking RN URLs.
  • A PR URL in the RN table is blocking until merged. Skip only No changes / N/A. Do not exempt Fleet, Agent, or any product by name.
  • Check boxes this skill just completed. Do not check anyone else's work (including docs-eng). Do not wait to be asked.
  • Slack: <@USER_ID> only; show a preview and confirm before send; thread follow-ups on the FF announcement. Read slack-templates.md before drafting or sending.
  • Live/released Slack only after the gate (§0.3) and a user eyeball of the site. Do not draft before the gate.
  • Empty args / "how's my release": session state → active docs issue. Do not ask which version if one is in flight. After closed-issue cleanup leaves none, stop -- do not rediscover.
  • Cleanup = docs issue CLOSED only. 404 = drop that ID and rediscover. No TTL.
  • RC varies each release -- read from the #mission-control coordination thread or eng issue. Never hardcode a name.
  • Do not offer a Slack ping or PR whose issue box is already checked, or that the user already said they sent.

Read the full file on GitHub · 386 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 2d ago First seen · 386 lines · 110 tokens per session scan A c428b242d725

Subscribe to this mod's changes

docs-stack-release is a skill published in the GitHub repository elastic/elastic-docs-skills (71 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 110 tokens to every session and 6,896 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-30.