release-cut

release-cut is a skill for Claude Code from escoffier-labs/skillet. It costs 42 tokens per session (599 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release workflow for turning merged changes into a tagged software version. It updates the changelog and version declarations, creates a Git tag and GitHub release, and drafts an announcement.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for cutting a requested release, choosing a semantic version based on the changes, rolling up the changelog, tagging the code, and drafting release notes.
Why use it?
Releases can become inconsistent when tests, version numbers, changelog entries, and tags are handled separately. This workflow checks release conditions and gathers those steps into one process.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the skillet plugin — 39 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit It is for cutting a requested release, choosing a semantic version based on the changes, rolling up the changelog, tagging the code, and drafting release notes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/escoffier-labs/skillet/release-cut
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 escoffier-labs/skillet --skill release-cut
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/escoffier-labs/skillet

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skillet, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 39 skills, 1 hook.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 599 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 $0.00042 $0.00599
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00300
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00120
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00060

Measured 10d ago against content hash 4acfded26dd5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-cut 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 10d 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.

skillet/skills/release-cut/SKILL.md · 41 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 41 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

release-cut

Turn accumulated merged work into a clean tagged release: changelog roll-up, version bump, tag, GitHub release, and a drafted announcement. Drafts are drafts; nothing gets posted to social platforms by this skill.

Preconditions

Check before touching anything; stop and report if any fail:

  • On the default branch, clean tree, up to date with the remote
  • CI green on the head commit
  • Tests pass locally (run them, do not assume)

Steps

  1. Scope the release. git log <last-tag>..HEAD --oneline plus the CHANGELOG's Unreleased section. If the two disagree, reconcile first; the log is the truth, the changelog is the narrative.
  2. Pick the version. Semver from the actual changes: breaking = major (or minor pre-1.0), features = minor, fixes only = patch. State the reasoning in one line.
  3. Roll the changelog. Move Unreleased under the new version with today's date. Entries describe user-visible effects, not commit subjects. Start a fresh empty Unreleased section.
  4. Bump the version everywhere the project declares it (package manifest, version constant, docs). Grep for the old version string to catch stragglers.
  5. Commit and tag. chore: release vX.Y.Z then an annotated tag: git tag -a vX.Y.Z -m "vX.Y.Z".
  6. Push, then release. Push branch and tag, then gh release create vX.Y.Z --title "vX.Y.Z" --notes-file <(extracted changelog section).
  7. Draft the announcement. Two or three sentences per platform the user actually publishes to: what shipped, why anyone should care, link. Hand the drafts to the user; do not post.

Rules

  • Never invent changelog entries. Every line traces to a commit or PR.
  • Never release with failing or skipped tests "because the failure is unrelated". Fix or explicitly get the user's call.
  • Version appears in code AND tag AND changelog AND release title. All four match or the release is wrong.
  • If nothing user-visible changed since the last tag, say so and recommend not releasing.

Common mistakes

Read the full file on GitHub · 41 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 10d ago First seen · 41 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 4acfded26dd5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release-cut is a skill published in the GitHub repository escoffier-labs/skillet (4 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 599 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 2026-08-31.

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