release-readiness

release-readiness is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from evolplus/talos. It costs 54 tokens per session (660 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A pre-deployment review that checks whether a build is ready to move to staging or production. It examines the release candidate, testing evidence, dependencies, security, configuration, migrations, monitoring, rollback plans, and approvals.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to produce a readiness decision, list blocking findings, and record follow-up work for a specific release candidate.
Why use it?
It identifies release blockers before a change reaches a shared or production environment.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the talos plugin — 55 skills, 2 commands, 4 hooks shipped together

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/evolplus/talos/release-readiness
Any agent
npx skills add evolplus/talos --skill release-readiness
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/evolplus/talos

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install talos, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 55 skills, 2 commands, 4 hooks.

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-readiness

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/evolplus/talos/release-readiness.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/evolplus/talos/release-readiness)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/evolplus/talos/release-readiness"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/evolplus/talos/release-readiness.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 660 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 $0.00054 $0.00660
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00330
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00132
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00066

Measured 3d ago against content hash dba1c3a88602, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-readiness 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 3d 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/release-readiness/SKILL.md · 46 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 46 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release Readiness

When to use

Use this skill before any shared-environment deployment, release candidate promotion, or production change proposal. The goal is not to deploy; it is to decide whether deployment is safe to attempt.

Inputs and outputs

  • Inputs: task ID, release candidate identifier, linked implementation tasks, QA reports, deploy reports, architecture/SRS constraints, migration notes, rollback plan, config contract, and approval evidence.
  • Outputs: readiness verdict, blocking findings, required follow-up tasks, and docs/devops/<task-id>/release-readiness.md or equivalent report content.

Procedure

  1. Identify the release candidate. Record commit SHA, image tag/digest, package version, migration version, and build provenance. Reject mutable identifiers unless explicitly approved.
  2. Verify functional evidence. Confirm required QA reports pass, staging/local deploy reports exist, and smoke/e2e coverage matches the task risk.
  3. Check dependency and security posture. Review dependency audit/security findings, external integration adequacy, data handling, and any open security/compliance issues.
  4. Run operational gates. Consult migration-safety, rollback-readiness, secrets-config-audit, and observability-readiness when applicable.
  5. Review environment compatibility. Verify runtime config keys, platform/architecture constraints, database versions, queue/cache dependencies, feature flags, and external endpoints.
  6. Confirm approvals. Staging needs task-level approval. Production needs human change approval and rollback ownership.
  7. Emit a verdict. Use ready, ready-with-warnings, or blocked. A warning must be non-critical and have an owner; a blocker prevents deployment.

Hard rules

  • Never treat source code existence as release readiness; require runtime/test evidence.
  • Never approve a release candidate with unresolved migration, rollback, secret/config, or observability blockers.
  • Never hide warnings in prose; list each warning with owner, impact, and expiration.
  • Never expose secrets while checking config readiness.
  • Never deploy from this skill; route to the appropriate deployment skill after a ready verdict.

Read the full file on GitHub · 46 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. 3d ago First seen · 46 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A dba1c3a88602

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release-readiness is a skill published in the GitHub repository evolplus/talos (8 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 660 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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