release-openspec

A step-by-step release workflow for OpenSpec, a software project that publishes versioned releases through GitHub and Changesets.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit release readiness, create or resume a version-packages pull request, publish beta or stable releases, verify publishing, and improve GitHub release notes.
Why use it?
It helps check whether merged work has release notes, prepare package versions, publish releases, and verify the result without losing track of the current release state.

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/fission-ai/openspec/release-openspec
Any agent
npx skills add Fission-AI/OpenSpec --skill release-openspec
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Fission-AI/OpenSpec

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,759 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 $0.00088 $0.02759
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.01380
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00552
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00276

Measured 2d ago against content hash 56b391b3b4e8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-openspec 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.

.agents/skills/release-openspec/SKILL.md · 181 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 181 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release OpenSpec

Run the OpenSpec release workflow as a resumable state machine. Inspect live GitHub state on every invocation and take only the next safe action. Do not assume an earlier invocation completed.

Principles

  • Treat Fission-AI/OpenSpec and origin/main as the release source of truth.
  • Default to a read-only audit when the user asks for status, readiness, or advice.
  • Treat a request to release, prepare a release, continue, or resume as authorization to perform the applicable release actions.
  • Preserve the user's checkout. Never discard unrelated changes or switch their current branch just to prepare a changeset.
  • Use a temporary worktree from current origin/main for release-authored commits when the checkout is dirty or not on main.
  • Never approve your own PR. Human review is a deliberate gate.
  • Treat merge-queue entry as an intermediate state, not a merge. Advance only after GitHub reports mergedAt and the commit is present on main.
  • Never create the automated Version Packages PR manually. The Changesets action owns it.
  • Never push an empty commit merely to retrigger CI. Diagnose the failed or missing run first.
  • Report URLs, the state reached, and the exact human action needed whenever pausing.

Know the two PR types

Keep these distinct in output and decisions:

  • Changeset PR: A normal human-authored PR that adds one or more .changeset/*.md files. Prefer adding a changeset to the feature/fix PR; create a catch-up changeset PR only for already-merged work that should be included.
  • Version Packages PR: The automated changeset-release/main PR titled chore(release): version packages. Merging or adding changesets to main updates this same PR. Merging it publishes the stable release.

An open Version Packages PR does not prohibit a catch-up changeset PR. It means a catch-up PR is useful only when the audit finds missing release-worthy work. Once that PR merges, wait for the existing Version Packages PR to update.

Read the full file on GitHub · 181 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. 2d ago First seen · 181 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 56b391b3b4e8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release-openspec is a skill published in the GitHub repository Fission-AI/OpenSpec (66,949 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 2,759 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.