dot-release

A release procedure for the fmind/dotfiles project that turns approved Conventional Commits into a versioned release. It updates the version and changelog, runs checks, creates a Git tag, and pushes the release to GitHub Actions for publication.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare and publish a dotfiles release from a clean main branch after confirming the local branch matches the remote.
Why use it?
It coordinates versioning, testing, tagging, and publishing in one checked process, and stops before creating a release when required checks fail.

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/fmind/dotfiles/dot-release
Any agent
npx skills add fmind/dotfiles --skill dot-release
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fmind/dotfiles

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 416 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 $0.00027 $0.00416
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00208
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00042

Measured yesterday against content hash 5303d143c6c6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dot-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 yesterday.

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/dot-release/SKILL.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

Dotfiles Release

Run dot release (alias dot r) to turn Conventional Commits since the last tag into a release commit and tag. The local command fetches origin, requires a clean main with HEAD == origin/main, computes the next semver via git-cliff, updates dot/version.go and CHANGELOG.md, runs the complete local gate (format, check, test), creates the commit and annotated tag, pushes main and refs/tags/v* to origin, and automatically reapplies the updated local dot binary. GitHub Actions (cd.yml) triggers on tag push to create the GitHub release.

Preconditions

  • Clean working tree on main; the command fetches and proves equality with origin/main before mutation.
  • gh authenticated, git-cliff and mise installed.
  • Commit history follows Conventional Commits.

Usage

# Agent / non-interactive (skips confirmation prompt)
mise run release -- -y

Gotchas

  • Lint or test failures during local gate abort the release before any commit or tag is created.
  • Pushing a release tag automatically triggers the .github/workflows/cd.yml workflow on GitHub Actions to publish the release.

See Also

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. yesterday First seen · 38 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 5303d143c6c6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dot-release is a skill published in the GitHub repository fmind/dotfiles (4 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 416 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

dotfiles-bootstrap

Bootstrap a workstation with the dotfiles framework. Takes a GitHub user / owner+repo / explicit clone URL and runs dot init (which shells out to chezmoi) with the right safety prompts. Honors the active agent profile (ask / plan / apply / audit) so it defaults to dry-run in safer modes and full apply in apply.

sebastienrousseau/dotfiles · 88 tokens

vibe

Delegate a coding task to a cheap AI model (Mistral Vibe by default, but any provider Vibe knows about — DeepSeek, Gemini Flash, etc.) and supervise the result via git diff. Claude orchestrates, the cheap model codes. Claude consumes 500-1500 tokens per delegation regardless of how many file reads the delegate does…

sebastienrousseau/dotfiles · 137 tokens

aiq-research

Use when asked to run deep research or AI-Q research through a reachable NVIDIA AI-Q Blueprint backend.

laurigates/dotfiles · 25 tokens

obsidian-bases

Obsidian Bases database feature for YAML-based interactive note views. Use when creating .base files, writing filter queries, building formulas, configuring table/card views, or working with Obsidian properties and frontmatter databases.

laurigates/dotfiles · 49 tokens

telegram

Send notifications, interactive questions, or multiple-choice polls to the user via Telegram. Use when the user asks to be notified ("ping me", "notify me on Telegram", "ask me when..."), when a long-running task finishes and the user is likely away, when an irreversible action needs out-of-band confirmation, or when…

laurigates/dotfiles · 117 tokens

chezmoi-expert

Comprehensive chezmoi dotfiles management expertise including templates, cross-platform configuration, file naming conventions, and troubleshooting. Covers source directory management, reproducible environment setup, and chezmoi templating with Go templates. Use when user mentions chezmoi, dotfiles, cross-platform…

laurigates/dotfiles · 88 tokens