A configuration-based workflow for preparing software releases, including version changes, readiness checks, release tags, changelogs, and compatibility notes.

Use it when bumping a version, publishing a release, tagging code, updating a changelog, or maintaining compatibility information.

It organizes the release steps and checks whether the project is ready to ship.

release — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by glebis

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 glebis/claude-skills --skill release

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/glebis/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/glebis/claude-skills/release/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/glebis/claude-skills/release)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/glebis/claude-skills/release"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/glebis/claude-skills/release/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/glebis/claude-skills/release"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/glebis/claude-skills/release.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,435 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. Third-party audits

NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026

How audits are shown

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00092	$0.01435
Opus 5	$0.00046	$0.00718
Sonnet 5	$0.00018	$0.00287
Haiku 4.5	$0.00009	$0.00144

Measured 8d ago against content hash 45c4661ed54e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/release.py, scripts/test_release.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/SKILL.md · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

release — tiered compatibility & release workflow

For the Cull repository, use $cull-release; Cull's repository-enforced state, artifact, updater, and Homebrew gates are stricter than this generic workflow.

A config-driven release orchestrator. Mechanics live in scripts/release.py (unit-tested, stdlib-only); this file is the workflow you (or an agent) follow. Read reference/config-schema.md for release.config.json and reference/standards.md for why each step exists.

Scope honesty: reference-tested on a Tauri + Rust + SvelteKit repo (Cull). Other stacks are supported by config, not yet validated. Treat first runs on a new stack as a dry run (see "Dry run" below) until you trust it.

When to use

The user says "release", "ship it", "cut a version", "bump version", "tag a release", "update the changelog/COMPATIBILITY". Requires a release.config.json at the repo root (scaffold from templates/release.config.json.tmpl).

Mental model — your public API is your declared surfaces

A version only means something once you declare what you promise to keep working. release.config.json → surfaces[] is that declaration; each surface has a tier (experimental → preview → stable) and a compatibility mode. Only stable surfaces carry the promise. Breaking a stable surface forces a major bump — the engine enforces this. (Standards: see reference/standards.md.)

Command

/release <patch|minor|major> — run the steps below. On an unfamiliar repo, do a dry run first (see below). When the user asks to "explain", expand each step's why into a short lesson from reference/standards.md.

Steps

Preconditions. The configured releaseBranch (default main, in worktree if set) is checked out, clean, and synced with origin. Abort clearly otherwise. — why: a release tag must point at a known-good, pushed tree.
Version. python3 scripts/release.py --config <cfg> plan <kind> prints the new version + tag. It asserts the version files currently agree. Show old → new. — why: SemVer math; 0.x lets minors break (pre-1.0). [[Semantic Versioning (SemVer)]]

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 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.

8d ago First seen · 99 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A 45c4661ed54e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release is a skill published in the GitHub repository glebis/claude-skills (375 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 1,435 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.

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