release

A release workflow for tagging a software version and publishing it through GitHub. It also triggers package publishing to PyPI and documentation deployment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Preparing releases, creating signed version tags, publishing Python packages, generating GitHub release notes, and deploying versioned documentation.
Why use it?
It turns the project's documented release process into a repeatable sequence and checks that publishing steps succeed.

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/gpauloski/python-template/release
Any agent
npx skills add gpauloski/python-template --skill release
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gpauloski/python-template

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 337 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 $0.00047 $0.00337
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00169
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00067
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00034

Measured yesterday against content hash a4ec4bc9eb4f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 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.

.claude/skills/release/SKILL.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

Cut a release

Versioning is derived from git tags via setuptools_scm, and publishing is automated by .github/workflows/publish.yml. See docs/contributing/releases.md for the authoritative process.

  1. Confirm main is green (CI passing) and decide the version {VERSION} (semver major.minor.patch, optional PEP 440 pre/post/dev suffix).
  2. Create and push an annotated, signed tag prefixed with v:
    git tag -s v{VERSION} -m "pypkg v{VERSION}"
    git push origin v{VERSION}
    
  3. Create a GitHub Release from the tag titled pypkg v{VERSION}:
    • Official release: use "Generate release notes", set the previous official tag as the baseline, add an "Upgrade Steps" section, verify PR labels sort the notes correctly, and mark it "latest".
    • Pre-release: skip generated notes and mark it "pre-release".
  4. Publishing the release triggers the publish workflow, which builds with uv build, uploads to PyPI via Trusted Publishing, and deploys versioned docs with mike. Confirm both the PyPI upload and the docs deploy succeeded.

Do not push tags or create releases without explicit confirmation from the user.

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 · 29 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A a4ec4bc9eb4f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release is a skill published in the GitHub repository gpauloski/python-template (19 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 337 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 2026-08-30.

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