gcx is a command-line tool that lets people and AI coding agents manage and inspect Grafana Cloud, Enterprise, and open-source instances. It provides access to dashboards, alerts, SLOs, metrics, logs, and traces, with workflows for alert investigation, dashboard management, GitOps, and observability setup. Its catalogue entries provide agent instructions and extensions for using gcx.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to grafana/gcx. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grafana/gcx/main/.agents/skills/release/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/grafana/gcxWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/grafana/gcx/release)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/grafana/gcx/release"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/grafana/gcx/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/grafana/gcx/release"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/grafana/gcx/release.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00040 | $0.00706 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00016 | $0.00282 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00141 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00071 |
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 7d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Releasing gcx
Customer communications
For every major release, or minor release containing breaking changes, prepare customer communications as part of the release:
- Use grafana-product:whats-new for new or improved capabilities.
- Use grafana-product:whats-next for breaking changes, deprecations, removals, or disruptive behaviour changes.
- If both apply, prepare separate entries.
Before running the release command, review the changes since the previous release to identify the required entries. Inspect source PRs and compatibility changes rather than relying solely on commit prefixes or generated release notes. Reuse existing contributions where appropriate.
Read the relevant upstream skill and its required references, using gh to retrieve them if they are not installed. Follow their content and formatting guidance, but override their advance-notice timing: prepare the content during the release, without requiring a 2–4 week lead time or delaying the release to create one. Describe the actual release timing; do not present an already available change as upcoming.
Include affected users, exact before/after behaviour, and concrete migration instructions for breaking changes. Verify CMS metadata rather than treating a gcx version as a Grafana self-managed release version.
Release
Automated via mise run tag. Requires claude CLI; svu comes from mise install.
mise run tag -- patch # or minor, major
This generates a changelog entry (via Claude), updates CHANGELOG.md and .release-notes.md,
and runs mise run docs:refresh -- vX.Y.Z to generate the CLI and configuration
references from the current checkout with the upcoming version. It commits these
changes together on a release/vX.Y.Z branch and pushes the branch. Then:
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.
- 7d ago Changed 471f37d3d320
- 14d ago Changed · +10 lines dbcfa5b7c7da
- 1mo ago Changed · +20 lines 47afd775399b
- 2mo ago First seen · 25 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 17b65a6a3b19
release is a skill published in the GitHub repository grafana/gcx (805 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 706 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.
Other skills, from other repositories
release-announcement
Write a release announcement — changelog, blog post, in-app note, or social post — that leads with user impact, names the audience, and includes upgrade/migration steps without filler.
release
Fully automate a release with version-bump and childhood.
release-notes
Generate user-facing release notes from tickets, PRDs, or changelogs. Creates clear, engaging summaries organized by category (new features, improvements, fixes). Use when writing release notes, creating changelogs, announcing product updates, or summarizing what shipped.
multi-agent-release-manager
Cleans up the workspace, formats code, runs presubmit checks, and uploads CLs to Gerrit.
pack-submit
Package one of this agent's own skills as a standalone community pack and submit it to the aeon registry as a PR.
release-helper
Ensures configuration and code changes are released correctly. Use PROACTIVELY whenever you edit config.json, change any setting, or fix a configuration bug in this project, so the change reaches production.