release

release is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gtapps/claude-code-hermit. It costs 104 tokens per session (3,922 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release workflow for one plug-in in a repository. It increases the version, records what changed, commits the release, and pushes it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to release a named plug-in, or to choose which plug-in to release when no name is supplied.
Why use it?
It keeps the version, changelog, and published Git history aligned. The changelog also gives the upgrade process information about what changed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions .claude-plugin; mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Good fit Use it to release a named plug-in, or to choose which plug-in to release when no name is supplied.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gtapps/claude-code-hermit/release
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 gtapps/claude-code-hermit --skill release
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gtapps/claude-code-hermit

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.

agentmods badge for release

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/gtapps/claude-code-hermit/release"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/gtapps/claude-code-hermit/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for release

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/gtapps/claude-code-hermit/release"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/gtapps/claude-code-hermit/release.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 104 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,922 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Agent Snooping · line 7
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00104 $0.03922
Opus 5.5 $0.00042 $0.01569
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00784
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00392

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 4fe8704a2f22, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo 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/SKILL.md · 252 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 252 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release

Bump version, write changelog, commit, and push for a single plugin in the monorepo. The changelog entry is critical because the upgrade skill (skills/hermit-evolve/SKILL.md) reads it to know what to tell hermits during /claude-code-hermit:hermit-evolve.

Usage

/release <plugin-slug> — release the plugin at plugins/<plugin-slug>/.

Examples:

  • /release claude-code-hermit — release the core plugin
  • /release claude-code-dev-hermit — release the dev hermit
  • /release claude-code-homeassistant-hermit — release the HA hermit
  • /release laravel-forge-hermit — release the Laravel Forge hermit

If invoked without a slug, list all plugins/<name>/ directories that contain .claude-plugin/plugin.json and ask the operator which one via AskUserQuestion before proceeding.

Steps

0. Identify target plugin

Resolve the plugin slug:

  • If the user passed <slug> as argument, use that.
  • Otherwise, glob plugins/*/.claude-plugin/plugin.json, collect the directory names, and ask via AskUserQuestion: "Which plugin to release?" with one option per slug.

Validate plugins/<slug>/.claude-plugin/plugin.json exists. If it does not, abort: Plugin 'plugins/<slug>/' not found. Suggest the available slugs.

Throughout the rest of this skill, $PLUGIN_DIR refers to plugins/<slug>/.

1. Pre-release validation

Run before anything else. Abort the release if any step fails.

  1. Run the native plugin validator (CLI form):

    claude plugin validate plugins/<slug> 2>&1
    

    Abort on any error.

  2. Run test suites for the target plugin. Detect the convention and dispatch:

    • If plugins/<slug>/tests/run-all.sh exists (bash entrypoint, used by dev/fitness/scribe/forge):
      bash plugins/<slug>/tests/run-all.sh 2>&1
      
    • Else if any plugins/<slug>/tests/*.test.ts exists (bun entrypoint, used by core/HA):
      cd plugins/<slug> && bun test 2>&1
      
    • Else if a plugins/<slug>/tests/ dir exists but neither marker matched: abort the release with Plugin '<slug>' has a tests/ dir but no recognized convention (run-all.sh or *.test.ts) — fix the dispatch before releasing. Do not silently skip.
    • Else (no tests/ dir at all): skip this step and note it in the release report.

Read the full file on GitHub · 252 lines

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. 1mo ago Changed 4fe8704a2f22
  2. 1mo ago Changed · -2 lines 3957b23e98be
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 254 lines · 104 tokens per session scan A 6285a77b31be

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release is a skill published in the GitHub repository gtapps/claude-code-hermit (75 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 104 tokens to every session and 3,922 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

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