cutting-a-release

cutting-a-release is a skill for Claude Code from gustavo-meilus/aiboarding. It costs 84 tokens per session (909 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release checklist for publishing a new AIBoarding version, such as v1.2.3. It checks the version, prepares matching changelog and release notes, uses the required pull-request and CI evidence, and creates the GitHub release and tag.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when cutting, shipping, publishing, or tagging an AIBoarding release. It covers release verification, changelog and notes preparation, GitHub publishing, and tag checks.
Why use it?
It reduces mistakes when publishing a version, such as mismatched version files, missing notes, invalid JSON, or tagging without the required checks. It also keeps the release process consistent with the project’s rules.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex.

Part of the aiboarding plugin — 17 skills, 11 commands, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when cutting, shipping, publishing, or tagging an AIBoarding release. It covers release verification, changelog and notes preparation, GitHub publishing, and tag checks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gustavo-meilus/aiboarding/cutting-a-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 gustavo-meilus/aiboarding --skill cutting-a-release
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gustavo-meilus/aiboarding

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aiboarding, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 11 commands, 4 hooks.

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Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 909 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.
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 $0.00084 $0.00909
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00454
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00182
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00091

Measured 8d ago against content hash c74de55bd36b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cutting-a-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.

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/cutting-a-release/SKILL.md · 38 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 38 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cutting an aiboarding Release

Cut a version release after the feature work is merged into main. Full step detail + gotchas live in RUNBOOK.md - read it before acting.

Hard constraints (read first)

  • main requires a pull request and its required checks. Do not push release changes directly.
  • Exact-SHA CI evidence is required. Before tagging, run bash tools/verify-release-sha <target-sha>; local checks do not replace it.
  • One version target. Only .Codex-plugin/plugin.json (version) carries the version. marketplace.json has NO per-plugin version field - do not add one. There is no package.json / .version-bump.json / .cursor-plugin / AGENTS.md version.
  • JSON must be BOM-free. Never Set-Content -Encoding UTF8 for JSON. Use the Edit tool or python3 writes (encoding="utf-8").
  • Tag ↔ changelog convention (stated in CHANGELOG.md header): every tag vX.Y.Z MUST have a matching ## X.Y.Z CHANGELOG entry and a ## vX.Y.Z RELEASE-NOTES entry before gh release create.
  • gh CLI in Bash tool: never --body @'...'@ (PowerShell here-string, fails). Write the body to a temp .md, use --body-file, then rm it. Keep temp files out of commits.
  • Title form: vX.Y.Z - <Title Case Feature Name> (matches existing releases).

Workflow

  1. Preflight - git fetch origin; confirm origin/main has the feature merge; verify plugin.json version equals the intended vX.Y.Z; check tag/release naming convention.
  2. Sync local main - git checkout main && git pull --ff-only origin main; set the explicit target with target_sha=$(git rev-parse origin/main) and run bash tools/verify-release-sha "$target_sha".
  3. Bump version if needed - if the feature work did not already bump plugin.json, do it now (Edit tool, BOM-free).
  4. Draft doc entries - add ## X.Y.Z to CHANGELOG.md (with trailing --- separator) and a <release_entry> to RELEASE-NOTES.md, mirroring the previous entry's format exactly; extend the <overview> milestone sentence and the Roadmap. Source bullets from real changes; do not invent.
  5. Commit through a pull request - git add the changed files, commit, open a pull request, and merge only after required checks pass. Refresh target_sha from origin/main and run bash tools/verify-release-sha "$target_sha" before tagging.
  6. Create release + tag - extract the new CHANGELOG section as the release body, append the install line, gh release create vX.Y.Z --target main --title "vX.Y.Z - <Title>" --notes-file <tmp>.
  7. Verify - tag commit == origin/main; release not draft/prerelease; it shows as Latest.

Read the full file on GitHub · 38 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 38 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A c74de55bd36b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cutting-a-release is a skill published in the GitHub repository gustavo-meilus/aiboarding (2 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 909 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

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