release

A preparation checklist for a named software version, covering version checks, building, packaging, smoke tests, checksums, and release notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare release artifacts, run basic checks, create checksums and notes, and produce a readiness report without tagging, publishing, or deploying.
Why use it?
It helps catch inconsistent version information or broken release files before publication, while keeping the final publishing decision separate.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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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/hmbown/codewhale/release
Any agent
npx skills add Hmbown/CodeWhale --skill release
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Hmbown/CodeWhale

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 154 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 $0.00000 $0.00154
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00077
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00031
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00015

Measured 3d ago against content hash 7f2b094a2b40, 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 3d 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.

crates/tui/assets/skills/release/SKILL.md · 22 lines

What it actually says

Release

Invocation

Explicit-only for a named version. Loading this skill is not publish authority.

Non-goals

  • Do not tag, publish, deploy, or ship packages without separate authorization.
  • Do not invent version numbers.

Workflow

  1. Preflight version consistency and changelog readiness.
  2. Build/package with locked release commands.
  3. Smoke test artifacts.
  4. Produce checksums/notes and a readiness report.
  5. Stop before any public release action unless explicitly authorized.
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. 3d ago First seen · 22 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 7f2b094a2b40

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release is a skill published in the GitHub repository Hmbown/CodeWhale (40,889 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 154 tokens. 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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