release

release is a skill for Claude Code from Houseofmvps/ultraship. It costs 35 tokens per session (780 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release workflow that prepares a software version from its commits, including a changelog, version update, Git tag, GitHub release, and npm publication. npm is a service for distributing JavaScript packages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to classify version changes, write release notes, bump package versions, create GitHub releases, and publish to npm.
Why use it?
It organizes the repeated steps needed to publish a new version and reduces the chance of missing one.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the ultraship plugin — 45 skills, 16 commands, 13 agents, 3 hooks, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to classify version changes, write release notes, bump package versions, create GitHub releases, and publish to npm.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/houseofmvps/ultraship/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 Houseofmvps/ultraship --skill release
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Houseofmvps/ultraship

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ultraship, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 45 skills, 16 commands, 13 agents, 3 hooks, 2 MCP servers.

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
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/houseofmvps/ultraship/release/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/houseofmvps/ultraship/release)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/houseofmvps/ultraship/release"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/houseofmvps/ultraship/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/houseofmvps/ultraship/release"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/houseofmvps/ultraship/release.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 780 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00035 $0.00780
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00390
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00156
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00078

Measured 6d ago against content hash 69cc8d1e7e33, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 6d 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.

skills/release/SKILL.md · 116 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 116 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release

Full release pipeline: changelog → version bump → commit → tag → GitHub release → npm publish.

Process

Step 1: Determine Version Bump

Check recent commits since last tag to determine semver bump:

git describe --tags --abbrev=0 2>/dev/null || echo "none"
git log $(git describe --tags --abbrev=0 2>/dev/null || git rev-list --max-parents=0 HEAD)..HEAD --oneline

Analyze commit messages:

  • Any BREAKING CHANGE: or !:major bump
  • Any feat:minor bump
  • Only fix:, chore:, docs:, refactor:patch bump

If the user specifies a version (e.g., "release 2.0.0"), use that instead.

Step 2: Generate Changelog

Group commits by type:

## What's New
- feat: Add deploy command with pre-flight checks
- feat: Add content scoring with readability analysis

## Bug Fixes
- fix: Secret scanner false positive on .env.example

## Other Changes
- chore: Update dependencies
- refactor: Restructure SEO scanner for cross-page analysis

Step 3: Version Bump

Update version in:

  1. package.json — the version field
  2. Any other version references the project uses
# Read current version
node -e "console.log(JSON.parse(require('fs').readFileSync('package.json','utf8')).version)"

Use the Edit tool to update the version string.

Step 4: Commit & Tag

git add package.json CHANGELOG.md
git commit -m "release: v<new-version>"
git tag -a v<new-version> -m "v<new-version>"

Step 5: Push

git push origin main --tags

Step 6: GitHub Release

gh release create v<new-version> --title "v<new-version>" --notes "<changelog>"

Use the changelog from Step 2 as release notes.

Step 7: npm Publish (if applicable)

Only if package.json exists and has a name field (and is not private):

npm publish

If publish fails due to auth, show the user how to set up their npm token.

Step 8: Post-Release Summary

====================================
  RELEASE COMPLETE
====================================
  Package:    ultraship
  Version:    1.0.7
  Tag:        v1.0.7
  Commits:    12 since last release
  GitHub:     https://github.com/Houseofmvps/ultraship/releases/tag/v1.0.7
  npm:        https://www.npmjs.com/package/ultraship
====================================
  Changelog:
  - 3 new features
  - 2 bug fixes
  - 1 breaking change
====================================

Read the full file on GitHub · 116 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. 6d ago First seen · 116 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 69cc8d1e7e33

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release is a skill published in the GitHub repository Houseofmvps/ultraship (121 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 780 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 2026-09-03.

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