github-release

github-release is a skill for Claude Code from jezweb/claude-skills. It costs 65 tokens per session (991 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release checklist and workflow for publishing a project on GitHub, a service for hosting and sharing code. It checks the project for secrets and personal files, validates basic public-release files, then creates a version tag and release.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare an existing Git repository for open-source publication, scan it for secrets, check release files, tag a version, and publish through the GitHub command-line tool.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of accidentally making passwords, private artifacts, or an incomplete README or licence public.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the dev-tools plugin — 16 skills, 14 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare an existing Git repository for open-source publication, scan it for secrets, check release files, tag a version, and publish through the GitHub command-line tool.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jezweb/claude-skills/github-release
About the project

jezweb/claude-skills is a collection of skills, commands, plugins, settings, instructions, and hooks that guide the Claude Code CLI through development tasks and produce outputs such as project scaffolds, assets, documents, or deployed services. It is for developers using Claude Code with technologies and services including Cloudflare, React, Tailwind, Shopify, and WordPress. The catalogue entries are the project's own Claude Code workflow components.

jezweb/claude-skills · 1,070 stars · on GitHub · jezweb.com.au

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 jezweb/claude-skills --skill github-release
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jezweb/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev-tools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 14 commands.

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 github-release

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jezweb/claude-skills/github-release/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/jezweb/claude-skills/github-release)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jezweb/claude-skills/github-release"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jezweb/claude-skills/github-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 github-release

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jezweb/claude-skills/github-release"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jezweb/claude-skills/github-release.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 991 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
  • Socket pass 15 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 15 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

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 →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 34
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
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 $0.00065 $0.00991
Opus 5.5 $0.00026 $0.00396
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00198
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00099

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6c7e72bed969, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-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.

plugins/dev-tools/skills/github-release/SKILL.md · 153 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 153 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Release

Sanitize and release projects to GitHub. Two-phase workflow: safety checks first, then tag and publish.

Prerequisites

  • gh CLI installed and authenticated (gh auth status)
  • gitleaks installed for secrets scanning (brew install gitleaks or download from GitHub)
  • Git repository with a remote configured

Workflow

Phase 1: Sanitize

Run these checks before any public release. Stop on blockers.

1. Scan for Secrets (BLOCKER)
gitleaks detect --no-git --source=. --verbose

If secrets found: STOP. Remove secrets, move to environment variables. Check git history with git log -S "secret_value" — if in history, use BFG Repo-Cleaner.

If gitleaks not installed, do manual checks:

# Check for .env files
find . -name ".env*" -not -path "*/node_modules/*"

# Check config files for hardcoded secrets
grep -ri "api_key\|token\|secret\|password" wrangler.toml wrangler.jsonc .dev.vars 2>/dev/null
2. Remove Personal Artifacts

Check for and remove session/planning files that shouldn't be published:

  • SESSION.md — session state
  • planning/, screenshots/ — working directories
  • test-*.ts, test-*.js — local test files

Either delete them or add to .gitignore.

3. Validate LICENSE
ls LICENSE LICENSE.md LICENSE.txt 2>/dev/null

If missing: create one. Check the repo visibility (gh repo view --json visibility -q '.visibility'). Use MIT for public repos. For private repos, consider a proprietary license instead.

4. Validate README

Check README exists and has basic sections:

grep -i "## Install\|## Usage\|## License" README.md

If missing sections, add them before release.

5. Check .gitignore

Verify essential patterns are present:

grep -E "node_modules|\.env|dist/|\.dev\.vars" .gitignore
6. Build Test (non-blocking)
npm run build 2>&1
7. Dependency Audit (non-blocking)
npm audit --audit-level=high
8. Create Sanitization Commit

Read the full file on GitHub · 153 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 1mo ago First seen · 153 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 6c7e72bed969

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-release is a skill published in the GitHub repository jezweb/claude-skills (1,070 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 991 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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