github-release

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 CodeCodex

Part of the dev-tools plugin — 13 skills, 14 commands shipped together

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/jezweb/claude-skills/github-release
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, Codex.

Or install dev-tools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 14 commands.

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. 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 $0.00065 $0.00991
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00495
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00198
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00099

Measured 3d ago against content hash 6c7e72bed969, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 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.

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. 3d 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 (987 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 991 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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