release-skills

release-skills is a skill for Claude Code from JimLiu/baoyu-skills. It costs 87 tokens per session (5,125 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release workflow for preparing and publishing a new version of a software project. A release is a named version that may include updated version files, release notes, tags, or a GitHub Release.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to release Node.js, Python, Rust, Claude plugin, or generic projects; update versions and changelogs; create annotated tags; publish GitHub Releases; or fill in missing historical releases.
Why use it?
It removes much of the repeated checking involved in version updates across different project types. It can identify common version files and changelogs automatically.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: Claude Code plugin machinery. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

not rated 26krepo +163 2d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: warnSkillSpector: pass 87 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to release Node.js, Python, Rust, Claude plugin, or generic projects; update versions and changelogs; create annotated tags; publish GitHub Releases; or fill in missing historical releases.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jimliu/baoyu-skills/release-skills
About the project

baoyu-skills is a collection of reusable skills that give AI coding agents instructions for tasks such as preparing and publishing content. It supports agents including Claude Code, Codex, and OpenClaw, with users installing only the workflows they need. The catalogue contains selected skills from this collection.

JimLiu/baoyu-skills · 25,839 stars · on GitHub

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,125 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 6 May 2026
  • Snyk warn 6 May 2026
  • 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 $0.00087 $0.05125
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.02563
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.01025
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00513

Measured 13d ago against content hash f320492bbc9c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-skills 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 13d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.claude/skills/release-skills/SKILL.md · 579 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 579 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release Skills

Universal release workflow supporting any project type with multi-language changelog.

User Input Tools

When this skill prompts the user, follow this tool-selection rule (priority order):

  1. Prefer built-in user-input tools exposed by the current agent runtime — e.g., AskUserQuestion, request_user_input, clarify, ask_user, or any equivalent.
  2. Fallback: if no such tool exists, emit a numbered plain-text message and ask the user to reply with the chosen number/answer for each question.
  3. Batching: if the tool supports multiple questions per call, combine all applicable questions into a single call; if only single-question, ask them one at a time in priority order.

Concrete AskUserQuestion references below are examples — substitute the local equivalent in other runtimes.

Quick Start

Just run /release-skills - auto-detects your project configuration.

Supported Projects

Project Type Version File Auto-Detected
Node.js package.json
Python pyproject.toml
Rust Cargo.toml
Claude Plugin marketplace.json
Generic VERSION / version.txt

Options

Flag Description
--dry-run Preview changes without executing
--major Force major version bump
--minor Force minor version bump
--patch Force patch version bump
--backfill-releases Create missing GitHub Releases for existing tags from changelog sections

Workflow

Step 1: Detect Project Configuration

  1. Check for .releaserc.yml (optional config override)
    • If present, inspect whether it defines release hooks
  2. Auto-detect version file by scanning (priority order):
    • package.json (Node.js)
    • pyproject.toml (Python)
    • Cargo.toml (Rust)
    • marketplace.json or .claude-plugin/marketplace.json (Claude Plugin)
    • VERSION or version.txt (Generic)
  3. Scan for changelog files using glob patterns:
    • CHANGELOG*.md
    • HISTORY*.md
    • CHANGES*.md
  4. Identify language of each changelog by filename suffix
  5. Detect GitHub release support:
    • Check whether origin points to GitHub
    • Check whether gh is installed and authenticated
    • Check existing releases with gh release list --limit 5 when available
  6. Display detected configuration

Read the full file on GitHub · 579 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. 13d ago First seen · 579 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A f320492bbc9c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release-skills is a skill published in the GitHub repository JimLiu/baoyu-skills (25,839 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 5,125 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 2026-08-30.

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