quartermaster

quartermaster is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from johntimothybailey/skill-harbor. It costs 46 tokens per session (853 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release-notes drafting assistant that turns the current Git changes into a Skill Harbor-style changeset. A changeset is a file describing a package release and the reason for it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft a hero title, Captain’s Briefing, release notes, or a .changeset file from the current branch changes.
Why use it?
It helps classify whether changes need a minor or patch release and produces the required release wording from the actual diff. This reduces manual release-note work and keeps the notes aligned with the code changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to draft a hero title, Captain’s Briefing, release notes, or a .changeset file from the current branch changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/johntimothybailey/skill-harbor/quartermaster
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 johntimothybailey/skill-harbor --skill quartermaster
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/johntimothybailey/skill-harbor

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 853 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.
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 $0.00046 $0.00853
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00426
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00171
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00085

Measured 9d ago against content hash f1439f11ab05, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

quartermaster 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 9d 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/quartermaster/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Quartermaster ⚓

Quartermaster turns the current Git diff into a Skill Harbor-style changeset draft with a nautical voice.

Purpose

Use this skill when you need to:

  • decide whether the release bump should be minor or patch
  • draft a catchy Hero Title
  • write a short Captain's Briefing
  • produce release notes for .changeset/*.md
  • review or correct an existing changeset draft so it matches the real branch contents

This skill is the skill-based replacement for the old bun run quartermaster workflow.

Default Workflow

  1. Review the current Git diff against the intended base branch.
    • Default to main unless the user specifies another base.
  2. Classify the release:
    • minor for new features or significant behavior changes
    • patch for fixes, cleanup, docs, or narrow maintenance changes
  3. Generate:
    • a Hero Title
    • a short Captain's Briefing
    • release notes in the Quartermaster format
  4. If the user wants a changeset file, write:
    • .changeset/<descriptive-name>.md
  5. Re-check the notes against the real diff before finalizing.

Required Structure

Use this structure unless the user explicitly asks for a different shape:

  • Captain's Briefing (1-2 short sentences)
  • ## ✨ New Cargo
  • ## 🛡️ Hardened Hull
  • ## 🛠️ Barnacle Scraping
  • ## 🔧 Repaired Ships
  • ## 🔭 New Skill Discovery only if relevant

Omit any section that has no real content.

Section intent:

  • ## 🔧 Repaired Ships is for user-visible repairs: fixes to CLI behavior, docs/manual behavior, distribution/packaging/install flows, or any other bug/repair a user would directly notice.
  • ## 🛠️ Barnacle Scraping is for non-user-facing cleanup and maintenance: refactors, migrations, naming cleanups, internal plumbing fixes, and other maintenance work that is not primarily a user-noticeable repair.

Hard Rules

  • Every bullet must reference a specific file, command, function, module, behavior, or user-visible change.
  • Do not use vague filler like:
    • "various technical improvements"
    • "code improvements"
    • "general enhancements"
    • "better performance across different aspects"
  • Do not repeat the same change in multiple sections.
  • Keep the notes truthful to the current branch contents.
  • If an existing draft includes unrelated changes, rewrite it rather than preserving bad content.

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 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. 9d ago First seen · 103 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A f1439f11ab05

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quartermaster is a skill published in the GitHub repository johntimothybailey/skill-harbor (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 853 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 2026-08-31.