release-readiness

release-readiness is a skill for Claude Code from jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience. It costs 41 tokens per session (743 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A pre-release checklist that decides whether a system is ready to deploy or hand over. It checks the definition of done, tests, security findings, failure handling, rollback, and cost.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before staging or production deployments, team handoffs, or declaring a milestone complete. It produces a signed go/no-go decision.
Why use it?
It catches the gap between a demo that works and a service that can be operated safely when dependencies fail, demand changes, or incidents happen.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the join-the-team plugin — 21 skills, 3 commands, 1 hook 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/jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience/release-readiness
Any agent
npx skills add jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience --skill release-readiness
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install join-the-team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 3 commands, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 743 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 5.1 $0.00041 $0.00743
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00371
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00149
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00074

Measured 6d ago against content hash 0b7e14f6ebff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-readiness 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-readiness/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release Readiness

A working demo is not evidence of production readiness. Production readiness is proven through sustained operation, incident handling, cost predictability, and controlled evolution.

This skill enforces the production bar. It produces a go / no-go verdict with a signed checklist. No checklist = no go.

When to use

  • Before deploying to staging or production
  • Before handing a system to another team
  • Before declaring a sprint or milestone complete
  • When someone says "it works on my machine"

Procedure

  1. Validate the definition of done — confirm that acceptance criteria from the spec are met. "Looks good" is not a criterion. Run the actual validation commands.

  2. Check all quality gates pass:

    • make lint — style and static analysis clean
    • make typecheck — no type errors
    • make test — unit tests green
    • make e2e — end-to-end tests green (or equivalent for your stack)
    • No outstanding HIGH or CRITICAL findings from security scan
  3. Name the failure modes — at minimum:

    • What happens if the service is unavailable?
    • What happens under unexpected load?
    • What happens if a dependency (external API, database, queue) is degraded?
    • What is the data-loss risk?
  4. Confirm rollback exists and is tested — a rollback plan that has never been tested is not a rollback plan. If the rollback has not been exercised, flag it.

  5. Estimate cost impact — LLM calls, storage writes, egress, third-party API calls. Any unbounded cost vector must be capped or accepted explicitly.

  6. Confirm monitoring and alerting — what fires when this breaks? Who gets the alert? What is the on-call runbook?

  7. Check data boundaries — does the release touch PII, regulated data, or cross a tenant boundary? If yes, confirm the appropriate controls are in place.

  8. Sign off — record: who reviewed, what was checked, what was accepted as known risk, and the go/no-go verdict.

Outputs

  • Signed release checklist (append to PR or release doc)
  • Go / no-go verdict
  • List of accepted known risks with named owners

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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 · 67 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 0b7e14f6ebff

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release-readiness is a skill published in the GitHub repository jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience (11 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 743 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 2026-08-30.

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