prepare-release

prepare-release is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jpicklyk/task-orchestrator. It costs 95 tokens per session (4,795 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release workflow that examines commits since the last version tag, proposes a semantic version change, prepares release notes, and completes the release process. A version tag is a named marker in Git.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare and ship a new version: update the main branch, review changes, draft a changelog, create and merge a release pull request, verify CI, tag the release, and monitor its Docker build.
Why use it?
It turns the many release steps into a tracked sequence with confirmation, continuous-integration checks, tagging, and Docker-build monitoring.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator/prepare-release
Any agent
npx skills add jpicklyk/task-orchestrator --skill prepare-release
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,795 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00095 $0.04795
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.02397
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00959
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00479

Measured 5d ago against content hash d5b386e10b16, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prepare-release scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 5d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s "https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/xerial/sqlite-jdbc/maven-metadata.xml" \
.claude/skills/prepare-release/SKILL.md · 556 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 556 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Prepare Release

End-to-end release workflow. Reads commits since the last release tag, infers the semver bump, drafts a user-facing changelog, confirms with you, creates a release PR, merges it, verifies CI is green, tags the release, and monitors the Docker build to completion.

Usage: /prepare-release

Run this from any branch after all feature PRs have been merged to main.


Step 1 — Ensure Clean Main

Switch to main and pull latest:

git checkout main
git pull origin main
git status

If git status shows uncommitted changes, stop and resolve them before continuing. The working tree must be clean.


Step 2 — Find Last Release Tag

git describe --tags --abbrev=0

Note this as LAST_TAG (e.g., v2.0.2). All commits after this tag are candidates for the release.

If this command fails (no tags exist yet), use the full history — note the first commit hash as the baseline and treat the release as the initial version.


Step 3 — Gather Commits Since Last Tag

git log <LAST_TAG>...HEAD --oneline
git diff <LAST_TAG>...HEAD --stat
git diff <LAST_TAG>...HEAD --name-only

Collect the full output of each. Do not truncate.


Step 4 — Filter and Synthesize (Critical Reasoning Step)

This is not a raw dump of commit messages. Analyze the material and produce a curated, user-facing summary.

4a. Discard internal-only commits

Ignore commits that match any of the following:

  • Subject starts with: wip, WIP, checkpoint, fixup!, chore: rebase, Merge branch, version bump, release:
  • Commit only touches: build.gradle.kts, gradle/, *.properties, .gitignore, .github/, Dockerfile, docker-compose.yml, scripts/, *.md files with no API impact
  • Subject is a bare file list or CI housekeeping note

4b. Group meaningful changes by theme

Use only these categories (omit any that have no entries):

  • Breaking Changes — removed tool, renamed/removed parameter, incompatible schema change
  • New Features — new MCP tool, new operation on existing tool, new config option, new query parameter
  • Bug Fixes — incorrect behavior corrected, crash fixed, data integrity issue resolved
  • Performance — measurable throughput or latency improvement
  • Documentation — user-visible docs (only if substantive)

Read the full file on GitHub · 556 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. 5d ago First seen · 556 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A d5b386e10b16

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prepare-release is a skill published in the GitHub repository jpicklyk/task-orchestrator (205 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 4,795 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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