task-orchestrator: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/prepare-release/SKILL.md

prepare-release is a skill for Claude Code from jpicklyk/task-orchestrator. It costs 95 tokens per session (7,218 once invoked), scanned C, 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 Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions .claude-plugin; mentions CLAUDE.md.

This is jpicklyk/task-orchestrator's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on task-orchestrator itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything task-orchestrator configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to jpicklyk/task-orchestrator. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator/main/.claude/skills/prepare-release/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 7,218 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 335
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 551
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00095 $0.07218
Opus 5.5 $0.00038 $0.02887
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00019 $0.01444
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00722

Measured 5d ago against content hash 659fcfb3a11e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

prepare-release scanned grade C with 2 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 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

`rm -rf ~/.claude/plugins/cache/task-orchestrator-marketplace`, then

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 · 683 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 683 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.

Steps 1-11 are the ordinary point-release path (3.x and 4.x). A major release that lands a long-lived branch on main follows "Major release landing (X1, first used for 4.0.0)" below instead of Steps 1, 7, 10 and 11b-11e.


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

Read the full file on GitHub · 683 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 Changed · +94 lines scan A → C 659fcfb3a11e
  2. 24d ago Changed 4d4434c9a05e
  3. 29d ago Changed · +2 lines 035eff552bc8
  4. 1mo ago Changed · +31 lines 61f29a7d3be5
  5. 1mo 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 (210 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 7,218 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (recursive force delete, 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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