release

release is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jswest/bartleby. It costs 61 tokens per session (997 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release procedure for the Bartleby repository. A release is a published version of software, usually marked with a version tag and a GitHub Release.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for dry-running the repository's release script, calculating the next version, checking for schema changes, and publishing the tag and GitHub Release after approval.
Why use it?
It checks that the code is on the main branch, clean, and up to date, then requires confirmation before publishing the release.

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/jswest/bartleby/release
Any agent
npx skills add jswest/bartleby --skill release
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jswest/bartleby

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for release

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jswest/bartleby/release.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/jswest/bartleby/release)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jswest/bartleby/release"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jswest/bartleby/release.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 997 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 $0.00061 $0.00997
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00498
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00199
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00100

Measured 3d ago against content hash f683c0ab563c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release 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 3d 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.

.claude/skills/release/SKILL.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

release — cut a release with dry-run → confirm → publish

No argument. Run the steps in order. One hard stop is marked PAUSE: do not pass it without the user's OK.

Cutting a release is a deliberate, post-merge act on main — never a per-issue step, never something to fold into a /ship run. This skill only advises and orchestrates; scripts/release.py is the source of truth for the version math and the schema-drift guard. Do not invent, pass, or guess a version — the script computes it from SCHEMA_VERSION and the last tag.

Repo specifics: the main checkout is /Users/johnwest/Code/spot/bartleby; run everything from there. The release runs via uv run python scripts/release.py, which starts with uv, so the guard-main-write.sh hook (it gates only segments beginning with git commit / git push) never sees the script's internal git tag / git push. Never reach around the script with a bare git tag or git push on main — those would be blocked, and rightly. Always go through the script.

Versioning is automatic: v0.<SCHEMA_VERSION>.<patch> — minor is SCHEMA_VERSION (read from bartleby/db/schema.py), patch increments at the same schema and resets to 0 on a schema bump, major is carried forward.

1. Preconditions (enforce these — the script does not)

The script warns on a non-main branch and refuses a dirty tree (unless --allow-dirty), and never checks sync with the remote, so this skill enforces the guardrails up front. Refuse to proceed unless all hold:

  • On main. git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD is main. If not, stop — a release is cut from main after a merge.
  • Working tree clean. git status --porcelain is empty.
  • Synced with the remote. git fetch origin, then confirm HEAD is up to date with origin/main (git rev-parse HEAD == git rev-parse origin/main, i.e. no un-pulled or un-pushed commits). If behind, git pull --ff-only origin main first; if ahead, stop and report (a release should only contain merged work).
  • Confirm gh auth status is good (the publish step calls gh).

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 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. 3d ago First seen · 72 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A f683c0ab563c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release is a skill published in the GitHub repository jswest/bartleby (11 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 997 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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