ship-tag

ship-tag is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills. It costs 130 tokens per session (2,513 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release workflow for preparing versioned software releases, including changelog updates, release branches, Git tags, and package publication. A Git tag is a named marker for a particular commit.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create changelog entries, cut a release branch, bump a version, tag a reviewed commit, or publish a tar.gz package.
Why use it?
It keeps the release version consistent across the branch, tag, version file, changelog, and published package. It also distinguishes local releases from releases involving a pull request.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Use it to create changelog entries, cut a release branch, bump a version, tag a reviewed commit, or publish a tar.gz package.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills/ship-tag
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 julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills --skill ship-tag
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills

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.

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README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills/ship-tag/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills/ship-tag)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills/ship-tag"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills/ship-tag/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills/ship-tag"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills/ship-tag.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 130 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,513 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 $0.00130 $0.02513
Opus 5.5 $0.00052 $0.01005
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00026 $0.00503
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00251

Measured 1mo ago against content hash eff750d7af0e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ship-tag 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 9 executable files (Tools/Changelog.test.ts, Tools/Changelog.ts, Tools/Lib.ts, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/ship-tag/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ship-tag

ship gets a change reviewed. ship-tag turns reviewed changes into a release someone else can install: one version string, carried the same way by a release branch, an annotated tag, the version file, the CHANGELOG heading and a published package, each read back from its authority rather than assumed.

Not ship's ship-tag.ts. That script manages PR labels. This skill is about release versions: git tags, release branches, packages and the changelog.

Workflow Routing

Trigger Workflow
"add a changelog entry", "create CHANGELOG.md", "release notes", "backfill the changelog", "lint the changelog" Workflows/Changelog.md
"cut a release", "release branch", "don't merge into main, target a release branch", "bump the version" Workflows/CutRelease.md
"PR merged, tag it", "tag and publish", "publish the tar.gz", "universal package" Workflows/TagAndPublish.md
"release locally", "no remote", "tag a release without a PR", "cut 1.4.0 on this branch" Workflows/LocalRelease.md

What a finished release looks like

  • One SemVer string X.Y.Z agrees in all five places: branch release/vX.Y.Z, tag vX.Y.Z, the version file (pyproject.toml / package.json), the ## [X.Y.Z] - YYYY-MM-DD heading in CHANGELOG.md, and the package version in the feed.
  • The tag and the package both come from the merge commit of a pull request whose status is completed. Nothing unreviewed carries the version.
  • The artifact was built from that commit in a clean worktree with SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH pinned, and the copy a consumer downloads matches the built file's sha256 and installs.
  • A consumer can act on the package without asking anyone: the feed Description says what changed, how to install and how to run it, and a generated README.md inside the package has the full install, checksum and usage steps.
  • CHANGELOG.md tells users what changed, in the six Keep a Changelog categories, with compare links, and passes Changelog.ts lint --strict.
  • The base branch gets the release back through its own PR, so a release branch never becomes a dead end.

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 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. 1mo ago First seen · 102 lines · 130 tokens per session scan A eff750d7af0e

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ship-tag is a skill published in the GitHub repository julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills (14 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 130 tokens to every session and 2,513 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-13.