release

A release-process guide for the Jumpstarter project, covering the steps for preparing branches, version tags, package metadata, and an operator bundle.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating release candidates or final releases, updating FLS versions, and preparing operator bundle changes.
Why use it?
It helps prevent inconsistent version names and missed release updates across the project and related repositories.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,588 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 $0.00021 $0.05588
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.02794
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.01118
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00559

Measured 2d ago against content hash 11a882a7d969, 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 2d 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 · 478 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 478 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Jumpstarter Release

You are guiding the user through the Jumpstarter project release process.

Before proceeding, read .claude/rules/releasing-operator.md for operator-specific details.

Release input: $ARGUMENTS

Conventions

  • Git tags use a v prefix: v0.8.1, v0.9.0-rc.1
  • Container image tags do NOT use a v prefix: :0.8.1, :0.9.0-rc.1
  • RC tag format: vX.Y.Z-rc.N (with dot before N). Reject old formats like rc1 or -rc1.
  • RC-first rule: When a release branch has no final release tags yet, the first tag MUST be an RC. Never tag a direct vX.Y.0 final on a new branch without at least one RC first.
  • FLS tags do NOT use a v prefix: 0.3.0, 0.4.0 (repo: jumpstarter-dev/fls)
  • Python packages are versioned automatically from git tags via hatch-vcs — no manual version files.
  • The bundle/ directory is NOT committed to the repo.
  • GITHUB_USER env var controls the fork for community-operators and for pushing version-bump PRs. Auto-detected via gh api user -q .login if not set.
  • Do NOT modify controller/deploy/operator/api/v1alpha1/jumpstarter_types.go — the operator resolves :latest image defaults to its own version at runtime.

Ordering constraint

[optional FLS release] → Makefile/FLS pin update → commit → tag push → GitHub Release / [CI builds images] → make bundle → make contribute

If a new FLS version is needed, release FLS first so binaries exist before Jumpstarter CI builds the exporter image. Images must exist before bundle generation. The skill enforces this by splitting the process into phases.

Steps

1. Gather context and determine release type

Fetch the latest remote state and detect the GitHub user early:

GITHUB_USER="${GITHUB_USER:-$(gh api user -q .login)}"
echo "GitHub user: $GITHUB_USER"

git fetch origin --tags
git branch --show-current
git branch -r | grep 'origin/release-'
git tag --sort=-version:refname | head -20
gh release list --limit 5
grep -E '^(VERSION|REPLACES) ' controller/deploy/operator/Makefile
# Current FLS pins in Jumpstarter
grep -E 'ARG FLS_VERSION=' python/Containerfile
rg -n 'fls_version: str = "|--fls-version"' \
  python/packages/jumpstarter-driver-flashers/jumpstarter_driver_flashers/client.py

Read the full file on GitHub · 478 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. 2d ago First seen · 478 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 11a882a7d969

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release is a skill published in the GitHub repository jumpstarter-dev/jumpstarter (214 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 5,588 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.