ShadowDusk: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/release/SKILL.md

release is a skill for Claude Code from kaltinril/ShadowDusk. It costs 73 tokens per session (3,994 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release workflow for the ShadowDusk project that updates the version, checks documentation, builds and tests the code, opens and merges a change, and triggers publishing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to cut a ShadowDusk release, choose the appropriate version change, update release files, wait for CI, and trigger NuGet publishing.
Why use it?
It turns a long, error-prone release checklist into a defined sequence with checks before packages and binaries are published.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is kaltinril/ShadowDusk's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on ShadowDusk 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 ShadowDusk configures →

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is ./validation/run-windows-render-gates.ps1 # DX corpus + DX-modern (VTF) + DX Apos gallery + DX resource arrays (issues #339/#340: texture-array tab.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to kaltinril/ShadowDusk. 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/kaltinril/ShadowDusk/main/.claude/skills/release/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kaltinril/ShadowDusk

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,994 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

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 →

  • high Tool Misuse · line 125
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
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 $0.00073 $0.03994
Opus 5.5 $0.00029 $0.01598
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00799
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00399

Measured yesterday against content hash 5b2defd5fe7a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 yesterday.

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 · 196 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 196 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release

Automate the full ShadowDusk release from version bump through PR merge to publish trigger.

A release publishes all ten ShadowDusk.* packages (Core, HLSL, GLSL, ShaderToy, Slang, Compiler, Cli, Wasm, MgcbPlugin, ContentPipeline) plus the ShadowDuskCLI dotnet tool to nuget.org, and attaches self-contained CLI binaries to a GitHub Release. The human runbook this automates is RELEASING.md.

Input

$ARGUMENTS is the version (e.g., 0.2.0). If omitted, read the current <Version> from Directory.Build.props and ask the user for the new one.

Choosing the version bump (0.y.z, pre-1.0 — verified against the actual CHANGELOG.md history, not just SemVer's letter):

  • MINOR (0.X.0) — the release ships a genuine new capability: a new backend/target, a new frontend, a new consumer-facing feature.
  • PATCH (0.X.Y) — fixes/maintenance only: bug fixes, doc corrections, CI/tooling reliability. A patch release can still carry a small accompanying addition (a README, a regression fixture) as long as the headline is a fix, not a feature.
  • MAJOR (1.0.0) is a deliberate decision the owner makes, not a numbering consequence of accumulated features — see plan/plan.md's named v1.0-gate phases for what "ready" means.
  • If a release doesn't cleanly fit one bucket, ask the user rather than guessing.

Steps

  1. Validate clean tree. git status; if dirty, warn and stop. Show current <Version> from Directory.Build.props. Then git checkout main && git pull so the gates in step 2 run against exactly the code that is about to ship.

  2. RENDER GATES FIRST — DX / FNA / KNI / Vulkan (required; CI cannot do this). Run BEFORE the version bump: it is the longest and likeliest step to fail, it is the only proof of the actual product promise, and release.yml does not check it, so a divergence must stop the release before any version churn, commit, PR, or CI time is spent.

    Run these from PowerShell 7 (pwsh), not Windows PowerShell 5.1. The script shells out to tools/restore.ps1, which carries #requires -Version 7.0; under 5.1 the run dies at the restore step with a ScriptRequiresUnmatchedPSVersion error that looks nothing like a render divergence.

Read the full file on GitHub · 196 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. yesterday Changed 5b2defd5fe7a
  2. 22d ago Changed bc2617c81e66
  3. 24d ago Changed · +5 lines a48f653a01d0
  4. 25d ago Changed · +5 lines df0fac228beb
  5. 27d ago Changed · +5 lines 6610bc9ffaff
  6. 28d ago Changed · +5 lines 29b748d17ba3
  7. 1mo ago Changed 7fa7a016a583
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  9. 1mo ago First seen · 176 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 1107803a1233

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release is a skill published in the GitHub repository kaltinril/ShadowDusk (19 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 3,994 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-04.