release-tag

release-tag is a skill for Claude Code from KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude. It costs 64 tokens per session (1,229 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release workflow for preparing and publishing a new version of a software project. SemVer, or Semantic Versioning, uses version numbers to show whether changes are breaking, additive, or fixes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare a checked release, update versions, create an annotated Git tag, and push that tag after confirmation.
Why use it?
It reduces release mistakes by checking the repository, choosing the version change from the history, updating version files, and refreshing the changelog before tagging and pushing.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the git plugin — 9 skills, 1 command shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare a checked release, update versions, create an annotated…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/release-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 KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude --skill release-tag
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install git, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 1 command.

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-tag

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,229 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 $0.00064 $0.01229
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00615
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00246
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00123

Measured 6d ago against content hash 90ee5db56974, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-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 6d 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-plugin/plugins/git/skills/release-tag/SKILL.md · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Take the repo from "ready" to a clean, tagged, pushed release. Releases are outward-facing and effectively irreversible once published, so every step is gated by pre-flight checks and explicit confirmation.

Hard rules: never break these

  • Never release a dirty or unverified tree. Working tree clean, on the correct branch, up to date with the remote, and tests/CI green; all true before tagging.
  • Tags are immutable once published. Never move or overwrite a pushed tag; if a release is wrong, cut a new patch version. Force-retagging breaks everyone who already pulled.
  • Follow SemVer honestly. The bump must reflect what actually changed (see Step 2), not a convenient number.
  • Confirm before the commit, the tag, and the push. These are the irreversible, outward-facing actions.
  • No AI/co-author trailers in the release commit or tag message.
  • Publishing is downstream. Tagging ≠ publishing to a registry. Don't run npm publish / cargo publish / etc. unless explicitly asked; most pipelines publish from CI on tag.

Step 1: Pre-flight

  • git status → clean tree (or stash/commit deliberate changes first).
  • On the release branch (usually main/master or a release/* branch) and synced: git fetch && git status shows up to date.
  • Latest tag and history since it: git describe --tags --abbrev=0.
  • Tests, linters, and build pass locally; CI on the release commit is green.

Step 2: Determine the version

Derive the SemVer bump from the commits since the last tag:

  • MAJOR: any breaking change (! marker, BREAKING CHANGE: footer, removed/incompatible API).
  • MINOR: new backward-compatible features (feat).
  • PATCH: backward-compatible fixes only (fix, perf).
  • Pre-1.0: minor/patch carry the instability caveat; respect the project's stated policy.
  • Honor pre-release / build identifiers if used (1.4.0-rc.1, +build.5) and any explicit version the user gives.

Step 3: Bump the version files (stack-aware)

Update wherever the canonical version lives; detect by the manifests present:

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 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. 6d ago First seen · 73 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 90ee5db56974

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release-tag is a skill published in the GitHub repository KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude (5 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 1,229 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 2026-08-31.