release-readiness

release-readiness is a skill for Claude Code from Kin9Zeus/senior-engineer-skills. It costs 124 tokens per session (2,292 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A pre-release checklist that decides whether a product should ship. It checks security, data protection, legal requirements, operations, performance, accessibility and rollback plans.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to produce a written GO, GO WITH RISK or NO GO decision, with named blockers, accepted risks and owners.
Why use it?
It exposes serious launch blockers and makes the decision explicit instead of relying on an informal sense that the product is nearly ready.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the senior-engineer-skills plugin — 15 skills, 7 commands, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to produce a written GO, GO WITH RISK or NO GO decision, with named blockers, accepted risks and owners.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kin9zeus/senior-engineer-skills/release-readiness
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 Kin9Zeus/senior-engineer-skills --skill release-readiness
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kin9Zeus/senior-engineer-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install senior-engineer-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 7 commands, 4 agents.

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-readiness

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/kin9zeus/senior-engineer-skills/release-readiness/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/kin9zeus/senior-engineer-skills/release-readiness)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/kin9zeus/senior-engineer-skills/release-readiness"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/kin9zeus/senior-engineer-skills/release-readiness/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for release-readiness

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/kin9zeus/senior-engineer-skills/release-readiness"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/kin9zeus/senior-engineer-skills/release-readiness.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 124 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,292 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 $0.00124 $0.02292
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.01146
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00458
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00229

Measured 11d ago against content hash faa2fbb92942, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-readiness 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 11d 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.

skills/release-readiness/SKILL.md · 233 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 233 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release Readiness

The purpose of a gate is to make a decision explicit rather than implicit. Shipping with known gaps is legitimate — shipping without knowing what they are is not.

Produce one of three verdicts, in writing:

GO              No blockers. Ship.
GO WITH RISK    Named, accepted, owned risks. Ship, with mitigations listed.
NO GO           Named blockers. Do not ship until these close.

Never soften a NO GO into "mostly ready". If a blocker is real, say so in the first line and name it.


The blockers — any one of these is NO GO

These are not judgement calls. Each one causes a breach, data loss, or a legal exposure that the launch cannot be undone from.

  • A secret is in the repository or its git history. Rotate first, then purge.
  • Any user can access another user's data. Test it: authenticate as A, request B's resource.
  • No backups, or backups that have never been restored.
  • Personal data is processed with no privacy policy, or a policy that omits a processor actually receiving data.
  • No way to delete user data when the policy or the law says there is.
  • Payments where amounts are computed or trusted from the client.
  • A webhook that mutates state without verifying its signature.
  • String-interpolated SQL on a route reachable by a user.
  • Debug mode enabled, or stack traces returned to clients.
  • No rollback path that anyone has ever executed.
  • A migration with no tested reverse running against production data.
  • A known critical vulnerability in a reachable dependency.

If any box is unticked, the verdict is NO GO and the report is short.


The gate

1 · Security

  • Secret scan clean, including git history
  • Object-level authorization tested — the cross-user test exists and passes
  • Authentication: hashing, session invalidation, rate limits, no user enumeration
  • Input validated by schema at every entry point, including webhooks and queue consumers
  • Security headers set; CSP without unsafe-inline
  • Dependency audit run, output read, high-severity issues resolved or accepted in writing
  • Debug off; stack traces not returned; admin surfaces network-restricted
  • Rate limiting on auth and all mutations
  • Uploads: type verified by content, size capped, served from a separate origin

Read the full file on GitHub · 233 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 11d ago First seen · 233 lines · 124 tokens per session scan A faa2fbb92942

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release-readiness is a skill published in the GitHub repository Kin9Zeus/senior-engineer-skills (3 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 124 tokens to every session and 2,292 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.

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