release

A release procedure for the Codingest project, covering version changes, builds, tests and publication. It checks releases across crates.io, PyPI and GitHub.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare and verify a Codingest release, update all required version references, run the release checks, refresh conditional benchmarks, update the changelog and confirm published packages and GitHub release status.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of publishing inconsistent versions or stopping after an intermediate step such as a successful build or a pushed tag. The procedure requires a verified published release or a clearly named blocker.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 117 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,784 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00117 $0.07784
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.03892
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.01557
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00778

Measured yesterday against content hash 33bb5ad8e9bb, 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 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

(`curl -s -H "User-Agent: codingest-release" https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/<c> | jq -r .crate.max_version`
.agents/skills/release/SKILL.md · 450 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 450 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release

This run ends in a published version or a named blocker

Read this before step 1; it governs every step below (doctrine [[R12]]).

The completion condition. The run is done when step 11 has verified x.y.z on crates.io (all three crates) and on PyPI with the full artifact set, and the GitHub Release exists and is not a draft — or when you have surfaced a specific blocker you cannot fix. Nothing else is an ending.

The non-endings. "CI is running", "the commit is staged", "the tag is pushed", "waiting for the wheels", "next I will…" are not endings. Each is a natural pause point that feels like a reasonable place to hand back control, and each is indistinguishable from the inside from genuinely needing input. The failure is not a decision to stop — it is failing to notice that continuing is an option. Three releases across the estate stalled exactly this way on 2026-07-30/31, every check green, no version shipped; the user noticed before the agent did, twice.

Waiting is not a checkpoint. Poll it, background it, or block on it — all three continue the run. Handing control back does not. A poll that takes twenty minutes is twenty minutes of polling, not a reason to end the turn. The crates.io index-propagation wait and the multi-platform wheel builds are the two places this run is most likely to stall.

A red CI is a task, not a verdict. Diagnose, fix, push, re-poll, repeat — within step 10's stated bound (~3 iterations), then surface what remains as a named blocker.

Preconditions

  • No double-stage. Check no release is already staged: git log origin/main..HEAD --oneline | grep -E "release\(". If a release(x.y.z) sits unpushed, keep that version — fold work into the same [x.y.z] block (one version bump per release).
  • Surgical staging. If there's unrelated uncommitted work in the tree, don't block on it and don't sweep it in: stage every release file explicitly by path (git add <file> …, never git add -A/.) and verify with git status --porcelain that only release files are staged. Leave unrelated changes untouched for their author.
    • That verification is not a formality: git add is all-or-nothing across its pathspecs. One bad path — a typo, a file the plan renamed, a BENCHMARKS.md you did not actually refresh — aborts the entire invocation, so none of the other files are staged either. The failure is quiet in the reassuring direction: the next git commit succeeds, on a release commit missing the bump. Read back the staged set (git diff --cached --name-only) and confirm it matches the intended list before committing. (KGLite hit this on 2026-08-09.)

Read the full file on GitHub · 450 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 First seen · 450 lines · 117 tokens per session scan A 33bb5ad8e9bb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release is a skill published in the GitHub repository kkollsga/codingest (0 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 117 tokens to every session and 7,784 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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