github-release-guide

A guided checklist for releasing repositories on GitHub, the code-hosting service. It covers making a private repository public for the first time and publishing new versions from an existing public repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check release readiness, review what will become public, prepare release notes, and verify the public result.
Why use it?
It helps expose release risks before changes are made and keeps release decisions with the repository owner.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 113 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,919 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 $0.00113 $0.01919
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.00959
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00384
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00192

Measured 2d ago against content hash 332665130d3d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-release-guide 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.

skills/github-release-guide/SKILL.md · 184 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 184 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

github-release-guide

Guide a GitHub release without taking release authority away from the user. Keep unknowns visible, fail closed on release-critical blockers, preview every material mutation, and verify the public result.

Package map

Load references progressively, but never skip a required load:

File Load rule
references/assessment.md Always load before classifying readiness or proposing a mutation
references/first-public.md Load for an existing private github.com repository's first public release
references/version-release.md Load for every new version released from an already-public github.com repository

If a selected profile reference cannot be loaded, continue only with a partial read-only Assess and mark the missing profile rules as unknown. Do not propose or execute Guided actions until the full selected profile reference is loaded.

Supported contract

Support only:

  • Mode: Assess or Guided
  • Release profile: first-public or version-release
  • Provider: github.com
  • Claim-audit profile: public-baseline by default, or internal-strict only when the user or a repository policy explicitly selects it

Never infer internal-strict from a repository name, owner, visibility, organization, or local path. Never treat the current working directory as the release target without confirming repository identity.

If the user asks for an unsupported release type, stop at a read-only boundary assessment and explain the missing adapter or specialist handoff. Do not stretch this contract to cover it.

Establish the target

Before classifying readiness, confirm or discover without mutation:

  1. GitHub owner and repository name, canonical URL, and local root if one exists.
  2. Current visibility and default branch.
  3. Requested mode and release profile.
  4. Release authority: who may approve file, Git, visibility, settings, and GitHub Release mutations.
  5. Documentation language and release-communication language.
  6. Claim-audit profile and any explicit repository release policy.

Read the full file on GitHub · 184 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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. 2d ago First seen · 184 lines · 113 tokens per session scan A 332665130d3d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-release-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository kyungseo/skillstead (78 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 1,919 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 2026-08-30.

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