ops-release

ops-release is a skill for Claude Code from Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops. It costs 26 tokens per session (2,245 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release procedure for publishing a new version of a Claude plugin. It updates version files, records changes, opens and merges a release pull request, and creates a version tag.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to publish plugin versions and prepare them for the matching update command.
Why use it?
It removes repetitive release coordination across manifests, changelogs, CI, pull requests, and Git tags. It also helps ensure the release starts from the correct repository checkout.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the ops plugin — 66 skills, 21 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to publish plugin versions and prepare them for the matching update command.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lifecycle-innovations-limited/claude-ops/ops-release
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 Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops --skill ops-release
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ops, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 66 skills, 21 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,245 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00026 $0.02245
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.01123
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00449
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00225

Measured 2d ago against content hash 26771e85d300, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ops-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 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.

claude-ops/skills/ops-release/SKILL.md · 172 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 172 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OPS ► RELEASE — one-command plugin publish

Load ops-rules before acting. Public repo (no personal data). Outbound: one draft → one approval → one send. If AskUserQuestion / Workflow are missing, follow Rule 10 in ops-rules (Hermes: numbered options / two-turn Telegram card; delegate_task).

Cuts a new published version of the claude-ops plugin: bumps the version in the three manifests, writes the CHANGELOG, opens a release PR, waits for CI, merges it to main, and pushes the vX.Y.Z tag. After it runs, /ops:ops-update pulls the new version down to the box.

ops-release ships it · /ops:ops-update pulls it. Order: merge your fix PR → /ops:ops-release/ops:ops-update.

⚠️ Run it from the REPO CHECKOUT, not the cache

bin/ops-release resolves its targets relative to its own location: PLUGIN_DIR = <bin>/.., REPO_ROOT = <bin>/../.., and it needs REPO_ROOT/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json. The plugin cache (~/.claude/plugins/cache/ops-marketplace/ops/<ver>/bin/ops-release) has no marketplace.json above it, so running the cache copy fails with not found: …/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json. Always run the copy inside a git checkout of the repo (the dir that has both .claude-plugin/marketplace.json and claude-ops/bin/ops-release).

Resolve it first:

RELEASE=""
for d in ~/Developer/repos/claude-ops ~/Projects/claude-ops-workspace/claude-ops ~/Projects/claude-ops/claude-ops "$HOME"/Projects/*/claude-ops; do
  if [ -f "$d/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json" ] && [ -x "$d/claude-ops/bin/ops-release" ]; then
    RELEASE="$d/claude-ops/bin/ops-release"; REPO="$d"; break
  fi
done
[ -n "$RELEASE" ] || { echo "no claude-ops checkout with marketplace.json found — clone the repo first"; exit 1; }
echo "using: $RELEASE  (repo: $REPO)"

Make sure the checkout's main is up to date and includes the fix you want to publish before releasing (git -C "$REPO" fetch origin && git -C "$REPO" checkout main && git -C "$REPO" pull --ff-only). The release branches from origin/main, so anything not yet on origin/main will NOT be in the release.

Read the full file on GitHub · 172 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. 2d ago Changed · +32 lines 26771e85d300
  2. 5d ago First seen · 140 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A d97e385e2dc0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ops-release is a skill published in the GitHub repository Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops (187 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 2,245 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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