cut a release

cut a release is a skill for Claude Code from lucasnad27/claude-plugins. It costs 91 tokens per session (1,870 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release workflow for publishing a plugin in a Claude plugin marketplace repository. A release is a version of software made available to users.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when choosing a version change, updating plugin metadata, tagging the release, pushing it, and notifying users to update the marketplace.
Why use it?
It helps keep the plugin's two version records synchronized and guides the Git tagging and marketplace update steps needed for users to receive the release.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it when choosing a version change, updating plugin metadata, tagging the release, pushing it, and notifying users to update the marketplace.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lucasnad27/claude-plugins/cut-a-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 lucasnad27/claude-plugins --skill cut-a-release
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lucasnad27/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,870 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 $0.00091 $0.01870
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00935
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00374
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00187

Measured 4d ago against content hash 300cef9409f7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cut a 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 4d 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/skills/cut-a-release/SKILL.md · 190 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 190 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cut a release for a plugin in this marketplace

This skill walks through releasing a plugin in the claude-plugins marketplace repo. The repo hosts multiple plugins; each has its own independent version. Releases are a git + GitHub affair — there's no build step or package registry to publish to. The "deploy" is just: bump versions, tag, push, and tell users to run /plugin marketplace update.

The critical gotcha (read this first)

Every plugin has its version declared in two separate files that must stay in sync:

  1. .claude-plugin/marketplace.json — the version field inside the matching entry in plugins[] (this is what Claude Code's update checker reads)
  2. plugins/<plugin-name>/.claude-plugin/plugin.json — the plugin's own version field (this is what gets installed locally)

If these drift apart, Claude Code's /plugin will silently stop offering updates to users, even though the plugin code has moved on. Users appear stuck on an old version with no error message. Always bump both in the same commit.

Step 0: Smoke-test main first

Don't bump a version you haven't run. Load the working tree into a real project for one session — see CLAUDE.md for the --plugin-dir recipe and the name-collision footgun.

Step 1: Determine version type

Based on changes since the last release, decide the SemVer bump:

  • MAJOR (X.0.0) — Breaking changes to commands, skills, or agent interfaces; removed features; restructured workflow that existing users would need to relearn
  • MINOR (x.X.0) — New commands, new skills, new agents, or new opt-in features
  • PATCH (x.x.X) — Bug fixes, wording improvements, documentation fixes, small refinements to existing behavior

When in doubt for a plugin where users depend on muscle memory (command names, workflow steps), prefer MAJOR — being conservative here protects users.

Step 2: Identify the target plugin and gather info

ls plugins/                    # list plugins in this marketplace
git status                     # confirm clean working tree
git log --oneline -20          # review recent changes

Read the full file on GitHub · 190 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. 4d ago Changed · +15 lines 300cef9409f7
  2. 9d ago First seen · 175 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A df66bbd800b5

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cut a release is a skill published in the GitHub repository lucasnad27/claude-plugins (3 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 1,870 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.