create-release

A workflow for planning and starting a software release that combines several related feature units, meaning separately tracked pieces of development work. It resolves dependencies, schedules the work, and coordinates integration testing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start a new versioned release, define its scope, include existing or new feature units, create an execution schedule, run the work in dependency order, and perform cross-feature integration tests.
Why use it?
It gives multi-feature releases an ordered plan, including which work can happen in parallel and which work must wait. This reduces conflicts when several feature units belong in one release.

Skill for Claude CodeCodexCursor

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

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When invoked 3,969 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 98% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
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Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00397

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Security

Grade A, and why

create-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 yesterday.

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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.

Origin

This is a copy

98% identical to create-release — 11 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.cursor/skills/create-release/SKILL.md · 445 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 445 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create New Release

Orchestrates multiple Feature Units into a cohesive release. Implements the Release workflow from foundation/development/release_workflow.md.

When to Use

Explicit Command: Use when you know exactly what you want: start a new release, plan multi-FU work with dependency resolution, generate execution schedules with parallelization, orchestrate FU creation/execution in dependency order, run cross-FU integration tests.

Automatic Detection: This workflow can also be triggered automatically via .cursor/rules/release_detection.md when you mention release-related patterns in natural language (e.g., "new release", "release v1.1.0"). Both paths execute the same workflow.

This is a foundation command. If installed, it will be available in .cursor/commands/ via symlink.

Prerequisites

  • Release ID chosen (format: vX.Y.Z, e.g., v1.0.0)
  • Release scope roughly defined (what's in, what's out)
  • FU IDs for included work identified (or to be created)

Command Execution

Step 1: Load Documentation

Load required documents:

  • foundation/development/release_workflow.md (primary workflow)
  • docs/feature_units/standards/creating_feature_units.md (FU creation)
  • docs/feature_units/standards/execution_instructions.md (FU execution)
  • docs/feature_units/completed/ and docs/feature_units/in_progress/ (for Feature Unit specs)

Step 2: Checkpoint 0 — Release Planning

Check if Release plan exists:

  • Look for docs/releases/in_progress/{release_id}/release_plan.md
  • Look for docs/releases/in_progress/{release_id}/manifest.yaml

If Release plan exists: Load and validate. If complete → proceed to Step 3. If incomplete → prompt user to complete.

If Release plan does NOT exist: Prompt user interactively for Release details:

  1. Release name and version (e.g., "MVP", "v1.0.0")
  2. Release goal (1-2 sentence summary of what this ships)
  3. Target ship date (date or "when ready")
  4. Priority (P0 critical / P1 high / P2 normal)
  5. Included Feature Units (list of FU IDs, e.g., "FU-100, FU-101, FU-102")
  6. Excluded scope (what's explicitly NOT in this release)
  7. Release-level acceptance criteria:
    • Product acceptance (core workflows, empty/error states)
    • Technical acceptance (test coverage, performance, integrity)
    • Business acceptance (metrics, KPIs)
  8. Cross-FU integration test requirements (flows that span multiple FUs)
  9. Deployment strategy (staging_first / canary / full_rollout)
  10. Rollback plan (how to revert if issues found)
  11. Post-release monitoring plan (key metrics, alerts)

Read the full file on GitHub · 445 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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create-release is a skill published in the GitHub repository markmhendrickson/foundation (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 3,969 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 98% identical to create-release, differing in 11 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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