create-release

create-release is a skill for Claude Code from markmhendrickson/neotoma. It costs 6 tokens per session (3,999 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for planning and creating a software release that combines several feature units, or separately planned pieces of work.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps define a versioned release, build an execution schedule, coordinate feature-unit work, and run integration tests.
Why use it?
It organizes scope, dependencies, execution order, and cross-feature checks so related changes can be released together.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit It helps define a versioned release, build an execution schedule, coordinate feature-unit work, and run integration tests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/markmhendrickson/neotoma/create-release
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 6 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,999 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Agent Snooping · line 6
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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 $0.00006 $0.03999
Opus 5.5 $0.00002 $0.01600
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00001 $0.00800
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00400

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 51aa52df4152, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

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 1mo 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.claude/skills/create-release/SKILL.md · 452 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 452 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.


name: create-release description: Create a new software release with planning, manifest, and execution schedule. triggers:

  • new release
  • create release
  • plan release
  • create-release
  • /create-release

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 .claude/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 .claude/skills/ 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.

Read the full file on GitHub · 452 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. 1mo ago First seen · 452 lines · 6 tokens per session scan A 51aa52df4152

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create-release is a skill published in the GitHub repository markmhendrickson/neotoma (34 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 6 tokens to every session and 3,999 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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