create_release

create_release is a skill for Claude Code from markmhendrickson/neotoma. It costs 6 tokens per session (3,946 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of create-release, MIT.

A workflow for coordinating several Feature Units, meaning separately planned pieces of work, into one software release. It resolves dependencies, schedules work, runs the units in order, and performs cross-unit integration tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start a release, plan and schedule its Feature Units, execute them in dependency order, and run integration checks.
Why use it?
It helps organize release work when multiple changes depend on one another and must be combined and tested as a whole.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Good fit Use it to start a release, plan and schedule its Feature Units, execute them in dependency order, and run integration checks.

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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 3,946 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 95% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
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Opus 5.5 $0.00002 $0.01578
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00001 $0.00789
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00395

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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 1mo ago.

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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

95% identical to create-release — 14 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.

.claude/skills/create_release/SKILL.md · 442 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 442 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 .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.

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 · 442 lines

Changes

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  1. 1mo ago First seen · 442 lines · 6 tokens per session scan A 90fad2af8dd9

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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 3,946 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to create-release, differing in 14 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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