release

A guide for releasing Marko, a PHP framework. It explains how to review merged changes, choose a version number, prepare release notes, and run the project’s release script after approval.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect changes since the last tag, check release-note labels, recommend a version, and publish an approved release.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of publishing a release with missing notes or an incorrect version shared by the framework’s packages.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 93 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,887 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00093 $0.02887
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.01443
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00577
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00289

Measured 2d ago against content hash d0fe95d80f6f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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/skills/release/SKILL.md · 238 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 238 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cut a Marko release

bin/release.sh already automates everything mechanical: the full test suite, the developmain merge, changelog generation, the tag, the GitHub Release, and the merge-back to develop. It does not decide whether to release or what to call it. That judgment is this skill's only job.

Two things must be right before a tag is pushed, and both are listed as manual in .claude/release-process.md:

  1. Every merged PR is labeled, or its changes vanish into a generic "Other Changes" bucket in the release notes.
  2. The version number is correct, because all 70 packages share it and Composer constraints downstream depend on it.

There is exactly one approval gate: present the recommendation, stop, and wait. Do not tag on your own initiative — not even for an obviously-correct patch bump.

Arguments

None. /release takes no arguments; the version is settled at the approval gate in step 5.

If the user does type something after /release anyway, treat it as an authoritative override and skip straight to validating it (same checks as an override at the gate).

Step 1 — Verify preconditions

git fetch --quiet --tags origin develop main
git status --short                        # must be empty
git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD           # must be develop
git rev-list --count origin/develop..develop   # must be 0 (nothing unpushed)
git rev-list --count develop..origin/develop   # must be 0 (nothing unpulled)
php -v                                    # must be 8.5.x, else set PHP_BIN
command -v gh jq                          # both required by bin/release.sh

Also confirm there is something to release: git log $(git tag --sort=-v:refname | head -1)..develop --oneline must be non-empty.

If any check fails, say exactly which one and stop. Do not quietly fix it — an unpushed commit or a dirty tree usually means work is still in flight, which is the user's call, not yours.

If php -v is not 8.5, don't abandon the run — pass an explicit interpreter through to the script instead: PHP_BIN=/path/to/php8.5 ./bin/release.sh X.Y.Z.

Read the full file on GitHub · 238 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 First seen · 238 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A d0fe95d80f6f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release is a skill published in the GitHub repository marko-php/marko (393 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 2,887 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 2026-08-30.

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