release-cut

A release workflow that prepares a Torque Loop software release and stops when the pull request is ready. It checks the project, updates version information, promotes the changelog, runs tests and diagnostics, and creates a release commit.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when the Unreleased changelog contains work ready for a versioned release. It handles the work through an open pull request but does not merge, tag, or publish the release.
Why use it?
It makes the repeated release steps consistent and catches broken tests or version drift before the release change is submitted.

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/megaprompting/torque-loop/release-cut
Any agent
npx skills add Megaprompting/torque-loop --skill release-cut
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Megaprompting/torque-loop

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,479 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 $0.00072 $0.01479
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00740
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00296
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00148

Measured 2d ago against content hash 04b8adb5eb14, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-cut 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-cut/SKILL.md · 132 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 132 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/release-cut — the release ritual, mechanized

Six releases (0.2 → 0.7) followed the identical multi-file ritual by hand. Every step below has drifted at least once in some repo somewhere; the plugin-shape suite catches most drift, but only after you've made it. This skill makes the ritual deterministic. Hard boundary: this skill ends at an open PR. Merge, tag, and GitHub Release are Danny's verbs, every time.

Step 0 — Preconditions (refuse to start if any fails)

git status                 # no unrelated TRACKED change staged or modified
git log --oneline -5
npm test                   # must be green BEFORE the cut — broken-world rule

"Clean" means no unrelated tracked change. Untracked scratch (.claude/worktrees/, sandbox dirs) is normal here and is not a reason to stop — Step 5 stages by name so it cannot reach the commit. Do not "tidy" it by deleting someone's worktree.

  • CHANGELOG [Unreleased] is non-empty. An empty [Unreleased] means there is nothing to release — say so and stop.
  • Version X.Y.Z and <codename> are given as arguments, or STOP and ask. Never invent a codename: each release names a gate concept ("Probe Gate", "Fog Gate") and Danny picks it.
  • You are on main or the feature branch that carries the work. Note which.

Step 1 — Branch

git checkout -b release/vX.Y.Z-<codename-slug>

Slug is kebab-case (0.7.0 + "Probe Gate" → release/v0.7.0-probe-gate).

Step 2 — Bump the five version fields (four files)

File Field(s)
package.json version
.claude-plugin/plugin.json version
.claude-plugin/marketplace.json metadata.version AND plugins[0].version
.codex-plugin/plugin.json version

Both CLIs derive their --version from package.json — do not touch src. Then sweep README for version surfaces:

grep -n "ratchet [0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+" README.md

Every -> ratchet X.Y.Z example must show the new version (plugin-shape enforces this).

Read the full file on GitHub · 132 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 · 132 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 04b8adb5eb14

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release-cut is a skill published in the GitHub repository Megaprompting/torque-loop (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 1,479 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

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