prepare-release

A release-preparation workflow for the C# MCP SDK. It covers version assessment, compatibility checks, documentation, changelogs, release notes, and a pull request.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare a C# MCP SDK release, update its version, run ApiCompat and ApiDiff checks, review documentation, and open a release pull request.
Why use it?
It gathers the checks and release paperwork needed before publishing a new SDK version. Semantic Versioning means choosing whether changes require a patch, minor, or major version increase.

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/modelcontextprotocol/csharp-sdk/prepare-release
Any agent
npx skills add modelcontextprotocol/csharp-sdk --skill prepare-release
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/csharp-sdk

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,404 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00088 $0.07404
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.03702
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.01481
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00740

Measured yesterday against content hash 6cf3a56acdfb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prepare-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.

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.

.github/skills/prepare-release/SKILL.md · 453 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. yesterday First seen · 453 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 6cf3a56acdfb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

prepare-release is a skill published in the GitHub repository modelcontextprotocol/csharp-sdk (4,500 stars, last pushed 4d ago), with no licence file. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 7,404 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 2026-08-30.

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