release-gate

release-gate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mtvrkan/senior-dev-kit. It costs 40 tokens per session (363 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release checklist for deciding whether software is ready to deploy. It checks the build, tests, database changes, configuration, security, compatibility, rollback plan, risks, and software inventory.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before a release or deployment to record GO or NO-GO decisions. It reports findings but does not deploy or run database migrations.
Why use it?
It helps catch deployment blockers before users are affected and makes remaining risks visible.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the senior-dev-kit plugin — 25 skills, 6 commands, 9 agents, 1 hook shipped together

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/mtvrkan/senior-dev-kit/release-gate
Any agent
npx skills add mtvrkan/senior-dev-kit --skill release-gate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mtvrkan/senior-dev-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install senior-dev-kit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 25 skills, 6 commands, 9 agents, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for release-gate

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mtvrkan/senior-dev-kit/release-gate"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mtvrkan/senior-dev-kit/release-gate.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 363 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 $0.00040 $0.00363
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00181
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00073
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00036

Measured 4d ago against content hash 6a4bf3597d95, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-gate 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 4d 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.

skills/release-gate/SKILL.md · 28 lines

What it actually says

release-gate

Release safety check for: $ARGUMENTS. Output GO / NO-GO per item:

  1. BUILD: clean build with no errors?
  2. TESTS: all passing? Any skipped/flaky tests that matter?
  3. MIGRATIONS: pending? If yes and not yet reviewed, run migration-review first — this item only confirms that review happened, it doesn't replace it.
  4. ENV/CONFIG: new vars required? Documented and configured in all environments?
  5. SECURITY: auth/payment/secrets changes present? If security-scan hasn't run yet for this release, run it first — this item confirms it completed and findings were addressed, it doesn't replace it.
  6. BACKWARD COMPAT: breaking API, schema, or behavior changes affecting consumers?
  7. ROLLBACK PLAN: how to revert if this release fails?
  8. KNOWN RISKS: anything uncertain or untested?
  9. SBOM: generated and scanned for this release (devops-guard has the commands)? If missing, flag as blocker.

Final: GO / NO-GO | summary | blockers list | recommended next step Do not deploy. Do not run migrations. Report only.

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. 4d ago First seen · 28 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 6a4bf3597d95

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release-gate is a skill published in the GitHub repository mtvrkan/senior-dev-kit (5 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 363 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.