release

A release workflow for Takes, a direct-distribution app. It covers version changes, release notes, building, notarizing, stapling, and publishing updates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when cutting, shipping, or publishing a Takes release, including its Sparkle appcast and GitHub release.
Why use it?
It brings the steps for preparing and distributing a new app version into one repeatable process.

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/nigelw/takes/release
Any agent
npx skills add Nigelw/Takes --skill release
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Nigelw/Takes

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,189 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00066 $0.03189
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.01595
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00638
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00319

Measured 2d ago against content hash e3fa07faa9a8, 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 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -sL https://nigelw.github.io/Takes/appcast.xml | grep -E 'sparkle:version|enclosure url'
.agents/skills/release/SKILL.md · 223 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed GPL-3.0

The repository is licensed GPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 223 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A e3fa07faa9a8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release is a skill published in the GitHub repository Nigelw/Takes (5 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed GPL-3.0. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 3,189 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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