A release procedure for publishing the project's CLI and Pi package to npm, a package registry for JavaScript software. It covers version changes, tags, prereleases, checks, GitHub releases, and the CI workflow that publishes packages.

Use it when releasing, publishing, bumping a version, or preparing a release candidate for either package.

It prevents publishing from the wrong package, branch, tag, or local machine. It also ensures the repository is clean and that automated checks and trusted publishing handle the release.

How NikiforovAll/scratchpad configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to NikiforovAll/scratchpad. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NikiforovAll/scratchpad/main/.claude/skills/release/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NikiforovAll/scratchpad

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nikiforovall/scratchpad/release/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/nikiforovall/scratchpad/release)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nikiforovall/scratchpad/release"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nikiforovall/scratchpad/release/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nikiforovall/scratchpad/release"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nikiforovall/scratchpad/release.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 861 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00000	$0.00861
Opus 5.5	$0.00000	$0.00344
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00000	$0.00172
Haiku 4.5	$0.00000	$0.00086

Measured 1mo ago against content hash b97fc7d24f3f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo 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 · 51 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release

The repo ships two packages, each with its own version and tag prefix:

Package	`package.json`	Tag
`@nikiforovall/scratchpad` (CLI)	`package.json`	`v<version>`
`@nikiforovall/pi-scratchpad`	`pi/package.json`	`pi-scratchpad-v<version>`

The tag push starts .github/workflows/release.yml, the only publisher. It checks the tag against package.json, runs the gate, packs with bun pm pack and publishes the tarball through npm trusted publishing. A stable CLI release then deploys the docs. Nobody publishes locally.

A version with - is a prerelease: rc means 0.31.0-rc.1, or the next -rc.N when the current version is already one. It goes to the rc dist-tag, gets --prerelease on GitHub and skips the docs deploy.

Steps

Package. From $ARGUMENTS, else from what changed since the package's last tag (git log <last-tag>..HEAD -- <dir>). Changes under pi/ release the pi package; everything else releases the CLI. Done when you know which package, or both. Release each one through steps 2 to 7.
Clean tree. git status --short is empty and the branch is main. An RC may ship from another branch.
Version. Suggest one from the commits since the last tag: breaking is major, feat is minor, the rest is patch. Confirm it with AskUserQuestion, recommended option first.
Gate. CLI: bun test. pi: bun build pi/extensions/scratch.ts --target=node --packages=external --outfile=<scratchpad>/check.js. Done when it passes.
Bump and push. Edit version in that package's package.json. If plugins/scratchpad/ changed since the last release, bump plugins/scratchpad/.claude-plugin/plugin.json in the same commit.
```
git commit -am "🔖 chore(release): scratchpad <version>"   # or pi-scratchpad <version>; add ", plugin <v>"
git push origin HEAD
git tag <tag> && git push origin <tag>
```
GitHub release. Group the commits since the last tag of that package under Features (✨), Fixes (🐛) and Other. Describe what changed for a user, not raw commit messages. End with a Full Changelog compare link.
```
gh release create <tag> --title "<tag>" --notes "<notes>" [--prerelease]
```

Read the full file on GitHub · 51 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.

1mo ago First seen · 51 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A b97fc7d24f3f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release is a skill published in the GitHub repository NikiforovAll/scratchpad (16 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 861 tokens. 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 2026-09-28.

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release next to 6 skills from other repositories
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releaseNikiforovAll/scratchpad	Skill	16	2d ago	MIT	A	0	Claude Code
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github-pages-publishluongnv89/skills	Skill	145	yesterday	MIT	A	63	Claude Code
afk-releasegriffinwork40/agent-afk	Skill	62	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	156	Claude Code
pypi-releasealchemiststudiosDOTai/tunacode	Skill	125	1mo ago	MIT	A	52	Claude Code, Codex
aiox-devopsSynkraAI/aiox-core	Skill	3.1k	yesterday	none	A	51	Claude Code
aiox-devopsSynkraAI/aiox-core	Skill	3.1k	yesterday	none	A	41	Codex

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