browse

A read-only command set for viewing and comparing GitHub releases. A GitHub release is a published version of a project, often accompanied by notes about what changed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list releases, inspect the latest release, compare versions, read release notes, or find stable releases and drafts.
Why use it?
It turns release history and version comparisons into readable summaries without modifying releases. It also distinguishes stable releases, pre-releases, and drafts.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the github-releases plugin — 2 skills 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/ondrasek/cc-plugins/browse
Any agent
npx skills add ondrasek/cc-plugins --skill browse
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ondrasek/cc-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install github-releases, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,056 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 $0.00064 $0.01056
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00528
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00211
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00106

Measured 2d ago against content hash 104f8252f00e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

browse 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.

plugins/github-releases/skills/browse/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.

Browse

Read-only — does not create or modify releases.

Critical Rules

  • Read cross-cutting behaviors first: skills/shared/references/cross-cutting.md
  • Always use --json flags for structured data, then present human-readable summaries
  • Verify gh is available before running any commands

Prerequisites Check

gh auth status

If this fails, tell the user to run gh auth login first.

Capabilities

1. List Releases

Translate natural language queries into gh release list flags.

Query translation examples:

User says Command
"show releases" gh release list --limit 10 --json tagName,name,isDraft,isPrerelease,publishedAt
"latest release" gh release view --json tagName,name,body,publishedAt,assets
"show stable releases" gh release list --exclude-drafts --exclude-pre-releases --json tagName,name,publishedAt
"list drafts" gh release list --json tagName,name,isDraft,publishedAt then filter isDraft=true
"releases this year" gh release list --limit 50 --json tagName,publishedAt then filter by date

Common flags:

gh release list \
  --limit 30 \
  --exclude-drafts \
  --exclude-pre-releases \
  --json tagName,name,isDraft,isPrerelease,publishedAt,isLatest

Output format: Present as a readable table. Include tag, title, date, and status indicators (draft, prerelease, latest). Add relative timestamps (e.g., "3 weeks ago").

2. View Release Detail

Show comprehensive release information.

# Get full release data
gh release view TAG --json tagName,name,body,publishedAt,isDraft,isPrerelease,assets,author,targetCommitish

# Get assets with download counts (if available)
gh release view TAG --json assets

Present:

  1. Header — tag, title, author, publish date, status (draft/prerelease/latest)
  2. Release notes — formatted body content
  3. Assets — file names and sizes
  4. Target — branch or commit the release was created from

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 · 64 tokens per session scan A 104f8252f00e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

browse is a skill published in the GitHub repository ondrasek/cc-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 1,056 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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