set-release-blocker

set-release-blocker is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from openshift-eng/ai-helpers. It costs 16 tokens per session (633 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A small tool for changing the Release Blocker field on a JIRA issue. That field records whether a bug is approved, proposed, rejected, or cleared as a release blocker.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set, change, or clear the Release Blocker value on a specified JIRA issue.
Why use it?
It keeps a bug's release-blocking status aligned with the team's release process instead of requiring manual field edits.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Part of the ci plugin — 34 skills, 21 commands, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to set, change, or clear the Release Blocker value on a specified JIRA issue.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/openshift-eng/ai-helpers/set-release-blocker
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.

Any agent
npx skills add openshift-eng/ai-helpers --skill set-release-blocker
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/openshift-eng/ai-helpers

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ci, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 34 skills, 21 commands, 2 agents.

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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 633 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00016 $0.00633
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00316
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00127
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00063

Measured 7d ago against content hash adb672253cf8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

set-release-blocker 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (set_release_blocker.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugins/ci/skills/set-release-blocker/SKILL.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Set Release Blocker

Sets the "Release Blocker" custom field on a JIRA issue. Component Readiness regressions are treated as release blockers, so any bug filed for a regression should have this field set to "Approved".

See the release blocker definition for details on the criteria and process.

Prerequisites

Usage

# Set Release Blocker to Approved (default)
python3 plugins/ci/skills/set-release-blocker/set_release_blocker.py OCPBUGS-76523

# Explicitly set to Approved
python3 plugins/ci/skills/set-release-blocker/set_release_blocker.py OCPBUGS-76523 --value Approved

# Set to Proposed
python3 plugins/ci/skills/set-release-blocker/set_release_blocker.py OCPBUGS-76523 --value Proposed

# Set to Rejected
python3 plugins/ci/skills/set-release-blocker/set_release_blocker.py OCPBUGS-76523 --value Rejected

# Clear the field
python3 plugins/ci/skills/set-release-blocker/set_release_blocker.py OCPBUGS-76523 --value ""

# JSON output
python3 plugins/ci/skills/set-release-blocker/set_release_blocker.py OCPBUGS-76523 --format json

JIRA Field Details

  • Field ID: customfield_10847
  • Field name: Release Blocker
  • Type: Select dropdown
  • Options:
    • Approved (option ID: 16772)
    • Proposed (option ID: 16773)
    • Rejected (option ID: 16774)

Output

Text format (default)

Release Blocker set to 'Approved' on OCPBUGS-76523
  https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/OCPBUGS-76523

JSON format

{
  "success": true,
  "issue_key": "OCPBUGS-76523",
  "value": "Approved",
  "url": "https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/OCPBUGS-76523"
}

Error Handling

  • If JIRA_API_TOKEN or JIRA_USERNAME is not set, the script exits with an error message
  • If the API call fails, returns success: false with the HTTP error details
  • The script verifies the update after setting it and reports the confirmed value

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 lines

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. 7d ago First seen · 75 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A adb672253cf8

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set-release-blocker is a skill published in the GitHub repository openshift-eng/ai-helpers (116 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 633 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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