release-playbook

release-playbook is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from orlando-japan/claude-code-setting. It costs 23 tokens per session (1,040 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checklist and process for releasing software to production gradually, with checks and a quick rollback plan. A rollback means returning to the previous version when the new one causes problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning staging, canary, and progressive deployments; checking release readiness; monitoring changes; and documenting what shipped.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of a release affecting every user at once and makes recovery explicit if something goes wrong.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Planning staging, canary, and progressive deployments; checking release readiness; monitoring changes; and documenting what shipped.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/orlando-japan/claude-code-setting/release-playbook
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 orlando-japan/claude-code-setting --skill release-playbook
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/orlando-japan/claude-code-setting

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,040 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00023 $0.01040
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00520
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00208
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00104

Measured 8d ago against content hash 01362325b805, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-playbook 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 8d 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.

templates/extra/skills/release-playbook/SKILL.md · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release playbook

Every release is two bets: that the new code works, and that if it doesn't, you can get back to the old code fast. Bet the first honestly; make sure the second always wins.

The ideal release

  1. Staging deploy — new code lands in staging, runs against staging-like data. Smoke test passes.
  2. Canary deploy — a small fraction of production traffic (1%, or one pod, or one region) runs the new code. Metrics watched.
  3. Progressive rollout — 10%, 50%, 100% with pauses. Each step has a go/no-go check.
  4. Observation window — even at 100%, watch for an hour before declaring done.
  5. Release closed — document what shipped.

Any shortcut to this is a trade-off. Be explicit about which tradeoffs you're making.

Pre-flight checklist

  • Code merged to main via a reviewed PR.
  • CI green on main after the merge.
  • Staging deploy complete and passed smoke tests.
  • Feature flags set to safe defaults.
  • Database migrations (if any) backward compatible.
  • Rollback plan written and understood.
  • Relevant teams notified (especially support, oncall).
  • No incidents or freezes active.

The rollback rule

Rollback must be under 5 minutes, one command, and always available.

If rollback is "revert the PR and redeploy" (15 min build) → not good enough. You need a faster path:

  • Blue-green deployment: flip traffic back to the previous color.
  • Image rollback: redeploy the previous container image (30s on k8s).
  • Feature flag off: for flag-gated features, no redeploy needed.
  • DB rollback: this is the hard one. Migration design must make rollback possible — see db-migration-safety.

Practice rollback. The first time you try it during an incident is the worst possible time.

Canary monitoring

During canary, watch:

  • Error rate — compare canary pods to rest of production. Higher on canary = bad sign.
  • Latency — p95 and p99 on canary vs baseline.
  • Saturation — CPU, memory, GC pressure.
  • Custom metrics — anything specific to what changed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 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. 8d ago First seen · 98 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 01362325b805

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release-playbook is a skill published in the GitHub repository orlando-japan/claude-code-setting (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 1,040 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 2026-08-31.