cut-new-release-candidate

cut-new-release-candidate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development. It costs 44 tokens per session (2,017 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A release-candidate workflow starter for a named release branch. A release candidate is a build intended for final checking before a full release.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to validate a release-branch name, dispatch the release-candidate workflow, obtain its run link, and post one status notification.
Why use it?
It reduces manual steps when starting the configured release workflow and confirms that a run was created and reported.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to validate a release-branch name, dispatch the release-candidate workflow, obtain its run link, and post one status notification.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/outline-driven-development/cut-new-release-candidate
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 OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development --skill cut-new-release-candidate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,017 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 109
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
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 $0.00044 $0.02017
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.01009
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00403
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00202

Measured 2d ago against content hash 44ccc814afda, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cut-new-release-candidate 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.

If `INTERNAL_REPO` or `NOTIFICATION_TOKEN` is unset, stop and ask before running. Required tools: `git`, an authenticated `gh`, `jq`, and `curl`. Run all git and gh operations inside the release repo.
.devin/skills/cut-new-release-candidate/SKILL.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cut new release candidate

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger User asks to cut, trigger, or start a release candidate for a release branch.
Authority Remote: dispatches the release workflow on the named branch and posts one status notification; requires explicit human invocation. Preview the target and consequence before each remote mutation; mutate only the one workflow dispatch on the branch the user named and the one status notification.
Side effect Runs the configured release workflow on the release branch, obtains its run URL, and posts one status notification. Nothing else changes.
Done The workflow dispatch exits zero, the run query returns a non-null run URL, and the status notification is posted.

Inputs

Required from the user:

  • The release branch name. Strip a leading origin/ before validating.
  • Optionally, a notification destination (channel, thread, or recipient). Ask before posting if no destination was supplied.

The operator environment must supply these values before any step:

  • INTERNAL_REPO: the owner/repo containing the release branches and workflow.
  • REPO_DIR: the absolute path to its local checkout.
  • RC_WORKFLOW_NAME: the release-candidate workflow name. Default: Cut New Release Candidate.
  • RELEASE_CHANNELS: space-separated channel names. Default: preview stable.
  • RELEASE_BRANCH_PREFIX: per-channel branch prefix template, with {channel} replaced by each channel name. Default: {channel}_release/.
  • NOTIFICATION_TOKEN: a token for the notification service with write scope. Read it only from the environment; never hardcode or commit it.
  • NOTIFICATION_ENDPOINT: the API endpoint for posting the status notification.

If INTERNAL_REPO or NOTIFICATION_TOKEN is unset, stop and ask before running. Required tools: git, an authenticated gh, jq, and curl. Run all git and gh operations inside the release repo.

Procedure

  1. Validate the branch at the trust boundary: set the requested branch, strip the origin/ prefix, and reject any branch that does not start with a configured channel prefix:

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 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. 2d ago Changed · +17 lines · -27 tokens per session 44ccc814afda
  2. 5d ago First seen · 114 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 32973d490c68

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cut-new-release-candidate is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development (52 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 2,017 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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