harness-score: Skill for Cursor

.cursor/skills/release/SKILL.md

release is a skill for Cursor from paladini/harness-score. It costs 37 tokens per session (899 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release checklist for the harness-score software project, covering its npm package, Cursor plugin, documentation, and related files. It explains the required order for checking, versioning, tagging, and publishing a release.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when publishing harness-score, increasing its version, updating changelogs, syncing version numbers, creating a Git tag, or making a GitHub Release.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of releasing mismatched versions or forgetting project-specific files. It also defines the tests and documentation build that must pass first.

Skill for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/. Also seen: mentions .claude-plugin; mentions Claude Code.

This is paladini/harness-score's own configuration. It tells Cursor how to work on harness-score itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything harness-score configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to paladini/harness-score. 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/paladini/harness-score/main/.cursor/skills/release/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paladini/harness-score

Made for: Cursor.

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.

agentmods badge for release

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/paladini/harness-score/release/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/paladini/harness-score/release)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/paladini/harness-score/release"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/paladini/harness-score/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for release

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/paladini/harness-score/release"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/paladini/harness-score/release.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 899 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

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 →

  • high Tool Misuse · line 49
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
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 $0.00037 $0.00899
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00360
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00180
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00090

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 11d40e28c523, 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.

.cursor/skills/release/SKILL.md · 66 lines

What it actually says

Releasing harness-score

Release artifacts are English unless the user explicitly requests another language: changeset bodies, CHANGELOG.md entries, and GitHub release notes. Credit contributors with explicit @handle lines in the changeset when they are not the merge author.

  1. Confirm every user-facing change has a changeset with an English summary and explicit contributor credit when applicable. Commit metadata alone is not sufficient attribution.
  2. On a clean release branch from main, run npm run release:prepare -- --summary "One sentence explaining why this release matters.". This versions the package from changesets, mirrors the version into TOOL_VERSION, jsr.json, package-lock.json, both byte-identical GitHub Action entrypoints, and the Action README, runs all release gates, and writes a polished preview under .release/. Review both the diff and the rendered notes.
    • plugins/cursor/.cursor-plugin/plugin.json (+ entry in plugins/cursor/CHANGELOG.md) — only if Cursor plugin content changed, it has its own release track
    • plugins/claude-code/.claude-plugin/plugin.json — only if Claude Code plugin content changed; no separate publish step, a version bump
      • push to main is the entire release (the marketplace is this repo)
  3. Open and merge a release: vX.Y.Z PR. Do not create a tag or release from the unmerged branch.
  4. After merge, dispatch .github/workflows/prepare-release.yml from main with the exact version, a short title, and the one-sentence summary. It reruns the gates, validates every version surface, generates release notes from the changelog, preserves contributor credit, creates the immutable tag, and opens a draft release.
  5. Review the draft in GitHub. Select Publish this Action to the GitHub Marketplace, using Code quality as the primary category and Continuous integration as the secondary, then publish. This checkbox is manual because GitHub exposes no Marketplace publication API.
  6. Publishing fires .github/workflows/release.yml, which validates the public release notes and publishes to all three registries:
    • npmjs.org as harness-score, via Trusted Publishing — the user configures this once on the package's npmjs.com settings page (repo + workflow filename), then every CI run authenticates automatically, bypassing the 2FA/OTP prompt entirely.
    • GitHub Packages as @paladini/harness-score (automatic, uses the built-in GITHUB_TOKEN, no secret needed — the repo's Actions "Workflow permissions" must be set to Read and write).
    • JSR as @paladini/harness-score (automatic via OIDC — but the scope must be claimed once by the user at jsr.io/new before the first publish succeeds).
  7. The workflow moves the stable major Action tag only after every registry succeeds, then verifies npm, GitHub Packages, JSR, the GitHub Release, the stable tag, the Marketplace listing, and Pages. Never move v1 manually before those gates pass. If a job fails, use Re-run failed jobs, not a full rerun that would try to republish immutable registry versions.
  8. Cursor Marketplace: the listing updates from the repo — remind the user to resubmit at https://cursor.com/marketplace/publish only if plugins/cursor/ metadata changed. Claude Code has no separate marketplace to resubmit to — see step 2.
  9. Docs deploy automatically via .github/workflows/pages.yml on push to main; verify the public Pages site separately.
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. 1mo ago Changed · +5 lines 11d40e28c523
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines f2fc5167b383
  3. 2mo ago First seen · 60 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 39478eb3890d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release is a skill published in the GitHub repository paladini/harness-score (613 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 899 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.

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