release-readiness

release-readiness is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from petrkindlmann/qa-skills. It costs 160 tokens per session (5,848 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for deciding whether a software release is ready to deploy using documented checks and evidence. It covers smoke tests, staged rollouts, rollback plans, and checks after deployment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build release checklists, validate critical paths, plan canary or staged rollouts, define rollback procedures, and verify the application after release.
Why use it?
Release decisions based on confidence alone can miss blocking bugs or leave teams unprepared to reverse a bad deployment. This turns the decision into a clear go/no-go process with defined evidence and rollback criteria.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

not rated 117repo +9 3mo ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: pass 160 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to build release checklists, validate critical paths, plan canary or staged rollouts, define rollback procedures, and verify the application after release.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/petrkindlmann/qa-skills/release-readiness
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 petrkindlmann/qa-skills --skill release-readiness
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/petrkindlmann/qa-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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-readiness

README.md
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Your own site
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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-readiness

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 160 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,848 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
  • Socket pass 11 May 2026
  • Snyk pass 11 May 2026
  • 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 $0.00160 $0.05848
Opus 5 $0.00080 $0.02924
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.01170
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00585

Measured 11d ago against content hash 313ddcc1ad87, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-readiness 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 11d 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.

curl -s https://your-app.com/health | jq .
skills/release-readiness/SKILL.md · 444 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 444 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.


Discovery Questions

Check .agents/qa-project-context.md first — if it exists, use it and skip anything answered there. Then ask only what's missing.

Release cadence and process:

  • How often do you release, and who makes the go/no-go call? (Continuous/daily/weekly vs engineering lead/QA lead/release manager — sets how heavyweight the checklist should be.)
  • Is there a release train schedule or is it ad-hoc?
  • How many environments exist between dev and production? (staging, pre-prod, canary)

Current state:

  • What does the current go/no-go process look like, and is it documented?
  • Has a release ever been rolled back? How long did it take? (Reveals whether rollback is real or aspirational.)
  • What was the last release incident and its root cause? Any release-blocking bugs right now?

Infrastructure and capabilities:

  • Do you have rollback capability, and how long does a rollback take?
  • Can you do staged/canary deployments?
  • Do you have feature flags, and how are they managed? (Decides flag-based vs infra-level rollout.)
  • What monitoring and alerting is in place? Are database migrations reversible?

Team and communication:

  • Who is on-call during and after releases?
  • How are stakeholders notified, and is there a release communication channel?
  • How are release notes generated?

Core Principles

1. Release confidence comes from evidence, not feelings

"I think it's fine" is not a go/no-go criterion. Evidence means: all CI pipelines green, smoke tests pass on staging, performance budgets met, no open P0/P1 bugs. If you can't point to data, you're not ready.

Read the full file on GitHub · 444 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 11d ago First seen · 444 lines · 160 tokens per session scan A 313ddcc1ad87

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release-readiness is a skill published in the GitHub repository petrkindlmann/qa-skills (117 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 160 tokens to every session and 5,848 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-30.

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