release

A release procedure for Piper, which creates version tags and publishes builds through the project's release workflow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose a version, verify the main branch and CI results, create a release tag, check the GoReleaser output, test the installer, and publish release notes.
Why use it?
It checks that the exact code being released is on the right branch, passes verification, and has successful required checks before tagging.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/piperbox/piper/release
Any agent
npx skills add piperbox/piper --skill release
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/piperbox/piper

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,993 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 3 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00056 $0.01993
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00996
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00399
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00199

Measured 2d ago against content hash c8fadf1bdbd2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

release scanned grade D with 3 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 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

Expected: installer configures apt.piperbox.dev, installs both debs, both versions print the latest stable. (Runs as root in the container, so no sudo is involved.)

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

docker run --rm debian:stable sh -c 'apt-get update -qq && apt-get install -y -qq curl ca-certificates >/dev/null && curl -fsSL https://get.piperbox.dev/install.sh | sh && piper --version && piperd --version'

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -fsSL https://get.piperbox.dev/install.sh \
.claude/skills/release/SKILL.md · 164 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cutting a Piper release

Releases are semver git tags. Pushing a v* tag triggers .github/workflows/release.yml, which runs goreleaser and publishes a GitHub Release. There is nothing else to run — but the tag is irreversible in practice, so the gates below come first.

Pre-1.0 (0.x), breaking changes may land in minor bumps. See CLAUDE.md's compatibility policy.

1. Preconditions

  • On main, clean tree, synced with origin.
  • make verify clean locally.

2. The gate: green on the exact tip

The release workflow does not re-run e2e. Whatever you tag is what ships, so verify CI + e2e + Code Quality all succeeded on the exact SHA you are about to tag:

TIP=$(git rev-parse main)
gh run list --branch main --limit 25 --json headSha,name,conclusion \
  --jq ".[] | select(.headSha==\"$TIP\") | \"\(.name)\t\(.conclusion)\""

Do not use gh run list --commit <sha> — it has returned empty unreliably. Filter on headSha as above.

If a push-event run is missing entirely (GitHub has occasionally fired no push workflows for a squash-merge), tree-equality against a green PR run is an acceptable substitute: confirm git rev-parse <release-commit>^{tree} equals the tree of the PR head that e2e tested.

3. Choose the version

Ask the user rather than assuming — but bring a recommendation.

Minor bump when the release breaks anything a user must act on. Precedents:

  • v0.5.0 — breaking API response shape
  • v0.6.0 — new columns on existing tables, so an in-place DB needs replacing
  • v0.8.0 — macOS launchd label changed, requiring a manual launchctl bootout

Patch only when nothing requires user action. A patch that silently breaks an upgrade path is worse than a minor: the version number is the only signal most users read.

Schema changes are subtler than they look

Both the agent and relay stores apply schema.sql with CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS and there are no migrations anywhere.

  • New table → materializes on an existing DB. Additive, no re-enroll.
  • New column on an existing table → does not materialize. Needs a fresh DB and re-enrollment.

Read the full file on GitHub · 164 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. 2d ago First seen · 164 lines · 56 tokens per session scan D c8fadf1bdbd2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release is a skill published in the GitHub repository piperbox/piper (10 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,993 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 3 findings (asks for root, downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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