create-github-release

create-github-release is a skill for Claude Code from pjt222/agent-almanac. It costs 73 tokens per session (1,715 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for publishing a specific software version on GitHub with a version tag, release notes, and optional downloadable build files. Semantic versioning is a naming scheme where version changes indicate breaking changes, new features, or fixes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Releasing libraries or applications, writing changelogs, attaching binaries or archives, and marking pre-release versions on GitHub.
Why use it?
It gives a project a clear, documented point that others can download or refer to. It also helps communicate what changed since the previous version.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the agent-almanac plugin — 122 skills, 76 agents shipped together

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/pjt222/agent-almanac/create-github-release
Any agent
npx skills add pjt222/agent-almanac --skill create-github-release
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pjt222/agent-almanac

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-almanac, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 122 skills, 76 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,715 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 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 5.1 $0.00073 $0.01715
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00857
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00343
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00171

Measured 2d ago against content hash 09f71bed9dd1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-github-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 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.

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.

i18n/caveman-lite/skills/create-github-release/SKILL.md · 216 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 216 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create GitHub Release

Create a tagged GitHub release with release notes and optional artifacts.

When to Use

  • Marking a stable version of software for distribution
  • Publishing a new version of a library or application
  • Creating release notes for stakeholders
  • Distributing build artifacts (binaries, tarballs)

Inputs

  • Required: Version number (semantic versioning)
  • Required: Summary of changes since last release
  • Optional: Build artifacts to attach
  • Optional: Whether this is a pre-release

Procedure

Step 1: Determine Version Number

Follow semantic versioning (MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH):

Change Example When
MAJOR 1.0.0 -> 2.0.0 Breaking changes
MINOR 1.0.0 -> 1.1.0 New features, backward compatible
PATCH 1.0.0 -> 1.0.1 Bug fixes only

Got: A version number is chosen that accurately reflects the scope of changes since the last release.

If fail: If unsure whether changes are breaking, review the public API diff. Any removal or signature change of an exported function is a breaking change requiring a MAJOR bump.

Step 2: Update Version in Project Files

  • DESCRIPTION (R packages)
  • package.json (Node.js)
  • Cargo.toml (Rust)
  • pyproject.toml (Python)

Got: The version number is updated in the appropriate project file and committed to version control.

If fail: If the version was already updated in a previous step (e.g., via usethis::use_version() in R), verify it matches the intended release version.

Step 3: Write Release Notes

Create or update changelog. Organize by category:

## What's Changed

### New Features
- Added user authentication (#42)
- Support for custom themes (#45)

### Bug Fixes
- Fixed crash on empty input (#38)
- Corrected date parsing in UTC (#41)

### Improvements
- Improved error messages
- Updated dependencies

### Breaking Changes
- `old_function()` renamed to `new_function()` (#50)

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/user/repo/compare/v1.0.0...v1.1.0

Read the full file on GitHub · 216 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 · 216 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 09f71bed9dd1

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create-github-release is a skill published in the GitHub repository pjt222/agent-almanac (32 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 1,715 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.