askit-release

askit-release is a skill for Claude Code from product-on-purpose/agent-skills-toolkit. It costs 66 tokens per session (626 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A release workflow for plugins that calculates the next version, updates changelog and release-note files, and checks release readiness.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to cut a release, bump a plugin version, promote an unreleased changelog section, write release notes, or check release readiness.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work and guesswork involved in preparing a consistent plugin release. It also checks that the version and documentation are ready before tagging it.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the agent-skills-toolkit plugin — 27 skills, 2 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook, 1 plugin shipped together

Good fit Use it to cut a release, bump a plugin version, promote an unreleased changelog section, write release notes, or check release readiness.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/product-on-purpose/agent-skills-toolkit/askit-release
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 product-on-purpose/agent-skills-toolkit --skill askit-release
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/product-on-purpose/agent-skills-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-skills-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills, 2 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook, 1 plugin.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 626 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.
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 $0.00066 $0.00626
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00313
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00125
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00063

Measured 9d ago against content hash bf4bd6ec2ebd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

askit-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 9d 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.

skills/askit-release/SKILL.md · 33 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 33 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

askit-release

Purpose

Cut a conformant release. Four modes: version computes the plugin version by the deterministic rule (one plugin version = the max component bump since the last release, sec 7.4); changelog promotes the [Unreleased] section to a dated version (Keep a Changelog); notes curates a user-facing RELEASE-NOTES.md distinct from the changelog (sec 10.6); gate runs the release-readiness checks (ADR 0022) so docs and version are correct before tagging. Authoring depth is in references/release-workflow.md; the committed checklist is ../../docs/internal/RELEASE.md.

When to use

When the user asks to cut or tag a release, bump the version, update the CHANGELOG or RELEASE-NOTES, or check whether the plugin is ready to release.

version mode

  1. Determine each component's bump since the last release (MAJOR / MINOR / PATCH) from its version and HISTORY.
  2. The plugin version bump is the MAX of the component bumps (MAJOR beats MINOR beats PATCH, sec 7.4). Apply it to library.json (the version source of truth) and sync package.json (U9 keeps them equal).

changelog mode

  1. Promote [Unreleased] to a dated [X.Y.Z] section (Keep a Changelog) and leave a fresh empty [Unreleased].

notes mode

  1. Curate RELEASE-NOTES.md: a user-facing, highlights-first entry for the version, distinct from the full CHANGELOG (sec 10.6 / Gold G5).

gate mode

  1. Run the release-readiness gate (ADR 0022 / docs/internal/RELEASE.md): version consistency (U9), a dated CHANGELOG section, RELEASE-NOTES present, README status current, generated surfaces drift-free (INDEX and manifests, G4), the conformance gate green (node scripts/check.mjs), and the manual Codex round-trip recorded. Stop with an actionable message on any failure.

Scope

library.json is the version source of truth; package.json follows (U9). The release-readiness gate is built incrementally (ADR 0022): version + dash + CHANGELOG-section now, the full Advanced gate at Gold. Marketplace registration happens only at the first Gold tag (D8); release does not register before then.

Read the full file on GitHub · 33 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. 9d ago First seen · 33 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A bf4bd6ec2ebd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

askit-release is a skill published in the GitHub repository product-on-purpose/agent-skills-toolkit (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 626 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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