utility-pm-release-conductor

utility-pm-release-conductor is a skill for Claude Code from product-on-purpose/pm-skills. It costs 90 tokens per session (1,598 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guided release runbook for publishing a new version of the pm-skills library. It moves through six checks, including readiness, review, versioning, committing, tagging, and post-release cleanup.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when cutting a release of the pm-skills library. It guides maintainers from the initial readiness check through publishing and final repository hygiene.
Why use it?
It prevents important release checks from being skipped and ensures the published tag refers to the code that was re-verified. It also coordinates the supporting audit and changelog work.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is **Status summary (v2.16.0):** PRODUCTION on Claude Code (native sub-agent path). DRY-RUN VALIDATED on Codex CLI 2026-05-17 per [`gate-test-results_2026-05-17_co.

Part of the pm-skills plugin — 69 skills, 11 commands, 6 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when cutting a release of the pm-skills library. It guides maintainers from the initial readiness check through publishing and final repository hygiene.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/product-on-purpose/pm-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/product-on-purpose/pm-skills/utility-pm-release-conductor

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 69 skills, 11 commands, 6 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,598 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
  • Socket pass 18 May 2026
  • Snyk pass 18 May 2026
  • 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 Rogue Agent · line 14
    Skill modifies its own code, configuration, or behavior at runtime. Self-modification enables an agent to escalate privileges, disable safety constraints, or install persistent backdoors.
    Fix: Prevent the skill from modifying its own code, SKILL.md, or configuration files. Treat skill files as read-only at runtime.
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 $0.00090 $0.01598
Opus 5 $0.00045 $0.00799
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00320
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00160

Measured 9d ago against content hash aff2c86c2e7e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

utility-pm-release-conductor 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/utility-pm-release-conductor/SKILL.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PM Release Conductor (Dispatch Skill)

Cross-client dispatch wrapper for the pm-release-conductor sub-agent. Detects runtime; dispatches to the native sub-agent on Claude Code; reads agents/pm-release-conductor.md and inlines chain composition on non-Claude clients via "reference + execute inline" pattern.

Status summary (v2.16.0): PRODUCTION on Claude Code (native sub-agent path). DRY-RUN VALIDATED on Codex CLI 2026-05-17 per gate-test-results_2026-05-17_codex.md; LIVE release on Codex CLI is NOT independently exercised, so use with caution and run --dry-run first as a rehearsal. EXPERIMENTAL on Cursor / Windsurf / Copilot CLI / Gemini CLI (UNTESTED at v2.16.0 ship).

See Sub-Agent Compatibility Matrix for the canonical safe-usage matrix + what-was-validated detail + v2.17 expansion plan. For live release on a non-Claude client, ideally re-run the harness at maintainer-gate-testing-codex.md on that specific client first.

When to Use

  • You are running a pm-skills release on a non-Claude client (Codex CLI, Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot, Gemini CLI)
  • You want the same 6-gate discipline that pm-release-conductor enforces on Claude Code, with auditor + curator behaviors inlined at the relevant gates
  • You explicitly want skill-invocation semantics over sub-agent semantics on Claude Code (rare; the native sub-agent is preferred on Claude Code)

When NOT to Use

  • You only need to review a PM artifact -> use utility-pm-critic
  • You only need a governance audit (not a release) -> use utility-pm-skill-auditor
  • You only need a CHANGELOG draft (not a release) -> use utility-pm-changelog-curator
  • You want to perform release operations WITHOUT explicit gate confirmation -> the conductor refuses bypass; manual release outside the conductor is the right path

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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 · 80 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A aff2c86c2e7e

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utility-pm-release-conductor is a skill published in the GitHub repository product-on-purpose/pm-skills (663 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 1,598 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.

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