beta-program-management

beta-program-management is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rampstackco/claude-skills. It costs 155 tokens per session (4,942 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for running a beta program, where selected users try a product before its general release and provide structured feedback.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to select participants, organize feedback, review findings during the beta, and define criteria for moving from beta to general availability.
Why use it?
It helps teams learn from the right participants, collect useful evidence, and decide whether the product is ready for wider release.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the rampstack-skills plugin — 58 skills 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/rampstackco/claude-skills/beta-program-management
Any agent
npx skills add rampstackco/claude-skills --skill beta-program-management
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rampstackco/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install rampstack-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 58 skills.

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Per session 155 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,942 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 $0.00155 $0.04942
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.02471
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00988
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00494

Measured 4d ago against content hash 2d5442d571af, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

beta-program-management 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 4d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/beta-program-management/SKILL.md · 319 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 319 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Beta Program Management

A senior product leader's playbook for running betas that produce real signal. Closed and open betas, alpha programs, design partner programs, early access. Participant selection, structured feedback collection, beta-to-GA decision criteria, and the difference between soft-launch (no structure, no signal), kitchen-sink (everyone in, no actionable feedback), and structured beta (calibrated cohort, intentional feedback loops, clear graduation criteria).

Most betas underperform. Teams ship a beta because they think they should run a beta; participants are recruited loosely or open-flooded; feedback is collected ad-hoc through whatever channels exist; the decision to graduate to GA happens on calendar rather than on signal. The beta produced activity but not learning; the team launches with the same uncertainty they had before the beta.

This skill is the discipline that turns betas into decision input. Calibrated cohorts who match the post-launch user profile. Structured feedback that captures what the team needs to know. Mid-beta triage that uses what is being learned. Graduation criteria that distinguish "ready" from "we are tired of running the beta." The discipline is not bureaucratic; it is the difference between a beta that informs the GA launch and a beta that produces noise.

The voice is the senior product leader who has run betas with real signal and watched plenty of betas produce nothing. Concrete, opinionated about what produces signal, willing to call out where beta programs slide into ceremony.

When to use this skill: planning a beta for an upcoming launch, auditing why prior betas have not produced actionable signal, designing the beta participant experience, or deciding whether a feature is ready to graduate from beta to GA.


What this skill is for

This skill spans beta program design and execution. The PM and engineering distinction:

  • feature-flagging is rollout mechanics; the technical layer for controlling who gets which features.
  • beta-program-management (this skill) is participant management and feedback discipline; the human layer.
  • feature-launch-playbook is the full launch (post-GA); this skill is what happens BEFORE GA.
  • experiment-design is rigorous A/B testing; betas are softer, qualitative-leaning, smaller-N.
  • user-feedback-aggregation is ongoing feedback streams; beta feedback is bounded to the beta period.
  • discovery-research-synthesis is one-off discovery research; betas are validation-stage rather than discovery-stage.

Read the full file on GitHub · 319 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. 4d ago First seen · 319 lines · 155 tokens per session scan A 2d5442d571af

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beta-program-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository rampstackco/claude-skills (814 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 155 tokens to every session and 4,942 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-30.